jdhmnovel 115 Network Terminal
115 Network Terminal
When Gao Zhun saw the actor playing his younger brother, he was completely devastated.
"Gu Miaomiao, are you sure you can maintain your personality while also driving the plot forward?" Gao Zhun sighed, looking at the unserious Gu Xinling in front of her. Although she knew the production team would invite any celebrity, seeing this person still felt like a bucket of dog blood had been poured over her head.
"Xiao Zhun, that's not right, meow. Just because of what you said, I'm going to sever all ties with you, meow."
Ignoring Gu Xinling's erratic behavior, Gao Zhun looked pleadingly at the production team: "Director, did you really consider this carefully when you handed out the script? Gu Xinling is simply not suitable for the role of the younger brother, okay?"
The director's voice came from behind the camera: "I think Cyndi is great. She's so cute, she must be a boy."
Gao Zhun twitched his lips. "Director, you've really used an old joke."
Since the protest was ineffective, Gao Zhun could only pray that Gu Xinling would play by the rules. Otherwise, her identity as a guest NPC would be exposed in no time. After all, she had known this person for so many years and the other party had never been reliable.
Therefore, despite featuring mostly new-generation actors and singers, Gao Zhun's show, with its unique and chaotic storyline, saw its ratings soar.
Meanwhile, in the illusion, Gao Ling was struggling to deal with Gu Xinling's unpredictable behavior, while outside the illusion, the Gu family was taking intensive action.
It turned out that the Gu family had become interested in the network that the people in the illusion had mentioned. Combining the descriptions of the people in various illusions, the Gu family, a family of tech geeks, finally listed a bunch of network characteristics, no less than a hundred in total. And with their quick action and the advantage of being cultivators, they actually created a network suitable for the characteristics of the Immortal Spirit Continent, with the Gu family as the center of radiation.
Not content with this achievement, the Gu family joined forces with the Yun family to successfully add the bullet screen function to the Tianhua Illusion Mirror. By purchasing a network terminal jointly developed by the Gu and Yun families and invested in by other major family forces, one could achieve the miracle of communicating with the entire living world from home.
The first mobile terminal launched by the Gu family comes in two types. One type will only last until the Tianhua Illusion Mirror closes down. This type is cheaper, costing only ten mid-grade spirit stones. Even most independent cultivators can afford it.
The other option is a lifetime beta version. Why beta? The Gu family knows that this is their first time trying something like this, so some shortcomings are inevitable. They will definitely make many adjustments later. Moreover, the initial number of buyers won't be too large, which is perfect for them to test it out. The lifetime beta version is much more expensive, costing one thousand high-grade spirit stones, which is unaffordable for most people.
As expected, once the network terminal was launched, the limited-time version was instantly sold out in major cultivation cities. Only those who had plenty of spirit stones opted for the lifetime beta version. Owning such a network terminal seemed to have become a bargaining chip for some powerful and wealthy people to show off and compete with each other at gatherings.
The launch of the network terminal finally brought smiles to the faces of the major forces that had been bleeding money to keep Tianhua Illusion Mirror running. They also smiled at the Gu family and other shut-ins who were only good at technology and didn't know how to interact with people.
What? You're asking where the term 'otaku' comes from? You're obviously a poor wretch who didn't buy the lifetime beta version of the internet terminal. Users of the lifetime beta version have access to internet slang knowledge not available in the limited-time version. Many internet terms used by people in the Tianhua Illusion Mirror projection interface have been collected and completely deciphered by Gu Jia. This internet slang knowledge ebook is right on the main interface of the lifetime beta version. With just a click, Mom won't have to worry about me not understanding those internet terms anymore.
In the Gao family's small courtyard, which belonged exclusively to Gao Zhun, Ah Zhong was devastated as he watched his wife, Zhu, queue up at the Treasure Appraisal Pavilion to buy four lifetime beta network terminals.
He and his master had entered the Gao family's secret realm, which projected the Earth, many times. He even became a highly skilled hacker. In terms of knowledge about the Internet, the entire Gu family combined could not compare to either him or Gao Zhun. However, it was not any of them who brought the Internet terminal to the Immortal Spirit Continent, but the Gu family!
Sure enough, tech geeks will never understand. Just a few words from a reality show brought about a major change in the Immortal Spirit Continent. Ah Zhong even suspected that if Gu Jia were given enough time, they might even be at the forefront of the world in the field of the internet.
What to do? If there's no movement at all, the owner will definitely come back and regret missing a great opportunity to make money.
After hesitating for a while, Ah Zhong decisively asked Madam Zhu for a network terminal. He then rushed into the quiet room of the training hall with the terminal in his arms, activated all the arrays and restrictions that prevented people from seeing him, and then turned on the network terminal.
The network terminal developed by the Gu family is still in its infancy. They may not have even thought of concepts like network encryption yet. However, Ah Zhong, who is familiar with the development of the Earth's network, knows that the Earth's network was initially used to serve the military, so security measures were the top priority.
He spent an hour writing encrypted code, making it difficult for the Gu family to trace the owner of this particular network terminal even if they could detect all the network terminals sold. Only after that did he begin his long negotiation journey with the Gu family.
The reason it's described as a long process is that it takes time to make the Gu family understand certain professional knowledge. Zuo Youzhong also felt that he had been quite free lately, so he wasn't afraid of wasting time. Besides, if the deal was done, he would have helped his master get a share of the profits from the Immortal Spirit Continent network, so his master wouldn't blame him for spending time on it.
While Ah Zhong wasn't paying attention, the reality show inside Tianhua Illusion Mirror was already coming to an end. Teams had already completed the different stories, and Gao Zhun only needed to give her last words before it ended.
Unlike the cultivators who had become more relaxed in the environment and were gradually regaining their memories, Tianhua, the spirit of the Tianhua Illusion Mirror, was extremely busy.
The predecessors couldn't have left such a trick without a purpose. Their purpose was to edit together the hundreds of reality shows, large and small, in the illusion so far, using a certain timeline to separate the fake from the real. A month after the reality shows ended, when the discussion about the reality shows in the Immortal Spirit Continent had gradually subsided, a recording stone appeared on the desk of the Yun family patriarch. It contained a specially edited version of the reality shows.
Upon arriving at the study where he handled household affairs early in the morning, Yun Tianming immediately noticed something incongruous on the desk: a photographic stone stood prominently atop a pile of documents in the very center of the desk.
"Thump, thump..." Yun Tianming could almost hear his own heart pounding. It wasn't because someone had managed to place the recording stone in the Yun family's most heavily guarded study without alerting anyone, but because he felt that the thing on the desk was of utmost importance to him, to the Yun family, and even to the entire Immortal Spirit Continent.
As a descendant of the first high priest of the Immortal Spirit Continent, Yun Tianming firmly believed in his premonition. He took a deep breath. Normally, whenever he entered his study to work, the entire array would activate, and the study would be surrounded by layers of hidden guards. So, he calmly pressed the switch on the recording stone, and familiar scenes unfolded before his eyes in a sequence he had never imagined...
On that day, Yun Tianming stopped all his work and issued the highest recruitment order in the living world that he held.
The Supreme Recruiting Order of the Living Beings was passed down from the leaders of various families and sects at the beginning of their establishment. With humans and demons in opposition and the demon race transcending for hundreds of millions of years, no one thought it would have a use. The big shots who possessed this order all followed the ancestral decree and placed it in their offices, but also habitually kept it on a high shelf.
Yun Tianming never imagined that the summoning order would be used one day, let alone that he would be the one to use it. However, it was all meaningless now. Fortunately, a spatial array was set up in the study when it was first established. Once the summoning order was issued, all those who possessed the summoning order would be teleported to the side of the person who issued it within a quarter of an hour. Yun Tianming quickly activated the spatial array in the study, and sure enough, in a short while, hundreds of people appeared in the study.
The crowd, who were initially puzzled and dissatisfied, all wore constipated expressions when they discovered that the summons was issued by Yun Tianming, the current leader of a charlatan. What could possibly warrant such a hasty and unsettling gathering of them? They all had a sense of foreboding and felt as if they were possessed by someone from the Yun family.
Gao Zhun has been home for over a month, but she's been very unhappy lately for many reasons, the most important of which is the Gu family's invention of the network terminal.
The second unpleasant thing is about Gao Zhun's purpose for this trip. She originally planned to sneak into the Demon Realm with Xuan Yuan Huan Yu to find out about Gao Zhi Lin. But then she ended up in a secret realm and a reality show. Her past on the border between humans and demons was no secret. Anyone with a discerning eye could easily guess that she was there because of Gao Zhi Lin's sudden emergence in the Demon Realm.
The third thing is related to that reality show. Didn't she draw the role of a guest NPC? Unfortunately, she ran into Gu Xinling, a mischievous little devil who didn't play by the rules. Gu Xinling kept interfering and stirring up trouble, making the guessing game a nightmare. Almost everyone in her co-stars voted for her, which was exhausting. Moreover, regarding Di Ling, who gave her a strange feeling during the show, she had investigated her extensively after leaving the Tianhua Illusion Mirror. And because she possessed the network terminal developed by the Gu family, she finally confirmed that there was no such person on the Immortal Spirit Continent. This person was actually a real NPC created by the illusion. However, when guessing the guest NPC, no one chose her! (166 Reading Network)