Chapter 60: T goes out 5v5? Actually it's 3v7

Sun Mingyuan really wanted to know why things turned out this way.

He raised his head in confusion, looked at the sign above his head with the words "Xinhua Bookstore" in confusion, turned his neck in confusion, and met the eyes of Zhang Lin, who was also confused.

Xu Sirui, who was standing on the other side of him, had a calm expression on his face - or rather, a numb calmness after being ravaged. He had long known that with Zhu Yingning around, everything would definitely develop as she expected.

"Let's go in quickly, there are so many people inside. If you go too late, the good books will be picked up by others." The culprit raised his arm, urged anxiously and enthusiastically, and then dragged them in one by one like a mother dragging her three disappointing sons.

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The story begins a few hours ago.

After Zhu Yingning explained what was written on the note, Sun Mingyuan and Zhang Lin fell silent.

"You can't lose at the starting line in your studies" is such a common saying, yet it seems so unusual when applied to internet cafes. While stereotypes are unacceptable, and there are undoubtedly some academically proficient people who visit internet cafes—Xu Sirui is a living example—it's statistically true that the vast majority of people in internet cafes don't enjoy studying.

Xu Sirui had long witnessed the power of Zhu Yingning's note and had no hope for any similar note in her hand. After hearing her say that the note was a reference book for a tutorial book, although he was speechless, he was not as shocked as Sun Mingyuan and the others. He just frowned and asked her to go back again.

Zhu Yingning had prepared for a protracted battle before she arrived. She knew Xu Sirui wasn't the type to be easily persuaded, so she wasn't discouraged. "Then let's go to the bookstore after you finish playing games."

Xu Sirui scowled: "...I said I won't go."

She simply pretended not to hear, looked around, found an empty seat in the row behind him, sat down, and pretended to wait.

“…”

There was no way around it. It was her freedom to stay wherever she wanted. He couldn't just grab her and throw her out, even though he really wanted to. Xu Sirui put on his headphones and turned back to the computer screen, intending to ignore her. Anyway, the headphones were soundproofing her, so even if she tried to chant like a monk, it would be useless.

Zhang Lin also continued to play games. Sun Mingyuan sighed and sat next to Zhu Yingning, whimpering, "So boring—" He tilted his head to look at Zhu Yingning, "Are you sure you want to wait here? They can play for days and nights if they get too excited. You should go back. I'll take you home."

She shook her head and remained sitting in her place.

"How about..." Sun Mingyuan scratched his head, "Do you want to play games? I have a few ID cards here that I can lend you."

She blinked.

Sun Mingyuan immediately made the decision for her: "OK, come on." He then took out two of the cards, opened the computers for both himself and her, and casually asked, "Have you ever played games?"

Zhu Yingning thought for a moment and said, "I have played it before."

"Oh?" Sun Mingyuan showed some interest. "What did you play?"

"Kingsoft Typing Master."

"?"

He gave her a complicated look and said, "...never mind. It's okay if you've never played it before. I'll teach you. You can use my trumpet. Hey, Zhang Lin—are you guys still playing CF? Pull both my trumpet and my trumpet into the room."

Zhang Lin turned around and looked at him and Zhu Yingning in surprise: "She wants to play too?" He lowered his voice and leaned close to Sun Mingyuan's ear, whispering in disdain, "Don't, big brother, I hate rookies."

"She hasn't even started playing yet, how do you know she's a rookie?" Sun Mingyuan asked curiously, "Maybe she's a sniper in the making."

Zhang Lin couldn't bring himself to say anything too harsh in front of Zhu Yingning, so he could only pout reluctantly: "I won't care if Xu Sirui gets mad later."

"Oh, what can he be so angry about? Hurry up!" Sun Mingyuan urged him to open a room and invite people, while coming to Zhu Yingning, teaching her how to log in to his small account, and briefly introduced her the basic operations of the shooting game CF.

Zhu Yingning was completely confused. Although Sun Mingyuan explained in great detail, he used only professional terms like CT, C4 bomb, and AK-47. For someone like her who had no gaming experience at all, it was like listening to a foreign language. She was afraid that repeated questioning would make him impatient, and she was also afraid of taking up too much time of Zhang Lin and others who were waiting nearby, so she had to pretend to understand.

"This is your first time playing, so just follow me and don't run around on your own." Sun Mingyuan sat down in his seat and said to Zhang Lin, "Let's play 5v5. Don't have too many people."

Zhang Lin turned around and asked Xu Sirui for his opinion. Xu Sirui said calmly, "Whatever."

So Zhang Lin randomly pulled a human robot to make up five people, selected the black town map in blasting mode, and the game began.

Sun Mingyuan taught Zhu Yingning how to buy equipment within a thirty-second countdown. She hurriedly followed his instructions and bought a pistol and basic armor. When the countdown ended, they arrived at the spawn point. Sun Mingyuan, a crowd-pleaser, was overcome with excitement. He shouted to Zhu Yingning, "Go, go, follow me!" Then he led the charge.

She clumsily manipulated the character on the screen, bumping into walls and running out with the main group.

"Old rules, 3A2B." Zhang Lin commanded skillfully, "Si Rui, you guard Area A. Lao Sun, be careful when you rush into Area B. I'll ambush the enemy at the middle gate. Zhu... uh..." He couldn't remember Zhu Yingning's name for a moment, so he said, "Sister, follow Lao Sun."

Zhu Yingning nodded, his expression serious, as if facing a formidable enemy. He followed Sun Mingyuan's character and ran all the way, quickly reaching his destination. Sun Mingyuan hid behind a box, seemingly intending to wait and see. Zhu Yingning controlled his character to squat diagonally in front of him.

Zhang Lin and Sun Mingyuan were both talkative when playing games. They chatted animatedly through their headphones, but Zhu Yingning couldn't understand a thing and remained silent. To her surprise, Xu Sirui didn't say much either. From the start of the game until now, he'd only said one sentence: "Don't block my line of fire."

She knew that Xu Sirui was guarding the so-called "University A" and was not in the same place as her, so she ignored him.

After a while, Xu Sirui's voice rang out again: "I said don't get stuck in my gun line."

She looked at Zhang Lin in confusion, guessing Xu Sirui was trying to communicate with him, but he didn't hear her. With a kind heart, she raised her voice and repeated to Zhang Lin, "Zhang Lin, Xu Sirui asked you not to block his line of fire."

"?"

Xu Sirui took a deep breath, "...Zhu Yingning, I'm talking to you."

"Ah?!" She was shocked. "I didn't block you. Don't slander me. I'm here with Sun Mingyuan."

"You're with that damn Sun Mingyuan," he said. "You've been following me since you came out of the spawn point."

Sun Mingyuan and Zhang Lin were trying to hold back their laughter, almost vomiting blood. They had already noticed something was wrong, but out of a prank mentality, they didn't expose it.

Her face turned red. In her eyes, these characters all looked the same. She was so busy just familiarizing herself with the functions of the buttons that she really didn't pay much attention to who was who.

"How can I avoid blocking your line of fire?" she asked humbly.

"Get behind me and don't shoot."

"OK."

She switched to a box squat diagonally behind him.

As a result, not long after I squatted down, I heard two "puff" sounds, as if someone was farting, followed by a "bang" and a burst of incomprehensible gunfire -

She is dead.

The death was natural, the death was complete, and the death was oblivious to everything.

Zhu Yingning: “?”

"What happened?" she was stunned.

Xu Sirui didn't answer, busy fighting the enemy. Sun Mingyuan glanced at her and said jokingly, "Did you just press the left mouse button by mistake? Your USP pistol went off accidentally, and the enemy heard the sound and discovered your position, so they shot you in the head."

...What a terrible game.

Since they had two drags on in the first round, Zhu Yingning and the bot, they naturally lost. At the start of the second round, Zhang Lin said, "Everyone, ECO! Stay safe! We can't lose any more money. Hey, girl, go to Area B and act as bait."

"How do I act as bait?" she continued to ask humbly.

"Just jump by the window."

"good."

She came to the window indicated by Zhang Lin and started jumping around diligently.

"Right, right, that's it." Zhang Lin hid in the shadows and took the opportunity to sneak up on an opponent who was attracted by him. Since no other opponents came to focus their fire, he squatted for a while and then left. Before leaving, he instructed Zhu Yingning, "Keep jumping. If you see someone coming, shout."

"good."

Not long after, another enemy was attracted here. Xu Sirui happened to be passing by and shot the enemy in the head. He snorted in the headset: "You are quite suitable for this job."

Just after she finished praising herself, she accidentally touched other keys. After a weird and blurry snake-like movement, she was stuck in the crack of the door. She struggled for a while, but failed to get out. Instead, she was shot dead by the enemy who was ambushing in the dark.

Xu Sirui: “?”

In the third round, she used a flashbang to blind her entire team. Sun Mingyuan slapped his thigh wildly: "Zhu Yingning, are you a spy sent by the other team?"

In the fourth round, she finally figured out the essence of teamwork, following everyone's RushARushB and even enthusiastically reminding her teammates when they fell behind: "Gather in Area B."

Xu Sirui: "...That's a bot. It won't understand you if you talk to it."

She misheard and sighed, "He's actually our boss?" Then she covered the microphone and whispered to Xu Sirui, "He can't even understand the B area assembly. I think you are more suitable to be the boss than him."

Xu Sirui: “?”

In the fifth round, she got lucky and picked up an enemy AN94. With the help of her gun god, she killed two enemies in a row. Sun Mingyuan was shocked and said, "Damn, awesome! You really are a gun god!" Just after she finished praising, she slipped and touched the G key again, throwing a flash bomb, successfully blinding Sun Mingyuan and Xu Sirui who was passing by.

Round 6… There was no round 6, because after the fifth round, Xu Sirui calmly typed: "T out."

Zhu Yingning thought this was a tactic for the next round, and just as she was about to ask what it meant, she was kicked out of the room by Zhang Lin.