Chapter 35: Official Statement
Sophie Wexler frowned at the chaotic live stream. She knew the topic of soothing was a sensitive one, which was why she had denied it right from the start.
She never expected it to escalate to this.
[Trash streamer, using something like this for a gimmick. Who cares if your songs are good? With such a terrible personality, you’ll never get popular!]
[LMAO, I refuse to believe her songs can actually soothe a Spiritual Sea rampage.]
[Think you’re a Healer-class, able to soothe a spiritual power rampage just like that? What a joke.]
The comment section was a mix of insults and rebuttals. Emotions were at a fever pitch, and people even began launching indiscriminate attacks.
Just as Sophie Wexler was about to ask the administrator if she should end the stream early, a line of text scrolled across the very top of the live stream page.
[Entertainment Section Admin: After testing, it has been confirmed that this platform’s streamer’s songs can soothe Spiritual Sea rampages. Please visit the official platform for detailed data.]
It even included a link to look it up.
The official message scrolled back and forth repeatedly at the top of the screen.
The audience, which had been in a heated uproar just a moment ago, fell instantly silent!
They stared in disbelief at the line of text scrolling by, wondering if something was wrong with their reading comprehension.
They recognized each word individually, but they couldn’t seem to understand them put together.
Singing? Soothing a Spiritual Sea rampage?!
They frantically rubbed their eyes and read it again.
That’s right, it still said the same thing.
Forget them; even Sophie Wexler was stunned as she stared at the message.
’What is this? My songs can soothe a rampage?’
The dense barrage of comments from a moment ago was now completely gone, leaving only that one message scrolling repeatedly.
Everyone’s brains short-circuited. Their collective thought was: "Huh?!!!"
After a long moment, Sophie Wexler snapped out of it and quickly switched to her backend to message the platform’s admin.
[Why did you put out a statement like that?]
[Is this a temporary measure to calm the audience down?]
The platform replied quickly: [Entertainment Section Admin: Miss Wexler, it’s real!]
The staff member’s hands were shaking as they typed the reply. God knows how shocked they were when they first saw the data!
In the entire data room, no one dared to even breathe.
[Entertainment Section Admin: Here’s what happened, Miss Wexler. When we saw those controversial comments, we took action and used our instruments to test the rampage values.
To ensure the reliability of the data, we specifically increased the number of test subjects to obtain the most accurate results.
The final data shows that your songs do indeed have the effect of mitigating Spiritual Sea rampages.]
[The testing took some time, which led to you being attacked in the stream. We sincerely apologize for this.]
Sophie Wexler took a long time to process it all before she could confirm that it was real.
She slowly blinked twice. So her songs really could alleviate the torrent of rampaging spiritual power.
Meanwhile, the viewers in the live stream were still reeling from the shock of that announcement, unable to recover.
For a moment, the stream was dead silent.
After a long pause, once they finally processed what it said, the chat exploded.
[Holy shit! Holy shit! Holy shit! Are my eyes playing tricks on me? The official admin said her songs can do what?! Soothe a spiritual power rampage?!]
[I’m completely floored.]
[I just pinched myself. Damn, it really hurt, so this is real!]
[Everyone, I’m back from checking the data the officials posted. All I can say is, you have to see it for yourselves!]
As soon as that comment appeared, everyone in the stream rushed to check the officially released data.
One look, and their jaws dropped!
The data clearly showed that from the moment they started hearing Sophie Wexler’s song, the rampage values in their Spiritual Seas began to drop significantly.
The drop wasn’t as fast for those with higher Levels, but for D-level, E-level, and F-level individuals, the values plummeted.
To what extent? They dropped so low that others would have thought they hadn’t even entered a Disorder Period.
And this wasn’t just data from one person, but from a whole group of people.
[Holy shit, my brain has stopped working. Someone can really soothe a rampage by singing! This is completely unheard of!]
[And it’s mass soothing! Mass soothing!]
Healer-class individuals were too rare; most people never had a chance to meet one. They could only go to treatment centers.
Never mind the cost, sometimes the soothing effect wasn’t even very good, not to mention some people couldn’t afford it at all.
And now you’re telling me you can soothe a rampage just by listening to songs in a live stream, and for so many people at once!
StarNet absolutely blew up!
Sophie Wexler’s stream, even more so. A flood of people left to check the data, then an even bigger flood returned.
The viewer count on top was skyrocketing at a terrifying rate. Everyone was flocking to her stream.
And then, unable to handle the immense traffic, Sophie Wexler’s stream successfully crashed.
Marking the second time the stream went black tonight.
Everyone: "???"
Everyone: "!!!"
[Entertainment Section, what are you doing?! Can’t you spend some money and fix your crappy servers? Crashing twice in one night!]
[Does anyone understand my pain? I just got back and the stream is gone. I’m dying.]
[I order you to restore the stream now! Right now! Immediately!]
But this time, it wasn’t just Sophie Wexler’s stream that crashed. There were so many people that the entire platform’s servers were fried.
They wanted to get Sophie Wexler’s stream back online, but in this state, there was nothing they could do.
In the end, they could only post an announcement: [Due to an excessive number of users on the platform, our servers have been paralyzed. We are working diligently on emergency repairs. All live streams are suspended for tonight. We are deeply sorry for the inconvenience.]
[Ahhhh, look at this announcement! It’s like a knife straight through my heart.]
[What do you people even do all day? Don’t you reinforce your servers? How could you drop the ball at such a critical moment?]
[Um, I’m angry too, but I have to be fair. The Entertainment Section is usually pretty dead. The total number of users in the entire section probably doesn’t add up to the number of people in this one stream today.]
How could they have ever withstood such a massive influx of traffic? Crashing was the most normal thing that could have happened.
A conservative estimate would be that the emergency repairs would take several days.
The people from the platform also passed this information along to Sophie Wexler.
Knowing it wouldn’t be fixed anytime soon, Sophie Wexler simply closed the stream application.
Meanwhile, in the Entertainment Section’s office, everyone was gathered together.
"I can’t believe Miss Wexler can actually soothe the Spiritual Sea. It’s just astounding."
"Who would have thought when we signed her? We really hit the jackpot this time."
"But Miss Wexler’s ability is so powerful. What if she doesn’t want to continue cooperating with our platform and decides to go independent?"
At this, the group fell silent. Just as someone was suggesting they use a mix of carrot and stick with her, the supervisor’s communicator rang.
He made a hand gesture for silence. Everyone watched as his expression slowly changed, and he finally said respectfully to the person on the other end, "Rest assured, we will definitely protect Miss Wexler’s interests."
After hanging up, everyone looked at him. "Supervisor, who was that?"
The supervisor’s eyes darkened as he slowly uttered two words: "The Military."