I pouted, stole a kiss on his cheek when he wasn't looking, and then quickly left.
"Ying'er, you've gone too far. Just wait and see how I deal with you later."
"Come on if you dare, humph." I opened the door to play ball in the yard, and accidentally broke a flowerpot. I quickly grabbed a new flowerpot and went to replace it.
I had just shoveled a little bit of the fallen soil into the ground when I saw tiny, shiny balls on the soil. I took a clean piece of paper and placed it next to me to separate the little balls from the soil.
It took quite a while to separate them, and the little sphere on top kept flashing. I think I've seen this at the shopkeeper's base before; it's used for transmitting information. Could it be that Xie Yuancheng and the shopkeeper's communication has been leaked?
I smashed all the flowerpots with the ball, successfully attracting Xie Yuancheng's attention. He then attacked me from behind.
"You stole a kiss from me and even smashed the flowerpot, Ying'er, are you trying to rebel?"
"Yuancheng, come and check the soil with me quickly, and separate all the shiny little spheres."
I finally managed to break free from his hand and pointed to the sphere on the white paper. He first encrypted and saved everything on the workbench and then turned it off.
After another call with the shopkeeper, he arrived quickly, just in time to get all the little balls out.
"These bastards, they actually managed to pinpoint your location and plant these spheres right under my nose without me even noticing."
I thought he was going to say something encouraging, but he actually said, "It's good that my apprentice's wife is such a spendthrift, otherwise we would all be kept in the dark."
"Shopkeeper, are you praising me or belittling me?" I was about to get angry, but Xie Yuancheng was still laughing beside me.
"Ying'er, even if you're a spendthrift, I can still afford to support you."
"snort!"
The shopkeeper laughed too: "These flowerpots aren't worth much, don't be angry. We need to start a new plan, and use this as a pretext to catch them all in one go."
Xie Yuancheng left me alone in the yard again. I still had to clean up the mess, so I started clearing land and planting flowers. When I finished and went back in, they had already changed the workbench to a new look, added a lot of cables, and had chips everywhere.
"If you just change into white lab coats, you can go out and set up a stall to sell chips."
“Ying’er, if we sell these things, my master and I can ascend to heaven.”
"All you do is talk big. Have you taken care of those little balls yet?"
"Not yet. Those people are too cunning; they're no longer in their lair. The big crater outside was their communication point. We've destroyed their transmission sphere, and it also transmitted some incorrect information."
I nodded, leaned back on the sofa and played games. While Xie Yuancheng and the shopkeeper were busy, I quickly registered a new account and turned off the sound.
Soon, my ranking soared. Although my level was low, I could easily defeat players below level 50. Just as I got a new skin, Xie Yuancheng came over, and I quickly turned off my tablet and hugged it to my chest.
"Ying'er, what naughty thing have you done again?"
"I don't have any, but where is the shopkeeper's?"
"Master has left."
I nodded, hoping Xie Yuancheng would stay busy so I could play games.
But when he stopped being busy, he started doing accounts with me, saying a whole bunch of things that made my head spin.
"I understand, I won't do it again."
"Give me that tablet, are you secretly registering an account to play games again?"
I put the tablet on the sofa and lunged at Xie Yuancheng: "No, you have to believe me." I winked at him as I did so.
"Okay, get up quickly. I just learned a new recipe, so I'll make some new dishes for you. When we get back, you have to go back to how you used to be. Even if I wanted to, I couldn't do it this way."
I obediently got up and waited for him to enter the kitchen before hurriedly forming an alliance with the new player I had just met.
However, there was a strange player named Universe. He was also a low level, but his instant kill speed was far superior to mine. I thought Xie Yuancheng was sneaking around in the kitchen playing games.
But after watching him once, I realized he was seriously chopping vegetables; he wasn't playing games at all.
I looked down at the players complaining above. Everyone was saying that the game was cheating, and that it might be alt accounts of those pro players used to level up and get equipment.
I squatted outside the kitchen. This person is amazing. He only came in for a minute and he's already at the top.
"Yuancheng, come and see!"
Could he be one of those aliens in disguise? The game has the most players, and it's not limited by region. If you play well, you can become famous in it.
Xie Yuancheng came out and took the tablet, staring at me with fire in his eyes. I quickly changed the subject: "I called you because I noticed he was acting strangely. Analyze him and see if he is one of those aliens."
Xie Yuancheng wanted to say something more, so I pushed him in front of the workbench and handed him a laser pointer and keyboard.
"Ying'er, this matter is not over."
"Oh dear, if it really is them, then you should thank me."
"Let me see your eyes. If you go back and become nearsighted, I'll settle the score with you."
He was even more anxious than I was: "I only do it occasionally, I really won't register again after this time."
I'm just having some fun; I'm not playing games every day and night.
Xie Yuancheng shook his head, then began to use the testing and analysis software to evaluate him. The results came out quickly, confirming that he was indeed one of those people. Now, a notification about him forming a gang appeared on the game screen.
Many players admire skilled players, so they eagerly join in. The people on this platform come from all over the world, and although they communicate in Chinese, there are simply too many people involved.
Xie Yuancheng joined using my account. He knew the aliens' weaknesses and quickly broke his record, setting up a game that was unfavorable to his performance.
During breaks in the game, he relayed everything that had happened to the shopkeeper. Soon, the shopkeeper's superiors linked all the games to the backend data, filtering only the data about the aliens.
This time they finally understood how the aliens escaped; they had used people from various places to help them evade their pursuit. And their method of recruiting people was through gaming platforms with the largest user base.
I leaned against Xie Yuancheng's back and watched the players below watching the spectacle. Everyone was shouting that if the universe couldn't be cleared, they would form an alliance to attack it.
Xie Yuancheng was currently at the top of the leaderboard, so he sent an "agree" emoji. Soon, several usually quiet experts began to work together to tackle the challenges, then devised strategies that entangled the universe in a deadly predicament.
In the end, all the recruitment messages he sent were deleted, and people posted mocking him online, saying that the universe made a lot of noise but did little, warning other players not to fall for it.
The shopkeeper gave me some game accounts, so I could finally play openly under Xie Yuancheng's watchful eye. However, it was all thanks to the precise data from the backend; otherwise, a newbie like me would never have been able to reach the top.
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