Chapter Two
Ideals are beautiful, but reality is cruel.
My roommate, C, fell into lava at the start of the game. He jumped once but couldn't get out, so he started calling for help: "Qiao Qiao Qiao Qiao, please help! QAQ"
“I’m here.” Zhou Qiao got out of bed, sat in the seat her roommate Bing had given her, glanced at the arena setup, and put on her headphones.
Zhou Qiao manipulated the assassin to jump out of the lava, and Lord Grim used a healing spell to raise the fragile assassin's health.
Teammate Swordsman leaned over and said, "Brother, you're so impatient!"
Zhou Qiao turned off the microphone, slightly removed the earphone, and turned her head: "The swordsman is asking you why you're in such a hurry."
"It was clearly him who told us to hurry up!" Roommate C exclaimed angrily.
Zhou Qiao then typed in the team chat.
Zero Zero Kill: Didn't you say to hurry up?
Jun Moxiao said, "Remember that voice, and don't listen to anything that person says."
Liu Mu: "What the hell?! What do you mean?!"
Zhou Qiao, the assassin, glanced at the swordsman standing beside him and continued typing.
Zero Zero Kill: Is this attitude towards Huang Shao really good?
Huang Shaotian was startled and quickly switched to Ye Xiu's private chat.
Liu Mu: Holy crap! Old Ye, didn't you say this guy was just someone you randomly picked up?! How did you expose my identity?!
Ye Xiu was also surprised.
Jun Moxiao: It was indeed randomly entered.
Huang Shaotian switched to typing in the team chat.
Liu Mu: What nonsense are you talking about, hahaha! How could I possibly be such a wise and powerful swordsman as the Sword Saint!
Zero Zero Kill: The swordsman who played with Ye Qiu was not Huang Shao?
Zero Zero Kill: I don't believe it.
Zero Zero Kill: Huang Shao and Ye Qiu are crushing noobs in an online game.
Zhou Qiao glanced at his opponent's information and continued typing.
Zero Zero Kill: It's still the domineering and ambitious people who get tortured.
Zero Zero Kill: This must be true love.
Liu Mu: Ptooey! You can eat whatever you want, but you can't say whatever you want, you know that!
Zero Zero Kill: How much money could I get for this information by selling it to Esports Home?
Jun Moxiao: Stop chatting, they're coming over there.
Zhou Qiao's perspective shifted again, and he saw the five members of the Overbearing Ambition group disperse and rush towards him.
Liu Mu: "X-array, how do we set it up?"
Jun Moxiao: "Take the middle route."
The ten people on both sides charged towards the center of the map together, traversing lava fields. Their movements were fluid and organized, though scattered. Ye Xiu noticed that the assassin's actions were completely different from before; he didn't fall behind at all.
Jun Moxiao: "Slow down, slow down."
Liu Mu: "What?"
Lord Grim: "They probably don't know that our assassins have been replaced."
Liu Mu: "Damn! Insidious! So despicable!"
Baozi Invasion: "Boss, this is clearly called brilliant and mighty! Leo, I declare that you can no longer latch onto the boss's coattails."
"Rogue" was a voice I'd never heard before, but "Gunner" should be Su Mucheng. Zhou Qiao thought to herself as she continued typing in the team chat.
Zero Zero Kill: This is outrageous! Even when you're frying fish, you're still scheming and plotting against each other?
Jun Moxiao: "The one opposite, Ye Weiyang, is Zhang Xinjie."
Zero Zero Killer: Huh?
Zero Zero Kill: Really? I don't believe it. Tyranny doesn't play in tournaments but comes to play team matches with you in online games?
Jun Moxiao: "Only Zhang Xinjie."
Jun Moxiao and his group of five slowed down, but the Overbearing Ambition arrived quickly. As soon as the enemy entered the gunners' attack range, they immediately changed formation.
Liu Mu: "It's changed! It's changed!"
Jun Moxiao remained silent: "I can see. Gunners, prepare."
The five members of the Overbearing Ambition group split up and pointed directly at Lord Grim, a move that made Zhou Qiao even more suspicious.
Zero Zero Kill: Zhang Xinjie doesn't pay attention to assassins when playing in a team? I just can't believe it.
Zero Zero Kill: Just admit your own sleazy ways.
Zero Zero Kill: Ye Shen, do you know that in my heart you have gone from being Ye Shen to Old Ye, a drop in status of twenty centimeters?
Zhou Qiao's typing didn't affect her gameplay. Taking advantage of the fact that the five members of the Overbearing Ambition group were completely ignoring her, she bypassed the lava range and used a cross-step to get behind her opponents.
At this moment, apart from the priest, the other four members of the Overbearing Ambition group had been thrown into the lava, struggling to jump up but being knocked down again and again.
Zero Zero Killer said in the public chat: Good evening, Jie Jie, aren't you going to sleep yet?
While typing, Zhou Qiao's assassin slit the priest's throat from behind, then used both swords in a cross-handed thrust to knock the priest to the ground.
00kill: Early to bed and early to rise makes you healthy!
Ye Weiyang typed an ellipsis in the public chat.
Night is Not Yet Over: We lost.
Jun Moxiao: You flatter me.
Night is Not Yet Over: Who are you?
Jun Moxiao: As you can see, he's a master.
Zhang Xinjie remained silent. Ye Qiu, Huang Shaotian, Su Mucheng... and, although he didn't want to admit it, he did know an assassin who would call him Jie Jie.
Xiao Xiao.
Lord Grim taunted Tyrant Ambition a few more times in the public chat, and the opponent quit, with the system declaring victory.
Before the system and Huang Shaotian could speak, Lord Grim typed in the channel.
Jun Moxiao: Xiaoxiao, is this your account?
Zero Zero Kill: ? ? ?
Zero Zero Kill: Who is Xiaoxiao?
Zero Zero Kill: /Completely bewildered
Wind and Smoke: Okay, Xiaoxiao, let's add each other as friends. You haven't been online on QQ for a long time.
Zero Zero Kill: Wuwu Mumu Bobo.
Zero Zero Kill: This account belongs to my roommate QAQ, Mu Mu, let's add each other on WeChat and chat privately.
Liu Mu: Holy crap! What's with this private message?! Are you targeting me, Xiao Xiao?! Don't run away, explain yourself!
Liu Mu: Dare to go to the arena for a PK?!
Zhou Qiao left the arena, took off her headphones, and gave her seat to her roommate Bing: "It's over, we won."
Roommate C sat down and saw the private chat history between Linglingsha and Fengshuyanmu, and asked in confusion, "Qiaoqiao, do you know Lord Grim's teammates?"
Zhou Qiao: "...I know him. We used to play in the arena together. Lord Grim also retired from God's Domain and started using an alternate account."
"No wonder it's so powerful!" Roommate C had a blind worship for the God Realm. "But even such powerful people can't survive in the God Realm. Just how terrifying is it?"
Zhou Qiao was reminded of her roommate C's reflections.
Right, Ye Qiu has already retired, why would he still need to create a new account?
Although Zhou Qiao recognized Huang Shaotian's voice and deduced from it that Lord Grim's voice belonged to Ye Qiu—after all, his voice was indeed very distinctive and sarcastic, and the same voice could charm a whole group of female protagonists, Zhou Qiao thought to herself.
However, judging from his attitude at first, he didn't intend to admit it, unless he later recognized who Zero Zero Killer was.
Based on Excellent Era's previous performance, Zhou Qiao felt that he had discovered an incredible truth.
"Forget it, don't even think about it. It's the cannon fodder law: the more you know, the faster you die."
Zhou Qiao climbed back into bed and continued reading.
Zhou Qiao soon received friend requests from Su Mucheng and Huang Shaotian.
After making notes, Zhou Qiao refreshed her WeChat Moments and discovered a major problem: Yan Yu had a conspicuous "like" under every single one of her posts.
Xiao Qiao needs to work harder to become stronger. Comment: Ugh (disdain.jpg)
Soon Huang Shaotian sent a message.
I really want to block her: Damn it, Xiao Xiao, how do you know Yan Meizi!
I feel like blocking you: Come out, come out, come out! You were just commenting!
Xiao Qiao needs to work hard to become stronger: stay away from my wife.
I really want to block him/her: ? ? ? ?
Su Mucheng sent a message, so Zhou Qiao stopped responding to Huang Shaotian.
Goddess Mwah: Xiaoxiao, where are you now?
Xiao Qiao needs to work hard to become stronger: City B.
Xiao Qiao wants to become stronger: Mu Mu is so cute. (*≧︶≦))(￣▽￣* )ゞ
Goddess, muah: Sticky.
Goddess Mwah: Huh, you're still in City B?
Xiao Qiao must strive to become stronger: Mu Mu, please don't tell anyone!
Xiao Qiao needs to work hard to become stronger, especially towards Huang Shaotian!!
Xiao Qiao needs to work harder to become stronger: He'll definitely sell me out!!!
Goddess Muah: Okay. Excellent Era has a match in City B next week. Want to hang out tonight? I'll treat you to ice cream.
Xiao Qiao wants to become stronger: Waaaaah, I really want to!
Xiao Qiao wants to work hard to become stronger: but I can't go during exam week, sob sob sob.
Goddess Mwah: Huh?
Goddess Mwah: Okay then, let's meet up again sometime!
Xiao Qiao wants to work hard to become stronger: Yay!
The next morning, Zhou Qiao's phone started ringing. She put it on silent mode and glanced at the time.
05:17.
She cracked the password with a dark expression, and Xiao Yifei sent her a WeChat message.
Focus fire on that sharpshooter: Laugh! We're on holiday next week!
Xiao Qiao needs to work hard to become stronger: Exam week, please do not disturb.
Focus fire on that sharpshooter: QWWWWWWWWWQ Doesn't Xiaoxiao miss her brother? We haven't seen each other for almost three months!
Xiao Qiao needs to work harder to become stronger: It's 5:18 AM East 8th time zone now. If you don't get down to business, I'll block you.
Focus fire on that sharpshooter: The important thing is, I miss you!
Xiao Qiao needs to work hard to become stronger: /Goodbye/Goodbye/Goodbye
Focus fire on that sharpshooter: No, no, no, I was wrong! Okay, then it's settled! I'll come find you after your exams!
A huge exclamation mark appeared next to the message.
System notification: Your message has been sent, but it has been rejected by the recipient.
Xiao Yifei was in tears.
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