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Chapter 174 - Chapter 174: Time is running out for Bai Luan

The works Bai Luan brought are continuously gaining traction in the Honkai: Star Rail World, with their discussion steadily climbing.

However, it will likely take some time before they can truly and seriously discuss the plot and share their views.

After all, it takes time to finish one work, and Bai Luan brought too many at once this time.

If they merely pursue the title of having finished a work, hastily consuming them, Bai Luan would be quite disappointed.

Only by seriously engaging with a story can one reap beautiful feedback from it.

They need time to digest these works.

This requires time.

Although Bai Luan currently really wants to see someone imitate Dio, who was high on blood, drilling into his own head.

The reason Bai Luan was able to produce these works so quickly this time is thanks to the new Curio he recently researched.

『Curio: Mature Fountain Pen』

『Just as a mature critic breaks their own zero-comment streak, a Mature Fountain Pen also draws comics itself. It can perfectly replicate the comics in your memory with extremely high efficiency.』

This Curio has only one flaw: it requires Bai Luan's memory to activate, and while Bai Luan has seen the original comics, he obviously cannot remember every detail.

But it doesn't matter; he has the system.

For the parts he can't remember, he can have the system show them to him again.

So Bai Luan's production process is: enter the Little Black Room to watch the original work once, hold the Mature Fountain Pen with his freshly updated memory, then toss the pen aside and let it draw on its own.

Meanwhile, he goes about his business. Usually, by the time he's done, he'll come back to find the Mature Fountain Pen has drawn a large stack of drafts.

Mmm… many black mosquitoes!

Even if a comic artist has strong technical skills and high efficiency, after drawing for several hours continuously, they still need to rest.

But the Mature Fountain Pen is completely different!

Just as a Superbeast feels no pain, it feels no fatigue at all and requires no rest!

This is why Bai Luan can replicate comic works so efficiently.

All he has to do is enter the Little Black Room to watch the original, then wait for the Mature Fountain Pen to draw the original drafts, scan the drafts into digital copies, and then integrate and upload them. It's very easy.

The easiest episode.

As for Larva and Prison Break, Bai Luan painstakingly re-learned and hand-crafted these in the Little Black Room.

Due to the short timeframe, Bai Luan only created some high-quality episodes of Larva.

Honestly, perfectly replicating a work is quite interesting.

Of course, his main reason for doing this was to accumulate some production experience, to avoid revealing his amateur nature as soon as he opened his mouth when going to Penacony to discuss collaborations.

Instead of trying to fix things in the Little Black Room later, it's better to learn some now and be fully prepared.

Speaking of which... having Penacony produce " tom and jerry " would truly be a perfect match.

Every episode of the old version of tom and jerry in his previous life had a symphony as its background music; it was a complete work of art.

And the faction represented by the Penacony family is "The Harmony."

Hmm... letting them voice tom and jerry, Bai Luan couldn't even imagine how thrilled the audience of this world would be when the finished product was released.

As for "Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, " that goes without saying; it's fine details in every aspect.

It will directly give the fans of this world a tremendous thrill! Is this not a meritorious deed!

Bai Luan still followed the old tradition: only transporting, not claiming. On the author's signature, the original author's name was still written.

Although he was criticized for being a 'vest-maniac' for doing so, it didn't matter. What wasn't his wasn't his; there was no need to forcibly claim he created it.

I'm telling the truth; it's your business if you don't believe me.

These works naturally also influenced the Space Station, but the Space Station was more interested in the animated short films than the comics.

Lars was very happy; watching an episode while slacking off, no immortal could be happier than him.

After thorough preparation, arduous study, and extremely difficult exams, he finally passed the assessment and received generous rewards!

He got promoted!

The most obvious feeling after his promotion was that he no longer feared his superiors ambushing him, a defenseless old Staff, while he was slacking off.

Because they were now on the same level.

Although he went from being under her to being a colleague in the same department, the other party still had quite a few complaints about his work attitude.

The other party was a very rigorous and serious worker, so she had a very negative view of slacking off.

This was completely opposite to Lars's view.

Not slacking off harms one's health, a little slacking off is pleasant, and constant slacking off is always enjoyable.

Not slacking off at all is foolish, my friend!

How delightful it is to watch the animated short films made by the Station Master while slacking off!

Lars decided to find a way to pull the other party down; if he could also get her to slack off, he wouldn't have to suppress his laughter while watching animated shorts.

He had been suffering from holding back his laughter these past few days.

This matter must be planned for the long term, gradually letting the other party experience the joy of slacking off, and then unknowingly getting deeply immersed in it.

Of course, besides this matter, Lars also planned to make a long-term plan for another thing.

That is, the matter of choosing a Curio as his research subject.

Ahem, I, Lars, also do serious work.

This opportunity was rare, so he had to choose even more carefully.

Although the Curios in the Space Station were as vast as a sea of smoke, he was confident he could choose the best one.

Heh heh, after all, he was a slacking data analyst. His best skills, besides slacking off, included data analysis!

He decided to start by analyzing the data of the Curios the Station Master obtained, and from those Curios, pick out the most valuable one.

Although the Curios chosen by the Station Master might seem mediocre in aptitude and useless in effect.

But if it could be pinpointed by him through data analysis, it must prove that there was something about it that attracted the Station Master.

The Station Master's authority, needless to say, a Curio he cared about must have a special purpose.

No one else had discovered this point, but he had, which was a great opportunity!

If he could figure it out, it would certainly sustain him for a long time!

However, Lars didn't plan to do it now; he had just passed the assessment after all.

At this time, he should relax and take a good rest.

Work-life balance can improve efficiency.

Lars, of course, didn't know that his operation, akin to a slow-fast knife, perfectly bypassed Bai Luan's vigilance period, preventing Bai Luan from noticing that this guy wanted to secretly pull a big one on him.

When Lars was well-rested and chose the Curio, it was precisely when Bai Luan was completely at ease with his disguise, and his attention to that Curio had decreased.

Through massive and detailed data analysis, Lars eliminated a large number of interfering Curio options and successfully deduced the Curio that Bai Luan seemingly casually, but actually regularly, took—the Curio that hid a part of the gold and gears DLC he had made.

Bai Luan had actually guarded against it very well.

He gave this Curio mediocre effects, cutting off the idea of geniuses and Staff researching it.

He formed a habit of widely distributing and playing with Curios, covering up his regular use of a specific Curio.

At the same time, he put some seals on the Curio to hide the DLC.

For a genius, this small seal was nothing, but a genius wouldn't look at this boring Curio.

For the Space Station Staff, they would even find it difficult to discover that this Curio had a layer of seal, let alone unlock it.

At most, they would only discover that this Curio hid something they couldn't unlock.

Therefore, to discover the secret of this Curio, the person who discovers it must first be stubborn, clinging to something they believe in.

Secondly, he must possess a certain level of strength, otherwise, he wouldn't detect the abnormality of this Curio.

Finally, he must also be crazy enough to choose this Curio as his research direction, then report the abnormal situation, and this news must reach Herta's ears.

Setting aside whether this could even happen, is there such a person in the Space Station!?

Hey! There really is!

It's Lars.

Originally, Lars only met two of the criteria for deciphering this Curio's secret—

He was the only stubborn person willing to ponder strange things until he finally deduced that Yi Mu was Bai Luan.

But in Bai Luan's impression, his scientific research ability was not enough to discover the secret of that Curio.

So why did Lars eventually discover this secret?

That's, of course, because Bai Luan held a grudge against lars for exposing his alias and kept making him take assessments, which made him grow.

But Bai Luan didn't pay much attention to this small detail; it was one oversight in a hundred precautions.

So before he was exposed, Bai Luan was always in a confident state, believing no one could discover this.

Now, Lars, who can detect abnormalities, has already obtained that Curio and begun his research.

Bai Luan is running out of time.

And he still doesn't know.

Aha witnessed the entire process, and It made an important statement regarding it:

A little guy is about to be doomed, but I won't say who. (Laughs)

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