Chapter 898 - 917: The Tone of This Livestream is Snatching

With that said, Qiuqiu uploaded the food.

Some people were still caught up on the word "choose." However, the Ju people were already charging ahead with unstoppable momentum. Historical experience had taught them that being able to "choose" was a total lie. In every broadcast, once a limit was set on grab attempts or if the slots weren’t guaranteed for all, there were definitely going to be some unlucky souls left empty-handed.

Not to mention, holy crap, there were over thirty billion viewers today! How many hands did Qiuqiu have? Even if each portion was split into five hundred million, she still had to worry if it would be enough! Therefore, while the idea of "choosing" still lingered in the minds of the newcomers, the opportunity to "grab" vanished in a mere flash.

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It evaporated so fast it felt like it had never appeared at all. Then, another three hundred million portions were tossed into the shared links.

The competitive atmosphere was highly contagious. With slots disappearing so quickly, a portion of the casual onlookers started clicking frantically as well. They originally thought that clicking randomly without hesitation would be enough to secure a portion. To their surprise, even after doing so, a message popped up in the center of many passersby’s screens: "Sorry, this link has been fully shared. 300,000,000/300,000,000."

Someone couldn’t help but send a comment in the bullet chat, [Are your hands directly wired to your computers?!]

The Ju people replied smugly, [Practice makes perfect!]

After the first wave of food was distributed and the Ju people finished enjoying their delicacies, a flood of food reviews filled the bullet chat. Comments praised the crispy and sweet flavors, cheering that the chili-infused meatballs were absolutely top-tier. Long live the new dishes! Some also used the stuffed lotus root meatballs as a starting point to reminisce about the Gugu Beast meatballs and Bibi Beast meatballs.

What was even more brilliant was that aside from sharing text, some viewers even shared image sets in the chat. This included, but was not limited to, a whole series of dishes like braised Gugu Beast meat, meat patties, fish with pickled mustard greens, and pork belly with preserved mustard greens.

Words had power, but here, the power of images was even greater. Not to mention, some of those images were animated GIFs. The jiggly braised pork, the crystal-clear pork belly with preserved mustard greens, the sizzling roast duck dripping with oil, and the fish with pickled mustard greens swimming in a clear, white broth—wasn’t every single one of them an absolute knockout?

Just like that, the Ju people awakened the gluttonous cravings of the passersby. The tone of the livestream was thus set. Everyone was hungry, and everyone wanted to eat—so, everything now relied purely on snatching!

The Ju people who had already grabbed a portion of the stuffed lotus root were no longer in the first tier. Without them competing, more passersby and casual onlookers were able to snag some. Some tried it out of sheer curiosity, only to quickly realize why Jiang Qiuqiu’s fans always said she was overflowing with talent, and that brown sugar steamed buns were just par for the course.

Because it was just so incredibly delicious! These seemingly ordinary ingredients were combined to create something that matched inexplicably perfectly!

Amidst the chaotic scramble, all the prepared lotus root dishes were completely wiped out. Qiuqiu glanced at the time; it was already past one o’clock. She quickly began preparing the second dessert: milk mochi. Since it was relatively simple to make, Qiuqiu used the gaps in preparation to pre-steam the glutinous rice needed for the sushi.

Seeing that the first wave of dishes had finished serving, the atmosphere in the livestream room instantly reached a boiling point. In between watching the broadcast, the Ju people also took the time to leave comments on the Star Network trending topics. Most of the casual viewers who stumbled upon the tag also left positive reviews.

Unanimous praise was hard to come by. As the topic’s popularity continued to climb, Juju’s livestream room welcomed yet another explosive wave of viewers. Meanwhile, during the monitoring process, Qian Xingxing experienced a mix of pain and pleasure as he continued to recruit people and borrow cloud-based mechanical brains to handle the massive load.

At this exact moment, a neat block of forty thousand people entered Qiuqiu’s livestream room simultaneously. However, because the base viewer count was simply too massive, these forty thousand people were like a drop in the ocean, instantly vanishing without a trace.