Chapter 90: Chapter 89:
The game starts.
It’s the familiar routine again.
When it was Gu Bai’s turn to choose a position, he instantly picked Yasuo.
Lu Wei, watching this in the live stream, had a twitching expression, but didn’t dare to say a word.
Seeing Lu Wei forcibly holding back his expression, all the fans burst into laughter in front of their screens, and the barrage scrolled rapidly.
"You picked your own carry, you have to hold on even if you cry."
"Choukai remembered the fear of being dominated by President Gu that day..."
"Gu Bai’s Yasuo would probably even terrify Faker, but of course, only when they’re on the same side would he experience it."
PDD, who was joking around, saw that Gu Bai had locked in Yasuo, and was so startled that the cigarette butt in his mouth fell on his lap, causing him to scream like a pig.
"Oh dear, President Gu, why are you playing Yasuo again! Even if I’m Mr. Liu, a mighty man, I can’t handle your Yasuo!"
The two girls who hadn’t spoken looked utterly confused.
"What’s going on? PDD, what are you talking about?"
In the Huya Live stream, Miss asked PDD across the mic with a puzzled look.
Though cross-platform, many viewers in her stream were witnesses to that battle where Principal Wang was forced into silence, and they all began explaining in the barrage.
"You’ll soon experience the terror of being dominated by President Gu."
Gu Bai glanced at the teasing on the barrage, appearing calm and collected, and internally he was just as calm, ready to show them what it means to move forward with the swift wind, with no need to look back!
As for Goose Egg Sister Qi Qiaoqiao, she sneakily picked Alistar and said to Gu Bai, "President Gu, no worries, I’ll be living in mid lane this game!"
"Smart!"
Gu Bai chuckled in the mic.
Thinking it wasn’t in vain that he cultivated her.
Meanwhile, in her live stream, the fans immediately said with relief, "Dandan has grown up, finally knowing to cozy up to big shots, able to lean on someone like President Gu, she’s made it."
The game starts.
Gu Bai immediately commanded, "Level 1 fight! I learned E, we have Alistar, it’s a sure win!"
After saying this, he rushed straight to the river without looking back, followed by a clumsy Alistar.
Lu Wei, looking at his VN, then at PDD’s top lane Nasus and Miss’s jungle Prince...
How are these heroes supposed to handle a level 1 fight?
But currently, they’re just like playmates, with Gu Bai as the boss, and when the boss gives instructions, even if it’s unplayable, they just had to grit their teeth and go for it.
At 1 minute 20 seconds, a five-man fight erupted in the river.
Qi Qiaoqiao shouted, "Wrestle with the bull, and you’ll taste the horn!"
With a Q flash, she knocked up 4 people.
Gu Bai’s screen lit up with four dotted lines, only lamenting that he didn’t have his ultimate, without hesitation, he started weaving through the crowd.
The enemy support Braum counterattacked, A-ing once per person, applying Braum’s passive to everyone.
At 1 minute 40 seconds.
"Aced."
The system announcement sounded, and except for Gu Bai getting a low-health Braum’s kill, not a single enemy was lost, while their team was completely wiped.
The enemy Draven directly got a triple kill.
First blood plus two more heads, and with Draven’s passive, probably after a few minions, he’ll have a BFS out of base. Lu Wei’s face almost turned white, trembling as he said, "President Gu, I seem to have failed..."
Gu Bai’s tone was flat, even with a hint of glee.
Just getting a kill in the level 1 fight is a joy he hasn’t experienced in a long time.
"It’s okay, hang in there, I got a kill at level 1, I’ll carry this game!"
Lu Wei looked at Gu Bai’s 1-1-0 stats, thinking that since Gu Bai got a kill at level 1, while the enemy Demoness got none, maybe it won’t be a total crush?
"That’s good, I’ll just stabilize..."
Before Lu Wei could finish his sentence, the system announcement sounded again.
"The Deceitful Demoness has killed the Gale Sword Hero."
Lu Wei: "??? "
PDD: "??? "
Miss: "??? "
"President Gu, what’s going on?"
Looking at the three people pinging question marks at him madly, Gu Bai awkwardly coughed.
"Got a bit too ahead of myself, since I had a small item advantage over Demoness, I wanted to trade, but E’d directly into the tower..."
Seeing the second wave of minions not yet arrived, other than Qi Qiaoqiao’s unchanged expression, the other three felt a sense of foreboding rising in their hearts.
In the following game, although Lu Wei, PDD, and Miss, as high-level players, were at a disadvantage, they could still hold. But after 5 minutes, seeing the 4-0 Demoness and the 1-5 Gu Bai, they felt the game slipping away.
Though Gu Bai was dying quickly, each wave of minions was pushed under the tower, so he wasn’t falling too behind on experience, only one wave behind Demoness, also leveling up to Level 6.
Seeing Gu Bai reach level 6, Qi Qiaoqiao didn’t even greet Lu Wei and left him at just level 4, taking a detour around the river.
"President Gu, I’m coming! You go ahead and lure them!"
Qi Qiaoqiao’s slightly sweet voice came through, and Gu Bai glanced at the mini-map, gathering up his courage once again, using Stepping Forward Slash to weave through the enemy minions.
After consecutively killing Gu Bai in a few encounters, the Deceitful Demoness had let her guard down. Seeing Gu Bai approach, she hit him with a QRW combo, taking two-thirds of his health. Just as she was about to ensnare him with her tether, Qi Qiaoqiao burst out from the bushes fully prepared.
He barely touched down with a W before the Demoness managed to evade with Flash. Qi Qiaoqiao instantly reacted with an aerial Q flash, knocking her up, and the well-prepared Gu Bai, seeing the dotted lines on the screen, charged forward with an R.
Under the Alistar’s chain of crowd control, Gu Bai secured his team’s second kill.
"Nice play, Dandan!"
Gu Bai’s excited voice came through the mic.
Qi Qiaoqiao didn’t hold back, chuckling in a silly manner, "Wasn’t my WQ flash awesome?"
"Awesome!"
"I’m not bragging, but this move..."
PDD, Miss, Lu Wei: "???"
Chat: "???"
Lu Wei and the others were taken aback by this cute girl’s abrupt shift in tone, going from zero to sixty, and with such smooth delivery that even the moderators couldn’t find fault.
Suddenly, many viewers from Lu Wei’s stream flocked to Qi Qiaoqiao’s stream, and even people from Huya and Panda tuned in.
Gu Bai knew her streaming style, so he wasn’t surprised.
Qi Qiaoqiao went even further, completely leaving Lu Wei to fend for himself as VN under the tower, while she ruthlessly ganked the Demoness from all angles, turning Gu Bai’s thousand-game Yasuo into a positive KDA for the first time.
With the game concluded, Gu Bai ended with a 9-5-5 score, successfully achieving a godlike status, experiencing the thrill for the first time.
In the next match, Miss handed over the jungle role to Qi Qiaoqiao. She played a cooldown build Stone Man jungle, ignoring top and bottom lanes, focusing solely on the middle whenever her ultimate was up, making the opposing Corki’s head spin.
Gu Bai felt a deep sense of wishing he’d met Qi Qiaoqiao sooner.
If he had met Qi Qiaoqiao earlier, he wouldn’t have struggled so much, constantly dying over a dozen times per game.
After several matches, it was past midnight, and Gu Bai was too tired to continue. He called it a night, and for the first time, he achieved a five-game winning streak with Yasuo.
"Dandan, do you have a streaming agency now?"
Gu Bai asked Qi Qiaoqiao directly in the live streaming rooms of the top streamers on the three major platforms.
"Yes, I do."
Although she didn’t know what Gu Bai meant, she answered honestly.
"Drop it. I’ll cover your penalty, join my agency, and I’ll make you Douyu’s top streamer."
Saying in front of hundreds of thousands of viewers that he’d make an unknown small streamer into Douyu’s top streamer — Gu Bai’s words were downright audacious.
However, the audience didn’t take offense; instead, they were cheering.
"666, truly President Gu, speaks with such boldness!"
"A Divine Rich who can casually drop 10 million — I don’t know if he can make her Douyu’s top streamer, but this girl is definitely going to get famous."
There were also many skeptical comments.
"Just because you have some money, you think you’re unstoppable? Top streamer of Douyu? Where does that leave our Sister Fa?"
"Tigers cover the land, mushrooms are one and a half meters! The top streamer title belongs to Mushrooms!"
"North of the Milky Way, Ah Leng is the prettiest! Douyu’s top streamer can only be Ah Leng!"
"@Douyu’s super moderator. This person is threatening your platform’s operations, aren’t you going to do something?"
In fact, the Douyu moderators were already keeping an eye on the stream. With the three major platforms’ streamers interacting cross-platform, they had to be cautious to avoid any potential issues caused by ill-intentioned individuals.
Listening to Gu Bai’s statement, the moderators immediately reported to their superiors.
As for Douyu’s management, they were even less concerned. What does it cost to make someone the top streamer on Douyu? Most of that money goes back to whom? To Douyu itself, no less. They don’t care who the top streamer is, only how much money they can make.
Gu Bai didn’t bother with the comments; he was waiting for Qi Qiaoqiao’s response.
"I don’t know..."
Qi Qiaoqiao hesitated.
She wasn’t a fool. Tonight was only her first meeting with Gu Bai. In this world, who does good deeds for no reason? She had to be cautious, fearing Gu Bai might have ulterior motives.
Gu Bai understood Qi Qiaoqiao’s hesitation and said nothing more, responding calmly, "It’s okay. I’ll give you time to think. You don’t have to worry about my intentions. As for the conditions I promised you, it’s simply because I think you have the potential to be Douyu’s top streamer. Once you’ve made up your mind, just contact Lu Wei."
After speaking, Gu Bai bid farewell to PDD, Miss, Lu Wei, and the others and logged off.
He was really too tired. If it weren’t for the games being so enjoyable tonight, he would have logged off to sleep long ago.
After Gu Bai left, Lu Wei’s stream turned chaotic.
Gu Bai’s parting message for Qi Qiaoqiao to contact Lu Wei clearly sent a signal to the outside world, and numerous viewers in the stream picked up on the subtext, starting to speculate.
"Choukai, what’s your relationship with President Gu? Why does he want Goose Egg Sister to contact you?"
Lu Wei was also aware that Gu Bai might be planning to unveil Black Swan Entertainment as a bombshell in the streaming world, so he answered some innocuous questions ambiguously, then added Qi Qiaoqiao’s contact information and announced the end of the stream.
The stream ended, but the comments didn’t stop.
A myriad of fans eagerly began speculating about this juicy development.