Chapter 22 Ye Chen Goes Viral on the Internet

"Especially one old man on the shore, that idiot, he directly used a net to scoop up the corpse."

"And when he turned around and saw it, he was so scared he nearly fell into the water, then he ran up the bank, butt over teakettle."

"Hahaha..."

When the restaurant owner finished saying this, everyone couldn't hold back their laughter anymore, and burst into loud guffaws.

However, Old Lao, sitting off to the side, had an awful look on his face.

He was feeling incredibly bitter, and after a long silence, he scoffed at the restaurant owner, "Damn!!!"

"Who wouldn't be scared by suddenly seeing a corpse? That was a normal reaction, right?"

"If you had encountered this, you would've been paralyzed with fear on the spot!"

"And how can you call someone an idiot? Do you have any manners?"

"Tsk tsk..." The restaurant owner clucked her tongue, "I wouldn't dare look at a corpse. The video has been processed and has mosaic censoring."

"Besides, I wasn't talking about you, Old Lao. Are you feeling off today, having an air force moment?"

At this point, the restaurant owner paused, and then suddenly it dawned on her.

She exclaimed, "Oh my God, don't tell me the person in the news is you guys?"

Again, everyone burst into laughter.

"Of course it's us!"

"Restaurant owner, the idiot you're talking about, scared out of his wits, is none other than Old Lao, hahaha!"

"Come on, Old Lao, give the restaurant owner another performance of your butt over teakettle act, hahaha!"

"The Werewolf who fished up the corpse, who else could it be if not our Teacher Ye?"

"It's the internet era now, but the speed of spreading news is so fast, isn't it?"

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The restaurant owner was so shocked that she covered her mouth, her face a picture of disbelief, and cried out.

"Oh my!"

"It really was Teacher Ye who fished up the corpse? I knew the place in the video looked familiar!"

"My husband was telling me I'm overthinking, but now that you mention it, a person recently drowned upstream in the Jiang City River..."

"This is such a coincidence!"

Hearing the restaurant owner's shout, the owner, who was grilling in the back, immediately rushed out.

He looked at the group as if they were celebrities.

"It really was Teacher Ye who fished up the corpse?"

"I was scrolling through the news and short videos just now, and they all mentioned this incident."

"And my social circle is even sharing the related videos; the popularity of this event is skyrocketing."

"Take a look!"

Saying this, the owner of the barbecue stand took out his cell phone from his pocket, tapped a few times, and handed it to Ye Chen.

Meanwhile, a few anglers also crowded around, staring intently at the phone screen.

Others who couldn't get in took out their own phones and started searching for information about the incident.

[Thrilling! A fishing streamer live streams in the middle of the night, dresses in a Taoist robe for luck, and ends up fishing up a corpse, earning 200,000 in anger!]

Ye Chen opened the news article on his phone and saw that the video featured their group.

Moreover, the video was not taken live, but was a recording of Ye Chen's live stream.

Considering privacy issues, the faces of Ye Chen and everyone in the live stream room, were all censored.

Though the video only captured a segment, it reviewed the incident's sequence of events quite clearly.

In addition, the voices in the video were altered to sound like cartoon characters.

The video was about five minutes long, and Ye Chen could tell it was professionally produced by a self-media outlet.

With its exaggerated headlines and eye-catching video, it's this kind of sensationalism from the self-media that drove the news's readership to a frightening extent.

Ye Chen curiously clicked on the comment section.

"This is too exaggerated, it must be staged, right? These kinds of things don't happen in real life, do they?"

"Dressing up and performing rituals by the river? Hilarious; do you really think you're a character in a novel?"

"Exactly, you think you're Jiang Taigong, able to fish up anything?"

"Today's unscrupulous self-media would do anything for traffic; I've already reported this!"

"Take a close look at the video, this doesn't look like a movie shoot, it's obviously a live stream from a platform, and didn't you see the police show up at the end?"

"Begging for the full version, does anyone have the original video?"

"Can anyone confirm whether this is true or not? If it is, then this fishing streamer is incredible, right?"

"The police might have been added in post-production; nowadays these unscrupulous self-media outlets have no limits for the sake of traffic!"

"Right, it's just too coincidental. So many coincidences together, it simply can't happen, can it?"

"I heard about this incident already; it's indeed true. You guys go and search for 'fishing dude Teacher Ye' on the Quick-Shake platform."

"There really is this guy, this Teacher Ye... Ye Chen? He's a fishing streamer on the Quick-Shake platform."

"I have the live stream playback recording..."

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Meanwhile, the anglers searching with their own phones also expressed their amazement.

"Wow, Teacher Ye, you've become an internet sensation!"

"You're now fifth in the trending searches on Whisker, and still steadily rising!"

"Yeah, all the platforms are filled with videos about Teacher Ye, amazing!"

"Going viral on the internet, Teacher Ye, you're awesome!"

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Hearing this, Ye Chen couldn't help but roll his eyes.

True to the internet age, no matter what happened, it took only minutes for the entire nation to find out.

Was it really that nobody cared about him joining the air force for ten years, yet fishing up a corpse made him known to the entire world?

Seeing the owner standing beside him, dumbfounded, the restaurant owner finally came back to her senses.

"Are you watching the skewers? Don't burn them!"

"I'm telling you, learn from Teacher Ye; fishing to the extent of catching a corpse, and now he's gone viral, his popularity is almost on par with stars!"

"You run a barbecue stall but can't get it right; why is the gap between people so large?"

Faced with his domineering wife, Ye Chen was used to it.

The owner, upon hearing the scolding from his wife, was not angry but smiled happily.

He first pulled the phone from Ye Chen's hand and then spread his hands towards everyone, "Well, the tiger at home is on the loose again."

"I need to go grill those skewers for you!"

Then, while walking towards the barbecue stove in the back, he complained, "Just picking at faults every day..."

"If you keep nitpicking, I'll grill that corpse for you to eat..."

Of course, the owner only dared to grumble quietly to himself.

The barbecue had not been served yet, and with the recent incident going viral on the internet,

the group of anglers were all focused on their phones, each bowing their heads and intently playing with their phones.