Chapter 591: An Almost Impossible Task

"The game demo has been completed and has now entered the filling stage. It can be dubbed and tested within two months."

In Luo Quan's mailbox, Li Jiang, who was in charge of the production of *Final Fantasy*, sent a piece of good news.

Every once in a while, Li Jiang would send an email to report on the work. Now there were over six hundred people in the studio working hard for this one game, and with the script, character design, and gameplay all already finalized by Luo Quan, they only needed to model step by step.

With the black-tech engine, the studio's progress was quite rapid. Looking at it this way, *Final Fantasy* was very likely to be born at the arrival of the New Year, opening a new page for game history.

On the other side, the Bilibili variety show *Will You Listen to My Song? *, starring Luo Quan, was officially launched.

It gained 20 million views in one day, and the momentum was quite strong. Moreover, while most variety shows were looking for famous singers to compete in singing ability, Bilibili took a different approach and found ordinary young people to look for talent for the future of the Chinese music scene.

This unique planning was definitely one of the biggest highlights of this variety show.

Accustomed to famous singers, audiences sometimes wanted to try the experience of "cultivation"—that was the process of watching the contestants they liked grow from unknown to new stars and even celebrities. The sense of participation and satisfaction brought by this process was incomparable to other programs.

Previous idol auditions actually utilized this psychology, which was also the reason for their explosion.

However, the state now prohibited holding idol audition variety shows again, making the idol industry almost lose the soil for cultivation in China. It was a pity, but there was no way.

However, there were policies above, and there were countermeasures below. If you don't let me choose idols, then I will choose singers and songwriters.

By comparison, idols might only need to have audience appeal, and even if they had no strength, they could stand out.

But singer-songwriters couldn't be fooled so easily; they needed real skills to conquer the audience.

And this time, Bilibili invited seniors and big shots in the industry, and they were mainly in music production. There weren't many singers, so there was basically nothing to question about professionalism.

After all, a singer might not be able to write songs or arrange music, but a music producer definitely couldn't make up the numbers; without some real goods, they couldn't support themselves.

So, just the lineup of the judges inside and outside the arena made the program *Will You Listen to My Song? * full of topics.

As for the forty groups of contestants participating in the program, the vast majority were amateurs with no fame. Some had published works on some music apps and had a certain number of fans, but not many.

That is to say, everyone's starting point was about the same, and whether they could advance in the program depended on their own skills.

Judging from the works brought by everyone in the first episode, the vast majority of these singers had talent and strength, and the songs were completely different from those that were exploding on TikTok.

It was just that because everyone chose different genres and styles, in the ears of the public, some would like them very much, while others would be quite average.

Art was something that wasn't a simple thing to make both refined and popular. Worldwide, very few people could take care of both "spring snow" (refined) and "lower-class songs" (popular).

Among the judges, only Luo Quan could reach this standard, but she didn't have many such excellent works herself, so no one would use such requirements to demand young contestants.

Fortunately, Bilibili arranged public judges and professional judges, which could be as fair as possible.

Of course, music, which was a subjective thing, often produced different opinions. This point was especially obvious between professional judges and public judges.

There were quite a few pop songs in the first episode. The response from public judges and audiences was quite good, and the final scores were quite high, but among the three main judges and professional judges, the scores were very low.

Conversely, some songs that the main judges liked might not be particularly liked by the audience.

The split between the public and the niche was still quite obvious. Fortunately, the judges would very carefully explain why they liked this song or point out where a song was not good enough.

The scores given could basically convince the contestants and the audience, so there weren't many controversial places currently.

However, it wasn't completely without them. For example, that Hao Shuai, who had "social anxiety" (sarcastic), was very active and enthusiastic as soon as he entered the village and soon harvested a batch of fans.

He was also the first to perform on stage, and the singing ability he showed was the real first among the contestants.

And his "Sleepless Tonight," which turned from lyrical rock to hard rock, was loved to madness by audiences who liked rock, while those who didn't like it felt it was a bit noisy.

But no matter what kind of audience, they all thought that Hao Shuai should have won over Jin Ya in this competition, but the final result was disappointing.

There was no explanation. Maybe the truth was just like the sentence Hao Shuai said later: Chinese rock is already dead.

At the end of the first episode, that combination dressed very much like ancient people offered a gala-level performance scene, and the performance effect was quite explosive. The barrage was full of: "Full-level big shots come to the novice village for technical poverty alleviation," and so on.

Even if the level of the two couldn't be counted as dimensionality reduction strikes, it was actually not much different.

After the program was broadcast, there were four or five related entries on the Weibo trending list, among which "Chinese rock is already dead" and "Ancient Music"—the song that the combination sang at the end of the program.

The attention of these two entries was very large, but compared to the explosive performance, "violent arguments" were easier to cause public opinion quarrels, and once the quarrels started, traffic and popularity followed.

Although rock was niche in China, looking at China's large population base, there were really quite a few rock singers.

After seeing this statement by Hao Shuai, many rock singers publicly dissed him.

If rock is already dead, what are we? Are we gravediggers or tomb keepers? Neither sounds like a good profession.

Doing music well, but suddenly a hairy boy jumped out and said the music he made was already dead. No one's mood would be good.

Moreover, even if it were true, it couldn't be said directly. After all, rock was the rice bowl of many people.

So, after public opinion was brought up, for a time, rock singers and fans were complaining about Hao Shuai.

The reason they didn't scold him was that people in this circle heard his love for rock, and his works were indeed awesome—awesome to the point that even if peers didn't agree with his views, they couldn't cover their eyes and tell lies.

People who do rock are sometimes so contradictory. In the words of rappers, this is called "real."

However, by comparison, rap music was already considered popular in China, successfully transitioning from underground music to above-ground, and there was quite a lot of fresh blood injected. By comparison, rock had no improvement, and it was still those old faces supporting the scene.

No way, this credit had to be largely attributed to *The Rap of China*. Although the main judge of this variety show had already been imprisoned, if rap became mainstream music in China in the future, he could still occupy a place.

Unfortunately, now no one followed the trend to hold a *The Rock of China*. Many rock singers were hoping for a big explosion program to ride the wind, but capital probably didn't look favorably on rock, so there had been no movement in this regard.

This time, the rock circle caught the express train of Bilibili variety shows and showed its face in front of the public, but the process wasn't particularly good-looking, and most of it was negative.

But still the same sentence: having attention is better than having no attention. Doing music can be unknown, but it must never be dead.

In short, the topic of the variety show *Will You Listen to My Song? * had already been pulled up. Recently, this was the only variety show similar to an audition, and the audience had nothing to pick.

In addition, Luo Quan didn't appear in many variety shows. This time, Bilibili spent a lot of money to get international first-class stage and sound equipment, which could be said to be full of sincerity and definitely worth watching.

Besides variety shows, Luo Quan's movie *The Queen Who Wears Chanel* was officially taken off the screen. In the three months since its release, this movie had gained a global box office of over 850 million US dollars.

The theater chain took away a small half, the Universal company responsible for promotion took away a small part, and in the end, what Luo Quan got was a huge sum of nearly 230 million US dollars in prize money.

Because she held multiple roles such as producer, director, screenwriter, and lead actor, she did more and got more.

Counting *Rurouni Kenshin*, which had been off the screen for a while, Luo Quan had already earned over 4 billion RMB this year.

*The Silence of the Lambs* was still hot, and the global box office had accumulated up to 300 million US dollars. If there were no accidents, the final box office of the movie could reach about 700 million.

And *Frozen*, which was about to start filming, was the one she would use the most special effects since she started filming, and it was also the one she was most confident in achieving the greatest success commercially.

She set the goal for *Frozen* to be a box office of at least 1.5 billion US dollars.

In her previous life, the global box office of *Frozen* was 1.28 billion US dollars, and it was an animated film. Besides the brand of Disney, it was completely a new IP without any star effect.

Even so, by virtue of excellent plot, music, and special effects, it became the highest-grossing animated film.

Now the fame of the movie's leads had been fully upgraded. Under the condition of ensuring special effects, there was no reason for the box office to decrease.

Therefore, the goal of 1.5 billion was actually a bit conservative. In the most ideal situation, 1.6 billion US dollars was a reasonable value.

Adding the four movies together, in the most ideal situation, Luo Quan might become a 10-billion-box-office female director and actress this year.

Currently, the only director and actor with a box office of over 10 billion in China was Wu Jin. By virtue of the movie *Wolf Warrior 2*, he had already become the big-brother-level actor in the Chinese film industry today.

And the New Year blockbuster *The Wandering Earth*, which had been filmed for a year, had also been completed and would meet the audience during the Spring Festival. At that time, it would probably set a box office record again. After all, this was the largest investment in science fiction movies in China currently.

Originally, people thought that no second person would be able to step over the threshold of 10 billion in the short term.

But no one would think that Luo Quan would soon complete an overtaking on a bend.

However, Luo Quan's attention now wasn't on her overtaking work *Frozen*.

After *The Queen Who Wears Chanel* was taken off the screen, the first stage of her serial mission had been completed. The reward hadn't happened yet; it would be issued together after the second stage was completed.

However, according to the law of the system issuing missions, every time a mission was completed, a new mission would be issued.

Although the cycle of completing each mission was very long, it would reward her with things that couldn't be exchanged in the mall, so Luo Quan was still quite looking forward to the new mission.

However, the system didn't issue a new mission directly as usual, but gave her a multiple-choice question.

First, it was still choosing to complete missions in entertainment, such as how much box office a movie got, how much sales a song sold, etc. The rewards were still those things.

And the other choice was to let luck decide. The mission was random, and the reward was also random.

She might encounter a pit-father mission and a garbage reward.

But if her luck exploded, she might also get a quite awesome reward.

This all depended on how the host chose; the system didn't make mandatory requirements.

Luo Quan thought about it and felt that her luck had always been good, so she boldly chose a random mission.

After seeing the mission requirements clearly, Luo Quan was stunned.

If it was the same as when she first got the system, and the mission was to let her debut in Kabukicho, at most she would just give up. She wouldn't pay attention to pit-father missions.

The key was this mission; it was between possible and impossible.

"Mission description: Cultivate Dou Qi. (PS: The Dou Qi of magic Dou Qi.)

Mission failure: No penalty.

Mission completion reward: Unknown."

When Luo Quan saw these requirements, her mood was very wonderful.

Failure without penalty was of course very good. She was just afraid that if she couldn't complete it, the system would arrange for her to go into the industry like before, and her reputation would be ruined.

However, wanting to complete the mission was simply harder than letting her go into the industry voluntarily.

The system had said more than once that currently, the soil for cultivating superhumans basically no longer existed on Earth. Currently, her combat power was already the peak humans could reach and couldn't be improved again.

This had already blocked the path of cultivation directly. Now it let her cultivate Dou Qi again. Wasn't this playing with her?

"Could it be that it can be cultivated again now?" Luo Quan asked the system curiously.

"The Age of Dharma's End, spiritual energy is extinct, almost impossible." The system's answer was the same as before, but it quickly added: "But without cultivation, who knows it can't succeed?

The system can provide the method of cultivation. Even if you can't practice Dou Qi, there is no big problem in strengthening the body. At least it can make the figure become more vigorous, and the posture healthier and more beautiful."

"I thought there would really be a chance to master supernatural powers." Luo Quan showed a disappointed expression again, but such a situation indeed conformed to common sense.

Soon, the system gave her a set of Dou Qi cultivation methods, named "Covenant Dou Qi."

Hearing this name, Luo Quan suddenly got spirit: "Could it be that there is a will in the dark? This Dou Qi's ultimate move, I'm afraid it's the legendary Sword of Promised Victory?!" ===== CHAPTER 592 =====