Chapter 822: Chapter 344: Baffling People with Tricks_2

“Since we’re both coughing up blood already, why not make him spend a little more?”

Yuyan’s face lit up with excitement, her mischievous intent impossible to hide.

“What do you need me and Yuyu to do? Just say the word!”

“Just stream like normal.” Su Huai cracked his knuckles with a crisp popping sound, smiling, “I’ll play with them!”

…

Despite his words about playing along, Su Huai immediately returned to the inner section of his office and opened the hidden server room.

Inside was a standard dustproof, temperature-controlled chamber, housing none other than an NVIDIA AI server, the DGX-1.

The unit had arrived several days ago, but the hastily constructed server room had only just become operational. This was Su Huai’s first chance to test it out.

He rubbed his hands together, turned on the external screen, and clicked on the lone program: Legion.

On the surface, the screen showed no reaction, but a brand-new interface popped up on Su Huai’s system panel.

[Commander, your legion awaits your inspection.]

“What can you do?”

[Every trained soldier can independently complete a single trolling task.]

“Training takes at least seven days?”

[Correct.]

“I don’t need anything that intelligent right now. Just register some platform accounts and grab some red envelopes. Can that be done?”

[If the task simply requires passing basic verification prompts and executing single mechanical operations, it can be done without training. However, direct guidance from you will be required.]

“Then follow me.”

[As you wish. Executing now.]

The fans in the server chassis emitted a soft hum as Su Huai began leading his “army” step by step to take over Gou Star.

Thanks to modern technology, live streaming platforms no longer required real-name verification or bank card info to register accounts.

As a result, the Legion program registered 50,000 accounts in under three minutes. The only issue was that the usernames looked far from normal.

Su Huai quickly halted the process, instructing the remaining bots to stick with default numeric IDs.

He’d forgotten they had zero intelligence…

At exactly 8:00 PM, as Yuji began her stream, Su Huai immediately used the account Turbid Dog Number Three to send an 888,000-yuan red envelope, snagging the top spot on the headlines.

At this moment, Jin Yucheng remained calm, even disdainful.

“As expected, that’s all he’s got.”

A smug grin tugged at the corners of his lips as he confidently declared, “Hit back with an increment of 111,000 each time. Let’s see how much money he has to waste against me!”

But just then, Su Huai smiled serenely as he issued the order to his legion: “Thirty-five thousand soldiers, head to livestream room 111111 on the Golden Jade Stage, lie low, and focus entirely on snatching red envelopes. Leave the remaining fifteen thousand here to do the same.”

[Yes, Commander.]

Soon after, the headlines began refreshing endlessly.

9.99 – 11.11 – 12.34 – 13.14…

Each attempt barely lasted five seconds before being overtaken again.

The entire platform erupted in chaos; rumors spread everywhere about how the up-and-coming dragon had locked horns with Dog Daddy!

Typically, news anchors wouldn’t stream during prime slots since it was their time to gather content–and viewers usually weren’t interested. Yet tonight, all of them were online, covering the drama live.

One confident analyst declared, “Golden Jade Guild is clearly targeting Xingyu. You could also see this as a challenge from a rising power against the Dog Emperor. After all, the big guy only throws gifts for Yuji, so this has officially escalated to war.”

Below the stream, a string of comments dismissed this notion: “Dog Emperor? Just an official platform puppet.”

Others didn’t care about the politics, only asking: “So, who’s going to win?”

The journalists were almost unanimously skeptical: “If they dared to challenge, they must have something up their sleeve. Prepared opponents crush the unprepared–looks bad for Xingyu tonight.”

Their commentary followed two unspoken rules: first, they backed whoever greased the wheels; second, they followed platform cues. A slight hint from above, and they knew which way to lean. Unsurprisingly, most were underestimating Xingyu.

The savvier analysts used subtle language to point out reasons for concern.

The dim-witted ones saw it as their long-awaited chance to vent jealousy, praising Golden Jade’s tactics while mocking Xingyu, saying they hogged the limelight and left no room for small-time streamers.

Indeed, Xingyu’s dominance had dented the livelihood of many low-effort streamers. People rarely confront their own incompetence, so blaming others as “unethical” serves as a convenient emotional outlet.

Sadly, in the online world, truth holds no ground–volume does.

And on streaming platforms, volume can be bought outright with money.

By the fifteenth minute of this headline grab war, Fu Daiheng was starting to sweat.

As Chief Operating Officer of the Golden Jade Guild–a pretentious title with little substance–his actual responsibility lay in using guild funds to generate hype via official gifting campaigns.

“Brother Jin, we’ve already burned through six million!”

But Jin Yucheng remained unruffled, calmly replying, “Didn’t we already confirm he has over 20 million in his account? What’s there to panic about.”

“Yes, yes, of course, it’s just… uh…”

Fu Daiheng forced a wry smile as he shook his head. “It’s just that throwing this money out as red envelopes feels so frustrating! Players who grab them might not even donate it back–we’ll recover maybe a third of it, at most…”

Jin Yucheng was unfazed: “Isn’t Xingyu doing the same? Their ace, Yuji, has long been crowned queen of the platform. She doesn’t need red envelopes to attract viewers. If they keep spending like this, they’ll lose even more than we will.”

After considering this, Fu Daiheng nodded in agreement. “That makes sense! We’re spending money to buy clout and drive traffic. Advertising always costs money, right? But his red envelopes? Purely charity to boost the platform’s GDP. Hahaha!”

The room erupted in laughter.

This wasn’t mindless sycophancy but genuine admiration for Jin Yucheng’s ambition, vision, and decisiveness.

Judging by the meticulously planned showdown, they couldn’t imagine losing.