Chapter 26 - I’ll wait for you.
Edited by Divetus and Noks
Meteor showers were one of the more expensive gifts, so there were platform-wide livestream announcements for them. A dozen of them amounted to tens of thousands of yuan, which was quite eye-catching. Although StarTV had a large amount of traffic, not everyone would throw tens of thousands of yuan to an anchor all at once, especially in this case, where the recipient of the gifts was an unknown male game anchor.
Yu Yan was still in shock as he watched the number of viewers in his livestream rise up to a staggering amount.
Even when he regained his composure, the magnificent special effects of the meteor shower had only played seven times, thus the entire webpage was still gorgeously embellished.
His heart leaped, and he picked up his cellphone.
Yu Yan: Did you click the wrong thing? Why did you suddenly send so many gifts?
The other side didn’t reply, and even the “typing” notification was missing.
Yi Ran was also stunned, although it wasn’t because he thought it was too much money. In his Ge’s eyes, a few paltry tens of thousands of yuan probably didn’t even count as a strand of hair, just moving his fingers would be more tiresome.
He was just surprised that his Ge would actually smash so many gifts at an anchor!
He had been able to convince himself that his Ge didn’t understand the rules when he had given the occasional one or two meteor showers before, and that he had just thrown gifts to board the carry bus to play the game. Now, it was obvious that this was not the case ah, this was even during his work hours.
“Uhh,” Yi Ran asked, “Shall we start bei?”
Yu Yan responded, “… Okay.”
He obviously wasn’t in a gaming state and instead played while in a trance. Fortunately, all the enemies he encountered seemed to be even more dazed than him.
He failed to control his gun recoil several times, but somehow, he always ended up as the winner of the gunfights.
[I finally saw a recoil…]
[This is a master’s achievement, to be able to snipe the edge of someone while simultaneously playing on his phone. Unexpectedly, the other side can’t even beat him!]
[What do you guys know?! This is called the giddiness of happiness!]
The two of them played one match and died in the semi-final circle.
Yu Yan said, ”Let’s take a break from playing. It’s dinner time, going to eat before continuing.”
“Oh, okay.” Yi Ran said, “I’m hungry, too.”
As Yi Ran said that, he glanced at the star rankings list.
Whatever, his Ge was still hanging around in the stream and his profile picture was on top of all the other stream followers. It was like they were worshipping Buddha.
Typically, Yu Yan didn’t stop streaming even during his meal times. After all, his stream followers were currently in the stream, and even if he only stopped the stream for ten minutes, he would still end up losing a lot of popularity. He would usually put on a variety show or a movie and watch it at 2x speed while eating and chatting with his stream followers.
After Yi Ran left, he asked without thinking, “What movie does everyone want to see?”
The barrage was instantly spammed with movie t.i.tles, but Yu Yan wasn’t in the mood to actually choose a movie. He opened the home page of a video streaming software and clicked on a random movie before expanding it to fullscreen.
Because he had been worried that he would lose track of time with his normal livestream schedule, he had placed long-term orders with several takeout stores. The takeout stores would deliver the takeout to him five days a week, at the appointed time. It wasn’t the agreed delivery time yet, so Yu Yan laid down on the bed beside his table. His back that had become stiff after a whole day of sitting down finally slightly relaxed.
He used his cellphone to open the livestream platform app and directly found the administrator.
yanxyan: Pardon the interruption. Excuse me, if a stream follower accidentally made a mistake and sent a lot of expensive gifts, can they apply for a refund from the platform?
Administrator 03: …
Administrator 03: Of course they can. I will try my best to serve that stream follower.
?
Why was the administrator suddenly so easy to persuade?
Yu Yan was still wondering about it when a message popped up on his phone.
1: [voice]
With almost no hesitation, he quickly entered WeChat and placed his phone by his ear to listen to it.
“Was just busy. Have you eaten yet?”
The man’s words had nothing to do with their previous chats. His tone was casual, and Yu Yan could hear other people’s voices in the background.
Yu Yan listened to it several times before he actually typed an answer.
Yu Yan: Not yetk2026; I just asked the administrator, and he said that if a gift was mistakenly sent, you can apply for a refund!
This time, the voice message he received was very short, only one second long.
“You keep it.”
Yu Yan instantly felt like he had been hit by something, his whole body becoming soft and tingly.
He took a deep breath and continued typing.
Yu Yan: That’s not too good, are you still busy? Otherwise, how about we chat more about it when you’re done?
This time, the other side directly replied with a text.
1: Talk at night.
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“I’ve only been in cla.s.s for a day, what happened?” asked Lu Xiuhe as soon as he entered the game lobby. “Originally, I wanted to watch your livestream, but ultimately, the professor sat directly in front of me. I couldn’t help but give some face to his old self… This is a university, who still tries to catch students playing on their cellphones in cla.s.s ah!”
Yu Yan said, “There are people in the SW direction.”
“Ah? Oh, oh…” After the two of them brought down the enemy together, Lu Xiuhe asked, “Are you going to stop streaming after you finish this match?”
It was half past ten now.
Yu Yan looked down at his cellphone. It was silent, with no new message notifications.
“Not going to stop streaming.” He looked up and casually said, “Since the stream followers are so enthusiastic today, I’ll stream for two more hours.”
Wait another two hours, and if 1 still hadn’t arrived… He’ll end the stream then.
By the time the match ended, it was 10:55 p.m.
[Boss 1 still hasn’t appeared? The anchor is about to stop streaming. It couldn’t be that we scared him away ba? Idly clamoring for Boss at a distance QAQ. We simply just want to nibble on a CP, guarantee that we’ll just YY in our hearts, we’ll never disturb you guys!!]
[Want to see the anchor play Sanhok, Erangel isn’t exciting ah.]
[I’m just different, I’m only here to see if there are any female anchors around (?)]
“Sanhok?” Yu Yan switched maps. “Okay.”
[Is the anchor going to do a lottery to take stream followers along? Or, I’ll toss a little star and you can take me on the carry bus ba? QAQ]
Yu Yan glanced at the barrage and said, “I’m sorry, I won’t be taking any stream followers tonight, just playing duos… I’ve written down your ID, come tomorrow ba, and I’ll take you then.”
No one had expected Yu Yan to be this accommodating. Immediately, many other stream followers also sent over messages, but Yu Yan didn’t respond anymore. He was about to play the match when an enormous special effect suddenly appeared at the top of the page.
It was a carriage made of stars, which carried… 1’s system default profile picture.
[Guardian 1 has entered the livestream]
[Anchor is awesome ah, already has a guardian…]
[That doesn’t mean anything, other big anchors can’t even pack all their guardians on their star ranking lists.]
[You said it yourself, “other big anchors”. Our anchor has been streaming for less than two weeks ba!]
The livestream platform had different tiers for bosses. Those who gave 1000 yuan or less to one anchor were called “Star Givers”, those who gave 3000 yuan or less were called “Star Emissaries”, and those who gave more than 5000 yuan were called “Great Star Emissaries”.
Those who gave more than 20,000 yuan were called “Guardians”.
StarTV’s donator t.i.tles were very distinct, unlike other livestream platforms that all did t.i.tles such as “Aristocrats” and “Earls”. In addition, the corresponding star symbol would also appear in front of the boss’ ID.
At present, the highest t.i.tle a boss could have in a livestream was Guardian. It was said that there was an even higher t.i.tle, but that hadn’t yet appeared. The Guardian bosses couldn’t verify the authenticity of this rumor, and they also weren’t willing to aimlessly spend money to gain this t.i.tle.
Yu Yan’s heart leaped, his eyes slightly brightened, and he blurted out, “1… You’re here ah.”
Yi Chen sat in his chair while untying his tie. Something unexpected had come up in the company today; the members of a project team had just come out of probation, so he simply stayed and audited their meeting in the conference room before leaving.
He hadn’t forgotten his appointment with the little anchor. He had made sure in advance that he could get home before the agreed time with the other party.
Hearing his ID, he raised his eyebrows.
Yu Yan had subconsciously said those words but then recalled that the other party didn’t like to talk on the public screen. He was about to switch to WeChat when he saw a colorful dialog box appear on the public screen.
[1: En, had some things, a bit late.]
[f.u.c.k!! Take a group screenshot! Hold onto Boss 1’s shoes!!]
[Apparently, they made an appointment ahhhhhhh! What is love? This is love!!]
[h.e.l.lo everyone, I’m new here. Excuse me, but do we just directly eat fluff here?]
It’s over, it’s over; Yu Yan felt that if the barrage continued on like this, 1 would figure out what “shipping” meant.
“No problem, no problem!” He said, “Play PUBG?”
[?? Didn’t you just say that you weren’t taking any stream followers and were just going to play duos?]
[Ah, men are all big pig trotters.]
[1: Shouldn’t you stop streaming now?]
“Streaming a little longer today.” Since he had already promised that to his stream followers, there was no reason to go back on his word.
[1: I’m logging in.]
A few minutes later, another game character appeared on Yu Yan’s game interface.
Lu Xiuhe said, “Good evening, Boss! Then Xiao Yan, are we going to make a squad?”
“Anything’s fine, there’s still a spot left. Get a random?” Yu Yan asked, “1, is that person coming? It looks like he has been hanging around the stream this whole time from what I can see.”
[2: I’m coming ah!! f.u.c.k man, you just said that you weren’t taking any stream followers. I thought that I squatted here for nothing tonight. I’m logging in!]
The four of them queued into Sanhok.
Yi Ran crossed his legs and looked at the anchor’s and his Ge’s game IDs.
… For the whole day today, he had read love stories made up by these stream followers. Now, he kept feeling strange when looking at these two people.
Yu Yan asked, “Where should we jump to?”
Lu Xiuhe asked, “Jump to Bootcamp?”
Yi Ran quickly said, “No ah, I don’t like the Bootcamp. Let’s jump to Ruins.”
“There are too many people there…” Yu Yan asked, “1, where do you want to jump to?”
Yi Chen had already gotten used to Yu Yan asking for his opinion before each jump. As usual, he responded, “Up to you.”
Finally, everyone decided to jump to Ruins.
“1, land here with me.” Yu Yan marked a corner of Ruins on the map. “There are too many people in the middle. I’ll come with you to collect some guns here. You can search the middle once I’ve cleared the place.”
“Alright.” Yi Chen said, “First pick up a gun, and then go there together.”
Yi Ran asked, “What about me?”
“You…” Yu Yan looked at the position of the other two. “Just follow where Lu Xiuhe jumps ba.”
“…”
The two of them jumped to a small area beside Ruins. Yu Yan was the first one to land in the area, and found an AKM at the landing spot. He immediately picked up the ammo and directly killed the enemy who was about to land there a few seconds later.
This time, they were lucky, as only three teams had jumped to Ruins along with them. Although Lu Xiuhe and Yi Ran occasionally got into trouble, they also had a bit of strength. Adding on Yu Yan, the undying gunslinger, there was no struggle for them to win this territorial battle.
Yi Chen’s hands were getting the feel for this game, and he also got a kill.
The enemy’s game character got struck into the wall because he ate too many bullets from Yi Chen, and as a result, the lootbox was only half exposed, with the rest of it being stuck inside a wall.
Yi Chen went up and looted everything before he was ready to leave.
But he realized… that he couldn’t move.
His game character was stuck in the wall, and jumping, crouching or climbing, all proved to be useless.
After a long time, he gave up. “It looks like I’m stuck in a bug.”
Yu Yan wasn’t too far away from him and immediately ran over to see the man embedded in the wall.
“This kind of bug always occurs after a server maintenance. Can you try jumping?”
“Already tried jumping, doesn’t work.”
“This broken game, always having problems every one or two days. Ge, why don’t you…” Yi Ran spoke up to this point, but then suddenly fell silent.
He had almost dropped the phrase “Why don’t you just buy out the game ba”…
He coughed twice and asked, “So what do we do now ah? We’re not in the circle.”
“You guys go ba.” Yi Chen said, “It’s fine.”
Lu Xiuhe said, “There’s no other choice, Boss. I’ll strive to die early to start the next match.”
Two people ran out of Ruins and found that it was raining outside. The game had a weather system—things like thunderstorms, fog, and other weather effects would greatly affect their vision.
They ran and ran but then noticed that they were missing a person.
Lu Xiuhe exclaimed, “Wtf, Xiao Yan, why are you still there ah?!”
Yu Yan’s game character was still standing beside 1.
“You guys go first.” He continued, “I’ll find a way.”
Lu Xiuhe said, “It’s not like you don’t know the bug. There’s no window nearby so Boss can’t get out.”
Yu Yan still didn’t budge.
Yi Chen looked at the person dazedly standing in front of him. “It’s okay, you should run into the poison circle…”
Before he could finish speaking, the game character in front of him suddenly moved.
He just heard the voice of the little anchor, excitedly saying, “I’ve thought of a method.”
With the sound of a few items dropping, two first-aid kits and a dozen bandages appeared in front of Yi Chen.
Yu Yan repeatedly implored him, “Wait for me here. When the poison circle closes in on you, take the medicine.”
Yi Chen was taken aback a bit by surprise. After a while, he asked, “Then, do you have any medicine?”
“Yes, I kept some.” After he finished tossing everything to Yi Chen, Yu Yan turned around and ran, leaving only a trailing voice as he shouted, “Wait for me ah, I’ll be back soon!”
Yu Yan ran out of Ruins and hung his gun on his back. Suddenly, there was silence in his headphones, accompanied only by the pattering of rain and the sound of footsteps.
It was a long time before he heard an answer.
The man’s voice was deep, carrying a hint of unrestrained laughter. “Okay, I’ll wait for you.”
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