Daydream Theatre

"Ah, you're looking for the Miss Tomoko again?" Just as I moved away from the charging pillar, I heard Jiang Xiaowei's voice, which was clearly directed towards the Mr Latimer, "Isn't there no show today?"

"Yes," I don't know why, but I felt that Latimer's mood was extremely low. "But at least … There is some preparatory work to be done, such as visiting clients. "

"So that's how it is." Jiang Xiaowei called him to enter my resting room. As I expected, Mr Latimer's face was also pale, as if he had not woken up, "Miss Moro, it's Mr Latimer. She said she wants to go and do some preparations."

Of course I understand what the client means, because after all, I did three episodes with the Daydream Theater, and each episode received an extremely high level of Access Rate. It can be said that the Daydream Theater has even surpassed the Robot Theater of our Moloch Company, and has become one of the top programs in the virtual world with high level Access Rate. But...

But why was Latimer's mood so low? Could it be because … I remembered that a few days ago he had told me that he had received a mysterious invitation to a party for all the live broadcasters, and that I wanted to go, that suspicion was a scam.

At that time, I analyzed that Eloi Company should have anonymously given to the live broadcasters to conduct a decompression conference, so I instigated him to participate. Unexpectedly, after a few days, he came back looking very ill.

I said to the manager, "Big sister Jiang, since Mr Latimer has come to find me, I also have work to do, look …"

She understood what I meant, and said snappily: "Hehe, you're obviously a robot from our Moloch Company, but now you're actually so excited about Eloi programs?" However, she was only joking because Eloi had paid Moloch a large amount of rent, which was enough to make up for the recent decline in Access Rate s. She went out and even closed the door.

I was still waiting for Latimer to explain the specific situation, but he just stood there without moving, like a log. I had no choice but to open my mouth first: "Is this a pre-broadcast interview? to get to know the client so that the director can produce an attractive script. " Of course, I am already very clear about the program production process, so I believe that the person I found this time is also very famous.

"En," he nodded his head in the same dejected manner as before, "My name is Duda, I don't know what I do for a living. The director only gave me an address. "It's really funny, to be like us …" He looked up, as if about to say something, but stopped.

"Like you?" I had no idea what he meant. "By the way, do you usually have to take the other two children with you? "What about them?"

"Hehe, what a troublesome fellow." Latimer's tone was filled with disdain, it wasn't like the usual him, "I'm saying that they're useless, just following behind will affect my work, so this time I told the director that Tomoko and I will be the ones to go."

"Oh." But I didn't want him to continue to be so downcast, so I exposed him point-blank — an act that, in retrospect, was probably also my lack of humanity. "Because of the excitement at the party? That's why you're so depressed? " Based on my calculation ability, I already guessed the reason why he wasn't in a good mood.

He hesitated before saying, "You are right. Look, I'm just a video camera, and I have to visit my client before the live broadcast? Collecting information for the director to use? and didn't pay me any more. Why would I do that? "

"This …" I thought this must have been written in the contract. "It's fine, it's fine. Just let me do it." I have also learned a lot of experience, so there should be no problem in preparing.

"Of course," he said as he looked at me enviously and pushed his sunglasses. "If someone as bright and moving as Miss Tomoko were to interview a client, he would definitely be willing to reveal everything to you!" It sounds ironic, but I don't think so.

Because I knew that Latimer wasn't good at lying intentionally, I comforted her: "You have always been doing very well."

"But no matter what I do, it's not for my own purposes."

"What do you want to do?"

"Yes," perhaps I shouldn't have asked, for it was obvious that he had begun a more negative meditation. "What do I want to do? What can I do? What qualifications do I have to do it? "

These are questions I don't quite understand, because I probably don't even understand what the self is. But since I have already signed a contract with Eloi, then I should hurry up and start working.

I perked up and asked, "Then what exactly does this Duda do?"

He brought the Eloi bracelet close to my chest, obviously wanting to transfer the data to me. Apparently, he was immersed in a sad and powerless state of mind, so he didn't have the time to read the relevant information and couldn't answer me. Curious about the human mood, I accepted the material. But when the transmission was completed, I discovered something even stranger.

I attempted to let him take a look at the information before using his eyes to project the hologram. On it appeared a rather handsome young man: "Look, Mr Latimer, this is Duda."

He disapproved, "Oh, it looks pretty good."

"But it's actually not good." I'm just telling the truth, "With a small income, he is a man who is separated from society. But I checked his access history, and I'm not keen on the virtual world. "So …" I rolled my eyes like a human.

"So what?" He was a little interested.

"So why did Daydream choose him?"

"Why not?"

"Because people like him aren't that attractive, except for his face." I paced the room. "Not a big star," I said.

"Maybe there's some secret we don't know about."

"You take it for granted," I retorted. "If there was a breaking point, it would have been clearly written in the material a long time ago. This is also one of the criteria for choosing program participants. But there is nothing in this material that would have caught my attention. "

"I can't attract your attention, but I might be able to attract the attention of humans." Latimer sneered.

However, his taunting made me feel gratified, as this signified that he had developed a certain amount of interest towards Duda. I hurriedly spread out the hologram and said, "Then Mr Latimer will represent the humans and have a good look!"

However, after looking carefully twice, he could not find anything special about him. He shook his head and said, "This person is even more boring than I am! We were like cameras, but we were on a lot of thrilling live shows, whether they were pre-arranged by the program team or not. But this person? He didn't know what to do by staying at home all day long. Occasionally, he would go out to buy all sorts of random things, such as wood and beast skins. He had no idea what he was going to do! Could it be that he was lighting wood and burning beast skins at home to eat? " He continued to sneer.

I felt that this live broadcast was indeed strange, but it was useless for the two of us to continue chatting here, so I said: "Since I have read all the information, let's take a walk around Duda's house."

"Alright, this is also my responsibility, it's just that I have to trouble Miss Tomoko." I knew what he meant, because I was only signing on to be the host of daydream theater, and I shouldn't be involved in things like this.

But I became interested in this Duda guy: "It's okay, just take it as a walk with your friend." The friend I am referring to is Mr Latimer. After experiencing the life and death situation of kidnapping and all that turmoil that made me think about the relationships between people, I felt that I could learn a lot from Latimer's words, which I obviously couldn't learn from the Robot Theatre that I fought and killed all day long.

He seemed a little surprised: "Oh, okay, Miss Tomoko."

As he was leading the way, he suddenly turned around and asked me, "That's right, if it's Moloch … Could you call out Little Black's monitoring information to see what exactly this Duda is doing on a daily basis? "

"It's illegal." I reminded him.

"Seeing how isolated he looks, he wouldn't take care of himself, right? So he should have Whitey at home."

"Are you saying that our Moloch Company has been collecting user data through Little White?"

"Heh heh," he said, apparently sure of the accusation. "It's not a bad thing. What a terrible thing has happened. This information can be used as evidence. "

"Unfortunately," my program said, "I don't have access rights to do anything that would harm Moloch's parent company." As they spoke, they arrived at Duda's residence.

We got out of the car and saw that it was just an ordinary residential building. The people who lived inside were obviously not big stars, but they couldn't be poor people either. They should be people with average living conditions, just like the Mr Latimer!

I recalled the information. Duda lived on the 70th floor, and he would never go out at this time. Thus, I felt assured and walked into the elevator.

In the elevator, I was still in time to ask Mr Latimer a question: "So, everyone is complaining?"

"What?"

"At the party, I mean."

"That's right, this is an vent party!" He scratched his messy hair and walked out of the elevator. "I've already complained about it, so I can once again work for the company!" However, I think that the Mr Latimer is different from the others. His emotions will be affected for a longer period of time, because the difference between him and those "cameras" is his ability to think for a long time — especially his ability to reflect on himself. Oh, I don't know myself very well yet, but... But the self should be the most important, no, the most important thing to man.

He took the initiative to knock on Duda's door, and as he did, he called out: "Is Mr Duda here? We are the staff of the Dreamscape Theater and would like to know more about your situation! "

But he was clearly overexcited, and I just rang the bell by the door, and then the screen lit up and we saw the handsome young man looking at us wearily. "Who are you?"

"Daydream Theatre." Latimer said condescendingly, "Mr Duda, have you ever asked to join our program? So here we are. "

"What?" He wiped his sleepy eyes. Apparently he was still awake, but when he heard the words "daydream theater," he jumped out of bed in excitement. "Did you really choose me?"

"Hehe," Latimer looked at me with disdain, as if he was saying "This brat is really inexperienced", and said "Of course I am, I'm the program's host …" But here he stopped, and his expression changed back to one of dismay.

I sort of understood why he was so upset, because for a moment he might have thought he was just a camera. I immediately stretched my head in front of the screen and said, "Mr Duda, I am Miss Tomoko. Since you've already sent an invitation to our program, you must have seen me. "

"Yes, yes!" I felt his eyes light up. "Of course I've seen you! Next to it is... Mr Latimer? "

Latimer did not expect the audience to remember his name, and said with a face full of surprise: "Yes."

Oh, "But he quickly lost interest in Latimer, as the audience rarely had the chance to see the camera in full view," Last night when the drone flew over, I was still lying! I didn't expect it to be true! "

"Of course it's true." However, I want to draw the topic back to Latimer once again. "The reason why I followed Mr Latimer to visit you this time is because I want to discuss with you how to produce an outstanding Access Rate live broadcast program. "Then …" I deliberately used the word "follow", showing that Mr Latimer was the main character of this visit.

"Oh, I'm sorry." He immediately opened the door remotely, and the lights in the room lit up. But what followed was the smell of mold in the room. It was obvious that Duda's room had not been cleaned for a long time, the floor was littered with dust and trash.

How strange, why did the program team choose this person to do the program?

Duda donned his clothes and welcomed us, but only extended his hand out to me: "Thank you so much! Thank you, Miss Tomoko! I think... My dream can finally come true. "

Not to mention what exactly he wanted to do with the Time Capsule, this method of looking down on Latimer made Latimer's mood even gloomier. When I saw the situation, I immediately said: "Mr Latimer, it would be better for you to consult Mr Duda, I am still learning."

Duda immediately turned to Latimer, but his expression showed hesitation: "What do you want to ask me?"

Latimer looked at him for a long time without saying a word. The silent atmosphere in the room became extremely awkward, so I could only break the silence and say, "Oh right, Mr Duda, you said your dream just now. May I ask what this ideal is? What important thing do you want to do with Time Capsule? "

"Haven't you seen my video?" he asked.

Of course we've seen it. He's like a child in the video, speaking shyly about "ideals" that we don't quite understand.

I said, "I've read it, but I don't really understand it. It would be better if you explained in detail. " I pushed Latimer a bit, hoping that he would also say something and not dissolve like air into the room that was filled with the smell of mildew.

Latimer asked helplessly: "That's right, what you said was too abstract, we really can't imagine it in our minds."

"Hehe," Speaking of his dream, Duda suddenly changed from the shy big boy from before, and his expression became serious and cold, "I think you guys also don't understand." This expression was indeed somewhat attractive, as if it signified that he was different from the ordinary people. It seemed as if this signified that Duda had an extraordinary grand dream that ordinary people couldn't comprehend.

I thought that if the girl standing in front of him was in her teens, she would probably be attracted by his cool opening speech and become his fan or something, but I was just a robot and had to do my job, so I went on coolly, "Come to the point, we have plenty of time."

I looked around but couldn't find a chair to sit in. In addition to some leftover food and drink, the room was filled with all sorts of bizarre objects I had never seen before. Some of them were made of wood, some of them were made of steel, and some of them were even … I squinted my eyes and wanted to use my own analyzer to analyze it, but Latimer's words interrupted my train of thoughts.

Haha!" Now, the ideals of this era are worthless, "he even laughed," Who doesn't have ideals? Your greatness? Let me tell you, I still have a dream? I just wanted to be myself, but you see, I ended up being a camera. Let me tell you, even someone as lucky as you, who was selected to watch this show, can use such a powerful Time Capsule from the Castari … You are just a tool controlled by our program just to improve the Access Rate. Right, a tool! We are not interested in your ideals at all! It's just that if it can attract people to our program, who cares what your dream is? "Hahaha, no one cares.

He suddenly said a lot of words that contained the truth, causing Duda's face to be filled with anger. While he was talking, I kept holding on to his suit, but he had no intention of stopping. He was even still laughing at Duda.

I quickly pulled him aside and tried to say something to Duda that could save the situation. However, Duda seemed to calm down very quickly, for he did not make too many comments. Instead, he calmed down and said to me, "I think Mr Latimer must have received some sort of stimulation."

I could only nod. "I do have some, but …" "Please forgive his boastful remarks."

"Understood, understood." Duda looked at Latimer with a sympathetic gaze, "Many people have lost their dreams. But the Mr Latimer actually organized such a smooth language to express his thoughts, it can be said to be pretty good. "

Latimer was obviously not clear on whether this was sympathy or ridicule. Just as he was about to continue fighting, Duda took out his phone and said: "I want to invite my best friend here for a visit, because … "Without him, I don't think my dream would have come true."

"Oh?" I suddenly had an idea. Could it be that Eloi Film And Television Company took a fancy to this friend of his, and arranged for him to join this episode? Could it be that this friend of his was someone with a great background? "Your friend …"

"Her name is Zhou Yuhang." Duda raised his phone, but used his mouth to point at the strange thing beside me, "It's the band's keyboard player."

Keyboard player? I searched it and felt like I'd never heard of it before.