Chapter 588 The Real World (5) [VIP]
Things have come to this point, and there is no need to verify whether Chao Yougan has really disappeared, just like verifying whether Wu Zongzi exists or not.
After finishing the meal and watching He Qinyue leave, Bai Jinshu's mind quickly began to analyze the current situation.
The only thing Chao Yougan and Wu Zongzi have in common is that they were both characters that they had "played" before. If you want to verify whether the disappearance of the two is related to your own performance, there is a very simple way -
As long as he finds another target and uses his identity to enter the unknown space again, when he leaves the unknown space and returns to the real world, he only needs to see if this person still exists to verify whether the disappearance of Chao Yougan and Wu Zongzi is related to him.
But this verification method also comes with a problem...
If he plays the role of a person in the real world, it means that this person will disappear. If he didn't know about it before, it would be unavoidable. But now if he plays the role of a real person again, even if no one else notices the disappearance of the other person except him, it is tantamount to murder.
Bai Jinshu admits that he is not an absolutely good person, but it is a bit too much for him to let an innocent person disappear just to verify his guess.
And there is another problem, he can't play the role of just anyone...
There are always many ordinary and mediocre people in the world. Using an ordinary person with no advantages to enter the unknown space of the Foundation is tantamount to suicide.
Although it sounds a bit cruel, it is the truth. There are countless exploration team members in the Foundation who have been floating in the low-end space. Except for a very few who are just unlucky, most of them are just like this because of their abilities. This is the height they can reach in this lifetime. If they force themselves to upgrade, they will only die in the unknown space.
The native space where Bai Jinshu is located is just an ordinary world of absolute materialism. The natives in this world are inherently weaker than those in the low-magic and medium-magic worlds. Since ordinary people account for the majority and the unknown space is full of dangers, it is not easy to find a role-playing prototype here that is capable of entering the Foundation's unknown space.
But apart from this incident, Bai Jinshu has been living pretty well recently.
As the New Year's Eve approaches, many activities and parties are scheduled for the end of December, which makes the period from mid-November to the end of December seem terribly leisurely. Even Rao Xian, who has been running around for announcements, has had some rare free time, and has repeatedly called Bai Jinshu to play mahjong with him.
The group of people who get along well with Rao Xian are as gossipy as she is. When they get together, they can play mahjong while gossiping about all the artists on the screen during variety show broadcasts. Their minds are filled with the dirty laundry of the entire entertainment industry.
The first time Bai Jinshu went there, he was shocked to learn that this year alone, six people in the circle were secretly married, eight had children, and twelve divorced. Five female celebrities married into wealthy families and their husbands went bankrupt and were trapped. Seven male celebrities had unclear sexual orientations and were suspected of being promiscuous. Nine had bad tempers and smashed things, insulted their assistants, and acted like big shots. The number of extramarital affairs was so numerous that they could be connected to circle the entire Beijing city and still have more than enough left.
If there was a paparazzi among the people at the mahjong table, these gossips would be enough for him to be promoted directly from an intern to editor-in-chief and then ride on the editor-in-chief's head and order him around.
Bai Jin sighed countless times after hearing him say that it was a good thing that Old Wu was not there, otherwise, with his attitude a few days ago of sending all the kissing photos of his own artists to the paparazzi, he would probably have found it difficult to resist creating a side income for himself.
"Hey, who is this? Bang!" Rao Xian held a teething biscuit in his mouth, looked up at the TV, and said vaguely while playing mahjong, "Is this the girlfriend of that guy before?"
"Which one?" Her next friend immediately responded, "She has many ex-boyfriends, which one are you talking about?"
"That one, the one I worked with Bai Jinshu before!" Rao Xian thought for a long time, but when the words came to his lips, he just couldn't remember his name, so he looked at Bai Jinshu, "It's the male lead who worked with you in the movie "Rainstorm Boating" where the boat capsized in the middle of the night and everyone was stunned and his wife was gone."
"You mean... 'With You Until Dawn'?" Bai Jinshu thought for a moment, "At the beginning of the story, the hero and heroine are the next generation of killers trained by a killer organization. In order to escape the control of the mastermind, the hero fled with the heroine on a rainy night, but the boat capsized and he lost his memory. The heroine was also separated from him and was finally picked up by me?"
"Who cares who picked it up? Yes, this one," Rao Xian bit her teeth biscuit, "Her ex-boyfriend, the male lead, I heard he has a ghost?"
"Is it useful?" she asked curiously.
"It's useless. I don't believe it anyway." Rao Xian chewed on the teething stick. "Do you believe it?"
"I don't believe it," she shrugged. "I'm just curious. Brother Lin doesn't believe it either."
The third person at the card table coughed lightly: "Even if I believe it, it's useless. Otherwise, the boat capsized and the wife was gone. How come the supporting role is the most popular in this drama?"
As the supporting character in the story where “the male lead is not popular but the supporting character is”, Bai Jinshu wisely chose not to respond.
There are many rumors about raising little ghosts in the entertainment industry, and there are quite a few people who actually do so, but is it useful... of course not.
In an absolutely materialistic world, little ghosts can only serve as a psychological comfort.
Unfortunately, although he wanted to avoid suspicion, others were not going to let him go.
"Bai Jinshu, didn't you work in the same group with him?" Rao Xian thought for a moment, "Have you seen that kid of his?"
"How is it possible to see this?" Bai Jinshu spread his hands. "Even if they really did raise one, they couldn't have brought it directly to the crew, right?"
"That's true," Rao Xian bit her teether, "If you saw that, it would be terrible... We were just playing cards, why did we start chatting?"
"Let me see the cards...eat," she looked at the cards and pushed one out, saying casually, "Speaking of little ghosts, have you heard about that guy? He Chuling?"
"What happened to He Chuling?" Rao Xian leaned forward with interest, "Do you know what happened to her injuries?"
"She's still injured?" She was shocked.
"Don't you know she's injured?" Rao Xian said vaguely while chewing on a teething stick. "It was just that Sister Yu went to her show before and saw that she had injuries on her body. She told me that she seemed to have been beaten, so she was always late for recording. Later, when Bai Jinshu and I went to her show, she fainted. Do you remember? We were scared at the time."
The other two people at the table looked over, and Bai Jinshu nodded in agreement.
"We all guessed that she was abused at home, but we haven't heard that she has a boyfriend. Could it be that her parents beat her? Is it that serious? I don't think her parents are that kind of people," Rao Xian muttered a few words, and continued vaguely, "So do you know where her injuries came from?"
"Rao Xian, stop chewing on that teething stick of yours," Brother Lin rolled his eyes at the poker table, "You can't even speak clearly."
"Then what am I chewing? I want to eat something when I have free time. My mouth can't be idle. The dresses for the end-of-year awards ceremony are all customized according to body data. Do you think it's okay for everyone to be a pound or two fatter like you? If my measurements are bigger than the customized data, my agent will kill me," Rao Xian urged with a curled lip, "So what's wrong with He Chuling? Tell me quickly."
"I don't know what caused her injuries," she said, lowering her chin and speaking mysteriously, "but I do know why she fainted that time."
"I heard that it was because of losing the soul."
“Tsk—” Before he could finish his words, Rao Xian said in a loud voice, “Bai Jinshu and I already knew this, right? Metal.”
"I knew it earlier," Bai Jinshu nodded. "When we went to see her the next day, we happened to see her family members looking for a master to call back her soul."
"Your information is too outdated," Rao Xian threw a mint candy at him with disdain, "What's so mysterious about this? Isn't it just a lost soul calling for help? When you were a kid and couldn't sleep at night, didn't your mother post that poem on the telephone pole at the door?"
"What poem?" Brother Lin asked casually.
"The sky is in a panic, the earth is in a panic, there is a night-crying boy in my family," Rao Xian said casually, "My mother was always kind when I was a child, don't you have any?"
"No," Brother Lin denied it decisively, "I have always fallen down as soon as I touched the bed since I was a child."
"Don't talk nonsense. Let me tell you something you definitely don't know!" Rao Xian peeled the candy, put it in his mouth and said, "Do you know that He Chuling became a marginalized person after he fell into a coma and took a vacation?"
"What do you mean?" Rao Xian became interested.
"'Starting on Saturday'," she bit the mint candy until it was crunchy. "When the show was first scheduled, she wasn't the one scheduled to host it. But when filming was about to start, He Chuling suddenly appeared out of nowhere and transformed herself from a nobody to a regular host of a popular variety show. At that time, people said that she was able to join the variety show because of someone behind her. It was even rumored that she was the station director."
Bai Jinshu raised his head slightly.
"She has only been in a coma for less than half a month, and they seem to be planning to replace her. Do you think the one behind her..." She gestured, "Is he coming down?"
"I haven't heard of this rumor..." Rao Xian touched his chin, "Can He Chuling have such a strong backer?"
Even if there is no such thing, Bai Jinshu shook his head slightly in his heart.
It is a foregone conclusion that He Chuling is a member of the foundation's exploration team. She was able to suddenly become a popular variety show host and gain a bunch of fans overnight. It doesn't seem like she has a backer at all. It seems that this effect can only be achieved by using some miracles in the foundation's mall.
In addition, she had been in a coma for nearly half a month and had not entered the unknown space, so the program team began to prepare to replace her. The miracle she used might not continuously deduct points like the [Custom Mask].
No wonder she rushed home to look for her watch as soon as she woke up, with such big dark circles under her eyes.
It's not surprising that her points hit rock bottom and she would enter the low-end space. According to Bai Jinshu's understanding of her, He Chuling was just an ordinary member of the low-end space.
But if the miracle of the mall can no longer be used, then her work and her career will probably face a major interruption.
From this point of view, He Chuling is indeed about to enter an unknown space. What's more terrible is that the current He Chuling is He Chuling who is missing a part of his soul. If his luck is a little worse and he enters a supernatural world, it is hard to say whether he can come back.
It would be fine if he had intended to take precautions, but now even He Chuling himself doesn't know that he is missing a part of his soul, which is probably the most fatal thing.
Bai Jinshu shook his head slightly in his heart.
"No wonder she accepted that interview. Gang," Brother Lin, the third player at the table, said decisively, "I just heard someone say yesterday that He Chuling is going to the prison to do an interview with the second son of the cult."
After he said this, the three people at the table thought for a long time before they realized who he was talking about.
"That old atonement house that was taken down by the police a few years ago?" Rao Xian thought for a while, "Is it the evil cult that was going to be adapted into a movie?"
"Yes, that one," Brother Lin took a sip of water, "When this evil cult was taken down, there was quite a big commotion. The newspapers were full of reports, saying that many of the believers who were rescued from the cult were disabled and had missing limbs, and their lives were in trouble. Among them was a particularly good-looking minor. He was so beautiful that even many police officers were stunned when he was rescued. Unfortunately, he was blind, and he had been blinded since he was a child."
"Oh, I remember this," Rao Xian chewed on the teething stick. "At that time, people on the Internet were sympathizing with him, saying how great it would be if he wasn't blind and was a normal person. But in the end, it was revealed that this was the second son of their cult leader, their holy son. Wow, I think these people are really good at choosing holy sons. He's really good-looking, with a boy's feminine appearance. At first glance, I thought it was a girl..."
"Why are you suddenly interviewing the second son? Are you interviewing the prototype of the cult because the movie became popular? I remember that the second son was sentenced to death. He is going to be executed so he is interviewing him before he dies?" Rao Xian knocked on the table. "Hey, hey, who's next? Where are the cards? Where did you end up while we were chatting?"
"I, won," Bai Jinshu suddenly came to his senses and pushed the cards in front of him away, "all the same color."
"Don't say 'I' together with the word 'huh'!!!"
As soon as he said this, the three people in front of him jumped up in reaction. One put his hands together and bowed. Another reached into the cup and grabbed a handful of water with tea leaves and threw it at him. Another one, Rao Xian, quickly grabbed his hand and started slapping it: "Children's words should not be restrained. Bah, bah, bah, bah, don't take these words seriously. Bah, bah, bah!"
Bai Jinshu: ...
"Not really... Don't you guys believe this?" He held his forehead with his hand, "I'm already in my twenties and still talking like a child?"
"Not at all! People in their twenties are just the right age for children! Follow me and spit!" Rao Xian glared, "It's just nonsense, but you even dared to say it together with personal pronouns. You really have no taboos!"
And she was really very taboo about it, and even used the term "personal pronoun" instead of directly repeating the "I" that Bai Jin said.
Bai Jinshu was helpless: "…Pooh, pooh, pooh."
"Louder! Clearer! Stronger and more powerful!" Rao Xian instructed, "Repeat after me, bah! bah!! bah!!!"
“There are no taboos or restrictions. Children can speak without restraint…” Rao Xianxia was still holding his palms together and bowing in all directions.
"Rao Xian, do you have willow branches and pomelo leaves at home?!" Brother Lin shook the water out of his quilt and rolled up his sleeves, "You have to get rid of the bad luck after saying this!"
The scene was in chaos.
Amid the chaos, Bai Jinshu raised an eyebrow thoughtfully.
He seemed to know what to do next.
Since we want to verify whether his fixed attributes will cause people in the real world to disappear, wouldn't it be better to just play the role of someone who...should have died in the first place?
The author has something to say:
All the names of variety shows and cults are made up. If there are any similarities, I will change them immediately. If the opponent calls me, I will run away first.
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