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Chapter 39. Deus ex machina

Li Zhixian swaggered over from the reading area, reached out and patted Liang De on the shoulder, and handed over his half-eaten large bag of shrimp crackers.

"Go away! I am working hard without caring about myself, working hard, forgetting to sleep and eat, and my body and mind are haggard. You are like this when you travel to thousands of mountains and rivers all over the world on business."

"Hey, you don't have to eat or sleep. You're so busy forgetting to eat and sleep... Well, that's what it is, it's hard work!"

Li Zhixian carelessly pulled off the suit jacket hanging on his arm and threw it back. The black jacket flew up to the floor-standing clothes rack in the dining area a few meters away, as if it had eyes.

Liang De took the shrimp crackers handed over by Li Zhixian with both hands, put his head into the puffed food bag that was as big as a fat house T-shirt, chewed it, and ate it all in three or two times.

Covered by the bag, he quickly adjusted his expression back to normal mode.

Liang De pulled out his head, balled up the finished packaging bag and stuffed it into his pocket, and said:

"Brother Xian, why are you here? Where is Xiaohan?"

Li Zhixian said: "She went to the Evil Disaster Bureau for an internship. The bureau saw that her cultural achievements and magic level were over the line. If she was going to be admitted anyway, she was asked to go to the Magical Girl Training Base in the south of the city in advance to familiarize herself with it.

Since I have nothing to do, I will help her look after the store."

"You're helping the little girl look after the store and you're lying in the reading area. Shouldn't you be standing at the front desk?"

"That's right. Anyway, if the bookstore can't sell things, it has nothing to do with you. Xiaohan can't do anything to you."

Liang De shook his head sadly:

"Hey, Lao Qin, Lao Qin, you are unlucky because you opened the store here. This year's sales performance is completely ruined."

"Fart! What's wrong with lying in the reading area? Lao Liang, you haven't read a book. Have you ever heard that a sage hangs his head and governs? Those who work hard govern others, and those who work hard govern others."

Li Zhixian's poems are eloquent:

"The people who come here to spend money are basically active magical girls from several nearby cities. They have received higher education and have traveled to all walks of life. Their learning ability and hands-on ability are both top-notch.

I have already sent the instructions on how to operate the cashier system in the bookstore and the cooking manual for the simple dining area to the group. They check out by themselves, which is extremely efficient.

The reason why I can lie quietly in the reading area reading and drinking is because I have strong management skills!"

"Bah, people are obviously intimidated by your power. They have to bow their heads under the eaves. Tell me, just today, how many people have you beaten?"

"That's nonsense! You can ask Xiaohan tomorrow if a national idol magical girl like me, who has so many celebrities all over the world, still needs to force the younger generation?

They all volunteered!"

"'They are all voluntary', this kind of nonsense can only be said by those beastly teachers who were caught having a teacher-student love affair!

Brother Xian, you don’t even have basic teacher ethics, you are really unworthy of being an instructor."

Liang De clicked his tongue while wagging his finger:

"At this time, the magical girls who patrol the city on the morning shift have already finished get off work. Why don't you see them coming over to read and eat desserts like before?

If you don't do your job properly, you don't have a formal appearance, and there aren't even any customers in the store, you still want to brag about yourself, so I'll spare you the trouble."

"You are the one who doesn't do the right thing."

Li Zhixian reached out and took out the scroll and brush from the ice-blue storage hairband behind his head, and at the same time turned on the projector and curtain in the bookstore.

"I saw in the live broadcast that you were coming back from the other side of the world No. 706, so I came here in advance to clear the place and prepare to sort out the materials together when you come back.

This is our business, this big brother is back from a business trip."

"It's like saying that you agreed to Xiaohan to help her look after the store, but in fact you lay down at home to watch the live broadcast, and then let the customers in the store do what they want?"

"Yeah, what's the problem?"

"What if it's not a magical girl? Not everyone can operate it."

"It's passed on from person to person, but you can't learn it. If you don't want to do such a simple thing, you will die of laziness sooner or later. Why are you reading books?

Sit down and get to work."

Li Zhixian flicked his hand, and the soft and strong wind pressed the keyboard, opening the recording file of Liang De's Blue Star Doomsday Journey and throwing it onto the curtain.

From Gray Heron Park to the source of the rage, from the online world to the solidified world...

Pigeons, black rain, sunset, angry tide, tar...

In just a few days of travel, he didn't go to many places and didn't have many incidents. Li Zhixian also deleted many meaningless scenery clips and eliminated redundant elements. The remaining video and audio materials were only about an hour.

It's about the same length as an average action movie episode.

Liang De drove directly to the highest speed, crossed his arms and scanned it again.

In fact, he doesn't need to use recorded images to review at all. In the lantern of life, his memory is still fresh.

Watching it again like this is more of a ritual.

Li Zhixian seemed to be aware of the different atmosphere in the air. When Liang De was watching the video, she did not drink or eat, and was very quiet the whole time.

After Liang De finished watching the recording, and after a while, she opened her mouth and said:

“The audio and video part is like this, the text version on the scroll is just copied subtitles, there is nothing new.

Anyway, this time the company's senior management has intervened, so we don't have to take any responsibility. We can simply record the sacrifices and finish the work early and eat early.

My mother sent me some meat cakes. I originally planned to eat them together with Huanhuan. Seeing that you are so tired this time, I gave them to you two.

How about it?"

"Brother Xian, are you satisfied with this story?" Liang De asked.

"It's okay, although...but...you've done everything you can do."

Li Zhixian threw the green scroll in his hand and said:

"Already very dedicated."

"I don't think it's good, it's worse than one-star toilet paper."

Liang De pressed the replay button and said:

"From a story point of view, the male protagonist is empty-headed and his actions are chaotic. He seems to have no idea what he is going to do, and in the end he can't accomplish anything.

Where is the core contradiction? Where is the fierce conflict? Where is the meaning? Where is the theme? None.

Then you look at the ending, where a powerful person enters the world and decides the world. The protagonist obeys the arrangements and leaves. Not to mention punching hard, he doesn’t even let out any words. What is the difference between this and the deus ex machina?

What has he changed?"

Li Zhixian said: "If you say that, I don't think so. The deus ex machina of other classical dramas is to let gods solve problems and make the final decision.

But our god has come, but all he has done is to close the story, which is equivalent to saying that the story is paused and not over yet. Although the male protagonist has not changed anything, there are still infinite possibilities in the future."

"Can infinite possibilities...be better than the perfect future promised by God?"

"Then you have to ask the future leading actor."

Li Zhixian walked to the cashier and kicked out the cardboard altar.

"Lao Liang, when I came back to collect materials before, I said no and you said yes. Why do you care so much this time?"

"Well, what's the use of caring."

Liang De sighed, "Sacrifice, sacrifice, let's see what Teacher Fengxian says."

The cyan scroll fell into the altar carton, and not long after, dark smoke poured out of it.

"Ade, how many stars do you want?"


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