The warm morning sunlight shines into the living room, casting a golden color on the ground.
Lu Ban saw the blurry figure sitting on the sofa. He seemed to be waiting for him, or just in a daze.
His greeting received no response, and the figure didn't even raise his head.
"So, the ability of [True Vision] allows you to see these extraordinary things that do not belong to humans?"
Lu Ban thought to himself.
“Is this similar to the Yin-Yang Eyes?”
He knew very well that although the environment and supernatural abilities of the foreign land of Silence were different, in the final analysis, they followed an unchanging principle, which was that the more one knew, the easier it was to fall into madness and lose one's mind.
For example, Lu Ban was originally a good young man as pure as paper. Under normal circumstances, he would not have noticed the eyeball in the sewer, the dead person in the mirror, and the blurry figure sitting next to the sofa.
But because Lu Ban knew the relevant knowledge and information, he could now see these non-human existences.
In other words, Lu Ban's [True Vision] means that the more he understands the relevant situation, the more he can break through the confusion and see the truth. If he changes to another worldview, it is a convenient ability similar to the Fiery Eyes and Golden Pupils.
Unfortunately, in the Land of Silence, such a powerful real vision can only make Lu Ban see more things that can easily drive people crazy and burn their sanity.
"Oh, I've lost my mind. That's fine."
Lu Ban changed his clothes, went downstairs, and ordered a portion of xiaolongbao, a bowl of sweet soy milk, and two fried dough sticks at the soup dumpling shop at the corner of the street. He sat down and ate while looking at his phone.
While eating, Lu Ban noticed that the child at the next table was staring at him and seemed to be envious of his dumplings.
"If you want to eat, ask your parents to buy it for you. You can't just eat what's in other people's bowls."
Lu Ban educated the child earnestly. He looked at the woman next to the child. The woman looked over at him after hearing what Lu Ban said, her eyes full of confusion.
"You too, as a parent, why are you only concerned about eating for yourself and not buying one for your children?"
Lu Ban looked at her.
The woman was stunned and looked suspiciously at the seat next to her, then at Lu Ban.
"What did you say...there are no children here."
“…”
Lu Ban silently looked at the child who was looking at him eagerly.
"Come here."
He greeted.
The woman muttered something like "crazy", then picked up her bowl and sat down at a table a little further away, glancing at Lu Ban from time to time.
And the child sat obediently on the chair at Lu Ban's table.
Lu Ban saw that the child's face was pale and swollen, and his eyes were red. There were no scars on his body, and his clothes were very cool. He didn't know what had happened to him.
Lu Ban ordered another tray of dumplings.
"I don't know if you can eat human food, but I'll just put it here."
He pushed the dumplings to the next seat and continued looking at his phone.
At this time, Lu Ban saw a piece of news.
"Yesterday, a primary school student drowned while swimming in Lingjiang River. Relevant departments call on all citizens not to go into the river during the flood season and pay attention to their own safety."
When I clicked on the news, there were no pictures, just a brief introduction to the situation. It was probably that several elementary school students gathered to swim in the river, but encountered turbulent water. One of the students was washed away, and when he was found downstream, he had drowned.
“Is this you?”
Lu Ban showed the news on his mobile phone to the child.
Thinking of this, his face turned pale and his eyes turned red. It really looked like he had drowned.
Not sure if it was an illusion, but when Lu Ban looked at the child again, the child's face became a little clearer, and he could see wrinkles on the skin caused by being soaked in water for a long time.
The child remained silent, only tears welled up in the corners of his eyes.
"I don't dare anymore..."
He muttered something, as if admitting his fault and apologizing.
"It's too late."
Lu Ban sighed. The old man who was eating millet porridge behind him turned around and looked at him, very confused.
"Reincarnate well, and remember in your next life that you can hit the road after eating this steamed dumpling."
After all, Lu Ban was not a Taoist priest or wizard, and he did not know the techniques to help the dead to be reborn, so he could only persuade them in this way.
He lowered his head and continued to read the news.
"Nanhua Private Yan Chai Hospital Demolition Construction Suspended Due to Overall Planning"
"The first phase of the Jiangcheng Grand Theater renovation project has been finalized and is expected to start early next year."
"A series of shooting accidents occurred at Mozhen Studios, and relevant departments intervened to investigate safety hazards"
"A murder occurred in Shudu recently. The murderer killed two people and then hanged himself."
"A civil dispute occurred in Yuan City, and the reason was that the mother and daughter fell in love with the same person"
Lu Ban reads social news like these carefully. Some of them can be noted down as inspiration, some can only be read for fun, and some will only make people clench their fists.
After I finished eating the dumplings, the soy milk and the fried dough sticks, when I looked up again, I found that the child was gone.
The tray of dumplings in front of him was empty and had disappeared.
“I hope to find a good family.”
Lu Ban stood up, left the breakfast shop under the suspicious eyes of the people in the shop, and returned home.
When the computer was turned on, the icons on the desktop twisted and turned into the cold and indifferent text of the system.
【Career Development Tasks】
[It’s time to step onto a new stage. In this era of entertainment first, even ordinary people can express themselves. Keep creating. Your future will be bright and dazzling! ]
[Task requirements: Make a long video of more than 30 minutes and earn 1 million yuan]
[Gained income: 0/1000000 yuan]
[“Let him eat, let him eat!”]
"One million in profit?"
Lu Ban recalled that his last career development task was to get 10 million views, and this time, he wanted a profit of 1 million yuan. The gap seemed a bit too big, right?
Even if a video is played tens of millions of times, it is impossible to earn millions of dollars based on traffic. No, even if it is played hundreds of millions of times, it is not that much.
It is very difficult to accomplish this task by relying solely on the traffic revenue of video websites.
"Eat?"
Lu Ban saw the prompt under the task.
The so-called “making money by eating” is actually a high EQ way of expressing advertising. Some video makers, after their video clicks go up, become very influential self-media. Naturally, manufacturers will ask them to do advertising, and this kind of advertising video is called “making money by eating” behavior.
However, Lu Ban had obtained some information from Song Yunyan before. Now, even for the top video self-media, the advertising fees are only six figures. It is simply a fantasy to want to reach a million in advertising fees.
Even if he mixed the two, earning traffic on one side and making money on the other, Lu Ban estimated that a profit of one million yuan would be far away.
"Three months?"
When Lu Ban saw that the deadline for the task was three months, which meant before the end of this year, he fell into deep thought.
"Let's take a look at the material first."
He decided to check the video footage first. After all, he hadn't seen the reward for completing the task 100% perfectly yet.
Lu Ban opened the folder that appeared in the hard drive at some unknown time.