I am the only one who practices magic: I practice magic in the city

Chapter 558 We really have to thank Senior Luo for that 1080, right?
After chatting idly for a while, the group grabbed their coats and prepared to go out for dinner.

With their current financial resources, the three of them could easily rent an apartment or even buy a large apartment in the city center for over ten million yuan. In fact, Lu Xuechang did buy one. However, they still live in the dormitory most of the time, and none of them mentioned moving out.

"The weather forecast said it would get colder, but it doesn't seem that cold. What should we eat?" Luo Ziming breathed out a puff of air, and a cloud of white mist appeared in the air.

"I guess they've gotten used to living in Haixi. It's not so bad that it's cold, it's just too dry. A snowfall would be nice."

Lu Xuechang had his hair styled like an adult, wore a flashy Burberry coat, and Montblanc gold-rimmed glasses, giving him a sophisticated yet roguish look. He was holding his phone, seemingly flirting with some internet celebrity.

Ever since he broke up with the "green tea" Li Yinan, he has completely opened the door to a new world. Now he spends his days on Tabo giving gifts to various female streamers and trying to meet them.

Most of them are local live streamers.

"Since it's getting colder, let's go to Yihecheng near the East Gate. They have hot pot with copper pot meat, it'll be nice and warm. After that, we can play a murder mystery game. There's a new murder mystery game place that just opened next to Yihecheng, and I heard that some of the games are pretty good. Maybe we can find some girls to team up with."

Luo Ziming's wicked intentions remained undiminished.

Fang Yu glanced at her phone: "I'm fine with eating out, but I can't go to the murder mystery game; I have plans."

The three adopted sons rolled their eyes, knowing without a doubt that Old Fang had made a deal with the woman.

"Time flies so fast, another year has passed. This time next year, some of us will be taking the postgraduate entrance exam, and others will be doing internships. When we're together, we're like a blazing fire, but when we're apart, we're like countless stars in the sky. Sigh."

Looking at the roadside trees on both sides, whose leaves had all fallen, Huang Xiang was filled with emotion, feeling a melancholy for spring in the dead of winter.

"Speaking of postgraduate entrance exams, have you noticed? A few days ago, I saw the registration statistics. This year, the number of seniors switching to electronic information and computer science for postgraduate entrance exams has doubled, but the overall proportion of postgraduate entrance exam takers has decreased by 1 percentage point, and the number of civil service exam takers has also decreased by a few tenths of a percentage point."

Luo Ziming was in high spirits.

"That's normal. The economy is doing well this year, and all kinds of companies are hiring."

Fang Yu said casually.

In recent years, the economy of Dazhou has been quite strong. Although it no longer has the obsession with "maintaining 7% growth", the growth has not slowed down at all. In the first half of the year alone, the GDP growth rate exceeded 6.8%.

In the second half of the year, influenced by global safe-haven funds, the economy of the Great Zhou Dynasty grew even stronger. Fixed asset investment, industrial asset investment and total import and export volume all reached new highs. Half-year GDP growth returned to the 7% range, approaching 7.5%!

In particular, in terms of industrial asset investment, the Orange Big Model is a typical multimodal model. Almost every industrial enterprise can introduce AI into the industrial automation system and management system without spending too much on R&D, which greatly improves production and management efficiency.

Thanks to strong exports, the efficiency improvements have not led to large-scale layoffs. Instead, there has been a surge in demand for talent in deep learning, artificial intelligence, and electronic information.

The employment situation for electronic information engineering graduates this year is very good. Many seniors have already received several different job offers with decent salaries.

Moreover, the widespread adoption of AI and short videos has created even more opportunities in the industry.

For example, with the emergence of AI, the entry threshold for self-media has been lowered, and the number of self-media has been growing almost exponentially in the past six months.

Take the doll industry, for example. Well, let's not talk about that. They don't allow advertising, which also affects the birth rate.

As for the already booming intelligent robot industry, it has made even more rapid progress. Whether it's shopping malls, hotels, or banks, there are service robots everywhere that wander around and keep talking to people.

In fact, these are just the superficial changes brought about by AI. The truly profound transformations are often those that ordinary people can hardly perceive.

For example, the fragrance industry.

In the past few months, a startup fragrance company called "Xiren" has suddenly emerged. (Note 1)

They were the first to introduce AI big data models into fragrance systems, focusing on the B2B market, and achieved amazing results in commercial scenarios in just six months.

The core product of "Xiren" is an intelligent system that integrates visual emotion recognition and environmental data analysis. It can measure the emotional fluctuations, psychological states, and behavioral trends of people in a venue in real time, and automatically adjust the type and concentration of fragrance in the air.

This seemingly invisible adjustment can precisely intervene in people's behavior at a subconscious level.

For example, extending the time spent in retail spaces, alleviating anxiety in office spaces, and enhancing the sense of luxury and pleasure in high-end venues.

Taking the Haipu International Financial Center as an example, after the full deployment of the "Xiren" system, the management company, Sun Hung Kai Properties, found that the amount of spices used decreased by 10-20%, the average dwell time increased by 11%, and the sales conversion rate increased by 17%!

This is a company that has been established for less than a year.

With half-year revenue exceeding 4000 million yuan, the company is currently negotiating a Pre-A round of equity financing with Spanish fragrance giant PUIG, with a valuation of 3 million yuan.

Xi Ren is not an isolated case.

These companies, which rely on AI model capabilities and seem to have nothing to do with high technology, are quietly appearing in every corner of the city.

Some of them originated from traditional industries, while others are entirely new categories and industries born from AI.

When boys get together, chatting idly is their greatest joy. After talking for about ten minutes, they arrived at Yihecheng near the East Gate of National University.

When we arrived, we found that we had to take a number and there were seven or eight tables ahead of us, so we had to wait at least forty minutes.

Yihecheng is a well-established brand with over 20 years of history, but the shop is not very big, with only a dozen or so four-person tables and two large round tables.

Although it wasn't very famous before, it was one of the favorites of local gourmets and mainly served the neighborhood. There were occasional queues, but never this exaggerated.

Actually, Yihecheng's flavor is just so-so. The meat is only considered fresh, and the dipping sauce is fairly fragrant, but it's not the best. The main reason it's popular is that it's cheap and comes in large portions.

A pound of frozen mutton rolls costs 32 yuan, and that's a solid 500 grams.

They used to come here for hot pot, and it would cost 150 yuan. The four of them could barely walk out without having to lean against the wall.

Where can you find prices like this in 3062?

But in the past six months, ever since a big internet celebrity came to visit the store, Yihecheng has inexplicably become a popular internet celebrity store, attracting many tourists from other places to take photos, and the queues can last for more than an hour.

The group was too lazy to change locations, so they played the game "Shan Hai Jie" on their phones while waiting in line. They waited for almost an hour before their number was called.

"Senior Luo?"

Just as the group was about to follow the waiter to their table, they heard a sweet, delicate female voice behind them.

The four of them turned around and saw a short-haired girl looking at Luo Ziming with great surprise.

The girl was fairly good-looking and had a decent figure. Her natural beauty was probably around 65 cents, but with makeup, she could be around 72 cents.

She's the kind of pretty girl in school who's never short of admirers.

To digress a bit, actually, girls with this score have the most suitors.

People like Lu Jiayan and Shen Shuyao don't get many suitors.

The main problem is that many guys have a poor sense of "worthiness" and lack self-confidence, always feeling that those kinds of girls are not worth their time.

There were several boys around the short-haired girl. One of them, wearing glasses and looking lazy, had his arm around her shoulder, clearly indicating that their relationship was more than just friendship.

The boy wasn't short, between 1.83 and 1.85 meters tall. He was thin and tall, with thin cheeks, small, puffy eyes, round-framed glasses, and his hair was permed with foil. He had a full head of blond hair and was wearing a long, off-white jacket with a hemp lining, though it was unclear whether it was real or fake.

Seeing the calluses on the boy's hands, Fang Yu's eyes flickered slightly.

Upon seeing the young couple, Huang Xiang and Lu Xuechang exchanged glances and made faces.

Luo Ziming looked embarrassed.

Lu Xuechang whispered a few words in Fang Yu's ear, and Fang Yu immediately understood that this girl was Lin Zihan, whom he had just mentioned.

That guy must be the one who scammed Luo Ziming out of 1080 yuan.

Fang Yu didn't have any ill feelings towards this kid. If someone tried to seduce his woman, he would definitely do something even more outrageous.

"Zihan, what are you doing here?"

Luo Ziming pursed his lips, glancing briefly at the blond man's arm around Lin Zihan's shoulder before quickly looking away. "My boyfriend, his classmate, and I came together," Lin Zihan said, her eyes crinkling into crescent moons with a smile. "He came from Ezhou, checked that this place was on the must-eat list in Western Taiwan Straits, so we came."

As she spoke, Lin Zihan waved to Lu Xuechang and Huang Xiang, saying "Hello, seniors."

When Lin Zihan saw Fang Yu, her expression showed obvious curiosity, but she clearly did not recognize Fang Yu.

Lu Xuechang and Huang Xiang whispered mockingly in Fang Yu's ear, "Looks like not all the girls at the National University know you, Young Master Fang."

Even the most prominent campus figures can be unfamiliar to students at a national university with 60,000 students.

Fang Yu scoffed, pursed his lips, and said nothing.

She's an ignorant brat; she simply doesn't deserve to know me.

"Oh, okay, you guys keep queuing, we'll go in first." Luo Ziming greeted Lin Zihan somewhat awkwardly, then turned to leave.

"Wait a minute, Senior Luo." Lin Zihan called out to Luo Ziming.

“My boyfriend and his family have a 10 PM flight, but the line here is too long. I'm worried he'll miss his flight if we eat. I see there are four of you, could you switch numbers with us?”

Lin Zihan clasped her hands together, her big eyes blinking pleadingly.

"This……"

Seeing Luo Ziming's troubled expression, Lin Zihan quickly said, "We are number 17, and you are number 8. You see, we are only number 9 short. We won't have to wait much longer."

"Please help me, okay?"

"Since you can't wait much longer, then you can wait a little longer."

Lu Xuechang was displeased. He first glared at Luo Ziming in anger at her lack of ambition, then glanced disdainfully at the freshman girl who was only 1.6 meters tall.

What are you pretending for? With these conditions, let alone the 16-yuan model group, even the 12-yuan beauty group would be a struggle, let alone the live streamer who can make me tip her at the carnival.

Lu Xuechang contributed a significant portion of his earnings to Fang Daqiang's Diamond Dynasty and Fang Yu's Ta Broadcast.

Upon hearing Lu Xuechang's words, Lin Zihan's expression immediately fell, and she looked at her boyfriend for help.

"Dude, if you don't want to let me, you don't have to be so aggressive, do you?" The blond boyfriend put down his phone and said to Lu Xuechang with a relaxed expression and lazy tone.

Lu Xuechang glanced at his blond boyfriend, thinking to himself, "Who is this little brat talking to? Does he even know who I am?" Just as he was about to speak, Fang Yu pulled him back.

"Let Lao Luo handle this himself."

Fang Yu glanced at the couple, then patted Luo Ziming on the shoulder with a half-smile: "Old Luo, you suggested coming here, so it's up to you whether to let them in or not."

Luo Ziming felt that everyone's eyes were on him. It was true that he was a bit of a show-off, but many people didn't know that, generally speaking, show-offs with a performative personality are very afraid of awkward situations.

Once you encounter this awkward situation, it will feel like a thorn stuck in your heart; the more you think about it, the more nervous you become, and the more you ponder it, the more uncomfortable you feel.

Social psychology suggests that embarrassment is a "self-conscious emotion" that often stems from a mismatch between one's own expectations and those of others.

Histrionic personality disorder is overly dependent on the opinions of others and will regard awkwardness in social situations as a sign of "self-failure," thus having a very low tolerance for awkward situations.

Many 9.9 yuan personality tests categorize histrionic personality as extroverted E-types and social bulls, which is actually nonsense.

The more performative a personality type is, the more sensitive they are and the more social anxiety they experience.

Luo Ziming suppressed his nervousness, swallowed hard, and said apologetically, "Zihan, I'm sorry, we also have things to do later, please wait a little longer..."

At this point, Luo Ziming felt a little embarrassed and rubbed his hands together: "How about this, the one next door is also good. You guys go to the one next door, and I'll pay the bill in a bit. It's on me."

Seeing Luo Ziming's cowardly behavior, Lu Xuechang was furious.

They're utterly hopeless.

Do you know your current status?
With a net worth of hundreds of millions, he's an E-level executive at a BlackRock subsidiary, earning more each month than this despicable couple would make in their entire lives. Why should we be polite to them?
What's more, this kid clearly made a fool of you before, and even impersonated Lin Zihan to swindle you out of a GTX1080.

Money is not the issue, but this is humiliation, don't you know that?

After Luo Ziming said that, the blond boyfriend's eyes lit up. Before he could speak, Lin Zihan spoke first.

"No need, Senior Luo, let's continue queuing."

Lin Zihan's expression was indifferent, but her face clearly showed some displeasure.

The blond boyfriend looked regretful, and his hand, which was originally on Lin Zihan's shoulder, moved to her waist, gently stroking it.

Fang Yu nodded secretly. Sure enough, this was another Cao traitor who liked minotaurs.

Being a traitor is a psychological phenomenon. Even if it's your own girlfriend, bullying men who admire her or deliberately showing intimacy with her in front of her suitors is also a traitorous mentality.

"Alright, alright, you can line up." Luo Ziming rubbed his hands awkwardly, turned around, and looked down to find the table the waiter had pointed out to them.

"Boss, two jin of mutton rolls, two jin of freshly sliced ​​pork belly, frozen tofu, cabbage, vermicelli... a platter, right? Okay, then a vegetable platter, and another serving of tripe. Oh, and 20 grilled kidneys too."

"Give me two cloves of pickled garlic."

"Get it yourself? I'd say your service is getting worse and worse."

Lu Xuechang ordered the food familiarly without asking the others what they wanted to eat.

We've been living together for almost three years, and we know each other's preferences without even asking.

Luo Ziming kept glancing nervously at the queuing area by the door. If Fang Yu hadn't been giving Lu Xuechang a sharp look, Lu Xuechang would have verbally abused Luo Ziming to death during this meal.

It wasn't until after two bottles of beer that Luo Ziming's mood returned to normal, and he rejoined the boasting.

“Old Luo, look, they’ve lined up and are sitting over there.”

Lu Xuechang picked up a piece of meat with his chopsticks and happened to glance at Lin Zihan and the three boys, who had sat down in a spot far away from the wall.

Perhaps it was during peak hours and the tables were turning over. Five or six tables of customers left in a row, and with those who had taken numbers but didn't want to wait, it only took about half an hour for Lin Zihan and her group to actually get a table.

Luo Ziming gave a nonchalant "oh," but his mood clearly soured immediately.

After chatting for a few more minutes, Fang Yu glanced around and saw the blond-haired guy with an arrogant smile on his face, carrying two bottles of beer as he approached.

"Senior Luo, right? I'm sorry about earlier, Zihan was being impolite. Let me come over and offer my respects."

Luo Ziming was clearly not expected to see this, and subconsciously stood up somewhat awkwardly, picking up his glass.

"Let's drink to that first!"

The blond-haired man shook the bottle twice and spun it once.

Luo Ziming forced himself to drink the wine in his glass. This amount of wine was nothing to him, but this kind of occasion was the one he was least comfortable dealing with.

"Are you done? We have things to talk about, let's each eat our own food."

Lu Xuechang found this kid irritating no matter what, and said coldly.

"That won't do. That bottle was to apologize to Zihan, and I haven't even toasted her yet."

The blond-haired man grinned, picked up another bottle of wine, and licked his lips.

"I should really thank Senior Luo for giving me...that 1080 screen from our Zihan, right?"

(End of this chapter)