Love Bitstream: Chapter 10 - Xiao Chi Is Angry
Chapter 10: Xiao Chi Is Angry
All day long, Chi Zhen was as pumped up as if he’d been injected with chicken blood. It was hard to say whether it was because his daily earnings had hit a new high, or because the number one expert on the server had asked him to play together.
For lunch, he ordered the most expensive crab roe rice bowl in the cafeteria—double crab roe, too!
There were no classes in the afternoon, and his roommates all went off to play basketball together. Only he took a short nap, then, bursting with energy, rushed to the library with his books in his arms. He finished his homework and reviewed his coursework. Finals week was coming up soon, and he was worried that streaming every day would leave him no time to study, so he started revising early.
Before the sky had even darkened, he was already distracted.
His mind was full of the game, and he kept thinking about how Endless Time had said they could play battlefields together when he had time.
Could Endless Time have just been saying it casually?
Chi Zhen’s mechanics and awareness were pretty decent among ordinary players, but compared to Endless Time, they seemed completely average. Maybe Endless Time had only praised him out of politeness—
These thoughts filled Chi Zhen’s head.
At four-thirty, he simply packed up his books and rushed back to the apartment he rented.
He usually started streaming at seven-thirty, or at nine if he had evening classes. But that day, it wasn’t even five when he went live.
Even so, more than a hundred viewers quickly flooded into the stream.
[What’s going on? Why are you streaming this early today? Xiao Chi, did you skip class?]
[What the hell, it’s only four-something and you’re already live? If you’re not studying, what are you doing?!]
[Don’t tell me you miss Endless Time?]
[The truth comes out]
[I was in class when I suddenly got notified Xiao Chi started streaming. What’s going on?! Are you and Endless Time dating now???]
While opening the game, Chi Zhen answered the chat.
“No class this afternoon, and I already finished my homework, so I started earlier. Stop talking nonsense. Starting earlier means I can finish my streaming-hour quota earlier…”
The first thing Chi Zhen did after entering the game was check his friends list to see who was online. Then he slowly closed it.
He was still in Luojing, standing in front of the Lovebirds Stone Carving.
After standing there for a while, he decided to check the market prices at the trading house first.
[Aren’t you checking to see whether someone’s online?]
[Who else could it be?]
[Who else could it be +1]
Chi Zhen weakly defended himself. “Isn’t it normal to check your friends list after logging in? Don’t you guys do that too?”
[I do. First thing I do is see whether my cultivation partner is online #doge]
[Other people do, sure. But you’ve been streaming this long and not once have you checked your friends list first after logging in—except today.]
“Not true, okay? Nonsense. What, do you watch my streams every day? Join the stream the moment I go live?” Chi Zhen refused to take the bait.
But the viewers weren’t listening. They were all there for entertainment.
Riding his green horse, Light Boat Has Passed quickly entered Luojing’s trading house.
Luojing’s trading house was the grandest of the three major cities—a magnificent nine-story pavilion, luxurious and imposing.
Light Boat Has Passed talked to the trading house NPC and searched for Savage Horns, only to find the quantity was zero. Before he even closed the search window, the chat exploded. Just over a hundred viewers somehow created the momentum of over a thousand people.
[HOLY SHIT!]
[LOOK AT WHAT YOU SEARCHED FOR?!]
[Good news! He’s totally in love with Endless Time!]
Chi Zhen hurriedly explained, “I just wanted to check the market price of Zhēng Horns. Nothing else.”
[No need to explain. I’m not listening.]
[Xiao Chi, did you skip the forums again today? Hurry up and take a look. People from Way of Heaven are flaming Endless Time over what happened yesterday.]
The moment Chi Zhen heard “Quest for the Azure Heavens’ forums,” he got scared. He quickly opened the link sent in chat.
It was a post made by an anonymous alt account, retelling everything that happened yesterday at Mount Guguan with heavy personal bias. The post condemned Endless Time for lacking responsibility and guild honor, saying he actually teamed up with the guild’s enemy to fight a boss. It went on and on about how well Way of Heaven had treated Endless Time: giving him priority access to high-level materials, letting him pick dropped equipment first, allowing him to choose any elite guild members he wanted for battlefield teams, everyone treating him with extreme courtesy, and so on.
And what about Endless Time? Arrogant. Disrespectful. Irresponsible. In a situation like yesterday’s, the guild leader had spoken to him nicely, yet he didn’t offer a single explanation. After killing the boss, he just left, making Dominating the Firmament laugh at Way of Heaven like a joke!
There were also people chiming in below, saying they’d long been dissatisfied with Endless Time in Way of Heaven. Why should Endless Time get priority access to guild resources, yet fail to lead the guild to dominate the Moonfall Starsinking server?
Most of the replies were just spectators eating popcorn, though a few people who had apparently watched yesterday’s stream mentioned that Light Boat Has Passed had already posted an explanation. They were immediately chased down by the original poster and cursed out as CZ Xiao Chi’s lapdogs.
Chi Zhen was speechless after reading it.
He’d written such a long explanation yesterday, and they hadn’t listened to a single word.
He checked the system panel. Misty Autumn Rain still had him on the enemy list and hadn’t removed him.
They simply refused to accept his apology.
[The brains of PVP players truly cannot be understood.]
[Don’t stereotype them. Great God Endless Time is a PVP player too.]
[Not really. The Great God also plays PVE. Way of Heaven’s major raids were led by him before, and there are even dungeon-clear guide videos he posted on the forums.]
[That’s why he’s called a Great God—he has no weak points. He’s amazing at everything.]
Chi Zhen closed the post. “Posts like this are pointless. They’re not listening to your explanations anyway.”
He entered the guild secret realm, watered the vegetable patch, loosened the soil, picked some spirit melons and spirit fruits, then suddenly blurted out, “If you can’t stand Endless Time, then replace him yourselves! If you’ve got the ability, go lead a few raids. If you’ve got the ability, lead a team to first-clear records. If you’ve got the ability, reach top ten server-wide in battlefields! If you could do all that, Way of Heaven would prioritize giving resources to you, too.”
[???]
[Look how angry our Xiao Chi is #doge]
[When someone you like gets insulted, how could you not be angry?]
[Wait, family, why do I feel like Xiao Chi knows so much about Endless Time?]
[Report! I checked around, and Endless Time really does hold several first-clear records! Last season, the Way of Heaven team led by Endless Time reached fourth place server-wide!]
[He’s soooo in love.]
Chi Zhen shut his mouth, accepted his daily quests, and left the main city. Unexpectedly, the moment he stepped outside, people from the two major guilds immediately locked onto him. Before Chi Zhen noticed, he was killed once. He clicked the mouse, returned to the respawn point, mounted his green horse, and ran back to the quest area. He thought the two guilds had already left after killing him once, but the people were still there, waiting specifically for him to return so they could kill him a second time.
No matter how sharp his skills were, two fists couldn’t beat four hands. Against more than ten people attacking at once, there was nothing he could do.
Light Boat Has Passed fell for the second time.
Lying on the ground, Light Boat Has Passed clicked on several of the people who had surrounded him. Their guild tags all showed Way of Heaven.
[Nearby] Bone Kissing: Do you submit now?
[Nearby] Blood Twining: If not, call Endless Time over here. Weren’t you two pretty capable yesterday?
[Wait, what’s wrong with Way of Heaven? Internal conflict?]
[Xiao Chi’s one thing (not really), but Endless Time is their own guild’s Great God. They’re provoking him too?]
Chi Zhen opened the chat box and typed word by word.
[Nearby] Light Boat Has Passed: I’m enough on my own to beat trash like you who only dare kill people in groups. Add Endless Time too, and wouldn’t you get beaten until you’re crawling all over the ground looking for your teeth?
After sending that, Light Boat Has Passed clicked through the attackers one by one and added them all to his kill-on-sight list. The group immediately started cursing at him, but Light Boat Has Passed didn’t waste words with them and simply clicked Return to Respawn Point.
[Does Xiao Chi seem angry? I’ve never seen him say something so provocative before. Weirdly exciting!]
[Even a clay figurine has some temper. These people have seriously gone too far since yesterday.]
[Xiao Chi, don’t act impulsively.]
[You’re not going to fight two major guilds by yourself, right? Don’t, Xiao Chi—you’re all alone. Don’t let love cloud your judgment!]
Chi Zhen spoke up. “Guys, I’m turning off the stream for a while so nobody can camp my stream. Come back at eight.”
With that, Chi Zhen ended the stream, leaving the viewers utterly bewildered.
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