The Witch's Taste

Chapter 149 Mother's Advice

After bidding farewell to Sarah Hek, Chen Ziang activated his dying breath and left this strange world of "dying spirituality".

Returning to reality again, he reappeared on the second floor of his house.He took out his phone to confirm the time, it was already two o'clock in the afternoon.

The flow of time in different worlds is quite different. For example, the time in the dream world passes much faster than outside—many people who strayed into the dream world wandered spiritually in the dream for a long time. After returning to reality, they found that It didn't take long at all.

The Dying Realm seems to be just the opposite, because it is a temporary spiritual place for dying people, so time is slower than reality.It's like a fatally injured person who wakes up from a coma and realizes that several days (sometimes even longer) have passed, but it doesn't feel that long.

So he quickly sent text messages to three women, Yuegong Lingnai, Xia Qingyu and Xia Zili.

The message to Tsukimiya Suzuna briefly explained what she saw and heard in the dying state, the attitude of the ghouls eager to seek cooperation, and the two tasks they proposed.

After waiting for a long time, there was no reply from Suzuna.

Chen Ziang felt very strange, because the girl sent her messages before, and basically replied in seconds... Considering that the matter was more important, he decided to make a phone call.

The call was made, but the result was that "the user you dialed is not in the service area".

How strange.Nowadays, most of the surface of the plateau planet has signal coverage. There are only three possibilities to let the mobile phone signal leave the service area: very deep underground, outside the atmosphere, and where there is signal shielding equipment.

Now that there is no way to contact her, Chen Ziang can only continue to send messages to Xia Qingyu, the content is roughly that he has returned safely and can go to work tomorrow.

"Okay." Xia Qingyu's reply was also very simple, only one word.

Chen Ziang clicked on Xia Zili's chat interface again, and was about to type when he heard the sound of the door opening outside.

He raised his head, and saw Xia Zili closing the door, putting his hand on his slippers, and holding a bag of something in his other hand.

Then she raised her gaze, and the two looked at each other, and the atmosphere seemed a little awkward.

"Uh, Xia Zili." Chen Ziang tried to break the atmosphere, and said with a smile, "Thank you for agreeing to help take care of my sister yesterday. Fortunately, I came back in time, so I didn't cause you too much trouble, right?"

"No." Xia Zili quickly waved her hands, "I just brought her breakfast and lunch."

She put the plastic bag in her hand on the table, which contained a box of strawberry cake.

My younger sister loves strawberry cake, of course Chen Ziang knows about it, but he is not sure if he has mentioned it to Xia Zili.

If not, there is only one explanation: Xiao Zhu told her by herself.

Reminiscent of his younger sister who appointed Xia Zili to take care of her, Chen Ziang couldn't help crying in his heart:
Sister, it is said that her daughter's elbows are turned outward, why is this younger sister also extroverted?Usually he likes to ignore me, but he is easy to talk to Yuegong Suzuna and Xia Zili, right?
Seeing that Chen Ziang's expression was obviously wrong, and Xia Zili was also slightly disappointed for no reason, he forced a smile and said:

"Since you're back, I'm leaving."

"Why don't you stay and have a meal." Chen Ziang subconsciously said, "Thank you very much."

"Have afternoon tea?" Xia Zili thought for a while, "That's fine, I just brought a cake."

She put the cake on the table, set the knife and fork and the dinner plate.Chen Ziang pulled out a chair for her, and helped her younger sister to sit down.

The three of them started to eat cakes, and Chen Ziang took the initiative to find a topic for chatting and asked:
"Is your business going well recently?"

"It's okay." Xia Zili said annoyed, "How can it be considered smooth?"

"Looking at it from an outsider's point of view." Chen Ziang said thoughtfully, "If there are no gossips and no decline in popularity, even if the career is developing smoothly."

"That's not the case." Xia Zili was amused by him, "You misunderstood. In our line of business, exposing scandals is the only way to increase popularity."

"Why?" Chen Ziang had also heard similar arguments, but he really didn't know the reason, so he humbly asked for advice.

"Because the essence of Internet competition is the competition for users' attention and time." Xia Zili skillfully explained, "Users are bombarded with all kinds of information every day, and it is easy to forget any celebrity. , so black material, as relatively explosive news, can quickly grab the attention of most people."

"But won't black material damage the star's reputation?" Chen Ziang asked puzzled, "Even if it can attract attention, it will mostly have a negative impact."

"It depends on the situation." Xia Zili replied, "If the brokerage company deliberately hypes it up, it will usually release some innocuous black material, such as having an affair with someone... I will explain it later. It's okay if it's clear."

"Of course, there are still some small stars who are relatively low-end. They may not behave very well and have exposed a lot of scandals, so it doesn't matter if they continue to reveal more scandals to attract heat. After all, the original fans are already After the second screening, it is difficult to remove the powder because of the new black material, but there may be new powder after the heat increases, maybe it does.”

Listening to Xia Zili's eloquence, Chen Ziang suddenly remembered the Democratic Pioneer Party "party stick" Iwata Qingchuan who brazenly brought up taboo topics at the debate meeting.

Now the Department of Public Security has been ordered by its superiors to find out a lot of his black material, and use it to retaliate against his reputation-but is it really useful?
As Xia Zili said, people who are stupid enough to trust the Democratic First Party may not have a very high IQ, and they will release all black material about the Democratic First Party as a propaganda machine of the British Party rumors.

Because of this, no matter how many illegal deeds of Iwata Qingchuan are found by the Public Security Bureau, at best, it can only make people who don't like him dislike him even more, but for his hardcore voters and voters, I'm afraid the impact will be minimal. .

"I'm full." Xia Zili stood up and said apologetically, "There is still a commercial performance tonight, so I have to leave early."

"I'll see you off." Chen Ziang said hastily.

Leaving the house, there is the Tonegawa River and the sidewalk along the river outside. The two walked side by side, and it seemed that there was nothing to talk about.

Of course, if Suzuna Yuegong was here, she would be very skillful in finding various topics to talk about and liven up the atmosphere, but Xia Zili did not have such social skills.

Usually, even on variety shows, she would answer whatever the host and guests asked.If you don't ask, she just sits quietly - of course, with her popularity, no show dares to ask her to just "sit" as a guest.

At this moment, Chen Ziang beside him didn't speak, and Xia Zili was also a little embarrassed, and wanted to find some topics to talk about, but it was too abrupt when he thought about it, and it was too boring when he thought about it, and there was no way to express the thousands of thoughts in his mind , seeing that this trail was about to reach its end, and there was a busy road outside, she couldn't help feeling more and more anxious.

The phantom of the mother slowly emerged from the side, and with her forward speed, it floated above the river.

Xia Zili signaled from the corner of her eye, thinking in her heart:
"Mother! What should I do?"

"Hold him directly." The mother said in a mysterious voice that only she could hear, "and then kiss him."

"Finally, before he could react, he left without looking back."

(End of this chapter)