75 Howard Berd Earns Money Through Speedreading (1/2)
Everyone was indignant about the fact that the Webnovel server had crashed. After all, most people wouldn't even think of downloading it first.
They vented their anger out on Twatter.
”@Webnovel, where are you?”
”@Webnovel has abandoned us!”
”I will kowtow and call @Webnovel grandpa three times if gets fixed within an hour!”
”An hour is too long, I want it to be a minute instead!”
In fact, so many people had twatted about this problem of theirs that the number one trending hashtag on the site was ”#WebnovelCrash”!
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A middle-aged man tapped his cellphone. A screen showed up, saying, ”You'e reached the end, but don't worry! A new chapter is coming soon.”
”What? That's it?” He complained as he walked away from his fridge. He had a pizza slice in his hand, munching it as he made his way back to the sofa.
His apartment was dark as the lights were off.
The middle-aged man stepped on something and yelled expletives.
After that, he stepped on things consecutively.It would be impossible to not to, though, as his room was an absolute mess.
When he finally got to the sofa, his feet were sore, wet, and sticky, all at the same time.
Despite this, the man didn't care at all. He relaxed on his sofa as he put the slice inside his mouth and bit a large portion off of it. He was used to his feet being in this state.
He resumed browsing his phone.
Even though it has only been a short time since he looked somewhere not dark, his pupils were already used to the darkness. As such, when he saw the phone, he instinctively covered his eyes.
This man was Howard Berd[1], the world's fastest speedreader.
With a speed of 25,000 words per minute, even Zhou Lei's new update of 430,000 words had only taken him 18 minutes.
With such an honorable accomplishment, no one would believe that the man that was blissfully eating a pizza slice while relaxing on his sofa with dirty feet was actually the famous Howard Berd.
He transformed into a bum when he accomplished such a feat at a young age. At that point, his life reached its peak.
Of course, what came after was the downfall. After spending so much of his youth on practicing his speedreading, he had forgotten to develop in other areas, resulting in him only having one notable skill. As such, there was no job suitable for him.
Speedreading became his career, but that too failed as the audience for speedreading was way smaller than he thought.
With the arrival of audio books, this audience reduced even more. Who wanted to read a book themselves if they could just listen to it being read to them?
With a measly income, he was destined to live his life this way until he died.
He went on Twatter to browse. However, his eyes squinted as he saw the top Trending hashtags.
1. #WebnovelCrash
2. #WebnovelHasAbandonedUs
3. #ILoveMyPizzaMonth
”Hmm?” Howard was slightly interested. He was familiar with this ”Webnovel” site. After all, this was the site where Conqueror of the Realms, his favorite novel, was being published.
Feeling confused, he looked at the 'twats' that had the hashtag included.
”#WebnovelCrash @Webnovel where are you???”
”@Webnovel when will I die? Is it before or after Webnovel finally recovers? #WebnovelCrash”.
”Eh, it crashed?” Howard was quite skeptical. However, since so many people were experiencing it, he had no choice but to believe that this was actually happening.
”Hmm...” He opened the app on his phone, and scrolled through the whole Conqueror of the Realms. He didn't find a problem at all.
”There's nothing wrong though...” Howard was a bit dumbfounded. There was nothing wrong with his Webnovel, but there were so many people testifying to the contrary. Which should he believe?
He decided to test it with another novel. He tapped on the explore button, but before the novels even displayed, he was greeted with a white screen with some small text.
[Error 500 - Site Crash