Chapter 320

Of course, the number of viewers in the livestream continues to grow.

It won’t take long before the newly reopened No. 1 livestream breaks ten million concurrent viewers.

This viewership data stems from the two bears’ existing popularity, as well as yesterday’s trending topics.

“Xiao Yi Sees Off Heidan and Goudan!”

“The Only Livestream with Two Bears!”

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These topics all climbed the trending charts yesterday, and “Xiao Yi Sees Off Heidan and Goudan!” eventually became number one.

Naturally, Li Yong and other staff in the base control room were also very satisfied.

They hadn’t expected such a strong effect from this impromptu idea.

Starting with five million concurrent viewers, this livestream will surely surpass ten million.

Compared to other contestants’ livestreams at the time, none matched this data—no wonder the production team was pleased.

Most importantly, setting up separate livestreams for Heidan and Goudan has had little impact on Xiao Yi’s viewership.

Yesterday, during Xiao Yi’s farewell to the two bears, his livestream peaked at thirty-eight million concurrent viewers.

Now that the hype has faded—or been replaced by the two bears—Xiao Yi’s livestream still maintains around twenty-four million concurrent viewers.

Although this is two to three million fewer than when both bears were still in Xiao Yi’s livestream.

But in Li Yong’s view, this minor loss is entirely worth it.

More importantly, Li Yong knows that Lao Ji from Soshou is about to lose his temper.

Soshou’s production team must have been caught completely off guard by this move!

Soshou hasn’t launched any new moves recently—they were probably waiting for the first season of “Wild Challenge: 100 Days in the Arctic” to end.

Once it does, if Soshou releases any high-attention topics, all the buzz will shift to their show.

Even many viewers originally watching “Wild Challenge: 100 Days in the Arctic” might flock to “Brave the Hengduan Mountains for 100 Days” out of curiosity.

That would be the best opportunity for “Brave the Hengduan Mountains for 100 Days” to retain viewers.

It might even allow them to break records left behind by “Wild Challenge: 100 Days in the Arctic.”

But now, with the No. 1 livestream restarted and filming a documentary on Arctic brown bears,

it’s clearly designed to curb “Brave the Hengduan Mountains for 100 Days” from aggressively pulling viewers—and so far, the effect has been excellent.

Unless “Brave the Hengduan Mountains for 100 Days” drags Xiao Yi over,

it will be hard for them to lure away many viewers from “Wild Challenge: 100 Days in the Arctic.”

Even after Xiao Yi’s livestream shuts down, many of his fans will flood into the two bears’ No. 1 livestream.

After all, Xiao Yi’s fans don’t dislike the two bears—they simply like them more rationally.

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“Get lost!”

At this point, Xiao Yi had already fed the five reindeer, since they’d still need their strength for the journey ahead.

Then Xiao Yi started a fire to cook, and soon the aroma of meat drifted out.

Inside the tent, the lynx kitten was drawn by the smell and ran over, then stared hopefully at Xiao Yi.

But this time, Xiao Yi didn’t give it any reindeer meat—he shooed it aside.

Starting today, Xiao Yi planned to retrain the kitten’s hunting skills.

So the training would begin by making the kitten hungry.

Right now, the kitten’s belly was round and full, and though it felt soft and pleasant to touch,

this fat belly had already slowed its speed and reflexes—after all, not every fat creature is agile.

“Mmm! Mmm!”

Seeing Xiao Yi’s behavior, the kitten felt wronged and began whimpering, its voice tinged with sorrow.

The kitten didn’t understand why this human had changed so quickly.

Because it hadn’t caught that mouse last night, the human’s attitude toward it had completely shifted.

Hearing the sound, Xiao Yi frowned slightly.

His hand paused while tearing meat, but he still didn’t place the meat before the kitten.

Xiao Yi knew he had to be hard now—otherwise, the kitten would never grow.

He needed to be ruthless, to reduce the kitten’s dependence on him.

Seeing Xiao Yi ignore it, the kitten grew even more pitiful.

But it stopped begging, instead lying sadly beside Xiao Yi.

After eating, Xiao Yi tidied up his gear and looked toward the mountain.

Seeing the slope was still gentle, he nodded.

Yes, after a night’s rest, Xiao Yi planned to cross the mountain and continue westward.

“Mmm! Mmm!”

When Xiao Yi packed the tent and climbed onto the sled, the kitten jumped over as usual.

But this time, Xiao Yi blocked it and spoke clearly.

“What are you doing here? Run behind!”

Thrown into the snow, the kitten froze, suddenly feeling its whole world had turned dark.

It began to think: Had this human decided to abandon it too?

If the human left it, what would it do? Would it die?

Since it could remember, it had always lived beside humans—with Huang Mao, its favorite, the two hateful black bears, and of course, the human who fed it.

But now Huang Mao was gone, the two bears were gone—was this human about to abandon it too?

“Let’s go!”

As the kitten stood stunned, Xiao Yi called out to it and made a gesture.

The kitten didn’t understand the words, but it understood the gesture—when it saw the motion, its world brightened instantly.

The human still wanted it—it hadn’t been abandoned.

The kitten struggled to follow the sled’s tracks up the slope.

Xiao Yi, of course, kept watch on the kitten behind him.

Fortunately, the uphill stretch was gentle, and though the sled’s weight was heavy, the reindeer moved slowly.

The kitten was small, but its body was no longer tiny.

Even walking through snow was difficult, yet it still managed to keep up with the sled.

In truth, the kitten was already over three months old—it had been about one month old when Xiao Yi first brought it back.

Most lynxes begin learning to hunt at six months; stronger ones start at four or five.

By one year old, they leave their mothers entirely to fend for themselves.

But this kitten was different—though young, it had received abundant nutrition.

No matter how skilled its mother was at hunting, she couldn’t match the quantity and quality of meat Xiao Yi provided.

Though only three months old, this kitten’s size was no smaller than a wild lynx that had grown for four or five months.