Chapter 200 - Chapter 200: Chapter 162: Touch Gold Captain! (Please Subscribe) (1/2)
Chapter 200: Chapter 162: Touch Gold Captain! (Please Subscribe)
Lin Chuan listened to the voice in his mind, his eyebrows raising.
System Panel:
[Work: “Last Week’s Antique”.]
[Status: Listed.]
[Current Popularity Value (Average Subscription): 20048/20000.]
From last night’s 5676 average subscriptions to the current 20048, it’s been about 24 hours, an increase of 14372 average subscriptions.
In a day and a night, ten thousand subscriptions!
This speed was faster than any previous increase in average subscriptions, so fast that Lin Chuan was surprised.
He knew that this time breaking twenty thousand average subscriptions should be no problem, but he didn’t expect it to be so quick.
An average subscription of fifteen thousand could secure a recommendation slot for film and television adaptation.
The key point is that the average subscription for “Last Week’s Antique” would continue to rise afterwards.
Generally speaking, the higher the average subscription, the greater the potential for copyright development. Besides, the antique theme is a relatively popular subject for film and television adaptations, so the chances for adaptation were quite high.
Once it succeeded,
having “All-In” on one hand and “Last Week’s Antique” on the other, with the adaptations broadcasted, Lin Chuan’s personal IP would have its initial shape.
Not bad at all.
A smile appeared on Lin Chuan’s face, but now the Little Landlady was at his side, even hanging on him. If she whimsically decided to meddle with him while his consciousness was in the Virtual World, this division of focus would affect his performance.
Ahem, it would affect both sides.
“Hmm, what time is it, Chairman?”
The Little Landlady clung to Lin Chuan softly, moving slightly on his chest.
Lin Chuan looked at the phone on the bedside table: “Eight in the evening, are you hungry?”
“Mm, I’m hungry.”
The Little Landlady lifted her small face and blinked her eyes.
“I’ll go make some noodles for you,” Lin Chuan said, about to get up.
“Okay.”
The Little Landlady hugged Lin Chuan tightly as they entered the kitchen.
Boiling noodles, eating dinner.
The bright moon was high in the sky, its pale light blocked by the curtains, reflecting off the river surface, revealing sparkling ripples. Sparse lights along the river flickered like distant stars in the night sky.
The night grew deeper.
The Little Landlady was too tired. With Lin Chuan’s coaxing, she fell deeply asleep.
Lin Chuan still had some energy and was ready to take care of another important matter!
“System, come out!”
In his mind, Lin Chuan called for the system.
[Host, are you ready now to start experiencing a new profession and to begin a new life?]—The system replied programmatically.
“I’m ready, let’s start,” Lin Chuan said earnestly, taking a deep breath.
Every new profession signified a new chapter in life, and it also meant that Lin Chuan would have an opportunity to acquire a new skill.
Experience had proven that having many skills was an advantage.
So far, Lin Chuan had mastered skills like ‘theft’, ‘cheating techniques’, ‘firearms’, ‘combat fighting’, ‘hacker’, ‘fraud’, ‘antique forgery’, and more.
Lin Chuan knew that it was because he mastered these skills that he was able to hook up with the little rich lady, Zhang Xinxin.
Ahem, sorry, System.
You gave me these skills, and I used them to cling to a little rich lady.
The current situation also proved:
—Little rich ladies are truly delightful.
The 720 company, the Antique Shop, the large flat house with the river view, her, which one wasn’t wonderfully enticing?
Although Lin Chuan wasn’t too fond of living off a woman, she was just too appetizing!
Of course, Lin Chuan was also striving.
Right now, he was about to experience a new life, to begin his struggle in the Virtual World!
[Your new professional life is about to begin, please prepare yourself, Host.]—The system’s electronic voice reminded him warmly.
At this moment.
The ‘cozy bedroom’, the ‘river view outside the window’, the ‘hazy night’ in Lin Chuan’s vision gradually blurred, and the delicate, rhythmic breathing of the Little Landlady also grew distant.
His consciousness entered a new space.
For the time being, there was no one else here.
Only the system’s voice echoed—
[Please pay attention, Host.]
[Each experience is a beautiful memory for you.]
[This system will preserve this memory in the form of a novel.]
[Your upcoming profession for the experience is being randomly allocated.]
[Please wait…]
“A profession…”
Lin Chuan murmured softly, “Anything will do, after all these crime-related professions, I’ve managed to get through. Even if the system plays a prank on me and assigns a few more crime-type professions, I’ll withstand it. Bring it on, system!”
As the saying goes in games, there are no useless heroes, only incompetent summoners.
Profession skills are the same, it all depends on how they’re used!
[Host, your understanding is getting higher.]
[Congratulations, the profession you will experience this time is…]
[Touch Gold Captain!]
[Congratulations, you have acquired the ‘Touching Gold Secret Skill’.]
[We hope you are satisfied!]
Lin Chuan immediately shut his mouth and silently cursed the system.
Did it really give me a crime-related profession?
Touch Gold Captain originated during the late Eastern Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms Period, when Cao Cao, in order to compensate for insufficient military funds, established military ranks such as ‘Touch Gold Captain’ and ‘Central General of Prosperity’ to rob tombs for wealth to subsidize the military expenses.
Later on, Touch Gold Captain became synonymous with tomb robbers.
Within the Martial World, there is a complete set of traditional rules for a total of seventy-two professions.
Tomb Robbing is one of the Eight Outer Industries.
The Eight Outer Industries are not legitimate professions and include fortune tellers, beggars, bandits, thieves, Tomb Raiders, fugitives, fire leaders, and water fetchers.
A fortune teller is a diviner, a bandit is a highway robber, and Tomb Raider refers to the Touch Gold Captain.
The Touch Gold Captain profession, which involves profiting from the dead and scattering their wealth, requires techniques, knowledge, and courage that are unmatched by other trades.
Hence, there’s a saying in the Martial World.
Out of the seventy-two trades, Touching Gold reigns supreme.
As a web novel writer, Lin Chuan was somewhat familiar with tomb-robbing novels.
In novels, tomb robbers are often divided into four schools: Touching Gold, Move Mountain, Hill-Unloading, and Discover Tomb, with sayings like ‘Discover Tomb with seals, Touching Gold with talismans, Move Mountain with techniques, Hill-Unloading with armor’.
However, these are probably the creations of novelists.
In fact, due to differences in climate and terrain between the north and south, burials also differ, so tomb robbing is broadly divided into southern and northern schools.