The Daily Life Of A Cyberpunk Magician

Chapter 193 - 154 My Colleague is a Big Star_2
Chapter 193: Chapter 154 My Colleague is a Big Star_2”Oh—” Jiang Shu settled back into his seat, stretching around the waist with an ambiguous murmur spilling from his lips.

He opened the Thunder Platform and started his wonderful life.

The four spirits alpha, beta, gamma, and delta also instantly crowded around, loving nothing more than to watch the fun unfold.

And Jiang Shu clicked on the trending topics—

Let’s see, who’s the hottest topic today.

Alpha: Who lives in the large police station of the Seventh District—

Alpha Beta Gamma Delta: Police Chief Wolf!

Beta: Tall and burly, with thick armpit hair—

Alpha Beta Gamma Delta: Police Chief Wolf!

Gamma: If solving cases everywhere is your wish—

Alpha Beta Gamma Delta: Police Chief Wolf!

Delta: Then give Jiang Shu a call for help—

Alpha Beta Gamma Delta: Police Chief Wolf!

Alpha Beta Gamma Delta: Busy every day—just adding to the hassle—Wolf—Police Chief—

Jiang Shu: ”...”

Just rhyme already, and shut up, you four.

He looked at the hot search rankings; as expected, the top one was about Police Chief Wolf, especially his verbal duel face-to-fact with the fox. In just a few hours, the viewing numbers had reached a terrifyingly near ten million.

Taking another look at the video, Jiang Shu observed it frame by frame, then nodded in satisfaction.

Good, the moment he realized he was on a live broadcast, he had intentionally disappeared from the camera’s view, basically blending into the background, not showing his face until after the live broadcast had ended.

A magician appearing in such a place, who knows what kind of trends it could set off online.

And with the video about Wolf going viral, the Seventh District police station’s image suddenly became gloriously spotless, and even those supporting the Deception Group were less active.

After all, the waves of online frenzy come one after another; although no one knows what the next mainstream trend will be, at least one can ensure to keep up with the current wave.

And Wolf’s image wasn’t bad either, the type of rugged American tough guy, much more masculine compared to the fox’s cute boyish look, plus the added boost of being a Police Chief...

At least Jiang Shu had already seen plenty of comments about having Wolf’s babies; not only that, but he also spotted a giant poster of Wolf.

The poster featured a full-body image of Wolf with the caption ”Detective Tiger.”

Such a nickname made Jiang Shu feel a bit uncomfortable.

My bro Wolf surely doesn’t have the time to be a moocher, right?

Out of the top ten hot searches, six were related to Wolf and the Deception Group. This kind of heat generates its own traffic, very eye-catching and money-making.

The tenth-ranked hot search was a video titled ”The Real Identity of Magician Jiang Shu is Actually...” Out of curiosity, Jiang Shu clicked to watch.

The video analyzed how Jiang Shu as a magician could have become the mastermind behind the Deception Group and plotted so many Deception cases. At the end of the video, the uploader seriously talked about how Jiang Shu started learning magic from scratch.

Yeah, he and Jiang Shu were fellow disciples, except that they fell out over a woman...

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Jiang Shu then saw a familiar nickname in the top-ranked comment: Gurayi.

”An old man lived by weaving bamboo baskets. One day, tired, he fell asleep. His son saw and decided to help with the work. The next morning, the old man woke up and saw what happened, he panicked and shouted, ’My child, if you can’t weave, then don’t—’”

Jiang Shu: ”...”

How should I put it, Xiaoyi’s way of teasing others still has that special flair.

While watching the video halfway, Jiang Shu received another barrage of calls from Wolf.

Although he didn’t know what was going on, it surely wasn’t anything good.

Assuming it might be some important news, Jiang Shu answered the call.

”Ah ah ah ah ah Jiang Shu Jiang Shu Jiang Shu! Save me!” Wolf’s voice came from the other end of the phone, almost bursting Jiang Shu’s eardrums.

Jiang Shu moved his wristwatch a little further away, only bringing it closer after Wolf had calmed down to his usual state.

Wolf...

Usually not so loud and outspoken, right?

”What’s up?” Jiang Shu asked.

”I’m famous now, do you know?!” Wolf said loudly on the other end of the phone.

Jiang Shu nodded in response, ”Hmm, congratulations, you’ve become famous.”

”Who wants to be famous, you know that Charles the old... Police Chief, how are you, what’s up?” Wolf complained, but then he changed his tone, as if something had happened on his end.

A moment later, Wolf continued, now deliberately lowering his voice, ”There’s already a TV station inviting me to be a guest, and even a film crew approached the Police Chief, offering a lot of money! That old... that guy just sold me out. I’ll be on a variety show in a few days? Heavens, I, Wolf, on a variety show? That kind of thing? Huh?”

”Going on a variety show... Isn’t that good? You could use the opportunity to promote the police station, spread some social positive energy, just perfect to offset the mess the fox has caused recently.” Jiang Shu thought of many benefits off the top of his head. Such cultural promotion, if done well, could be very useful, ”It might even help reduce the crime rate in the city.”

Although he said this, Jiang Shu couldn’t help but laugh to himself.

My colleague is a big star, haha.

”Huh?” A puzzled voice came from Wolf’s end. He became suspicious, ”Did Charles talk to you? Why do you sound exactly like him?”

”Uh, perhaps great minds think alike. Don’t resist it, you know this is a good thing, right?” Jiang Shu began to patiently counsel his partner, ”Let’s not talk about all that now, at the very least your worth has doubled, hasn’t it? And I’ve seen you already have quite a few little fangirls. Aren’t you almost thirty and you’ve never seriously dated, aren’t you anxious? Moreover, this is for the good of all humanity, if you won’t do it, tons of people are lining up!”

”Really?” Wolf was somewhat suspicious, but he knew that this sort of thing really was all benefit and no harm.

The only possible downside was that he might catch the attention of some criminals, but being targeted by those walking commendations...

Is there such a good thing?!

”Hmm, of course.” Jiang Shu nodded to take responsibility for his advice.

”Would you be willing to do it?” Wolf asked again. His tone sounded a bit relieved.

”Hmm?” Jiang Shu quickly noticed the change in tone, and a bad feeling suddenly arose, ”What did you do?”

”Nothing, just thinking it would be nice to have a familiar face along for this kind of thing. Kirie would be perfect, but her dad won’t let her show her face in public, too risky.” After a bit of explaining, Wolf unsheathed his sword, ”So I told them you were coming too. They asked me to check with you, which I guess I just did, right? You also think this is a good thing, right?”

Jiang Shu: ”...”

So that’s called shooting yourself in the foot, huh? Is there anything more messed up than that?

”Just one variety show? That’s fine.” Jiang Shu sighed. If it’s just one show, it’s actually alright, and he could freeload some audience reach to get a derivative entry with a high restoration level for Magic like Flame Spirit.

”Eh, don’t worry, that’s not all, there’s also a movie.” Wolf continued, drawing the sword again, ”They actually want me to star in a crime-solving suspense film, and I heard it could even be a big holiday release next year, how cool! But acting isn’t really my forte.”

He went on to say, ”I was thinking, you once boasted to me about your acting skills, and even Li Yuntang praised you, right? So I recommended you. How about it? Want to experience your worth skyrocketing?”

Indeed, there’s something more messed up than that, like shooting yourself in the foot twice, once on the left and once on the right.

”This movie... forget it!” Jiang Shu said irritably, ”I definitely can’t do that.”

First, no time.

Second, no benefit, he’s not short on money right now.

Third, if Sister Ruo sees it, won’t she come and beat him up?

Hiss—actually, that might not be so bad.

Is this what they call mutual rush?

Wait, the star is me???

But if he could incorporate Magic elements into the movie, he wondered if he could earn a derivative entry. If so, the higher the box office, the higher the quality of the derivative entry...

Maybe pull off a more impressive Magic act, who knows how high the restoration could be.

But when Magic appears in movies, often times it’s considered film effects or editing, right?

”You agreed?” Apparently hearing Jiang Shu’s silence as deep contemplation of the pros and cons, Wolf asked again.

”I did not agree!” Jiang Shu immediately replied, then he remembered something important, ”By the way, are your police station’s archives connected with those of other district stations?”

”They’re connected, yeah, we’re all in one system, and some cases are cross-district, which makes consolidation easier.” Wolf continued.

Jiang Shu said, ”I need to access some archives, can I borrow your card? No problem, right?”

”No problem,” Wolf agreed, ”Just don’t delete your browsing history, I’m afraid others might gossip.”

”Alright.”