Chapter 17 Un Entertainment The man bowed and scraped before Nan Ke, one...
"Rent it out...?" Jiang Yang rested her chin on the table. "How do I rent it out?"
The rules for puppets only allow for use and transfer.
Huang Er conjured up a contract: "If you are sure you want to rent it out, the ownership of the puppet will be temporarily transferred after this agreement is signed, and ownership will be returned after use."
Jiang Yang took the contract and looked it over, while Nan Ke added from the side, "This agreement template was created by No Man's Land."
"Is this your purpose in participating in this trial?" Jiang Yang didn't dwell on how Huang Er knew the puppet was in his hands.
“Not entirely,” Huang Er considered for a moment, “I suppose so.”
Jiang Yang's fingertips traced across the cool paper as she tapped a line in the middle: "Ownership can only be rented out once... Doesn't that make it a seller's market?"
A sly smile flashed across the young man's face, and Nan Ke couldn't help but click his tongue twice.
Huang Er coughed lightly, pressing his fist to his lips. "As for the price, we can discuss it further."
"I don't want points, what will you give me in exchange?" For Jiang Yang now, points are something he might have the life to earn but not the life to spend. He has basically looked at the permissions of the store, and the items he can buy are not particularly expensive, so he can afford them.
Huang Er gritted his teeth, "Choose any item below Category A in the mall."
"It seems you, as the employer, really need a puppet."
Huang Er felt like he was being manipulated.
"I told you, don't even think about tricking him, but you just wouldn't believe me," Nan Ke rolled her eyes at Huang Er.
Jiang Yang couldn't help but laugh out loud, "How about this, I don't have much experience either, and I'm not sure what props we'll need yet. Let's switch. You can reimburse us for all the props Nan Ke and I use after entering the trial this time, okay?"
"What a great deal!" Even though there was a lot of money involved, it didn't stop Nan Ke from wanting to take advantage of the situation.
Of course, Jiang Yang also had his own plans.
There is a limit to the number of items each person can purchase during a trial.
The shares that Nan Ke bought for him were Nan Ke's own shares.
On the surface, Huang Er was supporting two people, but in reality, even if you bought everything in Jiang Yang's shop, it wouldn't be as good as a single Class A item.
And incidentally, it can also drag Nan Ke into the mess.
Huang Er thought for a moment, then said, "Okay."
Jiang Yang added, "I also need the buyer to provide me with a detailed instruction manual for using the puppet after it has been used."
After the agreement was successfully signed, Huang Er settled their accounts for the week and left after completing his task.
Jiang Yang picked up a piece of spaghetti with her fork and put it in her mouth, casually inquiring, "What's the difference between someone like Huang Er and the lowest level of the entertainment industry?"
"The entertainment layer is basically private transactions between players. The quality of the items sold varies greatly. It mainly caters to the judgment needs of some ordinary players. Occasionally, you can find good items, but there is no official guarantee, so you have to be careful of being cheated."
Jiang Yang had already found out this, and he pressed on, "What about Huang Er?"
Nan Ke thought about it carefully, then answered seriously, "I don't know."
"Don't understand?"
"Just like how he knows you have puppets, no one knows how he found out. But it's said he has some connections with the people at the Tower. For now, he's quite reliable in transactions, otherwise I wouldn't have brought him along."
After finishing this conversation, Jiang Yang had almost finished eating.
They were in a private room, which Huang Er had specially booked for their conversation. It was quite private, so Nan Ke didn't bother to bring Jiang Yang to another room and just started sharing.
"Hey, next time, Un Entertainment."
"What! Un Entertainment!" Jiang Yang couldn't help but exclaim in surprise.
Nan Ke assumed he didn't know, so she explained, "This is an entertainment company called Unowned. According to the information I found, this company was forcibly shut down almost eighty years ago due to illegal activities."
"Eighty years ago?" Jiang Yang was even more confused.
Because he remembers it very clearly, he woke up after a car accident, and his daily entertainment consisted of watching TV and using his phone. It was around that time that Un Entertainment started exposing his scandals.
He genuinely didn't follow up on what happened afterward, but there's no way he could have been imprisoned eighty years ago.
"This kind of data is usually based on time records within no-man's-land."
So... what year is Borderlands in now?
"Is there anything else?"
Nan Ke shrugged, speaking with an air of self-righteousness, "That's all."
Jiang Yang sighed, no wonder he insisted on waiting for her consent before sharing it.
[Trial observation is in progress...]
[Trial observation link successful]
[Un Entertainment Trial Open]
This trial will be conducted within a limited timeframe.
Trial duration: seven days
[Un Entertainment Observation Room - Full Perspective]
Wow, so many people!
The observer's interface is a dense array of observation perspectives.
"Nan Ke! Nan Ke! We've found Nan Ke!"
Jiang Yang stood in front of the revolving door on the first floor without going in, but she could already sense the subtle scrutiny coming from inside.
Suddenly, Jiang Yang was bumped from behind. A burly man sneered at him, cursing, "Coward, if you're scared, don't come. Stop dawdling."
The young man wasn't annoyed and made way for him to go first.
The panel beeped twice, and when I opened it, I saw a message from Nan Ke saying that he had already gotten in.
Before Jiang Yang could reply, they heard a lively commotion inside.
In the center of the crowd, the burly man from before had fallen to the ground. Nan Ke, holding the white thread, stepped on his back and sneered, "Oh, so arrogant!"
After Jiang Yang squeezed in with great difficulty, the players on the other side moved in unison to both sides, leaving a narrow path.
A man in a suit led over with security guards. Nan Ke pulled her legs back and gripped the white line tightly with vigilance.
The man bowed and scraped to Nan Ke, looking extremely obsequious, "Senior, I'm so sorry to have startled you."
He then waved to the security guard, speaking arrogantly, "Hurry up and clean it up, what's the point of keeping someone who disrespects their seniors around?"
The security guards' eyes became glazed over, their expressions blank, and drool spilled from the corners of their mouths as they lifted the burly man up on either side.
"Help me, help me! They're not human! Help me!"
Despite being much taller and bigger than the guards, the strong man struggled among them but still couldn't escape being taken away.
The man bowed to Nan Ke again, then turned and left with the security guard.
Upon seeing this, the surrounding players quickly dispersed, afraid of doing something that might anger the "senior".
Nan Ke's panel pinged and a message popped up.
[Personal Task: A video of you, as a senior, belittling a junior has been accidentally recorded. Please find the person who filmed the video and destroy it before it is leaked.]
Nan Ke remained silent and led Jiang Yang to the corner where he had first stood.
Jiang Yang noticed that this spot offered a view of the entrance while remaining relatively unnoticed by others.
No wonder Nan Ke was able to find out about what was happening to him outside so quickly.
"What's going on?"
Nan Ke was also unsure, and reminded Jiang Yang, "Check who your judge is this time; the system should have already sent you a message."
[Player detected to have entered trial]
The judge in charge of monitoring this trial is: 007
Please confirm receipt.
Meanwhile, outside the tower, a group of men in black carefully moved through the thick black fog.
The leading man held a sharp sword in his left hand. His control panel was set to pop up automatically. When he saw the message, he slightly raised his right hand and stopped walking. The men in black behind him stopped instantly, almost completely blending into the environment.
A crow cawed softly from the treetop, and the man whispered, "Number Two, lead the team and continue as planned."
The space in front of him then began to change rapidly, and the man's fingers flew across the panel. "Hey~ next time, you could optimize the system a bit~ I haven't even put on my skin yet and I'm already being dragged into judgment!"
"Reflect on how long it's been since you last went to work," the words were cold and impersonal.
Nan Ke was already heartbroken when she learned that Jiang Yang's judge was 007.
Jiang Yang nudged him several times before he finally managed to speak, “Let me tell you this: in all the trials, other judges might just stand by and watch, but 007… is already being quite good by only holding you back.”
Jiang Yang thought of that unreliable man, "How does the judge monitor things?"
"Some will follow you directly, while others will be recorded as judges instead of NPCs; both are possible."
He suddenly had a bold idea: "Could it be hidden among the players?"
Nan Ke flatly denied it, and Jiang Yang continued to press for the reason, only to see Nan Ke simply turn her back on him.
The last player entered through the revolving door. After he came in, everyone's panel popped up with their identity card for this trial, indicating that all the players had arrived.
When Nan Ke, who had been deliberately ignoring everyone, saw the last person, her pupils dilated, her eyebrows rose, and she subconsciously murmured, "Why is he here too?"
"Who is it?" Jiang Yang looked over and saw a lot of people coming and going at the entrance.
“Ji Yang”.
【Un Entertainment Identity Card】
Name: Jiang Yang
[Identity Information: Newly signed artist with Un Entertainment]
[Background Information: Un Entertainment has signed 160 new artists this time. All of them will be divided into four groups (A, B, C, and D) based on their appearance ranking, and will undergo four days of artist training. The ranking on the appearance ranking at 0:00 each day will be used as the basis for selection, and there will be an open channel for changing groups.]
Your current ranking is 785.
Your current group is Group D.
[Un Entertainment Observation Room - Jiang Yang's Perspective]
"Oh, what a pity."
"This is the first time Jiang Yang has entered the trial since the rankings were updated."
"If I had known such a handsome younger brother was coming, I would have saved my ticket!"
"It's okay! There's still a chance!" One observer switched to a full-view perspective and started advertising.
"I'm in Group A," Nan Ke said thoughtfully.
Jiang Yang touched his chin and uttered two words, "Senior."
So, is that why the man was taken away?
A note from the author:
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I was writing this today when my cat got on the computer desk.
I was just about to touch my phone when it started staring at me intently.
"Aren't you going to touch me?"
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