Chapter 10
"Dad, why did Xixi hide the mat under the pool and also in the trash can?"
Leng Zhi's answer was concise: "Because his dad is too incompetent."
"What does 'vegetarian' mean? Does it mean stupid?"
Leng Zhi didn't answer. He threw the four blue playmats in his arms into the trash can and closed the lid.
"I didn't say he was stupid, it's just that he's not as skilled as others."
Jiang Mingzhe repeated after him: "Inferior skills! Noob!"
[Poor Lei Shen, almost half of the playmat has been turned upside down.]
[Is the afternoon's competition really going to involve finding someone else's playmat? If so, Lei Shen is pretty much doomed, hahaha]
[Now it's hard to say whether it's bad luck or just bad fortune.]
After leaving the pool, Leng Zhi led Jiang Mingzhe to hide the remaining crawling mats in the nearby woods and gym.
The farm provided for the recording was originally intended for high-end agritourism, and it was fully equipped with a gym and even a professional yoga room.
The last two crawling mat cups were tucked into the yoga mat shelf, and unless someone takes the yoga mat out, you will never see the secret inside.
The broadcast also came on at just the right time:
[Game time is over. Please return to the restaurant and take your unfinished playmats with you.]
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All the guests completed the crawling mat task. Because they could see each other's positions, everyone tacitly avoided each other. No one was penalized for the hide-and-seek rule. After a morning of games, no one had yet determined who was the best.
Considering the five young guests, the production team arranged a lunch break after lunch, during which everyone was free to move around.
Leng Zhi chose to return to his guest room.
He skillfully tucked Jiang Mingzhe into bed, then leaned against the pillow and opened the game forum on his phone.
The playmate post I made last night got a lot more replies.
Most of the content is still similar, nothing more than questioning Leng Zhi's skill level and mocking him for not even having a single image when he's a gaming companion.
Leng Zhi casually scrolled down until he reached the last floor.
[26L: I want to join StarCraft, bro, do you do paid gaming sessions? I've DM'd you.]
Someone else commented below: "[Brother, actually someone's buying this?]"
The game ranks in Diyao are divided into six major tiers: Bronze, Silver, Gold, Diamond, Star Legend, and Master. After reaching Master, you can only play solo. If you want to help a client reach Star Legend, the player needs to have a skill level that surpasses Master.
This was exactly what Leng Zhi wanted—for him, this was a quick opportunity, meaning he could earn commissions and gain fame in just one week.
He sat up straight and clicked on the poster's private messages.
[Mario: Can I play tonight? I always have time; I want to climb the ranks in a week.]
[Cold: Yes, 3000.]
Leng Zhi wasn't very familiar with the market, so he quoted a very low price, about half the price quoted by his peers on the forum.
Such a low price might even be suspected of being a scam by a wary buyer.
However, the "Mario" on the other end seemed quite bold; he agreed immediately and sent Leng Zhi a link to a gaming companion platform.
The signing process was quick; five minutes later, Leng Zhi received the account and password from the platform.
There was still an hour and a half before the program's afternoon activities were scheduled to begin.
It's more than enough to play two games.
After a morning of fussing, Jiang Mingzhe was already snoring softly. Leng Zhi quietly climbed out of bed and sat down at the computer desk.
Earth Radiance, activate!
The account the boss borrowed felt completely different from the alternate account Leng Zhi registered. Not only had all the heroes been unlocked, but runes and skins were also collected in complete sets, making him a veritable pay-to-win player.
Leng Zhi clicked his tongue.
Although it's not quite as good as the fully-access training account he had with the LSG team, it's still considered top-tier among ordinary players.
He didn't appreciate the hero skins; he immediately started a ranked match.
Select a hero and confirm to start.
While waiting for the loading to complete, Leng Zhi leisurely took a candy from the pocket of Jiang Mingzhe's coat hanging on the chair and bit into it.
With a sweet and sour flavor, this is a lemon-flavored soda candy that's refreshing and invigorating when you bite into it.
In the 10,000-ranked matches, the skill level of his teammates had also improved, and Leng Zhi no longer encountered the same kind of unskilled and boastful marksman as last night.
With the help of teammates, the game pace quickened.
In less than twenty minutes, Leng Zhi had already pushed the minion wave to the enemy's crystal.
Congratulations on winning this game!
As the opposing crystal explodes, a victory sign lights up on the screen.
The escort service owner was very satisfied with this.
[Mario: Not bad, very skilled, let's play again!]
Leng Zhi then started a second game.
The third time, the fourth time...
Every round was a speedrun victory, and when the four-game winning streak ended, there were still 15 minutes left before the event time agreed upon by the program team.
Playing another round in 15 minutes would be too difficult, so he told Mario and hurriedly logged off.
Leng Zhi turned off the screen, sat on the edge of the bed, and pinched Jiang Mingzhe's little face: "Wake up, get up."
Jiang Mingzhe snorted and sniffled before slowly opening his big eyes, fluttering his eyelashes: "I still want to sleep..."
Leng Zhi expressionlessly pulled out a wet tissue and rubbed it hard on the child's face a few times: "Get up and go play, Brother Xiaoyu is waiting for you."
Jiang Mingzhe then obediently got up, changed his clothes, and rolled off the bed, still sounding dazed from just waking up: "Let's go play!"
Leng Zhi was the last to arrive at the restaurant, and a message came through on his phone.
It was just sent from the boosting platform's backend by "Mario".
[Mario: Bro, you're really good! I'm stunned. Four consecutive wins, crushing everyone in every game. Are you some kind of superhuman?]
Leng Zhi didn't take such praise to heart. For professional players, playing in this mid-ranked match is like a graduate student bullying an elementary school student; there's nothing to brag about.
So he casually replied with a "thank you".
Mario immediately played another one:
Mario: Dude, can I add you on WeChat?
Following this was an ID consisting of numbers and letters, which was clearly his WeChat ID.
[Cold: Okay.]
"Mario" looked like a rich guy addicted to games. Maybe he could get other gaming jobs from him in the future, or even lend him his account. So Leng Zhi quickly sent a friend request to this guy before looking up.
The meeting place was the skateboard plaza in the center of the village. Li Chi arrived early, and the camera crew had already started recording.
Li Chi had finished his opening remarks and was now introducing the rules of the afternoon's games.
"After the games this morning, I believe everyone has their own guesses about the rules of the games this afternoon."
Li Chi kept the guests in suspense, waiting for them to continue the conversation.
Shaoqi: "You're looking for someone else's mat, aren't you?"
"That's right, Sister Shaoqi guessed it right away. The rules for this afternoon are also very simple; we don't need to play hide-and-seek anymore. Now it's time for a crawling mat search operation!"
"As the name suggests, the guests must find the mats that the other guests hid in the morning within the specified time. The more mats found, the higher the score."
"To make the game more fun and allow everyone to quickly get higher scores, the production team added a small rule."
Upon hearing that they could quickly achieve higher scores, the guests couldn't help but hold their breath.
"Before the game starts, each group of guests needs to choose another group of guests as their designated guests. If they find the mats of the corresponding colors, the scores of those mats will be calculated three times."
"For example, if Le Xinzhou chooses Yun Jingcheng, then if Le Xinzhou finds a pink crawling mat belonging to Yun Jingcheng, he can get three points; if he finds a mat of another color, he can get one point."
"It is important to note that guests are not allowed to touch their own colored playmats; they can only use other people's."
"Now please decide on your designated guest. Staff will distribute whiteboards to everyone. Once you have decided, we will announce them all at once."
This is an interesting additional rule. Being selected as a guest means that his playmat is considered easy to find. However, if two people nominate the same person, then there will be competition, and the three playmats that were originally easy to find may be snatched up by someone else.
The requirements announced at the same time created a lot of room for deception and manipulation.
Le Xinzhou immediately realized what was going on and shouted, "Let me make this clear first, I, Le, don't engage in malicious competition, I'm going to write about Sister Shaoqi!"
Then he quickly wrote a few strokes on the whiteboard, capped the pen, and looked like he wouldn't make any more changes.
Shaoqi raised an eyebrow, her words carrying a hint of hostility but without any apparent annoyance: "What, Xinzhou, do you think my playmat wasn't hidden well?"
Le Xinzhou chuckled and begged for forgiveness: "No way, I just thought that Sister Shaoqi has the best temper, she definitely won't blame me."
Shaoqi also wrote a few strokes on the whiteboard and joked, "Then I'll write Jingcheng. I'm not as clever as Le Xinzhou, who only thinks about getting a few more points from Xiao Jingcheng."
Yun Jingcheng blushed and whispered, "No, I hid it very well."
It seems the guests aren't planning to make a fuss about this rule.
Without hesitation, Leng Zhi wrote Lei Shen's name on the board: "I've also written mine, Lei Shen is the one I'm designating."
Lei Shen was somewhat unconvinced.
Why is it that the other three are taking turns in order, but when it comes to Leng Zhi, he points at him from the wrong direction?
What do you mean? It means I didn't hide it well!
He retaliated by snapping the pen cap open, then scribbled a stroke on the whiteboard, revealing a sly smile: "Then I'll write about Leng Zhi. He's not quite familiar with the new guest yet, so I'll study Leng Zhi's methods of hiding things for the audience."
He immediately started thinking about how to find all fifteen of Leng Zhi's playmats, unaware that the live stream chat was already filled with "hahahaha".
[Hahahaha, Lei Shen has absolutely no idea why Leng Zhi chose him]
[Brother Lei is still secretly competing with Leng Zhi.]
[Oh no, Lei is doomed now]
[Let's wait and see what happens!]
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