“Ao~”
Dawn was just breaking when a black and white husky jumped up onto the bed. The feeling of having a forty to fifty pound large dog jumping on the bed was something that people had to experience themselves to understand!
Wei Xiao was trampled by the husky and let out a grunt. He even started to have thoughts of murder. “Down!”
The dog had long been used to its master’s bad temper when he got out of bed, and used its claws to dig him out. Wei Xiao’s black hair that was spread messily beneath the quilt was revealed, followed by his pale cheeks, the black circles under his eyes from staying up late, and the murderous aura hovering over his entire body.
The dog was completely oblivious as it butted against him with its head.
Wei Xiao’s neck was itchy from the scratchy fur, “How did Laozi raise up a doggy thing like you?!”
The real doggy thing whined and kicked up a fuss, wanting to go outside.
Wei Xiao pummeled the dog on the head in anger, but he unfortunately couldn’t bear to use any real strength. The husky thought that its owner was teasing it and panted as it got even closer with its tongue. Wei Xiao couldn’t take it anymore, lifted up the quilt, and got out of bed.
He was only wearing a pair of shorts, his exposing legs that were both long and straight. His figure was thin but not frail, and because he was young, it was full of a youthful teenage vigor.
“I only slept for three hours. Soybean, you better be quick.”
He casually pulled on a pair of pants, tugged on a sweater, and picked up the leash, holding down the restless dog and leashing it carefully before taking it outside.
This was the one disadvantage of raising a dog. They had to be taken out early in the morning so that they could solve their physiological problems, which was exceedingly unkind for someone like Wei Xiao who had his days and nights flipped upside down.
The cold wind blew straight towards his neck as soon as he went out, and Wei Xiao was so chilled that his sleepiness disappeared completely. The urge in his heart to stew a dog kept increasing.
Were huskies tasty?
Soybean sensed its owner’s ‘love’ and let its tongue loll out as it wagged its tail.
Wei Xiao gave up on the idea.
This dog couldn’t be stewed. Eating it would reduce his intelligence!
He was bored and took out his phone to idle away the time while the dog dealt with its physiological problems.
It was freezing outside, and he hid both of his hands in his sleeves. Only the index finger of his right hand peeked out to draw on the screen.
He’d fallen asleep as soon as he hit the bed last night and hadn’t logged out of his accompanied gaming platform account. At this time, his account had received a lot of messages.
“200 a game?”
“One game is half an hour, 400 yuan
an hour? Why don’t you just go rob a bank?!”
“Look at the market price, okay, other accompanied players only charge 15 yuan a game! What makes you worth such a high price!”
Wei Xiao was an accompanying player for hire. What was an accompanying player? It was having a boss pay you to accompany them, chat with them, and help them increase their ranking, the full set. It could also be considered an offshoot of the gaming industry, except that the money that could be made was rather small, where one match was only ten or so yuan. Anyone with a little more ambition had already gone off to be a live streamer.
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Wei Xiao’s lips curved slightly. Even if he was only poking at the keyboard with a single finger, it didn’t affect the speed of his typing. He’d already finished replying in the blink of an eye.
“P’w atf xlcu bo atf pecuif, xlcu bo wjufr, j xlcu ktb mjc vb la jii. Tbe kbc’a yf wjxlcu j ibrr ja 200 sejc, jcv sbe mjc’a ufa rmjwwfv ja atlr qglmf!”
“Pa vbfrc’a cffv ab ajxf tjio jc tbeg. Po ybrr lr lc j teggs, P mjc yibk eq atf batfg rlvf’r vbu tfjv lc afc wlceafr.”
“Why is it so expensive? I don’t know either, perhaps it’s because I’m handsome?”
The messages had been sent out at three or four o’clock in the morning. It had been over two hours since then, and nobody would be there to reply. Even so, Wei Xiao was an accompanying player who was dedicated to good service and worked hard. Messages from bosses naturally needed to be answered carefully.
The husky whined slightly, and Wei Xiao suppressed the urge to kill the dog and dealt with the follow up. The dog still wanted to go out to the park and play, but Wei Xiao had already been pushed to his limits and dragged it back to the apartment instead.
The youth who didn’t exercise at all and would lay down if he didn’t have to sit relied completely on the exercise involved in having to drag the dog around in order to work out his biceps!
After returning home with much difficulty and closing the security gate behind him, there was no trace of sleepiness left in Wei Xiao.
He took off his clothes and went to take a shower. After coming back out, he went to the refrigerator to pick up a piece of bread and pour out some dog food for Soybean, “Ah, you, you’re more expensive to raise than your dad!”
The son of a dog chuffed as it ate happily.
Wei Xiao: “……
In this world, people were really inferior to dogs.
Wei Xiao finished off the cold piece of bread and sat down in front of the computer.
It was better to play games than sleep––an internet addict’s vocabulary was filled with this phrase.
There was only one icon on the empty computer screen desktop. A small little icon of a soldier’s back shrouded by a ray of sacred light, the image solemn and resolute, with one word written beneath it––Glory.
A multiplayer online competitive game that had been popular for over a decade and was still at the peak of online gaming.
Wei Xiao logged into the game, and the first thing to pop up was a video. The video title was extremely eye-catching––
Congratulations to Close (Lu Feng) for winning the 2020 World Championship!
Four consecutive championships!
Close fully deserved the title of being the first in the world!
The video clip was taken from the game. A thief whose game operations were at the ultimate peak used a backstab at critical health to counterattack and take down the opponent. After that, the screen cut away from the game. Beneath the bright stage lights was a man wearing a black team uniform.
He was tall, his eyes and eyebrows cold. He was clearly holding a trophy that represented the highest glory and standing there on the supreme stage, enjoying the applause and praise of thousands, but his face was expressionless.
This handsome face that had been praised up to the heavens by the fans didn’t even show the tiniest outflow of emotion.
The video came with its own scrolling comments.
[ Close is amazing! Close is legendary! Close is the end to everything! ]
[ God Lu won the championship again and again and again! He’s really too damned strong! ]
[ Number one in China, Number one in the world, winning honor for the country, goddamn! ]
[ Stop overpraising, alright? Isn’t it shameful, isn’t it embarrassing? Is an individual competition championship even considered a real champion? ]
[ Haha, only Close is amazing out of the whole of China. If he really has the ability, then he should take his team to the global finals and win a real championship! ]
[ Leaving now, leaving now, the fans are going to start hating again, saying that their God Lu can’t carry so many people, and that there’s no way to win nine against one. In any case, it’s always his teammates that suck, and the Chinese competition zone that sucks, and only Close himself is good! ]
The scrolling comments were packed densely enough to block out the man in the video completely.
Wei Xiao tsked, his long and slender fingers moving over the keyboard. The sounds from the mechanical keyboard weren’t loud, but words came out pouring out like a flood.
[ Close made his debut in FTW at the age of 17 and won the first world championship for the team competition; at 18, he took on a difficult task at a critical time and led FTW to become the only team from China to leave the Asian competition zone and enter the global team competitions. In the eight to four semi-finals, Close took his thief and showed off until the previous champion sese’s scalp was numb, and in the second match, Close used a death knight to salvage the situation and turn the tide. In the third match… ]
He quickly and fluently wrote out hundreds of words, and because the number of words for each message was limited in the scrolling comments, he sent them in sections and filled up the screen skillfully and professionally, making even Close’s senior, hardcore fans feel inferior.
The haters still wanted to hate, but unfortunately, they couldn’t keep up with Wei Xiao’s typing speed. Secondly, their ‘historical knowledge’ wasn’t as rich as Wei Xiao’s, and they received ten sentences back for every one sentence they sent out. The haters only felt that there were millions of people sitting on the other side, each holding a machine gun and bombarding them until their scalps turned numb.
After purifying the scrolling comments, Wei Xiao happily closed the video and started to queue up for ranked matches.
As a 5v5 game, it was reasonable to say that it was only a team game competition. However, because Glory specifically tested a player’s operation and consciousness as well as the way an individual used their profession’s talent points, equipment, and so on, there were also single and double competitions.
Taking the global competition as an example, the prize for the individual (single) championship was 2 million USD, the doubles championship prize was 3 million USD, and the team competition championship’s prize could go as high as 30 million USD.
Based on the amount of money, it could be seen that the team competition was the real motherload.
It was a pity that China hadn’t even managed to enter the global finals during the past two years, let alone win the championship.
Only Close, as a god-level player from China, had won three consecutive championships in the global singles.
China always liked to say that he had won four consecutive championship titles because his first championship had been in the team competition.
It was a world championship that not only belonged to Close, but also belonged to the entire FTW team and the entire China competition zone!
However, three years had already passed…
China hadn’t won another global team competition championship cup.
Wei Xiao was queued into a match and entered the character selection screen. His mind was full of the thief that Lu Feng used in the video, and he selected it without thinking twice.
Someone immediately spoke up on the team communication channel.
“Little big brother, don’t toy with me. Thieves are so weak these days. Other than God Lu, who else can show off with it?”
“Don’t get overexcited from watching a video. Your thief and Close’s thief are like two completely different creatures.”
“Wake up, brother, we’re not professional players!”
Wei Xiao typed out a few words on his keyboard, “Lie down well.”
The team channel was silent for three seconds before someone began to chant––
“The cows are flying…”
“The people on the ground are blowing.”
“Acting like the wind…”
“Blowing until their face hurts.”
Wei Xiao moved his fingers and knocked out another line of words, “Don’t worry. I’ve won against Close before with a thief.”
Won against God Lu?
Why don’t you say that you’ve saved the galaxy!
Four people who had never met each other across the internet all spoke at the same time, “Brother, can you be a little less shameless?!”
Twenty minutes later, the expressions of these four people were fantastical, and the style of the conversation in the team channel suddenly changed––
“Little big brother, ah, no, big god, are you lacking in leg accessories? The kind that will lie down to rank up and won’t chatter and talk crap.”
“Big god, are you short on supports? I can play druid, shaman, or priest, and guarantee that your health doesn’t drop at all so that you can kill as you like.”
“F*ck me, this kind of battle achievement, this isn’t Close’s alt, right!?”
Wei Xiao took the opportunity to advertise: “Memeda accompanying player ID7758521. Waiting for bosses to place their orders~”
The four teammates: “????”
This godly, amazing thief was actually an accompanying player?
An accompanying player with a sky-high, amazing price.
They’d originally wanted to make an appointment, but when they saw the high price of 200 yuan a game, they silently said goodbye.
What the hell was this, 200 a game?!
Why didn’t he just go up to heaven!
After playing a match, Wei Xiao was a little sleepy again.
He couldn’t help it; there was no suspense in the entire process of crushing his opponents and playing just made him sleepy.
Wei Xiao shut the dog outside of his room and was about to go back to sleep when his cell phone beeped.
Oh, he’d forgotten to log out of his platform account. Had someone else left a message?
Wei Xiao casually swiped it open and found that someone had placed an order for him.
Was there really someone who would place an order for him for 200 yuan a game other than those beasts in the professional league?
Wei Xiao looked at it intently and fell into a daze.
Customer LU has ordered 10,000 games. Would you like to accept the order~
10,000 games?
Wei Xiao rubbed his eyes, counting carefully, then counting again. There were four zeroes. It was indeed ten thousand games.
200 yuan a game.
The 2 million yuan was shiny and dazzling.
The other party was still online. Wei Xiao sent them a private message, “Boss, did you accidentally input another zero?”
To be really honest, Wei Xiao himself was dazzled by the neat and tidy row of six zeroes.
The other party replied back very quickly, treating words like gold, “No.”
Wei Xiao’s mind was filled with incredulity, “You want me to accompany you for ten thousand games?”
LU: “Mm.”
Wei Xiao: “…………”
He put down his cell phone, stood up, and opened the door––
Soybean pounced on him with a whine. Wei Xiao caught its head, then rubbed and kneaded it until the dog’s fur stuck out in all directions.
Wei Xiao: “Yep, it’s not a dream.”
Soybean: “Ao?”
Wei Xiao tossed aside the silly husky and closed the door with a bang. His cold and ruthless manner was just like that of a scum man who would refuse to acknowledge knowing the other party as soon as he was done with them.
Soybean, whose doggy nose bumped against the door: “Arooarooaroo?”
He wasn’t dreaming. It was real. There was really a silly fool, ah, no, it was a boss who’d spent two million to play ten thousand games with him!
“F*ck!”
Wei Xiao calmed down and felt a stab of pain. The platform charged a 10% handling fee. Hadn’t he just lost 200,000 yuan in the blink of an eye?!
A full two hundred thousand yuan!
It cost 28 yuan for a skin. That was enough to buy 7142 of them!
Wei Xiao bore with the pain that cut into his skin and asked, “So, may I ask if I’ve played with you before?”
Wei Xiao had been an accompanying player for such a long time, but he’d never used such a warm tone with his customers before. If any of his previous ‘customers’ heard this, there was a 80% chance that they would vomit out three liters of blood.
LU: “No.”
Wei Xiao: “You bought so many games with me all at once without having played together with me before?”
LU: “Mm.”
Wei Xiao’s face was full of confusion. What did ‘Mm’ mean? There were a lot of hidden meanings behind this word.
He asked patiently, “Aren’t you afraid I’ll trick you?”
LU: “No.”
“What if my skills suck?”
“You can do it.”
“You believe me just like that?”
“Mm.”
Wei Xiao’s face was mystified. He asked the question that was in his heart, “Why?”
Lu: “Mm?”
Wei Xiao: “I mean, why did you choose me?”
The other party paused for a moment, then gave a reason that caused Wei Xiao to lose control over his expression, “Because you’re expensive.”
Wei Xiao: “What?”
This Mister LU was as calm as before, “You get what you pay for.”
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Wei Xiao: “………………”
It had never, ever occurred to him that God Wei, who could tear apart the haters on the internet and suppress the haters in the game, would one day be left speechless and unable to answer.
“Then…” Wei Xiao asked tentatively, “Let’s play a match?”
LU: “No rush.”
Eh? You’re not in a hurry to play after spending two million yuan to find an accompanying player?
Wei Xiao: “When will Boss be free?”
LU: “1:30 PM.”
Wei Xiao looked at the time. It was now seven o’clock, so he could still sleep for another six hours. Great.
“See you at 1:30.”
LU: “OK.”
After exiting the chat interface, Wei Xiao held his cellphone in his hand and spaced out for a while.
Sleeping could go to hell!
How could he sleep when something so big had happened?!
Wei Xiao tabbed out of the accompanying gaming platform, opened up WeChat, held down the voice key, and started to speak quickly, “Goddamn, Old Bai, I was just sitting at home and money fell down from the sky! I don’t know which little cutie used two million to buy ten thousand matches with me! And they placed the order directly on the platform, with no hesitation, no delay, no trial game, directly hitting me in the face with two million. I really never thought that this would happen to me one day. So it turns out that being a sugar baby feels like this! I don’t want to fight anymore, I just want to accompany this boss for a lifetime. Oh, do you think I’ll get lucky and really meet a cute girl? Hey, there’s nothing else to say, I’m going to propose!”
Old Bai’s surname was Bai, his name Cai, and his nickname was Brother Cai.
Bai Cai and Wei Xiao had known each other for a long time. The two of them had a relationship at the level where they had shared upper and lower bunk beds as early as when the two of them were in the youth training camp.
Two years later, Wei Xiao, who was once the king of rookies was now an accompanying player who couldn’t go up on stage, and Bai Cai, who had been the king of rookies’ exclusive support had leapt up into the first-line team FTW and become a teammate of the Great Demon King Lu Feng, the four-time world champion.
This difference between heaven and earth was really enough to make people sigh in regret.
However, Brother Cai didn’t want to laugh over it. He just wanted to shush––
F*ck, he was about to pee his pants from fear!
“It’s Wei Xiao?”
This deep voice, which fans firmly believed could make them pregnant just by hearing it, rang out by Bai Cai’s side…
He wasn’t pregnant, but he was soon about to miscarry!!!
“Ye, yes.”
Bai Cai looked at this thirty second long voice message and prayed sincerely: Old Wei, you’d better not have spouted any nonsense!
Lu Feng: “What did he say.”
Bai Cai: “This…”
Lu Feng’s eyelids lifted slightly, “Inconvenient?”
Bai Cai gave a start. His hand moved faster than his brain and had already clicked open the voice message––
“Goddamn, Old Bai… little cutie… sugar baby… for a lifetime… cute girl… I’m going to propose!”
Bai Cai: “………”
What was the point in praying, he just needed to think for a moment to know that this beast who never censored his mouth would never say anything normal!
He even used little cutie, cute girl, and going to propose, Wei Xiao, you’re a reincarnated firework, right? You want to go up to heaven every day!
Old Bai thought about how he still had a bit of a revolutionary friendship with this guy and prepared to save him a little, “About that…”
He fell into a daze even before he finished speaking.
What the hell?
F*ck!
Close smiled!
The Great Demon King smiled!
The man who was expressionless on the stage of the finals when he won the world championship cup was actually smiling!
It wasn’t that obvious of a smile, and only the corners of his mouth were raised. The smile was very light, but it still managed to touch that pair of deep black eyes.
Bai Cai felt a stab of pain. If he took a photo of this, Lu Feng’s wife fans, madame fans, girlfriend fans, might make him an income of a hundred million!
What a pity, he only had the brain to make money, but not the guts to actually do it.
“Not replying?” Lu Feng asked him.
Bai Cai put away his ‘evil thoughts’ and hurriedly said, “No, if I reply to him at this time, I might end up beating the grass and scaring the snake.”
Seven o’clock in the morning for e-sports players was the same as two or three o’clock in the morning for ordinary people. It would be suspicious if they weren’t still sleeping at this time.
Lu Feng thought about it, “True, let him sleep.”
Bai Cai: “………”
Was it because he wrote too many short stories? How come he always felt that things were a little weird?!
Lu Feng didn’t say anything further and turned to go upstairs. Bai Cai let out a huge sigh of relief and collapsed like a rag in his chair.
Sorry, ah, Old Wei, it’s not that your brother sold you out, it’s really an unexpected event after unexpected event, it’s all accidental!
Fine, he admitted that he was a little bit in the wrong. He really shouldn’t have been ‘pimping’ in the training base.
This matter had to be explained from last night––
A new team member had joined FTW this year, a rebellious youth named Ning Zhehan who had dyed his hair granny grey. He was a mid-lane player.
The most authoritative training system was the youth training camp that was jointly established by the various clubs. It would hold trials every off-season; two years ago, Wei Xiao had been the rookie king. This year, it was Ning Zhehan.
This kid had some skills. He looked rash and impulsive, but in fact, he had a stable play style and could advance and retreat when needed. He could switch freely between mage assassins and fortress gunners, and had a strong level of adaptability.
As soon as the youth training camp ended, the teams would all start to fight over the newcomers, and FTW ultimately signed him at a sky-high price of 3 million.
A rookie going for such a high price was enough to prove how good he was.
Ning Zhehan was an eighteen year old youth. Having been praised and complimented in such a way, it was inevitable that he would become overconfident. When he came to FTW, he really believed that he could win glory for his country and come back with the world championship cup.
Yet as a result, two days after joining the team, Ning Zhehan became dispirited and passive.
In nine training games, he was an existence that totally dragged everyone back. He couldn’t keep up with the rhythm, and his game consciousness was poor. Even the technique and skill that he was most proud of was so vulnerable it couldn’t stand up to a single blow against the four-time champion Great Demon King.
How could there be such a powerful person? How could there be an existence that went against the heavens like this?
They both had two hands. How could the gap be so big!
Ning Zhehan’s granny gray hair lost its luster, and he was really about to become an old granny.
Bai Cai had seen it all before. Over the years, how many talented players had flung themselves over to join FTW and then gone off into seclusion after being beaten flat?
It wasn’t that he was exaggerating, but God Lu hadn’t even been trying his best. If he really let himself go, perhaps only the big guys at the top of the League would be able to keep up with his rhythm.
Oh… and the Wei Xiao from two years ago.
Unfortunately, that beast didn’t play in the professional circles.
In any case, Ning Zhehan couldn’t do it. Don’t judge based on how both of them were rookie kings.
These years, Bai Cai had developed a psychological shadow towards rookie kings. Although it was a bit miserable for an eighteen year old youth to go into seclusion, he didn’t want to go comfort him and acted as though he hadn’t seen anything.
Who could’ve known that even though he ignored him, this child would take the initiative to come find him? “Brother Cai, I heard that…”
His words were faltering, and he was extremely awkward.
Bai Cai understood as soon as he heard this, but he deliberately pretended not to understand, “Hm? What did you hear?”
Ning Zhehan hesitated to speak.
Bai Cai patted him on the shoulder and said, “Don’t think too much about it. It’s just a few training games, it’s fine to lose.”
But the problem was that they’d lost because of him. Ning Zhehan’s face turned white.
Bai Cai was still smiling broadly, seemingly unaware of how distressing his words were.
Ning Zhehan bit down on his lower lip and steeled himself to say, “I heard that you know a god-level training partner.”
“It’s not that extreme.” Bai Cai waved his hand, “He’s an accompanying player, not some god-level anything.”
Ning Zhehan was very serious, “But he’s defeated 90% of the professional players in the League. Even the vice-captain of the TPT team is one of his defeated opponents!”
Bai Cai muttered, “About that…”
Ning Zhehan was no longer as awkward now that he’d said it out loud. He even seemed to yearn for it, “I heard about his legend when I was in the youth training camp––nobody knows his name, and nobody has seen him before. Nobody knows his real identity, but everyone knows that he’s a behind-the-scenes powerful player in the China competition zone. Countless players have grown and improved under his hands, and countless vice-captain and even team captains figured out their play styles after experiencing his tempering…”
Bai Cai’s teeth ached when he heard this. Although it was true, once he thought about how all of this was about that boy Wei Xiao…
He didn’t deserve it!
Ning Zhehan spoke firmly, “Brother Cai, can you contact him for me? I want to grow!”
Bai Cai thought to himself: I think you want to inflict self-harm on yourself!
“He’s really just an accompanying player.” Bai Cai sighed and stressed, “One who takes money to play with you.”
Ning Zhehan: “Eh?”
Bai Cai hadn’t repeated the fact that he was an accompanying player for nothing. He was really trying to say the key point, “Two hundred per game, accompanying you until dawn.”
Ning Zhehan: “………”
Ning Zhehan’s heated blood cooled down a lot. There were many legends about the god level accompanying player, about how he was the ‘One Lamp Grandmaster’ of the e-sports world, a godly player who’d broken through the professional player world, and how winning him was the same as winning against the Great Demon King…
There was no mention of money in the legends.
However, from another perspective, an accompanying player was good too, or even a trainer. They all needed to be able to feed themselves, and charging a fee was normal!
Ning Zhehan’s awe of the ‘grandmaster’ became a little more personal and cordial, “That’s fine!”
It was good to have the bill settled for goods that were delivered. Nobody would owe anyone!
Bai Cai: “200 a match refers to solo (1v1).”
Ning Zhehan: “Of course!”
Professional players sought out One Lamp Grandmaster in order to hone their personal strength. There were more things that needed to be considered in team competitions, but the Grandmaster was only one person. There was no way for him to do those.
Bai Cai smiled slightly, “Okay. I’ll contact him for you.”
At this time, Ning Zhehan only felt that Brother Cai was smiling like an old fox, but he hadn’t yet realized how much his wallet would suffer.
After the first game…
Ning Zhehan was baffled, “This, this is so…”
He couldn’t even use any strong words. This was simply too abnormal!
A 1v1 confrontation was different from 5v5. After the game began, both players would enter a long map, each guarding their own resurrection crystal, and start fighting as soon as they left their base.
In common solo matches, the players would give each other a little opportunity to develop, build up their talent points and equipment, and wait until they reached over level 10 before fighting. Ning Zhehan was already mutilated by level 1, and was forced to return to the resurrection crystal by level 2. By level 4…
Game over.
In just five short minutes, Ning Zhehan, who stood out amongst countless players, a newcomer who’d been signed into the top team FTW with a contract worth 3 million, had been hammered into a melon peel!
“Again!” Ning Zhehan didn’t think twice before clicking to return to the game room.
Bai Cai was very calm, “Pay first?”
Ning Zhehan took out his cell phone, “I’ll transfer it to you.”
Bai Cai: “’Kay.”
There was a ding as one thousand yuan entered the account.
One hour later…
Ning Zhehan was sweating profusely, and his head of granny grey hair was sticking out everywhere.
Five minutes a game, for a full twelve games. Not only had he not won, he hadn’t even killed the other party once!
For an entire hour, he’d been toyed with until his scalp was numb. What made him doubt life even more was that he’d chosen all of the mid-lane heroes he was good at, and the other side had used the same heroes as him. He’d been defeated by the very heroes he was proudest of being good at!
“A, again…” Ning Zhehan’s hands were starting to shake.
Bai Cai reminded him kindly, “You’ve already spent 2400, hey.”
Two hundred a game, five minutes per game. One hour was 2400.
Ning Zhehan was stunned for a moment.
He suddenly thought of the sentence Bai Cai had said before.
Two hundred per game, accompanying you until dawn.
He’d scoffed at the time, thinking that it was just two hundred yuan.
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Wei Xiao: “Close likes him?”
Bai Cai’s heart thudded: Oh shit, I said the wrong thing.
Wei Xiao sent a kind and loving smiley face, “Don’t worry. How can one see the rainbow if they don’t experience the wind and rain?”
Bai Cai: “………”
He began to feel sorry for Ning Zhehan. The 18 year old with the granny gray hair experienced a level of cruelty that he should not have experienced at his age that night.
One o’clock in the morning.
After spending ten thousand yuan and losing fifty games, the granny gray kid burst out in tears.
It wasn’t an adjective.
It was true…
He really cried!
Bai Cai, who was experienced and knowledgeable, also felt a strange sense of heartache, “About that…”
Ning Zhehan probably hadn’t ever cried like this even from childhood, “He… He…”
Bai Cai helped him curse, “That person is a cruel, heartless beast. You…”
“He is really too strong.” Ning Zhehan whimpered and sobbed, “There are people beyond people, and heavens beyond heaven. It’s my skill that is inferior. I’m going to apply for an extension in training time tomorrow. I need to work harder; I’m going to improve my personal strength. Only like this will I be able to keep up…”
Bai Cai: “………”
Was this a motherf*cking ‘overcoming mental blocks’ after going into seclusion from losing in the training matches and getting hammered by Wei Xiao?!
Ning Zhehan left, and Bai Cai directly sent over a voice message to roar at Wei Xiao, “Is bullying children really amusing?! He cried! He wailed and cried! Laozi is most afraid of people crying, you know?!”
Wei Xiao’s voice was lazy, “Ning Zhehan, right? He’s quite talented.”
Bai Cai was almost choked to death by his words: He’d lost every fight. He was really too f*cking talented.
Wei Xiao was in a pretty good mood, “Close’s eye for talent wasn’t bad this time. I almost lost in the last few games.”
Bai Cai didn’t believe a damn word, “You didn’t use assassins all night!”
Wei Xiao’s weakest heroes were mid-lane heroes. Tonight, he’d beaten Ning Zhehan’s strengths with his own weakness, and even hammered him to the point of crying.
Wei Xiao laughed and said, “Wouldn’t it be like bullying children if I used assassins?”
Bai Cai: “………”
You’ve already been bullying them all night. How can you have the cheek to say that!
“It’s late.” Wei Xiao yawned. “I’m logging off.”
Bai Cai: “Get lost, get lost, get lost!”
At one in the morning, Bai Cai wasn’t about to go to sleep. He’d spent the day making up for his live broadcast hours and hadn’t finished his quota of matches that day. He planned to charge up the rankings at this time.
He didn’t stop till 5AM once he started playing.
Bai Cai quit the game and was about to shut down the computer when he saw an unread email.
It was sent at 3AM, and the sender was Wei Xiao. The subject––10000 Yuan Customer Exclusive: Sweet and Love-Filled After-Sales Service.
Bai Cai’s mouth twitched, “Going wild won’t kill you.”
He clicked open the email, and there were two videos inside. He opened up the first one, and Wei Xiao’s voice, which was a little lazy from fatigue, flowed out, “… positioning is too far forward, the essence of a poison user is to control the casting distance. Having a short reach doesn’t mean you have to be close. Only when you can control the character at the maximum distance will you be able to play out the strongest DPS…”
This was a replay and evaluation video that was nearly thirty minutes long.
Wei Xiao had cut clips of twenty mistakes from the fifty solo games that evening and gave each a very pertinent evaluation, the standard of which was comparable to that of professional coaches.
Bai Cai saved it and sneered, “Little Ning, your ten thousand yuan really wasn’t spent at a loss.”
The second video was much larger and contained a full hour’s worth of material.
Bai Cai’s instincts told him that he shouldn’t click it open, but he couldn’t stop his cheap hands. He clicked it open––
“Just now was the reverse teaching material. Now, please enjoy the mid-lane grandmaster’s highlights!”
Bai Cai only watched for half a minute, “F*ck!”
This one hour compilation was full of how Wei Xiao toyed with Ning Zhehan. They used the same heroes and the same talent points, but one was good enough to fly up to heaven while the other lay there on the ground. Such a sharp contrast made even an onlooker like him want to go into seclusion.
He even called it a sweet and love-filled after-sales service!
If Ning Zhehan received this second video, he would probably end up jumping off the top of the training base building!
Bai Cai was just about to turn off the video when a low inquiring voice came out from behind him, “This is Wei Xiao?”
Bai Cai: “!”
He used an entire lifetime of hand speed to turn off the video!
Unfortunately, it was too late.
Lu Feng held a cup of hot tea and looked down at him from above, “Wei Xiao knows Ning Zhehan?”
Bai Cai’s back was stiff. He slowly turned his head back, “Captain… You… still remember Old Wei…?”
Not only did he remember him, he could even tell who it was by listening to his voice. This wasn’t just remembering, right!
Lu Feng’s gaze turned chilly, and his voice was even colder, “Open the video.”
Bai Cai: “………”
Lu Feng looked down at him.
Bai Cai shuddered and clicked open the second video.
The video picked up where it left off. Wei Xiao’s lazy but arrogant voice came out––
“… How can I be so amazing? Look at the gap between casting spells, there isn’t even 0.1 seconds of error time. Old Bai, I really don’t understand, how could there be such an excellent person in this world…”
Bai Cai covered his face. He wanted to drill under the table and hide.
What made him collapse even further was…
This long video lasted for a full hour. Lu Feng watched the whole thing without stopping at all. He didn’t fast forward, didn’t pause, and didn’t say a word!
Bai Cai seemed like he’d just been punished in public. His dignity had already been tossed away, “About that… Wei Xiao is working as an accompanying player.”
Lu Feng’s eyes were fixed on the screen, which currently displayed the last frame after the video finished playing. There was a line of big, black words––Please call me the King of Casters.
“Accompanying player?”
Bai Cai really wanted to close this stupid video. “Yes… he accompanies others to play games.”
Lu Feng knew a bit about this kind of thing, “Which platform?”
Bai Cai thought about his ‘business deal’ with Wei Xiao––forget it, forget it, he wasn’t able to save himself, let alone anyone else.
Bai Cai sold his good brother just like that, “Memeda Platform.”
Lu Feng paused, then asked, “ID.”
Bai Cai’s face felt like it was burning, “7758521…” Kiss kiss me, I love you; Wei Xiaoxiao, can you have a bit of moral integrity!
Lu Feng: “……”
Bai Cai, who wanted to survive, tried to save himself, “He, he also made a replay video for Little Ning. It’s this one…”
He hurriedly opened it up for Lu Feng.
After Lu Feng expressionlessly finished watching the video, the hot tea he’d made earlier had long cooled.
Bai Cai couldn’t guess what the Great Demon King was thinking and could only try to lighten his breathing. It was so light that he was barely able to breathe!
“Not bad.” Lu Feng spoke two words after the video ended.
Bai Cai was a little relieved, “Little Ning didn’t lose out this time. There’s…”
Even before he finished speaking, he heard Lu Feng continue, “Wei Xiao’s mid-lane heroes aren’t bad.”
Bai Cai: “???”
He’d thought that Lu Feng was saying that the replay analysis was good, but it felt like he was saying that the Beast Wei had played well?
“Send me the video.” Lu Feng set down his cup and took out his phone.
Bai Cai was stunned. He couldn’t help it and asked, “Which one?”
Lu Feng: “The second one.”
Bai Cai: “………………”
There was a perfectly good replay video, yet you don’t want it. What do you want to do with Wei Xiao’s stupid one-man show video?!
Returning back to the present––
In the few short hours of the early morning, Brother Cai’s hair was about to be boiled white! He calmed down his heart and listened to Wei Xiao’s WeChat message again.
His attention had previously been completely caught up with the phrases ‘little cutie’, ‘sugar baby’, ‘for a lifetime’, and ‘propose’, and he hadn’t paid any attention to the other content in the message.
He caught on to the key point after listening to it again.
Ten thousand games? Two million?
God Lu bought ten thousand games with Wei Xiao as an accompanying player?!
He felt that the captain might have been on his phone placing an order earlier!
Bai Cai thought about the matter of the video once again…
He couldn’t reveal the truth. He sent a WeChat message to Wei Xiao, “Tell me honestly, did anything happen between you and God Lu two years ago?!”
Wei Xiao’s reply was very quick, “You haven’t gone to bed yet?”
Bai Cai was fierce, “Speak!”
Wei Xiao sent over a shy expression, “There’s nothing much between me and Close, we just slept together.”
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