Ming Dynasty and New Rome and Infinite Magic Machine

Chapter 1438: Semi-Immortal Body
If he had 30 days left to live, the first thing Hans chose was to order three servings of Prussian national dish, stewed pork elbow with sauerkraut.

Three large pieces of meat were piled in front of him, like a small mountain, and there were three beers and three servings of fried potatoes next to them.

On the Lianshan, Shangluo looked at the surveillance screen in front of him.

He covered his forehead and said, "What kind of person did we elect? Did we elect a glutton? He will eat and eat every day for the next 30 days."

[It seems that he is so depressed that he is like this. Come to think of it. He seems to have been troubled by illness in the past, and his body seems to be very heavy. I am afraid his father would not let him eat these things. Now that he has regained his freedom, I am afraid he will start to eat a lot of food in revenge. ]

"I can understand that for the time being." He wasn't such a demanding person, and Hans wasn't someone you could just find on the street. As he entered a new phase in his life, he planned to give himself a few days off, which was not intolerable - after all, he wouldn't be so strict with himself, and he still had to relax occasionally.

[He won't eat himself to death, right? ]

"That won't happen. The elixir he was given was not fake. Although he is not indestructible now, his physical fitness has been improved to the peak of his body - otherwise his life span would not be reduced to only one month. It's just three elbows, at most he will be full, but he won't die. But having said that." He turned around and asked Victoria:
"You guys can still do the co-production of a movie you mentioned before?"

Victoria is sitting by the side window looking at the scenery
"Yes," she replied. "We won't be finished so soon - and the main filming should actually be done in Cybernia, so we can still shoot even if it's finished. Why do you ask this suddenly?"

"I plan to give these Germans some cultural shock. If the film is successful, I can show it to them and make some money at the box office."

"In fact, I prefer the latest episode of your Wang Lingguan."

"Which latest episode?"

"Look, look, this is it." She took out her phone. It was 7 o'clock in the morning in Kinai, and it was the live broadcast time.

On the screen, Yanqiu was wearing Wang Lingguan's costume. At the other end of the stage, the villain appeared.

The bad guy is wearing black clothes and a bad guy's white face mask. It doesn't matter what's wrong with him, as long as he is a bad guy, that's what the voiceover says.

After reciting for 2 minutes, Yanqiu went up and fought with the bad guy for 3 minutes. Then she suddenly used a palm thunder to turn the bad guy's white face into a black face. The 5-minute episode ended.

There is no dubbing or dialogue in the whole process, only voice-over. The voice-over changes into three voice lines. The first voice line is used for objective narration, the second voice line is the voice of Wang Lingguan, and the third voice line is the voice of the villain.

"Ah! It's so beautiful, I've been waiting for this every day!"

This is what Master Sa Tianshi mentioned when he was chatting with Shangluo before, the development of the Wang Lingguan project.

Although Wang Lingguan is very popular among children, the development cycle of each work is too long. Although there are movies every year, movie tickets are not cheap and are a considerable expense for children.

So in order to make the Wang Lingguan project more vital, Sa Tianshi decided to introduce Wang Lingguan's daily episodes into the current TV programs which are already few and far between. Because they are broadcast every day, each episode is only 5 minutes long.

In order to complete a plot within 5 minutes, it is necessary to improve narrative efficiency, so there is no direct voice between Yanqiu and the villain in the whole play, and the sound comes from outside the screen - this is called narration in traditional opera, and is often used in puppet shows, glove puppet shows, and shadow puppet shows.

In the actual shooting, we actually record a complete narration first, and then use editing to match the images according to the timeline of the narration. In this way, we can produce a 5-minute short film every day.

This also saved Yanqiu a lot of trouble. After all, she had to go out every day. Although she shot the content for the entire week once a week, if every line had to match, it would be too stressful for her. The good thing about using the off-screen narration as the timeline is that the narration itself can be done slowly in the recording studio, and can be worked on separately from the entire shooting process, and then edited together.

Of course, the filming process was able to go so smoothly mainly because of the magic - the lightning and thunder in the fight were not special effects, but real. Yanqiu really used palm thunder, and the opponent really used magic to fight back. This allowed the entire drama to be turned into a finished film with just a little processing, which saved a lot of time.

Otherwise, these 2 minutes of literary drama and 3 minutes of drama every day, plus a lot of special effects, are not something that can be produced every day.

This efficiency in producing literary and artistic works is also part of the ascension process. With current technology, it is simply impossible for mortals to produce at this efficiency every day.

In future movies, both parties are expected to use ascension technology including magic and Tianyi nobles, and the effect they can bring will completely crush the literary and artistic works of the old era. This is something they will try later.

"Our Mr. Hans now regards eating elbows as a way of relief. But soon, he will have to find some new entertainment."

"You want to show them the movie, too?"

Shangluo shook his head and took out his cell phone: “Look.”

Hans was eating pork elbow when suddenly a data panel appeared in front of him. It was a call request. He was startled by the sudden intrusion of his vision.

Those data panels just hovered in the middle of his field of vision, appearing abruptly in front of him, making him feel as if his brain had been invaded.

"Hello?" He answered the phone.

"How was your dinner? Three pork elbows. You really know how to enjoy yourself. Even if you have just gained a semi-immortal body, you shouldn't be so exhausted."

"Can you see me?"

"Of course, it's easy to see you. Your every move is under our watch."

"I..." He immediately lost his appetite. When he thought about being monitored every day in the future, he was
"Well, I'm not going to joke with you anymore. Look at what's in your breast pocket."

He reached into his pocket and pulled out a jade token.

"This is" "This is a Fetion card, which is a special treat we give you. Now focus your mind on the operating panel in front of you, and you will get more surprises - Fetion, forums, and games. You can also watch our TV programs."

The vast online world unfolded before him, and the Internet was displayed before him. A torrent of information flowed through each window. All kinds of information, social dynamics, and real-time interactions were in full view. Rows of information were updating in the forum, and a whole row of games appeared as soon as they were opened, with online functions, and a live broadcast in the corner of the screen was playing the end credits of a certain drama.

He couldn't understand a single word of these - even though he couldn't understand a single word, this incomprehensible information still shocked him.

As information emerged, those Chinese characters were "translated" one by one into German that he could understand, and the flood of information really hit him.

"Can I use this to contact you?"

"Well. With this, you can get online. Take it, I will use it to contact you from now on."

"Can I use this myself?"

"I've already told you that this is a privilege for you. When you all receive the immortality pill, you will also be eligible to access the spiritual network. Keep it. Oh, and by the way, the jade token needs to be exposed to the sun to charge. Put it in the sun when you don't need it."

"Ah! Got it!" He knew that the jade token was not bound to him, but could be removed. This meant that it was not surveillance, but just an object. He was so overjoyed that he hurried to thank her, and even ate the pork elbow more deliciously.

After the call ended, Victoria asked:

"That's not right. Does your Fetion card need to be exposed to the sun? The one you gave me has never been exposed to the sun."

"Of course not." Shangluo replied.

"Then why did you tell him that he needed some sun?"

"I'm giving him the illusion that this thing has a switch. The one in your hand is a real Fetion card, and the images displayed are all on the card. The one I gave him is just an ordinary jade card."

"Then how did you get him into the spiritual network?"

Shang Luo sneered, "I planted a Tianyi nobleman in the elixir he took. Now everything he sees and hears is under our surveillance. If he knew this, it would probably bring him a lot of psychological pressure, so I told him that this is the function of the sign."

Victoria glanced at her
"I've already told you that yours is real, not for monitoring you. Besides, you stay no more than 10 meters away from me every day, so do I need to monitor you? I even know how many eggs you had for lunch."

"That's right, that doesn't matter." She looked at Hans who was still eating his pork elbow on the screen, "Tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, if only we had this method to deal with these barbarians."

"This is my special privilege. Most people don't get this treatment. Only those people in the night shift get this treatment."

"If they find out, they won't think they have some neural implant in their brain."

"It's more of an evolution than a neural implant. I implanted a new organ in them that can access the Internet. After all, I can't completely trust them, in all senses. If I let them go on a mission, what if they get kidnapped by elves? I won't provide these people with health insurance."

This is just the beginning. From now on, everyone who enters the Night Shift Bureau will be monitored like this while gaining immortality. It doesn't matter if they find out, this is necessary.

Compared with surveillance, Shangluo will bring them a greater spiritual shock - once you have seen the sea, you will never be impressed by the water. After becoming a resident of the Internet, it will be difficult to withdraw. This sense of freedom of connection with the world can make everyone addicted. This is an addiction to facing the impact of information.

In the era of information explosion, a person may receive more information in a day than a person in a remote mountain area hundreds of years ago received in decades or even a lifetime. To some extent, personal communication devices can indeed be regarded as an evolution of human beings, which is an external organ that humans cannot do without.

But once they get used to the Internet, and look at the people around them who lived in ancient times, they will find that a sad barrier has been built between themselves and the people around them.

"I don't mean to harm them. This is what we use ourselves. I am really doing this for their benefit."

"But," Victoria thought for a moment, "you said before that this is about defining mainstream taste, creating standards for fashion, behavior, and both."

"I call it information sovereignty," Shangluo replied. "They attach great importance to their national borders. But by the time they realize that they also need sovereignty in information, they will probably have become our puppets. When they completely rely on our framework to build their own information system, we won't need Tianyi Guiren to monitor their every move."

"Then again, they don't speak Chinese, do they?"

"It doesn't matter. You can learn if you don't know. Information is the best teacher. I have pre-installed a translation system for them, which will allow them to translate the text information with some delay. The rest is up to them."

"So you actually have such a plan." Victoria glanced at her phone: "Wow, thinking this way, I'm already on to something."

"We were planning to do this together. We also have a co-production movie. This is Wang Lingguan, my favorite show."

[Correction - Those who like Wang Lingguan are his friends. He doesn't actually like Wang Lingguan, he just likes to join in the fun - and mainly likes to watch Yanqiu.]

"Forget it." Victoria shook her head. "We don't even want the earthly land anyway, so why do we need this? I think it's time to open up Cyberlania to you all. I wonder if Cyberlania should open up to them as well."

"Are you going to close it?"

"The Romans were very concerned about who could enter the city's bathhouses. According to current laws, only Romans could enter the citizen bathhouses, and the Chinese could also enter, because you were guests when you came to Rome and could be considered Romans. Free men without citizenship were not allowed to enter the Roman bathhouses. But then again, there were quite a few soldiers and attendants entering Cybelenia, so it wouldn't be a big deal to let them in. How many people do you plan to bring in initially?"

"The Night Service needs an army of at least tens of thousands, because this is a war. However, I will not grant access to the spiritual network to all of them. Probably, there will only be a few hundred people in the early stage, and they will line up after the North Korean high-level officials to access the spiritual network."

(End of this chapter)