Love Bitstream: Chapter 13 - Why Are You Talking in the Nearby Chat Channel?
Chapter 13: Why Are You Talking in the Nearby Chat Channel?
[Holy shit, 240,000 gold worth of materials.]
[He's completely smitten. Seriously.]
[No, I was just here for the drama at first, but Xiao Chi's sincerity is starting to scare me. Don't tell me you're actually secretly in love with Endless Time?]
[Materials are forever, men come and go. Xiao Chi, wake up.]
[No, you people need to wake up. Guess how much traffic shipping a CP brings to a streamer? It's only 240,000 gold worth of materials. He probably makes more than that from gifts in a single day.]
[Alright, I'm awake now. Back to being a carefree spectator!]
Chi Zhen opened his mouth, wanting to explain. It wasn't like that. He wasn't deliberately pushing a CP for views, and the materials hadn't cost him 240,000 gold. He gave them to Endless Time because Endless Time was a genuinely nice person and had helped him before...
But in the end, he stayed silent.
Whatever his original intentions had been, this was the result. Internet users didn't actually need an explanation. Everyone was just looking for a bit of entertainment online. Taking things too seriously and trying to explain would only feel out of place.
A few minutes later, people gradually started joining the party. The newcomers were all friends of Blue Sky Beyond. As soon as they joined, they greeted him and entered the YY voice channel.
With Endless Time present, nobody dared get too wild on voice chat, but the party channel was scrolling nonstop.
[Party] If A Dog Wants To LeaveI Dont Stop It: Wow, this party is intense.
[Party] Thousand Feathers: We're just running the Mount Xumi dungeon. What's so intense about that?
[Party] Explosive Red: Old Blue comes back and immediately creates this much drama.
[Party] If A Dog Wants To LeaveI Dont Stop It: [Drunken Breeze of Fleeting Life] Why the hell are you here too? Aren't you embarrassed right now?
[Party] Thousand Feathers: Blue’s only been gone for half a year. Why would Fleeting Life be embarrassed?
[Party] Drunken Breeze of Fleeting Life: Heh. It's just a game. What's there to be embarrassed about? I'm sure Little Brother Light Boat Has Passed won't hold it against me.
Seeing the name, Chi Zhen found it strangely familiar. He seemed to remember this person having hunted him before.
[Party] Light Boat Has Passed: It's fine, it's fine.
[Party] Thousand Feathers: [Light Boat Has Passed] Who's that?
[Party] Explosive Red: Ooh, exciting! Autumn Rain just said in guild chat that she wants to come. She asked why you didn't approve her application when you're short one healer.
[Party] Blue Sky Beyond: Isn't that obvious?
[Party] Thousand Feathers: Autumn Rain has pretty good mechanics. Why not invite her?
[Party] If A Dog Wants To LeaveI Dont Stop It: Because if she comes, the Guild Leader will come too. And then things will get really interesting. #Doge
[Party] Explosive Red: #Doge
[Party] Thousand Feathers: That definitely won't work. I'm a Sword Cultivator, and the Guild Leader is also a Sword Cultivator. We'd be competing for the same loot.
[Party] If A Dog Wants To LeaveI Dont Stop It: You're a fucking genius.
[Party] Blue Sky Beyond: If she insists on joining, I'll let her in first.
[System] Player [Misty Autumn Rain] has joined the party.
The party channel instantly fell silent.
[Party] Misty Autumn Rain: Hehe.
[System] Player [Misty Autumn Rain] has left the party.
[Party] Thousand Feathers: What was that supposed to be?
[Party] Explosive Red: Amazing. So amazing. Is this the thrilling MMORPG experience everyone talks about?!
[Party] If A Dog Wants To LeaveI Dont Stop It: No, this is the thrill of gaming with Old Blue. He's the only one crazy enough to assemble a party like this. Remember last year when Dark Desire confessed to Autumn Rain and got rejected, and then—
Before he could finish, a completely emotionless male voice sounded over YY. "Is everyone here? If so, teleport to Mount Xumi."
If A Dog Wants To LeaveI Dont Stop It shuddered. The unfinished sentence was accidentally sent, and there was no follow-up.
Everyone suppressed their laughter and teleported to Mount Xumi, waiting outside the dungeon entrance for the final healer.
[Party] Thousand Feathers: And then what happened?
[Party] Explosive Red: Seriously? You're online every day and you don't know what happened in the guild?
[Party] Thousand Feathers: I don't.
[Party] Explosive Red: Good. Stay that way. If you don't know, don't ask.
[System] Player [Misty Autumn Rain] has joined the party.
[Party] Blue Sky Beyond: Ready to start? If we're running it, get on YY and teleport directly to Mount Xumi.
[Party] Misty Autumn Rain: Let's go.
[Holy shit! What kind of content is this streamer cooking up?!]
[This is incredible. Finding this many extras can't have been easy. Writing a script like this must be a nightmare. If the streamer claims this wasn't intentional, then this is genuinely peak MMORPG streaming.]
[So exciting. I feel exactly the same as Explosive Red. So exciting. Sending a Fruit Bomb. Consider it my membership fee. Please play the next episode immediately, thank you!]
[Can Endless Time really pull this off? The Mount Xumi dungeon normally needs at least ten players. You need two healers alone. How is one healer supposed to keep seven people alive? That's eight including themselves. And they're bringing a tank in garbage gear too. How is he supposed to hold aggro?]
On YY, Blue Sky Beyond called for everyone to enter the dungeon.
The seven of them arrived first, standing in a circle near the entrance while waiting for Misty Autumn Rain. They couldn't gossip in party chat anymore, and Misty Autumn Rain had joined YY, making voice chat unsuitable too. Taking advantage of the fact that she hadn't entered the dungeon yet, several people began furiously spamming the Nearby channel.
[Nearby] Explosive Red: Holy crap, what's going on?!
[Nearby] If A Dog Wants To LeaveI Dont Stop It: I'm taking a quick-acting heart pill first. This is too exciting—I can't handle it!
[Party] Thousand Feathers: Why are you talking in Nearby chat?
[Nearby] Explosive Red: Thousand Feathers, shut up!
[Nearby] Drunken Breeze of Fleeting Life: As someone who's not a Buddhist Cultivator, all I can say right now is: Amitabha~
[Nearby] Light Boat Has Passed: Um... I'm a game streamer... and I'm live right now... everyone can see what you're saying...
[Nearby] Explosive Red: ...
[Nearby] If A Dog Wants To LeaveI Dont Stop It: ...
[Nearby] Blue Sky Beyond: I already told them. They're idiots. It's fine, Xiao Chi.
[Nearby] Blue Sky Beyond: Autumn Rain insisted on coming. If she wants to fight, then let her fight. Her mechanics are actually pretty good.
Misty Autumn Rain entered the dungeon. The group immediately fell silent again.
[Nearby] Thousand Feathers: So why were you all talking in Nearby chat?
Endless Time didn't decline.
[Nearby] If A Dog Wants To LeaveI Dont Stop It: ...
[Nearby] Explosive Red: Hehe. Were we?
[Nearby] Blue Sky Beyond: Hehe. Must've clicked the wrong channel.
Light Boat Has Passed felt as though Misty Autumn Rain glanced at him, then at Endless Time. She elegantly waved her hand and cast Spring Warmth of the Apricot Grove, a party-wide buff that increased everyone's HP by 10%.
Blue Sky Beyond called out over YY: "Get your buffs up, everyone! Old Time, you do the shot-calling? This is my first time running this dungeon."
He began assigning roles one by one. "Spirit Cultivator, put Spring Shadows in Empty Green on Blue Sky Beyond. He's tanking. If he can't hold aggro, immediately switch Spring Shadows in Empty Green to me."
Light Boat Has Passed typed a 1 in party chat to indicate he understood.
Spring Shadows in Empty Green was an ability from Eclipse Shadow Pool that increased a single target's defense by 30%. During dungeon runs it was normally reserved for the main tank.
The buff had a twenty-minute cooldown and lasted thirty minutes. The moment it was cast on another target, the previous target's buff disappeared. In other words, if Blue Sky Beyond lost control of the boss's aggro, Endless Time would immediately abandon him.
Blue Sky Beyond wailed dramatically. "How heartless, Endless Time."
Endless Time ignored him. "Stay close. Mount Xumi only has two bosses, but there are a lot of mobs. For the first boss, just stack up and burn down the adds. Don't fall behind."
The trash mobs died quickly. The eight players advanced all the way to the first boss, the Mad Monk.
The Mad Monk was a martial monk from Mount Xumi whose Dharma name was Mingjing. Obsessed with pursuing the martial path, he eventually suffered qi deviation and lost his sanity. The sect elders sealed him inside the sect's secret realm, forbidding him from ever leaving.
Blue Sky Beyond stepped forward. With a flick of his staff, he landed the first blow and established aggro.
Holding his martial staff, Mad Monk Mingjing slowly rose from the ruins of the training hall. Low growls escaped him one after another.
[System] Ming Jing: They've come. Who has come? Who comes seeking this humble monk's treasures? Foolish mortals dare covet what belongs to me? I could not comprehend the martial path nor the immortal path—what hope do insignificant insects like you have? If I don't teach you a lesson, you'll never understand that the heavens are a path beyond your reach! Hahaha!
As he delivered his lines, Ming Jing strode toward the center of the training hall. Accompanied by his crazed, hoarse laughter, he leaped high into the air and brought his staff crashing down toward the crowd.
[System] Ming Jing: Let this humble monk shatter your souls and bones! You shall become my new staff!
[Holy shit, 240,000 gold worth of materials.]
[He's completely smitten. Seriously.]
[No, I was just here for the drama at first, but Xiao Chi's sincerity is starting to scare me. Don't tell me you're actually secretly in love with Endless Time?]
[Materials are forever, men come and go. Xiao Chi, wake up.]
[No, you people need to wake up. Guess how much traffic shipping a CP brings to a streamer? It's only 240,000 gold worth of materials. He probably makes more than that from gifts in a single day.]
[Alright, I'm awake now. Back to being a carefree spectator!]
Chi Zhen opened his mouth, wanting to explain. It wasn't like that. He wasn't deliberately pushing a CP for views, and the materials hadn't cost him 240,000 gold. He gave them to Endless Time because Endless Time was a genuinely nice person and had helped him before...
But in the end, he stayed silent.
Whatever his original intentions had been, this was the result. Internet users didn't actually need an explanation. Everyone was just looking for a bit of entertainment online. Taking things too seriously and trying to explain would only feel out of place.
A few minutes later, people gradually started joining the party. The newcomers were all friends of Blue Sky Beyond. As soon as they joined, they greeted him and entered the YY voice channel.
With Endless Time present, nobody dared get too wild on voice chat, but the party channel was scrolling nonstop.
[Party] If A Dog Wants To LeaveI Dont Stop It: Wow, this party is intense.
[Party] Thousand Feathers: We're just running the Mount Xumi dungeon. What's so intense about that?
[Party] Explosive Red: Old Blue comes back and immediately creates this much drama.
[Party] If A Dog Wants To LeaveI Dont Stop It: [Drunken Breeze of Fleeting Life] Why the hell are you here too? Aren't you embarrassed right now?
[Party] Thousand Feathers: Blue’s only been gone for half a year. Why would Fleeting Life be embarrassed?
[Party] Drunken Breeze of Fleeting Life: Heh. It's just a game. What's there to be embarrassed about? I'm sure Little Brother Light Boat Has Passed won't hold it against me.
Seeing the name, Chi Zhen found it strangely familiar. He seemed to remember this person having hunted him before.
[Party] Light Boat Has Passed: It's fine, it's fine.
[Party] Thousand Feathers: [Light Boat Has Passed] Who's that?
[Party] Explosive Red: Ooh, exciting! Autumn Rain just said in guild chat that she wants to come. She asked why you didn't approve her application when you're short one healer.
[Party] Blue Sky Beyond: Isn't that obvious?
[Party] Thousand Feathers: Autumn Rain has pretty good mechanics. Why not invite her?
[Party] If A Dog Wants To LeaveI Dont Stop It: Because if she comes, the Guild Leader will come too. And then things will get really interesting. #Doge
[Party] Explosive Red: #Doge
[Party] Thousand Feathers: That definitely won't work. I'm a Sword Cultivator, and the Guild Leader is also a Sword Cultivator. We'd be competing for the same loot.
[Party] If A Dog Wants To LeaveI Dont Stop It: You're a fucking genius.
[Party] Blue Sky Beyond: If she insists on joining, I'll let her in first.
[System] Player [Misty Autumn Rain] has joined the party.
The party channel instantly fell silent.
[Party] Misty Autumn Rain: Hehe.
[System] Player [Misty Autumn Rain] has left the party.
[Party] Thousand Feathers: What was that supposed to be?
[Party] Explosive Red: Amazing. So amazing. Is this the thrilling MMORPG experience everyone talks about?!
[Party] If A Dog Wants To LeaveI Dont Stop It: No, this is the thrill of gaming with Old Blue. He's the only one crazy enough to assemble a party like this. Remember last year when Dark Desire confessed to Autumn Rain and got rejected, and then—
Before he could finish, a completely emotionless male voice sounded over YY. "Is everyone here? If so, teleport to Mount Xumi."
If A Dog Wants To LeaveI Dont Stop It shuddered. The unfinished sentence was accidentally sent, and there was no follow-up.
Everyone suppressed their laughter and teleported to Mount Xumi, waiting outside the dungeon entrance for the final healer.
[Party] Thousand Feathers: And then what happened?
[Party] Explosive Red: Seriously? You're online every day and you don't know what happened in the guild?
[Party] Thousand Feathers: I don't.
[Party] Explosive Red: Good. Stay that way. If you don't know, don't ask.
[System] Player [Misty Autumn Rain] has joined the party.
[Party] Blue Sky Beyond: Ready to start? If we're running it, get on YY and teleport directly to Mount Xumi.
[Party] Misty Autumn Rain: Let's go.
[Holy shit! What kind of content is this streamer cooking up?!]
[This is incredible. Finding this many extras can't have been easy. Writing a script like this must be a nightmare. If the streamer claims this wasn't intentional, then this is genuinely peak MMORPG streaming.]
[So exciting. I feel exactly the same as Explosive Red. So exciting. Sending a Fruit Bomb. Consider it my membership fee. Please play the next episode immediately, thank you!]
[Can Endless Time really pull this off? The Mount Xumi dungeon normally needs at least ten players. You need two healers alone. How is one healer supposed to keep seven people alive? That's eight including themselves. And they're bringing a tank in garbage gear too. How is he supposed to hold aggro?]
On YY, Blue Sky Beyond called for everyone to enter the dungeon.
The seven of them arrived first, standing in a circle near the entrance while waiting for Misty Autumn Rain. They couldn't gossip in party chat anymore, and Misty Autumn Rain had joined YY, making voice chat unsuitable too. Taking advantage of the fact that she hadn't entered the dungeon yet, several people began furiously spamming the Nearby channel.
[Nearby] Explosive Red: Holy crap, what's going on?!
[Nearby] If A Dog Wants To LeaveI Dont Stop It: I'm taking a quick-acting heart pill first. This is too exciting—I can't handle it!
[Party] Thousand Feathers: Why are you talking in Nearby chat?
[Nearby] Explosive Red: Thousand Feathers, shut up!
[Nearby] Drunken Breeze of Fleeting Life: As someone who's not a Buddhist Cultivator, all I can say right now is: Amitabha~
[Nearby] Light Boat Has Passed: Um... I'm a game streamer... and I'm live right now... everyone can see what you're saying...
[Nearby] Explosive Red: ...
[Nearby] If A Dog Wants To LeaveI Dont Stop It: ...
[Nearby] Blue Sky Beyond: I already told them. They're idiots. It's fine, Xiao Chi.
[Nearby] Blue Sky Beyond: Autumn Rain insisted on coming. If she wants to fight, then let her fight. Her mechanics are actually pretty good.
Misty Autumn Rain entered the dungeon. The group immediately fell silent again.
[Nearby] Thousand Feathers: So why were you all talking in Nearby chat?
Endless Time didn't decline.
[Nearby] If A Dog Wants To LeaveI Dont Stop It: ...
[Nearby] Explosive Red: Hehe. Were we?
[Nearby] Blue Sky Beyond: Hehe. Must've clicked the wrong channel.
Light Boat Has Passed felt as though Misty Autumn Rain glanced at him, then at Endless Time. She elegantly waved her hand and cast Spring Warmth of the Apricot Grove, a party-wide buff that increased everyone's HP by 10%.
Blue Sky Beyond called out over YY: "Get your buffs up, everyone! Old Time, you do the shot-calling? This is my first time running this dungeon."
He began assigning roles one by one. "Spirit Cultivator, put Spring Shadows in Empty Green on Blue Sky Beyond. He's tanking. If he can't hold aggro, immediately switch Spring Shadows in Empty Green to me."
Light Boat Has Passed typed a 1 in party chat to indicate he understood.
Spring Shadows in Empty Green was an ability from Eclipse Shadow Pool that increased a single target's defense by 30%. During dungeon runs it was normally reserved for the main tank.
The buff had a twenty-minute cooldown and lasted thirty minutes. The moment it was cast on another target, the previous target's buff disappeared. In other words, if Blue Sky Beyond lost control of the boss's aggro, Endless Time would immediately abandon him.
Blue Sky Beyond wailed dramatically. "How heartless, Endless Time."
Endless Time ignored him. "Stay close. Mount Xumi only has two bosses, but there are a lot of mobs. For the first boss, just stack up and burn down the adds. Don't fall behind."
The trash mobs died quickly. The eight players advanced all the way to the first boss, the Mad Monk.
The Mad Monk was a martial monk from Mount Xumi whose Dharma name was Mingjing. Obsessed with pursuing the martial path, he eventually suffered qi deviation and lost his sanity. The sect elders sealed him inside the sect's secret realm, forbidding him from ever leaving.
Blue Sky Beyond stepped forward. With a flick of his staff, he landed the first blow and established aggro.
Holding his martial staff, Mad Monk Mingjing slowly rose from the ruins of the training hall. Low growls escaped him one after another.
[System] Ming Jing: They've come. Who has come? Who comes seeking this humble monk's treasures? Foolish mortals dare covet what belongs to me? I could not comprehend the martial path nor the immortal path—what hope do insignificant insects like you have? If I don't teach you a lesson, you'll never understand that the heavens are a path beyond your reach! Hahaha!
As he delivered his lines, Ming Jing strode toward the center of the training hall. Accompanied by his crazed, hoarse laughter, he leaped high into the air and brought his staff crashing down toward the crowd.
[System] Ming Jing: Let this humble monk shatter your souls and bones! You shall become my new staff!
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