"Luck and endurance... is this a slapping contest?"
"Getting slapped in the game doesn't hurt. A butt-slapping contest? Sounds interesting!"
"I'm thinking of Egg-Crushing Master Chen Weiguo and that guy from Florida, and Egg-Crushing Grandmaster Long Chengfei. This is a competition made for them, right?"
"And now I'm reminded of that crazy 'childbirth experience'... unpleasant memories are flooding back."
"Dream-Building wouldn't do something so simply torturous, would they?"
"Anyway, Boss Xu, you're here. Why don't you and the streamer demonstrate it together?"
...
Seeing his affected manner, Xu Meng instinctively wanted to complain that he's doing livestreams, but doesn't have many fans, yet he's developed an idol complex.
But since he needed something from him, he wisely didn't bring it up.
"You have a hospital over there. Little Dream wants to help some of the patients inside. We're far away, so we wanted to ask you to talk to the hospital about doing a holographic renovation for the children's ward."
Xu Meng didn't mention the specific location or patients, only giving a general description of the matter.
"Oh, it's for Little Dream? Easy, leave it to me," Zhang Yang's attitude changed, and he immediately agreed.
Xu Meng shook his head speechlessly. "I'll give you the specific hospital name later. Try to get it done quickly."
"You keep streaming, I'm leaving now."
Xu Meng waved goodbye to the players at the scene and disappeared from everyone's sight.
So the surrounding netizens' attention once again focused on Young Master Zhang:
"Dude, you know Xu Meng?"
"So you're a big shot! My respects!"
"Xu Meng also said that the holographic equipment is made by your family? You're a rich second generation!"
"It's over, now he really has to go back and inherit the family business if he doesn't do well!"
...
Not only were the viewers in the livestream asking, but a crowd of passersby at the scene were also asking.
— Earlier, he and Xu Meng were sitting on a long chair, surrounded by a large group of fiery red flamingos, and the players had surrounded the flamingo flock in layers.
When Xu Meng was still there, although they were all eager to try, they at least maintained some distance.
But now that Xu Meng had disappeared, they all swarmed over, asking questions out of curiosity.
The moderator was still urging Zhang Yang in the livestream: "Streamer, quickly get everyone to follow you! So many people, what a great opportunity!"
But Zhang Yang's head was aching from the noise, so he closed his eyes and said directly:
"Forget it, let's end it here for today."
"I have some things to take care of, see you later!"
After speaking, he actually ended the stream and disappeared from the crowd.
Leaving only the viewers in the livestream, confused, typing strings of question marks and ellipses.
The moderator was especially devastated:
"I worry about you every day, a small streamer with no income, wondering how you'll survive. Turns out I'm the clown?"
But the viewers who simply came to join the fun had a better attitude.
Soon, they ran to other livestreams, spreading the news that Xu Meng had revealed, urging these people to find the [Fight Club] and challenge the [Deathmatch Arena] that Xu Meng had mentioned.
But the streamers weren't stupid either. As soon as they heard that they had to turn the haptic synchronization sensitivity of the suit to the highest level and compete in "endurance," they all started to back down.
— Just hearing the description of the event was already torturous enough.
...
Qi Huahua looked at the crowd of people who suddenly appeared in her livestream, telling her to participate in some [Fight Club] and [Deathmatch Arena], and saying things like "Cat is so cute, it would be nice to hear her cry."
She immediately felt that something was wrong.
After carefully understanding what was going on, she was extremely angry:
"No way! I can't play this at all!"
"You're going too far!"
"Other virtual idols are carefully cared for by their fans, held in their hands for fear of dropping them, and kept in their mouths for fear of melting them."
"You guys are only thinking about tormenting me every day!"
"Either making me go to a haunted house, or making me get beaten up!"
"Do you guys think this is reasonable?!"
The viewers quickly split into two factions—
One faction thought she should go to the haunted house.
The other faction thought she should challenge the [Deathmatch Arena].
This made Qi Huahua quite angry, and she performed a breakdown and ended the stream on the spot.
...
When she started streaming again, it was already the next morning, successfully avoiding the first wave of the [Deathmatch Arena] craze at midnight last night.
As soon as the fans entered the livestream, just as they were about to denounce her for skipping work and not streaming last night, they saw an unexpected scene—
Qi Huahua was unboxing something.
And looking at the outer packaging of the box, it was the holographic equipment that Dream-Building had just released yesterday!
"Wait, wait, wait! Didn't you fail to get one yesterday??"
"Qi Huahua, what exactly did you do last night when you didn't stream??"
"Electronic products lose half their value upon unboxing, you know that, right? I'll buy it from you at the original price today!"
...
Qi Huahua looked at the direction of the barrage becoming strange again, and had to pause her work to explain the source of the equipment first—
"You haven't forgotten that I'm the [Survival Master] of the [Global Survival Competition], right?"
"Later, Dream-Building contacted me and sent me a [Honorary Player] identity card."
"I think I was able to survive to the end of the Survival Competition entirely because the team members were strong and worked hard enough. I didn't contribute much effort myself, so I feel ashamed to receive this honor."
"But if you tell me to refuse it..."
"I really can't refuse."
"So I didn't tell everyone."
The newest novel is first published on !
"Now you can understand, right?"
"— Dream-Building seems to have given all [Honorary Players] a free holographic device."
"At least Heroic Sniper and Phantom Moon have also received text messages."
She was better off not explaining, the fans were even more upset!
"Didn't they say that the treatment for [Honorary Players] was a 20% discount on hardware purchases? How did it become a free gift??"
"Qi Huahua, you can't accept charity! Return it! Return it!"
Qi Huahua turned a deaf ear.
She just unboxed it with great interest, showing everyone the device.
The device in the box was very different from the one Xu Meng casually threw to Long Chengfei before—
It had a more exquisite shell and paint job, all the interfaces had dust plugs, and the manual, wires, bottled medium, and insurance policy were all neatly placed in the cushioning recesses.
Brand new, exquisite, it looked like high technology!
Qi Huahua picked it up carefully, fearing that an accident would damage it.
But seeing the insurance policy, she couldn't help but complain: "Why does Dream-Building buy insurance for players no matter what product it is??"
While complaining, she opened the manual.
But unexpectedly, the first page was neither a product introduction nor installation instructions, but two lines of large black characters—
[DO NOT OPEN THE BOTTLED MEDIUM!!!]
[DO NOT DRINK THE BOTTLED MEDIUM!!!]
Dream-Building used six exclamation marks to emphasize the importance of this matter.
"I can't understand..." Qi Huahua looked at the two enlarged and bolded warnings, her face full of confusion.
"This thing is 1200 yuan a bottle!"
"Would anyone really drink it as a beverage??"
She put down the manual and curiously took out the bottled medium.
The bottle was made of opaque black material.
For ease of installation, the bottle opening was also specially designed. As long as it was aligned with the interface and pressed and twisted, it could be connected to the holographic device.
But this design was clearly not for convenient drinking.
— On the contrary, it was very difficult to open!
"Ugh..." Qi Huahua was a little restless.
Of course, it wasn't because she had lived enough and wanted to open it and taste it.
But—
"If Dream-Building hadn't mentioned it, I wouldn't have realized that this thing was a liquid, but since Dream-Building mentioned it..."
"I suddenly really want to see what this liquid looks like!"
[Calm down!] The moderator hurriedly jumped out, sending two eye-catching messages—
[Before you do something irreversible and stupid, go take a look at Dream-Town first!]
"Dream-Town? What happened to Dream-Town?"
...
Qi Huahua wasn't the only one who was curious about the bottled medium.
Today was already the second day of delivery. With the strong warehousing and logistics support of Ocean Group, many users had already received their packages from the courier.
As a result, streamers from all walks of life were livestreaming unboxing, and players were also posting on social networks and game forums, sharing their joy.
After opening the box, the thing that made everyone the most curious was the bottled medium inside.
Even those who hadn't paid attention before had to realize it after seeing the eight large characters [DO NOT DRINK THE BOTTLED MEDIUM].
Everyone finally began to think—
What exactly is in the bottle?
Is it really harmless to the human body?
Should I wear a mask before starting the device?
Or... open the bottle and take a look?
...
Xu Meng sold a full 1 million of the first batch of devices.
Nearly half of them were delivered to users on the second day.
Such a large base determined that certain low-probability events would definitely occur—
[Brothers, I accidentally opened the bottled medium. A lot of the stuff inside sprayed out and turned me blue. I can't wash it off! Do I need to go to the hospital? Waiting online, it's quite urgent!]
