Prodigal System in the Flourishing City

Chapter 1249: Chapter 1249: What Is a Hero?

In this way, it only took half an hour for John to dial Lu Xiaobu’s phone again.

At this moment, his tone was completely different.

”President Lu, no, Defeated Knight! Please show mercy and spare us! Isn’t it just a cinema! You name it, which one do you want? We have no objections!” John said with a big smile on his face.

”Are you done pretending?” Lu Xiaobu rolled his eyes and said.

”No more pretending, no more! You’re the boss! We listen to you!” John said, nodding and bowing.

This is the attitude he learned in the Heavenly Dynasty: stand straight when you’re beaten!

Otherwise, you’ll be beaten even harder!

Especially when facing Lu Xiaobu.

”Alright, I’m not the kind of person who makes things difficult for others, let’s leave it at that.” Lu Xiaobu waved his hand and said, ”By the way, since the audience supports me so much, shouldn’t you offer some compensation?”

John’s face turned green.

Why should I compensate you for the audience supporting you?!

Why?!

However, he still forced a smile, ”Just say it, as long as it’s not excessive, I’ll agree!”

”Alright, it’s absolutely not excessive. Let’s cooperate: every ticket purchased through my Alipay app will have a random discount, how about that?”

Lu Xiaobu said, ”Of course, I won’t let you bear it alone; we’ll split the cost fifty-fifty.”

After hearing this, John slightly frowned, thought for a moment, then immediately agreed, ”Good, a win-win cooperation!”

Indeed, this cooperation is not at a loss; in fact, they might even profit a little.

Think about it, with Lu Xiaobu’s current prestige, with discounts for purchasing tickets via Alipay, audiences from the Heavenly Dynasty would absolutely gain a much better impression of them.

In this way, it’s an invisible form of advertising!

”A wise choice.” Lu Xiaobu nodded.

The cause of this wasn’t that anyone provoked us, so he didn’t want to bully others to death.

Now, cooperation and mutual benefit are the best outcomes!

In this way, this matter came to a close. Calling it a face-slap for show is perhaps inaccurate.

It’s just a little interlude.

However, later on, because of this little interlude, the Lu Group gained significant benefit.

Hollywood saw the advantages of cooperating with the Lu Group, so for subsequent films, their primary cooperation was almost exclusively with the Lu Group.

This semi-monopolistic model brought considerable profits to the Lu Group.

Back to the topic.

”Dry Blood” continued to play smoothly.

Of course, it also continuously generated defeated funds for Lu Xiaobu.

Eight billion, if calculated over a year, the monthly defeat income averaged around 666.7 million.

Then.

The next day, Lu Xiaobu’s title of Defeated Knight was cheerfully spread to the masses via news and television.

Various singing, poetry, prose, and songs!

For a time, people touted Lu Xiaobu as a saint-like figure.

Even Lu Xiaobu himself felt a bit nauseated by the idolization.

Is it necessary?

Making me seem like some reincarnated Heavenly God rather than a human.

I have no interest in being a hero!

What’s a hero? A hero is someone who can’t make any mistakes; make a mistake, and you’ll be struck down into Hell!

The American Washington is well known, right? The one printed on the US dollar!

And once revered by both the South and the North during America’s Civil War as a symbol of American spirit—Robert Lee!

They can be considered heroes of America, right!

Then, what happened?!

Now people think they owned slaves back then and are unworthy of being heroes, even the statues in Congress have been removed!

But the fact is, almost every American owned slaves during that era!

This is humanity, this is heroism!

Therefore, he doesn’t want to be a hero!

Young Master makes documentaries of his own will, does it for free by choice, but that doesn’t mean others can morally coerce me!

You’ve seen plenty of moral coercion, right!

Forced donations, someone becomes famous but stays humble while the whole village gets cocky!

As if being a big figure or a celebrity means you must behave a certain way, or else you’re not human!

Big figures are treated like this, let alone heroes.

So, Lu Xiaobu is not interested!

He might do something at any cost, but if you want to force me to spend money, you’ll get nothing!

As for other things, do as you please!

What he wants to do now is find the seemingly tough piracy boss who threatened him days ago and have a proper ’chat’!

”Found him yet?” Lu Xiaobu asked Zhang Meng.

”Yes, Young Master, according to Fei Ji’s confession, we’ve found him. This guy hid pretty well, using various methods, but he trusts his underlings too much!” Zhang Meng nodded.

Just follow the trail, that’s all.

Do you expect a group of unprincipled piracy dogs, bonded by interests, to remain loyal?

”Let’s go, let’s meet this guy.” Lu Xiaobu’s lips curled into a cruel smile.

Hero? Sorry, I’m a devil!

Soon, Lu Xiaobu arrived in front of an extremely luxurious villa.

It was now eight o’clock at night, and he could hear the chirping of women and the sound of water from the entrance.

Looks like life is pretty good.

”Stop.” The bodyguard blocked Lu Xiaobu’s group.

”Get lost.” Zhang Meng picked up each one with his hands, threw them aside, then opened the large iron gate.

Walking into the inner court, he was greeted by a huge swimming pool.

At this moment, judging by the situation, it seemed there was a party!

Well, only one guy, the rest were all girls at the party.

Among the women, Lu Xiaobu recognized a few familiar faces, like beauty pageant contestants or third-rate celebrities.

However, Lu Xiaobu didn’t care about this; these industries, or rather not just these two, were filled with such people.

A name for them—high-class chickens!

”Who are you?” A woman wearing a massive diamond ring and scantily clad walked over with an attitude she thought seductive but was just inviting, asked with arrogance.

This seemed like a third-rate celebrity, constantly making scandalous news, reportedly slept her way up.

With her voice echoing, the women who were supposedly purring various complaints, but were mostly bleary-eyed or clearly drugged, all looked over.

”Who’s this?”

”Seems quite handsome.”

”President Lei, is he your friend?”

”Young handsome, come join the fun.”

”...”

”Who the hell are you?” That obviously high son surnamed Lei stood up, belly out, angrily pointed at Lu Xiaobu.

Those women adept at reading the situation.

Hearing that the high son Lei didn’t know Lu Xiaobu, suddenly they all became haughty.

”Get out!”

”You’re not welcome here!”

”Look at your dog-like appearance, are you here to beg?”

”What kind of stuff is this?”

”...”

Lu Xiaobu’s lips formed a smile, high-class chickens? How about a gang of demons dancing?