Chapter 292 - 262: Brave Yuanbao, Unafraid of Difficulties
Chapter 292: Chapter 262: Brave Yuanbao, Unafraid of Difficulties
Seeing the message from Idelos, Gu Ning perked up and replied: [I’m free]
Perfect timing. She also needed to talk to Idelos about the collaboration video. The Beastmen’s reaction was unexpectedly strong. Right now, the comment section under the video was still a one-sided storm of abuse, and many of the top comments said they wanted to "communicate" with Gu Demiao Ning—that is, her—offline.
She knew all too well that the Beastmen’s violent tempers could lead to doxxing and in-person fights. Whether it was the fear of being mobbed at her door or the problem of her identity being exposed, she had to find a way to stabilize the situation.
But she needed Idelos’s cooperation for this to work.
She also needed to know his team’s future work arrangements for Yuanbao so she could act accordingly.
She trusted Barto’s abilities, but with his temper, he might not be able to communicate smoothly with Deviant.
After waiting for a long time, Idelos still hadn’t replied.
His profile picture showed he was online, but the message had been sent two hours ago.
’Idelos is probably busy right now, isn’t he?’
Judging from Deviant’s work efficiency and intensity, Idelos, as his most popular actor, must have a lot on his plate. Even if his account was online, he wouldn’t be constantly staring at his private messages.
Just like how she, aside from a few pinned accounts, basically never read private messages from other Beastmen, only randomly scrolling through them when she had free time.
Gu Ning yawned, closed the chat window with Idelos, and decided to continue the conversation whenever he replied.
Because of the recent collaboration between Yuanbao and Idelos, her private messages were flooding in even faster than before. A casual glance showed they were all "greeting" her, filled with every kind of nasty comment imaginable.
Since Gu Ning had nothing better to do, she scrolled down casually.
There were the passive-aggressive ones: [Don’t you go to Zone 5. It’s full of wolves; we don’t take in dogs.]
[Gu Dengning, you must have been a lone wolf since birth, huh?]
[Tell me you’re a Mimic Mixed Species in disguise. Only then can I forgive you for treating Yuanbao like this.]
The earnest counselors: [Hurry up and take back the license for Yuanbao! You have no idea what those guys who only see money will do with her!]
[Gu Demiao Ning, have you gone crazy from being poor, or did you just get a big head after making a little money? If you want a long-term career, you better take good care of Yuanbao! Don’t give her license to any Beast!]
The ones throwing tantrums:
[Miao Dengning, how could you hand Yuanbao over to someone else? You’re killing me! Give Yuanbao back to me! (crying emoji)]
[Yuanbao is mine! Mine! MINE! How could you let her appear in the same frame as that white-haired poser!]
The blunt cursers: [You’ve got the face of a wolf but the brain of a dog. Or did a dog eat your brain? Otherwise, how could you come up with the idea of licensing Yuanbao out?]
[You’re shit, you hear me? You’re a piece of shit!]
And those excommunicating her from the wolf pack: [Hurry up and change your profile picture and bio. Don’t you dare say you’re a wolf.]
[A dog is a dog. We wolves would never do something so stupid.]
[What are you doing pretending to be a wolf with that dog brain of yours?]
Gu Ning scratched her human head, rubbed her human face, and kept scrolling:
[I’m giving you one more day. If you don’t take back Yuanbao’s license, my uncle on Anzhao’s Beast Mother’s sister’s nephew works for the Information Department. Just you wait for a beating!]
Hm... that was a threat. Gu Ning took a screenshot and saved it.
Mixed in with these private messages were even nastier insults, like "Your Beast Mother should have thrown you out with the placenta" and "You were born without a dick."
After scrolling through two pages, Gu Ning didn’t want to look anymore.
Maybe it was because of her period, but she couldn’t stay as calm as she used to when seeing these comments. A flare of irritation surged through her, and she wanted to curse them all out.
She took a deep breath, clicked on the one who said she didn’t have a dick, and replied: So what if I don’t have a dick! Is having one so great?! What the hell is it good for besides pissing out a few drops!
The moment she sent it, Gu Ning regretted it and quickly hit retract.
She slapped her forehead, stood up, and patted her chest to calm herself down. ’Impulsive, so impulsive. Good thing I retracted it so fast. They probably didn’t see it.’
Gu Ning felt like she needed to drink some cold water to cool off. Usually, when she saw these kinds of insults, she didn’t think much of it and would just laugh it off. Why was she so worked up today?
She paced around her bedroom a few times. After calming down, she pulled out her stash of videos on her terminal, edited a previously posted video down to half a minute, added some sentimental music, and tacked on a short clip she had filmed on the road at the end.
The shot was filmed from the side. She was standing in a snow-white wasteland, gazing into the distance. Her long hair was tied in a low ponytail, the strands dancing messily in the wind, conveniently obscuring the side of her face.
Diagonally behind her were ruins that had been blurred out.
Gu Ning hadn’t intended to Photoshop out the ruins, deliberately blurring them only slightly. However, she did change the color of her clothes from black to off-white, and then wrote the title:
[We should look toward a farther horizon. Though we may be lost, we must press forward.]
After writing it, Gu Ning felt it was too artsy. She figured the Beastmen’s thought processes probably couldn’t handle it, so she added a subtitle:
[Brave Yuanbao, fears no hardship, marching forward with big steps (tearful emoji)]
Gu Ning admired the little emoji for a moment, then clicked to post the video.
The video review was as lightning-fast as ever, getting approved less than two seconds after she sent it.
Within just a few minutes, a massive number of Beastman viewers flooded into her video.
For the past two days, the discussion about her and Idelos had been the top trending topic on Anzhao. Countless Beastmen were camping in her comment sections every minute of every day, staring at her account. Any move she made was discovered immediately.
In less than ten minutes, the number of concurrent viewers on her new video had already surpassed one hundred thousand and was still climbing exponentially.
Gu Ning clicked into the comment section.
She hadn’t posted this video just to appease the Beastmen; she also wanted to see their reaction and attitude toward the final clip.
She had already secured a job as a freelance correspondent for the Military Department. Meanwhile, on Anzhao, she had signed a contract with Deviant and his team. Although they only wanted the license for the "Yuanbao" model, judging from the work communications between Barto and Deviant, and the collaboration requirements Deviant had sent her, she would have to show her face sooner or later.
’Once she showed her face...’
Quite a few Beastmen had already seen her face.
But that wasn’t her biggest worry. She was a real person, not a virtual female. What she needed to do was get the Beastmen to naturally accept her identity before her real-life one was discovered.
Even if they found out she was an "outsider Beast," she needed a powerful safeguard that would prevent them from easily taking her down with words or the rules of Beastman Society.
She had already thought about this problem while on the road: how could she remain standing firm in Beastman Society even after her identity was exposed.
Apparently, the answer lay in the camera in her hands.
She had come up with a feasible plan: to slowly merge her Anzhao account with her position as a freelance correspondent for the Military Department, thereby establishing a strong link with Beastman Society.
Xenophobia among the Beastman clans was severe. The profession of a reporter, though dangerous, carried a lot of weight and was indispensable. As long as she managed her Anzhao account well, she could later reveal her face under the identity of a Military Department reporter.
But before that, she had to do a lot more groundwork and preparation.
Just as Gu Ning clicked into the comment section, she received a message from Idelos:
[Online? What’s your communication code? Let’s talk.]