Chapter 207
At six o'clock in the morning, the smoke of the "Hundred Regiments Offensive" club recruitment drive was already permeating the air on the main road of Qingda University.
Although it was called an "offensive," in Gu Ran's eyes, it looked more like a group of unweaned children playing house.
Fighting for territory relied entirely on shouting, and grabbing spots relied entirely on pushing. The methods were so primitive it was laughable.
"Brother Gu, are we really going to that intersection?"
Zhang Qi, carrying a box of custom materials, looked at the empty space at the intersection ahead, his calves trembling a bit.
"I heard that's the 'Golden Eye' reserved by the Student Union for key university-level clubs. We're just a newly formed startup team, we haven't even affiliated with anyone yet..."
"It's exactly because it's the 'Golden Eye' that it's worthy of us."
Gu Ran didn't stop walking, heading straight for that transportation hub connecting the teaching buildings, cafeteria, and dormitories.
Sure enough, just as they put their things down, two guys wearing "Student Union Official" badges came over with dark expressions.
"Hey, hey, hey! Which department are you from? Do you know the rules or not?"
One of the guys with a buzz cut pointed at the floor tiles, his tone unfriendly.
"This spot is reserved for the University Student Union. Move your stuff right now! Don't force us to deduct points from your department!"
Zhang Qi and Li Ming subconsciously shrank their necks.
For naive freshmen, the words "deduct points" and "Student Union" came with a natural bloodline suppression buff.
Gu Ran smiled.
He knew it wouldn't be peaceful.
The young man slowly took out an ID card with gold lettering on a red background from his pocket.
He had just gotten it yesterday.
[Special Advisor to the President's Office of Qinglin University].
"Can you read?"
Gu Ran waved the ID in front of them, his movements as dismissive as if he were shooing away beggars.
"Specially approved by the University Office, this area is requisitioned as the 'College Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Practice Pilot Zone'."
He withdrew the ID, his gaze sweeping over their stiff faces.
"Any other questions? If not, get out of the way. You're blocking my work."
The two officials looked at each other in dismay, staring at a title they had never seen before.
They then looked at the two burly part-timers over 1.8 meters tall behind Gu Ran (who Gu Ran actually hired with money).
In the end, they could only slink away in defeat.
"Holy crap, Brother Gu is awesome!"
Li Ming gave a thumbs up, the admiration in his eyes practically overflowing.
"Stop talking nonsense and get to work."
Gu Ran clapped his hands, directing the hired professional setup team to enter.
Half an hour later, while the surrounding clubs were still struggling to set up wobbly folding tables and paste handwritten posters, a professional black truss exhibition booth had already risen from the ground at the intersection.
A massive LED display screen, a professional-grade JBL audio array, and an entire wall of...
Customized milk tea, half-human-tall teddy bears, imported snack gift bags, and even rows of movie tickets...
Club recruitment?
This was like moving a mall's promotional event right into the school!
The highly impactful, flaunting-wealth style setup directly made the surrounding shabby booths look like a refugee camp in comparison.
At eight o'clock sharp.
As the first batch of freshmen rushing to early classes flooded the main road, this one-sided massacre officially began.
"WeiLiao APP, give it a shake, get it for free!"
The huge banner was simple and crude, lacking any sentimentality, offering only naked material temptation.
"Is this... really free?"
A few girls were attracted by the spectacular prize wall and tentatively stopped in their tracks.
"Scan the code to download, register and log in, then shake."
Gu Ran sat in a chair behind the booth, signaling Zhang Qi beside him to operate it.
"Whatever you shake is what you get, honest and fair."
Just then, at the neighboring Qinglan Literature Club booth, a guy wearing thick-rimmed glasses pushed up his frames and sneered loudly.
"Juniors, don't believe them. These are all tricks to deceive you into downloading garbage software."
He was a die-hard follower of Qin Zhaoyang and had already received special instructions.
"The so-called lucky draw, the background code can adjust the probability. You'd be lucky to shake out a pack of tissues. Those big bears are just there to look good..."
Before the glasses guy could finish his sentence, a crisp, tough, and highly penetrating metallic clashing sound suddenly came from the speakers.
"Click-clack!"
It was the sound of a rifle being loaded.
Immediately after.
"Congratulations to this student for shaking the first prize, a 1.6-meter teddy bear!"
Zhang Qi roared with excitement, his voice cracking, and stuffed the giant plush toy straight into the girl's arms.
The mockery at the corner of the glasses guy's mouth froze, his face looking as if he had been slapped hard.
His face hurt.
It really hurt.
"Holy crap!! They really give it away?!"
"Move aside, move aside! I want to download it!"
"Don't push me! That's my bear!"
The crowd that had been watching from the sidelines instantly went crazy, surging toward Gu Ran's booth like a tide.
Gu Ran looked at the bobbing heads in front of him, a satisfied smile curving his lips. It's all thanks to the peers making us look good.
He picked up the microphone, his clear voice cutting through the noise of the scene via the sound system.
"Students, WeiLiao's 'Shake' feature doesn't just shake out prizes."
Gu Ran paused, his gaze sweeping over the young and restless faces.
"It can also shake out... destiny."
"Within a range of a thousand meters, a hundred meters, or even just ten meters from you, who is doing the exact same action at the exact same time?"
"Is it that senior you peeked at in the library but didn't dare to approach? Or that junior you bumped into in the cafeteria but passed by?"
"Just give it a gentle shake, and you can find them."
Boom!
These words were like a depth charge, causing the crowd to explode.
"Li Ming, give everyone a demonstration."
Gu Ran turned his head.
Li Ming frantically pulled out his phone and tapped the simple green icon.
The whole audience held their breath.
Receiving the baptism of so many eyes for the first time, Li Ming nervously swallowed and gave his hand a hard shake.
"Click-clack!"
The crisp sound of a rifle bolt rang out.
A searching hand appeared on the screen, and two seconds later, the image froze.
[Ding! Found a new friend, 5 meters away from you.]
The avatar was a cute cartoon rabbit.
Almost at the same time, below the booth, a long-haired girl in a floral dress let out an exclamation, and the phone in her hand lit up too.
Their eyes met in the air.
Sparks flew.
The girl blushed, and Li Ming was so excited he almost knelt down and kowtowed to Gu Ran.
How the hell is this just software?
This is the red thread of destiny in the Matchmaker's hands!
"Shake it!!"
Someone yelled out of nowhere.
Immediately after, the entire main road of Qingda plunged into a bizarre and frantic gunfight.
"Click-clack!"
"Click-clack! Click-clack!"
"Click-clack click-clack click-clack!!!"
Whether they were lining up, walking, or watching the fun at the neighboring booths, almost everyone took out their phones and frantically squeezed toward the booth to scan the code.
The crisp sounds of rifle bolts rose and fell, from the initial sparse few clicks, rapidly converging into wave after wave of sound echoing over the campus.
The club members who had originally been selling hard and handing out flyers were completely dumbfounded.
They looked at their own deserted booths.
And then looked at the grand spectacle of Gu Ran's side, which was already jam-packed and impenetrable.
Their mentality completely collapsed.
How the hell are we supposed to compete with this?!
They are wielding nuclear weapons, and we are holding fire pokers!
Meanwhile, at GR Gaming Company.
Li Sinan and the staff stared intently at the backend data monitoring chart.
The curve for new users was shooting up in a near-vertical surge, as if it had taken Viagra.
What... what is going on?!
Gu Ran leaned back in his chair, listening to the gunfire echoing everywhere, and comfortably unscrewed a bottle of Evian water.
This was the power of auditory symbols.
When a specific sound is tied to a strong psychological expectation, like prizes or romantic encounters, it becomes a virus, frantically eroding people's minds.
Under a parasol tree not far from the booth.
Qin Zhaoyang glared fixedly at Gu Ran, who was surrounded like a star by the crowd. The flyer in Qin Zhaoyang's hand had already been crushed into a ball of wastepaper.
The humiliation of being ignored and crushed gnawed at his heart like a poisonous snake.
What is he so smug about... he is just an opportunistic nouveau riche.
Qin Zhaoyang gritted his teeth, took out his phone, and dialed a number.
Hello, Mr. Liu? This is Zhaoyang.
His voice instantly became obedient and full of righteous indignation.
I want to report something...
Hanging up the phone, Qin Zhaoyang looked at the high-spirited young man in the distance and sneered.
This is a school.
Not a place where you can do whatever you want just because you have money.
Gu Ran, just you wait.
Meanwhile, the oblivious young man was looking down at the message Ye Zhenzhen had just sent.
[Dr. Ye: Silly Bear, I secretly gave it a shake just now.]
[Silly Bear: Who did you get?]
[Dr. Ye: A Silly Bear. [Image]]
The image was precisely Gu Ran's MicroChat profile picture.
Gu Ran subconsciously looked up and saw her in the crowd not far away.
The girl was dressed in a pink and white striped top with puff sleeves and a white tiered tutu skirt.
She was smiling sweetly, revealing two little canine teeth.
She playfully waved one hand in his direction.
Under the sunlight, that smile was dazzlingly bright.
......
nto another world, I bought a slave for the first time, never expecting the silver wolf girl to be so cute... Lin Feng: I know it's cold, but you don't have to sneak into my bed! Yuna: Just sharing body warmth, if you dare do anything naughty, I'll definitely...
s the Eldest Princess, renowned for her cold and aloof detachment, became the most docile of lambs, obeying his every command without question. But when the final move was played on the chessboard, as Gu Chenghan seized everything and ascended on the verge of apotheosis, that very Princess suddenly embraced him from behind, her tone carrying a dependence never heard before: "Wait... you haven't yet... commanded me to love you forever." Gu Chenghan froze abruptly. She... hadn't been hypnotized?! ... [The Eldest Princess's Diary] [When my soul was extracted, becoming the sole spectator outside my own shell] [At first, there was overwhelming fury, until I saw] [How he used my sword to effortlessly shatter my inescapable doom] [How he wielded my authority to eradicate fatal conspiracies I had never even detected] [Like a deity, he rescued me from the deep mire I was trapped in] [If not for those annoying vixens, he and I would be a match made in heaven] [I think I am ill, gravely ill] [My deity should belong to me alone] ... "Hypnosis? Oh, it succeeded, my dear Master." "Only this time, it's my turn to hypnotize you."
nd fell into a coma while saving his younger sister from an out-of-control car. He became a vegetable. No one knew that his consciousness had crossed into a world of cultivation. Over the course of sixty years, he began as the lowest kind of mine slave, struggling to survive amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood. By sheer chance, he eventually obtained the complete memories of a fallen Immortal King. Alchemy, medicine, formations, feng shui, physiognomy, artifact forging… Every great inheritance of the cultivation world was now his. But when he opened his eyes again, he discovered that ten full years had passed in the modern world. To pay for his treatment, his father had sold the family’s shop and house, leaving himself covered in lasting injuries and illness. His mother had cared for him day and night, and more than half of her hair had already turned white. His younger sister, who had been only fifteen back then, was now twenty-five. To help repay the family’s debts, she had been forced to lower her head and put on a smiling face in places of glittering lights and endless revelry. Only then did Chen Xuan understand that what he had lost was not merely ten years. He had lost the life his entire family was meant to have. The good news was that he had brought back the memories of an Immortal King’s entire lifetime. The bad news was that his soul had returned alone—his cultivation had not come with him. Spiritual energy was scarce, resources were depleted, and the modern world still had firearms, surveillance, capital, and laws. If he wanted to protect his family, break free from everyone’s control, and become truly invincible beneath the heavens, he would have to start all over again.
for mindless slaughter, this isn't for you.] My name is Ye Shu, and I'm a transmigrator. It seems I'm supposed to be the protagonist, but that feels pretty unlikely. This world has been invaded by a system. The antagonists on the other side have suddenly become pure, flawless saints. The female leads have been force-fed the so-called "original plot," making them think they've been reborn. Now, everyone thinks I'm scum. Including the old lady in my ring. And here I am, in the Monster Beast Mountain Range, braising pork. To put my situation in perspective— It's as if, the moment Xiao Yan stepped into the Monster Beast Mountain Range, the Soul Emperor already knew he would become the Flame Emperor, and Yao Lao had been turned to the enemy's side. I have nothing right now. Oh wait, that's not true. I do have a white-haired loli child-bride who's the Heavenly Dao, and her only skill is acting cute. So, tell me guys... what are my chances of making it to the end?
