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Chapter 40: Autobots, Departure

In the early 1980s, the comics industry in Hong Kong ushered in a golden age like the movie industry, and at this time the most proudest person in the comics industry was Huang Yiro.

In addition to unauthorized replica Japanese comics, the main market of the current comics in Xiangjiang is occupied by underworld martial arts comics, among which Huang Yilang's "Dragon Tiger Sect" and Shangguan Xiaobao's "Li Xiaolong" are the most popular. After several years of fighting between the two comics, Huang Yilang's comic company has finally gained the upper hand recently, and some time ago, he finally convinced Shangguan Xiaobao to agree to consider adding "Li Xiaolong" to his own Ichiro company. The two comics have been fighting in Xiangjiang for nearly ten years and have firmly occupied the position of the first and second place, and no one can match the rest of the works. Now Huang Yilang is finally going to take both works into his pocket, which is not far from monopolizing the comic market.

But a comic that suddenly fell into the sky recently has brought Huang Yiro's mood from the peak to the bottom.

In the Ichiro company's comic production room, a "Transformers" comic was spread on the table. Huang Yiro looked around page by page, and surrounded the table. Some people followed Huang Yiro and looked silently, while others were whispering.

"Is it a American comic? It looks quite similar."

"The story looks like American comics. We in Xiangjiang have never seen serious science fiction comics, but the style of paintings is still more like that of Xiangjiang comics, and it should be painted by us Xiangjiang people."

"That may not be necessary. Maybe it was copied from American comics, and this matter is not new." In this era, Xiangjiang has not yet been so strict about copyright. It is normal to directly translate foreign comics and copy them. He has never paid any copyrights. However, some controls have begun in recent years, but it has almost disappeared after more than ten years, but the main reason is Japanese comics.

"I sent this to a foreign friend and asked him to help see if there are any similarities in Europe and the United States. However, it seems that the United States has not seen any robot-themed works now, and they are still those Superman Batman and the like..."

The voices became louder and noisy. Huang Yilang glanced around in dissatisfaction, and the debate slowly dropped until it stopped.

"Why are you arguing about these useless things? If you copy them sooner or later, will you still use them? Amin, how is our sales in Longhumen?"

"It's not bad now, and I haven't been affected much. But it's hard to say in the future. The sales momentum of this comic is so good. It was very low-key in the early stage but no one noticed it. Now I feel like I'm going crazy." Ah Ming replied.

"Fortunately, the subject matter does not conflict." Huang Yilang sighed. In addition to competing for the title, the main battle between 'Dragon Tiger Sect' and 'Li Xiaolong' is that the themes are similar and they compete for market share. However, these two works are more suitable for adult viewing because of the heavy bloody and violent plots. Although some children like to watch it, they are limited in sales in this group because of the double resistance of parents and schools. They say that these two comics were banned for a while because of the large number of violent and pornographic plots in the past few years, and then they were restrained. But how can a comic with gangster martial arts theme be completely free of violence? Both can only play the edge ball, carefully preventing the scene from crossing the boundaries, and at the same time play the tragedy card, so that all sectors of society can tolerate more of Xiangjiang comics, but it is impossible to eliminate violence.

But this robot comic is different. The theme is like promoting "justice will win", which is quite similar to American comics, because both good and evil are robots, and there is no bloody violence. Because the overall plot is relatively positive, the media has reversed their previous dislike of comics and said good things about this comic. Some more enlightened parents also tolerated their children's behavior of reading comics. Many people even took the initiative to buy comics for their children to read, saying that it was to cultivate children's interest in science.

When Huang Yilang heard this, he wanted to complain, why didn’t he develop an interest in martial arts? However, he knew his own affairs and his comics had nothing to do with serious martial arts.

In short, this comic captured the youth market that Huang Yilang coveted. While all walks of life resisted a number of Xiangjiang comics, including their works, they gave the green light to Transformers, and they were unimpeded. They sold more than 300,000 copies in just a month, making other comics out of reach.

Huang Yilang smiled bitterly, touching the exquisite cover of the comic, and it was obvious that his opponent was doing it very carefully. Each picture was painted very exquisitely, and he didn't even have a weekly magazine to publish it directly. This made Huang Yilang secretly relieved. At least his comic weekly magazine would not be affected. Looking at the two steel robots in the comic, called "Optimus Prime" and "Megatron"? This shape is really well designed, and it looks powerful. No wonder he was fascinated by those little boys like this. Huang Yilang suddenly had an idea: "Why should I try to draw this subject too?"

......

Repulse Bay is a place where wealthy people gather in Xiangjiang, as well as Taiping Mountain and later Victoria Bay, which are all rich. In contrast, Kowloon Tang, where Li Xuechu is located, feels far behind. He drove the Volkswagen into a mansion in Repulse Bay, honked the horn, and a man immediately came over. After seeing the license plate number, he opened the door without asking anything. Li Xuechu drove in and stopped on a small parking plaza.

"Why are rich people driving such a car?" The man who opened the door complained silently. When Li Xuechu first came, he was stopped outside by the man for a long time, but he never passed by again.

Li Xuechu got out of the car, opened the trunk, took out an adult-high box and walked straight into the house.

"Mr. Li, I'll help you get it." The man hurriedly stepped forward and wanted to take the box.

"No, this thing is not heavy." Li Xuechu refused with a smile.

"Brother Li!" An eleven or 2-year-old boy immediately looked up with his eyes when he saw Li Xuechu, but he looked more at the box he was holding.

"Haha, Azhi, I've brought you what you want, there is nothing on the market." Li Xuechu said with a smile.

The little boy's name is Lin Wenzhi, who is the little master of the house. Hearing this, he immediately took the box and opened it.

"Zhizai, why are you so rude?" Lin Yujia also walked downstairs when she heard the sound. After seeing Li Xuechu's eyes flashed with joy, but she still taught her brother a lesson first.

Zhizai turned around and gave him a face, and then focused on opening the box.

Lin Yujia glared at him angrily and amusedly, and said to Li Xuechu: "Don't bring him things every time, now he's all wild."

"Where is it? Is it good if I have good grades?" Zhizai protested. At this time, the box was also opened and there was a large toy truck inside. Zhizai had no time to care about his sister, so he started to study the truck and see where to start.

"Zhizai, do you want me to help you?"

"No, I want to do it myself." Zhizai didn't want others to do it, as it would be less fun.

Li Xuechu smiled and stopped caring about him and asked Lin Yujia: "Is Grandpa here today?"

"Did you call grandpa?" Lin Yujia blushed and sneered, "He has something to do today and will not come back until evening."

It's good if it's not here! Li Xuechu actually came only when he knew that Old Man Lin was not here. If he wanted to, he would be dragged to talk to him for most of the day. The old man had already put the family industry on his son. He was usually at home and loved to talk about his past glorious years. He often asked about Li Xuechu's company's business management issues. Li Xuechu was not good at doing this and didn't want to take care of this thing. In addition to financial and general matters, he threw all the specific affairs to Ye Zhiming. He didn't know about it after asking and was taught a lesson by the old man. Old Man Lin was really a little merciless when he taught people a lesson, which made him a little afraid of coming here, but it wouldn't work. Yujia was indeed a church school with strict management and almost completely closed. It's troublesome to go in.

I was able to catch a man this time thanks to Yujia's 'accidental' last time when I came here. The opportunity was rare, and Li Xuechu said, "Let's go up and chat?"

Lin Yujia looked at Zhizai with guilty conscience and nodded slightly. Li Xuechu was overjoyed and took Yujia's hand and was about to go up. Yujia struggled gently but couldn't get rid of it, so he let him pull it.

"Oh, the girl is too old to stay." Zhizai shook her head and said in a low voice, but it was just enough for the two of them to hear it.

Lin Yujia was both ashamed and annoyed: "Do you want to die?"

"Ah, did I say something?" Zhizai pretended to be stupid.

"Let's go back and deal with you, Chuzai, don't pay attention to him." After arousing his younger brother, Lin Yujia showed some strength and pulled Li Xuechu up with the help of the enemy. Li Xuechu was not embarrassed, and his face was still quite thick.

"Hmph, I thought I didn't know anything?" Zhizai muttered to himself as he fiddled with the truck.

This thing is not difficult. Not long after Lin Wenzhi did it, an adult-height Optimus Prime stood in front of the little boy.

"Hehe." Zhizai smiled with satisfaction, then imitated the imagined Autobot leader and shouted: "Automan, set off!"
Chapter completed!
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