Love Bitstream: Chapter 9 - Let’s Play Together Sometime
Chapter 9: Let’s Play Together Sometime
When his feet finally touched the ground in Luojing, Chi Zhen still felt a little dazed.
Endless Time had really just left like that?
Without explaining anything to his guildmates?
[Good lord, what kind of move was that from Endless Time?]
[Not even a single explanation? Looks like fleeing in fear of punishment.]
[Real men never turn back to explain themselves! So cool, I love it!]
[Wait, have you guys noticed something? Why does Xiao Chi listen to Endless Time so much? Endless Time says party up, he parties up. Endless Time starts fighting, he follows him into battle. Endless Time silently teleports to Luojing, and he immediately follows, too?]
[Oh, because he has a crush on Endless Time.]
Finally having time to read chat again, Chi Zhen nearly exploded. “I do not! I absolutely do not! What nonsense are you people even talking about?! Stop making jokes like that! If Endless Time hears this, he’ll really put me on his kill-on-sight list!”
[Love-hate relationship. The story has now reached episode three.]
[I’m invested.]
[This livestream’s direction is getting really weird.]
[Is nobody concerned about the people from those two guilds abandoned back at Mount Guguan? I really want to know what they felt staring at the empty boss corpse…]
[Probably wanting to hunt Xiao Chi to the ends of the earth!]
[Do you think Endless Time will get kicked out of Way of Heaven?]
[How could that happen? He’s a top player. PVP players are simple-minded—anyone they can’t beat automatically becomes daddy.]
[Dangerous statement upstairs.]
Chi Zhen almost coughed up blood again, only able to feel grateful that Endless Time couldn’t see the livestream chat and had no idea what kind of nonsense these people were saying.
Controlling Light Boat Has Passed, Chi Zhen wandered aimlessly around the gates of Luojing. Since this was his first livestream, the chaos had completely thrown him off balance, and he had no idea what he was supposed to do now.
Then a message from Endless Time arrived.
[Friends] Endless Time: Did the horn drop?
[Friends] Light Boat Has Passed: Yes! Where are you?
[Friends] Endless Time: At the teleport point beside the paired-wing birds mural.
[Friends] Light Boat Has Passed: I’ll bring you the Zhēng horn.
Light Boat Has Passed summoned his green horse, leapt onto it, and rode toward Endless Time’s location.
A single main city had five teleportation points to distribute players and prevent overcrowding. Character models in Quest for the Azure Heavens couldn’t overlap with each other—they collided just like real people in real life. So once too many players gathered together, genuine traffic jams could happen exactly like in the real world.
Light Boat Has Passed quickly found Endless Time. Endless Time stood before the paired-wing birds mural, impossible to miss.
Because an entire crowd had gathered around him.
[Nearby] Xiaoxiao: Wow, Great God, who are you waiting for? Don’t tell me you’re about to form a cultivation partnership?
[Nearby] NPC: Obviously! Just look at where he’s standing!
[Nearby] Warm Wind: Quietly eating popcorn.
[Nearby] Flooding: Never in my wildest dreams did I think I’d live to witness history! I thought Great God cultivated the emotionless Dao and would never care about romance!
[Nearby] Feng Cheng: …Please stop talking before Great God puts you all on his kill-on-sight list.
[Nearby] Chestnut Cake: It’s fine. The law can’t punish everyone. There are so many of us, he can’t add us all. Besides, if we’ve never fought before, how do you know he can definitely beat me?
[Nearby] Xiaoxiao: …
[Nearby] Flooding: …
[Nearby] Fengcheng: …
[Nearby] Warm Wind: …
[Nearby] Light Boat Has Passed: …
Honestly, no one could really be blamed for misunderstanding.
The place where Endless Time stood was one of Quest for the Azure Heavens’ most famous romantic confession spots.
Inside Luojing stood a massive stone mural screen carved with delicate vines and paired birds flying wing to wing.
Originally, the mural had probably been intended as nothing more than decoration for the empty city square and held no special meaning. Gradually, however, players discovered that at sunrise and sunset, when the morning or evening light fell across the mural, it possessed a breathtaking ancient beauty. And so it became a scenic landmark.
Later, players looked more closely and realized the carving depicted paired-wing birds and intertwined branches—a symbol with very romantic implications. Combined with the broad, open plaza in front of it, perfect for setting off fireworks while being watched by crowds of people to satisfy a subtle sense of vanity, players gradually began using the spot for fireworks-filled confessions.
The most legendary case was a player who had publicly confessed there for twenty-four consecutive days, setting off one “One Life, One Love” firework every day until he finally moved the goddess of his dreams.
At the time, the forum gossip threads updated for twenty-four straight days. When the confession finally succeeded, it shocked the entire server.
From then on, the place became Quest for the Azure Heavens’ sacred confession site.
[This must be fate’s arrangement!]
[What is going on? This plot keeps developing in completely unexpected ways!]
[If this is scripted, then getting Endless Time to act alongside the streamer is genius-level planning. But if this isn’t scripted, then this is legendary material!]
Chi Zhen had gone numb. Too lazy to explain anymore, he simply started typing.
[Friends] Light Boat Has Passed: These were the drops just now—beast meat, beast pelts, fangs, tail, horn. Which materials do you need?
[Friends] Endless Time: Horn.
[Friends] Light Boat Has Passed: You don’t need the other materials?
[Friends] Endless Time: Don’t need them.
[Friends] Light Boat Has Passed: Okay.
Chi Zhen directly clicked on Endless Time to initiate a trade.
Endless Time accepted.
The player trading interface opened. Chi Zhen placed the Zhēng horn into the trade window and clicked confirm.
Endless Time didn’t confirm immediately. Instead, a message came through.
[Friends] Endless Time: Name your price.
[Friends] Light Boat Has Passed: No need. We fought the boss together. You take what you need, and I’ll keep the rest.
[Friends] Endless Time: You were the one who spawned the boss.
[Friends] Light Boat Has Passed: Come on, without you, I’d already have been beaten to death by the boss.
[Friends] Endless Time: Fine. Next time you’re short-handed for monster hunting, call me.
Without further nonsense, Endless Time clicked confirm on the trade.
After taking the material, Endless Time still didn’t leave. Light Boat Has Passed glanced at Endless Time, then at the friend chat window before him. After hesitating for a short while, he finally started typing again.
[Friends] Light Boat Has Passed: You need Zhēng horns? How many are you short?
[Friends] Endless Time: I’ll buy however many you have.
Chi Zhen understood immediately. Endless Time was definitely upgrading the Kunwu Blade. Upgrading divine weapons wasn’t guaranteed to succeed even if you collected all the materials—there was always a chance of failure, so players had to try repeatedly. Zhēng horns had such a low drop rate that even throwing money at the problem might not get you many.
The process of upgrading a divine weapon consumed enormous amounts of time, effort, and money—and still might fail.
After asking his question, Endless Time still didn’t leave. And Light Boat Has Passed didn’t leave either.
The two stood there face-to-face for a while.
[Wait, why aren’t they leaving? Are they reluctant to part now?]
[Why do I feel like I’m watching an idol drama?]
[Endless Time actually seems like a really decent guy. Helped fight the boss and even wanted to pay for the materials? What kind of impossibly honorable person is this?]
[Is it just me, or was he openly disdainful and impatient toward those people earlier, didn’t even bother explaining anything… but he’s actually pretty gentle with Xiao Chi?]
[I ship it.]
[No, are you guys actually dumb or pretending? It’s obviously because Xiao Chi has good mechanics—one skilled player appreciating another! You people make it sound like something else entirely!]
[I refuse to listen.]
[Friends] Endless Time: Your mechanics are pretty good. Let’s queue battlefield together sometime when you’re free.
[Friends] Endless Time: Logging off. 88.
The moment he finished speaking, Endless Time instantly logged off.
Chi Zhen froze in place, mechanically typing out “Okay, 88” on his keyboard.
Endless Time… Had invited him to queue battlefield together?? And even said he could call him whenever he lacked people for boss hunting?!
What?
What?!
In games, when someone said “let’s hunt monsters together sometime” or “let’s queue battlefield together,” it meant they wanted to keep playing together. It meant they wanted to become friends.
What?
Him?
Endless Time?
[What’s wrong with the streamer? Why did he stop moving?]
[His male god invited him to play together, and he got so happy he broke. #doge]
[Streamer, tomorrow I expect episode three of this idol drama, thank you. These gifts are my membership fee—you better broadcast it for me!]
It was already eleven o’clock, time to end the stream.
Usually, because of classes, Chi Zhen only streamed until eleven. On weekends, he streamed longer.
He mechanically exited the game and mechanically read out the usernames of viewers who sent gifts, thanking them for their support.
But halfway through reading them, he suddenly realized something was wrong.
Why couldn’t he finish reading them all???
Chi Zhen focused on the screen and saw the livestream’s online viewer count: 1,500.
What was going on?!
There hadn’t even been any streaming accident today?!
Completely dumbfounded, Chi Zhen said goodbye and exited the livestream. Then he opened the backend analytics and stared in shock.
Today’s streaming income… Had reached four digits!!!
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