PUBG: Demon King System - Chapter 26

Chapter 26: Skepticism from the Viewers

Translator: Noodletown Translations

Editor: Noodletown Translations

Thirty-five kills in one game of PUBG!

Although Lin Ye didn’t really care, he had reached such a ridiculously high kill score that he was now well known in Douyu’s PUBG section. Many viewers and streamers now knew about the game ID “Linye”.

After all, it was extremely difficult for a player to get 30 kills in one game of PUBG.

Before this, here was the list of the number of kills that PUBG streamers got in solo mode:

First place: Douyu streaming platform, Sniper King Baixiao, 36 kills and the chicken dinner.

Second place: Huya streaming platform, Weigou, 34 kills and the chicken dinner.

Third place: Douyu streaming platform, MG.Show, 32 kills and the chicken dinner.

These three people’s records in kills in solo mode were extremely difficult to accomplish and something an ordinary player could only dream about. It was even difficult for professional players to accomplish such a feat.

In a way, Sniper King Baixiao, Weigou, and Show were the top three streamers in PUBG solo mode.

However, Lin Ye’s 35 kills and chicken dinner in one game of PUBG surpassed Weigou and MG.Show’s records, allowing him to become the second place in China’s solo mode killing record of PUBG. This was a great honour.

It should be mentioned that Sniper King Baixiao solely relied on his killing record and him winning the last PUBG All-Star Solo Mode championship to become Douyu’s No.1 streamer in the PUBG section.

Securing the chicken dinner and getting 35 kills in solo mode in PUBG!

Lin Ye could probably ride this wave and gain even more popularity.

That was why many Douyu viewers came to Lin Ye’s stream to witness how strong this streamer that obtained 35 kills in one game of PUBG was.

– Jiangcheng City – 

At Douyu’s headquarters.

Management quickly responded to supermod Shark Chili’s report regarding Lin Ye’s stream. The director of the PUBG section, Shazhi, picked up the internal call and replied.

“Immediately switch the quality of Lin Ye’s stream from HD to 8M Blu-Ray. Don’t put any upper limits on his stream; I want to see his true potential.”

Shark Chili was shocked when he heard Shazhi’s respond. He responded, “Director Shazhi, according to company policy, we can only give 8M Blu-Ray to the level A streamers who signed a contract with us. Lin Ye only has a level C contract. Would we be breaking company rules?”

“Just change his stream’s quality right now. If anything goes wrong, I’ll take responsibility,” Director Shazhi said decisively. After she finished, she hung up the phone.

Decisive and sharp.

That was the PUBG section director, Shazhi’s style. As long as she made up her mind, she would get what she wanted no matter what obstacles were in front of her.

Shark Chili cowardly nodded and used his supermod key to upgrade Lin Ye’s stream’s resolution. 

However, Shark Chili was still skeptical of Director Shazhi’s move, as he thought it was too much.

Other than streamers’ salaries and contract fees, the broadband of the streams was the next major expense of a streaming platform.

The more streamers and viewers a platform had, the more data transmission, and the more money it costs to increase the network bandwidth.

A streaming platform would be burning money each day in order for it to survive, and liquidity was key. If cash flow was a problem, then the future of the website would be in doubt.

In order to decrease the amount of capital spent on the website, Douyu had relevant levels of resolution for their streamers.

Normal streamers would max out at HD while slightly popular streamers could get 4M Blu-Ray, and only the most popular streamers could get 8M Blu-Ray resolution.

These measures were all for cost cutting and to minimize the daily operational costs of the website.

After all, it didn’t make much sense to give a small streamer with only ten thousand popularity points Blu-Ray resolution, as not only did it use up internet bandwidth, but it also wouldn’t attract more viewers.

“Looks like Director Shazhi wants to cultivate Lin Ye into a new star in the PUBG section.”

Although Shark Chili was still skeptical with this act, he followed his director’s orders. From his perspective, a small movie streamer like Lin Ye was not worth nurturing…

By giving an idle streamer higher resolution, it may seem like it was beneficial for his stream. However, Lin Ye may find some reason not to stream tomorrow, so Shark Chili thought it was more of a loss than a gain for the company to give so much resources to nurture Lin Ye. 

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– Meanwhile – 

After Little Bear was played like a fool by Lin Ye, she was still angry. She was trapped like a turtle in a jar, and that made her very unhappy.

Just then, many of her viewers wrote bullet comments questioning whether Lin Ye cheated or not.

Lin Ye got 35 kills in one game of PUBG, and he almost got every one of his kills with a 98K headshot. From the perspective of the viewers, it was too sickening, and it also looked very similar to cheating.

“Little Bear, Little Bear, you recorded the game. Hurry and see if Lin Ye cheated!”

“Yeah, if he cheated, then the recording is solid proof.”

“I think Lin Ye cheated for sure using aimbot. Otherwise, there’s no way his 98K was that good.”

“Not necessarily. Back then when KZ’s Zhou Lili first debuted, his sniper rifle performance was brilliant. A lot of people said that he cheated. But after achieving some real victories in pro play after he became a pro player, the people all shut up.”

“That does make sense, but Noob Bear, hurry and check the recording to see if Lin Ye cheated or not!”

There were many serious viewers posting bullet comments, urging Little Bear to go over the game recording to see if Lin Ye cheated.

“Yeah. That guy’s 98K did look a bit weird. There is no harm to check the recording…” Although Little Bear didn’t think Lin Ye cheated, she was still skeptical. That performance of his 98K was too incredible. He was able to headshot with every bullet; he seemed like a walking cheat code.

Who can withstand a strong man that can headshot with every bullet from his 98K?