Chapter 44: King of Kings



Gu Mo and his three companions booked their tickets online before arriving at the high-speed rail station.

A second-class ticket to the mountain city costs more than 900 yuan.

The program crew reimbursed half of the cost, and Gu Mo still had to spend more than 400 yuan personally.

First class and business class seats are more expensive, so don't even consider them.

Gu Mo felt that it was not worthwhile to spend most of his limited living expenses on transportation costs.

Because so far, Gu Mo only has 1,300 yuan for living expenses on the show.

He was paid 500 yuan for being the head chef. The program director wanted to teach him a lesson and insisted on giving him a discount to 250 yuan. However, Gu Mo got back at him and restored the original price.

Even the fine he insinuated against the director was gone.

He received 500 yuan for performing the show "Not That Simple" and 100 yuan from the other five guests for making breakfast noodles. In the end, the program team apologized and compensated each person 200 yuan for mental damage.

According to Gu Mo's understanding of the director, after he arrived in the mountain city, he would most likely have to use his limited living expenses for travel and accommodation.

Only when the guests have spent all their living expenses will they try their best to complete the tasks assigned by the program team.

Only when there is pressure can there be motivation.

Gu Mo's appearance at the high-speed rail station didn't cause much of a commotion, mainly because his face was tightly covered. Plus, today's powerful camera equipment isn't just for TV stations or reporters anymore.

The era of universal live streaming has already begun.

But then again.

The next drive would take over ten hours, and if he didn't say anything, the audience in his livestream would all flee. Without some kind of show, there was no way to retain the audience.

After all, not everyone is willing to support him unconditionally.

Including Gu Mo’s fans!

Even if Gu Mo has a stunningly beautiful face, what good does it matter? Can a face be used to make a living? Are there any fun games?

It is worth mentioning that among the three groups of guests, Gu Mo and Ren Ya are two unlucky ones. After all, they are in the capital, which is very far away from the mountain city.

Chen Ting happened to be recording a program in Tianfu, and Liu Bowen took on a commercial performance, which happened to be in the mountain city.

He Jiaqian and Zhang Jiakang are not far from the mountain city.

Soon, Gu Mo boarded the high-speed train to the mountain city.

In the second-class carriage, a passerby recognized Gu Mo.

Although Gu Mo was wrapped tightly, the female director next to him appeared in the camera.

It immediately caused a sensation.

"Gu Mo, can I take a photo with you?"

"Can you sign an autograph for me?"

"Ahh, I finally see a live star."

"My whole family likes Zhang Jiakang very much. Can you help me get his autograph?"

The passersby sitting around Gu Mo started talking at once.

Everyone has their own demands.

There was even a female fan of Ren Ya who directly called Gu Mo shameless.

But soon another girl who claimed to be a fan of Ren Ya stopped this behavior, saying that it would bring bad luck to the idol and was not worthy of being a "Yabao".

Gu Mo quickly spoke up: "You can take a photo with me and get my autograph, but please don't disturb other passengers who are resting."

He made his attitude known first to prevent anyone from using this kind of thing to discredit him.

At this time, in Gu Mo's live broadcast room, countless netizens who heard the news were posting barrages.

[Someone figured out that Gu Mo's destination is a mountain city. Damn, that's more than ten hours. I'm going to leave now and watch the wonderful recording released by the marketing account later.]

[These people are so lucky to be in the same carriage with my pigeon. As a reward, each of you will receive an egg laid by my pigeon. Uh, sorry, I went to the wrong live broadcast room.]

[As a public figure, it's good that Gu Mo can consider the normal needs of ordinary people.]

[The production team is so inhumane that they actually let Gu Mo take the high-speed train. If they had the guts, they could have just let him walk to the mountain city.]

[Gu Mo, what's the name of the song you and Ren Ya collaborated on? Sing it for everyone to enjoy.]

But soon, the audience in the live broadcast room began to envy the people in that carriage.

Because someone really got Gu Mo's autograph.

Given his current popularity, even autographs and other "peripherals" could be exchanged for enough to buy a pack of cigarettes. If someone were to meet a true fan of Gu Mo's, she'd have enough money for half a month's living expenses.

Many people also asked Gu Mo to take photos with them and post short videos, which received many likes from netizens.

Not long after, the high-speed train attendant appeared and asked everyone to keep quiet and not make any noise.

Soon, everything in the carriage returned to normal.

After all, celebrities won’t give them any money, they just have two eyes and a mouth.

As time went by, many viewers of the live broadcast room were lost.

Gu Mo took out his cell phone and opened WeChat.

Search for your personal nickname [Chairman of Electronics Factory]

Then click on the 'Contacts' dialog box.

Type to the camera: "It's a long journey, let me play a word game with you to kill some time."

"I remember watching a TV series called 'The Eight-Year-Old County Magistrate' when I was a kid. It seemed that the hero was appreciated by the emperor by making couplets and was named the top scholar.

Although this kind of thing is impossible to happen in reality.

But in fictional film and television dramas, there is no need to delve into it.

Just for fun, I'll come up with the first line of the couplet."

In one village and two li, there were three teachers who knew nothing of the Four Books, Five Classics, and Six Arts, yet dared to teach seven, eight, and nine other students. How audacious!

When Gu Mo was still on Earth, he saw the drama "Flirting Scholar" for the first time and he particularly liked the segment where Tang Bohu and the top scholar in seven provinces exchanged intriguing couplets.

As soon as this topic came out, the live broadcast room became even quieter.

Because this couplet contains numbers from one to ten. The meaning is also very coherent and the logic makes sense.

Take for example the so-called absolute one that Gu Mo knew before, called [Smoke Locks the Willows in the Pond], which corresponds to the radicals of the five elements respectively, and has a coherent meaning and beautiful conception.

It can be called a poetic classical painting.

After a while, no one in the live broadcast room answered.

Gu Mo entered the text in the dialog box again: "As long as the couplet is neat, I can reward everyone with signatures, including but not limited to me, Brother Zhang Jiakang and other guests.

Even Ren Ya is fine, I can beg humbly, how about it?

Note: Copying and pasting from other netizens does not count, only the first one counts.

Soon, a netizen nicknamed "I LBW didn't cheat" posted a comment: [Nine out of ten people lost, I won 8,765.4 yuan, beat three two-band kings, so cool.]

When Gu Mo saw this comment, he immediately stood up.

He typed: [This netizen's answer is barely okay, no cheating involved. You've succeeded.]

Soon after, another netizen nicknamed "Chicken Soup is Coming" posted a comment: [Nine out of ten soups are chicken, stewed for eight days, seven nights, six hours, five minutes, and four seconds, with only three ounces and two cents of poison, a first-rate delicacy.]

Other than that, the rest of the comments are nonsense.

It's completely irrelevant.

So, netizens asked Gu Mo to announce his standard answer.

Nine out of ten households are poor, and even though they can scrape together eight taels, seven qian, six fen, five hao, and four li, they are still fickle-minded and are truly despicable.

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