A scantily clad, spirited, and serious-looking anime girl is delivering a cringeworthy line: "Soldier, the situation is extremely urgent. The 'Sweeper' combat team is trapped in the 'ruins' and urgently needs you, their ace, to lead your team to the rescue."
The man standing opposite her, who seemed to be the main character, held a rifle in his hand and spoke with confidence, even arrogance: "No problem, but I can handle it alone. They just returned from their mission and need to rest."
The paper doll girl wanted to say something, but the protagonist turned around, grabbed his gun, and ran out of the room.
...
This is where the story begins. The overly dramatic and cheesy plot almost made Guangyou cringe, but thankfully, the story ends here, and the game officially begins.
Not only Guangyou, but the onlookers also focused their attention on the monitor, watching Guangyou's actions intently, waiting for him to take the stage so they could show off their skills.
Ai stood next to the game console, holding a milk tea. Unlike the people around her, her attention was mainly focused on Kōyū playing the game. Compared to the game, Kōyū's seriousness was more attractive.
The game has good graphics, and the surround screen and surround sound make it very immersive.
Guangyou was fully focused on controlling the protagonist in the game, moving him around, and keeping the gun in his hand ready to fire at any time. He looked quite professional.
The next second, a figure suddenly darted out from the protagonist's left. Although Guangyou controlled his character to dodge, the enemy's bullets had already cut through the air and were heading towards him.
Having just started playing the game, he was still a bit unfamiliar with the controls. He managed to dodge a fatal blow, but a bloody mark was still inevitably left on his body, and his health bar was reduced by a third.
Judging from the information displayed by the other party, this was just damage caused by an ordinary low-level enemy.
In the instant after dodging the bullet, Guangyou quickly aimed and pulled the trigger. The bullet burst from the muzzle, and a bloody hole appeared in the soldier's head.
"interesting."
Before he could finish speaking, a bullet pierced the protagonist's chest, emptying his health bar and ending the game.
Just then, the ending sound effect played. To Guangyou's surprise, it wasn't the cold, mechanical voice that reminded her of the game's failure, but rather the paper doll girl from the beginning.
With a hint of regret in her voice, she sighed, "You were asked to lead the team, but you didn't. You deserve it."
Before Guangyou could say anything, the onlookers around him had already given their opinions.
"I still lost after all. I thought I was seeing a pro when I shot that last time, but I still died. This game is just too hard."
"Yes, I've failed four or five times already."
...
Many people made this comment, but Guangyou ignored it and, somewhat unconvinced, inserted two game coins and started the game again.
That melodramatic scene played out again. During this time, Guangyou took the opportunity to adjust his mindset and try his best to avoid any mistakes in this game.
It's still the same map, but the locations and times when the enemies appear have completely changed, but that doesn't affect Guangyou's gameplay.
After suffering one or two minor injuries, Kwangyu found his rhythm, and whenever an enemy appeared, he would blast them in the head with a single bullet, clean, efficient, and stylish.
Ai took in all of Kousuke's gameplay and a thought suddenly popped into her head: "Is he playing this as training?"
...
Ten minutes later, Guangyou completed the game with a perfect score of 1.5 million, having been injured three times. When he stepped off the game console, the way people around him looked at him changed.
The protagonist being talked about by everyone was completely oblivious to this. At this moment, all that remained in Guangyou's heart was the satisfaction of completing the game, and a faint smile appeared on his lips.
Kōyū walked back to Ai's side, looking smug, and said, "How about that? Aren't I strong?"
"good."
Ai squatted down, put her milk tea on the ground, took out another milk tea from a bag next to her, inserted a straw, stood up and handed it to Kyou, saying, "Your prize."
Guangyou smiled slightly, took the milk tea, took a big sip, and felt the sweetness of strawberries spreading in his mouth. He said with a satisfied look, "I like this prize."
The two walked among rows of arcade machines, each holding a cup of milk tea. Guangyou looked at the wide variety of arcade machines around him and was somewhat amazed.
The technological level of this era is certainly not as advanced as in his previous life. Even now, he is still using a flip phone. However, he has to admit that the development speed of this bird world is quite fast.
Especially in gaming, the previous fighting game and the current shooting game are several times more advanced than their counterparts in the previous era.
He had heard that smartphones were about to be completed, and there had been more and more news about them lately. However, he didn't know when he would be able to use one. He was looking forward to video chatting with Ai using a smartphone.
"Let's try this."
Kōyū took a big sip of milk tea, then handed the milk tea and the bag in his hand to Ai. He then took a few steps forward, preparing to get on the dance machine and dance for a while.
He chose a song that wasn't too difficult, pressed start, and started swaying to the music.
He's not very good at dancing; he basically only uses dance machines to keep up with the beat.
Relying on their reaction time, they would mimic the movements of those young heartthrobs on TV, twisting their bodies a couple of times to complete the dance.
Ai, who was standing nearby, couldn't help but chuckle when she saw Kōyū's dancing, which didn't look like dancing at all.
Guangyou was so focused on "dancing" that he didn't notice the laughter behind him and continued to twirl his dance steps.
One song after another, from easy to medium to difficult, and then back to medium because the difficult ones were too hard.
Guangyou's movements became more and more skillful, and his jumps finally looked somewhat professional.
"Phew, time for a rest."
After dancing to five or six songs, Guangyou finally showed signs of fatigue and had given up on continuing. Now all he wanted to do was sit down and have some milk tea.
After getting off the dance machine, Kōyū noticed that Ai had pulled out two chairs from somewhere.
She sat in one of the chairs, holding a milk tea in her hands, taking sips every now and then.
The seating area is near a corner, so I don't worry about disturbing others.
Guangyou picked up the bag and his milk tea that were originally on the chair, and plopped down on it.
Kōyū took a sip of milk tea to replenish his energy, then asked Ai, who was sitting next to him, "How was my dancing?"
Ai turned her head and asked meaningfully, "Do you want to hear a lie or the truth?"
Guangyou, having prepared himself mentally, let out a long sigh and said, "Let's hear the lies first."
Ai nodded and said bluntly, "You dance terribly."
Upon hearing this, Guangyou was overjoyed and unconsciously smiled, saying, "There's no need to tell the truth; I already understand what you mean."
Ai shook her head and said softly, "No, you must have misunderstood."
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