Ch7 - Preparations before filming

Sorry for the late upload! Finally got sleeping pills for my insomnia and well I guess at least I know they work 

Going to proofread and make the translator notes more clear tomorrow, please comment if you’re confused about anything! 

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In the end, they left their contact details with each other. When it came to how the man would be addressed, the man paused for a moment and said with a reminiscing look in his eyes, “Just call me Zhuri.”

[TN: This name is interesting… it means day by day ;-;]

    “Alright.” Bai Ruogu agreed, he looked into his deep eyes, and then after a pause, slowly opened his mouth and respectfully said, “Zhuri Laoshi“

TN: This basically means teacher in Chinese, someone who gives you guidance, decided to keep it in pinyin but lmk if it’d be better to translate

After hearing this title, Zhuri didn’t react. However, when he realized, he looked up with deep emotion in his eyes, but his face showed a casual expression as if he were hiding it.

      They said goodbye to each other, and before they left Bai Ruogu asked, “Aren’t you afraid you won’t be able to broadcast this script if you give it to me?”

Zhuri smiled, “I’m sure it won’t fail to be broadcast.”

    The two of them said goodbye and Bai Ruogu walked towards the outside of the cemetery. The man, on the other hand, still lay on the tombstone drinking his unfinished wine, staring at the sky in a daze, not knowing what he was looking at ……

    Although he spent the whole day at the cemetery today, he harvested an unexpected good script.

Bai Ruogu sat in front of his desk in his rented room, a table lamp illuminating it all.

    Wearing his anti-fatigue glasses, he marked the pages of the script one by one with a pen.

    Even though the two souls were fused together, the memories of the actor Bai Ruogu were not as deep as they had been at the beginning, and there was a partial gap in their acting ability.

After the initial shock, his brain had also developed significantly. He had heard that this era liked to use data to measure people’s mental strength. He didn’t know what his current figures were, but he was certain that his brain was definitely countless times faster than before.

    From the moment he returned, he stayed at his desk until twelve o’clock. Bai Ruogu rubbed his eyes and listened to the simulated sound of cicadas outside the window, and for a moment sleepiness came over him.

It just so happened that he had reached the end of his note-taking, he finished writing a page and a half of his thoughts with the only energy he had left.

At this point, the entire script had been engraved in his mind and he knew it very well.

The leading role’s temperament was something he had never possessed. Furthermore, the leading role’s experiences were also uncommon and fantastical, something normal people would never experience.

    Bai Ruogu knew, that he had little experience, what he had, was only the theoretical knowledge left behind by his brain. So he had prepared himself and planned to wait until dawn the next day to find a way to learn from experiences and find common ground.

    It was getting late, so Bai Ruogu grabbed a change of clothes and went to the bathroom.

    Just as the black glass door closed, the light in the room suddenly dimmed ……

    An invisible object suddenly floated in the air, drifting in one direction with a certain frequency as if it had a purpose.

    The script was slowly opened by an unseen breeze, and the circled and sketched notes on it were suddenly exposed to the air.

    The desk lamp flickered and changed into a subtle red light that scanned the script.

  Imperceptibly, a mechanical voice seemed to ring out, the frequency of the sound not at all audible to humans.

    Name: Bai Ruogu

    Age: 21 years old

We’re sorry for MTLers or people who like using reading mode, but our translations keep getting stolen by aggregators so we’re going to bring back the copy protection. If you need to MTL please retype the gibberish parts.

    Gender: Male

    Physical Quality: C

    Mental Strength: B+

    Details: Young master of the Bai family, a mecha family from Ruogu Star. Familiar with theoretical knowledge about mecha since childhood, and since he grew up has had a great interest in acting.

    The voice paused for a moment, followed by a change in tone.

    Personality: 81.58% similarity.

    Appearance: 11.65% similarity.

    Name: 100% similarity.

    Mecha familiarity and talent recognition: 76.20% similarity.

    Speaking tone: 83.56% similarity.

    Handwriting: 93.47% similarity.

    Diplomatic eye contact: 96.11% similar ……

    To sum up, the data combined with the current situation at Interstellar …… the chances of it being him is 5.20%.

    The likelihood was now many times higher than before. Su Miao floated in the air, cocking his head at the script in front of him, an unknown emotion was shifting in his eyes.

    He moved his hands stiffly, and with slow and rhythmic movements he turned his body to look at the bathroom where noises kept coming from.

   Before, three hundred and seventy-four years ago a person with a probability of 4.78% had appeared, but in the end, it was confirmed that it was not him. However, apart from that, he hadn’t detected anyone with a probability higher than three percent for many years.

    This was the most probable human being he had ever detected in history, which led to his growing solidity; some data in his body seemed to become restless like it was trying to escape.

    Just then, he suddenly heard a panicked scream.

    “F*ck! Why is this water temperature suddenly so high? Could it be that the system is broken?”

    Su Miao: ……

    He controlled the machine that regulated the water temperature and brought it down to normal.

    Suddenly, as if he noticed something, he instantly turned around with his back to the bathroom.

    [Seeming to realise that something was wrong with his actions, he quickly looked through his knowledge base for a solution ……

    He brought his head up to look at the corner of the ceiling, then his eyes rolled casually.

    The knowledge base told him that this would allow him to pretend that nothing was going on.

    He looked look inwards at his system and at the floating huge label that read—–

    A married man.] TN: Sorry this part is a bit weird (?)

    The corners of Su Miao’s mouth curled up on both sides, a common expression for showing joy.

    After Bai Ruogu finished his shower, he lay down directly on the bed in his bath towel and slippers.

    He wrapped himself tightly in a blanket and fell into a deep sleep.

    What he could not see was that, at this moment from his bed as the central point, various blue paths of light spread all around.

    Immediately afterwards a square blue cage enveloped him and grew smaller and smaller until finally it merely framed him.

    An invisible table of data flew through the air， swiftly calculating ……

Sleeping position: 97.98% similarity.

Likelihood: 6.66%.

    The invisible blue waves of light pulsed more and more frantically as if they were at a party.

    At the same time, the cage softened, gradually moulding to Bai Ruogu’s body and merging into one ……

    What Bai Ruogu didn’t know was, in the future his every word and action, every smile, every eye movement, and every heartbeat would be known.

    And as the similarities continued to increase some of the unseen fluctuations would become even more violent.

    *

    When he woke up, he went to the nearest museum of science and technology in search of materials and inspiration.

    The feeling of strangeness and curiosity about the novelty of his first initial sighting held a firm grip on his heart and made him take it to heart and slowly savour it.

    Both the perspective of his eyes and some small momentary movements of his hands were recorded by his smart brain at all times and connected to his senses for constant review.

    He stepped onto the floor of the Science Museum and told the staff that he wanted to experience the stargazer.

    The staff gave him a somewhat surprised look, but did not refuse, and led him graciously to the entrance of the experience room.

    The Stargazer was a very important foreshadowing in the script and was the most frequently used prop.

    It was developed many years ago, however, due to its high price, only a few people could afford to use it.

The most important function of this kind of thing was to give people a sense of understanding, but the cost of using it was the same as constantly burning money.

    Bai Ruogu first topped up a million star coins in it, which would probably last less than 3 hours based on the price of 100 coins a second.

    For things of value, Bai Ruogu never saved money.

He read the caution notes on the outside before stepping inside.

    The experience pod closed and the transparent exterior instantly turned dark, making it impossible to see what was happening inside.

　However, the staff knew what Bai Ruogu must be seeing was events happening on a planet at a certain distance from here at this very moment.

    The stargazer could receive the light transmitted from various locations, analyze it and use other parts of the light to estimate and restore hidden places, and even simulate the sound so that everything that was happening could be presented to the user in real time.

    In short, the moment a user sits down, they could go to any place in the universe and experience what is happening there.

    They could move around freely in that space, but the only limitation was that they could not touch anything.

    They could hear words and see the people there, but their presence would be like a ghost, a cloud of air, meaning nothing to the other side.

    Three hours passed in a flash, and when Bai Ruogu came out, he was in a trance, seemingly still immersed in that world.

    Bai Ruogu had gone to a war-torn planet, where a war was being fought but it actually felt like there was blood and flesh flying everywhere.

    He experienced the cruelty of war and the pain of parting with life and death, which had caused his mind to suffer a certain amount of impact and shock.

    Something had changed, at least when it came to performing the same plot, it was no longer according to a template like before, but instead had a real feeling to it.

    He shook his head, still a little unable to recover, and couldn’t help but smile helplessly.

He was in this shape, never mind the main lead. If this lasted any longer, would he be able to distinguish himself?

    However, despite this thought in his head, he was in touch with the protagonist’s emotions for a moment and seemed to have developed some empathy for him.

    He hadn’t forgotten that the place the protagonist went to was also an era full of war ……

    *

Regarding the team, Bai Ruogu directly spent 20 million star coins and hired a relatively well-known team on Ruogu Star.

    Once the team heard it was him, they didn’t want to come at first. After all, they didn’t want to shoot something for a long time just for it to go to waste.

    However, Bai Ruogu offered them three times the price, and since they were short of money recently, they agreed with clenched teeth.

    As for the director, Bai Ruogu was lucky enough to dig out someone who was at the same low point he was, yet was very powerful.

The director was Li Huai, who had won many awards. However, he had recently made 7 movies in a row. After their release, they made no splash at all and lost money along with their investors.

    Countless media said that had exhausted his talent and that he would never be able to turn himself around. Some investors were also afraid to approach him. The movie stars and actresses who had wanted to be in his films in the past, vanished one by one without a trace, so much so that some people even gave all kinds of ridicule to the person who was already down.

  In one moment, Li Huai experienced all kinds of human feelings, and his heart was suffering. He lost all his strength and couldn’t restrain himself from changing professions.

    It was at this time that Bai Ruogu approached him. At first, Li Huai had heard rumours about Bai Ruogu and wanted to refuse with a frown.

    These recent events had left him dumbfounded. He was not a superstitious person but he did believe a little in feng shui.

    Now that he had run into someone with a bad reputation like Bai Ruogu, how could he dare to interact with this person?

    However, once Bai Ruogu brought out the script.

    Li Huai hurriedly flipped through it, originally he wanted to read it half-heartedly, but gradually became fascinated and moved more and more slowly, until he slapped his thighs and shouted “Good!” once he saw the ending.

    He was not as absorbed in the plot as Bai Ruogu was, but was drawn to the setting of the script itself.

    The more he read, the more excited he became, and Li Huai couldn’t sit still any longer and started walking around the room.

    He hesitated, looked at Bai Ruogu and sighed repeatedly, before finally sitting down on the sofa as if he had resigned himself to his fate and nodded at Bai Ruogu.

    “Forget it, today I will fall here.”

    Li Huai was also considering, not to mention the value of the script itself. In his current situation, he wouldn’t be able to get a good script at all. If you didn’t have a script, you didn’t have actors and if you didn’t have actors you didn’t have investments ……

He wouldn’t be able to turn himself around anytime soon, so he might as well take a gamble.

If he won, he would fly high. If he lost, worst comes to worst he would add another stroke to the number seven and it would become eight.

Editor: Haru 

TLC: Jaye