Translator: Dragon Boat Translation Editor: Dragon Boat Translation
The currency on 8th Station was asured by gourds. They were then divided into two types; the one received from monetary recharging was called golden gourds, currently at a ratio of 1000:1 to the actual HuaXia currency, HXB. Any other currency obtained were called silver gourds.
Both types of gourds can be used to purchase gifts for the strear, with the sa effect, they can allow strears to increase their points. The points are the basis for gaining popularity, as well as the foundation for various PK activities and events on the website. The only difference between the gifts purchased by golden gourds is that they can be converted into revenue for the strear and withdrawn as cash, while silver gourds cannot.
The gift points sent by golden gourds and silver gourds are the sa—1 HXB equaled 10 points—once the points accumulate, the strear’s level also rises, and the higher the level, the more privileges they can obtain.
UP1 required 0 points.
UP2 required 50 points.
UP3 required 200 points.
UP4 required 470 points.
UP5 required 920 points.
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UP10 required a total of 18,060 points.
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UP20 required a total of 602,810 points.
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UP30, required a total of 11,883,810 points.
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8th Station’s UP levels went up to 40, requiring a total of 147,013,810 points. If those points all ca from gifts bought with golden gourds, it would be equal to about 14.7 million HXB.
As for the inco made from gifts, 8th Station and the strear split it 50/50. Basically, if one’s UP level could reach 40, they would earn over 7 million HXB, before tax.
Of course, silver gourds are useful as well.
So far, only eight strears on 8th Station have reached the maximum level, with five currently awaiting to receive this reward.
There was a large variety of gifts to select from on 8th station, among them the most popular being ‘spicy dough sticks’ for 100 gourds, ‘cool’ popsicles for 200 gourds, a ‘flag’ emote, the emote ‘233’ for 233 gourds, ‘520 heart emoji’, ‘666’ emoji for 666 gourds, a frying pan for 1000 gourds, ‘Ice Cola’ emoji, 2000 gourd support towel, 3000 support glow stick; 5000 gourd butterfly cutie, 9999 gourd pangolin emote; 1000,000 money cherub, 450,000 gourd Center spot halo, ‘colorful gourd vines’ emote, and a 10.24 million for ‘laughing while enemies destroyed your ships’ emote.
Starting from 450,000 and above, each gift would trigger a pop-up ad and a lottery. This was the most lucrative way to milk followers.
When ng Fan used 8th Station before, he had whaled quite a large amount of money as well, hence why one mass text can attract loads of uncertain friends to support his channel, as many of them were strears themselves.
Before ng Fan lifted his pen to draw, his stream already had almost 100 people, and the value of their gifts totaling over 300,000 gourds. He had attained over 3000 points, and his UP level was raised to 6.
“Thank you, kind folks! I am in a studio, so I can’t talk, so stuff like showing my face, isn’t gonna happen today.”
ng Fan stuck a caption in his announcent bar and began to draw.
ng Fan had already drawn almost 70 illustrations for the novel “Floating Dream in a Millenium”, so most of the roles had already been established, and more than enough to et the required number of drafts for submission. All he needed to do was to adjust so components and add so details, and since these were original illustrations, it was not easy to reveal it to the public—Even though if he kept it to himself, nobody would really connect it to Xiao Ti’s work— Thus, he decided not to live stream the illustrations for the novel.
Characters, well-known ani characters; if he could speedily draw these popular characters, it would undoubtedly be the fastest way to retain his viewers.
Who to draw?
ng Fan’s mind suddenly produced several classic ‘high profile’ ani characters.
“Got it.”
ng Fan quickly extracted from his head the character he wanted to draw, as it was also soone he frequently drew.
“Not talking or showing your face, at least play so music for us!”
“ng Boss you’re like a sculpture, so stiff hahaha!”
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Only 100 people online, however, live comnts plastered the screen, mostly from his acquaintances, sending gifts and troll comnts.
There were also people who accidentally entered, curious as to what kind of a god this new strear was, for it was his first broadcast yet he received so many gifts.
“He’s starting to draw, not using a software or a tablet.”
“No Sh*t, how can soone use the software while broadcasting from their phone?”
“Holy cow, he is so fast!”
“This speed seed like he was randomly drawing, ng Boss are you playing us, are you really an art student?”
“Fatty ng really is from art school, so guys from our chatroom t him when they were visiting Hang Zhou.”
The people in the live comnts began to chat.
“There’s a profile, he’s not just randomly drawing!”
“This speed 666!”
“It’s a woman!”
“Long hair!”
“These eyes are too beautiful!”
“His drawing skill is great!”
“Features are visible, anyone knows who it is yet?”
“Is it an existing ani character or an OC ng Boss?”
“This facial structure, definitely a queen.”
“Her figure… Omg, nosebleed!”
“ng Boss, is it ok for you to start with such a loud bang?”
“She’s got a tough air to her, very domineering, she really looks like a queen!”
The atmosphere in the live comnts beca a TV show guessing ga.
“Military uniform!”
“Her hat!”
When ng Fan drew the “cross” onto her hat, most of the acquaintances in his stream had recognized who it was.
“AH AH AH It’s Esdeath! Really is an ice queen!”
“Add a kneeling general!”
“Please add sadistic pictures of the Queen being stepped on!”
“Add spikes!”
“Draw her being buried!”
“Draw her being greased!”
“Draw her with poisoned flowers!”
“Draw her on her knees being tortured!”
“Draw her being burned!”
“Draw her being boiled!”
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With the sudden change of style, the comnt section beca a torture thod generator for the ani character ‘Esdeath’ from the show “Aka Ga Kill.”
ng Fan continued to draw, perfecting her uniform, belt, stockings and the lines of the breasts… Then in the background, he added an ice-capped mountain releasing the ice demon extract.
Ti to add color.
Bluish silver long hair, frost blue eyelids, pure white military general uniform, black belt, and a light blue icy mountain…
Promptly, a domineering, heart wrenching sadistic queen was completed.
After finishing, he added a sentence to the bottom left corner—’万物は私の前で凍りつく!’
“Badass, badass!”
“666, this bluff I can respect!”
“Please translate!”
“The Queen’s classic line—Everything on earth shall freeze before !”
“ng fatty actually has this kind of operative skills?”
“God Damn I used to think ng Boss was inhumanly plain, I didn’t think he had such a talented side to him!”
“You’re a motherf*cking prodigy!”
“This strear is UP6, huh, one Esdeath illustration only took 15 ish minutes to finish, with color too. At this speed, not many people in the 8th station can match him!”
“This strear’s hand speed is a real god damn ballsy! We all received the sa compulsory 9-year education, how co you’re so talented?!”
“We are both vertebrates, why do you stand out so much?!”
“I was just added to this room and witnessed such a spectacular show, worth it! No discussion, here’s a support towel!”
“Stream boss keeps showing off, I’m gonna go pull more viewers!”
“Uhm… This host’s speed, are you sure it’s a live stream and not a sped-up recording?
“Bro look at his pauses in the middle, to hell with recording, as if he could edit videos with a phone!”
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ng Fan removed his finished drawing from the fra, replacing it with a new piece of paper, and continued to draw.
What to draw now?
The first one had been his favorite ani character. Even though this site was prominently a hub for otakus—there was still a portion of people who didn’t know who she was, or only knew after other people ntioned it… Then the second one will be a familiar one even by ear.
The first drawing was ice, so let’s make the second one fire…
Imdiately, a ‘fire’ type ani character popped into ng Fan’s mind, and even the Chinese translated na was similar to the Japanese one.
Only, ng Fan was obviously better at drawing won, but this was a guy…
Then…
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