Chapter 98 Quality
Is the effect so good?
Xie Chi raised his eyebrows and laughed.
You can only gain strength boost when fighting against an opponent stronger than you. It seems that there is a range limitation, but in fact there is not. When fighting against someone weaker than you, you don’t need strength boost at all to win. And you only need strength boost when fighting against someone stronger than you.
Without mentioning the unknown effects of the demon realm, just the fact that makes it comparable to a consumable item from a horror movie whose merits outweigh its flaws.
The force buff must belong to Xie Xinglan. Xie Chi teased, "Brother, that's great."
Xie Xinglan coughed and changed the subject: "Aren't you curious about white?"
"You'll know after 5,000 points."
Xie Chi suddenly said seriously: "However, since we have talent, we must also be wary of other actors' talents when we enter the dungeon later."
With his score of 3368, it is not impossible for him to meet actors with scores of 5000 or above in the following movies. When an actor's score reaches 5000, as long as he has talent and meets the awakening conditions, he can consume points to unlock his talent. His talent increase is not small, and other actors' talents may not be weaker than his. He just took advantage of the convenience and unlocked his talent in advance, which is not worth him being too happy about.
Xie Xinglan understood what he was thinking and responded softly.
"Demon Realm." Xie Chi understood what the word meant. "Realm is a range. Demons may be a special state of human beings. Currently, we can only guess based on the literal meaning. The probability of triggering is extremely low and it cannot be upgraded. I don't know what the situation is."
"We'll talk about it later." Xie Chi was too lazy to dwell on a problem that had no solution for the time being. He closed the talent page and entered the title interface.
The title was finally upgraded. His original title was "A Newcomer with a Bright Future", and the upgraded title was "A New Star with a Bright Future". The title was originally a gentle and light aqua blue, and now it is an elegant and graceful purple. This time, the border of the title has a special effect, and a faint purple air is wrapped around the border, floating and dispersing like clouds and mist.
The evaluation under the title has also been updated: Your popularity is far ahead of the new generation of actors. More people have seen your abilities, are impressed by your personal charm, and become your fans. Your overall strength is strong, with basically no shortcomings. Your representative works include: the ghost films "The Red Ghost" (starring role), "1552 Haunted House" (starring role); the zombie film "Zombie Lover" (starring role). You have participated in the variety show "Horror Medley" and won the first place.
Below the review is a line of small text reminder: [Congratulations, because your title has been upgraded, you now have access to some horror movies of excellent quality (orange). ]
[Because you have shot ghost and zombie movies, you now have access to high-quality ghost and zombie movies. As your points increase, you will unlock more types of orange movies. ]
Xie Chi's eyebrows relaxed and his eyes were smiling. According to him, the first place in the overall ranking of Orange Films would be rewarded with 1,000 points, which was too tempting. Xie Chi had earned more than 1,200 points in "Zombie Lover" and more than 1,400 points in "1552 Haunted House", so Xie Chi estimated that the upper limit of points that could be obtained from the film "The Flaws Do Not Overshadow the Merits" was around 1,500. If he wanted to break this limit and earn more points, he could only go for higher-quality horror films.
He still needs more than 6,000 points to permanently exchange for his brother's body. If everything goes well, it will only take... three or four orange films.
Xie Chi's heart was beating a little fast.
Since the APP has opened some permissions for him, it means that his current level is enough to challenge the wonderful. Moreover, the purple film "1552 Haunted House" was finally upgraded to an orange film, which gave him a certain understanding of orange films, so he was not completely unsure.
Xie Chi weighed himself. In terms of physical fitness, he was not necessarily worse than Lu Wen in terms of resistance to blows. His eyesight and mental strength were slightly better. In terms of props, "Fu Tuo" was very flexible and if used well, it might not be worse than any props he had obtained before. The strength increase of the talent "defeating the strong with the weak" was useful and stable. The variable was the demon realm. What he lacked now was handy weapons and props with high burst.
But he can completely copy other actors' weapon props and consumable high-burst props. These two props are very common and the probability of copying them is not small, so to some extent, he actually has no obvious shortcomings. Even if he goes alone, he may not be without a place.
After Xie Chi thought it through, he looked at the expandable column behind the points column.
[Your current total ranking is 3919th, and there are 1677 actors with the same title as you. ]
Xie Chi remembered that he was almost 20,000 at the beginning, almost 8,000 after filming "Vampire Lover", exactly 5,000 after appearing on the variety show, and now he is almost 4,000. It turns out that the higher you go, the harder it is to move up in the rankings.
This ranking pyramid has very few people at the top and a huge number of people at the bottom.
Xie Chi suddenly felt a little curious. Zhao Jinhua said that she had made dozens of movies. Even if each of her movies was mediocre, one mediocre movie would count as 500 points. With dozens of movies, that would be 20,000 to 30,000 points. How come she was only a third-tier movie?
If this algorithm is really used, Shen Yi would get 70,000 or 80,000 points, right?
Xie Chi found it a bit ridiculous.
He searched the question on his mobile phone. Now that his title had been upgraded, he had the authority to view the answers to these questions.
Xie Chi looked at the answer on the screen, and understanding gradually flashed across his eyes.
At the beginning, the title upgrade was only linked to the points. When the points reached, the title was upgraded. However, after [The Rising Star], the title upgrade not only required the points to reach the requirements, but also the quality of the films shot. To upgrade the title [The Rising Star], the actor must have successfully shot three flawless films or one red film. After [The Rising Star], it was a matter of ranking. To upgrade to the third line, he needed to have shot three red films or one red film. He had no authority to know about the higher levels.
In the early stage, the upgrade of an actor's title is mainly based on points, and in the later stage, it is mainly based on the number of high-quality movies he/she starred in. In the later stage, the title may even jump several levels just because an actor made an excellent movie.
At this point he even figured out the quality of the movie. The colors of the movie's quality from low to high are green, blue, purple, orange, red, and black, representing shoddy, mediocre, flawless, and brilliant .
APP did not reveal the quality names of the red and black tablets.
Therefore, no matter how many points you accumulate, it will be useless if the quality of the movie is not good enough. This coincides with the reality of the entertainment industry, where the status of a star is not entirely linked to the number of filmings, and the quality and reputation of the output works play a crucial role.
Therefore, there are situations in the APP where people with fewer points suppress those with more points. Those in the top ten of the list may not have the most points, but they definitely shoot the best quality movies. So Zhao Jinhua is only a third-tier actress with so many points. She is stuck with the line of movie quality. Zhao Jinhua clearly has the right to go to orange or even red films, but she is the leader in "Mediocre" and "Flaws Overshadow the Merits", and gets along with . Three orange films is probably the limit for Zhao Jinhua. It would be difficult for her to go any higher.
Xie Chi spent some time searching and obtained some information.
The quality of a movie does not equal the difficulty. The subject matter, theme, costumes, cast, and wonderful operations can all affect the quality of the movie, so it is not necessarily the case that the higher the quality of the movie, the greater the difficulty. But it is true that relatively speaking, the higher the quality, the more dangerous it is, because the ghosts are stronger and the rival actors they encounter are stronger. They not only have to guard against ghosts and monsters, but also against rival actors.
After all, this is a competitive ranking app.
Zhao Jinhua's reluctance to act in high-quality films is not necessarily due to fear of difficulty, but probably because he is afraid of being suppressed by powerful rival actors, having no self-esteem, becoming cannon fodder, or even losing his life.
So he has to do what he can.
Xie Chi scanned the top ten rankings again. Shen Yi remained unmoved. The fifth, ninth, and tenth positions had all been replaced. The fifth was probably dead or gone, and the ninth and tenth were probably squeezed out by the people behind them.
By this calculation, Xie Chi smiled, he didn't seem too far away from these people.
The fastest way to climb is to always make the highest quality movies within your authority.
…
Xie Chi sent a message to Yan Jing, asking him to help him keep an eye out for suitable orange slices in the next half month.
During the half month of cooling down, Xie Chi stayed at home and watched movies on the APP. After his title was upgraded, he could watch all movies below "quality is not bad enough to outweigh the merits" for free.
One day in early September , Xie Chi received a video invitation from Yan Jing.
After the video call was connected, Yan Jing looked excited: "Brother Xie, it's been a bloody storm outside these past ten days, but I know you are tired of it, so I didn't bother you!"
"What's wrong?" Xie Chi was playing with the radish flowers that Xie Xinglan had carved with a knife, and looked up and asked in confusion.
Yan Jing was stunned, and then his expression was indescribable: "You killed Zhao Jinhua, don't you realize how big news this is? A newcomer killed a third-tier star, and many actors know you——"
"Oh, you're talking about this." Xie Chi interrupted, lacking interest.
"You..." Yan Jing sighed secretly. Xie Chi didn't care what the outside world thought of him at all. He was so happy that he had no place to express it. Yan Jing saw the radish flower and his attention was instantly diverted. "Eh? You're good at cutting."
Yan Jing, who has zombie bloodline, is very good in zombie movies and earns a lot of points. It only takes a dozen points to make a wish to temporarily restore vision, which is very cheap.
Xie Chi, who had just looked uninterested, became interested when he heard him say that and winked at him: "Just not bad?"
"Uh...ah?" Yan Jing was confused, thinking that he was trying to praise her. He thought that his brain was broken, and he coaxed uncertainly: "Very...very good. Good, good-looking."
A smile slowly spread across Xie Chi's face, and he turned the crystal clear flower: "Let's talk business."
"Oh..." Yan Jing thought he might have flattered the right person, and started to talk about things. "Orange films have been released less frequently, and you only released ghost films and zombie films. Moreover, you can't get dark orange films. There are too many conditions. I have waited for half a month and finally got this one. It is light orange, which is slightly inferior in quality among orange films, but it is still an orange film. Didn't you say that you need an orange film to upgrade the title? This one will definitely work."
"Nothing else?"
"That's all. But I've written down a lot of good quality articles that have more merit than flaws. Do you want to take a look?"
The purple piece has 500 fewer initial points than the orange piece. Xie Chi shook his head decisively: "What about this piece?"
"A ghost movie." Yan Jing scratched his head. "It should be called an alternative ghost movie. That's what the information provided says. I don't know what's alternative about it."
Yan Jing said with a bitter face: "Brother Xie, you don't know! The information about Orange Slices cannot even be bought with spending points. Apart from what is revealed by the official, no one knows other information..."
"Is this fair?" Xie Chi was a little surprised. If they really started from the same starting line, it would be beneficial to him. He was... poor, in a hurry, and stingy.
"Uh..." Yan Jing scratched his head again, "You are right."
"So what else did the authorities reveal?"
Yan Jing immediately said, "The APP recommends actors with strong personal abilities who are not auxiliary and have a certain degree of self-protection ability to join the film. I value this point and came to tell you immediately. I'm afraid that if you agree too late, the quota will be full...ah, let me see."
Yan Jing looked down at his phone and said, "Two have already been submitted. I can't tell how many more are needed..."
Xie Chijing listened, and when he finished talking, he said without hesitation: "Fill it in for me."
"Good!" Yan Jing was excited.
“When will the filming start?”
"Four days later."