Chapter 38: Fired Up the Internet

Translator: Atlas Studios  Editor: Atlas Studios

Ning Fei was torn between laughing and crying at the sight of the green hat.¹

The hat could prevent the UV rays from entering his skin while keeping him cool at the same time.

But this color… wasn’t very auspicious.

Green…

It was identical to the color of grass.

If he were to wear this hat during his webcast, he would be labeled as “The Man Who Was Cuckolded” forever.

Ning Fei pondered for a while. Although this might just be a saying, he was someone who listened to his heart.

Therefore, he couldn’t wear this hat. Instead, he left the hat in the jungle on the following day.

Many years later, someone would chance upon this place and take a photo of a magical sight — a monkey wearing a green hat!

And according to the witness, the monkey who wore the hat acted as though he was the leader. However, many viewers suspected that the man had deliberately put the hat on the monkey, and it caused quite a commotion online.

Of course, no one had thought that many years ago, it was an outdoor webcaster who had left the green hat behind.

At night, Ning Fei swallowed all the five premium-grade body-strengthening pills.

Every pill allowed him to improve his strength, agility, and endurance level by 0.5. Currently, his strength was 18.5; his agility was 18.5, and his endurance was 17.5.

His body had far exceeded that of an ordinary man.

Ning Fei practiced his acupuncture skills for an hour before he fell into a deep sleep.

On the following day, he woke up feeling dizzy and dazed.

The acupuncture skills were indeed complicated. He had tried to cram all the knowledge about the various acupuncture points in a human’s body. Thus, he had a headache now.

He shook his head and stretched himself.

Ning Fei started his webcast before he began to tear down the tent that had droplets of dew.

He had found the Curded Blood Lingzhi and the golden orchids during this trip. He had made a fortune and was planning to return to the temple.

At this time, Ning Fei noticed something incredible. On his way here, he had packed everything neatly. Now that it was time to return, he realized that he had too much stuff and couldn’t pack everything in. So, he had to unpack everything once again before he could return.

Due to the premium-grade body-strengthening pills, he was feeling stronger and more agile. Therefore, he didn’t feel tired at all despite the load on his back. In fact, he strode with light footsteps.

More supporters entered his livestream to greet him.

At this time, Xu Sheng, the manager of Battling Birds Webcast Platform, was watching Ning Fei’s webcast room statistics with a look of disbelief and surprise.

A new webcaster who had started days ago had achieved such amazing results. It had been a total eye-opener.

“Yesterday, he received more than 700,000 yuan of rewards. Currently, he is number one on the income ranking…” Xu Sheng muttered as he found this hard to believe.

Unless there were some special situations such as the appearance of a famous actor, there wouldn’t be a case of a webcaster receiving an income of more than 1,000,000 yuan a day. The best webcasters could only achieve 500,000 yuan.

Yesterday, Ning Fei earned more than 700,000 yuan, and he had started barely a week ago…

Exaggerated wasn’t the word to describe this.

“Other than that, he is trending on social media platforms and is first amongst all Battling Birds Webcast Platform’s webcasters,” Li Jian, the representative from the PR department, interjected.

“What?” Xu Sheng was shocked.

The PR team was in charge of Battling Birds Webcast Platform’s webcasters’ public opinion and information. Sometimes, it would also defend a webcaster.

To put it simply, it was defending its own soldiers.

Webcast platforms thrived on profits, and competition was intense. Naturally, it needed to protect its own webcasters and eliminate its rivals.

At the same time, the PR team was also responsible for monitoring the popularity of the webcasts.

Since the start of yesterday, headlines such as “Webcaster meeting a black bear”, “Webcaster climbing a cliff with bare hands”, and “The three-million-yuan Curded Blood Lingzhi’s appearance” had created a commotion online.

“Webcaster climbing a cliff with bare hands” and “Curded Blood Lingzhi” had trended on live-time Weibo searches.

Ning Fei had exploded in popularity and fired up the entire internet. This was unprecedented.

“This webcaster is amazing,” Li Jian praised.

Xu Sheng had no idea that this would happen. “He has indeed exceeded my expectations. I thought that it would simply be a novelty as he was from a village. There shouldn’t have been much traction in terms of viewership growth. Now it seems that I’ve belittled this Light Breeze Temple webcaster.”

Xu Sheng was regretful. If he had been more persuasive during the signing of the contract, Ning Fei might have been bound to them for a few more years. But he was glad that at least, he had managed to retain this awesome webcaster with Battling Birds Webcast Platform. It was an achievement.

At the same time, the internet was abuzz with comments about Ning Fei.

At first, there was a surge of doubts and suspicions as they read the headlines, and many even jeered and mocked him.

‘Scaling a cliff with bare hands? Some kind of a joke?’

‘It must be fake. Why would anyone believe this?’

‘Who has bought the trending spot?’

‘Just watch without believing.’

After clicking on the videos, they were left with a word.

‘F*ck!’

The drone flew and moved around to take different angles. There wasn’t any editing done, and everything was taken in a frame.

Ning Fei had climbed from the bottom, step by step, and the viewers witnessed his arduous journey.

From afar, they only saw how tall the cliffs were and didn’t see any ropes on Ning Fei.

This webcaster was courageous and fearless indeed!

Everyone agreed on that.

After the incident of the Curded Blood Lingzhi, many viewers had criticized and bashed him for trying to hype up an item. How could a plant cost millions of yuan?

Some time later, a biology professor from the capital city’s university cleared the air personally. ‘There are two droplets of blood in that Curded Blood Lingzhi, so it has to be at least two centuries old. It’s therefore reasonable for it to be worth at least two million yuan regardless of it being a medicinal plant or a plant to be kept for collection.’ 

Many agreed with his opinion, and it also trended.

And after that, “The mysterious rock” and “The most beautiful lake in the mountains” also garnered a massive number of viewers.

With Ning Fei’s good looks, he attracted countless new fans.