Chapter 515 Butterfly Effect
In the hotel.
Xu Xiyu, who was talking to Nancy on the phone, had a solemn expression.
Because what Nancy said to him on the phone disrupted all his thoughts and plans.
“You are saying that the situation will develop in a direction that is very unfavorable to me?”
"Yes, there is a 90% chance that it will be like this." Nancy said helplessly in her tone.
Long before Xu Xiyu came to the United States, he hoped that Nancy could help find celebrities, science fiction writers, and even some special people to take part in "The Three-Body Problem".
To this end, he also gave Nancy $1 million in activity funds.
Just now, he focused on the "right" topic again, hoping to trigger a "counterattack effect" among science fiction literature enthusiasts.
But the counterattack effect has not yet begun, but the "butterfly effect" of the shooting incident is coming.
"Your popularity in China is too high, and several of your works have achieved good results internationally. This has led to the spread of this shooting incident both domestically and internationally.
Especially in The spread in your country is even more frightening. In this case, the local media in Spokane can ignore it and gain traffic
Relevant agencies may directly limit the flow of information to you. Relevant content because it’s the easiest, most direct, and least brain-intensive to deal with,” Nancy continued.
Hearing this, Xu Xiyu frowned and continued: "So, let alone playing the right cards now, even the matter of finding celebrities to stand on the platform, or even the matter of winning awards is enough, right? ?”
"Yes, but don't worry. It's impossible to limit your flow here. It's probably only for ten or eight days. When everyone forgets about this and focuses on other things, they won't care about you. Yes." Nancy comforted.
“But the problem is that everything depends on timing, and now is a good time to promote "The Three-Body Problem". First promote it with celebrities, then win awards, and finally create some hype on the right topic.
After this set of operations, the initial popularity will be established, and the rest will be done. Waiting for the content quality of "Three-Body" to be fermented, and continue to promote it steadily.
If I limit the flow at this time, it will be all in vain, and "Three-Body" will directly lose one of the best. External promotion opportunity." Xu Xiyu couldn't help but rub his temples.
Originally, I thought that I would be popular even if I won no prizes, but now people are just playing "drawing firewood from the bottom of the cauldron", taking away both the firewood and the stove, and returning the fire to the fire with a hammer!
When Nancy heard this, she was silent for a while, then shrugged and said, "You shouldn't have gone to that celebration. If you didn't encounter this, you wouldn't have this trouble."
After saying that, before Xu Xiyu could reply, she spoke again: "However, this matter is not without a solution. There is a second way to go."< br>
“The second way?”
“Yes, let’s do that. I’ll fly to Spokane and we’ll talk in person. There are some things that are not convenient to say on the phone.”
As soon as these words came out, Xu Xiyu fell silent. After a while, he said: "I hope things are different from what you think."
"I hope so too." Nancy said noncommittally.
Just like that, the two chatted for a few more words and then hung up the phone.
After hanging up the phone, Xu Xiyu began to consciously pay attention to the situation on the Internet.
Not long after, he discovered that things really developed as Nancy guessed.
On a series of platforms such as Twitter, YouTube, and Google, content related to him is cooling down rapidly.
Many posts and videos he had seen an hour ago could not be found through a direct search. He had to go through history or search for the blogger's name to find them.
Searching for keywords such as [Xu Xiyu] or [Leonardo·Xu] can only find some content from a long time ago.
Searching for content such as "Wall-E", "Untouchable", "New Paradise·Wangxian", etc., only content related to the past pops up.
Even when searching for the keyword ["Three Body" novel], the relevant content that pops up is very limited, and most of them directly lead to popular science content about the "Three Body Problem" in celestial mechanics.
The only platform that can directly search for relevant content by searching for [Xu Xiyu] keywords is Tiktok.
Seeing this situation, Shan Xinbao almost became angry, and sneered: "Don't you say that there is freedom of speech outside, why do you do this?"
After sarcastically, she scolded: "This Du Zhiping And Li Yiguang, we are really unlucky to meet them. Why do you want to trick us into going to that school?"
Here, Shan Xinbao felt uncomfortable.
On the other side, Du Zhiping and Li Yiguang, who were scolded by her, were already in the car heading to the airport. Naturally, they didn't know about Xu Xiyu's traffic restriction at this time.
After the vehicle started moving, Du Zhiping inexplicably took out her mobile phone, found Xu Xiyu's contact information, tapped her finger, and typed out a string of words.
[I'm going back first, wishing you in advance to win the Hugo Award and "Three-Body Problem" to be a big seller]
Looking at this somewhat good-looking content, Du Zhiping's thumb hovered over the [Send button] ], but couldn’t press it down.
After a moment of hesitation, she deleted all these contents. He typed again: [I’m going back first. You should think carefully about what I told you before. The Hu family is not as good as you think. Contact me after you return to China and we can talk again]
After the beating, she felt something was wrong again.
After much deliberation, I only left the five words "I'm going back first" and sent them to Xu Xiyu.
After sending it, she felt an inexplicable "sense of anxiety" in her heart. She held her phone and refreshed it from time to time to see Xu Xiyu's reply.
But Xu Xiyu on the other side was busy with the current limit issue and didn’t pay attention to his mobile phone at all.
Just like that, after almost half an hour, Xu Xiyu replied with four words: [Have a safe trip]
Seeing these four words, Du Zhiping felt a little unmotivated for some reason. stand up.
She threw the phone aside, inserted her slender fingers into her hair, and began to push her hair back.
Li Yiguang next to him felt that she seemed to be in a bad mood, so he hurriedly handed the kettle over and said: "Mom, drink some scented tea, I just made it for you at the hotel."
Hearing this, Du Zhiping took it naturally. After opening it, she was about to drink, but the scene in the utility room suddenly appeared in her mind, which made her put on the kettle with an unnatural expression.
No more drinking.
I will never drink this stuff again.
Seeing that she didn't drink, Li Yiguang was a little confused. Just when he was about to speak, he heard Du Zhiping say first: "Are you going to Los Angeles?"
"Uh..." Li Yiguang didn't know how to answer. He was afraid that his mother would come back again. The thought of taking myself back came up.
"I always feel that Xu Xiyu will go too, and you might run into him." Du Zhiping said thoughtfully.
"No way, why did he run over there?" Li Yiguang didn't believe it.
“He is in the film and television industry. He is already here, and he is so close. Why not go to Hollywood?”
It's really not that far away. Going south from Washington State, passing through Oregon, you will reach California. It feels a bit like Jiangsu to Fujian, both are coastal states on the west coast.
"As for those who can't be met, Los Angeles is big and it's not the community downstairs. You can meet them just by walking around." Li Yiguang was too lazy to meet Xu Xiyu. It was best for everyone to stay away from each other.
"If he goes, as the publishing partner of "WALL-E", can Nancy not ask for a meeting? Now I even suspect that Nancy asked you because of Xu Xiyu."
"???" Li Yiguang showed a black question mark face.
"Think about it for yourself, why would that woman, who usually ignores you, ask you out when Xu Xiyu comes to the United States to participate in the Hugo Awards?"
"..." Although Li Yiguang is not smart, he is not that stupid either. When he heard this, his expression gradually became unsightly.
"Ah Guang." Du Zhiping said with a complicated expression and rubbed Li Yiguang's head, "If it is really like what I said, you must be vigilant and don't be carried away by desire. Something embarrassing happened."
She seemed to be saying these words to Li Yiguang, but she was not saying them to herself.
Over the years, she has been able to refrain from hating Li Bowen because she often reminds herself of this.
Paradoxically speaking, she is a very trendy person. As I said before, she even invested in an e-sports club. But she is quite "conservative" and self-limiting when it comes to certain things.
It can only be said that many people will show extreme duality.
But now, Li Bowen and she have completely broken up with each other, and there seems to be no need to stick to some things.
Thinking of this, she turned her head towards the car window, as if she was frightened by her own thoughts.
At this time, Li Yiguang was immersed in the thought of "Nancy made a date with him because of Xu Xiyu", so he didn't notice anything strange about Du Zhiping.
In fact, the mother and son had a misunderstanding. Nancy asked Li Yiguang because Jenna wanted to catch beetles, and it had little to do with Xu Xiyu. Xu Xiyu was also an actor invited temporarily, nothing more.
But how could Li Yiguang know this? The more he thought about it, the more he felt that what his mother said made sense.
But he was unwilling to accept it and didn't want to believe it, so he gritted his teeth and said: "Mom, I think you think too much. This is just a coincidence. When Nancy asks me, she must be with him. It's irrelevant."
"Anyway, remember, be careful. I am just a son like you. Although I usually scold you and teach you a lesson, I really don't want to see you being played as a fool." Du Zhiping. Looking out the car window, his eyes were a little complicated.
Hearing this, Li Yiguang's ugly expression softened. He could feel that his mother still loved his son.
If she didn’t love herself, she would have given birth to a second child long ago.
But when the time came to 9 o'clock in the evening, an even more ugly expression appeared on his face.
Because, in the lobby of the hotel, he saw Nancy and Jenna who wanted to catch golden turtles.
(End of this chapter)