There is nothing wrong with the training method of the Justice Messenger

If all these conditions can be achieved at the same time, giving players a profound and interesting experience, the resulting game can naturally be considered to have very good quality.

An Yi's eyes flickered, and he continued, "A good game is what you said, An Nian! So next, we just need to prepare such an experience process for the players, okay?"

"Yes, I designed the script based on this. As long as I can grasp the emotional ups and downs of the readers as they play along each route and prepare a comfortable journey for them, they should feel that they are playing a good game. As for the content, I just need to fill in and arrange it according to this skeleton."

"Just like how you write your own book." Kasumigaoka sighed, "Before the content, the first thing you think about is the reader's reading experience... Maybe this is the right path for commercial writers to take... But how many people really have this kind of mastery?"

"There are indeed not many people smarter than me in the world." Li Nian laughed and said very immodestly, but then added: "But in fact, this is just a slow process. You don't need to be too smart. Routines can always be studied and borrowed. I am too lazy to innovate. I just copy and paste the ideas that the big guys have already studied. Others can naturally learn and study. The only difference is that I think more and faster. Maybe the design that I can do in an hour can be done by others in a day. But there is no need to be so anxious. Writing a book is a matter that takes years. There is no need to rush. Spending a few days on the preliminary design is nothing."

"What kind of human weapon are you? If I knock open your head, will there actually be electronic components inside?" Sawamura looked at Li Nian's hairline curiously. She has wanted to knock open this person's head to see what's inside for a long time.

Li Nian laughed and silently smoothed down her front hair a little.

Wu Geng listened attentively, and suddenly asked, "As long as it complies with the routine, the content is secondary?"

Li Nian was not surprised that she asked this question, because this is a question that every creator would think about, and Li Nian already has her own answer.

"The routine is just a framework. Filling the content along this framework makes it easier for people to like and accept it. It does not mean that the content is not important. The role of the framework is to better carry the flesh and soul. Works that cater to the routine but lack the core are just so-so. They look fresh at first glance, but they are ultimately meaningless... However, the routine is indeed important. It is a form that has been proven to be popular with the public. You have content you want to express, and others have a form they like to read. Only when you write what you want to write in a form that others like to read can you be considered an author."

Wu Geng said "oh" and fell silent. She was thinking, but she frowned. She couldn't quite understand what Li Nian said for a moment. At this moment, for some reason, she took another look at senior sister Kasumigaoka over there.

The senior student over there didn't say anything either. She must be absorbing Li Nian's experience. She looked thoughtful at this moment. Unlike me who had a bitter face, this beauty lowered her eyebrows, with the corners of her mouth slightly raised, looking a little happy. She probably had gained a lot of knowledge, which she could use in her future writing to create better works.

…Sure enough, the only people who can quickly keep up with a genius’s thinking are fellow geniuses.

Wu Geng thought so, bit his lip, and became inexplicably irritated, so he stopped staying close to Li Nian and sat a little further away.

Li Nian felt the heat and touch moving away, and glanced at Wu Geng in confusion, but could not tell anything from the girl's cold face that looked unhappy all year round. Wu Geng has always been like this. Li Nian was too lazy to think about it, and turned to continue talking to Kasumigaoka.

"I accidentally strayed off topic again... I just said this in the hope that Kasumigaoka-senpai would have a more specific idea when revising my outline."

Kasumigaoka came back to her senses and answered simply, "Well, I already know how to revise this script outline. I will finish the revision tonight and then give it to you and Amai-san for confirmation. After you two revise it, I will review it and revise it again... Once we revise the script outline until everyone is satisfied, we can start writing the various routes. I hope you can always be contacted during these days."

Li Nian cast a questioning look at An Yi, who understood, nodded, and said, "Let's do it."

The main purpose of this club meeting was to discuss the script outline given by Li Nian. The only people who could make the final decision on it were Li Nian, who was responsible for the script, Kasumigaoka, and Aki, who was the producer.

The three of them decided to revise the script again, asking Kasumigaoka to further modify the script to be more in line with the positioning of the galgame game and closer to the theme of love, but they basically agreed with the plot framework given by Li Nian and did not intend to subvert or deny Li Nian's efforts so far. They only wanted to change the details.

Afterwards, Li Nian and Xia Zhiqiu discussed various aspects of the script outline, sometimes jointly promoting the design and modification of a plot line, and sometimes disagreeing on a certain point and arguing with each other. Overall, it seemed that there were endless topics to talk about.

However, others gradually couldn't keep up with their discussion, and the two writers gradually saw no one else but their partners.

An Yi and others who were not the authors were unable to get a word in, so they simply ignored the two and changed their seats to let them sit aside and discuss to their heart's content. Except for Gogen who seemed to be interested and listened quietly next to Li Nian and Kasumigaoka, the others sat on the other side and started chatting about their own things.

Everyone present was an otaku, and Kato had also been led astray recently, so games, novels, and even gossip were all their common topics. They sat in a cafe with a cozy atmosphere, and there were also rich people who could pay for drinks and desserts, so everyone was not too restless and sat comfortably, chatting happily.

When it was getting dark, Li Nian was still paying attention to the changes in the external environment. She felt that it was getting late, so she took the initiative to call for the end of the party. However, Kasumigaoka was still in high spirits. She always gained something from talking with Li Nian. She wanted to continue chatting with this man and even said, "It's really unsatisfying... How about I go to your room tonight? You've made me so excited. I want to spend another passionate night with you."

Everyone looked at the two people in horror. They knew that Kasumigaoka had stayed at Sakurasou before, but they thought she was just with that classmate Shiina. They didn't know that she spent the night in Li Nian's room.

At this time, Kasumigaoka said that she would spend another night there, which made everyone guess that she had slept in Li Nian's room. It sounded like something happened between her and Li Nian that night...

"Did they spend the night in this man's room?" Sawamura was extremely curious. The illustrator had already automatically imagined some inappropriate plots for children and became excited: "Something exciting must have happened when this man and woman were in the same room together!"

Although An Yi knew that Kasumigaoka was definitely teasing Li Nian again, she still found it hard to believe that nothing could happen between a man and a woman sleeping together. She looked over suspiciously and said, "A Nian, you wouldn't..."

Kato was very calm, having seen through Kasumigaoka's tricks: "...If something really happened, Kasumigaoka-senpai would not say this."

Wu Geng was just digesting the shocking facts, and only came back to his senses after hearing what Kato said. Seeing Li Nian's expression that was obviously a little annoyed, he understood what was going on, but he still looked at Li Nian coldly, and said angrily, "Even if nothing happened, boys shouldn't spend the night with girls casually. If someone agrees to this kind of thing, he can't really have any thoughts about others, right? The same goes for senior sister, you really should be careful not to get eaten."

"That's right." Li actually agreed with Wu Geng's statement: "Maybe I really need to attack the senior sister once, so that she can understand the simple truth that those who play with fire are likely to get burned."

Kasumigaoka laughed softly. She deliberately folded her arms and puffed out her full chest: "Then I'm looking forward to it."

Li Nian sighed. This Kasumi no Oka really took her restraint as an excuse to do whatever she wanted, but she didn't really want to attack her. She said calmly, "It's a pity that the charm exuded by the current senior sister is not more important than a good sleep, and it doesn't meet the conditions for me to take the initiative to attack her."

"..." Kasumigaoka's expression froze, and she was very unconvinced: "Really? I heard that men will sleep better after relieving their desires, why don't you try it?

This time Kato understood everything. His cheeks flushed red, and he couldn't bear to listen any longer. He whispered, "Kasumigaoka-senpai... you should stop making jokes like this."

Li Nian was not panicked at all and said, "The prerequisite is that you have to have the desire."

Sawamura was stunned. Seeing that Li Nian didn't look like she was lying, he muttered, "No way. Judging from the popularity of the books I've drawn over the years, shouldn't a beauty with a figure like Kasumigaoka-senpai sleeping next to you be the most exciting for boys? Could it be that this guy actually has some weird XP? He likes the loli body type... Oh, this guy is even closer to the black cat next to him. So that's it. He is indeed a pervert who loves loli."

Wu Geng immediately stood a little further away from Li Nian.

"...When you want to make fun of others, can you please not be so loud in front of them?" Everyone at Wu Geng could hear it, so Li Nian could naturally hear it more clearly.

It was as if she was saying that she didn't have the charm to arouse male desire... In fact, Kasumigaoka herself didn't believe it and wasn't really hit hard, but she knew that Li Nian was not just joking and really had no desire for her.

He is not a lolita complex. Although he is close to Gogen, he has no desire for her.

Kasumigaoka felt even more strange at this moment. Thinking of what Li Nian had said before and the various settings for the male protagonist he had written in the script, an idea suddenly occurred to him, and he suddenly asked, "Is it because you really think we are still children?"

Li Nian was stunned and hesitated for a moment, but then smiled and shook her head: "How dare you treat me as a child?"

Xia Zhiqiu did not miss Li Nian's hesitation at that moment, knowing that he had discovered the key point. After thinking about it, he did not use Li Nian's young age as an excuse, but said.

"Perhaps to you, we are children... but adolescents know more than you think, so don't underestimate the precocity of today's young people. A guy who compares himself to an adult probably won't attack a girl he thinks is a child, but I don't know if he will still have the leeway to compare himself to an adult when the situation is reversed and a girl he thinks is a child takes the initiative to attack him... Well, I'll let you go today and let you have a good sleep, but next time if there's a chance, I'll try to make you desire the [heroine], because desire is indeed a part of love."

Kasumigaoka did not mention spending the night at Li Nian's place again, but left some more disturbing words. She picked up the copy of the script outline which had many red lines and annotations drawn on it during the discussion, and finally just blinked at Wu Geng before leaving.

Wu Geng received the eye signal and opened his eyes slightly, then turned to look at Li Nian thoughtfully.

Li Nian was confused and frowned as he watched Kasumi No Oka walk away. She seemed to be talking about scriptwriting, but also seemed to be talking about herself. He couldn't figure out what this girl was thinking. He just felt that this Kasumi Shiko, who wrote romance novels, was a little obsessed with the research on so-called love, and she wanted to involve him, Li Nian, in it...

However, she also vaguely felt that Kasumigaoka had a strange feeling for her that made her feel unfamiliar, an feeling that she could not distinguish or explain.

Sawamura also stared blankly at Kasumigaoka, and asked Anyi uncertainly: "Hiss...Renye, do you think that senior is really just playing with this guy? Why do I feel like she's getting serious..."

"...Not really, right? Maybe Kasumi Shiko is just in a creative state and needs inspiration?"

"It better be."

What Kasumigaoka said was right, Li Nian really didn’t understand young girls.

Chapter 425: The preliminary work of animation production has also been completed

Li Nian, who returned to Sakurasou, actually couldn't have any free time. He had completed the outline of the game script for Amaki, and he also had to write the second volume of the novel that Miss Machida had asked him to write... Not to mention the second volume, he was actually thinking about writing the next three or four volumes as well, and wanted to complete the entire first stage of the outline as soon as possible.

Li Nian didn't want to finish writing it in one go because he knew that a new writer like him might not have the chance to complete the book. If the sales were not good, there was a possibility that the bookstore would force him to change the outline and finish the work as quickly as possible, leaving him no chance to advance to the subsequent outline stage.

The creation of the second volume is not a difficult task. The detailed outline has already been written, so we just need to move forward with it.

As for switching writing content, which would lead to a lack of smooth thinking and temporary writer's block... Li Nian could still recall the painful feeling, but it was a thing of the past after all. For him now, it was unlikely to happen again.

After all, as long as he has that thought now, he can easily put aside distracting thoughts and enter a state of concentration. In that state, all kinds of thoughts are as clear as a mirror. In this state, just as he said when communicating with Kasumigaoka before, writing is like a puzzle for Li Nian, which is constructed and filled from small to large. As long as he thinks clearly about what kind of parts to use to form what kind of pattern, there will be no problems with his thinking.

But at this moment, Li Nian, sitting in his computer chair, could clearly clear his mind and get into work mode, but he didn't do so.

I am just enjoying the afterglow of eating and drinking, enjoying the leisure time of doing nothing, and enjoying the tranquility of emptying my mind.

He actually doesn't have much time like this in a day. It is because once he enters the state, he will become focused, and he can easily enter this state of concentration, so his mind is often filled with various information. He is either thinking about spiritual practice or creation. Therefore, this short rest where he doesn't think about anything needs to be found by himself.

It's a pity that this tranquility is always disturbed by someone.

At this moment, Kamiigusa came in with a loud bang as he kicked the door open.

"New guy, new guy! Come and see the storyboard I finished! What? You're actually sleeping? How can a young person sleep? Get up and work, work, work, work! Work makes you happy and makes you happy, so why do you need to sleep?"

Li Nian's peaceful mood was instantly shrouded in a layer of gloom, and he felt irritated. He lay peacefully in the chair with his eyes closed, but the aliens mistook him for being asleep and kept shaking him in an attempt to wake him up.

It must be said that the alien was really pleasing to the eye, but Li Nian really didn't want to open his eyes to look at her at this moment. He was very resistant to the idea of ​​communicating with Shang Jingcao. He really wanted to pretend to be asleep and trick her into giving up... But he also knew that Shang Jingcao, who had no concept of "knowing what's good for her", would never give up and would just keep shaking him until he was woken up.

Li Nian had no choice but to open his eyes. Although he was not very tired, he felt tired inside. He looked at this guy with unfriendly eyes. He regarded this senior sister as a friend worth making and a capable person he could trust, but this did not prevent him from always feeling that this guy was really annoying.

When Shang Jingcao saw Li Nian open his eyes, she didn't notice from the disgust in her eyes that Li Nian was upset by her - or maybe she noticed it but didn't care. When she saw Li Nian open his eyes, she immediately stuffed the storyboard in front of Li Nian and said, "Look, look!"

Senior Ren, who walked into the room later, knew that they had disturbed Li Nian's rest, so he smiled bitterly and added on behalf of his childhood friend: "Sorry."

Li Nian sighed. He had gotten used to Shang Jingcao's tactlessness and didn't want to think too much about it and make himself more depressed. He simply adjusted his mood and entered a state of calm and concentration in a single breath. He sat up and took the storyboard drawn by Shang Jingcao.

To be honest, Li Nian is not a professional in animation production. He knows the concept of storyboards, but he doesn't really understand the details. So he asked directly: "What do you mean by letting me see this storyboard? What kind of help do you want me to provide?"

"Just imagine it! And then tell us how to change it!" Kamiigusa, who had completed the storyboard, was in an excited state and spoke much louder than before.

Ren added: "I hope you can imagine the finished animated short film from the storyboards and give us some suggestions."

Li Nian nodded, then opened the storyboard and looked at it carefully.

The so-called storyboard is a manuscript that uses diagrams to illustrate the composition of images. Just like an outline to a story, a storyboard is also the overall design of a film.

Basically, it is a picture hand-drawn by Igusa on each frame with text, which constitutes the description of the lens.

Li Nian knew about storyboards. Some people would draw them very simply, and the picture part might even be just a human figure drawn with a few lines, which might make a layman confused.

But Kamiigusa's storyboard is obviously not that kind. Her storyboards are very detailed. Although they do not reach the level of completion of the original paintings, they can still be described as exquisite and clear. Thanks to this, even an amateur like Li Nian can fill in the blanks in her mind very well.

As Li Nian flips through the pages, he can form an imagination of each shot shown in the storyboard in his mind, and further combine them into an imagination of the entire animated short film.

Although the dance between Li Nian and Isayama performed to Kamiigusa was a complete movie-like video, the storyboard that Kamiigusa made based on it was still different from the performance that day in many ways.

In this storyboard, Kamiigusa not only completed the editing of the video, but also added some shots that were not actually shot and were purely her fantasy.

In general, some shots were cut out from the video recording of the day, and Kamiigusa's own phenomena were added. After more detailed arrangement and correction, a new subject with more unity and stronger visual perception was formed. Li Nian looked at the storyboard and felt that the short film that took shape in his mind was already quite interesting.

This is not because of the gorgeous battles he and Isayama provided for Kamiigusa. How can a storyboard carry all those complex actions? It is just that the storyboard given by Kamiigusa Misaki allowed Li Nian to imagine the general idea of ​​the film after reading it, which made him feel quite interesting.

This is not easy. Just like a story is made up of plots, a film is also made up of shots. These shots are more specific and detailed pictures. Words can be supplemented by imagination, but shots are more specifically designated. What people are seen from what perspective and what they do in what place are all things that must be fixed in order to express the thoughts and behaviors of the characters. Using such shots to tell a story and ultimately presenting an effect that makes the audience feel in place is really a matter of great design skills.

In this regard, Kamiigusa really showed her talents as a talented animator.

Through this storyboard, Li Nian has already had a grasp of the specific animated short film that Kamiigusa wants to make, and he does have some opinions on this, because he feels that some shots reflect the characters' thoughts and emotions that he cannot agree with, or he thinks that some places can be supplemented or deleted.

He started chatting with Kamiigusa and Mitaka Jin about this.

Most of Li Nian's opinions are very pertinent, and she will give very specific reasons and instructions, which are basically accepted by both of them.

But there are also places where disagreements arise, reflecting their different views on specific things. For example, when the Demon King and the Demon God interact, Li Nian hopes that the Demon King's emotions will not be so strong and direct, but Kamiigusa feels that they must be expressed clearly, even exaggeratedly, to make the audience understand, which will lead to disagreements and cause debate.

Sometimes when Kamiigusa and Mitaka Jin could not understand Li Nian's intentions, he would refer to Kamiigusa's storyboard templates and draw a few shots. He would express the image part with sketch-like techniques, showing that this omnipotent man even had talent in painting.

During this time, Kanda came and knocked on the door. Li Nian had previously said that he was willing to do his best to help him make a commercial game. He had already talked to Ryunosuke about this and wanted to come and chat with Li Nian, but seeing that the three people were chatting enthusiastically, he didn't say anything, but just made some hot tea and brought it to the three of them.

Later, Shiina, who was hungry and wanted Li Nian to make a midnight snack for him, came down. Seeing this, he didn't disturb them. He turned to the kitchen, took some fruit from the refrigerator and went back to paint.

All in all, the revision of the storyboard went quite smoothly. Even so, it took an entire night to complete it. By the time we revised the last shot and everyone was satisfied, it was already late at night, past midnight.

Mitaka Jin said with a smile: "Now we can officially start the production of the animation...Okay, let Li Nian help up to this point, it's enough for now. Misaki and I will contact the animation production company to complete the subsequent process. You don't have to worry about Misaki bothering you about the animation production. Just look forward to the finished product of the animated short film. I believe it will be amazing."

Now that the storyboard has been completed, it means that the preliminary design work has been basically completed and we can enter the specific animation production process. For this animated short film, they have always intended to entrust a specialized animation production company to complete it and bring out the completion of a commercial work.

"But it doesn't matter! I'll definitely bother the newbie with other things!" Misaki, who was still full of energy and didn't seem sleepy at all at this point, continued to say stupid and irritating things as usual.

Li Nian was indeed really tired, and waved her hand to indicate that she should leave as soon as she was done.

However, Ren still had something he wanted to talk to Li Nian about, so he asked, "By the way, when is the day your new work will be released?"

Li Nian reported to Ms. Machida about the release date, but felt that there was a possibility of delay: "I don't know when the illustrations will be completed. If I want to release it on time, the prerequisite is that someone can complete the illustrations of my novel before the deadline... But why are you asking this? Do you want to support me and contribute to sales?"

"Of course I will buy a few copies that day to make a contribution... But I hope to help you in other ways, for example, synchronizing the release date of the completed animated short film with the release date of your novel."

Li Nian was startled. Looking at the cunning smile of Senior Ren, he understood his intention and then laughed as well: "That's really... great."

The animated short film was originally based on the plot of Li Nian's novel, so it is naturally suitable to promote his work. This is something Li Nian had thought of before. Judging from the current progress, if the production of the animated short film can be completed before the sale, and a high-quality animated short film is released on the account of the above-mentioned senior sister Igusa, it will gain huge traffic attention and make a new book appear in the vision of more people, which should arouse the purchasing desire of many people and will play a huge role in promoting the initial sales of his new book.

"You have already met my editor, Ms. Machida. You can discuss this matter with her in detail."

"That's what I thought. Ms. Machida has been paying attention to this matter and has been in contact with me."

It turns out that Miss Machida has been paying attention to it without Li Nian mentioning it... Li Nian thought about it and it made sense. The editor also wanted to promote the animation project of his work, so he asked Li Nian to finish writing the content of the second volume as soon as possible before the first volume was released. Of course, he was not only paying attention to Li Nian's writing progress, but also Senior Ren's animation production progress.

"But I think we still have to complete the production of the animated short film ourselves. It's not realistic to expect Phoenix Library to show much interest before the finished product comes out."

"At least after the animated short is finished, they should be happy to help promote it."

After all, they are the authors of our own library and have ready-made publicity resources. There is no reason not to utilize them no matter what the library does.

"Well, I'll discuss this with Ms. Machida."

"…I also need to finish writing the second volume of the novel as soon as possible."

"I told you to finish it before! You haven't finished it yet? Why are you dragging your feet, you newbie?" Shang Jingcao was totally unaware that he was the one who slowed down Li Nian's progress. He shouted, "How long will it take you to write a novel?"

Li Nian smacked his lips.

"I was going to start writing tonight. If you hadn't been there to bother me, I might have already written tens of thousands of words by now."

"Only tens of thousands of words? Give me hundreds of thousands of words to write in one go!"

Li Nian didn't bother to care about this idiot who didn't know how hard it is to write.

Senior Ren is not like his childhood friend who has no common sense at all. He knows that typing hundreds of thousands of words is not easy, but he is not worried about the work efficiency of people like Li Nian, nor is he worried about the efficiency of his own animation production: "Now that all the preliminary designs are completed, we just need to distribute the shots to the original artists to complete. The key fighting scenes are not something that ordinary people can complete. I will find excellent artists I know to complete them, but I may need to provide them with the video materials for reference..."

Since it involves personal privacy and is related to exorcists, Senior Ren still has to seek Li Nian's opinion before he dares to spread those video materials.