Chapter 551 - Chapter 551: Chapter 551: The Strongest Support (1/2)

Chapter 551: Chapter 551: The Strongest Support

After studying and considering for a day, discussing with Old Xia, and having Alice assist in building models and calculating, Xiang Kun decided not to contact Mr. Liang for the time being. Instead, he would first focus on the mass distribution and linkage of “Super-Connected Objects”.

Having a sufficient quantity of “Super-Connected Objects” is crucial.

As if delivering a pillow when you’re asleep, at just this moment, Little Apple and Tang Baona succeeded in “developing” two incredibly critical abilities.

Or, to be more precise, these abilities were developed by two pairs: Little Apple and “Xiao Luobo”, and Tang Baona and Alice.

“Xiao Luobo” holds a unique position in the “Super Sensory Item System”. It is a “semi-mutated being” which means that, to some degree, development and application of some features do not require the “Super Sensory Item System” and are not completely reliant on the “Super-Connected Objects”. It can achieve this on its own.

Little Apple, through “Xiao Luobo”, has created dozens of subsidiary “Twisted Neck Trees”.

Each one of these “Twisted Neck Trees” has one thing in common: there are eight branches on the trunk, with sparse leaves and little bifurcation. However, at the very top of the tree, there are a few branches and leaves tangled together, with eight buds grouped together.

When the buds blossom, multitude tiny seeds in them, carried by the fluff on them, will drift with the wind, land, take root and grow at an extremely fast speed.

Every “Twisted Neck Tree” that grows has eight robust branches on the trunk, a knot of leaves at the top, and eight buds, without exception.

These “Twisted Neck Trees” are all “child plants” of “Xiao Luobo”, they are essentially its extensions. They possess strong “Super-Connected Object” characteristics, and can exert a massive range of influence.

Furthermore, with the speed at which these seeds propagate, and with “Xiao Luobo” having control over their growth regions, such as spreading from zone A of Chongyun Mountain to the periphery of zone B, and a few hundred “Twisted Neck Trees” growing up there and spreading a large number of seeds to an even more peripheral zone C, the “Twisted Neck Trees” within zone B will wither and die in large numbers, only keeping enough to support influence over the entire area, to reduce unnecessary waste of resources.

At this rate, it won’t take many months for the forests in the southeast provinces to be filled with “Twisted Neck Trees”.

And if Xiang Kun were to intervene, like distributing the seeds on a large scale on purpose, then their spread could be even faster.

These “Twisted Neck Trees” were created by Little Apple through “Xiao Luobo”. They not only possess the properties of “Super-Connected Objects”, which allows Xiang Kun to use them as “enhanced Super-Connected Objects,” but they also have the special “Emotional Projection Infusion Ability” that allows them to broadcast the emotional projections of “Emotion Infused Objects” like “Eight-Armed, Eight-Eyed Wood Carving”, “Minions”, without needing Xiang Kun’s operation, as Little Apple itself can do it.

Xiang Kun was not too focused on the “Twisted Neck Trees” functioning as emotional projecting nodes. But their connection to the “Emotion Infused Objects” made him very interested, as this can help him significantly increase the influence of “Emotion Infused Objects”, after all, these trees can also be grown in cities, around factories, and not just forests.

One “Twisted Neck Tree”, when “activated” by Little Apple, becomes a small system that combines Emotion Infused Objects with Super-Connected Objects, allowing Alice to use them for large-scale associations of “Super-Connected Objects”.

The only drawback though, the “Twisted Neck Trees” are too ugly and conspicuous, they clearly don’t look like normal trees.

To downplay their impact, Xiang Kun even had Alice create a lot of online information about the “Twisted Neck Tree”, including papers, photos, detailed research documents, pushing the discovery timeline all the way back to the 70s, with discoveries made in Africa, and attributing to it properties like improving the environment, enhancing vegetation, purifying air, repelling mosquitoes and more, to give anyone searching for the tree the impression, “It’s not very common, but it’s not a rare thing,” and “It’s ugly, but it’s a good tree.”

Of course, if anyone really looked into the documents or research data, or went to Africa to see for themselves, or went to European universities that supposedly provided these documents to find the original authors or researchers, they could certainly find contradictions. However, with Alice’s “interference”, the probability of such a situation is very small, and even if it did occur, it would take quite a long time to realize.

For now, everything is aimed at distributing and building “Super-Connected Objects” as quickly as possible. Xiang Kun isn’t concerned about this small oversight — he foresees that as his confrontation with the “Ultimate Predator” progresses, many more “oversights” will occur.

On the other side, Tang Baona released a cover of the extremely popular song “Learning Cat’s Meow” on Bilibili.

She didn’t use any professional equipment to record the song, just her phone and the built-in accompaniment. She didn’t do too much post-production editing before posting it, and she didn’t even bother with featuring any artwork, just a simple screensaver ripple effect for the entire song.

Originally, she hadn’t planned on releasing the song at all. She was just singing for fun and wanted to sing it for the “Little Elf”.

However, after singing, she was strangely satisfied with her recording of the song. She didn’t know if it was because she kept thinking of the Little Fatty Girl’s adorable performance while singing the song, which made her more and more joyful, laughing throughout the session. So, she decided to upload it, especially since she hadn’t updated in a while.

Unexpectedly, this old and worn-out song, a song that has been covered countless times and that most people are sick and tired of, a song without any special singing style or arrangement, a song that from recording to post-production was utterly simple, spread rapidly on the internet within an extremely short period of time.

Not only did it top the charts on Bilibili, but it also spread like wildfire on various platforms including Weibo, Zhihu, public accounts, and friend circles.

“This song is special. While listening to it, I found my mouth upturned into a smile for no apparent reason. The more I listen, the happier I feel. I didn’t even know what I was happy about!”

“My daughter used to learn this song in kindergarten. I had to listen to it every day, and I was so sick of it. I really didn’t want to hear this song again, but this singer is an exception. Listening to it makes me exceptionally happy.”

“This song is magical. I accidentally played the song out loud on my phone, and my husband was sleeping. Amazingly, he started laughing in his dreams. It’s so miraculous!”

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All sorts of fantastical comments about this cover song surfaced online. At first, many netizens thought “Another person is trying to go viral and is hiring people to hype them!”, after reading the comments. However, after they listened to the seemingly ordinary “Learning Cat’s Meow”, they all joined the flood of fans.

Douyin and other short video platforms also saw a resurgence of the trend of using “Learning Cat’s Meow” as background music.

Of course, this time all the background music, all the versions of “Learning Cat’s Meow”, were Tang Baona’s, or “Princess Tangdou’s” version.