PUBG Online Romance of the CenturyCh2 - Oh, men.

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Yu Yan was one of only five anchors who had been recruited by StarTV’s anchor sponsorship program. A7EXwG

Although there were only five people, all of them were very strong. Basically, all of the top players in the Asian server, besides the existing anchors and professional players, had all been recruited by StarTV.

After all, StarTV was the best live streaming platform for development at the moment. It had a large audience, good traffic, and most of the great gaming gods. The platform was very generous towards those who became a part of this sponsorship. The contract stated that there was a very high base salary after they obtained tenure, and it was hard for a person not to be excited by such an offer.

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The only disadvantage of this sponsorship was that the position on the recommendation list of the platform wouldn’t be the same for all five of the recruited players.

StarTV had limited recommendation list space, and normally, it wasn’t even enough for the other popular tenured anchors. Hence the stipulation—an observation period of one month for the five new anchors. After one month, the most popular anchor would get the best spot on the recommendation list, and so on. The lower their popularity, the worse the spot on the recommendation list they would get. BgxbVH

It sounded cruel, but it was also a normal system. The law of the jungle: only the strong would survive. No one who had agreed to participate in the program had any problems with it.

Yu Yan naturally had no objections.

In the first match of his solos, he took second place. He took a deep breath and then quickly opened up his livestream to take a look.

Looking at his viewer count, he felt as if he was opening up a gift.

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11 people.

… It was like opening up a much anticipated gift to find just a snowglobe, which when shaken a few times, would have a few fake looking snowflakes show up.

But fortunately, he was always optimistic. Checking the time, he realized he still had 20 minutes to go before his livestream would hit its first hour.

When he had joined, he had asked a lot of questions about StarTV’s rules. When a livestream first started, it wouldn’t appear on the “latest livestreams” list immediately, but would briefly appear on the list only after the livestream had streamed for an hour. T5kChf

As for how long it would stay on the list, that was uncertain. If it was the peak time for streaming, it would be pushed down by other streams very quickly.

Yu Yan had to cherish this short period of time.

He moved his mouse to the bottom left corner of the game screen and set the game mode to squads.

“Playing a game of four, saving the lives of some common people,” he said with a smile. B6P12x

Even if no one acknowledged him in the stream’s barrage, he didn’t care. After getting matched, in less than ten seconds, he entered Manners Plaza, and the 60 second countdown began.

With a slight cough, he opened his mic and asked, “Bros, are you there?”

In PUBG’s duos or squad mode, you had to depend on your teammates. No matter how strong you were individually, it was very difficult to play one against four here. Moreover, you couldn’t type messages in-game, so communication between teammates depended solely on voice. Some people would even immediately quit the game if they found out their teammates couldn’t speak. dGwoYJ

No. 2 responded, “Here ah.”

No. 3 asked, “Where do we jump to? Play passively or directly attack?”

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No. 2 replied, “Of course it’s directly attack ah, directly drop to the Military Base, I’ll drop to the C area.”

“Wait.” Yu Yan was No. 1, and he quickly interrupted, “Bros, why don’t we drop to North Georgopol and be passive for a bit?” NP0m2p

No. 2 spoke with some kind of an accent, “Why passive? Aren’t you a man ah?”

“I’m a man ah, but men have to be flexible, Ge,” Yu Yan replied, “If we’re a bit more staid in this game, I promise to carry you all to eat chicken.”

“Ha ha, I can also say something like that ah. What if we end up not eating it?”

“If we don’t eat…” Yu Yan lowered his voice a little, copied No. 2’s accent, and pretended to be bashful as he said, “You can do whatever you want, Ge.” 4r sXz

No. 2 was shocked. “Holy shit, holy shit, bro, you can jump wherever you want to jump to, don’t be gay at me! Get away, get away!”

[Hahahahahahaha amazing!]

Upon harvesting his first line in the barrage, Yu Yan completely cheered up, and happily marked a landing point in North Georgopol.

After jumping off, he observed the situation. hs53x

“One team on the left and two teams on the right. The two teams on the right have jumped very close to us. We’ll probably have to fight them, so you guys should be careful when landing,” said Yu Yan as he maneuvered towards the right mid-air with his parachute.

No. 3 asked, “Didn’t you say to be careful when jumping down? Why did you jump to the right by yourself?”

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No. 2 asked again, “How can you pick out a weakness?”

Yu Yan smiled and didn’t speak. He jumped to the top of one of the tall buildings. Fortunately, there was actually an M416 up there.

He quickly picked it up and loaded it, then… crouched down at the corner of the roof.

[What is the anchor doing, pick up the first aid kit next to you ah! ] aJYZ r

Yu Yan didn’t respond and continued to just crouch there. Immediately, there was a burst of gunfire around him— the two teams that had jumped to the right had begun fighting.

Soon, the counter on the upper right hand corner of the screen began to drop as the sound of guns reverberated and the kill count increased. Although it couldn’t be confirmed that it was due to the players of the two teams downstairs, the sound of gunfire could be used as a reference to figure out the kind of guns they were carrying, which when compared to the kill count, could also count as gathering information.

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Finally, the sound of gunfire stopped, and after calculating for a bit in his head, he said, “It’s over, there are only two people left.”

[Four people ah, their teammates will definitely come and help pull them up again.] zP643k

It was the same person who had been typing all this time. Yu Yan grit out a sentence, “Of the people that jumped down, six were involved in the battle… At most, only three are left.”

Having said that, he continued to crouch in the corner.

A rush of footsteps continued to sound into his ear, footsteps that came closer and closer.

Finally, an avatar dressed in a small skirt appeared in his view. There was still a lot of equipment lying around on the roof. At a glance, you could tell it hadn’t been searched. The other party bent down to pick up the first aid kid around the corner without any doubts. XRWCE5

BAMBAMBAMBAM!

Yu Yan didn’t hesitate at all, agilely shooting until the person hit the ground. Every single bullet had hit its mark, and not a single one was wasted.

In duos and squads, if a teammate was still alive, then the downed person wouldn’t die immediately after being knocked down, but they couldn’t do anything except crawl. As long as you weren’t killed again, and your teammates arrived in time, then they could revive you.

This person obviously had teammates. She knelt on the ground and didn’t move for a long time, seemingly still not having reacted to the ambush. 2HKAI8

“This is called baiting,” Yu Yan chuckled.

With that, he raised his gun again to get rid of the person.

“Little Gege, little Gege!” A sweet female voice, in a pitiful tone, suddenly sounded, “Little Gege, let me go…”

In the game, you could choose to speak either with only your team or have wide open communication. When using wide open mode, enemy players around them could also hear. 16SfLp

[Holy shit little Jiejie!]

[Anchor let her go!!]

Yu Yan held his gun up, walked up to her, and crouched down next to her slowly…

And then he swung his fists until he had pummeled her to death. u y6g8

[……??]

“Bullets are a very valuable commodity at the beginning of the game. When you first land and start attacking, everyone should remember that just knocking your opponent into the ground is fine. Don’t rush to kill them, you can still use them as bait to draw out their teammates.” Yu Yan changed the topic of conversation and actually started to teach.

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Then, he selected the wide open option for his in-game mic. “Little Jiejie, you’re not in good companyah. It’s been so long and your teammates haven’t even come to save you! It’s really too much! I’ll go take care of them for you now!”

Little Jiejie: “??” UMrQVm

So, she just watched as this person ran downstairs happily, and killed her teammates with ease.

No. 2 praised, “Bro, you’re really something!”

“That’s not true.” Yu Yan’s copied accent wasn’t just similar to his, but also sounded very interesting. He opened up the map. “Have you searched everywhere and found everything? It’s time to go.”

This match had the circle form at the Military Base, and it was across the map from them. 6dsjf

No. 3 replied, “OK, let’s distribute everything between ourselves ba. I have a lot of parts here.”

The three people gathered, and all the items were divided up, but No. 4 still hadn’t arrived at the gathering spot.

No. 2 yelled, “No. 4, what are you doing? We’re leaving!”

Half a minute later, No. 4 stumbled over with his gun. crYqBz

He turned out to be a rookie player.

Yu Yan looked at the two guns the other party was holding. Neither was a good gun; it seemed that he still couldn’t distinguish which ones were good and which ones were bad.

No. 2 reprimanded, “What kind of broken guns are you carrying ah, after searching for so long, you found just these two things?”

No. 4 kept silent. NgJD5b

“Let’s go ba.” Yu Yan got into a car and said, “We’re going to have to race against the poison circle.”

He drove the car all the way to the inner circle. He didn’t take the main roads and didn’t see anyone en route.

He stopped the car at a bridge.

No. 3 asked, “Why did you stop, the next circle is at the Military Base, and we’re not there yet! Drive straight towards the last circle!”

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“No hurry.” Yu Yan got out of the car, took out his gun, and suddenly asked, “Don’t you see the words carved into this bridge?”

No. 3 asked, “…. What words?” 9XAwop

As soon as he finished speaking, he heard the sound of a car.

There was a car incoming that wanted to cross the bridge.

They quickly hid behind the crates located beside the small bridge, and three of them shot at the unprepared players in the car at the same time.

However, due to the fast speed of the car, the other two people weren’t prepared and thus, didn’t even manage to graze the car with their shots. Xhm19J

Yu Yan calmly looked down his sight and took aim, he moved his mouse to follow the car as he continuously shot at it. His earphones were full of the sounds of impact after the bullets hit the car.

In just a few seconds, from his perspective, he could see green blood continuously flowing from the left side of the car——

[You killed LVCHAGUNA with an M416]

Yu Yan chuckled, reloaded agilely, and spat out two words, “Mengpo Bridge.” 8NUg4d

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[Anchor is awesome, hahahahahaha]

[The takedown of the car is pretty good, why are there so few viewers in this stream?]

[Looks like a new anchor] JUgvyY

The speed of the barrage suddenly grew faster for the naked eye. Yu Yan immediately realized that he was on the “latest livestream” list.

No. 2 said, “Awesome bro, what happened, you’re so powerful ah! Bro, could you be an immortal?”

The people who used cheating software to play the game were usually called “immortals”.

“How could that be?” Yu Yan replied. “I’m an honest man, Ge.” XDtB7H

“No.” No. 2 said, “If you bring me to eat chicken, I’ll call you Ge.”

Before the start of the livestream, Yu Yan had played solos for an hour and confirmed that he had warmed up before he had officially launched the stream.

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Upon seeing so many people in the audience, he became more focused, and fought back very accurately and powerfully. Bringing his three teammates along, he fought all the way to reach the final circle.

There were eight people left in the finals. Yu Yan considered things for a bit. Including them, there were three teams present in total, and the other two teams had two people each. Their team still had all their members, and they had a high win rate. vn9fl0

He could definitely eat this chicken!

With victory in mind, his 8x scope just happened to catch sight of a level two helmet.

Bang!

[yanxyan knocked down 77flzz with an M24 headshot] IBz92X

On the other hand, No. 3 had also found that man’s teammate. He had shot at him, and after hanging onto a sliver of health, managed to kill him.

There was only one enemy team left.

Everyone felt very nervous, even No. 2 didn’t speak. Yu Yan was the only one who was very relaxed.

The circle shrank further and further, and the last two people exposed their position as they ran into the circle. Z0 JAI

“I see that both of them are behind the stone in the NE direction.” Yu Yan opened his inventory, saw his empty bag, and asked, “Does anyone have a grenade? If we don’t, then all four of us can just directly attack them.”

No. 2 replied, “I don’t!”

“Neither do I.” No. 3 said, “Just attack directly ba.”

Yu Yan responded, “Okay…” yuAMDz

Click.

A slight noise reached his ears. He frowned slightly and thought he had heard it wrong. He asked the stream viewers, “Did you guys hear anything?”

[No, what sound?]

[I think I heard it too?] rAeUkx

[Is it the sound of a grenade ah?]

Yu Yan had wanted to add something when suddenly, a loud noise resounded in his ear.

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Bang——

He stared as his in-game avatar exploded and was killed by a grenade. He just died kneeling on the ground. kUAc1F

Just then, that had actually been the sound of No. 4 pulling out the pin from the grenade!

“No. 4, what did you do?!” He asked, completely befuddled.

No. 4, who had also been exploded and killed. “… Didn’t you want me to use the grenade?”

His voice was very childish. So, he was just a kid; he sounded like he couldn’t be older than 15. 3a2lxd

“… Then you still need to throw it over there ah! ”

“How can I throw it without pulling the pin?” The kid felt very aggrieved; he had specifically Baidu-ed how to pull the pin!

Yu Yan: “….”

When the people on the opposite side heard all this, they immediately wanted to take advantage of the chaos. QRfSBu

No. 2 and No. 3 aimed carefully, and with some burst fire, successfully killed the other two players. Yu Yan hadn’t even finished his words when the game interface suddenly darkened.

At the top left of the screen was a line of words: “Big Fortune and Great Delight, you’re eating chicken tonight!!”

[Paying attention to the tragic anchor.]

[Congratulations on the success of “kneeling to eat chicken”!] 7wjcxI

[Is this No. 4 coming in to clown around hahahaha.]

[The anchor has a good temper, he didn’t even curse him out.]

Yu Yan returned to his senses, after which he returned to the game’s main screen.

Forget it, even with this No. 4, the livestream went very well, and he didn’t really like to curse his teammates anyway. uod1jt

He was just about to start the next match, when a friend request popped up on the game interface at the bottom right, and it was from the No. 2 of the previous game.

Just when the viewers thought he would accept it, he moved his mouse and clicked x directly.

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“Yelled in the beginning to run away and now after eating the chicken, wants me to come back.” Yu Yan sneered, “Oh, men.”

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Juurensha: I will admit, I thought No. 4 was Boss Yi for a little bit.

Divi: I feel for you Yanyan, I really do. I have no trust for my teammates after these experiences.

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Divi: Solos is the game mode – It’s a game mode where you spawn alone and everyone else is alone. Free for all!

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Divi: it’s another game mode of PUBG. The official name is squads but you’ll always be matched to a 4-man team.

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Divi: So this is PUBG’s waiting area, it happens in every match for 60 seconds you just let the match load and you can interact with ALL the players.

This is called Manners Plaza in Chinese servers because people cuss and say wild stuff in the public waiting room, and it could be insults, flirting, etc. One streamer said “mind your manners in the plaza” and then people meme’d it to make it Manners Plaza, in a sense of irony. People definitely don’t mind their manners and swear and shit talk lmao.

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Divi: It’s actually an airfield looking “city”
They drop where I circled:
area

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Divi: If you look at the map:
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It’s the C character at the top of the name lmao

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Divi: it’s another place on the map. Far north west, the upper side:
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Wiki entry here

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Divi: When you kill someone the first time, you knock them down, and you have to do a little bit more damage to secure the kill (about 25%).

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literally: married to a bad husband

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Divi:When the game first starts, there’s no circle. After 2 minutes, the first circle will spawn, which will force the players to get to the “playzone” aka ‘The Circle’

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Divi:It takes a really long time to travel across the map, even with a car (how the heck did they get lucky enough to find one). If you’re across the map, you would have to move almost immediately after the circle appears, or else you’ll be outside 100%. After the first blue circle appears, the inner circle will appear next (which will tell you the playzone you have to run to).’

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Divi:So, when the circle is at the Military Base, there’s only 2 possible main roads to walk through (you can still swim and take a boat though) IbhtYK

The circles probably look like this:
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Yanyan, stopped in the blue circle, and probably outside of the white circle, at the two bridge locations I marked. It’s a common camping spot, because you know people will be coming into the area.

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Divi:This is actually an option in the game, to change the color of your blood so that it’s easier to see for some people, making it more noticeable.

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Buddhist goddess of reincarnation

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awesome, awesome, awesome

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Divi: Getting killed by a grenade at close range will instantly kill you, you don’t get knocked out for your teammates to save you.

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Divi: When you remove the pin from the grenade, PUBG has specific times for them to go off.
Frag grenades (damage) – 5.0 seconds after pulling out the pin
Stun grenades (stun) – 2.5 seconds
Smoke grenades (cover) – 5.0 seconds
Molotovs – no timer, explodes on impact
Yeah, if you don’t throw it within those times, it’ll hit you full force.

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28 comments

  1. I thought too that he was No. 4 lolol But I also thought that everyone would know to throw a granade after pulling the pin out (っ ̯- ) Well, we never stop learning, ah? xDD

  2. I thought it was Boss too~ lol but that would be too easy… I barely win (with luck) in these kinds of games because I really have iffy eyes and ears… that almost losing because of the unthrown grenade… I felt that…

  3. Haha number 4 did a research on how to pull the pin . 😂😂

    Thanks for the chapter!

  4. hiI am very glad you translated this novel ..can i translate it into my (Indonesian) language ??Thank you #Sarangheo #Kamsahamida #Borahe.

    • Hello! Of course you can translate it, and whenever you’re ready, you can send the link to me and we can list it here too!

      • Hello, quick note, if you’re still translating it, could you not use the footnotes/translator notes we added? Our editors take a lot of time and effort to write and draw out the pictures, and they aren’t comfortable with that being used.

    • Hello, quick note, if you’re still translating it, could you not use the footnotes/translator notes we added? Our editors take a lot of time and effort to write and draw out the pictures, and they aren’t comfortable with that being used.

  5. This chapter making me remember my embarrassing moment. When I play PUBG with friends, I try to throw a grenade but it hit the tank and backfire at me and my team and everyone death in one go. OMG!!!

  6. I only play PUBG with my cousins uwu. My anxiety and introvert self can never.

    Thank you for the update!

  7. OH, MEN. this is such a hilarious story, and the translation’s great! thank you!

  8. Lol I also thought it’s boss yi hahaha (didn’t expect I’ll enjoy this omg even tho I didn’t really play games like this, If I ever play maybe I’ll be like no. 4 hahaha)

  9. And this is why I only play solos now haha one time I played with team and I was killed by a grenade too 😭