Late at night, in a bedroom in a residential complex in Hu City.
Wu Jianwen, who had graduated from university just over a year ago, sat before his computer with messy hair, editing a client's private MV and personal photo album.
As a professional homebody photographer, Wu Jianwen had set up his own independent studio, specializing in providing clients with photo shoots and simple MVs.
Thanks to his excellent skills, high quality, and lower prices, Wu Jianwen had made a bit of a name for himself in the personal photography circle in just over a year.
Although post-production took quite a while, clients were always very satisfied after receiving the finished products, earning him plenty of repeat customers.
"Phew... Finally done..."
Wu Jianwen let out a long breath, patted his round belly, checked the files once more, then packaged the MV and photo album and sent them to the client's email.
"I'll browse Bilibili for a while to relax."
With that thought in mind, Wu Jianwen logged into his Bilibili account—Ri Dangwu de Chuhe.
Then he discovered that his notifications had exploded. Replies and likes had both hit 99+.
What was going on?
"Which of my shameless comments made it to the top?"
Wu Jianwen muttered as he opened his notifications, only to find that the "detective work" comment he had posted out of boredom that evening had gone viral.
Seeing all the praise from his Bilibili brothers, he could not help but smile.
But after browsing through the comment sections of Ill-informed Wen and Qiuqiu yiyi, he could not help but frown.
It felt like things... had gotten a little out of hand?
He had posted that comment purely as a joke, because he thought it was interesting how the details in the three videos connected together.
But after the netizens stirred things up, it had started to take on a different flavor.
Still, judging from things now, why did the two people involved seem so unconcerned?
Not even a statement?
Gu Wen, on the other hand, had posted a new video.
Curious, Wu Jianwen clicked into the Interpreter's video and started watching.
[Gu Wen drew the design blueprint freehand and marked the lines onto the wood.]
"I'm watching this for the third time!"
"Boss, you're insane!"
"Those who kept spamming Qiuqiu, could you please get lost?"
"Zitan wood is insanely hard!!!"
"Liked, coined, favorited! Dark Repulser, let's go!"
"A whole new world at 2x speed."
Wu Jianwen stared blankly at the lively bullet comments filling the screen.
A handicraft video from an uploader with fifty thousand followers had only been out for a few hours, yet it already had this kind of popularity?
He checked the numbers: 2,000+ likes, 1,000+ coins, and 1,000+ favorites. The ratio was obviously abnormal!
Normally, likes outnumbered coins by several or even more than ten times.
If the number of likes and coins were so close, it meant the video's quality truly spoke for itself.
Seeing that, Wu Jianwen could not help feeling curious and expectant.
[Gu Wen used a massive plane to shape it roughly, cut out the sword hilt at the end with a saw, began the initial sanding with sandpaper, then jumped directly to the blade after its first round of polishing was complete.]
"Just adding a few hundred million details???"
"What did we miss in the middle?"
"Hardcore!"
"All you need are hands... but I don't have any..."
"Please remember, this is actually wood!"
[Gu Wen tossed out a pile of used sandpaper.]
"Hard work."
"Save the sandpaper for wiping your ass~"
"He's keeping the sandpaper companies alive."
"Literally sharpening a blade."
"A human polishing machine."
[The sword blade was shown in full for the first time.]
"My attempt to freeload has failed."
"I really want Master Tong's sword!"
"Sharpness +5."
"You've got my coins!"
"Forming a team to steal the sword (1/100)"
"Wouldn't it be better to steal the person?"
[Gu Wen began making the guard, drew a design, pasted it onto the wood, secured the wood in a vise, then used a chisel and hammer to hollow out its interior.]
"A man with a vise."
"This hardness? I'd believe you if you told me it was iron."
"This wood might be harder than iron."
"I'm out of coins."
[When the shot jumped to the point where the guard was nearly finished, a bandage had appeared on Gu Wen's left thumb.]
"Uploader, you've worked hard."
"Hard work."
"Hard work."
[He polished the guard, installed it onto the blade, then continued sanding and polishing the entire sword.]
"Just sand it a few hundred million times."
"Coach, I want to learn!"
"Why do you want to learn everything? Is this something a human can learn?"
"The accuracy is absurdly high!"
"Mom! There's actually a person growing on this liver!"
[After polishing was complete, the sword was displayed in full again as sword-themed BGM began playing.]
"Everyone, rise!"
"Interpreter! Mine!"
"The battle anthem begins!"
"I only need a few hundred million years to make an identical one."
"Wait, holy shit, the progress bar!"
"There's still half the progress bar left??"
"A ghostly progress bar."
[He secured the guard with glue, took out wood wax oil, and applied it.]
"I'll go first—injecting the soul!"
"Injecting the soul!"
"Injecting the soul!"
[The third full display, followed by the start of the scabbard. He took out two long strips of oak, gradually chiseled out the inner space of the scabbard, then glued the two pieces together.]
"My hands hurt just watching this."
"Pure handcrafting is way too difficult..."
"Too bad I can only give two coins."
"I'll give one Rem!"
"How about three hundred thousand Happy Beans?"
"I'll offer one million Creation Pills!"
"Do you take Federation currency? I'll offer one hundred million!"
[He waited for the glue to dry, then began sanding the scabbard and finally spray-painted it.]
"I actually watched this far at normal speed!"
"Normal speed all the way!"
"Real men watch at 0.5x speed!"
[He made the sword belt from genuine leather, trimming the edges, wet-sanding, applying edge coating, punching holes, adding rivets, threading and stitching it, then beveling the edges.]
"Holy shit, there's even a sword belt!"
"It's really a complete set?"
"Durability +1."
"I want to go steal it."
"Another bandage. That hurts to see."
[With everything completed, he assembled and displayed it. Gu Wen sheathed the Interpreter, placed it into the sword belt, slung it over his back, and struck a sword-drawing, slashing pose.]
"Holy shit, that sword aura!"
"ohhhhhhhhhhhhh!"
"Must like, coin, and favorite!"
"Awesome!"
"Pair it with a black trench coat and it'd look insanely cool!"
[Gu Wen picked up the Interpreter, took out prepared cucumbers, a watermelon, and Coca-Cola cans, and began testing the Interpreter's power.]
[He cut a cucumber with the Interpreter effortlessly.]
"Danger!"
"Cucumber:???"
"Holy shit, my lower half just went cold!"
"Cut a boyfriend."
[He cut the watermelon in half with one strike.]
"Watermelon: Don't come over here!"
"Not a single worthy opponent among them. [doge]"
"I'm splitting apart."
"This sword hasn't even been sharpened yet!"
[He poked a Coca-Cola can. It punctured instantly, and he could even shave it into thin slices bit by bit.]
"This is wood?"
"This is actually the uploader's Armament Haki!"
"No wonder Nie Gai used a wooden sword later on. [smirk]"
"One new prison trick a day."
[Thanks for watching.]
"My conscience won't let me leave without liking, coining, and favoriting."
"Liked, coined, favorited."
"Liked, coined, favorited."
After watching the video, Wu Jianwen fell silent for a moment. In the end, he let out a long breath and rewatched the final showcase and tests several more times.
Touching his slightly thinning hair, Wu Jianwen thought of some of the comments he had seen earlier under Gu Wen's and Qiuqiu's videos, and felt a little ashamed.
So he immediately entered the comment section and began composing a new comment using his [Ri Dangwu de Chuhe] account.
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