Chapter 655: Real World (6)
Bai Jinshu certainly didn't know how shocked the stall owner was when he heard the name She Mochu.
Just as the stall owner said, once the ranking list came out, it was like the starting gun for a long-distance race. Not only the special space of the entire foundation, but even the space underneath was affected by the aftermath of the vibration.
From the trending posts on the forum, we can tell that during this period, the bigwigs in the foundation who usually stay in seclusion have begun to come out of retirement.
[Show off your European alert! If you knew that I invested in an E-class space to open a poverty alleviation sister, you would also envy me! 】
[I'm willing to accept the loss. Half a year ago, I said on the forum that if Xu Wei, the crazy white moonlight who had been on the ship in my early years, came back to live broadcast, I would throw money around. Today, I actually saw his exploration project. My youth is back. The first fifty levels will be 10,000 yuan per person unconditionally. For subsequent increases, please refer to the rules in the post. ]
[If you don't understand, just ask, why are there so many people investing in the newly opened B-level space? Is Xia Wei a famous exploration team member? An ancient boss? ]
[Investment inquiry, has there been any big move recently? With so many big guys opening up in the lower-level spaces, has there been any difficult project in the upper spaces that caused everyone to downgrade? ]
[Summon uncle, is the foundation having a grand opening promotion? Recently, so many high-end spaces have automatically downgraded to mid-range spaces for live broadcasting? Is there any insider who can tell me? ]
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The foundation's forum was in an uproar, and investors were no exception.
Ever since returning from the special space, Bai Jinshu's life has suddenly been dominated by those rich second-generations. Every day, their videos are either about sharing the latest projects or discussing the exploration team members. Thanks to them, Bai Jinshu, who originally didn't pay much attention to other exploration team members in the foundation, has also become familiar with several big guys who have been very active recently.
The first one is Xia Wei, who has been hotly discussed in the forum recently. He seems to have been a very famous exploration team member more than ten years ago. He is now in his forties. He is a fast-pass player. His fixed attributes seem to be related to some kind of mind-reading ability. Every time he enters the exploration space, he can get the answers to all the rules very quickly.
It is said that she has not appeared in the Foundation's live broadcast since she entered the high-end space. This time, for some unknown reason, she also joined the Foundation's ranking battle. With her terrifying record of speed-clearing five mid-level dungeons in three days, she quickly became popular on the forum and became one of the hot topics.
Secondly, there is a person named Xu Wei who is also very popular recently, but it is not because of himself. He was also a member of the foundation a long time ago. His crazy personality, which was very popular at that time, is not good enough in the current foundation with so many talents. His blood-selling style of play is not very popular now. He did not do well in the two exploration angel investments.
But he seems to have a die-hard fan who regards him as the foundation's white moonlight. Every day when they see him live streaming, they will throw coins like crazy on the forum, starting from 150,000 per level, and the amount will gradually increase as the live streaming progresses.
There is also a girl named Sister Poverty Alleviation, who is famous for having extremely high scores but only entering E-level projects. Once she gets in, she uses her points to buy props. Many people from the foundation come to watch the fun and see the sky-high miracles that they have never seen before in these live broadcast rooms.
Since she spent money like water and only entered the E-level space, few people remembered her real name. Everyone called her the Poverty Alleviation Sister, and they talked about how many points she had spent and what useless miracles she had used in the forum every day.
In addition to these famous ones, there are a few whose names are unclear, but because they are good-looking enough, there are many fans of them in the foundation forum, and Bai Jinshu is also familiar with them.
However, as this melee among bigwigs entered the next stage, those who relied solely on their looks soon became obsolete and were quickly ousted by more up-and-coming stars, becoming a passing topic.
Investors in the foundation don’t know what’s going on recently, but Bai Jinshu knows it very well. After the foundation announced the results, the bigwigs started to rush for performance.
After all, if you count it all, he is a player who has been in the top 100 several times.
Yes, several times...
After returning from the free trade zone, he had looked at the list released by the foundation. To his surprise, there were a few names in the front row that were too familiar to him.
The highest was She Mochu, who ranked fifty-first. After the big guys started to enter, he did not get squeezed out, and even rose three places. This was all thanks to the hot post on the Foundation forum that remained popular on the first floor: [In just sixty seconds, I will tell you what the God of Cthulhu is! [She Mochu’s personal opinion, a mashup of the Cthulhu exploration trilogy]]
Thanks to the popularity of the forum and the gimmick of "God of Cthulhu", She Mochu has always been very well-known. Since the list was launched, he has been in the top 100 and has never fallen out.
The next is Cen Bingqi, ranked seventy-third, and the one ahead of him is Xu Zichen, ranked seventy-second.
It is understandable that these two names made it into the top 100 together. After all, "Romantic Contagion" can be regarded as the prequel to the downfall of the investment bank. At that time, when the last segment of "Inhumanity" was broadcast live to the entire foundation, basically all the people who went to watch the excitement went to watch the recording of "Romantic Contagion".
Cen Bingqi is one of the twenty-four personalities that left a deep impression in the exploration, while Xu Zichen is the previous generation Gu King who was so beautiful, strong and miserable that he was about to be slapped in the face. Thanks to the popularity of [Romance Contagion] and the spread of the shameful name of the assassin king Xu Pi Ge, the deeds of these two people are basically well-known in the foundation.
Skao was ranked ninety-ninth, just on the edge of the top 100. Bai Jinshu suspected that he was on the list mostly because of the Koi attribute. After all, not only was his name just on the edge of the top 100, but every time he was about to fall out of the top 100, a member of the top-ranked team would die, bringing him back to ninety-ninth place.
Not many people in the special space knew that he was the actual organizer of [0106]. Most people thought it was Yun Guang. But many people died in the front row, and the news that the ninety-nine Skaos were the lucky ones spread in the special space, and the news that he was actually the boss of the organization also spread.
Along with this, there are also strange rumors about [0106], which make him look like Light Yagami holding a notebook.
After Guan Hongyan found out about this, she made fun of it on the message board. Bai Jinshu was extremely busy at that time and had no time to read the messages. Now her post of "hahaha" was sandwiched between the messages from new people.
In addition to these three names in the top 100, what surprised Bai Jinshu was that Chao Yougan was also ranked 197th. After seeing this ranking, he silently browsed the forum and found that the business war information about [Yinshi Group] had become a must-read post for foundation investors.
Every day, some people even check in and learn from each other, calling each other classmates. The atmosphere is so good that if you didn’t read the title, you would think it was a CET-4 or CET-6 study post.
Bai Jinshu: ...
He hadn't expected to see himself... or several of himself after the list was published. After all, he hadn't actually calculated how many points each of his ID cards had, nor how many people knew these names.
What's more, he originally thought that the foundation ranking list would show real names, just like the name [Bai Jinshu] on the invitation letter to the assessment space.
Who knew that the custom masks divided these identity cards into different IDs, and even divided them into different team members when ranking.
This made him silently sigh at the humanity of the Foundation while searching for miracles... and by the way, he was worried about how to resolve the strongest battle after the ranking was determined.
As far as he knew… uh, and according to the foundation’s records, after the top 100, the wish fulfillment was not determined based on the ranking on the list, but rather a multi-person competition to decide the final winner.
This thing...can he give up the game?
If they hadn't given up the competition, together with Cen Bingqi's personalities [0106], there would have been as many as 27 members among the top 100 members of the exploration team... Let's not talk about how he would split himself, just talking about these 27 people, others would have thought they were a huge organization.
Bai Jinshu twitched his lips. He really didn't want to face the consequences he would face if he couldn't give up the game.
Now that things have come to this, let’s pray that these identity cards will be swept away by other ancient gods who will make efforts in the later stage, and only one will be left in the end...
Or in fact, considering Scaro's good luck, he should actually pray that the other ninety-six people in front of him, except She Mochu and Cen Bingqi, were safe.
When faced with difficulties, he would sleep soundly. With the crisis ahead, Bai Jinshu silently put these things behind him. There were too many things that needed to be dealt with, and he really didn't have much energy to get involved in the chaos caused by the foundation's announcement of the results.
But whether or not to participate is not something he can just do without.
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One afternoon, just after Old Wu called, Bai Jinshu felt someone sitting on the sofa next to him.
"Hmm?" He paid some attention to look over and made a gesture to keep quiet, "Wait a minute, I have to take a call and deal with work."
This time is Lao Wu's working hours. Generally speaking, he will not call himself. If he does, it must be about work.
As expected, Old Wu called about some things regarding the promotion of the drama. The two discussed while on the phone, and when they hung up, Bai Jinshu realized that nearly an hour had passed.
And during this hour, Huai Jiamu was actually waiting for him by the side.
Thinking of this, he closed the computer with his backhand, as if he would not deal with the work anymore, and turned his head to look at Huai Jiamu: "What's wrong? What's the matter?"
"Have you finished processing?" Huai Jiamu did not speak first, but pointed at the computer and asked.
"It's not an important matter," Bai Jinshu shook his head. "It's just a drama promotion. A long time ago, a movie was filmed but was suppressed because the lead actor became a legal star. Now it's finally going online. Old Wu and I discussed how to cooperate with the drama promotion."
This matter is complicated to explain, but the situation is simple. It's nothing more than that he played the male No. N in this movie when he was not famous yet, and now he has become a movie emperor. The lead actor of this long-overdue movie has a face-changing AI, and all the supporting roles are out of date. After the plot was re-edited, the director placed all his hopes on him, and the promotional points were all about the movie emperor's participation, which made the fans who had been lonely for a long time very excited.
The two discussed how to do the promotion in a measured and decent manner without letting the director blur the point and incite the fans. They also talked about other things, and the call lasted nearly an hour. Once Bai Jinshu entered the working state, he forgot that there was someone sitting next to him, and he forgot that Huai Jiamu was still waiting for him.
"Promotion for the drama..." Huai Jiamu thought for a moment, "You don't want to participate in this promotion?"
"It's not that I don't want to participate," Bai Jinshu touched his chin, "According to my original ranking, I shouldn't have to participate, right?"
If it was put on the expected release date of this drama, there would be no mention of him as the male No. 2 in the promotion. Now after the re-editing, who knows what position the director has promoted him to, but it is foreseeable that the current plot is definitely different from what he knew at the time.
If he participated in the promotion of a re-edited film like this, and it ended up being a terrible movie released in theaters, it would be a big blow to his reputation.
"If you don't want to participate, then don't participate," Huai Jiamu saw through his thoughts at a glance, "It just so happens that I have something to tell you."
He clicked on the watch, and the next second, the combat watch page expanded, and a white screen appeared in front of Bai Jinshu.
In the middle of the screen, a string of numbers is very obvious——
【X23-9989-ad1163】.
This is a string of coded numbers from an unknown space, and the coding rules obviously do not follow the rules within the Foundation.
"This is an exploration space I found recently," Huai Jiamu said, "The exploration time is uncertain, the ownership is not in the hands of the foundation, and even entering it requires certain special conditions. Those who do not meet the conditions cannot enter the gate of the space at all.
"But I doubt that the things in this world should be able to solve your problem."
"Currently this world has no name, only a number," he said, "but there have been discussions about this world in some places. Most explorers who choose to enter it will call it—"
"【War of Faith】."
【Author’s words】
The next one is a false god!
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