thefictionvixens Chapter 36 What's wrong with snail rice noodles?
Chapter 36 What's wrong with snail rice noodles?
Chu Sheng's eyes lit up: "Is this my arrest file?"
"Temporary file," Shangguan Fengyi said calmly.
She didn't tell Chu Sheng that the file was stored in her private, encrypted partition. Only a cropped copy of the data would remain in the public project repository, omitting several details that shouldn't be shown to outsiders.
Chu Sheng leaned closer to the screen, as if looking at his new toy: "When can I do a trial run?"
"What's the rush?" Shangguan Fengyi looked down at her. "We'll sign the usage rules tomorrow, and do a stress test for the premiere the day after. If you can't even hold out for ten minutes in an empty theater, don't even think about the official launch."
Chu Sheng immediately tensed up: "An empty stadium?"
"Simulation of no-viewer live stream. You are facing a live stream room with no viewers, and you talk to yourself for ten minutes."
Chu Sheng breathed a sigh of relief: "I know how to do that. I used to talk to myself a lot when I was in my room."
Shangguan Fengyi paused for a moment: "Do you often talk to yourself in your room?"
"I'm bored." Chu Sheng said a little embarrassedly, "There aren't many entertainment options in this small town, and I don't have many friends. It's nice to just stay home and talk to myself."
Shangguan Fengyi looked at her and remained silent for a long time.
Chu Sheng felt uneasy under her gaze: "What kind of look is that?"
Shangguan Fengyi snapped out of her reverie and glanced down at her tablet: "That's all for today. Send me a version of your self-introduction for the premiere by 9 p.m., no less than 800 words."
Chu Sheng's pupils dilated in shock: "Eight hundred words? I don't even write that many in my reading notes!"
"Those online novel authors write at least four thousand words a day, some even writing eight thousand while simultaneously writing two books," Shangguan Fengyi scoffed. "What's eight hundred words?"
"I'll write it! I'll write it, okay?!"
Chu Sheng folded her parasol and stomped toward the door, pouting. Halfway there, she remembered something, turned back, and bowed: "Minister, thank you!"
Shangguan Fengyi closed her eyes.
See, she even has to thank me.
"roll."
"Alright!" The door to the motion capture room opened, and Chu Sheng quickly slipped out.
After the door closed, the room became quiet.
Shangguan Fengyi stood in front of the control panel and picked up the soft ruler.
She looked down at the measuring tape, then raised her hand and gently wrapped it around her wrist, again and again.
Then it tightened abruptly, the soft ruler leaving red marks on her fair skin.
"Tomorrow," she whispered.
Tomorrow we need to sign the rules of conduct, explain the motion capture room permissions, live broadcast regulations, and equipment confidentiality clauses to Lilith.
They also had to put that black choker on her.
In the name of a throat vibrating microphone.
Shangguan Fengyi walked to the dustproof cabinet and opened the bottom drawer.
Inside the drawer, a black leather collar lay quietly on a velvet tray, with a small metal sensor embedded in its side.
She gently rubbed the choker.
"Don't rush."
She seemed to be speaking to herself, and also to the empty motion capture room.
"She'll walk in by herself."
"My caged bird."
……
Chu Sheng wrote his self-introduction until 2 a.m.
My name is Lilith, I come from the dark side of the moon, and I slept for a thousand years in the ancient vampire royal court...
She felt really cool writing this.
However, five minutes after sending it to Shangguan Fengyi, she sent the document back unchanged.
"Rewrite."
Chu Sheng stared at those two words for a long time, feeling quite uncomfortable.
You're just a capitalist, what do you know about magical girls!
Hmph! Rewrite it then!
At 9:00 a.m. the next day, Chu Sheng appeared on time at the secretariat of the branch's external publicity department.
The secretary wasn't surprised to see her, clearly used to it: "Miss Lilith, the minister is waiting for you inside."
"How is she feeling today?" Chu Sheng asked in a low voice.
The secretary lowered her voice, speaking mysteriously: "It's quite calm."
Chu Sheng breathed a sigh of relief and knocked three times on the office door.
"Enter."
A cold female voice came from inside, and Chu Sheng pushed open the door and went in.
Shangguan Fengyi sat behind her desk, wearing a deep burgundy fitted suit today.
Still a humiliating disgrace, still gourd-shaped, still a safe delivery, still oh so sweet.
There was a stack of documents in front of her.
Chu Sheng stopped in his tracks: "Minister, what's going on today?"
Shangguan Fengyi raised her eyes: "Contract."
"Oh." Chu Sheng was a little excited and obediently sat down on the low single chair.
It's that chair again.
Chu Sheng suspected that Shangguan Fengyi had bought the chair specifically to humiliate people. Every time he sat down, Shangguan Fengyi became even more condescending, and the experience of talking to her felt like being on trial.
Shangguan Fengyi pushed the documents over.
[Haicheng Branch Publicity Department Specially Approved Rules for the Use of the Animal Capture Room]
【The Dark Side of the Moon: Lilith Virtual Streamer Pilot Project】
When Chu Sheng saw his code name officially printed on the cover, he inwardly cheered.
We have a project name!
I, Chu Sheng, finally have a government job!
Shangguan Fengyi leaned back in her chair, arms crossed over her chest: "Read."
Chu Sheng eagerly turned to the first page.
Article 1. The equipment in the animal capture room shall be managed uniformly by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Users shall not disassemble, move, or connect private equipment without authorization.
Article 2: Applications for the use of the animal capture room must be approved by the Minister of the Publicity Department (Shangguan Fengyi), and entry is not permitted outside of approved hours.
Article 3. During live broadcasts, recordings, and rehearsals, it is prohibited for any unauthorized personnel to visit the set, listen in, record screens, or take photos.
Chu Sheng nodded repeatedly: "This is good, this is excellent, it will prevent competitors from stealing my materials."
She continued reading.
Article 4. Before each entry into the motion capture chamber, the user must undergo an equipment node inspection. The inspection includes, but is not limited to, the face capture, neck, shoulders, waist, legs, fingers, and shoe sole positioning modules.
Chu Sheng looked up: "Minister, who will conduct this inspection?"
Shangguan Fengyi replied calmly, "Me."
Chu Sheng asked, puzzled, "You're so busy, why are you doing this yourself?"
"The project has a high level of confidentiality; ordinary technicians don't have access to your full body measurement parameters." Shangguan Fengyi tapped the table with her fingertips. "Continue."
Chu Sheng lowered his head and continued reading.
Article 5: During the live broadcast, the user shall not shut down the main control recording in the motion capture room without authorization. All materials shall be filed with the project team and shall not be distributed without approval.
Article 6: If a user experiences emotional breakdown, physical discomfort, or abnormal magical fluctuations, the Minister of Publicity (Shangguan Fengyi) has the right to stop the live broadcast.
Article 7. Users shall not consume fried food, snail rice noodles, stinky tofu, durian, hot dry noodles, or any food with an odor that may contaminate the equipment in the capture room.
Chu Sheng whispered, "What did the snail rice noodles do to you?"
Shangguan Fengyi ignored her.
Article 8. The rest area attached to the animal capture room is for temporary rest by project users. No one other than the user may stay overnight, and personal bedding may not be brought in without approval.
Chu Sheng's eyes lit up: "There's a rest area? And you can stay overnight?"
Shangguan Fengyi slowly raised her eyes: "You didn't see it yesterday?"
"I thought it was for the boss to take a nap."
"Now it's for project use."
Chu Sheng was so moved that he almost shouted "Godmother" on the spot.
Article 9. Users must cooperate in completing pre-broadcast stress tests, empty venue simulations, anti-fan barrage simulations, negative comment reading training, crying voice recovery training, and emergency breakdown remediation training.
Chu Sheng's face grew increasingly dark: "Why do all these training sessions sound so ominous?"
However, as she flipped to the back, she felt something was amiss.