Chapter 55 - On the Way (2/2)

Meng Fan’s drawing speed still wasn’t able to keep up with the number of people joining the line. At this rate, he would never finish.

“Uhm, everyone.”

Meng Fan thought about it and stood up to the spectators as well as the people in the queue. “It’s almost four, so it will probably take me until dark to finish caricatures for those currently in line. So please, if you’re not here already, don’t line up. Sorry about that.”

The crowd did not object to this.

Meng Fan flipped the “poster” over and wrote a sentence not accepting more customers. He thought about it again. In order to avoid those who had secretly snuck in and won’t admit it, he made a number system that he could tear down as a marker.

“Hey, handsome.”

Meng Fan waved at the Shi Zhan youth who had been enjoying himself unusually in the stream channel. “Can you help me distribute these numbers?”

“Of course.”

The Shi Zhan youth distributed the numbers quickly, around twenty-three slips and returned the rest to Meng Fan.

Meng Fan smiled at him. “You still want to watch?”

The Shi Zhan youth nodded. There wasn’t another performance that was this exciting, allowing him to interact with the netizens on stream but reported to the stream in real-time from the host’s location.

“Then I’ll draw one for you in a bit?”

“Really? Hehehe!”

Seeing Meng Fan nod, the Shi Zhan youth broke into a grin and stuck his face in front of the stream assistant. “I’m so jealous of those who didn’t come!”

Uniform characters spammed the live comments on the stream. “Get Lost!”

Although Meng Fan’s stream today wasn’t during his regular hours or during the golden hour—it had been irregularly long, with unique content. There was an adequate amount of online viewers that was steadily increasing. After Meng Fan finished the last drawing, the one for the Shi Zhan youth, his online viewers had reached 30,000. A new record!

As for total viewers, he had reached a whopping 82,000!

As time progressed, coupled with Meng Fan’s increased ‘validation’, the number of total viewers had far exceeded the ones online.

Also, the live audience had contributed a lot of experience.

Song Cheng is one of the most popular theme parks in Hua Xia, the highest single-day tourist count reaching 140,000. Despite tourist season still being months away, there was still a steady 20,000 visitors daily.

The cultural plaza was frequented by tourists as well, even if they were just passing by. At least half of the tourists who had passed through were able to see Meng Fan.

As long as they saw him, it counted for +1 views. If you had glanced at him; turned to look at something else, then turn back, then it would be two.

This calculation was similar to the algorithm of the webstream. Each time you entered the channel, it counted as one total view.

Adding the 82,000, his [Famous Streamer] progress had reached 235,000/1,000,000.

Based on these figures, Meng Fan had made the correct choice by moving his streaming platform outdoors.

Besides, he could also collect the points for [Group Photo Guru] while he was at it. Currently, he had already accumulated 50 photos.

With +1 charm and +1 smile appeal, Meng Fan was confident he could try smiling more in the future. Maybe he could smile his way into a relationship!

Logging out, Meng Fan faked the action of putting his stream assistant in his bag. He picked up his phone and thought for a moment. Opening the camera, he directed it towards a few girls standing to the side who were holding their caricatures and asked them for a group photo. They willingly complied.

Snap.

Meng Fan took a picture, and looked at the progress bar in his ‘mind’, confirming that multi-person photos would still only count as +1 experience.

It also established the fact that he only needed one unfamiliar face in each portrait for his progress to grow, so his progress wouldn’t freeze when encountering the same face.

After packing up, the Shu Zhan youth helped him return the stools to the site manager.

“Where are you going?” The Shi Zhan youth asked Meng Fan, starting a conversation. They walked to the gates of Song Cheng together. The Shi Zhan youth said, “I drove here, I’ll give you a ride.”

Meng Fan pointed to the bus station and said, “I won’t trouble you, I’ll just take the bus.”

“No worries, it’s on the way for me regardless wherever you go.”

He didn’t care for Meng Fan’s response as he began running towards the parking lot.

Meng Fan could only wait for him.

Not long after, a two-seater smart car pulled up next to him. The window rolled down revealing the Shi Zhan youths’ vibrant smile, inviting Meng Fan onto the bus.

“Uhm, maybe I should just take the bus.”