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Chapter 180 - 178, The New Journey (First Update)_1
Chapter 180: 178, The New Journey (First Update)_1
Ren He returned to the temporary workspace of Liu Erbao’s team just as Liu Erbao was looking for him, seeking suggestions about lens selection. However, Ren He thought it over and still refused, believing more in leaving professional tasks to the professionals. Moreover, suggestions for selecting the lens were already incorporated in the song "FADE".
He believed that after hearing the song, they would come up with new ideas, as the music itself was capable of delivering a shock.
"Do you have any ideas for background music?" Ren He asked curiously.
"Yes, but it’s still not quite right; it feels too bland," Liu Erbao said with a hint of regret, "and the copyright fees they’re asking for are too expensive."
Ren He had forgotten about this aspect. In this world, making a video didn’t mean you could use any song you wanted due to copyright protection—it required paying a ’usage fee’.
Actually, this was perfect. He summoned the entire team of Liu Erbao and had them set up the professional speaker equipment from the car. Liu Erbao was curious, "What are you up to?"
"I’ll play you a piece of music, and then we’ll talk," Ren He said with a mysterious smile.
"Could it be the song you’ve written for us?" Liu Erbao asked excitedly; Ren He had promised to write three songs for him, and he had been eagerly waiting.
Ren He went dark in the face for a moment, "No, you’ll understand once you’ve listened. Your song is not being left out."
Once the sound system was connected, Ren He plugged the USB flash drive into the computer port and hit the play button. In an instant, everyone in the room froze, their hair standing on end and goosebumps forming on their skin!
The music made them feel as if they had suddenly been transported into a world of ice and snow, where a black storm was sweeping through heaven and earth, and they were in the midst of the snow-capped mountains, fervently climbing with their ice axes in hand.
The storm came but didn’t blow you off the mountain; the extreme cold temperatures couldn’t freeze your heart.
And then, as you stood atop the summit overlooking the other peaks, the storm vanished, and suddenly, the sun broke through the dark clouds, casting its warming orange glow on your face. You removed your snowboard, strapped it to your feet, donned your goggles, took deep breaths, breaths, breaths, and began to give thanks for the miracle of life.
Then you leaped down!
At this moment, in this world, you alone were reborn in the sunlight, renewed like a phoenix rising from the ashes!
Liu Erbao suddenly stood up, looking at Ren He in shock, completely at a loss for words!
He was a commercial photographer, with most of his jobs being promotional videos for multinational sports brands. He had always wondered why there wasn’t a song that could perfectly capture the feeling of sports.
Yes, the feeling!
Over the years that Liu Erbao had been making videos, he’d always had a lingering sense of regret: his videos were incomplete. He could elevate the spirit of the video with Ren He’s gaze in "Knight", or build a ladder to heaven with lights for Ren He in "Heavenly Road".
But when it came to background music, he was helpless!
The more complete the video, the more the lack of fitting background music tormented him, like a chicken bone stuck in his throat. Sometimes, he even suffered from insomnia because a good video lacked suitable background music—a sadness born from the unachieved pursuit of perfection.
He longed for it, and just now, it was as if he had found a precious treasure!
"Brother, you are a genius," Liu Erbao said as he embraced Ren He. "I’ll pay you the highest standard for the music licensing fee. Let me use this music!" The licensing fee was included in the five million they mentioned, so it would be Liu Erbao paying, not An Si. An Si’s company had provided the money expecting to see the final product; they cared for nothing else.
Ren He knew that the highest standard for the music licensing fee was actually only 50,000 yuan for a single use—quite a tidy sum as an extra. That morning, the additional $300,000 reward from TK Company had been deposited, which was over 2.4 million when converted using the exchange rate of 2006. This meant he would be more comfortable financially in regards to Qinghe Games.
Making a high-quality game is a matter of burning money, and the game Ren He intended to make wasn’t just any game, but a leap from Dota to a 3D version, Dota 2. Though it only had one map, truly refining it could easily burn through tens of millions.
The game engine from Kunlun had been developed, and whether the graphics and gameplay of Dota could reach new heights depended on Kunlun’s money-making capabilities.
Liu Erbao no longer had the time to attend to Ren He; he gathered everyone and overturned the previous plan. He decided to start reshooting all scenes based on the rhythm of "Fade"! Liu Erbao was betting everything on "Fade" resonating with everyone, capturing their hearts the moment the music started!
In the beginning, Ren He thought that "Fade" might affect Liu Erbao’s production approach, but he never expected the other party to go so far as to overthrow all previous work - that took guts.
But having guts was always Liu Erbao’s biggest trait; he would do anything for perfection!
Geniuses are always mad.
Finally, Ren He could breathe a sigh of relief. At this point in the cycling realm, he was indisputably number one. For a while, he needed to recover and truly focus on completing Kunlun and Dota as his fallback. It was foreseeable that these two online games would inevitably stir up a massive gaming revolution in China, akin to the way legendary novels have continuously emerged in the web literature field, one after another, all for entertainment.
If Kunlun’s peak was limited to domestic success, then Dota’s viral potential would spread across the globe. It was a game that once had the chance to top the global revenue charts. What Ren He had to do was seize this opportunity and ensure that it didn’t grow wildly without a business plan and regulated operation model as it had in his past life.
Instead, he would make it shine brightly anew. From the moment it was born from Ren He’s hands, it would surpass the visual appeal of League of Legends in its previous life and not be plagued by the laggy controls and rough graphics as Dota had been after the rise of League of Legends.
It was going to be a monster in the gaming world, one that would grow slowly until no one could ignore it.
After all this was done, after making sure he could have peace of mind, only then would he start the next phase of his extreme journey!
And what would the next stage be? Free solo climbing? Or perhaps challenging those snowy mountains that stand as the pinnacle of human limit?
The mountains, Ren He had mixed feelings about them. It’s where the air is thinnest, one of the harshest environments on Earth. There, human corpses serve as waypoints, returning to the embrace of Mother Earth.
Anyone who remains still on steep and distant mountains like Mount Everest can die.
Above 8,500 meters, one cannot expect moral standards to hold; it’s a forbidden zone for humans.
At this thought, Ren He didn’t know why, but he felt somewhat excited. In his previous life, so many had revered Mount Everest from afar, and he himself had considered climbing it. But it is a place that serenely buries, batch after batch, those who dare to challenge, only for more to follow in their footsteps.
In this life, Ren He had the perfect physique for climbing Mount Everest, invincible stamina and explosive power, along with muscles that consumed very little oxygen.
If he didn’t go himself, he would probably regret it.
Ren He smiled. His new journey was just beginning.
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I’m back from my mother-in-law’s place. I’ll update as many Chapters as I can today; I’ve also asked for leave previously. To be honest, I’m very happy to see that you guys were moved by yesterday’s update, truly happy because when I was writing that first hairpin bend, I was moved myself and even shed a few tears. But I still feared that I was just pleasing myself.
Thank you all. I think I’ve kept the promise I once made: no melodrama, no junk food. What I can bring to you is laughter, excitement, and emotion, and an explosively good read.
If I really succeed, please call me the number one in extreme sports writing, haha.
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