Abnormal crossing

Chapter 150 News of Iris Song

At this moment.

Listen to this part of Yuange's words in the voice recording.

Gu Wei was somewhat bewildered.

No.

You could say there was a tiny bit of a possibility before time travel, but after time travel to the Star Sea...
Is the word "fame" something you can say together with your buddies?

The art style is completely different!
So he took a deep breath and turned his body slightly to the side to avoid others seeing his lapse in composure: "Yuan Ge, what do you mean by this? How did I become famous?"

“It’s that civil war,” Yuan Ge said with a slightly more excited tone, after all, it was definitely a classic battle in her career: “After the civil war, Bing Ge posted the video on Xinghai Video Network, and it unexpectedly became a minor hot topic—hey, didn’t you know about this? Everyone in the group was talking about it a few days ago.”

"Xinghai Video Network?" Gu Wei was taken aback. "I don't know about it. I've been a bit busy lately and haven't checked the group."

These days he has been trying out the creative cycle, a new training method customized by the instructors. The results are not particularly ideal, but it takes up a lot of his daily time.

As for Gu Wei after class, he was not idle either. He frantically studied the Star Sea knowledge that Jin had prepared for him, and it can be said that his time was fully scheduled.

In addition, although the Unfinished Team only has about forty members, they actually send tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of messages every day, which is often too much to keep up with – there's no way around it, some people have seven hands.
Therefore, Gu Wei really didn't know that the civil war video had gone viral, or rather, he was completely unaware that the video had been uploaded.

"Wait a minute, let me find it for you," seeing that Gu Weizhen was not clear about the situation, Yuan Ge quickly fiddled around for a few moments: "Here, I've sent you the link. You don't have to watch the video content yet. There are explanations and comments in the comments section."

Yuan Ge had just finished speaking.

A link appeared in the chat box in front of Gu Wei, and Xinghai Internet's detection showed that it was safe and there were no abnormalities.

He clicked on it out of curiosity.

Swah——

After a while.

A brand new website appeared before Gu Wei.

The website prominently displays the words "[Xinghai Video Network]" at the top, with an unplayed video in the playback bar below. Several categories are displayed to the right of the video.

Gu Wei immediately noticed the numbers next to one of the columns:
Video views: 291838475722
Gu Wei rubbed his eyes hard.

Holy crap?!
How much is this?
"1231112?" He swallowed hard. "Yuan Ge, am I seeing things? This video has almost 300 billion views???"

Holy crap?!

It's not three thousand.

It's not even 300 million.

But
Three hundred billion?
“Yes, didn’t I say the video went viral a little?” Yuan Ge’s tone was quite calm at this point: “Even though it was just a data stream push on the third-level page of the game category, Xinghai Video Network has a huge user base. Think about how many lives a planet has—it’s the same principle as the number of teams.”

Gu Wei: "."

Also.

It's hard to say what the Starsea civilization lacks most, but what it has the most of all, or is the least valuable, is its population.

Once a civilization reaches the sixth or seventh level of development, its population can be viewed simply as a number.

A single Earth-like planet can easily house tens of billions of people. Assuming an average star system has 0.5 Earth-like planets, a typical star system would contain at least tens of billions of Earth-like planets. The reason Earth before Gu Wei's time travel could only find a limited number of Earth-like planets wasn't because suitable candidates were rare, but because Earth-like planets themselves don't emit light and are difficult to observe like stars. (doi: arxiv.org/abs/2004.05296)

The known terrestrial planets are basically calculated and inferred through transit phenomena—if there were a way to directly observe planets outside the solar system, the total number of terrestrial and non-terrestrial planets would be at least trillions.

There's nothing we can do; the astronomical figures are just that outrageous.

Given the territorial control capabilities of sixth- or seventh-order civilizations, they are fully capable of expanding their population to any Earth-like planet within the galaxy—in fact, many civilizations are already doing so.

Not to mention that, in addition to Earth-like planets, the Starsea civilization could easily transform non-Earth-like planets into habitable ones.

For example, the Red Elite soldiers rescued over a billion people, and he only needed a few days to settle them down.
To put it bluntly...

From a cosmic perspective, the concept of population is not even a simple number, but a concept with even lower value than a number.

In this case, nearly 300 billion views is not much in terms of scale—the population of a moderately developed galaxy is no less than 10^20, not to mention the entire star system.

Three hundred billion is 3 x 10^13 in scientific notation. If we compare it to Bilibili before Gu Wei's time travel, it would be roughly equivalent to 30,000 to 50,000 views.

No wonder Yuange said this was given a nickname.

For an ordinary person like Gu Wei before his time travel, 30,000 to 50,000 views would be enough to warrant posting it on WeChat Moments or QQ Space.

Gu Wei then turned his attention to the comments section.

as predicted.

As the kite song says.

The very first comment at the top of the comment section was a copy of the video description. The replies in the thread were also uninformative, mostly consisting of comments like "The narrator should die."

The second comment was much more normal; the user ID was 【雨欲禹与余】:
【wdnmd，星龙W8机甲加芮尔大剑、6分38秒的星辰断罪斩、11分整的科氏迷踪步，还有最最最夸张的17分16秒跃升摆荡一穿三你tmd告诉我这是千分不到的局？？？？】

By the time Gu Wei checked, the comment had received over 100 billion likes.

The replies in the thread were mostly expressions of amazement and disbelief.

The user ranked third in popularity is named 【天元紫成道化显质剑官金劫洞景玄君】, and their content is quite simple:
[Holy crap, if I'm not mistaken, the mech that starts at 17 minutes and 16 seconds is the Fishing Man's Wrath?]

Upon seeing this, Gu Wei quickly opened the video and located the time point mentioned in the comments.

Sure enough, the video showed the entire process of the fishing enthusiast's fury defeating three opponents, but the perspective was not first-person, but rather a third-person perspective similar to that of a movie.

From the reaction of the tungsten-iridium alloy in the molten gun barrel material with the superconducting magnet, to the instant kill of [Wanhua Qianyu], to the leap and swing kill of [Yiwei], and finally the mutual destruction with [Lang Feng], the whole process was lightning fast, and it didn't even take a minute.

The third-person perspective is even more exciting than the first-person perspective in the game.

That's why.

The moment Fishing Man's Fury completed his 1v3 victory, the chat was even more agitated than the fireball on screen.
As for the other two actions mentioned by [Yu Yu Yu Yu], they were respectively performed by Yuan Ge and another player who drew pigeons.

As the main force of the civil war, or rather the unfinished team, it is entirely reasonable for them to make some outstanding plays.

Gu Wei then quickly read through the remaining comments and found that the content could be basically categorized into several types:

Praise the overall high level of skill in civil war.

More than half of the praise for outstanding individual performance was directed at Gu Wei.

Praise and debate regarding the tactical deployment of the Red Elite soldiers

Punishing the traitors,

And
"Pointing out the flaws in the world" refers to keyboard warriors.

"." Then Gu Wei stroked his chin and asked Yuan Ge, "Yuan Ge, how did this video go viral? I didn't think Bing Ge had that many followers, did he?"

The Red Elite soldier's account on Xinghai Video Network has the same name as his game ID, but he has not been certified by the academy, and he does not post videos very frequently.

The video trends section clearly shows that he only had 114.514 followers before his videos went viral.

How did it become so popular?

Upon hearing this, Yuan Ge pondered for a moment, speaking slowly but clearly: "Initially, it was because of the high completion rate and comment rate that it was featured on Xinghai Video Network's intelligent recommendation system and pushed to users with the profile who were interested in 'Mech Overlord'—after all, it's not very common for such exciting gameplay to appear in segments."

"Later, [My Benefactor is Me] reposted your clip to his compilation series, which boosted the number of views and pushed the video to the next level of traffic."

"My benefactor is me?" Gu Wei was stunned for a moment, and blurted out subconsciously, "And who the hell is this?"

“A small blogger who specializes in compiling highlights, nicknamed Benefactor,” Yuange explained, “has a small number of followers, but they are very engaged and active—some product advertisers even offer Benefactor prices comparable to bloggers with five or six times his number of followers on paper.”

“Look, scroll down a bit in the comments section, he’s the eighth one.”

Gu Wei quickly scrolled down the screen.

as predicted.

The eighth most liked post was surprisingly from someone claiming to be the benefactor, with a simple message: "Blogger, may I authorize the reposting of the segment starting at 17 minutes and 16 seconds in the video?"

The thread contained replies from Red Elite Soldier agreeing, followed by messages urging for more updates such as "Master Ball," "Go update now," and "The fishing guy next door is already updating 30,000 words a day."

Then, Gu Wei curiously clicked on the profile of "My Benefactor is Me".

[Nickname]: [My Benefactor is Me!]

[Number of Followers]: [17778384586]

[Starsea Interconnect Certified]: [Well-known Blogger in the Gaming Section]

[Relevant Binding Information]: 334857 points in "Mech Overlord", battle record 64564-33214, certified mech "I Am an Assassin" (ranked 66664th on the leaderboard).
Good guy.
With 17 billion fans and 330,000 points, how did a mecha even get a ranking on the super leaderboard?!
He might not be a top-tier expert, but he's definitely a master!
To know.

The highest score in the Unfinished Team is only a little over 10,000.

Meanwhile, the video data of "[My Benefactor is Me]" is indeed as Yuange said, much larger than his fan base, with seven or eight videos having a hundred times more views than the civil war videos.

This reminded Gu Wei of a Three Kingdoms blogger named R9 from before he transmigrated. R9's situation was similar to his benefactor's, with over 300,000 followers whose engagement was even more exaggerated than many bloggers with millions of followers.
In fact, Gu Wei himself can be considered a similar case. Although niche authors may not have much in terms of achievements and royalties, it is still good to have a group of book lovers who have always been with them.

“By the way, Pigeon,” Yuan Ge spoke up again just as Gu Wei was deep in thought, “Speaking of Xinghai Video Network, you can open an account when you have time. Firstly, you can publish any good content you have, and secondly, it’s easier to settle the team’s revenue sharing.”

"Team splitting?" Gu Wei felt like he'd turned into a curious child again today. To be honest, it had been a while since he'd had this kind of experience: "What's that?"

If I remember correctly.

The teams formed by the Red Elite Soldiers already receive monthly subsidies. Gu Wei, for example, receives 1,000 Alliance Coins every month – which is a major reason why he joined the team.

Now, let's hear what Yuange says.

It seems that the team has other sources of income besides the standard subsidies?

"Yeah, that's kind of an unspoken rule in the esports industry. Even if I didn't say anything, Bing-ge would probably come looking for you in a couple of days," Yuan-ge smiled.

"In order to expand their influence, team captains usually edit together videos of each team victory and post them on video websites—like Bing Ge's videos, which are mostly of that type."

"Xinghai Video Network has long provided rewards and support based on video views, and the amount is quite considerable. This support is usually transferred directly to the members' Xinghai Video Network accounts within the team based on their overall performance. They can withdraw the money, use it for tips, or buy promotions for their own videos."

"Based on past experience, an ordinary member like you can get about two or three hundred Alliance Coins per month. Since this video went viral, you are one of the main characters, so your share is probably not too low."

"Oh?"

Upon hearing that there would be a revenue share from the videos, Gu Wei immediately became interested: "How much money will I get this time?"

“That’s hard to say,” unlike Gu Wei’s greed, Yuan Ge, being a wealthy woman, was more casual about this topic: “The rewards and support will be determined based on the number of traffic rounds and views at which the video PK ends. Right now, the internal battle video is still scouring the traffic pool, and judging from the data, it has a high probability of advancing to the next round.”

"The next round is the small banner recommendations in the game section. The traffic fluctuates greatly. Some videos get pitifully few views after being uploaded, while others attract a lot of views. Until then, no one can say for sure how effective it will be."

"So if I had to give you a safety net, it would be at least five or six thousand Alliance Coins in the worst-case scenario."

hiss.
Gu Wei gasped in shock.

Five or six thousand Alliance Coins?

That's enough for my buddy to work on the ship for four or five months.
Moreover, this is the lowest possible figure, which is clearly quite conservative.

Therefore, even if you fail to advance later, you should still have a good chance of getting seven or eight thousand.

That's a huge sum of money.
If converted into servant drones, they could wipe out civilizations on Earth several times over!

Slurp
Seeing this, Gu Wei swallowed a non-existent saliva, pursed his lips, and asked Yuan Ge, "Yuan Ge, how do I register this video account?"

“It’s very simple,” Yuange patiently explained: “Do you see the login button in the upper right corner? Select Starsea Interconnect One-Click Login, and then synchronize the relevant information of Mech Overlord.”

"After successful registration, your profile will post a status update like 'I have successfully registered,' remember to delete it—it's ridiculous. Also, you can choose to sync your profile picture with Xinghai Internet or upload your own."

Talking and talking.

Yuange seemed to have thought of something again, and paused slightly.

Then a good ten seconds or so passed.

Just as Gu Wei was wondering if there was a problem with the signal, a deep gasp came from the other end of the voice call, followed by Yuan Ge saying:

"By the way, Pigeon, do you have a full-body portrait? If so, send me one."

"Full-body portrait?"

Gu Wei blinked, somewhat bewildered: "What do you need that thing for?"

This is truly a strange and unusual request.
To know.

Starsea Civilization has a very mature system for protecting user privacy. Even when it comes to monetary transactions such as team subsidies, it will not disclose any information about either party—unless you voluntarily disclose it.

Therefore, even if it's just for compiling the roster for the next team competition, theoretically there's no need to use full-body photos.

It can even be said that.

In the value system of the Starsea Civilization, Yuange's words were somewhat presumptuous.

"."

After Gu Wei spoke.

After a moment of silence, Yuan Ge, who was speaking directly to him, gritted her teeth and said, word by word:
"If I don't give you a full-body portrait, how the hell am I supposed to worship you?"

(End of this chapter)