139: Chapter 139 Sixty Thousand People Couldn't Sell Off a Cell Phone

After A Jie finished speaking, the live chat also chimed in one after another.

Although they themselves had never succeeded in Slash for Taobao red packets, A Jie had so many fans, and the number of people was 100% sufficient; there was no issue of not being able to gather enough people.

Soon, people in the fan group started clicking the link from the screenshot one after another to help with Slash. A Jie tapped his phone a few times to refresh, and with each tap, the progress bar surged significantly. Then, he held the phone screen up to the camera again.

"With just over ten people, the progress has already jumped from ninety percent to ninety-eight percent."

There was a hint of obvious excitement in his voice.

"I'm afraid ten more people will be enough."

"It's actually so fast; I didn't expect this."

Looking at the progress on the phone, the live chat was also shocked. If a few dozen people could successfully Slash for a two-thousand-yuan mobile phone, it meant Taobao had really gone all out this time, and previously, it was just their own bad luck.

And this luck of A Jie's was just too exaggerated!

After saying this, A Jie connected his phone to a data cable and cast the phone screen onto the computer in real-time, allowing all the viewers in the livestream to see every change in the progress bar clearly.

After a few more people clicked, the progress bar jumped to ninety-nine percent.

The live chat had already started celebrating in advance, with the whole screen filled with "Congratulations," "Drawing now," and "Streamer, pick me."

But just in the next second.

When the progress bar reached ninety-nine percent, a brand-new prompt box suddenly popped up on the screen.

"The final one percent of progress requires collecting ten diamonds to complete. The five users who clicked just now have helped you collect three diamonds."

A Jie was stunned for a moment.

The live chat was also stunned.

No one expected that there would be a diamond requirement for the final one percent of the progress bar.

But at this moment, they still didn't notice anything wrong. After all, it was just a change in wording; ten diamonds distributed among ten new users was essentially still a matter of one person clicking once.

People in the fan group continued to click the link to help A Jie. In the next few minutes, the number of diamonds started to rise one by one.

Four, five, seven, nine.

Soon, another person in the group clicked the link, and both A Jie and the live chat thought it must have succeeded this time.

The live chat started spamming "Done," "Finally," and "Start the drawing."

But just after A Jie refreshed his phone again.

Another prompt popped up on the screen again.

"The last diamond requires ten red packets to be collected. One red packet has been collected."

By this time, both A Jie and the viewers in the live chat felt that something was not right.

In fact, after this new prompt popped up, the live chat went crazy laughing.

"Damn, there's more?"

"No wonder the progress was so fast just now; it turns out the trap was buried here."

"Is this endless? Red packets nesting diamonds?"

"I'm afraid A Jie doesn't have special luck; it will still take at least five hundred people to successfully Slash, and the thousands of people in the group definitely won't click that much. Just let us do it."

By this time, A Jie was also getting a bit impatient. After nodding at the live chat, he operated his phone a few times.

Soon.

On the casted Taobao phone interface, a sharing QR code appeared. A Jie directly placed the projected phone screen in the center of the live broadcast, allowing all sixty thousand online viewers in the livestream to scan it.

"Brothers, help me out. Can't sixty thousand people Slash for a two-thousand-yuan mobile phone?"

"Everyone click it, it should be fast."

Besides A Jie, the live chat was also saying that there would definitely be no problem this time; with sixty thousand people clicking once each, any diamonds or red packets would be collected.

In reality, it started, and it was about what the live chat expected.

The progress was indeed moving very fast.

The number of red packets rose rapidly, and nine red packets were soon collected. Just as the progress bar was about to finish, a new prompt popped up on the screen.

"You have collected one fragment. Ten fragments can be combined into one red packet."

...

Everyone fell silent. A Jie took a deep breath, his tone becoming a bit heated.

"Continue! I don't believe it!"

...

"Fragments are decomposed. Twenty gem fragments can be combined into one fragment."

...

"You have collected nineteen gem fragments, just one short. Continue inviting new users."

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"Ultimate critical hit! You have collected everything, just ten points short, and you can take the mobile phone!"

...

Finally, after who knows how many decompositions and two hours had passed, A Jie finally collected the last fragment.

At this time.

The progress bar on the screen had already extended to six decimal places!

At this moment, the last fragment was collected through the persistent clicking of the fans.

The long-awaited completion prompt popped up on the screen, and the final spinning refresh had begun.

But the next second.

"Your fragments have been stolen by a mouse. Please try again next time." There was also a tongue-sticking-out emoji at the end of this sentence.

A cartoon mouse popped out on the screen, running across the top of the progress bar while holding a pattern of several gems.

A Jie stared at that mouse for several seconds...

"Damn, they can play like this?"

"Isn't this just pure fraud?"

The live chat had completely exploded by this time, and the scrolling speed was extremely fast.

"Hahahaha, spent two hours and ended up with a mouse. I'm dying of laughter."

"I said it wasn't my bad luck; it's Taobao that has a problem. Taobao never intended to actually give away a mobile phone."

"I was wondering why the comments on the trending searches were so strange; they all felt like bots. It turns out they really were all paid trolls."

"This is too exaggerated, right? Sixty thousand people, and can't Slash for one mobile phone? This is simply worlds apart from Pinduoduo!"

Meanwhile.

Because he was also a bit exhausted.

A Jie unplugged the phone from the data cable and shook his head helplessly at the camera.

"Done playing. Signing off."

The live chat was still spamming wildly.

And at this moment, because there were only sixty thousand viewers in A Jie's livestream, this news didn't spread very widely at first.

But among those viewers who witnessed the whole process, many began to go to other people's livestreams, asking them to also try Slash for Taobao red packets to see if it was the same situation as A Jie's.

There were also viewers who felt this was a traffic code, opening their own livestreams to broadcast Slash for Taobao red packets, and several hundred viewers flooded in.

And more viewers started uploading screen recordings and clips to major platforms.

...

Two hours later, at 10 PM.

A keyword appeared at the bottom of the trending lists on different platforms. At first, the ranking was very low, around fortieth on the trending list, but in less than half an hour, this keyword shot straight to the number one trending spot on all major platforms.

"Sixty thousand people can't Slash for one mobile phone!"

On Weibo, this keyword quickly topped the list with a viral trend.

Clicking in, it was that screen recording clip from A Jie's livestream.

From the progress bar at ninety percent, all the way to ninety-nine point nine nine nine nine percent, and finally that cartoon mouse running across the screen holding gem fragments, the entire process was completely recorded.

The video duration was compressed to a few minutes, but every decomposition, every time it was just one step away, and every time a new threshold popped up during those two hours were all included.

Countless netizens clicked in to see: a sixty-thousand-person livestream, two hours of broadcasting, all viewers helping the streamer Slash together, yet they still couldn't Slash for a Taobao mobile phone.

After watching the video, all netizens were certain that their own failure in Slash really wasn't their own problem!

For a time.

The anger that all netizens had been accumulating over the past few days could no longer be suppressed. They flooded the comment sections, and Taobao's paid trolls couldn't cover it up at all.

"I succeeded with Pinduoduo's Slash, but sixty thousand people can't Slash for one mobile phone with Taobao."

"No wonder I couldn't succeed even after pulling so many people. It turns out it wasn't a luck issue; the mechanism itself makes it impossible for you to succeed."

"This Taobao event was a scam from the start; those screenshots showing success were all paid trolls."

"Sixty thousand people, two hours, six decimal places, and in the end, it was stolen by a mouse. Taobao's operation is truly incredible; they are treating users like monkeys."

Almost overnight.

Taobao's reputation plummeted instantly, and an unprecedented public opinion storm emerged.

You have to know, this didn't just trend on Weibo. Almost all internet platforms were flooded overnight with the news of sixty thousand people failing to Slash for a mobile phone.

However.

Taobao's public relations team also reacted quickly.

Late that night, the official account posted a statement, explaining that it was an internal mechanism misjudgment, thinking that this account was suspected of fake orders, which is why they set up additional thresholds. The mobile phone had already been re-issued to the streamer A Jie.

But the comment section completely didn't buy it.

A misjudgment of fake orders can lead to nesting the entire mechanism into red packets, diamonds, etc.? This is clearly the system's own logic and has nothing to do with a misjudgment.

The next morning, Taobao's stock price plummeted directly at the opening.