"Speaking of the Homeland World Cup, do you know who contestant number 001 in the entire league is?" the guide continued to ask. The children all shook their heads. Then the guide excitedly announced that the first professional player in the entire league was Mr. Huang He, as he was the only one who had publicly piloted a Homeland vehicle in front of a crowd.
The children were, of course, all shocked again. Boss Huang, however, found it rather tedious. He gestured to a staff member beside him to accompany his grandson on the rest of the tour, while he quietly left the museum and walked outside to a small building next to it.
This was the place where Boss Huang had originally been reborn – the two-story office building of the Jiangnan Leather Factory. Back then, Boss Huang had suddenly appeared in the second-floor office, while comforting his sister-in-law, he looked out the window at the crowd demanding wages, listening to that familiar sound.
"Zhejiang Wenzhou, Zhejiang Wenzhou, the largest leather factory, Jiangnan Leather Factory has gone bankrupt! The scumbag boss Huang He gambled, ate, and whored, owing 350 million, and ran away with his sister-in-law. We have no choice but to accept wallets as wages. The original price was over three hundred, over two hundred, over one hundred for all the wallets, all for twenty yuan, all for twenty yuan! Huang He, you are not human, we worked hard for you for half a year, you didn't pay wages, give me back my hard-earned money, give me back my blood and sweat money!"
"Who is it!" Huang He's expression changed instantly. This voice wasn't a memory playing in his head, but a real external sound.
Then Boss Huang saw a mobile stall not far away, with a large quantity of wallets displayed on it, and a high-power player. The loudspeaker was repeatedly playing this familiar sound.
Many older people would surely recognize this as the same type of people who used to walk the streets selling blind boxes back in the day.
However, upon closer inspection, one would notice some differences. This stall wasn't selling blind boxes, but merely cheap leather goods. And such stalls were the most familiar to Boss Huang.
"You are... Jia Yapeng!" As Liu Xu walked up to the cart and clearly saw the vendor selling his wares, his pupils instantly contracted. He thought this person was none other than Jia Yapeng, the successor to Jiangnan Group whom he had already decided upon, the one who would manage Jiangnan Group for him before his own two children were old enough to take over.
But why was he here, running such a stall? What did he know?
"I am Jia Yapeng, but not the Jia Yapeng that Boss Huang knows. In fact, you can call me Boss Jia!" Jia Yapeng said with a smile.
"Hello, is that Xiao Jia?" Huang He took out his personal terminal. The terminal directly projected a waiting image that was spinning. After a few seconds, the image quickly turned into a room where Jia Yapeng stood seriously, respectfully saying to Huang He, "Sir, do you have any instructions?"
"No!" Huang He hung up the communication directly, then looked at Jia Yapeng in front of him, pondered for a long time, and said, "Who are you?"
"Just like you, I am a stabilizer of this world, someone who has changed this world!" Jia Yapeng said.
"..." Huang He was stunned again. Someone who changed this world. For Jia Yapeng to say such a thing, he must indeed know many things.
"Does 'stabilizer' mean transcender?" Huang He hesitated, then asked.
"No, you cannot understand it so broadly!" Jia Yapeng shook his head. "A world can have many transmigrators, but there can only be one stabilizer at a time. They are responsible for stabilizing the entire chaotic world and eventually allowing the entire world to operate smoothly."
"Wait a minute, even though your words sound like you're writing a novel, even if everything you say is true, this world isn't chaotic at all. There's no devastating crisis in this world. My arrival in this world has at most accelerated its technological development. This world can operate just fine with or without me. I don't know what this world needs me to stabilize!" Huang He asked confusedly.
"That question is exactly what I asked back then!" Jia Yapeng couldn't help but smile. "What if I told you that if it weren't for your appearance, this world would have already vanished at the moment the original Huang He died?"
"???"
"Let's put it this way, the entire world exists as a main world, which is the Earth world we originally belonged to. Every change in the Earth world creates countless ripples in the dimensions, and each ripple can create a new world."
"But this world is like a colorful bubble, it looks beautiful, but perhaps in a few seconds, it will explode instantly and disappear without a trace."
"This world is just a ripple created by the main world, and it will soon return to destruction, unless someone enters this world, upholds the existence of the entire world, continuously continues the story of the entire world, and finally stabilizes the world, making it a stable world that will not easily disappear or be destroyed!" Jia Yapeng said.
"Although I don't quite understand, I roughly get it!" Huang He nodded blankly.
"Actually, I am the same as you. I also transmigrated to another world, became the richest man in the world, and then stabilized this world." Jia Yapeng said.
"So the way to stabilize the world is to become the richest man in the world???" Boss Huang quipped.
"Not necessarily. One person defeated countless dimensions and became a Sword Emperor. Another person swept across the entire universe. As for now, I hear there is someone struggling to copy books in another world that belongs to a novelist."
"Countless stabilizers are working hard every moment!" Jia Yapeng said.
"Then stabilizers will definitely succeed, right!" Boss Huang said. "Is my success also a certainty?"
"That's not necessarily true. In fact, 90% of stabilizers fail."
"What happens if they fail?"
"After failure, the entire world will be in a paused state, unable to move forward or backward. Everyone, including the stabilizer himself, will be trapped there, unable to move."
"I know of one stabilizer who is currently trapped in a game world and will likely be locked in that world for the rest of his life, with nothing being able to progress!" Jia Yapeng sighed as he said this.
"Then am I considered successful or a failure?" Huang He asked with some worry.
"Don't worry, you are certainly successful. Otherwise, I wouldn't be here to see you. After all, only after successfully stabilizing it can I talk to you about these things."
"Then what are the benefits of stabilizing the world?" Huang He pressed.
"Freedom!" Jia Yapeng was silent for a moment, then said, "You gain the freedom to leave this world and travel to more worlds, true freedom!"
The End