Chapter 1
By Ye Ziyi
Zhou Qiao knew that Honor of Kings was popular, but he didn't expect it to be this popular.
After the school announced the dormitory assignment list, everyone was shouting in the welcome group, trying to find roommates as soon as possible. After Zhou Qiao was added to the dormitory group, she saw that one roommate's profile picture was a magic scholar and the other roommate's profile picture was a swordsman wielding ice rain. She knew she was in trouble. Sure enough, after realizing that the other was a fan of magic scholars, the two roommates, with the mentality of "magic scholars and magic scholars are irreconcilable enemies", asked the student council president of the college to change dormitories. The president shut them down with a sentence: "Do you think I have nothing better to do? Settle the grudges in the game in the game."
Both of them happened to be in the God's Domain, so they spent their days PK-ing in the arena. Roommate A was a Warlock player and a loyal fan of Tiny Herb, while Roommate B, although using the avatar of Night Rain's Annoying Voice, played a Warlock. Unfortunately, regardless of how professional players played these classes, they were mostly used as support characters by ordinary players. Their PK results were evenly matched, and as they played more, they formed a fixed 2v2 team, ranking up together in their dorm every night after the start of the semester.
Not satisfied with just two games, roommate A started recommending the game to the remaining two. Roommate C, who didn't play games, was wary of this game that almost caused a conflict in the dormitory and refused to accept the recommendation. Zhou Qiao then showed her his sharpshooter account, which was still struggling to level up in the ninth server.
Roommate A wasn't disappointed: "Keep up the good work and we're waiting for you!"
Zhou Qiao hesitated: "Uh... I don't plan to use this account in the God's Domain."
"This number?" Roommate B focused on the key point.
Zhou Qiao nodded: "I used to play an account, but I got beaten up so badly in the God's Realm that I started playing a new account from scratch."
The two roommates looked at them with sympathy.
To maintain peace in the dorm, although the two teammates each had their own favorite teams, they usually watched each other's live streams together in the dorm on match days, taking turns watching each other's games. Whenever Zhou Zekai's stunning good looks appeared on screen, roommate A would always call roommate C to come and see: "Aren't you tempted by such good looks?!"
Roommate C shook his head indifferently: "I don't feel anything."
The day Zhou Qiao reached max level as a marksman, his roommates were watching a live stream of Excellent Era in their dorm. The camera paused for a few seconds when it panned to Su Mucheng, and roommate C exclaimed, "Is she a professional player too?"
"Yes, yes! Su Mucheng! The Alliance's number one gunner!"
"And she has won the Best Partner title with the God of War multiple times! She's beautiful and strong, she's my dream girl, sob sob."
"You're smitten again? You were smitten with Zhou Zekai just last week."
“The male guests and female guests are different~” Roommate B covered her face with her hands, pretending to be shy.
My roommate C's eyes lit up: "Are there any things to be aware of before jumping in?"
"It's not worth getting into the game now, the new server is opening next week."
"The new district is so crowded."
“But in the new server, you can join big guild raid groups, and look, the official website even released a co-branded card for the tenth server.” Roommate A handed her phone to Roommate C. “You can order a Muyu Chengfeng account, the one Su Mucheng used.”
"Okay, okay."
Su Mucheng took the lead and won the first individual match. Excellent Era lost the next two matches. In the arena match, Excellent Era was defeated by two opponents. Facing an opponent with almost two lives, even the God of War One Autumn Leaf was unable to turn the tide.
The team competition was lost inexplicably.
Roommate B calculated the points and looked surprised: "So Excellent Era is second to last this time."
"What?!" Roommate A pulled up the score chart from the League's official website. "It really is. Excellent Era used to be a three-time champion."
"It seems like the God of War's performance has declined significantly recently."
"Yeah, the team games too, they're not as good as the Thunder's team games."
The two of them sighed in unison, seemingly lost in thought.
Zhou Qiao downloaded the Excellent Era team match from the official website and replayed it repeatedly.
One Autumn Leaf and Orange Breeze's teamwork remained seamless. Zhou Qiao paused the game, the cursor hovering over the Demon Swordsman Darkness.
Unfortunately, the other three people didn't follow Ye Qiu's pace at all, and the team was split into 2+3. Instead, Ye Qiu had to accommodate them in order to cover up the team's problems.
It's not surprising that a team like that could be overturned by a weaker team.
Zhou Qiao deleted the file and stopped thinking about Excellent Era's problems.
The whole dorm was excited on the day the new server opened. One person played while three others watched, and they didn't go to sleep until 4 a.m. So during the noon political theory class, the four of them squatted in a corner to try to catch up on sleep.
As the teacher read emotionlessly from the PowerPoint presentation, and Zhou Qiao dozed off, a boy suddenly yelled, "Holy crap—!"
"...Student, do you have any objections to what I said?"
The boy stood up under the teacher's gaze, his face flushed: "No, no... I'm just too sad!"
The boy couldn't hold back his emotions, and tears streamed down his face.
Roommate A, startled awake, took out his phone and exclaimed, "Holy crap, Ye Qiu has retired!"
The news of Ye Qiu's retirement topped the trending searches.
Zhou Qiao's WeChat Moments were immediately flooded with this news, and she realized that there were so many Honor of Kings players around her.
"I didn't realize the guild leader played Honor of Kings and was a fan of Ye Qiu." Zhou Qiao muttered to herself. She switched to the QQ login interface, hesitated for a moment when entering her password, but still logged in.
The professional players' group chat exploded, with hundreds of messages tagging One Autumn Leaf. Ye Qiu didn't respond, and then some people, not wanting to miss out on the drama, tagged Han Wenqing.
Desert Lone Smoke left the message "Boring" in the group chat and then went offline.
Someone sent Zhou Qiao a WeChat message. When Zhou Qiao opened it, she saw that it was from her roommate Yan Yu, who lived with her off-campus.
When Zhou Qiao was still in high school, she joined a fan group for an author whose work was serialized in a magazine. She met Yan Yu in the group, and later they met in person.
Later, she went back to school to repeat her senior year, and changed all her contact information.
Zhou Qiao thought that this friendship, which had lasted for more than three years, had come to an end. Unexpectedly, when she was looking for a place to rent near the university town, the apartment she had her eye on was the one that Yan Yu was renting.
The two hit it off immediately and signed a contract.
Dear Little Leaf: I won't be here for the next few days. If you're going to stay with me, please be careful as you'll be alone.
Xiao Qiao wants to work hard to become stronger: Okay, baby, kiss!
Xiao Qiao strives to become stronger: Baby, where are you going!
Little Leaf: City H.
My dear little leaf: I've ascended the throne, talk to you later.
Xiao Qiao must strive to become stronger: Long live Your Majesty!
Little Leaf: ...
My dear little leaf: Rise, my subject.
After class, her roommate Bing rushed back to level up. She was new to Glory and didn't quite grasp the feeling of being a Battle God. Compared to the other two, who were feeling lost and went to the food street to relieve their boredom, she was now focused on leveling up.
"Qiaoqiao, what career do you think I should switch to?"
Zhou Qiao leaned back in her chair watching the video, then tilted her head upon hearing this: "Gunner? Su Mucheng is a Gunner."
"No, no, I don't want to play a ranged class. It's too demanding on the mouse, so I won't torture myself. Are there any melee classes that I can play on the sidelines and play cautiously?"
Zhou Qiao originally wanted to say swordsman, but upon hearing that it required playing cautiously, she changed her mind: "Ninjas and thieves in the Night faction are both quite cautious, right? I suggest you play thief, you can set traps and you can also become invisible. Ninjas are easy to get frustrated with the first time you play."
"Okay, okay!"
Then roommate C switched careers and became an assassin.
Zhou Qiao: "..."
Roommate C: "Waaaaah, I'm so sorry! But the assassin was just so cool!"
Zhou Qiao smiled and said, "It's okay, as long as you like it."
My roommate, C, didn't seem to be seriously leveling up either. She was more interested in gossip than leveling up. She had logged into the Glory Forum without any instruction and spent all her time on the tenth server, leveling up for half an hour and then browsing the forum for two hours.
Roommate A asked curiously, "Is there some particularly interesting gossip going on in the new server? How can the tenth server be active for so long?"
Roommate C nodded vigorously, and then read aloud to the three of them the great achievements of the god of the tenth district.
What about first kills in dungeons, first kills of hidden bosses, first kills of map bosses, dungeon records? Most importantly, this god-like player named Lord Grim hasn't even changed classes yet.
Are there still independent practitioners?
"What? What is a 'freelancer'?"
Roommate A started playing Honor of Kings earlier and began explaining the basics of the casual player class to others, which made Roommate B want to create a new account in the tenth server to admire the pros.
Zhou Qiao used her roommate Bing's Assassin account to check the dungeon records of Frost Forest and Burial Ground, her expression subtle.
My roommate A also came over to look: "What's wrong?"
"No, it's nothing... The other day it was Blue Rain vs. Excellent Era, right?"
"Yes!" Roommate B exclaimed, unable to hide his excitement.
It was thought that Excellent Era's transfer of Sun Xiang from Yueyun to One Autumn Leaf would revive the team, but Excellent Era was unexpectedly defeated by Blue Rain in a crushing manner. Even loyal Excellent Era fans couldn't say anything about this performance.
The composition of the Frost Forest Excellent Era Record Team is quite subtle. Considering Excellent Era's performance in the match two days ago, Zhou Qiao has a bold guess.
It would be too shocking to say, and unnecessary: Team Excellent Era has no reason to bother with such a low-level dungeon record.
Zhou Qiao put the matter out of her mind.
With Christmas approaching, the Lunar New Year is earlier this year, and final exam week is also early. In order to cram at the last minute, my roommates A and B went to the library early this morning and haven't returned yet.
Roommate C, on the other hand, is still engrossed in his glory.
"oops!"
"What's wrong?" Zhou Qiao asked casually as she lay in bed reading.
"I've been matched up against Lord Grim in the same arena!"
"Then keep it up and try to get on the coattails of the pros," Zhou Qiao encouraged.
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