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Chapter 33




It was already embarrassing to be cursed at by a reader with silver treasure chests over the whole site.
But that wasn’t the end…
About two hours after the silver treasure chest’s appearance, a post appeared in Paper View World.
Topic: [Rank Pushing <sup>1</sup> 刷榜 [shuā bǎng] refers to improving the ranking of something in a ranking list. ] The ancient Divine Farmer tastes a hundred grasses <sup>2</sup> 神农尝百草 is a famous ancient Chinese myth. Shennong, the Divine Farmer, identified hundreds of medical (and poisonous) herbs by personally testing their properties. , today’s food group <sup>3</sup> 粮团 [liáng tuán] can refer to content creators, like authors. fights against a thousand guns 11.08—sweeping this issue for a strong push with a special guest.
Content:
“According to the old rules, the novel’s evaluation is divided into poisonous grass, dry grass, grain grass and immortal grass.
“Poisonous grass is green, dry grass is brown, grain grass is blue, immortal grass is red.
“It is advisable to read at least 20 chapters for a one sentence evaluation. However, only comments with at least 300 words can be selected as excellent comments and awarded with emblem ink.
“With the old rules finished, let’s talk about private goods <sup>4</sup> 私货 [sī huò] refers to unrelated content, like advertisements, promotions or personal opinions, popping up in a good work. .
“The special guest is the one with the opening screen recommendation today.
“He just did a foul play today… Let’s not mention the specifics of the foul play. It’s especially foul anyway. So foul I was lured into reading the novel. After reading it, I had a strong desire to complain, so I put him into the special guest column with private goods. In any case, the main task of the post is still an editorial recommendation position and a strong push. See the special guest again when interested.”
The original poster finished.
A minute after that, the original poster replied himself.
Rank Pushing: Nine Crossings
Grade: Poisonous Grass – Immortal Grass
One Sentence Evaluation: A novel that’s hard to part with, an author that’s hard to evaluate, a combination of immortal poison, devouring~ souls~ seizing~ spirits~
#2: “I want to say did OP get a virus? There’s nothing wrong with the combination of immortal poison, but to write a whole post with one word in red and one word in green? It makes my scalp explode reading it.”
#3: “The one above, you didn’t read Eunuch’s novel, did you? That novel makes people’s scalps explode in all aspects. OP’s comment is just right, a confirmed companion at the bottom of the pit.”
#4:
Rank Pushing: Nine Crossings
Grade: Poison poison poison poison poison
One Sentence Evaluation: Fuck, was poisoned to death, every day catching up on the novel wanting to tear the author. It’s really beep—
#5: “Poisonous grass is green. What does the purple above mean…”
#6: “It means poison on poison, intense poisonousness.”
#7:
Rank Pushing: Nine Crossings
Grade: The grade of mortal books is not suitable for him
One Sentence Evaluation: The evaluation of mortals is not suitable for him.
#8: “This thread has progressed to seven neon laser colours?!”
#9: “Otherwise, it’s not enough to show Eunuch’s extraordinary excellence.”
…
An hour passed.
The original poster reminded everyone on reply #150.
“Our main task is to have a strong push, not to fancily evaluate Eunuch.”
Two hours passed.
The original poster knelt down on reply #300.
“Food group members, I was wrong. I shouldn’t have taken the lead in evaluating the special guest. I only knew that the special guest is highly poisonous. I really didn’t know that the special guest could be this poisonous. Can everyone give me a serious comment that’s not about the special guest? The rank pushing task won’t be completed!!!”
However, it was too late.
The crooked post would no longer straighten back.
The food group members who entered the post cheerfully wrote comments in a variety of colours to prove that Eunuch was different!
In the end, the original poster was forced to start another post in the forum to push the rankings anew.
Without a certain highly poisonous person, the new rank pushing post was finally back on track.
The original poster went back to their old post again, pondered for a moment, and changed the title of rank pushing to—
“Topic: [Recommended Novel] A paper Nine Crossings standing in the palace. Half rustling and half red. Pity the Divine Farmers of the world who jumped into the pit to visit Eunuch.”
Li Shuoxing didn’t know what was happening in the forum.
All afternoon, he was diligently writing in front of his computer. After he finally finished five thousand words, it was 6pm.
He took a breather, went online for a look, and unexpectetdly found that his Nine Crossings had overtaken Silent Stream on the weekly recommendation list, becoming first place. The other clicks and favourites data had also climbed, with a hundred favourites in the backend now.
The book’s data was really rising fast.
However, the specifics still depended on the performance when going VIP.
As he was thinking, his phone suddenly vibrated. The courier had sent a message.
“Hello, your express has been in and out of the express box at the door three times. Have you not returned from a trip?”
Li Shuoxing: “…”
Totally forgot about this.
I have to pick up an express tonight.
It just so happens that I don’t want to eat slow and cold takeout again.
I might as well go down to eat dinner and take a walk while I’m at it.
Having made a decision, Li Shuoxing slowly got up from the sofa, changed his clothes and went downstairs. After walking along the roadside for a while, he found a small restaurant he hadn’t eaten at before and had a casual meal.
By the time he finished eating, the sky was already dark. The stars bloomed one after another in the winter night of the city, rendering it brilliant and shining. Only the cold wind of the night could blow over a bit of the harshness of winter…
Suddenly.
A gust of north wind howled, and the fierce cold pounded on Li Shuoxing’s face.
Li Shuoxing: “…”
He raised his hand to wipe his face. It was full of water. Then he looked up and saw the rain sprinkling down like silver threads on Christmas Eve.
The crowd around the road stirred. Most of them took out umbrellas and pushed forward with them.
The empty-handed Li Shuoxing had become an alien in the crowd.
However, Li Shuoxing was calm.
He took out his phone to Baidu.
The nearest kiosk was 300 metres away and his home was 500 metres away.
The kiosk and his home were in opposite directions, 800 metres apart.
He took back his phone, continued to be calm, braved the light rain, and continued home.
Isn’t it just five hundred metres? It’s five minutes away. It’s not enough to fuss about buying an umbrella.
Li Shuoxing never fussed about. He spent five minutes walking home, and in those five minutes, he came up with a particularly good follow-up to write. So, as soon as he entered his home, without bothering to wipe the water droplets on his head, he rushed back to the computer and quickly typed, setting the plot that had touched him using words.
In one night, he burst out five thousand words again.
When he finished writing, Li Shuoxing was exhausted.
With the last of his strength, he took himself into the bathroom, came back out five minutes later, lay down on the bed and fell asleep.
Then.
The next day.
Li Shuoxing, who’d gotten up early, touched his phone and went straight into the game.
As he entered the game, he felt something wrong.
My throat.
It hurts?
After entering the game, he loaded the voice package.
As usual, a letter floated across the screen and dropped into the mailbox.
Li Shuoxing, thinking about the voice function, quickly opened the email to take a look.
From: System
Topic: Love Bar version 1.04
[New Content]
(1) Opened the voice system
[Update Explanation]
Dear player:
After two hours of maintenance in the early morning, the system has opened the voice function. Tap on the voice symbol in the chat box to have a voice chat with your lover. Thank you for your patience. Here is a small gift for you:
[Contribution points × 50]
Getting rich depended on maintenance!
This system was very knowing.
Li Shuoxing accepted the 50 contribution points with satisfaction, then immediately closed the mailbox and started looking for the little person.
The sky in the game was very beautiful today, blue with a little turquoise and dotted with white clouds. It had a strange charm.
He found the little person watering the pumpkin seedlings in the courtyard.
Three days were almost up. All the pumpkins in the courtyard had grown, but the skins were still green. They were expected to ripen by about noon.
In order not to frighten the little person, Li Shuoxing first tapped open the chat box and input a word.
“Poke.”
The light screen flashed and appeared in front of him.
Su Mingqian was stunned at first, then put down the watering can and stood up in delight. “You’re here?”
Li Shuoxing: “I’m here! The function update was successful. Let’s try voice chat~”
With that, he followed the system’s prompt and tapped the voice button on the chat box.
When the button was pressed, the chat box interface changed. The input area disappeared, turning into an interface similar to a voice call. There was a shaking microphone above and the four words Waiting to be Answered below.
A similar screen appeared on the light screen.
But the words Waiting to be Answered changed to Answer/Reject.
Su Mingqian’s heart leapt.
The weather suddenly became hot at that moment, causing a thin layer of sweat to form in his palms.
He rubbed his fingertips to wipe away the sweat, took a quiet breath, and then lifted his hand to select Answer.
Su Mingqian: “Ximu?”
A clear voice came from the receiver, like a dewdrop seen in the morning, transparent and pure. After it entered his ears, he could feel a tranquillity surging out of his heart.
The voice was unexpectedly beautiful.
Li Shuoxing was stunned at the sound, then replied, “Cub, your voice is really beautiful.”
He frowned after saying that.
My throat’s hurting even more.
My voice can hardly come out. It’s all out of tune.
If I had known earlier, I wouldn’t have gone out yesterday…
Before his mind could finish complaining, Li Shuoxing suddenly noticed that it was quiet.
He let out a question: “Cub?”
But the little person on the screen didn’t respond.
The little person, for some reason, was frozen, standing fixedly in place, not saying a word, not moving his body, not even turning his eyes. He only knew that he was staring firmly at the light screen, but the grey eyes staring at the light screen were also dull.
The system narration started flashing, and lines of emergency prompts refreshed.
[Warning, your lover’s mood is fluctuating too much. Please do something quickly!]
[Warning, your lover’s mood is fluctuating too much. Please do something quickly!]
Li Shuoxing didn’t have time to pay attention to these prompts.
He looked at the screen and saw the favourability changing like a flood on the dull little person’s head.
-1 floated out of the little person’s head.
-2 floated out of the little person’s head.
-3-4-5-6, the negative numbers kept going, each negative number 1 more than the previous one. In just a moment, almost one hundred favourability points were deducted!
What the hell’s going on!
Li Shuoxing almost vomited blood.
He got anxious and reached out to push the little person on the screen. “Cub? Cub, are you okay?”
Then, the dull little person on the screen finally came to his senses. As if he’d been whipped, he suddenly took two big steps back, avoiding Li Shuoxing like the plague. He stammered, “You, you—”
Li Shuoxing: “What’s the matter with me? I—cough cough cough.”
As he spoke quickly, his throat itched and he coughed violently.
Su Mingqian was at a loss, particularly helpless. “Your voice, how…”
Li Shuoxing finally recovered from his coughing fit, and his voice got even more hoarse. “I caught a cold yesterday and my throat’s swollen, so my voice is off. Why, did it frighten you?”
Li Shuoxing thought it wasn’t possible.
How timid would someone have to be to be frightened by a hoarse voice.
But if it wasn’t because of that, then what was it because of?
As he watched the favourability pool descending like a flood, he was handcuffed and almost helpless.
In his helplessness, Li Shuoxing suddenly noticed that after he said that, Su Mingqian blinked and blinked again. The favourability that’d been constantly dropping on his head actually slowed down a little, not dropping so fast.
…Huh?
Su Mingqian: “You have a cold?”
Li Shuoxing: “Yes?”
Su Mingqian: “Your voice is hoarse?”
Li Shuoxing: “Yes.”
Su Mingqian said cautiously, “Very hoarse?”
Li Shuoxing: “Very much…”
Su Mingqian seemed to grasp a straw. “So, so your original voice isn’t like this?”
Li Shuoxing: “No.”
That straw stopped the favourability points sliding down non-stop, and they became small +1’s, floating out of Su Mingqian’s head.
Su Mingqian’s voice, which was tensed into a bowstring, relaxed. His relief was so obvious. “So what’s your original voice like…”
Is it really because I have a hoarse voice that the little person dropped favourability?
Li Shuoxing felt incredible.
But it was normal for incredible things to happen in a game.
He replied particularly righteously, “My original voice is a hundred times better than it is now!”
Still not done, he added, despite his aching throat, “I’m in good health. My voice will probably be fine by tomorrow or the day after. Then you’ll be able to hear my real voice.”
1
刷榜 [shuā bǎng] refers to improving the ranking of something in a ranking list. 2
神农尝百草 is a famous ancient Chinese myth. Shennong, the Divine Farmer, identified hundreds of medical (and poisonous) herbs by personally testing their properties. 3
粮团 [liáng tuán] can refer to content creators, like authors. 4
私货 [sč huò] refers to unrelated content, like advertisements, promotions or personal opinions, popping up in a good work.