System: Master Your Life

Chapter 1012 - 268: Xu Lin’s Ideals (Career)

[Late returning home for Mid-Autumn Festival, six thousand words tomorrow]

After posting a new Weibo, Xu Lin didn’t pay any attention to the discussions online.

He started to continue with his next task:

Updating his game’s storyline.

Xu Lin is an idealist, so he wants to add something into the game.

Question: Are those historical lords and generals worthy of admiration?

Xu Lin feels they are not worth admiring.

He has already stepped out of the admiration filter for those fierce figures in history, especially ancient ones, like those heroes, lords, generals, and venerable gentlemen.

They are all the same, they are excellent, but Xu Lin will not admire them.

Using the hero perspective, it’s said that lords, generals, and heroes created history, like Li Longji initiating the Kaiyuan Prosperity.

However, from the people’s perspective, it was countless ordinary people who created a magnificent and splendid history, like the Kaiyuan Prosperity, which was established by the people. You, Li Longji, and the officials under you have credit but not much.

Yet, history will not praise the common people, only the lords and generals.

For example, during the heroic Three Kingdoms era, various fierce figures appeared one after another, but except for Zhang Jiao, none stood from the common people’s standpoint to fight for a chance of survival for them. The rest were fighting for the throne, ultimately becoming emperors.

Thus, in Xu Lin’s new storyline, based on the progression of the earlier plot, he wants players to shoot the Crown Prince.

The minor background is that the Crown Prince did things that angered both humans and gods, and the larger background is this world has a deeply entrenched class structure, with noble families severely exploiting common people.

Players are to shoot this Crown Prince in public to challenge privilege.

This shooting is not for personal vendetta nor for the citizens’ plea.

After all, Xu Lin is no Saint, so he cannot advocate being a Saint, like the famous four sentences of Heng Qu, something about setting the heart for heaven and earth, establishing life for the people...

Those things are just boasting.

Xu Lin cannot promote unrealistic things.

Xu Lin wants to convey two ideas in the game.

The first: When the emperor breaks the law, he is punished the same as the commoners.

Therefore, if he deserves to be killed, he should be killed.

This is easy to understand, and this ancient concept exists seemingly from unknown dynasties.

But in reality, this statement is mostly empty talk.

Because those in privileged classes, historically, could literally kill someone on the street and walk away unscathed.

Like Yan Shifan, the weightlifting champion of the Ming dynasty, who invented the "beauty spittoon," using the mouths of beautiful maidservants as spittoons. Also, ancient nobles did not clean themselves after defecating but let beauties lick them clean.

Similar things are countless.

The feudal era, truly no exaggeration here.

The second: No privilege should exist.

Therefore, by having the players publicly shoot the Crown Prince, it challenges the ultimate setup of the early storyline, and in the game world, this belief will have a huge impact. Players, through their actions, will spread this belief, leading the world to slowly evolve due to this advanced thought.

Historically, Huang Chao eradicated all noble families with the household registration book, shattering them completely.

But Huang Chao intended to rule the world, meaning he wanted to become part of the privileged class, to own the world.

But in the game, Xu Lin wants the players, through the storyline, to spread this belief, so that years later, the game world will automatically evolve into a new world form.

Do not overlook the importance of advanced thought.

When the great called out those four words, many people cried on the spot. Modern people find it hard to understand how miserable ordinary people lived in the old days, especially during the feudal era. Going into the mountains to chop wood, that mountain belongs to the landlord, that wood belongs to the landlord. If you mess up, they could beat you to death on the street, and the landlord wouldn’t face any trouble.

As Xu Lin’s experience grew, he realized that human civilization is constantly advancing, from slave society to feudal society, then to modern civilization.

But in reality, human nature has not changed.

For instance, years later, Xu Lin might become a scumbag.

Even if he does not become a scumbag, there’s a certain probability his descendants might, becoming exploiters who feed off history, profiting by exploiting human society, and the exploitation likely worsens over generations.

At twenty, Xu Lin was vibrant, with youthful vigor, believing the world shouldn’t be like this.

He has ideals.

At least, the young him has ideals.

He dreams of changing the world.

Now, he is accomplished, having everything he could want.

He longs to achieve higher accomplishments.

After spending seven to eight hours, Xu Lin finally updated the new storyline, with the help of the Moon God; otherwise, it would have taken even longer.

Title: When the emperor breaks the law, he is punished the same as the commoners.

In the wee hours, Xu Lin released the update.

His game boasts a large player base, so even at three or four in the morning, many people are still playing.

Discovering it’s a game storyline update, everyone, excitedly, starts the new storyline immediately.

Even though Xu Lin only spent seven or eight hours updating, the storyline content is quite substantial.

For light gameplay, it would take at least forty hours, while deep gameplay takes more than sixty hours.

This is Xu Lin’s largest update so far; otherwise, it couldn’t contain so much content.

So for the next few days, it’s naturally about waiting for players to complete it.

With dozens of hours of gameplay time, people can’t play games for over ten hours a day, most would only play a few hours at most, unless they’re doing it as a job or if they’re a game streamer.

The following night.

Xu Lin created a small group and brought in the bosses of eight game companies.

Just as the group started, Xu Lin didn’t forget to lay down some rules.

"The underworld’s rules, once a teacher, forever a father."

"This time, I’m releasing technology to you, equivalent to an underworld expert passing martial arts secrets to you; therefore, I’m your master, and you must respect me. But I’m not asking for servile attitude. What I mean is, you must use my technology and achievements with care, don’t misuse them. Your future accomplishments must at least live up to my technology."

Xu Lin spent over ten minutes, discussing many rules and considerations.

He even laid out some moral requirements.

Xu Lin feels his only flaw is being a bit of a philanderer.

Other than this flaw, he should be considered a Saint in terms of personality.

After all, he now possesses the Moon God, the most powerful network force in the world, without a doubt.

He can maximize his personal power to the fullest.

If Xu Lin were slightly of poor character, many people would suffer.

Like rulers in the feudal era, in the family-owned world structure, a ruler’s personal will often overrides everything, slight disturbances could cause severe hardship or even disaster to ordinary people.

Xu Lin could do that, or something similar, essentially making many people’s lives harder.

Under the control of powerful artificial intelligence, human society would see frightful scenes straight from sci-fi films, like The Matrix or Terminator, which Xu Lin could preliminarily realize.

But Xu Lin doesn’t pursue such things.

He is an idealistic and moral person.

How could he indulge in such lowly pleasures?

The third day.

It’s already mid-October.

Xu Lin hasn’t seen Pei Danqing for quite some time, and the same goes for her.

Thus, Pei Danqing, taking advantage of some free time, after ensuring Xu Lin is also available, comes over from the Capital City today.

However, Xu Lin still has to pick her up.

When Xu Lin heads to the airport, it’s the afternoon.

Jiangdu’s evening rush hour often results in traffic jams.

So Xu Lin takes the No. 9 to the airport.

Jiangdu is full of luxury cars, and Xu Lin has no intention of showing off in a four-wheeler.

He has matured a lot.

In fact, today he’s going out wearing slippers and shorts, very casual.

After all, he had only woken up in the afternoon before rushing out.

At the airport, Xu Lin quickly spots Pei Danqing.

She is already waiting at the agreed location.

Pei Danqing is dressed as before, in a long-sleeved shirt and dress pants, with the shirt tucked into her pants. Her shoes aren’t high heels but flat shoes.

However, she is very tall, and even in flat shoes, including her hair height, she stands at 1.8 meters, standing out in the airport.

This woman is extremely beautiful, and as a city with strong financial attributes, Jiangdu naturally attracts beautiful women from all over the country.

Thus, in Jiangdu, one can easily see all sorts of beautiful women.

But this woman seems to make other beauties pale in comparison.

Even those stars on TV are the same.

Men think, what kind of man could have such a woman?

Women wonder, what kind of man could match this kind of woman?

Men and women’s thinking patterns differ, but they unanimously agree that Pei Danqing is extremely perfect.

But it’s frustrating; people just see a guy on a No. 9 electric scooter wearing big sunglasses pick up this exceptional woman.