Free Web NovelChapter 319: Chapter 312: The Announcement of the Mist (Part 2)
The two of them talked for a long time before stopping.
The leadership randomly summoned the department heads for a meeting.
Since they were allowing Wen Ying to lift the veil of the mist little by little, the government also had to change its strategy.
They had to prepare for all sorts of unexpected situations, like whether the public would accept it or if they would see it as heresy.
The leaders even reported the matter to the highest authority.
Wen Ying stood outside the mental hospital. This time, everyone could see the large words: "Gothic Mental Hospital"!
Under the glare of the stream’s lighting, the font looked deathly still.
Wen Ying reached out and tapped the spot where she had entered the password before, but she couldn’t get the door to open.
She had said she could break it down by force. But since she had promised to show everyone the mist, she needed to go through it like a normal person would. Otherwise, if someone entered the mist without her level of strength, wouldn’t it be a one-way ticket to death?
[What’s going on? Can’t Doctor Wen punch a hole through a wall?]
[Doctor Wen is silent, so she must be thinking. If this really is a game, she has to follow the rules, or she’ll be rejected by the game just like before.]
[That makes a lot of sense, but does Doctor Wen have to play the game? What kind of show is this anyway? Didn’t that variety show Doctor Wen was on before have other people in it?]
[I think Director Wen’s show was put on hold. Doctor Wen disappeared, and now she’s reappeared here. Suddenly, everything feels so surreal!]
The bullet-chat comments were flying furiously. Wen Ying glanced at them and took the opportunity to ask the system about her reputation value. It was over ninety million, half of which she had gained after this stream started.
The number of concurrent viewers in the stream had already surpassed ten million real people.
There were too many people for the platform to display the real data, but with the system as her cheat, Wen Ying knew the true concurrent viewership: over a hundred million!
Meanwhile, the download count for the Shark Streaming app had also broken historical records, skyrocketing by several hundred times!
In the conference room of the Shark Streaming platform’s tech department, all the technical staff were online, their eyes glued to Wen Ying’s stream.
The technical supervisor stared grimly at the back-end data. "This is a tough battle! A battle the likes of which our Shark platform has never seen since its founding! We must ensure the stability and traffic for Doctor Wen’s stream! The higher-ups have already given the order: the platform will compensate the other streamers, but no one else is allowed to stream during this time unless Doctor Wen ends her broadcast."
"Supervisor, can we really do this?"
"Don’t worry. Our platform has the most traffic right now. Everyone’s main goal is to ensure Doctor Wen’s stream runs smoothly."
Suddenly, a few mid-level managers from the operations and product departments also came in.
"Are there operations or product issues that need handling right now?" the technical supervisor asked in surprise.
"Of course not. But this is Doctor Wen’s moment to become a legend—oh, no, Doctor Wen may have already become a legend long ago. This is our *platform’s* moment to become a legend! At a time like this, we have to be proactive. This is our chance to crush all the other streaming platforms combined!"
"Do you guys know how many people are watching Doctor Wen’s stream right now? The real number!"
"How many?"
"Two hundred and fifty million people! And not bots, either—all real, actual people! Plus, some accounts have whole families watching together. Do you know what this means?"
What else could they feel but excitement?
At a historic moment like this, even the bonuses would probably be multiplied dozens of times over!
"And I heard a rumor that this stream was authorized by the higher-ups!" one of the managers said in a low voice.
"Think about it. Does a stream with this kind of content follow the platform’s rules?"
His listeners shook their heads. It didn’t.
It didn’t at all.
"Then do you think that even if the platform allowed a stream like this, the government would?"
His listeners shook their heads again. A stream’s general direction had to be supervised, and this broke all the rules.
"Exactly. Anyone else who dared to do this would’ve been banned long ago. But Doctor Wen has been streaming for so long, showing things that could make people physically uncomfortable, and nothing has happened. What does that tell you?
It’s a signal. It shows which way the wind is blowing!
It means something big is about to happen. I don’t know what exactly, but I know it’s definitely related to Doctor Wen’s stream!"
Once he started that line of thinking, someone else chimed in, "It couldn’t really be that ’mist,’ could it? To be honest, I have a friend who browses a lot of foreign websites, and there’s a ton of news about the mist out there. I always thought it was all fake, just stuff people filmed for show. But if this is real..."
