The Interstellar Queen of Scavengers

Chapter 45: Chapter 45: Fish Eye

Ji You had just gone offline, and at the same time, Cheng Yu, who had anxiously waited for a week and sent countless emails to Ji You, which all sunk like stones into the sea, also known online as ’Ah Da Takes You Shopping’, the live streamer, had logged in. He checked his mailbox as usual and found nothing but fan letters and some work-related emails, without any reply from Qingyou, the Tao Bao shop owner he was hoping to hear from.

Cheng Yu’s lips curved into a bitter smile, which was uglier than crying.

During this time, Cheng Yu had no interest in live streaming. He spent his days hoping to hit it lucky on Star Network and catch the Soul Artifact Master logging on, but reality had disappointed him countless times...

As soon as Cheng Yu went online, many of his fans noticed and the chat lit up with a flurry of messages.

”Ah Da! Are you streaming today?”

”Tao Xiaobao, you’ve changed. You’re no longer the diligent and earnest Tao Xiaobao you used to be. You’re even delaying updates!”

”How long has it been since your last stream?”

”Ah Da! Start broadcasting! We’re waiting to go shopping with you!”

...

Cheng Yu looked at his fans’ colorful comments with an even more bitter expression. What’s the point in streaming? His path to promotion was completely blocked by others. What’s the point of streaming?! Even if he made more money, it was useless.

Cheng Yu earned money to increase his own strength, so that he could fiercely confront his scumbag dad, stepmother, and wicked little brother...

But now?

There’s no hope with Master Mickey Dodge.

And the mysterious Master he accidentally encountered didn’t even deign to pay attention to him.

Sigh—

Cheng Yu ignored the comments from the audience and crouched down to send another earnest email to ’Qingyou’ Tao Bao’s shop owner, hoping that the Master would deign to reply. Little did he know that his near-harassing emailing method had been mistaken for spam and deleted by Ji You.

Silent mourning—

”Ah Da, no streaming, no income, aren’t you going to eat?”

”Ah Da, you’re really not going to eat?”

”Ah Da, it’s time for dinner...”

In front of the screen, fans started to tease, clamoring for Cheng Yu to start streaming quickly...

Cheng Yu thought: What’s the point of eating? If I can’t get in touch with this mysterious Master, I’m not going to stream, not take on ads, not make money...

Seeing that Cheng Yu didn’t respond, quite a few fans started to tease:

”Tao Xiaobao, could it be that you can’t find any good stuff to shop for, so you’re afraid to stream?”

”Yeah, if you can’t find good stuff, just say it. Why are you afraid to stream?”

”Tao Xiaobao claims to have the ’keen eyes of a hawk’, but I think he’s got the ’eyes of a fish’. I bet all those ’treasures’ he found in his previous streams were pre-arranged, otherwise with Star Network being so vast and so many shops, how could he just ’happen’ to find treasures?” teased the hidden detractors, seizing the opportunity to criticize Cheng Yu without restraint.

On Star Network, Cheng Yu was not the only streamer. There were many other diverse streamers, and since Cheng Yu’s ’shopping’ themed streams became popular, it had led to many copycats. However, these streamers lacked Cheng Yu’s intelligence, extensive knowledge, as well as his sense of humor and wit... As a result, none of their streaming rooms were as popular as Cheng Yu’s—naturally leading to envy from other streamers.

The comments made by these detractors were choreographed by his competition.

At this moment, the detractors tirelessly criticized him:

”Tao Xiaobao is just a fame-seeker without any real talent, who only knows how to hype himself up. Last time was even funnier, when he couldn’t find a topic for streaming, he made up a Grass Seed Fruit Pendant as a sham, claiming it was worth 1000 credit points! That’s just hilarious!”

”1000? Was that pendant made of gold?”

”That just killed me with laughter!”

”I’m laughing so hard, I can barely hold back my brick!”

”Such a publicity seeker!”

...

As soon as the detractors stepped on the scene, they immediately took over the lead. Normally, at this point, Cheng Yu’s fans would have angrily refuted them, but this time Cheng Yu remained silent and unresponsive, not saying a word, leaving his fans uncertain about whether they should immediately speak up in his defense. The fans always felt that, given Cheng Yu’s character, he was definitely not one to suffer in silence. Perhaps he was planning some sort of big move.

Cheng Yu?

Cheng Yu was crouching in the corner, frowning intensely.

Fish Eye?

Was it himself?

Cheng Yu, who had been quietly brooding, suddenly snapped awake by those few words! He remembered a possibility – could the mysterious Master think that he himself was a Fish Eye, completely oblivious, and by mistakenly referring to the Master’s grass seed fruit, valued at a million, as a mere 1000, that’s why the Master was angry and refused to pay him any attention?

Thinking about it...

There might indeed be such a possibility.

Cheng Yu broke out in a cold sweat.

In Cheng Yu’s mind, anyone capable of crafting such ingeniously designed Soul Devices must definitely be a Master, absolutely not some insignificant person, and—Masters are of exalted status, respected by everyone...

Such a great figure, and he himself had foolishly treated his crafted Soul Device as just an ordinary piece of decoration, wouldn’t the Master be furious?

During the live stream, what had he said?

It was absolutely impossible for there to be any treasures, otherwise he would—

Dress in drag?

Eat shit?

...

Cheng Yu raised his hand and slapped his forehead hard! How could he be so stupid? How could he say such nonsensical things about the Master’s work?

If the Master knew—

Right!

The Master must have known, otherwise—there’s no way there would be absolutely no reply.

Thinking of this, Cheng Yu grew even more regretful, and couldn’t help but slap his forehead hard again—

Cheng Yu’s abrupt behavior was witnessed by all the surrounding fans, and everyone became interested all at once, chiming in:

”Hey~ Tao Xiaobao, have you been holding back for so long because you have some Big Move to pull off?”

”Ah Da, do you have something to say?”

”What’s the matter, Ah Da, are you practicing self-harm?”

”Does your head hurt, Ah Da? Want me to help you out? My years of cultivating the Heartless Iron Palm finally come in handy.”

”...”

Above are the comments from the fans, of course, the words from the trolls were rather unpleasant, all sorts of curses, all sorts of bashing...

”Tao Xiaobao, did I hit the nail on the head?”

”Slapping oneself is a sign of guilt.”

”The so-called ’taobao’ is just a pre-arranged script!”

”Tao Xiaobao has nothing to say now!”

”Tao Xiaobao, get out and take your beating!”

While the trolls were raving and the fans were eagerly anticipating, Cheng Yu stood up, looked at his own live stream room—over a million people were watching. His popularity was always very high, and this wasn’t even the peak time yet. A little later, breaking five million viewers was not at all out of the question.

Looking at the screen, Cheng Yu inhaled, exhaled, inhaled, then exhaled again—

After this sequence, Cheng Yu finally spoke up: ”Dear fans, I, Ah Da, am here to make a major decision, I am going to—”