Oh no! I've been kept as a pet by a stray killer whale!

The sea breeze howled, cutting through the waves.

Riding on the back of an orca was far more bumpy than he had imagined. Although Big Fatty tried his best to swim steadily, the ocean was not a paved road. Every surge of the waves and every gust of sea breeze tested Jiang Che's almost exhausted strength.

But he was in high spirits.

Just now, the system that had been barely noticeable finally distributed the so-called "newbie gift pack".

【Ding! 】

[The host has successfully established an initial bond with the "Ocean Overlord"!]

[New player quest completed: Survive (1/1)]

[Reward issued: All-weather intelligent live-streaming drone.]

[Additional features: Global network access without dead zones, quantum encrypted transmission, unlimited solar power, intelligent camera movement system.]

As the notification tone faded, Jiang Che felt the air in front of him distort slightly.

As if some kind of optical camouflage had been removed, a fist-sized, futuristic-looking silver-gray metallic sphere appeared out of thin air in front of him.

It has no rotors, but relies on some kind of anti-gravity technology to quietly float in mid-air, without any airflow disturbance or even a little noise.

"Is this the all-weather intelligent live-streaming drone?"

Jiang Che lay on Da Pang's back, struggling to lift his eyelids.

Before he could figure it out, the silver sphere suddenly cracked open with several blue fissures, then rapidly rose, like a nimble hummingbird, instantly soaring dozens of meters into the air.

At the same time, a semi-transparent light blue interface automatically appeared on Jiang Che's retina.

The image clarity is astonishingly high, exceeding the limits of human vision with 8K resolution, and the color reproduction is practically perfect.

From this omniscient perspective, Jiang Che finally saw his current predicament clearly—

On the vast, deep blue sea, five black and white orcas are lined up in a sharp arrowhead formation, cutting through the waves. On the back of the huge male orca in the very center, a human as small as an ant is perched.

The man clinging to the yellow pontoon, soaking wet and looking utterly disheveled, was himself.

This visual impact is both spectacular and desolate.

[Live stream room is being created...]

[Platform used: Douyu, the largest live streaming platform on the entire internet.]

[Livestream title automatically generated: "24 Hours After Shipwreck: I Was Found by a Family of Orcas."]

[Live stream has started.]

Jiang Che looked at the headline, which reeked of being from a marketing account, and couldn't help but twitch his lips.

"If I hadn't experienced it firsthand, I would have thought this headline was clickbait."

The drone seemed to sense its owner's gaze. It circled in the air, adjusted its focus, and slowly zoomed in, giving Jiang Che a close-up.

In the lens, that young yet weathered face is clearly visible.

His lips were chapped and peeling, his eyes were sunken, his skin was red from the sea breeze, and his hair was covered with white salt crystals, the traces left by the evaporation of seawater.

Jiang Che opened his mouth, wanting to say "Hello everyone" to the camera, but it felt like he had swallowed a handful of sand, and he could only make a few hoarse coughs.

no way.

He was so weak that he had to conserve his strength even when he spoke.

Looking at the camera flashing with a red dot, Jiang Che could only give a helpless, bitter smile. Then, with difficulty, he raised his right hand and made a trembling "V" sign towards the sky.

This is probably the most embarrassing debut in history.

……

At this very moment, in an office building in a major city in China.

During lunch break, countless workers are idly scrolling through their phones at their workstations.

"Livestreams have become rather boring lately. They're all just people selling products and dancing. I'm getting tired of it."

As programmer Zhang Wei rummaged through the shredded pork with garlic sauce in his takeout box, he habitually opened a live streaming app and swiped his fingers rapidly across the screen.

My fingers traced over the colorful covers.

Suddenly, his fingers stopped.

In the recommendation stream of big data, a live streaming room with an extremely unique style appeared.

There are no exaggeratedly beautiful faces or fancy artistic lettering. The cover is a clean yet visually striking dynamic image—a deep blue sea that is breathtaking, and a black dorsal fin that is breaking through the waves.

The title was even more straightforward: "24 Hours After Shipwreck: I Was Found by a Family of Orcas."

"Shipwreck? Orca? Ha, these clickbait headlines are getting more and more shameless these days."

Zhang Wei let out a disdainful sneer.

As a seasoned internet user, he had seen too many of these tricks. When he clicked on them, it was either some beachcombing blogger catching crabs or a game livestream that was just a front for something else.

"I'd like to see what kind of nonsense you can come up with. If you dare to lie to me, I'll report you right away."

With the mindset of a "cyber judge," Zhang Wei clicked on it.

At this moment, the number of viewers in the live stream was 37.

Clearly, there are dozens of other "judges" who entered this world with the same mindset as him.

However, the moment the live stream started loading, Zhang Wei's chopsticks, which were holding food, stopped in mid-air.

On the screen, there was no poor-quality camera footage as expected, nor the noisy shouts of the streamer.

What meets the eye is an extreme blue.

The camera is in low-altitude, sea-skimming mode. As the camera rapidly advances, white waves burst at the edge of the screen, seemingly about to splash onto the viewer's face.

Immediately afterwards, a huge black silhouette appeared in the center of the screen.

Smooth, moist skin, white eye spots, and a towering dorsal fin.

"Holy crap?"

Zhang Wei blurted out a curse word without thinking.

Before he could react, the camera rotated, giving him a close-up of his profile.

He saw that there really was a person lying on the back of the orca!

After a brief silence of a few seconds, the first few words began to appear sparsely in the live stream's chat area:

[User 9527]: Clickbait? My hand, which was raised to report, froze in mid-air. What is this? A movie trailer?

[Loves Braised Pork]: Holy crap! This graphics? This water texture? This lighting and rendering? This must be made with Unreal Engine 5, right? Have games evolved to this level now?

[Keyboard Warrior #1]: Fake! Obviously fake! It's definitely green screen composite! The lighting on that person is well done, but look at that wave, it's clearly CG effects! Who would dare ride on the back of an orca? Do they have a death wish?

[Tech Geek A-Qiang]: Don't spout nonsense, upstairs. I work in post-production. If this water flow calculation were a special effect, it would cost tens of thousands of dollars per second. Which live streamer can afford this level of real-time rendering? Even Sora isn't that powerful!

[Passerby A]: Where's the streamer? Why isn't the streamer saying anything? Are you just pretending to be deep in thought? Hey! Say something! Are you reciting lines?