Free Web NovelChapter 1334: Chapter 1331: Want to Drown in the Streamer’s Sweet Dimples
Chloe Winston entered Illusion World’s game interface and started her stream right at eight o’clock, the evening traffic peak for live rooms.
She turned on her camera; with her stunning looks plus the hottest game right now, the viewers in her room quickly grew. A beauty playing games is already way more popular than normal streams; after all, eighty percent of shut-in guys love gaming. Soon, different gifts started floating across the screen, though they were all small ones.
Illusion World is a xianxia-style game with a huge framework, split into two main factions: one is the Immortal cultivation camp, the other is the Demon cultivation camp. Large-scale wars between the two factions break out regularly. Most players—especially female players—choose the Immortal side, because the art design of this game is insanely hyped; the various outfits designed for adult female Immortal characters are so beautiful it hurts, while the demonesses on the Demon side are mostly in black, gray, red and similar colors, never as pretty as the rainbow-colored Immortal Dress.
Chloe Winston created a character with practiced ease, casually entered the ID "White Overnight," then directly picked a DPS class and entered the game screen.
"Damn, Miss is awesome, she actually chose a PVP class."
"Bet fifty cents she’s going Immortal camp."
"Bet one yuan this Miss with that smooth setup is a big shot."
"Am I the only one who thinks the streamer’s game ID sounds super badass?"
"Miss, wait for me, which server are you on, I’ll come party with you."
The chat was刷刷刷, full of people begging to team up.
Once in the game, Chloe turned off the game’s beautiful background music, then started commentary. She hadn’t had time to buy a voice changer, so she was using her naturally sweet voice. Since this was her first day streaming games, she’d turned on the camera and used her real face to draw traffic. Once she made a name for herself in-game, she definitely couldn’t show her face anymore; with so many players, it’d be way too easy to attract hate and get doxxed.
"The playability of Illusion World is really high, not just because of the realistic 3.5D graphics, tons of sects, and many player classes. More importantly, this game has a ’Fortuitous Encounter’ system. Max level is 150, and every thirty levels it will trigger a Fortuitous Encounter. What kind of treasure you pull depends on luck." Chloe said casually. The huge plunge from Heaven to Hell over the past six months had stripped away her youthful greenness and the arrogance Constantine Stewart’s pampering had brought out of her. She was clearly only twenty-one, but there was already a calm, unflappable air between her brows.
As soon as Chloe finished speaking, the chat exploded in skepticism.
"Streamer, do you even know how to play this game?"
"It’s true the official site announced a Fortuitous Encounter system, but this is the first time I’ve heard it triggers every thirty levels."
"In the two months since launch, only a few players have triggered Fortuitous Encounters, and every time they were totally confused when it happened. Streamer, don’t talk nonsense."
"How do you trigger it? Begging the streamer to show us a Fortuitous Encounter."
Chloe glanced at the chat and saw that the official site hadn’t published any detailed rules on the Fortuitous Encounter system. Slightly surprised, she said sweetly, "This is our little secret. You can only tell your friends. If the devs find out we’ve figured out the bug in the Fortuitous Encounter system and fix it, you won’t be able to pull good stuff anymore. Once I hit level 30, I’ll take you guys to trigger a Fortuitous Encounter."
In fact, Chloe was only half telling the truth. Only insiders knew that the Fortuitous Encounter system triggers every thirty levels. As for telling netizens to keep it quiet, what she really wanted was for one to tell ten and ten to tell a hundred, the more exaggerated the better, so when it gets passed around all mysteriously, the devs won’t know she was the first leak, and they wouldn’t pay attention to her.
As for fixing the bug, that was pure nonsense. The developer of this game was Constantine Stewart, and this kind of filthy rich guy who throws money around without blinking simply didn’t care. When he designed the Fortuitous Encounter system, his original intention was literally to give away money.
The moment they heard Chloe was going to show them how to trigger the Fortuitous Encounter, her live room instantly blew up.
The game had been live for two months, and the official announcements about gameplay had been really stingy. Most players were figuring things out by themselves, then passionately discussing and summarizing metas on the forums. As for the Fortuitous Encounter system, the devs only mentioned it in one line, with no details.
However, the devs had released a game item exchange chart. Any time a player looted one of the listed items in-game, they could exchange it online or offline for the same value in cash.
The lowest-tier Immortal Item on the list could be exchanged for 10,000 yuan, while ancient-era divine artifacts or divine beasts were worth as much as 5–10 million yuan. Of course, the devs also stated that ancient divine beasts and artifacts were extremely rare. But even so, this game was explosively popular—game items that could be exchanged for tens of millions?
Was the game’s developer so rich he was burning money for fun?
A lot of netizens also doubted it, saying this was just an official gimmick. Maybe even ten years wouldn’t be enough to see a single ancient divine beast drop.
But Chloe knew it was real. Constantine Stewart had placed 500 million in prize money inside the game, and the Fortuitous Encounter system was the main channel for distributing that prize pool.
While explaining some of the newbie village quests, Chloe simultaneously sped through mob farming, leveling, and questing. As someone who’d played a year as a top player, she was totally familiar with class Skills and all sorts of mechanics; she could do the newbie village quests with her eyes closed. This kind of rapid leveling quickly left the rubberneckers in her live room dumbfounded.
If they hadn’t watched her spend half an hour downloading the game with their own eyes, they would’ve suspected this stunning Miss had actually been playing for the past two months.
The viewer count in the live room started climbing like crazy. Watching Chloe’s slick series of moves, the gifts on screen quickly began to float up.
The netizen "UpstairsMyUnderwearFellOff," who’d suggested she stream Illusion World Game in the first place, hurried over to the Illusion World Game forum to make a thread titled, "Hand-in-hand guide to triggering the Fortuitous Encounter system. Live-room Miss is drop-dead gorgeous, get in here fast."
As soon as the thread went up, it blew up instantly. The moment players heard it had to do with the Fortuitous Encounter system, they logged into Chloe’s live room in minutes.
After Chloe finished all the newbie village quests and hit level 30, she glanced at the live room and saw the viewer count had suddenly jumped to fifty thousand. Her eyes widened, and she gave a sweet smile, revealing adorable dimples.
Gifts immediately started flooding the screen, and the chat came rushing in.
"Holy shit, I want to settle down and live in the streamer’s sweet dimples."
"Miss is so pretty I’m crying."
"Has anyone else noticed the streamer looks a lot like some celebrity?"
"Who, who, who?"
"Chloe Winston, my goddess who played the female lead in that movie. Unfortunately, she seems to have quit the industry afterward. There’s not a trace of her online now."
"I know, I know, she really does look like her, but would Chloe Winston ever come stream?"
"Oh my god, I’m stan-ing this streamer, her gameplay is insanely slick."
The barrage of comments flew across the screen, and the gifts quickly climbed. Chloe let out a breath of relief. Conservatively, she’d already earned enough for this month’s food, so she wouldn’t starve. But she had to pay six months’ rent next month, so she still needed to grind hard for that rent money.
