Picking Up Fragments in PUBG
Chapter 35: Soaring Popularity

One hour left until Jiang Siming starts the live broadcast at 3:00 in the afternoon.

The 99999 live room is already packed, with over a million online viewers, and the number is still rising.

"Came here for the online video ’Trotting Horse’!"

"Saw the Bilibili killing video, it’s amazing, came here to verify!"

"Open the door, I want to hear the song!"

"Start the slaughter, Ming God, want to see you dominate the Asia server!"

"Husband, when will you start the broadcast, sniff sniff..."

"Such a talented husband is mine!"

...

With soaring popularity, the momentum seems unstoppable!

Jiang Siming’s live room is becoming a potential top streamer, alongside veteran streamers like PDD and Xuxu Baobao on Douyu.

Many veteran streamers envy Jiang Siming’s popularity, thinking he’s faking it, but after reporting, they received the reply, "He’s fine, it’s just your narrow-mindedness."

Approaching three o’clock, Jiang Siming just satisfied his car addiction and returned home to start the live broadcast.

As soon as he started, Jiang Siming was a bit dumbfounded – what’s going on? Why are there so many people!

Online viewers: 3,545,129, about 3.5 million.

Popularity value: 8,787,544, about 8.5 million.

These numbers left Jiang Siming bewildered.

Yesterday, when he started the broadcast, the number of viewers was only a few hundred thousand, and the popularity was just over a million.

Today’s broadcast data is somewhat scary.

"So lively today, good afternoon, everyone." Jiang Siming greeted the audience through the microphone.

"Finally started the broadcast, you’re one minute late!"

"Ming God, you’re floating, you’re fifty seconds late, compensate us with a performance of ’Trotting Horse’."

"Specially here for ’Trotting Horse’!"

"Came from Bilibili to learn some skills, is the streamer accepting disciples?"

"Husband, you finally arrived, I’ve been waiting for you for a long time."

"I checked the chat, and many people are here for ’Trotting Horse,’ but this is not a music live broadcast. What should I do?"

Jiang Siming’s mournful tone amused the audience, and they all said to sing a song and then let him go.

Knowing that what you can’t have is the most tempting, Jiang Siming would never agree so easily.

"Well, how about this, I’ll sing a song for everyone before ending the stream, is that okay?"

Saying that, regardless of the audience’s opinions, Jiang Siming logged into the PUBG game, being this arrogant.

A big streamer must have this kind of momentum! Well, he’s learning quite well, very much alike.

"Yesterday when I was browsing Douyin, I found a video saying that the win94 is the weakest gun, and it talked a lot of trash. Today, I’ll play a round with the win94 to prove its worth." Ɍ

After saying that, Jiang Siming switched to the desert map and started the game!

The audience who came to listen to music originally planned to come back in the evening, but upon hearing Jiang Siming’s words, they were curious and stayed to watch for a while.

"Win94 is quite weak, I never use this gun anyway."

"No scope attachment, only rely on iron sights, too difficult to play."

"Ming God, don’t tell me you want to win with this gun?"

"If you can win with Win94 for the whole match, that’s impressive!"

"I believe in Ming God!"

...

The lively chat of comments from the audience had both believers and non-believers.

Unlike yesterday, where they said Jiang Siming becoming the number one on the Asia server was a dream.

Entering the vast desert map, Jiang Siming aimed at the busiest point in the desert, Pecado City!

This place is a paradise for desert bandits, like the bootcamp City of Sanhok and the airport on the island, both being cities of bloodshed and violence.

Jiang Siming chose the scariest boxing arena to parachute into, although there was a risk of not replaceing the Win94. Still, Jiang Siming parachuted faster than others, so even if he couldn’t replace it, he could run away.

As his parachute folded, a cool somersault, Jiang Siming landed on the third floor of the boxing arena.

At this moment, many were still floating in the sky. Jiang Siming scanned the third floor; although there were plenty of guns, none were what he wanted.

Even faced with the temptation of AK, M416, and even a tempting Kar98k, Jiang Siming ignored them all, sticking to his promise of only using Win94.

Reaching the second floor, unfortunately, he still hadn’t found it!

By this time, other players had also arrived on the third floor and picked up their guns.

The audience started worrying for Jiang Siming.

"Why not pick up a gun first!"

"Pick up a gun, get some kills, and when you replace the Win94, you can switch later."

"If you don’t pick up a gun now, you’re going to die, don’t be so fixated!"

"Please, be sensible, I can hear footsteps downstairs..."

Jiang Siming searched the second floor but found nothing. He continued down; someone was already following his footsteps from behind.

Finally, against all odds, in a lounge on the first floor, Jiang Siming spotted the gun.

Loading the gun was slow.

The sound of loading bullets made the audience anxious.

Just as he finished loading the bullets, the player who had been searching for him arrived, holding a shotgun.

Seeing Jiang Siming and the Win94 in his hands, the other player laughed, a look of absolute confidence on his face.

Lifting the thick black gun barrel, he intended to give Jiang Siming a double spray combo.

However, Jiang Siming calmly raised his gun and pulled the trigger.

The pleasing sound of Win94 bullets was like a muffled torpedo.

Yet within that muffled sound, it contained the long-suppressed powerful force.

Bullets pierced through, and the player holding the spray gun fell to the ground with a face full of unwillingness.

A pleasant white light appeared in the box.

"Picked up [Shotgun Mastery] fragment *1 (1/1), fragment quantity is full, can be used directly."

A good game skill, Jiang Siming accepted the fragment and turned around, gun in hand, charging up to the second floor.

With only a Win94 in hand, he exuded an imposing aura as if he was fully equipped with legendary gear.

On the second floor, three players were in a gunfight, and one of them, unable to resist the two-pronged attack, tried to escape.

But Jiang Siming snatched him with a Kobe Bryant-style shot.

The player who could have taken the head was infuriated, and aiming his AK at Jiang Siming, he wanted to turn him into a sieve. f

Mind you, Jiang Siming was playing the big league! The number one in the Asia server with 4500 points!

The opponents he was matched with were the cream of the crop, the top players in their respective segments.

The player with the AK was a technically skilled streamer with some popularity on YY Live.

Having just won a chicken dinner, his live stream was thriving, with tens of thousands of viewers watching.

"Wanted to steal kills? I’ll make you die rhythmically!"

As he cursed, he raised his gun to shoot!

This streamer’s recoil control was quite good; logically, Jiang Siming, fully exposed without cover, was supposed to die.

But Jiang Siming, relying on his lateral movement and body twisting, miraculously avoided this deadly spray of bullets.

"What the hell is this? Is he a goddamn magician?"

The small streamer cursed, adjusting his gun to regain control of the situation.

Successfully adjusting the gun, he found Jiang Siming. However, from the small streamer’s scope, the figure that seemed like an easy target was now lifting the seemingly harmless Win94 in his hands.

Bang!

The small streamer’s vision went black, and he became a lifeless body on the ground, rolling down from the spectator seats.