??Chapter 51: 051.Friends Gathering_1
Chapter 51: 051.Friends Gathering_1
Lu Ban bade farewell to the two police officers and returned to his room.
He should have eaten breakfast, but upon reflection, he wasn’t hungry, so he simply started to work.
Sunlight shone on him, warm and comforting, as if he had endless energy.
“The screen is a bit reflective…”
Lu Ban drew the curtains halfway and focused on editing the video.
He worked so intently that by the ti he ca to his senses, it was already evening.
“Can I really go the entire day without feeling hungry even if I didn’t eat anything?”
Lu Ban found it incredible.
“No, this won’t do, how can I enjoy delicious food in the future!”
He decided to order takeout as a form of culinary revenge.
After ordering skewered delights for delivery, Lu Ban decided to take a bath.
He walked into the bathroom, stripped, wet his hair with water, lathered up with shampoo, and then rinsed it clean after scrubbing.
Just when he was about to use the shower gel, he suddenly rembered sothing.
Last night, to prevent his shampoo from being stolen, he had deliberately placed it outside in the ter box, and since he didn’t need it afterward, he had not taken it back.
So, the shampoo he just used…
Lu Ban looked at his Pantene.
He picked it up and sniffed it, but nothing seed amiss.
Putting down the shampoo and turning around, he caught sothing flicker past in the mirror.
Switching off the water heater, Lu Ban dried off with a towel, changed his clothes, and stepped out of the bathroom.
Wearing sandals, he opened the door and checked the ter box.
It was empty.
“Pantene is not drinkable.”
Closing the door, Lu Ban murmured as if speaking to himself.
Ding-dong—
The doorbell suddenly rang and Lu Ban opened the door again.
It was the delivery guy.
“Thank you.”
Lu Ban took the skewered delights and placed them on the living room table.
He laid out three sets of chopsticks and then picked up a fourth pair.
“This is skewered delights, I don’t know if you’ve had them before.”
Lu Ban spoke towards the empty chair opposite him.
Though invisible and intangible, Lu Ban still rembered he had an air friend.
It was polite to inquire during a al.
Seeing no response, Lu Ban delivered the duck intestine he had picked up to his own mouth.
The spicy taste he hadn’t experienced in a long ti tingled his taste buds and made him feel like he was back among the living.
“Indeed, photosynthesis has its limits, if there’s no sunlight, it can’t occur, and energy can’t be obtained; people still need to eat.”
“That’s great, it seems I can still enjoy delicious food.”
Stirring the spicy red-oil-coated tripe in a dish of garlic and scented oil, Lu Ban let go of his worries.
“And now that I think about it, before I ate food for survival, which ant I had to eat so diocre-tasting things, but now when I eat, it’s mostly to satisfy my cravings, so I can focus only on the tasty stuff?”
He suddenly felt there was nothing bad about photosynthesis after all.
“By the way, did you see how my shampoo got back here?”
Lu Ban asked his air friend another question.
“I see, you didn’t see it either.”
He nodded to himself, slurped up the brain with gusto.
His phone vibrated, Lu Ban saw it was a text ssage from Qin Tiantian.
He had told her he was going out for material collection, and it seed Qin Tiantian had just seen his ssage, sending back a few question marks.
[Motionless]: No worries, I’ve finished collecting materials and am eating at ho now.
He snapped a photo of his al and sent it to Qin Tiantian.
[River Oblivion]: …
[River Oblivion]: Wait a second, you’re eating alone, why do you have four sets of dishes and chopsticks?
[Motionless]: I’m with a friend; he’s sitting opposite .
Lu Ban took another photo of the chair opposite him.
[River Oblivion]: …Don’t ss with .
[Motionless]: Okay.
Lu Ban put down his phone and focused on eating his skewered delicacies. Perhaps the illusory feeling of hunger from not eating all day overca him, and he ate quickly, wanting to finish even the soup.
Back to work, Lu Ban spent the following week photosynthesizing by day and feasting by night.
In early August, just after finishing video production, Lu Ban encountered two things.
The first was that the revenues from his previous videos had been credited to his account, with the combined earnings of the two videos being less than two thousand, enough to completely discourage so from considering full-ti video production.
The second event was that after paying for water, electricity, and gas, Lu Ban realized he had very little money left in his pocket.
“I have to pay rent next month; this is tough.”
Lu Ban could never have imagined that as a UP creator with a hundred thousand followers and videos with millions of views, he could end up this poor.
His previous inco relied on daily wages from odd jobs on set, but after obtaining the System, Lu Ban hadn’t done any part-ti jobs, and now that he’d added up all his expenses, the reality hurt.
This month’s inco, besides the video settlents, was probably just from the money he made playing the suona the other ti.
For this reason, Lu Ban even flipped through the Silent Departnt Store, trying to find an option to exchange for cash, but regrettably, even a system with extraordinary powers couldn’t replicate hundred-yuan bills.
“Should I go play the suona again?”
Lu Ban was on the verge of evil desperation, but his principles imdiately stopped him.
“No, that’s not right, I can’t do that. As a UP creator with a hundred thousand fans, it would be so embarrassing if soone caught
playing the suona on the streets.”
Working a job was out of the question, so Lu Ban pondered other ways to make money.
An hour later, Lu Ban tearfully dialed Song Yunyan’s mobile phone.
At that mont, Song Yunyan was working in her office.
She generally didn’t give her mobile number out directly; only family mbers and a few close friends could contact her through it.
Hearing the ringtone, Song Yunyan glanced at the caller ID.
“Lu Ban…?”
This was the first ti in half a month that Lu Ban had called her.
Had he discovered so clue related to Du Danping?
Or had he found sothing about that other world?
With anticipation, Song Yunyan answered the phone.
“Madam Song, hello, this is Lu Ban. I was wondering if you have a mont?”
Lu Ban’s voice, slightly magnetic, ca through the phone. Song Yunyan set down her pen and listened intently.
“Go ahead, I’m not busy at the mont.”
“That’s good. So here’s the thing, Madam Song, do you have any interest in investing in ?”
“?”
Song Yunyan was taken aback.
What did Lu Ban an by that?
Had he found so thread related to Du Danping and wanted to trade it for money?
Or had he established so mysterious organization in need of financial support?
“You an…”
She wasn’t quite sure what Lu Ban was getting at.
“Madam Song, is your company considering breaking into the video and film entertainnt industry? I believe I can definitely make excellent, box-office hits in the future. How about starting a business with
now and investing in it, what do you say?”
“??”
Song Yunyan was completely bewildered by Lu Ban’s train of thought.
To her, Lu Ban was supposed to be a mysterious, elusive figure.
So why was he now approaching her like an entrepreneur seeking investnt, asking her for money?
“Right, Madam Song, I’ve recently made another video. I think you might be interested in it. Would you like to watch it before deciding on investing?”
Upon hearing Lu Ban’s words, Song Yunyan’s interest was piqued.
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