Chapter 46 - The Empress's Story Time

As the stream's popularity soared and the number of viewers grew, the types of challenges directed at the Empress also became increasingly strange and varied.

On this day, Long Yue started her stream as usual. However, this time she wasn't streaming to accept challenges in Go or painting, nor was she doing one-on-one game duels. Instead, at the instigation of the crowd in her stream, she started playing a horror game.

And the first game she was recommended and challenged to play was the famous [Resident Evil].

On the game screen, Long Yue controlled her character, weaving through the zombies with ease. She would raise her hand and kill a zombie with a few headshots, remaining calm and composed throughout, completely unfazed.

With her prior experience from various games, she was now getting the hang of new games faster and faster, even when switching to different ones.

Throughout the entire game, whether facing dense swarms of zombies, the Lickers that looked as if they had been skinned, or the trench-coat-wearing Tyrant, she showed not the slightest fear. On the contrary, she streamed with great relish, chatting away endlessly with the bullet comments:

“These reanimated corpses that you all call 'zombies,' on the Immortal-Demon Continent where This Empress is from, are generally called 'ghost corpses.' They are created when demonic cultivators use forbidden evil arts to awaken mortal corpses and control them as puppets.”

“However, those ghost corpses are not like your zombies here, which can infect and convert a person with a single bite. At most, they will only tear people to shreds; they don't eat people. After all, they are just corpses and have no need to eat to feel full.”

“Speaking of which, This Empress is actually rather curious, why are these zombies, already being corpses, so keen on gnawing human flesh?”

“Oh, that's right. If the body of a cultivator is used as the material for refining, then what is created is no longer a ghost corpse, but a 'corpse puppet.'”

“Those corpse puppets often have bronze skin and iron bones, impervious to blades and spears, immune to water and fire. They feel no pain and only follow orders. It is especially dangerous for an ordinary cultivator to encounter a corpse puppet of the same realm.”

“Hmm... a bit similar to this abominable zombie called the Tyrant!”

As she spoke, Long Yue emptied her bullets into the Tyrant, but when she tried to escape, she didn't know where to go and was caught by the Tyrant again, dying at its hands once more.

“Damn it! If This Empress were there in person, a corpse puppet of this level, This Empress would behead it with a single sword strike!”

Long Yue angrily bit her thumbnail, muttering under her breath, refusing to accept the outcome.

Clearly, these zombies weren't that powerful, but the main character in the game was just a mere mortal.

If it were her, with a casual pinch of her fingers, all the zombies in the entire city would turn to ash!

How could they possibly be allowed to run rampant!

【Her Majesty the Empress really isn't scared at all.】

【Although Her Majesty the Empress plays clumsily, she really isn't scared.】

【It's rare to see a female streamer who doesn't scream while playing horror games. As expected of Her Majesty the Empress!】

【This is different from what I imagined.】

【I came here specifically to see Her Majesty the Empress scream!】

【…】

Listening to Long Yue's endless, relaxed chatter, everyone in the stream was dumbfounded.

When they first started recommending she play a horror game, she clearly didn't even know what a horror game was, and she hadn't even heard of the famous [Resident Evil]. It was only then that the crowd got a wicked idea and egged her on to play [Resident Evil]. And what for?

Of course, it was to see her terrified!

In the end, she wasn't scared in the slightest, and even had the presence of mind to chat leisurely with them!

This couldn't help but make people start to wonder again, is the streamer really playing a horror game for the first time...?

Could it be that she's 'playing the pig to eat the tiger' again, just like before!

But watching her dazed perspective, her complete inability to know where to go, her not knowing how to combine herbs, and her failure to find many items until reminded by the crowd in the stream, they couldn't help but dispel their suspicions again.

Usually, if it's a veteran player, no matter how much they pretend to be a newbie, they will more or less reveal some flaw that gives them away.

And her various "high blood pressure"-inducing moves at times were indeed those of a genuine newbie player…

【Your Majesty the Empress, is this your first time playing this game? Aren't you scared at all?】

Someone in the stream couldn't help but post a bullet comment asking the question on their minds.

Usually, a female streamer trying a horror game for the first time would have been screaming and shouting in fright long ago, but she was completely unfazed.

Even with the sudden jump scares in the game that startled the viewers, she, on the contrary, was not startled at all!

“Hmm? Is there anything to be scared of in this game?”

Long Yue had a puzzled expression. She then paused the game and added with a proud and lofty look:

“This Empress once ventured alone deep into the heart of the Ghost Corpse Sect's territory. The place was littered with the corpses of humans, beasts, and even insects that had been turned into ghost corpses.”

“The Sect Master of the Ghost Corpse Sect even fused multiple forbidden secret arts to hybridize these three types of ghost corpses, creating an even more disgusting and terrifying 'Outer-Domain Demon Corpse.'”

“Those Outer-Domain Demon Corpses were grotesquely deformed, their bodies filled with ghost-corpse worms. They had the bodies of ghost beasts but the faces of humans. Monsters like that were innumerable; This Empress has long since grown used to seeing them.”

“Oh, right, there was also another time This Empress ventured alone into the Netherworld Path of Hell, slaying over ten thousand fierce ghosts and evil spirits with a single sword, and suppressing a hundred thousand evil entities of heaven and earth!”

“These measly little zombies of yours, in the eyes of This Empress, aren't the least bit scary~”

As she spoke, Long Yue paused, her eyes narrowed slightly, and the corners of her mouth turned up in a comical, teasing sneer.

“Could it be that you all are scared? Aiya~ It can't be helped, you mortals are just so timid~”

Once these words were out, how could the crowd in the stream possibly endure it.

【The Empress is getting smug again...】

【Damn it! I'm being mocked by the Empress again! But why do I feel kind of thrilled by it...?!】

【[Resident Evil] still isn't scary enough. If I'd known, we should have had her play [Outlast]!】

【Next time, let's just recommend [Dark Souls] and have the Empress experience the pain of 'striking iron'!】

【I, on the other hand, am quite impressed by how well the Empress can tell a story.】

【You can tell at a glance Her Majesty the Empress is a veteran xianxia fan. She's probably read a ton of xianxia novels.】

【Say no more, I just love listening to Her Majesty the Empress shoot the shit! When other people brag it feels like nothing, but the Empress's bragging is the best!】

【…】

“You are ignorant! What This Empress speaks of are all her personal experiences! How is that bragging!”

Long Yue's delicate brows furrowed as she argued discontentedly with the crowd in the stream.

She could endure people in the stream saying she was bad at games or accusing her of cheating, but the one thing she could not endure was any doubt cast upon her identity as the Empress!

【Yes, yes, yes, we believe these are all Her Majesty the Empress's personal experiences.】

【Right, right, right, we have absolutely no intention of doubting Her Majesty the Empress.】

【Everything Her Majesty the Empress says is correct!】

【…】

After these past few days of streaming, everyone in the stream chat was a regular viewer now. They all knew that Long Yue would argue forcefully on principle every time, and now they had all learned how to handle her.

In this stream, you could mock the streamer, you could tease the streamer, but the one thing you absolutely could not do was question the streamer's identity as the Empress or her stories!

Sure enough, upon seeing the people in the stream change their tune, Long Yue finally let out a satisfied, light hmph:

“Hmph, that's more like it~”

Empress, they're just humoring you...

Lin Fan stood to the side, wanting to speak but stopping himself.

It was obvious that the netizens in the stream didn't actually believe her; they were just humoring her as one would humor a child…

But seeing how happy she looked, he thought for a moment and decided not to expose the truth.

Forget it, just let her be happy…

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