Chapter 8 - Crazy Popularity

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nTranslator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

nThe fainting of Qian Shengcai was just a trivial matter.

nEven the losses of these downtown shops were trivial matters. With Lu Ming’s full disclosure of the Fruit Ninja Card, this card had really become popular.

nFunctionality!

nEffects!

nLu Ming wrote down all of them in a thesis, comprehensible with one glance.

nMany Card Creators created the cards according to the design plan and discovered that these new functions was indeed more thorough and comprehensive. It was more fun and interesting!

nAs for the shabbiness of the illusion?

nOn the contrary, no one cared about that anymore.

nIt could be said that the Fruit Ninja was famous now and had gained huge popularity. Many people now knew about it’s original creator, Lu Ming, and his thesis.

nIn a local school.

nA vice-principal who specialized in Illusion Studies sighed when he finished reading all of Lu Ming’s ideas. “Unfortunately, he is not an Illusionist.”

nThe other teachers felt the same way too.

nYes.

nIt was a pity that he was not an Illusionist.

nIllusion was the main factor of success for the Fruit Ninja card! If Lu Ming was an Illusionist, that could prove his creativity in this aspect!

nIt was a pity…

nHe was not.

nHe was a Card Creator.

nThat proved that he only thought of this in a moment of inspiration and got someone to create this. Furthermore, it was also too late if he really possessed the talent for creating illusion.

nLu Ming was already sixteen years old. He had passed the best age to pick up the discipline. In order to cultivate Illusion Studies, he would have to give up the Original Card and rebuild the illusion core. It was too late for that.

nHence, this vice-principal felt that it was sheer pity.

n“How about the Card Creators Association?”

nThe vice-principal inquired.

n“They are indifferent. After all, although the Fruit Ninja is very popular, there aren’t many card creating skills involved. So, those veterans won’t care.”

n“The popularity this time… displays more of his talent in business,” one of the teachers said.

n“Let me think.”

nThe vice-principal still felt a little regretful. He took the initiative to recommend Lu Ming to his good friend, who was a powerful Card Creator. However, that person was silent for a long time after reading the lines.

n“This card is too shabby.”

n“It’s not just the illusion. The entire card creating process is very shabby.”

n“Do you know what I saw?”

n“There are no skills involved at all.”

n“Putting aside the high-end card creating techniques, let’s talk about this design plan.”

n“Messy and unstructured lines. Only the parts that involve the usage of Energy Card are neater. The positions of the rest of the lines are correct but the drawing is very sloppy. There is no aesthetic sense at all.”

n“Undoubtedly, this is a Card Creator that specializes in Energy Cards!”

n“He is cannon fodder from an Energy Card training institution. He’s completely different from a normal Card Creator. He doesn’t even have the basic standard skills of a Card Creator.”

n“Perhaps the creativity of the Fruit Ninja is not bad… and that made him popular.”

n“However, to a Card Creator… ”

nThat Card Creator left, shaking his head.

nThe vice-principal did not speak for a long time. He gave a huge sigh. “It’s a pity.”

nOf course, he was not the only one who had noticed Lu Ming. Lu Ming had become famous overnight and many people now paid attention to him.

nHowever, these Card Creators only shook their heads after looking at Lu Ming’s design plan. The traces of being trained in the training institution was too obvious!

n“The drawing cannot make it.”

n“The energy level is not stable.”

n“Not structured enough.”

nMany Card Creators gave their evaluation.

nEveryone loved a genius but obviously not this type of genius.

nThe training institution could churn out batches and hundreds of inferior menial gangs every year. How many of them would become successful? Furthermore, the way that the training institution treated the Card Creators as a money-generating machine made the Card Creators detest it more. As a result, they also detested the Card Creators who graduated from training institutions.

nWere they creating cards over there?

nThey were clearly plagiarizing!

nThose from the training institution were not even fit to become Card Creators!

n“Training institution… haha.”

n“No matter how creative he is, it cannot hide such inferior skills. Regardless of his popularity, it cannot conceal the ugliness of his drawing skills.”

n“Those from training institutions are an embarrassment to the Card Creators.”

n“Creating cards should be elegant.”

nMany Card Creators were also bombarding Lu Ming.

nHowever, regardless of their assessment of Lu Ming, they could not fight the fact that Fruit Ninja had become popular. It was so popular to the extent that no one could ignore its presence!

nIt was even dominating the headlines.

nBe it the news, internet or social circles, Fruit Ninja had taken the spotlight.

n“How many points do you have now?”

n“One hundred and twenty. You?”

n“Only one hundred and fifty. Hehe.”

n“Crap. There is an outburst at one hundred and twenty. How did you escape that?”

n“My reaction is fast.”

n“This won’t do. I have to go back and cultivate.”

nEveryone was talking about it.

nQueues, arguments, points accumulation.

nIts popularity exploded.

nFruit Ninja had almost become the card that everyone needed to have.

nOf course, some people were not satisfied with the shabby illusion. They began to modify it.

n“Fruit Ninja – Crazy Slash of a Lifetime”, “Fruit Ninja – Meteor Hammer”, “Fruit Ninja – Shooting Through the Sky” and various odd versions of it were launched. Different weapons, different occupations and even fine-tuning of the illusion background. Building on the foundation, people amplified the effect.

nThese Illusionists brought Fruit Ninja to greater heights.

nOf course.

nLu Ming’s version was still the most popular one.

nIt was true that the illusion was shabby, was not realistic, and lasted for a short amount of time. Nevertheless, the cost was amazingly low and no one could surpass it!

nEven the updated versions of it only required an energy level of forty-five points!

nWho could achieve that?

nNo one!

nThis was because even the lowest skill of Fireball required fifty points of energy level! Some of the modified versions of the Fruit Ninja Illusion Card even required more than hundred points of energy level!

nNaturally, the more realistic the illusion was, the more energy would be used up.

nAfter the problems encountered in the initial experience, various large Card Shops could only accept the popular edition and sell the Fruit Ninja Illusion Card as a Cultivation Card.

nThe cost of each card was seventy yuan. They were selling it for one hundred yuan, earning only a slight margin for the workmanship.

n“Boss, one Fruit Ninja Card.”

n“Boss, I want ten pieces.”

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nQing Ming City, in the outskirts.

nThe tattooed man from the loan company was dumbstruck when he read at the reports on the internet. When he saw the few words of the so-called ‘Original Creator of Fruit Ninja’, he felt pangs of pain in his heart.

nThat fair-faced boy actually had such capabilities?

nDamn.

n“Did you keep any negatives?”

nThe burly man beside him said, “If we have negatives of his young lad, we can extort him viciously.”

n“I… ”

nThe tattooed man opened his mouth slightly. He felt bad and said, “This lad had long settled his debts. I have also destroyed all his information. Naturally, I have also destroyed all his photos.”

n“Don’t you have a habit of keeping the negatives?”

nThe burly man glared ferociously. “Don’t tell me that you didn’t keep a single negative of this lad!”

n“I only keep the photos of those pretty girls.”

nThe tattooed man smiled bitterly. “We can extort those who are weaker in character and do some things… But this lad… why would I keep those photos of him dressed up as a woman?”

nPhotos of a man dressed in ladies’ clothes besides taking up storage space, what other use could it have?

nOnly Heaven knew.

nAt the first sight of these photos, he was so amazed and stunned by them. He even did that… that thing. When he realized that they belonged to a man, he almost died of disgust.

nIf not for the sake of that one hundred thousand yuan, he would have deleted them long ago!

nWhy would he keep them?

nWho would have thought that this young lad had such capabilities?

n“The money that we received… ”

nThe few of them felt a little annoyed.

nWithout the nude photos, they were well aware that Lu Ming would not give a ** about them!

n…

nAt this very moment…

nJust as the pirated Fruit Ninja was exploding in popularity, Lu Ming, this main lead, was very low-profile.

nThe sky gradually turned dark.

nLu Ming was still making the cards in a serious manner.

nHe was very clear on one thing. Selling the cards was for the sake of paying off the debts, and earning money was for the purpose of cultivation. In this world, the only thing that he could rely on was his own capability!

nHe had also read the comments online.

nIn fact, those people were right. There were many people from the training institution who were purely part of the menial gang, carrying out repetitive manual labor and jobs.

nThat was the case for both his previous life and current life.

nThe genius who created programs was basically a different species from the coding peasant that carried out repetitive coding tasks!

nIn the eyes of those Card Creators, Lu Ming was obviously the coding peasant who was at the bottom of the hierarchy. One who only knew how to carry out repetitive manual tasks everyday and did not even have a mind of his own.

nNevertheless, Lu Ming did not care the slightest bit about their comments.

nHe had just begun his journey.

nSooner or later, he would let those guys know that he was a true-blue Card Creator!

nAs for now…

nOf course, the most important thing was to improve his capability quietly.

nInitially, he only had forty-eight points of energy level. During that period of time when he rampantly created three hundred cards, he actually increased his energy level by twelve points, sprinting to sixty points!

nIt was just that this energy was still too little.

nIt could barely create the most inferior Attack Card.

n“I’m still too weak.”

nLu Ming was aware of his own capability.

nCreate cards!

nCultivation!

nThis was the most basic way to improve.

nThere were two aspects to improving the capability of a Card Creator.

nThe first was to improve the energy level. This was the foundation. After all, when one had greater energy, they could create more powerful cards. The other aspect was the card creating skills!

nIt was only until he mastered the powerful card creating skills that he could create more powerful cards.

nAdvancement in energy level required a lot of resources. It could not be rushed. Hence, Lu Ming was more concerned about the skills.

nPowerful card creating skills could make the drawing lines look more simple, structured, and tidy. It could also complete some matters that a single line could not do.

nFor example, the intersection of the lines.

nWhen two lines intersect, how could one handle it?

nIf one continued to draw in a straight line, the two lines would be conflicted and messy. The card creation would fail. Hence, this was a skill that had to be mastered!

nBesides this, there were also more sophisticated three-way interlace and four-way convergence, and so on.

nThere was still a lot to learn if he wished to become a true-blue Card Creator.

nLu Ming had mastered zero skills.

n“I have to study hard.”

nLu Ming took a deep breath.

nOf course, card creating skills were available for sale in the market and the Card Creators Association. There were even a complete set of case study cards. But that price…

nHe also could not count on that rubbish vocational college of his that nobody cared about.

n“I will make an Attack Card first, and examine the lines thereafter.”

nLu Ming decided to give it a try tomorrow.

nIt was very late at night.

nThere were fewer and fewer passersby.

nLooking at the time, Lu Ming was preparing to close the door.

nJust as he walked to the door, he suddenly saw a shadow in the shade of the trees, hiding out of the scope of the surveillance camera. He was instantly alerted.

n“Who is that?!”

nLu Ming shouted in a low voice.

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