Chapter 408: Liu Xiaogang Wants to Be a Top Influencer
Chapter 408: Liu Xiaogang Wants to Be a Top Influencer
Well, Jiang Ran felt that his idea of taking over the position would probably fall through.But, if it falls through, then so be it.
Being an assistant manager seemed pretty good too, at least the work was easy.
"Fuck, fuck, fuck, where's the body?!"
At that moment, two figures flashed out of the elevator on the first floor, rushing hurriedly, racing to the outside of the apartment building as if rushing to be reborn.
The two men rushed over, looked up, then looked down, seeing the nearly dried bloodstains, and began to complain to each other in frustration: "Damn it, it's all your fault! Last night, you dragged me to watch that teacher's new work! As a result, I overslept today and missed filming such explosive stuff!"
The other one retorted: "Oh? So it's my fault now? I wonder who it was last night calling me 'daddy' and begging me to share it with them."
These two men were both in their twenties or thirties.
Both were male.
The first man had a black headband on his forehead with something that looked like a camera attached to it. The other man held a small black video camera in his hand.
Looking at the two arguing men.
Jiang Ran knew that the first one with the camera on his head was Liu Xiaogang, the first among yesterday's three new residents to introduce himself.
As for the other man, he didn't recognize him at all.
The two argued for a little while.
They seemed to realize they couldn't keep arguing like this.
They had to get down to business.
So, they both gathered around Jiang Ran and the two others.
Jiang Ran looked at the camera on Liu Xiaogang's head, then at the other man holding his video camera, clearly pointing it in their direction, and felt somewhat uncomfortable inside.
After all, if you're a normal person and someone suddenly points a camera or phone at you to film, wouldn't you find it annoying?
"I remember, you're the manager of this apartment, right?"
At that moment, Liu Xiaogang stared intently at Jiang Ran.
He had probably already entered video-filming mode.
Jiang Ran didn't answer the question, instead asking: "What's with your getup? Reporters? Paparazzi? Or online streamers?"
Liu Xiaogang said: "A streamer. I'm an online streamer, filming a video right now. Of course, if you mind being on camera, I can blur your face."
Jiang Ran said: "I don't really care. You're going to ask questions next, right? Go ahead."
Jiang Ran knew that with these online streamers, if you don't satisfy their filming desires, some really will pester you endlessly.
Liu Xiaogang nodded: "Thank you then. Back to the first question, I remember you're the manager of this apartment, right?"
Jiang Ran said: "I'm the assistant manager. The manager is Li Chong."
Liu Xiaogang: "The one who hosted the welcome party yesterday, with a gloomy face but gave off a really badass vibe?"
Jiang Ran nodded.
Liu Xiaogang: "I heard a murder case happened in this apartment?"
Jiang Ran nodded.
Liu Xiaogang: "Can you tell me the specifics?"
Jiang Ran said: "This morning, I came out to go to work and saw over ten people standing outside the apartment building."
"I walked out too and found someone outside the building, impaled through the mouth by a red-tasseled spear and nailed to the wall. Besides that, all his clothes had been stripped off, he was completely naked."
As Jiang Ran spoke, Liu Xiaogang's expression clearly changed.
Was it surprise, shock, excitement, or delight?
In any case, it was extremely complex.
He seemed to have grasped a viral video topic.
He hurriedly asked: "Did you know the person who died?"
Jiang Ran said: "It was Manager Li Chong."
Liu Xiaogang became even more surprised and excited, which could be heard from the trembling in his voice.
"Then who do you think the murderer is?"
Jiang Ran said: "How would I know?"
Liu Xiaogang: "Although I haven't met that Manager Li Chong many times, I get the feeling he probably had quite a few enemies. Maybe the murderer is someone living in this apartment."
As he spoke, he looked up at the apartment building, the camera on his forehead capturing the Alice Apartment building clearly.
Of course, the man with him also held his video camera, pointing it at the building to film.
After that, the two didn't ask Jiang Ran anything else.
Instead, they filmed the wall where Li Chong had been nailed and the ground with the remaining bloodstains.
When they had filmed enough, the two excitedly returned inside the building.
Jiang Ran didn't pay much attention to these two either.
He and the two cleaning aunties thoroughly cleaned up afterward.
Then he returned to his own home, Room 304, to lie low.
Anyway, Manager Li Chong was dead, so he could go home and slack off again, instead of having to slack off in the management office.
The man with Liu Xiaogang was named Yao Junjie.
The two were university classmates.
After graduation, they worked and held jobs together.
But after working for a few years, they faced the same dilemma as many others.
The work was exhausting and hard, and the pay was low.
What they earned simply wasn't enough to cover their expenses.
Until they saw all sorts of online streamers filming videos and selling goods, earning unimaginable amounts of wealth.
They were tempted.
Especially when, previously, a female streamer with several million fans revealed that she lay around doing nothing all day.
Her homepage display window income alone was 300,000 a day.
300,000 a day.
Liu Xiaogang and Yao Junjie couldn't even imagine it.
Based on their previous salaries, that 300,000 would take them at least 6 years to earn, even if they didn't eat or drink.
While someone else only needed one day.
Of course, the two didn't harbor any resentment toward that young female internet celebrity.
They just thought she was too honest, daring to say anything.
Of course, they also thought, that girl only had close to five million fans.
Her display window income alone was 300,000 a day.
Then what about other streamers with seven or eight million, over ten million, or even tens of millions of fans?
How terrifyingly huge would their monthly income be?
Of course, the two also thought, are the people who buy those streamers' goods out of their minds?
What kind of garbage are those damn streamers pushing, specifically scamming their "family"?
And there were still tons of people eagerly buying it.
It truly confirmed one saying: There are too many Hua Country people, which results in every Tom, Dick, and Harry having fans, even die-hard fans.
Therefore, the two jumped into the pit and became streamers, filming videos.
There was no reason others could do it, but they couldn't.
Even if they couldn't eat meat like those people, surely having some soup wouldn't be a problem, right?
But after entering the industry, they discovered its difficulty.
After filming videos for so long, they had only barely reached 100,000 followers.
With that few followers, they might as well find a pretty female streamer and casually film a suggestive video—that would probably get more.
Just as they hit a bottleneck.
Suddenly, a middle-aged man approached Liu Xiaogang.
He told him about the deal of getting 10,000 for staying one day at Alice Apartment.
Having no good ideas.
This suddenly offered bizarre agreement.
Made Liu Xiaogang feel like inspiration had arrived.
Regardless of whether it was true or false.
He signed the agreement and, together with his good friend and partner Yao Junjie.
Came here.
But after staying one day yesterday, it didn't feel like much.
The two also wanted to see if the 10,000 per day was real.
So last night they stayed up late.
Staying up late partly to watch the teacher's new work, partly to wait for the money to arrive.
When the clock hand turned to 12 midnight, also 0:00.
Just a few seconds later, 10,000 yuan arrived in Liu Xiaogang's bank account.
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