Chapter 17

"Captain, this is simply a human-shaped beast!"

"Yeah! With skills like that, aren't we redundant?"

"Just how heavy must that punch be!"

"The situation was indeed quite critical at the time. Perhaps only someone like Great God Xiao would dare to sleep soundly in the wilderness!"

"That's right. If he had woken up even a second later, Great God Xiao would likely have become the black bear's rations."

"It's truly worth studying. I really want to dissect him to see his body structure."

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Upon hearing this, all the rescue team members subconsciously moved a few steps away from Dr. Xue.

After the rescue team returned to the base, no one felt sleepy; they were all uncontrollably curious and rushed to watch the playback of Xiao Yi's critical moment.

When they saw Xiao Yi turn the bear's face into a pig's face with two punches, they couldn't help but exclaim in shock, saying all sorts of things.

The night was quiet. After the heavy rain, the air in the wilderness was exceptionally fresh and invigorating. At this time, most of the creatures in the wilderness had entered a dormant state.

Of course, the black night also had its nocturnal prowlers. The top night predators in the wilderness were also trying their best to hide themselves and mask their scent, hoping for a good harvest tonight.

In contrast to the wilderness environment was the metropolis where people gathered. For instance, Rongcheng at this moment was immersed in wine and revelry.

Everywhere was bustling with noise, singing, and music. For the people living here, their nightlife had only just begun.

Of course, Rongcheng was mostly filled with hardworking laborers working overtime.

As an emerging metropolis in China and one of the top ten cities for survival pressure, working overtime here was usually the norm.

Inside the Chongming Building in Rongcheng, in a relatively crowded office, a mature-looking man in a suit suddenly passed by. Seeing a young man still working in the corner by the computer, he couldn't help but say with concern.

"Wu Jiang, it's this late, why aren't you going back to rest? Do it tomorrow; there's no need to work overtime this late."

"You go back first, Brother Shen. Once I finish this little bit, I feel our 'Curiosity World' official account will be saved this time."

The man in the corner, hearing the voice, was startled at first, but upon looking up and seeing who it was, he couldn't help but respond with a smile.

The man was named Wu Jiang, a standard wage earner and an employee of this internet company called Red Maple. Of course, he was also a small shareholder, the kind with very few shares.

And the person who had just spoken to him was Shen Hao, the founder of their company.

As for this Red Maple Internet Company, it would be better to call it a small studio than a company.

The total number of people in the company was exactly ten, and that included the boss who had just spoken to him.

And their company didn't have any special technology or core; they just seized the trend of short videos.

In the era when short videos were just emerging, the boss Shen Hao seized this opportunity, created some original official accounts on major short video sites and websites, and then posted various types of videos.

Later, with the rise of the short video trend, these official accounts also gathered quite a few fans.

The boss used these official accounts with good traffic to attract investment and successfully established his own internet company.

And "sparrow companies" like theirs, which rose with the help of internet videos, were almost everywhere in this Rongcheng.

This was the great trend of the traffic era; even some big video influencers had their own internet studios.

And their company could be considered a medium-sized studio among these similar sparrow companies.

After all, their studio had one official account with tens of millions of followers, seven with millions, and twelve with hundreds of thousands.

And the "Curiosity World" official account that Wu Jiang was responsible for was the very first official account of their studio, and it was also an account that Shen Hao and he had built together.

Even this "Curiosity World" official account had broken through the million-follower mark on several platforms with high exposure, such as TikTok, Kuaishou, and Weibo.

The content was mostly about the magical side of the world, such as fires that had burned for decades without going out, or why bats were the poison kings, to prove that the Great Thousand World had everything.

It was just that materials were too hard to find now, and the works of this official account in recent times had dropped to the lowest point in terms of clicks, searches, likes, and comments.

In fact, it wasn't that Wu Jiang wasn't dedicated, which led to the decline in the official account's traffic.

It was just that the world didn't have that many bizarre materials for him to continue exploring. Now, the materials were mostly focused on popularizing common knowledge, and the audience had developed aesthetic fatigue toward this.

Seeing Wu Jiang say this, Shen Hao, who had intended to leave, perked up. After all, this was the first official account he started with, and he walked toward Wu Jiang.

In fact, Shen Hao himself was clear about the problem with this official account, but he didn't have any particularly good solution for it.

So their company's main goal and focus now were also placed on cultivating beautiful streamers.

Compared to just relying on short videos to make money, the dividends brought by live streaming and selling goods made him value it even more.

After seeing Shen Hao come over, Wu Jiang directly opened the video he had recorded and said, "Brother Shen, look at these."

Subsequently, what came into view was the scene of a man in the video knocking out a giant fish with three punches in the water, followed by the man carrying a thousand-jin giant poplar log, and finally the scene of him hammering a bear with two punches.

"This... this isn't photoshopped by you, is it! Xiao Wu, although this official account is the hard work of you and me, I also hope it can regain its vitality and return to the public eye, but I don't want to use this kind of fraudulent method."

After watching the content of the video, Shen Hao was first somewhat incredulous, and then looked at Wu Jiang with a serious face and said.

Wu Jiang naturally heard the misunderstanding in Shen Hao's tone, and then quickly explained.

"Brother Shen, you're overthinking it. Am I that kind of person? All this content is real. These scenes were also intercepted by me from the TikTok company's wilderness challenge program, and the person in the scene is a contestant in the program."

Shen Hao "..."

Hearing this, Shen Hao was completely stunned, and for a moment, he didn't know what to say.

The wilderness challenge program organized by TikTok company had been advertised everywhere since yesterday, and he naturally had heard of it.

But he didn't have much interest in this type of program, so he didn't pay too much attention, but who would have thought...

In the two offices in the corner on the sixteenth floor of the Chongming Building, the lights didn't go out until three o'clock in the morning.

Afterward, the "Curiosity World" official accounts on several major platforms released several videos and copy overnight.

"What is the limit of human strength? Today, Curiosity World takes you to decode it."

"The man who can fight a black bear with his bare hands, who is the true King of the Arctic?"

"How many more amazing events are there in this world!"

"Eh, has Curiosity World's style changed back? I haven't seen Curiosity World for a long time, but what is this posted today? TikTok actually gave it a hot push."

"Damn, who is this man in the video? Awesome!"

"This poplar log can't be fake, right? I don't believe anyone can carry such a heavy giant log. That black bear must also be played by a person. Curiosity World is getting worse and worse."

"Damn, today I finally understood that bears can be hammered with hands. Learned it, learned it."

"Knowledge increased, knowledge increased! Does anyone know who this man is? I want to follow him. Where can I see it?"

"Isn't this contestant number six from the wilderness living alone program organized by TikTok company? I watched it for a little while the day before yesterday and felt it was boring, so I turned it off. What did I give up? So regretful!"

"Let me tell everyone, this is a program organized by TikTok company. The video is definitely not photoshopped. This person is a contestant in the program."

"Absolutely authentic. I was in the live broadcast room last night and truly saw Great God Xiao beat the black bear until it couldn't get up with two punches."

Just after the video was released, whether on TikTok, Kuaishou, or Weibo, the likes and forwards of the video all broke 100,000 in a very short time, and the comments in the comment section also instantly exceeded 10,000.

This was still in the middle of the night. In fact, most short video viewers mainly watch videos and rarely watch live streams, so even though TikTok's publicity was overwhelming, the majority of people still hadn't watched the program.