Chapter 84: Updated for Nothing… Where

May 1st, a statutory holiday, when office workers don’t have to work and students don’t have to attend class. After a seven-hour server maintenance update, Genshin Impact finally reopened.

Players had been anticipating this update for many days.

Added to that, the pre-download feature had been opened in advance.

So, just two minutes after the server came back online, it was flooded and crashed by a crowd of players.

Players again encountered queueing when logging in.

Some players who couldn’t enter the game could only curse the developers while rushing into the livestreams of major Genshin Impact streamers to get a sneak peek.

Zhang Feng, as a Genshin Impact streamer, normally focused on livestreaming gacha pulls, but he wouldn’t miss this moment.

He turned on his livestream early in the morning and successfully logged into the game.

To his delight, today’s viewership was extraordinarily high—by 7 a.m., the number of viewers in his livestream was already far higher than the peak evening traffic.

Qin Xiaoyu, who was lying in bed asleep, suddenly heard a “ding” notification.

He woke up groggily, picked up his phone, saw it was just a push notification, and nearly threw the phone in anger.

But.

When he saw that Zhang Feng was livestreaming Genshin Impact, after hesitating for a few seconds, he clicked into the livestream.

Of course, he wasn’t planning to spend ten Carnival tokens on that guy again. The fact that the stream started now meant it was clearly about the new Genshin Impact update.

Thinking this through,

Qin Xiaoyu decided to check what players were saying about the 1.1 update’s content.

Near the end of the last update,

They sent out a survey to players, but the players all filled it out with minimal responses—completely useless.

So now, watching livestreams was a decent way to gather feedback.

“Today’s livestream isn’t about gacha pulls!”

Zhang Feng glanced at the number of viewers and smiled, reminding his audience.

“Who cares about your gacha pulls? If I could get into the game, I wouldn’t even be here. Streamer, just start playing!”

“Yeah, we want Liyue! I’m dying to see it…”

“I’m going to mail some local specialties to miHoYo’s team—can’t they just fix the servers? Always crashing and queuing, I can’t take it anymore!”

“Ah Nan, aren’t you an honorary shareholder of miHoYo? Go tell Qin Zong about this!”

Seeing the chat comments in Zhang Feng’s livestream, Qin Xiaoyu felt utterly speechless.

Their current server capacity was perfectly sufficient during normal hours; increasing it further would be unnecessary and wasteful.

“Uh… I was just joking. You actually took that seriously?”

Hearing the words “honorary shareholder,” Zhang Feng looked slightly embarrassed—it was just something he’d blurted out during a past livestream when he was frustrated.

Although he did know Qin Xiaoyu, Zhang Feng knew deep down he had no business giving opinions on such matters.

“Alright, let’s just start playing—Cathleen’s quest to Liyue Harbor can finally be completed!”

As soon as Zhang Feng finished speaking, he opened the map.

But.

The next moment, he froze in shock—the map showed no Liyue at all…

Aside from the already-unlocked Mondstadt region, all other areas were still shrouded in the fog of war.

“What the hell—did they trick us? Can someone tell me where Liyue is?!”