Completely different from the brutal scene in Wanrenzhan’s livestream just now, this livestream was practically peaceful pastoral life incarnate.

From far away, all they could see was a giant fish moving steadily across the sea.

No—zooming in closer, He Yu’s thin figure appeared atop the giant fish’s head. He sat there with one knee raised, glasses resting on the bridge of his nose. The rose-gold frame reflected a soul-stealing gleam beneath the sunlight.

He sat there so calmly, basking in the sun. One hand held the belt, while the other flipped over... fish jerky drying on top of the giant fish’s head.

Whenever the giant fish stopped moving, he tossed out a fish.

Giant Fish: ...

Giant Fish: Growth requires food. Even small fish cannot be wasted.

So it swam forward and swallowed the little fish.

The owner of the livestream used dried fish to lure the giant fish onward. Whenever they encountered schools of fish, the giant fish inhaled them like a storm, while He Yu performed extreme maneuvers, hooking fish with the belt and dragging them onto the giant fish’s head.

His body bent into eye-popping positions, snagging fish from impossibly tricky angles without attracting the giant fish’s attention in the slightest.

The sunlight was bright and warm. Small dried fish were spread across the giant fish’s head, strung together with yarn.

Oh, and the yarn had been unraveled from his sweater. The long-sleeved sweater had now become short sleeves, yet it still looked stylish, completely unable to diminish his astonishing appearance.

He lounged lazily beneath the sun, hooking fish with one hand while flipping the drying fish over with the other.

Mm. Peaceful years indeed.

The giant-fish boat was also extremely obedient.

Viewers who had just entered the livestream: “???”

They looked at this livestream, then switched to the neighboring blood-soaked livestream where people were fighting giant fish covered in wounds...

The audience cracked.

—This operation was fucking outrageous!!

After watching the neighboring livestream, they realized how ferocious giant fish were. Then after entering contestant 2333’s livestream, they realized just how stupid those ferocious giant fish were.

He controlled it so effortlessly that it made the neighboring livestream look... deeply unnecessary.

People entering the livestream instantly flooded the screen—

“Who is this guy? Three minutes, I want all his information!”

“How the hell is he doing this? Why can he control the giant fish so easily?”

“Does he have some kind of special ability?!”

“Very good, trash planet He Yu, I’ll remember you.”

...

Meanwhile, more and more discordant comments began appearing in Wanrenzhan and the others’ livestream—

“Wanrenzhan got injured, Annie already used up their only healing medicine, but honestly... dealing with giant fish doesn’t seem like it needs to be this difficult...”

“That bizarre 2333 livestream next door is making me question reality!”

“This fish is stupid beyond belief!! Fighting it is literally a waste!”

...

Those comments attracted even more attention. Following the clues, people flooded into He Yu’s livestream. Some were neutral observers, but many were fans of Wanrenzhan and the others.

The fans immediately mocked angrily—

“He’s just playing little tricks. He won’t last long.”

“This is the brutal Top Talent Show. Only combat strength and force can make it to the end. Petty cleverness is useless.”

“And what’s the most important thing during preliminaries? Landing ashore and equipment! Killing giant fish drops gear!”

“I bet this guy won’t survive much longer. Trash from a garbage planet without even having citizenship. How could he compare to contestants from our Federation Main Planet?”

“Just wait to get killed. There’s a guy named Keli Hai in the neighboring livestream specifically hunting trash-planet contestants, hahaha. He just killed a Blue Star contestant. Go watch how hilariously they cried and begged for mercy!”

...

“Bang!”

Ye Kaijun slammed his cup onto the table in fury and cursed, “Isn’t it just Federation citizenship? We’re all human, so what gives them the right to think they’re superior?!”

Wei Jiaguo clenched his fists tightly in anger as well.

Nearby, Zheng Ke darkly scrolled through Blue Star’s online discussions. The trending topics had already been completely dominated. Without exception, everyone was furious—furious over Blue Star people being brutally murdered, furious over Federation viewers mocking He Yu and the Blue Star behind him.

—Even though they themselves didn’t think highly of He Yu either.

After a long while, Wei Jiaguo loosened his fists and took a deep breath.

“Blue Star’s current gap compared to other planets is indeed huge. But their human history exceeds ours by tens of thousands of years. Their civilizations originated far earlier than ours. We lost because of time. As long as we are given enough time, we are no worse than any other race.”

After a pause, he continued:

“It’s just unfortunate for these contestants. They are Blue Star’s first people to come into contact with extraterrestrial civilizations. They are destined to endure more danger and ridicule... but those days will not last forever. I believe in Blue Star. I believe in our Blue Star contestants.”

His aged face carried stubborn resilience.

Ye Kaijun nodded heavily.

“Exactly! They mock He Yu, but they’re all paying attention to him. His viewer count has consistently remained in the third viewing circle, and now it’s even showing signs of approaching the second circle!”

This was a level of performance contestants from many other planets couldn’t even achieve!

However...

Blue Star’s leaders felt incredibly conflicted.

They never could have imagined that during the beginning of the preliminaries, Blue Star’s best-performing contestant would actually be He Yu—the person they had only dragged in to fill numbers because of his face...

Zheng Ke said, “He Yu has already drawn part of the attention toward Blue Star. They curse ‘trash planet,’ but they definitely saw the words ‘Blue Star’ too. We still have Bo Jingshan, Zhao Pingqi, Gao Jianming, and the others. Their performances are also quite good, and they’ve gained some attention.”

Thinking of it that way made them feel somewhat better.

Though unfortunately for He Yu...

He currently possessed very impressive popularity, but in the end, this was still a competition that valued strength.

Compared to everyone else, He Yu was still too weak.

Of course, they weren’t making this judgment purely from imagination. The competition had character panels, including name, gender, age, height, weight, and so on. After that came equipment, abilities, and combat power ratings.

According to experience from previous years, contestants with combat power ratings above 200 had a chance of reaching the later finals.

As for anyone below 100, unless protected by top experts, they wouldn’t even survive the preliminaries.

He Yu’s equipment consisted only of flashy but impractical glasses and clothing. Therefore, his combat power rating represented his raw, original strength—

2 points.

Pathetically low.

Zheng Ke shook his head.

 The livestream comments disappeared again.

But it didn’t matter.

As long as He Yu knew cameras were recording him from every angle, as long as someone was constantly watching him, he felt wonderful.

Look at him.

Let everyone watch him. Let everyone stare at him.

The audience now was still too small. His fame was still too low.

Thinking this, He Yu lowered his eyes slightly, depths unfathomable within them.

When he raised them again, a faint smile rested on his face. He lifted a hand and pushed up his glasses with his middle finger. His gaze swept across the giant fish’s head covered in countless fish before turning forward, eyes narrowing slightly toward the direction of the rising sun.

Out on a sea like this, only the sun could guide direction.

The giant fish continued moving forward. During daytime, it liked staying near the surface. Whenever it wanted to stop to sunbathe or rest, its back would “itch,” or food would suddenly appear ahead of it...

Leaving it no choice but to keep moving forward.

Movement consumed tremendous amounts of energy, and so it needed to eat. Thus, it continuously advanced, continuously hunting food.

It had no idea the amount of fish jerky drying atop its head was steadily increasing.

Bullet comments:

“...I’m speechless. This fish is unbelievably stupid!!”

No one knew how much time had passed before the sun climbed overhead and new movement finally appeared upon the tranquil sea.

“Boom—”

“Bang bang!!”

“Clang clang clang!!”

He Yu lifted his head to look over.

Under the sunlight, his delicate and beautiful face looked so pale it seemed almost transparent, as though even his pores and fine hairs did not exist. Smooth and flawless like jade.

He narrowed his eyes. The distance was too great; he could only vaguely hear sounds without seeing clearly.

Then the bullet comments suddenly appeared before him—

“...Why does that sound weirdly familiar?”

“I think so too. Feels like I’ve heard it somewhere before.”

“!!! That’s where Wanrenzhan and the others fought the giant fish!!”

“Holy shit, why did 2333 bring the giant fish over here?! We’re doomed!”

“Stop calling him 2333. He has a name. He Yu.”

...

A faint flicker passed through He Yu’s eyes.

Then he curled his lips upward, his husky voice pleasant to the ear.

“Oh? There’s some activity. Let’s go take a look.”

【Don’t go!! That’s where Federation experts are fighting giant fish! You tiny weakling, why are you joining the chaos?!】

Countless people screamed in the comments.

Whether it was the Federation experts or that giant fish, dealing with He Yu would be absurdly easy.

This was a competition with only one victor. Contestants were enemies destined to slaughter one another. Especially Wanrenzhan—the previous champion. He had killed countless people and was notoriously ruthless.

Both Federation viewers and Blue Star viewers were panicking.

Federation viewers: “Idiot looking for death.”

Blue Star viewers: “AHHH GET OFF THE GIANT FISH AND RUN!!”

Some viewers from Wanrenzhan’s livestream immediately switched back over.

The situation there actually looked fairly good.

The giant fish was powerful, but Wanrenzhan and the others were Federation elites. Even with insufficient weapons and resources, dealing with a preliminary-stage “mini-boss” still wasn’t overly difficult.

Especially since they already possessed equipment dropped from the previous giant fish they killed.

This giant fish was already severely wounded. Blood stained the surrounding seawater completely red. Wanrenzhan, Annie, Tang Ke, and the others were also drenched in blood—some their own, some belonging to the giant fish.

Wanrenzhan breathed heavily, tightening his grip on the axe.

“One last hit. Everyone, together!”

The moment he spoke, everyone moved simultaneously.

The giant fish also seemed to realize these people wanted its life. Something flashed within its scarlet eyes as it suddenly opened its massive jaws—

“ROOOAR!”

A fish had actually let out a roar.

And not just any roar—a horrifyingly shrill one.

Wanrenzhan and the others’ expressions changed dramatically!

The giant fish had entered a berserk state. If it had a health bar, then at the moment of that roar, the bar would have suddenly lengthened.

It was forcibly increasing its combat power at the cost of its own life!

—This revenge-driven giant fish intended to drag them down with it.

“Retreat!!” Wanrenzhan suddenly shouted.

Tang Ke gritted their teeth. “Fall back! This berserk state won’t last long!”

The group that had just been preparing to charge instantly switched into retreat.

Meanwhile, the giant fish completely ignored its wounds and pain as it lunged forward. Its blood-filled maw opened wide, incomparably savage and furious. The atmosphere throughout the livestream instantly became suffocatingly tense.

At that moment, a group of viewers suddenly flooded into the livestream, frantically posting comments—

“AHHH HOLY SHIT!! 2333 brought another giant fish over!!”

“Run! He Yu brought a fish with him! That giant fish isn’t weaker than this one!”

“My god, I don’t even dare imagine what’s about to happen.”

...

Wanrenzhan and the others’ livestream currently had the highest viewer count in all of Top Talent Show. After seeing those comments, they also spotted a shadow approaching from the distant sea.

Instantly, everyone’s breathing stalled.

Meanwhile, more people switched into He Yu’s livestream and began cursing immediately—

“Idiot! Looking for death! Don’t drag everyone down with you!!”

“Hurry up and fuck off, trash-planet contestant! If you get Wanrenzhan and the others killed, I’ll curse you to death!”

“What trash planet did this idiot come from? Combat power rating of 2, and he still dares approach? He’s even been continuously luring the giant fish toward the battlefield using fish?!”

...

He Yu swept his gaze across the comments insulting him, the corners of his lips curling upward slightly.

His eyes looked toward the blood-red center ahead.

With complete calmness, he tossed another strip of dried fish in that direction.

And at this moment, the giant fish had already smelled blood.

It no longer needed his bait.

Accelerating violently, it charged straight toward them.

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