Chapter 164 Earning 90 Million in a Week 28
As soon as Jiang Yuelu entered the coffee shop, he saw the leader sitting in the corner. He and Xia Yi sat down one after the other and asked in a familiar tone, "Have you been waiting for a long time?"
The girl shook her head.
Jiang Yuelu didn't say anything. He stared at her for a long time before smiling, "You don't seem to like talking much. Is it because you are nervous?"
The girl nodded again.
"I hope you don't mind. I didn't ask you to come here for any other reason." Jiang Yuelu smoothly said the lines she had been thinking about all the way, "Let me introduce myself first. I'm the judge, and this is my friend."
"I'm taking the liberty of contacting you because I have some questions for you."
The girl looked at him for a long time, and suddenly said, "I remember you."
She didn't seem to listen to Jiang Yuelu's words and was immersed in her own world. To outsiders, it seemed very rude of her to talk to herself. Combined with her blank expression, it made her look more like a mental illness.
But Jiang Yuelu doesn't think so.
He was prepared for all unexpected events in this "Lin Ya City". People here lived together with strangers, unaware that they were using dead people's money for rewards, and were not even surprised by the bizarre videos on the live broadcast platform.
These people are stranger than ghosts.
"You are my loyal fan, it's wrong for you to have no impression of me, right?"
"No." The girl sighed softly, as if she had given up. For the first time, her eyes fell on the young man next to Jiang Yuelu, and her brows furrowed slightly.
If most people looked at Xia Yi with this kind of eyes, he would have slammed the table and stood up. But now he sat quietly looking at the menu, not caring at all.
Jiang Yuelu whispered: "You seem to have become more patient?"
Xia Yi: "It's not like she has a problem with me, but she's trying hard to remember where she's seen me before. Do you want these food? It looks like you guys are going to talk for a long time."
Jiang Yuelu was shocked: "Can the food here be eaten?"
"Of course you can eat if you follow me." Xia Yi gave a very arrogant answer, called the waiter, and ordered a lot of food in one breath. During this process, the little girl stared at them.
Anyone could see that something was not right with her.
After the food came, she didn't move her chopsticks. If she hadn't looked out the window occasionally, Jiang Yuelu would have thought she was a cold ice sculpture.
After a long while, she raised her head and spoke in a cold voice that didn't look like a fan who spent a lot of money on Jiang Yuelu. "You said you had something to ask me."
"Yes, I do. But don't worry, I want to hear your story first."
"Mine?" She quickly shook her head. "I don't have a story."
"It's not just the ups and downs that make a story. You can talk about your daily life, your family, and where you live. These are also stories."
The young girl was a little dazed.
"My life... is very boring. I grew up studying and went to and from work. I have never done anything out of the ordinary. I have a father and a mother, but they died unexpectedly. Now I live with my grandparents. Yes, where I live is a big house."
"It's a very complete story." Jiang Yuelu said with a smile: "Don't you have a brother?"
She hesitated, "Brother?"
"I feel like you will have a brother." Jiang Yuelu shrugged, "Forget it if you don't have one, let's not talk about this. So you are going to study tomorrow too?"
Girl: "Every Saturday is the day for me to learn piano."
"It sounds like you have a plan every day. If we asked you to come out today, will it disrupt your plan? If so, I apologize in advance."
The familiar confusion appeared on the young girl's face again, "I shouldn't have come out today..."
"Well, but you still came out." Jiang Yuelu said.
"I... why did I come out, why... I don't know. I'm here... huh? This is not right... why is it not right..."
Jiang Yuelu and Xia Yi were sitting quietly, one was eating quietly, while the white-haired lady sitting opposite was muttering to herself, with pain and confusion sometimes appearing on her face.
Jiang Yuelu was a little reluctant, "... just like a computer that strictly follows instructions, living the same life day after day, my words are like a virus that was accidentally triggered, causing her to start thinking extra."
In short, my brain is about to explode.
"It's better for you to tell her earlier." Xia Yi said.
"I'm just afraid of accidents..."
What are they talking about... Sitting opposite, the young girl's head was throbbing with pain. She lowered her head and picked up a few hairs with her fingers. Strange, why is her hair white, and when did it grow so long?
Just as I was thinking this, someone suddenly called my name, "Leng Wenhan."
She also agreed very smoothly, "Hmm?"
The "young girl" was stunned for a moment. With the infusion of this name, her soul seemed to be hit. She raised her head again and glanced at the unfamiliar coffee shop, the foggy city outside the window, and the planes circling above her head.
He finally understood why he felt ridiculous when he heard his piano teacher say he wanted to take a plane.
The planes at the airport have never actually flown. They exist there only to make it easier for people in the city to confirm them, just like actors confirming whether the props in the studio are complete. As for whether those props are useful or not, it doesn’t really matter. They just need to perform the scene well.
After a long time, the confusion in the "young girl's" eyes completely disappeared.
Jiang Yuelu sat opposite him and nodded at him, "Do you remember?"
"Childish girl", or Leng Wenhan, pursed his lips vigorously. It was obvious that he and Jiang Yuelu came into the ghost city together, but it didn't play any role.
In a daze, I live here as another person.
When Jiang Yuelu was working hard on the live broadcast, what was he doing? Was he enjoying it? He was too embarrassed to say it out loud.
What he couldn't accept the most was that he didn't recognize Jiang Yuelu... How could he do that?
"When did you come in?" Jiang Yuelu looked at his expression, "Do you still remember what happened before?"
Leng Wenhan perked up and said, "Okay."
After being released from the controlled state, previous memories surfaced.
He could remember how he came here, how he met the so-called relatives on the street, and how he was taken back to their villa and raised as their only granddaughter.
And he naturally accepted this setting and played the role of the eldest daughter.
"You came here at about the same time as us." Jiang Yuelu thought, "I thought you didn't come in. I'm the only one taking this exam."
Xia Yi paused with his chopsticks.
Jiang Yuelu quickly changed the subject, "It's just the two of us."
Leng Wenhan seemed not to notice the little actions of these two people. He was still immersed in sadness and guilt, but he heard Jiang Yuelu ask him, "By the way, have you seen Tong Mian? You came in, maybe he did too." He was just controlled by Cycas and was still living unaware in this huge and disordered city.
Leng Wenhan shook his head, "I don't know, I haven't seen him."
Jiang Yuelu said to herself, "It's impossible to find such a big city. Forget about it for now. Tell me about your experience as a young lady in Linya City. Tell me everything clearly."
Leng Wenhan looked up suddenly, "Okay!"
…
Half an hour later.
"That should be correct." Jiang Yuelu said affirmatively: "I had this guess before, and after hearing what you said, I am even more certain."
"Everyone in this city is controlled by Cycad."
"Xia Yi and I have already discussed this idea. After listening to what you said just now, I have some details to add." Jiang Yuelu tapped her fingers slowly on the table.
"First, there is a subtle correspondence between this Linya City and the Grid Live Broadcast Room where I am."
"I have always been curious about why some ghosts can dream to living people, but some cannot. Generally speaking, dreams can only be sent to living people who are related to you. Just like if I die, I will dream to you and Tongmian, but if the living people related to me are gone, then I will not be able to dream successfully."
"Some ghosts can find corresponding living people, but others can't. What does this mean?"
"I previously suspected that these ghosts had long lost contact with the human world, but after coming to this Linya City, I had a different idea."
Jiang Yuelu's eyes were sharp. "What if this world is not the world in the traditional sense? Is it created by humans?"
At this moment, a point seems to be circled with them as the center.
Places outside this point were all shrouded in fog. People were coming and going in the shops on the street. The bosses, clerks, employees... were all busy with their own business. But if you looked closely, these people had dull expressions, and their eyes would occasionally show a hint of struggle and clarity, but would soon dim.
"This huge human world is built by cycads. What is his purpose?"
It is unbelievable that the Lord of a ghost city controls so many living people but does not kill them or use them to do anything harmful to the world.
Xia Yi suddenly said: "A whole."
Jiang Yuelu looked at him.
"This unicorn bud has thus become a whole of one human and one ghost, one dead and one life." Xia Yi said.
Jiang Yuelu quickly caught up with his thoughts, "...In fact, there are not two Linya Cities. There has always been only one. Only when one life and one death, one person and one ghost are combined together can they form a whole?"
Xia Yi nodded, "Based on my understanding of the Lord of the Capital, their intentions may be at a deeper level, and it's not just a game of playing house."
It was impossible not to listen to the Ghost King's opinion. Jiang Yuelu pondered, "The deeper meaning... the only connection between the living and the dead is the money of the underworld, the money of the underworld..."
He suddenly slammed the table and stood up, "It's the money from the underworld!"
Everyone else in the coffee shop looked over, but Jiang Yuelu was completely unaware. "The money circulating between the two cities is the underworld money. Everything is for the underworld money competition, and the underworld money competition is a scam!"
"Cycad just wants more ghosts to participate in the competition!"
But doing so—
What is it for?
Is it just for fun to have a bunch of ghosts go to great lengths to chase a non-existent reward?
[Ding Dong——]
[Ding Dong——]
The familiar program voice suddenly sounded in the air. Jiang Yuelu hesitated for a second, and then felt shocked——
He actually heard the electronic system sound coming from the screen in the live broadcast room in this Linya City?
There is a reason for any sudden change. Could it be that his words triggered something?
In the air, a dark green scale bud rose up, and as it slowly turned, a solid bud gradually took shape. Jiang Yuelu looked around, and everyone around him was frozen.
All this indicates that huge changes will happen next.
"Be alert," he warned.
Needless to say, Leng Wenhan was already fully prepared. He was just about to vent his inner depression, and when he saw this "unicorn bud" - Cycas's property and also the prop that arranged his life, his face turned ashen and his hands clenched.
However, Xia Yi, who was sitting opposite him, was sitting leisurely and even had time to take a sip of coffee. It was obvious that he did not take the black bud seriously.
However, his right arm was subtly tense, as it was closer to Jiang Yuelu.
"Inquisitor! Something terrible has happened!"
With the appearance of this unicorn bud, Jiang Yuelu actually heard Ximujin's voice coming from the live broadcast room.
His tone was more intense than ever before, and he even forgot to imitate his most beloved Lord Jin Muxi, as if he had encountered something unbelievable.
"My brother, he's back!"
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