Chapter 110: Slam Dunk Master

  Lu Li looked at Da Xia, who was standing in front of him staring straight at him, feeling a bit embarrassed and not daring to meet Da Xia's gaze. Indeed, he had forgotten to give Da Xia specific arrangements for the time being.

  "Let's talk about it back in the office," said Lu Li after a moment of thought.

  Arriving at the office, Lu Li then said to Da Xia: "I heard Meng Qi say that you're great at drawing comics, can I take a look at your work?"

  Daxia nodded upon hearing this and soon handed over a thick stack of paper to Ludi, saying somewhat nervously: "These are all the drawings I've done in my free time. Don't laugh, okay? Mengqi's words can't be taken seriously."

  Lu Li took over the painting paper handed over by Da Xia, smiled slightly, didn't say a word, and started flipping through it.

  Ludie looked very serious and found that Daxia's painting skills were still quite good, not as humble as he said. However, Ludie also slowly discovered that the things Daxia painted had no story to tell, the characters were drawn well, but the story was extremely poor.

  Lü Lí also saw Dà Xià paint a lot of his own martial arts, which were quite vivid and lifelike.

  "You're drawing very well, why be so modest." Lu Li hadn't finished looking, but had already made up his mind, and smiled.

  "You don't have to comfort me, it's been a long time since I've had nothing to do. The company is slowly getting on track, each position has its own professional talents, and I can hardly do anything." Da Xia said with her head down in distress.

  Lu Li heard the words and hesitated for a moment, then said: "Then you can draw comics." But in his heart, he thought: It seems that going to Hengdian again will be delayed.

  "But I don't know what to draw. Although others won't say it, but I myself know that the stories in my drawings are very poor and no one will look at them." Da Xia heard Lu Li's words and said.

  "Now that we've made a decision, Lu Li said: 'I'll provide the character settings and story, you just need to be responsible for drawing, is that okay?'"

  "Really?" Da Xia was very excited when she heard this. She was originally a fan of Lu Li's books and naturally knew that the plot he wrote was extremely wonderful. At this moment, since Lu Li said he would provide the story, it must not be something casual.

  "Ah, of course it's true. I had planned to draw a comic long ago, but just hadn't thought of it until now. It seems I forgot that our company has another master cartoonist." Lu Li said with a smile as he saw Da Xia's excited expression.

  Indeed, in Ludi's heart, he had long planned to do something with comics, after all, many famous movies on earth were adapted from comics. For this aspect, Ludi would not let it go. Moreover, Ludi also has many comics that he likes very much.

  Daxia was delighted when he heard this, but he said with a straight face: "Don't tease me."

  Lu Li said: "Then I'll finish writing the story for you as soon as possible in these two days."

  Daxia left happily after getting a positive answer from Ludi, while Ludi sighed and picked up his phone to call Jiangyou.

  "Hey, Jiang You? I reckon I'll be late for two days to get to Hengdian, so let the crew take a break for two days before starting filming again." Lu said after answering the phone.

  "It's okay, no rush." On the other hand, Jiang You was facing a problem and had temporarily stopped filming. He was talking to his old man about something. Many actors on set were also gathered in twos and threes discussing something.

  At this moment, Jiang You received a call from Lu Li and said so.

  "That's it, I'll hurry up and finish as soon as possible and come over," Lu Li said before hanging up the phone, still unaware that Jiang You had already started filming.

  After calling Jiang You, Lu Li started writing the main plot of a comic in her mind on the computer. With long-term typing, Lu Li's hand speed is much faster than before, and soon there were large sections of text on the computer.

  It's still not enough, and Lu Li spent the remaining two days writing the plot of this comic that he liked very much.

  Until two days later, Lu Li had written about half of it. With so much content, it would be enough for Da Xia to paint for several months. By then, he might have already finished filming "The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber" and stopped, calling Da Xia again.

  "I won't be drawing comics, so you can draw the characters, I'll describe them. First, let's get some basic character designs out." Lu Li said.

  "Uh-huh." Daxia nodded and took out a piece of paper and a pen, sitting down beside Ludi.

  "His hair is red, usually wearing a black suit... " Lu Li slowly painted for Da Xia according to the picture in his mind: "He's called Sakura."

  There are already several character drawings on the table, if it's a slam dunk fan on Earth, you can definitely see that these characters are from "Slam Dunk" at a glance, such as Sakuragi and Rukawa.

  That's right, the first manga work handed over by Rukawa to Akira is "Slam Dunk".

  Due to the consideration that the original "Slam Dunk" is a manga from an island nation, the names of the characters have strong island nation characteristics. Lu Li made some minor changes to the names of some characters. For example, Sakuragi Hanamichi was directly translated as Sakuragi, and Rukawa Kaede's name was retained because it didn't differ much from Chinese names. However, Akagi Takenori was changed to Mu Xian, and his sister Akagi Haruko was changed to Mu Qing, etc.

  After finishing the character design of Sakura, Daxia picked up the printed script that Luli had already prepared and looked at it uncertainly, saying: "Your story is about playing basketball, will anyone watch it?"

  "Hehe, definitely someone will like it! Don't worry so much, soon you'll be a famous beauty cartoonist in Huaxia." Lu Li heard this and couldn't help but laugh.

  "Slam Dunk" is a motivational manga and anime series by Japanese cartoonist Takehiko Inoue, based on high school basketball, alongside "Captain Tsubasa" and "Major", considered the pinnacle of Japanese sports manga.

  The animation was introduced to China on Earth and can be said to have influenced countless post-80s people, becoming a memory of this generation.

  "Coach, I want to play basketball," said Mitsui Hisashi, did it move you?

  Lu Li burst out laughing at Da Xia's concern about nobody liking him.

  "Alright, I believe you. Then I'll focus on this 'Slam Dunk' next." Da Xia said, seeing Lu Li's confident appearance.

  "Uh-huh, you go ahead and draw first. Once you have a good draft, upload it to the internet for me to see. If it's possible, I'll help you get in touch with a publishing house to publish your comic." said Lu Li.

  "Can it still be published?" Daxia dared not believe.

  "Why not? As long as you draw well, it will naturally be published. Otherwise, how would I say that you will soon become a well-known cartoonist in China?" Lu Li heard and said: "Moreover, not only publishing, but also making an animated film when the time is ripe."

  Daxia listened more and more excitedly. What could be more exciting for someone who likes to draw comics?

  "Then I'll go and start drawing now." Daxia said excitedly and ran off.

  He shook his head silently and saw that it was almost dark at this moment, so he didn't rush to Hengdian overnight, but prepared to go the next day.

  At this moment, in a hotel in Hengdian Film and Television City, Jiang You was tossing and turning with insomnia.

  "Alright, stop tossing and turning, you're keeping me awake." Jiang Wei suddenly said impatiently.

  Jiang You stopped and asked: "Dad, what should I do? Lizi will be here soon, and when she sees me like this, she'll probably be very disappointed."

  "Why are you worrying so much? This time it's not your fault, it was an accident, just don't think about it anymore." After a long while, Jiang Wei finally spoke up.

  "But...” Jiang You wanted to say something, but after a long time, he found himself at a loss for words. He let out a sigh: “Originally, no one had high hopes for me, but Li Zi still insisted on letting me take the shot. I'm really useless. This is just the beginning of filming and already such big things have happened."

  Upon hearing his son's words, Jiang Wei also let out a sigh. He knew the immense pressure his son was currently shouldering. Although outsiders didn't put any pressure on Jiang You, it was precisely because of this that his pressure would be even greater.

  "Lu Li won't blame you, after all, it's not your fault. Let's shoot other scenes tomorrow first, and don't rush to shoot this scene, we can't keep dragging on like this." Jiang Wei said thoughtfully.

  "It can't be helped then." Halfway through his sentence, Jiang Youcai let out another sigh and said helplessly.

  Things never go as planned and often develop in the opposite direction.

  Jiang You and Jiang Wei thought they had a good plan, but it wasn't until the next day that they realized they had made things too simple.

  When Jiang You resumed filming the next day, a number of reporters suddenly arrived on set. Jiang You had a bad feeling when he saw these reporters, but he didn't stop them and instead halted filming to let them into the crew.

  "Director Jiang Yong, hello. I heard that an actor from 'The Legend of the Condor Hero' was unexpectedly injured yesterday. Is this true?" a reporter asked.

  "Yes, due to our negligence, an actor was unexpectedly injured during filming and has been sent to the hospital for treatment." Jiang You's face looked unpleasant as he replied truthfully.

  "Director Jiang You, something like this happened, why didn't you stop filming? Today 'Yi Tian' is still being filmed?" another reporter asked.

  "We are also very sorry to hear that the actor was injured, but the shooting of 'The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber' must go on. At the same time, I hope the injured actor can recover soon and return to the crew to re-shoot his scenes." Jiang You replied.

  Facing a barrage of questions from reporters, Jiang You answered patiently despite his reluctance.

  He had originally planned to skip this person's part and continue filming after discussing with his father last night, but unexpectedly these reporters got the news from somewhere and came to interview today, causing the filming to be interrupted again.

  After the interview, Jiang You also lost his mood for filming and gave the crew a half-day break to rest at the hotel.

  Lu Li handed over the basic character settings and plot of "Slam Dunk" to Da Xia, and then took a plane to Hengdian the next day. After arriving in Hengdian, he found Jiang You, who looked at him with a guilty expression, not knowing what had happened.

  Lu Li looked at Jiang You and saw that his face was not right, so he asked: "What's wrong?"