Farming With The In-game World - Chapter 41

Chapter 41: Chapter 41: An Wen’s Auto-tuned Remix Video

“Mmm… This feels so good.”

As An Wen laid in the bathtub soaking in the water, he felt extremely comfortable as his fatigue was slowly washed away after a tiring day.

Recalling everything that he had accomplished throughout the day, An Wen gave himself full marks.

It did not mean that everything was done to the best of his ability.

In terms of receiving the guests, he certainly could have done even better, but there were certain things that he was unwilling to do.

“Everything has been settled with Professor Feng, I will begin my postgraduate studies next year. I still have many things to do before then.”

An Wen closed his eyes and began thinking about his subsequent plans.

How he would be able to undertake his postgraduate studies was no longer a concern.

Instead, he was now more worried that Professor Feng’s expectations of him would be too high. What would he do then?

The character persona that he had set for himself was too perfect, so much so that it was now a ‘crime’.

An Wen did not know whether to laugh or cry.

Nevertheless, he was not too worried about the situation. As long as he proceeded to the next stage of the game world, the skills tree would certainly be further unlocked. He merely needed to light up all of the engineering skill icons next.

The things he needed to consider at present were, firstly, how he could proceed to the next stage of the game world, and secondly, how could he earn sufficient Survival Points.

Resolving the second problem about Survival Points was straightforward – when he finished constructing the Machine Megacity, the majestic ‘epic’ grade building would certainly give him adequate Survival Points.

On the other hand, An Wen had not found a way for him to enter the next stage of the game world.

There were two possibilities that he thought of currently.

The first possibility was that, in order to proceed to the next stage, he would likely have to build a ship and sail out to find new islands or land.

The second possibility was that he had to find the nest of the monsters on the island and eliminate the ultimate boss character before he could proceed to the next stage.

An Wen had no way to confirm which of the two possibilities was right yet.

“There’s no hurry in proceeding to the next stage. I will think about it after the Machine Megacity is completed. It may even be the case that I would stumble upon the monsters’ nest while building Machine Megacity. That would be awesome.”

An Wen thought gleefully, completely ignoring the sheer lack of luck he had – or did not have – in real life.

After his bath, he did not do anything else and returned home straightaway to sleep.

In the meantime, after an entire day, videos about the Ancient Flying Eagle had finally gone viral on the Internet.

Many self-media channels discovered the videos in the afternoon and shared them widely, while various well-known websites also began reporting the news.

Zhendan University student… Took three years to build… A wooden eagle that can fly… The legendary mechanism skills of the Mo Family…

Putting all of these attributes together made for a rather eye-catching story that completely had the potential to go viral on the Internet.

As a result, the videos about the Ancient Flying Eagle spread like wildfire across the Internet.

The following day, An Wen awoke slightly past eight o’clock in the morning. After washing up, he headed out for breakfast.

It was the same old street, the same old stall, and the same old him.

After ordering his breakfast, An Wen took out his mobile phone and looked through the trending searches on Weibo.

He could be a lazy couch potato, but he just could not be out of touch with the world.

As long as one looked through the trending searches each day, one would be able to follow and catch up with the latest trending topics. As a result, one would still be able to understand what other people were talking about in a conversation.

“Eh?”

When An Wen looked at the list of top-ranking searches, he realized that something was amiss.

Number one trending search: Ancient Flying Eagle.

Number two trending search: An Wen.

Number three trending search: Wang Shanfeng Spent Huge Sum Acquiring Villa.

Clearly, An Wen, an ordinary and jobless person living the life of an old retiree, had suddenly made it into the top trending searches.

Incidentally, he had also ‘stolen’ the limelight from a certain celebrity.

“What a sin.”

Mumbling to himself, An Wen started reading the various news articles about the Ancient Flying Eagle.

Indeed, there would always be Internet celebrities who would ride on the popularity wave of the current trending news.

Logically speaking, it would actually be very difficult for the Internet celebrities to ride on the popularity wave of news like the Ancient Flying Eagle – after all, it was not gossip or news about celebrities getting married or the like.

Regardless, they were ultimately Internet celebrities and would have mastered all sorts of ways to use the popularity of trending news to their advantage.

Using the Ancient Flying Eagle as the starting point, one of the Internet celebrities continued talking about ancient mechanism skills, linking it to the wisdom of ancient people and inheritance from ancestors. Then, he proceeded to criticize the modern-day education system, and especially condemned the management system of universities.

There was also another Internet celebrity who talked about An Wen, about the spirit of craftsmen, with lots of praise. At the end of the article, the Internet celebrity even asked An Wen to bid to recognize his woodworking skills as a world heritage.

Upon reading the Weibo articles, An Wen rolled his eyes. He then stopped reading them, for fear that his intelligence would decrease.

“Eh…? My Weibo account has become popular too?”

Moments later, An Wen discovered that a Weibo post he uploaded half a year ago had gone viral, with hundreds of thousands of shares and more than a hundred thousand comments.

He did not usually update his Weibo account or comment on other people’s Weibo posts, only to scroll in silence behind the screen.

The last update on his Weibo account was when he graduated in the earlier half of the year.

The post read: “Graduation. From today onwards, I will become a jobless man guarding a house of more than 300 square meters. I shall lead the life of an empty nester, scrolling the Internet and reading the news every day, while struggling to survive each day on a few houses worth of rent.”

“Such a life will be extremely dull and boring, and lacking enthusiasm would also easily lead to being out of touch with society. So I will be a DiDi driver occasionally, to integrate back into society while earning some cash to cover daily expenses.”

Along with the text came a nine-tiled picture.

In the picture, there was photographs of his graduation, his luxurious duplex house, his display cabinet filled with garage kits, the airplane models in his workshop, his computer with the fish tank by the side, six premises permits, his vehicle garage, him driving his Aston Martin with one hand, and the amount of rent he collected every month.

Truthfully, looking at his post again, An Wen was slightly embarrassed.

Back then, he had just graduated and was extremely excited, so he ‘showed off’ subtly in his frenzy.

Nevertheless, it was not a great deal.

An Wen tapped to see the comments on his post. Mmm… it was extremely interesting.

“Kind sir, do you still have room to ‘carry’ me?”

“Livid with jealousy.”

“Legend An, I want to bear a child with you.”

“The cruelest thing in the world is for there to be people who are more talented, more hardworking, and also wealthier than you.”

An Wen browsed through the comments – the majority of them were praising him, but there were some that also admonished him.

For example, there were people who chastised him for not using the money that he used to buy the entire display cabinet of garage kits, to donate to those who needed it instead.

An Wen could not be bothered with such ‘trolls’ and hypocrites.

After scrolling through the comments for a short while, An Wen exited Weibo and logged in to Bilibili.

He navigated to the ranking chart.

“Such a Dull and Boring Life?”

An Wen discovered that the auto-tuned voice-over remix video at the top of the ranking actually had a cover thumbnail of the Ancient Flying Eagle. However, he could not really understand its title.

He then clicked to view the video.

A lively and upbeat background track instantly played, and An Wen’s face appeared on the screen.

Instantly, countless bullet comments flew past the screen.

“First!”

“Legend An is legendary!”

“I also wish to be such a jobless teenager and rely on rent to survive. Oh the almighty heavens, please grant me my wish.”

Turning off the bullet comments, An Wen stared at the image of him on the screen and remained silent for a long while.

I became trending on the Internet just like that?

Auto-tuned voice-over remixes spared no one.

“I am… a jobless teen, guarding a house… of more than 300 square meters, struggling to survive each day… on a few houses worth of rent…”

Many different images flashed on the screen one after another. First it was An Wen’s graduation photograph in school, then a photograph of his house, followed by the amount of rent he collected each month.

The images were each extremely familiar to An Wen – they were the pictures that he uploaded in his most recent Weibo post.

In the end, it turned out those pictures became source material for the video.

Very quickly, the video reached its middle ‘looping’ segment.

The five words ‘struggling to survive each day’ appeared continuously, and each time they appeared, the image on the screen would change accordingly.

‘Best’ of all, price tags would appear on each of the images that appeared.

On the photograph with his computer and the fish tank, a price tag of 400 thousand yuan appeared on the former, while a price tag of 1.6 million yuan appeared on the latter. Then, following another repeated ‘struggling to survive each day’, another image appeared – it was the vehicle garage. The price tags of each of the cars were displayed on the image, before another repeated ‘struggling to survive each day’.

As the loop continued and the screen cut to another image with each call of ‘struggling to survive each day’, the video edged closer to the end.

The Ancient Flying Eagle appeared in the video. The video of it from the previous day had been cut and edited from various angles by the uploader of the auto-tuned voice-over remix video, to make the Ancient Flying Eagle look even more impressive.

Ten seconds before the video ended, the Ancient Flying Eagle landed on the ground. An Wen climbed out and stood on top of it.

“Sorry, I’m here to act cool.”

The screen then froze and the background music changed to a certain song that everyone was more familiar with…

Da la da la da…

A large golden necklace and a pair of black sunglasses, paired with a big cigar… All of the accessories were nicely added to An Wen in the still frame.

With that, the video ended.