Arknights, please stop going crazy over the streamer's operators.

After killing the second wave of enemies, Jiu Guo said into his headset.

Besides the Originium-enhanced floors, the most important thing about this map is the obstacles that can change the enemy's path of advance, namely... boxes!

Within this spatial rift were several enormous rocks.

"Although this method puts a lot of pressure on the guards, the values ​​we calculated a few days ago are enough to pass the level."

Jiuguo gripped the hilt of his sword tightly, his eyes fixed resolutely on the enemies pouring out of the red gate in the distance.

They had always fallen to this wave of monsters before; under the onslaught of the Originium-enhanced floor's Kingslayers and other monsters, their team simply couldn't withstand the pressure.

Because they couldn't quickly deal with the Kingslayers who could break through the barriers, as well as the rapidly surging soldiers and Sarkaz greatsword warriors.

Especially when funds are insufficient, it is impossible to form an effective rapid deployment.

Only if their team has two six-star guards, Deepsea and Nine Fruit, can they even attempt this map in Elite 1.

Others who didn't have six-star special agents and were still in the first stage of Elite 1 didn't dare to even try this map.

According to the plan that Li Ji had previously taught Shenhai, they should have removed Shenhai's route at this time and made the King Killer take a longer detour by adjusting a few obstacles.

Originium-enhanced tiles can significantly increase attack power, but they also inflict a continuous health loss buff.

The method Li Ji taught them could relieve the pressure on the top lane while allowing the Kingslayer, who had a continuous health loss buff, to circle around a few more times to deplete some of his health.

However, after multiple calculations by Jiuguo, their output was just enough to defeat the Kingkiller. Although they would lose a heavy-armored operator on the top lane, the redeployment time could be fully recovered.

"Hold the line at the top. Adjust the rocks behind us according to our original plan, and release a few enemies for the sniper operators in the back to clear them out!"

"Deep Sea, can you hold on over there?"

Jiuguo shouted, his longsword still flying rapidly, trying to inflict as much damage as possible on the enemy in front of him.

"The Kingslayer has stepped onto the Originium floor; he's breaking through the defenses!"

Deep Sea's voice came through the headset, and it wasn't just Deep Sea; all the other operators were reporting the situation to Nine Fruit immediately.

"Captain, two Sarkaz Greatsword Operators slipped through on the top lane, and the Heavy Operator was killed by the Kingslayer in one strike... The defense line has been breached."

"Adjust the stones, put them all back! Now that there are no enemy snipers, our ranged operators are safe!"

"Captain, we've used up all the obstacles we could adjust, and the Guardian Operator in the middle has been taken down, but all other enemies have been eliminated."

Listening to the reports from all sides, Jiuguo became even more confident. Even without the little streamer's method, they could still pass the level.

Now we're just waiting for news from the deep sea, and then it will all be over.

Just as she was thinking this, good news from Deep Sea came through her earpiece.

"The Kingslayer has been killed by the Deep Sea. Repeat, the Kingslayer has been killed by the Deep Sea!"

"Good, good! The biggest challenge is over, keep it up!"

Over the voice chat, his teammates were laughing and joking, as if they were celebrating how close they were to success.

"We're still a while away from the last wave of enemies, quickly adjust... no, that's not right!"

Jiuguo's words were cut off as she saw several red doors in the distance, from which enemies were rapidly pouring out!

But... but last time the enemy didn't come out until all their special agents were deployed. Why is it so fast this time?

But now is not the time to think about these things. Jiuguo quickly arranged several deployable ground units as blocking positions.

He quickly entered combat mode.

"Captain, we have reached our deployment position."

"Captain, the Sarkaz sniper's attack power is just too high after being hit by the Originium-enhanced floor..."

"Captain, we're entering redeployment mode as well..."

"Captain...we can't stop the three Sarkaz greatsword users who have eaten the Originium floor."

"Ugh……"

As Jiuguo heard the reports of various defense lines being breached one after another through her earpiece, her mood plummeted. She could only sigh helplessly, "We give up and choose to cancel this simulated operation."

Thus, despite being initially full of confidence, Jiuguo's team still had to abandon the operation under immense pressure.

The team members exchanged glances and followed Jiu Guo out of the simulation.

……

The conference room was silent after the battle.

"Captain, it's not your fault, we were just too incompetent... You didn't agree to that person's outrageous request, did you?"

One of the team members broke the tense atmosphere by asking a question.

Clearly, she didn't tell her teammates what her bet was; she just mentioned it casually.

"No, it's my fault. Thank you all for your hard work this time. I didn't agree to any outrageous requests, so don't worry about me."

As the team leader, Jiu Guo cannot blame anyone at this moment. She was the one who devised this tactic, so she naturally bears the greatest responsibility.

After calming her teammates down, she then exited the voice chat.

Shenhai didn't say much, they exited the voice chat together, and he silently stayed by Jiuguo's side... He also opened Li Ji's live stream.

Jiuguo was still immersed in the scene from just now.

She was a little annoyed. According to their game progression, the wave of enemies following the Kingslayer shouldn't have appeared so quickly.

Unless it's a timeline... wait, is that right?

"Damn, am I stupid?!"

Jiuguo suddenly swore, and even Shenhai, who was standing next to him, turned to look at him.

She quickly explained, "No wonder he told me to switch to obstacles to buy more time. The waves of monsters in this level aren't based on time... but on the number of monsters! Once the Kingslayer dies, new monsters will spawn, and the attack power of that new wave of greatsword warriors and snipers is simply too much for non-heavy armor to withstand!"

Damn it, she had been calculating for so long, but she hadn't thought of the timeline aspect at all.

She patted her head, thankfully this was just a simulation.

In actual combat, her actions would likely have left them forever trapped in the rift.

"After denying others' tactics, the timeline is also an indispensable factor!"

Given this situation, Jiuguo has no choice but to reflect on its own problems.

"Jiuguo, don't think about that for now, come and look at this..."

"Hey, what are you looking at? It's just a shout..."

When Jiuguo heard Shenhai call his name, he instinctively looked at Shenhai's hand.

But when Jiuguo saw the scene on the screen, the words she wanted to say were once again stuck in her throat.

On the screen, an elite level 1 guard named Melantha cleared the previous level all by herself!

The team's name at the end of the match clearly reads two characters: Wanfeng.

"No, he cleared the game with only one operator?"

Jiu Guo opened and closed his mouth, pointing at the screen as if he wanted to say something, then pointed at himself:

"what?"

Chapter Seven: Switching Boxes, Isn't That Amazing? ( )

Let's go back to the beginning.

As the Jiuguo team entered the checkpoint, Li Ji's team also began their own battle.

The map they are now tackling is a once-famous map in Arknights: [4-4 Don't Panic].

This is a map that Li Ji really liked in the early stages of the game.

Although it's not a particularly crucial map, it's one that shows the designer put a lot of thought into its creation.

It's not comparable to those mediocre charts that simply pile up numerical values.

Li Ji wasn't worried at all about not being able to get through this map; on the contrary, he felt that choosing this map was rather easy.

But the comments section didn't think so. From the moment he adjusted the team formation until now, his live stream has been nonstop for even a moment.

"Lao Feng, if you want to lose, then lose. We won't laugh at you."

"Big Brother Lao, I miss you. When will you defeat Goufeng and be resurrected?"

"You only thought of one operator? This streamer is really crazy."

This overwhelming barrage of comments was something Li Ji hadn't seen in the past few days. As a small streamer, he usually gets a lot of comments, which is already a rare occurrence.

In the current state of live chat, even some top streamers don't enjoy this kind of treatment.

Among them were quite a few unfamiliar IDs, probably because some viewers thought they would definitely see Li Ji make a fool of himself, so they went and called over other viewers.

It spread from person to person, and everyone came to watch the spectacle, which eventually led to the current situation.

He watched helplessly as the popularity of his live stream gradually approached 50.

This sudden surge of popularity was something Li Ji hadn't expected.