Chapter 468: Chapter 451: New World Travel Ticket
During the trial operation of Cloud Dream Live Streaming Platform, Alex’s concert was not the only live broadcast room.
In order to conduct a more comprehensive test, the registration of hosts and the opening of free live broadcast rooms were all moderately available.
To ensure control, only one hundred host registration quotas were opened, and among them, twenty quotas were pre-set by the live broadcast department, planning to invite some people to start broadcasting.
And they were extremely efficient, having successfully invited eighteen people before the start of the concert.
The invitation here is just a trial broadcast invitation. It is not bound with any signing matters, so the invitees have not much pressure and simply started their broadcast.
The remaining eighty places were simply based on a first-come, first-served basis.
However, on Friday, Alex’s live show almost drained the Internet’s traffic, and most netizens’ attention was focused on Alex.
Even these hosts were almost all on the scene of the concert, they merely provided a live concert from different angles, and it didn’t cause much of a ripple.
But after the concert, many hosts announced some “cheeky” plans before they went offline:
[King of the Track], who registered with his game nickname, announced in advance that he would participate in the [Second Indiscriminate Death Race] again on Sunday, aiming for the championship!
[King of the Sea], who registered with his real name [Xu Shenghan], plans to live stream the construction of another Ming Wheel Ship.
The previous Ming Wheel ship is still transporting players to Dinosaur Island.
With this big guy around, the sea monsters rarely attack and the efficiency of transporting players has greatly improved.
William plans to do something that no one in the domestic field can imitate – solo climbing a large 180-meter rock face without any protection!
In reality!
One mistake and it could be fatal!
Upon seeing this announcement, Leander immediately called and advised William to reconsider.
William replied: I understand your worries, rest assured, I have climbed this place many times before and I have plenty of experience.
Leander was speechless and could only note down a reminder to suggest to the boss on Monday to acquire additional accident insurance for certain special hosts…
Chasing Wind’s prepared event combined “simple and crude” and “personal characteristics”: he plans to give out five hundred thousand cash red packets during tomorrow’s live broadcast.
Leander hastened to have someone contact him, warning him: “This is just a trial run. Once the trial is over and the live streaming platform is fully opened, the consumption of fans will be withdrawn. In other words, you will not have any revenue, the red packets you send out are purely money-losing, and this is all explained in the rules of the trial run.”
Chasing Wind calmly replied: “I know, I’m just doing it for fun.”
The contact was speechless and hung up the phone in silence.
There were also two hosts from Izumo who planned on taking the audience to see the renowned customs stores in Izumo on Saturday, showing what the inside looked like and how it differed from the mysterious stores in Night City.
Even a player from Siam, against all odds, managed to secure a spot in the unstable network conditions.
And he’s very well-versed in live streaming, directly stating: “I’ll open your eyes tomorrow, to experience the [Red Artists].”
The so-called [Red Artists], are generally referred to as transvestites in Daxia, which are a unique product of Siam.
Of course, it’s not live streaming from certain places, most of these places are basically prohibited from filming.
But!
Advantages of the locals must be mentioned: this player, his childhood friend, is currently a transvestite!
And also a locally well-known one.
If he’s willing, his childhood friend, elementary and middle school classmates, contacts in his phone, they could easily pull dozens of transvestites together!
You don’t need to go to specific places to easily show the audience these transvestites.
One must mention: this doesn’t mean he’s promiscuous, often visiting adult venues, but simply to illustrate that – he comes from a poor background.
In Siam, only families with poor conditions would send their boys to be trained as [Red Artists] from an early age, affluent families wouldn’t do this.
Him having so many transvestite friends only indicates he came from an impoverished background as a child…
After seeing the live content previews by these overseas hosts, Leander suddenly feels that William and Chasing Wind are much easier to deal with.
These people are the real trouble!
Regardless of his working hours, he had people contact the Izumo hosts, warning them to pay attention to their live broadcasting scale.
At the same time, he quickly called the company’s legal department, asking whether content on “Siam transvestites” can be broadcast.
Daxia has an 18+ categorization system, but that doesn’t mean you can just broadcast 18+ content!
These are completely different things!
The open platforms in Daxia, all directly adult content is illegal.
And transvestites, as soon as it’s brought up, people would associate it with adult content.
In reality indeed, most transvestites finally end up in the adult service industry – poor families, limited incomes, narrow escape roots, even short life spans, there are too few paths to choose from.
Leander didn’t know if such a live stream could work – when he was in the live streaming industry before, he had never seen such a stream!
Having no choice, he could only seek help from the company’s legal department.
Leander and his team members were running around in circles.
If there was anything that could provide them some consolation, it was: They were being busy in the joy of success.
Their counterparts, however, were busy with the mindset of attending a funeral.
During Alex’s live broadcast, the entire social network’s activity level dropped, let alone other live streaming platforms, traffic has dropped without exception!
And this is just a trial run.
You can imagine, this night, many people will have trouble sleeping.
The next day, countless music fans woke up with the remnants of their excitement from the virtual concert still lingering in their minds.
Especially the nearly ten million audience members who pretty much sang along from beginning to end, the feeling was incredibly strong!
After it ended, they continued to chat online till late, not satisfied with simply pushing the related keywords to the top of the trending list, they keep at it until the gap with the second place widened by dozens of times, and only then did they ease up a bit.
On Saturday morning, many people, still a bit drowsy, reopened Spiritual Rhinoceros to check the hot list again, curious if they missed any details from the concert.
Then they were surprised to see, the top spot on the hot list had changed!
Last night the netizens all thought that this topic could occupy the trending list for an entire day, but they didn’t expect it to be ousted so quickly.
And it was pushed directly to the third place.
The first place on the trending list now was——#Obituary#
Second place was Lincoln· Martial Art Master?#
Although the second topic seemed very appealing, Camille Victoria clicked the first link, curious to see who had passed away.
Then, to her surprise, she found that the link had directed her to the official account of “Assassins’ Alliance”.
“What does this mean?”
Camille Victoria was a little confused, did any Cloud Dream employee pass away?
Clicking the video anxiously, she saw two familiar NPCs–Jenny and Johnny, sitting in a familiar broadcast studio.
“Welcome to the ‘Metropolitan News Special Bulletin – Obituary’.” Jenny took the initiative to speak.
“Welcome, Welcome!” It seemed that because they had returned to Metropolis and ended the Night City trip, Johnny’s mood had improved a lot.
Even though his spirits had significantly lifted, Johnny still looked serious, without any of his usual mischief making demeanor.
“Over the past week, we have witnessed an unprecedented brutal death event.”
“We express our deepest condolences to all the victims.”
“What?!” Camille Victoria became even more uneasy.
“Brutal death event? Not just one employee passing away? What the hell happened last night? Was the Cloud Dream headquarters attacked?”
In the special news segment, accompanied by the host’s voice, the scene changed to the Death Racing event in Night City.
“Last Sunday, Night City witnessed an unprecedented illegal underground car racing gathering. An incalculable number of modified cars converged here, openly racing on the public roads of Night City causing massive destruction!”
In the news broadcast, a splendid montage of the car racing event began to play.
A giant iron ball, swinging like a meteor hammer, was thrown out, directly making a car take off into the air, flipping and rolling off the track, affecting a large portion of the audience.
An iron spear, like a porcupine, constantly extending barbs from its body, instantly pierced through the protective plates of adjacent cars. Drivers and passengers were killed instantly, leading to a chain reaction pileup caused by the out of control cars.
A helicopter hovered low, showering the ground with a hail of bullets, but in a split second, was pierced with an iron spear, crashing onto the road, causing a massive explosion. The propeller detached and spun through the crowd…
A motorcyclist rider weaved through the cars laughing manically, throwing Molotov cocktails onto passing vehicles setting them on fire, only to be instantly incinerated himself by another car’s flamethrower…
Jenny’s calm and sorrowful voice echoed, “The illegal underground car race resulted in the deaths of over 1.8 million drivers and passengers, as well as 2.8 million innocent citizens of Night City who were just there to watch.”
“Is that all?’ At the same time Camille Victoria heaved a sigh of relief, she also found herself speechless.
All this mention about obituary and brutal deaths, she had thought that the Cloud Dream headquarters had been struck by lightning!
And this was it?
But Jenny’s voice hadn’t stopped. She continued, “This Monday, at the edge of Paradise, an island teeming with prehistoric creations was discovered. This should have been an astonishing miracle, but what followed was brutal death.”
The screen timely switched to a high octane montage of players fighting on the island.
This video was clearly well edited, scenes where players died due to mistakes or accidents were almost non-existent.
All it showed were unyieldingly courageous players, valiantly risking their lives in battle against enormous sea monsters.
Even the framing was very particular, giving it an epic feel.
“Countless fanatic explorers, driven by their intense curiosity, rushed towards the island without regard for their own safety. From the discovery of the island to stepping foot on it, more than 4.82 million explorers were lost to the sea, their bodies were never recovered!”
The screen then switched to the scene of the concert from last night.
“Last night, a large-scale riot erupted at the Night City Circular Concert Hall, even spreading to surrounding three-block areas, causing a massive incidence of casualties.”
The picture was of the concert hall’s fight scene.
Even a shot of the rock singer on the stage was specifically added.
“Preliminary statistics show that the casualties were as high as over 1.33 million.”
The screen then switched back to the studio. Jenny summed up, “In a week, casualty numbers exceeded 10 million!”
“Mountains of corpses! Piles of bones!” Johnny sorrowfully added.
But it’s a pity that the comments showed no mercy:
“Oh, is that it?”
“Boohoo, so many people died, so sad~ Boohoo~ Just Kidding!”
“Could there be a possibility, that these people died and then came back to life?”
On the program, Jenny finally reached the most important part, “To express our deepest condolences, for the following week, Metropolis and Night City will enter a memorial week: All of the city’s expenses will be discounted by 20%! For every 100 transactions, one will randomly be free of charge for one customer!”
“In addition, one [Chosen One] will be randomly selected. This lucky individual will receive 30% off on all products, massive gifts, installment benefits, inter-store discounts, cash back on positive reviews, souvenirs, coupons, discount vouchers, and other exclusive benefits!
And only one——
one [New World Travel Ticket]!”