Chapter 68: The Beastmen Were All Stunned
Chapter 68: The Beastmen Were All Stunned
Chapter 68: Chapter 68: The Beastmen Were All Stunned
"SLURP... SLURP... I was drooling all over the floor, and you just up and left? That’s it? That’s all you’ve got?!"
"I’m ending the stream for today. See you all tomorrow~" Feng Si said with a smile, cutting the feed right when the audience’s craving for the pickled cabbage was at its peak. 𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝕨𝕖𝗯𝚗𝚘𝕧𝕖𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝕞
Looking down, Feng Si saw Mao Ge lying on the ground, his tail held low, his fluffy orange head bobbing as he licked the plate.
The little orange kitten ate with intense focus, and very cleanly. The pickled cabbage with minced meat had been devoured completely, without a single shred left. Only when the plate had been licked clean of all flavor did the little cat finally lift his head.
"Your little belly is as round as a ball. Let’s eat more tomorrow, okay?" Faced with the insatiable little cub, Feng Si took away the plate.
The little orange kitten looked on sadly and drew out his words in a wheedling tone, "Male beasts can eat a ton, Pretty Auntie! Please feed me another plate, meow~"
Between his words and the sight of his enormously round belly, Feng Si might have actually given in—if she hadn’t just fed him a plate of roasted meat right before the stream.
The little orange kitten looked up at Feng Si, trotted over, and rubbed his head against her leg, squeezing out an even more high-pitched whine, "Auntie~~"
Feng Si scooped Mao Ge up, then picked up the plates piled high with roasted and boiled meat and walked toward the table. "Alright, I’ll pack up the meat I cooked today for you to take home."
’I’ve studied a lot about raising cubs, you know. It’s true that male beast cubs eat a lot, but you still have to consider their clan. Mao Ge is a cub from the Cat Clan!’
’Just think about how much a modern cat eats in one sitting. For dinner, Mao Ge already ate a pound of meat, just as Mao Qiu instructed! I can’t just overfeed someone else’s cub!’
Feng Si put Mao Ge down beside her and used her communicator to ask Mao Qiu to come pick him up. Seeing the little orange kitten with his whiskers drooping, Feng Si added a portion of the leftover pickled cabbage with minced meat from the stream to the packed-up meat.
By the time Mao Qiu came up to get her ’product-hawking cub’, the little cat’s tail was already held high.
Mao Qiu took the two hundred coins Mao Ge had earned, plus the two plates of meat, feeling quite grateful. In the end, he insisted on helping Feng Si clean up the streaming room before finally saying goodbye and leaving with Mao Ge in his arms.
After returning the little cat to Mao Qiu, who had come to pick him up after his ’shift’, Feng Si turned and headed straight for her always-locked bedroom. Being away from her own cub for just an hour felt like a whole year.
She walked to the bedside and sat down, gently picking up the Incubator. She kissed the black, gold-patterned egg through the glass. "My sweet baby, did you miss Mommy~?"
Answering her was—
Total silence.
With a movement imperceptible to Feng Si’s eyes, the black, gold-patterned egg, half-buried in a pile of feathers, wobbled slightly in her direction.
Feng Si wasn’t disappointed by the egg’s lack of movement. After talking to her baby, she looked down and opened the back-end interface to check the data from her recent stream.
According to the data Yang Wen reported on the hired ’water army’, he had spent a total of two million coins across various cities to hire one hundred thousand of them. So, with a peak of 563,000 concurrent viewers by the time she ended the stream, the number of actual viewers was over four hundred thousand.
’About what I expected.’
The key to live streaming is traffic. Once the hype is built up, amidst all the other serious or bloody and violent streams, a channel like hers with over one hundred thousand viewers and ranked near the top was bound to attract a lot of people.
It’s just that at the beginning of the stream, the comments were quite harsh, but by the end, everyone was just begging for the product to be listed.
This streaming account, called ’Si Shi’, went from zero followers to 560,000, and the number was still climbing.
Feng Si looked down at the homepage on her light-brain, a smile playing on her lips.
’The stream went pretty well this time.’
She swiped her finger down the light screen, and an icon labeled ’Donation Stats’ appeared with a red dot.
Feng Si’s eyes lit up, and she immediately tapped on the donation stats.
In her streaming account for this session, the total gift revenue was one thousand two hundred green leaves!
The conversion rate for green leaves to coins is 100 to 1.
...That’s one hundred and twenty thousand coins!
"Hooray!" Feng Si cheered, hugging the light screen as she fell back onto the bed. In the warm yellow light of the bedside lamp, she looked at the donations she had received today, a wide grin spreading across her face.
’The donations are all mine. No need to share them with my partner, the City Lord.’
Suddenly, on the stream’s page on her light screen, a call from ’the City Lord’ flashed.
Feng Si froze for a moment.
’Speak of the devil. That old saying holds true even in the Beastman World.’ She sat up straight, afraid the City Lord’s voice would disturb her cub. She walked over to the armchair by the floor-to-ceiling window and sat down. She lowered the volume on her light-brain before finally accepting the call.
"Feng Si! I saw your stream just now. Thankfully, I was smart enough to entrust this matter to you, so that a delicious food like pickled cabbage wouldn’t be buried in Nantong City. You did a great job!"
Niu Ding’s excited voice rang out. He didn’t even give Feng Si a chance to speak, launching into a continuous stream of words:
"By the way, you have such a great dish with pickled cabbage and minced meat, why didn’t you make it for me to try beforehand? Now I’m already full, but I still feel hungry, and I’m desperately craving that pickled cabbage with stir-fried minced meat."
Feng Si deadpanned, "Oh? Don’t you have some pickled cabbage with you? Just have someone make it according to my instructions."
Hearing this, Niu Dou, who was beside Niu Ding, got up without waiting for his father’s order, pushed open the tent flap against the wind and snow, and ordered the servants to cook again.
They were currently on their way to Pantian City. As for why they were camping in the wild during a heavy snowstorm?
It was true that Niu Ding was the City Lord of Nantong City, but unfortunately, the closer they got to Pantian City, the higher the rank of each city’s lord compared to him.
If Niu Ding led his contingent into a city to rest, it would inevitably attract the attention of other city officials. Then he might be subjected to receptions and phony social obligations. That was the best-case scenario.
The worst-case scenario was being confined to an inn as if they were thieves, with their every move monitored. After all, they were all competitors. During the sensitive transition period for the New Beast King, a large contingent from another city entering town would naturally be met with suspicion.
Niu Ding considered himself a City Lord, no matter how minor, and he was unwilling to lose face by being confined. So, he chose to camp in the forest. Besides, they were thick-skinned. Snow up to their waists was nothing to them.
"Yang Wen told me before about getting online and paying people to watch your stream," Niu Ding said. "I was a little worried, but now that I’ve seen your stream, I don’t have to worry about the pickled cabbage anymore."
He thumped his chest heavily, the unease in his heart completely gone. He continued, "In a few days, never mind just Pantian City, Beastmen from all over the Southern Wilderness will be clamoring for pickled cabbage. I’m sure the Beast King will have heard of it by then. Then, when I present the pickled cabbage to him, it’ll be a sure thing!"
Feng Si’s mind suddenly zeroed in on two words. ’Networking! Coins!’
A smile appeared on Feng Si’s face again. She interrupted Niu Ding, who was still singing his own praises, "By the way, your timing is perfect."