I am a Big Player
Chapter 113 - 112. The Name of the Knight (Sixth Update)_1

Chapter 113: 112. The Name of the Knight (Sixth Update)_1

The endorsement contract between Ren He and TK Company went smoothly, just as An Si had discussed with Ren He before. However, in the end, a confidentiality agreement was still signed. Ren He agreed to keep the endorsement amount confidential, allowing TK Company to maintain a competitive edge. Of course, this is based on the premise that Ren He would continue to be popular.

TK Company, on the other hand, was to keep Ren He’s identity a secret. Ren He knew he couldn’t always hide his face when playing such games, but it wasn’t the right time yet. He also needed time to let Ren and Mrs. Ren slowly accept this situation.

Then came the shooting of the high-definition video. TK also hurriedly found China’s top commercial filming team to produce the video overnight, racing against time. In the eyes of Ren He, who had experienced the advanced network of the future, the popularity of every topic was indeed limited. If not quickly capitalized on, one would only fall behind.

What Ren He had to do was work with them to make every action in the video perfect.

At this point, An Si and his team had already begun laying the groundwork for the official release of the video by building momentum and creating buzz. So, he needed Ren He to give him a name that could be publicized.

"Knight," Ren He thought for a while and said, "Just call me Knight, the English word ’knight’."

Ren He had pondered over this name for a long time. He had once said that he wanted to be Yang Xi’s knight, and the name Knight was quite interesting for someone who cycled!

"Knight..." An Si savored the name and then his eyes lit up, "Okay, this name fits perfectly with our promotion strategy. I even have a name for the video, ’The Name of the Knight’!"

The filming team arrived in Luo City the next evening. Before their arrival, TK Company had already signed a confidentiality agreement with them, which included not leaking the video in advance and keeping Ren He’s identity secret. The video shoot was expensive, and TK Company’s signing of the confidentiality agreement also shifted some of its risk. If a leak came from the filming team, it would be their financial responsibility.

As soon as Ren He met the filming team, he realized their professional level. The plan to shoot the video during the day was changed to night by the team, and the location was still set at the place where Ren He had drifted in the original video.

The reason was that the nighttime lighting effects would be more dreamlike, and filming at the original location would resonate more with those who had seen the first video. Both Ren He and TK Company accepted this suggestion.

The leader of the filming team was called Liu Erbao... When Ren He saw how professional the team was, he thought their names would be very trendy, but it turned out to be so down-to-earth...

However, this was just the beginning of showcasing professional commercial filming spirit. At midnight, Liu Erbao even arranged for professional cleaning equipment to start cleaning the road. The shooting location was dusty with visible yellow soil, but they cleaned up the entire road with high-pressure jets, including the surrounding green belts.

This cleaning task started at 11 PM and did not finish until 4 AM. Ren He admired their willingness to spend 5 hours on such a meticulous task, no wonder they were the top commercial filming team in the country now.

After the cleaning was complete, the whole road looked as if it were brand new, clean and refreshing like in a commercial blockbuster!

By 4 AM, dozens of lights were set up, many cameras were mounted, and two small cameras were attached to the bike. The filming team had two trucks just for transporting equipment. From a distance, Liu Erbao gave Ren He and An Si a thumbs-up, "We’re ready!"

This gave Ren He the feeling of shooting a movie. However, he wasn’t nervous but rather excited. It felt amazing! So many people had hustled for 5 hours of prep work just to shoot a few seconds of video for him!

He rode his bike up the slope and pulled out a Red Scarf from his pocket to tie around his face... He considered using something different to cover his face, but then thought there was no need to change it. Using the Red Scarf was good enough – who wasn’t a Red Scarf when they were young?

Atop the slope, Ren He took a deep breath. Seeing this, Liu Erbao laughed and said, "Don’t be nervous, safety first. If it doesn’t work out, we can reshoot. This isn’t live."

But he didn’t understand that Ren He’s deep breath was not because he was worried about safety or the shoot not being successful; he wanted to play big one more time!

At that moment, a few high school students walked out from the internet cafe behind him, the very students who had uploaded Ren He’s video to the internet. They had arrived at the internet cafe at 10 o’clock, so they were completely oblivious to the events happening outside. This place was quite remote, and not many people frequented the internet cafe.

So, when they stepped out of the internet cafe and saw the brightly lit street, and Ren He with a red scarf around his head, standing on his mountain bike... They felt as if they were seeing God!

The high school students were just about to pull out their phones to record when they were stopped by Liu Erbao’s team.

By then, Ren He was ready. When he had shifted his entire body weight onto the bike, he suddenly stood up, and his mountain bike started to accelerate, plunging down the slope!

An Si was shocked out of his wits, "Don’t do it!"

As a professional, he understood what Ren He might be attempting as soon as he saw him accelerating madly!

In the original video, Ren He didn’t have this much speed, and even then, without deliberately accelerating, his speed while entering a turn was close to 50 kilometers per hour!

At this speed, An Si could already imagine that if Ren He didn’t slow down in time when entering the turn, the speed during the high-speed drift would definitely exceed 60 kilometers per hour!

This defied common sense. A bicycle is not a car; its own weight is too low, it can’t withstand such impact force, and would surely flip over due to inertia!

However, the next moment, Ren He didn’t maintain his center of gravity like in the original video; instead, as he entered the turn, he pressed down with his entire body on its side. This move reminded everyone of the action during a high-speed turn on a professional motorcycle racing track. He was using the tilt of his body and the bike to create centripetal force to counteract the centrifugal force formed when taking a high-speed turn!

He actually made cycling feel like riding a motorcycle, even the filming crew members were astonished, with their mouths wide open!

An Si roared, "Have you lost your mind!"

But Ren He was totally calm inside. The bike from TK Company was indeed good, especially the tires—they had top-notch grip!

His superior physical condition played a significant role at that moment, and Ren He was confident that at that moment his control over balance was worthy of two words: Perfection!

The next second after the turn, Ren He’s bike was already straightened out completely, and he erupted with tremendous power to accelerate again. The first turn, perfectly executed!

Isn’t extreme sports all about challenging oneself again and again to do things that oneself or humanity have never been able to accomplish? Ren He knew that any slight mistake just now would have meant a two-month hospital stay, but so what?

If one can’t make extreme sports exhilarating for oneself, what’s the point?!

And in fact, he had navigated the first turn with the most perfect posture!

Navigated it... An Si stood there woodenly. As a professional cyclist, he knew how difficult that maneuver was. Motorcycles can indeed make high-speed turns like that, but such motorcycles weighed several hundred kilograms!