Chapter 17

"‘The City of Swords’ novel, it requires 300,000 reputation points to redeem!"

In the martial arts annex exchange, the complete ‘The City of Swords,’ including the full novel and other classic TV shows and movies, would require about 500,000 reputation points in total. However, if only the novel is redeemed, it would only need 300,000.

Lin Mu originally had less than 100,000 reputation points. For this famous work by Jin Daxia, he could only drool over it. But the rewards from ‘Voyage to the Sea’ gave him this opportunity!

"Reputation: 120,000!"

Lin Mu counted for a while before confirming that there were four zeros at the end.

120,000!

This was still the score before the third issue of ‘Voyage to the Sea’ was published!

This made Lin Mu start to understand how great the hidden value of a true masterpiece novel could be!

The short stories in ‘Martial Arts Tales,’ no matter how hard Lin Mu tried, were ultimately just short stories, only suitable for passing the time and earning some manuscript fees. Relying on them to become famous was a dream.

The manuscript fees for ‘Voyage to the Sea’ were not as high as those for ‘Martial Arts Tales,’ but its long serial and engaging content were enough to make many people remember the pen name "One Page Book" and look forward to the publication of the next chapter!

Therefore, when Lin Shuiqing asked Lin Mu what the name of his prepared serial novel was, he answered ‘The City of Swords’ instead of the previously prepared ‘Spirit Crane and Flying Dragon.’

‘Spirit Crane and Flying Dragon’ was a serial from the previous life’s ‘Martial Arts Tales,’ with a similar number of words, but the quality was vastly different.

In ‘Spirit Crane and Flying Dragon,’ there were three great masters in the world: Heavenly Dragon, Love Demon, and Yin Demon. The protagonist was a disciple of the great hero Heavenly Dragon, who had become a monk.

The protagonist received the true teachings of Heavenly Dragon and the full powers of Yin Demon and Love Demon. Not only did he have unprecedented potential in internal strength, but he also possessed the charm of Love Demon, making him extremely attractive to women.

Therefore, the plot naturally became a story of the protagonist collecting girls one by one, with each chapter containing a spicy subplot, making it extremely satisfying to read.

Thus, this serial performed very well in the previous life and was a well-known serial in ‘Martial Arts Tales.’

Lin Mu originally intended to use ‘Spirit Crane and Flying Dragon,’ but with the example of ‘Voyage to the Sea’ before him, he changed his mind.

‘The City of Swords’ has over 220,000 words, divided into twelve chapters, a few more than ‘Spirit Crane and Flying Dragon.’

Lin Mu estimated that the manuscript fees would not be very high, as it was his first serial. Publishing ‘The City of Swords’ now would result in a significant loss of money.

However, Lin Mu thought about the reputation points he could gain.

Currently, for him, money and reputation were both important, but enough money for temporary living was sufficient; reputation was what he lacked the most!

Each classic martial arts novel, movie, or TV series required hundreds of thousands, even millions of reputation points.

The ‘Martial Arts Tales’ he had redeemed consisted of many short stories, which could make his life comfortable, but so what?

Holding a great sword but using it to chop wood, how could Lin Mu bear it?

Therefore, when the words were on the tip of his tongue, Lin Mu told Lin Shuiqing that his serial novel was ‘The City of Swords’!

"‘The City of Swords’ is temporarily set at around 220,000 words, divided into twelve chapters, enough for a six-month serial!" Lin Mu explained to Lin Shuiqing via the communication device.

In this world, the total word count of a serial novel was naturally not comparable to a short story, but the word count per chapter in the magazine was not the highest.

The highest was the first story in the magazine, which was slightly different from the previous life.

Lin Shuiqing was silent for a moment, then only asked Lin Mu to try to write the first two chapters within three weeks, along with a summary, and then logged off.

Lin Mu didn’t think much about it, opened a new document, and continued writing ‘Voyage to the Sea.’

Day by day, the owner of the newsstand next to Water Town No. 2 High School gradually noticed that the ‘City Education News,’ which was originally just a bonus, had sold out half of its stock in the past week.

This made him curious, but after opening a copy, he soon discovered the existence of ‘Voyage to the Sea.’

This was the fourth issue.

The plot had already developed from domestic to international, with the protagonist changing from a rabbit to a white elephant, i.e., Brother Three.

To say that Brother Three was unlucky, he had tricked the bear when the ruble depreciated, but later the bear held a grudge. In arms deals, the bear always smiled, but behind his back, he would occasionally brandish a sharp knife.

Especially the bear that Lin Mu drew, with a nose extremely similar to the current bear president, was hilariously funny.

"Haha, how could Brother Three be so unlucky? His nose is so straight, it looks like... hehe."

The newsstand owner laughed until his stomach hurt, attracting the attention of a few students buying newspapers. After learning the reason, they also flipped open the ‘City Education News.’

With this, the entire newsstand was filled with the sound of students holding their bellies and laughing. A nearby aunt selling student pancakes thought they were reading pornographic magazines, spat, and pushed her cart away.

"Before, I never knew what ‘see three roll’ meant, but now I do. I really want to know what other funny things happen to Brother Three’s family..." A somewhat chubby student said to the glasses-wearing boy next to him after finishing the newspaper.

The glasses-wearing boy also had a smile on his face, turned around, and shouted to the newsstand owner, "Hey boss, when the next issue of the newspaper arrives, remember to save one for me. By the way, do you still have the previous issues?"

This reminded the newsstand owner, who searched for a while and finally found the third issue of the ‘City Education News’ that hadn’t been sold.

Those students who were still eager to read more didn’t leave; they each bought a copy and started reading by the newsstand.

The third issue of ‘Voyage to the Sea’ mainly focused on the domestic poverty and how the rabbit (China) grew mushrooms, i.e., developed atomic and nuclear bombs.

It included scenes of using an abacus as a computer, researchers going hungry, and the loss of support from the bear (Soviet Union).

These events were no longer classified; anyone who knew the relevant information could find them.

The students, originally reading for laughs, gradually had less and less smiles on their faces, replaced by a sense of admiration.

"To me, the Koreans always trying to get their kimchi recognized as a cultural heritage is pointless. Besides making people brain-dead, what other effects does it have? Our abacus should be the one to apply for cultural heritage; it can create atomic bombs!" the glasses-wearing boy sighed.

Everyone agreed, the top-tier black technology of atomic bombs being calculated with an abacus was a huge shock, and they began to admire the author "One Page Book."

Only making people laugh is just a joke, like those third-rate comedians.

Making people laugh and then think deeply, that’s the real Zhou Xingchi!

PS: Thanks to Shen Ben Wu Ming 100 and Wu Yu Xian Sheng 588 for the support, brothers, you’re awesome!

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