From This Moment On, Let the World Feel Terror

"What the hell is this 'first purchase of the day' discount? Is this a gacha game?"

In the silent night, Lu Ban could not help but complain.

According to the description, he could spend 50 Silence Points once each day to buy Madman's Knowledge, but the second purchase would revert to the original price.

It was exactly like the daily single pull in mobile games designed to encourage spending.

And judging by the name, Madman's Knowledge contained all sorts of knowledge. As for whether that knowledge was a proof of Goldbach's Conjecture or how to elegantly pick one's nose, nobody knew.

There was no pity system, no published probabilities, and no drop list.

A gacha game blacker than black!

Even if it was the cheapest Excellent-quality item, Lu Ban would never rely on gambling like this to test his luck!

"Doesn't look like there's anything worth buying. Better save them."

Lu Ban remembered that there was still the matter of career development, so he decided to read that first.

He flipped back to the page where "The Marseillaise" had been composed. On the unfolded personal panel, he found the dark green career section.

His finger brushed across the words. The text on the page shifted and condensed into several lines of bizarre writing.

Career Development Task

Now that you have gained inspiration, has a powerful urge to create welled up within you? Complete it and welcome the joy of rebirth.

Task Requirement: Publish a video online and obtain enough views to complete the task.

Publish one video: 0/1

Obtain views: 0/5000000

"From this moment on, let the world feel terror."

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Lu Ban froze for a moment.

After all that bizarre stuff earlier, was it going back to the entertainment route now?

This task did not seem to require a choice. It had automatically begun once he completed the previous task.

In other words, Lu Ban needed to publish a video and get five million views to complete this task.

Five million was not exactly a small number.

Among the more famous video websites in Lu Ban's world, Scarecrow Video Network mainly offered site-produced television dramas, variety shows, animation, films, and the like. Popular productions could break a hundred million views in a single day.

Lovecraft Video Network was locked in fierce competition with Scarecrow Video Network. Its nature was similar, and there was not much difference in their data.

Tomorrow Online focused on short videos and only had a mobile app. It targeted lower-tier markets, and popular videos casually racked up tens of millions of views.

Then there was Old Days Video Network, which leaned more toward animation, lifestyle content, and younger users. Its view counts had less inflation, and it had more core users.

For self-produced videos, Lu Ban preferred posting on Old Days Video Network or Tomorrow Online. That had to do with each site's tone.

Scarecrow and Lovecraft were both major websites. Users were already overwhelmed just watching the content provided by the platforms themselves. If Uploaders' self-uploaded videos did not receive an official push, their views would be dismal and few.

Old Days Video Network and Tomorrow Online, on the other hand, mostly featured user-uploaded UCG content, and their users were more inclined to watch videos made by other people.

As a young man determined to make a career in entertainment, Lu Ban had naturally registered Uploader accounts on all these platforms.

He had previously filmed a few clips imitating popular video concepts from his former world, but unfortunately, they had failed to take off. Perhaps a video's success depended not only on personal effort, but also on the course of history.

"A video."

Lu Ban muttered the task's contents. There was no doubt that although this system was strange, it also seemed to be something he could rely on. Completing the system's tasks should be the best choice.

Besides, he had even played that supernatural little game just now. It was not as if a ghost would come knocking simply because he posted a video, right?

Wait, right. The video!

Lu Ban opened his phone and looked at the file that had suddenly appeared, titled A Video That Cannot Be Opened at Night.

He had no idea what was inside.

But since he had already decided not to open it tonight, Lu Ban would keep his word.

After experiencing that bizarre series of events, he had no intention of going back to sleep. He simply sat up, turned on his computer, and watched videos.

While everyone else was still sleeping soundly, he was already researching promotional methods for after a video was published.

Lu Ban was just that amazing!

More than an hour later, Lu Ban looked at several payment notifications on his phone for activating Captain memberships and twitched at the corner of his mouth.

"Why are these people also streaming ASMR in the middle of the night instead of sleeping?"

He had just subscribed to Captain memberships for two ASMR streamers. Then, after listening to a young female streamer's under-the-covers chat, he had impulsively subscribed to another one.

One Captain membership cost two hundred yuan a month, and just like that, the money was gone.

"Beware the traps of consumerism!"

Lu Ban criticized himself.

He picked up his phone again and scrolled through the Tomorrow Online app.

"This time, I'll definitely figure out some tricks for making videos go viral!"

An hour and a half later, Lu Ban closed the app.

He had spent an hour engrossed in watching other people fish.

"It's fine. As long as I didn't spend money, it's a victory!"

Lu Ban muttered to himself.

Then he remembered to see whether there were any online tips, so he opened Did You Get It?, a blue knowledge-sharing website.

How can a new Uploader on Old Days Video Network quickly gain followers?

How can short videos improve their click-through rate?

A step-by-step guide to getting five hundred thousand views a day on Tomorrow Online!

Ten things to watch out for when posting on Old Days Video Network—boost your views by more than a hundred times!

There were countless similar questions. It seemed everyone wanted a share of the traffic from video websites in this era.

Lu Ban casually clicked on a highly upvoted answer.

Among the answer's several hundred likes, it explained in detail how to create a viral video through titles, topics, thumbnails, content, and other aspects. It was vivid and richly illustrated, as though following the method would definitely produce a wildly popular submission.

Then, at the end of the answer, he opened the responder's personal page on Old Days Video Network, wanting to see what kind of videos such an impressive Uploader made.

Then Lu Ban saw the view counts on the several videos in that personal space.

The highest had fewer than three thousand views, and it was a reposted video.

"..."

Lu Ban angrily closed the page.

Thinking about it, that made sense. If someone could truly create viral videos using those theories, why would they share them with others?

All that so-called success studies nonsense was just empty chicken soup!

Lu Ban read a few more freshly written stories before he heard birds chirping outside the window.

That signaled the arrival of dawn.

The eastern sky had already turned pale. At four in the morning, Jiangcheng belonged to the hardworking!

After thinking it over, he went downstairs to eat breakfast at a twenty-four-hour fast-food restaurant, washed his face, and waited until the entire city was gradually embraced by golden sunlight before opening the video on his phone.

Lu Ban soon discovered that the video was not some Sadako Video Tape that would bring misfortune within seven days if he failed to forward it to the next person.

The video recorded what had happened when Lu Ban played that horror game last night.

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