Chapter 370: Maddening Twelfth Official Livestream! (4)
Chapter 370 – Maddening Twelfth Official Livestream! (4)
The livestream was “beginning” to fail.
Unlike past livestreams, the twelfth official livestream faced a rocky journey right off the bat.
Initially, Chen Yu thought that he would have reached a sufficiently safe distance after traveling a total of three light-years away from Earth. However, even after he had waited in silence together with his audience for three minutes, he did not see a space-time wormhole appearing.
After contacting the Transdimensional Marketing Company’s staff, he found out that a distance of three light-years still wasn’t sufficiently far, and he still needed to travel even farther…
Finally, after flying for another six hours and moving a total of ten light-years away from Earth, Chen Yu received a message on his phone.
[Transdimensional Marketing: “Your current location is fine. It will just barely not affect the solar system.”]
With his back facing against the camera, Chen Yu pondered for a moment before typing a reply.
[Chen Yu: “You’re telling me a distance of 90 trillion kilometers is just barely enough to prevent the product from affecting the solar system?”]
[Transdimensional Marketing: “Yes, Mr. Chen.”]
[Chen Yu: “…Are you sending me Buddha?”]
[Transdimensional Marketing: “:)”]
Storing his phone away, Chen Yu turned back to the camera. After pondering in silence for a moment, he suddenly said in a loud voice, “Friends in the livestream rooms, this is Transdimensional Review’s twelfth official livestream, and I am your host. We meet again after a month…”
[Meet my ass!]
[No comment…]
[Daddy! It’s already 7 PM!]
[I’ve been staring at my screen for 10 hours now.]
[Where’s the product? We want to see the product!]
[UP: I reviewed loneliness.]
[The host traveled across so many light-years just for us. We should be cheering for him.]
[Host, you might as well fly out of the Milky Way. That’ll be safer.]
[I already ate all the rations in my basement, yet you’re telling me the stream hasn’t even started…]
“Cough.” Chen Yu let out an awkward cough as he looked at the bullet comments appearing on his watch’s screen. Sternly, he said, “I truly apologize for the long delay. Actually, I could already receive the product when I was two light-years away from the solar system. However, just as some among the audience has said, I decided to travel an additional seven light-years away for the solar system’s safety. I hope you can understand this.
“It is currently 6:30 PM Beijing time, and 320 million people are watching the stream. To let more people catch the exciting livestream, I’ve decided to start receiving the product at seven o’clock exactly. I hope everyone can help spread this information on the internet and call your uninformed friends to join the livestream.”
After saying so, Chen Yu bowed slightly and disconnected the livestream’s audio. He then walked out of the camera’s view, entered a private room, and began preparing dinner.
He hadn’t eaten anything throughout the ten-hour journey. He was so hungry now that his stomach was even cramping.
“Dammit. If I knew I had to move so far, I should’ve started flying since last night.”
Ten minutes later, Chen Yu prepared a simple meal for himself and finished it. He then laid on the sofa and took a short nap.
At seven o’clock, Chen Yu left the room and stood before the camera. He then raised his wrist and took a look at his watch.
The number of concurrent viewers had reached 800 million!
He had traveled across ten light-years and delayed the stream by ten hours. As a result, many people grew even more curious to find out what kind of product Chen Yu would be revealed today.
Straightening his mask, Chen Yu sorted out the words in his mind and reconnected the livestream’s audio. “It is 7 PM Beijing time now. Sorry for the long wait, everyone. Next, I’ll skip the chit-chat and open the space-time wormhole to officially welcome today’s review product!”
After saying so, Chen Yu pulled out his phone and sent a message to the marketing staff.
[Chen Yu: “Send it over now.”]
[Transdimensional Marketing: “OK.”]
After receiving a reply, Chen Yu lightly tapped the finger sleeve on his middle finger.
Boom!
Accompanied by a burst of colorful lights, the E·I Force Field was activated.
Flying out of the spacecraft, Chen Yu looked at the endless universe around him. He then directed the camera forward.
“Look, the wormhole is opening.”
At Chen Yu’s words, the livestream’s hundreds of millions of viewers looked at their screens intently. Sure enough, a rotating wormhole was currently expanding in the deep space ahead.
[Now that I see this thing again, it really looks magical.]
[Since it’s called a space-time wormhole, does this mean we can go to the future if we pass through it?]
[Logically, if people from the future can send products to us through it, it should be possible for us to travel to the future using it.]
[How exciting!]
[It looks like an expanding black hole…]
[That… Isn’t there something wrong?]
[Yeah. Isn’t the wormhole a little too big?]
[I suddenly recall the Super Floating Castle stream. That was a real shocker.]
[Wait! It’s still growing bigger!]
[It seems the stream’s about to capsize…]
“Everyone, don’t worry. It’s a high-tech product from the future. It’s reasonable for it to be big,” Chen Yu said with his hands on his hips. “The wormhole is roughly the size of an asteroid only right now. It’s nothing. Not to mention, you’re ten light-years away. Even if an asteroid collision occurs here, you have nothing to worry about.”
Three minutes later,
The grayish-white wormhole was still expanding, and its existence created a sharp and cold contrast with the surrounding dark space.
“It’s about the size of the moon. Mhm… This is normal. I long since expected the product to be such a size. Don’t panic.”
Five minutes later.
The wormhole’s expansion accelerated! Now, the edge of the wormhole was even close to touching the space Chen Yu hovered at.
Without hesitation, Chen Yu stopped posing and returned to the Type-R Spacecraft without hesitation. He then began rapidly flying away from the wormhole.
Of course, he still didn’t forget to spout nonsense from his mouth. “It’s almost the size of Earth now, but this is technology from the future. It’s normal for it to be big. It is all within my control. Now, let us continue our observation from a farther location.”
Eight minutes later.
Chen Yu, who had fled to a great distance, looked back at the wormhole that had blocked out half his vision of the universe.
“Interesting. It is still expanding…”
Ten minutes later.
“…”
Thirteen minutes later.
“Don’t worry, everyone. The spacecraft’s flying speed is faster than the wormhole’s expansion speed. There is no danger on my side.”
Fifteen minutes later.
“Steady.” Chen Yu smiled stiffly.
Eighteen minutes later.
Twenty minutes later.
Twenty-five minutes later…
“I can’t start FTL navigation?! Why is this useless thing’s normal speed so slow?!” Sweat began covering Chen Yu’s back as he looked at the rapidly approaching wormhole behind him.
Twenty-eight minutes later…
“Crap! Hurry up! Isn’t this thing even bigger than the sun now?! What the heck is getting sent here?!”
[Amen.]
[This is too cruel. I can’t help but take a screenshot.]
[Why is it so big? Even space colonization ships can’t be this massive, right?]
[I think the UP got scammed.]
[I’m growing a little scared. Will this wormhole possibly reach Earth?]
[It’s about time to start the Wandering Earth Project…]
[Are you sure that’s a space-time wormhole?! Or is it a destructive weapon similar to the two-way foil?!]
After repeatedly failing to activate the spacecraft’s FTL navigation mode, Chen Yu finally began panicking. Pulling out his phone, he frantically typed out a WeChat message.
[Chen Yu: “You there?!”]
The other side did not reply.
[Chen Yu: “You there?! Sis, are you there?!”]
The other side still did not reply.
[Chen Yu: “Sis, I was wrong! I won’t ever ask if you’re there or not! Can’t you please show yourself?!”]
[Chen Yu: “I’m really sorry, alright?! The wormhole is about to devour me!”]
[Chen Yu: “I swear! I swear, alright?! I won’t ask if you’re there ever again! I’ll pour chili sauce down my butt otherwise!”]
[Transdimensional Marketing: “( ͡°͜ʖ͡°)”]
[Chen Yu: “Crap, you finally came. Sis, what should I do now?”]
[Transdimensional Marketing: “What do you mean?”]
[Chen Yu: “Didn’t you say the wormhole can’t accommodate living people? It’s about to swallow me whole soon! What the heck are you sending me?!”]
[Transdimensional Marketing: “This product is incredibly large. Hence, the wormhole will continue expanding. How far away from the wormhole are you right now?”]
Seeing this message, Chen Yu took a look behind him.
[Chen Yu: “It’s already right up my bum.”]
[Transdimensional Marketing: “There’s no saving you now. Just wait for death. Goodbye.”]
[Chen Yu: “???”]
…
Although the Transdimensional Marketing Company’s staff was cruel with her words, she still ended up slowing down the wormhole’s expansion speed.
Seeing this, Chen Yu immediately breathed out a sigh of relief and focused all his attention on piloting the spacecraft.
After he had escaped to a certain distance, the wormhole began expanding rapidly once more, covering up more than half the universe captured by the camera.
Whoosh—
Twenty minutes later, Chen Yu stopped the spacecraft and flew out of the cabin with the E·I Force Field’s help. He then stared at the space-time wormhole that had stopped “growing,” his mind falling into disarray.
At this moment, he finally had an intuitive understanding of the Transdimensional Marketing Company’s abilities.
If opening wormholes required resources, how much did it cost to open such a massive wormhole?
“It looks like it’s over.” Gulping down a mouthful of saliva, Chen Yu faced the camera and asked, “Everyone, do you know how big this wormhole is right now? According to the spacecraft’s calculations, this ‘unidentified object’ has a diameter exceeding 4.2 astronomical units.
“Converted to kilometers, that’s 620 million kilometers.
“Honestly, I can no longer imagine what will come out of this wormhole.”
[This is maddening!]
[Is the future human civilization migrating to our space-time?]
[I’m an uncultured fool, so I only know how to say ‘Crap.’]
[The same is true for me.]
[Crap.]
[The same is true for me.]
[Same, my ass! Something’s coming out!]
[It’s coming out! Crap! Crap! It’s really coming out!]
[It’s coming! I-It’s c-c-coming!!!]