Vroom!
It was the sound of the hard drive disk spinning.
The power supply connected, and his PC swiftly booted.
He had an i9-7980XE CPU, a GTX 1080 TI graphics card, and those paired with his wicked 128 GB storage, Lin Ye's PC boot speed was around five to six seconds. According to the popup on the bottom right of his screen from QQ Security Manager, his boot speed was faster than 99% of the users in China so he received the title of 'Five Star God-like Machine'.
"I knew I spent that eighty thousand yuan in the right place…" Lin Ye exclaimed as he clicked open his Steam client and his Xunyou International Gaming Accelerator. Then, he prepared to get into the game and start his PUBG adventure.
"Ding!"
"Published side mission: Turn on the live stream, finish a game, and secure the chicken dinner."
"Mission reward: Receive a random Demon King Talent."
"Mission punishment: None."
Lin Ye was surprised by what he heard. He didn't think that the System would post a side mission before he even got into the game.
"Turn on the stream, finish a game, and secure the chicken dinner…"
This side mission was not challenging for Lin Ye. After all, he was already a streamer on the Douyu streaming platform, but he took too many breaks and rarely streamed.
"Host, please turn on your live stream and complete the side mission," the System urged.
Lin Ye frowned and snorted coldly, "System, I am very disappointed in you."
Silence.
There wasn't a single sound in the room.
A few seconds later, the display on the screen suddenly changed; Lin Ye's Douyu stream immediately started. It looked like the System was clever and understood what he meant.
"Mmm, that's right. Watch yourself from now on; you're a system, so don't be as low level as an AI. Don't make me do everything myself, do you understand?" Lin Ye said in an indifferent tone.
The System did not reply.
It was silent, as it couldn't find any words to say. Lin Ye was definitely the most formidable host it ever had.
Other than his initial curiosity, Lin Ye was extremely calm when he faced the system. He understood that it was the Demon King System's luck to find a host as excellent as him, which was thanks to the accumulated good karma from its past life.
So, when the System was facing him, it should learn to be grateful.
Normally, Lin Ye's stream wasn't popular. His popularity points were normally between 20,000 and 30,000 when his stream was on, so he never even made it into the front page of the PUBG section.
[TL Note: That popularity point translates to about 500 to 1000 concurrent viewers.]
However, Lin Ye didn't care about that. His goal was to finish the System's side mission, so he didn't mind the popular points of the stream.
Once he turned on his stream, Lin Ye was done with the first step of the side mission. Now, he just needed to win a game and secure the chicken dinner to complete the mission and receive the reward.
PUBG was a battle royale type FPS game, and its nickname was "Chicken Dinner". Each round started off with 100 players parachuting off a plane. They would begin with nothing and must spread out around the island in order to find resources. They had to battle each other while escaping from the blue zone until an individual or a team was left.
That was where the phrase "'Winner Winner Chicken Dinner!" that was popular on the internet came from.
Lin Ye entered the game, and he selected solo mode and began queuing without hesitation.
The screen changed.
Ten seconds later, Lin Ye's character entered the spawn area.
It was a wilderness area south of the Sosnovka Military Base surrounded by greenery. There were many players punching each other on the side, but most players were quietly waiting for the plane to depart.
The countdown began.
5… 4… 3… 2… 1...
The countdown stopped, and the scenery changed.
The players all appeared on the plane that was taking off.
Boom!
Boom!
Boom!
The player-filled plane glided across the sky, making ear-piercing roars.
Lin Ye pressed the M key to look at the map. In this round, the plane was heading to the north from the south, starting from Sosnovka Military Base and ending at Severny. He could reach most resource points from the route.
After a moment of contemplation, Lin Ye placed a yellow marker at Prison on the map, just underneath a place that players like to call horseshoe mountain. It was further from the flight path and there shouldn't be many players landing there, so he could minimize the chances of dying on landing.
When the plane passed Farm, Lin Ye pressed the F key to eject himself and flew towards the direction of Prison.
When Lin Ye left the plane, he was about 1,100 meters away from Prison, so he must glide for a while in the sky before he could open his parachute and land.
As he was gliding, Lin Ye observed his surroundings. He saw that there were only seven or eight people heading towards Prison. Three of those eight headed downwards when they passed Shelter. Finally, only five other players headed towards the direction of horseshoe mountain with him.
Prison was just below horseshoe mountain, and it wasn't a popular landing site due to limited resources. Rarely did players choose this site.
However, as a result of a popular Dota streamer at Douyu named YYF landing at Prison every single game and battling other players at close-range, many players jumped onto the fad and started to land at Prison.
Five people, huh… Lin Ye contemplated. He controlled the parachute proficiently and landed at the door of an orange-roofed barn with accuracy.
Behind Lin Ye was a player with an afro. The Afro guy was slow and only landed when Lin Ye was already in the barn.
"Give me guns!"
Lin Ye roared. As soon as he ran into the barn, he picked up an AKM beside stacks of crates.
Landing on an AKM, this game was his!
When Lin Ye bowed down to pick up the gun and prepared to load rounds, a few bullet comments popped up on his stream.