51: Chapter 51: Explosive Program Effects

Inside the livestream, a scene that everyone was incredibly familiar with appeared.

The chat paused for a moment.

Then, an overwhelming flood of question marks drowned the entire screen.

"？？？？？？"

"Didn't he end the stream?! Didn't he say this game was trash?!"

"Holy crap, am I seeing things?!"

"Why is Old C playing league of legends instead of dota after ending the stream?"

"Is dota work, and league of legends life?"

"No way, I thought the people praising league of legends online were paid, turns out the ones bashing it were the paid ones?"

There were still over a hundred thousand viewers in the livestream who hadn't left.

Some were just about to close the page, their fingers hovering over the screen, frozen in shock.

Some had already started frantically taking screenshots.

The chat was refreshing so fast that it was impossible to read individual messages; all one could see was a blur of question marks and exclamation points mashed together.

But some of Old C's hardcore fans stood up.

"Don't be so quick to call it a plot twist; maybe Old C is just checking to see how trash this game really is?"

"Exactly, right, didn't someone play a trash game several times just to write a review before? Old C must want to confirm it again."

"Let's wait until he finishes this game before saying anything; don't jump to conclusions so early."

The chat calmed down slightly, but question marks were still floating by.

The screen had finished loading.

Old C didn't hesitate at all when selecting his champion.

LeBlanc.

The exact same champion as the previous game.

The full view of Summoners Rift unfolded on the minimap.

Old C controlled LeBlanc as she walked out of the fountain, bought items, and headed to the middle lane.

This time.

His entire demeanor was completely different from when he started the stream.

When he started, he had been leaning back in his chair, commenting in a nonchalant tone while playing, occasionally picking up his water cup for a sip.

But now.

He was leaning slightly forward, his back at least ten centimeters away from the chair.

His eyes were fixed on the screen without blinking.

The chat noticed this detail.

"He's sitting up straight."

"Old C only sits this straight when he's playing seriously."

"This is the same posture he uses when climbing ranks in dota."

Old C's LeBlanc walked to the middle lane; her opponent was Ryze.

Both sides began laning.

He didn't speak, but his mouth was moving.

It was like he was talking to himself.

The chat turned up the volume, and they could faintly hear what he was saying.

"Without denies, I can really focus on laning."

"The projectile speed of this skill is faster than dota; I need to predict movement in advance."

"The mechanic of not being able to see into bushes is actually not bad."

His tone was very soft, as if he were talking to himself, not explaining to the audience.

This was his habit when playing games; talking to himself helped increase his focus.

But this time.

Everyone in the livestream heard his words.

The chat exploded again.

"What did he say?!"

"He just said that having no denies was trash, and now he's saying he can focus on laning?!"

"So he really thinks this game is good!"

"Everything during the earlier stream was just an act!"

Soon, a wave of minions pushed to the river entrance.

The opposing Ryze used Flash to crowd control Old C's LeBlanc, and the jungler also flashed out from the nearby bush; LeBlanc's health dropped instantly.

But in this situation.

Old C remained calm, constantly moving to dodge skills while leading the enemy jungler back under the tower, using the tower's damage to cripple the opponent. The opponents gave up on the gank and prepared to leave, with the jungler re-entering the bush.

But suddenly.

LeBlanc used Flash followed by W, Distortion, then cast a chain into the bush blind, returning to her original position while the chain was still extending.

The next moment, she landed the E on the low-health jungler blind, securing the kill.

Old C's LeBlanc was also left with a sliver of health.

One versus two, another counter-kill with a sliver of health!

Old C sprang up from his chair.

The chair slid backward and hit the wall with a dull thud.

He raised both hands, his whole body trembling slightly from excitement.

"Awesome!"

"Two versus one and you still got counter-killed, do you even know how to play?!"

He shouted, his voice many times louder than when he started the stream.

Moreover, throughout the entire one-versus-two, Old C's body kept trembling from excitement, and the desk was rattling.

All emotions erupted completely with that one shout of "Awesome!"

The chat wasn't just spamming anymore.

The chat was exploding.

"Did he jump up from his chair?"

"He wasn't even this excited when he got a pentakill in dota!"

"So it really was a hit piece earlier! This game isn't that bad at all!"

"A game that can make Old C this excited, can it be trash?"

"Record this, record this, this segment is explosive program material!"

...

Meanwhile.

Douyu headquarters.

The operations assistant in charge of coordinating with Old C had already discovered something was wrong.

He stared at the screen of Old C's livestream in the backend, his expression quite ugly.

A colleague nearby leaned over to take a look.

"Didn't Old C end the stream?"

"He forgot to end the stream."

The operations assistant's voice was a bit dry.

"He's currently streaming, playing league of legends."

The colleague was stunned for a beat.

"What?"

"He turned off his camera himself, thinking he'd ended the stream, but the livestream wasn't closed."

"I thought he was just trying to create content, wanting to deliberately bash league of legends again, but now I know, he really forgot to close the stream!"

The operations assistant picked up his phone, found Old C's number, and dialed.

Busy signal.

He dialed three times, all busy signals.

He remembered that Old C had a habit of putting his work phone on airplane mode when playing games.

"Can't get through?" The colleague beside him was also stunned; he wasn't responsible for Old C, so he didn't know Old C's habit.

"What do we do?"

"What else can we do? Ban him immediately!"

Seeing that the call wouldn't go through.

The operations assistant had no choice but to do it himself; there was no other way, his voice gritted through his teeth.

...

Meanwhile.

Inside the livestream at this moment.

The direction of the chat had completely changed.

"Did you guys see Old C's whole body shaking when he got that counter-kill just now?"

"Saw it clearly, he jumped up from his chair and shouted 'Awesome' after getting the kill; I've watched his streams on Douyu for three years, and I've never seen him like this."

"So league of legends is this fun?"

"No way, this plot twist is too dramatic."

"I was wondering why all those streamers were so uniform in their opinions, one calling it trash and everyone else doing the same; it turns out they all took paid hit pieces."

On the screen, Old C's LeBlanc had already bought items and returned to the lane.

He was still talking to himself.

"This skill combined with Flash has a very long displacement distance."

"The build path is also very clear; no need to be as conflicted as in dota."

The chat scrolled row after row of 'hahaha'.

"He's still analyzing!"

"Why didn't he say these things during the earlier stream?"

"Secretly researching after ending the stream, then bashing it as trash when streaming; is this something a human would do?"

And just as the chat was discussing frantically and the number of viewers in the livestream surged back to two hundred thousand.

The next instant.

The livestream screen went black.

[Current livestream has been banned!]

Looking at this suddenly appearing notification, the chat in the box below exploded again.

"Holy crap, they just banned it like that?"

"I was still a bit skeptical earlier about whether Old C really took money to bash league of legends, but now I can be sure, 100% he took money!"

"Can't reach Old C, so they just banned the livestream; it's a classic case of 'the thief has a guilty conscience'—it really was a hit piece."

"Being able to directly ban a livestream that didn't violate any rules proves that this hit piece is absolutely related to Douyu!"

"This segment is definitely the most classic moment in the streaming world this year!"

Although the livestream was banned.

The chat in the room below didn't stop.

Some people had already started uploading the screen recordings to Weibo and Bilibili.

Just half an hour later.

A topic surged to number one on the Weibo trending list.

"Old C forgot to end stream, attitude toward the same game completely different before and after?"

Followed by a deep red 'Explosive' tag.