I Forged the Myth of the Ancient Overlords
Chapter 114 - 114 113. Let him eat it_1

Chapter 114: 113. Let him eat it!_1 Chapter 114: 113. Let him eat it!_1 The warm morning sun shone into the living room, casting a golden hue all over the floor.

Lu Ban saw the blurry figure seated on the sofa as if it was waiting for him, or perhaps simply lost in a daze.

His greeting received no response, the figure didn’t even lift its head.

“So, the ability of True Sight is to see these supernatural things that don’t belong to the human world?”

Lu Ban pondered to himself.

“Is this similar to Yin Yang Eyes?”

He knew very well that despite the different environments and varying supernatural abilities of the Silent Lands, there was one unchanging principle: the more you knew, the easier it was to fall into madness, to lose your sanity.

For instance, Lu Ban was originally a pure and good-natured youth. Under normal circumstances, he would never have seen eyeballs in the sewer, dead people in mirrors, or the blurry figure now sitting beside the sofa.

But because Lu Ban had acquired relevant knowledge and information, he was now able to see these non-human entities.

That is to say, Lu Ban’s True Sight grew clearer the more he understood the relevant situations, allowing him to pierce through illusions and see the truth. In other words, in a different worldview, it would be an ability as convenient as having fiery golden eyes.

It’s just a shame that in the Silent Lands, such powerful true vision only allowed Lu Ban to see more things that could easily drive one mad, burning away reason.

“Oh, I’ve already lost my sanity, so it doesn’t matter.”

Lu Ban got dressed and went downstairs, ordered a serving of xiaolongbao, a bowl of sweet soy milk, and two sticks of youtiao at the soup bun shop on the street corner. He sat down, took out his mobile phone, and started browsing while eating.

While eating, Lu Ban noticed a child at the next table staring at him, seemingly craving his xiaolongbao.

“If you want to eat, ask your parents to buy some for you. You can’t just eat from someone else’s bowl.”

Lu Ban spoke with earnest concern, glancing at the woman sitting next to the child. Hearing Lu Ban’s words, the woman looked over with confusion in her eyes.

“You too, as a parent, how can you only care about your own meal and not buy one for the kid?”

Lu Ban met her gaze.

The woman was taken aback and looked suspiciously at the empty space beside her, then back at Lu Ban.

“What are you talking about… there’s no child here.”

“…”

Lu Ban silently looked at the child gazing longingly at him.

“Come over here.”

He called out.

The woman muttered something about him being crazy and took her bowl to sit at another table further away, occasionally glancing back at Lu Ban.

Meanwhile, the child obediently sat down at Lu Ban’s table.

Lu Ban noticed the child’s face was somewhat pale and swollen, eyes red-rimmed, clothes neat and clean, with no visible injuries. It was unclear what might have happened to him.

Lu Ban ordered another set of xiaolongbao.

“I’m not sure if you can eat human food, but I’ll just leave it here.”

He pushed the basket of xiaolongbao to the next seat over and continued looking at his phone.

That’s when Lu Ban saw a piece of news.

“Yesterday, a primary school student drowned while swimming in the Lingjiang River. Authorities urge citizens not to swim in the river during the flood season and to take care of their personal safety.”

Opening the news article, there were no pictures, just a brief description of the incident. It seemed a group of primary school students went swimming in the river, encountered rapids, and one was swept away. By the time the child was found downstream, he had already drowned.

“Is that you?”

Lu Ban showed the news article to the child.

The thought occurred to him that the child’s pale face and red-rimmed eyes did indeed resemble someone who had drowned.

Whether it was his imagination or not, when Lu Ban looked at the child again, his face appeared a bit clearer, revealing wrinkles in the skin from prolonged immersion.

The child remained silent, tears welling up in the corners of his eyes.

“I dare not anymore…”

He muttered as if admitting his mistake and apologizing.

“It’s already too late.”

Lu Ban sighed, and the old man eating millet porridge behind him turned his head upon hearing this, looking very puzzled.

“Try to be reborn properly, and remember in your next life, start on your journey after you finish these steamed buns.”

After all, Lu Ban was not a Taoist or a mage; he didn’t know the techniques to guide the deceased to the beyond, so he could only advise thus.

He lowered his head and continued to look at the news that had come up.

“Nanhua Private Renji Hospital’s demolition and construction work suspended due to comprehensive planning.”

“Jiangcheng Grand Theater’s renovation project first phase plan finalized, expected to start early next year.”

“Ink Town Cinema experiences consecutive filming accidents, relevant departments intervene to investigate safety hazards.”

“A murder case in Shu Capital recently, the murderer killed two people before hanging himself.”

“A civil dispute in Yuan City caused by a mother and daughter falling in love with the same man.”

Such social news, Lu Ban read carefully, some could be noted down as inspiration, some just for fun, and some made one clench fists.

After finishing the steamed buns and devouring the soy milk and deep-fried dough sticks, he raised his head again to find the child was gone.

The tray of steamed buns in front of him was empty, without a trace.

“I hope you can find a good family.”

Lu Ban stood up, under the dubious gazes of people around, he left the breakfast shop and went back home.

The computer turned on, the desktop icons twisted and transformed into the System’s indifferent and cold text.

[Career Development Task]

[Time to step onto a new stage, in an era where entertainment reigns supreme, even common people can show themselves, keep creating, your future is bright and dazzling!]

[Task requirements: Produce a video longer than thirty minutes and earn revenue of one million yuan]

[Earned revenue: 0/1000000 yuan]

[“Let him feast, let him feast!”]

“One million in revenue?”

Lu Ban recalled that the last career development task was ten million views, and now it was a revenue of one million yuan, seemed like a big leap, right?

Legitimate video revenue, even with ten million views, could not possibly reach one million yuan in revenue according to traffic settlements, no, even with a hundred million views, it would not be that much.

Depending on mere video website traffic revenue to complete this task would be very difficult.

“Feasting?”

Lu Ban noticed the hint under the task.

The so-called “feasting” is essentially a high emotional intelligence way of saying advertising. Some video creators, after achieving a high number of clicks, become influential social media, naturally attracting manufacturers to approach them for advertising. These advertising videos are referred to as “feasting” activities.

However, Lu Ban had previously obtained some information from Song Yunyan, and now even the top video social media figures only get a six-figure sum for “feasting” on ads. To aim for one million in ad revenue was virtually a pipe dream.

Even if combining both, feasting on both traffic and ads, Lu Ban estimated that earning one million would be far-fetched.

“Three months, huh…”

Lu Ban saw the task’s deadline was in three months, that is, before the end of this year, and he was lost in thought.

“Better check the materials first, though.”

He decided to first check the video materials, as he had never yet seen the reward for one-hundred-percent perfect task completion.

Lu Ban opened the folder on his hard drive that had appeared at some unknown time.