Let's give space a touch of Chinese horror!

The incident began with a game recording that was automatically uploaded to a personal social media account.

Jiang Yi only learned through the system's popular science explanation that these holographic game helmets also have a built-in screen recording function; and after the screen recording ends, if the user does not make any selection, it will be automatically uploaded to the linked social media account after the countdown ends.

This time, it was a student named "Tian Baiwei" who uploaded a video of herself and her classmates playing their game to her personal social media platform.

This is nothing unusual; uploading game recordings to one's social media platforms for archiving is a very common practice.

The unexpected turn of events occurred when a blogger who specializes in making funny videos was browsing Manxing.com and collecting materials when he came across this video.

At first, he clicked on it without much hope, but the game recording... not only became more and more addictive, but he also discovered a lot of interesting material that could be used to make videos!

So, he left a message for Tian Baiwei with great enthusiasm, and before she could even reply, he downloaded the screen recording and edited it.

The content he edited was none other than the disdain and contempt Yan Junchi, Fang Haoyu, and Gao Yang showed towards the game before it started, and the various and bizarre ways the three of them died shortly after the game began.

Combined with the music and sound effects he specially selected, the program's effect was truly amazing.

At least when the system showed him the video, Jiangyi saw that the comments below were all "hahahahaha".

There were also a very small number of comments mixed in, such as people who thought the game looked fun and asked what kind of game it was, what it was called, and where they could play it.

However, probably because Jiangyi didn't pay GG, this comedy blogger with millions of followers didn't directly introduce their game in the video description or comments section, but only tagged the source of the video.

So many people who were attracted by the game's content but didn't know the specific game name followed the account mentioned and ended up at Tian Baiwei's account, where they saw the pre-set message that was automatically sent when uploading the screen recording:

"I tried the game '囍' in the holographic horror game competition. You should try it too! [Web link]"

Because the pre-set content included web page links, many people followed the links directly to the download page for the Jiangyi game.

Then, the number of downloads for the Jiangyi game began to skyrocket.

It even jumped to the top of the new game charts thanks to this popularity.

After making it onto the new game charts, it gained new exposure, attracting even more players. Of course, the sudden surge in downloads for "Crimson Robe" also caught the attention of other game developers, and, more importantly, attracted malicious intent.

After all, most of the games that made it onto this leaderboard have been online for a while; yet, the game "囍" has reached the same level as them in such a short time. How could they not be jealous?

Therefore, a large portion of the explosively large number of negative reviews in the game "Jiang Yi" were actually paid for by the game developers to be faked.

The goal is to create a negative impression, making the game seem "terrible," and deterring other players who are attracted to download it.

However, when it comes to netizens... if there are a few scattered negative reviews amidst a large number of positive reviews, netizens might carefully read and consider those negative reviews; but if there are only a few positive reviews amidst a large number of negative reviews, netizens... will actually become more interested.

Simply put, it's the "I want to see just how bad this game can be" mentality of a fun-loving person.

Even if you explicitly tell him that this stuff is some kind of biological waste, he will still take out a spoon and say that he wants to taste it first to see if it's salty.

Especially since these game developers who gave Jiangyi Games negative reviews didn't coordinate with each other, he gave 20 reviews, she gave 30, he gave 50... Before they knew it, the number of negative reviews far exceeded the number of positive reviews.

This piqued the curiosity of netizens.

Once curiosity is piqued, the game's download numbers are practically guaranteed.

Furthermore, some netizens also have a rebellious mentality:

What? You say this game is hard? That's obviously because you're bad at it. I definitely wouldn't find it difficult.

What? You say this game is boring? That's obviously because you don't know how to play it. If I played it, I definitely wouldn't know how.

What? You're saying this game doesn't even have any monsters? That's because you're too picky. Go back to your reskinned games; I'll handle these high-level games.

……

So... these overwhelming negative reviews not only did not affect the game's download volume, but actually boosted Jiangyi's popularity, directly pushing it from the bottom of the new game charts to the top ten.

Before this, Jiang Yi was only just beginning to show her talent, and her peers paid more attention to her than the players.

However, once you're in the top ten of the new game charts, things change. Although Jiang Yi is still nowhere to be found on the overall leaderboard of the competition, the top ten of the new game charts are generally followed by game streamers.

Although most of the streamers who follow these games are relatively small-time streamers, quite a few have managed to gain popularity and become top streamers by discovering these new games.

This time, the game chosen by Jiang Yi was played by a game streamer called "Turbo Duck".

He opened the game "Crimson Robe" during the live stream.

However, his reason for choosing the Crimson Robe game wasn't because he was attracted by the game's description or gameplay; he just saw so many negative reviews and wanted to create some entertainment to see just how bad the game could be.

In fact, he really did manage to create a good show effect...

However, what created the entertainment value wasn't the game featuring the woman in crimson robes, but rather—

Turbocharged duck itself.

The system even specially found the live stream recording of the turbocharged duck and showed it to Jiangyi.

Jiang Yi quickly scanned the screen recording and suddenly understood why, after this live stream, Turbo Duck went from a small streamer with tens of thousands of followers to a mid-level streamer with hundreds of thousands of followers.

because--

He died way too many times in the game!

Each time, the way they died was different!

Even the owner of the game, Jiangyi, and the game's producer, were unaware for the first time that there were so many ways to die in her game.

Especially at the beginning, Turbo Duck was trying to create some entertainment value by doing some reckless things in the game according to the audience's requests, and deliberately making a lot of noise and screaming after "dying".

But after he avoided the actions that had previously led to his death, yet still "died" anyway, he got really into the game and started taking it seriously.

The serious Turbo Duck even drew up a table on the spot, recording all the plot points that led to his death after entering the game, as well as his choices at the time, so that he could avoid them and not repeat the same mistakes.

And then, it was completely useless—

Even if he manages to avoid the previous death spot, he will soon find himself going to die from stepping on another newly appeared death spot.

The live stream chat was filled with a joyful atmosphere of "hahahahaha".

There were even some unscrupulous people counting on the spot.

According to the live stream recording that Jiangyi watched, the turbocharged duck died and came back to life more than ten times.

In the end, he angrily ended the stream because the turbocharged duck "died" too many times in the game, which drove him to the brink of collapse.

His fans weren't upset at all by his sudden hiatus; instead, they started making a compilation of his Turbo Duck's deaths in the game.

Then, this compilation of death-themed videos, accompanied by catchy music, unexpectedly became a hit.

The number of fans of Turbo Duck is growing rapidly.

Other smaller streamers weren't stupid either. Seeing the commotion on the turbocharged duck side, they immediately jumped on the bandwagon, eager to ride the wave and grab a share of the profits, and started streaming "double happiness" streams as well.

With the vigorous "promotion" from these game streamers, Jiangyi's game was propelled into the top 100 of the overall rankings, finally entering the sight of all players.

"Game streaming...is it that effective?"

Jiang Yi didn't quite understand the world nowadays.

Back then, what players of horror games hated most was being livestreamed, because it meant that their embarrassing moments would be seen by everyone.

There are still people, so many people, eagerly broadcasting their own deaths?

"Why don't you start a live stream and I'll take a look..."

The system connected to the gaming headset and projected a live stream from a popular game streamer onto the wall.

The streamer the system found this time seems to be a scenery enthusiast. She was probably attracted by the unique scenery and architecture in the game, because when Jiangyi entered the live stream, the streamer hadn't done any tasks and was wandering around the whole village in the daylight.

While spinning, he didn't forget to interact with the comments section.

Jiang Yi leaned back on the sofa, squinting at the barrage of comments scrolling across the screen, when suddenly there was a knock at the door.

Jiang Yi was taken aback, wondering who would come looking for her at this time.

These days on the warship, apart from when they bring her nutrient solution, hardly anyone knocks on her door.

She opened the door and found Luo Feng standing there.

For some reason, after not seeing him for a while, Jiangyi felt that Luo Feng looked listless.

Luo Feng saw Jiang Yi and greeted her listlessly: "Hi, I'm here to let you know that we're about to arrive at the Imperial Star, so you can start preparing."

Jiang Yi nodded, indicating that she understood. Luo Feng also seemed to have no interest in idle chatter; after delivering the message, he turned and left.

Just as Jiang Yi was about to close the door, she saw Luo Feng, who had already turned halfway around, suddenly lunge against the door frame as if he had caught a glimpse of something out of the corner of his eye.