Ch 188: System Upgrade, This Is The Official Version, Young Master Cao Has Gone Mad

Cao Cheng scoffed, “Little Cannon, don’t say I’m making things difficult for you, old man. If you lose, don’t give me any excuses. In the future, at the end of all your film and television dramas, it must be written in large letters: Young Master Cao is invincible and the most handsome.”

“……”

“……”

This feels a bit like children making a bet.

It feels so unprofessional.

Shameful.

Little Cannon didn’t know how to answer for a moment.

Cao Cheng said again, “What? Is this condition difficult? If you can’t surpass me in six years, is apologizing an insult to you? Besides, you’re using my name, you’re basking in my glory, maybe your luck will change?”

“This is also a form of publicity, you wouldn’t fail to see that, right?”

“Little Cannon, I’m giving you face, whether you accept it or not is up to you.”

“Okay, I accept.” Little Cannon made up his mind.

He didn’t believe that in the future, with one movie released every year, none of them would surpass Bullet?

How is that possible?

Slap.

After Little Cannon agreed, Cao Cheng didn’t give him any more face, and directly hung up the phone.

Honestly.

Cao Cheng didn’t plan to immediately crush him.

Firstly, it wasn’t necessary.

There was truly no feud or grudge between them.

Secondly, Cao Cheng was still quite optimistic about this batch of directors in his heart.

They seem ordinary now, but in the future, especially as capital enters the entertainment industry, this batch of directors still has something.

No comparison, no harm.

At least they were making movies with their hearts, even if they were a little more complex, not so commercial, but not shoddy workmanship.

Young Master Cao, as a veteran, clearly understands the operational model of capital in the entertainment industry.

The so-called fan economy is the bad money driving out the good.

Simply put, it’s getting more and more trash.

You only need to pile up traffic idols or famous actors, and then increase the publicity of the movie to make money. Who would still care about storytelling?

Even more exaggerated, in the next few years, the publicity fees of many films will exceed the production costs.

In the future, for a movie with a production cost of one hundred million yuan, fifty million yuan will go to the celebrities’ film remuneration, thirty million yuan will be for publicity fees, and the remaining twenty million yuan may be used for production.

How much is ultimately used for production depends on conscience.

In the future,

movies with publicity fees reaching 30% of the total investment will be everywhere.

Movies with celebrity remuneration exceeding half of the budget will also be everywhere.

Honestly.

Young Master Cao is also capital; he also needs to do publicity; this is normal business behavior, but… the high publicity fees indicate that the quality of the movie is poor, this seesaw effect will inevitably occur.

This kind of capital using this model is destroying the rice bowls of the domestic film and television industry.

So in comparison,

Cao Cheng still ‘prefers’ this batch of old directors who tell stories.

Of course,

the most important thing is that this batch of famous old directors have a high reputation and their emotion value is high.

……

After hanging up the phone.

Cao Cheng immediately sent a message.

“@Little Cannon… considering your sincere attitude this time, let it go. It’s not easy for you at your age, but next time you won’t be so lucky. Remember your words, next time if you lose again, privately seeking mediation from anyone won’t work, understand?”

“……”

“Wow, Little Cannon privately conceded defeat?”

“Of course, the predicted box office is over ten billion yuan, how could Little Cannon fight Young Master Cao?”

“Little Cannon can both take it and let it go, conceding defeat in advance is reasonable.”

“Hahaha… Young Master Cao is really mean, he posted private matters online.”

“Haha… that’s right, as expected of you, Young Master Cao.”

“@Little Cannon, Director Little Cannon, what is your mood now?”

“What mood could he be in? Private mediation is for keeping it low-key. Now Little Cannon is probably cursing at home.”

The internet is full of joy.

Everyone guessed roughly correctly; Little Cannon was indeed cursing, but not at home, but beside Boss Wang.

Negative emotions surged.

Boss Wang was also having a headache. He saw his former self in Little Cannon; he was also angered by Young Master Cao before.

It’s good now.

Now he himself doesn’t get angry anymore.

“Okay, okay, he didn’t even make you run, just be thankful for that. Don’t reply to the online messages, everyone will forget in a few days. Now you should consider what your next movie will be about and get back your face.”

“……”

Little Cannon was so angry his face turned red.

After thinking about it, he was right, not responding, not paying attention, everyone will quickly forget.

Now he should consider what to film.

……

……

【Ding~】

【Unboxing count reaches 30,000 times, system upgrading…】

【Please wait!】

【Countdown: Seven days!】

“Damn.”

Cao Cheng suddenly sat up.

Since the emotion value covered the globe, Cao Cheng hadn’t considered upgrading at all.

He thought it was over.

He thought he had reached the max level!

Unexpectedly…

It appeared so quietly?

Just now, Little Cannon had fed back quite a bit of emotion value, Young Master Cao was just lying down waiting to eat.

Since he was free, he opened some ordinary treasure chests, silver and bronze ones, to get some herbs for formulas.

In this year, Young Master Cao rarely opened God-Level Treasure Chests anymore, unless it was a God-Level Treasure Chest that appeared by his good luck; otherwise, Young Master Cao would not actively merge them.

At most, he would open some diamond ones, mostly below gold, mainly fine iron and bronze.

As a result,

he unexpectedly triggered the upgrade conditions.

30,000 unboxings?

Were there that many?

It seems there really were…

After all, fine iron, bronze, and silver are really worthless.

This year, for X essence, Cao Cheng had been opening low-level treasure chests.

Roughly calculated, it’s really possible to exceed 30,000 times!

But…

“Where will the next upgrade cover?”

“Wouldn’t it be the solar system?”

“This is no fun, system.”

“We can’t upgrade for the sake of upgrading, you can’t learn from Apple, squeezing toothpaste?”

“Moreover, even if there is life in the solar system besides Blue Star, covering it won’t benefit me.”

“Even if you are poor, create an intelligent mode, you can at least talk.”

“You should at least let me know what the conditions for the next upgrade are?”

Cao Cheng didn’t bother to complain much.

This system is just stupid.

However,

no matter what, being able to upgrade is a good thing.

After all, as the system upgrades, the contents of the treasure chests are getting better and better. As long as there is an opportunity to upgrade, there will naturally be an opportunity for longevity in the future.

It’s a win-win situation no matter how you calculate it.

Anyway, upgrading doesn’t require additional emotion value.

Just wait.

It’s only seven days; it will pass in the blink of an eye; a few cups of tea and it’s gone.

……

One cup~

Two cups~

Seven cups!

Seven days passed in a flash.

This year is over.

And the system has also finished upgrading.

【Upgrade successful!】

Hearing the system prompt.

Young Master Cao wasn’t as eager to check as before, because he didn’t have much expectations.

Judging from the previous conditions, the longer the upgrade time, the greater the changes after the upgrade.

This time it only took seven days, what good things could be upgraded?

But…

When he opened the system’s virtual interface, Cao Cheng subconsciously rubbed his eyes.

“No way?”

“Is the change that big?”

“Whoa!”

“I’m going to get rich.”

Wang De Fa~~

The system has undergone a… huge change.

The whole layout has changed.

Previously, it was a very simple unboxing interface, and there was also a treasure chest fusion interface.

After selection, it was the unboxing animation.

But now…

It’s changed.

Everything has changed.

It has become similar to an online mall.

Although it’s still treasure chests, there are more things to choose from.

And there are categories.

For example, regular daily necessities, herbs, pills, technology, film and television entertainment, software systems, artificial intelligence, medical equipment, etc.!

Although the options aren’t particularly many.

There are no spaceships…

But it’s much better than the previous random ones.

Now you can select a category, then open the treasure chests, and the prices of the treasure chests have all doubled several times.

It costs 500 emotion value to open one!

……

“Reasonable!”

“Very reasonable!”

Although it has doubled several times.

The price has changed from 100 to 500 emotion value. Calculating this way, a God-Level Treasure Chest is equivalent to opening five before, now you can only open one.

The doubling is scary.

But…

After thinking about it again, you can’t calculate it like that.

Because now you can choose categories.

This saves Young Master Cao a lot of trouble.

He won’t open a bunch of useless things, the storage space is full and he has to choose to discard or destroy them.

For example, if you choose the herb category now, what you get are herbs; at most, fine iron will only be first-order, bronze is second-order, and silver is third-order.

But ultimately, they are all herbs, aren’t they?

Cosmetics will no longer lack raw materials.

So,

this doubling is very reasonable.

Spending a little more emotion value can accurately open the things Young Master Cao wants.

Sweet.

……

Cao Cheng glanced at the hundreds of thousands of emotion value.

He closed his eyes and started opening chests.

Let’s try it out.

【Ding~】

【Congratulations, Host, you selected the ‘herbs’ category and opened an Iron Chest, obtaining one bundle of Tianling Grass （500 jin per bundle）】

【Congratulations, Host, you selected the ‘herbs’ category and opened an Iron Chest, obtaining one bundle of Bailu Grass （500 jin per bundle）】

【Congratulations, Host, you selected the ‘herbs’ category and opened an Iron Chest, obtaining one bundle of Youlan Grass （500 jin per bundle）】

【Congratulations, Host, you selected the ‘herbs’ category and opened a Bronze Chest, obtaining one bundle of Tianqing Flower （500 jin per bundle）】

【Congratulations, Host, you selected the ‘herbs’ category and opened a Bronze Chest, obtaining one bundle of Bingxin Flower （500 jin per bundle）】

【Congratulations, Host, you selected the ‘herbs’ category and opened a Silver Chest, obtaining Tianyuan Fruit…】

【Congratulations, Host, you selected the ‘herbs’ category and opened a Silver Chest, obtaining Jiuxiang Wood…】

【Congratulations…】

“Great, great~~”

Cao Cheng rarely felt excited.

After he got tired of opening God-Level Treasure Chests, he hadn’t been happy about opening chests for a long time.

But now,

with the system upgrade, this sense of freshness and expectation is full again.

So many herbs, not only are there a lot of them, but the types are also very complete.

The cosmetics side will really not lack raw materials.

Especially ‘fruits and woods’.

These are the raw materials for Incense Beads.

It was difficult to open them before.

So Young Master Cao didn’t dare to sell them; the production volume was too small, and they could only be ‘gifted’ in luxury gift sets.

The main selling point was scarcity.

But now that the system has been upgraded, it will be different in the future; he can sell them if he wants to.

And now he has spent only a few hundred emotion values to get so many good things; it’s simply doing big things with small money…

Especially these categories, besides herbs, there are also pills, technology, and artificial intelligence, etc.!

Young Master Cao felt that the current system was the official version.

Before, it was just a trial version.