Chapter 7: Jinjiang Novel Reading Exclusive: Starting from Scratch. ...
The next day.
Shi Jing woke up and stared at the ceiling above his head.
After a while, he inexplicably raised his right hand and held it in front of his eyes.
Were his hands small before?
It seems so.
Shi Jing remembered that his EVG teammates had complained about his key positions, saying that they had never seen anyone use alt to crouch.
The crouch key in most games defaults to control. You can press it if you really want, but it's inconvenient because you have to move your finger to the side. Top competitions cannot tolerate even a millisecond of micro-control difference.
That being said, his hands are indeed smaller than those of normal men.
But if you say it's soft...that's a bit outrageous.
What else did Lu Zhiye say? He didn't dare touch it???
“…”
The overly abstract words made Shi Jing sit up with a start.
Oh shit.
What is he thinking about?
Lu Zhiye definitely has a problem with his brain.
He really couldn't stay at SFD for another day, so he had to find another club without delay. It just so happened that Shi Jing had contacted several small clubs a few days ago, and he remembered that one called OA had sent him a tryout invitation today.
After Shi Jing finished washing up, he casually combed his hair into a decent style, went downstairs, entered the address of the OA Club, and when he got out of the elevator and walked through the corridor, he suddenly caught the voices of several people.
"Can't we relax during the off-season? I didn't do anything, just played a couple of games with the streamer."
"I didn't say you can't relax during the off-season, so don't blame me. And is it about how long you've been playing? I've already been trending on the internet after just two games!"
It was the fat manager and Kang Won from SFD team.
The only way out of the SFD elevator is the fat manager's office. The door is open now. He has his back to the door, and Jiang Yuan, who was being scolded, is standing in front of the manager.
Shi Jing glanced around and found that there were other people there, the other two SFD were all neatly packed inside.
Jiang Yuan: "Trending is also popularity. I live broadcast once and directly saved you tens of thousands of dollars in trending search fees."
The fat manager glared angrily: "Then I should thank you?"
Jiang Yuan: "That's not necessary..."
"Why not? In a few days, since you're so capable, I'll give you my position as manager!"
"No, no, no, I don't want to be bald."
"Xiao Lu, look at him." The fat manager almost choked. "I'll replace him for you sooner or later!"
"You have no one to replace."
"What do you mean there's no one to replace you? You have a sense of crisis. We have several good young players in our youth training this time."
"who?"
The fat manager rolled his eyes and said, "Sweet."
Just as he was about to take the opportunity to slip away, he said: "?"
"Tsk, if you want to lie, at least find a better way to talk. Do you really think I'm stupid?" Jiang Yuan didn't fall for it at all. "I already made inquiries. Sweet was the one Brother Lu specifically asked for, right? She's a breakthrough player. What does it have to do with me? Even if she tries to squeeze in, she can't get ahead of a support like me."
Shi Jing paused.
When he got to this angle, he realized there were more than two people inside. Lu Zhiye was also sitting on the sofa next to him.
Shi Jing: “…”
Why is this person so haunted?
He quickened his pace and tried to pass through secretly. A voice behind him shouted, "Hey! Sweet!"
Shi Jing: “.”
"I just mentioned you, and here you are! Come on, come on." The fat manager seemed to be particularly fond of the youngsters from the youth training camp. "Hey, you guys don't have any activities today, do you? You're up so early, are you in a hurry to do something?"
He was very familiar with the daily routines of this group of internet-addicted teenagers. Unless there were special activities, the fat manager rarely saw them in the morning.
Shi Jing said that he was in a hurry to go to another club for trial.
Meet the other pairs of curious and innocent eyes in the office.
"..." Shi Jing curled his lips, "I can't sleep, morning exercise."
"Morning exercise? Oh wow, so healthy?" The fat manager was surprised. "You're no wonder you're a fan of Xiao Lu. Even our lifestyles are similar."
Shi Jing: “?”
The fat manager: "You sit over there, with Xiao Lu."
Shi Jing: “I don’t…”
The fat manager said, "Oh, it's okay. No need to be so socially anxious. This kid is just extremely shy and likes to say one thing and mean another. He really likes Xiao Lu, but he has to be coy."
Shi Jing: “…………”
Shi Jing was forced by the fat manager to sit next to Lu Zhiye with a stiff expression.
Oh shit.
He shouldn't have lingered at the door out of curiosity.
After the fat manager finished greeting him, his attention turned to the other people who needed to be scolded.
Shi Jing took out his cell phone and prepared to call a car, just using this as an excuse to run away.
The sofa cushions sank.
A very faint, refreshing scent came to my nose.
"Did Jiang Yuan bring the autographed merchandise from yesterday to you?" Lu Zhiye's voice was not loud, but sounded even deeper in his ears.
“…”
Although the topic they were talking about was normal, Shi Jing had an inexplicable illusion that he was stealing something.
He turned off his phone and replied lazily, "Threw it away. In the trash can by the back door, the one on the far left of the second row."
Lu Zhiye was quiet for a while.
Shi Jing was afraid that his expression might give the wrong impression that he disliked the poster, so he added, "Also, I'm not your fan."
Lu Zhiye said "hmm", looked up and asked the fat manager: "Do you still have the peripherals you made last time?"
Shi Jing: “?”
"Ah." The fat manager was stunned. "Yes, I remember there are a few more. The product manager seems to have placed them in these cabinets of mine. What's wrong?"
"Yeah." Lu Zhiye said, "Give some to my fans."
"?" Shi Jing lowered his voice and gritted his teeth, "I said I'm not your fan..."
"Oh! Sure. I found it. It's in this cabinet. Sweetie, just come and pick out whatever you want. We still have a lot of the peripherals we sampled last time that haven't been sold yet."
“…”
A few minutes later, Shi Jing stood in front of a row of peripherals.
He clapped at the Lu Zhiye in the cabinet, the Lu Zhiye sticky notes, the Lu Zhiye pillow, the Lu Zhiye Q-version pendant, and the Lu Zhiye standee...
Shi Jing's eyebrows were so furrowed that they could kill someone.
Hesitated for a century.
He pointed casually: "This is it."
It is a small Q-version figurine of Lu Zhiye, with exquisite workmanship and not very eye-catching.
It doesn't matter.
Shi Jing had a good idea. He just needed to "accidentally" leave this thing on an office desk and then say that he forgot to take it away.
The conversation was almost over and everyone else was preparing to leave the office. No one paid attention to him. Shi Jing calmly turned his back and pushed the small figurine in from the edge of the table.
“Boom.”
broken.
I don't know what I pushed over, it looked like something made of glass.
Like dominoes, several objects piled on the table fell one after another. Shi Jing, sweating profusely, tried to catch them, barely managing to steady a few ornaments before they fell to the ground. However, a crystal ball at the very edge rolled over.
Grass.
Shi Jing was quick to catch it.
I felt a warm touch.
It was the back of Lu Zhiye’s hand.
The protruding finger bones, slightly cooler than his palm's body temperature, scratched his palm.
Before Shi Jing could react and bounce away, Lu Zhiye had already caught the ball and put it back on the table.
He saw the little figurine squeezed into the corner.
Pick it up and put it in Shi Jing's palm.
"What's wrong?" Zhou Lian, a teammate next to him, heard the noise and asked with concern.
Shi Jing suddenly clenched the little figurine and retracted his hand: "Nothing."
The fat manager also asked, "Why did I hear something falling? Did it knock over my crystal ball?"
"I didn't knock it over." Shi Jing stuffed the figurine into the bottom of his trouser pocket. "Your crystal ball grew legs and ran away."
Fat manager: “…”
Not sure if it was an illusion, but Shi Jing seemed to catch a glimpse of Lu Zhiye's lips moving out of the corner of his eye.
A very small amplitude.
He looked up.
Lu Zhiye didn't look at him.
"Be careful." It was said softly, just loud enough for them to hear.
After saying that, he left.
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Shi Jing returned to his room and looked at the posters and figurines on the table, wondering whether he should really throw them back into the trash.
"Sweetheart! Dunzi said he saw you coming out of the manager's office!" Matt arrived late.
Shi Jing: “…”
He had never experienced the stage of the youth trainees waiting for the final results. This group of people were even more cunning than underground spies, and any movement would spread among the youth trainees immediately.
Dunzi was a boy who was sitting on Matt's right and playing libero. He looked honest, but unexpectedly he was also part of their intelligence network.
Shi Jing quickly threw the two shameful things on the table into the closet and pushed the door open to go out.
Matt was grinning, holding two skewers in his hand: "Sweetheart, come and eat."
Being extremely familiar with his smooth little combo, Shi Jing knew that after eating the skewers he would have to sit down and explain to him what had just happened in the office. Shi Jing waved his hand without even looking at him.
"I don't want to eat."
"Oh." Matt said, stuffing his mouth with the words. "Then you still have to tell me what you were doing in the manager's office just now. I heard that everyone from SFD team is in there."
Shi Jing interrupted him directly: "No contract was signed."
"I don't believe it! You've been there twice."
"I really didn't sign it." Even dogs don't sign contracts with SFD.
Shi Jing pressed the elevator button and looked at the appointment time with OA. There were still 20 minutes left, just in time to get there.
Matt: "It's so mysterious, there must be some hidden secret."
“…” Indeed. Those two unspeakable secrets were in his closet.
Matt's eyes lit up: "Is it related to what Master Lu asked you to keep secret last time?"
"." Shi Jing's face was tense, "No."
"Then what on earth did you go do?"
The moment the elevator door opened, he casually made up a sentence: "Go learn sniping."
Matt: “?”
Matt: "Aren't you a breakaway player?"
Shi Jing continued to make up stories: "I'm tired of fighting and want to change."
Matt: "But you said yesterday that sniper players are all dogs."
Shi Jing remained calm: "The me of yesterday is not the me of today."
Matt: “…”
Matt: "Are you serious?"
"Um."
"Then you have to start from scratch?" Matt believed it. "Wait, you want Lu Shen to teach you how to sniper?"
Shi Jing: "What?"
"..." Matt said, "You're using a butcher knife to crack a nut. I don't think you'll need Lu Shen to teach you."
Shi Jing: “?”
Matt puffed out his chest proudly: "Just ask me to teach you the basics of sniping!"
Shi Jing: “?”
Shi Jing was silent for a long time, suppressing some words that were too offensive, and only asked vaguely: "Can you also use a sniper?"
Matt really didn't hear the deeper meaning behind the words: "Of course, I also hunted with sesame cakes back then."
"Shaobing" is a playful nickname for a sniper rifle in Apex Legends. Its full name is the Charged Sentinel Rifle. As the name suggests, it's incredibly powerful once charged, capable of shattering armor with one shot and instantly knocking out enemies with less than blue armor.
But the reload time is extremely long, and the attack interval can drive people crazy. The worst thing is that after the armor is upgraded, you can't kill people with one shot.
A sniper who can't kill people instantly, in a high-end game where opportunities are fleeting...
Shi Jing looked him up and down.
It’s indeed sesame cake.
"No, what do you mean?" Matt was furious at his look. "Hey, Sweetie, don't run!"
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The afternoon tryout was not as smooth as Shi Jing had expected.
There was no problem during the fight, as his opponents were all kindergarten-level players. In two four-player matches and one single-player match, he only used 20% of his strength. In the end, he even performed a solo kill of three teams in a row and won easily.
When he was about to leave after playing, the OA manager came over and said he wanted to check his computer and the peripherals he used. Behind him was the second place who had 6 kills left by him.
Shi Jing has been in this circle for a long time, so he knew what was going on at a glance.
His face turned cold, and he was not afraid of being checked. He stood up lazily and asked the two inspectors to get on the equipment.
Of course there will be no problem with the result.
After the inspection, the onlookers looked at Shi Jing with inexplicably more intense gazes, while the second person who reported him had a wonderful expression.
Shi Jing's mood was ruined the moment the OA technician came in. He had no interest in staying in this crappy club, so he grabbed his backpack.
After passing the second place, Shi Jing glanced at him sideways: "Do you think I'm cheating?"
The second person's face froze.
"No, no, there's something wrong with our equipment." Seeing the conflict here, the other people who came for the tryout also seemed to be watching, and some were taking pictures with their mobile phones. The OA manager hurried to ease the situation.
Seeing that Shi Jing didn't continue talking, he glanced at the second place with a sullen face, smiled awkwardly, and continued to say to Shi Jing: "Actually, Xiao Zhao was attracted by your strength and wanted to make friends with you."
"Really?" This kind of nonsense might be believed by some of the kids present who have no social experience.
"That's right," said the OA manager. "He's a sniper, and you two would be a perfect duo. Become friends. If you become teammates in the future, winning a championship together wouldn't be a problem."
Shi Jing agreed with the last half of the sentence. Winning the championship was indeed not a problem for him.
But he raised his eyelids and said, "Do you think other clubs are dead?"
The manager choked, but still managed a forced smile and replied, "EVG has had issues. It's uncertain whether they can play this year. SFD..."
"SFD is only relying on Wild's sniper rifle to hold them together." The second place player finally spoke up, after a long pause, "But how many more years can he play? I'm still young. With more practice, I can eventually surpass him."
Shi Jing nodded: "Indeed."
The second one unexpectedly agreed with himself.
Shi Jing: "If you practice for another ten lifetimes, I think that will be enough."
OA Manager: “…”
After leaving that fake club, Shi Jing called a taxi back to SFD and blocked all of their other so-called brother clubs.
I didn't expect this to happen, so my plan to escape from SFD had to be put on hold temporarily. Shi Jing no longer had the mood to continue going to other small clubs and being disgusted by others.
He was about to put his phone away when WeChat suddenly vibrated.
A message pops up.
[SFD-Manager Xiaomu invited "Lu" to join the group chat.]
What the hell?
Shi Jing took a closer look and saw that they were SFD's youth training students.
The next second, two system prompts and a series of welcome messages almost made his phone explode.
【Lu joined the group chat.】
【Lu changed the group name card to Wild.】
After an unknown amount of time, Lu Zhiye finally sent the first message.
【Wild: @s. 】
This is followed by a bunch of shared video links.
【Suitable for sniper teaching for kindergarten-level babies.】
【Quick training for snipers for beginners.】
[Ten mistakes newbies make when using snipers: knees pierced with arrows, watching the whole thing while kneeling.]
As if these weren't enough, two minutes later, another one was sent:
[It's so easy! Even an 80-year-old grandmother can learn the sniping method!]
Shi Jing: “?”
All the files turned out to be SFD internal teaching materials. I don’t know which marketing account wrote the titles, but the technical guidance was signed by Lu Zhiye without exception.
Amidst a string of question marks that quickly exploded in the group, Shi Jing typed.
【s：？】
【s: What does it mean? 】
After a long time, Lu Zhiye replied.
[Wild: Your teammates said you want to learn sniping.]
【Wild: These are more suitable for beginners. 】
Shi Jing: “?”
Shi Jing: “…”
The author has something to say:
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Please tell me clearly which zero you start from.
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Thanks to the wives for the nutrient solution and the overlord tickets, 啾咪-3-
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