Direct hit!
Squeak! Squeak!
The wild rat shrieked twice, struggling for a while in its agony beneath the flint edge before dying!
It actually hit!
[Whoa (,#ﾟДﾟ) !!!]
[Stonebreaker Wet Nurse gifted streamer Bank Card x2! —so cool!]
[Standing ovation, please!!]
[You Can Instakill Me with Seventeen Cards gifted streamer Rocket x3! —truly, like a demon lord descending from the skies, the greatest God amongst men, Old Kui is…]
[A Chad!]
[Chad!!!]
***
All at once, 'chad' and 'cool' live comments filled the screen of the livestream channel while gifts popped up one after another. It must be said that everyone had been stunned by Wang Kui's strike, forgetting that they had lost their bet on the fishball tray.
A single spear thrown from three meters away had found its target, directly killing it!
It was too cool!
"Settle down! Haha, thank you everyone for your support, and I'll be taking your fishballs. Allow me to show my hand here: I have betted everything on 'yes'!"
Wang Kui picked up his camera to brag to his viewers as he concluded the bets, earning dozens of thousands at once.
Comments that read 'Disgusting' hence began to pour over his screen.
Naturally, that was merely banter—the latest version update of Tigerfish had made fishballs free. It was only used for minigames, improving trending rates, as well as providing entertainment.
Zhang Kai stared in shock at the scores of live comments and gifts that almost made his stream lag, and his mouth hung so wide open that an egg could be stuffed inside.
This streamer was quite something!
A newbie having so many active viewers in his channel!
He would make a fortune if he could rein that newbie in!
Hence, Zhang Kai promptly gifted a Rocket and asked: [Streamer, are you interested in signing up to a guild?]
However, no one expected that Wang Kui had left to check on the rat after settling the fishball business.
Since he had already mentioned a few times on his channel that the outdoors was far less convenient than indoors and that his camera screen and smartwatch were too small and he had much to do, he had apologized beforehand in case he would not be able to respond to everyone. In fact, some of his viewers would help him thank anyone who had sent him gifts.
Still, the gift would basically be given freely if the intended effect was not achieved.
Getting anxious, Zhang Kai typed: [Is this streamer that grand?]
Seventeen Cards, who had kept quiet until then, finally could not resist retorting: [Could you not try making your presence known here, guild account?]
[What do you care? Is a measly Duke account of any importance in this day and age?]
The other viewers soon realized that the two big shots were fighting!
Aside from those who were there for the liveliness, most of the other viewers were backing Seventeen Cards since he was one of the few who had supported Old Kui from the start.
Nonetheless, Seventeen Cards did not reply for dozens of seconds.
Everyone then saw that his username, which was listed amongst the Dukes online in the livestream channel, was gone.
Was he backing off?
Was he running away?!
[Trash!]
Zhang Kai coldly mocked with another live comment, but it had only managed to float halfway through the screen when dazzling special effects drowned it out, and someone new entered:
[Welcome to the livestream channel, Emperor CE]
[CE has gifted streamer Super Rocket x10! —indeed, there is nothing to show off about being a Duke since it's just a subaccount. However, I just can't stand that attitude of guilds like yours!]
The special effects of the ten Super Rockets filled the entire livestream screen right then.
Oh, my God!
So, Seventeen Cards was CE's subaccount!
In Tigerfish, streamers who often looked into the outdoors genre knew that CE was a public figure who was very popular amongst all top outdoor streamers. He had offered several hundred thousand dollars worth of gifts in the annual Tigerfish festival last year, and he was a genuine mysterious big shot!
It was little wonder as to why Seventeen Cards would open a Duke account just to visit Old Kui's livestream channel—he would not be bothered by that amount of spare change at all!
In response, Zhang Kai was initially taken aback. He was soon left fuming, but he eventually ended up helpless.
Not only was his own Emperor's account left with only a few thousand shark fins, but he was also not allowed to spend it on a whim even if there were dozens of thousands of those. In the end, the account belonged to the Emperor, and every form of expense had to be applied for.
[Hahaha! That fake emperor is running!]
[It's just a business account, and the dividends of a guild are very low anyway. Old Kui is lucky not to buy into it!]
[Lol! It's not that Old Kui did not buy into it—he didn't see the man's message at all!]
[Where's Old Kui? Come back quick, you could earn ten thousand bucks in these dozens of seconds without doing a thing!]
***
Meanwhile, Wang Kui had just pulled out the spear and was about to demonstrate how to process the rat when he saw what had happened in his livestream channel.
Whoa!
Over nine hundred viewers now!
What happened?! Why was there a sudden rocketing of numbers?
His viewers soon informed him about what happened, and he said, "I see. Thanks for your support, CE, but don't worry—I won't join a guild!"
After all, while the livestream platform more or less treated all streamers equally, joining a guild meant becoming someone else's laborer.
When that happened, the livestream content, timetable, and streaming method of a streamer would all be constrained. Would they not be humiliating themselves for the netizens, then?
CE: [Just do your thing, Old Kui, and safety first. Don't mind the guilds—we are with you, and your popularity will definitely rise. When that happens, you can sign a direct contract with the platform!]
[Whoa! Is that big shot adopting Old Kui?!]
[New female romance novel: The Overbearing Chairman and the Huntsman—I Will Spoil My Man!]
[Wow! I am not reading anything else if you don't make the monthly leaderboards!]
[Old Kui does look handsome… and love should not be constrained by gender. By the way, I'm 18! Is that acceptable?]
[Bro, 18 as in age or…]
***
It was only natural that Wang Kui would be himself.
With such a powerful system in his possession, fame and fortune were only a matter of time. Why should he not live a little after being set free, or was he supposed to be constrained for the rest of his life!
What a shame, though!
He was just missing several dozen people from a thousand viewers, which would accomplish one of his mission objectives.
It was now past eight in the evening.
At this hour, most top streamers would be active. No matter how good Wang Kui's livestream content was, his minor fame meant that most who came to his channel would leave after claiming their stake from the treasure chests.
Still, he was not concerned, and instead, he took out the rat he had killed.
[Hmph! That d*mned rat is such bad luck! It lost me three thousand fishballs!]
[Are you really going to eat that, Old Kui?!]
[So disgusting! Put that thing away, Old Kui!]
[Sigh!]
Surprisingly, however, Wang Kui did not make a joke this time. Instead, he closed his eyes in front of the dead rat before opening them again. "We should show respect to any creatures we hunt, and we should kill them instead of torturing them. An excellent hunter should understand respect toward all life."
[It's so beautiful. And with those words, Old Kui tearfully bit two chunks out of the rat!]
[Wow, the rat is so delicious!]
Looking at the screen, Wang Kui smiled as he lifted his spear. "Wild rats are omnivores, and eating it raw will not do. If you eat anything you can reach, bacteria and parasites will easily grow inside your organs and intestines, and this will make you vulnerable to infectious diseases if not dealt with, causing death in serious cases."
"Everyone should also remember that the Black Death was a chronic rat plague, and until now, it remains in second place amongst infectious diseases that have caused most deaths!"