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Chapter 491 - 474: Is There a Deeper Meaning?

Chapter 491: Chapter 474: Is There a Deeper Meaning?

At 10 a.m. the next morning,

Li Wenhao got up.

As a full-time live streamer, his daily routine was relatively healthy; he heated up some bread, made himself a cup of coffee with the coffee machine, looked out at the sunny window, and couldn’t help but sigh, "Ah, another beautiful day."

During this period, Li Wenhao’s streaming content was pretty relaxed, all about "Blood of Lies."

Having already gone through special training beforehand, he didn’t really have to suffer; he just needed to think about how to create a good show effect, which unexpectedly resulted in very positive feedback from his audience.

Looking at the backend data, whether it was this month’s viewership numbers, the heat of the live room, or the rate of gaining new fans, there was a significant increase compared to last month.

This made Li Wenhao very happy.

And it must be said, "Blood of Lies" was indeed a lasting game.

After completing the first round, then playing multiple rounds and different endings, now he was working on the God-making ending, and surprisingly, viewers didn’t seem to tire of it at all.

Moreover, after completing the God-making ending, there were still other content to stream.

For example, getting powerful weapons and forging stones by running maps from the beginning, strengthening them to a high level and then going to lower-level maps to mow down the grass, defeating bosses without taking damage, or playing the recently released all-random mod of "Blood of Lies"...

This was enough content for him to stream for another ten days or half a month.

By the time all of it was broadcasted, the fans attracted would most likely have converted, and then he could look for other games.

Simply perfect!

It had to be said, following Nitiandang meant there was meat to eat.

At the beginning, Li Wenhao was quite worried; could such pie-in-the-sky opportunities be traps? But in the end, he signed the agreement, and now, it turned out, this decision was more than correct.

Look at those streamers who had signed the agreement early, even the less-skilled ones had proven themselves in various ways and attracted much popularity.

Next time there’s such a good thing, he’d go for it too!

After finishing his bread, Li Wenhao happily sat down in front of his computer with his coffee.

He generally didn’t start streaming until after waking up from a nap at 2 p.m., continuing until night, so the morning to noon time was his rest period.

Mostly it was spent watching videos or thinking about the performance of that day’s live stream.

After casually browsing the news, Li Wenhao clicked on the "Blood of Lies" forum.

Lately, he had been spending a lot of time every day browsing the forum, keeping abreast of players’ opinions so he could better produce effects for his live broadcast.

However, today, as soon as he opened the forum page, his heart suddenly "thudded."

Even the hand holding the coffee started to tremble uncontrollably, nearly spilling coffee on the keyboard.

A hot post on the forum front page screamed out: "The biggest fraud event in the domestic gaming and streamer circle of the century!! It turns out streamers played ’Blood of Lies’ long ago!!"

Just seeing this title nearly gave Li Wenhao a heart attack.

It felt just like being caught by the headteacher while sneakily reading a novel at the back door during a high school evening self-study.

Was his cover blown??

He quickly clicked on the post to read, and what he saw nearly made him faint on the spot.

"Nitiandang’s part-timer is outrageous, last night they secretly used the official account to tweet, which was deleted in less than two minutes, but many people have taken screenshots.

"It’s no wonder those streamers self-certified so happily, it turns out they are the real deal! The problem isn’t with skill, but time! They had played and practiced the game before, and after the game launched, they pretended it was their first time seeing it!

"And clearly, this is a conspiracy between Nitiandang and the streamers, I’m not wrong in saying this is the biggest fraud event in the domestic gaming and streamer circle of this world, right? Even globally, this is quite explosive!"

The post had high activity, and there were constantly people commenting.

Some were questioning the authenticity of this event, while others were digging deeper, uncovering more clues.

Li Wenhao hurriedly looked at the screenshot of the "deleted tweet" in the post.

"Congratulations to ’Blood of Lies’ for breaking five million in sales! And thanks to all the streamer teachers and UP masters who participated in the early trial play and made significant contributions to promoting the game!"

This was the content of the tweet, and below was a table listing all the streamers and UP masters who participated in the early trial play.

Li Wenhao put down his coffee on the desk, completely stunned.

A bolt from the blue!!

Even though he knew that most teams in this world were haphazard, there had to be limits to such haphazard behavior!

At this point, no further explanation was needed, as Li Wenhao was rapidly piecing together the whole process in his mind.

Firstly, it was unknown whether it happened yesterday or the day before, but the sales of "Blood of Lies" had already surpassed five million copies.

Compared to those games with tens of millions of sales, this figure doesn’t seem too high, but for a challenging, action, Western Fantasy Cthulhu-themed game, this was indeed a remarkable achievement.

Moreover, the game’s follow-up popularity was still rising, and sales could continue to increase steadily.

Under these circumstances, posting a celebratory tweet was reasonable.

But unfortunately, who knows which Nitiandang part-timer had the audacity to draft such a tweet, openly thanking these streamers who participated in the early trials!

Brother, this was supposed to be highly confidential!

Though the tweet was deleted within two minutes, gamers are crafty; they had taken screenshots almost immediately.

By now, it was basically confirmed.

The only silver lining was that the Weibo post didn’t mention what the content of the game-testing event was, or the specific time it would be held, and other details.

But within that silver lining, there was misfortune—gamers could precisely locate them through the list of streamers and video creators!

If there wasn’t a list, the issue could have been easily played down, claiming that only a handful of streamers or video creators attended the game-testing event ahead of time, which wouldn’t be a significant concern for public opinion.

But once the list was out, gamers could pinpoint exactly who was involved.

Among them, Li Wenhao and Ning Meng caught the eyes of the players.

It was easy for players to identify their common trait:

They all picked up "Blood of Lies" unusually quickly, displaying a level of gaming proficiency that was out of character, especially in their handling of GP, which was absurdly fast—even a streamer with clumsy hands like Ning Meng was hailed as having an "Innate GP Holy Body";

Before the official release of "Blood of Lies," they had all participated in the outdoor event on Coconut Island sponsored by a sports drink brand.

Wasn’t the truth practically screaming to come out?

To say they hadn’t attended the event, one might have explained it away as them sneaking off to Nitiandang for a game test, but they had all participated, and the event continued right up until the release of "Blood of Lies."

What did that imply?

The only explanation was that they used the outdoor event as a cover while actually participating in the "Blood of Lies" game-testing.

In the meantime, they practiced their skills, honed their GP, and then deliberately made it seem like they picked up the game quickly and with ease upon its release, leading players to mistakenly believe the game was easy...

Unbelievable, truly unbelievable.

When this conclusion first emerged, many players exclaimed: It’s impossible, absolutely impossible! It was just too bizarre!

However, when all other possibilities have been ruled out, no matter how bizarre, the conclusion must be the truth.

Angry gamers instantly began denouncing Nitiandang and the streamers on the list.

Fraud! Deceiving our emotions! Causing us suffering!

And still putting on an act to clear your name? Good one, that’s shameless to the extreme!

Initially, most of the uproar targeted Nitiandang, but again, Nitiandang kept its head down like a shrinking turtle, unchanged. After playing dead, gamers found their energy wasted, as countless punches landed on cotton.

So what to do?

They could only target the streamers since the streamers couldn’t hide anywhere.

Suddenly, all the streamers chose to play dead and not broadcast, while the comment sections of the video creators’ channels had been overrun, and clicking on "Sort by Time" revealed a disastrous sight.

The followers they gained by self-vindicating had now all flipped sides.

Li Wenhao had no doubts that if netizens could vote to execute a streamer by firing squad, he probably would have been executed countless times in his sleep last night.

Of course, in this list, Li Wenhao wasn’t the most pitiful one. Big time streamers like Heilong, Instructor Ding, and Chen Tingquan were smeared left and right, and inadequate streamers like Ning Meng were battered black and blue.

In short, a comprehensive reckoning!

After closing the forum, Li Wenhao shakily clicked open his fan group and sure enough, saw the number 99+ in new messages, which looked alarmingly dangerous.

Not daring to look carefully, he quickly dismissed the little red notification—out of sight, out of mind.

"Could it be... that my career as a streamer is going to end here..."

Li Wenhao slumped in his chair, inexplicably feeling a sense of "A single slip could cause everlasting sorrow."

What should I do now!

"Seriously, what’s wrong with Nitiandang? Even a third-rate team has its limits, right? And if it’s just a temp staff making a post, where did they get the streamer list from? Don’t they even review the post with a supervisor?

"I’m so pissed off, such an blatant violation of the confidentiality agreement, isn’t there a penalty?

"Oh, it wasn’t written in the contract... Well, never mind then..."

Li Wenhao angrily dug out the contract, but upon closer inspection, he deflated— it only stipulated that streamers couldn’t leak information, but not that Nitiandang couldn’t.

At the time, none of the streamers raised objections, after all, who could have anticipated Nitiandang pulling such a disastrous stunt?

Now, these streamers were utterly powerless and could only silently endure the rage of the gamers.

But no matter what, Li Wenhao couldn’t understand—why would Nitiandang do this?

Although on the surface, it looked like a temp worker had caused the trouble, Li Wenhao always felt there was something eerie about it, as Nitiandang shouldn’t be this incompetent.

But if the leak wasn’t an accident, but intentional, what was Nitiandang’s goal?

Li Wenhao furrowed his brows, then suddenly, as if struck by an idea, he opened a document on his computer.

This was a small segment of plot analysis he had written before.

Li Wenhao was a streamer, not a video creator, so he didn’t make plot analysis videos. However, as a streamer, he needed to introduce some plot-related content to his viewers during the live streams, such as the purpose of this NPC, the number of different factions in the game, the background of certain items, etc.

Therefore, Li Wenhao had also arranged "Blood of Lies" storylines in order.

Just now, he had thought of a point, and upon revising his plot analysis, he strangely felt a sense of telepathy.

"Could it be... that there’s a deeper meaning behind this incident?"

Driven by a strong will to survive, Li Wenhao’s brain whirred into overdrive, starting to think deeply.

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