Translator: Noodletown Translations
Editor: Noodletown Translations
Lin Ye was currently at the summit of the hill outside Pochinki. He wanted to use the high ground to his advantage and expand his field of view to search for Little Bear.
After using vision sharing, he wasn’t going to waste any more time here. He drove along a dirt road and sped towards Shelter.
The dirt road was located on a mountain north of Farm with a few outhouses scattered along the road. It was one of the few classic locations on the map.
It was a common transportation route for the players; many people would use this road if the playzone was nearby.
This game that Lin Ye was in was no exception. As his jeep sped up, a player poked his head out from behind a tree in the forest up ahead, spraying Lin Ye with bullets from his M416.
Tatata!
Tatata!
Tatata!
He unloaded his bullets in a craze as fire sparks flew in every direction.
A shot hit Lin Ye’s shoulder, and his health bar immediately shrunk, his jeep ringing from the shots as its health dropped too.
Clearly, this player was quite skilled. The spray was highly accurate as he understood the recoil pattern of his gun and showed off his mechanics.
However, the M416-wielding player picked the wrong target.
“Haha, why would you piss me off for no reason?” Lin Ye’s lips curved as a disdainful smile appeared.
At the next moment, Lin Ye pulled the manual brake, and the entire jeep drifted under its huge momentum.
He immediately pressed the control and 4 keys, moving him to the backseat. He then jumped off of the vehicle under the cover of the drifting jeep.
He raised his gun and aimed.
The 6x scope’s crosshairs accurately locked onto that player’s head through the jeep’s window.
It was a gray level 2 helmet.
Bang!
A 7.62mm bullet flew out from the barrel of the gun.
His accurate aim allowed him to headshot with a single bullet.
“Linye headshotted zhanguzhanguKK with Kar98K.”
Blood spilled.
Twenty-seven kills!
Lin Ye’s outrageous counter-kill sent his chat into an uproar.
“LOL~ Smug Streamer’s mechanics are unmatched, amazing!”
“This 98K is so awesome! Every shot a headshot; that’s too terrifying.”
“Didn’t you see? This streamer is amazing at finding snipe angles with his 98K. He landed the kill through the car window.”
“Yeah, yeah, it was like that at the building complexes beside School. Those players slipped up from hiding behind the windows and were instantly killed by Smug Streamer through the glass.”
“It’s scary, it’s too scary. If I saw how I died from the death replay, I would report him for sure.”
“That’s right, damn this poor child, why did he piss Linye off for no reason? He was looking for death!”
This counter-kill through the window was too fascinating. The viewers of the stream were all so incredibly excited that goosebumps began appearing on their bodies.
[Big Paris Dong Dong Dong gifted the streamer 9999 fish balls]
[CongratsOG gifted the streamer 10 medkits]
[Hot Pot Flavored Crispy Rice Loving Girl gifted the streamer 1 airplane]
[Crayon Shin-chan gifted the streamer 1 rocket]
As Lin Ye’s 98K performance became more and more excellent, many viewers started giving him monetary gifts. Quite a few of these viewers were even from Little Bear’s stream.
In the beginning, these people questioned Lin Ye for using cheats, but after watching the stream, they were instantly won over by his flamboyant 98K performance and became his fans.
As the gifts increased, Lin Ye’s stream’s popularity quickly rose.
50,000… 60,000… 70,000… 80,000…
This time, the popularity rose at a high speed.
It broke the 80,000 points mark within just one or two minutes and wasn’t slowing down. It sped towards the 100,000 points mark. The fiery speed was indeed shocking, putting Lin Ye’s stream on the first page of the PUBG section for the first time. It continued to rise up the ranks.
At that moment.
– Jiangcheng City, Douyu Headquarters, PUBG branch –
Supermod Shark Chili was just about to chill for a bit and leave work after a busy day when a notification popped up on his screen.
“Someone’s stream popularity is rising abnormally?” Shark Chili looked at the notification and immediately clicked it.
PUBG was one of the most popular sections on Douyu, and there was naturally fierce competition between the streamers.
Thus, some streamers would try to attract viewers by buying popularity. As a moderator of the PUBG section, Shark Chili’s job was to stop this from happening to allow for fair competition.
“Lin Ye, it’s that idle movie streamer’s stream?” Shark Chili looked at the name of the flagged stream and felt surprised.
Lin Ye was a small streamer, but despite his low popularity among viewers, he was infamous in Douyu’s supermod circle and especially notorious amongst the PUBG supermods. Nobody was a stranger to his name.
This Lin Ye was a special kind of awesome.
One should keep in mind that Douyu kept their streamers under strict management. Streamers belonging to each section were only allowed to stream content from their section. Cross-section streaming was absolutely prohibited.
For example, if a League of Legends streamer, no matter how popular or important this streamer was, dared to publically stream any other games, Douyu would harshly punish the streamer, going as far as deducting the streamer’s paychecks and bonuses.
Big names in the PUBG section like Little Bear, Sniper King Baixiao, Show, Lion, and Rika would get a proportional deduction in their monthly paychecks as well as a popularity freeze to affect their stream’s popularity if they dared to stream games like League of Legends or Resident Evil.
So, cross-section streaming was absolutely forbidden in all of Douyu’s sections. If they dared to cross the line, both big and small streamers alike would receive extremely harsh punishments.
However, there were exceptions to everything. The only exception under Douyu’s rules was the former idle movie streamer…
Lin Ye!
After creating his stream in the PUBG section, he seldom repeated content in his stream.
League of Legends, Dota 2, GTA5, Resident Evil, Super Mario, and even horror movie streams…
He streamed whatever games he wanted and watched whatever movies he liked; he just rarely streamed PUBG. Such a streamer was too arrogant in the eyes of the Douyu supermods.
He wasn’t just ignoring Douyu’s iron rules, he was stepping all over them.
If it were any other small streamers, they would have been banned by Douyu immediately. Even if they were big streamers, they would’ve been given warnings, salary deductions, and even contract alterations.
However, when it came to Lin Ye, there was only the sound of crickets.
Douyu’s management seemed to be collectively turning a blind eye to Lin Ye’s out-of-line actions. They just completely left it alone.
Since he started streaming half a year ago, his stream was almost completely unmonitored. The PUBG supermods had even been warned by management to let him stream whatever he wanted as long as it was safe for work and not adult content like making babies.
So, that was why Shark Chili was slightly confused at this moment.
Is the eccentric idle movie streamer Lin Ye going to start trying, buying popularity to become a higher ranked streamer?
If he is buying popularity…
Should I moderate it or not?
After some thinking, Shark Chili decided to check out Lin Ye’s stream first. After all, he was a PUBG supermod, and he had to do his basic responsibility.
The next moment.
[Supermod Shark Chili entered the stream]
When Lin Ye was driving towards Shelter in his jeep, an eye-catching notification box suddenly popped up above his chat.
It was a shark avatar, a Douyu supermod.
As Shark Chili entered the stream, Lin Ye’s chat immediately boiled again.
“Supermod! The supermod is here!”
“Cover the supermod, cover the supermod!”
“Report, I’m reporting Smug Streamer for not streaming movies. He’s playing PUBG, so I’m reporting him for not doing his business.”
“The supermod is here! Be careful everyone, stop sending secret codes like IPX-202!”
“Sh*tty supermod, don’t interrupt me from watching the stream.”
Many viewers started sending bullet comments after seeing Supermod Shark Chili’s arrival.
After all, to most streamers, having a supermod enter your stream was a bad thing most of the time as it usually meant something along the lines of the stream breaking regulations.
So, Lin Ye’s viewers were all quite worried upon seeing this supermod’s arrival.
After Supermod Shark Chili entered the stream, he happened to see Lin Ye’s 98K counter-kill and the viewers’ gifts. He checked out data such as the chat and the number of premium accounts and didn’t see any red flags.
So, after Shark Chili saw that everything was normal, he didn’t do anything. He stayed in the stream and began watching out of curiosity.
This idle streamer who usually does everything is actually streaming PUBG for once. What a rare occurrence. Shark Chili curiously thought as he watched Lin Ye’s stream.
Shark Chili was really curious now. This Lin Ye streams PUBG once a month at most; how good is he at the game?