Lu Ban was woken up by a phone call.

He usually has good sleep quality and sleeps through the night, never leaving fatigue and stress for the next day. Even the doctor says he is very healthy.

He looked at his phone and saw it was the second call. The other party was lucky and Lu Ban answered the call quickly.

"Hello?"

The caller ID showed that it was his class monitor in college, a top student. Lu Ban felt a little embarrassed to say that he seemed to have never said more than thirty sentences to her in his four years in college, and these thirty sentences included a lot of "OK", "OK", and "Got it".

After graduation, Lu Ban had little contact with his classmates. Only the class monitor would send him a message every two weeks to say hello.

"Is this Lu Ban? I'm Feng Yu. Are you having any trouble over there?"

Hearing the soft voice like a nightingale singing, Lu Ban frowned slightly.

In my own situation, I should say that I was in trouble, but not completely in trouble.

"No, what's wrong?"

"You really didn't run into any trouble?"

The voice on the other end sounded cautious, as if it knew something.

"To be honest, I encountered a scam involving online chats before, but I kept myself clean and didn't fall for it. I even reported it to the police. The police said I did a good job."

Puff——

Lu Ban heard a soft laugh coming from the other end of the phone.

"It seems like you're really okay. When I saw that video, I thought you were really courting death. Now that I think about it, that was all special effects, right?"

The brisk voice made Lu Ban a little confused.

"Video? Ah... did you see it?"

Lu Ban then remembered the video he uploaded in the morning. He didn't expect that his classmates had seen it.

It's quite embarrassing.

There is an embarrassing feeling when my YY novel published on a novel website is discovered by my old mother who is a Chinese teacher and she picks out the grammatical errors one by one.

"Yeah, it's scary, but it's quite interesting...By the way, are you still in Jiangcheng now?"

"exist."

"Do you have time to go out for dinner? We haven't seen each other since graduation..."

"Well, if I have time... next time for sure!"

After responding in a daze, Lu Ban stared at the phone screen that had hung up for a while before he remembered what the old squad leader mentioned.

This definitely wasn't because the old squad leader had always had a crush on me, so he secretly followed my old video website account and saw the video and came to ask about it.

Then there is only one answer.

He turned on his computer and clicked on the Old Video Network. As soon as he opened the homepage, he saw the automatically captured cover of "The Netherworld" appearing in the top popular recommendations.

The old video website uses a big data algorithm, and the weight of manual recommendations is very low. The reason why it now appears on the homepage is 100% due to the surge in clicks and other data.

After taking a closer look, Lu Ban discovered that his video had already reached 1.5 million views and over 10,000 comments, and it had only been half a day.

Could it be that this video really took off?

“Is this true or false?”

Lu Ban clicked on it curiously to see how the more than 10,000 comments praised him.

[I watched this video on the subway and almost got carried away. How can people nowadays be so wicked and do such things! ]

[This kind of work in the underworld is definitely not something that people in the world of the living can do! ]

[I was a little sleepy at first, but after watching it, I feel refreshed. I won’t say any more because my cabinet has moved. I’ll go check it out.]

[Are there any brave warriors who would like to try this game tonight? ]

【All evils please retreat, no offense intended! 】

[I've watched it, it's obviously a special effects edit, it's not scary at all, it's mainly because of the good creativity, it must be a professional team. ]

[No, I must give this video a triple like and forward it to others. I can’t be the only one being cheated! ]

[I was watching this video in bed early in the morning with great interest. I couldn't help but touch my wife's cold hand next to me. Wait, how can I be old...]

[I just want to ask, is the person in the video still alive? ]

Most of the comments like these are made by people who were frightened by the video and then turned around to attack Lu Ban, or who attacked Lu Ban while reposting, liking and posting coins to show their gratitude to society.

Lu Ban looked at the comments criticizing him, and instead of getting angry, he even felt like laughing.

You know, for a creator of horror works, the audience's fear is the best reward. If he can scare a few more people and make them curse out loud, then the creator will have accumulated some merit.

Moreover, Lu Ban’s videos do not have too many sudden scary operations and disgusting shots. They almost rely on environmental rendering, and the degree of horror and fright is not that high. This has become an advantage that facilitates dissemination.

In order to avoid becoming the only victims, a large number of frightened people kept forwarding the video and boosting its popularity, trying to get it on the list and harm more people.

This is the direct reason why the video became popular in a short period of time.

The private messages on the Jiuri Video Network were flooded with messages. Lu Ban took a quick look and saw that some people came simply to repeat the comments on the video, some came to see if Lu Ban was still alive, some asked about the details of the game and wanted to try it themselves, and some agencies came to inquire about cooperation.

[Dear Mr. [Unmoving], we would like to invite you to star in our online movie...]

There are even talent scouts.

Lu Ban ignored it for the time being.

By the time he finished washing up and returned to his computer, the number of clicks had increased by nearly 50,000.

At this rate, this video will reach 5 million views by tomorrow at the latest. Remember, it is not even noon yet, and most people are watching this video on their way to work. Lu Ban guessed that the real growth point of this video's views should be in the evening.

From this point of view, Lu Ban was quite grateful to his "friend under the bed".

“…”

Lu Ban couldn't help but look under the bed again, and sure enough, there was nothing.

He thought about it, picked up the broom and mop, and cleaned the room inside and out. He even mopped under the bed, and the whole room looked brand new.

I came back and refreshed the page, and the number of clicks reached 1.6 million.

This refreshing process is quite addictive.

However, the number of followers of Lu Ban's own account only increased by more than 2,000, which pales in comparison to those big UP hosts with millions of fans on the old video websites.

Some students may ask, why are there so many views but so few new fans?

Just as Lu Ban had learned from previous research, there are many accidental and unrepeatable factors that lead to a video going viral, and reaching millions of hits requires a historical process.

For a newcomer like him to be able to upload videos to this level, it’s really just luck.

The number of fans is a reflection of hard power and a symbol of the audience's recognition of their production ability. A mere supernatural horror video cannot make [一动动] become popular as well.

Lu Ban doesn't have to worry about this for the time being. The system task is five million views, not one million fans.

It was a rare good thing that happened, so Lu Ban did not stay at home. He decided to go out for a walk, have lunch, and then go to the library to find some supernatural books to enrich himself.

He went downstairs and walked into the Braised Chicken Rice Restaurant at the entrance of the community. He ordered a medium-sized braised chicken. When he was about to take out his mobile phone to confirm the number of clicks on his video, he found that the girl sitting at the next table was staring at him.

Lu Ban then also looked up and stared at the opposite side.

stare--

The two looked at each other for more than ten seconds, but no spark of love emerged. However, the other person jumped up and asked with a strange expression.

"…Are you alive?"