Chapter 165 The Real World (2) (1st + 2nd update) [VIP]

Bai Jinshu didn't want to stay at the party any longer, so he made an excuse that his agent wanted to talk to him about something, and since everyone present was not unreasonable, they naturally told him to get back to work.

After all, the foundation’s live broadcast can be watched at any time, and there are many discussion posts about this project in the forum.

When Bai Jinshu was driving home, Lao Wu had already put down the script and left. He also took the opportunity to take away the kitchen garbage, which was very considerate.

Although he is long-winded, he has a very good sense of propriety. The two have been working together for so many years that Bai Jinshu knows what he is doing and will not act recklessly, and Old Wu does not interfere too much in his personal relationships and private life.

It is Bai Jinshu's own business which friend he brings home, and there is no need to report to him.

Not to mention bringing a friend home, even bringing a boyfriend home doesn’t matter.

As long as he is not photographed, Old Wu is very tolerant of him.

After all, he is an agent who can accept that his artists may disappear for ten or twenty days at irregular intervals. The strength and magnanimity of Wu Zongling, the great agent, is quite amazing in the entire entertainment industry.

After all, there are not many artists like Bai Jinshu who has almost zero social circle and is very easy going.

Old Wu sent a message, telling him to read the script when he had time in the next few days, and then went to the dinner alone to face the anxious Director Li.

Bai Jinshu pushed open the door and saw that the only person in the house was the evil god sitting on the sofa. He was holding a book in his hand and seemed to be reading.

The sun had already set for a while, the sky had darkened a lot, and there was no light in the room. At first glance, there was only a silhouette sitting on the sofa, with the faint sunset glow that was about to dissipate and the night sky that was gradually covering the sky.

The neon lights in the city have been lit up, and the flickering lights are like stars dimly falling in the night. Huai Jiamu sits sideways on the sofa, and when he looks up, he can see an obscure beauty like the composition of an art film.

"It's so dark?" Bai Jinshu put down the key, looked down at the time on the Foundation's combat watch, and sat on the sofa. "Can you see?"

It was only after he hung up the phone that he realized that although Huai Jiamu had told him his name long ago, he had never told him that his name was Bai Jinshu.

The fabric sofa has a soft touch and one cannot help but sink back once sitting on it. In the few dozen minutes since returning home from the party, Bai Jinshu almost recalled the past twenty years of his life.

He has a good memory and can remember things at an early age. His childhood memories can be traced back to when he was two or three years old.

Bai Jinshu dared to guarantee that in his memory, there had never been anyone similar to Huai Jiamu.

So there are only two possibilities now. The first is that the connection between the two of them is indeed a coincidence. If this conclusion is made public, even Old Wu will not believe it.

There is another possibility that there is definitely a connection between him and Huai Jiamu, and he must have forgotten something in the past twenty years of his life.

After all, there is no reason why the evil god would lose his memory, but he wouldn't.

Bai Jinshu turned this guess around in his mind, and then he heard Huai Jiamu next to him answer: "I can see it."

"I don't use my eyes to see things," he explained briefly. After putting down the script, he naturally looked in the direction of Bai Jinshu, "What just now was..."

"My agent is Wu Zongling," Bai Jin thought for a moment, "You... just think of him as my friend."

Old Wu is indeed a friend.

"Same as Guan Hongyan and Lu Changfeng?" Huai Jiamu seemed to raise his eyebrows.

"Almost." Bai Jinshu didn't know whether the evil god understood the differences between the native space, the foundation's special space, and the mission space, so he had to answer ambiguously.

"Wu Zongling..." The evil god repeated with a very disgusted tone, "Compared to the previous few, I rarely see him appear."

That must be something you have never seen before.

After all, Lao Wu is not a member of the exploration team, he is just an ordinary agent.

"Before he left, he told me to remember to read the script," Huai Jiamu raised the book in his hand, "Is this what he was talking about?"

"Hmm?" Bai Jinshu tried to identify it. "It's too dark. I can't see clearly."

"You may not understand," he said very considerately, "we humans use our eyes to see things."

He stood up and walked to the living room and turned on the light. Only then did he finally see clearly what was in Huai Jiamu's hand.

It's indeed a script.

However, compared to the scripts usually given to actors during the casting stage, the script that Lao Wu brought this time seemed a bit too thick.

"Were you reading this script just now?" Bai Jinshu asked casually, "How did you feel about it?"

As he and the organization [0106] and the exploration team members in the organization are getting closer and closer to the core of the foundation, he is no longer very concerned about his acting career in real life.

Originally, I chose this career for the sake of emotional experience. Now that there are better alternatives, this job has become less important. Although Old Wu has been receiving scripts one after another, he has actually decided to take as few roles as possible in the future and try to shift his focus to the foundation.

In fact, in the foundation, those who were able to join the ranks of high-end team members should have already shifted the focus of their lives to the foundation's exploration. After all, no company can accept employees like them who disappear every once in a while and sometimes disappear for ten days or half a month.

Choosing to join the foundation means choosing to deviate from the normal life of ordinary people.

The points provided by the foundation can be used to purchase miracles and cover the basic expenses of unemployed exploration team members. For more advanced members, such as Guan Hongyan, returning to real life is generally a disguised vacation.

There are relatively few people who can take both into account like him.

In the special space organization, most people simply live in the special space of the foundation. For those whose native space is the organization's base space, real life can basically be equated with work within the organization.

Bai Jin asked this casually and didn't expect Huai Jiamu to answer.

Unexpectedly, the evil god sitting by the floor-to-ceiling window thought for a moment and gave a very subtle answer.

He said, “It’s a little familiar.”

"What do you mean familiar?" Bai Jinshu thought for a second, then suddenly turned around and looked in the direction of Huai Jiamu, "Are you familiar with the script?"

Ever since he had taken Huai Jiamu to a free trade zone and entered a dungeon, the meaning of his so-called "familiarity" was self-evident.

"Old Wu," Bai Jinshu hurriedly called his agent after Huai Jiamu's affirmative answer, "Are you at the dinner now?"

"Yes... yes?" Old Wu was puzzled. "What's the matter? Do you want to talk to Director Li about something?"

It couldn't be that this ancestor suddenly became nervous about whether he could win an Oscar?

"It's not Director Li," Bai Jinshu frowned, "Is Director Li's friend who gave you this script here?"

"No," Old Wu replied, "Ah? You don't want to take it? Director Li just told me that this friend is a complete layman, and he gave you the script because he couldn't refuse. Could it be that you really like this script?"

"Please ask for me," Bai Jinshu ignored Old Wu's question, "who is the screenwriter of this dungeon?"

"Okay..." A few words of conversation were heard between Old Wu and Director Li on the other end of the phone, and the call ended with Old Wu hanging up.

After more than ten seconds, Lao Wu sent a message: [Director Li said that this was written by the director friend himself. He will send you his friend’s WeChat later. Remember to add him.]

After hanging up the phone, Bai Jinshu stood at the entrance for a moment and picked up the script on the coffee table.

"What do you think..." He opened the script and turned to look at Huai Jiamu, "What is familiar in this script?"

Is it a sense of déjà vu caused by similar things, or is this script really related to Huai Jiamu?

Huai Jiamu pondered for a moment and uttered two words: "Protagonist."

*

What makes Huai Jiamu feel familiar is that the protagonist Ye Dian is a mage.

Just like the adventurous warriors, princesses, dragons, swords and legends that exist in every Western fantasy story, in this script, none of these things exist.

Considering the target audience of the script, the film is actually set in modern society, a modern society where magic has gradually declined.

At the beginning of the story, Ye Dian, the protagonist of the story, was a poor guy living in a rental house who couldn't even afford to order takeout.

If we must find something commendable about him, it is that he is a king of rolls, and a king of rolls that reaches the ceiling among mages.

Before becoming unemployed, he studied in the world's largest wizard tower, and was taught by the top magic scholars in the wizard tower. The status of this degree in the wizarding world is equivalent to that of a top student studying at Harvard and obtaining a doctorate under a Nobel Prize winner.

Then, in the modern society where magic is no longer needed, he had an accident when he was about to graduate, was expelled from the wizarding world, and became unemployed after graduation.

If magic does not need to be kept secret in modern society, then Ye Dian would be happy to bring his staff and robes to the construction site to move bricks and plaster, and exchange ideas about his major with another civil engineering guy who became unemployed after graduation.

He can do the work of ten people but only eats the food of one person. The foreman must like him very much.

Unfortunately, in this world view, magic is kept secret in a mandatory manner, and all wizards are not allowed to reveal any part of the magical world to ordinary people, otherwise they will be dealt with very strictly.

So apart from being a graduate of the Mage Tower, Ye Dian is also an illiterate who has not completed nine years of compulsory education, an ancient remnant who cannot use modern technology, a foreigner with only the currency of the magic world on him in the age of digital payment, and an illegal resident.

Of course, people born in the magical world do not need to be registered.

The good news is that after Ye Dian was expelled from the magic world by the Mage Tower, he opened the door to a new world and discovered that magic was such an impractical thing.

For example, he prefers a lighter to chanting a spell to make a flame appear out of thin air.

Rather than flying in the sky on a broom to his destination, he would rather buy a Fuxing high-speed rail ticket.

Rather than praying to the moon on every full-moon night to increase his combat power, or chanting spells and fighting with enemies in a magic battle, he prefers the extremely powerful method of avoiding surveillance and giving his enemies a blow on a full-moon night.

At this point, the reasons why magic has declined in modern society have been fully demonstrated...

Bai Jinshu flipped through the script and felt that Old Wu was giving it too much face by calling it a magical fantasy worldview. This thing was not a magical fantasy world written for ordinary modern people, but a modern fantasy technology written for magicians in the magical world.

The protagonist's performance in the first few episodes is enough to make even Aunt Liu cry, and sigh that you have not seen the world.

It is obvious what a joke a magician who has just entered modern society will make.

Compared with similar works that often focus on how magical magic is, how magnificent the magic world is, and how awesome the magicians are, this script is simply a mudslide. It can be renamed: Why I don't recommend you learn magic in the 21st century.

The only thing missing is sticking "Sir, times have changed" in the audience's face.

After all, anyone who thinks magic is worse than technology must have never compared which is faster and more comfortable, a broom or a car or a high-speed train. It is better to learn a lengthy spell or buy a lighter from the store at the door than to fight with complicated gestures and chanting. It is better to draw out a pistol and shoot the opponent directly.

The world is eliminating magic, and after hundreds of years of magic, there finally appears a person who has been thoroughly exposed to modern society.

After reading the scripts for the first few episodes, Bai Jinshu pondered for a moment, but still couldn't figure out why Director Li's friend thought he was more suitable for this role.

This question was fully answered after he added this director.

The director responded enthusiastically: [Teacher Bai, this is what I am saying. I am the screenwriter and I wrote this script myself. The reason why I invited you is because the character Ye Dian turned evil in the later part! ]

[I know you are a professional villain. No one is more suitable than you for the feeling of this character who turns evil and falls into madness in the later period! ]

A bunch of files were sent over from the other side, along with the director's passionate description: [Ye Dian realized the difference between the magic world and modern society in the later period, and after returning to the magic world, he started revenge, wiped out his enemies and became a generation of Dark Lord! ]

Bai Jinshu: [...Can I ask how he wiped out the whole family? ]

The director’s reply was powerful: [Use modern technology! ]

[The magic world doesn't understand modern technology at all! If 556 doesn't work, use 762, if 762 doesn't work, use 12.7. If that doesn't work, use the weapon station and use 40mm anti-tank shells. Without heavy firepower and armor-piercing shells, tanks are the king of land warfare! Without air force, air gunboats are just tools for slaughter! To become the Dark Lord and kill all your enemies, you don't need a fourth-generation fighter at all. The J-7 is too advanced! ]*

Bai Jinshu: ...

When the word "Dark Lord" is put together with the J-7 fighter jet, it has a kind of beauty that resembles the battle between Sadako and Kayako.

Bai Jinshu: [Your magic and technology combination script...]

The director replied: [What’s wrong, teacher! Is it very innovative?! ]

Innovation is indeed innovation, but creation is also real creation.

After he finished reading the script, he almost forgot that he started watching this because Huai Jiamu said the protagonist was familiar. The plot of this thing is so jumpy, the background is so confusing, and the blackening is so outrageous that if it is really filmed, it may support a group of film and television complaining bloggers, and by the way, it will ruin the old age of this actor who is planning to retire from the film industry.

After reading the script, he was even very confused for a while and wanted to ask Huai Jiamu how he could not laugh when watching this thing, and even say seriously that he was familiar with it.

Is it because you don’t like to laugh?

[Teacher? Teacher!] In WeChat, the chat box of this screenwriter and director kept jumping, [How do you feel!]

Bai Jinshu was silent for a moment.

Bai Jinshu: [It's hard to judge a different profession. I wish you success.]

*

Another thing that was as explosive as the script was that Lu Changfeng also recently received a business order.

This business order was placed by an organization within the Foundation's special space to [0106].

However, although the main body that undertakes the business order is [0106], the organization [Ningqiu] that placed the order is actually targeting Lu Changfeng.

The specific situation is that this organization has a talent that has been favored since the low-end space, named Song Jirou, whose fixed attributes are very useful. This person has just recently been preparing to be promoted to the high-end space.

As a special talent whose fighting power was not outstanding, Ningqiu had always sent people to guide him before. However, the situation was special this time. Song Jirou had just selected a space, and there happened to be a very difficult project to be dealt with in the space under the Ningqiu organization.

Most of the good players in the special space were sent to this space, and the rest were those who had no experience in leading people.

Therefore, in order to ensure that this talent would not die in the exploration project, [Ningqiu] naturally turned its attention to the exploration team members who were also in the special space, and tried to issue a commission to find someone to help them train the newcomers.

The live broadcast a while ago exposed Lu Changfeng, the god-level nanny who had been well hidden before, to everyone. Many organizations that did not pay much attention to promotion projects and newcomers knew that there was such a nanny in [0106].

[Ningqiu] naturally also knew Lu Changfeng.

Lu Changfeng's fixed attributes are a magical skill for everyone. As long as you have one breath left, he can save you. With such an exploration team member, they don't have to worry about Song Jirou's life safety.

So the business order was placed at [0106].

Lu Changfeng had a business experience before, but that time he brought Chao Yougan, an investor in their organization. There was no life-threatening mechanism during the entire project, and the space rating was even only E at the beginning.

This time it was different. The space was rated B+ from the beginning, and it was visibly dangerous.

Lu Changfeng originally wanted to refuse, but [Ningqiu] knew that [0106] had recently signed a group of investors from its own native space to join, so they made an offer that could not be refused -

This space is a transitional space they specially prepared for Song Jirou. Although the foundation's rating is B+, according to Ningqiu's experience, if operated properly, this space will be upgraded to at least A+ in the later stage. It is a space with huge potential.

In the foundation's investor promotion, if a low- to mid-end investor wants to enter the high-end investment pool, he must invest in a space that rises from low-end or mid-end to high-end in order to obtain the qualification.

[Ningqiu] provides such a space that will definitely be upgraded.

As long as [0106] takes over the business orders, leads their newcomer Song Jirou to explore the project, and brings the project to the upgrade stage, then [0106]'s investors who have already entered the mid-range space and choose to blindly invest in this space will 100% definitely follow the upgrade.

To be honest, Lu Changfeng was shamelessly moved.

However, he didn't have much experience with business orders, and Skao, the only one in the organization who seemed to have some knowledge of this, had been out of touch for a long time after the world fusion. After some confusion, he had no choice but to knock on Chao Yougan and ask: [Brother Chao, I received a business order from another organization, asking me to protect their newcomer. Is there anything I need to pay attention to? ]

Bai Jinshu was attending an event when he received the news, and typed a few words back: [Be careful not to let the customer die, or I won’t pay the balance. ]

Lu Changfeng received the message: ...

What a reasonable and kind way of replying.

[Ningqiu] Isn't the reason for looking for him to prevent Song Jirou from dying...

However, although [Ning Qiu] values ​​his fixed attributes, he does not know that his reasoning ability is actually not strong!

What if he is the only one who joins the project and the exploration is not completed in the end...

Lu Changfeng hesitated for a moment: [Brother Chao, do you have any organization members to recommend? Those who are good at exploring and solving puzzles. This space is said to have great upgrade potential. As long as it can be upgraded from B+, the mid-level investors in our organization can enter the high-end space. There are four people locked on the opposite side, but only Brother Xu and I will go together.]

This time, the other party responded much faster: [Don’t Guan Hongyan and Yun Guang have time? ]

Lu Changfeng: [Brother Yun Guang is dealing with the base space issue with the foundation recently, so he really can't spare any time. Sister Yan... said she doesn't want to explore with me anymore. She wants to experiment. Is it my problem or hers that she keeps meeting weird teammates?]

As soon as he said this, he realized that Chao Yougan on the opposite side was one of the "weird teammates" that Guan Hongyan mentioned.

Fortunately, Chao Yougan didn't care about this description at all, and his understanding of the organization was much deeper than Guan Hongyan's: [Of course it's an organizational problem. Are there any normal people in our organization? ]

Lu Changfeng strongly agreed with this.

However, apart from the fact that Chao Yougan's thoughts always tend towards business warfare, he is very reliable in other aspects.

Chao Yougan: [Send me the project link. It’s been a long period of inactivity recently, and the organization can’t catch anyone they want to. You posted a message on the message board but no one responded. I want to see who is suitable to be caught in this space.]

Lu Changfeng sent over a link to the information.

【Unknown Space: Skyfall】

[The Foundation predicts that the collection level: B+]

[Explorer team personnel quota: 8 people]

[The longest exploration time of this unknown space: 20 days]

[The interface is well connected, and miracle redemption and use are open normally]

【Dear pioneers...】

The remaining part should be the internal information of the actual owner of the space [Ningqiu].

[The energy inside this space is disordered, and the stable period is B+. It is predicted that it will be upgraded to A or above after the exploration is completed...]

[This space contains some unscientific elements. It is recommended to select non-materialistic world exploration team members, and those with life-saving skills are preferred...]

[It has been approved to be placed in the mid-range space, locked in position 3-4, the target of attention: newcomer Song Jirou...]

Member of the non-materialistic world exploration team?

The only non-materialistic identity card he currently has is She Mochu.

However, this space has nothing to do with the restraint system. If She Mochu goes there, it would seem like an exaggeration.

Bai Jinshu was silent for a moment, but still replied: [Let me think about who to look for. Didn’t Ningqiu tell you what the fixed attributes of newcomers are? ]

Since Lu Changfeng was invited, it must not be for treatment. Then what fixed attribute could make a special organization send someone all the way down to bring him to a special space?

Lu Changfeng responded very positively: [I said it! I asked this at the beginning! It is indeed a very useful fixed attribute! ]

[They say Song Jirou's obsession is a stable job! ]

[The fixed attribute is that she will automatically obtain an official identity in any space and become a civil servant, and this identity must be related to the rules. ]

Bai Jinshu: ...

It sounds like a very useful attribute indeed. It is a skill of the same type as Bi Wu's [Blind Student]. Both are skills that can directly locate bugs in the rules.

That’s the name…

The name...

It is really hard to imagine what this friend went through before joining the foundation.

The author has something to say:

Ye Mowang (driving a tank to raid the enemy's house): Sir, times have changed.

The artist of Ye Mowang is out for fun, and the work can only be submitted on Monday, so I will change the nostalgic original skin for a few days to show friends who haven't seen it what the metal body looks like.

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