Golden Eyes - Chapter 110
Everything on set was ready; apart from the mutated beasts flying around, Cheng Anlang didn't need to worry about anything else.
The photographer said enthusiastically, "Okay, spread your two leaves out, head up, imagine you are a sunflower, and make a gesture of embracing the sun."
Cheng Dahua did as she was told: "That guy with the sunflower seeds all over his face, always wandering around aimlessly, ha."
Cheng Dahua had fought with many things in her life, including a sunflower. She looked down on the sunflower for staying there all day, circling the sun, and refusing to answer when called, which infuriated Cheng Dahua.
He jumped up and slapped it so hard that the sunflower seeds fell off its face.
Cheng Dahua originally wanted to pick it up and try it, but then felt it wasn't right to take advantage of someone else's feelings, so she gave up.
Cheng Anlang stood aside looking at the matching report that the school had just sent him.
The elimination round consists of ten people, divided into five groups, with each group facing off in pairs. The loser is eliminated immediately, while the winner continues. Cheng Anlang's first opponent is a mutated beast called Yang Ji Chang, a soft and cute little female sheep. Cheng Anlang had previously watched its battles, and its skill in using its wool needles was superb and extremely fierce...
If he wins the first game, he will either compete against a fish or a cow in the next game. If he wins the second game, he will get a bye in the third game and advance directly to the final battle.
In the elimination rounds, there was also Ke Jin, whom we met at the beginning of the semester. His Crocodile Horse had already reached level three a long time ago, and Cheng Anlang had also witnessed it. Although the flames that Crocodile Horse could spew were very small, it had a very rare skill: it could control the direction of the flames it had already spewed out, something that this duck couldn't do. He and Ke Jin had met before in the audience of the arena. Ke Jin pointed at him and Cheng Dahua and confidently said a bunch of useless nonsense before leaving.
He had just finished reviewing the match list when Zhang Mingyu sent another communication request.
Zhang Mingyu: "How's it going? Is filming finished?"
Cheng Anlang went over and dragged the duck that was blocking the camera away, then said to Zhang Mingyu, "It's okay, almost there. Um, Lizard probably ate too much today, is he alright..."
Zhang Mingyu laughed and said, "It's okay, it's fine to relax once in a while."
Cheng Anlang: "How are things on your end? How's the Zerg?"
Zhang Mingyu: "We captured quite a few alive. There were too many of them, a huge horde. Especially their outstanding racial talents, they could keep having babies even in prison, and they were born in adult form. This prison couldn't hold them all, so we transferred a batch to... um... other planets. We'll deal with them all at a set time."
"Did you get any useful information from the interrogation?" Cheng Anlang asked, then suddenly realized he might have overstepped his bounds; this wasn't his responsibility.
Zhang Mingyu didn't care: "Those Zerg are like they've fallen into a cult, muttering all day long in the prison about 'believing in Zerg money and gaining eternal life.'"
"Wait? Coin the Coin?" Cheng Anlang asked in surprise, "Does that mean their leader, the Coin King, is actually named Coin the Coin?"
This name alone exudes an aura of wealth and royalty!
Chapter 47, Part 47: Dark History
After Cheng Dahua finished filming the advertisement, Cheng Anlang left immediately, just in case. Their aircraft was followed by a flying fleet sent by Zhang Mingyu.
The advertisement won't be available for a while, probably until the mutant beast competition ends.
The remaining time was perfect for Cheng Dahua to rest and prepare for her match against Yang Jichang.
Cheng Dahua and Ya Ya were enjoying the delicious stew sponsored by the catering company. The stew contained everything imaginable, with almost all the best ingredients put in.
Cheng Anlang's live stream now features four mutated beasts streaming together, causing viewership to skyrocket to the top, ranking first. It also spawned both group fans and solo fans. These fans don't engage in online arguments or competition; they rely solely on spending money. Since it's rare for multiple people to stream together, the website sensed a commercial opportunity and created a special badge for their live stream. Viewers can display the corresponding badge in the upper right corner of their avatar based on who they are fans of. For example, fans of Cheng Dahua have a small flower badge, while group fans have a small rainbow badge. This has driven the fans even crazier, showering the live stream with gifts every day, using every ounce of their resources to compete for the exclusive "Overlord" title and have their badges reach the top, proving who is more powerful and whose fans are richer. Every day, Cheng Anlang's live stream is like a never-ending barrage of special effects.
Surprisingly, Cheng Anlang himself has fans... He has never shown his face in the live stream, usually just showing his hands while eating with the mutant beasts, but many people have seen his real face through mutant beast competition live streams. He is good-looking, and although his face is mostly expressionless, many people are very good at imagining things. Being able to get along well with four mutant beasts means what? It means he is gentle, kind, and patient! They like this kind of seemingly cold and cool guy who is warm and soft inside.
Cheng Anlang sometimes secretly reads the fans' overly flattering comments and feels that his fans might not have good eyesight and have overly vivid imaginations...
The lizards only came to him because of Cheng Dahua; if you were to force a connection to him, it would probably be his haphazardly executed bathing technique...
However, a small problem arose one day...
Cheng Anlang's live stream viewership surged, causing many other live streams to lose viewers and their value to plummet. Cutting off someone's money is like killing their parents, so some people were unhappy. They dug up Cheng Anlang's past experiences on the garbage planet, commonly known as his "dark history," and posted it online.
"Is this what you call gentle and kind?"
It was a video clip. The background noise was terrible, but the picture was very clear. Cheng Anlang used a laser knife to chop off another person's thumb with one stroke. His expression was no different from chopping a rib. He didn't even blink. Blood splattered all over his hands. All you could hear was him saying, "I've been very lenient. This time it's just a finger. Next time, you won't have a hand. Understand?"
The person who was chopped up was named Xiao Fanpai. At the end of the video, a recording was made of him. In the recording, Xiao Fanpai had snot and tears streaming down his face, with occasional snot bubbles appearing in his nose. He tearfully said that Cheng Anlang was a ruthless and cold-blooded killer on the garbage planet, and even revealed his own...
A hand without a thumb and a knife wound on the chest.
"Holy crap? That's fucking cruel! They just chopped off someone's finger!"
"Look at his expression, he doesn't care at all! This isn't some big pig's trotter! This is manpower!"
"Ugh, I can't accept this! No matter what, you can't chop off someone's finger!"
"I will not allow Hua Hua to have such an owner!"
"Brothers, that's a garbage planet, not an imperial planet. Do you think the Zerg are too stupid, staying in peacetime for too long?"
"Damn! That's so cool!"
Cheng Anlang sat there expressionless watching the video, with Cheng Dahua, Yaya, Xigua, and Luo Sifen crowding around to watch.
He remembered this person. As a planet specifically used by the Star Alliance to dump energy waste, the garbage planet was basically in a state of anarchy, except for the energy vehicle workers who dumped and recycled the waste and the security personnel responsible for protecting them. Satellites and flight monitors were constantly monitoring from the sky to prevent major disturbances, but nothing else was taken care of.
The people of the garbage planet survive by searching for recyclable energy in energy waste dumps and exchanging it for other things. Local leaders have emerged in the past, but Cheng Anlang has no desire to be anyone's underling…
The area he lived in was contested by several powerful figures in the surrounding area. These figures kept each other in check, so even if he didn't pay any protection money, he wouldn't be in any big trouble. He just spent his days fighting with the people in his own area. He had a neighbor who was killed, and then another one came over. That one was from Xiao Fan's faction.
Xiao Fanpai didn't target anyone else but Cheng Anlang. He secretly observed the amount of food and money Cheng Anlang exchanged each time, calculating in his mind when Cheng Anlang would get to eat and when he wouldn't. He would specifically choose to steal from Cheng Anlang when he was not in good spirits. As soon as Cheng Anlang recovered, he would beat him to a pulp, but he would still dare to do it again. This annoyed Cheng Anlang to no end, and he had considered killing him more than once, but he had always endured it. Later, he broke both of Xiao Fanpai's arms.
Xiao Fan went to great lengths to find someone to set his bones, and it took him a long time to recover. Cheng Anlang thought he would restrain himself a bit, but unexpectedly, he became even more outrageous.
That day, Cheng Anlang had a slight fever and managed to snatch a small energy stack. After the fight, his head was buzzing and he couldn't see anything clearly. He didn't even notice the person coming from behind until the sound of a knife slashing past his ear. He quickly turned around, drew his knife, and stabbed it into the intruder's ribs, kicking Xiao Fanpai away. But it was too late. The knife slashed diagonally from his right shoulder to his left waist, and blood spurted out and splattered all over the ground. The wound on his back was impossible to cover.
If he hadn't dodged, his upper body would probably have been torn apart.
Xiao Fanpai hit a rock and immediately fainted. Cheng Anlang, enduring the bleeding on his back, stepped forward and pulled the knife out of Xiao Fanpai's ribs. He walked away without even looking at the waterfall of blood gushing from Xiao Fanpai's chest. The security guards stood at a distance, doing nothing.