Chapter 162 - Half the Screen (1/2)
When Ye Xiu came back with the cooked instant noodles, he saw that Su Mucheng had moved a wooden stool next to his seat. She had changed the settings for the game to a windowed screen. Her hand moved the mouse as if she were searching for something.
“The noodles have arrived.” Ye Xiu announced.
“Put it here!” Su Mucheng tapped the table beside her. The reception desk at Happy Internet Cafe had two layers. The outside layer was the front desk, while the inner layer was a regular table that things could be set upon.
Ye Xiu put the noodles on the table and went back to his seat. He saw that Su Mucheng was looking for something on the Internet.
“What are you looking for? I’ll help you look.” Ye Xiu put his hands on the keyboard.
“That Year We Were Holding Hands.” Su Mucheng said.
“The new drama?” Ye Xiu said as he typed it in. With one search in a video platform, several links popped up.
“It’s not really new. Yunxiu recommended it. I hadn’t seen it before.” Su Mucheng said. Chu Yunxiu, Team Misty Rain’s ace player. She was also the player that Ye Xiu regarded as the number one female player in terms of tactics and skill. The Alliance didn’t have many female players. Compared to the male players, they belonged to a disadvantaged group, causing them to be relatively close to each other. They had their own special circle. They also had their own exclusive QQ (similar to Skype) group, which had all the female Alliance players; from those who were retired to those who still played to those who were new.
Ye Xiu obviously didn’t have the qualifications to join the QQ group, but since he was close to Su Mucheng, he would sometimes see it. If no one knew anything about it, they wouldn’t think that it was a gathering of Glory pro-players. They talked about clothing, makeup, celebrities, astrological signs, and gossip in the Glory community…… At least, during the few times Ye Xiu had snuck a peek at it, he hadn’t seen any discussions about serious things like tactics and techniques. It couldn’t even compare to a normal guild in Glory. At least in those, experts would sometimes exchange pointers!
“What episode are you on?” Ye Xiu asked.
“12.”
Opening up the 12th episode, Ye Xiu handed the earphones over to Su Mucheng.
“I’ve worn them for so long, that my ears are already hurting.”
“Then turn up the volume, so you won’t need to wear them.”
Su Mucheng turned up the volume. The first sound that came out was clearly from Glory’s lifelike sound effects as well as Steamed Bun Invasion’s voice. Ye Xiu opened up the settings and closed the game’s sound and voice. He then typed: “Steamed Bun, let’s practice our hand speed. To do so, if you’re going to say something, type it out instead.”
“Yes! I like this practice. Wanna compete to see who can type out the most words in a minute?” Steamed Bun Invasion immediately went into serious mode.
“Line Canyon!” Ye Xiu declared and then headed towards it.
The game was quiet, though it seemed like Ye Xiu was very suited for this. A song drifted from the headphones hanging on Su Mucheng’s neck.
“This song sounds awful.” Ye Xiu said.
“Yeah, skip ahead.” Su Mucheng said.
“How much?”
“2 minutes 43 seconds.”
His mouse moved and the cursor flashed from the game to the web browser. He skipped ahead exactly 2 minutes 43 seconds.
The screen was then split in half. One half was a TV show while the other half was a game.
With Ye Xiu’s skill level, this dungeon was too easy. He would glance at the TV show from time to time. As for Su Mucheng, she was just watching the TV show, so she didn’t need to completely focus on the game. She would glance to see the battles in-game from time to time.
“Are the noodles ready to eat yet?” Su Mucheng said.
“Go ahead!”
“Are you going to eat?” Su Mucheng took the noodles and asked.
“I’ll drink two sips of soup.”
“I’ll wait till you finish these two monsters.” Su Mucheng saw that Ye Xiu was busy dealing with two wild monsters.
The two monsters were defeated quickly. Ye Xiu made his Lord Grim move forward as he took two sips of the soup.
“Not bad. Whoever cooked these instant noodles is quite good.” Ye Xiu said as he handed the bowl back.
“It’s not bad!” Su Mucheng took it and began eating.
In game, Lord Grim arrived at Line Canyon and partied up with Tang Rou and Steamed Bun Invasion. Seven Fields and Sleeping Moon had also run over to join the party. Those two would almost always mix in with Brother Expert when a chance came. They didn’t really play with their guild anymore. Even today, when their guild came together as one happy family, the two didn’t think much of it.
The dungeon went by smoothly and in the blink of an eye, they reached the first BOSS.
The romance in the TV show still hadn’t made any headway. The female lead knew from episode one that the male lead was her childhood friend, but the male lead still thought of the female lead as a newly-made friend.
“Tsk tsk. This guy’s so stupid.” Ye Xiu commented on the male lead.
“Mine, mine! Light Source set!!” Su Mucheng saw that the fallen BOSS had dropped the Light Source Top. Light Source was a Level 30 Launcher set.
“Got it!” Ye Xiu chose to roll for it and the others immediately renounced it.
“It’s just Level 30 equipment.” Ye Xiu felt that Su Mucheng had been too excited. She was a pro-player, so besides self-made equipment, it didn’t make sense for her to be so excited about any other equipment.
“It looks so pretty.” Su Mucheng said.
Ye Xiu was speechless. For G.o.d-level experts like him, their skills are amazing, their knowledge is exceptional, but towards Glory’s clothing, hairstyle, fas.h.i.+on, etc,any random female player would be better than them. In this area, female players were G.o.ds and they were noobs.
The speechless Ye Xiu threw the Light Source upper-garment into his backpack. The dungeon continued as did the TV show.
Line Canyon took the five of them around for 30 minute runs. It was a bit shorter than the 45 minute episodes.
After two runs, the episode had finished. Just as the next episode was playing, Ye Xiu felt his left shoulder drop.
“You falling asleep?” Ye Xiu asked.
“Yeah……” The head on his shoulder made a noise.