Chapter 260 - Good Friends Should Stay Together (1/2)

August 9th, Wednesday…

In the afternoon…

Pei Qian took two sips of cola after finishing the employee packed lunch delivered by Fish-Catching Take-Out. He felt very satisfied and lay motionless on the executive office chair for a while.

The Fish-Catching Take-Out was one of Pei Qian’s most satisfying services. Not only could it settle the meals of all employees perfectly, but it was also losing money steadily. It showed no signs of possible profits.

The only problem was that its development depended on that of the Fish-Catching Internet Cafes. It could only cater to the regions around the Fish-Catching Internet Cafes and thus could not expand in scale at a similar speed as the Upwind Courier stations.

However, Pei Qian was not anxious about that. As long as the Fish-Catching Internet Cafe 2.0 plan could commence quickly, the market for the Fish-Catching Take-Out would expand further; and the loss it suffered would also increase rapidly naturally. After eating and drinking to his heart’s content, Pei Qian closed the Repent and be Saved window on his computer.

He had suffered yet another tormenting morning, but he could almost see the light at the end of the tunnel.

Pei Qian was already very familiar with the ‘Pudu’ weapon. If he could persevere for around a week and clear the ending segments of the six realms of rebirth and existence, he could then consider himself as achieving a huge success.

Not only would he be free and did not have to open the game and suffer ever again, but that also meant that the game had finally reached the system’s requirements and could successfully be released.

When the sales of the game flopped and it caused the company to suffer a huge loss, the happy times could finally begin for Pei Qian!

Whenever he thought about that, Pei Qian could not stop a smile from creeping up his face.

He opened Aili Island and planned to watch a few random funny short videos while letting the food he had eaten digest.

First, he ignored the 99+ private messages that were urging him to upload another video.

Being a famous UP Master on a website like Aili Island was pretty troublesome. Every time he opened the web page, there would be tons of messages. Most of those were private messages that urged him to upload more videos.

Boss Pei had so much work to do every day. How could he find time to upload new videos daily?

Currently, Hardcore Reviews had been destroying digital products for the past dozens of videos. Even Pei Qian was a little bored of making the series. However, the viewers were not tired of that at all. Every time a new digital product was released, they would urge him to upload a video regarding that new product. They wanted Pei Qian to continue destroying this and that and were not tired of watching those videos at

all.

Furthermore, everyone had been having increasingly inflated expectations. Initially, the viewers were only asking him to destroy cell phones that cost around three to five thousand yuan, and yet they were now eyeing laptops and headphones that cost more than ten thousand yuan.

If not for the money he earned from Aili Island’s incentive plan, Pei Qian would have quit long ago! Pei Qian planned to destroy a new digital product every now and then once he saw a new release to maintain his popularity on the platform. That was especially so for the free products that Shenhua sent to him.

Anyways, when this cycle ended, the hundreds of thousands that he had lost would be enough for him to spend. There was no longer a need for him to upload those videos so painstakingly anymore. After that, Pei Qian watched Fei Huang Workspace’s new video—the fourth episode of A Day in a Great Inventor’s Life-at the electronics area of the website.

Fei Huang Workspace had been very consistent in their uploads. Although the video was evidently much longer than Boss Pei’s Daily Life, they still managed to upload a new episode weekly. That was considered relatively more hardworking as compared to other UP Masters in Aili Island.

After all, many UP Masters were part-time content creators while Fei Huang Workspace was a company that could work on the videos on a full-time basis. They had the manpower and money; thus, they could produce their videos even faster and upload them more frequently.

Pei Qian did not click on the video. The main reason was that he was afraid his heart could not handle it.

If the video series really managed to receive sponsored partnerships from some international huge brands someday, that was similar to the end of the world to Boss Pei. He could picture himself having to eat an immediate-release aspirin tablet before clicking into every episode. Moreover, Pei Qian did not have a good solution to stop them. Therefore, the only thing he could do was to bury his head into the sand and pretend as though he did not see anything.

Pei Qian looked at the updates section of the website to see if there were any new videos by the funny UP Masters that he had subscribed to.

Finally, Pei Qian looked at his favorite otoMAD area where video creators would parody or remix videos and audio clips that have been edited and re-arranged mainly for comical effect.

OtoMAD was the path to progress for the human population. However, Pei Qian noticed something different when he opened the otoMAD area this time.

There was a newcomer in the otoMAD all-stars!

He scanned through the titles of the recently uploaded otoMAD videos. It was clear to see who the new lucky fellow was.

<Zha Zhuti: Newest Update dat You Haf Never Played Before>

<Welcome Zha Zhuti into the otoMAD All-Stars Team>

<Zha Zhuti: Join Me in this Bloody Battle Song>

<Zha Zhuti’s Powerful Version: Sing With Me>

Pei Qian clicked on a few random videos and found the songs to be quite nice.

Moreover, the views for these videos were also pretty high. It should almost be confirmed that Zhang Zuting was officially a member of the otoMAD all-stars team.

The only uncertain thing was if there would be a video that exceeded three million views and sent him directly into the annual hall of fame for the otoMAD section.

Pei Qian was smiling happily. All of a sudden, he stopped smiling.

He opened the platform statistics for Bloody Battle Song: The Powerful Version and took a closer look.

After closer inspection, Pei Qian heaved a sigh of relief.

Huff…

Fortunately, there were no drastic changes to the statistics.

Although the statistics took a turn for the better, it was still far from the numbers needed to recover the production cost.