“Fair point.”

 Xu Zhaoyang felt better after hearing Lin Yu’s reply, grumbling while nodding slightly. He then said, “That’s right, weren’t you complaining that no companies were willing to seek you out for an advert? Check your WeChat messages. There should be a whole bunch of people trying to contact you now.”

 “Is my situation fitting for the proverb, ‘No one will pay any attention to one’s struggles and only when they succeed, will people flock to them’?”

 Lin Yu chuckled after hearing what he said. He did exactly what was suggested to him and began scrolling through the messages he received. It took him a good long while to finally sort through the astronomical amount of text messages.

 Most of them were questions about his Piston Exo Gauntlets, while some were asking if he was selling it. There were also others who were rushing him to upload the video of the upgraded version. However, a third of his messages were from a variety of companies asking for him to collaborate on an ad deal.

 They varied amongst a variety of products asking for a collaboration, ranging from different snacks, daily essentials, cell phone apps, electronics, and even automobile companies. Lin Yu was completely mindblown by what he was seeing.

 In fact, there was also a bunch of obscure stuff such as partnered products made by a hotpot and skincare company that was introducing a new hotpot based lipstick, toothpaste, and milk tea made by some candy company, ice cream, and more. There were all kinds of companies from different fields that wanted to collaborate with him, and he was unsure of how to react upon seeing this.

 “Hahaha, for you, Vocaloid sanitary pads are something worth endorsing.”

 Xu Zhaoyang peeked his head over. While initially teasing him, his smile soon faded away.

 “Good lord, XX Automobiles wants you to make an ad for them?”

 “A tour in a huge country’s factory? Free overseas vacation overseas where you’ll also be getting paid. Holy sh*t dude, isn’t this service far too exceptional?”

 Xu Zhaoyang was completely shocked as Lin Yu scrolled through his text messages and sounded envious when he spoke.

 However, there was an even more outrageous thing was waiting for him. After Lin Yu opened the text message…he replied with, ‘to XX, thank you but I have been quite busy recently, so temporarily, I do not have the time for it.’

 “F*ck. What are you doing, Third Brother? They are offering you 120,000 yuan and you turned it down? There’s a free vacation too. Have you gone mad from sleeping too much…”

 Xu Zhaoyang felt awful for him after watching what Lin Yu had done since behind every ‘refusal to collaborate’, there were usually plenty of exceptionally generous perks that came with it.

 “Nope, I’m extremely clear-headed.”

 Lin Yu shook his head and said, “Travelling at a time like this? Are you tired of living? Besides, I truly do not have the time for it now anyway as I have so much to do.”

 Even though there were plenty of flaws in his personality, he did have one good quality, which was his exceptional level-headedness and self-control.

 There were eight struggles in human life, and one of them was ‘the pain of not getting what one wanted.’ When he was not getting approached to shoot an ad by any companies, he would naturally be desperate for it. However, now that he had a variety of offers, he demonstrated the ability to weigh the consequences and benefits clearly.

 Money was naturally tempting, but his most urgent priority was getting stronger. That night, he had only been able to knock the thief out in a single punch with his superhuman abilities because he had caught him off guard.

 No matter how prepared he was, his Piston Exo Gauntlets’s knuckles were only slightly stronger than before. His own physical body and reaction speed were still at the same level as any other regular human.

 Upon his encounter with a ‘superstrength’ Superhuman, he was lucky to have gotten away unscathed. However, what if he had encountered a Superhuman who was fully prepared in the future? Or an encounter with a robot equipped with long-ranged attacks?

 If he encountered those scenarios, his outcome would be no different from a regular human. The impact of his abilities would be insignificantly minute.

 The only way he would be willing to collaborate with corporate companies was if their offers were tailored specifically to incorporate naturally with his needs. Without that, he would have to spend extra time writing a script to fit the ads into his videos’ themes. His main priority right now was the continuous need to enhance his powers, so he had no time nor the effort to divert his attention to other things.

 He sought guidance from Zhao Xiaolu yesterday and now had a better and clearer understanding of his ‘Ultra Academic Genius System’. His main focus right now would be to use his ‘Academic Genius System’ to remove his ‘academic failure’ cancer; only after that would he be able to focus fully on learning robotics design and other related knowledge to disassemble and explain his gauntlets and other equipment more efficiently.

 The bottom line was that these ads and offers were ‘incompatible’ with him. Their issues were either unsuitable timing or that their topics were completely unrelated to him. If these offers were perfectly compatible with him, he would not mind getting a ‘free meal’.

 After replying and rejecting messages for half an hour while noticing the number of text messages still flooding in, Lin Yu had finally realized something. He realized how impractical it would be to reply to each and every single text message, so he had to learn how to be brutally cold.

 Immediately, he exited the messaging page and went straight to a video discussion board to address all the questions at the same time.

 The comment section of B Site was meant for viewers of the video and in most cases, many were not fans of discussions, so there would not be too many comments left behind.

 However, both of the gauntlet videos he made had over 100,000 views, so it was expected that there would be lots of comments left on the discussion board. At the beginning, most questions asked were mainly if the ‘Exo Suit Violent Battle Against A Street Thug’ video was him and general questions about his Exo suit. However, the latter half was basically a barrage of the same question.

 “Alright, I hereby apologize for what I’ve said back then, but…b*tch uploader, where’s your promise about slapping our faces? Just upload the latest version already! The skin on my face is agonizingly thirsty right now.”

 “B*tch uploader, where’s your face slapping promise?”

 “B*tch uploader, where’s your face slapping promise?”

 There was an excellent saying that went, ‘it is human nature to be a copy machine’, and these people on B Site who enjoyed trolling were the best copy machine out of them all. Every single comment that came after that was the same thing.

 The concluding word for this would be, “Trolls!”

 In response to these comments, Lin Yu decided to reply with a different approach as a human, “Coo! Coo! Coo¹!”

 After that, he returned to reply to a couple more questions before putting his phone down. He then freshened up and got some breakfast before recording his thoughts and ideas of his academic genius system in Zhou Jie’s laptop that he had borrowed.

 2“Use exciting values…”

 ‘Ding!’

 “Lin Yu, you’ve gone viral on Weibo!”

 “Undergoing….”

‘Ding!’

 “Is that person you?”

 Notifications from Penguin and WeChat were flooding in relentlessly as Lin Yu had just entered work mode. A couple of messages would chime in every time he had managed to type out a few words.

 “I know I’ve gone viral. Stop reminding me!!!”

 Seeing that he had no choice, he decided to log out of all social media accounts he had, and soon after, the world around him returned to peaceful silence.

 1However, his peaceful silence was short-lived as his phone began to ring again at 12 noon.

 “Son, you’re on TV!”

 After hearing his mother’s frantic tone as she struggled to explain the whole situation, he had a rough idea as to what was going on and was unsure of how to react.

 The shriveled and skinny middle-aged man from last night was arrested. Since his actions were a little excessive at that moment, a reporter went to a local supermarket to interview the locals. His feature on TV was only a simple mention by the reporter.

The main thing reported in the news was about the skinny middle-aged man. Based on the report, the man was a wanted criminal known to practice martial arts and was an underground fight club champion. It was unsure whether those details were true or not.

 There was no detailed mention of the whole process, only that the man had been captured by a courageous student nearby. It was also suspected that the student had used a homemade mechanical arm and the news station was trying ‘tirelessly’ to get in contact with the ‘genius inventor’. After that statement was made, the report cut to footage recorded by a passerby.

 As for ‘tirelessly’ trying to get in contact, it was pretty clear that no attempt had been made as not a single person had reached out to him.