Chapter 318: Fog Hill of the Five Elements

Bo Ge, a well-known content creator on Little Rotten Station, was currently watching the trailer for "Fog Hill of the Five Elements".

He had only gone to watch the trailer after receiving a message from a fellow creator friend in a Little Rotten Station group chat.

"Gou Ge, have you watched the trailer for 'Fog Hill of the Five Elements' yet?"

"Watch your attitude, call me Bo Ge!"

"Alright Gou Ge, hurry up and go be a dog for Luo Mo's 'Fog Hill of the Five Elements'!"

Helplessly, Bo Ge sent a sticker of a husky looking sideways at someone, then exited the group chat and searched for "Fog Hill of the Five Elements".

Although he had been forced to "be a dog" because of Luo Mo and "Sword Fairy: Jingtian Arc", he did not harbor any resentment or resistance in his heart toward Luo Mo's work.

Since one has to be a dog anyway, why not be a kind, happy little dog? — "Happy Dog Theory: Part Two".

As mentioned before, "Fog Hill of the Five Elements" was being broadcast jointly on Penguin Video and Little Rotten Station, so Bo Ge would definitely choose to watch the trailer on Little Rotten Station.

"Whoa! The view count has already broken 5 million?" Bo Ge was shocked.

For an anime trailer to break 5 million views only a few hours after being uploaded is simply terrifying!

The most absurd part was that the "coin" count had actually reached 500,000!

"Are there really that many people crazily tossing coins?" Bo Ge was stunned.

Even though it was produced by Luo Mo and had a certain fan effect, this was still too high!

"In this era of rampant materialism where the whole universe is filled with perverts, videos of pretty girls dancing to anime songs with millions of views don't necessarily even break 10,000 coins!"

"Is it really that Ox?" Bo Ge felt infinite curiosity.

This ratio of views to coins was actually not an exaggeration.

It was about the same as on Earth.

But it was enough to refresh Bo Ge's perception.

"When will my videos ever have this level of coins?" he thought to himself.

As soon as the trailer started, just a single high-altitude long shot of the mountains and forests left him dumbfounded.

"This art style... this art style!"

"Unprecedented, simply unprecedented!"

"I can't believe ink-wash elements could be made to look this dazzling, this beautiful!"

His right hand seemed to move of its own accord, moving the mouse to toss a coin at it.

"This anime is incredibly Ox!" Bo Ge exclaimed.

A single trailer ignited expectations across the entire internet, making industry insiders in the Blue Star anime world incredibly envious.

At first, many were envious that Tongguang Studio could have the traffic driven by such a top-tier celebrity.

But after watching the trailer, only one thought remained—it was worth it!

In reality, the anime industry on Blue Star is much purer than the film and television industry.

The industry's development is average; it has only just shown signs of improvement and has not yet reached the "big bang" period seen on Earth.

Many of the people making anime don't earn much, and the vast majority are even dirt poor.

Therefore, those with passion and those who hold infinite love in their hearts make up a large proportion.

Of course, this is also related to the fact that the pie isn't big, so capital can't be bothered to intervene and stir things up.

With "That Rabbit" as a precedent, many people naturally had immense interest in "Fog Hill of the Five Elements".

Then, upon seeing the art style, they were all stunned.

"This is so different from 'That Rabbit'!"

"Speechless, the art style changed completely!"

"Amazing! This ink-wash art style is just too amazing! I'm totally in love!"

"Damn, this art style must be very time-consuming and laborious, right?"

"Damn it, my national pride is rising, I'm inexplicably moved!"

"Is this anime something I can watch for free?"

"It's a movie-level production!"

A thousand words eventually condensed into one sentence—"Luo Mo, work overtime!"

Update quickly, what are you waiting for!

Even if it were Member Early Access, Laozi would still pay for a membership for it!

It's just a pity that Luo Mo disappointed everyone once again.

"Fog Hill of the Five Elements" was not set to be viewable only by members, nor did it have Member Early Access enabled.

There are only three episodes in total, so he might as well keep some integrity for himself.

"The team at Six Paths No Fish is short on money, but I'm not," was Luo Mo's simple reasoning.

Furthermore, because of his personal influence, even if he didn't sign a Contract related to membership, the price for selling the anime was extremely high—a sky-high price within the industry!

The days waiting for updates are always hard to endure, but hard times always pass.

The first episode of "Fog Hill of the Five Elements" was to be uploaded tonight!

Night, 8:30 PM.

Bo Ge dragged his exhausted body back into his apartment.

The first episode of "Fog Hill of the Five Elements" had been updated as early as 7:00 PM; he had intended to watch it the moment it dropped, but a family dinner had delayed him.

The reason Bo Ge was so tired was that the family dinner had not been pleasant.

His parents and the elders in the family had told him to return to the company to work again, and their words were filled with disapproval of his identity as a content creator, and even sarcasm.

Bo Ge had a rather fiery temper, so he retorted a few times at the time, and as a result, his father said: "You would rather post videos on the internet to practice Dog Barking than come home to work, right?"

This sentence made Bo Ge, the author of "Happy Dog Theory", feel terrible.

"The dog I'm talking about isn't a real dog, just like when everyone plays games and curses someone else's mother, they aren't cursing their real mother in reality... forget it." Bo Ge ultimately didn't say much more, and in his heart, he just gave up.

He actually couldn't figure out whether he would continue to walk down this path.

He only knew that he could still persist for a while longer under the pressure.

After returning home, Bo Ge first opened his WeChat group to take a look.

Sure enough, just as he expected, everyone was discussing "Fog Hill of the Five Elements"!

His entire group consisted basically of content creators, and many people expressed that they wanted to make some videos related to "Fog Hill of the Five Elements".

"Too lit! This anime is too lit!"

"Damn, I knelt down while watching it!"

"The Huaxia anime industry is saved! It's saved!"

"This art style is incredible, Luo Mo lives up to his reputation!"

"Envious, I see that the word-of-mouth for this anime on the internet has exploded!"

Bo Ge started sending a WeChat message, asking: "Is it really that Ox?"

Soon, he received a reply in the group.

"Huh? Gou Ge actually didn't go watch it the first chance he got?"

"Wow! Gou Ge, did you forget your most beloved Luo Mo?"

"The number one Luo Mo fan in this group, and today you're actually not hyping Luo Mo?"

"Everyone disperse, Gou Ge is just using this questioning mode so we can hype him up a bit more, disperse, disperse, if he doesn't send red envelopes, let's not type."

Bo Ge exited the WeChat group, entered Little Rotten Station, and searched for "Fog Hill of the Five Elements".

He took a look at the rating, and his whole person was stunned.

"9.9 points?" Bo Ge almost rubbed his eyes to see if he was hallucinating.

"Can there really be an anime in this world that gets 9.9 points on Little Rotten Station?" Bo Ge was shocked.

Although Little Rotten Station has never been stingy when it comes to ratings, for tens of thousands of netizens to give a near-perfect score of 9.9 in less than two hours is simply too outrageous!

"On the first day of broadcast, the rating will be a bit artificially high."

"Luo Mo is a Top Traffic, his fans will definitely come to rate it too, and this will also cause the rating to be somewhat artificially high." Bo Ge began to analyze it very calmly and rationally.

By the end of his analysis, he just gave up.

"Damn! No matter how I analyze it, this rating isn't normal!"

"It makes no sense, it makes absolutely no sense!"

Because he himself was a content creator on Little Rotten Station, he could realize even more profoundly just how incredible the scene before him was!

Up until now, he had never seen any anime achieve such a high rating on Little Rotten Station.

"Judging from this momentum, even if the rating slips later, it will at least stabilize at 9.6! Or even 9.7!" Bo Ge made a guess based on the data.

In reality... he was thinking too small! His perspective was too small!

Because on Earth, the rating of "Fog Hill of the Five Elements" was—9.8 points!

A total of 210,000 people gave it the terrifying score of 9.8!

The word-of-mouth exploded directly, and later it even shocked CCTV, and CCTV mentioned it by name to praise it.

Bo Ge took another look at the current view count of "Fog Hill of the Five Elements".

"The view count actually broke 10 million!" Bo Ge only felt his scalp tingle!

Little Rotten Station on Blue Star is the same as the one on Earth; its algorithm for view counts is different from platforms like Penguin Video.

You can often see in the various promotions for Penguin Video, Bolo Video, etc., claims like 50 million views on the first broadcast, or breaking 100 million on the first broadcast.

Breaking 100 million views in 24 hours is a concept that is almost impossible on Little Rotten Station!

On Little Rotten Station on Blue Star, for one account, you have to click in to watch a video and watch it for a period of time before it counts as 1 view for you.

At the same time, one account can only add 1 view to the same video in one day.

Therefore, if one wants to inflate view count data on Little Rotten Station, it would be exceptionally difficult, and the cost would be extremely high.

Bo Ge took another look at the 【Number of Followers】, and he almost stuttered.

"The... the number of followers, one... one million!?"

"Crazy! Is this data crazy?"

Of course, when looking at data on Little Rotten Station, there is one more piece of data that is very important.

That is the coin count!

Bo Ge looked down and checked the coin count for "Fog Hill of the Five Elements"; it had already broken 1 million.

One piece of data after another left him completely baffled.

Bo Ge took a deep breath and started to click on the first episode.

Having watched the trailer, he had already raised his expectations very high.

Now, after seeing all the data, he had directly maxed out his expectations.

In his view, he had already seen all the shocking numbers, so he could watch the anime with peace of mind, right?

However, Bo Ge was still too naive.

The real shock was not in the data, but in—the actual content!

Many viewers on Little Rotten Station who love to post bullet comments have a habit, which is to return to the very beginning after finishing the video to leave a bullet comment.

Therefore, if it is a work with a good reputation, when you click on the first episode, you can see all kinds of flattery right at the beginning.

Back when Luo Mo's *That Year Those Rabbits* wasn't that famous yet, when you watched the first episode, the moment you clicked on it, the opening was already a screen full of barrage comments—"【Congratulations, you've discovered a treasure!】"

This sentence was already shocking enough and could be considered top-tier praise, but the barrage comments at the beginning of *Fog Hill of Five Elements*, Bo Ge had never heard of or seen before.

When you click on the first episode, if you haven't set anything in the barrage settings and haven't performed any filtering, then what you will see are three words, densely packed, blocking everything on the screen and making it so you can't see anything at all.

Countless viewers, spontaneously leaving three words to pay tribute to the creative team!

—"【Thank you for your hard work】!"

(PS: Second update, asking for monthly tickets.

If this book writes specific data, it is all based on evidence and research. I know there are many data-driven readers now, and even more who don't check anything and just spout off, so please go easy on the criticism.)

(End of this chapter)