Divine Lucky Star
Chapter 296 - Chapter 296 Chapter 296 Is This What They Call a Comic OK

Chapter 296: Chapter 296 Is This What They Call a Comic OK? Chapter 296: Chapter 296 Is This What They Call a Comic OK? Everyone was bamboozled by Wang Hao’s words!

Just these three simple character settings alone, when combined, had already turned into a pretty awesome spectacle!

Chief Li, who was sitting below watching the commotion, got excited, “Holy shit, I’ve never seen such badass character settings before! Never even heard of them! How did this young man come up with it?!”

“And you!” Wang Hao pointed at Zhao Fei, the plot editor, spraying spittle as he went, “Is this what you call a plot?! Huh?! The cases the protagonist solves, what is all this trivial nonsense?! Lost dogs, lost wallets, and the most infuriating of all, lost underwear! Is this what the protagonist is supposed to be doing every day, just dealing with trivial matters?! What happened to solving cases! The numerous and bizarre murder methods?!”

Zhao Fei was dumbfounded, “Chairman Wang, what should we do then?!”

“Your protagonist needs an aura of murder!” Wang Hao thundered, slamming the blackboard, “You need dead bodies! The protagonist should encounter dead bodies wherever he goes! What kind of detective manga is it if no one dies?! Are we supposed to just watch the protagonist chat up girls and shoot the breeze every day?!”

At this point, everyone below was flabbergasted!

“Holy crap, right, a detective manga needs dead bodies! How can it be interesting if no one dies?”

“So, this is how you tell a story in a detective manga?! Yes, yes, yes, there must be dead bodies, what’s the point if everyone is alive?”

Zhao Fei was still confused, “Chairman Wang, how should we design the death scenes then? I’m afraid I can’t handle it!”

“Designing death scenes, what the hell are you talking about?!” Wang Hao instantly flew into a rage, “The protagonist could encounter a dead body even going to the bathroom! They could stumble upon a murder scene while riding the bus! Going to a circus show, there’d be a dead body right there! How can you build suspense without dead people? How do you grab the readers’ attention?!” Think, use your brain! Use your brain! It’s not like only your body grew in the past two years but your brain didn’t change at all! That’d be useless!”

By then, even Chief Li was listening in stunned silence. It took him a moment to compose himself before asking, “Chairman Wang, we all understand what you’re saying, but the trickiest part to illustrate in detective manga is the method of murder, do you have any good ideas?”

Hearing Chief Li say this, everyone present nodded, “Right, with deaths everywhere, how should we arrange the murder methods?”

“As for methods of murder,” Wang Hao humphed, “In this world, I dare to claim second place, and absolutely no one would dare to claim first!”

As soon as he said this, the whole room was shocked!

Not a soul in the conference room dared to make a peep!

Who exactly was this young man?! Could he be an assassin?!

With a mixture of fear and awe, Zhao Fei asked, “Chairman… Chairman Wang, could you… maybe tell us about it?!”

“Today, I’ll let you all witness it, watch closely!” Wang Hao picked up a black marker and began to write on the blackboard–

“Complete Methods of Killing!”

Seeing these words, everyone in the room was confounded! The title alone was so shocking, it could scare the children!

Wang Hao went straight to the whiteboard and wrote the first method of killing: “Exchange Murder Method!”

After writing this method, Wang Hao began to explain, “See this method of murder? Two people swap targets to kill. If the police can’t see through their agreement, it becomes very hard to find their motive and thus, extremely difficult to solve the case!”

Holy shit, that’s so professional!

Everyone watched, agape and wide-eyed, as Wang Hao discussed just the first murder method which they had never even heard of before!

Zhao Fei’s eyes lit up, “I… I’ve got an idea! Ha-ha! I’ve thought of something!”

“Thought of a damn thing, sit down and stay put!” Wang Hao picked up the marker again and wrote on the whiteboard: “Intrusion Murder Method, where, when discovering the victim with others, you pretend to cry and try to shake the sleeping victim awake, all while inserting a poison needle in an inconspicuous area like the hair. This method of attack is very difficult to detect, making it an excellent killing method!”

Everyone present gasped in astonishment, “Is that even possible?!”

“The third one!” Wang Hao quickly wrote another one down, “Indiscriminate Killing Method! It means killing anyone in a group of people can achieve the goal, so this kind is often not motivated by vengeance, but its modus operandi and motive are very difficult for the police to investigate.”

Oh my gosh, such a method of murder is simply unheard of!

Wang Hao continued, “There’s also the Magic Killing Method, which is to kill someone using common magic tricks, so if you can’t see through the magic, you can’t solve the case!”

“Using People to Kill Method, because you know A has the same purpose as you, you commit the crime at the same time A does, but use A’s plan to cover your own, making it very difficult for the police to imagine someone else fueling the fire behind the murderer, setting off their own bomb at the same time the murderer triggers an explosion.”

“Geographic Killing Method, which utilizes the shape and arrangement of a house or a building, this type is quite common and depends on the situation. Often, geography is used to create a locked-room scenario.”

“Disguised Killing Method, at night, by the bridgehead, you suddenly set yourself on fire and then fall into the water making a splash while people are nearby, the retrieved body is naturally assumed to have committed suicide, but in reality, the murderer orchestrated everything and left the scene, no one thinks of the drowned body as having been ‘made’ to drown.”

Wang Hao really gave a lengthy talk on this one!

He casually talked about more than twenty different methods of murder, leaving everyone in the conference room dumbfounded!

No one present could have imagined there were so many ways to kill! Not to mention anything else, just these mysterious murder methods alone meant that once the comic is published, it’s absolutely sure to be a hit!

Lin Xiaoyun’s eyes were already like lightbulbs!

The entire company’s staff were stupefied, and Chief Li’s eyes were wide open, drool almost dripping down–he couldn’t wait for the comic that hadn’t even been drawn yet!

“This is what you call a detective comic, OK?!” Wang Hao slammed his hand on the lectern and shouted, “Now look at these plots you’ve set up, are you kidding me? Playing house? Does your protagonist have any characteristics?!”

Everyone shook their heads together! Today was truly an eye-opener!

At this point, Wang Hao threw his pen down and said, “Detective comics have always had only one theme, and that is the pursuit of the truth! And the truth–there’s only one!”

When Wang Hao finished speaking, the entire conference room was silent, everyone was astounded!

So this is what a detective novel is supposed to be, only this could be called a detective novel!

Plot editor Zhao Fei was completely dumbfounded, standing there in a daze, then suddenly rushed to the lectern, tore up the previously drawn manuscript into shreds, and shouted, “I understand! I understand! Chairman Wang is right, the plots I thought of before are all rubbish! I’m going to rethink it right now, immediately!”

As he said this, he tried to run out the door, but Wang Hao grabbed him, “What’s the rush? Did I say you could leave before I finished speaking?!”

“Ah?!” Not only Zhao Fei was stunned at this moment, but everyone else present was also shocked–Chairman Wang had more to say?!

Wang Hao looked around the room, everyone holding their breath.

At this moment, in the hearts of these employees, Wang Hao was like a godlike existence! Whatever he said was indisputable; the only thing they could do was to listen obediently and follow his every command!

“Everyone,” Wang Hao spoke slowly, “I believe the biggest lesson in life is to never give up, to be brave and march forward, and to constantly innovate and break through, breaking through oneself, until you find a direction.”

“Today is cruel, tomorrow will be cruel too, but the day after tomorrow will be wonderful! And many people will fall tomorrow night! The example here is very clear; the six people who resigned before are the living proof of my words!”

The six people who had been listening dumbfounded at the door instantly cried themselves faint in the bathroom.

They had fallen before dawn! In an instant, not only did they miss out on double the salary, but the bright future was already out of their reach! Just on account of what Wang Hao had just said, once this comic is drawn, this comic company will certainly make a fabulous turnaround!

But they had already permanently lost that opportunity.

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