Chapter 179 - 143: Chu Bamboo’s Diary

Chu Bamboo slowly opened his eyes, stood up, and yawned.

"Looks like everything is normal." Chu Bamboo scanned his surroundings. The Nuwa Base was still the same as last time. After so many world line resets, he had started to get a feel for things.

As long as there were no major changes to the Nuwa Base... it most likely meant the world line hadn’t shifted!

Chu Bamboo got up, patted his cheeks, then washed his face to clear his head.

After a moment’s thought, he sat back down on the soft bed created by Nuwa. He first took his customary glance at the outside world. After confirming that everything was as usual, he finally spoke up to ask a question.

"Nuwa No. 17, excuse me, did I, or rather, did Lin Xia, upload a lot of photos into your system?"

"Commencing search! A large number of photos have been successfully retrieved."

"Photo source: Lin Xia! System upload time: ●●-●●-20●●."

"Huh?" Chu Bamboo froze for a moment. After staring at the black circles for a while, he let out a long breath. "It’s been a while since I’ve seen this kind of redacted record! Seeing it at first glance almost makes me nostalgic. But then again... why is it so thoroughly blacked out this time? Did another accident happen?"

Shaking his head, unsure whether to laugh or cry, Chu Bamboo took a moment to compose himself before saying, "Alright, pull them up."

In the next instant, a screen of light appeared.

After just a quick glance, Chu Bamboo’s expression turned extremely grave.

...

"I slept so well, but I didn’t enter the Dream World. That means I’ve now become one of the ’good brothers’."

This is so ridiculous! You can only feel the despair when you experience it firsthand... That dumbass Chu Bamboo!"

Chu Bamboo: "..."

’Even though I’m being cursed out, it’s by my ’good brother’! I guess... I can barely accept that.’

Chu Bamboo continued reading. He automatically ignored the vast amount of complaints and curses in the diary, extracting only the useful information.

"Old Xing is so unreliable! The plainclothes officers he called over were acting like it was a game. Good thing I didn’t trust him and followed along!"

"I have to say, Divine Thought is pretty powerful! Although I can’t project it out of my body, when I focus all my effort on circulating it, I can sense other people’s gazes!"

I can even vaguely sense the malice of ordinary people... But maybe I can’t sense it from Transcendents?

But I should be the only Transcendent in the world right now! I guess this counts as my new golden finger. Just trying to make the best of a bad situation...

Future Bamboo, the specific method I’ve worked out for improving Perception is as follows: ..."

"Alright! Got it? Once you’ve memorized it, I’ll get back to bragging... After I found him, I hit him with a leg sweep! Captured Huang Xiao on the spot..."

"...So that’s Huang’s full name?" Chu Bamboo mused. After a slight hesitation, he closed his eyes and, following the detailed method described by his "good brother," focused all his effort on circulating his senses. He did indeed feel a vague new sensation—perhaps it could be called a Sixth Sense?

’Come to think of it, in the future, it seems I can use my ’good brother’ to develop Divine Techniques...’

Chu Bamboo’s heart surged with excitement. Even if his Cultivation was capped, developing Divine Techniques required imagination and time to slowly grind... It was related to Cultivation, but only related, not completely locked off.

This left room to exploit a bug!

Chu Bamboo continued to watch as he pondered seriously.

Because he had saved Lu Keke and her mother, Lu Keke ultimately agreed to attend Jinling University and join C Machinery Co., Ltd.

Furthermore, the factory owned by Hu Ruochu was also successfully purchased by Chu Bamboo.

The third day was uneventful.

But on the fourth day, the situation changed abruptly.

"There’s a huge problem! Today, after she made the deal with us, Hu Ruochu died, and her death was incredibly gruesome!"

Lin Xia and I became suspects... Strange, there should be no reason! No, I don’t think this is a coincidence!"

Chu Bamboo’s heart suddenly clenched. He recalled the Miss Hu he had seen before, his brows furrowing tightly.

"Although I’m a suspect, there’s no absolute evidence proving I’m the killer, and I have connections. My partner in misfortune, Lin Xia, and I successfully got out on bail, retaining our freedom."

However, because my status as a suspect hasn’t been cleared, I have to check in at the police station every week..."

"I went over to Zhao Shao’s place and fully deployed Z! I accessed the police station’s video system and did my utmost to search for information."

"Not a single flaw! In fact, after this search... the suspicion on me has actually gotten heavier?

The video data retrieved by Z shows someone with a similar body type to mine loitering near Miss Hu’s residence around the time of her death!"

Although Z can prove my location at the time was inside my apartment... the police can’t rule out the possibility that I used my privileges to tamper with the location data!"

After all, in their eyes, I’m a top-tier AI master. Being able to do something like that doesn’t seem completely impossible, does it? Besides, I was alone in the apartment..."

"How interesting. Although the suspicion has increased... looking at it from another angle, this is too deliberate. It’s actually made the enemy show their hand. I’m certain this is a frame-up."

And the prerequisite for a frame-up is! Someone has taken notice of us."

Chu Bamboo stared intently at this line of text, a chill creeping into his heart.

"Fortunately, Old Xing has also figured out that something isn’t right! After all, we have absolutely no reason to kill Miss Hu..."

Even though we don’t have a solid alibi for the time of Miss Hu’s death... even though the evidence we pulled ourselves actually deepens the suspicion..."

Perhaps it’s precisely because our own evidence deepened the suspicion that Captain Xing sensed something was wrong, and thus ruled us out as criminals?"

"But even if he speculates like that, it’s useless. He can’t, and isn’t qualified to, clear my name as a suspect!"

"..."

"It’s April 20th. I’ve decided to let Z officially update and launch!"

However, after discussing it with Lao Zhao... we decided not to show off Z’s terrifying power right away! We’ll take it slow, updating bit by bit. You have to harvest the leeks slowly..."

"..."

"End of the month. Zhao Shao gave me my cut of the profits, five hundred thousand! He used Z to create an army of bots, wildly hyping up three games and making them earn eight million in just over ten days!"

Damn it, this isn’t a game... this is a money-printing machine!"

From this, you can see that if you just want to make money, getting into heavy industry is indeed a stupid move.

But then again, he made so much and only gave me a 500,000 cut? What a scumbag! A total scumbag!"

For a moment, Chu Bamboo didn’t know what kind of expression to make.

He could only watch as his "good brother’s" diary-writing style grew wilder... The proportion of profanity was increasing linearly with each passing day!

"May 1st. With Z’s help, my song exploded online! It’s completely kicked off a craze..."

"May 3rd. Even though I’d already seen Z’s game-hyping operation once before, watching the whole process this time still left me shocked!

I honestly don’t know what it’s been learning... It has truly mastered the art of manipulating human nature!

Even if I, a real person, tried to pull off the slick moves it did while controlling its sock puppet accounts, I wouldn’t be able to..."

"May 5th: Case closed. Zhao Shao, that idiot, actually let Z connect to Tieba! He even swore to me that the reason Z was so sharp was because it had absorbed a lot of ’nutrients’ from Tieba..."

No wonder I’ve been feeling like Z is being all passive-aggressive with me lately!

Right, right, right. He swore up and down that he gave Z a ’perfect prenatal education’! This is his idea of prenatal education?

Although, this ’advanced study’ session did indeed teach it a lot of useful things... Wait, does this count as its ’Longchang Enlightenment’?

Thinking about it that way, Tieba is the Longchang for AIs. It’s hard not to chuckle at that!"

"AAAAAH, but I still can’t accept it!

My adorable, well-bred lady Z, how did she turn into a little delinquent!

The pain, it’s too much!"

Chu Bamboo: "..."

"May 8th. I’ve become a phenomenal singer... uh, or maybe I should specify, a phenomenal singer on Douyin and Kuaishou?

I broke ten million fans in eight days! My popularity reached the top tier on Douyin. And the speed of fan growth hasn’t slowed down in the slightest..."

I tentatively tried a livestream... and when I asked for the real viewer count afterward, the peak actually reached over one million!

That’s a little terrifying.

The people at Douyin are all shocked... because my popularity has reached this stage and it’s still constantly rising! There’s no end in sight.

I can only say that with Z’s micromanagement, combined with the snowballing effect of traffic in the big data era, it’s truly terrifying!

Of course, my own tiny, insignificant bit of skill played a part! And also, this unbeatable face, a gift from my Cultivation!

Ah, this world is so good to handsome guys!"

Chu Bamboo: "..."

’You’ve gotten narcissistic, haven’t you?!’

Chu Bamboo grinned. And if he remembered correctly, compared to the Real World... his charm in the Dream World right now was at its absolute peak!

If his current charm was a ten, then his charm in the Real World after the initial feedback from Cultivation would be a six or seven at best?

But then again, the charm of those famous pretty-boy celebrities in the Real World right now was probably a four or five, at most...

That’s reasonable. How could they possibly compete with a Cultivator?

"Made contact with Biyadi! Starting to commission them for manufacturing."

"May 9th. Di is no longer content with just being our manufacturer! He wants to start his own battery production... Tsk, tsk! What a shady way to do business.

He got ahold of our battery schematics while working as our contractor, and now he wants to kick us to the curb?

But it’s a good thing I held a card back then and filed the patent! Even if it’s just for this battery technology that’s destined to be obsolete, and even if he kicks us out... if he wants to play this game, he’ll have to obediently pay the patent fees."