2: Three days from now, I will summon a million crows in the square!

The moment Jiang Ming made his choice, the card depicting the pitch-black raven suddenly transformed into a pure black light, merging into the depths of Jiang Ming's consciousness without any warning.

There was no pain, nor any feeling of discomfort.

A vast, unfamiliar yet incredibly clear torrent of knowledge was forcefully poured into his brain.

How to perceive.

How to lock on.

How to use his will as a guide to activate the ability named Raven Summoning Technique.

All of this, like eating and drinking, instantly became an innate instinct for Jiang Ming.

"Ding dong! Newbie welfare has been successfully distributed! Wishing you a pleasant game!"

The slightly lively system notification sound cheerfully rang out, then was replaced by an icy, neutral information stream.

[Next 'Fate's Choice' activation condition: Accumulate 10,000 emotion points points.]

[How to obtain emotion points: Through live streaming, trigger strong emotional fluctuations in viewers.]

[Both positive emotions (love, adoration, shock, joy) and negative emotions (anger, jealousy, fear, disdain) can be collected.]

[In addition to activating the 'Choose One of Three,' emotion points can be used to strengthen oneself and abilities.]

Ten thousand points.

Jiang Ming's first reaction was that the system was joking with him.

Before, he stayed up all night editing videos, earning a few hundred yuan at most for one project, and the client's emotional fluctuations were probably only 'impatience' and 'urging.' How many emotion points points could that earn?

But the incredibly clear rules in his mind quickly calmed Jiang Ming down.

Live streaming.

Trigger strong emotional fluctuations.

When these two keywords were combined, the answer was obvious.

A plain live stream could only garner a meager amount of audience affection.

To obtain a massive amount of emotion points, enough to activate the next choice, and to achieve the 'explosive' effect the system mentioned, he had to create a grand spectacle that ordinary people couldn't understand, couldn't believe, or even couldn't accept.

What could be more explosive than publicly summoning an overwhelming flock of ravens in broad daylight in the city center square?

A plan, audacious to the point of madness, began to rapidly form in Jiang Ming's mind.

Jiang Ming closed the editing software that had exhausted him physically and mentally; its interface now looked particularly annoying.

He opened his browser, his fingers rapidly tapping on the keyboard, producing a series of crisp sounds.

Search keywords: "Jiangcheng bird distribution," "Jiangcheng raven gathering places."

On the screen, information refreshed quickly, one after another.

Finally, Jiang Ming's movements stopped at a post on a local environmental forum.

The post detailed that due to the extremely high green coverage rate in Jiangcheng City Center Square and the surrounding tall buildings, a unique urban ecological niche had formed, where an extremely large population of ravens resided year-round.

They forage in various corners of the city during the day, and at dusk, they collectively return to the building complexes near the square to roost.

City Center Square.

Jiang Ming's finger lightly tapped on the desktop, making a soft sound.

This is the place.

A debut live stream, sufficiently shocking, sufficiently subversive to common perception, and difficult to discern as real or fake, was about to unfold there.

This was both the ultimate test of the Raven Summoning Technique, a supernatural ability, and his perfect stage to harvest his first bucket of emotion points.

Jiang Ming picked up his phone, opened TikTok, and skillfully clicked to register a new user.

In the nickname field, he didn't hesitate, directly entering two characters: Jiang Lai.

Jiang Ming's future was about to arrive.

This name was both a declaration and an ambition.

Next, Jiang Ming began to conceive a codename for his debut.

The codename had to be resounding enough, sensational enough, and preferably imbued with a mysterious aura that made people feel awestruck without fully understanding.

Got it.

A playful smile appeared on Jiang Ming's face.

The codename would be... Amaterasu.

Using his somewhat amateurish but sufficiently skilled editing techniques, Jiang Ming quickly created a short video lasting only fifteen seconds.

The video content was extremely simple, even crude.

A pure black background, with lines of pale white text slowly appearing in the center of the screen.

For the background music, Jiang Ming specifically excerpted the eerie, oppressive, and unsettling soundtrack from naruto when Uchiha Itachi unleashed his Mangekyo Sharingan ability, Amaterasu.

The video's text was full of provocation and chuunibyou flair.

"Three days later, 12 PM noon."

"Jiangcheng City Center Square."

"I will summon a flock of ravens, recreating the scene of 'Amaterasu'."

Finally, only one line of text remained on the screen, lingering for a full five seconds.

"—To witness is to participate."

Checked and confirmed.

Click, publish.

The moment the video was successfully uploaded, Jiang Ming immediately locked his phone screen.

The hook had been cast firmly; the next step was to prepare the tools for the net.

Jiang Ming grabbed his jacket from the back of the chair and left the house directly.

His destination was the nearby digital city.

A perfect live stream absolutely could not be ruined by amateurish mistakes like a dead phone battery or shaky footage.

A high-quality phone stand and a large-capacity power bank were essential tools for this performance.

After purchasing the equipment, Jiang Ming didn't go straight home.

He took the subway to the city center.

He walked around the entire area, firmly imprinting the terrain in his mind.

He even stood in several different positions, gesturing with his hands, simulating the framing range of a phone camera.

Finally, Jiang Ming chose a hidden spot behind a flower bed at the edge of the square.

This location allowed him to perfectly capture the large fountain in the center of the square and the vast sky behind it, while also ensuring he himself appeared clearly in a corner of the frame. At the same time, it was relatively secluded, making it less likely to be disturbed by security guards or curious passersby during the initial stages of the live stream.

He observed the location of the security booth nearby, silently calculating the time it would take for a patrol to complete a round.

Even the fact that three days later would be a weekday, and where the highest foot traffic would be concentrated at noon, was all taken into consideration.

Foolproof.

This was Jiang Ming's ingrained principle of action.

Play is play, mischief is mischief, but don't joke about serious business.

Back in his rented room, Jiang Ming took a quick shower, then sat cross-legged on the bed.

He closed his eyes and began to meditate.

This was not the profound breathing exercise found in cultivation novels, but rather a pure emptying of his mind to sense the newly born ability deep within his consciousness.

Soon, an incredibly wondrous sensation emerged.

Jiang Ming's consciousness seemed to transform into an invisible, enormous spiderweb, spreading out in all directions across the entire city, with himself at its center.

He "heard" them.

On the treetops of distant parks, on the rooftops of old residential areas, and in the cold crevices between tall buildings, faint, unique life signals belonging to ravens lit up one by one in his perception.

They were so numerous, densely packed, spread throughout the entire city.

And he was the sole center of this vast web.

He could issue the simplest commands to any light spot within his perception range.

Buzz... Buzz... The phone on the bedside table suddenly vibrated violently, its jarring sound breaking the silence of the night.

Jiang Ming disengaged from that wondrous perception, somewhat displeased, and picked up his phone.

He thought it was a spam message from his carrier.

However, the moment the screen lit up, an extremely prominent TikTok system notification popped out.

"Your work 'Codename: Amaterasu' has been reposted and commented on by user 'Scientific Iron Fist'."

Scientific Iron Fist?

What kind of strange ID was that?