"Today's livestream ends here, thank you, everyone."
At 11:30 PM, Wu Li finished his first livestream.
When he declared 'Who else but me?', skeptics and mockers had multiplied in the chat room, but Wu Li didn't care at all and continued streaming with an unchanged expression until he signed off.
"I've got the system, if I'm not awesome, who is?"
That was Wu Li's mindset. With such a Martial Arts System, it really was a case of 'Who else but me?'.
[Livestream ended, calculating...]
[Peak online viewership 823, converted to 823 Fan Value]
[Donations received during the livestream were 113.5 yuan, converted to 1135 yuan, withdrawable at any time]
Streaming for two hours and receiving over a hundred in donations was quite good for Wu Li's first livestream, but it didn't mean that he could take home the entire 113.5 yuan, because he hadn't signed a contract with the Mo Yin Platform yet, so the donations received during the livestream were split in a thirty-seven ratio, with seventy percent for the platform, and thirty percent for him.
Luckily, he had the system which let his income increase tenfold; making over a thousand in just two hours was the kind of treatment many top streamers received.
"Let's go, let's get some skewers, my treat!"
He had just withdrawn 1000 yuan to his bank account and Wu Li, in high spirits, grandly suggested going for skewers.
In Beichuan, going for skewers was an irresistible activity, and Chen Dong and Wang Xuecheng immediately agreed.
The trio left the dorm and headed towards the school gates.
Outside the west gate of Beichuan University, there was a famous food street filled with all sorts of vendors—grilled gluten, wolf tooth potatoes, stinky tofu, fried rice, fried noodles, spicy hot pot, barbeque... the street was jam-packed with stalls and teeming with people, almost all from Beichuan University. One could say that a single university supported an entire street.
Familiar with the place, the three of them headed straight for a barbecue joint—Old Wang's Barbecue.
This spot was quite famous throughout all of Beichuan University; many guys loved to eat here, not because of particularly exceptional taste but because the proprietress was notoriously 'tough'.
"Boss lady, you have customers!"
As soon as he entered, Chen Dong shouted loudly, he always came here for skewers and was already a regular.
"Here, here."
A woman in her early thirties, fair-skinned and smiling charmingly, came out. She was wearing a red sweater, her voluptuous figure swaying seductively.
"What would the handsome guys like to eat?" the boss lady asked with a soft, sweet voice like sugar sprinkled on osmanthus cake.
"Let's start with fifty skewers of kidney," Chen Dong boldly declared, after all, someone else was treating.
Wu Li didn't mind and continued to observe the enticing curve under the boss lady's tight jeans, acknowledging that she was a woman who knew how to use her assets.
"Boss lady, do you smell something?" Chen Dong sniffed.
The boss lady shook her head, "What smell?"
"Why does the air become sweet whenever you arrive?"
"Haha, just save your jokes," the proprietress laughed and scolded him.
After they placed their order, the boss lady walked back swaying from side to side, drawing the gaze of every guy eating skewers along the alley.
"Boss lady, take it easy, don't tire yourself out," Chen Dong shouted loudly.
The boss lady stopped, turned her head to give him a look filled with allure.
"Shh—"
The teenagers in their puberty just couldn't handle it; the temperature inside the barbecue place spiked several degrees.
"Boss lady, another ten skewers!"
"Over here too!"
"Me too!"
...
"You're really something," Wu Li commented as he watched Chen Dong.
Chewing on a skewer, Chen Dong didn't even look up, "What do you know? I'm helping the boss lady drum up business."
Wu Li shook his head and picked up a cup filled with beer, "Let's drink up!"
He was in a really good mood today.
Wang Xuecheng didn't say a word and just downed his drink in one go, while Chen Dong purposely waited for the boss lady to pass by before picking up his drink and shouting loudly, "Cheers!"
Wu Li facepalmed—this guy was hopeless...
The three of them continued eating and drinking until nearly 1 AM, finishing two cases of beer, with Wu Li himself downing eight bottles but looking unaffected.
Practicing martial arts doesn't mean you can't drink because sometimes you need to drink herbal wine for Body Training, so occasional drinking was fine as long as one didn't overindulge.
"What are you looking at?"
"What's it to you?"
These quintessential Beichuan-style phrases suddenly cut through the air, causing Wu Li to turn around. Two men at another barbecue stand were facing off.
"Try glancing over one more time?"
One of the men, bald and with tattoos on his neck and arms, pointed at the other's nose with reddening face, clearly drunk.
As the bald man's words fell, the five guys sitting behind him all stood up.
The man facing the bald guy appeared to be a student from Beichuan University. He wasn't expecting the other side to have so many people, and his expression turned frantic. Nevertheless, he wasn't alone; two women and another man stood up with him.
Due to the presence of the women, the male students didn't back down and gritted their teeth, "Let's try then!"
Rather than continue the stare down, the bald man immediately kicked the student in the stomach, sending him to the ground.
"Ah!" The two women behind screamed.
The other male student didn't hesitate and rushed forward to punch the bald man, shouting, "Damn you!"
"Wow, this guy's fierce," Wang Xuecheng remarked as the guy faced off against six men.
Expectedly, the male student was quickly knocked down too.
But the altercation wasn't over; perhaps it was due to their drunken state, but the bald man and his group of six started to beat the two fallen men.
"Stop, please stop!" one of the women cried out.
"We are from Beichuan University, help us!" the other woman quickly reacted, shouting loudly to the surroundings.
This commotion had attracted the attention of the entire street; there were many students still out eating late-night snacks at this hour, and they gathered around.
Since the bald man's group clearly wasn't from the university, the woman's shouts were effective, and soon a tall male student stepped forward, "Stop, what are you doing?"
"None of your business, get lost!" the bald man was undeterred by the students gathering around and cursed.
Despite his bluster, no one dared to approach him for a moment.
"I've already called the police!" a male student shouted from the crowd.
"Oi." The bald man rubbed his head and charged into the crowd, grabbing the guy who mentioned the police by his hair, dragging him out as others tried to intervene, but he knocked them down with kicks.
The boy was dragged out by his hair.
"Old Wu?"
In the crowd, both Chen Dong and Wang Xuecheng looked towards Wu Li.
Wu Li nodded.