Chapter 12 (2/2)

The winter of this planet had been especially harsh for Xie Tao who did not possess the physical qualities that most other alien races had.

The other employees in the club were all still wearing thin clothes, it was only Xie Tao who needed to dress in thick winter clothes, with jacket and gloves. When the others had seen it for the first time, they had all showed surprise on their faces before changing to an expression of realization and pity…

After being separated from their equipment, human beings were very weak. Everyone in the club lamented over this, but they did not look down on Xie Tao. They knew that the reason that the club had started to make progress was all because of Xie Tao’s efforts.

Zarad watched Xie Tao put the Knox cub in his jacket as he was shooting. In order to not disturb the other’s work, he decided to wait until he was free to talk to the other about the Knox race. According to the current situation, there did not seem to be any trouble, so he didn’t feel that it was urgent.

Shooting and making promotional videos, did of course still acquirer some skill. Although their branch had undergone a big scale renovation, there were still many shortcomings in the specific facilities and compared with other Cub Raising branches, it looked very simple.

Xie Tao tried to select the angles that could highlight the branch’s advantages. In addition to the video clips that he filmed, he also took a couple of photos and selected a few of them before he uploaded it all to the connector and started editing it.

“Are we going to post it on Xingyou?” Walking over Xia Qi satisfyingly eyed the screen and asked this.

After making promotional videos or writing advertisement texts, most nursing clubs posted them Xingyou. It was the largest social networking platform in the interstellar and it was therefore also the most convenient way to promote their clubs.

Xie Tao nodded. He had already changed the username of his previously registered account to “Cub Raising Association – Yunbao Branch” and he had planned to later use this Xingyou account as the official account of their club.

Since it was a new account that no one paid attention to, Xie Tao didn’t expect it to bring a lot of customers by itself. So after releasing the promotional videos and some pictures, Xie Tao also posted them on the “Cub Raising Association” platform. It was an official account managed by the Star Alliance and it was responsible for publicity and promotion of all clubs belonging the Cub Raising Association.

Being on that platform should bring them a little more publicity. But as he wasn’t sure how much, Xie Tao decided that he was going to wait and see how much publicity it actually gave before deciding if they should spend money to further promote the club.

Promoting on the Xingyou was actually really similar to how one did it on Weibo. One could do like Xie Tao had just done, but one could also buy official promotion such as displaying ads or more indirectly promoting through search engine promotion, fan headline or fan tunnel. However, seeing as the price for it was a bit high, Xie Tao was a bit reluctant and hesitant, after all there were many other things the money could be spent on.

After releasing the promotion video, Xie Tao did not keep an eye on the activity and instead went back to the house to take care of the cubs. Xia Qi was, on the contrary, very nervous and after a while she snuck back to the office in order to check on the situation.

However, to her disappointment, it showed that their video had only been forwarded one time, and that was to that platform. The number of praises was also only about a dozen, to some it might still sound like a lot, but most of them were only friendly praises from other branches…

Xia Qi was inevitably a bit disappointed and embarrassed about her high expectations. When it was time for dinner, everyone could see that she was still a little downcast.

When Feng Wenxian asked about it, Xia Qi told him the reason and after saying it out loud she felt a little better.

It was in fact a very normal thing, both Xia Qi and Xie Tao knew this.

Xie Tao gave an almost unnoticeable sigh. Sure enough, the money couldn’t be saved… He knew this could happen and accepted it calmly. Tomorrow morning he would buy official promotion on Xingyou.

Zarad silently listened to his colleagues conversation and then in the evening, he took out his old communicator that he hadn’t used in a while. Frowning, he stared at it for a while before contacting someone he considered reliable.

Following the sleeping patterns of the military, Ron, who had just been promoted to Lieutenant General[2] of the Star Alliance, had already gone to bed. However not long after he fell asleep, he was awakened by a burst of sound. He was a little angry to be distributed, but when he saw the name shown on the communicator, that anger disappeared together with any sleepiness he had.

“Hey, where are you?! I know that you are upset about being unable to use your abilities, but you can’t just disappear like that, it’s been more than a month.” As he spoke, Ron dragged his hand through his messy bed hair. He had been worried for the other, Zarad helped him a lot and he was also the reason that he joined the military, he had always respected the latter.

“Even if you no longer have your ability, everyone in the military department still respects you greatly. Besides, its peaceful right now, there have been no major conflicts in years…. You have retired so give yourself some well deserved rest, just, please contact us once in a while…” In the end, as Ron rambled on, trying to comfort the other, he went from wanting him to return to trying to persuade him to at least show life signs every once in a while.

During their conversation, Zarad had stayed quiet and it was first when Ron finally started to calm down that he spoke: “My ability should be restored soon.”

He paused and then said: “I can’t explain why, but I need you to log onto your Xingyou account and go to the Cub Raising Association platform to forward a promotional video, the branch’s name is Yunbao. When you’re done, ask some of the brats to do the same, they will listen to you.”

Ron was a little overwhelmed by the amount of information in these three sentences. He was both very shocked and delighted by the first part, but the latter instructions puzzled him.

“Forwarding that promotional video, this is for…” He was about to inquire about it but got ruthlessly interrupted by the other.

“Just do it, okey?” Zarad felt a little guilty about how he treated the other, but he couldn’t exactly tell him that he currently was a gatekeeper at that branch…

Lieutenant General Ron reflexively shrunk his neck back at his harsh tone and said. “Forward, forward, forward, okey, I will forward it right away.”

After saying this, he found that the call had been cut off. A bit disgruntled, he put the communicator down, and then immediately went to do what he had promised.

Therefore, the next morning, Xingyou exploded with speculations.

“Looking at this, that nursing club called Yunbao must really be something special, right?! To be forwarded by a lieutenant general, a major general, and around three or four other military officers. This really is – —!!”

“I went to the Star Network to check, this nursing club is not in the top three in the interstellar ranking, I couldn’t even find it and I must have at least read down to the hundred spot.”

“I don’t know what’s going on, but this club’s backing seems a bit powerful.”

A large number of comments such as these suddenly appeared in the comment area below the promotional video, and the forwarding of the video had soared to several thousand in the morning, not to mention the countless praises flooding in.

Xia Qi had felt a bit reluctant about checking on Xingyou so early in the morning as she didn’t want to be disappointed again. But she had decided to lower her expectations and look anyway. The result was that she got completely stunned by the soaring data.

She must have stood in place and stared blankly at the screen for at least ten minutes before she could believe her own eyes.

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Translator’s note:

I love it when translators do this, so here is some pictures of the food Xie Tao cooked:

Sweet and sour pork tenderloin

Fried Shrimp

Sautéed Eggplant

[1] – To open a water source and reduce outflow is an idiom that means to increase income and save on spending / to broaden the sources of income and economize on expenditure.

[2] – Lieutenant General is one rank below General and one rank above Major General.