Chapter 486: Returning to Hu University

Just as Xiao He was waiting for the system to load, Liu Rulan hurried over: "I heard you just donated another huge sum to the public welfare fund?"

"Ah, yes."

Xiao He nodded, stopping what he was doing. He seriously reflected for a moment, then asked, "That shouldn't be a problem, right?"

His actions all complied with the regulations, so there shouldn't be any issue.

Liu Rulan held her forehead: "Such a large amount of money, you really don't keep any for yourself? Although the company currently has a big project funding gap, we can still afford this portion for public welfare."

"It's fine, I still have money. And I genuinely hope I can create some value for society." Xiao He was in a very good mood. "This money is enough to provide prosthetic limbs for many people, especially veterans like Teacher Song."

As a professional "Little Black," killing people on set every day, doing a bit of charity afterward to wash away some of the "sin" wasn't too much, right?

Ah, people like him who respect this profession so much are truly rare.

"Besides, as you said, there will be a big funding gap soon. I think it's better to keep some as a contingency. Anyway, several projects will be launching one after another soon, and then we'll be able to earn money again."

So Xiao He was still quite wealthy.

—And this didn't even include the points.

Liu Rulan looked at Xiao He and realized this kid really didn't seem to care much about money. She suddenly felt a sense of powerlessness, like punching cotton.

"Alright, alright, I'm meddling too much."

Liu Rulan sighed. "I just hope you can be a little better to yourself."

"I'm doing pretty well right now!"

Xiao He said with great sincerity.

While they were talking, Xiao He's system panel finally finished loading.

It was just that this panel looked utterly bizarre no matter how you looked at it—

This panel clearly had money spent on it. It looked much better than the previous plain, single-player website. Even the fonts had special effects, and the overall art style changed from battle-damaged to an unattainably luxurious style.

Next to his brightly glowing points number, colorful starlight constantly twinkled, seemingly emphasizing its existence to Xiao He. The lottery button below was three to four times larger than the previous simple poop-yellow one, shimmering with golden light. Occasionally, a seven-colored dark glow surged around it, as if crazily hinting for Xiao He to press the button and draw the prize treasures inside.

Next to his brightly glowing points number, colorful starlight constantly twinkled, seemingly emphasizing its existence to Xiao He. The lottery button below was three to four times larger than the previous simple poop-yellow one, shimmering with golden light. Occasionally, seven-colored dark glints surged around it, as if crazily hinting for Xiao He to press the button and draw the prize treasures inside.

For a moment, Xiao He was almost blinded by this dazzling seven-colored light.

When he clearly saw the suddenly transformed system panel before him, Xiao He almost burst out laughing.

Liu Rulan looked behind her in confusion but saw nothing in the direction Xiao He was looking.

"What's wrong?"

Liu Rulan inquired.

"Ahem, nothing."

Xiao He covered his mouth to keep from laughing too loudly, then waved his hand, starting to shoo her away. "I just suddenly remembered something I need to do. Sister Liu, is there anything else?"

Liu Rulan didn't really have anything else. She just put down the document in her hand and reminded him, "'Cangyue Calamity' will have its grand finale soon. Remember to pay attention and post on Weibo."

"Okay, okay."

Xiao He agreed casually.

Only after Liu Rulan left did he refocus his attention on the panel before him.

After studying it for a while, Xiao He reached a conclusion—

The lottery system was still the same lottery system.

This kid just got a skin change, nothing else was different.

But could merely changing the skin bring me any benefits?

Absolutely not!

This is light pollution! Pure eye strain!

Complaint! I want to file a complaint!

Xiao He poked around here and there, still not finding the so-called 【customer service】 panel.

Bad review! Such a bad review! Other people's systems either assign intelligent AIs, directly assign pets, or even assign wives directly.

Look at others, then look at you!

Xiao He suddenly felt deflated and listlessly waved his hand.

"Forget it, forget it. Relying on you is worse than relying on myself."

A million points are just one step away, who knows when I can draw.

I'd be better off spending this time studying special effects production properly. If the production ends up being too expensive later, I might have to do it myself.

Just thinking about the upcoming tasks made Xiao He want to wipe away a tear of sorrow.

Sigh!

An excellent boss like him who handles everything personally is truly rare!

...

Over the next few days, Xiao He trained at the martial arts hall in the morning, researched special effects production at home in the afternoon, and went out with friends at night, grabbing late-night snacks along the way.

Special effects production and hacking computer skills are still quite different. The latter involves understanding computer principles, engaging in underlying code logic, development, and destruction. The former uses software for visual effects, leaning more towards artistic design and production, involving the use and learning of software related to special effects, modeling, etc. Although both are computer-related skills, they are not the same and still require spending a certain amount of time to learn.

Otherwise, there wouldn't be both computer science majors and more art-oriented university majors like digital media arts, film and television post-production, animation design, visual communication design, etc.

These all require specialized study. Reaching the special effects production level of foreign major studios and the sci-fi blockbuster special effects quality of international standards is even more challenging.

But to save money, Xiao He went all out.

He just didn't believe it. Mere sci-fi film special effects, post-production mecha modeling, mechanical phantom limb transformations—could he really not achieve such effects?

He could act it, so why couldn't he create it?

When the time comes, won't it just be about making it as cool as possible!

Xiao He definitely didn't want the sci-fi film he spent a fortune shooting to become one of the representative works of bad movies.

If he and Shu Han ended up losing face together, that would be mortifying...

So for this, Xiao He even secretly returned to Hu University, swallowed his pride to ask a former teacher he knew for help, to introduce him to a very skilled technical connection...

There was no other way. He had said before that he wouldn't return until he won an important Award-Winning Actor prize.

And now, well, it turns out people really shouldn't casually make declarations.

Outside a certain college building at Hu University.

A young man wearing a gray hoodie and a hat stood by the classroom window downstairs, peeking inside.

Aside from the teacher at the podium, no one else noticed his actions.

The teacher on the podium looked to be in his fifties, wearing black-framed glasses and a black-and-yellow checkered shirt. He had a very scholarly appearance, but his tone was extremely serious when speaking.

He glanced faintly at the person outside the window, his speech still steady, seemingly completely undisturbed.

About ten minutes later, the class bell finally rang.

Students stood up one after another and walked out of the classroom.

It was already finals period, and Hu University's final exams were relatively strict. So by this time, students rarely lingered or strolled leisurely; their steps carried a sense of hurry.

After everyone in the classroom had left, Yuan Ling walked to the window and looked at Xiao He squatting below it. He sighed, sounding quite helpless. "Didn't I tell you to wait for me in the office? Be careful, you might get recognized."

Xiao He looked up and greeted with a grin: "Hello, Teacher Yuan! It's fine, I checked. You were just going over key points. They were all listening attentively and didn't look back at all."

During finals, everyone is too busy with their own troubles to even think about chasing stars.

Xiao He's courage naturally grew.

Hehehe, thankfully he had already graduated~