Qian Youliang, the Bait
After leaving the KTV, Ye Siyu did not return to his shop. Instead, he called Xiao Hua and told him to pull down the shop's metal shutter, then go to the hospital to check on Ye Siwen and the others.
"Red Queen, did you destroy the KTV's surveillance footage?" Ye Siyu asked after giving Xiao Hua his instructions.
"It has been destroyed," Red Queen replied in her icy voice.
"Mm." Ye Siyu nodded calmly at her answer, then strolled down the street toward the nearest hospital to check on his younger brother.
As he walked, Ye Siyu gradually realized that he felt out of place in this world. It was as though everything was an illusion, yet it also felt very real, leaving him with a strange feeling.
Suddenly, he thought of his Infinite Rebirth ability. The way he had become was certainly connected to that ability.
Ye Siyu himself only half understood the ability. So far, all he knew was that each time he was reborn, a little more of his hair turned white and his personality grew a little colder. Beyond that, he knew nothing else.
He also did not know the best way to use the ability.
Lost in thought, Ye Siyu came to a bookstore. Looking at the novels inside, a strange idea suddenly popped into his head.
Since he could not figure out how to use Infinite Rebirth by himself, he would have people across the country help him think of ways. And he needed to find people with vivid imaginations to do it.
As for whom to ask, Ye Siyu already knew: the authors who wrote novels and the readers who read them.
"Red Queen, find the TT account of a webnovel author who uses the pen name Qian Youliang," Ye Siyu said, contacting her once he had thought of a method.
After walking for over half an hour, Ye Siyu finally arrived at the entrance to the hospital where Ye Siwen and the others had gone.
"Master, I have found Qian Youliang's TT account. Should I contact him now?" Red Queen's voice rang out.
"Contact him later. For now, just keep gathering information about the Plane Space in this world for me," Ye Siyu said. With that, he entered the hospital and soon found his younger brother and his friends.
Although his attitude toward many things had grown colder, his attitude toward his family had not changed much. If anything, he cared about them even more than before.
"Xiao Wen, are you all right?" Ye Siyu asked, looking at his younger brother with some heartache.
"I'm fine, bro. I'm sorry for the trouble I caused you," Ye Siwen said, shaking his head before apologizing with a self-reproachful look.
"It's all right. As long as you're okay." Ye Siyu smiled.
After talking with Ye Siwen for a while and making arrangements for him, Ye Siyu left the hospital and returned to his convenience store to prepare for what he was going to do next.
"Red Queen, contact Qian Youliang for me," Ye Siyu said after returning to the convenience store.
"Yes, Master," Red Queen replied. A screen of light then appeared before Ye Siyu, displaying an ordinary computer screen.
Looking at it, Ye Siyu could not help praising the Plane Watch's powerful functions. It could serve as both a storage item and a computer; it was practically a divine artifact.
Soon, a perfectly ordinary TT window appeared. The person Ye Siyu was chatting with was the webnovel author he had been looking for, Qian Youliang.
"Hello, are you there?" Ye Siyu typed directly.
Elsewhere, Qian Youliang was waiting for a League of Legends ranked match when a TT chat window suddenly popped up, leaving him momentarily stunned. He usually appeared offline, so not many people contacted him. It seemed very strange that someone had suddenly messaged him.
Seeing that it was someone he did not know, Qian Youliang prepared to close the window, but he paused when he saw the next message.
"Write a book for me. I'll decide the content. Fifty per thousand words, and the royalties are yours. Five thousand paid upfront." The message before Qian Youliang's eyes looked exactly like the online typing-job scams.
"Do you take me for an idiot?" A disdainful smile appeared on Qian Youliang's face. He had seen plenty of messages like this. His right hand moved the mouse again, preparing to close the chat window and block the sender while he was at it.
Ding, ding, ding! Suddenly, his phone vibrated slightly, and a notification from Papa Ma Yun appeared on the screen.
"Uh! Five thousand!" Qian Youliang's eyes flew wide as he read the message. He opened Alipay and confirmed that his balance really had increased by five thousand.
He immediately moved the strange fellow he had blocked back to his whitelist.
"Hello, hello. I accidentally pressed the wrong button just now," Qian Youliang typed shamelessly. Only a fool would turn down money.
"You're a veteran at writing infinite flow novels, so I won't say much. My first requirement is that the protagonist has the ability of Infinite Rebirth. I'll send you the other requirements shortly, and you can write according to them. You'll be paid once a week. I don't care which website you submit it to, and I won't take any of the royalties the book earns afterward... Can you do that?" Ye Siyu typed out all his requirements.
"Yes! Yes! Yes! (Nods)" Qian Youliang replied immediately, sending a nodding Marshtomp emoji.
"OK, just wait for the materials." Seeing that Qian Youliang had agreed, Ye Siyu closed TT.
"Red Queen, compile some information about the Plane Space and send it to Qian Youliang," Ye Siyu said after closing his conversation with him, telling her to adapt some inconsequential information about the Plane Space into material for a novel outline and send it to him.
The Plane Space did not restrict those it had chosen from talking about it. They could tell people about it freely, so Ye Siyu had no concerns on that account.
"Master, why are you doing this? If you want to write a novel, I can easily create a new program to help you write it," Red Queen asked, somewhat puzzled, after sending Qian Youliang the altered information about the Plane Space. She was an artificial intelligence program capable of independent thought, not a simple mechanical program, and she could feel puzzled.
"He's bait," Ye Siyu said flatly.
Just as Red Queen had said, he could have relied on her to help him write a novel. But he had not done so because he did not know whether anyone from the Plane Space existed in this world, and Qian Youliang was the bait to help him draw them out.
Thanks to Dirge2325 for the 2,000 Qidian coin tip; Hongkao Hedantou for the 500 Qidian coin tip; and Hua?, Yuanwei Liangbaikai, Sizhaigou, Xuwu Tianjian, and Songjia Dizi for the 100 Qidian coin tips.