Chapter 600: Chapter 568: Lincoln and His Friends
It seed Cloud Dream was determined to make players spend an enriching, entertaining, and lively Monday.
By the afternoon, the schedules and match lineup for the [Qualification Battle] of [Card King] and [Mahjong God] were officially announced!
Now, only 3000 players remained in each competition, whether they were playing cards or mahjong, which were all multiplayer competitions.
Doing the math, [Card King] only has 1000 rounds of competition, while [Mahjong God] has even fewer, with only 750 rounds, which could easily be completed within a week.
The operation team of “Speed Chase” even had the ti to send questionnaires to all players, asking them which day they would prefer to compete.
Their aim was to accommodate the players who work or go to school during the day, and schedule their match during the evening.
However, because of the potential for donations during live-streaming, over 80% of the players hoped they could compete between the pri ti of 6 to 8 in the evening for higher rewards.
Of course, this was not feasible!
If all matches were scheduled at the sa ti, with hundreds of gas being live-stread concurrently, the players might not even know whom to watch.
By then, not only would the broadcasting effect be poor, but their earnings would also drastically decrease, and those with bad luck wouldn’t obtain any money at all.
This was obviously unsuitable.
So, the operation team decided to randomly arrange the matches first and then ask the players to confirm if they could make it on ti. If they couldn’t, they would explain their reasons and adjustnts would be made.
Of course, this wasn’t actually random. Matches directly colliding between popular players were intentionally separated.
It’s not like there was any foul play.
Taking into account that competing against popular players could bring more live-streaming revenue, many people were even willing to compete against them.
It’s not just the earnings. If they directly defeated a popular player, perhaps they could skyrocket to fa themselves!
When the match schedule was sent out, the players’ reaction proved this: many had to change matches due to ti constraints, but not a single player scheduled against a popular player requested any change of opponent.
Perhaps this is a unique feature of playing cards and mahjong. Regardless of the opponent’s previous record, before the ga starts, no one believes they will lose.
This is unlike competitions such as sprints, high jumps, and table tennis.
For those competitions, if competitors find out that their opponent is a world champion, they would definitely beg to change the opponent, as no one believes they could defeat the champion by a sudden burst of potential.
But playing cards or mahjong is different.
“Isn’t he just luckier than ?”
Even after the [Qualification Battle], changing the ga from a simple “chip count system” to a more fault-tolerant, technical “points system” couldn’t change their mindset.
What’s more interesting is that at the end of the competition announcent, Cloud Dream boldly reminded the audience in bold and enlarged font to “consu rationally.”
The influx of a large number of older users made Cloud Dream exercise caution in every detail.
Especially for those who have retired, their giving record is archived by Cloud Dream, doing ntal preparation for a full refund at any ti.
The netizens, while looking at the schedule and searching for the competition ti of popular players, were guessing how much inco they could bring to players by simultaneously conducting multiple matches.
…
Camille Victoria had just started broadcasting and hadn’t logged into the virtual world yet. Right now, she was looking into the competition schedule released by Cloud Dream using her tablet.
She was mainly looking for the match tis for two people –
One was the[Card Demon]Jennifer Zhang, a player she adored imnsely.
The other was her good friend Shuihua.
Yes, Shuihua had advanced successfully.
Moreover, surprisingly, without spending much ti on playing cards and live-streaming, Shuihua had beco a popular player with extrely high attention.
So clubs and brand businesses have approached her wanting to sign a contract, but all were rejected by her.
Because Shuihua felt that the third year in high school was already very hard, to spare ti for gas was not easy already, she didn’t have any energy to handle more things.
“It’s tomorrow evening…” Camille Victoria found the match ti for Jennifer Zhang. Thinking that she still had to wait another day, she was a bit disappointed.
Just as she was about to search for the timing of Shuihua’s ga, her phone suddenly rang.
While searching, Camille Victoria casually picked up her phone, glanced at the caller ID and her eyes widened, her energy levels imdiately spiked.
“Lincoln?!”
She didn’t pick up the phone imdiately, instead she hesitated if she should first block the live stream signal.
But she had already blurted out Lincoln’s na. If she were to stop the live broadcast now, wouldn’t that seem suspicious?
That would lend fuel to the rumors of them ‘having a thing’.
After a few seconds of hesitation, she decided to do nothing and just answered the call nervously on the live stream: “Hello?”
“Big Sis Camille Victoria?” Lincoln’s voice with a hint of laughter echoed from the phone.
“No, no, no!” Camille Victoria frantically denied, “I can’t accept that! Just call Camille Victoria, Camille Victoria will do…”
“Okay, Camille Victoria, good afternoon.” Lincoln instantly obliged.
“Good afternoon.” Camille Victoria breathed a sigh of relief, “What’s the matter?”
“Well, I was wondering if you were free tonight.”
“Huh? Tonight? To do what?”
——Camille Victoria got a little panicked, and the audience in the live room started frantically sending question marks.
But they all overthought.
“Tonight I plan to live-stream ‘Battlefield’. If you are free, you can join us.”
“Yes! I am free!” Camille Victoria imdiately agreed without thinking.
However, as soon as she spoke, she suddenly rembered sothing, “Wait… If it’s live streaming, I might have to check my contract. I think my contract does not allow to participate in live broadcast programs on other platforms…”
As she talked, she visibly beca disheartened, her voice full of regret.
However, Lincoln didn’t take it to heart at all: “No worries. If you’re willing to co, it’s fine. Leave everything else to . So, see you at 7 o’clock tonight?”
“Huh? Oh, alright!” Camille Victoria agreed, sowhat dazed.
“See you tonight.”
Before Camille Victoria could react, Lincoln abruptly ended the call with a click, leaving her staring blankly into the cara.
…
Next, Super Tomato also received a call.
The process was almost the sa, after Lincoln assured him that “the contract is not a problem, I’ll take care of it,” Super Tomato imdiately agreed.
The difference was: Super Tomato’s audience were just excited, shouting “add one more, add one more,” without making any weird joking comnts.
Then it was Yi’s turn.
Yi’s contract didn’t have any limitations, so he agreed without hesitation.
Yelang, who was broadcasting on the sa platform as Lincoln, was also invited to join.
When inviting him, Lincoln casually asked: “Considering cross-dressing? A submachine gun plus a sailor suit is a powerful fan magnet.”
“Ah?” a dumbfounded Yelang asked hesitantly, “Can I say no…?”
“Of course you can, I was just saying. Don’t take it to heart.” Lincoln hung up after saying that.
anwhile, in Yelang’s live broadcast room, the audience got excited:
“Good lord! Taking advantage of his position in front of hundreds of thousands of people!”
“What the heck! It’s just exposing XP!”
“Cross-dressing boss JK, so that’s Lincoln’s taste.”
“Hypothetically speaking, if I wore JK for an interview at Cloud Dream, would that increase the chance of success?”
…
Just as everyone was chattering, the room administrator suddenly jumped out, urgently questioning, “Wait! You guys are neglecting one thing!”
“That Lincoln is talking about cross-dressing in the virtual world! In ‘Battlefield’! Not in reality! So what does this suggest?”
Yelang was still confused: “What does it suggest?”
“Cross-dressing in the virtual world implies you get an additional virtual avatar! If you agree, you’ll have two characters in the virtual world! A unique trait amongst players!”
– Although Princess and Shuihua already have multiple characters, they wouldn’t admit it, so this statent isn’t technically wrong.
But as a well-known male strear, gaining a soft and cute JK girl as a virtual image, along with the title of “first multi-character ownership in a virtual world,” does it actually count as a good thing?
Yelang couldn’t decide.
All he knew was that Lincoln was too damn infuriating!
If he was given a chance to “choose a second virtual avatar,” he would have fought for it without thinking.
But Lincoln wouldn’t even allow him to choose…
Aggravating, isn’t it?
“Why not disgust him?” the room administrator suggested, “Reverse your makeup, display leg hair, a big beard, moles with hair growing out of them, expose a large stomach wearing a tiny sailor suit, and the mont you et, grab his arm and call him big brother!”
Upon imagining that scene, Yelang’s face scrunched: “It’s a good plan, but I don’t want to die yet, why don’t you do it?”
After all, Lincoln did ntion while inviting them, that if they had friends who wanted to join in, they were welco to co along too.
After all, Lincoln’s plan was to team up and compete in National War Mode that involves as many as 100 players, so having a few more players wouldn’t make a difference.
“I’ll do it then!” the room administrator boldly claid.
“Once the words are out?” Yelang’s mischief spirit was afla.
“Words are like arrows shot, they can’t be taken back!” the room administrator was resolute.
“Aweso!” The chat room’s audience were fired up!
…
After Lincoln contacted these familiar strears, he dialed Leander, who was the head of Cloud Dream Live Streaming, asking Leander to get in touch with Camille Victoria and Super Tomato’s live streaming platforms to discuss cross-platform interaction.
For the audience and strears, it was a sensitive matter that required caution. One careless step could lead to warnings, fines or even the banning of the live broadcast room.
But for Lincoln, it was really just a phone call.
He didn’t even need to make the call himself.
As expected, 15 minutes later, Leander called Lincoln back and reported that everything was settled.
There was no need to negotiate cooperation or sign agreents, and there were no fees involved. It was as if the restrictions had never existed.
Furthermore, those two live streaming platforms enthusiastically recomnded other strears from their own platforms, hoping they could join as well.
The reason was easy to understand, these top strears broadcasting with Lincoln could not be described as Lincoln piggybacking on their fa.
If anything, it might be the other way round.
Even though Lincoln didn’t stream often, the number of fans in his live broadcast room was no fewer than any other strear’s.
Since communication was completed, without further delay, Lincoln logged into his Spiritual Rhinoceros account and started to post the live streaming notice —
[Tonight at 7 PM, live streaming National War Mode, don’t miss it.]
He even altered his live broadcast room’s title to “Lincoln and His Little Pals”.
The mont this post was made, as expected it received continuous cheers from the players.
In fact, before the post went up, the player community was already buzzing.
After all, he wasn’t hiding anything and openly invited strears.
Whether it was Lincoln’s streaming or cross-platform interaction among top strears from different platforms, these were things that the players were interested in.
Now that both were happening simultaneously with the most attention-grabbing ‘Battlefield’ National War, it was undeniable this live stream would attract countless eyes on it!
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