Chapter 1 Returning to the Summer Night
The cool moonlight sprinkled on the streets of Jinsha Street in Tianjing City, which is the most prosperous neighborhood in the neighborhood.
The straight asphalt road leads into the distance, and a young man with a gray backpack walks silently on the sidewalk.
The chirping of insects in midsummer converged into a pleasant symphony in the night sky, but at this moment, Wen Hao felt that it was so noisy.
He took out his wallet, opened it, and sighed desperately in the face of the cruel reality, "Are you going to sleep on the streets after all?" ”
The money is gone, but the job can't be found, and it seems that there is really no way out.
Suddenly, a cacophony of knocking and shouting made him stop, and when he turned his head, he had unconsciously walked to the door of a large video game hall.
He glanced down at his wallet, then at the sign in the arcade.
In order to save money, he has not touched his favorite video game for more than a month......
"One last indulgence!"
Resolutely turned around and walked into the video game hall.
After exchanging all the remaining cash on his body into game currency at the counter, Wen Hao decided to play at least all the games here!
The first floor is a place for leisure and entertainment, mainly providing food and beverage services, and only a few game consoles such as taiko masters are placed in the corner, and the second floor is the real battlefield.
Climb to the second floor, the eyes are bustling, the crowd is buzzing, and the lively atmosphere instantly ignites his emotions - the game hall will never be short of guests.
A variety of game machines lined up in the entertainment area on the second floor made him dizzy.
The whitewashed walls are covered with promotional posters of various games or famous esports athletes, including a rare giant wallcovering on the wall in the middle of the hall.
The overall hue of the wallcovering is orange, which is the light and shadow of the blood-colored sunset.
In the light and shadow, there is a battlefield dumped with all kinds of weapons.
Six figures face away from the viewer, facing the blood-colored sunset, or sitting on a boulder or standing on a hill, and a majestic aura greets them under the light.
When the viewer is distracted, his heart will be ignited by the strong fighting spirit in the painting, and he yearns to join them, which is the irresistible magic carried by the giant painting itself.
A line of big characters is at the top - "Where the heart belongs, where the intention is, 1.5 billion players around the world are online at the same time, embark on an unknown journey, and explore the traces of the sky!" ”
This is the promotional wallcovering for online games.
Today, a virtual online game called "Heavenly Traces" is popular all over the world.
Wen Hao's footsteps faltered the moment he saw this wall cloth, but he didn't stop like everyone else.
Celestial traces? It has nothing to do with me.
Wen Hao shifted his gaze and turned his attention elsewhere.
After a cursory look, he realized that the arcade was a little more than he had expected.
In particular, the excited shouts of young people came and went, arousing the secretion of adrenal hormones, allowing Wen Hao to instantly forget all the troubles of life.
I couldn't take it anymore, so I left my backpack at the counter, found a nearby racing game and sat on it, put on a 3D realism helmet, put in the game currency, and got carried away in the game.
“You win!”
Winning a new record for the first game, Wen Hao comfortably took off his helmet and walked in the direction of another game console.
No matter what the game is, Wen Hao is extremely proficient, and constantly brushes the highest record of each machine with a game currency.
Even the whack-a-mole machine he didn't let go, as if he was venting all the unsatisfactory dissatisfaction with life that he had suppressed during this time.
“Game over!”
Breaking the record of a shooting game again, Wen Hao took off his 3D glasses, his eyes were full of enthusiasm, and he was like a gray person with gray eyes before stepping into the store an hour ago, and it was the game that brought him back to life.
"Lao Jin, it seems that a very powerful girl has just come to the Tianba District, and many old players at home have been abused!"
"Oh? So awesome? Pretty or not? ”
"I don't know, I've just heard about it, let's go and have a look!"
Just when Wen Hao was playing a music game, suddenly two men with high emotions walked by, and their conversation suddenly attracted Wen Hao's attention.
After finishing the game in his hand, he touched his pants pocket and found that there were only five or six game coins left, and he couldn't help but sigh.
He hasn't had fun yet, the night, it's still long, the reality is ruthless.
Since there is only so little game currency left, it is time to cherish it, Wen Hao decided to watch others play games first, pass the time, and have a good time.
Tyrant? Otherwise, let's swing in the Tianba District later! Wen Hao thought about it, if you swing, you only need the cost of one coin to play forever, of course, the premise is that you can't lose.
Tianba is a two-person fighting game, one of the few popular flat games, its action control is extremely delicate and complex, and has high requirements for the player's awareness and hand speed, which is a veteran project in the world of e-sports.
Coming to the special area of the Tianba game machine, although there are about fifty game consoles here, it is still difficult to satisfy all the players, here, players can choose PVE mode or PVP mode, and they can also challenge other players on the scene online - that is, the swing just said.
As soon as he came here, Wen Hao found that the popularity here was unusually high, in stark contrast to other game areas, passers-by surrounded the three inner and outer three floors, and they couldn't see what was going on inside at all
Finally squeezed into the crowd, Wen Hao saw a slender back figure sitting in front of a game console and quickly tapping the buttons, on the screen, a character with airplane hairstyle was being abused by a character in a uniform, and a wonderful combo was released in an endless stream.
The scene is like an adult and a child fighting.
“KO!”
The nose of the plane was rightfully knocked to the ground.
The crowd of onlookers instantly boiled.
"How many are they?"
"The tenth, right? This girl is not ordinary! ”
"Look at the speed of her hands, I seem to see an afterimage!"
"It's not that exaggerated, it's you dazzled, but it's really fast!"
Wen Hao quietly watched the girl's skillful operation, this girl can be regarded as having reached the realm of a master, and ordinary Tianba lovers are indeed not enough to be her opponent.
Slightly curious about the girl's appearance, moving a few steps, Wen Hao saw the girl's side face, but the girl was wearing a pink cap, and most of her pretty face was hidden under the shadow of the brim, unless she looked at it head-on, she couldn't see the whole face at all.
However, from the exposed facial features - small nose and red lips - it can be known that this girl's appearance is absolutely delicate, and it is very likely that she is a rare beauty.
The girl picked up several regulars in the game hall in a row, and completely crushed them, which immediately made many eager people flinch, pushing each other, and for a while, no one dared to fight.
"Hehe, is there anyone else to fight?" The sweet voice made everyone want to be angry but couldn't get angry.
Wen Hao looked left and right, and found that this provocation did not make anyone stand up, in fact, in his opinion, the girl's strength is not very strong, she belongs to the middle level, and it just so happens that there are no upper-level players in this kind of civilian entertainment place who can make her suffer a loss, so that people have the illusion that she is difficult to defeat at this time.
"It's disappointing that no one can play in such a big game hall!" The girl pursed her lips and turned around to change to a human-machine battle.
"Hey, little girl, don't be complacent!"
"That's it, don't think that no one can beat you!"
"You don't know where to play in the sand when you're playing here!"
Her words intentionally or unintentionally touched everyone's bottom line, and all kinds of dissatisfaction came out of the crowd, but still no one dared to go up to fight, just standing there and playing tricks, which didn't play any role, and it looked a little funny.
Those who have been slapped in the face are still slapped in the face, and unless someone can change the situation of this winning streak, it will be impossible to recover the lost face.
"Since it's so powerful, hurry down! Otherwise, I'm bored playing alone! ”
"You ......"
Watching the scene intensify, Wen Hao was speechless for a while, this girl is obviously coarse nerves, she doesn't speak through her brain, you can know from her tone that she doesn't want to stir up trouble, but wants to find a playmate, but the words she says are very easy to make people mistakenly think that she is here to smash the field.
And the key point is that the girl doesn't know that she has caused the crowd to be angry, which will make her anger the crowd as much as she wants.
If no one stops it, I don't know what kind of scene it will develop.
Alas, tonight is going to swing anyway.
Thinking so, Wen Hao walked out of the crowd and sat down on the machine next to the girl.
"Hey, isn't there anyone else who dares to come down? Hurry up, hurry up, choose a character! The girl was so focused on the game in front of her that she didn't even look at Wen Hao, and hurriedly beckoned him to hurry up and choose a character.
Wen Hao was not in a hurry, he invested a game currency, picked a character at random, and entered the game.
"Oh, little brother mighty, don't lose!"
"Little brother, it's up to you whether our man's face can be saved!"
"Little brother will win! If you win, I'll give you a monkey! ”
When a bunch of onlookers saw someone taking the initiative to fight, they were all so excited that they were like they had been beaten with chicken blood, and they kept cheering Wen Hao up.
"Don't you live up to their expectations? Hee-hee-" The girl who is the enemy spits out her pink tongue mischievously.
"Let's take care of ourselves first...... Wen Hao kindly reminded.
Forty seconds later.
“KO!”
“……”
There was a deathly silence.
"How is that possible?" The girl looked at the screen incredulously, the corners of her mouth suddenly hooked slightly, and she raised her hand to throw a game coin, "One more game!" ”
Forty seconds later.
“KO!”
There was deathly silence again, but this time it only lasted for a few seconds, and then it boiled—
"Damn, that's the end of two rounds?!"
"Hey, I just saw an afterimage!"
"I seem to have seen it, too, how fast is this special hand?"
"Nainai, what a master!"
"Tut, girl, if you lose, change people quickly!"
"That's right, if your subordinates are defeated, they will leave quickly!"
"Come again!" The more the girl played, the more excited she became, and she was not affected by the outside world at all, and threw another game coin.
"Hey, it's a change!"
"Come again!"
"Hey...... Change ......"
"Come again!"
……
"...... again"
This kind of thing has to be changed frequently to retain popularity, but the girl has been reluctant to give way, and she has lost an unknown number of hands in a row, until the crowd is tired of seeing it and scatters, and she wants to continue fighting.
Wen Hao had fun anyway, so he accompanied her to fight.
Time passed quietly, and when the girl touched her pocket again, she found that she had run out of game currency, so she smiled awkwardly: "I'm sorry, I'm running out of game currency, you wait, I'll buy it!" ”
"What else?" Winning 20 games in a row brought Wen Hao no longer pleasure, but exhaustion, he wanted to leave halfway, but the girl desperately grabbed him, so she gave up her life to accompany the gentleman.
"Let's have a few more rounds, it's rare to have such a lot of fun!" The girl turned her head to look at Wen Hao's side face and said with a smile.
"I'm so tired."
Wen Hao thought it was funny at first, but now he was suddenly a little afraid of this girl.
"Whew, okay then......"
When Wen Hao thought that the girl had finally stopped, he suddenly found that two hot eyes were staring at his face, which was almost like seeing that Wen Hao hadn't washed his face in the morning (and he really hadn't washed it).
"Uh, is there anything dirty on my face?" Wen Hao didn't dare to move, he regretted and felt weak, so he knew that he would go to the bathroom to wash his face first.
"You!" The girl suddenly stretched out her jade hand to hold Wen Hao's face, broke it hard, and looked at Wen Hao tightly.
Wen Hao saw the girl's face clearly at this time, and couldn't help but be stunned.
A dusty memory is suddenly awakened.
How can it be......
Wen Hao fell into a trance.
Until a high-decibel female voice woke him up from his haze—
"Xiaobai!"
“…… Ziting? ”