In the silent, dark live stream room, messages urging action popped up from time to time.
"Open the door quickly!!"
"Why isn't it broadcasting yet?"
"Where's Hua Yu? She took a leave yesterday, but she didn't today, right?"
"Broadcast, broadcast! If you don't broadcast, I'm going to cause trouble!"
"No way, no way, is someone really not going to stream for two consecutive days?"
The barrage of comments surged like a tide, filled with the audience's anticipation and a hint of impatience.
Suddenly, the live stream room's screen lit up, and the game interface appeared before everyone's eyes.
The audience instantly became excited.
However, before the audience could cheer, a crisp and unfamiliar voice rang out:
"Hello, hello, testing, testing! Hello everyone, I'm Hua Lei!"
This sudden voice caused the live stream room to fall silent for a second, followed by a flood of question marks.
"???"
"This voice... it's not right, is it? This isn't Hua Yu?"
"The streamer took a day off, and even her voice changed?"
"Did a hacker hack Hua Yu's account?"
"Wait, Hua Lei? Who is this?"
Facing the audience's confusion, the voice continued, with a hint of playfulness and arrogance in its tone:
"Hehe, I'll tell you a secret~ Your old streamer has been controlled by me! From now on, I will take over this live stream room to broadcast for everyone! How about that, surprised? Unexpected?"
These words made the live stream room even more confused.
Just as the audience was busy speculating about what was happening, a familiar voice sounded:
"Okay, stop messing around."
It was Hua Yu's voice, which immediately silenced the live stream room.
"Everyone, let me introduce my younger sister, Hua Lei. Today, the two of us will be broadcasting together to clear the new mode, 'Old Tales of Flowers'."
Hearing this explanation, the audience instantly erupted.
"The streamer's sister?!"
"Sisters broadcasting together?!"
"Hooray! Double the happiness!"
"Is this the sister Hua Yu mentioned before who looks a lot like Little White Lotus?"
"Welcome, little sister Hua Lei!"
"Looking forward to the sisters duo queuing, it'll definitely be interesting!"
Amidst the audience's warm welcome, Hua Yu opened the game.
She first spent about a minute quickly completing her daily quests.
After the quests were done, she clicked on the new mode.
Last time, she got stuck at wave 100.
Hua Yu checked the leaderboard and found that besides her, the fastest player had only reached wave 91 of the beast tide. It seemed like it wouldn't be long before others caught up.
"No, this is Tao Yao's storyline, I have to trigger it first!"
Although it wasn't officially cleared yet.
Intuition told Hua Yu.
The beast tide at wave 100 was a crucial plot point.
Tao Yao and Snow Fox's ending would be revealed here.
Regardless of whether the ending was good or bad.
Hua Yu was eager to clear it,
But she was unwilling to use the unique item gifted by Tao Yao.
So, she had no choice but to endure it slowly.
At this moment, Hua Lei spoke up:
"Sis, you play it first! Let me see how difficult this level really is."
Hua Yu nodded and then proactively initiated wave 100 of the beast tide.
Dense waves of beasts appeared on the map, seemingly endless.
Hua Yu's character weaved through the sea of beasts, unleashing various skills in an attempt to fend off the onslaught.
However, after a few minutes, her character was still submerged by the beast tide.
The large words "Failure" appeared in the center of the screen.
Seeing this, Hua Lei couldn't help but be a little shocked. She turned to her sister and said in surprise,
"Wow, sis, you're this lucky? The number and stats of monsters on this map are so much higher than yours, and you still lasted this long?"
Hua Yu replied modestly, "It's alright, maybe I've practiced more and gained some experience."
Hua Lei, however, explained seriously, "Sis, I can see that if you want to clear this, the best way is to use the item Sister Tao Yao gave you to compensate for the stats you're just short of. But I guess you won't do that. If it were me, I wouldn't bear to use it either..."
She paused and continued,
"Excluding this method, there are two other ways for you to clear it."
Hearing this, Hua Yu couldn't help but be a little surprised.
"You really have a way?"
Hua Yu originally thought her sister was just joking, but seeing her sister's reaction now, it seemed like she really had a way?
Could it be...
Was her sister truly a genius in this regard?
Seeing her sister's surprised expression, Hua Lei proudly raised her chin, "Uh-huh, as I said, I'm a pro!"
Without beating around the bush, she directly said:
"It's very simple. One is to let me help you play, after all, your movement and dodging are too poor, sis. I can help you compensate for this weakness."
"What about the other one?" Hua Yu pressed.
Hua Lei explained, "As for the other method... I just thought of it. Originally, I thought you could only let me play, but after seeing your gameplay, I think you can try it."
"It's to change the petal fragments in the Flower of Spirits. For defense, only keep the 'Dreamy Peach Heart', and for the rest, only keep those that don't give a lot of stats but require a chance to trigger, and are very luck-dependent petal buffs."
"This will make you very fragile, but it will also greatly increase your burst damage."
Hua Yu hesitated after hearing this:
"But this way, won't I become very fragile? If I'm not careful, I'll be instantly killed, right?"
In this mode, due to the extremely large number of monsters, when pairing buffs, it's often necessary to ensure a certain margin for error.
Otherwise, you'll basically be one-shotted, let alone dealing subsequent damage.
She had felt immense pressure before.
Because she was afraid of dying, she had specifically equipped many defensive petals on the Flower of Spirits.
However.
Hua Lei said with confidence:
"Sis! You have no idea how lucky you are... Trust me, you can definitely do it!"
Under Hua Lei's persuasion, Hua Yu began to try changing her setup.
She carefully adjusted the petal fragments, and following her sister's advice, she replaced most of the defensive buffs with chance-triggered offensive buffs.
Although the attack power increased.
The defense was now as fragile as glass.
"Alright," Hua Yu took a deep breath. "Let's leave it at that, we'll give it a try."
Her finger hovered over the mouse, ready to start challenging wave 100 of the beast tide again.
However, just as she was about to click start, Hua Lei suddenly clapped her hands and said excitedly,
"Wait! Sis, I just had another idea!"
Hua Yu's finger stopped in mid-air, and she looked at her sister with confusion, "Huh? What idea?"
Hua Lei's eyes sparkled as if she had thought of a brilliant idea, "Let's team up like we did when we were kids. You operate, and I'll help you command and analyze the situation. This way, both of our sisters' strengths will be utilized!"
Hua Yu was stunned for a moment, then a smile appeared on her face:
"That's a good idea, it feels like it's been a while since we did that."
Recalling her childhood.
When she played games, her sister always liked to watch her from the side, pointing things out to her.
Over time.
For many of her subsequent operations and decisions, she had gotten into the habit of emptying her mind and not thinking.
Perhaps, this was one of the reasons she couldn't clear the level.
Thus, in the subsequent gameplay, the sisters began their collaboration.
Hua Yu was responsible for game operations,
While Hua Lei constantly monitored the battlefield situation, providing tactical advice to her sister.
"Sis, to the left! There's a gap there with fewer monsters, tank it and pull them over there!"
"Remember this is a big monster, it usually attacks twice. After dodging left, remember to dodge right. If you really can't dodge, switch out Lily and sacrifice her, her base defense is the highest in your team."
"Now! Quickly use your ultimate to clear a wave of the beast tide!"
Under Hua Lei's command, Hua Yu's gameplay became smoother and smoother, and the two cooperated seamlessly.
The audience watched intently, and the comment section was filled with admiration and encouragement.
"No... why do I feel like Hua Yu suddenly grew a brain?"
"Is this an external brain?"
"Sisters teaming up? Simply invincible!"
As time went on, the difficulty of wave 100 of the beast tide also increased.
However, with the sisters' tacit cooperation, they resolved crises time and time again.
Logically speaking.
Hua Yu should have died long ago.
But the immunity effect of the Dreamy Peach Heart.
Time and time again, in the most extreme situations, it pulled her back from the brink of death.
Finally.
After enduring for an unknown amount of time.
The game screen suddenly changed, entering a cutscene.
At this point, whether it was the sisters live-streaming or the audience in the live stream room, they all knew very well.
The key plot was about to be triggered!
At this moment, the sisters held their breath and focused on the screen.
...
The story continued to unfold.
In the sky, fine snow fell, and a little snow fox appeared on the screen.
Her state was clearly not right, as if she had lost control.
With a roar, Hua Yu's controlled character regained mobility.
However, before she could even take a few steps, she was immobilized by the little snow fox's hard crowd control.
As the little snow fox attacked, the character's health began to drop rapidly.
Even after the control duration ended, Hua Yu's character's actions remained sluggish, and she was quickly controlled again.
"How can this be fought?"
Hua Yu exclaimed, "I've never seen such an outrageous boss!"
The little snow fox not only had high attack power but was also surrounded by a group of small monsters.
Right from the start, there was a long period of control, followed by a barrage of attacks on the player.
With Hua Yu's current defensive stats, she couldn't withstand such an onslaught.
Hua Lei also frowned, "Sis, this boss is too disgusting. Its control duration is much longer than ordinary bosses, and the interval is short, giving you no room to output."
Hua Yu tried to control her character to dodge the attacks.
But every time she regained mobility, she was controlled again, feeling powerless:
"At this rate, we have no chance."
Just then, the screen changed again, entering an animation once more.
Petals fluttered down from the sky, breathtakingly beautiful.
A bare-footed figure stepped on the petals and elegantly descended beside Sakura.
"It's Sister Tao Yao!"
Hua Lei exclaimed excitedly, her eyes shining, "She's here! I knew she would appear!"
Hua Yu couldn't help but hold her breath, staring intently at the screen.
Tao Yao's voice, gentle yet apologetic, came from the screen:
"I apologize for my previous request."
"This is my past with Little Snow, and you shouldn't have been involved."
"The sin of ending her pain should be borne by me."
"..."
After the simple animation ended, a corresponding prompt popped up on the screen:
[Tao Yao has joined the team]
[You can now try out Tao Yao!]
"Try out Tao Yao?"
Hua Yu and Hua Lei exclaimed in unison.
The live stream chat instantly erupted:
"Oh my god! Can we really try out Tao Yao now?"
"Wait, try out? Does that mean..."
"Tao Yao is going into the gacha pool?!"
"My wallet is ready!"
Generally, only characters about to enter the gacha pool are arranged for players to try out.
This is done to allow players to experience the character's operation and skill effects in advance, thereby increasing the desire to pull.
And Tao Yao being available for trial here.
Players know what this means.
"Sis, hurry up!"
Hua Lei urged anxiously, "This is Tao Yao! If you don't use her, I will!"
Hua Yu slowly came back to her senses and quickly switched the character to Tao Yao.
As she switched, a sweet and pleasant voice came from the game: "Hi~ Long time no see. Are you ready to adventure with me?"
This voice seemed to have a magical quality, instantly refreshing them.
Both Hua Yu and Hua Lei couldn't help but smile.
They really liked this introductory voice!
Hua Yu nodded and began to try out Tao Yao's skills.
She pressed the skill key, and a gorgeous shield made of peach blossoms appeared around the character.
At the same time, Tao Yao's voice sounded again:
"Let the flowers protect you for me. Believe me, they are much tougher than they look~"
The effect of this shield far exceeded Hua Yu's expectations.
Not only was its thickness astonishing, but at the moment the shield appeared, the boss's control effect became completely ineffective against her.
"This is too amazing!"
Hua Yu said in surprise, "Even control can be immune?"
Hua Lei clapped her hands excitedly, "Sis, quickly take this opportunity to output!"
Freed from control, Hua Yu immediately manipulated Tao Yao to counterattack.
Every skill of Tao Yao was extremely gorgeous, with petals dancing in the air, forming various dazzling effects and buffing all characters in the team.
After using Tao Yao and switching characters.
Hua Yu used Sakura for output.
Then, the little snow fox was repeatedly repulsed under Sakura's attacks, and its health began to drop rapidly.
"Awesome!" Hua Lei cheered, "Sister Tao Yao is simply invincible!"
By this point, the audience in the live stream room had already exploded:
"Is this Tao Yao's true strength? Too powerful!"
"This shield, this invincible sense of security..."
"I've decided, I'm going to spend money on Tao Yao!"
Under the powerful output assisted by Tao Yao, the little snow fox's health quickly dropped to a critical point.
And then, at this moment, Hua Lei seemed to remember something and suddenly said.
"Sis, quickly use this trial opportunity to check Tao Yao's stats."
Hua Yu only then snapped back to reality.
Trial characters also had stat panels that could be viewed.
Although it would be different from when it was officially released.
However, players could use this to get a preliminary understanding of the character's relevant content.
Therefore, Hua Yu did not hesitate and clicked on Tao Yao's detailed interface.