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Liu Gang

Paid critic and livestream challengerIndependent

Liu Gang is a showman and streamer who attacks New Century Park online while promoting its futuristic rival, then broadcasts his own attempt to challenge the School of the Afterlife.

Biography

Livestream challenge

Liu Gang arrives with a large team, a folding fan, and a carefully rehearsed fearless image. He dismisses warnings from Bai Buhui and the students, refuses to retreat while the camera is running, and repeatedly prioritizes his public reputation over the group's safety. The scenario eventually drives him into the deep-red campus, where he faints on camera. Chen Ge then uses the surviving footage to expose Liu's cowardice and his connection to the futuristic theme park, while Liu remains hospitalized long after the failed challenge. (Chapters 913–940, 1211)

Appearance and personality

Liu Gang is a showy male streamer with thinning hair, a folding fan, and a rehearsed masculine persona. He is image-conscious, dismissive, manipulative, and quick to blame assistants when the stream goes wrong. Under sustained fear, swagger turns into anger, denial, and finally helplessness. (Chapters 913–940)

Skills and supernatural abilities

He is skilled at audience control, promotional rhetoric, on-camera performance, and turning conflict into attention. He has no supernatural ability, and those media skills cannot protect him from the attraction's real spirits. (Chapters 913–940)

Relationships

  • Bai Buhui: Futuristic theme park designer whose presence exposes the commercial purpose behind Liu Gang's attack on New Century Park. (Chapters 913–940)
  • Chen Ge: Target of Liu's criticism and host of the challenge; Chen uses Liu's own livestream to refute him publicly. (Chapters 913–940)
  • Lan Dong and the student visitors: Temporary companions whose warnings and disagreements Liu repeatedly dismisses while the group fragments. (Chapters 917–938)
  • Muscle and his assistant: Crew members whom Liu pressures to preserve the camera and his image even while they are terrified. (Chapters 917–940)

Items

Liu's folding fan bears the phrase “Such buffoonery!” and serves as part of his public persona. His livestream camera records both his promotional claims and his collapse, allowing Chen Ge to turn the broadcast against him. (Chapters 913–940)