"According to the system, tonight is the final scene of the 1.0 main storyline."
Jun Bai stretched lazily while sitting cross-legged on the bed. His pitch-black long hair had turned snow-white once again.
"I can finally rest. Just accompanying Zhongli in the acting was already tiring enough, and acting within the acting is even more exhausting."
[Host, I'm back.]
The system that had been absent for a long time came online again. Whenever Jun Bai appeared in the main storyline, it would transform into a cameraman and broadcast everything happening on Jun Bai's side live to the parallel world.
Therefore, under normal circumstances, the system and the players would not appear at the same frequency. Unless Jun Bai took the initiative to contact it, or the system proactively appeared to sabotage things and act as the commentator.
"Welcome back. How's the situation?"
[Popularity Value: 150,000]
Looking at this balance, Jun Bai's expression became: subway, old man, looking at phone.jpg
"System, are you treating me like a fool? There were 100,000 popularity points before, and now that the phased main storyline of the Liyue arc is complete, it's only 150,000?"
"Speak. Did you embezzle popularity points?"
[I swear I only took less than ten thousand points from that portion. This Liyue plot didn't even have any highlights from you. If you hadn't deliberately acted mysterious and made players think you assassinated the Geo Archon, causing discussion, you wouldn't even have these 150,000 points.]
"So you really did embezzle my popularity points!"
[Oops, I slipped up.]
Realizing something was wrong, the system began playing dead. Jun Bai remained silent on the surface, but in secret he had already turned into a telegraph operator.
The words he spoke were all things that could not pass censorship.
Soon, Jun Bai calmed his anger.
It felt good to vent all his emotions.
"The next phase of the plot in the parallel world will have to wait until the start of Version 1.1. But here, Lumine and Paimon will go visit Ningguang in two days."
"That means I only have two days to prepare the script for the next phase?"
[I don't quite believe that you really spent that entire month just catching up with people and didn't prepare the next script.]
"You saw through me again."
Jun Bai smiled and lay down. The script had been prepared long ago; he was just waiting for the show to begin.
Should he "catch up" with Osial?
He could think about this question while dreaming tonight.
[Host, there's one more thing…]
—Parallel World
Following Silver Wolf and Stelle, various streamers had also successively completed the phased main storyline of Liyue, only to be hit with the much-anticipated miHoYo-style cliffhanger.
Huohuo was one of them.
Huohuo, who loved cliffhangers, couldn't help but sigh that this day had finally come for her too.
Fortunately, Huohuo was not a plot-focused creator. Otherwise, she would have had to do quests diligently during her livestreams like Silver Wolf, then organize the relevant texts to make plot explanation videos.
Huohuo, nicknamed Director Hua, usually livestreamed by shaking lucky audience members or doing voice collabs with other streamers.
Four people would control their respective characters in the open world and dub according to Huohuo's script.
Because the content was extremely absurd, the livestream traffic was extraordinarily high.
Her representative works included: "The Wind Dragon's Patricide" and "Klee's Liyue Escape Adventure."
(To avoid padding the word count, the specific content of these two short skits is left to the omnipotent readers to freely imagine.)
On this day, Huohuo opened her livestream room as usual, but she did not launch Genshin Impact to start today's short skit.
Instead, she brought out a lounge chair and placed it in front of the camera, then opened one pack, two packs… many packs of snacks and placed them beside her.
The viewers in the livestream room furiously denounced Director Hua for slacking off.
"Today Director Hua is on break and not working. If I don't enjoy life a little, then what's the difference between taking a break and not taking one?"
Huohuo stuck out her tongue, then lay down on the chair and opened the HoYoLAB app.
Today was the Genshin Impact version preview livestream, so Director Hua was on holiday.
At exactly 8 o'clock, the familiar miHoYo logo appeared in the Genshin Impact livestream room on HoYoLAB.
The screen darkened, then suddenly lit up.
The scene appeared in an outdoor location. A chibi Zhongli sat at a table drinking tea.
"Mr. Zhongli, are you still not leaving?"
Chibi Childe walked over and asked.
"I'm still waiting for someone. You can head to the destination first, Mr. Childe. I'll arrive shortly." The chibi Zhongli replied.
"Are you sure, Mr. Zhongli? Isn't it almost time for the appointment?" The chibi Childe's eyes turned into two small dots as he asked.
A chibi Jun Bai flapped his mini flaming wings and descended from the top of the screen: "Of course Zhongli is sure."
"Eh? Could it be that you also…?"
"It's exactly that 'could it be.' I am also one of today's special guests." Jun Bai reached out, grabbed Zhongli by the collar, and said, "Mr. Childe, you'd better hurry. It'll be very troublesome if you're late."
With that, Jun Bai lifted Zhongli, and the two left together, leaving only Childe in the frame.
"Take me with you too!" Chibi Childe, eyes turned into small dots, chased after them shouting.
The pre-preview short skit ended. With the curtain-dropping transition animation, the version preview livestream officially began.
[Program effect maxed out.]
[Oh? Today's preview guests are actually Zhongli, Jun Bai, and Childe? The male content ratio is quite high.]
[I think it's pretty good. Look at how much program effect these three's short skit has.]
[Childe: I haven't even gotten on the ride yet!]
[Jun Bai: There was never a seat for you in the first place.]
Huohuo's eyes sparkled: "This skit feels like it could be turned into a pretty good script, right?"
"What do you all think about the love-hate entanglements between three men?"
The livestream room collectively protested. This topic ended amid Huohuo's successful mischievous laughter.
The version preview livestream began, and a scene that felt somewhat familiar to the players appeared.
The Mondstadt tea party venue from the 1.0 version preview livestream had now been redecorated with Liyue-style furnishings.
The chibi versions of Zhongli, Jun Bai, Lumine, Paimon, and Ganyu were seated at the tea party, with the 1.1 version preview page displayed behind them.
The version theme was: The Approaching Guest Star.
"It seems Mr. Tartaglia failed to arrive at the tea party on time." Chibi Jun Bai said with arms crossed.
Chibi Ganyu covered her mouth and chuckled lightly: "Then it looks like this tea party has nothing to do with Mr. Tartaglia."
Chibi Lumine said: "In the end, even if he rushed over, there wouldn't be a seat for him at the tea party, so it doesn't matter whether he comes or not."
Chibi Zhongli took a sip of tea and said: "From the perspective of ordinary reason, I think the Traveler makes a very valid point."
Chibi Jun Bai: "Actually, it's not that bad. Doesn't Paimon know how to fly? If Tartaglia arrives in time, Paimon can give up her seat and fly above the tea party."
Chibi Lumine: "I think this idea is quite good."
Chibi Paimon: "This idea is simply terrible! Doesn't Jun Bai know how to fly too? Why don't you give up your seat!"
Chibi Jun Bai: "Because you're kind."
Everyone except Paimon: "Hahahahaha!"
—Side Note
After all, four years have passed since the 1.1 version preview livestream. The streamer basically only remembers the main points, and the plot itself has already gone completely off the rails, so this preview is freely improvised and semi-original.