Li Shuoxing was pleasantly surprised by the newly triggered dreaming effect.
But he still had to wait a bit long for the cub to wake up to look at the new content together.
So after a brief appreciation and anticipation, Li Shuoxing decided to do something else first.
For example, after these harvests, he had collected enough pumpkin fragments.
There were also eleven lottery tickets collected through red envelope grabbing and seven-day check-ins.
Li Shuoxing redeemed the Halloween skin first. After satisfying his collecting hobby, he turned to open the lottery system, looked at the eleven lottery tickets inside, and slowly let out a breath.
As usual.
He first washed his hands.
Then drew.
Li Shuoxing decided to see if there was a guarantee.
So, he started with ten consecutive draws.
Ten lottery tickets were emptied in one go and ten hearts fell into the doll’s basket. Four different lights flashed, and a golden light appeared in the lottery pool.
Li Shuoxing’s eyes lit up.
Whether there was a guarantee or not in ten consecutive draws, he had drawn a golden item anyway. It was truly guaranteed.
He couldn’t wait to see the ten items he’d drawn.
Among the ten items, there were seven green items, one blue and one purple, plus one golden item.
Li Shuoxing’s eyes gleamed. He looked at the golden item first.
It was a metal rack, about half a person tall, that looked like it was used to hold magazines and newspapers.
When he tapped on it, the system automatically brought up the item’s status.
[Name]: Self-Service Weekly Rack
[Note]: A self-service rack that can automatically track and recommend the world’s most cutting-edge weekly information. The weekly rack comes with an LCD screen, which refreshes weekly resources once a day, with four different weekly publications in each refresh, among which the user can choose to order. After a period of use, the self-service weekly rack will carry out targeted recommendations based on the user’s ordering and reading habits, providing them with a full range of automated and attentive services.
This item…
Isn’t bad.
Thinking about the little person’s appearance when reading, Li Shuoxing was basically sure that he would like this thing.
He looked around the lounge and placed the small rack in front of the bookshelf.
As for the other green, blue and purple items he’d drawn out, with the jewel of the self-service weekly rack in front of him, Li Shuoxing didn’t have the mind to seriously look at them. They were just some daily necessities anyway.
He turned his attention to the only remaining lottery ticket.
Reason told him that he should wait to save up another ten tickets to draw together, for a higher probability.
But considering the lottery program hadn’t yet opened the in-game spending option, he didn’t know how long it’d take to collect another ten… Impulse made him use the lottery ticket.
What if?
What if it really is!
Li Shuoxing’s soul was shaken.
The moment the diamond heart that’d fallen into the basket bloomed, the delightful golden light appeared again and a new golden item popped up on the screen.
Li Shuoxing fixed his eyes on it. Amid the excitement, a hint of amazement was added.
What appeared on the screen was a vinyl record player.
The system described the vinyl record player as such.
[Name]: Su Mingqian’s Vinyl Record Player
[Note]: This is something that belongs to Su Mingqian.
“This thing’s fun.” Li Shuoxing couldn’t help but talk to himself. “It’s the first thing in the game that’s clearly defined and belongs to the cub. Even the journal didn’t get this treatment… There’s probably something unique about this thing.”
With that, Li Shuoxing looked around the lounge again.
This time, he placed the vinyl record player on the small coffee table next to the armchair near the fireplace.
At that moment, he was incredibly glad he’d bought the lounge blueprint on Double Eleven.
If there was only one bedroom, where were these things supposed to go?
The vinyl record player was set up.
Li Shuoxing tapped on it.
A menu popped up, divided into left and right sides. The left side was titled “Su Mingqian’s Song List”, with densely packed song titles below. The right side was empty, with an import button in the middle.
Li Shuoxing tapped on it.
A prompt popped up at the bottom of the phone screen.
“Love Bar app requests music permissions. Do you authorise? Yes/No”
Li Shuoxing unconsciously tapped again on “yes”.
It was only after he had tapped it that he suddenly realised that what had just popped up wasn’t the game’s internal authorisation prompt, but the phone’s authorisation prompt.
Em?
Li Shuoxing was a little suspicious and stared at the game for a couple seconds, but everything was normal and the game behaved as if nothing had happened.
Emm…
Forget it.
It’s getting late. I should pack up my stuff and get ready to go home.
Li Shuoxing didn’t forget to pay off the love credit card bill before getting off the game. The contribution pool, which had 3961 after recharging, shrank to 901 at once.
Then he got off the game, briefly packed up, opened the travel app, compared prices to buy the cheapest plane ticket, and then calculated the time to check out of the room and go to the airport.
Constantly on the move.
At 4pm, Li Shuoxing, who had easily carried a backpack to a business trip, easily carried a backpack to return.
He first went to the community’s self-service cabinet to take out the artificial intelligence books he’d bought earlier before returning home. After a brief shower, he grabbed his charged phone, nestled back into his sofa throne, and logged onto the game.
With a quick glance, he saw that the little person had woken up and was in his pyjamas, standing in front of the vinyl record player in the lounge and watching it silently.
Li Shuoxing said happily, “Cub~ when did you wake up? I’m home.”
Su Mingqian woke up with a start. “I just woke up.” He asked again, “Where did this record player come from? It looks…”
Li Shuoxing added for him, “A little familiar?”
Su Mingqian nodded.
Li Shuoxing had already thought of a reason. “Someone else gave it to me. They said it’s yours.”
Su Mingqian: “Really?”
His voice was a little low.
With a hint of hesitation, yet also a hint of anticipation.
He reached out and tenderly touched the cool black and gold frame of the record player, then touched the switch of the machine.
The menu belonging to the vinyl record player opened again.
It was only then that Li Shuoxing noticed the changes after he authorised music permissions. He saw new content appear on the originally blank song list on the right side of the vinyl record player, with “Ximu’s Song List” written in the title position and his music categories below. At the top of the list was a folder called “My wake up calls”.
As Li Shuoxing saw it, so did Su Mingqian.
But what Su Mingqian saw were many vinyl records in a rack divided into two columns, the left one marked as his song list and the right one marked as Ximu’s song list.
He raised his hand.
His finger pointed first at the half that belonged to him, but strangely, he didn’t actually pick out a record from it. Instead, he turned it slightly as he was about to choose, to Li Shuoxing’s column.
Su Mingqian looked curiously at the various categories on it, such as fight scenes, everyday scenes, warm scenes, sad scenes… He guessed that these were Ximu’s materials for writing, so he didn’t touch them, but chose the record at the very top.
This record also had a note on it.
“My wake up calls.”
He put it into the record player.
Li Shuoxing: “Wait—”
He spoke too late.
The recording had already played, and it was a voice belonging to Su Mingqian.
“Ximu, it’s time for you to get up~”
“Here’s an ah for you.”
“And mu…ah~”
“Remember to start working~”
Recordings from a collection of cute voices belonging to Su Mingqian came out of the game one after another.
Standing in front of the vinyl record player, Su Mingqian was petrified.
The long stiffness and the non-stop playing sound effects overlapped, making the atmosphere very odd.
He didn’t know why.
Li Shuoxing, who had only done a very normal thing, looked at the scene in the game and a faint odd feeling spread in his heart. He couldn’t help but say, “Cub…”
Su Mingqian didn’t answer him.
At that moment, Su Mingqian was only thinking one thing.
Ximu is really perverted.
…
Awkward -1.
Awkward +10.
What else can I do?
Learn to understand him, of course.
Li Shuoxing stared at the two favourability numbers that jumped out in succession.
Having his mind opened by blessing, he tapped on the flashing system narration and saw two lines of text on it.
[Su Mingqian blushes.]
[Su Mingqian seems a little shy.]
Li Shuoxing lifted his finger.
He touched the system text, then touched the system text again.
He touched it delightfully, as if he was touching Su Mingqian’s little cheek.
Suddenly.
The sound disappeared.
Su Mingqian, who had come back to his senses, hurriedly turned off the record player, cutting off his own voice playing in a loop, and then coughed to cover it up and changed the subject. “I just noticed the journal on the bookshelf has been flashing. There should be something new. Let’s go and have a look.”
Li Shuoxing didn’t expose Su Mingqian. He just answered him with a high, joyful ending.
“Okay~”
The leather journal entered Su Mingqian’s hands once again.
Su Mingqian opened it.
New content appeared in front of them.
This time, there was quite a bit of content.
The first thing that came into view was, as usual, a line of Su Mingqian’s handwriting.
“There was no regular meeting today, but George still purposefully came to the lab. His book on artificial intelligence has been published, and it’s titled Age of Revolution . But what he showed off to us wasn’t his work, but what he had slipped into the book. He said that he had hidden his confession to Mary in a long piece of code, and as long as this line of code was input into a program, the system would pop up his passionate confession to Mary. He was sure that his idea would make his proposal to Mary successful!
We all thought his idea was very brilliant and creative.
Many female researchers were beginning to envy his lawyer girlfriend for getting such a romantic confession.
He will definitely succeed in his proposal.”
Emm.
Wait.
Why does this proposal idea feel a little off?
Putting a piece of code that no one knows into a book and then having his lawyer girlfriend type that code from the book word by word into a specific program to come to a conclusion… Is that what it means?
Is that really romantic?
Li Shuoxing, as a male, thought about it, but didn’t find anything romantic about it.
He couldn’t help but say, “Cub.”
Su Mingqian: “Huh?”
Li Shuoxing: “Do you think this idea is romantic?”
Su Mingqian replied with certainty, “It’s very romantic. The idea of using cold code to express hot love is impossible to refuse, isn’t it? According to the diary, all of us think it’s romantic.”
Li Shuoxing: “…”
Are you guys serious?
But he didn’t speak immediately, because he found that this diary page wasn’t finished. There was more than half of it below.
So he continued to look on.
After the brief entry above ended, there was a photo.
It was of a group of researchers in white coats gathered around a blond man sitting in front of a computer.
The blond man had a high nose and eagle eyes, his azure eyes twinkling with an excitement that could be found even just by looking at the photo.
He twisted half his body and pointed his finger at the code calculation results on the computer screen.
It was a line of text and a small red heart representing his feelings.
The text read:
“To my beloved Mary,
You walked with me through the abyss of pain and gave me endless support. For the rest of my life, I will give you all my loyalty and glory to weave a laurel.”
That was that photo.
When Li Shuoxing finished looking at the photo, he noticed several lines of text next to it.
These words were probably added later, written very small and squeezed together to barely fit on the page.
“A year later, George mentioned it to us again. His book had been published. He and Mary got married too. But up until the moment his book received a reprint notice, Mary hadn’t found anything from that long code.
He was very disappointed.
Then he told us that he had no choice but to add a title page to the reprinted book, removing the code and replacing it with a screenshot of the confession that was calculated directly using the code. Before leaving, he also cautioned us to take him as a warning and not do these things to laymen.
We also felt very sorry.
There isn’t much entertainment in the lab. This incident circulated on everyone’s lips until three days later, when it gradually went unmentioned…”
He had only seen a third of this text.
Li Shuoxing couldn’t help laughing.
The laughter spread all the way to Su Mingqian’s ears.
Su Mingqian frowned in confusion. “Is this really not romantic?”
“Hahaha goddamn romantic, this kind of man is lucky to find his wife, otherwise he’s doomed to live as a bachelor…” Halfway through laughing, Li Shuoxing suddenly remembered something. “Speaking of which, the title Age of Revolution seems a little familiar.”
Su Mingqian: “Maybe you’ve read the book.”
How’s that possible?
This is a plot in a game, how could I have read it…
Li Shuoxing thought.
But then he thought about it more carefully and suddenly remembered.
It seems that there really is a book called Age of Revolution among the books I bought this time.
This book’s advertisments also boasted strongly that it has made the most accurate predictions about the development of artificial intelligence in the next 50 years…
In order to verify his memory, Li Shuoxing opened the parcel on the floor. He rummaged through it and really found the book Age of Revolution .
This is…
Li Shuoxing turned off the voice, placed his phone on the coffee table, then said to himself, “It can’t be that when writing the script, the scriptwriter specially looked for realistic materials to add in?”
As he said that, he pulled the book out of the pile and flipped open the cover to read the title page.
On the title page, there was a screenshot of a line of text and a small red heart.
To my beloved Mary,
You walked with me through the abyss of pain and gave me endless support. For the rest of my life, I will give you all my loyalty and glory to weave a laurel.
—George Warren
Li Shuoxing was stunned.
He took another look at the text and the name.
Then subconsciously, he picked up his phone to Baidu this author’s photo.
He found his photos on the internet.
He looked like the blond man in the photo in the game.