LIGHTNOVELSTORY chapter 98
98 The Other Party is Not Your Friend (1 / 2)
The squad that Fangzhou encountered were also broadcasters.
They had planned to go on a rampage, but their start was disastrous, getting wiped out by a single person, a humiliation to speak of.
At this moment, the live stream’s barrage mercilessly mocked them.
“Hahaha, that’s rough, but it seems like you lost to Fangzhou, your former big brother. No shame in losing to him.”
“I’m dying of laughter, holding a sniper rifle and still can’t beat the other guy, better go home and farm.”
“I’m switching to Fangzhou’s fan now, he’s just too cool! Bye-bye broadcaster, I’m off to watch his stream.”
With Fangzhou’s name out there, many viewers were excited, clamoring to go watch his stream.
Afterward, the number of viewers in the live stream room dropped by half, probably all running off to Ark’s channel.
Zhou Yongliang, infuriated, slammed the desk again, unable to hold back the profanities spilling from his mouth.
“Damn it! Ark, that has-been, how did he suddenly pop up again!”
In his view, stealing the spotlight was something Ark had done plenty of times before in the Star Guild. Whenever he went live, the popularity of other members in the guild would drop by half.
It left everyone seething yet unable to voice their anger, blaming Ark for stealing their thunder.
Unfortunately, they forgot that it was Ark who had bolstered the growth and development of the Star Guild.
It was his dazzling achievements that attracted so many talented hosts to stay.
A WeChat group call came through, from the hosts in his team just now.
They were all clamoring, “Bro Liang! Invite Ark into the team competition, beat the crap out of him, and see if he dares to crap on our heads again!”
“I’m so pissed, my live room’s viewers have all run off to Ark’s channel! What a vampire!”
“Same here, he’s just a washed-up host, and lately, he’s been busy filming that love reality show, hardly having time to touch a computer. I bet he’s gotten rusty!”
“Bro Liang, hurry and pull him in, I can’t swallow this insult!”
Zhou Yongliang is the boss of the Star Guild, the younger brother of Zhou Yongde. After graduating with nothing to do, he became one of his brother’s hosts.
He had long been irked by Ark.
Why should Ark receive the guild’s top-tier treatment, leaving everyone else in his dust?
Resources, traffic, exposure, everything was prioritized for Ark.
In his opinion, if it weren’t for the Star Guild constantly feeding resources to Ark, he would never have become such a hot host.
The other hosts in the guild had long been annoyed with him, enviously hating him behind his back, even secretly mocking him.
Fortunately, after Ark stopped broadcasting for a few months, his popularity plummeted, and his fans were completely divided up by the guild’s brothers.
Even if Ark wanted to make a comeback, without the guild’s resources, it would be difficult.
So Zhou Yongliang instigated his brother to cut Ark’s salary and throw him the worst contract, to cut him down to size.
But the guy simply threw in the towel and left the guild as soon as his contract ended.
Zhou Yongliang originally thought that leaving such a great guild as Star, Ark would gradually fade from public view.
But in recent days, he had gained some attention from a romance variety show, and as soon as he started broadcasting, he stole so much of his own popularity.
“Alright, then I’ll pull him in.”
Zhou Yongliang agreed without hesitation, ready to invite Ark into the team competition as soon as he finished this round.
“Up next, please tune in for ‘Hunting Ark Hour.'”
For the sake of the show, Zhou Yongliang even changed the name of the live room to this.
After all, it’s all about the traffic, why not take advantage of it, and later beat Ark until he calls out ‘daddy.’
On Ark’s side, after wiping out Zhou Yongliang’s team, he continued to survive with Mei Chuan Chuan until the end, even meeting up with two other teammates.
The four of them triumphed in the game, unscathed.
“Yes!! We won!”
Meikawa Chuan couldn’t contain her excitement, shouting with joy. Ark could almost picture her dancing around with glee.
98 The other party is not your friend (2 / 2)
Finally, there was time to glance at the live stream, and the number of online viewers was astonishing.
Hundreds of thousands?
It was just fifty or sixty thousand a moment ago, how did it increase so suddenly? Did the platform recommend us?
Ark cleared his throat and addressed the audience, “Welcome to the live stream, hit the follow button so you won’t get lost.”
Before joining the reality show, his follower count was around 400k. After the island segment ended, it skyrocketed to over 600k.
And now, it seemed to have gained another ten or twenty thousand in a short time.
Fans, of course, the more the merrier.
“The host is amazing! Took down a squad all by himself! And in such a high rank too!”
“Hahaha, how does it feel to beat your former underlings?”
“I came from Zhou Yongliang’s live stream. He’s over there smashing his desk in anger, so unstable, kind of scary. Ark’s stream is much better.”
After scanning through the barrage of comments, Ark realized that the team they had just defeated belonged to the Star Guild’s broadcasters.
His former colleagues.
However, Ark felt no emotional turmoil, instead, he found it quite ordinary.
He had seen through it all. So-called colleagues could share the good times but not the bad.
Back when he was in his prime, these broadcasters would clamor to team up with him for PK battles or play other entertainment games together.
In short, it was all about leeching off his popularity.
Later, when his star faded, not one of them reached out to him.
Even when Ark wanted their help for a PK match to regain some popularity, they made all sorts of excuses.
Or they would bluntly say that they were no longer in the same league and it wasn’t suitable to play together anymore.
Ark laughed it off at the time and simply blacklisted all of them, not sparing a single one.
He must have been really desperate to think of asking them for help.
It’s always easier to add icing to the cake than to send help in the snow.
Especially in the live streaming world where traffic is king. Speaking of true feelings is a loss; only popularity is the eternal topic.
Ark chuckled, replying to the comments one by one, except for those mentioning his former colleagues.
With so many eyes in the live stream, one wrong word could be taken out of context and used against him.
“Staying in Ark’s live stream, you won’t be taken advantage of, haha.”
Over there, Meikawa Kuchako had already started urging Ark to continue with the next game.
“Come on, start another round, the game is so much fun.”
Ark’s attention returned to the live stream, but he saw that someone had sent a game invitation.
‘Starchild-Xiaoliang invites you to join the Team Competitive Mode.’
He scoffed at this; wasn’t this the skinflint’s younger brother?
Always up early for profit, and even after leaving the guild, he still thought of fleecing something off him?
No way!
Ark unhesitatingly chose to reject and deleted him from his friends list, then continued the next game with Meikawa.
On the other end, Zhou Yongliang waited a long time, only to receive a rejection.
He held back his temper and continued to send out invitations, only to see a line appear on the screen.
‘The other party is not your friend and cannot be invited.’
Zhou Yongliang was so angry he smashed his mouse.
“Damn it! What’s he playing at! That cursed Ark!”
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