Awakening the Daily Intelligence System

Chapter 521: 201, Lin Mo, long time no see!_2

He smiled and said, “My hometown is in Xishan, not far from your East Sea City. Are you here in Rakshasa City for tourism, or are you working here?”

Lin Mo smiled and replied, “It’s not exactly tourism. I used to work in Rakshasa City and haven’t been back for a long time. I was passing through and decided to stop by and take a look around.”

“If you’re really here for tourism, you should go to places like Disney, Happy Valley, The Bund, and City God Temple.”

The driver, noncommittal, shook his head with a chuckle, “It seems you haven’t been back here for quite a long time.”

“The place you mentioned has long become a tourist attraction. Lin Mo, have you heard of it? He used to live in the same neighborhood you’re talking about.”

“Several years have gone by, and it may not have the same popularity, but I heard the landlord made a fortune by charging admission fees.”

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Huh?

Lin Mo truly hadn’t expected that his live stream would have had such an effect.

But when you think about it,

his live stream once hit peak viewership in the hundreds of millions, and there were no fake views involved, all genuinely real people.

In today’s internet society, even the biggest stars would find it hard to achieve such a feat or have the same topicality. It wasn’t surprising that people were interested in the place where he used to live after the stream. @@novelbin@@

As for the landlords of Rakshasa City, that lot were all exceptionally clever, and when they stumbled upon such a business opportunity, of course they wouldn’t pass it up.

It was not surprising at all that they turned the place where Lin Mo’s family once lived into an attraction and started charging admission fees.

Seeing that Lin Mo remained silent, the driver continued with a smile, “It’s quite a coincidence, you used to live in that neighborhood too, and like Lin Mo, you’re also from East Sea City. Did you ever run into him back then?”

“It’s a pity I never got to see such an influential person in person,” he said with some regret.

Influential person?

Lin Mo didn’t particularly like that title, but he didn’t say much about it, and certainly wouldn’t reveal his own identity.

He laughed and said, “I’d like to meet him. If I could really make some connection with him, I might be set for life, right?”

“I remember a few years ago when I was abroad, I saw many of his friends and classmates selling goods on short video platforms, both real and fake.”

He too had come across many such videos, which at one time had caused quite a bit of trouble for his family.

But that was all in the past now.

“I know what you’re talking about. Those people were all banned a while ago. Up to now, anything related to Lin Mo is still a blocked term on the internet, and posting about it will get throttled.”

Happy to find someone who enjoyed chatting, the driver said with a laugh, “Now, no one knows where this Lin Mo is.”

“If he’d been taken out, there’d have been some news about it, wouldn’t there?”

“Chen Shanhe is definitely done for. He was ruthless enough before leaving, blowing up all the villas on the hillside. That caused quite a stir at the time.”

The two chatted off and on.

Mostly, the professional driver did the talking while Lin Mo sat in the back listening, engaging more deeply only when the topic interested him.

Their topics were varied.

Besides talking about Lin Mo for the most part, they also discussed recent news and interesting events happening in Rakshasa City.

The best way to get to know a city is to chat with a couple of taxi drivers while going around.

Lin Mo no longer remembered where he had heard this saying, but he now definitely thought there was much truth to it.

Two hours later, Lin Mo arrived at his former neighborhood.

The complex was still in its original state, dilapidated. Lin Mo got out of the car and went to the building he used to live in, but didn’t see any tourists.

A few old folks were sitting downstairs chatting and enjoying the sun, but Wang Youcai was nowhere to be seen.

Lin Mo had heard that Wang Youcai, who had lived across from him, had passed away a long time ago, dying on top of a female internet celebrity, luckily without suffering too much.

He had wanted to go inside his old rental to take a look, but found the door was locked and there was no contact information posted.

Peering through the broken peephole, he saw the room’s furnishings were still just as he had left them.

Looking at the once extremely familiar environment, Lin Mo couldn’t help but feel a wave of emotion as he walked up to the window at the corner of the staircase and took out a dusty key from under a broken half-brick.

This was the key to his rental.

In the past, both he and Li Jinwen worked outside, and running around made it very easy to lose little things; they had been troubled many times by lost keys.

Latter, the two of them simply made a spare key and placed it here for emergencies.

If he had left through the proper procedures, Lin Mo would have certainly returned the key to the landlord, but he left in such a hurry back then that, of course, he couldn’t attend to these details.

He also wondered whether after so many years the landlord had changed the locks.

“Given her stingy nature, probably not?”

Lin Mo’s lips curled slightly upward as he held the key and walked to the door, slowly inserting it into the keyhole and then gently turning it.

The process went very smoothly.

By the time Lin Mo had turned it halfway around, the door made a click, and opened easily.

At the moment he heard the door open, an inexplicable excitement surged up in Lin Mo’s heart, a different kind of emotion gradually filling him.

In fact, compared to East Sea City, where he seldom returned, Lin Mo felt a deeper attachment to the little rental in Rakshasa City.

This was quite normal.

After all, he had grown up in Rakshasa City and hadn’t spent much time in East Sea City, so naturally he wouldn’t have such deep feelings.

And for this little rental, it had witnessed too many happy moments of his family, as well as too many precious memories in Lin Mo’s life.

Pushing open the door, Lin Mo stepped inside.

Just as he had observed through the peephole earlier, the layout of the room hadn’t changed at all, it was exactly the same as when he had left.

For a while before leaving Rakshasa City, he had actually lived in the VIP ward of The First People’s Hospital, and when he left, he did so directly without returning to the rental to pack up.

So the place still retained a strong scent of life.

The refrigerator was adorned with stickers of teddy bear dolls, Lin Xiaoxiao’s favorites, and on the left wall were certificates that had almost turned yellow.

All of these had been won by his daughter, Lin Xiaoxiao, at the time.

Looking at these old items, Lin Mo’s mind would involuntarily conjure up scenes from the past, or conversations with his family.

The first time he couldn’t sleep after activating the system…

The first time he made money using the system, and the whole family ended up drenched like drowned rats.

And the time he bought a lot of Tube Coins, and the three of them sat in the living room continuously unwrapping the Tube Coins, as well as their excitement upon discovering that the gold ingot was worth 1.2 million.

All these were Lin Mo’s most precious memories.

Lin Mo reminisced about his past life for a while before finally entering his own bedroom and sitting in front of Li Jinwen’s dresser, taking out makeup remover from his backpack and beginning to remove the disguise on his face bit by bit.

Soon,

a face, though not particularly handsome and somewhat pale, appeared in the mirror.

“Even though I have disguised myself so many times, it’s still this original face that I’m used to seeing.”

Due to long-term disguising, Lin Mo’s original complexion had become very pale, as if he had been suffering from a lack of sleep for a long time.

But even so, being able to live a life true to oneself was still his greatest wish.

Lin Mo went to wash his face in the bathroom, not rushing to leave, but applying a facial mask and dabbing on some moisturizing skincare products.

After all, with so much time spent in disguise, Lin Mo had naturally learned quite a few makeup skills.

About half an hour later, Lin Mo’s facial skin had improved significantly, looking less weathered.

He put down everything in his hands, staring at his reflection in the mirror with a complex gaze, muttering to himself, “Hello, Lin Mo.”

“Long time no see!”