In the center of the capital planet, the palace is magnificent and majestic. Behind several layers of protective nets that are invisible to the naked eye, well-trained guards stand on high levels with their nerves tense.
June officially passed, heralding the arrival of the second half of the year. At eight o'clock in the morning, the emperor and empress appeared in front of the camera on time to announce the main policy direction and some important arrangements of the imperial family in the second half of the year to the people of the whole empire.
These routine speeches seemed somewhat lifeless, and few people except politicians would care about the details. However, the emperor and empress still did a perfect job in front of the camera, and the lengthy manuscript was almost hypnotic under the emperor's smooth voice.
Until one sentence came out, everyone who wanted to listen focused their attention, and even rewound and listened to it again to confirm that they had not heard it wrong.
"Marshal Qin Nuo of the First Legion will return to the military headquarters in the capital planet to work at the end of July."
As soon as these words were spoken, it was like a spark being thrown into dry wood, and it immediately brought about a huge wave of public opinion on the capital star.
Qin Nuo has never lacked various dazzling halos, but in fact, except for the occasional appearances in some social occasions necessary for nobles when he was still young, most of the time the outside world only asked about him but never saw him. This situation became even worse after Qin Nuo entered the Imperial Military Academy. Until he stayed on the front line of the deserted planet with the First Legion, Qin Nuo himself returned to the capital planet only a few times in the past ten years. This is a world of difference from those nobles who like to show up and win favor in the eyes of the people.
He was the ironclad candidate for the next emperor, a diamond bachelor at the cosmic level. The entire empire, spanning the three realms of ABO, was filled with his fanatical admirers. Now that the news of his return to the capital planet had been announced, it was no exaggeration for most people to celebrate.
Naturally, no one cared about the depressed and worried royal family. In fact, even the emperor and empress had largely given up and left everything to fate. After all, according to Qin Nuo's reputation and the ability of the Williams family at this time, he could actually control the entire empire at any time.
The green light of the camera went out, and the queen, who had been standing next to the emperor with a smile on her face, immediately restrained the smile on her face and turned away coldly.
The emperor casually threw the manuscript to the minister beside him, then turned his head and looked at the indifferent queen with contempt, and then strode forward. The queen lifted her skirt and left the hall in another direction without looking back.
Little A conscientiously played the public speech of the emperor and his wife to Lin Yi. When the scene ended, it put away the projection on its head and turned to look at Lin Yi, only to find that Lin Yi was not listening to it at all, but was concentrating on checking the mailbox on his personal terminal with one hand against his cheek.
As a qualified imperial intelligent computer, Xiao A, who firmly believes that the royal family is equal to glory and nobility, is considering whether he should call Lin Yi over to watch the emperor's speech again.
But before that, it is more important to bring the nutrient solution over! Thinking of this, Xiao A's wheels started to roll.
The reason why Lin Yi was staring at the computer in a daze was that he received an email that was somewhat unexpected to him. It came from the official account of a movie that was still in filming.
This interrupted Lin Yi's plan to go directly to the Imperial Forum to see what kind of response the song he published yesterday received.
The name of this movie is "The Wasteland", and some relevant information can be found from the original owner's memory alone. At that time, he had just finished filming an advertisement, and the movie "The Wasteland" was also casting. Yinyue Entertainment originally wanted to push the original owner to be a vase male supporting role, and he did pass the audition at that time, and even signed the contract. However, after so many things happened later, Lin Yi, who was in a high-pressure area of negative news, never thought about this matter at all. After all, he didn't think that "The Wasteland", as a movie with a lot of attention, would let him play the male supporting role. Lin Yi even felt that the other party should not want him, a person who almost aroused the anger of netizens across the empire, to have any connection with this movie that can be said to be authentic and reflects the suffering and choices of early border guards and ordinary people on marginal planets in the war.
But surprisingly, although he was indeed deprived of the supporting actor role, "Into the Badlands" did not completely remove him. Even from the content of the email, the wording was mostly reluctant, just because the contract had already been signed with Lin Yi, and the other party just did not want to violate the contract. Whatever the reason, the fact is that Lin Yi did get a role as a minor actor in a large crew.
Lin Yi didn't mind being the main character or a minor character. In fact, when he was sorting out his memories, the movie "Into the Badlands" had once made him feel bright, and he also regretted that he was destined to lose this opportunity to participate in the film. But he didn't expect that at this moment, the opportunity would come back again.
As a semi-documentary film, "The Wasteland" has escaped many of the problems of current films in the Empire in terms of filming. Compared with the very conservative use of technology to replace all real scenes, the film "The Wasteland" was set to be filmed on location from the beginning, throwing out all props that affect the expression of real emotions. If this is nothing, then the filming location was set on the planet of the wasteland, which has indeed been baptized by countless wars. This requirement seems too crazy.
You know, although the war has subsided now, it is true that the barren planet receives several shells every day, and it is still one of the most dangerous places in the entire empire.
This is why many celebrities turned down the opportunity to perform.
But Lin Yi didn't care about it. In fact, according to official data, the number of people who died from shells on Wasteland has been zero for two consecutive years. In addition, what made Lin Yi more interested in participating in the film was the director of the movie "Wasteland". He was a complete action madman. In recent years, he was famous for his unique and novel content and bold and spicy speeches.
He once mercilessly criticized the current empire's film and television works, saying that "90% of them are garbage" and "they are not performances at all, they are zombies and puppets." He said that he "will make works that are truly eye-catching."
These words are indeed unpleasant to hear, but in Lin Yi's opinion, they are indeed in line with reality. The entertainment industry in the empire is almost on the path of abnormal development, and it is terrible that no one wants to correct it.
However, I don’t know if it was to scare him or make him back off, there were a few lines of small text at the bottom of the email, reminding Lin Yi how bad and dangerous the environment on the desolate planet is, with the intention of dissuading Lin Yi from backing off.
Lin Yi didn't care about the environment of the desolate planet. He was more concerned about the salary of the extras displayed in the corner, which was no more than 5,000 yuan. This price was ridiculously low for a half-month shoot in the market.
Lin Yi tapped his fingertips lightly on the table. He wanted to act, but he had to succumb to the fact that he was now broke. So he lowered his head and asked Xiao A at his feet: "How much money is left in my account?"
When Xiao A heard about money, the red light on his head jumped. He quickly replied, "After deducting the energy usage fee for the past two days last night, the balance in the account was negative fifty point three two yuan."
Forget it, just make it a negative number.
Before Lin Yi could get too nervous, Xiao A spoke again.
"Master, I have evaluated your current assets. The most reasonable action at this point is to sell my machine casing." Little A's tone seemed calm, but the red dot on his forehead that was almost flashing in a line completely exposed his nervousness and uneasiness.
Lin Yi chuckled twice and didn't reply, but opened the Empire Forum again, ready to see if there was any response to the post he posted in the music section yesterday.
According to Lin Miao's reference to other posts about published works, no matter what the quality of those works is, the least can get a few hundred yuan, and the most can get thousands of yuan. Most of the netizens in the music area are in a state of mutual support and are willing to encourage each other. Lin Yi estimated that even if the song "Dawn" he published yesterday might not be well received in the early stage, it should have earned him a few hundred yuan in the music area by now.
He never expected that most of the netizens who listened to "Dawn" yesterday did not sleep well all night and shared his work with each other, so that Lin Yi's song flooded the entire music section of the Empire Forum in less than one night, and pushed the popularity of the post published by Lin Yi to the front page of the Empire Forum, and also attracted many onlookers from other sections.
Everyone who has listened to this song, even those who cannot accept such a turbulent and intense style of music, has to admit that this song has a strange, heart-touching magic, and it has undoubtedly broken away from the shadow of previous imperial music, becoming unique and distinctive.
"It's amazing! I played this song to my brother (he's a retired soldier). You know what! My brother! Is a very tough alpha. He actually cried in front of me. Although he doesn't admit it now, I saw him secretly tip a thousand yuan for this song (smile)."
"The author is definitely not human! I was getting goosebumps the whole time I was listening to the song. I can't express my feelings in words now! I love this author. I guess the author must be a soldier. I will propose to him on the spot!" Plus a reward of 2,000 yuan.
"Little O upstairs has started again, right?"
"As an old member of the music district, I am really about to cry when such a great man appears in the music district at this critical moment. I think the music district can still be saved!"
Lin Yi did not anticipate this situation, and of course he was unprepared when logging into his account. As a result, Lin Yi's cheap personal terminal went black.
Because countless people who were staring at his avatar noticed that his avatar lit up, and then almost simultaneously clicked on the call request, which directly flooded his terminal.
"Hmm?" Lin Yi patted the personal terminal on his wrist, somewhat confused. He glimpsed Xiao A next to him who was still worried, and teased Xiao A, "Xiao A, can you sell the personal terminal?"
Personal terminals can be sold, but personal terminals are where all of Little A's data is stored. If Little A is sold, he will become a homeless child. He may be taken back and then allocated to homeless people on lower planets.
Lin Yi felt that he was as bad as a parent who scared his child, but he couldn't help this evil taste.
Little A really panicked. Although he wanted to lie, he couldn't really say it out loud. There were more than just red lights flashing on his head, he was actually ringing the alarm. Lin Yi's head hurt when he heard it, and he immediately regretted doing such a bad thing.
"Quiet." Lin Yi lowered one hand and touched Xiao A's round head. "Don't worry, I won't sell you out."
The alarm in little A's head finally stopped, and then he stood by Lin Yi's feet, silently, but looking very aggrieved.
During this brief interlude, Lin Yi's personal terminal returned to normal and he finally successfully logged into his account.
A system prompt popped up in front of Lin Yi: "The system has detected too many voice and video call requests and has temporarily blocked this function. Users can turn it on manually at their discretion."
Before Lin Yi had time to figure out why this was happening, he had already noticed that almost all items in the background had message prompts of 9999+. Even more shocking was the account balance displayed in his background.
After rounding off, it's exactly two million, neither more nor less.
The income in the Empire Forum is very transparent. Almost every post can be rewarded as long as the user is willing, with a minimum of one cent and no upper limit. However, after the author receives the income, he needs to share it with the platform, and each party gets half of the income from the reward. This half of the income, after deducting taxes, is the author's net income.
The two million currently displayed is the income after being split equally with the platform. Even if the remaining amount after deducting taxes may be only more than one and a half million, this figure is enough to solve the financial crisis that Lin Yi is currently facing.
It was half expected and half unexpected. Lin Yi stared at the screen for a while, calmed himself down, clicked on the main page of the post, and after quickly browsing some of the enthusiastic reward messages in the front row, he finally typed a line of words as everyone expected.
“Thank you for your love. I will continue to create if I have the chance.”
The people who had noticed that Lin Yi had logged in but immediately went offline were a little surprised and disappointed, but when they saw this message, they became excited again.
A huge wave of praise and questions came towards Lin Yi again.
The two most common questions were: one was asking when Lin Yi would be able to release new works, and the other was asking when Lin Yi would cancel his anonymity.
The reason why he said he would continue to create if he had the chance was not to deliberately whet people's appetite, but because Lin Yi really didn't like to create for the sake of creation. If he didn't have to, he would rather follow the inspiration. As for canceling his anonymity, it was even more impossible at the moment.
This song does seem to be very popular at the moment, but in fact, the majority of the rewards are still from users in the music section, after all, the population base of the Empire is here. Millions of rewards sound exaggerated, but in fact, in the Empire forum, it can only be ranked in the tens of thousands, and the highest reward posts by big shots are counted in units of 100 million.
Compared with the public's disgust towards Lin Yi at this time, this bit of liking can be said to be vulnerable.
However, Lin Yi's mood became cheerful again.
His fingertips brought the page back to the email interface of his personal terminal, and he signed the filming consent form for "The Wasteland" without hesitation.
Now, Lin Yi thought, he could say that he had made a good start.