Chapter 33: The 33rd Day of Livestream Selling
Over the next few days, from Prince Reinhardt’s point of view, things were simply turning from the worst possible luck to the best.
He had finally been favored by Lady Luck for once.
First, he and his strategy team finally narrowed down the dozen-plus candidates and circled the star system where Lin Zhao was most likely located, narrowing it to the final two choices. This was because, during his conversations with Lin Zhao, he had indirectly tested and found out that Lin Zhao’s star system defined a year as 365 days, and a day as 24 hours. Most planetary civilizations usually defined a year as the time it took for their planet to revolve once around their star, or sun.
Among the evolving star systems discovered by the Far-Seer Array, only two and a half star systems had rotation and revolution periods closest to these two numbers.
One was a companion civilization with two planets echoing each other from afar. The other was a lonely blue planet whose ocean covered 71% of its surface. The two star systems were not very far apart, and Reinhardt’s Second Legion could completely station itself in the middle zone and attend to both.
He was already within arm’s reach of Lin Zhao.
At least, he himself felt it was very close.
And the other piece of good news was…
“Linlin chats with me every day now.” When Adjutant Carlos complained that his wife had gone traveling to another star system with friends and had not video-called him for two days, His Highness the royal younger brother said this.
Carlos smiled. “Then you must be very good at chatting.”
Reinhardt thought so too. He lifted his sharply defined jaw slightly, and his entire person seemed as if pink bubbles were about to start floating out of him.
His conversations with Lin Zhao were not limited to any particular topic. They just shared interesting things they had seen recently on the communicator every now and then, like hunting dogs constantly picking up little twigs called information and bringing them back to each other.
And the starting point of these chats had been their discussion about New Year customs that night. After that, without realizing it, they had begun frequently opening up their worldviews to each other.
Carlos also began to become very good at chatting. “The power of money?”
Reinhardt: “The charm of personality, thank you.”
But if one asked Lin Zhao, it was actually simply because he was bored.
Mm. Ever since his cousin Lin Xiang discovered the illness history he had hidden, even though Lin Zhao repeatedly emphasized that he had already gotten better, all he received was the outcome of being forced to stay in bed.
The relationship between the Lin brothers had been very good since childhood. Although they were cousins, they were no different from biological brothers. Both followed their mothers’ surname Lin. One had lost his parents, and the other had lost his father. Put together, they could not form one complete family, so they had naturally shared many common topics since childhood. One important reason Lin Xiang chose to apply to Yongji University was that his older cousin Lin Zhao was in Yongji.
Later, after Lin Xiang really went to Yongji for university, he directly stayed at Lin Zhao’s home whenever he had time off. It could be said that there was no one in the world who had a deeper bond with them, or understood each other better.
If Lin Xiang had not suddenly followed his mentor to Tianquan City last year, Lin Zhao would not have known how to hide the fact that he had a terminal illness from his younger brother.
Of course, he had not managed to hide it now either.
On New Year’s Eve last night, amid intermittent firecracker sounds, Lin Zhao, quick of eye and hand, peeled a roasted orange symbolizing good luck and prosperity for his younger brother, hoping to seize the initiative before the truth came out. At the very least, he wanted to sweeten his brother’s mouth and stop him from letting Auntie know.
But perhaps because this unlucky orange was not sweet at all, his brother only looked at him coldly like a discipline director standing by the back window.
Lin Zhao despairingly realized that he simply could not control this super-evolved younger brother. By coincidence, his younger brother Lin Xiang was also thinking that he could not control his older cousin either. In that case, he could only bring out their mother.
“Mom, did you know Brother was found to have suspected early signs of gene collapse?”
Lin Zhao had already rushed forward to cover Lin Xiang’s mouth. But when he heard this result, oh? Only early signs?
One had to say, the body restoration medicine provided by the Main Brain really was quite powerful.
The clever Lin Xiang naturally did not miss that instant emotional reversal in his older brother. Although Lin Zhao immediately tried to cover it up afterward, Lin Xiang had already crossed his arms and narrowed his eyes. “What else are you hiding from us?”
“Nothing, just this. Ha, Xiangxiang, you really are amazing. I knew I couldn’t hide it from you.” The more he spoke, the guiltier he sounded.
His credibility went bankrupt in that instant.
It would probably be hard even for him to scan a shared bicycle now.
He had even panicked and blown himself up while trying to prove that he was getting better, revealing that his previous diagnosis had been late-stage gene collapse.
Lin Xiang no longer believed his older cousin. Even though Lin Zhao immediately followed up with things like how he had a system and the system had cured him, Lin Xiang only said, “Yes, 1114 is your system. I believe you. Now, show me your examination report.”
He did not look like he believed it at all.
1114 was also terribly anxious at the side. “I really am Zhaozhao’s trading system, Xiangxiang.”
Lin Xiang completely ignored it. To be precise, at this moment, his eyes contained only his older brother. That beautiful face had lost the gentle curve of the past and was instead covered with a guilty flush, like rouge spreading across rice paper. His hair had been grabbed into a slight mess, and one disobedient strand kept falling across his brow. Irritated and restless, he casually pushed it back, revealing his fair forehead and also the fragile pallor of his face under the light.
“I threw the report away,” Lin Zhao said honestly.
This was true. The moment he decided to fully enjoy his life, which had already entered its countdown, he had thrown that “inauspicious” thing away.
He knew he should not have shifted blame like that, but he could not control it.
“Which hospital? Other illnesses aside, this kind of gene collapse caused by the impact of the natural energy field definitely has backup records. I’ll have someone pull them.” Lin Xiang pressed forward step by step. His voice was not loud, but every word was like a blade. The pressure from his height brought an unquestionable powerful aura.
It was also at this moment that Lin Zhao understood that his terminal illness had originally been caused by the natural energy field.
Natural energy could not only bring about gene awakening, it could also cause gene collapse. Lin Xiang’s shimu was currently working with the top expert team at a capital hospital, racing against time to research how to treat this new type of terminal illness.
This was also why Lin Xiang had to check his family’s bodies first. He had to confirm whether their constitutions were suitable for evolution.
If suitable, they should awaken as soon as possible. If not, they would be adjusted until they became suitable.
This global evolution was irreversible. Once it began, there was no way to stop. No one could escape.
As Lin Xiang explained, part of the information in 1114’s database finally became decoded. This kind of evolution was indeed unavoidable. It was a dangerous yet necessary road. Although it still temporarily could not remember why evolution was necessary.
But just like the first hominid in Africa to learn to walk upright, its companions either had to learn from it and stand up, launching an unprecedented tide of the era, or…
“Wait to be abandoned by the times.” Lin Zhao calmly picked up his younger brother’s words.
Since childhood, his luck had never been very good. When playing games, he always had to wait until hard pity to draw gold. When choosing a line, no matter how he chose, he always ended up in the one that took the longest. Even Yongji University, which his cousin had entered after skipping grades several times and studying casually, was something Lin Zhao had only managed to get into the neighboring University of Science and Technology after exhausting all his strength. It was not too surprising that he was left behind in the matter of all-humanity evolution.
He was already used to it.
“No one should get used to something like that,” his younger brother said. “You only have slight signs of gene collapse. Similar cases have appeared in our sample database. The other person’s values were about the same as yours, somewhere between awakening and collapse. In the end, he survived by successfully awakening. You can too.”
Even if he could not, Lin Xiang would make sure his older brother could.
After telling his mother to properly supervise his older brother and make sure he rested quietly, Lin Xiang threw himself headfirst into research. He even forgot the family’s yearly tradition of going to the temple to worship on the first day of the Lunar New Year.
Of course, Lin Zhao did not get to go either, because he was almost drowned by his aunt’s tears.
Even though he repeatedly promised his aunt that he was fine and would not have anything happen to him, that he was bound to 1114, and as long as 1114 did not die, he would keep living, his aunt did not listen at all.
The way she looked at him was like looking at a glass person who would shatter at the slightest touch. She even postponed her own awakening plan, because she was afraid that if she awakened too, it would stimulate her nephew, who could only be an ordinary person.
“I’m not ordinary. I really am not ordinary. I already have a system. What part of me is ordinary?”
“Okay, okay, you’re not ordinary. Auntie is the most ordinary.” After a whole night of mental preparation, Ms. Lin Mingzhu finally stopped crying, but her attitude toward Lin Zhao had gone back to when he was only three years old, an age where eating independently would receive extravagant praise. “Come, let’s eat breakfast first. I made you milk porridge. I originally wanted to make seafood porridge for you, but I was afraid seafood might be inflammatory. Once I ask Xiangxiang and confirm what you can eat and what you can’t, I’ll make it for you, okay?”
Lin Zhao: “…”
“Eat. Why aren’t you eating? You liked this most when you were little.”
Lin Zhao: I still like it now, but I am not three years old. I have hands and feet. Is there any need to bring food to my bed for me to eat? Also, where did this bed tray table come from?
“I ordered it through a runner.” Aunt Lin really was a trendy aunt who adapted well to the new era.
“Has Xiaoman come back?” Lin Zhao began changing the subject, trying to get out for some air, after seeing Third Aunt break into his room like a bandit and occupy his bed without getting off.
Lin Mingzhu said, “He came back long ago. Xiao Zhang picked him up early in the morning and took him directly to the Special Management Bureau.”
Third Aunt was not a local Jiangzuo cat. According to Qin Xiaoman, it had migrated all the way with Grandma from the cold northeast to the midsummer heat of Qiong Island. Qiong Island was not far from Jiangzuo, just in the neighboring province, separated only by the Qiongzhou Strait. If a tabby cat had floated all the way here through the sky, it was impossible that no one had seen it or photographed it.
Unless Third Aunt had not flown here on her own. But that would be even more problematic. Its ability was floating, not teleportation. Then who, or what, had teleported it?
Such a dangerous and unstable abnormal source had to be investigated immediately to avoid citizens getting hurt.
The Special Management Bureau had already made a preliminary plan. They were still holding meetings on the first day of the Lunar New Year. As one of the parties most familiar with this matter, Qin Xiaoman definitely had to cooperate with the investigation.
All in all, in short…
Lin Zhao, who already had few friends, had always been a homebody, and was now thoroughly trapped within the three-foot square of his aunt’s house. Aside from going to the bathroom, he could not even get out of bed.
People were sometimes very strange. Voluntarily lying flat and being forced to lie flat were two completely different feelings.
When Lin Zhao had previously watched 1114 read those forced imprisonment novels, he had thought: you only forced a comparatively extroverted E-type who loved going out. Try switching to an I-type. There’s food and drink and a villa, and no need to work. See who is happier.
Now that he had “personally experienced” it, he finally understood. It was probably still uncomfortable.
Lin Zhao used to live alone and, aside from taking out the trash and picking up deliveries, could go a whole month without going downstairs. But now, after lying there for just a few days, he was about to die of boredom.
Chatting online with Reinhardt had almost become one of the things that made him happiest.
No matter what he said, the other side always responded back and forth, always replying instantly and with particular enthusiasm. He clearly knew this was probably an illusion, or an incorrect mentality, but he would still subconsciously feel as though he was being valued.
And no one disliked the feeling of being valued.
The relationship between the two advanced by leaps and bounds, and Lin Zhao started trying to ask him:
[Hypothetically, I mean hypothetically, if your friend’s family misunderstood and thought your friend was sick, how could you make them feel reassured?]
As everyone knew, your friend meant you.
But Reinhardt did not know. He really did not have much internet experience. He lived like a caveman who only knew training and mecha combat. Now, all his attention was focused on figuring out chatting skills. For example, as Wyatt had told him, when you two have a common topic, and he begins to confide in you, this is a very good sign. You have to actively give him positive feedback, get this cycle going, and let him realize that coming to you is useful, so that when something happens in the future, he will subconsciously think of looking for you.
Reinhardt’s attitude toward solving the problem was simple and crude.
[Your friend is sick? What illness?]
Yasa’s biotechnology was highly advanced.
Lin Zhao: […My friend isn’t sick. His family misunderstood and thought he was sick. But no matter how I explain, they just don’t believe it and insist that he stay in bed.]
He typed too quickly and did not even notice that the pronoun had unconsciously changed from “he” to “I.”
Reinhardt had years of “struggle” experience with his family and immediately became energized.
[Two paths. Either take the opportunity to enjoy the happiness of lying flat, or resist to the end!]
Lin Zhao: [What about the latter?]
[Even if you can only stay in bed, you can still do many things.] For example, chat with me. For example, play games with me.
He finally realized Lin Zhao was talking about himself. His green-tea energy immediately came up too.
[Don’t you think that’s more exciting?]
Then, before Reinhardt could introduce the wildly popular game he had also just learned about from the Star Network, Lin Zhao finally reacted.
He had been stupid before.
As expected, it still had to be Brother Boss, this successful adult. He hit the nail on the head.
Could lying in bed mean one could not do anything?
He could absolutely take the opportunity to continue developing his trading business.
After coming into contact with the fresh concept of world evolution, Lin Zhao felt he finally understood what the dark elf prince’s potions were. They were probably his ability, or the ability of the plants around him. In the dark elf prince’s understanding, this was magic.
The other party’s magic was so useful. Of course they had to hurry up and discuss cooperation.
Whether selling the medicine to Kaman or selling it to his younger brother, both were good choices for increasing trading volume. The best part was that he did not even have to pack the goods himself.
Besides, he still had two free draws he had not used.
Only by continuously trading and continuously leveling up could he possibly exchange for the intermediate body medicine. Once he was completely healed, Auntie would naturally not worry anymore.
Everything was solved at once. Lin Zhao decided to appoint Brother Boss as his senior adult consultant.
Then he swiftly abandoned his consultant and ran off with 1114 to study what new region they should pray to draw.
Author’s Note:
Nonsense Mini Theater:
1114: Never expected that I would be the final winner. (^?^)
Reinhardt: Hm?
Carlos: Loving each other isn’t that easy. Everyone has their phone.
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