Chapter 8
When Jiang Chen left, he learned some simple operations in the children's terminal store.
The clerk also gave him an electronic user manual, which he planned to study bit by bit after returning home.
Xiao Zhuang sat in his father's arms. He stared at the beautiful terminal on his wrist with bright eyes, and all the unhappiness of the day disappeared.
When leaving, Jiang Chen found a bookstore in the mall and decided to go in and have a look.
Normally he and Xiao Zhuang seldom go to the city, and the occasional encounters with new things are at the village market.
This was Jiang Chen’s first time visiting a bookstore like StarWorld, which was filled with electronic screens.
He stood at the door holding Xiao Zhuang and looked around. The bookshelf was lined with electronic screens the size of books. The uses of the books were marked on the bookshelf, but Jiang Chen studied it for a long time and didn't know how to operate it.
The clerk saw Jiang Chen looking at the bookshelf with a confused look on his face and took the initiative to help.
"How can I help you, sir?"
Jiang Chen turned around and stunned the clerk. The clerk had never seen such a handsome man.
To be honest, Jiang Chen really doesn't know how to use the high-tech things in the bookstore.
He nodded to the clerk, "I'm looking for the user manual for the adult terminal."
"Okay, this way."
The clerk led him to a functional bookshelf, kindly helped him take down an electronic screen, and taught him how to use it.
"Sir, you are from another galaxy, right? Are you not familiar with the items here?"
Jiang Chen nodded: "Yeah."
After the clerk's introduction, Jiang Chen finally realized that in the Interstellar Bookstore, he only needed to scan the sensor device on the bookshelf with the terminal to take out the e-book.
The e-book is about the same size as a book, making it easy to read.
Each bookstore has its own special limited edition books.
Jiang Chen tried hard to memorize the steps for using the e-book.
These things that are commonplace for interstellar people are quite difficult for him.
"Don't you know how to use a terminal?" the clerk asked tentatively, wondering what galaxy such a beauty came from that she couldn't even use a terminal.
"Not really."
The clerk scanned a manual for the terminal for him and said, "This is an electronic pen. You can write on the screen when you use it later."
"If you don't understand something, you can always ask me."
"Thanks."
"Also, is this your child, sir? Very cute." The clerk couldn't help but praise the little zombie as he looked at it. The interstellar population is huge but the birth rate is very low, so it's rare to see children, especially cute ones.
Hearing his aunt's praise, Xiao Jiang blushed a little and whispered a thank you.
The clerk blushed and her heart beat fast because of his cute look.
Jiang Chen took his e-book and found a quiet place in front of a floor-to-ceiling window. He pulled out a chair and sat down, placing Xiao Zhuang on the chair next to him.
Xiao Zhuang sat obediently on the chair, waiting for his father to debug the terminal for him.
Jiang Chen followed the steps and called up the Mech Warrior for Xiao Zhuang on the terminal.
Jiang Chen breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that Xiao Zhuang's limited edition Mech Warrior was a permanent member and he didn't need to buy VIP anymore. Just now, when the clerk told him how to buy VIP, he was completely confused. The operation was too complicated and he couldn't understand it at all.
A three-dimensional holographic image appeared on the terminal and the cartoon began to play.
Xiao Zhuang's expression was extremely excited, and he clapped his hands gently.
The bookstore was very quiet. Jiang Chen turned the volume down to the minimum so that Xiao Jiang would not disturb others while watching the movie.
"Thank you, Dad."
"Little zombie, just watch carefully."
"Um."
Xianxian recommended Mech Warriors to Xiaojiang all day long. At this time, Xiaojiang held his cheeks with his hands and watched it carefully from the first episode. He also learned interstellar language from the cartoon.
Xiao Zhuang stared at the screen. His eyes were like stars in the dark night, twinkling.
After settling Xiao Zhuang down, Jiang Chen also began to study the user manual of the adult terminal.
The interface of the children's version of Xiaojiang is a little simpler, but the adult version is different, with a wide variety of operations.
Jiang Chen studied hard.
The setting sun outside the glass window shone through his perfect profile, making it incredibly beautiful.
Jiang Chen read the user manual as if it were a book written in heaven. He learned how to operate different software step by step. There were thousands of software developed by Interstellar and they were very difficult to learn.
The tangled feeling gave him a headache. He didn't know how to use the terminal except for the voice system.
After studying seriously for half an hour, Jiang Chen rubbed his temples and turned sideways to look at his darling baby.
The little zombie is watching the animation seriously and looks very well-behaved.
He touched Xiao Zhuang's head, then looked around and found that almost everyone who came to study had ordered some food.
Jiang Chen thought it would be embarrassing not to buy anything when he came to read, so he learned how to order at the table and bought a piece of cake for Xiao Zhuang.
After a while, a small cake was brought up by a robot. The triangular cake was spread with rich matcha cream, drizzled with rose-red jam, and there was jelly sandwiched in the cake base. It looked very delicate.
The beautiful little cake attracted Xiao Zhuang and distracted him from the animation.
Jiang Chen smiled and scooped a small piece with a small spoon to feed to the little zombie. The little zombie opened his mouth obediently and enjoyed the feeding from his father.
This scene is extremely heartwarming.
The beautiful and fragrant cake is a favorite of all children, but Little Zhuang can’t taste it.
After taking two bites, Xiao Zhuang shook his head and said he didn't want to eat anymore. He continued to watch the TV series.
Jiang Chen wiped Xiao Zhuang's mouth and looked at the small cake with some regret. This was a food that he and Xiao Zhuang had never seen before. It should be delicious, right?
It’s a pity that they, father and son, are not lucky enough to enjoy it now.
The cake looked pretty good, so Jiang Chen decided to pack it up and take it away to keep at home as a work of art.
After a short rest, Jiang Chen continued to study.
He was still used to writing by hand on the electronic screens of the interstellar people.
Notes taken on the e-book screen in the bookstore can be saved on the terminal by simply scanning it, and every page of annotations and notes on reading and studying can be shared with netizens in real time.
Since I'm here, I might as well make the best of it. Jiang Chen thought that he would probably live in this world forever, so he had to learn the way of life of the interstellar people no matter what. He read the instruction manual page by page to learn how to operate it, while taking notes on the e-book using the Dongqi language.
These complex and incomprehensible texts are like works of art in Jiang Chen's pen.
He carefully took notes on every page of the manual, and wrote down every step he took incorrectly.
Time flies when you are studying.
After watching a few episodes of cartoons, Xiao Zhuang's head nodded. He rubbed his eyes with his little hands because he felt very sleepy.
In the end, I couldn't hold on any longer and fell asleep on my father's lap.
Finding that his son was already asleep, Jiang Chen decided to stop learning here today and learn the rest later.
He closed the e-book and accidentally clicked to share the real-time notes in the user manual.
An anonymous sharing post on a learning forum caused quite a stir once it was released.
Netizen: [What kind of font is this? Why is it so beautiful? ]
[Wait, that's wrong? Is this a notebook? It's actually a terminal user manual?]
Isn't the terminal user manual for the elderly? I'm guessing whose notes these are.
I don't know which country this beautiful text came from. I just searched for it, but there's no translation anywhere online.
【……】
The comment section under the shared learning experience quickly became a hot topic of discussion.
The first military academy in the capital.
In the new class of freshmen.
"Boss Ye, is this the kind of font you have collected at home?"
A handsome young man came closer, and there was still a hint of childishness on his face as he had just grown up.
"Where did you see this?"
"Interstellar Learning Forum! I didn't expect that even a note on basic knowledge like this would be shared tens of thousands of times within half an hour of being posted."
The young man looked at the ups and downs of the brushstrokes in the notes, his eyes full of admiration and worship. There were so many masters like him that one could not count them on one hand throughout the entire galaxy.
"If I have the chance, I must meet him in person." After saying that, he smiled and took a screenshot to save it.
Jiang Chen returned the electronic screen, and the clerk helped him save the notes and manuals in the terminal.
Jiang Chen was amazed. When checking out, there was nothing else except a small cake. All his study records and books were in the small terminal.
Jiang Chen was not used to this feeling. He always felt that paper books had more texture.
He still wanted paper books, so he asked the clerk, "Excuse me, do you have paper books for sale here?"
"Ah, paper books are very expensive nowadays. E-books are more affordable and convenient."
Interstellar people pay attention to environmental protection and do not advocate the use of paper books.
The clerk looked at Jiang Chen's puzzled expression and explained, "If you want a book, you can order it custom-made."
“After you buy a book in our bookstore, you can go to the custom shop to print it the way you want it.”
The clerk then gave a contact number and sent it directly to Jiang Chen's terminal.
Jiang Chen sighed. The terminal was so difficult to use, and he probably wouldn't be able to find the contact information even if he wanted to.
"That store happens to be nearby. If you pass by, you can go and have a look."
"Okay." Jiang Chen quickly wrote the address on the palm of his hand.
He had bought a lot of them at the village market before, but for some reason they were out of stock when he came to the city.
The encyclopedia he bought for Xiao Zhuang was bought at the village market. He now regrets very much that he didn't buy a few more books at that time. Now that he has come to the city, he realizes how difficult it is to buy books.
What he didn't know was that paper books have now become collectibles of interstellar people.
The books sold in the village market are all pirated books from decades ago, and the content has no reference value.
The custom shop was nearby, and Jiang Chen went there with the little zombie in his arms.
The little boy was sleeping soundly in his father's arms, as obedient as a doll.
There is a store with a simple and high-end facade in the mall, where soothing music is playing.
There are only a few paper books on the shelves in the store.
The decoration of the shop gave Jiang Chen the illusion that he had come to Dongqi. All the furnishings here were antique, and there were large calligraphy on the walls.
It is written in Dongqi language.
Jiang Chen was stunned for a moment. Why did Dongqi characters appear here? Were there more than just him and Xiao Zhuang who came to this world?
"Sir, this is our most valuable treasure, a scroll from ancient times."
"Yeah?"
After hearing about the ancient times, Jiang Chen finally understood that he had just overthought.
However, the shape and meaning of this font were not created by a master, and Jiang Chen thought it was very ordinary.
He followed the clerk and took a casual look around.
"If you want to produce a book, you need copyright. Have you purchased the copyright?"
"I don't know..."
"You also have to pay the printing copyright fee, even if you only print one copy. We can help you contact them."
Jiang Chen didn't understand the rules of the interstellar people, but through the clerk's words he also understood that this world attaches great importance to intellectual property rights.
"Okay, you can calculate how much it is."
After asking the price, Jiang Chen found out that the price of ordering books was thousands of times more expensive than buying e-books.
Customizing a book requires customization from the appearance to the paper material.
In Dongqi Books, it is also very precious, but not as exaggerated as Starman.
The last book plus royalties costs at least 50,000 star coins per copy, while the electronic version only costs a few or a dozen yuan.
Jiang Chen was very decisive. He customized all the dozens of reference books he had just bought at the bookstore and the children's books he had chosen for Xiao Zhuang.
Millions were gone in an instant, but Jiang Chen didn't feel any pain at all.
The clerk asked him to choose the design of the book cover, but Jiang Chen was not satisfied with any of them after looking at them all.
The book aesthetics of StarCraft is like a magic book, with a hard and simple cover and horizontally arranged fonts inside.
His favorite is the rice paper style of Dongqi ancient books, with blue covers sewn with hemp thread.
When he described it to the clerk, he was shocked.
"Sir, we may not be able to make your design."
"And we don't know how to sew books together like you mentioned."
Jiang Chen had often repaired books that he had read torn apart before, and he was very good at it. "I can teach you."
"Sir, please wait a moment. I'll let the store manager come and talk to you."
When the store manager heard Jiang Chen's request, he quickly rushed out of the office.
He said excitedly: "Your idea is really great!"
"This is something we can patent! There's no such book on the market right now."
Jiang Chen didn't understand why the store manager was so excited. His purpose of ordering the books was just to make it easier for him and Xiao Zhuang to study.
"Can you sell us the publishing rights for this book? We'll give you a price that will satisfy you."
As the queen, Jiang Chen has to handle all the accounts of the entire harem. From the decoration of this store, it can be seen that the owner is a person of taste. Sales channels should not be a problem, and the staff are also quite mature in their business. In this case, of course, it is still a long-term business.
"No, I only accept profit sharing."
"Then please wait a moment. I'll contact the chairman here."
In the military academy, Shu Jinye's terminal rang.
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