Only now did everyone understand why He Yu had strung the dried fish together with yarn...

It was so that even while fighting, he could still keep the dried fish in his hand!!

The comments exploded.

At this moment, they had no choice but to applaud this man.

On the screen before them was He Yu’s pale, handsome face. The terrifying viewer count in the upper-left corner declared the current popularity of this livestream. On their phones were Blue Star’s trending topics, where Blue Star netizens flooded the comment sections with excitement.

Wei Jiaguo took a deep breath. Slowly lowering his phone, he smiled faintly.

“This He Yu...”

Zheng Ke opened his mouth and continued the sentence:

“He’s truly unexpected.”

Not only unexpected to Blue Star, but unexpected to the entire Universe Federation audience.

The giant fish was still devouring the dead giant fish. After retrieving all the equipment, He Yu carried his dried fish back onto the giant fish’s head.

Meanwhile, Wanrenzhan’s team had finally repaired their leather boat. They stared warily toward the giant fish, breathing heavily, bodies tense and fully on guard.

Annie spoke in confusion:

“What’s going on? Why did that giant fish suddenly start eating giant fish meat?”

Giant fish did not eat giant fish.

That was part of the setting.

In fact, many giant fish even traveled together. The giant fish that had just died came specifically to avenge its companion.

From the moment they discovered the berserk giant fish and retreated, to the arrival of the second giant fish, despair had already risen in their hearts. They had even begun secretly planning how to scatter and escape individually when the situation turned hopeless...

Then the giant fish started fighting each other.

The berserk giant fish lost, and the newly arrived giant fish ignored them entirely, happily eating the berserk giant fish instead.

The situation had changed so suddenly that they were completely bewildered.

“Pah.” Tang Ke spat out a mouthful of bloody saliva. “Forget it. The boat’s fixed. Let’s leave now. That giant fish is about to finish eating. We should get away before it turns its attention to us.”

“What about the equipment?” Annie asked.

Wanrenzhan inhaled deeply.

“We approach it from behind and search for the equipment while it’s eating.”

Tang Ke frowned. “But that’s too dangerous. The giant fish—”

Wanrenzhan turned and looked at them sharply, his gaze cold and cutting.

“Equipment is extremely important. Even if we can land without it, isn’t the entire reason we joined this competition for equipment? The preliminaries are just appetizers. The later stages are truly terrifying. If we don’t take equipment now, we’ll regret it later.”

Tang Ke froze.

Wanrenzhan snorted coldly.

“Or you can leave now.”

This was a slaughter competition. There were no true teammates.

Especially not for Wanrenzhan, the previous champion. He cooperated with teammates while simultaneously guarding against them.

Tang Ke stopped talking.

They knew very well that if they chose to leave now, Wanrenzhan would leave their corpse behind.

The group carefully steered the boat closer to the giant fish.

If they did not risk searching for equipment now, then later the equipment would drift away or sink into the sea forever.

Compared to equipment, what was a little danger?

This had always been a dangerous competition. Wanrenzhan believed his decision was perfectly reasonable.

However—

The comments in his livestream had gone silent.

Even his fans had fallen silent.

Comments: “......”

—Bro, stop searching. The equipment’s already been picked clean.

—Did none of you notice there’s a human on top of the giant fish?!

That guy’s jumping around all over the place. How are you all missing him?!

Wanrenzhan and the others could not see the comments, so they continued approaching the giant fish.

“SMACK—”

The giant fish’s tail slammed against the sea surface.

Wanrenzhan and the others raised one arm to block the spray while gripping weapons tightly with the other. Their bodies tensed further, growing increasingly vigilant.

Annie and Tang Ke searched for equipment, but after sweeping their eyes across the area, all they saw was red seawater and chunks of flesh.

Nothing else.

Wanrenzhan frowned.

Suddenly, Tang Ke grabbed him hard.

Wanrenzhan was just about to get angry when Tang Ke urgently pointed toward the giant fish’s head, stammering:

“Th-th-th-there’s someone there!!”

Everyone froze.

Instinctively, they followed the direction of Tang Ke’s finger.

The giant fish had already eaten its fill.

He Yu raised a hand and casually patted one of its wounds, his voice lazy and husky.

“Alright, big fish. Let’s keep going.”

Getting slapped directly on a wound obviously hurt.

The giant fish instinctively flicked its tail.

The tail smashed against the sea, and Wanrenzhan’s group behind it was instantly overturned by the sudden “attack.” Their boat flipped completely, sending all of them crashing into the water in an utterly miserable state.

He Yu glanced at them briefly, meeting their dumbfounded eyes for a short moment.

Then he calmly withdrew his gaze.

Riding atop his obedient giant fish, He Yu departed leisurely. Having eaten its fill, the giant fish was in a fairly good mood. Its tail smacked cheerfully against the water—

Da da da.

Happily carrying He Yu away.

The massive silhouette and the tiny figure atop its head gradually disappeared into the distance.

Wanrenzhan: “???”

Annie, Tang Ke, and the others: “???”

They remained floating in the water, completely stunned, their faces filled with the same question—

【Who the hell was that guy? Where did he come from??】

The entire Blue Star audience burst into laughter instantly.

Blue Star’s number one trending topic immediately changed to—

Little Friend, Do You Have Many Question Marks?

-

Wanrenzhan’s livestream fell into an extremely strange silence.

The brief clash with contestant 2333 He Yu had shocked everyone. Like the protagonist of the livestream himself, they still had not recovered mentally.

The impact had been too overwhelming.

They needed time to process it.

After a long while, someone finally commented:

“Honestly, this 2333 He Yu guy is fucking amazing. He made giant fish eat giant fish and stole the equipment for himself!”

“So this counts as snatching equipment from the previous champion, right?”

“His moves were way too insane. The whole thing was so intense that I was too nervous to watch carefully. I’m gonna replay it later and analyze it properly.”

“Seriously though, when 2333 looked at the completely confused Wanrenzhan just now... I kinda feel like He Yu won that exchange hard.”

...

The moment those comments appeared, the rest of Wanrenzhan’s livestream exploded.

“Lol. Snatching things from Wanrenzhan? Why not exaggerate more and say he can beat Wanrenzhan too?”

“Come look, everyone! Unknown trash-planet contestant with a combat power of 2, hahaha!”

“This guy has no shame. He was obviously just scavenging leftovers, okay? Did he kill the giant fish himself? Wanrenzhan and the others had already beaten it nearly to death!”

“Exactly. He just got lucky. If he’s so capable, let’s see him make landfall. Let’s see him pass the preliminaries.”

“Trash Federation program. Why even invite embarrassing trash-planet contestants?”

...

Wanrenzhan and Annie’s support levels were far beyond anything He Yu could compare to.

This competition’s audience worshiped strength. Even ordinary viewers naturally favored Wanrenzhan’s group over He Yu.

Praising He Yu’s earlier performance was one thing.

Comparing him to Wanrenzhan and the others?

Heh.

Thus, the few comments praising He Yu were quickly drowned out completely.

Of course, some spectators discussed things more objectively in the discussion area—

【You can’t exactly say He Yu defeated Wanrenzhan, but this wave of equipment absolutely belonged to He Yu by right. If he hadn’t brought over the second giant fish, Wanrenzhan’s weakened team wouldn’t have been able to defeat the berserk giant fish anyway.

Whoever wins gets the equipment. That’s the game’s rule. Wanrenzhan himself has forcibly stolen things before.

He Yu’s giant fish won, so naturally the equipment belongs to He Yu.

That said, this 2333 He Yu guy really is absurdly lucky. He’s also extremely smart. Riding a giant fish basically makes him invincible.

Too bad his combat power is disastrously low. I already followed his livestream. Let’s see how long his luck lasts.

Good luck, contestant with combat power 2 from a trash planet.】

This viewpoint gained support from quite a large number of people.

After only one performance, it was difficult for He Yu to leave a truly deep impression in their minds.

They remembered the name He Yu.

But once they saw his combat power rating of 2, they simply shook their heads and left.

—This is a person with very good luck.

That was what they thought.

Top Talent Show had tens of millions of livestreams running simultaneously. New events happened constantly, and audience attention scattered quickly.

After remaining at the center of the featured viewing area for an hour, He Yu’s livestream thumbnail slowly began shrinking again.

Meanwhile, Blue Star viewers were furious.

What?

Luck?

Could that extreme operation possibly be achieved through luck alone?!

Zhang Yu punched his bed angrily.

“These Federation viewers are so annoying! Just because He Yu’s combat power is only 2, they can completely erase all his talent and effort?!”

Across from him, his roommate replied:

“Weren’t you the one calling He Yu a useless third-rate celebrity wasting a contestant slot earlier...?”

Zhang Yu froze.

After a while, he sighed.

“He Yu’s performance really was unexpected. Honestly... even amazing. I don’t think he’s relying entirely on luck. Right now, Blue Star’s most eye-catching contestant really is him.”

His roommate responded:

“But you also have to admit that there was definitely luck involved in him getting that equipment. He Yu’s combat power rating proves he can’t fight any alien contestant head-on. The moment he leaves the giant fish’s head, he’s finished.”

Zhang Yu opened his mouth, only to realize he could not refute that.

His roommate continued:

“And honestly, He Yu made the wrong choice earlier. He rode away on the giant fish. He actually should’ve lured the giant fish into attacking Wanrenzhan’s group. Eliminating them would’ve benefited the other Blue Star contestants.”

“But Wanrenzhan and the others are experts. Even if He Yu managed to make the giant fish attack them, if they targeted He Yu in return, he’d definitely die,” Zhang Yu argued.

His roommate said nothing.

He merely gave Zhang Yu a look.

Instantly, Zhang Yu understood.

—His roommate meant that He Yu’s combat power meant he could at most survive until the end of preliminaries. Since he was doomed to die eventually anyway, why not contribute something for the sake of Blue Star’s other contestants?

Zhang Yu wanted to argue back.

Yet he had no words.

All contestants who entered the competition had signed agreements promising to “contribute to Blue Star.”

His roommate had already looked away and returned to watching Bo Jingshan and the others’ livestreams.

At this moment, Bo Jingshan had encountered a contestant hunting trash-planet players. The situation was extremely dangerous.

—Although He Yu had earned Blue Star some pride just now, in the long run, very few people truly believed in him.

Zhang Yu gritted his teeth and remained inside He Yu’s livestream.

He Yu had obtained equipment!

Maybe among that equipment, there was something capable of increasing his combat power.

—There was still hope.

He Yu’s earlier astonishing performance had seemingly planted a seed within Zhang Yu’s heart.

Faintly, he hoped that seed would sprout.

He hoped He Yu would continue bringing them even more shocking performances.

 The giant fish swam steadily.

He Yu sat upright and extended a hand.

Clearly, he was finally preparing to inspect the equipment he had just obtained.

The livestream instantly became lively again.

After the battle ended and He Yu moved away from Wanrenzhan’s group, some viewers left, but many still remained.

They were all waiting to see what equipment He Yu had picked up.

That was the only reason his livestream remained in the second viewing circle.

Among them were his original viewers, as well as many people who came from Wanrenzhan’s livestream.

He Yu took out the three pieces of equipment.

The entire reason he had brought the giant fish there in the first place was for the equipment.

As for Wanrenzhan and the others—

He had never planned to make a move against them yet.

As someone born from survival-style talent shows, he understood every kind of competition.

Even though Top Talent Show was very different from ordinary entertainment programs, it was still fundamentally a talent show.

And in every talent show, the most important thing was gaining the audience’s favor.

—Right now, he had not yet displayed enough strength to make the audience truly like him.

So instead, he would seize their attention.

As long as he stole attention away from Wanrenzhan, that was enough.

Killing Wanrenzhan now would bring countless disadvantages and not a single benefit. The path He Yu wanted had never been the “controversial fame” route.

The fame he desired—

Was for everyone to like him.

Support him.

Watch him.

The corners of He Yu’s lips maintained that faint, lazy smile as he looked toward the three pieces of equipment he had just taken out.

Every viewer in the livestream stared over curiously as well.

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