Chapter 61

Moments later.

Qin Xiaoyu and Chen Wei walked from the parking lot all the way to the shopping plaza where the Kentucky store was located.

The scene before them instantly left both of them frozen in place.

"Brother Fish, we probably won't get to eat Kentucky after all…"

Everywhere they looked, there were people.

The queue stretched from Kentucky’s entrance all the way to the street outside the plaza—just this single line numbered nearly a hundred people.

Many more had no space to join the queue and instead gathered in small groups across the plaza.

Like Xie Xiaoying they’d seen before, there were no shortage of anime fans dressed in cosplay outfits of Genshin Impact characters.

Venti, Klee, Diluc, Chief Qin, and others.

Everywhere you looked.

Qin Xiaoyu roughly estimated the total number gathered at Kentucky’s entrance plaza—minimum one thousand people.

Ordinary passersby who saw this scene were instantly stunned.

They stared blankly at the young people in bizarre costumes, nearly convinced they’d wandered into some abnormal human research center.

“Nowadays… young people are really… this into it?”

A middle-aged man, around fifty, gazed in confusion at the crowd on the plaza, muttering to himself.

In fact,

It wasn’t just older ordinary passersby who couldn’t understand.

Even Kentucky staff and managers who’d been briefed ahead of time were equally bewildered upon seeing the scene outside.

After the collaboration announcement, the feedback they gathered from their website and Weibo had been utterly ordinary.

As a result, not only did outside competitors consistently doubt the event’s success,

Even Kentucky’s own employees didn’t believe this crossover would meaningfully boost sales.

Yet the event hadn’t even started yet.

The store was already completely surrounded… who could explain what the hell was going on?

Fear and unease slowly rose among the store staff.

Fortunately, the crowd at the entrance seemed to have decent manners.

Either they were quietly lining up, or chatting quietly nearby.

There was no chaos or loss of control despite the massive number of people.

Their tense hearts gradually eased.

To be honest,

They’d never encountered anything like this before—such a scene in the middle of the night felt deeply strange.

Keep in mind,

Even during past promotions with massive discounts, the scene had never been one-third as crowded as this!

Though no disturbances had occurred, out of safety concerns, numerous police officers had arrived to maintain order.

Of course,

The same frenzy wasn’t happening just at this one Kentucky store in Yuncheng.

On an otherwise ordinary night,

In most cities across Xia Gu, Kentucky stores had become oceans of mysterious young people gathering and celebrating.

Just as Qin Xiaoyu had thought earlier,

Surrounded by peers who shared the same interests, the slogan “Meeting Across Worlds, Savoring the Flavor” no longer felt so hard to say aloud.

From initial shyness and embarrassment, players eventually erupted into massive crowds shouting in unison.