Old Man Geng hesitated for a while before deciding to return to the third floor. First, the security there was better. At least, there would be no street fights like this. Of course, the most important thing was that he had to report the results to the seller after he negotiated with Mr. G.
Since Zhang Heng had to return to Xu Qian's place, Miss F sent four of her men to follow Old Man Geng back to the third floor to protect him.
At the House of Old Things, Old Man Geng paid Zhang Heng fifteen shellac records in one go as a reward for protecting him this time. Together with the shellac records that Old Man Geng gave Zhang Heng as a deposit, it was equivalent to giving Zhang Heng six more shellac records. It was considered a thank you for protecting him from the biker gang.
"That's all I have in my shellac record collection. I don't have any more." Old Man Geng handed the shellac records to Zhang Heng. His tone was much more polite than before. After all, he had witnessed Zhang Heng's combat power not long ago. "You can have those building blocks as well. You don't have to pay the rent anymore."
Zhang Heng did not refuse when he heard the old man's offer. He took the shellac records, and at the same time, the system's prompt rang in his ear, reminding him that he had earned another 150 game points.
"Do you have any channels to collect shellac records?" Zhang Heng then asked, "I can find a way to raise money to buy them. Or, like this time, I can use services instead of payment."
"Why are you so enthusiastic about shellac records?" Old Man Geng looked at Zhang Heng strangely. "There are very few of them … It's not easy to collect them, and they have little use value. Only the rich people on the fourth and fifth floor will collect them. I want to help you, but if this transaction goes well, I will probably leave New Shanghai 0297."
"You want to leave here?" Zhang Heng raised his eyebrows. "Why?"
A look of hesitation appeared on Old Man Geng's face.
"Forget it. I'm not interested in your private affairs. Just tell me who I should find to help me collect shellac records after you leave."
Old Man Geng thought for a while. "This is my trade secret. If I decide to leave here, I will send you his name and contact information the day before."
…
When Zhang Heng returned to Yacheng District, it was about 11 pm, and Xu Qian was still online.
Zhang Heng placed the golden hamster that Miss F gave him on the table. He then went to take a shower to clean up the bloodstains on his skin. After that, he walked out of the bathroom in his newly bought bathrobe.
He took a glass of water, sat on the sofa, and turned on the projector. Just like the past few days, he entered Xu Qian's live broadcast room. On the other hand, he also opened the fan chat room.
In the livestream, Xu Qian had just finished dancing. Her cheeks were flushed, and she was chatting with her fans about a game that had just been released.
As far as Zhang Heng knew, Xu Qian did not play games. However, from the feedback of the big data, he could see that many of her fans were game nerds. So about half a month ago, in order to stabilize her declining popularity, Xu Qian began to talk about games in her livestream. For this, she even went online to look up a lot of gaming slang.
One had to admit that this tactic was quite effective, especially when a cute girl spoke slang like a veteran gamer. This kind of contrast was really attractive. So on the night of the livestream, the number of viewers in Xu Qian's livestream stopped declining for the first time in nearly a month. In fact, it even rose slightly.
After tasting the sweetness, Xu Qian officially decided to adopt this strategy. Every night, she would talk about games in her livestream for a while.
However, as they chatted more and more, many people began to realize that she was just a gamer who had learned some slang from nowhere. More and more people started to mock her, and the number of viewers in her livestream began to drop again.
However, compared to the previous decline, the trend had slowed down a little. So, Xu Qian ignored the haters in her livestream.
She talked about this when she chatted with Zhang Heng last night. In Xu Qian's words, people were actually very contradictory creatures. The audience who came to her livestream kept shouting that they wanted to see her true self, but in fact, no one really wanted to see her true self.
Xu Qian gave an example. She said that when she first signed the contract, she did not know any tricks. She was a complete rookie. The lighting and makeup were all the same as usual. She wore a lousy sweater, wrapped herself up tightly, and turned on the camera. The topics she talked about were also more feminine.
But at that time, she was like a newborn calf. She was still full of confidence in herself. After studying those popular streamers, she felt that they were all very hypocritical. At first glance, she could tell that they deliberately set up a persona. Some of them were even very pretentious, not as sincere as she was.
She believed that her fans would know who to watch.
However, reality soon hit her hard. The number of viewers in her livestream every night was very low, and some of the streamers who signed the contract with her had already gained a large number of fans by relying on their innocent persona. Some of them even acted coquettishly.
So, Xu Qian finally put away her naive thoughts. She gritted her teeth and used her first month's salary to buy a set of expensive cosmetics. She then gave it to an old lady who was once popular in the industry but was now on the verge of retiring.
For the sake of the cosmetics, the old lady had a meal with Xu Qian. During the meal, she taught Xu Qian a lot of experience and routines that she had accumulated over the years. Since the old lady was about to retire, she did not hide anything from Xu Qian, and Xu Qian benefited a lot from it.
With these experiences and routines, Xu Qian gradually established her own persona, dressing style, chatting skills, and so on. Finally, she ushered in the peak of her career.
"All the people you see on the Internet, all of them are not real," Xu Qian said. "Do you think I like to wear a cat's tail and pose in front of the camera? Do you think I like to talk about games that I don't care about? …
"Sometimes, I also feel that I'm no different from the products on the shelves in the stores. We were created by the market and big data analysis. The exquisite packaging on the packages is just to cater to different needs. Sometimes, when you see a product, you feel that it's very special, but that's only because it was designed to be special to attract customers with special needs. Once a certain type of product becomes popular, countless products will appear in the market to follow suit.
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