Chapter 15 Afternoon Nap

Having settled the matters at Dream Maker Ventures, Pei Qian ate a meal at Mo Yu Internet Cafe and suddenly felt a little sleepy.

So, he decided to go home for a nap.

He ended up sleeping until three in the afternoon.

Even when he woke up, Pei Qian still felt groggy.

He yawned and forced himself to get up.

He couldn't sleep any longer, or he wouldn't be able to sleep at night.

He got up, grabbed a can of sugar-free "Fat House Happiness Water" from the refrigerator, and took two sips. The caffeine had a very obvious refreshing effect.

"There are more and more things to do, and I'm getting a little overwhelmed. I can't keep up with my energy levels, and I've been feeling sleepy lately."

"Spring drowsiness, autumn fatigue, summer slumber, and three months of winter sleepiness. Well, it's already the transitional stage from autumn fatigue to the three months of winter."

"Speaking of which, should I exercise?"

"Should I take some time to work out at the entrusted gym?"

"After all, good health and energy are needed to lose money better."

"If my body can't take it and I can't keep up with my energy, the whole company can only drift with the tide and make more and more money. Wouldn't that be terrible?"

Pei Qian thought that although he was still young, ate healthy, and slept well, he still lacked exercise.

Without exercise, it's easy to feel tired and sleepy.

But if he went to the entrusted gym, Pei Qian didn't think he could stick to it.

If it was discovered that "President Pei has no self-control," wouldn't his persona collapse?

Of course, Pei Qian could use his busy work as an excuse, but it would still be a bit awkward…

So, Pei Qian had a little bit of this idea for the time being, but didn't have much motivation to put it into practice.

Leaning on the sofa, he took out his phone and browsed Weibo casually, especially paying attention to Lao Ma's Weibo.

"Huh? Lao Ma seems to be doing a live broadcast this afternoon?"

"It's already started!"

Pei Qian quickly used his phone to project the screen onto the big TV and watched Lao Ma's live broadcast.

When the cash giveaway ended yesterday, Lao Ma had more than 80,000 followers on Weibo. After a day of spreading the word, he now had about 150,000.

During Lao Ma's rest period, many people were forwarding Lao Ma's Weibo, including some big Vs, so the rate of increase in followers was still not to be underestimated.

However, this number of followers was still within Pei Qian's acceptable range.

After all, the money Lao Ma gave away was real money.

There are indeed some things in this world that money can't buy, but that definitely doesn't include popularity and traffic.

Pei Qian was annoyed by popularity and traffic, mainly because these things sometimes brought him profits.

But if the popularity and traffic were on Lao Ma, Pei Qian didn't think it would necessarily turn into profit.

After all, Lao Ma didn't seem like the kind of person who would have real fans.

In short, let's see how Lao Ma's live broadcast debut goes.

…

Lao Ma's live broadcast screen appeared on the big screen.

He was playing gog and had turned on the camera. Like many streamers, he put the camera in a position that didn't block the game information.

Judging from the background, he should be in a Mo Yu Internet Cafe, and the environment was relatively noisy.

The most impressive thing was Lao Ma's long face.

Whether it was because the camera was positioned poorly, or because Lao Ma liked to get close to the screen, his head and chin couldn't appear in the camera's frame at the same time.

So, the few comments that were there were all making fun of it.

"President Ma's face looks like he has the face of an emperor!"

"His face is too long, it's out of the frame!"

"Hippos can do live broadcasts now?"

"Horse-face streamer, followed!"

In addition to these, there were some not-so-friendly comments.

"You're so bad, how can you have the nerve to do a live broadcast?"

"Noob, you've been playing a match for twenty minutes and you're still 0-2-1, a pure leech, reported!"

"Haters get out, he's the boss, he doesn't have time to play games, it's understandable that his skills are a little lacking."

"The problem is that he doesn't even know he's bad, it reminds me of the mentally retarded teammates I met in the Bronze League!"

"President Ma, why don't you just keep giving away money on Weibo? This game is really not for you!"

Every now and then, a few comments would fly by arguing, but because there were so few viewers, even the arguments seemed to be delayed.

Clearly, not all of these people were fans from Weibo. Some of them were passers-by who had accidentally entered the live broadcast room. People on Weibo were still quite polite to Lao Ma, but the passers-by didn't have any kind words. Seeing that this streamer's skills were so bad, they would scold him if they wanted to, without any mercy.

Pei Qian couldn't help but smile knowingly.

Sure enough, the script was exactly as he had predicted!

He had said long ago that if Lao Ma dared to do a live broadcast with his skills, he would definitely lose followers like crazy and only have the opposite effect.

But it seemed that Lao Ma had a really good attitude. Although there weren't many comments in the entire live broadcast room, and the few that were there were all scolding him for playing so badly, Lao Ma didn't take it to heart at all and was still playing happily.

After a game ended, Lao Ma stretched his back. "Hey, my teammates aren't strong enough. Everyone, wait a moment while I find some strong teammates to play with."

Ma Yang cut off the live broadcast signal directly.

Many question marks instantly floated across the live broadcast room.

A question mark instantly floated above Pei Qian's head as well.

?

Find some strong teammates?

Could it be…

Pei Qian suddenly had a very bad feeling, but before he could think of a countermeasure, Ma Yang's live broadcast room was restored just a few minutes later.

And at this time, Ma Yang had already arrived at the DGE club's base!

It turned out that Ma Yang had been broadcasting from the Mingyun Mountain Villa branch of Mo Yu Internet Cafe, which was only a few minutes away from the DGE club.

Zhang Yuan's voice came from the live broadcast room. "Everyone get ready and cooperate with Coach Ma to play a good training match!"

"That's right, Huang Wang and Jiang Huan, you're back. Team up with Coach Ma and train these new players!"

In the camera of Ma Yang's live broadcast room, several familiar figures sat down in the opposite seats one after another. From the back, it was possible to vaguely identify them as Huang Wang, Jiang Huan and other old members of the DGE club.

More question marks popped up on Pei Qian's head.

???

Weren't Huang Wang and the others sold to other clubs? Why are they back at DGE?

Pei Qian instantly realized a problem.

When he had treated the new members of the DGE club to dinner before, the old members had said that they would give these new members special training so that they could catch up with the pace of the competition as soon as possible!

This was not only the old DGE members' feelings for their old team, but also something that all other clubs were willing to do.

For all other clubs, the interests of the DGE club were consistent with theirs, because even if the DGE players became stronger, they couldn't compete, but other clubs could directly buy people to strengthen their teams.

Obviously, the old members of the DGE club, including Huang Wang and Jiang Huan, must have been returning to the club every now and then to give guidance!

It just happened to coincide with Ma Yang's live broadcast!

While adjusting the machines, Ma Yang said, "Xiao Huang, Xiao Jiang, remember to turn on your live broadcasts and help me bring in some popularity."

Several players nodded immediately. "Coach Ma, don't worry, we'll take care of it!"

Soon, the four players on Ma Yang's side started broadcasting one after another.

Although they were in different teams and on different live broadcast platforms, these people were all ace players in their teams and had many fans. As soon as they started broadcasting, countless viewers were immediately attracted!

Moreover, these people also changed the titles of their live broadcast rooms to "DGE Club Reunion, Coach Ma Directs Internal Special Training."

The popularity instantly exploded!

Especially in Huang Wang's live broadcast room, large swaths of comments flew by, blocking the screen.

"Is the internal boxing match about to start?"

"Just arrived, who is Coach Ma?"

"Damn, I actually got to see Huang Bao and Jiang Bao playing together, Mom is crying!"

"More male mothers, more male mothers!"

Looking at the comments filling the screen, Pei Qian felt very bad.

Damn it, he completely missed the DGE club's side!

He originally thought that Lao Ma would silently start a live broadcast and show his true level, which would definitely dissuade a large number of fans.

He never expected that Lao Ma wasn't thinking of going it alone at all. After playing a few rounds, he came to hug the DGE club's thighs!

Now that these DGE streamers were guiding traffic to him one by one, the attention was directly exploding!

Pei Qian picked up his water glass and took a sip, calming himself down.

"Calm down, even if the four DGE players are sparring with him, it still doesn't change the fact that Lao Ma is a noob."

"He's so bad, he's completely dragging the other four down, which will definitely cause resentment from the fans of these four."

"So, this may not be a bad thing…"

Pei Qian decided to wait and see. Things still seemed to be within an acceptable range.

The training match started quickly.

One side was the four old members of DGE plus Coach Ma, and the other side was the four new members of DGE.

The other players and the viewers in several live broadcast rooms were all closely watching the results of this match.

Many viewers who had just come in were not very clear about the situation. They originally thought that this "Coach Ma" must be a very awesome mysterious figure. Even if his operations and skills didn't reach the level of the old members of the DGE club, he should at least have the level of a high-scoring passerby on the ladder, right?

It was only when the match really started that they realized that this was definitely a weakness!

The four old members, Huang Wang and Jiang Huan, had been helping frantically since the game started, but even so, Ma Yang was still repeatedly rubbed on the ground by the new DGE members in the bottom lane.

Originally, the strength of the old members completely crushed the new members, but after Lao Ma joined, he forcibly dragged the two sides to the same level!

"Who is this noob? Why can he be so bad and still have Huang Wang and Jiang Huan protect him while he plays the game!"

"I'm so jealous! Just with this, I can do it too."

"If you went, you really couldn't play this badly!"

"Don't be ridiculous, haven't you heard? This is special tactical guidance. He's obviously balancing the strength of both sides and giving Huang Wang and the others weighted practice!"

"Huang Bao, Jiang Bao, blink if you've been kidnapped."

"This is President Ma of Tengda, President Pei's right-hand man, the man who made President Pei earn 500 million. It's normal for him to play badly when he's just having fun with the players, right? No one really thinks that the boss of a big company has as much time to play games as you internet addicts, right? No way, no way?"

"Close to the people with hundreds of millions?" (Pinyin: ping yi jin ren)

"I knew it, so he has chaonengli (super power of money)! Wuwuwu, I'm so jealous. If I had money, I would have the entire DGE club play games with me!"

"But this is unfair to Huang Bao and Jiang Bao! It reminds me of the noob teammates I had when I was playing games!"

The battle between the two sides was exciting, and the viewers in the comments were also arguing fiercely.

Obviously, the viewers were divided into two groups. Many people thought that Lao Ma was so bad that it was simply eye-watering and felt disgusted, but many people had a change of opinion about Lao Ma.

If Lao Ma was just an ordinary noob, he would definitely be drowned by the viewers' spit.

But Lao Ma was a senior executive of Tengda Group, a man who had invested in io