NOVPUBWhat’s a man after? Isn’t it just about having someone worry about you while you’re out there busting your ass, knowing that everything you do has meaning? It used to be mom, but now that I have Nangong, everything feels worthwhile.
"You’re never allowed to do something like this again, it’s so dangerous! I didn’t sleep at all last night..." Nangong said while resting on Suming’s chest, drawing circles on his chest with her long nails and complaining with a bitten lip.
"Wow, up all night... Then how come you were so peppy just now? I nearly got drained dry by you!" Suming laughed, stroking her waterfall-like black hair.
The big bed was quite a mess, the two of them had ended up on it without really knowing how, and had tumbled in the sheets...
"Stop it!" Nangong gently slapped his chest, then lifted her head, smiled shyly, and asked, "How come every time we talk, it always ends up like this?"
"It proves I’m lecherous and you’re wanton, we’re a match made in heaven!" Suming said with mock seriousness.
"I really want to tear off that mouth of yours!" Nangong raised her hand to pinch Suming’s cheek.
"Let go, damn it, it’s okay if my waist turns blue, but if my face swells up, that’s going to be a problem. Brother’s got to make a living with this face! I’ve got a press conference to attend in a few days!"
Nangong actually let go obediently, though she hadn’t really used much force pinching Suming’s face in the first place. She continued to lie on Suming’s chest, muttering to herself, "It’s really sinful, how did I ever meet you?"
"Who else do you want to meet? Ren Chen? Or that Mercedes-driving rich host from before?" Suming glared and asked.
"What if I fell for them, what would you do?" Nangong lifted her head and asked with a mischievous smile.
"I’d break off their third leg and feed it to the pandas, making you a widow for life!" Suming pretended to threaten fiercely.
"Break off... Ouch, that sounds painful..." Nangong couldn’t help shivering, then snuggled closer into Suming’s arms, curiously asking, "Do you think that panda ever got pregnant?"
"Ah? What’s with this sudden change of topic?!" Suming was taken aback by her question.
Earlier, under Nangong’s interrogation, Suming had told her about the entire kidnapping case from beginning to end, including the female inspector He Baowen. Of course, he didn’t mention the part where He Baowen asked to be called "pau".
Suming thought she would be all over He Baowen, asking questions left and right, or asking if the woman was pretty or not... But who could have guessed that Nangong was actually concerned about whether the pandas that had been disturbed while mating had succeeded in "making a bear"? What on earth was this woman thinking?!
"How would I know? We’ll go check them out when we have time. With all this fuss, they probably won’t be able to mate again for a while. The Panda Garden is reopening in a couple of days, and we can still go have fun before we leave."
We were discussing this when suddenly the phone rang.
"Who is it, calling at this time? It’s been eighty thousand words already, it’s so hard to come by some intimate scenes, and this call has to interrupt now? It’s just inhuman!"
Suming was furious. If not for the phone call, they could have easily had another five or six thousand words... He picked it up to see it was from Wang Hao.
"Wang, don’t say I didn’t warn you. If it’s nothing important, I’m breaking your third leg!" Suming said fiercely.
"Huh?" Wang Hao on the other end was stunned for a while before understanding what Suming meant, also shuddering, "You’re so ruthless. I have two pieces of good news and one bad news. Which do you want to hear first? Never mind, I’ll just tell you. The first good news is, Sun has finally retired, and my dad’s been promoted to deputy mayor."
"Well, that’s some really good news! Wang, congratulations, your third leg is safe!" Suming hadn’t finished speaking when he received another punch to the chest from Nangong.
"Well, thanks for that, thank your entire family! The second piece of good news, the video of you helping the police catch the kidnapper has gone completely viral!"
"It’d be strange if it didn’t go viral, that’s not really good news," Suming said, his face showing he had expected as much.
After saving the hostages, the first thing he did was actually discuss the matter of video broadcast with the assistant director Liao. Liao Yuting consulted the superiors, and so did Wang Hao with his father; both sides agreed that the video could be broadcast. Broadcasting it would help promote relations between the mainland and Xiangjiang, and bring the people of both sides closer together, which was of great significance.
However, it was not convenient for the government to broadcast it, especially not on television. The entertainment company’s live streaming platform thus became the best medium. Of course, this was no longer live but time-delayed. Luckily, it was still very timely.
"What’s the bad news?" Suming asked.
"It’s also related to the broadcast. It’s too much to explain in just a sentence or two, so I recorded the process, and it’s on the intranet. You can log in with your admin account and check it for yourself," Wang Hao said.
The room had Wi-Fi, and Nangong had brought her laptop. She connected to the internet, entered the entertainment company’s live streaming platform’s backend, and located the broadcast video. Read new chapters at freewebnovel
Because it was quite rushed, they didn’t have time to do much promotion at first. The platform’s homepage only featured an announcement, and a promotional tweet was sent out from the Twitter account of Taoyuan Interest.
Before the broadcast, many people were commenting, expressing their doubts.
"The zoo director fighting kidnappers? Is this for real? It sounds like something out of a movie!"
"Hasn’t heard about any recent kidnappings in Xiangjiang?"
But as soon as the footage went live, viewers in the chat room started to realize something wasn’t quite right. The video was filmed on Suming’s cellphone, which was shaking violently. It was incredibly noisy around, teeming with tourists and filled with the sounds of Cantonese and various Chinese accents.
This ultra-realistic ’filming technique’ immediately pulled all the viewers into the scene.
"Could it be a documentary?"
"Holy sh*t... It’s really Ocean Park, I’ve been there!"
"Hahaha, laughing my ass off here, he actually fell down, how can this robber be so dumb? What kind of idiot robber does that!" Gifted 99 Hip Hop Monkeys to the ’kidnapper’...
"Holding a panda hostage? This kidnapper is really going all out!"
"It’s a real gun!" Gifted a Prehistoric Crocodile to the panda...
More than an hour later, when police stormed into Panda Garden and a gunfight broke out, the number of people in the live stream had already surpassed three hundred thousand! The entire streaming platform lit up with the eye-catching banner ’Zoo Director Battles Xiangjiang Kidnapper’, and nearly all the viewers on the platform flooded into the room.
Meanwhile, as the ’live’ drama became increasingly realistic, more and more viewers shifted from disbelief to skepticism, and eventually came to realize that this seemed to be an authentic hostage rescue!
Word quickly spread from one person to ten, then from ten to a hundred, as the news disseminated rapidly through friends’ circles and Weibo posts!
Mainland tourists, assisting police in Xiangjiang, rescue hostages!
This headline appeared almost simultaneously on major websites, and the top domestic search engine even changed its homepage headline and included a link to the live streaming platform! It’s no exaggeration to say that, apart from those who were watching movies, playing games, or reading novels, most people online in Huaxia could easily learn about the chat room news!
A real kidnapping, on-scene footage, mainland gamers, Xiangjiang desperadoes, gunfights, rich heirs, panda hostages... Several highly engaging keywords set the internet ablaze instantly.
Suming had cut the part where the panda interrogated the criminal, and when the video switched to the base of Flying Goose Mountain, with Suming leading a pack of police dogs up the hill, the streaming platform suddenly went dark, taking about fifteen minutes to come back online... It turned out that the sheer number of simultaneous viewers, along with the frenzy of comments and gift-giving, had overwhelmed the server’s capacity.
Luckily, Shang Shenyan, the tech guru responsible for the platform, was rather competent and proactive. He had purchased backup servers from the start and was backing up the data in real time. When the server crashed, he quickly switched on the backup servers. 𝒏𝙤𝒗𝙥𝒖𝒃.𝙘𝙤𝒎
When the video came back on, the police were already nearing the cave...
After several hours of live streaming, backend data showed that at its peak, around nine hundred thousand people were logged into the room, and this number didn’t fluctuate much in the subsequent period. In other words, roughly eight to nine hundred thousand people were watching this ’pseudo-live’ event! And this was all without any prior promotion, in a hastily arranged broadcast.
The gifts received were worth nearly a million Huaxia currency, with ’super monsters of exquisite elegance’ alone totaling seven or eight!
Correspondingly, the number of fans of Taoyuan Interest also skyrocketed by over a hundred thousand.
On Weibo and the live streaming platform, the countless messages of praise and the ensuing positive impacts were too numerous for Suming to go through in detail.
All of these of course were not the ’bad news’ Wang Hao spoke of, but the ’bad news’ indeed had a direct connection with the live platform’s explosive popularity!
"Pandas? What pandas? Where the hell am I going to get pandas for them?!" Suming was frustrated, unable to fathom why the netizens’ excitement matched Nangong’s, completely nonsensical.
The bad news was that after watching the video, viewers from the mainland, especially those from Yangchuan City, were unanimously hoping that Yangchuan City Zoo would also keep a few pandas.
The "hope" of one person is not to be feared, but if tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of regular customers of Yangchuan City Zoo and the live streaming platform clients all express that hope, it demands attention!
The problem is, Suming had no way of obtaining pandas! These creatures are Huaxia’s most famous animals, without ’among others,’ and are rare. Only a handful of zoos in the country have them, and they all consider them their crowning jewels, treating them like precious children.
If it were another first-class protected animal, even red pandas or Yangtze alligators, Suming could think of a solution, exchanging animals with other zoos using the ones from Yangchuan City Zoo.
But pandas are an impossibility! There’s a saying in the circles that the only way to get a panda is if you have two pandas to trade. Yangchuan City Zoo might have bears and cats, but no giant pandas...
And Xiangjiang Ocean Park giving pandas to Yangchuan Zoo was even more out of the question. Yingying and Lele were gifts from the central government to Xiangjiang. If Xiangjiang’s government were to give them to a mainland zoo, what would that imply, a refusal to the central authority?
"Where can we get pandas?" Nangong was also baffled. He spun his large eyes around and suggested, "Why not just catch one in the mountains?"
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Tragedy struck last night when it rained. I was sitting at the window in my underwear, enjoying the rain and typing away so carefree with the breeze lifting my spirits. Then, before falling into a drowsy state, I sneezed seven or eight times in a row. Waking up, I found myself feeling dizzy, sick with a cold... With the change of seasons from spring to summer, everyone take care of your health and don’t seek out the cold—lessons learned at the cost of much snot and sneezing!!!
