The End of the Universe Is Live-Streaming E-commerce – CH46

Chapter 46: The 46th Day of Livestream Selling

This S-class ability user, one of only two in the entire country, chose his workplace without the slightest hesitation: he returned to Jiangzuo.

To be honest, the higher-ups were not particularly surprised by this.

According to the psychological profiling team’s analysis and judgment of Lin Zhao’s behavioral patterns, this was exactly the kind of person he was. Compared with moving step by step to bigger and more developed cities, experiencing a personal upgrade from village to town, from small city to metropolis, Lin Zhao would be more inclined to turn his own hometown into that bigger, more developed city.

Even though the promise from above was that, no matter where he chose, there would be dedicated and comprehensive arrangements for his and his family’s food, clothing, housing, transportation, household registration, and work.

Lin Zhao had many options. For example, the capital, Yongji. Or, like Academician Zeng Chunhua, he could live in the Tianquan City satellite base, which had a stronger sense of security.

But Lin Zhao still said without hesitation, “Can I continue staying in Jiangzuo?”

Of course he could.

Jiangzuo was already part of the higher-ups’ strategic layout. It was one of the most important cities with a natural energy field. Since Lin Zhao was willing to develop his hometown, the higher-ups were also willing to fulfill that wish.

After the Lin brothers finished breakfast and left on time by car, the security personnel in several low-key bulletproof vehicles also quietly blended into the traffic on the main roads during morning rush hour.

The young woman in charge of leading the team once again checked the distance between each vehicle and Lin Zhao’s car through the walkie-talkie, confirming that there were no abnormalities in the surrounding area.

Although the new intern felt that this whole thing was rather performance art. “A group of B-class ability users, plus you and the other boss, two A-class ability users, protecting an S-class?”

The team leader did not tell the truth. It was not just these ability users. Lin Zhao’s car also had a bodyguard robot.

Without a doubt, this robot was a gift from Reinhardt, to celebrate… his older brother’s birthday. Yes, do not ask why His Majesty Andrich’s birthday resulted in Lin Zhao receiving a gift instead. Asa had its own national conditions.

One look at the robot and anyone could tell it was not cheap. Fortunately, Lin Zhao was no longer short of money now. He could always find an opportunity to repay this expensive friendship from a friend.

While they were waiting at a red light, the host on the city radio was broadcasting traffic and the weather forecast in a steady voice. In the middle, there was also an official reminder: “We once again remind all citizens that awakening incidents have been occurring frequently recently. Please do not touch any unknown organisms or plants. If you discover a dangerous situation, please call 111 immediately.”

More and more animals and plants had begun awakening after coming into contact with natural energy. Even though the season of spring, when all things revived, had already passed, these animals and plants were instead growing even more miraculously.

Humans, at least, could manage themselves. Animals and plants were much more lawless.

To be honest, someone from the action team had complained that, luckily, Country A went crazy and exposed everything. Otherwise, they simply could not imagine how many episodes of Approaching Science they would have had to make up throughout this spring and summer.

Lin Zhao’s new home was very close to the Special Administration Bureau, but they still drove for almost twenty minutes because…

An ostrich, trailing sparks and lightning, ran against the flow of traffic all the way up the road before finally diving into the central divider. Many vehicles, trying to avoid this miraculous ostrich, ended up colliding noisily with other vehicles. Fortunately, Lin Zhao’s security team had spotted the ostrich at the first possible moment and intervened in advance. Although they ultimately failed to stop it from rushing into traffic, at least no one was injured. Unfortunately, everyone was going to be late this morning.

The police drone on duty overhead conscientiously issued an electronic explanation to every affected vehicle, proving that their lateness was due to force majeure caused by natural energy.

Many cities had recently introduced similar new regulations. Lateness caused by natural energy should not be counted against attendance.

This included, but was not limited to, traffic congestion and personal accidents.

While Lin Zhao sent photos of the accident scene to the Special Administration Bureau’s WeChat group, fulfilling his civic duty, he also messaged Reinhardt: [Look, this is the ostrich I told you about before, the one that buries its head in the sand.] Right now, the ostrich’s head was fighting with the shrubbery.

Reinhardt’s reply came at once: […I’ll give your younger brother a house.]

For the thousand and first time, Lin Zhao replied: [Really, there’s no need. Thank you. We just moved not long ago.]

Although Lin Zhao had returned to Jiangzuo, there was no way he could keep living in the same place. Living in an overly dense residential building would not only increase the workload of the security personnel, but also create possible safety hazards for his neighbors. It was not very likely he could continue living there.

The new house arranged for Lin Zhao by the higher-ups was a villa by the mountains and water, with interior decoration already provided by the developer.

Lin Zhao had seen it on the news before. Their city had built an ecological community mainly focused on convalescence. At the time, he had even discussed it with his aunt, wondering who would move there given their city’s population and economic situation.

Now there was an answer—their family.

More precisely, Lin Zhao and his younger brother Lin Xiang.

Aunt Lin, along with one nanny robot and one bodyguard robot, still lived in her previous home, because she could not bear to part with the old sisters from her square-dancing group. It was not easy for older people to make friends. Aunt Lin did not want to leave the social circle she had built over many years.

Aside from the drawback that it was a little farther from his aunt, Lin Zhao quite liked his new home.

Because it was especially close to the Special Administration Bureau.

Actually, the higher-ups had also given him a choice, saying they could accommodate his habits and let him work from home. But now Lin Zhao was no longer going to work alone. He had an entire team. Compared with making a whole group of people come to his house, Lin Zhao thought about it and decided that it was still better to go to work together with his brother.

[Does your younger brother not have his own home?] That was Reinhardt’s tactful expression of confusion after seeing Lin Xiang’s profile in the photos Lin Zhao had shared of his new residence. Perhaps his younger brother wanted his own private space more.

Lin Zhao honestly answered: [Because this place is closer to our workplace.]

Lin Xiang’s response was to personally make breakfast for his brother every day, because he knew his brother would definitely share the photos with Reinhardt on the other side.

Lin Zhao had handed over his system, so naturally his social circle had also been exposed to his younger brother.

Lin Xiang would not interfere with his brother’s friendships, although he thought it was stupid to become friends with business transaction partners. But this was indeed something his brother would do. He only needed to make sure that these people from other planes did not harbor any suspicion or malice toward his brother. And then he encountered this Reinhardt from the interstellar world.

For some reason, from the first time he heard the way the other party spoke to his brother, Lin Xiang had felt displeased. At first, Lin Xiang could still pretend, but Reinhardt’s hostility was even greater than his. Well then, that was great.

The two of them had been fighting from afar for quite a few days already.

As for Lin Zhao…

1114 was turning around from the passenger seat and saying to him, “Manman sent a message asking if you want to have lunch together.”

“Okay~” Lin Zhao’s best friend was still Qin Xiaoman.

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When they arrived at the entrance of the Special Administration Bureau building, the first thing they smelled after getting out of the car was a refreshing scent of mint and borneol. That was the heart-clearing vine that Lin Xiang had specially asked people to plant around the unit. As the name suggested, it was a spirit plant from the cultivation world that could clear the mind and brighten one’s nature.

The seeds had already quietly grown, quickly winding up from the corners of the walls and becoming a beautiful green wall. They had also bloomed into clusters of little flowers that could form heart shapes. The edges of the petals carried a strange jade-like luster. Under the sunlight, their unusually bright oblong leaves stretched freely. The veins on the leaves were distinct, and along the edges gathered a layer of spiritual energy barely visible to the naked eye, dispelling the last bit of sleepiness from every corporate drone passing by in the morning.

In fact, the air throughout Jiangzuo was now different from a few months ago. It was just not as specifically refreshing as the air around the Special Administration Bureau entrance. More generally, there was a refreshing cleanness from spirit plants brushing through the lungs, an indescribable purity.

This was the benefit of handing the system over to the country. Among the many spirit plants, after careful screening and experimental planting by a massive team of botanical experts, in just a few short months they had already found more than five types of spirit plants suitable for large-scale cultivation across China. These plants could improve the violent natural energy in the air without causing species invasion.

It was foreseeable that there would be more and more in the future. And as the hometown of Lin Zhao, the provider of spirit plants, Jiangzuo was undoubtedly among the first batch of cities to enjoy spirit-plant greening reform.

After the car was parked, the security team was already waiting for Lin Zhao.

Outside, they would still keep their distance, but inside the unit, everything was out in the open. While Lin Zhao greeted the team leader familiarly, he also shared with her the magic biscuits he had recently bought from Falris.

After eating one, a person’s hair would turn a random color.

Before he even entered the building, Lin Zhao had already turned into a man with a head of vanilla-cake-colored little curls, making his skin seem even fairer. He greeted people all the way in with “good morning,” drawing gazes from everyone as if they were looking at some rare animal. It was not because of his strange hair color, but because this was one of only two S-class ability users.

The people in the Special Administration Bureau were extremely curious about Lin Zhao. Unfortunately, Lin Zhao had his own independent department, parallel to the Special Research Office and the Gene Office, and not in the same office building.

Every door required facial recognition. Ordinary people simply could not open them.

Everyone was very curious about what this S-class powerhouse did every day.

The new intern was also curious. He had even asked the senior colleagues he worked with in advance, but everyone had been vague. Until this day, when he personally followed Lin Zhao through the conference room door.

And saw a livestreaming studio.

Intern: ?

Yes. Working by livestreaming.

Lin Zhao had never imagined that two hellish words like “work” and “livestream” could happen together in his life. 1114 was undoubtedly the happiest one. Before, it had more or less had some concerns about handing itself over to the country. Now all that was left was: “Our country is so good, Zhaozhao. I love my motherland.”

Just as Auntie had quickly become its auntie, China had now also become the system’s motherland.

Not to mention the intern finding it magical, even Lin Zhao himself was not much better. He had already been coming to work for quite some time, but every time he saw it, he still felt it was unbelievable. Which genius had come up with the idea of building a livestreaming studio inside an office building? What was the inspiration? A livestreaming company?

The intern did not dare speak. He only silently watched Lin Zhao go over and confirm today’s livestream content with his assistant.

He really tried very hard to hold back.

In the end, under the team leader’s look that said, “Go ahead, say it,” he whispered, “Does Consultant Lin… love his previous profession that much?” He had heard that there was an A-class ability user abroad who had been an accountant before awakening, and was still working at the statistics bureau now.

Lin Zhao heard it too, but what could he say?

Yes. He loved it so much.

Smile.

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