Love Bitstream: Chapter 8 - Please Listen to My Explanation
Chapter 8: Please Listen to My Explanation
[How are these two so insanely overpowered?!]
[This is unreal levels of strong.]
[I knew Xiao Chi had good mechanics, but I didn’t know his ceiling was this high???]
[Holy shit, is this the power of top-tier players teaming up? Please go queue for battlefield matches already!]
The barrage of comments rolled nonstop across the screen, but Chi Zhen had no attention to spare for them.
Handling the siege of more than ten people was nowhere near as easy as it looked—especially when the other side had three or four healers. The healers barely needed to do anything beyond pressing a few AoE healing skills to restore all the HP they had painstakingly chipped away.
Most importantly, the two of them still had to fight the boss.
Honestly, going by Chi Zhen’s usual style, he would have already abandoned the boss and run for his life.
But today Endless Time was here too, and Endless Time didn’t look remotely interested in giving up the boss.
Chi Zhen guessed that Zhēng’s horn was probably one of the key materials needed to upgrade a high-tier divine weapon. Zhēng’s spawn rate was already extremely low, and the drop rate for its horn was even lower. Endless Time had probably waited a very long time for this opportunity.
But Endless Time was truly terrifyingly strong.
He knew exactly which of the dozen-plus enemies were weak and which were dangerous. He avoided the experts’ attacks and specifically targeted the weak points in the enemy lineup. After several exchanges, Chi Zhen gradually began to understand his intentions, following the path of his blade to apply immobilization, stuns, weakness, poison…
Then, Endless Time would follow up with two slashes, and the target would disappear.
Meanwhile, Zhēng occasionally unleashed AoE attacks of its own. Anyone too slow to dodge had to eat the damage head-on. Endless Time even deliberately led the boss into the middle of the crowd, letting Zhēng unleash indiscriminate ultimate attacks. Before long, he’d wiped out more than half the weaker players from Dominating the Firmament.
The guild members lying dead on the ground were so furious they practically smashed their keyboards, flooding the chat with impotent rage.
What shameless tactics, what disgusting movement, if only they hadn’t been rooted by the Spirit Cultivator—
For a while, the atmosphere was filled with the delightful chaos of elementary-school-level saltiness.
And facing the wall of insults, Endless Time replied with only a single word.
[Nearby] Endless Time: Trash.
The people lying dead on the ground nearly coughed up blood. Two of them had already respawned at the resurrection point, determined to spend over ten minutes running back across the map to reclaim their honor.
Mount Guguan’s resurrection point was extremely far away, and climbing the mountain again took quite a while.
Endless Time had calculated this perfectly. He knew they couldn’t keep endlessly respawning and wearing him down through attrition, so every strike of his was fast, precise, and ruthless.
[Nearby] Dark Desire: Endless Time, are you determined to become enemies with our Dominating the Firmament?
[Nearby] Endless Time: …
Chi Zhen felt like he could understand the meaning behind that string of ellipses—the speechlessness, and the exhaustion of not even wanting to explain anymore.
“You guys from Dominating the Firmament started by bullying two people with a whole group, and now you’re turning around accusing Endless Time of targeting you?” Chi Zhen complained. “What powerful logic.”
[PVP players, elementary schoolers.]
[Sometimes I genuinely admire the overwhelming chuuni energy some PVP players carry around. Without them, games wouldn’t feel nearly as immersive!]
[What did PVP players ever do to you? Brain-dead PVE players should stop showing off their low IQs.]
[…Playing PVP and somehow feeling superior about it?]
[If you’re unhappy, log on and duel us. Let’s see how good those brainless stationary PVE boss rotations of yours really are.]
While Dark Desire was speaking, members of Way of Heaven arrived after hearing the news. Leading them were Cold Sword Shadow and Misty Autumn Rain.
Dark Desire, who had already raised his weapon to attack, suddenly stopped moving. No one knew whether it was because Way of Heaven had arrived—or because Misty Autumn Rain had.
Meanwhile, Dark Desire’s cultivation partner, Crystal Heart, had already died during the previous chaotic battle.
For a moment, the two factions formed a tense standoff.
The Dominating the Firmament players unconsciously stopped attacking Endless Time and Light Boat Has Passed, standing in place while waiting for Dark Desire’s orders.
Crystal Heart lay miserably on the ground, her name grayed out. She had the distinct feeling that Misty Autumn Rain casually glanced at her. Even the perfectly sculpted face from the game’s character customization seemed to twitch slightly into a mocking smile.
Then she saw Dark Desire frozen in place, and her hands trembled with anger.
[Nearby] Crystal Heart: People from Way of Heaven, this streamer and Endless Time are not only partying up to fight bosses, they even teamed up against our Dominating the Firmament. And you still claim this isn’t your guild’s alt account?
[Nearby] Ink Glass: Instead of splashing dirty water all over the forums, maybe you should go back and properly investigate your own guild first. See what kind of people you’ve got in there!
Hearing this, the Way of Heaven members all started clicking to invite Endless Time into their party, only to discover he was already in one and couldn’t be invited.
Nobody even dared breathe loudly as they all turned to look at their guild leader.
Cold Sword Shadow appeared calm on the surface, but privately he had already messaged Endless Time.
[Friends] Cold Sword Shadow: You’re partying with Light Boat Has Passed to fight monsters?
[Friends] Endless Time: Yes.
Cold Sword Shadow stopped talking. Inside, however, he was deeply dissatisfied. He knew Zhēng’s spawn rate was extremely low, but Way of Heaven was still the largest guild on the server. Was it really impossible for them to provide a few materials? Endless Time was one of the guild’s top players—he could have simply requested materials from the guild. It wasn’t as though they would refuse him!
If he wanted to find random people outside the guild to party with for quests, fine. But of all people, he had picked this streamer who had just caused trouble yesterday. Yesterday, when Misty Autumn Rain asked in guild chat who wanted to help avenge her, as the guild’s number one beauty and one of its upper managers, she naturally received overwhelming support. Everyone had immediately added this streamer to their kill-on-sight list.
And now, Endless Time had actually teamed up with him for quests!
Wasn’t this basically slapping everyone in Way of Heaven across the face?!
As guild leader, Cold Sword Shadow naturally had to consider everything carefully. Their number one expert absolutely could not be allowed to drift toward another guild. On a personal level, he had already stopped arguing with Endless Time about emotional matters, but when it came to guild affairs—
With members of Dominating the Firmament present, it wouldn’t look good for him, as guild leader, to openly fall out with Endless Time in public and let outsiders take advantage of it.
Fortunately, while he was hesitating, someone else spoke up first.
[Nearby] Frost Purple Jade: Endless Time, what exactly do you mean by this?
[Nearby] Frost Purple Jade: This unethical streamer was used by certain people with ulterior motives to attack our Way of Heaven. Everyone already added him to their kill-on-sight list. And today you’re partying with him?
[Nearby] Frost Purple Jade: If you’re lacking materials, our guild has plenty. You could’ve just spoken to the guild leader!
[Nearby] I’ll Protect Your Remaining Years: Don’t twist the facts, Way of Heaven. Stop acting. This streamer is obviously one of your guild’s alt accounts.
[Nearby] Crystal Heart: Heh.
[Nearby] Frost Purple Jade: What’s that supposed to mean?
[Nearby] Ink Glass: Your self-hype stunt failed, and now you still dare frame other people on the forums for smearing her.
For a moment, Way of Heaven and Dominating the Firmament exploded into an all-out verbal war. The nearby chat channel scrolled so fast it moved even quicker than the livestream chat!
While the two major guilds fought furiously, Endless Time and Light Boat Has Passed never stopped moving for even a second. Under the barrage of indiscriminate AoE attacks and the combined efforts of Endless Time and Chi Zhen, the boss finally collapsed to the ground with a heavy thud.
Light Boat Has Passed rushed forward to loot the drops, afraid something might change if he delayed.
Five Spirit-Infused Beast Meat, five Warm Furry Pelts, two Zhēng Fangs, one Zhēng Tail, one Zhēng Horn—
The Zhēng Horn had dropped!
Light Boat Has Passed was overjoyed. Just as he was about to private-message Endless Time, he realized Endless Time had already messaged him first.
[Friends] Endless Time: Go. Luojing.
Huh? Right now? Leave?
This entire crowd was still arguing here.
And they were arguing because of the two of them. Well, Endless Time was definitely the main reason, but he himself also seemed to be one of the culprits.
Were they really just going to leave like this?
Wouldn’t everyone become even angrier?
But if they didn’t leave, what if both guilds added him to their kill-on-sight list afterward? Then he’d definitely die.
Chi Zhen was still thinking when he saw Endless Time already begin drawing a teleportation array.
Meanwhile, the two guilds were still furiously spamming insults in nearby chat, and for the moment nobody noticed the two of them.
Chi Zhen had no time left to think. If Endless Time left first, then he’d definitely die even faster.
He immediately started drawing a teleportation array too.
5, 4, 3, 2—
At the very last second of the casting bar, he hit send on a long message he had typed out in advance.
[Nearby] Light Boat Has Passed: Misty Autumn Rain, I’m really sorry about what happened yesterday. Please listen to my explanation. I literally just went to pour myself a glass of water and an accident happened. I already sent you an apology mail, and I hope you can be magnanimous and forgive me! Endless Time only partied with me because we happened to run into each other at Mount Guguan today. I accidentally stole his monster, so he had no choice but to team up with me. Otherwise, if I got killed by the monster, the materials would’ve disappeared too! I’m not Way of Heaven’s alt account, and I don’t know anyone from Dominating the Firmament either. I hope both guilds can generously let me off. Goodbye! May good people live peaceful lives!
Whoosh—
Right before everyone’s stunned eyes, Endless Time and Light Boat Has Passed vanished on the spot.
Leaving behind only Light Boat Has Passed’s giant wall of text flooding the nearby chat channel.
Hanging there for a long, long time.
No one recovered their senses.
[How are these two so insanely overpowered?!]
[This is unreal levels of strong.]
[I knew Xiao Chi had good mechanics, but I didn’t know his ceiling was this high???]
[Holy shit, is this the power of top-tier players teaming up? Please go queue for battlefield matches already!]
The barrage of comments rolled nonstop across the screen, but Chi Zhen had no attention to spare for them.
Handling the siege of more than ten people was nowhere near as easy as it looked—especially when the other side had three or four healers. The healers barely needed to do anything beyond pressing a few AoE healing skills to restore all the HP they had painstakingly chipped away.
Most importantly, the two of them still had to fight the boss.
Honestly, going by Chi Zhen’s usual style, he would have already abandoned the boss and run for his life.
But today Endless Time was here too, and Endless Time didn’t look remotely interested in giving up the boss.
Chi Zhen guessed that Zhēng’s horn was probably one of the key materials needed to upgrade a high-tier divine weapon. Zhēng’s spawn rate was already extremely low, and the drop rate for its horn was even lower. Endless Time had probably waited a very long time for this opportunity.
But Endless Time was truly terrifyingly strong.
He knew exactly which of the dozen-plus enemies were weak and which were dangerous. He avoided the experts’ attacks and specifically targeted the weak points in the enemy lineup. After several exchanges, Chi Zhen gradually began to understand his intentions, following the path of his blade to apply immobilization, stuns, weakness, poison…
Then, Endless Time would follow up with two slashes, and the target would disappear.
Meanwhile, Zhēng occasionally unleashed AoE attacks of its own. Anyone too slow to dodge had to eat the damage head-on. Endless Time even deliberately led the boss into the middle of the crowd, letting Zhēng unleash indiscriminate ultimate attacks. Before long, he’d wiped out more than half the weaker players from Dominating the Firmament.
The guild members lying dead on the ground were so furious they practically smashed their keyboards, flooding the chat with impotent rage.
What shameless tactics, what disgusting movement, if only they hadn’t been rooted by the Spirit Cultivator—
For a while, the atmosphere was filled with the delightful chaos of elementary-school-level saltiness.
And facing the wall of insults, Endless Time replied with only a single word.
[Nearby] Endless Time: Trash.
The people lying dead on the ground nearly coughed up blood. Two of them had already respawned at the resurrection point, determined to spend over ten minutes running back across the map to reclaim their honor.
Mount Guguan’s resurrection point was extremely far away, and climbing the mountain again took quite a while.
Endless Time had calculated this perfectly. He knew they couldn’t keep endlessly respawning and wearing him down through attrition, so every strike of his was fast, precise, and ruthless.
[Nearby] Dark Desire: Endless Time, are you determined to become enemies with our Dominating the Firmament?
[Nearby] Endless Time: …
Chi Zhen felt like he could understand the meaning behind that string of ellipses—the speechlessness, and the exhaustion of not even wanting to explain anymore.
“You guys from Dominating the Firmament started by bullying two people with a whole group, and now you’re turning around accusing Endless Time of targeting you?” Chi Zhen complained. “What powerful logic.”
[PVP players, elementary schoolers.]
[Sometimes I genuinely admire the overwhelming chuuni energy some PVP players carry around. Without them, games wouldn’t feel nearly as immersive!]
[What did PVP players ever do to you? Brain-dead PVE players should stop showing off their low IQs.]
[…Playing PVP and somehow feeling superior about it?]
[If you’re unhappy, log on and duel us. Let’s see how good those brainless stationary PVE boss rotations of yours really are.]
While Dark Desire was speaking, members of Way of Heaven arrived after hearing the news. Leading them were Cold Sword Shadow and Misty Autumn Rain.
Dark Desire, who had already raised his weapon to attack, suddenly stopped moving. No one knew whether it was because Way of Heaven had arrived—or because Misty Autumn Rain had.
Meanwhile, Dark Desire’s cultivation partner, Crystal Heart, had already died during the previous chaotic battle.
For a moment, the two factions formed a tense standoff.
The Dominating the Firmament players unconsciously stopped attacking Endless Time and Light Boat Has Passed, standing in place while waiting for Dark Desire’s orders.
Crystal Heart lay miserably on the ground, her name grayed out. She had the distinct feeling that Misty Autumn Rain casually glanced at her. Even the perfectly sculpted face from the game’s character customization seemed to twitch slightly into a mocking smile.
Then she saw Dark Desire frozen in place, and her hands trembled with anger.
[Nearby] Crystal Heart: People from Way of Heaven, this streamer and Endless Time are not only partying up to fight bosses, they even teamed up against our Dominating the Firmament. And you still claim this isn’t your guild’s alt account?
[Nearby] Ink Glass: Instead of splashing dirty water all over the forums, maybe you should go back and properly investigate your own guild first. See what kind of people you’ve got in there!
Hearing this, the Way of Heaven members all started clicking to invite Endless Time into their party, only to discover he was already in one and couldn’t be invited.
Nobody even dared breathe loudly as they all turned to look at their guild leader.
Cold Sword Shadow appeared calm on the surface, but privately he had already messaged Endless Time.
[Friends] Cold Sword Shadow: You’re partying with Light Boat Has Passed to fight monsters?
[Friends] Endless Time: Yes.
Cold Sword Shadow stopped talking. Inside, however, he was deeply dissatisfied. He knew Zhēng’s spawn rate was extremely low, but Way of Heaven was still the largest guild on the server. Was it really impossible for them to provide a few materials? Endless Time was one of the guild’s top players—he could have simply requested materials from the guild. It wasn’t as though they would refuse him!
If he wanted to find random people outside the guild to party with for quests, fine. But of all people, he had picked this streamer who had just caused trouble yesterday. Yesterday, when Misty Autumn Rain asked in guild chat who wanted to help avenge her, as the guild’s number one beauty and one of its upper managers, she naturally received overwhelming support. Everyone had immediately added this streamer to their kill-on-sight list.
And now, Endless Time had actually teamed up with him for quests!
Wasn’t this basically slapping everyone in Way of Heaven across the face?!
As guild leader, Cold Sword Shadow naturally had to consider everything carefully. Their number one expert absolutely could not be allowed to drift toward another guild. On a personal level, he had already stopped arguing with Endless Time about emotional matters, but when it came to guild affairs—
With members of Dominating the Firmament present, it wouldn’t look good for him, as guild leader, to openly fall out with Endless Time in public and let outsiders take advantage of it.
Fortunately, while he was hesitating, someone else spoke up first.
[Nearby] Frost Purple Jade: Endless Time, what exactly do you mean by this?
[Nearby] Frost Purple Jade: This unethical streamer was used by certain people with ulterior motives to attack our Way of Heaven. Everyone already added him to their kill-on-sight list. And today you’re partying with him?
[Nearby] Frost Purple Jade: If you’re lacking materials, our guild has plenty. You could’ve just spoken to the guild leader!
[Nearby] I’ll Protect Your Remaining Years: Don’t twist the facts, Way of Heaven. Stop acting. This streamer is obviously one of your guild’s alt accounts.
[Nearby] Crystal Heart: Heh.
[Nearby] Frost Purple Jade: What’s that supposed to mean?
[Nearby] Ink Glass: Your self-hype stunt failed, and now you still dare frame other people on the forums for smearing her.
For a moment, Way of Heaven and Dominating the Firmament exploded into an all-out verbal war. The nearby chat channel scrolled so fast it moved even quicker than the livestream chat!
While the two major guilds fought furiously, Endless Time and Light Boat Has Passed never stopped moving for even a second. Under the barrage of indiscriminate AoE attacks and the combined efforts of Endless Time and Chi Zhen, the boss finally collapsed to the ground with a heavy thud.
Light Boat Has Passed rushed forward to loot the drops, afraid something might change if he delayed.
Five Spirit-Infused Beast Meat, five Warm Furry Pelts, two Zhēng Fangs, one Zhēng Tail, one Zhēng Horn—
The Zhēng Horn had dropped!
Light Boat Has Passed was overjoyed. Just as he was about to private-message Endless Time, he realized Endless Time had already messaged him first.
[Friends] Endless Time: Go. Luojing.
Huh? Right now? Leave?
This entire crowd was still arguing here.
And they were arguing because of the two of them. Well, Endless Time was definitely the main reason, but he himself also seemed to be one of the culprits.
Were they really just going to leave like this?
Wouldn’t everyone become even angrier?
But if they didn’t leave, what if both guilds added him to their kill-on-sight list afterward? Then he’d definitely die.
Chi Zhen was still thinking when he saw Endless Time already begin drawing a teleportation array.
Meanwhile, the two guilds were still furiously spamming insults in nearby chat, and for the moment nobody noticed the two of them.
Chi Zhen had no time left to think. If Endless Time left first, then he’d definitely die even faster.
He immediately started drawing a teleportation array too.
5, 4, 3, 2—
At the very last second of the casting bar, he hit send on a long message he had typed out in advance.
[Nearby] Light Boat Has Passed: Misty Autumn Rain, I’m really sorry about what happened yesterday. Please listen to my explanation. I literally just went to pour myself a glass of water and an accident happened. I already sent you an apology mail, and I hope you can be magnanimous and forgive me! Endless Time only partied with me because we happened to run into each other at Mount Guguan today. I accidentally stole his monster, so he had no choice but to team up with me. Otherwise, if I got killed by the monster, the materials would’ve disappeared too! I’m not Way of Heaven’s alt account, and I don’t know anyone from Dominating the Firmament either. I hope both guilds can generously let me off. Goodbye! May good people live peaceful lives!
Whoosh—
Right before everyone’s stunned eyes, Endless Time and Light Boat Has Passed vanished on the spot.
Leaving behind only Light Boat Has Passed’s giant wall of text flooding the nearby chat channel.
Hanging there for a long, long time.
No one recovered their senses.
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