Xia Ningbing did not return to her job immediately after going out.

She looked through her address book to find some names that she hadn't been in touch with for a long time, and called them.

"Hey, hello, I'm Guan Li's sister...... Can you ask if you've been in touch with him lately?"

"No, it's nothing, sorry to bother you. ”

“...... Did he say anything special during your last conversation?"

Classmates, friends, and even netizens.

Xia Ningbing knew almost all of "Guan Li's" interpersonal relationships, but she only asked the two or three who had the closest relationship.

If you don't get any of the answers you thought of, there's no point in continuing to ask other people who are more distant.

On the next call, she called her mother, who is also Guan Li's aunt, "Mom, how long has it been since Xiaoli called you?"

"I went to his house today...... No, he went home on the weekend, maybe he didn't come to see you because of the tight time. ”

"Mm-hmm, it's all good. ”

"It's like, I feel like he's a different person, the one I know...... Some are different. ”

The system put all her call records in front of Guan Li, "Administrator, do you want to continue listening?"

"No need. "It's enough to hear this," you can judge the rest of the content, and tell me if you think there is a problem. ”

This also means keeping Xia Ningbing under surveillance.

The system has no objection to this obvious invasion of the privacy of others.

Its privacy protection protocol is only for those who have permissions, and others are completely unprotected.

"What are we going to do now?" put Xia Ningbing's threat aside for the time being, and the system's focus went back to the main line - the Foundation?

Guan Li did not talk to him at the first time.

The Foundation's development takes time to settle, and he can use methods to accelerate the increase in personnel.

But there must be a degree.

The SCP Foundation, the form of hypertext creation that appeared on the Internet, is itself destined to be niche.

The archival writing of that kind of clinical body is a feature, and it is also a "poisonous point" that hinders many people from watching.

So far, there are thousands of people who have logged on to the website due to various means, and how many have stayed?

In the current explosion of entertainment culture, there are too many things that can suck people's attention and give them spiritual pleasure.

The Foundation, which requires patience and careful reading of archives to gradually understand the depths, is not very suitable for the current mainstream of fast food culture.

Guan Li muttered to himself: "But the niche is diehard......"

"Huh?" the system didn't understand what this sentence was trying to say.

"At this stage, the Foundation's own 'niche' nature is the 'shining point' that it must maintain. "As a dead house who has been deeply involved in various mainstream and non-mainstream cultural circles, Guan Li can understand the mentality of many people just by analyzing himself.

First of all, niche means that it is not mainstream enough, and it also means that it is relatively rare.

As the saying goes, scarcity is precious.

When a culture emerges that is extremely rare and difficult to imitate, it is easy to attract a group of die-hard fans.

Not only because of the natural pursuit of high rarity by human beings, but also because: once you like this kind of cultural work, you can't find other works of the same type to see, and you can't bear to give up, so you have to revisit it again and again, and over time......

It's boiled into a die-hard fan.

Secondly, the sense of self-promotion and xenophobic superiority is the three powerful tools for niche culture to increase self-cohesion.

The more unrecognized the group, the easier it is to form a group within.

This can probably be understood as a kind of self-protective instinct against the invasion of the mainstream culture of the outside world.

As a result, various "circles" were formed.

The people in the circle live in one world, and outside the circle there is another world.

It is very easy for an excellent niche cultural circle to develop a unique system of "black words" - memes that only one's own people can understand.

When they communicate with each other in "black words", people who do not know this field will only hear a bewildered face.

- This is commonly known as "self-hilarity".

Insiders who indulge in self-congratulatory will naturally have a sense of xenophobia and superiority to the outside world.

When several accessible cultural circles collide with members who do not exactly coincide, a cycle of superiority is likely to ensue.

That is, I look down on you, you look down on him, and he looks down on other people.

This kind of thing is generally called a "chain of contempt".

The magical chain of contempt in the direction of development can even form a complete "contempt cycle".

Strictly speaking, this is not a positive cultural trend, but it has to be said that it does have a certain effect on strengthening the cohesion within the circle.

"Sounds reasonable. The system compared the examples on the Internet, and there was not much difference from what Guan Li said, "Then our task now is to completely niche the Foundation?"

Guan Li said that the system thinks too much, "That's the prospect, it's the future after a while, and now the foundation hasn't even formed its own cultural circle." ”

It's not even an independent culture, where does the niche come from?

"So we still have to lay the foundation for a while?"

"There is no shadow of the foundation, and we are still digging pits. ”

The road ahead is long, and the road is long......

The system watched him sigh like this, and turned on the video again: "Then what are you still watching?

"It's okay, isn't someone digging a pit for us?" said the old god Guan Li, "for the sake of the national branch, they also have to pit at least a thousand people in." ”

"Hey, Administrator, you're too ......"

"Don't talk, stare at your data! Call me again when the event is complete or the black gold replies to you. ”

"Why did I choose a guy like you who is addicted to the Internet and can't extricate himself......"

"Normal people who aren't addicted to the Internet don't have a chance to contact the Foundation at all, right?"

"...... "Damn, it makes sense!"

Anyway, Guan Li has already done a lot of things today, and the system is not good enough to force him to continue to contribute to the pit that the Foundation has not dug yet.

Just take a half-day off!

Only when there is a degree of relaxation can we squeeze it better...... Ah no, it's better to contribute.

The system has toured all the places it needs to focus on.

The number of people online at the Foundation has risen steadily, but Heijin on the AS side still hasn't replied, and Xia Ningbing hasn't called......

There doesn't seem to be much to do.

It felt a little bored, so it simply followed Guan Li to watch variety shows.

And then—

"Why isn't this round of 'Heaven Falling' the first? Shady! Definitely shady!"

Guan Li didn't even have time to express any opinions on the show before he heard the system blow up first.

"You're also a fan of this ball?"

The system immediately replied: "Of course, it is obvious that they have the strongest comprehensive strength!"

"But this time, Xingshen's on-site performance was even better. Guan Li disagreed.

"You're a fan of the star gods, that kind of noisy sound?"

For the first time, the system doubts the aesthetic abilities of its own administrators.

For the Nth time, Guan Li suspected that the IQ of his system was a random number.

It's too fast to become a fan!