Chapter 35

《Stars and the Sea》 finally concluded its serialization in the following week.

This peculiar web novel, after Lin Mu exchanged it, unexpectedly brought him a large amount of prestige, allowing him to exchange for "The Legend of the Condor Heroes."

However, just as Lin Mu was full of anticipation, hoping it would have a greater effect, everything became silent once again.

The daring and combative government officials did not appear a second time. The purpose of the political newspaper was not for sales or to satisfy a bit of market demand, risking political risks. No one would do such a deal.

However, Lin Mu was also very satisfied. The novel he exchanged for 20,000 prestige ended up bringing him about 500,000 prestige in total. Even after spending 300,000 to exchange for "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" and other items, Lin Mu still had about 150,000 prestige left.

The people from the city education newspaper had once contacted him, asking if he had any other similar articles to publish. But after some thought, Lin Mu decided to focus on "Martial Arts Stories."

After all, with the initial prestige capital, Lin Mu could now exchange for high-quality novels that could sell well in the market, so there was no need to earn the meager稿费 from newspapers anymore.

This winter seemed to come a bit early. By the ninth month of the lunar calendar, the weather had already turned cold. Autumn clothes had barely been worn for a few days when the winter chill began to set in.

By the end of next month, when he returned home, it would be winter.

In the morning, while running with Su Taohua's electric scooter, Lin Mu felt the cold autumn wind and suddenly thought of his house back home.

In the heart of Central China, winters are extremely cold. But since it's a rural area, even though it's considered the north, there is no central heating.

Inside the house, one can only close the windows and hide under the covers to feel some warmth.

"Lin Ye and Lin Lin are still young, and Grandpa is already old. I need to find a way to keep them warm..."

While running and thinking, a word quickly flashed in his mind.

"Northeastern Kang!"

When people think of this term, they usually imagine a brick bed, with a cooking pot on the other side of the wall. When it gets cold, you just burn it, and the kang will be very warm.

But the reality is more than that.

In most cases, a water heating system can also be installed on the bed. After burning coal, the water in the heating system can be heated, and the heat emitted can make the room warmer than urban heating.

In his previous life, Lin Mu's parents worked in Northeast China, and during the New Year, Lin Mu would go to Northeast China. The experience of the icy outdoors and only needing to wear a thermal underwear indoors to sweat left a deep impression on him.

"The water heating panels can be bought online, and the structure of the kang can be downloaded from the internet. With a construction team and materials, it should cost less than 2,000 yuan..."

Thinking about it, Lin Mu came to school and immediately searched for relevant information on his phone. He ordered two water heating panels online for over 300 yuan each and searched for the structure of the kang.

Finding a print shop was a bit troublesome, so Lin Mu simply found a piece of drawing paper and spent some time drawing the structure.

He also sent a few text messages to ask for the phone numbers of building material factories near his hometown, asking them to deliver some bricks and cement. He had left a few thousand yuan for the elderly, so he just needed to give them a call.

With everything prepared, he just needed to find two skilled builders before his next trip home.

There are many such craftsmen in the countryside. After all, there are few opportunities to earn money in rural areas, so many people help build houses to earn some money.

With all concerns gone, Lin Mu returned to his usual state of mind and continued reading.

Sometimes he would also do some math, physics, and chemistry problems. Without the浮躁心 and having experienced the harshness of society, Lin Mu no longer felt bored with studying. Learning more is always good.

He also paid attention to the discussions about inner strength on the Baidu Tieba. Interestingly, He Shuo, who had already decided to pause the updates of "The Seven Spells of the Wild Wind," quietly updated two chapters with 6,000 words.

In the new chapters, the protagonist's supernatural power was officially changed to inner strength, and it also had various peculiarities, greatly increasing the readability of the novel.

However, this sudden change made the transition between chapters extremely abrupt. Many readers, while enjoying it, also asked what was going on.

Many loyal fans once wanted to credit him as the "first creator of inner strength."

In response, He Shuo made no comments, neither explaining the origin of "inner strength" nor whether he was the first to create it.

On the "Martial Arts Stories" Tieba, many netizens cursed He Shuo for being shameless and plagiarizing the innovation of "One Page Book," leading to a lot of arguments from his fans.

As for the "Martial Arts" Tieba, any posts questioning the originality of inner strength were immediately deleted, clearly showing that the "Martial Arts" magazine did not want this fire to spread.

Amidst the chaos on the Tieba, the two magazines welcomed their new issues!

Lin Mu received the sample issue of "Martial Arts Stories" the day before. Many classmates wanted to borrow it, but Lin Mu did not agree, not even the little girl Wei Yun in the front row managed to get the magazine.

"Since 'Martial Arts Stories' has been listed as a banned book, the school will likely have teachers focus on collecting it to prevent students from buying and spreading the magazine from other places."

Lin Mu's thoughts were indeed correct. The next day, after buying the "Martial Arts" magazine near his residence and putting it in his bag at school, he saw Shang Zhicheng walk into the classroom before the first class.

A few students who usually liked to read magazines had their desks directly searched, and the leisure books found, not just "Martial Arts Stories," but all of them were confiscated.

"This is a school regulation! From now on, no reading these leisure books. First offense: confiscation and criticism. Second offense: school-wide criticism. Third offense: parent-teacher meeting! The word is out, if anyone reads them again, they can try it!" The warning was given simultaneously by dozens of class advisors across three grades.

Such a large-scale effort had never happened in the history of the school, showing how serious Lu Buping was about this matter.

Lin Mu, who made money from this, was not searched by Shang Zhicheng, nor was he forbidden from reading these magazines. He was only warned not to show the sample issues to other students.

Lin Mu naturally had no objections. He ignored all the classmates who wanted to borrow the books. Even after Wei Yun in the front row gave him a "no-show card," her resentful look was of no use.

Flipping through "Martial Arts," what surprised Lin Mu was that the second issue was vastly different from the chapters already released online.

The application of inner strength was mentioned earlier, and even the plot development changed as a result.

At the end of the new chapters, He Shuo explained that since "The Seven Spells of the Wild Wind" was published in the magazine, it could not remain unchanged. The purpose was to provide better novels to his many supporters!

Clearly, He Shuo did not want to give "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" the chance to surpass him!

PS: Thank you to Ling Nue Shangren for the 588 yuan donation.

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