Chapter 44 - The Empress's Talent for Games

When the stream started the next day, relying on yesterday's "One Hundred Palaces of the Immortal Realm" painting and her undefeated Go record, many viewers who had heard of her fame came to the stream as soon as it went live.

【I heard there's a very formidable Empress streamer here?】

【I also came to check it out after seeing that painting. It was painted really well!】

【I heard this streamer is a master of zither, Go, calligraphy, and painting. I wonder if it's true?】

【It's true! Yesterday, there was literally no one who could handle her!】

【…】

“You mortals, are there any who wish to challenge This Empress today?”

“Not just Go, other areas are also fine, you know~”

Long Yue sat in front of the computer, full of confidence, as she proclaimed this in the stream.

As soon as these words were out, the bullet comments in the stream instantly boiled over.

【The streamer is as arrogant as ever!】

【No matter what, we can't let the streamer be so arrogant today!】

【Are there any experts left in the stream?】

【Where's the Demon Sovereign? Quick, someone get the Demon Sovereign out here!】

【…】

Long Yue leisurely ate some dried fruit and nut snacks while watching the bullet comments in the stream with a smile.

Soon, the first brave warrior stood out in the bullet comments.

【Can it be any area? Then what about games?】

“Games, huh…”

Hearing the challenge was about games, Long Yue's face immediately showed hesitation.

The first time she ever touched a game was the day before yesterday when she tried playing [Honor of Kings]. Moreover, she only played for half a day and still had only a partial understanding of it.

She had never even come into contact with other types of games. It could be said that the domain of gaming was precisely one of her major weaknesses.

Seeing Long Yue seem to hesitate and try to back out, the people in the stream immediately started to jeer and mock her:

【Streamer, streamer, didn't you say any area was fine? How come you don't dare to accept?】

【No way, no way, isn't the streamer an Empress? She doesn't even dare to accept this challenge?】

【The streamer's scared, you guys should stop making things difficult for her.】

【Stop talking, you're going to make the streamer anxious in a bit.】

【…】

CRACK!

Watching the sarcastic and mocking bullet comments, Long Yue angrily crushed the nut in her mouth with a single bite and immediately accepted in a huff:

“What a joke! Who says This Empress is scared! This Empress is the Empress of the Supreme Sacred Heavenly Palace! Would I be afraid of a challenge from you mere mortals?!”

“Speak! What game!”

With the honor of the Empress of the Supreme Sacred Heavenly Palace on the line, she absolutely could not show weakness or cowardice in front of mortals!

Lin Fan, who was sitting to the side watching the stream, saw this and couldn't help but shake his head helplessly.

The Empress was the same as always. As long as one used a little bit of goading, she would fall for the bait immediately…

It wasn't that he didn't believe in her gaming skill, it was just that even the best gaming skill requires a process of adaptation and practice.

If they picked any random game, as long as it was one she had never played, wouldn't she just get casually destroyed?

Sure enough, just as Lin Fan had guessed, the opponent proposed a one-on-one duel in a game called CS2.

Long Yue had never even heard of it, but since she had already made the boast, she could only bite the bullet and go ahead.

“Empress, the gap between an expert and a novice in this game is huge. Are you sure you want to compete against him in this?”

While helping Long Yue install the game, Lin Fan tried to persuade her.

He had played this game with friends before, and the result was predictable. As a novice, sometimes he would be inexplicably taken down by a headshot without even seeing the other person.

When novices start this game, they often have a terrible experience, first going through a "boot camp" of being dominated before they gradually get the hang of it.

Hearing Lin Fan say this, a hint of worry appeared on Long Yue's pretty face, but her gaze quickly firmed up, and she said confidently:

“It doesn't matter. No matter what it is, This Empress will not lose to a mortal!”

When she was born in the Immortal Realm, she caused celestial phenomena. Whether it was immortal arts and ancient texts, or alchemy, artifacts, and formations, she could often comprehend them fully and never forget them after seeing them just once!

A mere little game made by mortals, she would have no problem with it!

Soon, with a gigabit internet speed, the game finished installing, and Long Yue entered the game map through the platform.

“Why can I only see arms in this game? Where is This Empress's body?”

Just as she was feeling confused, she suddenly heard a BANG, and the game interface turned black and white.

“Eh…? Has the game started already? Is This Empress dead?”

Long Yue looked at the bullet comments with a bewildered expression.

Before she could even understand what was going on, her character revived, the next round began, and immediately there was another BANG, and the screen turned black and white again…

“EHH?!!”

Long Yue couldn't help but let out a baffled cry, fumbling with the keyboard and mouse.

“How do you move in this game? Why is This Empress looking at the sky? Ah… How did This Empress die again…?”

Watching the clumsy and unfamiliar gameplay on screen, the stream chat erupted in roaring laughter.

【Hahaha, Her Majesty the Empress has no idea how to play.】

【You can tell from this view she's a total newbie. Hasn't she ever played any other FPS games?】

【This is the extent of Her Majesty the Empress's strength?】

【Hahaha, finally we get to see the streamer get completely slaughtered.】

【…】

After a round of fumbling with the controls, Long Yue, completely unsurprisingly, ended with a miserable defeat, having been shut out completely.

“Demon Sovereign! What on earth is with this game…”

Long Yue, refusing to accept the outcome, turned her head to look at Lin Fan with a pitifully aggrieved expression.

Lin Fan put on a helpless 'I told you so, but you wouldn't believe me' expression, then beckoned her into the bedroom with him, opened the game on his own computer, entered a training map, and began to teach her step-by-step:

“I will teach you the basic controls of this game.”

“These are the movement keys, the left mouse button is to fire. As long as you kill the opponent, you win.”

“When you move and fire, the bullet trajectory is unstable, so you need to control the movement keys to stop steadily before firing.”

“Shooting the body requires multiple shots to kill an enemy, but if you just move the mouse over the opponent's head and click lightly, you can do massive damage. Some guns can kill in one shot.”

As he spoke, Lin Fan moved his mouse and killed a game bot with a single headshot.

“Here, just like this.”

“Ooh! This Empress understands now! You just have to move the mouse over the opponent's head and click, so it's that simple! You should have said so earlier!”

Long Yue had a sudden realization and excitedly ran back to her own computer desk, putting her headset back on.

“This Empress is back! Let's go again! This time, This Empress absolutely will not lose!”

After speaking, she and her opponent quickly started another one-on-one duel.

In the first few rounds, she was slowly getting familiar with it, and the two of them were trading blows back and forth.

However, after a few more rounds, the situation suddenly turned into Long Yue peeking out and instantly killing the opponent with a 'kloang kloang'; the opponent didn't even get to fire a shot!

Seeing this scene, everyone in the stream chat was stunned.

【Holy shit! What's the situation?】

【I'm not seeing things, am I? The streamer is insta-killing the opponent?】

【Holy shit, that counter-strafe, that crosshair placement and head-locking, it's so stable!】

【Are you telling me this is the same person who just got completely shut out?】

【Playing the pig to eat the tiger! It must be 'playing the pig to eat the tiger'! The streamer must have been faking it in the first match, pretending to be a newbie for entertainment value! We've been tricked, bros!】

【Can't walk, terrible spray control, but snaps to the head... I don't need to say what that is, right everyone?】

【…】

Regarding Long Yue's sudden transformation, Lin Fan was also incredibly astonished.

If the two of them weren't living under the same roof, he would have suspected that she had really secretly plugged in a USB drive…

He had only taught her the basic game controls, yet she had slowly grasped the very essence of the game's mechanics!

As the game progressed, her improvement became more and more visible to the naked eye!

Her talent for games is just way too powerful!

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