The show continued.
“I’m telling you, this thicket is really dense and vast.”
“It’s quite terrifying to go alone, but this is my first time. It should be much better next time.”
Zhou Niannian muttered as she walked.
Thinking about how she had gotten lost for an entire morning, she felt embarrassed and prepared to spend another afternoon finding her way back.
This time, she wanted to lead the way herself, but Jiang Fan refused.
“I think I can still be of some use! Let me gain some experience!”
“But I’m hungry.”
Jiang Fan’s single sentence defeated Zhou Niannian.
Someone who hadn’t found her way out after a morning of walking, and who had kept going in the wrong direction even after being pointed the right way.
She was not qualified to lead.
Zhou Niannian, her energy restored, also felt her stomach rumble after walking for the whole morning.
Her face turned red, but she still argued.
“It’s okay! I believe in myself, you just need to point me in the right direction again!”
Looking into Jiang Fan’s calm eyes, she conveyed her determination with a resolute gaze.
But his gaze was utterly damning.
Under that gaze, Zhou Niannian recalled her previous foolish actions and felt her heart pounding.
Her newly awakened fighting spirit began to waver. She opened her mouth, and Zhou Niannian’s heart went through a great ordeal.
Fortunately, after that death-staring gaze, Jiang Fan finally nodded.
“Alright.”
“Yay!”
Zhou Niannian instantly regained her vitality and turned to go and lead the way.
But Jiang Fan stopped her and pointed to the left.
“This way.”
“Yes!”
Zhou Niannian didn’t realize at all how obedient she was to Jiang Fan’s instructions now, and how happy she was about it.
It was a stark contrast to her anger after being kicked off the plane.
She could finally face the fact that she had a powerful teammate with equanimity.
It was also precisely because Jiang Fan displayed such immense strength that she had overlooked.
Whether it was coming to find her or pointing the way for her, traversing the rainforest.
It was all done while he was seriously ill.
But the audience had not overlooked it.
Watching Jiang Fan’s steps become increasingly unsteady, they realized.
To act as if nothing was wrong while sick, this was truly a god-like person!
“Brother Jiang is really unbelievable. Does he really have a cold? I feel like he’s just tired.”
“Damn! Compared to some guys who just freeload, Brother Jiang is truly unbelievable.”
“My Brother Wang doesn’t freeload, don’t ride on Brother Wang’s popularity.”
“No exaggeration, even though Brother Jiang doesn’t have muscles, in my heart, he’s now Dwayne Johnson.”
The bullet comments were full of memes, and Wang Jun’s fans were completely unable to blend in.
The streamer had become a clown, and his actions were all too clear.
Those who still supported him would naturally be ridiculed.
Even more so, some were simply ignored.
Lin Yang looked at the bullet comments and felt it was excellent!
“This Wang Jun has been exposed. I felt something was off when I watched his videos before, and it turns out he’s fake!”
“Hahaha, I had good judgment!”
His wild laughter only drew a look of a fool from Zhou Ye, who shook his head, indicating he didn’t want to deal with an idiot.
“I wonder what the HR Guild thinks seeing this.”
Zhou Ye muttered to himself, still a little puzzled.
He remembered that it was precisely because most of their streamers were frauds that they were so sensitive to public opinion control.
Such bullet comments, in the past, would definitely have been forcefully reported and deleted.
Why was the HR Guild making no move now?
Zhou Ye clicked on the HR Guild’s Weibo page, and indeed, there wasn’t even a single statement.
The latest post was a Weibo announcing Wang Jun’s participation in the competition.
He couldn’t figure it out.
He shook his head and was about to close the Weibo page when, just before closing, he saw a new message refresh on Weibo.
#HR Guild Under Investigation for Suspected Illegal Network Intrusion#
A message had made it onto the trending list, with a 'New' tag following it.
They were just talking about the HR Guild, and little did they know, it was being investigated today.
Zhou Ye’s eyes widened slightly.
“Lin Yang, look, the HR Guild is being investigated!”
“What? Let me see, let me see!”
Lin Yang was always at the forefront when it came to watching gossip and drama.
He glanced at the trending news and immediately thought of the lag he experienced while sending bullet comments in the live stream, understanding what had happened.
“Damn! I wondered why sending bullet comments was so laggy just now.”
“I thought it was my internet that was bad.”
“So someone was hacking in!”
After saying this, he immediately shifted to schadenfreude, as he had seen so many bullet comments, and some informal news was circulating.
A little combination of facts was enough to understand the cause and effect.
“The HR Guild probably wanted to control public opinion. They thought it would be easy prey, but they kicked a steel plate, hahaha!”
“Did you… know something?”
Zhou Ye raised an eyebrow, looking at Lin Yang with a hint of knowing.
Perhaps it was his obvious schadenfreude, or perhaps he had revealed too much information.
Zhou Ye keenly felt that Lin Yang seemed to be hiding something.
A voice in his heart said that whatever Lin Yang was hiding was probably something incredibly significant.
Even though he knew he shouldn’t ask, he couldn’t help but press further.
And Lin Yang, being questioned by his good brother, almost blurted out the secret he knew.
Fortunately, he stopped himself at the last moment and didn’t say it out loud.
His smile stiffened, he coughed twice, and rubbed the back of his head.
“Ah, what did you say? I didn’t say anything just now.”
His guilty answer was met with Zhou Ye’s scrutinizing gaze.
However, since Lin Yang refused to speak, Zhou Ye didn’t see the need to force him and simply moved on, continuing to read the trending news.
“The HR Guild previously concocted many streamers like Wang Jun through fraudulent means. But in the end, the traffic chose Wang Jun.”
“To protect Wang Jun, they attempted to attack the show’s live stream.”
“The main hacker personnel have now been apprehended, and the owner of the HR Guild, Hua Feipeng, is also being investigated.”
“Tsk tsk, this guy is also involved in making false accounts and sex trafficking.”
After reading the disclosed information.
It could be said that even if Hua Feipeng were to be released after this investigation, the HR Guild would never regain its former glory.
More likely, it would be eliminated from the market.
After all, a guild with a bad reputation would also be disliked by the public.
Even if some of the streamers were innocent, no one would believe that people from this tainted organization were innocent.
Such swift and decisive actions.
Not only did it inflict a heavy price on the HR Guild.
It also served as a lesson to the bosses behind streamers who were not famous or were disliked by the audience.
The show’s team was clearly saying.
We have the backing, whoever dares to challenge us will be finished!
Thus, no one would suspect this show of being an unknown entity without any background.
The bosses who had previously hoped to use streamers to gain some popularity now probably regretted it to the core.
But what did this have to do with them, the audience?
After reading the discussions, Zhou Ye simply snorted with a hint of schadenfreude.
“They brought it upon themselves.”