After winning the Niangguang badge, Xia Chen and Qishu chatted tacitly for a few words, then returned to the player preparation room to find Mingyi.
Qishu also returned to her room to get a moment of rest.
Thanks to her defeat in this game, her three elves were all seriously injured, and the rest time between games lasted half an hour.
Putting the three Poké Balls on the cart pushed by the auspicious eggs, Qishu, who looked tired, let his body sink into the soft sofa.
Recalling the ordinary yet unusual Gym Challenge just now, she suddenly felt a little confused.
What is ordinary is the competition, what is unusual is the person who challenges.
There are two types of people who come to challenge the gym. They come to get badges and participate in the alliance conference, or they come to meet and fight with themselves.
The latter is obviously not the case. Xia Chen doesn't seem to be a fan of him. The former... Qi Shu doesn't think he is either.
So what is he here for?
Qishu didn't know, but she knew that Xia Chen seemed to see something beneath her glamorous appearance.
"Looking forward to seeing you again."
The boy's meaningful farewell still lingered in his ears, and Qishu was stunned.
Goodbye...so what?
"Qishu, why are you lying down again? You are an idol, so you must pay attention to your image! Come on, the elves have been treated. Let's quickly fight the next battle."
A noisy, sharp female voice reached his ears, interrupting Qishu's thoughts.
Although both the voice and the owner of the voice made her very irritated, Qishu still stood up and sat upright.
She looked up at the time and saw that it had only been five minutes since she entered the room to rest.
Qishu frowned tightly and asked: "I have only rested for five minutes, Miss Adelina. Not only me, but the big electric petrels also need a long rest after the battle just now, right?"
The delicately made-up woman named Adelina had an excited smile on her face.
"We need to hurry up, Qishu! Do you know how much Xia Chen's arrival has increased the number of live broadcasts? In just ten minutes, the number of viewers has doubled! The number of fans alone has increased by tens of thousands!"
"Is that an exaggeration?"
Even Qishu, who was not very interested in this kind of data, was stunned.
She has been too busy in the past two years, so busy that she lacks understanding of many things in the outside world.
Before this, she only knew that there was such a powerful person as Xia Chen.
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"So, strike while the iron is hot, play a few more games before his fans have completely dispersed, and try to seize this traffic!"
"Really, why don't you notify us in advance when this guy comes to challenge the gym? So we can have time to prepare and plan the hype..."
The agent's chatter buzzed around his ears like a fly, making Qishu very irritable.
She hates this woman for turning everything into data, traffic... words that have no warmth at all.
But she is already in the situation, and this is not something she can change if she wants to.
Xia Chen seems to be a very powerful anchor, but why can he be so free?
Qishu subconsciously thought of the young man just now, and his thoughts gradually became empty again.
"... Qishu, what do you think?"
Adelina talked for a long time and seemed to come back to the strange tree.
"Ah, what did you just say, I didn't hear clearly?"
"You kid, you should focus on your career."
Sighing, Adelina repeated: "I said, how about we go find Xia Chen to shoot two joint videos? It's rare for him to travel in Niangguang City, and it's impossible for you to leave Niangguang City..."
Adelina's subsequent voice was ignored by Qishu again.
Ask Xia Chen to shoot a video... Is this the opportunity he just said "goodbye" at the end of the battle?
But this wasn't even proposed by Xia Chen, but by his agent.
So, did he say that because he knew exactly what the team behind him was thinking?
This is not important. What is important is, do you want to agree?
Looking at the agent's excited face, it seemed that...it was up to me whether to agree or not.
As expected, before Qishu could reply, Adelina said: "You are still in a period of rapid growth, so you must seize this opportunity. In this way, you go to the competition first, and we will be responsible for communicating with Xia Chen to try to get an early start."
Set the time and content of cooperation.”
After making her decision, Adelina shouted into the room: "Geely Egg, push the elf ball over here, Qishu is about to come on stage."
"lucky..."
The round pink egg-shaped elf slowly pushed the portable treatment cart over, as if trying to buy more rest time for the three elves whose combined treatment and rest took less than ten minutes.
"Okay, Qishu, let's go to the competition. Every second of delay, there will be hundreds of people missing in the live broadcast room."
Adelina picked up the elf ball and put it into Qishu's hand, urging her to come on stage.
Qishu sighed helplessly, thought for a while, put the Poke Ball of Roentgen Cat and Naughty Thunder Egg in front of him, then walked out of the door, and started interacting with the audience as energetically as usual.
"Use the power grid to capture your eyeballs. Who will tell the story? Here comes the strange tree!"
"oh--"
"Strange tree, my amazing tree!"
The cheers at the gymnasium were still deafening.
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"Ah, what a pity. The Niangguang Gym is so popular that you can only challenge it once a day."
Walking in the square outside the gym, Ming Yi sighed with some regret.
After watching Xia Chen's battle, she felt that she was good again, and was about to strike while the iron was hot to win the Niangguang badge, but was ruthlessly told that each person in the Niangguang Gym could only challenge once per day.
Other gyms generally don't have this rule, but Niangguang Gym does it because...if not, Qishu's fanatical fans would probably break the threshold of the gym.
Of course, it’s not good to have it.
"It's okay, just stay a few more days."
Xia Chen seemed to be sending a message in his hand and comforted him by the way.
Ming Yi was very unconvinced, "Do you think I can't beat you next time?"
Xia Chen thought for a while and replied: "The main thing is... I don't think the Niangguang Gym will be open tomorrow."
Mingyi was puzzled, "Why? Niangguang Gym is a well-known model worker. Unless something happens to Qishu, it will open on time every working day, rain or shine."
"Maybe something will happen tomorrow..."
Xia Chen replied casually and continued to lower his head and send the news.
Seeing Xia Chen not forgetting to reply to messages even when walking, Ming Yi suspiciously guessed: "It doesn't have anything to do with you, does it? Are you chatting with Qishu?"
"No, I'm chatting with the managers of those two restaurants, asking them for help. If you know of similar situations in other restaurants, please let me know."
With that said, Xia Chen handed the phone screen to Ming Yi angrily to dispel the jealousy's suspicions.
"Sorry..."
The cutest thing about Mingyi is that she never speaks harshly, she weakly apologizes for her misunderstanding.
Just as Xia Chen was about to tease him a few words, the ringtone of Rotom on his cell phone suddenly rang.
"There's a call, Lotto! There's a call, Lotto!"
Xia Chen looked at the caller ID and saw that it was an unfamiliar number from Niangguang City.
His brows were raised slightly, and he already had some vague guesses in his mind.
After answering the phone, a female voice with a slightly shrill voice came from the other end, "Hello, is this Mr. Xia Chen?"
"I am Xia Chen, who are you?"
Xia Chen led Ming Yi to a chair in the square and sat down, attracting a group of wild pigeons who came to beg for food.
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"Hello, Mr. Xia Chen, my name is Adelina. I am Qishu's agent. I would like to seek cooperation with you. Can you see if you are available for an interview?"
Listening to the warm and appropriate voice on the other end of the phone, Xia Chen smiled slightly.
Just like the circle bear smelling sweetness, it followed the smell and found it.
"Forget it if we meet in person. If something happens later, just talk on the phone if you need anything."
Xia Chen's indifferent attitude did not extinguish Adelina's enthusiasm. She gave in: "No problem, that's it. I want to plan a collaborative video between Qishu and you. The content can be related to elves, or
It can be a video that has nothing to do with elves, such as a video about a travel guide to Niangguang City. Are you interested?"
"No."
Xia Chen's blunt refusal made the other end of the phone obviously stunned. After being stunned for several seconds, Adelina said: "Mr.
As a big up owner with millions of fans, the traffic attracted will also help your fame to a higher level..."
Stopping feeding the pigeons, Xia Chen suddenly said: "I'm sorry to interrupt you. In order to make our conversation more efficient, I have to correct something. I don't care about fame. The up master of station p
My identity is just my interest and not my career. Okay, you can continue."
After being silent for a while, Adelina said: "Okay, then you can make your request..."
A person like her would certainly understand what Xia Chen meant.
If Xia Chen was really not interested, he could have hung up the phone long ago. Why bother to explain so much?
What I say is nothing more than to express that cooperation is something you want from me, so don’t say anything about a win-win situation.
Finally taking the initiative into his own hands, Xia Chen said leisurely: "I want to meet Qishu alone and chat with her."
Adelina frowned slightly, "I am Qishu's agent, talking to me is more efficient..."
Xia Chen curled his lips and interrupted directly: "Don't worry, you agree to this request first and then we can talk. I have something else to do, so I'll hang up now."
As soon as he finished speaking, he hung up the phone.
"Why do you want to put forward this condition?"
Ming Yi was sitting next to Xia Chen, and the content of the conversation was not deliberately concealed. Ming Yi naturally listened to everything.
It wasn't that she was jealous when she raised this question, but she was simply curious about why Xia Chen did this.
Xia Chen stretched out, "Why... maybe it's out of curiosity. Aren't you curious about the true appearance of the strange tree?"
What he didn't say was that he was more curious about why Qishu, as a gym leader, seemed to be unable to control himself.
After retracting his thoughts, Xia Chen put the matter behind him and asked with a smile: "I heard that there is a very famous high-tech amusement park in Niangguang City. Do you want to go there?"
"Messi!"
Before Ming Yi could answer, Xiao Duolong started to wander in front of Xia Chen to make his presence felt.
Undoubtedly, a place like an amusement park is what this playful guy likes.
Pulling the tail of the little dragon swaying excitedly back and forth in the air, Mingyi smiled and said, "Okay, it's still early for dinner anyway."
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The rave reviews of Niangguang Amusement Park are not without reason. Whether it is humanoid elves like Gardevoir or Zoroark, medium-sized elves like Xianbu, or even small-sized elves like Xiaoduolong and Niannibao,
Amusement parks have corresponding facilities for them to play.
The afternoon passed, and Xia Chen and the elves had a great time.
If there is such a thing as a panel, Xia Chen thinks it should be something like "the elf's happiness value is 100, and the intimacy between you and the elf is 100".
After the tour, it happened to be lunch time, so Xia Chen followed Suo Cailing's guidance to another elf restaurant, and then arrested and interrogated Suo Cailing.
At eight o'clock in the evening, Master Xia, who had worked hard all day, ended his second day in Niangguang City by counting gold coins.
"81, 82, 83...a total of 83 completely alienated coins."
Xia Chen weighed the heavy gold coins in his hand and said to himself.
83 coins, which are all the gold coins found in the treasure chests of three wealth-seeking spirits, including my own.
Of course, in addition to this, there are 179 coins with different golden lusters that have not yet been completely alienated.
Xia Chen didn't know how many gold coins were needed for Suo Cailing to evolve. To be precise, he wasn't even sure that this was how Suo Cailing evolved.
"There is still a long way to go..."
After putting all these coins into Suo Cailing's treasure box and continuing the alienation process, Xia Chen took out his cell phone Rotom.
"Xiao Luo, check if there are any missed calls this afternoon?"
"There are two missed calls, both from the number I received in the afternoon."
There are only two...that woman is quite patient.
Xia Chen clicked his tongue and said, "Xiao Luo, call back."
"Okay Lotto!"
Rotom responded, and then dialed the phone. After two blind tones, the other end connected.
"Hello, Mr. Xia Chen."
Adelina's voice was unhurried and not at all annoyed as if she had been left alone for several hours.
"Sorry, I just finished my work and asked Rotom to turn on Do Not Disturb mode."
"It's okay, I saw the video you uploaded. It has exceeded one million views in two hours, and the fan stickiness is amazing."
Xia Chen was slightly speechless. This guy wouldn't regard his behavior as showing off his muscles, would he?
In fact, he was just feeling sorry for not updating for so long, so he happened to go to the amusement park with the elves to shoot a travel vlog, and test Rotom's video shooting and editing abilities.
Forget it, let it be a misunderstanding.
"So, what do you think of my conditions?"
Xia Chen didn't have time to beat around the bush and asked directly.
Adelina had clearly thought about it a long time ago and immediately replied: "No problem, you can decide the time and place of the meeting."
Xia Chen was not polite, "Then let's do it tomorrow morning. The location will be Oliva Elf Restaurant. Is that okay?"
"Well, then, see you tomorrow."
After setting a time to meet Qishu, Xia Chen sat in a chair and was slightly lost in thought.
He felt that he was a little strange today. He could obviously refuse that person's request directly, but he had to get involved in something that had nothing to do with him.
Just out of curiosity?
Xia Chen himself couldn't explain clearly.
Wanting to dig deeper into the reason, he thought of the look he gave to the strange tree on the battlefield. Through that look, Xia Chen saw a tired and confused soul.
Oh, when did I become such a holy mother?
Xia Chen shook his head slightly and laughed at himself.
"Mingyi, do you think I'm being nosy?"
He suddenly asked his childhood sweetheart who knew him best.
Mingyi hugged Liang Xilong, who fell asleep after playing too tired with Xiao Duolong, and replied without thinking: "No, I think this is good. Just do whatever you want to do. Traveling is for relaxation.
, If you think too much, you will be very tired."
Xia Chen was stunned for a moment, then smiled with relief, "I didn't expect that there would be a day when I would be solved by you, an idiot."
Ming Yi said in embarrassment: "Hey, who are you calling idiot?"
"Idiot scolds you!"
Xia Chen deliberately fell into the trap.
"Haha, you admit it, idiot!"
Mingyi, who had finally defeated Xia Chen in terms of IQ, clapped happily to celebrate, but she woke up Liang Xilong who had just fallen asleep in her arms.
"Gu..."
A confused sound came from Liangqi Long's throat, and Mingyi quickly stroked her body again to coax her to sleep.
At the same time, he raised his head and gestured to Xia Chen with the word "idiot".
Xia Chen shook his head and smiled, what an idiot...
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The next morning, on the Brewing Light Tower, in a private room of Oliva Restaurant.
Xia Chen and Ming Yi sat opposite the two women, silent.
Ming Yi curiously looked at the younger girl among them. She had black and smooth hair and delicate and beautiful facial features. There was no doubt that she was a very beautiful girl.
But no one can connect her with the popular anchor Qishu!
After taking off her wig and changing into the strange clothes that looked both astringent and cute, Qishu was just an ordinary beautiful girl with a somewhat aloof temperament.
At this time, she looked at Xia Chen, whom she had just met yesterday, with a rather complicated expression.
But Xia Chen... was looking at the last person in the room, Adelina, and the four of them magically completed the cycle of looking at each other.
The woman smiled and understood that Xia Chen was driving her away, so she didn't bother and stood up to leave.
"Then I'll leave first. If you agree, call me and I'll pick up Qishu."
The woman in business attire and sunglasses said this before leaving.
Xia Chen frowned slightly, "She is a gym-level trainer. There shouldn't be many dangers that can threaten her, right?"
He even wanted to ask if you had gym-level strength, but after thinking about it, there was no need to make the relationship so tense, so he didn't say anything.
Adelina didn't take it seriously and said calmly: "Trainers and idols are not the same type of profession and cannot be confused."
Xia Chen didn't want to argue with her and said, "I understand, I will inform you."
"Thank you for your understanding."
Amidst the crisp sound of high heels, Adelina left, leaving only Xia Chenmingyi and Qishu in the room, looking at each other.
After a long silence, Mingyi broke the silence first. She smiled and said: "Sister Qishu, your image is much different from the one in the live broadcast. You feel more beautiful!"
No one can resist the praise of a beautiful girl. Qishu smiled and said softly: "You are also very beautiful..."
Qishu's real voice is mellow and ethereal, much more mature, natural and pleasant to the ear than the lively loli voice that she deliberately pretends to be young during the live broadcast.
Mingyi curiously asked: "By the way, I have always been curious, are the two little magnets above your head during your live broadcast real or fake?"
Qishu pursed his lips and smiled, "Well, although it looks very real, it is actually a product of high technology."
"What about shark teeth? That one is too cute!"
"It's also fake. It's all for the sake of... personality service in front of the camera."
Once the topic started, it couldn't be closed, and the atmosphere gradually became harmonious between the two girls who were not far apart in age.
