282 The Eleventh Store
◎ Live broadcast. ◎
Kelun took the book from the owner, still staring at her.
Lu Yao blinked, revealing a questioning look.
Her fingertips touched the smooth and slightly cool pages of the book, and Kelun lowered her eyelids without saying a word. Lu Yao's
eyes swept over customer No. 1, and then he turned his head to look at customer No. 2 next to him.
The girl looked to be in her twenties, with dark brown curly hair, beautiful lake blue eyes, fair skin, and fashionable clothes. Lu Yao
suddenly remembered something, his eyes turned slightly, and he glanced at customer No. 1 who was wearing a suit next to him.
The Dream-Fulfilling System seemed to know Lu Yao's doubts and explained, "This is a face I made myself, and it may not be the guest's real appearance."
Because of the live broadcast, Lu Yao's star ring was able to remove some restrictions.
The Dream-Fulfilling System tried to invade the star network from Lu Yao's star ring, and occasionally dug up some sporadic external information.
Lu Yao was thinking it was a bit strange that in a world where books had disappeared, clothes like suits were still preserved.
Seeing the clothes of another guest next to him, Lu Yao quickly noticed something strange.
Suits may be considered vintage in this world. Lu Yao speculated that this guest probably liked retro culture, and maybe books would also be favored by him.
Lu Yao showed no abnormality as he was thinking about all sorts of trivial things. He picked out a few books swiftly and handed them to guest number two: "See if there are any books that interest you."
Guest number two glanced at the books, suddenly closed his eyes and sniffed around, and asked in confusion: "Why do I feel that your live broadcast room has a fragrance?"
Lu Yao took out a teacup from the tray, picked up the teapot next to it and poured it into the cup. A fine white mist rose from the surface of the amber tea soup, and a faint fragrance wafted into his nose.
She poured two-thirds of the tea into the cup and pushed it towards the second guest: "Maybe it's the aroma of tea, try it."
The second guest didn't seem to understand what she meant: "You mean... I smelled the aroma of tea in the live studio?"
The first guest also looked up.
Lu Yao poured him a cup of hot tea with a smile on his lips: "It may also be the aroma of nuts. I just ate some walnuts. Or it's the smell of ink on the pages of the book. Some people think this smell is bad, and some people like it."
Hearing this, Keren picked up the book, lowered his head and sniffed it gently. A faint smell spread at the tip of his nose. It turned out that this was the smell of ink.
The second guest picked up the teacup and felt the warmth of the cup wall. As he got closer, the aroma of the tea became stronger.
She lowered her head, her lips touched the edge of the cup, and the tea touched her lips, which was a little warm, with a rich tea fragrance and a little sweet aftertaste.
Sang He blinked quickly, a little surprised.
Thanks to the development of Star Network and holographic technology, virtual live broadcast rooms have been booming in recent years.
It has the dual advantages of online shopping and physical store shopping, which is convenient and affordable. Customers can also fully understand the quality of the products online.
However, so far, the sale of food in online stores has not been able to break through the limitations, and customers cannot smell or taste the food in the live broadcast room.
But today, she actually tasted the tea in the virtual live broadcast bookstore.
The audience watching the live broadcast also felt strange, and the jailers in the secretary's office of District 8 were also surprised.
In the audience message area, the message strips scrolled quickly——
[Wild Star 3: What is that smell? Can you really taste it? ]
[Wild Star 77: It must be a script! ]
[Wild Star 44: The smell and taste synchronization system is so easy to develop, the anchors of the food channel must be very happy. ]
...
Sang He also saw the messages scrolling on the light screen above her head, put down the teacup, took a small walnut from the snack plate, peeled it and tasted it.
The crispy texture, the aroma of the nut itself is mixed with a hint of rich milky aroma. It is particularly fragrant when eaten alone, but a bit greasy.
She picked up the teacup again and took a sip. The light tea neutralized the oily aroma of the nut, making her unable to resist touching another small walnut.
Sang He was busy with his mouth and hands, and his eyes were also busy. He scanned the pile of books brought by the store owner and pulled out a book with a dark gold pattern on a black background.
The title of the book was "Green Light", and the author was Fitzgerald.
Both the book and the author were names that he had never heard of.
Lu Yao introduced it at the right time: "This is one of the new books on the shelves in the store today, but the one in your hand is a trial reading copy. Only one-third of the trial reading content is currently open on the Star Network."
Guandao is somewhat closed, and it is unlikely that prison guards and prisoners will spread the contents of the entire book on the Internet.
Therefore, in order to create a good reading atmosphere and environment, the store is open for trial reading in its entirety.
Live streaming is highly contagious, and books are content products. After a long consideration, Lu Yao decided not to make the entire book available online for trial reading.
With the current level of development of information and technology, it is almost impossible to prevent the electronic version of the book from being released online, but she wanted to delay this time as much as possible to achieve her mission goal.
Sang He said nothing, took the book and began to read it.
[When I was young and inexperienced, my father taught me a sentence... "Whenever you want to comment on others," he said to me, "you must remember that not everyone in the world has the same superior conditions as you." (1)]
Sang He thought she would not be able to read it, but her eyes swept across the rows of silent words and she finished a page very quickly.
Without hesitation, she turned to the next page, and a sense of novelty gradually emerged in her eyes.
It was a particularly strong sense of freshness, as if she had discovered for the first time that words connected together could depict such a flashy and extravagant scene.
Those words were like lines, each word forming a sentence, slowly sketching out a picture in front of her eyes, and like a waiter walking in front of her to lead the way, leading her into the depths of this maze of words.
Karen, who was sipping tea next to him, was also gradually fascinated by the book.
He actually had a lot of questions in his mind about the owner and this live broadcast room, but as his eyes moved down along the words, those trivial thoughts were temporarily thrown out of his mind.
The young sailor told Morel about the cause of Captain Leclerc's death. He fell ill at sea, had a high fever and died of meningitis.
Kren couldn't imagine when this story happened.
Meningitis was completely conquered eight hundred years ago, and the incidence and mortality rates have been approaching zero.
After the popularization of mechanical bodies, it has actually had a significant impact on the development of conventional medicine.
For example, the high fever and meningitis that appeared at the beginning of this book are already very distant medical history...
However, medicine has developed new branches, mainly related to mental value and mental body maintenance.
[... As the ship owner spoke, his expression was quite calm, "People will die eventually, and the elderly will give way to the young, otherwise there will be no chance of promotion..." (2)]
Kren is a relatively sensitive person, and he couldn't help but stop when he saw this.
People will die eventually, but after the appearance of mechanical bodies, humans are no longer so easy to die.
In contrast, the birth rate of newborns has also dropped significantly.
At first, Kren still cared to stop after reading a paragraph and think about some details.
After reading a few more pages, he stopped less and less, turning page after page, completely immersed in it, looking forward to the subsequent development.
Because there were customers choosing books, Lu Yao did not speak.
She pulled a suspended light screen in front of her and wrote "Let's read books together!" Then she enlarged the light screen a little, placed it in the most conspicuous position of the live camera, bent down, took out a new book, and opened the first page.
There were suddenly three parallel main screens in the small virtual live broadcast room. Customer No. 1 was reading "The Count of Monte Cristo", Customer No. 2 was reading "Green Ray", and the owner took a new book.
No one thought it could be played like this. Suddenly, this small live broadcast room seemed to have three anchors.
Audiences who did not enter the virtual live broadcast room could freely choose the books they wanted to know, switch the main screen, and then read with the anchor.
In the secretary's office of District 8, several secretaries watched this scene silently, and were surprised to find that the number of viewers in the upper right corner of the screen was gradually increasing, 120 people, 132 people, 166 people, 225 people... The number of online viewers slowly stabilized at around 500.
Dududu -
after the familiar knocking sound, a new guest entered Lu Yao's virtual live broadcast room.
The opposite side was full, and this guest appeared beside the owner as soon as he entered.
From the live broadcast screen, a black three-headed man with a number plate "No. 1" sat next to the store owner.
[Wild Star No. 3: Why is this number one black? Numbers 1 and 2 are both white. ]
[Wild Star No. 79: The audience's nicknames are also hidden. What does "Wild Star" mean? ]
Lu Yao casually clicked on the light screen, and a small rectangular screen suddenly separated from the lower right corner of the live broadcast screen.
There was a small word explanation on the screen: In response to the confidentiality regulations of the live broadcast of the eighth district of Guandao, this live broadcast room will be coded for customers entering the store throughout the process. Guests entering the live broadcast area will be protected by portrait protection and private information protection.
Audiences outside Guandao are collectively referred to as Wild Stars, and they will receive permanent digital signs in the order they enter the live broadcast room.
The audience on the island are collectively called favorites, and they will receive permanent digital tags in the order they enter the live broadcast room.
Guests from outside the island who enter the virtual live broadcast room are uniformly represented by white, and they will receive permanent digital tags in the order they enter the store.
In order to distinguish between guests on the island, jailers are represented by black, and permanent digital tags are automatically assigned in the order they enter the store; prisoners are represented by red, and permanent digital tags are automatically assigned in the order they enter the store.
...
[Wild Star No. 3: In other words, this guest is a jailer on the island? ]
[Wild Star No. 79: Can the coding be so detailed? First time I've seen it. ]
[Wild Star No. 9: This is also the first time I've seen such a detailed division of customer groups. Even jailers and prisoners are distinguished by different colors. I'm afraid they have some evil intentions? 】
【Wild Star No. 3: I think this method is very good. In the past, when watching the live broadcast of Guandao Store, who didn't come to see the prison guards and prisoners? But every time the mosaic is too thick, even the anchor's normal business can't be seen clearly, which is really meaningless. 】
【Wild Star No. 23: I also think this mosaic is good. It can clearly distinguish the virtual live broadcast room and the guests on the island. I am quite curious about what books the prison guards and prisoners on the island read. Moreover, the guests entering the store have a permanent digital code on their heads, which neither leaks privacy nor has a certain degree of recognition. 】
...
In the secretary's office of District 8, several secretaries and prison guards saw this and finally understood the owner's intention to make another live broadcast plug-in.
Their previous ideas were too rigid. They only thought about protecting the private information of the people on the island. They blindly covered the screen, which cut off the fun of the live broadcast.
If the owner handles it this way, the live broadcast screen will be clear, and the guests outside the island, the jailers and the prisoners will be clearly distinguished. It looks a bit like a retro flat management game . Lu
Yao pulled the small light screen and tilted his head to look at the guest next to him.
The guest with the "Pet Star No. 1" sign is a woman with long orange curly hair, amber eyes, deep and three-dimensional facial features, and wearing a black and white striped dress.
The jailer who entered the virtual live broadcast room through the star ring is also a virtual image, but Lu Yao almost guessed her identity when he met the guest's eyes.
Rich sister.
0496 faced the shop owner's inquiring gaze and said in a low voice: "Look at the book in your hand."
After Zhu Wei's spirit gradually stabilized, she wanted to save money to buy books.
There were several prisoners in the fourth district whose spirit signals were constantly weakening. 0496 tried to read books to them. Later, the test results showed that their spirit signals fluctuated to varying degrees, which was enough to prove that books could stimulate the spirit in a short period of time. 0496
discussed with the management director of the fourth district and transferred several prisoners with weak spirits, including Zhu Wei, to the ninth district this month to reduce the frequency of mental interrogation and give them books to read.
In the morning, the prisoners were sent to the sewing factory in the ninth district, and 0496 took a rest in the prison guards' office.
Several prison guards in the ninth district who were taking a rest were watching the live broadcast of the bookstore. 0496 also sat down and opened the Star Ring.
Last time, she bought too many books on impulse. She lent a few books to colleagues and prisoners, and read them for several days. She still had half of them left.
So recently, when she heard that the bookstore was selling new books, she tried her best to restrain herself and not ask, for fear that she would buy a lot of books on impulse.
0496 rarely watched live broadcasts on weekdays. She didn't like the routine of bluffing and not getting to the point for a long time, which was a waste of time.
But the bookstore owner did not follow the beaten path. It only took him a few minutes to introduce the topic. He told the story in a mix of true and false. He stopped when he caught the fish and never dragged his feet.
The live broadcast room began to quiet down. 0496 switched the main screen several times, from customer No. 1 to customer No. 2, and then to the owner's main screen
. She had read the book in customer No. 1's hand before and read the whole set three times. Customer No. 2 was reading a new book with beautiful and gorgeous words and sentences. She silently memorized the title in her heart. Finally, she switched to the owner's main screen.
0496 spent her rest days reading books. She liked the feeling of turning the pages of a book, which made her feel at ease.
Turning the pages manually can also physically reduce her speed of capturing information. If it is electronic data, she may unconsciously extract content keywords and know the ending of the story in advance.
After watching on the suspended light screen for two minutes, 0496 found that she seemed to be a little uncomfortable with this way of viewing. She just felt inexplicably uncomfortable. It was still most comfortable for her to hold the book and read it alone.
She raised her hand and clicked on the live broadcast room on the suspended light screen, and a door jumped out of the light screen.
0496 clicked on the door handle again, and in a blink of an eye she entered the virtual live broadcast room of the bookstore and sat next to the owner.
When the owner looked over, she had already aimed at the book in the owner's hand.
When the owner flipped through the book, he first read the preface at the beginning, then turned to the last few pages and took a look, and then turned to the first page of the text.
0496 saw a paragraph of text at the time, but didn't see it clearly.
She took the book from the owner's hand, turned it directly to the back, skipped the end of the text, and found the paragraph that she didn't see clearly just now.
This is also a preface.
0496 I thought that the preface of a book was always written at the beginning, but this is the first time I have come across a book with a preface at the end, and more than one.
Fortunately, this author's writing is concise and refined. Although there are many prefaces, they are not long.
[… "To live" is full of power in our language. Its power does not come from shouting or attacking, but from enduring, enduring the responsibilities that life has given us, enduring the happiness and suffering, boredom and mediocrity that reality has given us... (3)]
0496 read this paragraph word by word, and continued to turn to the next page.
[…People live for the sake of living itself, not for anything other than living… (4)]
0496 could not describe the agitated feeling she had. Something that had troubled her for a long time seemed to be suddenly dissected open by words, and then gradually sorted out into a docile appearance, revealing its soft belly to her.
0496 poked the shopkeeper with her elbow: "I want to buy this book!"
No matter what, she really couldn't refuse such a book, such words.
Not only did she want to read it herself, she also wanted to show it to Zhu Wei and the other prisoners.
Lu Yao had another new book in his hand. Hearing this, he just nodded slightly: "Do you want to order it online? Or come to the store to pick it up later?"
0496 thought for a moment: "I'll come and pick it up during lunch break. Leave a copy of the "Green Light" as well."
After ordering two books, 0496 hurriedly logged off.
She was worried that if she continued to learn more, things would get out of control again.
The jailers in the secretary's office of the eighth district management director watched their colleague enter the live broadcast room, grab two books, and then hurriedly log off without notifying her to try the tea and snacks in the live broadcast room.
0815 glanced at his colleague and took the initiative to say, "I'll go up and take a look. The code plug-in in the store is very well done..."
Before he finished speaking, 0816 clicked on the door on the suspended light screen and entered the bookstore's virtual live broadcast room first.
The next second, a black man with a digital sign "Pet Star 2" appeared on the live broadcast screen.
The two guests sitting opposite looked up and saw 0816's online virtual image, a young trendy man with short light green hair.
0816 nodded to the two of them as a greeting, and quickly turned to look at the shop owner: "Any new books?"
Lu Yao didn't recognize 0816 at first, but only saw that he was a prison guard, and recognized him when he heard the voice.
She simply bent down and took out all the books in the basket, divided them into two piles and placed them on the long glass table.
"Feel free to try it."
0816 pointed to "Green Light" in the hands of customer No. 2 opposite and whispered: "I want to read that book too."
Lu Yao stood up to get the book.
0816 took the opportunity to pour himself a cup of hot tea. He was not particularly surprised by the refreshing tea taste. The reactions of the customers opposite just now did not seem fake, and he probably knew it in his heart. It
was just that after nearly ten years on the island, 0816 was a little dazed and nostalgic when he tasted the food again.
He also couldn't figure out what technology the owner used to transform this live broadcast room. The books and food in this area are not simple data and models. It seems that guests outside Guandao can come directly to this bookstore in the eighth district through the virtual live broadcast room.
Lu Yao took the book and handed it to 0816, and sat down next to him again.
Without the disguise of the steel mask, 0816's facial expression is actually quite easy to interpret, but the owner did not take the initiative to explain.
The existence principle of this live broadcast room is similar to that of Lu Yao's ninth store on the shopping street, the Creative DIY House, or it is the reverse operation of the DIY House.
Lu Yao's Creative DIY House is a real store that exists in the virtual world, while the bookstore's virtual live broadcast room is a virtual base built in the real world.
Guests from both worlds arrived at the real store from the illusory network, completed a virtual journey, and returned to their real lives.
The magical thing is that guests from both worlds are freed from the constraints of their bodies in Lu Yao's store, but can experience everything in the store in a complete manner.
Lu Yao made up for the technical limitations that the technology of the shopping street and Guandao could not achieve.
The dream-fulfilling system complained a lot in its heart, but did not dare to nag in front of Lu Yao.
She really became more and more like a wish-granting machine, and these shops in other worlds connected by the shopping street became more and more like a domain where she could do whatever she wanted.
Kron sat in the bookstore's virtual live broadcast room for 20 minutes, flipping through the pages of the book.
He didn't raise his head until he was notified that the trial reading section was over. He looked up blankly into the air, sitting there for about half a minute, then he got up and left the live broadcast room.
Kron suddenly came back to his senses, and it took him a moment to remember that he was in a convenience store.
He sat in a booth by the door, the instant hot soup in front of him had gone cold, and there were two rice balls.
Kren is a half-robot, half of his body has been transformed into a mechanical body, while his internal organs and brain have not moved and remain in their original state.
He needs to eat, drink water, and go to the toilet like a native human, but he is considering replacing his entire mechanical body recently.
In the city on weekdays, the streets are crowded with cars, pedestrians are walking in a hurry, and airships are flying around like flies.
Kren just got off work, bought breakfast and prepared to go back to his residence. He just felt a little dizzy, so he sat down in a booth in the corner.
He originally wanted to watch a live broadcast to relax, so he randomly clicked on a live broadcast room, and ended up seeing a live broadcast of a newly opened store in the eighth district.
This store is really a little different from the previous ones. It was the first time in my life that I saw books, and the experience was not particularly shocking, but it was somewhat different from the past.
After exiting the virtual live broadcast room, Kren could still see the shop owner and customers reading books on the suspended light screen. He could see the books in their hands by switching to the main screen. At this time, the number of people watching the live broadcast had reached 959.
Kren stared at the suspended light screen, tore open the wrapping paper of the rice ball, and ate breakfast with the contents of the book on the screen.
He stood up to throw away the garbage, turned off the star ring, and walked slowly home.
Tangdes, Tangdes, Tangdes...
On the way back to the apartment, Kren was thinking about Tangdes in his mind.
He seemed to be fascinated by Tangdes, just like the prisoner in the shop owner's story.
In the virtual live broadcast room of the bookstore, the second customer Sang He was reading "Green Light" like a madman.
[…If it weren’t for the fog, I would have been able to see the green light… (5)]
[…Perhaps Gatesby has realized the extraordinary significance of the lamp, and from now on it has disappeared forever. It is just an ordinary lamp on the dock again, and one of the treasures that fascinated him is gone… (6)]
She read the trial version three times, and even read the small introduction on the cover several times, but she just saw the price on the back of the book.
Suggested price: 58,000 star coins.
Sang He carefully confirmed with the store owner, and the actual price was also 58,000 .
Every time Sang He read it, her heart became more entangled.
If books can really serve as a substitute for the brain, 58,000 for one book seems worth it.
【Author’s Comments】
Notes: (1) The original paragraph is quoted from the opening of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. The “Green Light” in the text is The Great Gatsby.
(2) The original paragraph is quoted from the opening of Alexandre Dumas’ The Count of Monte Cristo.
(3) and (4) The original sentences are quoted from the preface of To Live by Professor Yu Hua.
(5) and (6) are quoted from the script of the film version of The Great Gatsby.
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