Writing Web Novels In America-Chapter 281 - 286: Supernatural vs Technology?

Silicon Valley, the R&D center for Apple computers.

Steve Jobs followed an employee and quickly walked over to Wozniak’s side.

"Woz, take a look and see where the bug is, why isn’t this program responding at all?"

Wozniak took over the notebook and quickly identified a segment of the program based on his experience.

Afterward, he modified a section of code using his sensitivity.

With the Enter key pressed, the system started running normally.

Jobs handed the notebook back to the employee and gave him a deep look.

Facing the big shot, the employee also felt a bit helpless.

"Please, how much does Mr. Wozniak get paid compared to what I get?"

Jobs gestured for the programmer to continue working and then sat down himself.

"What’s the matter, Woz? Was your trip to Los Angeles not smooth?"

Although Wozniak was simple-minded and highly skilled, he was an irreplaceable partner.

But precisely because of this, Jobs had to occasionally play the role of a psychologist for this grown boy.

"Yep." Wozniak nodded, "Larry Ellison said that Wang isn’t very interested in setting up a film production company."

In fact, he and many other top programmers were not really interested in the glitz and glamour of Hollywood.

These wealthy, veteran programmers agreed to the proposal and were willing to invest purely because of their fan mentality.

Just think, if in "Star Wars," the Light Saber and Death Star were designed by oneself.

To them, that would be even more attractive than all of Los Angeles’s strippers dancing together!

"’I’m Too Rich,’ being licensed to Universal can still be reluctantly accepted," Wozniak muttered as he sipped his coffee.

"But what if ’Arcane Throne,’ ’Extreme Heavenly Demon,’ and the like are also licensed in this manner?"

"The spaceships in ’Anomalies’ are highly praised, but Steve," Wozniak looked up, "to our eyes, they’re just a pile of junk!"

Upon hearing this, Jobs shook his head helplessly.

Having had the experience with founding Pixar, he already had a deep understanding of Hollywood.

Jobs began to persuade his old buddy from the perspective of investment-return and audience acceptance.

However, Wozniak was clearly the type of person who, if he liked something, would throw himself into it wholeheartedly, somewhat extremity.

He furrowed his brows, opened the laptop to log into wangwen.com, ready to show Jobs some plot points in the books that it would be a pity for Hollywood to reproduce poorly.

However...

He had just logged onto the site, and he saw the announcement on the homepage:

"New member of the Writers Association, Mr. Wang Jian’s new book, ’King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table,’ has started serialization."

Uh...

Wozniak involuntarily clicked the mouse and entered the work catalogue.

Following that... he became a bit perplexed, "Magic, elves, lake witches, these elements were already present in the stories of King Arthur."

"Is Wang intending to write a collection of legendary stories similar to Grimm’s Fairy Tales?"

Moments later, Wozniak realized he was mistaken.

What Wang Jian wanted was to concretize the story into a novel, rather than just short legends.

"However... there weren’t witches in the story of King Arthur, were there?" He frowned slightly.

Seeing the change in Wozniak’s expression, Jobs persuaded even more vigorously.

Wozniak nodded, "Maybe... it’s just that I’m not familiar enough?"

In the Middle Ages, the Church and the Inquisition often spoke about the burning of witches.

Therefore, the appearance of a witch in the story of King Arthur wasn’t too surprising after all.

Hmm, Merlin is just like in the legends, a melee mage.

"He completely led Gandalf from The Lord of the Rings astray!"

Wozniak thought for a moment and muttered quietly, "It’s a good thing the DND rules came along, otherwise what would be the difference between a mage and a knight?"

He continued to read and suddenly found that there were many plot points related to witches in this work.

"What’s going on here?" Wozniak clicked the mouse with some confusion.

Out of trust in Wang Jian, he decided to continue reading.

King Arthur started to get on good terms with the witches and provided them with protection.

Not only did he supply plentiful food, but he also trained the witches’ abilities.

"Can you continue to burn the impurities in this iron and then purify it?" King Arthur asked a witch skilled in using fire, in a kindly manner.

"Yes, I can." The timid witch took the iron sword and started to use her powers.

"Will it be too tiring?" the protagonist asked with concern.

"No, the more we push ourselves to use our powers, the easier it is to fully master our bodies."

Wozniak was a bit flabbergasted at this point.

So these witches are like a little Gaul?

Had King Arthur utilized this unique technology to improve the longsword and begun his path to dominance?

"Sure enough, this is different from the traditional King Arthur story," Wozniak continued to click the mouse, murmuring softly.

But soon, he was shocked by Wang Jian’s wild ideas again.

"Miss, can you use your ability to shape this piece of iron into a cylindrical form, and make two identical ones?" King Arthur asked a witch who had once attempted to assassinate him, in a polite manner.

"Humph, I cannot!" the young witch replied haughtily.

"Hehe," the protagonist stood up, slowly approaching, with an extremely lecherous expression.

He was in no mood to plead kindly now and could only think of various ways to verify whether his idea was correct.

Wozniak, reading the description in the book, felt it seemed familiar.

He hesitated a moment, then started searching with his browser.

What the heck?

"You’ve got to be kidding..."

It was a double-barrel shotgun!

Firearms vs. melee weapons?

What would be legendary about King Arthur’s success then?

Although the theme was fun, Wozniak was somewhat disappointed.

But the plot took a sudden turn again, at its peak.

"Are you telling me that besides rare professions like Lake Witches and mages, there were also Extraordinary Corps?"

Wozniak saw that King Arthur’s brother, trained by the Church’s Knight Order, unexpectedly had a collective magic shield.

And France’s support to the sister involved things like Acceleration Skill and Falling Feather Skill, which could increase speed.

"Is this King Arthur crossing over to The Lord of the Rings, and motherfucker, even taking Dragon Spear Soldiers with him?" Wozniak felt a rare urge to swear.

But this wasn’t anger, it was excitement!

Especially when he saw Wang Jian casually write a check for "God’s Whip" from the Middle East!

"So, from an investment perspective, Steve Jobs concluded, Wang Jian’s temporary disagreement with setting up a film production company is a very correct decision."

"Yes!" Wozniak nodded seriously, "Wang is not unwilling to take risks, it’s because he has more important things to do!"

"He wants to create the ultimate man’s dream, a work where the extraordinary confront technology."

"Steve, we wronged him!"

"What?!!"

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