Chapter 71: The Weight of a Single Sentence!

7:30 p.m.

Although there was still half an hour left until the official livestream time announced by Genshin Impact, the Genshin Impact livestream room on Xiaopu Station was already packed with players.

Many of these viewers rarely watched livestreams before, and some had never even heard of Xiaopu Station.

But because of this incident, many deliberately downloaded the Xiaopu Station app, inadvertently adding a wave of active users to the platform.

At this moment.

The number of viewers in the livestream room had already exceeded 1.8 million—this was real-time concurrent viewership, not the artificial popularity fabricated by other platforms.

Moreover, this number continued to surge at a visibly rapid pace, causing the livestream room to lag severely.

After seeing this scene, Xiaopu Station’s senior management were completely stunned.

They had never seen anything like this before…

Not even in their wildest dreams.

Even Douya, the number one livestreaming platform, had only hosted a handful of livestreams with over 1.5 million real-time viewers.

The last time the livestreaming world had gone this wild was years ago, on the night the famous professional player Lao Shi returned to streaming.

Fortunately, Xiaopu Station’s management had prepared adequately.

They quickly deployed a large team of technicians, added numerous temporary livestream rooms, and automatically redirected part of the audience, significantly easing the situation.

Even so, the barrage of comments still flooded the screen densely.

“Time is moving so slowly—why is it only 7:40? Twenty more minutes—can someone tell me how to survive this?”

“I’m so curious what the lead creator of Genshin Impact looks like—could it be a girl in black stockings?”

“Bro, are you thinking with your feet? I bet the person coming on livestream is a middle-aged balding, greasy uncle! If not, I’ll run naked for three kilometers down the street!”

“We’re here to storm the official team, not to speculate about the Genshin Impact creator’s appearance!”

“Right! Spam the barrage: Shitty Genshin, not even a dog would play it (two pieces of poultry immediately deleted)!”

“Shitty Genshin, not even a dog would play it (one comment about fate was immediately deleted!)”

“Shitty Genshin, not even a dog would play it (one Klee immediately deleted!)”

“Crash Genshin, Honkai Forever… (from a gorgeous guy from another world screaming wildly)”

“…”

Time slipped away amid the viewers’ barrage chatter, and the scheduled 8:00 p.m. finally arrived.

The next second.

The pitch-black screen suddenly lit up, revealing Qin Xiaoyu’s clean, sunny face in the camera frame.

All viewers in the livestream room froze in shock.

Countless question marks flooded the public chat.

“??? Did I enter the wrong livestream? Is this guy really a member of the Genshin Impact creative team?”

“Fake, right? If this were a male streamer from a beauty channel, I’d believe it a little more.”

“Sisters, I don’t care—I’m calling him hubby, and no one will object, right?”

“This… this guy—how many 648 yuan packs do I need to buy to take him home? MiHoYo, come out and tell me, sis is ready to spend!”

“MiHoYo never had good intentions—they’re trying to bribe me with a hot guy. Fine! I admit you’ve won!”

“…”

Watching the barrage of comments, Qin Xiaoyu looked slightly embarrassed—this wasn’t at all how he’d imagined the scene.

But.