Love Bitstream: Chapter 11 - Trash at the Game
Chapter 11: Trash at the Game
At exactly eight o’clock, Chi Zhen started streaming on time.
The moment the stream went live, more than five hundred viewers flooded in. The chat scrolled wildly, all asking where he had gone, while others said they’d heard he’d gone on a killing spree outside the city gates.
Without saying a word, Chi Zhen directly opened the game recording.
Back at five o’clock, after ending the stream, Chi Zhen had immediately sent Light Boat Has Passed back to the respawn point, summoned the green horse again, and continued toward the quest area.
Just when the viewers thought Light Boat Has Passed was about to deliver himself for a third death, he suddenly stopped while still some distance away from the quest area, dismissed the green horse, and continued on foot instead.
Alone, he quietly circled into the forest. Using the trees as cover, he calmly approached the quest area without drawing attention.
He didn’t return to the place where he’d been killed. Instead, he stopped one or two hundred meters away, then leapt onto the branch of a large tree, concealing himself among the leaves and branches.
At that moment, the gray-green uniform of Eclipse Shadow Pool blended perfectly into the foliage. Even if someone walked right beneath the tree, they would have a hard time noticing someone hidden above unless they looked carefully.
Light Boat Has Passed was extremely patient. Motionless, he crouched in the tree for more than ten minutes before a red name finally appeared in the distance.
A red name.
In the game, red names only appeared under a few circumstances: monsters, bosses, enemy players on battlefields, or players added to your kill-on-sight list.
Of course, from the other player’s perspective, Light Boat Has Passed was also a red name.
So he carefully hid among the dense leaves, and sure enough, the other player failed to notice him.
When the red name got closer, the viewers realized it was Blood Twining—the Ghost Cultivator from Netherworld Hall who had mocked Endless Time earlier.
[Wait, how did you know you’d run into that guy here? And alone too?]
[Normally, if people are waiting to ambush you, shouldn’t there be a whole group?]
Watching the recording together with the viewers, Chi Zhen explained, “The reason they ganged up on me here earlier was because someone happened to be doing quests here and spotted me, then tipped the others off. I guessed he probably hadn’t had time to finish his quests because he was busy watching me. The map’s huge, and there’s more than one monster spawn point. To keep tabs on me, they’d split up and wander around everywhere. They’d only leave after confirming I was gone.”
Sure enough, Light Boat Has Passed had waited for Blood Twining.
No matter the class, ambushing a Ghost Cultivator was never a good idea. Ambushes were a Ghost Cultivator’s specialty, and if you weren’t careful, they could easily reverse the situation and ambush you instead.
But Blood Twining never noticed there was a red name nearby—right above his head.
He even seemed a little excited, stopping every now and then, probably chatting and typing to someone.
Then, in a split second, everything changed.
Light Boat Has Passed swallowed a small attack-boosting pill and descended from the sky with Jade Dew Swift Wind, catching Blood Twining completely off guard and instantly shaving off a chunk of his HP bar. Immediately afterward came Wind and Rain Halt, immobilizing him in place while Light Boat Has Passed unleashed a burst of attacks that cut his HP in half. The moment Blood Twining broke free from the immobilization, Light Boat Has Passed followed with Cold Qi Condensation, triggering Weakness. After several exchanges back and forth, Blood Twining’s HP bottomed out, while Light Boat Has Passed easily dodged several incoming attacks, losing barely one-fifth of his own health.
At that moment, two more red names arrived.
Blood Twining had been too busy fighting to type, so he’d called for help through voice chat.
The two nearest players hurried over. The instant they entered attack range, Light Boat Has Passed unleashed his AoE ultimate—Falling Shadows with the Wind—sending all three enemies flying at once. Blood Twining’s HP bar emptied completely, his name turned gray, and he lay on the ground cursing furiously.
Using the force of the knockback, Light Boat Has Passed charged straight at one of the other red names. He first cast Spring Shadows in Empty Green on himself, boosting his defense, then tanked the attacks of both opponents while focusing on one of the squishier targets. Before long, he killed that player too. But by then, more than half his HP was gone, putting him in serious danger.
Not far away, a growing crowd of red names was beginning to close in.
Light Boat Has Passed turned to flee, and as expected, the enemy took the bait and chased after him.
Suddenly, Light Boat Has Passed spun around and lashed out with a wooden branch strike, making the other player rage helplessly over voice chat. In one-on-one combat, none of them could match Light Boat Has Passed. Their hand speed and reactions were inferior, many of their attacks were effortlessly dodged, while they themselves were beaten down to slivers of HP.
But within moments, the others had already surrounded him.
Light Boat Has Passed could no longer afford to drag things out. He abandoned the fight and turned to run.
[Nearby] Bone Kissing: You little b****, if you’ve got guts then stop running—
Light Boat Has Passed abruptly turned around and threw a Firebomb Talisman. Bone Kissing, who had been busy typing insults, was caught completely off guard, collapsed to the ground, and his name turned gray.
Firebomb Talismans were hidden weapons crafted only by Talisman Cultivators. They were also one of the few hidden weapons usable by all classes, though they could only be used in open-world maps—battlefields and dungeons prohibited them.
The viewers’ jaws dropped. Frugal Xiao Chi had actually been willing to throw away a Firebomb Talisman.
After all, a single Firebomb Talisman sold for no small amount—sixty thousand spirit stones. Yet the damage wasn’t especially high; a healer could restore it with one heal. So most players normally didn’t bother carrying them around.
But after fighting three opponents in succession, Light Boat Has Passed had already emptied his mana bar. Bone Kissing had noticed that and boldly stopped to type insults.
Who could’ve guessed that Light Boat Has Passed would suddenly turn around and send him straight back to the graveyard?
The viewers all shouted that the sixty thousand had been absolutely worth it!
After all, fighting in a game wasn’t like fighting in real life. In real life, one punch hurt. In a game, no matter how many hits you landed, as long as the opponent’s HP bar wasn’t empty, it didn’t really count as pain.
There was a world of difference between Bone Kissing lying dead with a gray name and Light Boat Has Passed escaping with a sliver of HP left.
Bone Kissing was probably so furious his face had turned green. The screen filled with censored curse words.
Light Boat Has Passed fled at top speed and teleported directly back to the main city.
Leaving behind a group of red-named players staring at each other in shock—and the single word Light Boat Has Passed left behind in Nearby Chat.
[Nearby] Light Boat Has Passed: Trash.
The stream exploded.
But it still wasn’t over. After returning to the main city and meditating back to full health, Light Boat Has Passed repeated the same tactic.
This time, however, he didn’t go into the wilderness map. Instead, he hid atop the walls of Guangling City.
Because he was still inside the main city, enemy players did not appear as red names in his field of vision. But players who walked out through the city gates had technically left the main city, so in Light Boat Has Passed’s eyes, they appeared as either red or green names.
The moment a red-named Way of Heaven player appeared, Light Boat Has Passed once again launched a combo attack from above, instantly killing one person, then killing another who rushed over as backup before escaping back into Guangling City with only a sliver of HP left.
While Way of Heaven players cursed outside Guangling City’s gates, Light Boat Has Passed teleported to the gates of Luojing and repeated the trick again, killing three more Way of Heaven players.
At that point, the entire World Channel was flooded with Way of Heaven players cursing at Light Boat Has Passed, calling him a sneak attacker and shamelessly despicable.
Not a single one of them mentioned how over a dozen of them had ganged up and killed Light Boat Has Passed twice first, prompting his retaliation.
[World] Blood Twining: Light Boat Has Passed, trash.
[World] Frost Purple Jade: Light Boat Has Passed, are you trying to make an enemy out of all of Way of Heaven?
[World] Bone Kissing: Light Boat Has Passed, I’ll **** you! If you’ve got guts, see us on the battlefields! What the **** is with the sneak attacks?!
[World] Light Boat Has Passed: Trash.
The word “trash” wasn’t especially damaging, but it was unbelievably humiliating—especially considering that Light Boat Has Passed had single-handedly killed eight Way of Heaven players within two hours.
The moment that “trash” appeared, half of Way of Heaven exploded. The World Channel became completely unreadable, filled with nothing but Way of Heaven players cursing nonstop.
Yet Light Boat Has Passed didn’t continue the fight. He logged off to eat dinner and only came back online at eight o’clock when he started streaming again.
By this point, the viewers in the stream were dumbfounded.
So Chi Zhen had ended the stream because he was afraid people would discover his ambush tactics…
“You can’t use the same trick more than three times,” Chi Zhen said. “After the third time, that’s about the limit. If I tried a fourth, they’d counter-kill me.”
“Let’s check the World Channel first and see whether Way of Heaven’s still barking.”
“We’re not going to the wilderness maps tonight, brothers. Going there tonight is way too dangerous. Staying alive comes first.”
[And now you know fear?!]
[Are you still the laid-back life-skill player Xiao Chi I knew? Help!]
[Looks like real men are forged under pressure.]
[I knew the streamer had good mechanics. I didn’t know they were THIS sharp!]
[I officially declare Xiao Chi’s gameplay worthy of becoming Endless Time’s cultivation partner.]
[Wait, did nobody notice this?! CZ Xiao Chi, why the hell are you copying Endless Time’s cool-guy act of explaining nothing and only saying “trash”???]
[Because he’s soooo in love.]
[But now Xiao Chi’s genuinely become enemies with Way of Heaven. Endless Time’s part of Way of Heaven, you know…]
Pretending not to see the comments, Chi Zhen aimlessly clicked his mouse around the screen for a while before finally unable to resist saying, “Everyone, stop joking around. What if Way of Heaven really misunderstands and thinks Endless Time knows me? We really don’t know each other. Yesterday really was just a coincidence.”
[Still defending Endless Time even now. Seriously, he’s soooo in love.]
[So you’re actually a pure-love warrior, huh, CZ Xiao Chi.]
[Sending a Fruit Bomb.]
[Fruit Bomb +1.]
Chi Zhen looked bewildered. He hadn’t even said much, yet suddenly the chat was flooded with gifts nonstop.
The viewer count had already reached twelve hundred, and the spectacle made Chi Zhen a little nervous.
[Look at World Channel, streamer.]
[If we’re not going to wilderness maps, what are we streaming tonight?]
[If there’s nothing else to do, replay the recording again. Watching you wipe eight people was too satisfying.]
Chi Zhen opened the World Channel. Nearly an hour had passed, so it had calmed down somewhat. A few Way of Heaven players were still cursing, but most of the messages were now dungeon recruitment posts, battlefield team requests, and spectators enjoying the drama.
[World] Flooding: Can Way of Heaven stop spamming already? Nobody can even see dungeon recruitment messages with your guild’s nonsense flooding the screen. So annoying.
[World] Drunken Breeze of Fleeting Life: Is this your house? Why are you policing everyone?
[World] Cake Master: I read all the 818 posts on the forums. The guy already apologized, yet you’re still chasing after a small streamer. Such a huge guild—if you’re so free, maybe focus on your guild wars instead of losing to Dominating the Firmament again.
[World] Misty Autumn Rain: The grudges between our guild and others are our own business. We’ll handle them ourselves.
[World] Cake Master: Oh, spare me, you damn troublemaker.
[World] Cake Master: And don’t bother adding me to your kill list just because I insulted your guild goddess. Unlike that little streamer, I don’t need to complete streaming-hour quotas while getting hunted down in-game. If I can’t afford to offend you guys, I’ll just switch accounts and play on another one~
Chi Zhen sucked in a sharp breath. This player called Cake Master was seriously bold!
Just as he and the viewers were happily spectating the World Channel drama, a login notification suddenly drew everyone’s attention.
[System] Your friend [Endless Time] has logged on.
Immediately afterward, the stream exploded once again as everyone witnessed the storyline they most wanted to see that day.
[Friend] Endless Time: battlefields?
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