Tokyo Sound

Yin, with an expressionless face, put on his second-hand helmet and got on his second-hand Pink Lady to go out.

Chapter 75 The Weight of Money

Life is a GalGame that cannot be reversed. Every day, countless options are presented to you. This game has extremely strong, nearly infinite depth and scalability.

Perhaps something as simple as "eating breakfast" or "not eating breakfast" can cause diarrhea, squatting, numb feet, forgetting to fasten your belt when standing up, tripping over your trouser legs on the way back to your workstation, or showing your red boxer briefs in front of the project manager, causing social death news.

After being forced by the unscrupulous God to interrupt the original progress of the life game and directly travel to this DLC version, Yin Ze has not yet done anything very idiotic.

But just as most beautiful Russian girls like elves will grow horizontally into Tiger tanks after marriage, some things that seem beautiful at the time will turn into bad things like oxidized apples as time goes by.

Title: "As a young boy, I shouldn't have accepted the friend request from the eccentric Sakura-san"

Synopsis: One day, the 20-year-old ambitious young man Yin was working attentively on the set as usual. At this time, Zuo, who was in the same period, wanted to establish a friendship with him. The innocent Yin naturally accepted it with pleasure. I never thought that the stable daily life would end here. Zuo, who seemed to be a lady from a noble family, actually suffered from "intermittent personality switching middle school syndrome". In the communication again and again, the triggering of the disease became more and more frequent, and she wanted to dominate Yin's life more and more. At the same time, the dark personality sleeping in the girl's heart also awakened. Every late at night, the monster named Zuo Yasha would occupy the dominant consciousness and control the body. After encountering the "Black History Assassination Team" dedicated to eliminating such weirdness, the boy finally came into contact with the reality of the world-can the simple Yin escape from this quagmire of strong desire? Find the truth in this dark maze-like city?

Ugh.

Sometimes he wondered if Miss Sakura didn't have many friends. Why did she always come to him for everything every day?

"Mature and steady man: I need a few plaster heads for sketching practice. Please buy them for me and send them to this address..."

"Tauren Chieftain: What do you want to do now???"

"Mature and steady adult: I have decided to pick up the brush again! I will practice more at home in the future!"

"Tauren Chieftain: Are you crazy? You bought plaster and an easel and put them in your house. Don't you think it takes up too much space?"

"Mature and steady adult: Unnamed 1.jpg"

Yin Ze clicked it and found it was a photo of a bedroom. Judging from the messy bedding on the bed, this guy must have been lazily curled up in the quilt when we were chatting just now. His socks were not put away and were thrown everywhere.

My goodness, the area of ​​a bedroom is almost as big as his entire bachelor apartment. Is this a wealthy family? Not only can it display plaster heads, but it can also display a statue of Venus without any crowding.

But here comes the problem.

"Tauren Chieftain: Why should I run errands for you?"

"Mature and stable adult:?"

As expected, good people are often taken advantage of. Those who bully the weak and fear the strong only dare to bully me who is kind and optimistic!

I went out sighing, and happened to meet the country girl from the 3rd or 4th floor upstairs who was coming back from shopping.

"Brother Takizawa, are you going out?" The little girl carrying a bag full of food greeted him obediently.

"Yeah, I accepted a mandatory mission. Why did you buy so many things today?"

"I have friends coming to visit me, and I want to entertain them well."

"Oh my, oh my, is it a boy or a girl?" The man suddenly turned into a gossipy woman and became interested.

"Of course it's a girl! We are all good friends in class, what are you thinking about!" said the little girl a little embarrassedly.

"I was excited and sensitive at the moment. But having said that, if you really want to fall in love, you must be extremely careful and don't fall into the lies woven by those who are only good at sweet talk. There is no shortage of people who are good at liars in big cities." The man advised earnestly.

"I don't have time to think about those messy things." The little girl said seriously, "My goal is to study hard to get into a good university, get a good job with a fancy diploma, and help share the pressure of my family as soon as possible."

"Okay!" The man praised her for her responsibility. "If you have any questions about liberal arts courses, feel free to ask me!"

"It's very expensive for a top student from the University of Tokyo to work as a tutor outside. How can I have the nerve to hang around Takizawa-san all day long?" The little girl felt embarrassed.

"It's okay. If you really feel bad, then when you come to visit, bring some delicious meals you cooked yourself. In my opinion, Xiangyue-chan, your cooking skills are good enough to open a restaurant outside!" The man smiled heartily.

"Well, then it's settled!"

"Of course."

The greetings with friendly neighbors somewhat reduced the boredom of the day.

What does true maturity and stability mean? I really want to pull someone from his spacious single-family villa here to learn from him.

...For some reason, just having this thought made the man feel an inexplicable phantom pain on the back of his hands and waist.

Driving the Chevrolet, we slowly walked along the Seibu Ikebukuro Line, enjoying the scenery. The light grey winter is finally coming to an end, and spring and summer are knocking on the door quietly. The weather is sunny, and more and more people are walking on the street.

I have long heard of the fame of the Somei Yoshino cherry blossoms in Shakujii Park [Note: a park located in Nerima Ward, Tokyo]. It is said that when the flowers are in full bloom, the pale pink and white flowers will fill your eyes, and the long breeze from afar will blow them off the branches, passing through the group of flowers and the crowds of people, and the dust and tiredness will be stained with fragrance and beauty.

Under the bright sunshine, the cherry blossom trees are rendered with hazy and dreamy shadows, and the branches sway with an elusive beauty like in a fairy tale. The thin petals flutter and fall in the sigh of nature, carrying the cheers of the crowd, falling into the cracks of the bluestone slabs, falling into the cups filled with sake of the cherry blossom viewers, and falling on the long black hair of the beauty in red, which is as smooth as satin.

It’s a pity that I can’t enjoy it recently.

Since the Art Department of Nihon University is in Nerima, there is a long line of shops selling painting supplies nearby. Plaster heads are not easy to find in ordinary shops, so Yin went to the westernmost administrative district.

On the way to Asahigaoka on a llama, I could already see students sketching in groups of two or three, holding sketchbooks. The young people were talking about the past, present and future, their art pony tails fluttering in the wind, looking very comfortable.

Alas, despite all the Picasso and Rembrandt [Note: Rembrandt Halmansson van Rijn, one of the greatest European painters in the 17th century and the greatest painter in Dutch history.], the future path is most likely to be commercial aesthetic design, game art, and even if you don't think it through, you will fall into the trap of working as a painter in an animation company, which is really cruel.

Who in their right mind would write novels and draw pictures???

Only someone like Sakura who has no worries about food and clothing would use it as a spice for life and temperament. Woohoo, why not eat meat porridge.

At a glance, besides the well-stocked equipment stores, there are also a lot of miscellaneous stores with a strong flavor of the second dimension. Nerima is actually the birthplace of many famous animations, with dozens of animation companies concentrated here, and animation festivals are held regularly. In terms of the academic nature of the second dimension, this place is much higher than Akihabara and the like.

Just like Zaku and Nuclear Gundam, there is still a difference between otaku and professional-level otaku.

"Warm up two chicken wings and have a box of soy milk." This is in a chain convenience store.

"Do you sell human heads here?" This was in an equipment store.

"Whose head do you want?" the clerk asked.

"First, let's get a Voltaire [Note: the pen name of François-Marie Arouet, an 18th-century French Enlightenment thinker, writer, and philosopher] to see the quality."

Soon a square box was placed on the table. Yin Ze opened it, took out the literary giant's head and looked at it carefully. He also knocked on it like picking a watermelon to listen to the sound. It felt like an ancient king accepting other people's letters of surrender and inspecting the heads.

"How is it?" the clerk asked again.

"It's a really good head." Yin Ze was satisfied. "I want two more of Xiaowei [Note: a marble sculpture created by Italian sculptor Michelangelo Buonarroti] and Pirate [Note: a Roman politician, Stoic philosopher, tragic writer, and orator Lucius Anne Seneca, so named because of his ugly appearance]."

"Buying it for the studio? Our proportional male skeletons and proportional artistic muscle models are on sale now. There's a discount if you buy them now. Would you consider it?" the clerk began to sell.

Although he really wanted to buy them for Sakura-san and have her put them at the head and foot of her bed, it was very likely that she would not be reimbursed, so he declined with regret.

With the heads of three great men hanging on his body, and now riding on the Pink Pretty Girl, he suddenly felt like a fierce general who could defeat a thousand enemies alone and reap the heads of enemy generals from the midst of thousands of troops.

On the way back, he was very calm, thinking that since it was a tiring trip, he might as well at least have a meal at the high-end restaurant.

However, when entering the northeastern part of the port area, the man saw more and more magnificent villas, which made him feel extremely sad. He began to calculate darkly in his mind how much price he should quote and how much difference he should get.

Double... or triple?

Four times, give it a try, and the electric car can be turned into a motorcycle.

The little alpaca drove clumsily on the street, forming a sharp class contrast with the luxury cars that occasionally passed by on the road.

There was an elderly passerby ahead who was struggling to move forward. He was carrying various thin buckets and pipes on his back and holding a giant plastic bag in his hands. His body was hunched over and he was panting. It was doubtful whether he would collapse halfway.

Yin Ze scratched his head, thought about it and stepped on the accelerator. The pretty lady raised the front of the car slightly, slid to the side of the uncle with a handsome step, and asked doubtfully, "Hey, old man, what are you doing...?"

"Ah?" The sweaty passerby glanced at him and smiled awkwardly, "I bought too much stuff, and then the car had a minor problem, so I had no choice but to take it back."

"It will be very difficult to carry all these things back." Yin Ze glanced at the old man, whose suit was bruised, and said, "How about we call a taxi?"

"No need, my home is just ahead, about a thousand meters away." The uncle waved his hand, his hair disheveled from tiredness.

"Oh, so that's the case. Then you put your things on the back of my car and I'll lead the way." Yin Ze said.

"How can that be so?" the uncle was surprised.

"What's the big deal? I'll just lend a hand." Yin Ze gave a thumbs up generously.

"Young man, thank you so much." The uncle did not hesitate and decisively took off the weight on his shoulders.

Soon they were basically all hanging on the back of the electric bike.

"Okay, let's go!"

Yin Ze stepped up his efforts on the spot.

However, no matter how hard the pretty lady tried to eat engine oil, or how powerful the sound was, the car did not move. After a few seconds, black smoke was still rising from the car.

The two people looked at each other, speechless for a moment.

"Brother, how heavy must this pile of stuff be?" Yin Ze forgot about the mountain of things behind him and his eyebrows twitched.

"I don't know, but it must have cost around 170,000 or 180,000 yen," said the uncle.

Do you take price as weight?

Chapter 76: Encountering the Dragon and the Phoenix in One Day

After a passerby's Mercedes-Benz AMG S65 [Note: Mercedes-Benz S65 AMG, the top product of Mercedes-Benz S-Class] had a quarrel three kilometers away from his home, Yin's second-hand electric car bought from an unknown JK also died.

Fortunately, the two people present were both very smart and knew how to use tools properly. The S65 could not be relied upon, but the pretty lady could still play the role of a supermarket shopping cart, putting all the things on it and pushing it.

So, a car is just a means of transportation. Why do you need to make it so fancy? If you buy it too expensively, you will have to be very careful when driving it normally. A scratch will cost you thousands or even tens of thousands of dollars. And if something happens, a luxury car will not be as durable as a down-to-earth car.

Unicycles are mostly in circuses, so I won’t comment on them.

In the field of two-wheeled vehicles, it is recommended to be a ghost-fire boy [Note: refers to people who love to modify motorcycles for racing], chasing the purest freedom and speed, loneliness and sadness can't catch up with you.

In the field of four-wheel vehicles, the only god car is Wuling Hongguang, which can adapt to various terrains, is equipped with mid-level land and sea hybrid, has a simple square body design that provides large capacity and space, has a reverse drift correction engine, and a combat continuation chip. As long as there is a mouthful of gas, it will never stop. Other Porsche 918, McLaren P1, Ferrari LaFerrari [Note: All are top sports cars], are all fake and vulnerable.

"So are there any reviews in the field of six-wheeled vehicles?" The uncle, who looked like a very successful person, asked with great interest.

"That's the tram." Yin Ze said as he pushed the pretty lady.

"It's a very interesting topic. Do you pay attention to these things on a daily basis?" the uncle asked casually.

"Not really, I've only dabbled in it a bit. I have very low material desires. I'm not the kind of person who pursues pleasure or compares with others." Yin Ze nodded.

"Alas, in fact, most people are forced to join this 'face competition'."

The uncle shook his head and sighed, rolling up his wrinkled sleeves, inadvertently revealing a Vacheron Constantin watch with a Maltese cross engraved on his wrist.

"As long as one person arms himself with money and power and releases arrogance, more people will resist, especially when there is no natural gap between the two. This is the fighting instinct that has been deeply engraved in our human genes since the ancient ape era. Even children will compete with each other to see who can boo farther, because the strong always have more. And decorating yourself with luxury goods is the fastest way to show your capital and drive away the weak."

"What a terrible bad habit! Knowledge and experience are obviously what are most worthy of respect." Yin Ze sighed, "At least what weaves our magnificent human civilization is definitely not currency, but countless wisdom and courage."

"The integrity and convenience of society, as well as the dazzling entertainment that tries to please the audience, have made today's children impetuous. Instead of looking up at the stars and thinking about the universe, they fantasize about becoming popular idols and big stars. You are at the age when you should be arrogant and domineering, but you are not addicted to the bright lights and wine. Instead, you are very sober, which is really rare." The uncle nodded and praised.

"When people are well fed and clothed, and there is hope in the world, they naturally talk about romance. Only in times of sorrow and chaos will writers stand up and write about all the sufferings of the world." Yin Ze said with a smile, "So everyone wants to act in idol dramas, which just shows that life is happy and safe now. In addition, in my opinion, there is no need to mind. Everyone actually has resilience and backbone, but they just lack a spark, a fuse. When it really ignites and blooms, with spirit and perseverance as fuel, it can burn away all the suffering and haze. Looking back on the past, it is always like this."

"Well said, I am indeed too picky." The uncle was deeply touched by these words, "Maybe it's because I have been in society for many years and have been involved in various social activities that I have become vulgar?"

"It's not bad to be tacky, it's also practical and smart. After all, we are just flesh and blood and need to eat." Yin Ze said, "Who doesn't want to make a lot of money and live a decent life?"

"Yes, but unfortunately it is not like before. The market has become solidified now, and it is difficult to carve out your own path." The uncle said, "After all, heroes are made by the times."

"From what I heard from you, brother, do you want to start a business?" Yin Ze was curious.

"good."

"You are about forty years old?"

"Yes. What? Do you think I'm too ambitious?" the uncle joked.

How can that be possible? They all drive S65.

"I dare not, but in my impression, it is rare for someone of your age to still have the passion to conquer new territories." Yin Ze said slowly, "Don't most Japanese people only do one thing?"

"It's due to two reasons. One is stability. As long as you stay and work hard, your salary will increase. The other is as I said just now, each industry has matured and there is no room for latecomers," said the uncle.

"It's hard to do business." Yin Ze sighed.

"Do you have any story, young man?" Seeing him sighing, the uncle couldn't help but chat with him again.

"It's OK to run a small business, but if you want to continue to expand, especially when the number of employees exceeds 20 or 30, it will be very troublesome. Because at this time, new people who have not been with the company for a long time will join. The voluntary overtime that the family used to have fun in hardship has become KPI assessment, the outings organized in free time have become team building tasks, and the work has changed from renting a three-bedroom apartment to moving into an office building..."

Yin Ze had nothing to say.

"Entrepreneurs cannot avoid the hurdle of formalization. The difficulty of management and operating costs increase sharply here. Many people fall into this trap. Brother, please pay more attention to this."

Um? interesting.

The passerby uncle looked at the young man with a little surprise, "Little brother, where did you get these experiences?"

"I am not talented, but I often read urban rebirth novels and am proficient in the Monopoly series [Note: a well-known board game]." Yin Ze smiled mysteriously.

"Can you tell me more about this?" the uncle asked with great interest.

"It's very simple in the early stage. There are so few people at the beginning, so there is no need to study the organizational structure right away. As a boss, you would rather take less or even nothing, but let others make money first. But you must have a good grasp of the dominant power, so that when things get unpleasant, you can ask people to leave without hurting yourself. Things can be discussed, but you still have to make the final decision. After all, collective leadership means no leader." Yin Ze talked freely, "When there are more people, things become complicated. Everyone wants to take the credit but is unwilling to take the blame. When something bad happens, they will say, 'Oh, I told you so', 'You should have listened to me', and at this time they may have ulterior motives."

"It's all true." The uncle didn't refute but nodded.