Chapter 49: Rewarding Myself

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[The Real-Life Arita Shitayama]
[Old Man’s Joyride on the National Highway: Racing at 150 km/h, a Display of Speed and Passion]
[Calls for Strict Crackdown on Old Man’s Joyride Vehicles]
[Following the Old Man’s Joyride RV, Another Masterpiece—Old Man’s Joyride Racing Car]
[…]
On the Yinlang platform, the live footage from the Linyang traffic police quickly went viral.
Even the traffic police themselves were amazed.
When they were earnestly doing live broadcasts for publicity, the traffic was barely alive.
But this accidental event suddenly broke through all boundaries.
The most troublesome part was that orders from above repeatedly demanded the event be encrypted and its impact erased.
This made it hard on the grassroots officers tasked with deleting posts.
Even with maximum effort, they could only intervene in the spread of traffic but could not completely eliminate it.
After all,
this incident had evolved into an internet sensation with tens of millions of views.
All major social media platforms were abuzz with discussions.
“Old Man’s Joyride Racing Car” firmly held the top spot on trending searches.
“Where on earth is this? Is this still our country?”
“It’s fierce. Saw a plane on the national highway.”
“Anyone with some clout, please tell me what brand this car is—I want one!”
Most netizens had seen only a few clips and had no idea about the whole story.
But they were all certain about one thing:
this old man’s joyride car was incredible, and many were begging for a link in the comment section.
“Can’t buy it, just forget it.”
“Wait, is it a limited edition?”
“Exactly, a limited edition.”
“Purely handcrafted, a masterpiece.” (Likes: 2854)
“The commenter above is spot on, 666!”
“The hot comment is right, it really is handmade. I, Brother Wei, handcrafted it.”
“The culprit has been found—@Victory Auto Repair Shop.”
“This car is the pride of @Victory Auto Repair Shop, code-named ‘Land Rover Narrow Win’, also known as the ‘Early Rebirth Device’.”
“Anyone interested can DM Brother Wei; the price isn’t high, the only requirement: strong fate.”
“@Victory Auto Repair Shop, if you like the streamer, feel free to report him a bit.”
…
Capital city.
Wei Xiu lay exhausted on the hotel bed.
After a whole day of endless reports and lectures,
it was more tiring than farming three acres of land.
Finally, he caught a chance to relax a bit.
Suddenly,
Ding—!
[Congratulations, Host, for completing the real-world challenge!]
[Achieved 1 million followers across all platforms!]
???
???
Wei Xiu was stunned.
Wait, I haven’t streamed at all these days, how come?
Who bought the wrong traffic?
He went over to his computer.
New followers: 9999+
Comments: 9999+
Likes: 9999+
Every place with a notification badge was maxed out.
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Wei Xiu had never seen anything like it.
And he was sure that all these new followers were real people, not bots.
Because the insults in the comment section were fierce and colorful.
Luckily, Wei Xiu had a strong mindset and was already desensitized after reading a few lines.
Only then did he realize that because of the old man’s joyride, he had unwittingly become famous.
Half the people were clamoring for him to modify their cars.
The other half were yelling that he was the biggest obstacle to traffic safety laws.
At this point,
Wei Xiu turned off his phone and thought, “Black fame is still fame; I don’t need a bicycle.”
Whether black fans or good fans,
as long as the numbers were high, it was fine.
Then he returned to the system in a daze.
[Reward obtained: Industrial Mother Machine (Intelligent CNC System)]
[Description: This device can perform high-precision, complex-shape mechanical processing, widely used in automobile manufacturing, aerospace, 3C electronics, supporting personalized production and zero-code intelligent programming.]
[Start receiving?]
Woohoo!
The exhaustion on Wei Xiu’s body instantly vanished.
Honestly,
he didn’t expect to complete the task so quickly.
The harder you work, the luckier you get!
With this thing, almost no parts would be too difficult for Wei Xiu.
As long as he had blueprints, he could produce them.
And blueprints? There were plenty in the marketplace.
That meant!
As long as he had enough repair points, he could exchange for enough blueprints to produce enough parts or complete items.
An infinite loop, a perpetual motion machine.
Awesome!
Really awesome!
Now his reputation as the “Fixer of All Things” was truly established.
He looked back at the system homepage.
[Current Repair Points: 2.93 million]
A bit low.
Because he hadn’t done any major repairs recently.
Although recently he had been researching materials for reverse-engineering stealth fighters,
that wasn’t a systematic project, so no repair points were accumulated.
Along with the consumption from upgrades and blueprint exchanges, his resources had been mostly spent.
Having fewer repair points was a little problematic, but not major.
With the Industrial Mother Machine’s help, the speed of accumulating repair points was incomparable.
“Accept it!”
Wei Xiu gave the order, and a massive amount of information flooded into his mind.
Just like before with the workbench.
The Industrial Mother Machine would be stored in his spiritual space, allowing him to operate it anytime by switching awareness.
However, this time,
perhaps due to the massive size of the data, the transmission caused some negative effects.
He felt his brain working rapidly.
His CPU was about to spark.
At a critical moment,
his breathing grew rapid, heartbeat accelerated.
The oxygen in the air seemed to plummet.
“Ghui-gui~”
“Huff—”
“Huff—”
“Whoa!”
Five minutes later.
Wei Xiu sat in front of the computer,
feeling completely drained, everything seemed dull.
Just thinking about it made him a little scared.
He really needed to exercise.
Otherwise, the next time he switched something, he might get stuck in the spiritual space.
“What are you groaning about?”
Suddenly,
Qin Xi entered the room, looking at Wei Xiu with puzzled eyes.
His complexion was off, flushed with sweat, and a bit distracted.
Qin Xi immediately grew suspicious.
“What are you doing? Rewarding yourself?”
Wei Xiu shook his head immediately: “Nonsense, am I the kind of person who casually rewards himself?”
Qin Xi didn’t believe him.
She stepped forward and touched his forehead, then his pulse.
She was confused.
If Wei Xiu wasn’t rewarding himself,
and was just sitting alone in the room,
without any emotional or physical exertion,
how could he look so strange?
“Are you sick?” Qin Xi worried. “Go to the hospital.”
“No!”
Wei Xiu refused decisively.
Receiving the Industrial Mother Machine had indeed drained a lot of energy, and he was still dizzy.
If he went to the hospital, they might not find anything.
What if they forced him to be hospitalized?
He certainly couldn’t say he had an Industrial Mother Machine inside his head.
Thinking this,
Wei Xiu decided to completely shut Qin Xi’s mouth.
“Fine, you caught me. I am rewarding myself.”
At these words,
Qin Xi suddenly lowered her head, a blush rising from her neck.
The next second,
she shyly twisted half around.
“The boss wants you in his office tomorrow; apparently, it’s something very important.”
“All right, got it.”
Qin Xi said softly, “Mm…”
After delivering the message, she wanted to leave so Wei Xiu could rest.
But for some reason,
her black high heels felt like they were filled with lead, every step heavy.
Only when she reached the door did she feel as if there was a magnet in the room, unwilling to leave.
“Um…”
“Actually…”
“You don’t have to reward yourself…”
Wei Xiu pouted and nodded, “I get it. Rewarding yourself all the time is bad for your health, so stop preaching.”
“No…”
Qin Xi suddenly looked up.
Her big watery eyes were enchanting.
A faint blush colored her fair cheeks.
“After all this, don’t you understand what I mean yet?”
Wei Xiu: “?????”
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