Su City.
Evening.
As soon as Lin Yuan returned home, he heard his sister teasing, "Who moved the Bluelympics cheer station to our home?"
"Big brother is amazing."
A rare compliment from Lin Yao.
Mother, on the other hand, smiled and said, "We’ve been listening to your new songs at home these days. ’Blooming Life’ is my favorite. We need more rock music like this in the future."
"Sure."
Lin Yuan agreed and turned to look at Antarctica, noticing that its fur was no longer as shiny as before.
It seemed Antarctica hadn’t been doing too well without his care over these days.
"Woof, woof." Antarctica barked.
"Uh-huh." Lin Yuan nodded in response.
"Woof woof woof woof woof." Antarctica continued barking.
Lin Yuan turned to his family, "Have you guys not fed it canned food these past few days?"
"How did you know?"
"Antarctica just told me."
Lin Yuan turned away to go find canned food for Antarctica, leaving his perplexed family behind.
For the following days, Lin ran back and forth between two places.
He was at Starlight Entertainment in the morning and at the Shadow Studio in the afternoon.
No one was controlling his actions anyway.
With the momentum from Xian Yu’s collaboration with the Bluelympics, Starlight Entertainment managed to significantly regain its face within the industry!
And when the company’s executives saw the buzz surrounding the Seasonal Chart, they couldn’t help but be ecstatic!
Chairman Li Songhua even personally visited the composition department to commend Lin Yuan and Xian Yu!
It’s important to note,
usually, people would go to the top floor to seek an audience with the chairman.
It was rare for the chairman to personally make a visit.
This shocking gesture made everyone at the company take note of the impressive influence Xian Yu possessed!
So it happened,
that whether Lin Yuan was slacking off at work, leaving early, or simply skipping, no one cared.
They simply let him be.
Meanwhile, during the days when Lin Yuan returned to Su City, there was still much news about the Bluelympics and the Seasonal Chart online.
Especially the Seasonal Chart!
The ranking of songs from second to sixth places were unprecedentedly close, their rankings constantly changing. One song might be second for a few hours, and a few hours later, another song would move up to second place.
Some netizens joked:
This is Xian Yu’s five fingers bickering.
After all, the songs from second to sixth places were all composed by Xian Yu.
It was just a pity that the opening ceremony of the Bluelympics didn’t need a new song, otherwise, Lin Yuan could have reaped more benefits. The way the Bluelympics and Earth were run did have some differences.
Among all this,
one thing drew the attention of countless people!
That was...
When Qin, Qi, Chu, Yan and Han were releasing some Bluelympics-related updates, they all strangely chose to post them on the blog first!
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The official account of Qin Continent posted an update announcing the training status of a certain athlete, and it was first posted on the blog!
A whole twenty minutes later,
the official account of Qin Continent then posted the same update on Tribe.
Don’t underestimate this gap in timing!
During the Bluelympics, these official accounts’ updates are of top-level interest!
This slight time difference enabled the blog to take a huge bite of the traffic bonus!
If one continent were to do this, everyone could dismiss it as a coincidence.
But if Qin, Qi, Chu, Yan and Han all do the same, it absolutely cannot be a coincidence!
And let’s not forget, the official accounts of these continents always regarded Tribe as their home base and didn’t pay much attention to the blog.
Even an idiot could figure out what this implies!
For a while,
there was a lot of buzz across the continents —
The official accounts of the five continents had recently chosen the blog as their main platform for communication.
Is this a reward for Xian Yu’s Bluelympics support songs?
The traffic of these official accounts is at their max during the Bluelympics, but now most of it is being taken by the blog.
Is Tribe only able to enjoy the leftover leavings?
"In the past, Tribe caused so much trouble for Shadow God and almost made the site immobilized on its opening day. From the look of things, they must have deeply angered Xian Yu, considering that the site is backed by Xian Yu!"
"Fish Papa is starting to take revenge for Shadow!"
"Who would have thought that not only would Xian Yu not be ruined by the Bluelympics hindering his pursuit of a twelfth consecutive championship, but he could even bank on the Bluelympics to win the support of the official accounts of each continent?"
"Now Tribe has seriously offended Xian Yu!"
"Although Shadow was brilliant and turned into Shadow God last time, he was still resisting against the damage from Tribe. Now, Xian Yu is purely counterattacking — charging the capital’s high grounds single-handedly. Impressive!"
"The traffic on the blog is going to spike!"
"For instance, I never used the blog before. But because the first-hand news of the Bluelympics from the official account of our Qi Continent is now being posted there, I had to register on the blog to get the news. After all, news is most valuable when it’s first-hand. So how many people like me across the continents would there be?"
"..."
Indeed, the blog’s traffic was skyrocketing, on account of having the first-hand updates from official accounts.
"Damn!"
A wave of cursing suddenly arose within Tribe!
"Ling Kong needs to die!"
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"Ling Kong is a menace!"
"He’s acting like nothing happened now, but we’re the ones paying the price!"
"Tribe’s traffic has decreased again!"
"The traffic during the Bluelympics is so high, but we can’t take the lion’s share. This is all Ling Kong’s fault no matter how you look at it!"
"Ling Kong, this terrible dog!"
"..."
Whatever happened, they would blame Ling Kong. This seemed to be the common understanding between all the departments in Tribe.
The upper management at Tribe also felt anger intensifying and sensed the underlying threat.
All of a sudden, people with various connections were lobbying higher-ups.
The lobbying wasn’t ineffective.
On July 8,
The official accounts of Qin, Qi, Chu, Yan, and Han finally stopped giving preferential treatment to the blog.
Whether on the blog or Tribe, the Bluelympics related official updates had no time difference.
They were posted simultaneously!
Although this wasn’t the best outcome, both Tribe and the blog could accept it.
After all, the blog hadn’t received much attention before.
The previous few days had already benefited the blog a lot, while Tribe had paid some price in the process.
At the same time,
Lin Yuan received comforting calls from the staff of the continents.
Lin Yuan understood their plight.
Of course, he knew that these good days would not last.
The official accounts of the continents were still official after all.
Except for public affairs, in most cases, they couldn’t have their own stance.
He didn’t care much about it.
What really concerned Lin Yuan was that he found Tribe’s software on Jin Mu’s computer —
"How can you use our enemy’s products?"
"..."
Jin Mu was at a loss for words, apparently, Lin Yuan was still angry.
"Knowing the enemy and yourself is crucial. Through Tribe, we can get some information that’s not easy to find on the blog."
"What kind of information?"
"Nothing much in the past few days..."
As Jin Mu was saying that, he casually opened Tribe, but his face suddenly turned strange, and he stopped talking.
Huh?
Lin Yuan followed Jin Mu’s gaze to his computer, and an ad message on Tribe came into view:
[The No.1 competitive cartoon producer teams up with the top animation company in Chu Continent to create a basketball-themed competitive animation to cheer for the 44th Bluelympics...]
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ps: Give the little transparent a chance, brush up its existence, didn’t you guys think that the story of the old rascal is about to start?