After being initially shocked by the magnificence of the star port, they soon lost interest in it because they simply couldn't understand what the sci-fi creations were.

"The Headless Woman... is it Von Neumeow?"

"That's the headless woman!" Eriri bared her teeth. "Later, she arranged for one of your people to teach us. Although I didn't learn much, I did grow. In short, the Dark Woman and I now understand one thing: whether it's text, illustrations, or anything else that can carry information, it can be combined through a series of designs to achieve a certain effect."

"Me and Kasumigaoka... Ugh! The Dark Woman and I are still experimenting. We want to see if we can use her novel and my illustrations to give everyone who reads it a psychological hint. This hint won't have any effect on ordinary people, but anyone who comes into contact with that sacrificial text will be exposed after contact - how about it, awesome, right?"

Jiang Lianqiu didn't expect that the two girls did so many things behind his back without telling him.

"What, what's wrong..."

Seeing Jiang Lianqiu silent, Ying Lili habitually hung her head, shrunk her neck, and looked at him pitifully and fearfully.

"If you blame us for acting on our own, then I...then I apologize..."

The golden retriever, who just now looked like he was trying to take credit, now looks like a child who has done something wrong.

"Why should I blame you, you little idiots?" Jiang Lianqiu hugged Ying Lili tightly and rubbed her head a little harder. "Isn't this a surprise? Who would get angry after receiving a surprise?"

“Wow! No, not here! There are so many people…!”

Eriri struggled to escape from his arms, jumped to the side and fanned her hot cheeks with her little hands.

But her beautiful eyes curved into a pair of crescent moons and her face that instantly glowed showed that the little girl was in a very good mood - she was even standing on tiptoe and humming a song unconsciously.

"Come to think of it, if your plan worked, then why is Ms. Machida okay?"

Jiang Lianqiu glanced at Machida Yuanzi not far away.

Eriri spread her hands: "Forgot? Stupid Qiuqiu! Even I still remember that Editor Machida has that cognitive filter that appeared out of nowhere. The psychological hints from the shady female designer and I didn't work on her. 0......"

"But I believe that one day, I will be able to draw the ultimate illustration that will make anyone kneel down and lick the soles of my shoes at the first sight of it!"

Cognitive filter...

Jiang Lianqiu raised his eyebrows——

No! Cognitive filter!

He seemed to know why there was no abnormality in Machida Sonoko, who had been deliberately arranged to fish for such a long time!

If the Carcosa Cult really had some method to contact Machida Sonoko, then under the cognitive filter, it would be impossible for Machida Sonoko to react!

Once he figured out the key, Jiang Lianqiu thought of the spy robot disguised as Yamada.

After discovering that this world was contaminated by the Old Ones, the Servants undertook a collective upgrade in information security.

It's probably because of this reason that the spy robot servant was immune to this kind of temptation from beginning to end.

"Because we were too cautious, we didn't realize that the other side might have already taken action?"

Jiang Lianqiu was at a loss whether to laugh or cry, but at the same time he felt relieved.

Theoretically, the information security barrier would have allowed the spy servitor to sense something after triggering the defense, but the servitor did not respond, which meant one thing - the opponent's means were not strong enough to trigger even the most basic feedback of the security protocol, and were directly filtered out as "noise signals."

——Forget about breaking the defense, the opponent can’t even make us feel anything.

Come to think of it, it makes sense. 5.4 Who made this world so chaotic in the past few decades?

As for lowering the security protocol level, he would not do such a stupid thing.

Looking at the groups of people leaving after buying books, Jiang Lianqiu secretly hoped that maybe the bait that Eriri and Kasumigaoka Utaha secretly put out would really catch something this time.

"Sawamura-kun is really impatient. We clearly agreed to wait until there is a result before giving you a surprise. You said it in advance, but you broke the agreement between us, didn't you?"

Jiang Lianqiu's vision suddenly darkened. Kasumigaoka Utaha, who had finished the autograph session without him knowing, walked over and was stretching her sore wrist.

"Tell me, should I arrange a thrilling date for you?"

Chapter 88: Boss, let me explain!

Seeing a white wrist as white as snow stretched out in front of him, Jiang Lianqiu took the initiative to hold it, rubbing Kasumigaoka Shiyu's wrist and saying with concern: "If you are tired, can't you just take a break in the middle?"

"If you sell all the books sooner, maybe I can help you discover something sooner."

Kasumigaoka Utaha leaned down.

"You, the slow-witted man who can't understand a girl's feelings, will be punished by heaven, okay?"

"Weren't you blaming Eriri for self-destructing just now?"

"It's a different time now." Kasumigaoka Utaha smiled slightly, waved goodbye to Machida Sonoko who was cleaning up the scene with the staff, and then she and Eriri left the scene, one on each side of Jiang Lianqiu.

Jiang Lianqiu also said goodbye to Xing Jianya and temporarily turned off the five senses sharing - after all, he had a date with two other girls next.

On the way, she explained, "Sawamura-san didn't explain it clearly just now. According to the plan she and I have, once a specific target person comes into contact with the second volume of the novel, they will unconsciously call our cell phone."

Waving her women's cell phone decorated with stickers and diamonds, Kasumigaoka 08 Shiyu excitedly moistened her dry lips with the tip of her tongue.

After working hard for a whole afternoon, she didn't even have a sip of water.

Listening to the two girls' plan, Jiang Lianqiu nodded secretly and took them into a stretched car that had been waiting nearby for a long time.

The driver was Hans, who was disguised as a professional driver.

Jiang Lianqiu took out two cans of iced juice from the refrigerator in the back seat and handed them to Kasumigaoka and Eriri respectively before saying, "The plan is still a little imperfect. What if the other party calls and you happen to be sleeping or don't answer for some other reason?"

"Also, you should have informed me earlier, so that I could have asked Befa to help you sell the book more and increase the chances of discovery."

"I've been designing suggestive symbols with Sawamura-san lately, and racking my brains to incorporate them into the content of the second volume. I'm almost going crazy from all this."

Kasumigaoka Utaha leaned her head tiredly on Jiang Lianqiu's shoulder and let out a breath.

"It's inevitable that there will be many unexpected things. Besides, I was thinking of it as a surprise in the first place, so if I tell you in advance, it's no longer a surprise."

"As for sales, Junior, don't underestimate my current strength. Even without relying on Befa's secret promotion, I am confident that the second volume will sell like hotcakes. The book signing is just the beginning. The subsequent sales will definitely amaze you."

"Should we consider animation? Or even a live-action TV show or movie?" Jiang Lianqiu suggested. "Would those suggestive symbols work here?"

The scope of light novel sales is ultimately limited. Only after it is adapted into animation, live-action TV, or movies will more people see it.

This time, Kasumigaoka Utaha did not answer, but looked at Eriri. After all, painting was her area of ​​expertise.

"No problem!" Eriri came closer eagerly. "But I need to supervise the production process. Otherwise, even the smallest changes in the details will greatly reduce the effectiveness of the message."

"I suddenly regret not telling you about this from the beginning." Kasumigaoka Utaha suddenly sighed, "Sawamura-san and I thought too simply. If we had told you earlier, maybe it would have had an effect by now."

"It doesn't matter. If I really want to, the Love Metronome animation or even the live-action movie will be on TV tomorrow."

Jiang Lianqiu tapped Kasumigaoka Shiyu's forehead.

"You don't really think, with our technological capabilities, that we still need to follow the traditional methods of producing animation or TV movies, do you? We don't even need real actors. We can just allocate a little computing power to the AI ​​in the Silver Corona underground base and get it done in no time."

In a few years, the generative AI developed by humans will be able to automatically generate pictures and even short animations of a few seconds. There is no reason why they still need to use traditional methods to do this.

Kasumigaoka Utaha thought about it and realized that it was true.

She suddenly clasped her hands together in a compassionate manner and prayed, "May those poor office workers in the industry not lose their jobs to your unreasonable techniques..."

At this moment, the vehicle suddenly stopped slowly.

Hans, who was acting as the driver, turned around, grinned at Jiang Lianqiu, and gave him a thumbs up: "Boss! We're here!"

Arrived? Where?

Jiang Lianqiu then remembered that he had not told her his destination yet, and turned to look out the window curiously.

The ambiguous lights and flashing neon lights all show what kind of place this is.

Love hotels...

"Tsk tsk, you really can't wait." Kasumigaoka Shiyu's eyes were dim, and her fingertips kept poking Jiang Lianqiu's arm. "I let others work hard for you during the day, and now I have to work hard with my body at night?"

"Being carnivorous to this extent, while not offensive, it's a bit annoying, you know?"

Eriri even stuttered: "Wait wait! You you you you—you're not going to let me be with this shady woman…"

She had unknowingly accepted Kasumigaoka Utaha's existence, but together with this "mortal enemy"...

An illustrator always has a rich imagination, especially since she is an 18X artist.

In an instant, countless restricted scenes flashed through her mind, and Eriri fell to the ground with mosquito coils spinning in her eyes.

Kasumigaoka Shiyu covered her mouth in surprise and said, "What on earth is this kid thinking about?"

She looked at Jiang Lianqiu with a very subtle look: "Could it be that there are some terrible ways for you, my junior brother, to play the game that I don't know about?!"

Jiang Lianqiu silently pulled out his gun and pointed it at Hans's forehead: "Who told you to arrange this?"

Hans immediately raised his hands in the French salute. "Boss! Let me explain! The Belfa leader said today was a day for you to relax! But you didn't say what you were going to do, so I asked Christina. This was her idea! Originally, my plan was to take you and the two ladies on a ride in outer space to watch a supernova explode!"

"Christina...that's not surprising." Thinking of that weird robot servant whose books were mostly evil, Jiang Lianqiu began to wonder whether he should take some time to give everyone a serious ideological education?

However, there is an old saying at the University of Tokyo - since we are here, right?

There is something that Kasumigaoka Utaha said that is very true.

He is an absolute carnivore.

and--

Jiang Lianqiu leaned close to Kasumigaoka Shiyu's ear and whispered in a voice that only the two of them could hear:

"Senior."

"Ok?"

"Are you interested in folding Eriri?"

"...You really have a lot of bad tricks that I don't know about."

In a sense, the character setting of the senior sister does include the word "bad".

Chapter 89: Yukinoshita: Are you fighting?

Although it was Saturday, it didn't mean that there was no one in the private Fengzhiqi College.

At least some sports clubs will arrange club activities during this period.

As for the Service Club founded by Yukinoshita Yukino, although there is no arrangement in this regard, she is the only one in the entire club now, so what she wants to do naturally depends entirely on her wishes.

The room used as the club's activity room was just an ordinary classroom, with desks and chairs cluttered in the corner. It was obvious that it was usually used as a warehouse and utility room.

Apart from this, in a room that looked no different from an ordinary classroom, a girl with long black hair was sitting alone by the window, basking in the sunset, her eyes lowered as she carefully flipped through the book spread on her lap.

Then, the classroom door was violently pushed open.

Noticing someone coming in, Yukinoshita Yukino put the bookmark into the paperback and raised her head.

"Hiratsuka-sensei, I should have reminded you to knock before entering, right? Where did you develop this habit?"

"Don't give me that! Kasumigaoka from the literature club next door never knocks when she comes into my office!"

Shizuka Hiratsuka strode in and closed the classroom door.

"I believe that the senior sister did this because of you."

Yukinoshita Yukino had naturally heard of Kasumigaoka Utaha, and the two had occasionally met, but they had no communication.

Turning her eyes, she saw two unopened paperback books in Shizuka Hiratsuka's hands.

Judging from the cover...a light novel?

Yukinoshita Yukino raised an eyebrow: "Hiratsuka-sensei, are you still reading these?"

"This is for you." Shizuka Hiratsuka directly handed over the first and second volumes of "Love Metronome" in her hand.

Yukinoshita Yukino took it, but had no desire to open it.

She is not very interested in light novels, and is more interested in reading various traditional literary classics and a bunch of strange works.

The cover and title clearly showed that it was one of those popular light romance novels on the market, and in her eyes, there was no need to read it.

Hiratsuka Shizuka clearly knew what Yukinoshita Yukino was thinking. She crossed her arms and said proudly, "I advise you to give it a read. The first volume is okay, but the second volume is such a huge improvement over the previous ones that I can hardly believe it. With the literary skills that child demonstrated in the second volume, entering the field of traditional literature will be no problem at all."

This piqued Yukinoshita Yukino's interest.

There are people who debuted with light novels and then ventured into traditional literature, but they are quite rare. And to be praised by Shizuka Hiratsuka like this, and even referred to as "that kid"...

Glancing at her pen name, Kasumi Shiko, Yukinoshita Yukino's lips curled up.

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