The Chinese live stream comments, which had originally been forced to drown in the ocean of global spam, finally managed to carve out a space of their own, bringing a completely different vibe.
"Holy crap? How long has the competition even been going? It's already over? (ip Hua Nation)"
"I just started eating when Master Xu Xi entered the instance, and when he came out, I still had half my meal left. (ip Hua Nation)"
"Don't even mention it, the tea I brewed is still warm to the touch. (ip Hua Nation)"
"Regardless of anything else, gotta shout it first: 248 is awesome—!! (ip Hua Nation)"
"The Chinese people have finally paid the price for their arrogance~~ (Sarcastic tone.jpg"
"The price? Oh, you mean solo clearing a multiplayer instance? (Doge) (ip Hua Nation)"
"What do you call real skill? This is real skill!! (ip Hua Nation)"
If you asked them if they were stunned?
Of course they were stunned!
They had all prepared themselves for the possibility that this mixed-team competition's difficulty would be exceptionally hellish, only to turn around and find their own master player had already cleared it??
What did this feel like?
It was like the whole class was bracing for the final exam, the test papers had just been handed out ten minutes ago, and the class genius already stood up, slapped his paper filled with perfect answers on the teacher's desk, and said to the proctor, "Handing in my paper. Oh, and that last out-of-syllabus question was kind of interesting."
Then he left behind a classroom full of stunned people and a set of "reference answers" that made them question their entire existence.
But after the initial shock wore off, all that remained was a strange, almost screen-breaking exhilaration.
The level of excitement was no less than when they first learned he had cleared a solo instance in 2 minutes and 48 seconds.
In fact, because this time he achieved a speedrun in such an unbelievable and utterly dominating manner during the globally-watched mixed-team competition, their emotions were even more turbulent and overwhelming.
Meanwhile, at Hua Nation Central Television.
After seeing the young man's figure disappear into the white circle on the big screen, the studio fell silent for a moment.
Even though Jiang Jin and Yao Han were experienced hosts with excellent adaptability and composure, they rarely experienced a two-second mental freeze like this.
Yao Han quickly adjusted her expression, a smile blooming on her face that was a mix of shock and delight. "Dear viewers! As you have all witnessed, right at this moment, we have jointly witnessed a player from our Hua Nation—Xu Xi—declare victory in this fourth Mixed-Nation Team Competition after using only 43 minutes!"
The live stream comments were also extremely cooperative, scrolling by at a dizzying speed.
"I'm dumbfounded, seriously dumbfounded. I just poured hot water into my instant noodles, looked up, and what's that light??"
"Who's the one saying Master Xu Xi relies on luck! A 43-minute solo speedrun of a mixed-team competition, and you're telling me he's lucky??"
"Let me tell you a joke: the mixed-team competition is fiercely competitive."
"Xu Xi: Fierce? What's fierce? I don't know anything about that, I just cleared it like this."
Jiang Jin finally couldn't hold back any longer and voiced the huge question burning in his own mind, and likely in the minds of the live stream viewers. "What exactly is the basis for judgment behind Contestant Xu Xi's seemingly 'inexplicable' clearing process? Where is the logical foundation for all these actions of his?"
It wasn't his fault for asking vaguely. It was just that the young man's every step completely overturned their conventional understanding of clearing strategies.
While they were still analyzing the connection between the instance's background and the challenges prepared by the production team, the other party had taken a path that seemed utterly unrelated.
Disembarking, watching the ceremony, borrowing a phone, going to the dungeon, searching for the archive room, live streaming...
This series of actions seemed scattered and disordered, like scattered beads lacking a clear thread to string them together.
"He must have grasped a key point that everyone else overlooked right from the very beginning," Lin Miao took a deep breath, suppressing the shock in his heart, his tone carrying a near-certain sense of awe. "When the Director introduced the instance's background, he keenly latched onto the crucial details within it. Then, during that failed blessing ceremony, other players might have only considered the Shaman's abnormality as background atmosphere or a psychological pressure test. But he probably had already locked onto deeper, more subtle information from the Shaman's person."
Luo Zongyun also followed with his own view. "Contestant Xu Xi's initial target was likely the archive room. Although I'm not clear on his purpose for going to the dungeon—perhaps to investigate something, after all, that rebel Leader who committed suicide in the dungeon is most likely this instance's boss—but the sudden appearance of the bluish-green supernatural beings disrupted his plan."
"Judging by their numbers, those Blue Monsters are very likely the victims who were massacred back then. Perhaps it was at this point that Contestant Xu Xi changed his mind. The Shaman's abnormal state and his actions warning everyone of the camp's danger were, unsurprisingly, reminders from these Blue Monsters."
"However, even so, it still couldn't guarantee whether they were a friendly faction. Therefore, Contestant Xu Xi chose to leave temporarily, because those Blue Monsters were clearly preventing him from entering the dungeon. Note, here Contestant Xu Xi revealed a very important piece of information: he used the word 'tour'."
Lin Miao nodded and seamlessly picked up the thread. "That Director mentioned that this camp had once been built into an exhibition hall. Contestant Xu Xi's two sentences indirectly established his identity as a 'tourist'. The facts proved that this identity had a miraculous effect. And when he asked the Blue Monsters to lead the way for him, perhaps he was testing whether they could communicate. Clearly, they could."
"His purpose in going to the archive room was likely for that register. The register recorded the victims' information in detail, including the information of that special-status victim."
Luo Zongyun pondered and said, "It's just... how did he determine that the breakthrough point lay in the Shaman's 'phone'? And how did he determine that 'live streaming to seek justice for that special Blue Monster' would be the clearing method? We might need to watch this entire mixed-team competition to find the answers to these questions."
"Thank you, without you guys I really wouldn't have understood at all why Master Xu Xi did those operations."
"Does Master Xu Xi really not have precognitive abilities? Could it be like in novels, that he actually has some kind of deduction system or cheat? ()"
"To the person above, what you need to do now is uninstall that foreign tomato app from your phone."
"Why is everyone making the master out to be so godly? Is there a possibility that when he initially went to scam, uh, to borrow that Shaman's phone, it was just to play around?"
"How could that... hmm, don't say it, that seems somewhat reasonable."
"Xu Xi: How did I determine seeking justice was the clearing method? Isn't it obvious at a glance?"
Although the two experts had outlined a possible logical thread, the young man's actions still seemed shrouded in a layer of mist.
Many details couldn't be fully explained.
Because they simply didn't know that Xu Xi's clearing method was actually an unorthodox shortcut.
However, since even the experts were analyzing it with difficulty, the ordinary viewers naturally chose to go with the flow and stopped tormenting themselves.
After all, being shocked by Master Xu Xi's operations to the point of doubting themselves wasn't the first time.
They were used to it.
