Chapter 44: The Fall
The work at the café was really boring, and in less than an hour, it seemed like a world away from life for Li Wen.
The guests in the corner are still playing with their mobile phones, which are like air and water for today's foul-smelling young people, and must be inseparable and have electricity at all times.
"Hey, when will you get off work? ”
Li Wen took out a cup of literature and art and began to practice latte art, and Ke Bo, who was attached to Li Wen's body, began to operate with the help of Li Wen's memory file:
Coffee is poured into the quilt and the cream needed for latte art begins to slide quickly over the tilted cup, forming a wonderful pattern after a wonderful combination of lines.
"yes! I could write a story about a barista. Li Wen pinched his chin and made a thoughtful gesture, completely unaware of the fact that he had put the cup on the edge of the table.
"But in that case, how do I unfold the story?" Li Wen said to himself, "Do you design this barista to be an agent hidden in the café?"
"No, it's not realistic. ”
"He was designed to be a time-traveler, a time-traveler coming back from the future, specifically to learn the coffee recipes of the present. ”
"Phew! What kind of bullshit storyline. ”
"So how do you set it up, and how do you attract more readers?"
"I see!" Li Wen's eyes lit up.
"The whole world can be set up as a world of cultivating immortals and leveling up, and only those who do well in coffee can obtain a relatively high social status, so as to gain a lot of money, honor and applause. In this case, it only needs to make the plot of the whole novel a little cooler. The money that you can't usually make is made casually by the protagonist, and the extravagant life that you can't usually enjoy makes the protagonist treat it as dung. In this way, the audience is happy, and my subscription is also earned, isn't it beautiful?"
"Let's give the protagonist a name first. Since the protagonist is a barista, and then his golden finger is better at coffee, then I will call him Golden Coffee. ”
"Poof......" Standing in front of Li Wen, the customer who listened to Li Wen's self-talk sprayed a sip of coffee directly on Li Wen's face, "Big brother, what are you doing? Originally, I would have thought of listening to what brilliant settings you have behind you, but you can do it, the name will collapse directly!"
"Is it? Is it that obvious?"
"Of course, you are like this, don't think about writing novels, it is better to make coffee delicious than anything else. The guest sneered.
"......" Li Wen's ears sounded the familiar line again: "One idea for writing a novel." ”
"No! I can't be led crooked by you, writing a novel is very promising, no matter what difficulties you encounter in the process of writing a novel, you have to face it with a smile, Ollie!" Li Wen clenched his fists and slapped it on the table, and the coffee cup that had been placed on the edge of the table was shaken, fell to the ground, and shattered.
Li Wen was frightened by this sudden sound, and quickly took a few steps back, because there was water on the ground, and the whole person flew out on his back.
The glass decorative shelf was knocked down by Li Wen, and in Li Wen's stunned gaze, the shelf and all kinds of coffee cups on the shelf were shattered.
At the same time, Levin's heart was broken.
Although the shelves are not worth much, in order to make a statement about the café, the proprietress of the shop has collected these cups from various sources and placed them on glass shelves for display.
"It's over, I'm not left with any pants left. Li Wen sat on the ground, and the man put on a sad face.
The café's originally small number of guests all gathered around, looking like they were watching a play, and no one pulled Li Wen up.
"Hey, the world is cold!" Li Wen complained.
"Originally, I wanted you to refill my cup, but now it seems that you should help yourself renew your life first. ”
The guest turned back to his seat alone, the mess behind the counter was completely ignored, and the decorations that were supposed to elevate the café were now out of place.
"Oh my God, what's going on!"
When the proprietress was wandering outside, her right eyelid kept beating, and then the ghost saw the current scene, and then, after the proprietress and Li Wen looked at each other awkwardly and excessively, this roar broke out.
"Boss, do you want to listen to me?"
Li Wen stood up and came to the boss lady, the boss lady was so angry that her pulse ran to 200 beats per second, the green tendons on her forehead burst out, and the flesh on her face kept shaking.
"Anything else to explain?"
"Boss, why don't I pay for it?" Li Wen said weakly, this was the hardest sentence that Li Wen could say at this moment.
"Okay, forget the shelves, you can pay me for these cups. The proprietress took out her mobile phone, glanced at the memo, and broke out the price, "A total of 180,000." ”
"How much?" said Levin in disbelief.
"One hundred and eighty thousand. ”
"What's the unit of currency at the back?"
"Li Wen, I wonder if you haven't hit your head here, how can you ask this kind of nonsense?" The proprietress came to Li Wen and pointed at Li Wen, but she couldn't beat Li Wen violently, so the hand that had nowhere to put it kept spinning back and forth in the air, which was very funny.
"Okay, I admit to losing money, but I won't be able to come up with so much money for a while, can I pay in installments?" Li Wen looked at the proprietress weakly.
"You, Li Wen, Li Wen, you are really not enough to achieve, and you are more than defeated!"
"Boss, if you lose money, you lose money, why do you want to engage in personal attacks?"
"Give me an IOU, and get out. The proprietress didn't want to say more, so she took out the pen and paper she had with her from her pocket and handed them to Li Wen.
Li Wen, who was already destitute, has now directly become a negative balance.
"It's over, I feel like the mission is about to fail. Li Wen sat on the side of the street, looking at the crowd on the street, Li Wen was indifferent, his heart did not fluctuate, and he even wanted to cry.
"Isn't that going to work?" the system appeared beside Li Wen.
"Tell me about you, can't you ask my own opinion before you let me carry out the mission?"
"You don't have a choice right now. ”
Two slender girls on the side of the road passed by Li Wen, each of these two girls held a string of marshmallows in their hands, and after the system saw the marshmallows, they changed into a string of exactly the same, and began to lick them with relish.
"So what do I need to choose? At least I'm the main character, right?"
"You need to purchase the relevant services, and then you can enjoy the privilege of choosing a task. ”
The system is full of evil smiles, and uses its superpowers to make the marshmallow into a state that can never be eaten, and every time a piece is licked, a new piece grows out of the marshmallow, which can be described as the ultimate benefit of obsessive-compulsive disorder.
"How many people are on the task? Do I have to peel off a layer of skin to buy it?"
"It's not. The system throws away the marshmallow, and in the moment before it lands, the marshmallow turns into air and disappears, fully following the relevant advocacy of "protecting the environment".
"Is that a hundred mission points done?" Li Wen's tone was excited, and he almost gave the system a big hug.
"I mean, it's not about shedding one layer of skin, it's about shedding ten layers of skin. ”
"I ......" Li Wen's surprise turned into panic a second ago, "Please leave, I don't want to see you, disappear from my world, thank you." ”
"You can't escape, from the first day you met me, your fate has been inseparable from me, understand?"
The system squatted in front of Li Wen, and his face was full of "What can you do? Angry with you, angry with you little spicy chicken, I'm the system, I'm your father, understand?"
The system squatted in front of Li Wen, and his face was full of "What can you do? Angry with you, angry with you little spicy chicken, I'm the system, I'm your father, understand?"
"Forget it, my own tasks, I take them on my own. ”
"Okay, bye-bye!" The system disappeared, Li Wen sat in place, looking at the people coming and going, Li Wen's eyes flickered a little, wiped the corners of his eyes, put it in his mouth and tasted it, salty, it was the taste of poverty.
"Yes, I'm not very talented, but I can be a gunslinger. Li Wenmeng's row of thighs stood up and shouted loudly, "I'm going to be a gunman!"
"Brother, if you want to do this, I'll call someone! Your thinking is very dangerous! Don't you know that guns are controlled items?" passers-by looked at Li Wen with neurotic eyes.
"I ...... I'm not going to be a gunman, I'm not a gunner, you know? it's the gun that types!" Levine explained.
"Isn't that still a gun? Isn't it forcing someone to expose you?"
"Why do I have to explain so much to you?" Li Wen ignored the passers-by and turned to leave.
"Hey, hello, do you need a gunner? Don't pick a subject, 20,000 words a day. ”
Levine added a studio on the Internet called "I Want You to Fire", thinking that he would earn some money to pay off his debts as a gunman and support himself by the way.
"Yes, thousand 20, draft first and then paragraph. The studio replied.
"Yes. ”
Li Wen calculated in his heart that if he writes 20,000 words a day, it will be 600 yuan a day, and if he writes 200,000 words a day, it will be ...... Wait a minute! 200,000 words a day doesn't seem realistic, so it's better to follow the standard of 600 yuan.
On the same day, after receiving the task from the studio, Li Wen turned on the mode of typing machine, and from 10 o'clock in the evening to 6 o'clock in the morning the next day, in eight hours, 20,000 words were completed, and 600 yuan was received.
"What kind of bicycle do you want, what kind of part-time job?" Li Wen leaned back in the chair, although he had stayed up all night, he would not be tired at all, even if he wrote for another three days and three nights, at most he would become close to sudden death.
"Hahahahaha! I can pay off the debt in three hundred days!" Li Wen looked up to the sky and laughed, but in the next second, Ke Bo, who was attached to Li Wen, realized the problem.
Three hundred days .......
"Am I going to stay on this mission for three hundred days?"
"I'm cracked......"