To be fair, honest people really do have a knack for accidentally creating comedic gold sometimes.
At the very least, Fu Shibao was completely dumbfounded when Fu Hua said "I forgot to assign an attack key."
She opened her mouth, wanting to say something—but...
What Fu Hua just said actually made a weird amount of sense.
So much so that she was rendered utterly speechless.
"I... old fossil... you..."
"What is it?" Fu Hua tilted her head in confusion.
"...Forget it, just go back to pushing the main story."
Fu Shibao waved her hand with a numb expression.
Sometimes talking to an old fossil really is mentally exhausting.
And thanks to this exchange between the two Fus, the chat's energy bounced back a little.
[Hahahaha, the great Miss Shi says she's mentally exhausted.]
[For some reason, the moment Miss Shi speaks, the whole stream feels a lot more cheerful.]
[miHoYo without Shibaois like the West without Jerusalem!]
...
The story continued.
Kiana and Bronya quickly found another Feather.
But this Feather was sealed—they couldn't unseal it on their own.
They needed to ask Lin Zhaoyu for help.
Naturally, Kiana and Bronya were cautious around Lin Zhaoyu.
But Kiana ultimately decided to trust her for now.
They returned to the previous spot.
Kiana handed her the Feather.
Lin Zhaoyu sighed. "Mt. Taixu has stood for thousands of years. Many have come and gone, yet the Feathers never revealed themselves to them. But with your arrival... they appear one after another."
Kiana and Bronya didn't quite understand what she meant.
They tilted their heads in sync, expressing their confusion.
Lin Zhaoyu quickly added, "No, don't mind me."
Then she took the Feather and gently pushed it into Kiana's arms.
The memories surged again.
The music suddenly grew heavy.
The scene was—the MOTH base!
Kevin and Hua walked side by side.
"In the battle against the Eleventh Herrscher, you performed well."
"Thank you." Hua replied plainly to Kevin's praise.
Kevin continued, "Mei plans to transfer you to the Far East. You aware of that?"
Hua: "No. Doesn't matter to me."
Kevin didn't mind Hua's indifference and explained anyway:
"We don't have a choice. The intervals between Herrscher appearances are shrinking, and we're running out of soldiers."
"For strategic reasons, we're being reassigned to different cities... The fusion warrior unit will be disbanded."
"That's the Doctor's decision... Hua, I hope you understand."
Still, Hua remained cool:
"Makes no difference. Whether here or in the Far East, it's still fighting Honkai. The Honkai always comes... But with us in those three cities, maybe fewer lives will be lost."
...
The conversation between Kevin and Fu Hua revealed a lot.
Turns out, the Seventh Herrscher—Herrscher of Flamescion—was actually Hua's squad leader.
And right after the Eleventh Herrscher was defeated, the Twelfth one had already appeared.
At this point, many players' memories were triggered.
[Twelfth Herrscher? Wasn't that the world bubble from the main story?]
[Yeah, in the Sea of Quanta—Seele saw it. I still remember how Sakura died.]
[I recall that after Sakura's death, the three final cities were destroyed by nukes under the control of the Herrscher of Corruption.]
[These painful memories are really coming back to haunt me.]
This recollection reminded players of past main story content.
For many of them, that arc was the exact reason they started luring newcomers into playing Honkai Impact 3rd.
Some of them were literally brought into the game because of it.
"Honkai 3rd is so sweet and healing."
"It's the most heartwarming game of the year!"
Memes like that began circulating widely from that era.
[Seeing Hua still holding onto hope back then... it hurts.]
[Hard to imagine—after humanity was wiped out, Hua still had the courage to keep fighting. She even endured for 50,000 years!]
[Faced with a situation where you've lost completely whether you fight or not, the remaining survivors still had the courage to challenge Finality. The previous era's willpower is unreal.]
[Maybe something else happened that rekindled their hope?]
The more players discussed it, the more excited they became for what's coming next in Honkai 3rd.
That's just how the game's story is—one major plot twist after another.
It's impossible to stop watching.
And as Fu Hua pushed the story forward and saw all the players' speculation about what was coming—
She wasn't particularly surprised by the fact that "Hua in the game endured 50,000 years."
Because if anyone truly understood Fu Hua from Honkai 3rd... it would be her.
"Hmph. Don't underestimate old fossils, okay?"
Fu Shibao cut in:
"Sure, she's uptight, serious, can't read the room, has a few screws loose—okay, a lot of screws loose—but... don't say 50,000 years. Even another 50,000 would be no problem for her!"
"Shibao." Fu Hua started to speak, then paused.
Fu Shibao: "..."
"Ahem, I wasn't roasting you, don't get the wrong idea... I meant Hua in the game!"
"...Pfft. I know."
Fu Hua smiled gently.
Her normally stiff expression bloomed with a rare elegance.
"Thank you for the compliment, Shibao."
"Hah? Who said I was complimenting you?"
Fu Shibao pulled a face that screamed "don't flatter yourself."
Miss Shibao went full tsundere.
Anyone else would've just let it slide.
But not Fu Hua.
"Hmm... So I misunderstood...?"
"Ahem."
Thankfully, before Fu Hua could say something truly unfortunate, someone cleared their throat.
Hokuto spoke up to remind her:
"Ah, Hua. You should get back to pushing the main story. The audience's getting antsy."
"Mm. Got it."
Fu Hua quickly swallowed the words that almost slipped out—and which might've seriously pissed off Fu Shibao.
She resumed playing the main story in earnest.
Kiana set out once more and found another Feather in the mountains.
This time, the timeline jumped to 4,300 years ago in Shenzhou.
Cangxuan and Dan Zhu were fighting off Honkai Beasts together with Fu Hua.
After one battle, Fu Hua suffered a severe headache.
From the characters' conversation, players learned:
Fu Hua retains all her memories due to the fusion factors in her body.
If she doesn't use Fenghuang Down to erase some of them, she experiences extreme pain.
It's like when your C drive is full and your PC starts lagging badly.
And even though she knew she had to delete some memories, Fu Hua refused.
She didn't want to forget anything from her past.
However...
Judging from her future behavior as class monitor, and the countless Feathers in Mt. Taixu that carry her memories—
She ended up forgetting everything anyway.
The very things she was desperately clinging to in the present, she would one day forget.
And even forget that she had forgotten.
That realization hit every viewer hard.
The weight of memory.
The burden of destiny that Fu Hua carries.
And just like that, the memory ended.
Back in the present, Kiana started to show signs of strain—
She had taken in too many of Fu Hua's memories.
According to Lin Zhaoyu, she was experiencing "self-loss."
A mortal drawn in by heartprints, immersed to the point of no return, ultimately forgetting even who they are—
Believing themselves to be an immortal.
"Kiana's only seen a few Feathers and she's already like this. If someone took in all 50,000 years of Fu Hua's memories, wouldn't they get scrambled? Hahaha~~ That would be hilarious."
Fu Shibao burst out laughing at her own joke.
But everyone from miHoYo turned to look at her.
"...Why are you all staring at me like that?"
Everyone: "..."
They were just really curious—
She did voice the character, after all.
So how could Fu Shibao still say something that naive?
Shouldn't she already know the Herrscher of Sentience in the story went insane because of those 50,000 years of memories from Fu Hua?
Hmm... on second thought—
Maybe it's exactly because Fu Shibao sincerely believed she was the real Fu Hua...
That she could completely embody the Herrscher of Sentience?
No wonder the voice performance was so good.
They might've just discovered the truth.