Chapter Twelve
Zhou Qiao received many gifts for her birthday, but her favorite was the keyboard and mouse that Ye Xiu gave her. Ye Xiu had asked for her specifications beforehand and customized a set for her in a beautiful grass green color.
He said the keyboard was very expensive and was pooled together by several men from Happy.
Ye Xiu emphasized, "This is several months' salary for us guys!"
Zhou Qiao was speechless: "Do you think I don't know that Senior Wei Chen is worth 18 million?"
Moreover, Sun Zheping has a Beijing household registration and a Beijing house. If we're really talking about being poor, then only Ye Xiu, who ran away from home, is poor.
Ye Xiu said confidently, "That's right. Half a year ago, I was still sleeping in the storage room."
Zhou Qiao: "..."
In the afternoon, Zhou Qiao and her roommates publicly executed her at the bottom of the sea. It's unclear which genius suggested it, but they unfurled a banner that read, "Warmly celebrate the successful advancement of the Nightless Marquis Challenge!" Seeing this, Zhou Qiao's toes practically dug into the ground, as if she'd dug a mountain of stones out of the ground.
Zhou Qiao: "You hate me, don't you?"
Roommate A: "Look at you, you're being too formal."
Zhou Qiao: "I understand, you all hate me."
After an awkward but (with a college student discount) happy underwater weekend, another Monday arrived. Honor Company released a new announcement: to celebrate its 12th anniversary, it will open the 11th server and update a brand new expansion, raising the level cap.
New story, new map, new equipment, new skills.
Ye Xiu convened a special meeting regarding this matter, and Zhou Qiao logged into his QQ alt account again to participate via video. To summarize the key points: don't panic. Although the situation is unfavorable for us, it's not entirely favorable for Excellent Era either. If we can seize the opportunity, we can actually narrow the gap between the two teams.
Wei Chen: "You can have that little girl, what's her name again, the one from Excellent Era, tell you about Excellent Era's combat preparations, so we can target her."
Zhou Qiao: "...Have some integrity, okay?"
Wei Chen protested, "How is this considered unethical? This is making good use of off-field resources!"
Under Chen Guo's violent suppression, Wei Chen gave up the idea while cursing.
At the end of November, the expansion pack preloading was completed. The servers were shut down at 10 p.m. on December 2nd and reopened on time at midnight on the 3rd.
As Zhou Qiao logged in, he exclaimed, "Such a big update and there's no server room barbecue? Glory's servers are truly amazing."
The team's characters had previously stopped in the northern part of the God's Domain continent under the cover of the guild group. Now that the update is complete, the road to the Lieping Mountains has been opened.
Yan Yu dragged a chair over and sat down next to Zhou Qiao: "Should we go straight to the dungeon? Isn't that too risky?"
Zhou Qiao: "There are too many players in the monster-farming area. Who knows whether it will be Lord Grim farming monsters or players farming Lord Grim?"
Ye Xiu assembled a ten-person team: Lord Grim, Nightless Marquis, Windward Formation, Baozi Invasion, Aegis, Cold Smoke, Sleep Again in Summer, Cold Hands, Obscure Light, and Unrelenting Destroyer. Chen Guo was squeezed out of the group and simply pulled up a chair to sit behind Luo Ji. With Chen Guo watching him intently from behind, Luo Ji's hands were sweating, and his actions became erratic. Ye Xiu called out, "Obscure Light, watch your summoned beasts, keep them below four."
"Okay." Luo Ji took a deep breath and calmed down.
Seeing her like this, Wu Chen invited Chen Guo to join the guild's elite team for raiding, so Chen Guo let Luo Ji go and went to Wu Chen's side.
Ye Xiu observed the patrolmen's route and, having a general idea of what to expect, called out to everyone, "Let's get ready to engage the monsters."
"Who's the main tank?" An Wenyi asked.
Zhou Qiao couldn't help but laugh: Of course it's Jun Mo Xiao.
"ah?"
Never-Night Marquis: Alliance face tank, never admits defeat.
"Xiaoxiao, be serious. But she's right, I'll take the T."
"Old Ye, aren't you nervous?" Wei Chen mocked.
"Little monster, you're getting nervous too?" Ye Xiu retorted mercilessly.
Sun Zheping: "Are we still going to fight?"
"Fight, fight, fight, laugh and start the monster."
As the marksman with the longest attack range among the ten, Zhou Qiao took on all the tasks of pulling monsters. He lived up to his reputation as the Alliance's face tank and tanked very steadily, smoothly taking down the first boss in the dungeon.
A new message popped up in the system: Congratulations to [Happy Guild] for achieving the first kill of Ji Lang, the vanguard of the Yinshan Bandit Stronghold.
After Ji Lang fell, Ye Xiu didn't check his equipment first, but instead sent the damage statistics to the list.
Ye Xiu said in a pretentious manner: "Everyone, take a look and learn from the importance of output. Those of you with lower output should also reflect on yourselves and stop slacking off!"
Having been criticized by Ye Xiu for slacking off all summer, Zhou Qiao was quite sensitive to the term "slacking off" and typed in the team channel with dissatisfaction: "Being third in damage output is considered slacking off?"
The second highest damage dealer is Sun Zheping's Berserker.
Ye Xiu coughed lightly: "Xiaoxiao, don't be so sensitive. I wasn't talking about you."
Zhou Qiao then looked at the two names at the end of the list: Mei Guang and Hui Ren Bu Juan.
She asked Yan Yu, "Do you know who he's talking about?"
"Ninja, right? Mo Guang has never been very good at it." Because Zhou Qiao had the speakerphone on, Yan Yu could hear Ye Xiu's voice clearly. "And he didn't give any instructions either."
"What's going on? Are they trying to ostracize him?"
"Let's temper his temper." Yan Yu had participated in Happy Guild's early pursuit of Destroyer, and felt that Destroyer's appearance in Happy's team was less a recruitment and more a search for offline PK, which led to Ye Xiu keeping him there.
While playing the game, Zhou Qiao listened to Yan Yu recount his heartbreaking history of ruining people and sighed, "How wicked! He's bullying a child!"
So before fighting the second boss, Zhou Qiao secretly messaged Rui Ren Bu Juan: You should ask Jun Mo Xiao to give you command, but he's too mean and deliberately doesn't command you and bullies you!
Relentless in ruining people: Not necessary.
Zhou Qiao thought about it and realized it made sense. If Ye Xiu had been chasing her for half a year, she probably wouldn't want to listen to him either: "Then you cooperate with me, I'll leave you an opening, and then you can deal damage."
Relentless in ruining people: Not necessary!
Zhou Qiao: "What kind of temper does this brat have?"
Because of his relentless stubbornness in ruining others, he ended up at the bottom of the output statistics this time, and Zhou Qiao's output was also surpassed by the Windward Formation, causing his DPS to drop to fourth.
Ye Xiu: "Some people shouldn't be so arrogant, can you keep it up?"
Zhou Qiao held back.
She didn't believe Ye Xiu hadn't seen that it was Destroyer's positioning that blocked her output position, causing her DPS to drop.
Ye Xiu retorted, "I'm telling you, Lone Ranger, you're affecting more than just yourself."
Chasing after the wildly flying third brother, Ye Xiu and Sun Zheping pushed the fourth brother into the house one after another, taking down the third and fourth brothers. The fifth brother was a fragile summoner, and Zhou Qiao pulled two summoned beasts around the field by himself. The others took down the BOSS quite smoothly.
Ye Xiu: "Xiaoxiao did a good job, give him a verbal commendation."
Zhou Qiao stretched her wrists and coldly typed: Climb.
Afterwards, everyone split into two teams and ran a five-player dungeon, but found that the rewards were not as good as the ten-player dungeon, so they continued to team up and run the ten-player dungeon.
When we got to the last ten-player dungeon, the first kill list suddenly popped up.
Zhou Qiao then noticed the time.
"You actually stayed up all night." Yan Yu placed a cup of hot milk next to the monitor.
Zhou Qiao: "You're awake?"
Yan Yu: "Um, are you guys still fighting?"
Zhou Qiao opened the QQ group and glanced at the message history: "It seems like we're playing a 20-player dungeon with Tiny Herb."
"..."
"..."
Yan Yu suppressed a laugh: "Can we interview the Princess of Tiny Herb for her thoughts?"
"Well, my impression is that, apart from Zhang Xinjie and Xiao Shiqin, it seems that no one else knows that I teamed up with Ye Shen."
In the game, Happy Guild and Tiny Herb Guild have already clashed.
After agreeing on the allocation of resources, everyone went into the instance, and Ye Xiu began to give instructions with his little mouth.
Wang Jiexi landed next to Ye Xiu, who asked him, "How's the observation going?"
"The Berserker and the Warlock are very skilled."
"Of course, after all, they are your seniors."
"Qiao Yifan is adapting well to the array ghost."
"I think that's a problem with your assassins." After all, it's a notoriously bizarre skill point allocation and a bizarre silver weapon, as recognized by the alliance.
“That sharpshooter…” Wang Jiexi didn’t know what to say for a moment. Both of Tiny Herb’s sharpshooters had been main players for over a year, but Nightless’s understanding of the sharpshooter’s profession far surpassed theirs.
Wang Jiexi wanted to ask more, but Ye Xiu's Lord Grim had already moved to another position, so he simply gave up.
After defeating the first boss, Ye Xiu pulled up the damage statistics: "The Tiny Herb team played very well. Everyone should learn more from Wang Buluoxing."
Wang Jiexi: ...
Then Ye Xiu, with his sharp eyes, noticed that Nightless Marquis's damage output had dropped significantly and criticized him by name: "What's wrong with Xiaoxiao? Why has his damage output dropped so much?"
Wang Jiexi: "Smile?"
The Undying Marquis: She's asleep, I'm playing in her place.
Ye Xiu thought for a moment, knowing that Yan Yu was currently logged in: "...Alright. Come on, everyone, let's grab some gear, and roll for what's due."
Wang Jiexi didn't let Ye Xiu off the hook: "Is the Lord of Nightless City Xiaoxiao?"
Ye Xiu was speechless: "Is that the point?"
Wang Jiexi: "..."
Realizing his lapse in composure, he stopped asking questions and began to consider the information he had seen earlier: the player registered by the Nightless Marquis was named Zhou Qiao, but the possibility of Xiao Xiao playing in his place could not be ruled out, since Lord Grim's registered name was not Ye Qiu.
The super-powerful team composed of Team Happy and Team Tiny Herb swept through all the bosses and won the first kill of the dungeon.
The two sides started arguing again about the distribution of the first kill reward. Wang Jiexi ignored Ye Xiu's unreasonable arguments and rolled a magnificent 99 points first.
Wang Jiexi: "Please go ahead."
Ye Xiu coldly retorted, "Don't think we can't roll 100 points."
Wang Jiexi remained calm: "Please."
Ye Xiu: "Little Ye, go!"
The Nightless Marquis draws 100 points.
Tiny Herb: ...
Ye Xiu burst into laughter: "Hahahahahahahaha! Little Ye, keep going! Strike first!"
The number of points won by the Marquis of Nevernight is 98.
Some members of Tiny Herb were outraged: "This isn't scientific! They cheated!"
Ye Xiu: "Hahahaha, being jealous won't help."
Yan Xiaohongshou Yu: ...
In the end, Happy received more rewards than Tiny Herb. Yan Yu basically rolled all the rewards that were not needed, but only one weapon appeared in the entire reward, which was a ninja sword. This made Chen Guo mutter to herself.
Ye Xiu stood up and stretched his back: "Actually, it's not bad. Compared to Wang Daye, we still came out ahead."
The Tiny Herb members who hadn't left the team chat: ...
Wang Daye himself remained calm: "It's just trash talk."
Without gathering 50 people in the professional player group, Ye Xiu ignored Tiny Herb's invitation to spar, waved to dismiss them, and went back to sleep.
Zhou Qiao fell asleep while playing a dungeon, and in her dream, she was still playing a dungeon in real life. Suddenly, a broom came flying at her. She couldn't tell if it was a teammate's or the BOSS's skill, but she didn't know why she couldn't dodge it. In her panic, she suddenly opened her eyes and woke up.
Yan Yu drew the curtains in the room. Zhou Qiao pulled her phone from the bedside table to check the time, but the first thing she saw was a message from Ebushicao (a plant).
Geese that don't eat grass: The Nightless Marquis.jpg
Geese don't eat grass: Xiaoxiao, shouldn't you explain this?
Zhou Qiao, not thinking clearly, quickly sent the message: You haven't been a father of big eyes for many years.
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