TWWMABMTBH Chapter 14

Chapter 14: Go! Bro Takes You to Conquer the Online World

Rong Ziyan hesitated a bit. Based on past experience, his ten-pull was sure to yield nothing. But after all, there were miracles with single pulls, and he was someone who had pulled a Frozen Beltfish before. He figured it wouldn’t hurt to test the waters with a ten-pull.

The System sensed his thoughts and subconsciously tried to dissuade him, “Why not wait and save up for twenty? Anyway, the Salted Duck Eggs haven’t sold out yet!”

Rong Ziyan considered it. “That’s true. There’s no rush now anyway.”

So, after discussing it with the System, Rong Ziyan decided to save up for a twenty-pull.

After all, the lottery was just a little side thing for now. Rong Ziyan had more pressing matters to attend to. He needed to find a way to gather enough money for the publication and review fees for his thesis.

As the saying goes, “A single penny can stump a hero.” Rong Ziyan was short a whole 20,000.

“Sigh!” The System sighed, truly worried. They couldn’t possibly expect Rong Ziyan to earn 20,000 by selling Salted Duck Eggs; it was practically a pipe dream.

But, on the other hand, Rong Ziyan’s biggest advantage right now might be that he was a licensed veterinarian?

However, villages weren’t like cities, where pet hospitals charged high fees. Rural animal husbandry stations usually received government subsidies. Rong Ziyan only earned 3.5 yuan for neutering a boar. Even if he castrated all the pigs in the neighboring villages, it wouldn’t be enough.

There was simply no place to make money.

Rong Ziyan, on the other hand, didn’t seem too worried. He asked the System, “In the Heavenly Path System, I see there’s not just the lottery but also an exchange system. What can be exchanged in that system?”

“Lots of things!” The System thought for a moment. “Though there are level restrictions, basically, anything you can draw can also be exchanged.”

“It’s not open yet for me, right?”

“Yeah, your total accumulated gold coins aren’t enough. You’re still short of 900,000. Once you’ve accumulated enough total gold coins, the System will upgrade to the second stage. In this stage, every ten-pull will guarantee at least one R-level item. And all N-level items can be exchanged for gold coins.”

“Are there any particularly valuable things in the N-level?”

“There are plenty!” The System got worked up just thinking about it. He clearly saw gold and silver jewelry, huge diamonds in the N-level, but Rong Ziyan always pulled only Salted Duck Eggs and Salted Fish. That was the most infuriating thing for it.

Rong Ziyan, however, breathed a sigh of relief. “That’s good then. I’ve got a way to get the money for my thesis.”

It took the System a moment to realize that Rong Ziyan was talking about opening the exchange system and directly exchanging items from the system for money.

But they still needed 900,000 gold coins! How could they reach that quickly?

“Actually, it’s not too hard.” Rong Ziyan couldn’t help but smile. The gold coins came from the emotions of people or animals. So the place with the most people was…

“The internet!” The System also became excited.

There were a lot of people online, and netizens were even more unhinged behind their screens. Rong Ziyan could just go to the Weibo pages of popular celebrities and cuss a bit, and he would surely have enough gold coins in minutes.

However, what it never expected was that Rong Ziyan didn’t open Weibo, but Zhihu instead.

Was he going to show off his skills in the entertainment section of Zhihu? The System secretly speculated.

As a result, the System watched Rong Ziyan apply for an account, open the agriculture section, and quickly write the following highly professional posts:

《How to Get Your Sow Pregnant Quickly》, 《Raising Pigs for Half a Year Is a Waste of Time – How to Select Piglets of the Right Age》, 《A Difference of One or Two at Birth, a Difference of One Catty at Weaning, a Difference of One Catty at Weaning, a Difference of Ten Catties in the Fattened Pig – The Rational Breeding of Piglets》

The System felt completely powerless. “Host, I feel like this might not get any views.” At the same time, it showed Rong Ziyan the ten most popular posts on Zhihu.

The top posts were either celebrity gossip or matters of public concern.

After all, in the online world, if you want to become famous, it has to be either about personal interests or something sensational.

Rong Ziyan thought about it and figured the System had a point. After browsing through the popular topics on Zhihu, Rong Ziyan finally had an idea and immediately gave his new post a title that fit the style of self-media.

《After Failing to Forcefully Take Me, Rich Second Generation Turned Black and Trapped Me in Debt…》

The System was silent for a long time. “Host, I think it would be faster for us to go to Weibo and cuss at celebrities to earn money.”

Rong Ziyan refused directly. “No, the gold coins will come eventually, but there’s no need to cuss at innocent people.”

In Rong Ziyan’s view, writing Popular Science on agriculture and animal husbandry forums, helping others, and receiving gratitude points was something he earned through his labor. Following trends and writing funny content was also based on one’s abilities. But cursing celebrities was just too low.

After all, they were strangers with no grudges or any knowledge of the true situation. Even if they were public figures, Rong Ziyan felt that he didn’t have the right to arbitrarily criticize them.

Moreover, people these days generally have high moral expectations. If these celebrities really had problems, the public would naturally condemn them. But if they didn’t have any moral issues, then there was even less reason for him, someone who never followed celebrities or understood the actual situation, to casually criticize them.

If people couldn’t even control their own mouths, then how were they different from dogs?

No, he should say that even dogs knew to keep quiet sometimes.

This was the bottom line that Rong Ziyan was sticking to, and he was particularly stubborn about it.

The System was persuaded by him and fell silent.

However, no matter how strong the principle was, it couldn’t change the fact that his posts were not getting any views. Zhihu had millions of users, and countless people posted every day. The ones that made it to the top were either strange enough to spark intense arguments or were related to public hot topics and major social issues.

Therefore, Rong Ziyan’s posts disappeared into the sea of information as soon as they were posted, without a trace.

The System was very distressed. “Host, what do we do now?”

Rong Ziyan was also stumped. Just then, he saw a notification on Zhihu.

Inviting you to answer.

This was a feature of Zhihu, which would recommend questions based on the categories of posts the user had made.

For example, Rong Ziyan had five or six questions on his page that were inviting him to answer. They were probably categorized based on his published posts. One was related to animal husbandry, and the rest were all emotional questions.

Rong Ziyan stared at these questions and suddenly thought that maybe answering questions was a solution. After all, if he helped others solve their problems, he could also receive gratitude points. Although it would be a little slower, it didn’t matter. He could make up for it with diligence.

Unfortunately, Rong Ziyan had forgotten that he was especially dense in some areas, and his answers might not be what others were looking for.

Zhihu: What’s the relationship like between a man and woman who are always playing chicken duos together?

Rong Ziyan: Thank you for the invite, they will both go bald.

Zhihu: In Honor of Kings, the girl I was carrying as support, missed all four skills on Diao Chan. What should my reaction be?

Rong Ziyan: Thank you for the invite, I’m too bad to carry anyone.

Zhihu: My wife is very pretty, but after marriage, I suddenly feel incredibly bored looking at her face.

Rong Ziyan: Thank you for the invite, sleep with a boar for a night, and that should solve it.

The System was immediately bombarded with Rong Ziyan’s answers and was speechless for a long time.

But Rong Ziyan was getting more and more excited, because for him, these questions were all really easy!

Later, Rong Ziyan even took the initiative to look at the hot posts on the homepage, especially in the emotional category. After reading the questions, he answered them carefully, with a series of rapid operations. If the village chief hadn’t come over to tell him about an emergency, Rong Ziyan could have kept answering questions for several more pages.

You should know that ever since Rong Ziyan left school, he hadn’t had such a refreshing time doing problems for a long time. Therefore, after putting down his phone, Rong Ziyan, satisfied, picked up his medical kit and followed the village chief out.

Half an hour had passed, and Rong Ziyan was already busy with work, but quite a few of the original posters on Zhihu had directly exploded.

Take the first person who asked about the man and woman playing chicken duos, who just wanted to show off their online romance.

As a result, the moment he opened the topic, he was shut down by Rong Ziyan with the “bald head” reply. He was stuck in a situation where he couldn’t go up or down.

The key point was that what Rong Ziyan said was also very true. Looking at the dark circles under his eyes and the thinning hair on top of his head, the original poster’s mentality instantly collapsed.

The second one was even worse. He just wanted to complain that his teammate was too bad, but the topic suddenly shifted to everyone laughing at him for not being able to carry and for showing off for no reason.

And the third one was even more speechless. He just wanted to say something flirty online, but he was brainwashed by Rong Ziyan’s “sleep with a boar for a night”, and all the erotic thoughts vanished. As for the later developments in the post, they were completely derailed by Rong Ziyan’s devilish first reply.

As for the rest, they were all similar.

Zhihu’s random recommendations had a time-sensitive pattern. Rong Ziyan was too active this afternoon, and his accurate and blunt answers instantly attracted the curiosity of many people.

Especially those posters who were deeply affected by his answers, they ground their teeth and clicked on Rong Ziyan’s account to see what he usually looked at?

As a result, the first post they saw was 《How to Get Your Sow Pregnant Quickly》.

… WTF, what is this shit!

They finally found one that was related to people, and then they saw the title, 《After Failing to Forcefully Take Me, Rich Second Generation Turned Black and Trapped Me in Debt…》

WTF is this again? A modern urban Mary Sue fairy tale?

Many people couldn’t help but complain, but when they clicked on the post, they were surprised to find that what Rong Ziyan wrote was actually quite good?

It wasn’t the usual story of a common girl being targeted by a domineering president, a forced relationship, imprisonment and rape, a tragic love, and a sweet happy ending.

Instead, it was a story of a top student suppressing a rich second generation, following his own heart, not being afraid of power, using leverage, cooperating, and forging a path to survival.

At first glance, it was actually very refreshing.

And although Rong Ziyan used simple words, his sentence structure was skilled, the logic was extremely strong, and in just a few words, he could lead the readers’ emotions and make them feel the same as the protagonist.

And when the story got to the point where the court lost the case, and the top student lost his qualifications to continue his studies and had to go to a small village to help, the hearts of all the readers were in their throats.

So… what should he do?

Should the debts be repaid?

Did he kill that rich second generation?

Yes, everyone was eagerly waiting to see the ending. But when they scrolled down, there was no follow-up!

“mmp, I took off my pants and this is what I get?”

“No, what’s the situation? Come back and finish the ending!”

“I’ve read so much nonsense on Zhihu, and this is the only one that I really care about! Please come back and complete the story!”

As time passed, there were more and more comments under Rong Ziyan’s rich second generation post, and eventually, it was pushed to the top of the hot topics!

And as the post became popular, more and more people fell into the trap.

Usually, when posters on Zhihu wrote self-experience posts like this, the more readers there were, the more diligent the poster would be.

But Rong Ziyan was completely the opposite. When no one was reading it, he wrote a lot of things. Now that everyone was asking him to write, he had disappeared.

The key point was that these people had waited for a whole afternoon and still hadn’t seen Rong Ziyan come back. And there was no further activity on Rong Ziyan’s Zhihu account.

So, was it abandoned?

The expectation value instantly turned into resentment. A group of people who were diligently scrolling through posts waiting for Rong Ziyan to return had transformed from fans into bitter wives of wealthy families.

However, no matter how much they bumped the post or shouted, Rong Ziyan did not reply again, acting like a scumbag who flirted and then ran away, leaving without wiping his mouth after eating.

【Resentment value of 10,000】, 【Resentment value of 20,000】…【Resentment value of 100,000】…

The gold coins that Rong Ziyan was receiving from the forum quickly broke through the 100,000 mark.

The System was already terrified, but Rong Ziyan didn’t have time to care about all of that.

Right now, he was on the highway from the county to Beijing, cooperating with the local traffic police to… capture escaped wild boars.

The biggest boar had the words: “Shameless commoners, kneel before me!” written on its head.