Chapter 89: Extremely Creative
College?
Seeing the message from "Three Thousand Evil Disciples", Yu Sheng was confused for a moment, feeling that the word "college" seemed a little familiar. Then he remembered something that Baili Qing had mentioned accidentally during their previous conversation, as well as some information he had accidentally seen in a pile of information while fiddling with the functions of his mobile phone just now. He finally matched the term with the correct one.
According to the information, it is an organization located outside the border area, with its headquarters on a distant planet called "Terra". The academy specializes in knowledge inheritance, archaeological discoveries, technological research and development, and fighting against ancient monsters that threaten the sanity of mortals. It seems to be a "university" in essence, a very large "university", and most of its dispatched personnel have the title of "professor"...
If it is an academic organization that likes to study strange things, it is reasonable for them to be interested in the strange metal device found by Sheng.
But there is a problem. The academy is not as easy to contact as other "extraterritorial organizations" - they basically only communicate with other organizations at the official level and are very mysterious in private. Where can Yu Sheng, a newcomer who just entered the industry and doesn't even know a few of his "colleagues", find the "professors" of the academy?
Yu Sheng frowned, hesitated for a moment, and replied to "Evil Disciple 3,000" with a message: "How can I contact the 'Academy'? Do you have any channels there?"
However, this time, he waited for a long time but received no new reply from "Evil Disciple Three Thousands". The other party seemed to have gone offline after sending the last message.
"At least I have an idea." After waiting for a long time, Yu Sheng could only put away his phone regretfully, and then picked up the black metal device, looking at it carefully over and over again.
He found the strange inscriptions mentioned by "Three Thousand Evil Disciples" on the surface of the device - he hadn't even noticed them when taking photos before, but he didn't expect to be discovered by the careful "netizen".
It looked like some kind of text, and it was a little worn, but because it was deeply engraved, it was still visible. However, Yu Sheng could not understand its content, and he had never seen this kind of strange, crooked font composed of a large number of arcs.
At this moment, Yu Sheng suddenly felt his cell phone vibrate again.
A reply?! He quickly took out his phone, only to find that it was not "Evil Disciple 3,000" who had a new message, but the Little Red Riding Hood's avatar in the private message that was jumping.
When I clicked on it, the other party sent me a message: "I saw the photos and messages you sent - could that be something you picked up from your own 'home'?!"
"Yes," Yu Sheng said frankly, "but I didn't say it because I was afraid of scaring others."
"Luckily you didn't say that. You took into account the three views of normal people. So how did you pick it up? No. 66 Wutong Road is your 'territory'. How could there be something in that house that you don't even recognize?"
"There are so many weird things in this house," Yu Sheng sighed as he typed, "I found Irene from the room. There are always weird things popping up."
The little puppet was watching the fun from the side with its head tilted. At this moment, it immediately hit Yu Sheng's arm with its head butt: "Why are you dragging your hands into my body? And what do you mean by a mess? Am I a mess?"
Yu Sheng patted Irene's head casually twice: "I just said this to deepen the theme and strengthen the description..."
He then described the process of picking up the metal device in a private message to Little Red Riding Hood, and finally asked: "Have you seen anything like this?"
"It's normal for man-made objects to appear in a foreign land, but it's very strange for an 'external' man-made object to appear in a foreign land. Of course, we can't be sure whether the thing really came from the 'outside'. It may also be part of No. 66 Wutong Road, but you have never noticed it. After all, I don't know the situation of you and your house." Little Red Riding Hood sent another string of messages. "As for the metal device, I have never seen it, but I suggest you stop asking around in the border communication. On the one hand, the reliable information you can provide is too little, and you probably won't find out anything. On the other hand, there are all kinds of people in the border communication. Don't be fooled by unreliable people."
After a while, Little Red Riding Hood sent another message: "You can keep it for now. If someone who likes to collect rare items comes along, you might be able to sell it for a good price. You can also observe during this time to see if there will be any similar new items 'dropped' out. This thing looks like a spare part, maybe it has other structures..."
Yu Sheng was stunned when he saw the message from the other party, and then quickly edited a message: "This kind of broken thing can still be sold for money?!"
Little Red Riding Hood was obviously delayed in sending the message this time: "...there will always be collectors interested in all kinds of strange things, especially things like this that are brought from foreign lands and are not dangerous in themselves. As long as you can prove that it is indeed an 'exotic recycling', it will be fine."
"Ah, how do we prove this? Is there anyone who specializes in this kind of appraisal?"
"The Secret Service has the qualifications to do this. Large organizations like the Academy, the Hermits of Barmossa, or the Society of Curiosities and Antiquities also have experts in this area. The certificates they issue have high credibility... Are you short of money?"
Yu Sheng hesitated for a moment, then turned his head to look at the fox girl who had just taken out a chicken leg from her tail and was chewing on it.
He felt a little awkward while typing: "You know, I have two people to support now, and Hu Li has a very big appetite... My personal work has encountered a little bit of a 'bottleneck period'."
The main reason for the bottleneck period was that I suddenly discovered that my fans had cultivated extremely outrageous XP in my works, which led to serious self-doubt about my creative direction and even personal abilities.
Little Red Riding Hood replied quickly. She was not curious about what Yu Sheng's "personal work" was. "Then you can try to get the Secret Service to issue an identification certificate. Anyway, they will definitely believe that you found this thing from a foreign land - unless they do not admit that No. 66 Wutong Road is a foreign land."
A smile appeared on Yu Sheng's face, thinking that Hu Li's food expenses and Irene's new TV were finally settled, but at this moment, he suddenly had another idea.
An extremely bold, creative, tempting and practical idea suddenly popped into his mind.
This idea glowed with golden light - even his eyes sparkled with a strange brilliance: "Wait, can this kind of identification be done on anything brought from a foreign land and not harmful?!"
It took almost half a minute for Little Red Riding Hood to send back a “Huh?”
Before he could finish typing, she quickly sent him a message: "Wait, I think I guessed what you are going to do! Are you thinking..."
Yu Sheng glanced around the living room.
See what's valuable.
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Even the moldy and curled wallpaper in the corners seemed to be plated with gold...
But the next second his phone started vibrating continuously, and Little Red Riding Hood sent a series of messages: "Collectors have standards for collecting things, okay! At least it has to look like a rare thing with a story! At the very least, when people show it to others, they can't just carry a pair of plastic slippers, old newspapers, drink bottles and the like, right? How did you come up with this idea——"
Yu Sheng was stunned by this series of news. He seemed to be able to directly feel the great shock and amazement of a high school girl from the lines.
At the same time, at the edge of another old city area in Jiecheng, Little Red Riding Hood, who was lying in the room, was still staring at her phone after sending the message, unable to come back to her senses for a long time.
Her face was indeed full of shock and amazement.
"Are you still not asleep?" a young female voice came from above, and then a face appeared on the edge of the upper bunk. It was a girl with long black hair who looked a year or two younger than Little Red Riding Hood. She glanced at the phone in Little Red Riding Hood's hand and recognized the interface on the screen. "Border communication - any new news? Is there a job?"
"No, I was chatting with someone and was shocked." Little Red Riding Hood said casually.
"Is there anything else that can shock you? Someone posted a picture of him running naked on a public message board?"
Little Red Riding Hood didn't even look up: "There is an entity that wants to sell its property and get rich."
The girl on the upper bunk suddenly slipped her elbow and fell off the bed without holding on to the edge. Fortunately, she managed to wrap her hair around the brackets on both sides of the iron bed halfway down. She then hung by the bed like a midnight ghost, swaying as she spoke, "Is this some new horror thread?"
"Long hair, could you please not talk to me in such a scary state?" Little Red Riding Hood couldn't help but roll her eyes at her "roommate" hanging on the bunk bed. In the middle of the night, a girl in a white nightgown was hanging by her hair and swinging around in the dormitory. Anyone who came to visit would be scared to death. "And I'm not kidding. Let's discuss seriously. If there is a foreign land, and there lives an entity like a human, and this entity can not only run away at will, but also has a legal identity in the human world, then can he..."
The girl hanging on the bed thought about it seriously and showed shock: "I know, it's the one you recently contacted... It's broken! He really got stuck with a bug!"
(End of this chapter)
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