Chapter 897 - 916: No Brains, Can Only Borrow! So Miserable

Right now, they were only managing the comments, yet the screen was already lagging.

The main event of a food livestream was the food replication. Once the replication finished and everyone rushed to grab the data, that would be the true massive workload. Looking at the current situation, the lag wouldn’t just persist—the screen would probably go entirely black.

This was Qiuqiu’s debut livestream in front of the general public. Nothing could go wrong.

Little President Qian quickly instructed the technical department to dismantle the company’s old mainframe and temporarily link it to the New Star app. Aside from linking mechanical brains, linking cloud brains could also alleviate some of the burden on the livestream.

He swiftly logged into the company’s shareholder app and asked if anyone had any idle mainframes lying around.

Ever since the big bosses received their shareholder perks, they rarely camped in the livestream anymore. They only occasionally dropped by to consume data when they were craving a snack, so they weren’t as intimately familiar with the livestream’s affairs as they used to be.

"Are we buying more mainframes and mechanical brains again? Weren’t the previous ones enough?" one shareholder asked.

Qian Xingxing sent a screenshot of the 37.213 billion concurrent viewers into the group chat.

"The app is about to explode. Tier 6 and 7 mainframes aren’t enough; we need to buy five Tier 7s just to hold out... But we can’t buy them on such short notice, and the livestream is about to freeze to death. Fellow shareholders, please help out!"

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Although everyone was left speechless, they still managed to dig up some non-essential operational brains from their own companies and sent over the link IDs. The technical department rushed to connect both sides.

Needless to say, there was strength in numbers. The data fluctuations in the livestream really did decrease quite a bit.

Meanwhile, Qiuqiu had already started stuffing the minced meat.

Lotus root stuffed with meat and lotus root meatballs were two different forms of dishes. For the first, the lotus root was sliced into round, medium-thick pieces. Minced meat—with a ratio of seven parts lean to three parts fat—was sandwiched in the middle, secured with toothpicks, and pan-fried slowly over low heat.

For the second dish, the lotus root was chopped into small chunks—small, but not minced into dust, thus retaining its crunchy texture. These were mixed with seasoned minced meat and cooked. After being blanched, they looked like ordinary meatballs, but one bite would reveal a delightful surprise hidden inside.

The savory aroma of the meat mixed perfectly with the subtle sweetness and crunch of the lotus root. Just thinking about it was enough to make anyone drool!

Of course, those who hadn’t tasted them yet couldn’t imagine the flavor. They merely thought that these little things looked quite nice neatly arranged together. This praise for their appearance lasted right up until Jiang Qiuqiu fired up the stove and heated the oil.

Since there were two different dishes, she brought out two pans. The meatballs needed to be blanched, while the stuffed lotus roots only required a flat-bottomed frying pan.

Between the food and the pan, there seemed to be a miraculous synergy. While sitting on the plate, the ingredients looked perfectly ordinary, but the moment they entered the pan, the high temperatures coaxed out a rich, mouthwatering aroma.

Coupled with the overflowing, overbearing Healing Spiritual Power, the entire livestream suddenly fell quiet.

Whenever this happened, the comments would always dwindle. Naturally, the comments were at their absolute lowest when it was time to snatch the tasting spots.

However, today seemed to be an exception.

After the first batch of stuffed lotus roots and meatballs was finished, her terminal let out a BEEP. Qiuqiu saw that it was an urgent message from Little President Qian and glanced over at it.

Due to the server overload, Little President Qian was asking her if she could distribute the food in batches to reduce the server pressure.

Of course she could. Making it early just meant distributing it early.

Since it was time to serve the dishes, Qiuqiu took out the special small plates she had prepared for today from the cabinet and began dividing the stuffed lotus roots and meatballs into portions. The casual passersby didn’t know what was going on, but the Ju people were already rubbing their hands together in anticipation.

"It’s time to snatch the spots!" the viewers exclaimed.

Before uploading the data, Qiuqiu announced, "Because the number of replicated portions is limited today, every ID will only be allowed to grab two portions. So, if you don’t like fried food, you can wait a little longer. I’ll be preparing mochi milk and Bibi Meat sushi later."