Chapter 47: The 47th Day of Livestream Selling
At 9:23 in the morning, Lin Zhao started his livestream.
He had never had much sense of time when it came to starting broadcasts, but recently, for a period of time, he had basically been going live every morning—either sometime after nine or sometime after ten. No matter how many difficulties stood in his way, he would definitely overcome them and start the stream.
The intern looked at the familiar, simple set inside the studio and immediately knew what he was going to stream.
—Teaching everyone the National Fitness Exercise.
But… at this hour?
The intern, whose mind was always full of strange ideas, carefully shuffled a few steps over to an “old” team member and whispered, “Sis, I feel like Consultant Lin doesn’t really understand livestreaming.” Should they remind him that basically no one watched livestreams at this time of day?
The veteran team leader, leaning against the wall with her arms crossed, answered, “That’s because you still don’t understand Lin Zhao.”
Why stream at this hour?
Of course it was so the earlier he started, the earlier he could finish clocking his hours and get off work early. Lin Zhao did not care what time had more viewers. Recently, he had only been cooperating with the experts to test whether streaming three hours a day at a fixed time for one month would trigger a bigger full-attendance reward.
Yes. Ever since he had the country backing him, Lin Zhao had also started earning full-attendance rewards. He was even working toward the next tier up.
1114 was so moved it was about to cry.
But Lin Zhao’s efforts only went that far. Ever since the experiment exploring the upper limit of livestream viewers came to an end, Lin Zhao’s livestream content had very quickly returned to his previous style.
What style was that?
—If he could muddle through, he would absolutely never try hard.
He truly did not like going to work, and he had quite a talent for finding loopholes.
Ever since the expert team developed the idea of having Lin Zhao livestream and lead everyone in cultivation, Lin Zhao had streamed only this one thing for several months in a row. Because, in order to treat his own genetic illness, he had to cultivate every day anyway. Now he could do his own thing and go to work at the same time. It was simply the ultimate two-in-one.
Experts truly deserved to be called experts!
Expert team: …
The livestream mode was also the same as when Lin Zhao used to pack goods in the supermarket warehouse. The main idea was that 1114 filmed what 1114 filmed, while he did his own thing and pretended the camera did not exist.
Oh, no. That was not entirely right. In the first few minutes after going live, the camera still existed for Lin Zhao.
He stood on the familiar yoga mat, wearing athletic clothes that were convenient for movement. Beneath his fluffy silver-white little curls today was still that flawless, extraordinarily beautiful face. His frame was balanced, his lines smooth. Perhaps it was because his cultivation had genuinely achieved some small success, but Lin Zhao gave off a kind of casual comfort.
The Dao follows nature.
This was not especially obvious on camera, but when facing him in person, that state of beauty, far beyond his appearance alone, almost rushed toward people. It made them relax very easily.
However, this person, holding a piece of paper and speaking to the camera, was saying:
“Good morning, everyone. Here are today’s precautions. I am not a medical or fitness professional. The movements demonstrated here are all based on research and modification by the relevant departments. They are suitable for most people. But not everyone. Not everyone. Not everyone. Important things must be said three times.
“If you experience any reaction that you consider uncomfortable, please immediately stop following along and contact your local Special Administration Bureau. Emergency hotline: 111.
“Following along may cause unknown physiological changes, including but not limited to abnormal increases in bone density, local body temperature exceeding 45°C, and increased natural energy readings… Please focus completely. Do not add any personal understanding. Do not ‘I feel like.’ Do not ‘I think.’ Do not have sudden flashes of inspiration!”
This could be understood as a disclaimer. It could also be understood as Lin Zhao genuinely being very afraid that someone would practice recklessly and harm both themselves and others.
Although no such situation had occurred so far. When it came to cultivation, Chinese people were all very serious. Besides, never mind that this basic body-refining manual was already a version that everyone in the cultivation world could practice; after careful national modification, there was even less danger to worry about. Of course, the effects were not that significant either. It only helped everyone adjust the natural energy field around their bodies in a more orderly manner.
Lin Zhao slowly spread his legs shoulder-width apart, bent his knees slightly, and let his arms hang naturally. As his center of gravity sank, he quickly focused all his intention on his movements and almost stopped speaking.
Behind the intern, the senior member’s fingers had already swiftly tapped into the livestream.
Intern: ?
Since they could watch it live in person, why enter the livestream?
But there were quite a few people making the same move as this female senior. He asked quietly, “What is everyone watching?” Before the senior could answer, he was first shocked by the exaggerated number of viewers in Lin Zhao’s livestream. There was no publicity, no lucky-bag event, only Lin Zhao cultivating with full focus, and rows of shopping links listed on the page.
Only after the senior skillfully placed her order did she answer the newcomer in a low voice. Lin Zhao’s follow-along practices were almost the same every time. Watching the video was the same; people could practice whenever they wanted. What everyone was really paying attention to was the newly updated shopping links today.
“Didn’t you notice?”
“Notice what?”
The goods listed in Lin Zhao’s livestream were always practical items where cost-performance mattered more than brand. At first, when people saw all kinds of product links still hanging in Lin Zhao’s livestream, some people had complained, feeling that he was using national support to make money.
In the end, multiple complaints went nowhere.
And after people slowly summarized and discovered the pattern, public opinion underwent a dramatic reversal.
What pattern?
The intern looked at the links and froze. “Huh? This is a really niche snack from my hometown. It’s genuinely delicious and cheap, but not many people know about it. I thought it had gone out of business ages ago. I didn’t expect it to still exist.”
Only after he placed an order did he react and quietly ask the senior, “These unknown brands… are they all in similar situations?”
The senior nodded.
As mentioned before, whenever Lin Zhao needed it, 1114 would help him find more suitable sources of goods.
These sources were often businesses whose product quality was solid, but whose companies were facing losses and difficulty continuing operations.
And this was, in fact, a problem most people encountered when buying things in daily life. If they only recognized brands, the brand premium was too high. If they did not recognize brands, they were easily scammed by unregulated products. Things meant to be eaten required even greater caution. In the end, after careful consideration, they often still chose some random messy result and spent a lot of money while being stingy about it.
But with 1114’s screening, there was no such concern. Its choices were always the best, most suitable, and cheapest at the moment. Of course, they were also goods at the precise window when the seller most needed to sell them.
The viewers in the livestream had not realized this pattern at first.
But there were always smart people who analyzed the listing and delisting of products in Lin Zhao’s livestream and worked out the pattern. He was always selling the highest-quality products and the best-tasting food. Once a merchant started cutting corners after making money, or if the price increase exceeded a reasonable range, Lin Zhao’s side would delist it.
A few times could be called coincidence. But once it happened many times…
People could only think that this was the country stepping in, saving many enterprises that were truly making products with conscience, while also giving ordinary people genuine benefits.
Because the purchase volume was simply too huge, Lin Zhao’s livestream even had to impose purchase limits.
After all, these things were mainly meant to be sold to other planes.
Lin Zhao’s livestream continued. “Pay attention here. Both hands should slowly lift upward from the sides of the body. Don’t rush. Slowly turn your palms upward. If you really don’t know how to mark this movement, just imagine you’re lifting up your family’s cat. A very heavy, very heavy fat cat…”
Lin Zhao’s movements were very slow, doing his best to be relaxed and extended. The muscles in his arms tightened slightly with the movement, but not exaggeratedly. In the room, there was now only the faint sound of his clothes rubbing and his even breathing.
“During this process, feel the stretch in your arms, shoulders, and back. Let your breath follow the movement. Inhale as you lift…”
There was almost no useless chatter. Even these reminders were actually 1114, beside him, coordinating with Lin Zhao’s movements and replaying what Lin Zhao had said before on time.
“This… this blatant laziness, no one has any objections?” The intern was amazed.
“Who would have objections?” the senior asked.
Would the platform object? The platform was now most afraid that Lin Zhao would stop choosing their livestream platform. Among Lin Zhao’s many salaries, one came from the platform’s traffic share. Would the viewers object? First Lin Zhao would have to actually read the viewers’ comments. This salted fish had never watched a replay of his own livestream. Would the expert team object? In fact, this was exactly what the expert team suggested.
The experts were very appreciative of Lin Zhao’s livestreaming style, where he basically ignored the life and death of the audience on the other side of the camera and rarely leaked personal or Blue Star information.
The expert team also had not let Lin Zhao rashly open new trading planes. Because greed ruined digestion, the current policy leaned more toward steady and stable progress: first thoroughly understand the four known planes before considering anything else. In fact, exploration of these four planes had already been going on for some time. The experts’ understanding of the different worlds was also being perfected step by step.
They truly had far too many questions.
For example, one of the simplest: Lin Xiang asked Lin Zhao, “Didn’t you notice? You don’t have time differences with these planes. Is that an adjustment deliberately made by the system, or…?”
Before this, Lin Zhao had never realized this issue at all. As for what the answer was, that was something the experts needed to consider.
There were many similar types of information they needed to obtain, including but not limited to air, soil, microbial samples, judgment of technological strength, military and cultural assessment, signal spectra, continental plates, force-characteristic analysis, and so on and so forth.
As for how to obtain them, of course it was through large-scale livestream selling, updating different product links, and exchanging goods through barter in order to understand the information of each world from all angles and multiple dimensions. Although Lin Zhao did not know how this scattered, all-encompassing mess of selling everything could obtain information, or how the information was obtained.
The expert team had definitely explained it to Lin Zhao, and his younger brother Lin Xiang had also said a lot. For example, the demons in northern Falris had exchanged for many cold-resistant industrial products, proving that the demon domain was now experiencing extremely cold weather and that ordinary people’s magical heating was insufficient to maintain livelihood. Also, with the same industrial products, the value of what the cultivation plane could exchange this month and next month had fallen, proving that the spiritual energy resources there were depreciating…
They had even attempted to infer that a disturbance would occur in a certain large gathering area in Kaman.
And it really happened.
They stitched simple transaction data points together into a holographic map of civilization.
Lin Zhao was amazed by it, but that was the limit. He did not understand the logic chain behind it, nor did he have much interest. He only needed to know that he was cooperating very well.
“The movement must be slow. It must coordinate with your breathing. Concentrate your mind on the circulation of qi and blood. This form mainly exercises our upper limbs, shoulders, and neck. It activates the relevant meridians and helps increase strength and strengthen the bones and muscles…”
Lin Zhao raised both arms above his head, palms facing the sky, feeling his shoulder blades tighten toward the center until a faint, comfortable soreness began spreading along the inner sides of his arms. Then he exhaled long and slowly. His hands seemed to press down an invisible balloon, slowly lowering along the path they had lifted.
Once, twice…
Time passed in the silent practice and dry explanation.
Behind the camera, the intern’s pupils suddenly shrank to the extreme in disbelief. This could not be seen in the livestream. Only on-site could he clearly see that about half a step behind Lin Zhao, in the air—
A semi-transparent figure with slightly blurred edges, yet unusually solid, was hovering there.
“What is that?”
“Law Manifestation of Heaven and Earth,” a senior beside him whispered. “That’s what we all call it.”
No one knew whether it was because Lin Zhao had started cultivation the earliest, or because he truly had talent in this area, but nowadays, when he was about to finish this set of body-refining exercises, strange and divine-looking shadowy outlines would sometimes appear behind him.
That shadowy outline was clearly as refined as carved jade, as if it had been tempered thousands of times. Every inch of its lines contained terrifying explosive power. Pale golden light even faintly overlapped with the trajectory of Lin Zhao’s arm movements during practice, as if it were an extension of his movements, the manifestation of his “intent” and “momentum” under some unknown rule.
And the shadow simply hovered quietly behind Lin Zhao. As he trembled slightly, the edges of the shadow also rippled gently like a pebble dropped into a lake.
It was not a dream.
Nor was it a special effect.
It was more like some kind of spiritual animal.
“Most people think it looks like a tiger, but some people think it’s an enlarged cat,” the senior said.
As for what it actually was, even Lin Zhao himself did not know. Just as he did not know how his test result had come out as S-class from the start. He clearly remembered his younger brother saying that he only had the potential to awaken as high-tier. And high-tier could possibly be A or B.
In any case, as soon as the alarm rang, Lin the salted fish got off work right on time.
12:23. Not one minute more, not one minute less.
The female captain of the security team had already come forward to ask, “Are you eating at the cafeteria today and then going straight home?”
Lin Zhao shook his head. “Today, I’m eating ‘takeout.’”
If there was any inconvenience after handing things over to the country, it was probably that it was not very convenient for Lin Zhao to go out to eat. Never mind security issues; just his extremely recognizable national face was already a little troublesome.
But it did not matter. Qin Xiaoman could “deliver goods to the door.”
Making friends as an adult was not easy either. Lin Zhao was very lucky that Qin Xiaoman had always been his good friend. Now the other party was also part-time his meal buddy.
Although Lin Zhao had handed his golden finger over to the country, the higher-ups would not stop him from continuing to use his golden finger to run his company and make money.
Qin Xiaoman was still his business partner. His current main job was representing Lin Zhao’s company in cooperation with the government, so he often appeared at the Special Administration Bureau, usually at lunchtime, to tell Lin Zhao about the recent changes at Pingtu Youcongmu.
For example, the winery’s wine was a little in short supply. Originally, they were still worried about the sales of spirit wine in the cultivation world. Now Lady Hu had nearly emptied out her sect and still did not have enough ingredients to brew wine. The God of Wealth’s status in the sect had naturally soared all the way up. But even more importantly, the expert team was advising her and helping her plan how to quickly rise to power.
There was also something like: “Wow, did you know? Xiao Shen went back to her hometown to sweep the graves recently.”
“Hm?” Xiao Shen was Qin Xiaoman’s assistant, Shen Han, the one who had chased her dream in the entertainment industry but eventually gave up because she did not want to lose weight. “What happened to her? Did she run into some trouble?”
“Not really. I’m just telling you gossip.” Hadn’t she always regretted that no one in her family had awakened as an ability user? Although the country repeatedly promoted the idea that abilities should not be forced, that things should happen naturally, and that everyone had value, humans always had an instinctive pursuit of becoming stronger. Shen Han was no exception. “Turns out, this time when she took leave and went back to her hometown to sweep the graves, she found one.”
“Who?”
“The ancestral grave.”
Lin Zhao: “…Huh?”
In the literal sense, the ancestral grave manifested a spirit.
When Shen Han devoutly hoped her ancestors would bless her with an ability, preferably something like being able to eat without gaining weight, a line of large characters slowly appeared on the tombstone:
Can’t bless you with that. Work hard yourself.
Author’s Note:
Today, the gong still only lives in the mini-theater. (This is also a sentence I saw while scrolling short videos. It feels very suitable for him—not.)
Carlos: Lin Zhao ignored you again?
Reinhardt: Thankfully, the one not loved is me. If it were him, watching him suffer like this, how much pain would I be in?
Carlos: …
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