Zhuge Meng subconsciously started to explain Lin Xu's words.
But just then, a “cough” from Zhuge Qing directly interrupted her.
Zhuge Meng looked at Zhuge Qing in confusion, only to see him turn his body and mouth the words “ordinary person” where Lin Xu couldn't see, his eyes also gesturing towards Lin Xu.
Zhuge Meng, stunned for a second, immediately realized that not all four people present were superhumans; Lin Xu was an ordinary person!
She almost exposed the existence of superhumans in front of an ordinary person!
“Hahaha… I… I was just going to say the General Administration of Press and Publication.”
“I… I wanted to ask, aren't superpower-themed movies restricted? Isn’t Brother Lin afraid this movie called ‘Superhumans’ won’t pass the review?”
Zhuge Meng stammered, quickly adding a reason for her previous words.
Lin Xu glanced at the trio performing in front of him, smiling silently to himself, then continued to answer Zhuge Meng's questions.
“Hey, what’s there to be afraid of? I’ve made so many superhero movies, I know exactly where the General Administration of Press and Publication’s bottom line is.”
“Besides, if it really can’t pass the review, then we just won’t release it in theaters. I’ll just release it online for free. I’m not short on money; consider it giving back to the fans.”
Lin Xu’s generous statement made Zhuge Meng give him a thumbs up.
“Brother Lin is so magnanimous! As expected of a great director!”
“Hahaha, keep it low-key, keep it low-key.” Lin Xu laughed, raising his hand to wave it down.
Seeing that she had successfully covered up her slip of the tongue, Zhuge Meng refocused her attention on the script in her hand.
She was suddenly very curious about this story related to “superhumans.” What kind of story was it, exactly?
The four large characters “under one person” were printed on the script.
Zhuge Meng’s mind began to recall the superhero series movies Lin Xu had filmed before, subconsciously guessing what kind of plot “under one person” would have.
Would it be like before, where a research institution developed a special evolutionary serum, creating superhumans called “superhumans”?
Then the serum leaks, falls into the hands of an evil villain, who tries to mass-produce “superhumans” using the evolutionary serum to rule the world.
After that, the righteous hero defeats the evil supervillain and saves the world with superpowers!
Zhuge Meng opened the script with anticipation, thinking that even if the story's direction wasn't what she imagined, it wouldn't be too far off.
But the more Zhuge Meng read, the stiffer her smile became, because this script was completely different from what she had imagined!
Why were the settings in this story so similar to the superhumans around her?
The plot for the first “under one person” movie, according to Lin Xu’s plan, would start with Zhang Chulan's emergence and end with Feng Baobao’s background revelation.
That is, roughly the content of the first season of the original novel.
Superhumans, Eight Wonders, National Wide… Zhuge Meng looked at one familiar setting after another entering her sight in the script. With three parts shock, three parts confusion, and four parts suspicion, she looked at Zhuge Qing.
She really wanted to ask him if he had truly not revealed the existence of the Yiren Jie (World of Superhumans) to Lin Xu.
The settings in this script were a bit too similar to the Yiren Jie (World of Superhumans)!
Zhuge Qing, who still didn't know what had happened, looked at Zhuge Meng's eyes and asked in confusion.
“What’s wrong, Da Meng? Is there a problem with the script?”
“You… you see for yourself…”
Zhuge Qing shook his head internally and, smiling, took the script from Zhuge Meng’s trembling hand.
It's just a script, why such a fuss? So uncomposed.
But as Zhuge Qing took the script, the smile on his face slowly faded.
Hmm? That’s not right! Why do these settings look more and more familiar to me?
No matter how Zhuge Qing looked at the “superhuman” setting in the script, it was exactly the same as the superhumans in reality!
He finally understood why Zhuge Meng had looked at him with that kind of gaze earlier. Let alone others, even he himself suspected whether he had accidentally leaked information about superhumans to Lin Xu!
Zhuge Qing licked his dry lips. He pointed to a set of settings within the script and asked, feigning curiosity.
“Boss, your superhuman settings are a bit different from your usual style. How did you think of incorporating real-life Schools into the plot?”
Lin Xu leaned over to take a look, then said seriously.
“Oh, that. In my previous movies, superheroes always gained superpowers through modern technology, and I feel like that lacks Soul now. Superpowers should be Cultivated by oneself!”
“Didn’t I tell you yesterday that the supernatural powers of superhumans in this new series are obtained through Cultivation? Since they can be Cultivated, they can definitely be passed down as Legacy! So I thought of those long-standing Schools in reality. If they could appear in the story, it would be very immersive.”
“So I directly set the Tianshi Mansion, Shaolin Temple, Wudang, Quanzhen, and others as superhuman Schools with long Legacies. Doesn’t that make it much more immersive?!”
“It… it really is very immersive.”
Zhuge Qing nodded mechanically. When he thought about how Shaolin and Wudang in reality truly had superhuman techniques passed down internally, the sense of immersion really shot up.
But while your side gets stronger immersion, how am I going to explain this to the Na Du Tong people later?
Don't let Na Du Tong think I leaked superhuman information to you, that would be a mess.
Zhuge Qing racked his brain to come up with a reason.
“Boss, won't this infringe on rights? What if these Sect Leaders think you're slandering them and sue us? How about we change the names and make them all fictional names?”
“What infringement? A name, what's there to infringe?” Lin Xu waved his hand dismissively.
In his previous life, he never heard of any School asking Mi Er for royalties!
Why would it be an infringement if he used someone else's name here?
If they have the guts, they can come ask him personally. If they come… he’ll compensate them, no big deal. Lin Xu isn’t short on money anyway.
Seeing that Lin Xu had no intention of changing the names, Zhuge Qing lost his spirit and pointed to another setting.
“Boss, didn't you set superhumans to Cultivate? Then what's the deal with your Innate superhumans and Acquired superhumans?”
Zhuge Qing had tolerated the superhumans, Thirty-Six Thieves, and Eight Wonders from before, but what's this superhuman classification all about?
He really felt that Lin Xu was playing dumb with him, and that he actually knew about the existence of superhumans long ago!
Don't tell me all of this is a coincidence? There are too many coincidences!
But to Zhuge Qing’s persistent questioning, Lin Xu merely said blandly.
“You mean this? Aren’t such settings all over urban novels? Abilities can be Innate Awakening, or they can be Cultivated independently. Isn’t this a very common setting?”
“What’s wrong? Is there anything unreasonable?”
“Reasonable… very reasonable…”