Chapter 35 Inspiration Class

At the same time, Inspiration Class at Zhongdian Chinese Website.

Cui Geng looked at the time. There were still two hours before he got off work.

A week had passed in the blink of an eye, and tomorrow would be the weekend again.

He left the audio-visual area of the Inspiration Class, then found an empty computer in the work area and continued to work on the plot of *The Successor*.

Eight hours of work a day, six of which are spent watching various film and television dramas, novels, and comics to collect materials, and only two hours can be used for creation. This is a rigid requirement of the "Inspiration Class."

At first, Cui Geng felt that two hours was too short and he was very uncomfortable.

After all, when he wrote online novels before, this time was exactly the opposite. He spent at most two hours collecting materials, and all the remaining time was used for writing.

With only two hours of writing time, Cui Geng always felt that the writing seemed to end before it even started, which was quite uncomfortable.

In the first half of the week, Cui Geng felt that his creative rhythm was a bit wrong. Often, just as he began to get into the swing of things after two hours, the time was up.

The computers in the office area recorded the writing time of each author. If it exceeded two hours, they could no longer write.

Of course, no one could stop authors from using their laptops to write after get off work or on weekends, or from going to internet cafes to write. But in this buyout-based creation model, there were no requirements for update volume or total word count. Who among the authors who chose to participate in the "Inspiration Class" would use their rest time to write?

So Cui Geng found it a bit difficult to adapt at first. He wrote slowly, and the readers couldn't wait, so he was scolded a lot.

But gradually, his creative mode adjusted.

Now he spends six hours a day collecting materials and finalizing the details of the story, and the remaining two hours can be devoted to writing. All the content has been carefully considered, and there are basically no cases of writer's block.

Moreover, because he had to compress all the content he wanted to write today into two hours, the compactness of the story seemed to have improved as well.

After gradually adapting to this creative rhythm, Cui Geng felt it was pretty good.

Cui Geng came to the work area, turned on the computer, and quickly entered the state. His hands quickly tapped on the keyboard, and sections of the storyline quickly turned from his mind's conception into tangible text.

Cui Geng didn't dare to delay for a moment, because he knew that as long as it was time to get off work, all the mice in the office area would "come alive" and run around like real mice, never to be caught again.

He had to hurry up and complete today's work before these mice ran away.

This week, the "Inspiration Class" has also grown stronger.

More authors from Zhongdian Chinese Website have finished their old books, accepted new buyout creation agreements, and come to the "Inspiration Class" to collect materials and create.

It's just that most of them are still being scolded.

The readers of Zhongdian Chinese Website also knew about the existence of this "Inspiration Class," and their opinions were getting bigger and bigger.

Because before, only a small number of authors from Zhongdian Chinese Website had finished their old books and started writing Tengda's IP customized articles, the scope of readers affected was not so wide.

But now, more and more authors are being affected!

In the past week or so, readers have watched authors who finished their old books "lose their integrity," and there were fewer new books they liked to read. Naturally, they were very dissatisfied, feeling that Zhongdian Chinese Website was just messing around, giving blind orders, being too ambitious, and taking steps that were too big and easy to pull the rug out from under themselves.

However, Zhongdian Chinese Website did not respond to this.

The authors' reactions varied.

Some people felt that the current creative method was quite good, it was very leisurely and they could let themselves go and write what they liked, ignoring the readers' protests; while another group of authors regretted it, feeling that the content they wrote was not satisfactory to themselves or the readers, and wanted to go back to writing traditional profit-sharing works after finishing this story.

Obviously, in a month or two, the "Inspiration Class" will screen out a batch of authors and leave a batch of authors.

But no matter what, everyone would definitely have to fulfill their current creation contract first. Fortunately, the highest word count requirement was only 500,000 words, which could definitely be completed in at most three months, without delaying anything.

As for Ma Yiqun and Zhu Xing'an, the editors of Zhongdian Chinese Website, they all implemented President Pei's requirements and chose to let things run their course.

Cui Geng didn't care about these things. It didn't matter to him whether other authors wanted to go back to writing profit-sharing works or continue writing buyout customizations.

He just wanted to write the story of *The Successor* well now.

Even if everyone doesn't like to read it, it would still be a good attempt for himself.

Last weekend, Cui Geng had already written a beginning for *The Successor*.

And within this week, Cui Geng had almost completed the outline of the subsequent story of *The Successor*, and the next step was to constantly improve the details of each plot.

...

Phil Simmons, a playboy and rich second generation with no special talents, decided to become a superhero and received strong support from his rich father, who could use a huge sum of 2 billion dollars to realize his dream of becoming a superhero.

Phil also conducted a very detailed investigation and learned the four steps for ordinary people to become superheroes in this day and age:

Find a way to become a superhero apprentice and successfully debut;

Be careful and prudent during the observation period and accumulate supporters;

Participate in the superhero election and become a spokesperson for a certain group;

Become the top superhero and become the most powerful and influential person in Hope City and even the entire United States.

Phil knew very well that it would be extremely difficult for ordinary people to take this path.

Tens of millions of people in the United States have dreams of becoming superheroes, but only a few hundred can complete the first step; only a few dozen remain to complete the second step; only a dozen complete the third step; and only three or five can truly stand at the top of the pyramid.

Moreover, Phil wasn't the first wealthy person to want to become a superhero by throwing money at it.

In Hope City, there are at least dozens of super-rich people who are richer than his father, Ryan Simmons, but most of these people have failed to become superheroes.

Most of them will choose another path: indirectly exert influence by holding superhero talent shows, providing campaign funds for superheroes, or investing in superheroes before their debut.

When a large consortium becomes the financier of many superheroes, these superheroes, while not exactly his lackeys, will give him enough face in most cases.

But the problem is that this kind of influence cannot be achieved by just giving money.

Ryan Simmons is considered a very famous rich man in Hope City, but Phil has not reached the point where he can do whatever he wants, because they do not have such strong control over the superheroes.

The Simmons family can only control some weaker superheroes.

The people of the United States do not allow superheroes to become pawns of large consortia, so there are many restrictions in the system.

For example: large consortia can provide campaign funds to superheroes, but it must be voluntary and indirect. They can exert influence, but they cannot completely control them;

A powerful superhero is definitely not backed by only one large consortium, but a community of interests formed by multiple large consortia. These large consortia will also form checks and balances with each other. What's more, superheroes can refuse the requests of a large consortium on the grounds of "public opinion";

If a large consortium has a problem, the superhero will cut ties with it as soon as possible, and even "eliminate relatives righteously," personally dealing with the large consortium that stands in their way.

To sum it up: what controls superheroes is the entire capitalist class, but specific to a certain rich man or consortium, they may also be fish on the chopping board.

The top superheroes have powerful combat power, huge influence, and even hold huge amounts of funds themselves. They themselves have become invisible rich people and consortia. For these superheroes, they can now control other rich people in turn.

Rich people of the level of the Simmons family are nothing in the eyes of the truly top superheroes.

Large consortia will also fight openly and secretly to compete for superheroes, and the Simmons family obviously has no advantage in this regard.

Therefore, Ryan Simmons is willing to take out half of his wealth and bet on the future of the Simmons family to support Phil Simmons in becoming a superhero.