Chapter 109
The “Genius Baby at Three and a Half” section of Multiverse Livestream is a very special area.
Unlike other cliché story sections, this section exists to showcase babies and children, so most of the audience’s focus is not on the original protagonists or the original storylines.
Instead, the attention is directed at the adorable little hosts who participate in the story challenges.
Although there are many viewers in this section who are open-minded and will follow any interesting or cute livestream, 90% of the viewers in Little Blue Boss’s livestream are this type.
However, more viewers in the section are stubborn and set in their ways.
Although the Multiverse Livestream official hasn’t explicitly stated this, this group of viewers firmly believes that the “Genius Baby at Three and a Half” section exists solely for the adorable, soft, and cute little children.
Any livestream that doesn’t fit this theme is considered heresy and should be removed!
Little Lu is one such viewer.
Little Lu is over 80 years old and has just achieved financial freedom as an online store owner. He runs a business related to maternal and infant products. He originally tuned into the “Genius Baby at Three and a Half” section for market research.
But gradually, he was drawn in by the warm, slow-paced parenting atmosphere in the section and became immersed in the healing comfort brought by these cute human babies.
In fact, Little Lu even became a fan of several child star influencers who participated in the challenges, and got himself caught up in a wave of fan support.
Although, later on, the media exposed that many of the adorable baby streamers in “Genius Baby at Three and a Half” had undergone professional training, and even had an entire team behind them writing scripts and guiding the children on how to perform to attract more followers.
When this truth was exposed, it caused quite a stir.
However, like most viewers of the “Genius Baby at Three and a Half” section, Little Lu chose to ignore it.
After all, babies are just cute, right?
And the purpose of the “Genius Baby” section is to give the little ones a space to shine and offer a relaxing refuge for the adults who need healing.
So, like the other viewers, when Little Blue Boss started to rise rapidly in the section, Little Lu was unhappy.
What? Just casually setting up a stall, not only completing the characters from the book, but also fixing bugs that other baby streamers hadn’t managed to fix for years?
And attracting this many viewers?
It’s so unfair!
“I came to the Genius Baby at Three and a Half section to watch the cute little babies,” Little Lu said angrily, “Who wants to see some little streamer doing random operations, setting up food stalls and ruining the storyline? If I wanted to watch something else, I’d just go to a different section.”
“We just want to quietly watch the adorable little ones act cute and see the big-shot characters in the cliché stories spoil the babies. ‘Genius Baby at Three and a Half’ is one of the last pure sections left…”
“Why does some random food stall person have to come and mess things up!”
What Little Lu didn’t want to admit was that, at the beginning of Little Lan Boss’s livestream, he was also attracted in, even throwing some gifts his way.
It was simply because Little Lan Boss was too cute.
Such a cute baby—if he just behaved like the other adorable streamers and acted cute, wouldn’t he win effortlessly?
But instead of acting cute, the streamer, with such a cute face, decided to set up a smoky food stall, staying there for days on end.
Not only was he not acting cute, but he was also straying further down the wrong path of food stalls, even surpassing the other baby streamers Little Lu supported in popularity…
Little Lu was enraged.
A food stall live streamer shouldn’t even exist in the “Baby Show” zone!
There were many viewers who shared the same sentiment as him.
This group of viewers, who had been dissatisfied ever since Little Blue Boss started gaining attention, had formed a small group to vent their frustrations:
[I just hope this challenge ends soon and brings peace back to our Baby Show zone, please.]
[What are you afraid of? It’s been said that the food stall business won’t work in our Genius Baby 3 and a Half zone. That little Lan, though leading in the bug fix rankings, hasn’t even made it into the top three on the popularity list, so the audience obviously isn’t buying into it.]
[Yeah, in the past, streamers with high bug fix rates also had high popularity because they were cute. But no matter how many bugs Lanlan fixes, if he doesn’t sell cuteness, no one will watch. If he returns to his senses now, he might still be saved. Otherwise, this is it, haha.]
[30,000 viewers? That’s the ceiling. There’s no way it’ll go higher.]
The fact that Little Lan Boss couldn’t match his bug fix scores with live stream popularity was the only comfort for this group of viewers.
So what if he had some tricks up his sleeve? His stream still had no viewers!
Another point that made viewers jealous was the unusually high level of attention Little Lan received from various big shots in his live stream.
In the past, many small streamers had tried everything to attract the likes of Mu Mingqiu, Madam Huo, and Huo Ye. But the big shots mostly remained indifferent. A smile was the best they would get, let alone fixing any plot lines.
But in Little Lan Boss’s live stream, these big shots all did a complete 180!
However, the viewers believed that all of this was temporary.
[The big shots in the book seem to have been won over, but they really haven’t. In front of cuteness, roast duck is nothing.]
[I feel the same way.]
[The cutest little streamer from previous seasons made the big shots like Huo Ye let down their guard, all agreeing to adopt the baby and raise it, even going to Ye Qingquan’s house to win favor… Only the cutest cubs can make the big shots do that. Can Little Lan, the food stall guy, do that?]
[No way the food stall kid can do that!]
*
At the “Genius Baby Three and a Half” realm, in front of Ye Qingquan’s apartment.
The wobbly little three-wheeled cart was parked on the side of the road, with the young stall owner energetically slicing roast ducks one after another. The roast oven felt incredibly warm, with bright, warm flames, and the ducks were sizzling with oil, giving off a crispy aroma.
A line had already formed in front of the cart.
Among the queue were a large group of black-clad bodyguards, all tall and sturdy, wearing identical black sunglasses and suits, looking like a professional team.
Many passersby were also drawn in by the smell of the roast duck, but when they saw the long line of bodyguards, they hesitated to approach.
“What’s going on here? Filming a TV show? Is that food stall part of the filming crew’s catering?” “I don’t see any cameras around.” “Eh, never mind, let’s just stay out of it. It might be some criminal group.”
The black-clad bodyguards in line seemed imposing.
But what they said didn’t seem very professional:
“Do you remember what our original mission was?”
“Forgot.” “Me too.”
“It was to catch that little boy and take him back to the Huo family, right? …Do you think the owner of this roast duck stall looks familiar? Could it be…”
After a moment of silence, one of the bodyguards tentatively asked the busy little stall owner:
“Boss, is your name by any chance Lan?”
The little boy was focused on slicing the roast duck and didn’t look up. “No, I’m just an ordinary roast duck boss.”
The bodyguards immediately felt relieved.
The boss said he was just a roast duck boss, so it couldn’t be false, right?!
“He’s so cute and working so hard selling roast duck. How could he be lying to me?”
“The boss can’t be the target of our mission, no way, absolutely not.”
“Oh, there’s no urgent mission. There’s always time for some roast duck.”
The roast duck sold quickly.
The twenty or so ducks in the oven were soon sold out. Many of the black-clad bodyguards who bought the roast duck immediately began eating it by the side. Even Black-Clad Bodyguard Number One gave up resisting and started eating his duck while crouching among the other bodyguards.
He took a big bite.
The bodyguards exchanged glances, seeing the shock and admiration in each other’s eyes.
—The crispy duck skin crackled in their mouths, the golden and fragrant duck oil flowed out, with a slight honey-like sweetness. Beneath the thin, crispy skin was tender, dense duck meat, filling their mouths with an irresistible fresh flavor…
This was so delicious!
“Eat some roast duck to get energy for work,” Black-Clad Bodyguard Number One comforted himself. “I’m the boss, and my brothers are all eating roast duck. I need to join them in this!”
At this moment, there were still some bodyguards who hadn’t gotten their roast ducks.
Looking at the empty roast oven, several of them began to panic, asking in fear:
“Boss, where’s the roast duck? Didn’t it sell out already?”
Little Lan Boss patted his chest and said, “There’s more, there’s more! Just wait a bit. The next batch of roast ducks will be ready in about forty minutes.”
He had only sold twenty roast ducks, and his stock hadn’t even been halfway depleted, let alone the progress of the urgent mission.
When the black-clad bodyguards heard there was still another batch of roast ducks…
They all showed meaningful expressions and clenched their fists.
Beneath the calm surface, tensions were rising.
Many of them lowered their heads with hidden intentions, their expressions varied.
For example, Black-Clad Bodyguard No. 3 quietly took out another phone and sent a message to an unknown number: “Young Master Mu, I’ve found Little Lan Boss. He’s at XX Street, XX Alley, XXX Number. Little Lan Boss is with Mr. Ye.”
The reply came quickly: “Okay, I’ll be there soon. I’ll have the secretary transfer your bonus.”
Looking at the 100,000 yuan that had just been credited to his account, Black-Clad Bodyguard No. 3 clenched his fist and silently gave himself a “yes!”
Nearby.
Black-Clad Bodyguard No. 15 gave No. 3 a suspicious look: “No. 3, who are you texting? You know we’re not allowed to use phones during the mission.”
No. 3 immediately stuffed his phone back into his pocket and awkwardly laughed: “No, no, no, my wife was asking where I was. I was just explaining. Hahaha… You know, I’m under my wife’s control, you’re not unaware of that. Please keep this secret for me!”
No. 15 stared at him with a suspicious gaze for a while.
No. 3 felt uncomfortable under that gaze, breaking into a cold sweat.
After a long pause, No. 15 slowly asked, “You’re not a spy, are you?”
Upon hearing the word “spy,” nearly ninety percent of the black-clad bodyguards within a hundred-mile radius froze.
The bodyguard under the big tree cleared his throat twice.
The bodyguard by the pond tucked his hands into his sleeves.
The bodyguard near the trash can almost fell into the trash heap.
After a while, everyone looked at No. 15 with accusing eyes, condemning him:
“What are you talking about?!”
So the black clad men going be still hungry evenly after eating the roasted ducks…also will Taotie save the day with turning into a dog so that other kids with parents walking by get stunned by the dog and that smell of street stall food roasted ducks?
Haha, so many bodyguards are spies!
Ah ah can’t wait, where’s more ch