Chapter 174: 172, automated services? Is that even possible?
"Little anchor, why are you here?"
"We want Million Brother!"
"No Million Brother? Unfollowing immediately!"
"Why is it a female anchor? Am I that kind of vulgar person?"
"Beauty means nothing in the face of money!"
"I came to see Million Brother. Why is it a girl?"
"This is the first time I don't find Little Bear good-looking at all. I want to see Million Brother!"
"Just want to win the prize; nothing else matters!"
"I'm the recent 'Happy Life' prize winner! Thanks, Million Brother! Wishing Million Brother a successful rendezvous!"
"??????"
"Damn it! Show man!"
"I'm stunned!"
"How did something strange sneak in here?"
"Is Million Brother on a run? Rendezvous successful?"
Liu Hanyan glanced at the bullet screen, her face flushing red. She peeked at Luofeng and, noticing he was focused on driving, felt a little relieved.
"You darn viewers, you're really too much! Hurry up and say something nice, or my phone, which only has 98% battery left, will die... Oh, and then we'll have to say goodbye to the prize draw!"
Faced with Liu Hanyan's threat, if it had been Vouchers like before, the audience in the Live Streaming Room would have said, "Go ahead and log off, we don't care." But now? It was little pieces of paper worth 88,000. And the third round was for little pieces of paper worth 880,000? Who the hell could leave?
"Million Brother, are we doing the prize draw soon?" It was now 10:50, Liu Hanyan asked.
"Of course, we are. There's a service station just a short distance ahead! We'll rest for a bit, wait for the draw results, and then distribute the prizes!" Luofeng continued, "Sedans really are more comfortable! Driving Supercars on long trips makes my back ache!"
Hearing Luofeng's words, the audience in the Live Streaming Room thought he was making a suggestive comment.
"Hearing Million Brother complain about a sore back, I'm suddenly relieved. Please, let the little anchor keep driving."
"I'm inexplicably relieved. A sore back means no strenuous activities, right? Is the little anchor out of danger?"
"Supercars really are hard on the back..."
"I hope Million Brother drives for another hour and spares the little anchor."
"You guys are so naive. Ever heard of automated services? If Million Brother's back aches, he'll just opt for the automated service then."
"?????"
"Are you going to get on yourself? Or should I do it?"
"?????"
"Damn it, I'm floored. I still have homework to do."
"Little anchor, do you know about automation?"
"It's fine, just learn. It's very easy, just a bit... hot!"
"(⊙o⊙)… A bit hot? Is that really okay?"
Liu Hanyan also saw the various suggestive bullet screen comments. She tried hard not to think about them, thus avoiding the images forming in her mind. Right now, her resistance to Luofeng was, it could be said, very low. Or, to put it another way, Luofeng's attraction to her was even stronger.
After about fifteen minutes, they arrived at the service station. Luofeng asked, "Is the prize draw over yet?"
"Still a few more minutes," Liu Hanyan said.
"Perfect. Let's take a break, stretch our backs, that sort of thing. You drive the next leg. We'll wait for the third round of the draw!" Luofeng explained.
Soon, the results of the second round were out.
The first-prize winner was: [Blue Sky Bai Yun Little White Rabbit].
Luofeng announced with a smile, "Same old rules: only the first-place winner deserves to have their name read out. The others don't get that privilege. Just send over your account details!"
"[Blue Sky Bai Yun Little White Rabbit]: Spent 20,000, won 80,000. Satisfied!"
"I'm speechless! Even The bosses are trying to grab this chance?"
"Has anyone noticed the VIP seats?"
"270,000! I'm numb!"
"You're telling me everyone from Huya is here?"
"270,000 in the VIP seats! Going by a ratio of one VIP to four Xiao Bai, has this little anchor become a 'true million-viewer anchor'?"
"Don't worry, they're just here for the draw. They'll leave right after."
"So true!"
"After all, she's Little Bear Anchor, famous across the whole platform. Everyone knows her family's situation!"
"The next round is for little pieces of paper worth 880,000?"
"Calling dibs on first place!"
"Been watching live streams for three years, never topped up. Trying my luck today by recharging 200,000. Buying a shot at a dream, hoping for a windfall!"
"Good luck winning..."
"If I win first prize, what should I buy?"
"A house, of course!"
A flood of "buy a house" bullet screen comments filled the Live Streaming Room.
Watching the bustling Live Streaming Room, Liu Hanyan mused with a sigh, Have we broken Huya's record already?
An hour passed quickly. When they reached the next service station, neither of them needed to use the restroom as they had gone last time. Liu Hanyan just bought two bottles of water.
As it neared 12:00, the third round of the prize draw began.
The popularity in Liu Hanyan's Live Streaming Room exploded. The VIP seats, originally at 270,000, surged to 360,000.
Luofeng laughed. "Has every user on the entire platform come over?"
At this moment, the popularity value had reached 52 million, surpassing the viewership of the LOL Professional League Regular Season. They had secured the absolute top recommendation spot on the entire platform.
During this period, if not eighty percent of the platform's users, then at least fifty percent must have come over, right? That wouldn't be an exaggeration.
"Start the prize draw!" Luofeng ordered.
"Okay!" Liu Hanyan nodded. As a minor anchor, she was still very excited.
She had never imagined that she would reach such heights one day. Even in her wildest dreams, the most she'd ever fantasized about was receiving ten Treasure Maps as gifts.
It seemed poverty truly had limited her imagination. That explained the Gold pole meme.
To Luofeng, a Prize Draw Event like this, costing a mere two million, was trivial. His passive income from the Jump Money Card alone was more than that, wasn't it? One yuan per second amounted to about 2.59 million a month. More crucially, Luofeng was constantly analyzing Liu Hanyan's list of desires... her Good Feeling Degree towards him kept rising. Of course, along the way, he had inevitably fulfilled several of her wishes, such as 'Could my popularity break ten million today?' or 'Can the VIP seats break 100,000?' These were thoughts she harbored. With her Good Feeling Degree having increased so much, Luofeng felt Liu Hanyan had a good chance of helping him obtain the 'Billion descendants have no return period' reward. If he got it, that would be tens of millions! No! Luofeng believed in his own extraordinary talents. What if it was even more? After all, it was calculated based on the number of descendants.
...
Once the third round of the prize draw began, the special effects from Glow stick gifts almost completely covered the Live Streaming Room, and her popularity surged once more.
Tipping Glow sticks corresponded to the fourth prize; these were gifts people casually sent to try their luck, costing almost nothing.
A five bucks gift corresponded to the third prize, and an eighteen-yuan gift to the first prize, and so on.
"How many people are in the Live Streaming Room now?" Luofeng asked.
"Almost 470,000 in the VIP seats!" the little anchor said.
"And the popularity value?" Luofeng asked again.
"Around 98 million... It's about to break a hundred million!" Liu Hanyan pursed her lips, incredibly excited.
"How much longer until it ends?"
"About six minutes," Liu Hanyan said. "The popularity should break a hundred million. The Heat for the prize draw is very high right now."
Luofeng smiled. "After all, the first prize is 880,000 of those universally loved little pieces of paper! It's normal for people to be enthusiastic—I like them too. It's just that 880,000 is a bit too little."
Liu Hanyan rolled her eyes at Luofeng but said nothing.
"Damn it! 'I like them too? It's just that 880,000 is too little?'"
"I'm speechless!"
"What's he trying to say? That a tycoon like him isn't interested? And here we are, fighting tooth and nail for it?"
"I remember someone else saying something similar: 'I'm not interested in money; I've never even touched it!'"
"'The happiest time of my life was when I earned 91 yuan a month.'"
Liu Hanyan deliberately read out the bullet screen comments, "Million Brother, the audience says Mr. Ma claims he doesn't like money."
Luofeng said, "If I were the richest man in the world, I wouldn't like money either."
Gradually, however, only the last five minutes of the third round of the prize draw remained.
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