60: Challenge

A few days later, after a series of recruitments and interviews, the company's overall structure had gradually taken shape. Next, it was time for official operations.

Nowadays, in the realm of short-video platforms, Chinese TikTok is undoubtedly a standout, with seven or eight hundred million daily active users—a number unimaginable for foreign online platforms.

As a startup, it was impossible to enter all platforms at once, so Qin Yang chose to focus deeply on the Chinese TikTok platform during the initial phase.

Since Qin Yang intended to use Death Warriors for all the Streamers and content creators, the company was essentially starting from zero during the account-building phase. For other companies, having not even a single big influencer meant this start was practically hell-level difficulty.

But for Peak Entertainment, which possessed Death Warriors, it was a very easy task, especially since Qin Yang had added two more Third-level Death Soldiers to his roster last night.

Unknowingly, a week had passed since the system upgraded to level four. In this new week, the system had refreshed with two more Third-level Death Soldiers.

Third-level Death Soldier: Li Yuan

Skill: Master-level Throwing (Accuracy increased by 50%)

Third-level Death Soldier: Sun Meng (Female)

Skill: Master-level Singing (High notes gain 50% more piercing power)

Seeing these two Third-level Death Soldiers appear, Qin Yang felt greatly comforted. The system really understood his heart; look, the pillars of Peak Entertainment had arrived!

You see, Bai Lu, as the company's Creative Director, had already written several songs. Due to her skills, the quality of these songs was absolutely top-notch. However, among the Death Warriors currently under Qin Yang, there really wasn't a single one with a skill related to singing. This led Qin Yang to consider finding a student majoring in singing to train, but there was no other choice. For Death Warriors without relevant skills, even a million-dollar audio engineer couldn't save their terrible, brassy voices.

The appearance of Sun Meng perfectly filled this gap, and it was always more comfortable using one's own people. Qin Yang was also very much looking forward to seeing what kind of waves a song created by a Master-level singer and a Master-level songwriter would stir up.

As for Li Yuan, possessing the Master-level Throwing skill, it would be even easier for him to break into the mainstream.

Qin Yang's strategic planning for the company's content verticals included sports, fitness, singing, group streaming, and competitive eating (mukbang).

Among these verticals, except for singing, the rest were very well-suited to the characteristics of the Death Warriors.

Take fitness, for example. Any random First-level Death Warrior was a muscular hunk with an eight-pack, full of masculine energy. Furthermore, given their physical fitness, all the equipment in a gym was like toys to them. Using Death Warriors to cultivate this vertical—even if not calling them heartthrobs for mature women—would certainly be enough to capture attention. Moreover, other fitness influencers usually only have one person, while Qin Yang had as many of these Death Warriors with such physiques as he wanted. Just imagine a gym filled with muscular hunks with perfect bodies; how could that scene not attract attention?

Then there was group streaming, which was a very lucrative vertical. As long as the Streamers were pretty or handsome, the big spenders would really tip. In a top-tier group streaming room, a turnover of hundreds of thousands in a single night was effortless.

Next was competitive eating (mukbang). Regarding this vertical, Qin Yang had watched livestreams before and understood the tricks behind them. To describe it in one phrase: eat, vomit, vomit, eat. Of course, there were a few individuals who could actually eat, but the final outcome was usually not great. However, Death Warriors were different; they could truly eat. After all, energy is conserved, and they had ten times the physical constitution of an ordinary person, so the energy they consumed was also far greater than that of an ordinary person.

Take Qin Yang himself as an example. Before he broke through the first genetic lock, his daily appetite was at most two small bowls of rice per meal. Now, he needed to eat at least seven or eight pounds of meat per meal just to sustain his normal daily consumption. And that wasn't even when he was eating to his heart's content.

Just ask, which mukbang influencer nowadays dares to claim they can eat over a dozen pounds of meat in one sitting? Therefore, Death Warriors were also quite well-suited for this vertical.

For the sports vertical, Qin Yang planned to let a few Death Warriors reveal just a little bit of their strength, mainly in track and field and ball games. Thinking back to the past, when Liu Xiang became the first man to win a gold medal in the 110-meter hurdles, breaking the zero-breakthrough for the Great East in track and field sprint events, it was such a glorious moment, and his achievement was worthy of being called a national hero. However, since Liu Xiang, the Great East had been lackluster in various track and field events. If, in such a period, the Death Warriors Qin Yang introduced could achieve some breakthroughs in track and field events, the attention they would garner was something Qin Yang didn't even dare to imagine.

As for ball games, it was only because of Li Yuan's appearance that Qin Yang added it to the plan. Master-level throwing, plus increased accuracy—it would be a waste if such a talent didn't play basketball. Look at Curry in the NBA, who single-handedly started the small-ball era with his insanely accurate three-pointers. Li Yuan's physical fitness went without saying, and with this insane throwing ability, plus the company operating behind him, it was only a matter of time before Li Yuan became famous.

As for football, which had even higher exposure, Qin Yang thought about it and decided against it for now. That thing wasn't something you could just play on the field because you had the ability. In the future, when there was time, he could form a corporate team and go out to crush some newbies.

...

B City Sports University.

On this day, Qin Yang took the company's team and his subordinates, the Death Warriors, by plane to B City, and then took a car directly to the front of this university.

When making short videos, the most important thing is the hook. If he wanted the Death Warriors to become famous quickly in sports, the best way Qin Yang could think of was to crash the venue.

As the top sports university in the Great East, the students here were undoubtedly top-tier talents in sports. There was a meme online that described it quite aptly: "At B Sports, genius is just the threshold to meet me." This showed that the students at B Sports were indeed very outstanding.

Today, Qin Yang's purpose in coming to B Sports was to let the Death Warriors compete with the students of B Sports, thereby making a name for themselves. Uh, although using Death Warriors to bully ordinary people was a bit ungentlemanly, it was indeed the fastest way to become famous. Of course, to make up for it, Qin Yang had also set up some cash rewards as compensation.

B Sports allowed ordinary people to visit freely, as long as they brought their ID cards.

Therefore, Qin Yang and his group entered B Sports without encountering any obstruction.

After entering B Sports, Qin Yang found a student, asked about the training grounds for track and field events, and then led his people over.

The outdoor track and field at B Sports was very large, and at this moment, many students were training under the guidance of their instructors.

Seeing that a class was in session, Qin Yang and his group just watched from the spectator stands. While watching, he also instructed the Death Warriors who had come along today that if there was a real competition later, they must take it easy. As long as they beat everyone to take first place, that would be enough; they shouldn't perform too freakishly.

The Death Warriors nodded repeatedly at the side.

About ten minutes later, class must have ended, as the students began to disperse, and Qin Yang quickly led his people down.

Then, two company employees unfurled a huge banner.

It read: "Long heard that B City Sports University is full of hidden talents, and today we dare to come and spar. We have prepared prize money: if our side loses, we will pay a bonus of 100,000 for one person, 200,000 for two, and so on. Even the losers will receive a consolation prize of 5,000 RMB!"

"Students are welcome to participate enthusiastically. Competition events: short distance, 100 meters, 200 meters, and shot put—three events in total!"