"Cough!"
"Broadcast, broadcast."
Regional channel.
Chen Yu, leaning back in his chair with his legs crossed, lightly tapped the screen with his finger.
The moment the message was sent.
Countless people in the current region had their wristwatches pinging incessantly. The survivors quickly put down their tasks and entered the chat channel.
"Wow, big shot~"
"Mom, look quickly, your son is on TV."
"First."
"The one upstairs is brain-dead, you're already behind so many people who have popped up."
"Charge forward, my friends, this is the perfect time to fawn over the big shot, don't miss it. Whether you fawn or not, I don't care, I'm fawning first, slurp slurp..."
...
The messages scrolled.
Although there was no leader in the current region, Chen Yu was more influential than a leader. As long as he appeared in the chat channel, the channel's traffic would surge as if it were the New Year.
Everyone actively responded to the messages he posted.
"Shh!"
"Be quiet, everyone, and listen carefully to Chen Yu's speech. Since the big shot has appeared, he must have something important to announce. Can you stop chattering like neighborhood aunties? What a disgrace."
"Who says not."
"The one upstairs, I advise you to withdraw that message and let me send it."
"+1"
"+1"
"+10086"
Chen Yu silently watched the messages scroll.
He was in a very good mood.
Nodding with satisfaction, Chen Yu made a mental note of the few people whose fawning pleased him the most. If he encountered them again, he would even snatch their underwear.
Don't ask why, ask because he pampers his fans.
The scrolling messages lasted for about 5 or 6 minutes. When the flow of messages slowed down a bit, Chen Yu gently tapped the screen and sent a message.
"Everyone, is life in the cave dwelling comfortable?"
As soon as the message came out.
The channel fell silent for a moment. This situation lasted for a full half minute, followed by a thunderous torrent of complaints.
"Big shot, please stop teasing us."
"Comfortable? Comfortable my ass, we're all about to die. Every day we're just trying to get a bite to eat, living in constant fear."
"Barely surviving."
"Life was very difficult before. Since you, big shot Chen Yu, launched the resource exchange transit station, I no longer have to worry about how to sell my extra idle resources. I can also buy the resources I need from your transit station. My life is gradually getting better, thanks to the big shot."
"Holy crap, the one upstairs is such a sycophant, slurp slurp..."
"This level of fawning has at least thirty years of cultivation. It's enough to get a general manager position in a company or a section chief in the system, absolutely perfect."
"A role model for us."
Seeing the messages, Chen Yu narrowed his eyes and remained silent. He automatically ignored the messages that were flattering him. However, the sheer number of them was overwhelming, and he did see some.
But—
He noticed that many more cave dwellers were not doing well.
Or rather, very poorly!
This was not surprising. Given the current situation, it was estimated that less than 30% of the entire cave could achieve self-sufficiency, and less than 10% had any surplus.
Most were still in the cycle of eating one meal and starving the next.
Chen Yu wanted to see this outcome.
"Alright, alright, everyone, please stop for a moment."
As soon as this message was sent.
The scrolling messages in the channel immediately stopped.
"I know that some of you in the cave dwellings are not doing well, or rather, are doing terribly. I apologize for using such words to describe your situation."
"But, what I said is indeed the truth."
"Actually, I know it's not that you are lazy. We have all suddenly arrived in the cave dwelling world, and everyone is still adapting to the environment here."
"It's just that..."
"Some adapt faster, and some adapt slower."
"For those who possess wilderness survival skills, they might have a relatively higher starting point compared to ordinary people. However, most of us are still accustomed to urban life."
"Among you, I believe there are people from all walks of life."
"Teachers, doctors, lawyers, white-collar workers, or freelancers and students, you have all tried hard to adapt to everything here, but your survival skills are limited. You don't have the strength to defeat wild beasts, or you are worried about the next cave dwelling room, fearing the unknown."
Message after message was sent.
The entire regional channel involuntarily fell silent.
It hit home.
Many of them, just as Chen Yu said, were struggling hard to survive, but they were indeed not good at this kind of wilderness survival.
Every time they explored, they were filled with anxiety.
No one could be sure if the next room would be a beast room or a resource room. Many people's emotions were on the verge of collapse. They truly didn't know how long they could endure such days.
In a rare wind-element camp.
A few young men and women were sitting on an open-air balcony, all of them looking at Chen Yu's messages on their wristwatches. Among them, a young man with slightly triangular eyes frowned.
"Boss, what new trick is Chen Yu up to this time?"
"I don't know."
The one who answered was a young man who looked like a scholarly scholar, appearing to be only in his early twenties. He narrowed his eyes slightly as he looked at the chat channel on his wristwatch, speaking in a low voice.
"Heh, this kid knows how to talk. Damn it, I was almost moved." The triangular-eyed man sneered.
"Liu Hao, don't be dismissive of this."
The scholarly youth suddenly frowned and said.
"This is an ability that a strong person must possess, which is empathy. Not everything can be solved by fists. Only by possessing empathy can more people willingly serve you. With fists, you might defeat a hundred, a thousand, or ten thousand, but with empathy, you can gain millions, tens of millions of followers."
"We don't understand that." The triangular-eyed man spread his hands.
"This Chen Yu is very strange. We all entered the cave dwelling on the same day, how can he possess so many resources?" A woman with deep purple lips and heavily lined eyes, drawn with charcoal or something else, whispered, "I've roughly calculated that his exchange center has at least over 3 billion in goods. 3 billion, does our entire camp combined have 3 billion?"
"And that's just what's visible."
A burly man holding a heavy hammer grunted.
"Who knows how many resources he has hidden. Have you seen his overall ranking? It updated today to 200,000, an increase of 80,000. What new facilities or resources has he acquired?"
"I really want to rob him." The alluring woman grinned sinisterly.
"Don't dream, Sister Widow."
The burly man holding the heavy hammer said with a wry smile.
"His camp must be impregnable now. Forget robbing, it would be good if we didn't get ourselves killed there. No one can rob his camp now; only he can rob others."
"Tsk~"
"Sister Widow might be able to be a mistress. Sister, where it should be curved, it's curved; where it should be round, it's round." The triangular-eyed man said with a lecherous grin.
"Get lost, you want to die!"
The alluring woman's eyes suddenly narrowed. The triangular-eyed man shrugged sheepishly. Just then, the scholarly youth suddenly spoke in a low voice.
"Don't talk, Chen Yu has sent another message."