Chapter 552: New Energy and the Song of Expedition

PS: It's the end of August, and the word count of this book has reached two million; it can be considered a milestone. To celebrate, I won't ask for leave at the beginning of next month and will continue to update.

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"Cut! Very good!" Miss Luo Quan stopped filming and applauded for Gao Liang and the actress acting with him.

After the crew started filming, the first part was filming Gao Liang.

And now, they were filming his third scene.

Gao Liang's part here is mainly the dialogue between Gao Liang, who plays Buffalo Bill, and the kidnapped girl.

One is above the well, one is below the well; one is the butcher, and the other is the lamb waiting to be slaughtered.

In this scene, Gao Liang displayed the twisted and cruel image of "Buffalo Bill" to the fullest. Under the dim yellow light, the helpless girl was trapped at the bottom of the well, with no way to heaven and no way to enter the earth. The well wall was full of bloodstains crawled by the previous victims, and the desperate and thrilling atmosphere was immediately rendered.

Although there were few actors, the requirements for the actors' acting skills were quite high. Miss Luo Quan filmed it three times before showing a satisfied expression and letting this scene pass.

"Phew, finally passed." Gao Liang took off the wig and breathed a sigh of relief.

Although Hollywood in early September is not as hot as August, the temperature is still not cool. His figure and appearance are somewhat different from the setting of Buffalo Bill, so he stuck a lot of silicone on his body and was sweating all over after a while.

Fortunately, he doesn't have many scenes in this movie, totaling only four or five scenes.

In addition, after he finished filming, he finally understood what the large-scale scenes his sister mentioned were.

According to the setting in the movie, the Buffalo Bill he plays is a man who longs to become a woman, and killing and skinning are also to achieve this goal.

And the movie gave him quite a few close-up shots of his body, including his naked upper body. And according to the plot needs, he also wore a nipple ring on his chest.

This stuff, Gao Liang had only seen on the "pH" website, which is quite heavy.

Of course, what he wore when filming was definitely a prop; it was impossible to really wear it, but it was true that it pinched him a bit painfully.

"I hope that after the movie is broadcast, your fans won't scold me." During the break, Miss Luo Quan joked with Gao Liang and handed him a bottle of iced cola by the way.

"Sacrificing for the movie, my fans should all be able to understand." Gao Liang took a big gulp, his expression still very calm, "My fans are different from those brainless girls who only know how to engage in fan circles. They know what is really thinking for their idol."

Ever since the incident where a fan committed suicide because of an unread email, Gao Liang had intentionally started a fan-cleansing operation on social platforms, removing all the brainless or overly possessive fans.

Although doing this caused Gao Liang to lose nearly thirty percent of his fans in just half a month, and many of them were rich female fans willing to spend a lot of money to support him, Gao Liang was still quite resolute in his cleansing.

The pain is definitely something that must be experienced, but after that, Gao Liang's fan environment was much better than before. They basically only focus on his works and daily life and rarely go outside to make enemies for him or tear each other apart with other stars' fans.

Fans who can do this actually aren't many, whether at home or abroad. The reason Gao Liang did this was, first, he was scared by the fan who committed suicide, and second, he was inspired by his sister.

Gao Liang quite envied the comment environment in his sister's Twitter. Everyone jokes with them like friends, and his sister can also interact with them in a friendly way, and the atmosphere is quite harmonious.

Of course, the situation of different stars cannot be generalized. After all, Miss Luo Quan has liked to interact with fans since her debut. She takes the approachable route and usually has a lot of time to livestream and chat with fans.

But he can't; after all, he isn't as free as his sister.

"Everyone take a break; you've been busy all morning." Miss Luo Quan shouted to the crew, letting everyone stop work. They could eat lunch in a while.

Because it was the first day of filming, today's lunch was quite sumptuous: a fried chicken and barbecue feast, plus unlimited cheese sauce, and the calories were directly exploding.

However, for most Americans, these foods that are not considered healthy are actually their favorite meals. After all, the pleasure brought by eating meat is incomparable to eating vegetables and bread.

Even a self-disciplined person like Miss Luo Quan couldn't help but eat a few pieces of roast chicken after eating a small plate of vegetable salad, and the daily calorie control plan was also scrapped.

There was a short lunch break at noon. Some people slept and some played with their phones. Miss Luo Quan was dealing with work emails in her mailbox.

Ever since the news that she invested in "Unreal Studio" came out a while ago, first in the country, many software development groups lacking capital chains regarded her as an angel investor, sending her resumes one after another, requesting investment.

At first, Miss Luo Quan also looked at the resumes submitted by these people with the intention of preventing pearls from being covered in dust, thinking that if there was something promising, she would support it.

As a result, most of them were drawing big cakes to cheat money, and they were all empty checks; not one was reliable!

After this, Miss Luo Quan basically had no interest in these resumes seeking investment, and like those emails inviting her to endorse, they were all listed as junk mail.

However, the country calmed down, but not long after, resumes seeking investment came from abroad, and the ways of fooling were even more varied, filling her mailbox to the brim every day.

Miss Luo Quan could only tirelessly clear these junk emails every day.

However, this time, a small accident occurred.

"Detected a promising investment!"

A sound suddenly came from the system, making Miss Luo Quan stop the mouse.

Staring at the email where the mouse stopped, Miss Luo Quan clicked lightly.

The email was a five-minute video. There was only one person in the video, but there were quite a few technological products, and there were quite a few professional terms.

Miss Luo Quan summarized it with her limited knowledge in this area and came up with three words: New Energy.

This is a video about painting a cake that new energy will be the general trend of future development. According to this person in the video, he already has semi-mature new energy production technology, but now the development is stuck in a bottleneck and he has no money.

Therefore, he hopes that Miss Luo Quan can invest in him, and for this, he can even sell a large amount of shares of the technology to her.

It sounds quite good, but Miss Luo Quan feels it is still a bit too much like a castle in the air.

The main energy in the international community is still oil. This thing is the accumulation of living beings on Earth for billions of years. It can be regenerated, but for humans, it is really too long.

Therefore, the current surveyed stock is used a little less.

The reason for most wars in the world today is actually to fight for this limited oil reserve.

In this aspect, the United States gained the upper hand in the last century and has used this to dominate until this century.

If there is anything else that can change the current world pattern, one is a new technological revolution, and the other is perhaps the comprehensive popularization of new energy.

According to what Miss Luo Quan knows, developed countries are currently researching controllable nuclear fusion. It is said that if controllable nuclear fusion is really mastered, huge energy that humans can never use up will be obtained.

However, there has been no breakthrough progress yet, which belongs to the "in this lifetime" series.

And this video in front of her says that there has been a huge breakthrough in new energy. Miss Luo Quan feels it is not very reliable.

However, since the system has clearly indicated that it is promising, Miss Luo Quan is also willing to give this person a chance to continue realizing his dream.

So, she replied to this person with an email: "I am quite interested in your resume. Can you introduce it in detail?"

Ten minutes later, a longer and more professional email was sent over.

Miss Luo Quan asks herself that her English is already quite good and there is no big difference from native British and American people.

But looking at this email, she is still full of question marks.

Just like a Chinese high school student looking at a university advanced mathematics test paper, you can understand every word in the question stem, but you just don't understand what they mean when connected together.

"Mr. Nikola, your email is too professional. I don't quite understand it. Can you use more common language?" The omnipotent Miss Luo Quan rarely admits that she doesn't understand something, but this time it is clearly an exception.

Mr. Nikola quickly changed his way of saying it: "Actually, it is an introduction to the mass production and specific use of new energy. My idea is to mass-produce cars using new energy technology within two years."

"In fact, Tesla cars are already at the forefront of this industry, but my technology is more energy-efficient and more stable than Tesla."

Miss Luo Quan didn't understand: "Then why don't you look for Tesla cars? It stands to reason that in the same field, they should be able to better understand the gold content of your technology, right?"

"Hehe, just a bunch of people who seek fame and reputation. I disdain to be with them. I will prove that my technology is better than theirs, and the cars built will also be better!"

Miss Luo Quan looked at Nikola's reply and laughed. She didn't expect this to be a proud and arrogant young man.

However, Nikola himself in the resume looks only twenty-six or twenty-seven years old. Being so young and mastering such powerful technology, being arrogant is not a strange thing.

After all, only with ability does one have the capital to be proud.

"I am still very optimistic about this investment. After all, Tesla's stock market has been rising, which shows that new energy is still quite promising."

"But what I think is, since there is Tesla in the field of cars, have you ever thought about the possibility of new energy ships?"

If it weren't for seeing her old man's new company, Miss Luo Quan might have already invested money to let Nikola research it himself.

But now her old man has taken over the shipping company and will have to deal with ships in the future. If they can build new energy ships, this might be the key to distinguishing them from their peers.

Miss Luo Quan's question clearly caught Nikola on the other end of the computer off guard.

New energy cars are no longer a fresh thing, but new energy ships have indeed not appeared much.

"I really haven't thought about this matter, but I have the confidence to handle it, but the premise is to throw money, and throw big money."

"How much exactly?" Hearing this, Miss Luo Quan was already prepared for a major hemorrhage.

"Let's start with five hundred million US dollars. This is the first phase of investment. More will be needed later. Conservatively estimated, it will be at least about 2.5 billion US dollars."

Swearing to heaven, if it weren't for the system ensuring that this person wasn't cheating her and that there really was investment potential, Miss Luo Quan would have probably blacklisted and deleted him in one go.

2.5 billion US dollars, that is 15 billion RMB, and this is still a conservative estimate.

Miss Luo Quan finally tasted the feeling of not having enough money. Before, she was quite smug looking at her assets, feeling that there was quite a lot.

But compared to those big capitals, it was still too far behind.

The annual R&D investment of those big companies on the market, which one is not billions of US dollars.

It seems that wanting to make the company big and strong, the difficulty is not just a little bit high.

Five hundred million US dollars, this is almost all her family assets at present.

Although filming movies makes money fast, the movies she films are not the kind of movies where the box office can explode.

If she waits for the box office settlement after "The Queen Who Wears Chanel" is off the screen, the funds will be enough, but if she hands over the money now, the pace of the current movie filming will probably have to be slightly...

After weighing the pros and cons, Miss Luo Quan said to Nikola: "Five hundred million US dollars is not a small amount. I can only give you three hundred million now, and the remaining two hundred million will only be available after a month."

"No problem, three hundred million US dollars is already enough to solve my urgent need." Nikola replied very quickly, and this tone was very much like a scammer cheating money.

"Give me the account number, and I will have someone transfer the money to you in a while." After signing the email, Miss Luo Quan made a call to her bank's private customer service.

For diamond VIP users like her with huge deposits, banks will be equipped with beautiful and sweet-voiced private customer service.

However, no matter how gentle the customer service is, the process of withdrawing money is still a bit cumbersome, especially in the case of withdrawing three hundred million in one breath.

After spending a little more effort, Miss Luo Quan completed the transfer.

Nikola sent a message saying that he had received the payment and also told her that he would develop at full speed and try his best to give Miss Luo Quan, the investor, a satisfactory result.

Although only Nikola appeared in the resume, he actually has a scientific research company with hundreds of employees, which can be considered a big company even in the United States.

However, Miss Luo Quan is busy filming movies now and has no time to go to Nikola's company for a field trip, so she can only wait until the movie is finished.

Just after Nikola's email was processed, Manager Zhou Yangwen sent her another message.

Early September, there is one month left before LPL sets out for S8.

This time going to Incheon to fight, all three teams are aiming for the championship, their fighting spirit is quite high, and the enthusiasm of LPL fans is also very high.

So taking this opportunity, Zhou Yangwen wanted Miss Luo Quan to make an entrance battle song to boost everyone's morale.

Old rules, ten million RMB for one song.

After thinking for a while, Miss Luo Quan quickly had the answer.

PS: Thanks to book friend "Passed-by Soul" for the 5000 book coin reward, thank you very much! ===== CHAPTER 553 =====