Chapter 49: Chapter 47: The Astonishing Magic Trick

The livestream room was on fire!

The audience count was over twenty thousand!

It’s important to note this is an actual viewership number, not just some so-called popularity metric, it’s the real count!

Under normal circumstances, having two or three thousand viewers already qualifies a streamer as third-tier.

Maintaining ten thousand viewers means you’re a top streamer.

And reaching twenty thousand means you’re really popular.

Take, for example, the famous League of Legends streamer Saonan. When he first started on Douyin, his audience count stabilized at around twenty thousand.

Although his numbers increased significantly later on, this highlights what a feat it is to have twenty thousand live viewers!

Manager Zhou was stunned.

Vice Manager Lin and the dozen people from the marketing department all widened their eyes.

Brother Cheng, Xiaoqing, Xiaozhao, and everyone else exchanged glances.

They simply couldn’t believe that the company’s first livestream sales event attracted so many viewers!

And the reason the company’s first livestream managed to draw such a large crowd was entirely thanks to Lu Li.

The viewers flooded the stream for Lu Li!

Manager Zhou turned his head, dumbfounded, “Old Lin, this… this data, I didn’t see it wrong, did I?”

Vice Manager Lin was just as stunned, swallowing hard, “I… I shouldn’t be seeing wrong, this Deputy Manager Lu is something else!”

“Exactly, too incredible!”

“In just half an hour of streaming, we have over twenty thousand viewers!”

“I just checked the Douyin sales leaderboard. The number one has thirty thousand, but we’re second with twenty thousand, and the third? Only ten thousand! Half of our viewers!”

“We shot to second place on Douyin’s live sales popularity chart?”

“Oh my god, unbelievable!”

The marketing team was buzzing with excitement, glancing over at Manager Zhou from time to time.

Everyone knew that no matter how many viewers remained after tonight’s stream, seeing such numbers for the company’s first livestream sales already spelled success.

The next step could easily involve spending on media coverage to boast about the turnout and attract more viewers.

And everyone was clear on where all these viewers came from!

They were brought in by Lu Li!

It’s safe to say, just based on these numbers, Lu Li will remain the company’s biggest hero for a while!

But what happened just now?

Manager Zhou actually got into a conflict with Lu Li, offending the main hero!

Seeing everyone’s strange looks, Manager Zhou’s face wore an extremely awkward expression.

To be honest, Manager Zhou didn’t expect Lu Li to be this popular.

In his memory, a somewhat popular third-tier live sales streamer like Blazing Baby used to get around three to four thousand viewers, and that was after signing a contract worth hundreds of thousands.

Who would have thought Lu Li was even better, pulling in twenty thousand viewers, several times stronger than Blazing Baby!

Manager Zhou was rendered speechless, standing in the corner watching Lu Li continue the livestream sales.

His expression was unpredictable, and it was unclear what he was thinking.

He genuinely didn’t know what he was thinking.

Nearby, Xiaoqing, Brother Cheng, and Xiaozhao, among others from the e-commerce sales department, were already cheering.

“Haha, awesome!”

“Deputy Manager Lu is truly amazing!”

“Drawing in twenty thousand viewers at once, I’m totally stunned!”

“Hehe, with the first stream being such a hit, let’s see who dares underestimate us in the company!”

Xiaoqing, Old Zhu, and others were brimming with joy.

Brother Cheng, being more reserved, quickly lowered his voice, “Keep it down everyone, don’t disrupt Deputy Manager Lu’s stream, even if our viewer count is through the roof now, ultimately it’s the sales figures that matter.”

“Yes, yes, exactly.” Xiaomei promptly nodded, “If the sales figures look good, then it’s a true success.”

Everyone knew this was indeed the case, so they quickly fell silent, fearing they’d disturb Lu Li’s stream.

For a moment, apart from Lu Li introducing the products and chatting with the audience, there wasn’t a single other sound in the entire livestream room.

Though the livestream room quieted down again, this quiet was entirely different from the previous dead silence.

The earlier quiet symbolized despair for everyone.

But this time, everyone’s eyes shone with anticipation.

They anticipated that Lu Li would strike while the iron was hot and boost the sales figures!

Even though Manager Zhou had a minor conflict with Lu Li before, and was even mocked, at this moment, he, Xiaoqing, Brother Cheng, and the others wore the same hopeful expressions, wishing for Lu Li to sell more products.

He was so nervous that his palms were sweaty!

…

Lu Li’s hearing was far superior to others.

Naturally, even though his colleagues intentionally kept their voices low, whispering over there, he could still hear everything clearly.

He knew that everyone was hoping for a smashing success.

To be honest, even he hadn’t expected so many people to show up in the stream.

But in today’s era of traffic, this sort of thing is quite normal.

If someone has a hot topic surrounding them, it’s easy to attract traffic.

For example, someone who casually dances like a robot can attract millions of followers.

The dismemberment and murder case of Zhai Million, when reported, shook the entire internet.

After all, the nature of the case was extremely heinous.

When people learned that the person solving the case wasn’t even a police officer, but an amateur, naturally they’d be hugely interested, flocking to the livestream to check it out.

The twenty thousand viewers in his livestream came from this.

Lu Li understood how the audience came, but he was equally nervous at this moment.

Just like Xiaoqing, Brother Cheng, and others said, having a large audience doesn’t mean success.

True success depends on how many products are sold and how much sales revenue is gained.

He couldn’t help but glance at the comment section.

He found that viewers seemed to enjoy hearing about his case-solving stories, but they weren’t really ready to spend money.

Some even knew he was the champion of the Nathan’s Hot Dog Challenge, and started making jokes in the comments.

“We’re willing to buy the product if you first perform a hot dog eating segment!”

“Right, Great God Lu Li, if you eat 101 hot dogs in ten minutes in front of us like at the competition, I’ll immediately place an order!”

“Haha, streamer, are you going to perform the hot dog eating? If not, none of us are placing orders.”

“Eat the hot dog!”

“Eat the hot dog!”

“Eat the hot dog!”

Who knows who started it.

The bullet comments initially discussed how to solve the case.

But they unanimously turned into urging Lu Li to perform eating a hot dog.

I must say, this group of spectators coming for the spectacle are really bored.

Lu Li was quite speechless, he wasn’t hungry at all now, how could he perform eating a hot dog?

Moreover, he was rushed into playing the role of a streamer, without even preparing a hot dog!

So eating a hot dog was completely unrealistic.

However, the audience coaxed him to eat a hot dog but didn’t place any orders, it seemed both sides were at a stalemate.

Just as Lu Li was racking his brains,

a bullet comment caught his attention.

“Great God Lu Li, if you can perform eating 101 hot dogs in ten minutes, I’ll buy a hundred robot vacuums!”

Someone in the comments didn’t believe it, “A hundred units cost over three hundred thousand, buddy, are you bluffing?”

The person speaking earlier said decisively, “I can place the order right now, of course, the premise is that Great God Lu Li agrees to perform eating the hot dog, if he can’t do it, I would still choose to cancel the order!”

Upon hearing this, the atmosphere in the live broadcast room became even more intense.

“Great God Lu Li, eat it!”

“The tycoon clearly said, as long as you are willing to perform eating 101 hot dogs in ten minutes, he’ll buy a hundred robot vacuums!”

“That’s several hundred thousand in sales, aren’t you tempted?”

The audience frantically spammed the chat.

Manager Zhou, Vice Manager Lin, Xiaoqing, and dozens of colleagues all eagerly looked at Lu Li.

If they could secure this order, then even if they didn’t sell any products in the live broadcast after that, it would still be considered a huge success!

Naturally, whether it was the more than twenty thousand viewers in the live room or the dozens of colleagues, they all hoped Lu Li would agree to the tycoon’s request.

Lu Li also wanted to clinch this big order, but he really wasn’t hungry!

Suddenly, he had a brainwave, thinking of how to solve this matter.

Lu Li spoke into the live broadcast camera, “Performing eating a hot dog is unskilled, how about this, I’ll show you a magical trick, if you’re satisfied with what you see, please place an order in my live room. Also, here’s a little bonus for everyone, if anyone can crack the secret of the magic trick I perform next, I’ll personally give away a robot vacuum for free, remember, there are only ten spots!”

“What?”

“If we can crack your magic, will the robot vacuum be given for free?”

“Damn, Great God Lu Li, are you serious? A robot vacuum costs three to four thousand!”

The audience was suddenly in an uproar.

Manager Zhou, Vice Manager Lin, and Xiaoqing were somewhat dumbfounded.

They had no idea what magic Lu Li knew.

Moreover, with the internet being so advanced now, many magic tricks can be figured out with a search.

They really couldn’t understand, could it be that Lu Li truly intended to buy ten robot vacuums out of his own pocket to give to the viewers of the live broadcast?

Amid the crowd’s bewilderment, Lu Li confidently addressed the live broadcast camera, “Yes, the first ten people who can crack my magic trick, I’ll use my own money to give them a robot vacuum for free!”

“I’m a master at cracking magic tricks, go ahead and perform, if I can’t figure it out, I won’t claim to place a hundred-unit order like the tycoon, but I’ll at least order five!”

“I just want to see what magic trick Great God Lu Li will perform.”

“Right, with more than twenty thousand of us in the live broadcast room, I don’t believe no one can crack it.”

Hearing the definite answer, the audience went crazy spamming bullet comments.

Instead of replying, Lu Li gestured to Xiaoqing to help bring him an A4 paper.

Once the prop was brought over, he first held the paper in front of the camera, “Everyone can see, this paper doesn’t have any mechanisms.”

“We see it, we see it.”

“Hurry and perform the magic trick.”

“I will definitely crack it.”

The audience kept urging Lu Li.

Lu Li held the paper about ten centimeters in front of him and slowly let go.

The next moment, the paper floated in mid-air automatically!

Manager Zhou, Vice Manager Lin, Brother Cheng, and others were directly stunned at that moment.

They had just seen Xiaoqing casually grab an ordinary A4 sheet of paper, it was definitely not a magic prop!

However, the live room audience reacted differently from Lu Li’s colleagues.

“Isn’t it just paper floating in mid-air?”

“Hey, this kind of magic is so easy to crack, let me explain it to everyone…”

Just as the audience was dismissive, Lu Li smiled slightly and said, “Don’t be in such a hurry, my magic trick hasn’t officially started yet!”

What?

The paper floating in mid-air isn’t the official performance?

Manager Zhou, Vice Manager Lin, and Xiaoqing exchanged glances.

This magic trick already made them feel very amazed.

After all, their perspective was different from the audience, confirming that this paper wasn’t a magic prop.

Therefore, they were intensely curious, wanting to know what exactly Lu Li was going to perform.

The audience didn’t expect Lu Li to have more up his sleeve, and each of them still seemed a bit dismissive, not thinking Lu Li’s magic trick would surprise them too much.

However, in the next moment, a miraculous scene unfolded in front of the camera!

Everyone watched as Lu Li stood about ten centimeters away from the paper, waving his hands, and the paper began folding itself!

“What?”

“The paper is moving by itself?”

“Uh, what kind of magic is this?”

The audience’s bullet comments were filled with astonishment.

They had only been amazed for a brief moment when a heart-shaking scene was born!

They saw the A4 paper start folding faster, and in less than ten seconds, it turned into a thousand paper cranes!

Seeing a piece of paper hovering in mid-air was one thing.

But folding itself into a thousand paper cranes?

The next second, the previously clamorous live room suddenly fell dead silent!

The dozen or so colleagues hiding in the corner watching Lu Li’s live broadcast all instantly looked shocked!

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