PUBG Online Romance of the Century

Chapter 43 - Achievement Unlocked

Edited by Divetus and Noks

Yu Yan breathed a heavy sigh of relief.

Fortunately, 1 hadn’t seen the spectacle of him hugging the toilet and throwing up.

When he thought of this, he couldn’t help being stunned again.

… He actually wasn’t a person who paid special attention to his image, ah?

If it wasn’t 1, then who had brought him to the hotel? And had even paid for everything.

Even after thinking about it for a long time, he still had no fruitful conclusions. He had also been kicked out of the class group chat, so he couldn’t ask them. He pondered for a bit before running to his Moments to make a rare post.

[Who sent me back to the hotel last night? Private message me, thank you!]

As he was returning home, he saw the several WeChat articles that 1 had sent. Inevitably, he had the illusion that he was talking with Yu Minyang.

He couldn’t resist and replied with several hahahahas.

1: What are you laughing at?

Yu Yan: You sending me those articles; it just made me feel particularly disturbed.

1: … I’ve read through all of them. All the methods are very useful. You can try them out if you feel uncomfortable.

He didn’t know why, but he just felt like 1 was replying much slower than usual. Maybe he had started to work ba.

Yu Yan replied with an “okay” just as the car suddenly stopped. The taxi driver turned around and said, “Here you are, young man.”

Yu Yan paid the fare, got out of the taxi, and then bought some hot and sour rice noodles before going upstairs.

The hotel’s food being expensive made sense, but the portion they served wasn’t enough, and the taste of the food wasn’t as good as these 12 yuan rice noodles from the store downstairs.

It was already 2:30 p.m. by the time he returned home. He turned on the computer but didn’t hurry to start streaming; instead, he opened his Weibo first.

His previous post of asking for leave had gained over 200 comments already. He ate his rice noodles, read the messages one by one, and picked out a few to reply to.

When it was 2:45 p.m, he tested his livestream equipment to make sure it worked, and was just about to start his stream when his QQ rang.

Tuantuan: Coming, little bro?

Yu Yan: … Coming.

Tuantuan: You only arrive when the livestream topics are blowing up on Weibo and Tieba. How much drama you’ve missed ya.

Yu Yan: Stuff about laoshu?

Tuantuan: How could he cause things to blow up with just his ability? There’s a new anchor named Hudy, have you heard of him ba?

Yu Yan replied that he knew of him. This Hudy was also a new person who had joined through the anchor sponsorship program; he had average numbers. When they had first started streaming, in terms of popularity, he hadn’t even been able to catch up to Yu Yan, let alone laoshu who sent out red envelopes everyday.

Tuantuan: In fact, Hudy was a small anchor that Sheepy recruited and was specially nurtured to take part in this anchor competition. But this man, Sheepy ba, is relatively more upright and honest; he’s not dirty like banana. He let Hudy compete using his own ability bei. As a result, Hudy recently found some people to investigate several of the IP addresses of the antis who were hanging around his stream. He found out that they were all ranked star donors from laoshu’s livestream. As he continued the investigation, he excavated all of the dirty things that laoshu had done, and also found some of banana’s and a few other anchors’ secrets… Now, it has already become a battle between all the big StarTV anchors.

Sheepy was another popular PUBG anchor. Yu Yan glanced over Tuantuan’s words and understood the whole situation.

Yu Yan: Has the platform gotten involved?

Since even real names had been reported, the StarTV staff would definitely step in to deal with the situation.

Tuan Tuan: It’s only been a night; the platform doesn’t respond that quickly. The staff also probably couldn’t have imagined that these two things would suddenly tear into each other ba. When you livestream, remember to be careful. Before the platform releases a notice, don’t carelessly say anything to avoid being dragged into the issue.

Yu Yan replied with an “okay” and directly started his livestream.

It was very reasonable for Tuantuan to specifically contact him to warn him. As soon as his livestream started, the names of the other anchors floated into the barrage.

[laoshu has fallen la, laoshu has fallen la. This is to everyone’s satisfaction!!]

[I watched the entire incident last night, and I reasonably suspect that Xiao Yan was also one of the victims related to it!]

[Are you guys crazy? How is it related to this anchor? Not only that, the platform hasn’t even announced anything yet. Troubling this vacationing anchor to not piggyback off this situation to get popular, okay?]

[Hahahahaha vacationing anchor, I screamed. See, if you don’t diligently livestream, you’ll get called out by antis ba.]

“I’ve withered away.” Yu Yan laughed and launched PUBG. “I’m sorry that I’m late today, but there was an unavoidable reason for it. At 3:15 p.m, I’ll start to draw prizes. I’ll draw them in batches, five 100 yuan red envelopes during each batch. It’s a bit poor, hope you guys don’t mind.”

[What was the unavoidable reason?]

“I overslept,” Yu Yan replied honestly.

[?]

[OK. You’re good-looking, you can do whatever you like. In this case, I’m not fucking willing to scold you.]

[Everyone, let’s not go too overboard ba. Before this, Xiao Yan streamed for 12 hours a day. That really uses up a lot of energy. Now, he only took three vacation days—you already took three vacation days this month?!!]

Yu Yan had already become highly skilled at holding back after he started livestreaming. No matter how much the barrage laughed at him, he looked as light as a cloud. He directly queued up for a solo match.

As he entered Manners Plaza, he also opened one of the WeChat articles that 1 had sent him. Following the recommendations stated in the article, he went onto Meituan to buy a mung bean dessert.

In his first match, he directly jumped to the boxing gym and quickly looked around after he landed.

The floor was completely bereft, without even a pistol in sight.

He took a few more steps. A quick glimpse made it apparent; surprisingly, there were no guns on this floor.

[Can’t find a gun in the boxing gym??]

[Too unlucky ba. Should just uninstall the game.]

Yu Yan was also somewhat surprised. The boxing gym was a very fat loot area in Miramar. It made no sense that the entire floor didn’t have a single gun.

“No, something’s wrong.” After two steps, he saw enemies who were also unarmed. He said, “I haven’t heard a single gunshot.”

He bent over to pick up the crossbow on the ground and loaded it with a bolt. He crouched somewhere else and finally confirmed. “This match loaded with a bug. Looks like this match… has no guns.”

The barrage immediately spammed a bunch of question marks, but Yu Yan was calm. This wasn’t the first time he had encountered this kind of situation; PUBG had too many bugs. Once, he had even gotten a match where only cars had spawned.

“I’ll show you guys some godly crossbow gameplay.” Yu Yan directly started a quiz game.

[Can get 5 kills] vs. [Can’t get 5 kills]

The quiz game interface popped up, and the barrage grew more lively.

[5 kills with bolts? Is the anchor toxic lololol.]

[I bet that you can. If there are no guns, crossbows are the most powerful weapon. Bros, bet with me!]

[Everyone don’t be fooled. That person must be a StarTV staff member! Crossbows are very hard to use, and bolts are limited. If the anchor can get out of the boxing gym alive, that’s already good. I’m betting that he can’t get 5 kills!]

With just a glance, Yu Yan saw a line of small white characters appear in the barrage assistant among the numerous other barrage messages.

[1 has entered the livestream.]

[Boss 1 is here!]

[Is the anchor going to play squads with the boss after this match? Are you short on teammates? Specifically, the undergraduate type?]

Yu Yan said, “1…”

Before he could finish speaking, another message popped into the barrage.

[1 has left the livestream.]

“?”

He shut up and continued playing.

The only thing that had spawned in the boxing gym was that crossbow that Yu Yan had picked up. He shot two arrows and directly knocked down the enemy closest to him. Then, he crouched down and finished him off with his fists.

[1 has entered the livestream.]

Yu Yan watched the barrage assistant for a few seconds. As expected, that text was closely followed by another line——

[1 has left the livestream.]

“….”

[??? What’s happening? At this rate, my computer is going to freeze from Boss’ entrance animation.]

[What, is this your guys’ kink or something?]

[In order to attract the anchor’s attention, Boss will really go to any length. It’s too sweet!]

Yu Yan looted the medicine from the enemy’s box and thought, “Maybe his internet is lagging?”

[1 has entered the livestream.]

StarTV didn’t have a system notification for ordinary viewers and stream followers entering or exiting a livestream. Only bosses who had gifted more than 2000 yuan to a stream would receive such treatment.

The stream viewers could only see this system notification of him entering and exiting the stream, unaware of that person’s inner turmoil.

Yi Chen opened the stream again. He hovered his mouse cursor over the red X for a long time, but in the end, abandoned the thought of leaving. He directly maximized the livestream window to full screen and continued to flip through the file in front of him.

He was only coming to watch the livestream; he wasn’t going to communicate or play any matches. Doing just this wouldn’t impact anything.

As he thought about this, he glanced up to look at the person on the screen.

There were no signs of fatigue from a hangover, but his eyes were a bit swollen. His inner double eyelids had temporarily become monolids, making him seem less gentle and more imposing than usual.

It was not like yesterday—where his eyes had been half narrowed, his cheeks and ears both red, and his whole appearance just looked too soft to be aggressive.

Many of the female viewers couldn’t help spamming him with gifts. Yi Chen looked at the gifter list in the lower left corner of the screen, gently rubbed his index finger against the file he was holding for a while, and then finally withdrew his gaze from the screen.

Yu Yan punched the person who had been knocked down to death, and quickly threw a glance at the barrage before asking, “No one went all in with their beans?”

“No one believes in me?”

“Believe, I believe!” A voice rang out from the livestream chat. “I believe in you, Xiao Yan. I went all in for the five kills bet. Go ah!”

Yi Ran couldn’t help but make an uproar when he entered the livestream.

Since 1 had also spoken in the livestream chat previously, no one was surprised by this situation.

“You actually went all in?” Yu Yan was stunned. “Man, I was just joking.”

“I really went all in. I bet all of the 20,000 beans I’ve saved this month.” Yi Ran wanted to cotton up to Yu Yan. This way, it’d be easier to interrogate him later without needing to cover up anything. “You’re my male god; I’ll definitely believe in you.”

Yu Yan replied, “… I’ll try my best.”

Because no guns had spawned in this match, many players had already directly quit the match. After he killed two people, the entire boxing gym was empty. There were also only 31 people left in the game.

At this moment, the quiz game’s bet bar at the bottom of the screen suddenly changed——

[Can get 5 kills] originally had only 30,000 starlight beans. This was an entire 4 million beans less than the [Can’t get 5 kills] side.

But in a flash, the bar dramatically surged and the [Can get 5 kills] directly became 5.7 million beans.

[???]

[Which boss placed such a heavy bet? Holy fuck.]

[Someone bet over 5 million beans at once?? I’ve been on StarTV for so long but I haven’t seen anyone who had so many beans. You can’t buy beans, so how many years would you have to save to reach that amount ah?]

[Could it be Boss 1? I heard that the system will give you a lot of starlight beans when you become a guardian tier gifter on the platform.]

[Holy shit. I’m going to follow this mysterious boss. He’s trying to make a fucking name for himself!]

Yu Yan ran out of crossbow bolts, so he used a machete to fight his enemies for a while. At last, he won the battle just as he was on his last sliver of health. He laid flat on the grass as he looted and casually glanced at the barrage.

As soon as he looked, he became shocked. “… Was this you guys?”

[Not us! It was Boss 1!!]

[It seems that a mysterious boss directly smashed in 5 million beans…]

Yu Yan quickly turned on his cellphone.

Yu Yan: Did you bet all those beans?

1: I’m at work.

Those words were an implicit denial.

Yu Yan breathed a sigh of relief. He thought that there was probably a bug in the livestream. 5 million beans ah, you could play a lot of quiz games with that. Besides, his livestream’s level was low, so his quiz game’s return rate wasn’t high. No one would be willing to bet so much here.

With this in mind, his heart slightly calmed down. He went back to the game and continued killing enemies.

Ten minutes later, he smashed the fifth enemy’s head with a frying pan, successfully killing five people.

He laughed and said, “I told you, you guys should’ve believed in me—”

Before he finished speaking, a transparent livestream announcement floated overhead.

[New Achievement Unlocked Announcement—— Congratulations to “1” for throwing 5.2 million starlight beans to participate in yanxyan’s livestream’s quiz game and winning. Successfully unlocked the mystery livestream achievement: “Risk everything in a single throw!”]

Yu Yan: “…”

Yi Chen: “…”

Sooner or later, this livestream platform’s trash system will be finished.

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The author has something to say:

Yi· so crazy that he even curses out his own company ·Chen

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Juurensha: Hahaha, this counts as distancing yourself, Boss Yi? Still seems the opposite….

Divi: You think you’re sneaky Boss Yi? Distancing yourself but coming on your main account??? I think you have a pit in your brain haha.

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