The Daily Life Of A Cyberpunk Magician

Chapter 311 - 196: Tang’s Fatal Weakness_2
Chapter 311: Chapter 196: Tang’s Fatal Weakness_2It was something Jiang Shu willingly did.

The ”Sky Tower” needed to be kept hidden from the Main Brain; it was his deepest secret, while the other things he did as ”The Smiling Face” needed to be kept hidden from Lonely City, which was a mid-level secret.

On the surface, he was still just an ordinary magician in the Entertainment Series of Lonely City.

After descending from the rooftop, he entered Mother Fish’s apartment and knocked on the door of her bedroom.

The doorknob turned, the door opened, and Jiang Shu stood at the doorway.

The one who opened the door was just one of Mother Fish’s tentacles, while she was fully soaked in a large fish tank, wearing a simple swimsuit, her upper body lying on the water surface as she looked up at the projection on the ceiling.

Within her reach, a basin of marinated small dried fish floated on the water surface. No, at this point, only half of the basin was left.

It seemed Mother Fish had been here for quite a long time.

Jiang Shu looked up to see a horror film he had never seen before playing on the projection. Judging from the level of special effects and cringeworthiness, it was a low-budget film.

Looking again at Mother Fish, though her face was still expressionless, the way she stared unblinkingly with half a dried fish in her mouth and not chewing suggested she was thoroughly enjoying it.

”Are you getting used to living here?” Jiang Shu asked with a smile.

Mother Fish nodded, then one of her tentacles reached out from the water, gently pushing the basin of dried fish, inviting Jiang Shu to try some.

”No, thanks,” Jiang Shu waved his hand to indicate he wouldn’t eat, and the tentacle reattached its sucker to the basin of fish, dragging it back beside her.

”Do you feel bored? Sorry, you can only stay here for a short time,” Jiang Shu continued, as there was no other option.

Unless Mother Fish could physically look like a normal person, she couldn’t appear in public sight.

The Terrorism Control Bureau would eliminate her without hesitation.

Even if she was discovered to be different from those mutants who only knew how to kill, there was absolutely no chance of sparing her.

At best, she would be taken away for slicing research.

Mother Fish expressed her thoughts using sign language.

Xiaojia timely translated her thoughts: It’s much better here than being locked in ”that place.”

”That place”...

Clearly, it was the Special Prison.

”That’s good,” Jiang Shu nodded and then instructed, ”If you need anything, remember to call me.”

Mother Fish nodded like a pecking chicken, her movements displaying a childishness that didn’t match her cold and elegant demeanor.

Then, seeing Jiang Shu no longer speaking, she resumed watching the low-budget horror film.

Jiang Shu silently glanced at the bedroom’s arrangement and then turned to leave.

The movie premiere was tomorrow; he needed to prepare another surprise for Tang.

—

Inside the screening room, the premiere of the movie began,

Unnamed Extras.

As these four characters appeared on the giant movie screen, the audience fell into silence.

Jiang Shu, as the lead actor, naturally sat in the first row of the audience, with Li Yuntang on his left and Director Ye Zheng on his right.

He glanced at Li Yuntang, her perfect face still the same.

Her features were delicate, but there was no off-putting arrogance. Instead, in both her daily life and on camera, she maintained a demeanor that was neither aloof nor overly approachable.

Apart from being Lonely City’s hottest star, she was also the City Lord’s daughter.

City Lord.

Jiang Shu’s mind couldn’t help but harbor doubts.

The City Lord, as the carrier of the Main Brain’s consciousness, could he also have a child?

What exactly was Li Yuntang then? A living person or something else?

He used the Mind Reading Technique on Li Yuntang.

[The movie has started.]

[Haven’t watched the final cut since it was shot.]

[But it shouldn’t flop; Ye Zheng is competent enough.]

[Suddenly want to eat a mousse cake, forget it, I must control my sugar intake.]

Jiang Shu slightly frowned.

The feedback from mind reading Li Yuntang was very normal, nothing unusual at all.

Or was it...

Did the Main Brain intervene in the mind-reading result?

Probably not.

Well, time to watch the movie.

Jiang Shu turned his gaze back to the screen.

At that moment, in the middle row of the audience sat two men.

Tang and Wolf.

Tang came at Jiang Shu’s request, as for Wolf...

Well, he was also here.

However, Jiang Shu hadn’t managed to get him a seat away from Tang, so the two of them had to sit together.

Wolf glanced at Tang.

Tang quietly looked at the movie on the screen, his face wearing his usual bureaucratic smile.

The movie began.

The main storyline was easy to understand—a man’s revenge story.

The male protagonist, Qu Hao, and the female protagonist, Tang Xiaoli, were two ordinary people with a simple love story.

The man was a street magician, making a living by performing magic on the streets, while the female character was a street flower girl, selling her own crafted glass flower bouquets, more artistic and aesthetic than those factory-made.

The secondary male character, Zhao Feng, was a wealthy scion, always surrounded by the hustle and bustle of nightlife and his followers, and in his spare time, he also liked to tamper with some inexplicable gadgets.

One day, he saw the flower girl Tang Xiaoli on the street. Without many words, he just said ”You are beautiful,” and then bought a glass flower bouquet.

He was not short of women, didn’t need to be a sycophant, or use any forceful methods.

But his followers unanimously saw it as an opportunity.