Chapter 123 Some White-haired People Who Love to Surf the Internet
"How can you call someone else brother?" Lulu's cousin was still muttering before going on stage.
"It's called substitution," Lulu said to her cousin.
They are now standing on the steps behind the scenes, waiting for their turn to go on stage.
Li Li had the least amount of scenes, and she was happy to pet the corgi offstage. Lulu temporarily ended her scene, but was stopped by her cousin as soon as she left the stage.
"Besides," Lulu pointed at her cousin and then at herself, "Why should I respect a cousin who cheated my sister out of money?"
"How can that be called cheating?" My cousin said confidently, "That's called financial management. I'm helping you make money!"
"It's been so many years, where is your money?" Lulu said, "Who are you trying to fool?" "You took my money and you don't even think about giving it back to me!"
"Parents are like this." Jiang Lan finished his part and hurried over to interrupt, "They say they are saving money for you, but in reality the money goes into their pockets. I have never seen what the money my parents saved for me looks like since I was a child."
Maybe all parents in the world are the same, and it is the same in her family. Her mother is in charge of her New Year's money and gave her a little every month as living expenses before she went to college.
As for the bulk of the New Year's money? It is said that it was used to pay for the tuition of Jiaotong University.
Her thoughts wandered, and she suddenly thought of the New Year's money her mother had collected for her, just like the popularity points she was accumulating now. The popularity points needed to keep her alive were deducted every day, and her mother gave her pocket money every month. And the remaining popularity points were just a string of numbers to her after they expired in the mall, and she also didn't know how much money her mother had in her bankbook.
But the money in mom's passbook will be given to her, but the system may not guarantee it.
Libra is undoubtedly smart, he only cares about value. He gives her life day by day, and he can also stop the life-sustaining process directly when she has no value in his eyes.
When she is valuable, help her to survive and keep her alive. And when she is no longer valuable, just abandon her, just like Libra does to others.
This way, she can accumulate the most popularity points without wasting any of them. At the same time, Libra can keep all the popularity points for herself after her death.
Perhaps He never intended to resurrect her.
This was just a guess, but Li Li felt it was correct. Whether the deal that Libra said was established was only his one-sided statement. Qu Ting, who had made a deal with him, could also be unilaterally destroyed by him and die in her hands, and the same was true for Anshi.
Li Li didn't believe that these nobles would not ask Libra not to harm them during the transaction, but in fact, as long as Libra allowed, the nobles could temporarily tear up the transaction agreement and attack each other.
He has the right to break a covenant unilaterally.
Her value to Libra is only after she has stabilized the world wall, after which she loses her value to Libra.
If Libra doesn't help her, he will gain a lot of popularity points, which should be very useful to him. If he helps her, Libra will lose those popularity points.
Libra doesn't care about people who have no value. Between her who has no value and someone with valuable popularity, which one will he choose?
Based on his past performance, the possibility that Libra will fulfill his promise is zero.
This is Libra. When you are valuable, you will be respected and held high by Him. But when you are worthless, He will push you into the abyss with His own hands.
This must be the reason why Yu Xiao didn't make a deal with him, Li Li thought.
There were no guarantees at all in doing business with Him. He just drew a big pie for them and built a castle in the air.
But Li Li never believed his lies.
Several cosplayers got off the stage. Jiang Lan looked at the situation on the stage and waved to Li Li: "Goddess, it's your turn!"
"Okay." Li Li responded, patted the corgi's head, and stood up to go on stage.
No matter what Libra does, she is ready to oppose Him.
She didn't believe in Him at first, and during this time she was looking for her own chance to live.
Only if she beats Libra and advances to SSS level, she can be resurrected. Since SSS-level Libra can bring a person back to life, then maybe she can do it too.
To be stronger, she thought.
It was like this from the beginning. The only one who could help her was herself. The system was unreliable, the mall was unreliable, and it was she who had come to where she is today step by step.
After the lights on the stage moved to the center, Li Li lifted her feet, stepped onto the stairs, and went onto the stage.
This was different from what she had rehearsed before, but it was also the same. For Li Li, this kind of acting was as normal as breathing and drinking water. When she adjusted her facial expressions and appeared under the lights, she was that Li.
"Ahhhhhh my god!"
"Great re-creation! Who is this cosplayer?"
“Have comic characters come to reality? Do they really exist?!”
The audience cheered in surprise and the colorful lights of the stage shone into Li Li's eyes.
Luo Han in front of him opened and closed her mouth as she spoke her lines.
"The strong make the rules, the weak adapt to them. You are so weak that you can't even grab the edge of his clothes. You are so weak that you can't even control your own life."
Luo Han cosplaying as Heige, the character played by Li Li in the comic book "Final Black and White".
And what she said was what Li Li had said before, and what Li Li said to Yiming was also what the character Haig said.
But at this time it seemed as if he was talking to Li Li.
"Either stop here, or keep moving forward and let the rules of the world make way for you." Li Li took a step forward in the colorful lights.
Then she asked the actor, and at the same time seemed to be asking herself: "Tell me your answer."
The actor said: "Do I even need to choose?"
Li Li said: "Then I will change this world."
Arrogant, confident, and with indomitable courage.
Libra is right. Even if she denies it, she cares about her friends in the comic world, and the true friendship she has made under a false shell.
She is not a machine, she has her own feelings, she is a living person.
But so what?
Even if the comic book world is not fake, even if she has been moved by those true and passionate friendships, her goal has never changed, and the direction she has been moving in has never deviated in the slightest.
She wants to survive and return to this world that is irreplaceable to her.
Return to her home.
...
"Libra, you said I could be resurrected."
The stage play ended successfully, and the cosplayers' celebration party lasted until late at night. After all this was over, Li Li walked on the streets at night and looked up at the starry sky of this world.
[Now is not the best time.] The system voice rang beside her ears, [At the end of the comic, after you make a perfect exit, you can gain more popularity points, which is more secure, and then stabilize the world and revive in one fell swoop.]
"Then give me a few more days now." Li Li said, "How about a month?"
[No need.] As expected, the system rejected it. [Please rest assured, I will renew your life on time every day.]
Sure enough, Li Li thought.
The comic will be finished in less than a month, and this matter will be settled, so wasting a month's popularity now is a bad deal for Libra.
Libra had no intention of resurrecting her.
The system explained to her: [As you said, I am a god, and gods need to protect their world.]
[I'm sorry, but the world is worth more than you.]
[I must be more secure.] the system said.
Li Li smiled instead, not being surprised by the result.
"It's better to be safe," she agreed.
After all, she was going to kill a god, the only SSS-rank psychic in that world.
The phone rang, Li Li picked it up and took a look. It was a message from the cartoonist. He asked Li Li if she was free in a few days to go to another city to interview for a voice actor.
[You seem to be a little tense recently, would you like to relax?] The system suggested.
Li Li thought about it and replied to the cartoonist that she agreed.
She also has some things she wants to ask the cartoonist, and at the same time she has to figure out what the intersection of the comic world and the real world is.
Perhaps it was intuition, Li Li felt that this was something she must know in order to be promoted to the SSS rank.
...
The cartoonist is a wealthy second-generation man. He pays for the animation himself and is also prepared to pay for great voice actors out of his own pocket to personally check the quality of the animation.
The news of the anime adaptation of Gokuduro was released shortly after the Dawn arc. Due to the popularity of Gokuduro, many voice actors came to audition.
The animation production studio hired by the cartoonists was not in the same city as them, so they went there by plane.
"Boss, let's not look for Li's voice actor yet, let's look at other people's first." The cartoonist talked on the plane, "Let's see if the voice is very different from the ones you've heard before. It doesn't matter if it's similar or not, it has to fit the character!"
"I'm planning to make a series. This time I'll just try it out by making three chapters and a half-year series..." He has his own plans for the future, and he hopes to make his comics bigger and stronger.
"You call this just a trial run?" Li Li felt that the cartoonist was thinking too far ahead, as he started with a six-month series.
The cartoonist said confidently: "I have money!"
Li Li: This is the first time I feel like I and the cartoonist are from two different worlds.
Maybe this is the barrier of money, she thought.
"By the way, why did you create Libra as the villain in the first place?" Li Li asked.
There was still a lot of time before the plane landed, so they had to talk about something. The common point between them was that they were both unlucky people chosen by Libra, so they had a lot to talk about in this regard.
"Because it looks good." The cartoonist gave a simple reason, "I want to create the most beautiful villain."
The case was solved. Libra knew that his good looks were probably leaked from the cartoonist.
The cartoonist counted on his fingers and gave examples, and finally concluded: "Today's villains must be good-looking. Good-looking villains are charming and lovable. Without villains with charisma, this shonen manga is incomplete."
"So Libra's charm is his white hair?" Li Li said jokingly.
This topic is still in the safe zone
The cartoonist did not shy away from this, saying, "Not only that, but also His single-minded devotion to the world."
"Let's put it this way. In His eyes, everything is ranked by value, but the world is priceless in His eyes. Even He Himself is below this." The cartoonist lamented, "If He had the chance, He would definitely die for the world. Unfortunately, it's no use if I want to just draw the world destroyed..."
After he finished speaking, he realized that he seemed to have let something slip, so he covered his mouth to try to avoid telling the truth.
Li Li reminded him: "...He should know your plan."
She even felt that Libra knew that she did not believe in Him, but her hope of resurrection was in Libra's hands, so Libra was fearless.
"Really?" The cartoonist breathed a sigh of relief, but then felt that he shouldn't have breathed a sigh of relief.
The person being plotted against knows that he has been plotting against him all along, so there is nothing to be relieved about.
The cartoonist quickly changed the subject and said with a smile, "By the way, big brother, let me tell you something interesting. Libras actually like surfing the Internet. Last time, I saw a lot of search terms in my computer's search box about how to make authors work hard..."
"It doesn't seem interesting." The cartoonist was depressed. He was the one who had to work so hard.
"Come on." Li Li was powerless to help in this regard.
She thought about it and felt that it was quite down-to-earth for Libra to use a cartoonist's computer. She probably felt that after surfing for a long time, everyone was obsessed with white hair.
"I remember the next update is tomorrow?" Li Li calculated the time.
"I'll continue working hard when we get to the hotel tonight." The cartoonist said that nothing could stop him from working hard. He turned his head and said to the air, "I will work hard!"
After saying that, the two of them waited for a while, but there was no reply from Libra.
"Libra?" Li Li thought Libra had just been distracted, so she asked again.
Still no response.
Li Li and the cartoonist looked at each other in bewilderment; this was the first time they had encountered such a situation.
The cartoonist was somewhat excited but also a little unsure: "Is it true? He is not here?"
Li Li also felt strange. She crossed her arms and tapped them with her fingers, wondering if this was a trap or an opportunity.
Then she looked at the cartoonist: "Does this plane have internet?"
She compared the situation before and after boarding the plane and found that the only difference was that the cell phone was turned off. Just now they mentioned that Libra would surf the Internet, so she naturally thought of this aspect.
Some aircraft now have their own internet, but some do not.
The cartoonist recalled and said firmly: "The plane I booked doesn't have internet!"
They both paused.
Li Li: ...
Cartoonist: ...
They looked at each other and felt as if they had discovered something extraordinary.