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Chapter 84 - 52: Tear Duct Collapse, the Audience is Stunned by the Blade! (Please Subscribe!)_1

Chapter 84: Chapter 52: Tear Duct Collapse, the Audience is Stunned by the Blade! (Please Subscribe!)_1

"My brother is lost!"

In any other game, if Yin said something like this, it would surely provoke a barrage of comments like "Where did your brother go?" "He’s not lost, look down," or "How many times has your brother been lost?"—all lightheartedly teasing and vague.

But not in the live stream of "Wind Traveler."

Not a single person in the comments said anything like that.

All the audience’s reactions were the same as Yin’s!

Panicked, confused, with a hint of worry.

That stupid, stupid NPC, silently accompanying Yin ever since the second level.

From clumsily learning to fly, to gracefully coordinating with Yin to weave a song of wind in the sky.

It slid with him over glittering, scorching sands.

Even when Yin saw some ’QR codes’ that needed to be collected along the way,

Stupid Brother would obediently stand still, quietly waiting for Yin to return.

In less than half an hour’s journey, it had already won hearts.

If one becomes accustomed to the company, one can no longer endure loneliness on the journey.

At this moment, an unexpected fall into a deep pit, the disappearance of the brother, tugged at the hearts of countless viewers.

"What are you waiting for? Go look for him!"

"Old man, if you don’t find the brother, I’m unfollowing!"

"I’ve got a bad feeling, isn’t this the part where they pull out the knives..."

"Don’t say that! This would be too abrupt..."

"Could it be some cliché plot where ’Stupid Brother’ falls into a deep pit, gets lost and disappears, only to reappear at the end of the level as a grown-up BOSS-type villain in a white robe, and then battles Yin, his ’big brother’?"

"If that’s the case, I’ll never touch Number One Player’s games again in my life! That’s just crazy!"

"Who knows, with story-driven games... Before, there were plenty of similar plots, or do you think that’s why no one plays these types anymore?"

"Genres that even big companies can’t lift, are you expecting Number One Player to lift it for you? He doesn’t have that ability, you know! The game only has nice scenery so far; what’s the story other than a pile of clichés?"

The comments were more numerous than when "Wind Traveler" first started streaming.

In the midst of ongoing discussions, Yin began searching everywhere for his lost brother.

Sunlight didn’t reach the bottom of the deep pit, and visibility was very low.

Yin frowned, carefully distinguishing each frame in the gloom.

The underground was like an abandoned water pipe network, with many pipes hiding tattered red ribbons that looked like they’d been imprisoned.

As Yin directed Hei to touch them, they turned into a gentle glow that entered Hei’s scarf, making the surrounding visibility a bit brighter.

After circling around a few times in the vicinity,

Yin spoke with a hint of agitation, "No, I can’t find it."

Even Yin himself wasn’t sure why he was getting somewhat irritated.

After all, it was just data.

And it was likely a deliberate design by the game designers.

In other games, it’s not uncommon to have accompanying side characters suddenly disappear as part of the plot.

But in "Wind Traveler," it seemed particularly heart-wrenching.

Think about it.

Perhaps the game simply magnified loneliness.

In other games, when side characters disappeared, you could still encounter various people, whether allies, villains, monsters, or bosses.

But in "Wind Traveler," there’s none of that!

The whole world is left to you alone.

The world is vast, but nowhere feels like home.

And then, in this situation, players encounter a clumsy NPC.

Growing familiar with it, traveling and adventuring together, experiencing all the little moments.

And when one gets used to its company,

It suddenly disappears.

The loneliness that had been filled floods back with a vengeance in that moment! Like a greedy hand frantically stripping away the sense of fulfillment just given to the player!

Anxiety!

Immense anxiety!

Yin, even forgetting to turn off the camera, ignited a cigarette.

But before the flame could catch,

"Wie"

"Wie"

Suddenly, a faint yet familiar voice reached his ears!

Having journeyed together all this way, Yin knew this voice only too well.

It was the short-range signal emitted by Stupid Brother.

Looking toward the source of the sound,

Finally, at the very place where Yin first tumbled into the deep pit, within a collapsed, abandoned tower,

he saw the little red cloak struggling to send out signals.

Dropping his cigarette, Yin rushed over quickly.

There, the little red cloak, covered in dust and dirt within the ruined structure, began to crawl out slowly only after seeing Yin arrive.

As it moved out of the way, the dimly lit ’QR code’ behind it was also revealed.

’Wie!’

’Wie!’

Upon their reunion, the little red cloak seemed extremely excited, constantly emitting short-range signals.

As if greeting Yin, or as if urging him to come quickly and absorb this QR code, to make the scarf grow a little longer.

In that moment the scene appeared!

The viewers in the live stream broke down!

"Damn!! So you mean after Stupid Brother fell down, he found this QR code, but since the game is designed without any interaction method, he was afraid that the boss wouldn’t find this hidden QR code, so he just stayed here waiting for the boss to return?"

"The boss has been searching for over ten minutes now, and it just waited like that... Damn it! Could this AI program be designed any dumber... *sobs*."