Chapter 59 The Real World (2) (1st + 2nd update) [VIP]
"Turn left ahead, then go straight. There is a speed camera 200 meters away. The speed limit on this road is 40 kilometers per hour. Please do not exceed the speed limit."
Old Wu turned on the turn signal, turned the steering wheel to the left, glanced at the rearview mirror and kept saying, "Hey, I've been saying this for so many years, Bai Jinshu."
"Why didn't I realize that you are a tsundere who speaks in a hostile manner but acts in a righteous manner?"
"You said you wouldn't take the role of Scarao, but seven days later you took it again. You said you didn't want to play the movie version of She Mochu's comic, but a month later you had to have dinner alone with the boss who invested in the IP," Old Wu opened the rearview mirror to make sure he could meet Bai Jinshu's eyes in the back seat, and said curiously, "What role do you not want to take? I'll negotiate for you right now."
Bai Jinshu: ...
"Drive your car," he said speechlessly, meeting Old Wu's mischievous look in the rearview mirror, "I have my own considerations."
"I understand, I understand," Old Wu nodded sincerely, "During the five days you disappeared, you must have thought deeply about your career planning, your own business, the development of the industry, and the future of mankind..."
He followed the navigation while thinking: "Hey, is this a real vacation? Why did you decide to play Skao after your first vacation, and Shemochu after your second vacation? Who can pull back a stubborn person like you who has made up your mind not to turn back?"
He stumbled and swallowed the word "donkey" in his mouth.
The more Old Wu thought about it, the more he felt something was wrong. He touched his chin and suddenly turned back in horror: "Damn it, Bai Jinshu! You're not going to see a psychiatrist, are you? Are you hiding some serious mental illness from me? You're not trying to commit suicide! If you encounter this kind of problem, you must actively seek treatment. We are not short of money and I'm not a black-hearted agent who forces artists to work!"
"I don't want to die, but I think you want to die, and you're even looking for death," Bai Jinshu pulled the corner of his mouth, revealing a sincere smile, "I suggest you drive and watch the road, otherwise tomorrow's hot searches will be about me abusing my agent, and you harboring a grudge for years and deliberately causing a car accident that killed both you and the artist."
He is someone who understands trending searches.
Bai Jin said: "Turn right 500 meters ahead, and then turn right again."
Old Wu: “Ah?”
The navigation system's voice came one step behind him: "Turn right 500 meters ahead. Please drive in the two lanes on the right, then go straight and turn right after 50 meters."
"Damn, you know the way! Why did you ask me to take you there?" Old Wu was startled and turned back to drive the car obediently.
Bai Jinshu put away the perfunctory smile on his face and closed his eyes again to rest.
What Old Wu was imagining had nothing to do with anything. He had no intention of taking on the role of She Mochu. He just wanted to get some information out of Rao Xian's childhood friend. It would be best if he could make the other party think that he was also an investor in the foundation, so as to see if he could find out what the threshold for investor identity was.
After all, Guan Hongyan is an old team member. Her and Yun Guang’s speculations show that there is a higher world above the high-end team members. Investors will become exploration team members and enter the project for fun. Team members who reach a certain level will move behind the scenes to become investors. Does this mean that as long as a person operates properly, he may have two identities at the same time?
So what is the boundary between investors and explorers under these identities?
After all, the miracle [Custom Mask] he is using now seems to have some incredible effects.
For example, She Mochu made the same choice as him to remove his left eye in the latest comic series, and he became more lazy in his daily life; and after he left the copy this time, Isaac's thinking seemed to have changed his mind as well, and he clearly felt that he had a deeper connection with electronic products, and before the navigation opened its mouth, his mind seemed to be connected to its data, and its next report popped out directly.
What if he uses a [Custom Mask] to disguise himself as an investor in the next world?
Will he get stuck on a bug?
"You have arrived near your destination. This navigation is over."
The navigation's voice brought him back to his senses.
"We're here," Old Wu found a parking lot and looked out the window. "What a barren place this is. There's not a single living person in a hundred miles around except for the two of us. Who asked us to come here to eat?"
"Rao Xian's childhood friend." Bai Jinshu opened the car door and clicked on the WeChat message that Rao Xian had sent to him. In the chat box, the person on the other end was not as noisy as Rao Xian said. Instead, he seemed a bit aloof. He only sent a navigation location and there was no follow-up.
“Hey, hey, hey, wait a minute—” Old Wu grabbed him and said, “My brother, you just walked over like that, without wearing a mask or something? If you’re surrounded by fans, I can’t save you.”
"Do you feel that you are contradictory sometimes?" Bai Jinshu turned his head and said calmly, "You said that this place is barren and there are no living people except the two of us within a hundred miles, and then you said that I will be surrounded by fans. Where will the fans come from?"
Old Wu was adamant and refused to give in: "Maybe they are hiding in the bushes!"
Bai Jinshu: ...
"Play less games," he turned around and patted his agent on the shoulder, saying earnestly, "You can't hide in the bushes in the real world. As long as you're not blind, you can see it. Unfortunately, I have a pair of eyes growing on my nose."
Old Wu was choked by him and couldn't speak for a long time.
"Bai Jinshu," he said with a look of disbelief, "did you go to fight people when you disappeared? Why are you so vicious when you come back this time?"
Obviously, the old Bai Jinshu would have just said that he was meddling in other people's business, but now he's mocking him.
He has changed. He is no longer the well-known monk candidate in the circle.
This is a sin of speech!
"Poisonous? I don't think so." Bai Jinshu glanced at him calmly, "If I say that you hired a bunch of power players but still lost rank as soon as you got the game, that would be poisonous."
A heart-wrenching blow.
Old Wu covered his chest, feeling a pang in his heart, and could only slowly watch his artist, who had been in his rebellious period for many years, leave his sight.
Bai Jinshu followed the location given by his childhood friend Rao Xian and walked forward. When he arrived at the location, he did not see any private kitchen door. Instead, he saw a curly-haired girl squatting on the side of the road playing games. She was the investor blogger he discovered on Weibo last time.
It seems that this is the person he wants to meet on this trip.
A dark aura lingered around her, and a series of English announcements came from the phone she held horizontally in her hand: "Enemy double Kill!"
"Enemy triple kill!"
Bai Jinshu stood behind her and watched, just in time to see the third announcement pop up on the screen in excitement: "Enemy quadra Kill!"
This is too bad, even worse than Lao Wu’s skills.
Although he had never played the game before, he had just come out of the previous project not long ago. Isaac had a natural ability to learn these things without any instruction, which allowed him to see the rules of the game at a glance.
The curly-haired girl shook the phone in her hand in frustration. She wanted to throw it away but couldn't bring herself to do it. She controlled the character with her left hand and walked a few steps forward. Just as she was about to walk forward according to her habit, she heard a familiar voice from behind: "Go back."
She subconsciously wanted to turn around, and she heard the voice continue, "Go back about five body spaces, your opponent is about to release the control."
As if possessed by a ghost, she took a few steps back at the voice's command, and then she was extremely shocked to see that the opponent really released a control and it stopped right in front of her toes.
Game Black Hole He Qinyue:!!!
"Oh my god..." She was interrupted by the voice behind her before she could finish her sentence, "Your first skill is on cooldown. There's someone in the bush on the left. Throw the ball over there."
He Qinyue did as she was told subconsciously, and sure enough, she hit it again!
"Skill 2 is also ready, move it to the right," the cold voice continued.
She did as she was told subconsciously, and then, as if by a favor, the enemy hero that she had just hit actually went straight towards her skill range, and then fell straight down in the attack, looking like he was looking for death by running into it.
"First blood!" A string of English words popped up from the phone, "An enemy has been slain!"
He Qinyue's eyes widened in shock.
"Master, you accept a disciple..."
"What are you daydreaming about?" the voice continued. "Your teammates are here. Go to the bush where that guy was and block his vision."
"Right around the back."
"CD is ready, skill 3."
"Double Kill!"
"We're surrounded. Well, don't move."
"Okay, now head forward."
"Equipment selection method Lian."
"If you run a few steps back, they will chase you and lose control."
"Left, then right, go through the middle, the ultimate skill is ready, throw it towards the position of the soldier in the middle."
He Qinyue completely gave up thinking about the meaning of these instructions, and subconsciously followed the voice behind her, walking among a bunch of attacks as if there was a script, and her health bar didn't even drop by half.
As the last big move was thrown out, the big move that was originally thrown towards the open space miraculously killed three people and directly killed all the opponents.
She widened her eyes at the sound of the pentakill notification. When the enemy crystal was shattered by her teammates' attack and the victory sign appeared, she put away her phone and looked at the great god behind her with full reverence.
Then, she took three steps back and looked at Bai Jinshu and murmured in shock: "Fuck... Emperor Isaac, you're alive!"
Bai Jinshu:?
What?
He Qinyue's ill-fated phone eventually fell to the ground, shattering the screen.
*
In the private kitchen, He Qinyue, who had just been squatting on the sidewalk playing games, was sitting at the table in a very awkward manner, smoothing her bangs with her hands that had nowhere to put. "Um, I'm He Qinyue. This IP was bought by my friend and I. He really has something to do today, so I'll talk to you, the Great Emperor... No, Brother Bai."
Bai Jinshu: "Yeah."
He looked around calmly.
He Qinyue thought he wanted to know more about this place, so she introduced it, "This private kitchen is opened by my friend's aunt. She told me the wrong time, so I came early and saw that the door was not open, so I squatted at the door and thought about playing a game..."
As a result, I met Bai Jinshu while playing games at the door.
"But... didn't we meet at 4:30?" She looked awkwardly at her phone that had been shattered into powder, mourning for her lost phone and the image that would never come back.
Not only did He Qinyue complete a five-kill with her own rubbish skills under the opponent's guidance, she even accidentally blurted out the name for Isaac among the foundation's investors.
There is no way. Ever since she watched the movie twice, He Qinyue has completely become an Isaac fan. Of course, this is also inseparable from the extremely high return on investment of Night City. She later watched the movie several times. It should be said that although Bai Jinshu, who plays Isaac, is actually completely different from the real Isaac in Night City, after watching it for a long time, He Qinyue actually got some of the praises about him on the Internet.
Bai Jinshu’s acting skills are really strong.
After she had seen the original version, she actually felt that Bai Jinshu's portrayal of Isaac was not at all out of place.
Besides, he looks exactly like Isaac, right? So much so that when she first saw Bai Jinshu, she subconsciously thought it was Isaac who had come back to life. As soon as she called him the Great Emperor, she realized that this was wrong. This should be Bai Jinshu, playing the role of Isaac.
Why did she subconsciously think that Isaac was alive?
Could it be that this guy's acting skills are so superb that people can feel he is that character just by looking at him standing in front of them?
"It's half past four," Bai Jinshu nodded slightly across the table, speaking calmly, "but generally speaking, according to etiquette, I will arrive twenty minutes early."
He Qinyue: ...Yes.
She had forgotten about it.
But you can't blame her for this, she is really just an ordinary rich second generation. Her usual hobbies are playing games and watching foundation live broadcasts. She relies on the profits from investing in unknown spaces to get away with it in front of her father, and she doesn't have to go to high-end occasions such as business meetings. The first time she made a formal appointment was because of the copyright of the comic strip about explorer She Mochu in the foundation.
At this point, she suddenly remembered the main point of this trip. He Qinyue took out the information from her bag and handed it to Bai Jinshu, saying, "Brother Bai, this is the specific information. If you have any questions, just ask. I will tell you everything I know."
As soon as she finished speaking, she heard Bai Jinshu's slightly puzzled voice: "Then I'll ask?"
"Just ask." He Qinyue touched the tip of her nose, just wanting to quickly get over the embarrassment.
"Why did you call me Emperor when you first saw me?" At the dining table, Bai Jinshu clasped his hands together with a puzzled expression.
"Uh..." She was stuck for a while, and finally said guiltily, "I recognized the wrong person."
"Then why are you called Isaac?" Bai Jinshu's tone was still puzzled, "Isaac is a role I played, right? I have never heard anyone call me that before?"
He Qinyue stuttered: "It's just... Actually, I'm a fan of yours?"
While observing Bai Jinshu's expression, she began to make up a lie: "We have a small circle that likes the character of Isaac very much, so we call him this. When I saw you, Brother Bai, just now, I subconsciously thought that Isaac was alive, so I blurted out this name."
"Oh, I see." Bai Jinshu lowered his eyelashes and picked up the documents on the table. "Sorry, wait a moment and let me take a look."
I originally thought that since I didn’t meet my childhood friend Rao Xian in person this time, my plan to get information from the foundation’s investors would fail.
It now appears that He Qinyue is also one of the investors of the foundation, and the small circle she mentioned probably refers to the foundation.
As expected, some investors in the same world know each other.
It seems reasonable. The foundation's investment mechanism determines that investors must be people with certain economic strength. Then the proportion of such people in society will not be large, so it is reasonable for them to know each other.
He started by pretending to be an innocent rich second-generation and pretending to be one of the investors. He then used the other party's identity to enter the copy, and then used the [Custom Mask] to raise the synchronization rate to 100% in the unknown space and leave, thus exploiting a bug to get the identity of the real investor. This was his original plan.
Becoming a 100% rich second generation is much safer than becoming a 100% Skao, a 100% Shemochu, or a 100% Isaac. Moreover, this is a rich second generation from his world, which means that even if he reaches 100% and cannot come back, he will not have any problems when he leaves the project and returns to reality.
As for how to explain it, there are too many ways to explain it in the Foundation. When faced with a problem, quantum mechanics cannot be used, time travel cannot be explained, and parallel universes are not enough.
He believed that for the rich second generation who were completely insensitive to such things, knowing that their counterparts appeared in the foundation would only make them feel novel, and they would never think that their identities were being copied and stolen.
And if he wanted to eliminate suspicion to the greatest extent, he could even call himself the male equivalent of a female investor. Bai Jinshu's eyes swept over He Qinyue very gentlemanly, and he opened the information in his hand with a smile.
"No problem, no problem." He Qinyue nodded repeatedly, turned around, opened her mobile phone and began to send warm greetings to her friends.
Including but not limited to the other party's unreliable private kitchen opening hours, and the behavior of leaving her here alone to meet the other party for some urgent business. When she got excited, she switched to the smart watch on her left wrist and criticized the other party's behavior of being too picky. He abandoned me after investing and bought the copyright excitedly, and then threw everything to her to do.
Just as she was chatting animatedly with the person on the other side of the foundation panel, she suddenly heard a light cough: "Cough."
"What's wrong?" He Qinyue quickly raised her head from her watch and smiled, "Is there any problem? If you have any questions, just ask me directly!"
"Ms. He," Bai Jinshu, who was standing opposite him, put down the information in his hand and gave her a very Isaac-style smile, "Actually, I have absolutely no interest in the movie version of this comic."
"Eh?" He Qinyue opened her mouth blankly, "Then why did Rao Xian say..."
"I want to get in touch with this copyright mainly because I had some strange encounters." The face opposite me, which had appeared on the big screen countless times, looked no less attractive without the lights and makeup. "I want to know if the person who suddenly bought this copyright had the same encounter as me."
Bai Jinshu nodded apologetically: "I'm sorry, until I saw that you also used the watch..."
The unfinished meaning in his words made He Qinyue suddenly realize: "You, you mean!"
Under the warm yellow light of the private kitchen room, Bai Jinshu smiled and nodded slightly.
*
One morning, Lu Changfeng received a message from Ao Ge, the man he had been exploring with.
[Isaac said, "What's the matter with you looking for me?"
Lu Changfeng rolled over from the bed, read the message over and over again, and replied carefully: [It’s okay, I just wanted to say hello to Brother Ao? ]
There was a long silence on the other end of the dialog box.
Lu Changfeng stared at the task panel and said a sentence fearfully, fearing that he would see a red exclamation mark appear next to the dialog box in the next second.
Lu Changfeng: [I just came out of the last dungeon, so I wanted to ask Brother Ao if he's okay.]
Fortunately, the exclamation mark indicating the deletion of a friend did not appear.
He was silent for a long time before he slowly asked: [Are you free? ]
After a while: [547 messages in total, do you have so much time? ]
Lu Changfeng said with a long-lost look behind him: [No, no, no, brother Ao, I'm busy! Sister Yan said she was hit hard and wanted an ordinary teammate who has no special abilities. I'm busy connecting with other high-end explorers and selecting teammates for the next dungeon.]
[I can't tell what you're busy with...] Skao said speechlessly, [It's not that easy to find an ordinary person. I have a client. Can you ask your friend if he can take the order?]
[What is a business order? ] Lu Changfeng was at a loss.
[It's just some bored investors,] Skao used very impolite words, [I think I can do it myself, so I blindly invest in a project, wanting to enter the unknown space and show my power. In order to ensure that I don't die, I come to the old team members for protection. Generally, this kind of business orders are some low-end projects. If your friend takes the business orders, he can bring investors. With treatment, the quotation will not be low, and the income can be equivalent to a B+ upgrade to A. ]
[This is good, this is good,] Lu Changfeng rubbed his hands, [I'll go ask Sister Yan! ]
After a while, Lu Changfeng came back: [Brother Ao, Sister Yan said she has never brought a business order, but you can give it a try, as long as the other party promises not to commit suicide. ]
Skao: [Then I will send you the information, and you can choose one. I will transfer the payment to you when the time comes.]
[Ah? Brother Ao, aren't you coming?] Lu Changfeng was at a loss.
[Rice noodle rolls,] The other side was silent for a while, [If entering a low-end space requires three high-end players...]
[Oh, I understand. That would be too embarrassing! It would make us look useless!] Lu Changfeng answered quickly.
"No," Skao said ruthlessly, "that's too expensive."
[The boss will think it’s not worth it.]
Lu Changfeng: ...
That makes a lot of sense.
After a while, he popped up a project link.
Lu Changfeng opened it, and what appeared in front of him was an unsealed space document:
[Unknown Space: Yin Group]
[The Foundation predicts the collection level: D]
[Explorer team personnel quota: 8 people]
[The longest exploration time of this unknown space: 30 days]
[The interface is well connected, and miracle redemption and use are open normally]
【Dear pioneers...】
Lu Changfeng sent the link to Guan Hongyan. After the two of them had selected the project together, he suddenly remembered it.
Lu Changfeng: [Hey, hey, hey, brother Ao, what's your client's name? We have to know who the boss is before we go in, right?]
Skao: [Chao Yougan. Do you have any other questions? ]
Lu Changfeng: [No more! No more! ]
Then he turned and opened the dictionary.
One-click search: [How do you pronounce '晁' and '讥'? ]
The author has something to say:
"Chao Yougan" is pronounced as "chao youqian", which is actually the same as "chao youqian"
Next dungeon is Yin Group. The rich and happy troublemaker Xiao Chao will torture everyone in the dungeon, including the boss (cough)
This is a book without Jiamu Ge, because Jin Lu found that being a second-generation rich man with a weird mindset was really fun. Although God gave Chao Yougan a lot of money, he also lost a lot at the same time, such as the worries of ordinary people (x)
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