Super Zoo

Mr. Zhang fell silent for a moment, his mind rapidly calculating the gains and losses of benefit involved.

Online insults hurled between netizens, the so-called flame wars that are common on the Internet, happen countless times every day. Many celebrities, even A-listers, even treat it as a 'shortcut' to fame. Often a flame war turns a lukewarm celebrity into an overnight sensation through being cursed at.

If the fans of the two platforms really engage in a large-scale flame war, it is essentially similar to the fans of two celebrities engaging in a feud on Weibo... Given the massive number of fans from both platforms, it would certainly cause quite a stir. Moreover, people who often go online tend to have friends and classmates who also like to spend a lot of time on the internet. This way, it amounts to free publicity.

Of course, this might cause a certain disturbance, but such a disturbance can be controlled, or rather, the benefits of the disturbance are quite substantial! This could be seen from the recent reports from Nana's room.

Boiling Platform is a top livestream platform in the country, and it certainly has many competitors. Those competitors, in their bid to increase their visibility, are willing to go to any length, even daring to do something obviously illegal like livestreaming conception. In the end, it would just result in banning a single streamer, while the platform behind the streamer suddenly gets a lot of attention.

Compared to directly engaging in illegal acts to grab attention, instigating online flame wars carries much less risk.

The zoo was just the kind of 'opponent' worth targeting, with high visibility but not influential enough to be untouchable—perfect as a stepping stone.

Just as Suming had thought earlier, businessmen do not obey the law out of goodness but because the cost of breaking it is too high. When the benefits far outweigh the costs, Mr. Zhang's answer was practically ready to come out.

"Well, Boiling Platform officially hopes all streamers and viewers will abide by the law and not insult or attack others online. But as you said, the viewers are independent individuals, and the platform can't really force any restraint."

What he meant was that the platform would not interfere; it was up to Nana to handle things. If anything really happened, at most, the platform would bear some supervisory responsibility, not the principal responsibility.

"I understand. I'll go tell the other streamers right now, so they can tell their fans to be restrained and not to join in the flame wars between Boiling and the zoo," she said.

Nana felt extremely proud of herself for coming up with such a plan. Not all the people from other rooms might know about the flame war, but as long as the streamers started fanning the flames a bit, more new recruits would undoubtedly join the fray.

The two of them were in agreement.

"Then I'll get on it," Nana said, in a great mood, eager to start her grand plan as she stood up, ready to leave the office.

"Wait a moment."

After getting down to business, Mr. Zhang suddenly dropped his serious facade, transforming into a different person, with a sleazy smile that everyone understood, and patted the armrest of his executive chair, asking, "This armrest feels rather comfortable to sit on, doesn't it?"

Instantly catching on, Nana twisted her waist around the desk and sat directly on Mr. Zhang's lap, giggling, "But it's not as comfortable as sitting on your lap, Mr. Zhang..."

...

"Despicable, absolutely despicable!"

Suming got off the high-speed train and turned to look at the carriage, muttering a few curses. On his journey from Yangchuan City to Jiangjin City by bullet train, the couple sitting next to him had been kissing with no regard for anyone else around them.

God damn it, for nearly an hour, those two barely stopped for breath, making smacking sounds with their saliva, and that guy's hands were restlessly fondling beneath the girl's T-shirt.

Didn't they get tired? Weren't they thirsty? Was there no sense of public decency left at all? If they couldn't stand it, why didn't they just go get a room? If they couldn't afford a hotel, they could find some wilderness, or even resolve it in a KFC bathroom if needed. Causing such a scene on a train, what was that supposed to be?

Ordinarily, other people getting intimate, even if they decided to have a go in the aisle of the high-speed train, was none of Suming's business. But these two were sitting right beside Suming, and people in the entire carriage couldn't stop looking in their direction from start to finish. With only three seats in a row, and these two occupying two, Suming had no choice but to sit awkwardly to the side.

It was a pity there wasn't a single animal on the train, not even a mosquito to be found; Suming couldn't even play dirty to split them up.

Rarely traveling by train instead of driving or riding a horse, Suming had spent almost the entire journey blushing with embarrassment.

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"At least this proves that I still have a sense of shame,"

Thinking this made me feel a bit better.

I took a taxi to the headquarters of the Boiling Platform. After the call with Mr. Zhang, Suming didn't feel too confident, so he simply made the trip to Jiangjin City by car. With the intercity high-speed rail connecting the two cities, it only took a morning to commute between Jiangjin and Yangchuan Cities, so it was quite convenient.

Arriving at the office building where Boiling Platform was located, there were various company logos on the stone stele at the entrance of the tall building. The Boiling Platform's logo featured a leaping flame with the silhouette of a graceful dancing woman within.

Ninth floor.

He pressed the elevator button, and after a moment, the elevator doors opened. Once everyone inside had exited, Suming, along with a few others waiting for the elevator, stepped in.

Just as he was about to press the button for the ninth floor, Suming suddenly caught a glimpse of a woman who had just left—her back looked strikingly familiar—through the slowly closing gap of the elevator doors.

"What a coincidence?"

...

After Nana left the Boiling Platform headquarters, she was busy the entire afternoon, contacting over a dozen Boiling Platform broadcasters, both familiar and not so much.

Who wouldn't want to jump at the chance to become famous?

That night, the entire Boiling Platform seemed to unanimously discuss one topic.

"The zoo dares to bully us? Brothers, follow me, let's blow them up!"

"My sword is already thirsting for blood!"

"Round up more people; those zoo people are numerous, a bunch of mix..breeds!"

"Scared of what, I'll take on ten by myself!"

"Here's a screenshot for you guys, people at the zoo calling us brainless!"

"F**k, I'm going to the zoo tomorrow to wait for them, and I'll slay those zoo bastards!"

"Supplying pesticides en masse, let's poison all their animals! Hahaha, what will they watch then!"

Under the purposeful manipulation of the broadcasters, the issue had escalated from Nana seeking justice to the Boiling Platform being 'bullied' by the large numbers of the zoo platform.

Nana was very pleased with the current situation. She sneered inwardly, 'As expected, a bunch of idiots; just a little provocation and they're willing to lay down their lives for me.' Yet on her face, she put on a look of fear, "Brothers, please don't be impulsive, okay? Let Nana dance for you all..."

She was wearing very little in front of the camera. Just as she stood up and was about to dance, she suddenly felt a slight itch on her leg.

"Slap!" She hit it hard, ending up with a hand full of blood.

Strange, the air conditioner is on, where did the mosquito come from?