Work Prophet
Chapter 574 - 6 The Surprise Brought by Lu Weijia

Chapter 574: Chapter 6 The Surprise Brought by Lu Weijia

Che Haishen learned about it on the third afternoon when Li Yu’s short video had already amassed over nine hundred thousand views.

It even made it into the top twenty of the charts at one point.

Che Haishen was recommended by his roommate to watch it to cheer up, but after he finished laughing and looked up at the uploader’s name, he was stunned.

He collaborated with Li Yu, so of course, he kept an eye on the views across platforms, and he remembered this Bilibili account since he had watched it quite often before.

Back then, the comment section was practically deserted, and the few comments that were there were mostly negative.

But now, when Che Haishen checked again, he found that it had completely changed.

Not only had the views increased more than tenfold, but the comment section was also bustling, and some people were criticizing those who had previously given bad reviews.

They said that this generation was no good, lacking a sense of humor and an understanding of the abstract, followed by another group clamoring to protect "Sister Ying Man".

They strongly suggested that the director recast Ying Man and reshoot the first episode, promising that everyone would spend their last coin on it.

After watching, Che Haishen felt something was off, especially since he was quite close to Ying Man and had been surprised when he learned that she had started an account online to cover popular songs and had amassed a following.

But maybe because he was busy working on music back then, he didn’t have time to think much about it; later, when the data came in and the views were poor, it even led to Ying Man being criticized by people.

Che Haishen looked at the messages below, some saying Ying Man’s voice was unpleasant, suitable only for crying at graves, and former fans of Ying Man expressing their disappointment, unfollowing and bidding farewell.

Although Ying Man herself said it was normal, "If you’re upset by the comments, don’t look at them. Wait until you feel better and then see—people’s mouths belong to them, but your eyes are your own."

But Che Haishen still felt quite regretful and had simply been avoiding Ying Man these days.

Now seeing Li Yu making a transition to funny short videos, and after becoming popular, the situation with Ying Man started to improve, Che Haishen finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Picking up his phone to tell Ying Man the good news, Che Haishen’s fingers paused halfway through typing his message.

He exited WeChat, opened NetEase Cloud Music, searched for Ying Man, and found that her albums, especially the recently released songs, had a lot more comments, including many from visitor groups.

Ying Man even interacted with a few of them.

One person asked if Ying Man could also appear in a swimsuit in future performances, to which Ying Man responded with the words "Dream on", ending this friendly exchange.

Che Haishen scratched his head, wondering why Ying Man, who already knew about it, hadn’t told him.

As Che Haishen was pondering what Ying Man might be thinking, he received a call from Zhang Yanlin.

Zhang asked him if he had been on Bilibili these days and when he would be free to come to Bratis Culture Communication Co., Ltd. to discuss the production of the next few songs.

It just so happened that Lu Weijia also needed some video music, and since the two previously doomed songs were now showing signs of revival, Li Yu decided to release a few more.

After all, for him, this task was even simpler than copying videos.

Additionally, Li Yu hadn’t made exclusive deals, setting up accounts on TikTok, Kuaishou, and YouTube too. If he could establish himself further, taking on some advertisements, the income should be quite substantial.

It could also alleviate the predicament of not having enough budget every month.

After returning to Bratis, Li Yu shared this good news with Lu Weijia through the radio and immediately awarded him a set of brick houses as a reward, and also asked Lu Weijia if there was anything else he wanted.

Lu Weijia thought for a moment and said that he also wanted a laptop, as he was still using the office computer from Niu Xiangui for video editing.

By then, Li Yu had already started worrying about the budget; the second-hand Celeron processor laptop given to Niu Xiangui wasn’t a problem for coding, but it was too struggling for processing videos.

Additionally, Lu Weijia wanted a set of photography equipment; the tool he currently used for shooting was an Eco-friendly Frog-picked Xiaomi 6 phone, and its battery was also failing—after each charge, it could only last less than three hours.

Once the weather turned colder, he reckoned it might be discounted even further.

These were all office supplies, and of course, Li Yu wouldn’t refuse, but this meant another significant expense.

However, aside from asking Li Yu to invest money, Lu Weijia also brought him some good news.

After passing the Universal Language T4 exam, he officially started working and picked up the knowledge he had learned in college, began prospecting near Green Field, and quickly made a discovery.

According to Lu Weijia, he had always been interested in Black Stone City, not far from the next door.

It was because Fosto’s consultant had mentioned that the city got its name due to the black stones found there.

Moreover, those stones seemed to be capable of burning; however, because the smoke produced during burning was too heavy and the smell wasn’t very pleasant, not many people used them.

Based on this, Lu Weijia deduced that there might be an open-air coal mine near Black Stone City.

As a modern man, Li Yu was certainly aware of the value of coal; without this inconspicuous black stone, England would have never heralded the Industrial Revolution.

But even if the coal mine near Black Stone City existed, it was located on the Immanuel Family’s territory, and mining would require negotiations with the Immanuel Family.

This matter had to wait until Li Yu and Ireya returned.

Therefore, Lu Weijia still focused on Green Field; he searched in the direction of Black Stone City, didn’t discover coal, but unexpectedly found a Red Iron Ore mine.

Red Iron, also known as ochre, whose chemical composition is ferric oxide, is a relatively common type of iron ore and can be used to smelt steel.

Besides iron, the Red Iron Ore often contains other metal elements like cobalt, nickel, copper, and lead, but with Green Field’s current technology, it was challenging to separate and extract these elements.

So this Red Iron Ore mine was mainly used for smelting iron; coincidentally, Green Field’s demand for iron was also continuously rising, and Li Yu also knew some iron and steel smelting methods.

With this Red Iron Ore mine, Green Field could attempt to produce its steel, and quality steel and iron always had a great market on the Bratis Continent; their value was considerable, otherwise, those excellent armors wouldn’t be handed down among the nobles here.

Li Yu’s humanoid add-on, the servants of Saturday, finally began to show their individual skills and tricks, contributing to the development of the Double Rest Sect and Green Field.

This also greatly pleased Li Yu, proving that his faith points were not spent in vain.

A person’s energy and knowledge are always limited; to propel the wheels of civilization to move forward faster and to spread the doctrines of the Double Rest Sect more quickly, suitable helpers are indispensable.