The scene was so damn exciting that the perverts on-site were practically hopping with excitement.
A huge number of viewers came out of curiosity, and Jiang Qiao's live-stream audience count rose sharply. His popularity even broke a million, landing him in the top five of the outdoor streaming section!
The cereal-brothers also took the opportunity to show up, and one of them even sent Jiang Qiao a rocket.
This fellow's methods were wild. Maybe I could source goods from him in the future.
At this moment, Jiang Qiao wore a delighted expression.
When faced with the Water Ghost, he didn't say a word. He grabbed her by the hair, hauled her out, and slapped her several times in rapid succession.
The sound rang out especially clearly in the silent night, making the viewers in the live stream cry out, "What the hell?!"
The Water Ghost was dazed after taking several slaps.
Then she realized what had happened to her and flew into a rage!
She shrieked as she grabbed Jiang Qiao's hand, furiously trying to drag him into the water.
However, what greeted her was a fist as large as a wok!
Thunder for added attack power, Invincible Body for toughness, and Dual Pupils to spot the ghost's weak points.
With the three talents working together, he sent the female ghost soaring through the clouds, floating in bliss.
In the end, she ascended straight to heaven!
After absorbing the Ghost Qi, Jiang Qiao felt that his Invincible Body had undergone a transformation.
The cyan markings that had originally resembled birthmarks had not only deepened in color, but had also gained a faint metallic texture.
He carefully sensed the change and discovered that his defense had increased by at least three times!
Excellent!
Jiang Qiao excitedly swung the Fishing Rod and directly pulled a bicycle out of the water.
The viewers in the live stream erupted in amazement.
"666. I'm an elementary school student watching a fisherman appear in a supernatural-investigation live stream, act as a tough guy in an adult-film plot, and haul away an off-road bicycle that had sunk into the water for who knows how many years."
"The plot is way too elaborate. This is ridiculous."
"To the elementary school monk up front, did a dog eat your punctuation marks?"
However, the educational film turning into a bloody action movie also drew some dissatisfied comments.
"Is the streamer insane? I already took my pants off, and this is what you show me?"
"I was just about to do homework with my buddy when I suddenly saw a flying head. My buddy passed out and hasn't reacted for ages. What do I do? Waiting online, urgent!"
"Bro, same here. I'd say mine's probably a goner too."
"Get lost. Yours is a goner. Mine can still be saved."
"F*** you, refund me!!"
That last comment came from one of the cereal-brothers.
Jiang Qiao felt that it really was impossible to satisfy everyone.
He apologized and said he would definitely do better next time, then ignored the matter.
With so many people watching, even with Boss Jiang's magnanimity and bearing, he couldn't bring himself to repair a car on live stream.
Besides, this female ghost was genuinely ugly. Even if he pasted a poster over her face, it would still be hard to get it up.
From south to north, and from east to west.
Jiang Qiao kept busy for most of the night.
In a building where a fire had once occurred, he found the Burned Ghost barbecuing.
He went to the Mass Grave and caught the Half-Body Ghost dancing to funeral music.
Passing by an abandoned school, he followed the sound of clear reading voices and found a group of pale-faced School Uniform Ghosts.
In the end, after working through most of the night,
Jiang Qiao's Lightning Thunder Fist also advanced to the Second Tier.
Back when he used the Simulator, he would always see descriptions like "killed his way through an entire road" or "flattened three streets," and then his talent would shoot upward as rapidly as an old man's blood pressure.
It had seemed quite easy—something anyone with hands could do.
But after actually putting it into practice, he discovered that things were completely different.
He had overlooked a very important issue.
In the Simulator, the world was already in the aftermath of Supernatural Revival, with more Vicious Ghosts roaming the streets than dogs.
Naturally, he could level up just by killing them casually.
But the disaster had not yet arrived in the present. Although quite a few Vicious Ghosts had already begun wandering around, once they were spread across the entire city, they became rare animals.
And then there were those idiotic netizens who did nothing useful and specialized in spreading rumors.
Jiang Qiao had taken quite a few pointless detours.
For example, there was an old residence that had been abandoned for decades.
According to rumor, faint lights would appear inside the house every night, yet the building had long since been disconnected from water and electricity.
Not only that, but pedestrians had supposedly seen a man standing beside a third-floor window at night, staring straight at them.
Some busybodies had entered the house during the day to investigate, but apart from rotten furniture and dust covering the floor, they had found nothing.
The claims online had been made with absolute certainty, and Jiang Qiao had listened with great interest.
He had hurried there without stopping, spending more than fifty on transportation.
After arriving at his destination,
Jiang Qiao saw the rust-covered gate, the precarious windows, and the mottled, ancient walls covered in ivy.
A chilly aura flowed continuously through the courtyard.
It was obviously an old Haunted House.
Jiang Qiao was just about to activate his Dual Pupils and charge in.
Unexpectedly, the gate opened by itself.
A ragged homeless man came out and shouted that Jiang Qiao was insane for not sleeping in the middle of the night and coming over to shake the gate.
Jiang Qiao was instantly dumbfounded.
Under his Dual Pupils, the homeless man was indeed a living person, though he did seem to suffer from some kidney deficiency.
It turned out that half a month earlier, the homeless man had seen that the old residence was abandoned and empty, so he had moved in.
The light pedestrians saw at night was merely the flashlight he used for illumination.
Jiang Qiao asked him why no one had seen him when they entered during the day.
The homeless man rolled his eyes and said, "If I don't go out to find food, are you going to support me?"
Jiang Qiao suddenly understood.
By the time he turned off the live stream and returned to the hotel, it was already past five in the morning.
There were just over three hours left until nine, when the new round of simulation would begin.
He planned to sleep for a little while first and recover his energy.
While Jiang Qiao entered dreamland and visited the Duke of Zhou, the technicians who had been dragged out of bed to work overtime at the live-streaming platform also breathed a sigh of relief.
At this moment, everyone was discussing the matter fervently.
"What the hell? Not only can't this live room be banned, even deleting the database doesn't work."
"The streamer's phone number has forty-four fours in it. Who the hell approved that? A forty-four-digit phone number is ridiculous. Is he related to some rich—?"
"Good lord, I found the streamer's withdrawal records. The receiving bank is Heaven and Earth Bank."
"Could it be that we've really run into a ghost?"
"Holy crap, you're absolutely right—but don't say it again next time."
"The boss has to pay us more!"
At the same time, viewers also edited Jiang Qiao's excessively exciting and stimulating live-stream content into videos and shared them everywhere.
The topic began to ferment rapidly before ultimately exploding across the entire internet, instantly appearing on the trending lists of all the major platforms.
The fact that the live room had not been banned despite being reported all night also sparked speculation among netizens about the streamer's identity.
<Shocking! The Streamer Is Actually the Platform Owner's Biological Father>
<Explosive! An Insider Reveals That the Streamer Is Actually the Owner's Godfather>
<Outrageous! From the Live-Stream Incident, I Saw the Platform Owner's Wild Father>
The Counterattack!...
One shameless article after another was churned out at top speed. They wrote whatever they thought would attract attention.
The competing live-streaming platforms went even further, hiring huge numbers of internet trolls to stir up trouble everywhere.
For a time, the internet became a chaotic gathering of monsters.
But just then, some suspicious voices began appearing online.
"That's strange. Those men at the steel mill look a lot like the workers who fell into molten iron in the news."
"Huh? The girl with her head pointed downward looks exactly like one of my middle-school classmates. But she clearly committed suicide by jumping from a building several years ago."
"Good lord, I actually saw my second cousin. Even the two watches on his hand are exactly the same. There's no way I could have mistaken him. But he clearly died in a traffic accident last year."
"Exactly, exactly. I also..."
"Me too..."
"..."
"Do you think it's possible that these are all real ghosts?"
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