Chapter 77 - Collaboration… Collaboration!??

Honkai: Star Rail had been out for half a month. Although players had, for various reasons, already pushed the game's popularity to its absolute peak, they still felt like something was missing, that some kind of soul was absent…

And so, the officials, once again living up to everyone's expectations, cooked up something new for the players!

"Honkai: Star Rail x Cha Cha Dao Collaboration!"

The collaboration ambassadors chosen for this Honkai: Star Rail event were our two protagonists, Stelle and Caelus, as well as the character who currently enjoyed immense popularity: "Wende."

In the promotional image, Wende wore a light blue jacket over a short-sleeved shirt printed with the Cha Cha Dao and Honkai: Star Rail logos. His robust physique, even bundled under the jacket and shirt, stood proud and unrivalled. On either side of him stood Stelle and Caelus, both dressed in gray-style coats over white hoodies. Stelle wore a gray, modern, minimalist short skirt, revealing a pair of long, fair legs clad in white stockings. Caelus, meanwhile, wore a pair of more form-fitting, gray suit trousers that made his legs look exceptionally straight and long.

During the collaboration period, any player who purchased a collaboration set meal would receive a collaboration poster and an activation code.

Of course, the rewards inside the activation code were basically negligible.

[OH OH OH OH OH OH OH!!!! WENDE! WENDE! WENDE! WENDE!]

[STELLE-BABY! STELLE-BABY! STELLE-BABY!]

[CAELUS!! MY CAELUS!!!!]

[This composition… isn't this just a dad taking his two kids out?]

[Holy crap, I thought the same thing!]

[Ah~ Ah! AHHHH!! My Wende…]

[Stelle is so cute! A dazed beauty's face paired with such a cool and detached outfit should have been very queenly, but those white cotton stockings add a touch of playfulness and cuteness, and on top of that, the way she's being led along by Wende, looking all lost… Ah~ I'm overflowing!]

[Sister Guoguo! I know that's you! Log into your main account and say that!]

[Don't you guys think Caelus is super hot too? Those long legs… hehehe, squeeze me! Squeeze me! Squeeze me to death!]

[Wende Mommy! I want to drink milk tea made from Wende's milk!]

"The collaboration beverages for this event are the Xianzhou's 'Immortal's Happy Tea' and 'Star Taro Bobo.' We hope all Trailblazers will develop a deeper love for Xianzhou's cuisine through this collaboration event."

[Where's the Mung Bean Soda? Where's my Fermented Mung Bean Soda! How can you call this a Xianzhou collab without Mung Bean Soda!]

[Oho, my good sir, you certainly have some heavy tastes!]

[Fermented Mung Bean Soda… is that really something a human can drink…]

[Fine, fine, you just want to turn this collab into a dark cuisine competition, don't you?]

[Right, right, since there's no Mung Bean Soda, you definitely shouldn't go buy any!]

[The collab date seems to be tomorrow? I'm going to set up a tent outside the Cha Cha Dao store right now!]

[Count me in!]

Reality

"Hurry, hurry, hurry! Get the stock ready! A huge wave of zombies is about to enter the battlefield tomorrow!"

At a certain Cha Cha Dao in Shanghai, the usually quiet store manager was exceptionally anxious. On one hand, he was urging his employees to work overtime to prepare everything; on the other, he was personally rushing the factory to deliver the goods immediately.

"Manager, what are we in such a hurry for? The other stores aren't ready either, are they?" an employee grumbled. It was just a collaboration with a game, right? Was all this really necessary? They had been called in before the sun was even up.

"Just do your jobs well. If you get through this month, I'll give you all an extra two months' salary! If you screw up, you're fired!"

The manager waved his hand magnanimously at all his employees. As long as they could survive this period, their Cha Cha Dao branch's sales for the next half a year would be secured!

"Manager! The receipt printer has been checked! Added new ink!"

"Manager! The collaboration cups and posters have arrived!"

"Manager! The character standees and stickers have been put up! And I added an anti-theft chain just like you ordered!"

"Uhm… Manager, the Tingyun cosplay you bought has arrived… Do we really have to go this far?"

An employee holding a gift box containing a female costume looked hesitantly at the balding, middle-aged, pot-bellied manager before him.

"Mm… this is a necessary sacrifice!"

The manager patted the small, skinny male employee on the shoulder with a grave expression.

"For the bonus! Just bear with it!"

The next day, looking at the sea of people outside the store, the employees and the manager all swallowed hard in unison.

"M-manager… is this really just a game collaboration… Outside… it's like a full-blown comic con out there!" an employee said in a panic.

"Don't worry. We don't need to manage what's happening outside. Now, it's time for us to get to work!"

The manager pushed up his small glasses and said with extreme seriousness.

"Open the doors!!!"

This first collaboration between Honkai: Star Rail and Cha Cha Dao could only be described as a Zombie World War. Thousands of Cha Cha Dao stores across Shanghai had prepared for battle, yet they still couldn't manage to feed all the zombies outside!

"Beep… You have a new order… You have a new order…"

"Number one thousand three hundred and sixty-five!! One thousand three hundred and sixty-five!!"

"Here, your Immortal's Happy Tea, less ice, half sugar, with added blood glutinous rice, taro balls, and black pearls is ready…"

Meanwhile, on the other side of the internet…

A video blogger, after much hardship, managed to snag three cups of the collaboration milk tea, collecting all three cup designs in one go.

Just as he was about to show off his milk tea on his social media space, he looked at Wende on the cup and had a bold idea.

Caption: "Alright bros! I drank Wende's milk!!"

Attached Image 1: A Wende-themed cup of Immortal's Happy Tea, but with two small holes poked into the cup right on Wende's chest, from which the milk tea was slowly flowing out.

Attached Image 2: A picture of the blogger himself, sucking on it frantically.

[Outrageous! Beyond outrageous!]

[Waaaah, my Wende! My Wende… he's… he's been sullied!!!]

[Got it√ I'm gonna go try it right now!]

[Even a pervert like me thinks this is perverted.]

[What is this, Wende's wild night out?]

[Hehehe, I got to drink Stelle's foot-sole milk tea!]

[I got to drink Caelus's…]

This account has been banned.

[Dammit! Why isn't Pom-Pom in the collaboration!]

[AHHHH! I couldn't get one! AHHHH!]

"So! Isn't this teahouse Miss Tingyun recommended great!"

Slurp, slurp.

March was happily drinking the Immortal's Happy Tea in her hand, looking extremely satisfied.

"So… weren't we supposed to be looking for Stelle? How did we end up buying milk tea instead?"

Holding two cups of milk tea in his hands, Wende shook his head helplessly.

It was clearly a teahouse, yet they were selling milk tea… So as long as the word "tea" was in the name somewhere, did that count as a teahouse?

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"Wende… Wende, why did you suddenly stop moving?"