Cannon Fodder Genius Game Producer - Chapter 6

Chapter 6: The 6th Day of a Blockbuster

 

“Ah, this machine? Sorry, I have no intention of selling it.”

 

Streamers receive special notifications when they receive a ‘Super Rainbow Cannon.’ Although Pei Shu was currently updating the game package, he noticed the sudden prompt.

 

“Besides, there’s nothing special about this machine; it’s just that the release date was quite early…” Pei Shu explained unhurriedly to the audience in the live room, but all he received in return was a wave of wails.

 

Teacher Bu Shu, you don’t need to be so detailed with the characterization, really!

 

Ugh, when Teacher Bu Shu was preparing for the unboxing, the term ‘First Generation’ probably didn’t even exist yet, right? So when he unboxed it, he really would have felt it was just an ordinary first-gen GM4. This immersive 2013 unboxing is too detailed!

 

But he looks so real, like he truly doesn’t know about the First Generation Supreme Version…

 

If it didn’t look real, could it still be a 2013 unboxing?

 

Pei Shu looked carefully at the bullet chat: …?

 

Sorry, but he really didn’t know there was such a thing as a First Generation Supreme Complete Version.

 

Looking at the excited audience in the bullet chat, Pei Shu glanced at his own box serial number: 999.

 

Pei Shu’s live camera was set up quite close. When he picked up the box and the serial number 999 was revealed, another wave of ghostly wailing and howling swept through the live room’s bullet chat.

 

Crap, Serial Number 999 has appeared!!

 

So the First Generation GM4 Serial Number 999 is in Teacher Bu Shu’s hands!!!

 

For real?? It’s not a fake, is it??

 

If the First Generation GM4 Supreme Complete Version was a treasure worth collecting in the eyes of game console enthusiasts, then a First Generation GM4 with a special serial number was a gem that wealthy enthusiasts would search for frantically.

 

At this moment, on the TV screen connected to Pei Shu’s GM4, the console had finished its system update after booting up. The prompt for player registration popped up. Respected User NO.999, please register or log in to an existing GM platform account.

 

Gulp.

 

In that split second, many console enthusiast viewers in Pei Shu’s live room couldn’t help but swallow hard—damn, it’s the real deal!

 

The cardboard box could be faked, and the serial number on the console body could be faked, but the GM4’s unique online machine serial number could not be faked.

 

In an instant, the bullet chat in Pei Shu’s live room exploded.

 

‘Young Master Only Has Money,’ who had just dropped a ‘Super Rainbow Cannon’ a few minutes ago, dropped 10 more ‘Super Rainbow Cannons’ the very second the NO.999 serial number popped up on Pei Shu’s screen.

 

Ahhh, Teacher Bu Shu, look at me! Sell this first-gen machine to me! Sell it to me!

 

Teacher Bu Shu, name your price, any amount is fine!!!

 

In a certain villa district in Beijing

 

An eighteen or nineteen-year-old kid with a head of dyed green hair was streaming. He was the streamer Young Master Only Has Money who had been dropping a string of ‘Super Rainbow Cannons’ in Pei Shu’s room.

 

‘Young Master Only Has Money’s’ real name was Lin Shujun. Unfortunately, though his name sounded quite elegant, he had been a rebellious youth since childhood.

 

Luckily, his rebellion only manifested as a love for playing games, so his family didn’t restrict him much.

 

Lin Shujun was young; when the GM4 was released, he was only ten or so. Back then, he had no concept of the First Generation GM4. By the time he awakened his soul for console collecting, the First Generation GM4 had already become a scarce item in the console collection market.

 

Actually, they could be found, but they were mostly consoles that were 50% or 60% new and looked heavily battle-scarred. Even those in good condition were hard to find, let alone a machine like Pei Shu’s that had a special serial number and was nearly brand new.

 

Given Lin Shujun’s personality, even though his stream’s popularity was high, his broadcasts were always capricious and had no regular schedule. On a day like today, which was supposed to be a school day, he hadn’t planned on streaming. However, his classes were canceled unexpectedly in the afternoon, and since he didn’t have to go to school and was too lazy to go out, he started a surprise stream out of boredom.

 

Lin Shujun’s ‘Young Master Only Has Money’ account was a well-known ‘money-tosser’ player on the WG platform. His hobby was opening a stream when bored, randomly clicking into a live room, and tossing money if he found it interesting. If he found it very interesting, he would toss money like crazy.

 

Although many people mocked Lin Shujun’s ‘money-tossing’ behavior as stupid behind his back, for the WG platform and many streamers, winning Lin Shujun’s attention meant real silver and gold. The audience in Lin Shujun’s live room also enjoyed the pleasure of watching him toss money frantically.

 

Right now, in ‘Young Master Only Has Money’s’ live room, seeing him drop another string of ‘Super Rainbow Cannons,’ everyone was guessing after which cannon ‘Teacher Bu Shu’ would succumb.

 

Pei Shu was originally logging into his GM4 account while anticipating the performance of a certain old GM3 platform game after its port to the GM4. Suddenly, he heard the ‘boom boom boom’ of the Super Rainbow Cannon notification sound ringing continuously in his live room.

 

Pei Shu turned to glance at his live room screen, then shook his head with a chuckle: “Are kids nowadays really this rich?”

 

Pei Shu had specifically adjusted the camera angle to show at most the lower half of his face. At this moment, the corners of his mouth were slightly curled as if carrying a casual smile; clearly, he had not been overwhelmed by Lin Shujun’s Rainbow Cannon offensive.

 

Young Master Only Has Money: That’s right, this young master has plenty of money! I can drop many, many more Rainbow Cannons for you, as long as you are willing to sell this GM4 to me, Teacher Bu Shu!

 

Pei Shu narrowed his eyes, thinking that this kid’s family education method was really problematic: “Little friend, spend rationally. Watching a stream isn’t worth spending this much money.”

 

Pausing, Pei Shu said: “This GM4 has deep sentimental value to me personally; I won’t sell it. You can stop dropping your Rainbow Cannons. Also, you can give me your private account; after these Rainbow Cannons are cashed out, I will return the amount minus the platform’s cut to you. Throwing money at me is meaningless.”

 

“Of course, if you’re willing to continue contributing to the WG platform’s commission, then pretend I didn’t say anything.”

 

Lin Shujun originally thought Teacher Bu Shu was willing to pay attention to him because his Rainbow Cannon offensive was working, but instead, he was met with a wave of lecturing.

 

Heh, he didn’t believe anyone could resist a money offensive!

 

Just as Lin Shujun wanted to continue throwing money, two ‘Invincible Dazzling Rocket Launchers,’ each worth 10,000 RMB, were dropped into the live room.

 

The audience in the live room, which hadn’t even reached 1,000 people: ?

 

What’s the situation?

 

Is there an even more brainless money-tosser than ‘Young Master Only Has Money’?

 

Looking closely, the nickname was Teacher Bu Shu’s Little Sidekick.

 

A die-hard fan of Teacher Bu Shu? And even with a customized ID?

 

But in the next second, fans from back in the day remembered—wasn’t this the ID of the true fan who had to snatch the C-position every time Teacher Bu Shu appeared?

 

Ever since Teacher Bu Shu disappeared, this ID had disappeared with him. Yet today, when Teacher Bu Shu returned to the scene, this ID actually followed him immediately and dropped two rocket launchers worth 10,000 each without blinking.

 

Truly a die-hard fan!

 

While everyone was still marveling, another message popped up in the live room: Teacher Bu Shu’s Little Sidekick has sent an Invincible Dazzling Rocket Launcher for Teacher Bu Shu, ascending to the NO.1 spot on Teacher Bu Shu’s fan list!!!

 

Teacher Bu Shu’s Little Sidekick: Just learned how to send gifts. The first gift must, of course, be for my dear Teacher Bu Shu!

 

Teacher Bu Shu’s Little Sidekick: Finger heart. Teacher, Teacher, look at me. Other fans are so amazing, they give Teacher gifts to make deals, but I just want to be NO.1 on Teacher’s fan list so that Teacher can see me.

 

Because he had just dropped 30,000 worth of gifts, this ‘Teacher Bu Shu’s Little Sidekick’ had transformed into the most dazzling presence in the live room. Every bullet chat message he sent had eye-catching, boastful special effects.

 

Thus, the audience clearly saw these two messages that felt ‘off’ no matter how you looked at them.

 

Audience: ?

 

Audience: What’s going on? Why does this ‘Little Sidekick’ sound so ‘green tea’ (manipulative/pretentious)?

 

Pei Shu: …

 

Pei Shu, of course, also saw these dazzling bullet chats. He also knew exactly who was behind this account: This Li Chuyue, after a few years of not seeing him, what’s going on with him now?

 

Pei Shu: “…Enough. If you feel like you have too much money, you can transfer it directly to my card; that way there’s no middleman taking a cut.”

 

As soon as he finished speaking, a bank SMS notification popped up on his phone: Your account ending in 9293 has received a transfer of RMB 30,000.00 from Li Chuyue.

 

Teacher Bu Shu’s Little Sidekick: Transferred, transferred! Direct transfers are effective, but being NO.1 on Teacher Bu Shu’s fan list is also essential!

 

Pei Shu: … Tired. Whatever. (Exhausted smile.jpg).

 

Inside the Li Group, Li Chuyue sat behind his office desk, one hand propping up his chin, the other tapping on his phone, continuing his ‘green tea’ style comments.

 

Teacher Bu Shu’s Little Sidekick: Teacher said it well, Teacher is right, Teacher Bu Shu is the best!

 

Looking at Pei Shu on the screen, who had already turned away and was no longer paying attention to the bullet chat, Li Chuyue reached across the screen and gently touched the Pei Shu on the other side with his index finger.

 

From the accidental meeting the previous day to seeing Pei Shu’s long-lost account appear today, he finally confirmed, bit by bit, that his Xiao Shu was back…

 

Pei Shu hadn’t expected such a massive commotion from just a casual test stream. Because of the frantic spending by Lin Shujun and Li Chuyue, Pei Shu’s live room had once again made a name for itself across the entire WG platform.

 

Every ‘Super Rainbow Cannon’ and ‘Invincible Dazzling Rocket Launcher’ tossed would trigger a site-wide announcement and generate small treasure chests in the live room to attract viewers.

 

A small wave of the traffic originally drawn away by major top streamers returned to Pei Shu’s room. Meanwhile, the dozen or so top streamers who had just gone online were mostly like Lin Shujun—they hadn’t originally planned to stream, but had a sudden whim to go live.

 

The direct result was that these sudden streams didn’t really have a theme. After they went online and started streaming, many of them felt a bit of regret.

 

After all, as top streamers, though they had massive traffic, they actually cherished their reputations very much. The topics for each of their streams were very carefully chosen. Even if there were occasionally ‘sudden streams,’ they were usually planned out beforehand and weren’t truly random.

 

This time, driven by some unknown impulse, they had all started streaming together. Now, it was very awkward not to have a topic. Or rather, if there wasn’t a good topic, even if they were top-tier streamers, it could easily affect their reputation and the audience’s impression of them.

 

So, these streamers had a change of heart and, with one mind, began to do ‘room tours,’ which usually maximized stream effects.

 

Even the operations and management staff of the WG platform hadn’t expected the ‘room tour’ index to be so high this afternoon.

 

Usually, one or two top streamers doing a room tour would maximize effects.

 

But if so many top streamers did a room tour at the same time…

 

When these top streamers went online for their ‘sudden streams,’ the WG platform operations staff were already following them immediately to provide appropriate stream promotion.

 

Seeing so many room tours about to collide, the WG operations staff were about to urgently call the streamers’ assistants to see if they could stop some of them, or perhaps connect a few who were familiar with each other to form a team and play a round of “Super God.”

 

As it turned out, before the WG operations staff could make the calls, the live rooms of the top streamers underwent a new change.

 

Besides ‘Young Master Only Has Money,’ who had rushed to Teacher Bu Shu’s live room based on ‘fan intel’ as soon as he went online, these streamers preparing to do room tours either happened to see Teacher Bu Shu’s live room on the WG platform homepage TOP 5 carousel, or were drawn to the room by the sudden appearance of the ‘Invincible Dazzling Rocket Launcher’ treasure chests.

 

Thus, one, two, three, four…

 

The WG platform operations staff, who not long ago were lamenting that ‘Teacher Bu Shu’s’ luck wasn’t great, watched with wide eyes as more than a dozen top streamers—who had already absorbed 60% of the site’s current heat—swarmed into Teacher Bu Shu’s live room together.

 

Super Streamer ‘What Color is a Pigeon’ has entered your room.

 

Super Streamer ‘It’s Gun Gun Not a Panda’ has entered your room.

 

Super Streamer ‘A Salted Fish is Also a Fish’ has entered your room.

 

Super Streamer…

 

WG Operations Staff: ?

 

Audience who had just left Teacher Bu Shu’s room: ?

 

Audience in Teacher Bu Shu’s room: ?

 

Chen Xiaopang stared dumbfounded at the names popping up one after another in the live room, his heart shouting ‘Holy crap’ a dozen times.

 

He regretted it. Why did he just turn off his own stream?

 

He thought Teacher Bu Shu’s room was about to go cold, but it turned out the only thing that had gone cold was his own brain!

 

Seeing familiar names enter the room one by one, these super streamers also felt their hearts skip a beat: What should they do? If it were just one of them, a room tour giving a small streamer some heat would be fine. But now, with over a dozen WG top streamers gathered in one room, this room’s streamer would pull nearly 100% of the WG platform’s attention in the next second.

 

They had accidentally gathered together and joined forces to launch a new top streamer!

 

Anyone who knew the interests involved would have to praise them: “What good people!”

 

Though their hearts were filled with regret, they were already there.

 

‘A Salted Fish is Also a Fish’ had also started out by doing game hardware unboxing reviews on the WG platform. After resigning himself to fate, he joked with the audience in his own stream and repeated the name of Pei Shu’s live room.

 

Then he noticed Pei Shu’s ID.

 

“Aiya, Teacher Bu Shu?!”

 

‘A Salted Fish is Also a Fish’ was just regretting not knowing which newcomer he was giving heat to, but he immediately perked up upon seeing the Teacher Bu Shu ID.

 

The reason was simple: among those doing game hardware unboxing reviews these years, at least five or six out of ten had been influenced by Teacher Bu Shu.

 

After confirming Pei Shu’s identity, ‘A Salted Fish is Also a Fish’ also understood what meme this room was playing with.

 

“Is this time travel?”

 

Salted Fish looked at Pei Shu’s console, then learned from the bullet chat in Pei Shu’s live room that the console he was reviewing was actually a brand-new, just-opened GM4 First Generation Supreme Version.

 

Ah, damn!

 

Being able to watch Teacher Bu Shu review the GM4 First Generation Supreme Version unboxing—this wave of traffic was worth giving!

 

In Pei Shu’s live room, although the audience was buzzing for a while due to the appearance of these top-tier streamers, more people were still focused on the review Pei Shu was conducting.

 

Pei Shu was using a classic old game called “Sky Demon Thief” to compare the GM3 and GM4.

 

Before connecting to the GM4, Pei Shu had already shown the audience the ultimate graphic quality and game performance of “Sky Demon Thief” on the GM3. At this point, the graphic quality of the same game on the GM3 and GM4 was being presented intuitively through a before-and-after comparison.

 

Another top streamer who entered Pei Shu’s room, ‘Mad Rabbit,’ was also a classic game enthusiast. Classic old games like “Sky Demon Thief” had already been reviewed by countless people. He felt that while Pei Shu could rely on the gimmick of the First Generation Supreme Version to pique curiosity earlier, he didn’t think Teacher Bu Shu could bring any new ideas once he started testing “Sky Demon Thief.”

 

But just as he said this to the audience in his own live room, his bullet chat suddenly surged wildly. Looking up, he saw that the bullet chat in Pei Shu’s room had also started to become insanely dense.

 

What was going on?

 

What happened?