Chapter 31   - Very ordinary online neighbors.

Yu Yan had originally planned to go back to sleep, but what actually ended up happening was that he replayed the video several times and didn’t feel sleepy at all anymore.

He simply decided to just turn over and get out of bed. Yu Yan went downstairs, ate a nice breakfast, and then turned his computer on.

As soon as he turned QQ on, he heard a system notification.

[Tuantuan has invited you to join the StarTV Family]

With just a glance at the group chat name, he already knew what kind of group this was. Yu Yan didn’t think much about it and just directly accepted the invitation before he opened the next QQ message notification.

Tuantuan: I invited you into the wrong group chat. Don’t enter that group!

Yu Yan: …

Yu Yan: I’ve already joined.

He sent the reply, but it seemed like the other party hadn’t seen the message yet, because she didn’t respond.

The new group chat immediately flashed at the lower right-hand corner of the QQ app. Yu Yan moved his mouse and saw that there were 99+ notifications. He opened it, wanting to block the group, but found that the last message had been sent by an acquaintance. The message’s timestamp was a minute before he had joined the group.

It was unknown why QQ had done this crazy thing, but when a person joined a new group, they could actually see the group’s previous chat history.

laoshu: This is just the kind of route that other people take bei. In this situation, it’s quite possible that they could debut in the leading position tomorrow.

Yu Yan had an inexplicable intuitive feeling. He slid his mouse and scrolled up to read the chat history.

laoshu: What’s with this common practice now ? It’s whatever if female anchors flirt with their viewers every day, but now even male anchors have started selling rot to attract viewers? What, do they not want us old guys to live ?

laoshu: What other male anchor could it be? It’s the new one that fawns over his male boss every day .

laoshu: His stream is like a cult gathering of a bunch of women, all of whom are just shouting about some love. Disgusting.

Not many people livestreamed in the morning, so everyone was very free. Many anchors who were lurking on the group chat also suddenly responded. Although their words weren’t obviously as aggressive as laoshu’s, they all took part in the discussion, with the mentality of just joining in on the fun.

After all, a new anchor suddenly pumping out astonishing initial numbers made everyone feel an impending sense of crisis. To put it frankly, it was like having a common enemy.

As Yu Yan read to the end, laoshu sent another message.

laoshu: Tuantuan, are you deliberately trying to annoy us ?

Although Yu Yan never tried to cause trouble, he wasn’t a fool who would just stand by while being ridiculed.

yanxyan: There’s nothing great about your game ability, but your ability to privately gossip is quite ferocious.

laoshu: What do you mean?

yanxyan: Literally what I said.

laoshu: The fuck? Do you think that you’ve become a big anchor after relying on selling rot to gain followers? Do you think that winning against me once by sheer luck means that you’re completely unrivaled now?

yanxyyan: Completely unrivaled just because I won against you? You think too highly of yourself.

Lulu : Stop quarreling. Why do you keep trying to find faults within others? Do you have nothing else to do?

banana: laoshu, we’re all colleagues, don’t be aggressive. Yanxiaoyan, welcome to our group.

As soon as banana appeared, laoshu immediately shut up, and no one else in the group said anything.

Yu Yan scanned through the group’s member list. This group had 500 people and more than 400 people were currently online. From the group notes, it could be seen that almost all of them were StarTV anchors.

And impressively, the group leader’s name was: Administrator 03.

There were several group moderators. All of them seemed to be popular anchors from each StarTV category. The PUBG category moderator was banana and the entertainment category moderator was Tuantuan.

A chat box popped up.

[Tuantuan nudged you once]

Tuantuan: … Fuck. I meant to invite you into a smaller, private group. I didn’t expect to invite you to the wrong one.

Tuantuan: There are a lot of people in this group but they’re a mix of fishes and dragons. They don’t usually talk much, but when they do, it’s usually shit-talking about someone. If you don’t like it, just quit it.

Yu Yan: It’s okay.

Tuantuan: Don’t worry though, anchors who have been ridiculed in this group chat all end up popular later. You can just consider it as popular people attracting criticism .

Yu Yan: It’s really okay. You don’t need to comfort me, I just want to ask&#k2026;

Tuantuan: What?

Yu Yan: What does selling rot mean?

Tuantuan: … You’re already this gay but you’re asking me this? That’s just not right .

Yu Yan didn’t understand, so he ran to Baidu.

[Selling rot refers to creating ambiguous circumstances between men to hype up and cater to the audience.]

“&#k2026;”

Him? Sell rot? With whom??

Isn’t he a skills-based anchor??.” Yu Yan said, “We’re partners, we should trust each other.”

“You’re a hacker, I can’t trust you.” The person said, “If you feel uncomfortable, you can also point your gun at me, I don’t mind.”

At this moment, Yu Yan became a bit absent-minded—exactly who was the hacker here??

The two of them inexplicably entered the semi-final circle just in this manner.

Looking at the other side’s gun muzzle, Yu Yan said, “Not good. I have to finish him off before he enters the finals.”

As he finished saying that, he turned on the all voice channel mic and said, “I’ll go upstairs to search.”

“Oh, go ahead .”

Yu Yan went upstairs, reloading as he walked. He thought, you can’t blame me for this; hacking disturbs the fairness of the game, not killing him wouldn’t be good.

He went to the window and clearly saw the position of the person downstairs.

Suddenly, the other party stepped forward and entered the blindspot in his field of view. Yu Yan calculated the position in his mind, switched the game to first-person perspective, and directly jumped down from the window!

At the same time, a grenade was thrown through the window—the other party wanted to kill him!

Yu Yan didn’t hesitate any longer. He cleanly fired the gun and the other person immediately took out his gun and fired back. However, it took time to change back to a gun. After a few shots, Yu Yan had already taken his health bar down to zero.

“Fuck…” That person turned on his mic and said, “Your 8 yuan aimbot is pretty strong.”

“I’m not aimbotting.” Yu Yan said, “Bro, turn over a new leaf. Don’t run a cheat software anymore. You’ll be banned sooner or later. I see that your clothes are worth, if not 10,000 yuan, then at least thousands of yuan. Why bother?”

“… You’re not aimbotting?”

“En.”

“Then, I’m also not hacking.”

“…”

“…”

The two of them foolishly stared at each other for a very long time.

[Holy shit, did you guys see the kill notification that just appeared??]

[I thought that I read the ID wrong so I didn’t dare to make a peep this entire time.]

[How could you possibly mistake the name of such a big team??]

Yu Yan glanced at the barrage and recalled the other party’s ID.

It seemed to be… QM_qixian?

QM?

“Hey bro, why aren’t you talking now?” Before the person left the match, he asked Yu Yan, “Are you really not aimbotting? So strong? How about we add each other as friends and play duos?”

“… Okay.”

QM Gaming was one of the top three PUBG teams in China.

After finishing the match, they added each other as friends. Sure enough, the other party was one of QM Gaming’s starters, someone who had just participated in the international competition two months ago; he was quite famous. Now, like Yu Yan, he also livestreamed, but not on StarTV.

However, Yu Yan had stopped following PUBG competitions a long time ago. No matter how famous this person was, Yu Yan wouldn’t recognize him. He just regarded it as having a strong teammate. The two of them played duos until the afternoon and managed to win several matches in a row.

[What kind of luck does this anchor have? Drawing the side account of StarTV’s top female entertainment anchor during a lottery and also matching with a pro player in solos??]

[Hey, I’d rather see Boss 1. When will Boss 1 come today?]

[Is the person from before new? Boss 1 usually only comes to tryst with the anchor in the evenings.]

Tryst? What the hell?

Thinking of the new vocabulary that he had just learned before noon today, Yu Yan couldn’t help saying, “Don’t talk nonsense. 1 and I are not in the kind of relationship that you think we are.”

[Not in that kind of relationship? Then, what kind of relationship do you guys have?]

[Strong Big Boss x Pale and Tender Little Anchor. I can visualize a livestream play.]

[… Livestream play? I’ve been enlightened.]

“We are…” Yu Yan paused and then earnestly said, “Very ordinary online neighbors.”

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The author has something to say:

Giving myself an escape route

I don’t know if you can talk in all voice channel after turning into a lootbox. Let’s take it as you can .

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Juurensha: Ah, Yanyan learning so much new vocab hahaha

Divi: LMAO Yanyan is also being enlightened. Now he’s becoming more aware of his feelings huh? Coming into contact with pro players when your rank is high is quite normal in competitive games! Most of the time, they don’t offer to queue with you unless they’re bored I guess.

Noks: Yanyan finally knows about the ‘rot’ we all spread. Hahahhaha.

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