Chapter 164 The Real World (1) (1st update + 2nd update + 0.5 update) [VIP]
The last remaining "key" of Xu Zichen's original Gu farm merged with the "ticket number 106" in full view of everyone.
After a flash of white light, a bronze key-shaped relief slowly appeared on the cover of the physical book that originally had the four big words "Romance Contagious" written on it, and a small iron lock also appeared on the side of the book.
The two sides of the lock are on the front and back covers of the book, and are now locked. Without the key, anyone who gets the original book cannot open the book.
"This... is the key to open this lock?" Guan Hongyan curiously took another smaller key that appeared from the relief and gestured next to the lock. "Why did it become like this after the fusion?"
"Can it be opened?" Lu Changfeng poked his head in curiously.
"I don't know..." Guan Hongyan gestured, "I think we should not open it for the time being. Who knows if something will happen after opening it."
"The worlds haven't been integrated yet, so you probably can't open it now," [0106] The long-missing captain sat on the sofa with his legs crossed, resting his chin on his hand and speaking slowly, "Don't believe me? Then try it yourself."
This person had been out of contact for the past few days. He made the message board contact seem like a message in a drifting bottle. Now that everything in the space has been almost dealt with, he reappeared. It's hard not to suspect that he did it on purpose.
Guan Hongyan now believes what She Mochu said. Once Skao goes on vacation, no one except himself can bring him back to work.
Even the fact that his organization suddenly gained an S+ level space for free did not cause any ripples in his heart.
However, as a veteran member of the special space team, Scario must have much more experience than himself. After a moment of hesitation, Guan Hongyan finally resisted the urge to give it a try: "...Forget it."
What if it really opens?
This lock is now used to lock the original book to prevent them from opening it. Who knows what will happen if it is opened? It is better to wait until the world is merged before opening it.
"Here," she threw the key to Xu Zichen, "Here, you can drive it yourself when the time comes."
Xu Zichen caught the key with one hand and looked at it: "This seems to be a miniature version of the key I had in my hand before."
That thing had been in his hands for at least ten years, and no one was more familiar with it than him.
Xu Zichen bought a silver chain from the mall, for which he had asked Yun Guang for the link a long time ago, put the key into the chain and hung it around his neck.
The number one issue of world integration has been resolved. The integration of the new and old Gu fields can now be left entirely to time. Everyone will disperse and do their own things.
Yun Guang, the only one who was not present, went to the foundation early in the morning to discuss with the officials about the profit sharing of investors and exploration team members from [Serial No. 106]. As a special organization in a special space, and an organization that directly provided a large number of new team members and new investors to the foundation, it was natural for the exploration team members from their native space to negotiate some preferential treatment.
Among them, as an organized exploration team, a special space organization can bring many implicit benefits.
For example, compared to other team members who have just joined the foundation and are still completely in the dark, these team members who came from [Romance Contagion] can get answers to all their questions directly from their predecessors from [0106].
There is also the promotion of space. There is a gap between high-end space and mid- and low-end space. For the exploration team members, the high-end space is completely invitation-based. The unorganized low- and mid-end exploration team members can only wait for the day when they are favored by a high-end investor and receive an invitation letter from the other party.
Organized team members can be directly invited by high-end investors within the organization and move directly to the high-end space.
Although Chao Yougan is the only investor in [0106] who has entered the high-end space, in time, when these new investors in the foundation grow up, many of them will become the vital force of [0106].
Many investors and exploration team members are even friends or relatives. After all, the Gu Kings who are able to join the foundation are the protagonists with explosive identities in Mary Sue novels. In such a world, the connection between investors and explorers in time is unprecedentedly close.
At the same time, when these investors advance into high-end spaces, they can also directly choose to invest in spaces with great upgrading potential participated by members of their own organization, instead of having to screen themselves through a vast amount of unknown spaces like those unorganized investors.
When exploring spaces with higher difficulty, team members can choose to form their own teams within the organization, select suitable teammates based on their own strengths and weaknesses, and rely on experienced or stronger team members to enter the exploration in a way that the old lead the new and the strong lead the weak, rather than relying entirely on the foundation's luck allocation.
The benefit of this kind of team-based clearance is not obvious to the hexagonal warriors, but for team members with obvious strengths and weaknesses, a reasonable member ratio enables them to move up to the high end more easily, rather than being stuck in the middle and low end space and unable to upgrade due to some defects.
Just like after upgrading to the special space, Guan Hongyan realized that there were the fewest puzzle-solving players here, because generally speaking, people with good brains don’t have very good physical fitness. Most of these players would be stuck at the middle and high levels, or at the special nodes of the high level.
Except for the puzzle-solving team members who are organized from the beginning, other freely growing wild decryption team members, even if they can be promoted to advanced spaces, will often die due to some highly targeted mechanisms.
The puzzle-solving team members who can ascend to the special space on their own are either well-rounded hexagonal warriors like Yun Guang and others, or god-level possessors like Lu Changfeng, whose strengths are long enough that people don't care about his weaknesses.
It is for this reason that many special organizations choose to send people into the mid- and low-end space to rescue people, and they will escort these decryption team members all the way from when they are still young until they enter the high-end space.
After learning this information, Guan Hongyan cast an extremely complicated look at Lu Changfeng.
Lu Changfeng:?
Guan Hongyan: "Rice noodle rolls..."
"After you met our captain in the first unknown dimension, it seems that you will run into someone from the organization in every dimension afterwards. Don't you feel that something is wrong?"
Whether it is She Mochu, Isaac, Chao Yougan, or even Wu Zongzi who is in the assessment project.
From "Skao's introduction" to "Skao's customers" to "Skao's team members", all of these people entered Lu Changfeng's project through the team leader.
Although it is a bit weird, but if you look at it this way, these people were all sent by Skao to help Lu Changfeng ascend to the special space!
How could Lu Changfeng, this kid, have such a great reputation that he encountered a big leg in his first project after joining the foundation! Guan Hongyan, who had been floating in the mid-range space for several years because of her fixed attributes, was very jealous.
Xu Zichen, who was sorting out the original work nearby, replied, "This is called the life of being favored by the captain."
To be able to achieve Lu Changfeng's level of fixed attributes is another type of genetic lottery. It is not something you can envy, and the obsession that can generate such attributes is not necessarily a good thing.
Besides, the whole team will benefit from this kind of fixed attribute being upgraded to the special space early. The nurse is too important, and it is normal to be protected all the way to the special space.
If he were in his place, he would also choose to find someone to nurse him all the way to the next level.
At least Scaro found a lot of team members to cover it up. If it were him, he might have just gone into battle himself.
I heard that among the organizations that entered [Spore Memory] with them last time, [Fan Duo] chose the compensation item of team member direct upgrade, and directly fished out several nurses from the low-end space in one go.
It can be seen how rare the healing type is among the types with fixed attributes.
No one doesn't care about his life.
Guan Hongyan denied this and shook her head like a rattle: "This is my life of being tortured by the captain."
"I found the root cause of my misfortune in so many previous instances," she put her palms together, "It was because I always hung out with rice noodle rolls that I could have easily ascended to the special dimension, but ended up meeting so many bizarre and weird people."
"Rice noodle rolls," she said solemnly, "I want to stay away from you in my next project."
Lu Changfeng: ???
"Ah?" He cried out, "Is this my fault, Sister Yan?"
What does this have to do with him!
Isn't this a problem with their organizational style?
The style of this organization's members has never been normal. In addition to the members we have seen before, a batch of Mary Sue world Gu Kings have been introduced. I dare not imagine what the organization will become in the future.
"Don't call me next time you join a project," Guan Hongyan said seriously, "I want to go out and take on other exploration projects on my own. I want to test whether the reason I keep meeting weird team members in the project is my problem or yours."
Lu Changfeng: “Ah…”
"I think..." he said sincerely, "it might be a problem with our organization."
"Sister Yan, why don't you get used to it sooner?" He scratched his head.
"No, I will stay less in the base to avoid being contaminated by the scent of weird teammates." Guan Hongyan logged out without looking back and returned to her original space.
Xu Zichen & Lu Changfeng: ...
"It's okay," Xu Zichen comforted, "You can call me for the next rice noodle roll project."
"After solving the problem of the native space, I am very free now," he said.
He now organizes the original works every day, and then interacts with the investors in the space, leading a very healthy life.
Now, most people in the special space believe that this live broadcast was a scheme set up by them [0106] and the Foundation. They helped the Foundation to severely damage the vitality of their competitors, snatched away the opponent's Gu field, and caused a gap in the opponent's high-end players.
The Foundation directly gave the S+ level space, the Gu Farm, to their organization. Xu Zichen was the plan they had chosen from the beginning to avoid suspicion. As long as this space was in his hands, all rumors such as "The Foundation obtained this space just to raise Gu" would not spread.
His original space was integrated with "Romantic Contagion". When everyone went back to their homes to deal with things in the real world, he had no choice but to stay in the base and go to the base space.
The original work that is merging with the key to the Old Gu Field is "Romantic Contagion 3", in which the protagonist has died and disappeared. Now the world is merging, and no one can open the original work. I don't know how the story of the disappeared protagonist will develop.
They returned the original "Romantic Contagion 1" to Shi Linling.
After more than ten years, Shi Linling and Weisheng Peiya, a pair of friends who had known each other since childhood, finally recognized each other.
"Xu Zichen," Weisheng Peiya said a little embarrassedly, "Thank you."
It was only after the dust settled that she learned from Gu Tiancai what had happened.
The original work in Shi Linling's hand allowed her to safely spend the first ten years, and the appearance of Cen Bingqi and others pulled all the protagonists who were trapped in this poisonous field out of the quagmire.
"Thank you, no need." Xu Zichen stood at the door and looked at the original book in Shi Linling's hand in silence for a moment. "Actually, I should be the one saying thank you to you."
Thanks to Shi Linling for letting him see another possibility in the Gu breeding farm.
The influence of the original work on the space has become negligible. After [0106] took over the space, in addition to the special space, there were also many discussions about the Gu breeding farm in the foundation's investor forum.
All the team members who appeared in the project became well-known in an instant. It is said that the remaining low-end team members also received a lot of angel investment this time. Lu Wu and Zhang Ying, who are closest to the mid-end space, have now received invitations from the high-end space, but both of them feel that their current strength is not enough to enter the high-end space, so they chose to train in the mid-end space for a while.
Bai Jinshu also heard a lot about 0106 from He Qinyue and other rich second-generation people.
"Brother Bai! You missed out on not watching it a while ago!" The group of second-generation rich people didn't treat him as an outsider. They gathered together with excitement on their faces, not at all the aloofness they usually had outside. "You don't know, everyone thought this space was an E-level fun at first. There were many people on the forum updating things like 500-meter beds and 2,000-meter buildings. Everyone was so happy, hahaha."
"Result! Result!" A girl beside him patted the coffee table excitedly, "This space turned out to be a Gu breeding ground of another collection institution besides the Foundation! Brother Yue was stunned at the time!"
"Ahem..." Brother Yue coughed lightly beside him, "I have to explain, I'm not shocked, I've known about the existence of other organizations for a long time, but I didn't expect that organizations other than these foundations would do such a thing."
"Who would have thought of this! They are actually refining Gu in there! And there is more than one such Gu field," He Qinyue couldn't help but join the discussion, "Brother Xu Pi was one of the previous victims of that organization! The standard of beauty, strength and misery!"
Bai Jinshu: "...what is Brother Xu Pi?"
Could it be Xu Zichen?
"It's the organization we told you about, Xu Zichen from [0106]," He Qinyue explained, "His name in there is 3.1415926... That's what everyone calls him now."
Bai Jinshu: ...This was something he didn't expect.
"Brother Xu Pi is so handsome!" An interested head leaned over, "Brother Qi is handsome too! Wow, when he thrust the knife in and turned it at the end, everyone was shocked in front of the screen! So handsome! That scene was the first thing I saw when I closed my eyes that night! Brother Bai, you missed out if you didn't come and see it!"
Bai Jinshu shrugged helplessly: "No way... that's what an actor does."
Although he stayed in "Romantic Contagion" for several months this time, he would come back from time to time to deal with some events, so from the outside world's perspective, he was just extremely busy during this period and did not go out often.
No one connected his infrequent appearances during this period with the unusually long exploration period of this project.
After all, as an investor Bai Jinshu, he occasionally takes a look at this well-known "fun space" with these rich second-generations, and everyone's excitement is also due to their regret that he "unfortunately missed the explosive progress of this exploration."
Bai Jinshu came to meet up with these rich second-generations this time in order to ask Brother Yue about the matter he had heard before, "other organizations are messing around in the foundation's space."
"Well..." Brother Yue lit a cigarette and thought for a moment, "I've been smoking less recently. Maybe this Foundation-wide live broadcast of Romance Contagion was too much of a warning to others. Those who were causing trouble in the Foundation's low-end spaces have become much more obedient."
"But we can't rule out the possibility that the Foundation has started a counter-attack," Brother Yue smiled. "After all, you just have to listen to what they say. This time, the live broadcast of Romance Contagion, from the initial team selection, ownership transfer, to the intentional suppression of the level to E, and the push of the best advertising position on the entire site, each step is simply an obvious conspiracy, and it's just short of having deliberateness written all over their faces."
"The Foundation and [0106] are definitely not surprised by this result. They should have discussed it. This live broadcast is part of the Foundation's counterattack."
Yue Ge's opinion reflects the majority of opinions in the forum at present.
After the brief excitement passed, Xu Zichen's peculiarities and the transfer of ownership of the space that occurred before the exploration began quickly made everyone see this live broadcast as one of the foundation's public counterattacks.
Bai Jinshu flipped through the comments below with similar remarks.
[Although I know it’s a design, it’s still cool! ]
[As expected of a foundation, they did something big right away and directly destroyed the opponent's team production base. ]
[I'm sorry, I will never say that the Foundation is a coward again. Your move this time was really explosive.]
[After all, who would have thought that our first move would directly expose the enemy's underground poisoning site. ]
[If it weren’t for this live broadcast, I wouldn’t have known there was such a place…]
[If it weren't for Brother Xu Pi, I wouldn't have known that some of the Foundation's exploration team members had switched jobs.]
[What is job hopping? Brother Xu Pi is leaving the sea of fire.]
[The foundation has finally stood up. The projects it invested in before were ruined several times by other institutions. The foundation has not issued any statement. I thought they were playing blind. I was so angry. Who would have thought that we were saving up for something big! I won’t tell you who is happy! ]
[The anger that had destroyed many projects before was extinguished in an instant. 】
[The other party has been really angry recently. I hope that after this time, they will know who is the son and who is the father. Hehe. 】
[On one side, there are several low-end and mid-range spaces, and on the other side, the Gu field is completely gone. I won’t say who lost a lot. ]
[One side secretly sent people in to disrupt the normal exploration of other organizations, and secretly harmed the exploration team members to cause the whole group to be wiped out. On the other side, it openly broadcast live, exposing the underground Gu breeding farm and rescuing countless Gu Kings. The difference between the two organizations is obvious. ]
[Some organizations are so funny. After being beaten by the Foundation, they just hid in their holes and refused to come out. Where is your energy in maliciously creating mass annihilation in the low-end and mid-end space a while ago? ]
The appearance of these messages may be due to the guidance of the foundation.
Bai Jinshu roughly flipped through the comments and could hear from these investors that the competition between the foundation and another collection organization was extremely fierce, and it had even affected most of the investors. As their interests were damaged, they had gradually developed hatred towards the other organization.
The Foundation intentionally stirs up this kind of hatred, and it seems that it has other plans.
Yunling’s native space may not be the beginning of the business war, and this slap in the face of romantic contagion will not be the end of this business war.
However, unlike what the outside world speculated, they [0106] did not reach any cooperation with the foundation, and there was no such thing as the so-called core senior executives of the foundation among [0106].
He doesn't even know what the foundation is going to do in the future.
The phone vibrated. Bai Jinshu looked down at the incoming call and made an apologetic gesture to the investors who were still excitedly sharing their thoughts in the room: "I'll go pick up the phone. It's from my agent."
"Go ahead, busy man." Brother Yue waved his hand while sitting on the sofa.
Bai Jinshu walked out of the box holding his phone. His agent, Lao Wu, spoke from the receiver: "Brother Bai, are you free tonight?"
Bai Jin said: "No."
Old Wu:?
Old Wu: "I haven't told you what I'm going to do yet. You clearly didn't make any announcements tonight. How come you don't have time?"
Bai Jinshu said in a cold voice: "Because usually your opening line is to ask me if I have time, it's definitely not good news."
"No, it's really nothing this time," Old Wu raised his voice on the other end of the phone, "Skao's movie will be sent to the jury in the next few days. Director Li is very anxious, so he asked you to have dinner together tonight to reassure him."
Bai Jinshu was puzzled: "What is he worried about now?"
"...Ancestor," Old Wu was silent for a moment, "Not everyone is as selfless as you. This may be the closest Director Li has ever been to an Oscar."
"If we can get the award, then we will get it. If we can't, then forget it," Bai Jinshu replied calmly. "We'll do our best and leave the rest to fate. Now the film has been shot and edited. It's not up to us to work hard on what's next."
Agent Lao Wu: ...
"You can do it, you're amazing." He was silent for a moment, finally realizing that the White Immortal, who had no desire for this award, had a different mindset from mortals like them, and smoothly changed the subject, "By the way, the studio has signed a few newcomers recently. If you're interested, you can go and give them some guidance."
Bai Jin said: "Not interested."
If it were before, he might have gone there, but now the foundation alone is enough to keep him busy, and he really has no mood to care about these little things that he doesn't care about anyway.
"I knew you didn't," Old Wu said speechlessly, "Skao has been sent to the judges. Director Li's friend has a script that he thinks you're suitable for, and he insisted that I bring it to you. I haven't read it yet. Do you want to take a look?"
"What book?" Bai Jinshu asked casually.
"It seems to be a fantasy world of magic," a little echo came from Old Wu's side, sounding like entering a small elevator or stairwell, and there was also the sound of papers being shuffled, "Oh, the protagonist is a wizard, quite interesting. I was only given the first part of the script, but I feel that this character is quite similar to the necromancer that hasn't started filming yet, both are magic professions... Tsk tsk, how much investment must be made, it can be seen that the special effects are not cheap. If you want to put it on the big screen, you have to spend at least according to the top prices in the industry..."
"Could it be that Director Li's friend is interested in you and wants to attract investment?" Old Wu turned the page and became alert. "I saw the description of the battle and saw all those dazzling patterns and formations. There are not many special effects in China that can be put on the screen without looking fake. There are only a few companies..."
As he spoke, the sound of a door opening was heard from the other end of the line.
"I'm coming to your house now. I'll put your things on the coffee table first. If you don't want to go tonight, remember to write me a reply so that I can give Director Li's friend a definite answer..." Old Wu paused and suddenly raised his voice, "Fuck, who are you!"
"Bai Jinshu! There's a stranger at your house! When was your address exposed?" He shouted suddenly. There was a noise on the other end of the line. It seemed that Old Wu had put the phone among the sundries. The voice became farther and farther away. "A fan, right? A male fan? I warn you that this is illegal. You are trespassing!"
"I'm going to call 110!"
A very familiar voice came from the other end of the phone: "Who are you?"
broken.
Bai Jinshu took a breath of cold air.
He didn't expect that Old Wu knew he was not at home at the moment, so he chose to leave the script at his house.
He had just gotten the evil god out of the foundation not long ago.
Although his original intention was just that the fixed attributes of the two people were a little too similar, so he suspected that Huai Jiamu and he had some connection before entering the foundation.
In addition, this person's amnesia is completely triggered, and he can't remember anything without contact. So with the two factors combined, he felt that since there was some unknown connection between the two, it would be better to bring Huai Jiamu to the real world to see, maybe he could remember something.
But who would have thought that after he went out for a while, Huai Jiamu would run into Lao Wu directly!
The voice from Old Wu was still going on. Huai Jiamu had no idea what he was talking about "male fans" and "illegitimate children". It was obvious that this was going to be a case of talking at cross purposes.
Among the overwhelming number of unfamiliar words, Huai Jiamu only caught one word.
He repeated Bai Jinshu's name, his tone a little strange: "Bai Jinshu?"
"You... don't you know that this is Bai Jinshu's home?" Old Wu's blank voice came, "Huh?"
At the same time, Bai Jinshu's rare hurried voice was heard: "Old Wu, that's my friend, you haven't seen him."
"Ah? Oh...oh, sorry," Old Wu raised his phone awkwardly and pulled the corner of his mouth, then lowered his voice and asked quickly, "Who the hell is this friend of yours? It's like I don't know your name is Bai Jinshu. When did you have friends that I don't even know? Hasn't your social circle always been so narrow that you can count them on one hand?"
Bai Jinshu explained casually, "I knew him before my debut. His name was Huai Jiamu. We haven't been in touch for a long time, so he didn't know I changed my stage name."
"Your friend is some ancient relic, doesn't he use the Internet..." Old Wu twitched his lips and sighed, "You've become so famous, doesn't he know that you changed your stage name?"
Bai Jinshu: "Hmm...?"
He suddenly stood outside the box, holding his cell phone.
He did change his name. When he debuted, his company was superstitious and asked someone to tell his fortune. The person said that he would only become popular if he had a name with the character for fire.
He was quite stubborn at that time and refused to change the pronunciation of his name, so the fortune teller spent a lot of time looking through the dictionary and came up with a changed stage name to Bai Jinshu.
For more than ten years, he had another name on his ID card: Bai Jinshu.
The stage name and his real name sounded too similar, so he gradually got used to the name Bai Jinshu and never thought about it in this direction.
But if the name Huai Jiamu is combined with his original name before his debut:
Hibiscus tree.
Huaijiamu.
Not only are the properties fixed, their names are also related...
Is it a coincidence?
The author has something to say:
Next vest melee mage!
Huaijiamu and Baijinshu are a pair of couple names. Those who collected the pre-order earlier may still remember that the protagonist was named Baijinshu before, and Jinshu was changed later.
The main reason is that if the protagonist is called Shu, it will be difficult to distinguish them later, so I changed it to a homophonic name.
So if someone has nothing to do and reads the column of Sugar, they will probably find that the names of the protagonists of Sugar all contain the word "shu", but the pronunciation is different orz
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