Chapter 827: Chapter 346: Call an Ambulance Quick!

The 10-minute PK entered a white-hot stage just a minute and a half in.

The moment Pei Shuyu’s final sentence dropped, the health bar skyrocketed to 17 million and then began increasing by 2 million increments each time.

These players were absolutely insane, completely throwing pacing out the window–determined to unload all their ammo in the shortest time possible.

When top streamers go into PK battles, fans typically plan their contributions according to their ammo amounts and the PK duration, maintaining a steady pace until the end, while reserving big-ticket items for the final push.

But now? It’s absolute chaos.

Casual players were gifting birthday cakes, 20 Star Coins each, with a one-time cap of 9,999 per batch, calling it a “set.”

Those who could afford it launched full sets worth 5,000 RMB, while those with less threw in whatever they had, collectively generating a whopping 13 million within moments, with the count still climbing.

The mid-tier Brother Fus were gifting birthday fireworks, 200 Star Coins apiece, also capped at 9,999. That pumped out an explosive 5 million RMB, with over 100 sets contributed.

The big players, of course, went for the birthday celebrations–2,000,000 Star Coins each, capped at 99 per batch, netting an astronomical 1.8 million RMB worth of super headlines.

Xichu Overlord unleashed 3 on his own; Chaoshui sent 1, Bell Sister contributed 2, YHZhu Jet delivered 4, Protecting the Best Yuyu added 1, and another 7 Shenhao each sent 1.

Su Huai, itching to join in, casually threw out two sets from his side account.

At this point, if you didn’t turn off the gift animations, no matter how powerful your computer or how high your broadband speed was, your stream would freeze on the spot.

Screenshots? Forget it.

Ironically, mobile app users were the only ones able to watch smoothly since mobile effects didn’t overlap but queued up to play one at a time.

Meanwhile, Protecting the Best Yuyu (Yu Yangyang) and Protecting the Purest Yuyu (White Wood Chunshi) were reporting battle updates across various fan groups, rallying troops while flaunting their results.

The Godly Rich Group had instantly contributed 36 million, the mid-tier Brother Fus added 5 million, and the base-level Yu Family Army chipped in 6.5 million.

Adding the earlier contributions, the total health bar now tallied over 54 million.

On the other side, despite Golden Jade Guild deploying over a dozen guild accounts aggressively targeting the most expensive gifts, they’d only managed to hit 25 million.

“Can we win? Can we win?”

The fan groups erupted with messages, asking all sorts of questions.

“We can win!”

Yu Yangyang replied with absolute confidence, but as soon as she turned to message Su Huai on WeChat, she vented her nervousness: “Damn it! I’m shaking out of my mind! What the hell is up with our core contributors? They’re getting outscored by casual droplets!”

Su Huai glanced at his phone and continued his conference call with the executives.

“PR department, get moving. You know the focus, right?”

“Understood!”

The newly recruited Zhang Yuhang chimed in, his voice steady and powerful, hitting the nail on the head: “Yu’s statements are uniquely personal and charismatic, and her performance is outstanding. I’ll highlight this content in the promotion plan!”

“Excellent.” Fu Yu smiled approvingly. “Your position here is secure.”

Full of confidence, Zhang Yuhang responded boldly: “With a battle this brilliantly executed by Mr. Su and Yu, all I need to do is wrap things up. If I mess this up, it’s pure incompetence.”

Poached from Sina’s media department as a mid-tier manager, Zhang was considered a core team asset there but wasn’t valued or promoted. Switching to Xingyu as head of reputation monitoring seemed like a downgrade, but it was actually a career revival.

His approach was innovative, and he perfectly understood Su Huai’s vision for publicity. Su Huai could leave things in his hands without worry.

“For now, that covers publicity. Chen Ru, what’s going on with the recruitment and talent management departments?”

Chen Ru replied confidently: “We’ve mobilized all available staff and are focusing on key targets at full speed.

From the previous report, there are a total of 187 category A targets and 775 category B targets. Based on the current feedback, our goal is to secure at least 300 of them to join Xingyu.

Since the PK battle started, most have shown signs of softening, but the signing fees demanded by the A-level targets are astronomical. So I’ve shifted focus to the B-level group instead.

Your thoughts?”

“We can’t casually open the floodgates for high signing fees. Try to cultivate our own A-tier talent. If they want to come, fine. If not, let them be.”

“Understood. Got it.”

Luo Qiangqiang hastily raised his hand: “Mr. Su, operations just spotted something unusual!”

“Oh?”

Everyone simultaneously turned to look at Luo Qiangqiang and Shi Zeyu beside him.

Shi Zeyu cut straight to the chase with a bombshell: “Based on comparative data, I’ve discovered that Dog Star Platform flooded both our livestreams with at least 80,000+ bot accounts. They’re only grabbing Coins, not chatting, and they aren’t spending a single cent.”

Su Huai: ???

You even managed to identify my troops?

Oh, right. They haven’t been trained yet, and their behavior patterns are far too basic…

Cheese chimed in, puzzled: “So what’s the point?”

Shi Zeyu spread his hands: “The point is, I conclude that Dog Star has turned hostile–and they’re being shameless about it–exploiting internal platform mechanisms to raid us, and clumsily at that. It’s really infuriating.

Still, Golden Jade suffered more. Their red packets don’t have level requirements and were mostly snatched away, while ours fared somewhat better.

But we have to watch out–Dog Star might suppress us further by redirecting the Coins to our opponents.”

Su Huai had been about to laugh but stopped at that last reminder.

Indeed, vigilance toward Dog Star was necessary. While it didn’t seem like they had Coin-stealing bots, biased interference was a possibility, necessitating even more meticulous preparations.

“Understood. I’ll handle it.”

The mini-meeting continued, with PK footage projected in the conference room as various departments worked in seamless coordination.

Su Huai set down the office phone and looked back at his mobile–it was blowing up, as expected.

Too many questions, too much attention.

With limited time, he could only respond to the most critical people.