Some people might say it's day rental houses and small hotels, but I think it's more about night market food stalls. The so-called color appetite is also not too much to eat in the first place. On the west side of Gejian University, there is such a night market that gathers students from the three surrounding universities, from the beginning of the dark until the second half of the night, it is full of people, and the shouts of the south and the north are endless.

At midnight, just in time for business, a red women's sports car stopped not far from the end of the snack street. The noise of the snack street is clearly audible, rejecting this sports car that is out of step with the environment, and of course closer to the truth is that the sports car disdains to join in the excitement, and even approaching is a kind of self-contempt.

The back door of the sports car opened, and Ge Jian got out of the car uncomfortably. Something similar happened again, if the last time the sword could be comforted by schadenfreude, this time the mood was really mixed and obscure.

The reason for the matter is very simple, Ge Jian received a distress call in the afternoon, and it was already time for the nightlife to begin. When I just saw Yan Ming's figure on the street corner, a red sports car slowly stopped in front of the latter, and a mature and beautiful young woman poked her head out and asked in a soft voice, "Handsome guy, go to the front for a drink?"

After resolving all kinds of misunderstandings about ducks, this woman kindly sent the two back, of course, there may be a little bit of unwillingness. Along the way, the woman and Yan Ming were talking and laughing in front, and Ge Jian was stupid in the back seat, embarrassed as if he was sitting on pins and needles. Ge Jian believed that if he didn't exist, the two in front would definitely be able to do anything.

When parting, the woman took out a pen from her handbag, wrote her phone number on Yan Ming's palm, and started the sports car while making a phone call.

"I've found that hitchhiking on beautiful women can also be a form of torture. Watching the sports car fade into the night, Ge Jian muttered.

"Don't be overbearing, I'm going to starve to death, do you know I haven't eaten for a few days?" Yan Ming pulled the leather sword, followed the aroma of food, and went straight to the snack street.

"It's not bad for you to starve to death, and there will be one less scourge in the world. The leather sword was dragged, still unwilling. Since graduating from junior high school, although the two often chat online and occasionally make phone calls, they haven't seen each other for several years. At this moment, Ge Jian looked Yan Ming up and down, with short black hair, a white face, sword eyebrows and starry eyes, a straight and shapely nose, and white and neat teeth.

Ge Jian couldn't imagine how attractive such a combination of facial features would be in the eyes of women, and he only looked at it with a man's eyes, and he had to admit that he was really handsome on his own street.

Ge Jian put on his glasses, and finally found a balance on his clothes, Yan Ming was also wearing a stall, which was ten yuan more expensive than his own support.

While Yan Ming complained about hunger, Ge Jian also felt empty in his stomach, and suddenly remembered that it had been twelve hours since lunch, and he had actually forgotten about hunger in joy, anxiety and embarrassment.

Ge Jian took Yan Ming to a noodle stall he often went to, which was large and affordable, delicious and inexpensive. When Ge Jian finished eating the third bite, he heard Yan Ming shouting: Boss have another bowl. looked up in surprise, but saw Yan Ming on the opposite side pulling the residue at the bottom of the bowl with chopsticks, and ate all the leftover soup with his neck up.

"You just said that you haven't eaten for a few days, it can't be true, right?"

"It's true. With a soft bang, the noodle bowl fell on the small table, and the leather sword vaguely saw his reflection on the inner wall of the bowl.

"How many days?"

"Three days!"

This astonishing answer immediately caused Ge Jian to have all kinds of speculations, which can be roughly divided into two types, very troublesome and more troublesome. For this meal, Yan Ming ate five bowls of noodles, and Ge Jian looked at Yan Ming gobbling up, and he didn't bother to ask questions, so he waited until he finished eating.

"I haven't eaten for three days, if you say that you are traveling to the magic capital, I won't believe it. After the meal, Ge Jian was the first to speak.

"It's been a long time, isn't this here to see you. Yan Ming's gaze began to dodge.

Yan Ming's reaction caused Ge Jian's psychological expectations to plummet. "You came here in the Demon Capital, and there was no one chasing you, right?" This was the worst conjecture in Ge Jian's heart. After the two graduated from junior high school, Ge Jian was admitted to a key high school, but Yan Ming went to a high school that did not enter the stream, and there was no abnormality in the examination room, and Yan Ming's academic performance in junior high school was also stable within dozens of the bottom of the class.

Two years later, Yan Ming was dropped out of school because of a fight, went to a technical school, and dropped out again half a year later. At that time, Ge Jian was in the third year of high school review, and the specific reason was not clear, and it was rumored afterwards that it was because of a woman.

Next, Ge Jian went to college, and in the occasional small talk between his junior high school classmates, he heard rumors of Yan Ming fighting,, and being fired from his job from time to time. When she went home for the Chinese New Year, her mother also used Yan Ming as a negative example, saying that she was not motivated when she played video games, and warned Ge Jian not to make friends carelessly.

But in fact, as his best friend, Yan Ming didn't hide many things from Ge Jian, and the reason for most of the things was just that Yan Ming couldn't get used to some people and couldn't bear certain things because of his extra sense of justice.

This time, I was hungry for three days, and I ran to the magic capital alone, and no matter how I looked at it, I was suspected of running away.

"Huh?" Hearing the question, Yan Ming was slightly stunned, and then he also understood the meaning of the leather sword, and quickly denied it: "I didn't run away to come to the Demon Capital. And I haven't been in a fight for a long time. ”

"It's always good not to fight. Ge Jian said this, but he didn't know whether to praise this maturity in his heart.

"It's not a runaway, but it could be more troublesome. Yan Ming seemed to have mustered up enough courage and looked directly into the eyes of the leather sword and said.

"Everything else is a trifle. ”

"I'm here to ask you for one thing, you must promise me!" Yan Ming's tone was solemn, as if proposing.

"Your expression makes my heart furious, just promise you. ”

"Play EFHT with me. ”

Ge Jian put away his relaxed expression and fell silent.

A girl at the dining table next to her burst out laughing, muttering quietly, vaguely hearing words such as coming out, confessing, and being disappointed.

The EFHT that Yan Ming is talking about is a new game.

At the height of its golden age, a well-known player created the first generation of MOBA maps using a game called 'War Trick III', which took the world by storm.

Since then, major game companies have followed suit, similar games with their own characteristics have appeared one after another, and the prize money of various international e-sports competitions has also been continuously pushed up, and the prize money alone is no longer inferior to traditional large-scale sports events.

Ge Jian knows very little about video games now, but he is no stranger to seeing EFHT's promotional advertisements when he is online for leisure.

The heat of the day had long since dissipated, and the cool breeze of midnight blew up, making it difficult for Ge Jian to answer, and the atmosphere was cold because of the silence. At this time, two more people came to the stall, one of them was the assistant teacher of Ge Jian, and he glanced around and saw that there was no vacancy, but he found that Ge Jian, since he had no mustard, he naturally came to share the table.

Ge Jian couldn't refuse, said a few polite words, and moved the empty chair from the adjacent table to beckon him to sit down. The somewhat tense atmosphere suddenly eased, and Ge Jian and Yan Ming didn't mention the game again in the future.

The assistant teacher's surname is Zhao, he is nearly thirty years old, he just got married last year, and his ordinary appearance is a little bit of a tooth. The teaching assistant's friend's surname is Hu, and he is tall and thin, with small eyes, and several red sores on his forehead. It's a college classmate who is a teaching assistant, and I also work as a teaching assistant at the university next door, but it's not related to electronic software, but it's a partial biology.

Assistant Teacher Hu ordered snacks and a case of beer, and Assistant Teacher Zhao was probably embarrassed to take the two away and pull the two to eat and drink together. The surnamed Hu began to complain after a few cups, first saying that he should not obey the adjustment when he was admitted to graduate school, and Assistant Teacher Zhao didn't seem to be the first time to hear this topic, and he drank with him while comforting him absentmindedly. Ge Jian and Yan Ming quickly understood the purpose of the other two's drinking, and they just used the wine to kill their sorrows, so they followed the topic of the two without saying a word.

The surnamed Hu then complained about the low salary, and the mother at home said that his books were all in vain, and how other people's children were. Assistant Teacher Zhao also extinguished his interest in persuasion and drank with his head bored. Ge Jian saw that the two of them were so depressed, and he wanted to persuade one or two to liven up the atmosphere, but after some searching, he still didn't know what to say, but he listened more and more annoyed, and he wanted to stuff the beer bottle into this guy's mouth, and then smash it hard to completely plug his throat.

The surname Hu had already gone down three times while talking, but the words became more and more: the eldest brother in the family couldn't get the bride price, and the object he had been dealing with for a long time ran away with others; a cousin was beaten by her husband because she didn't marry into a good family; and during the Chinese New Year, the chickens raised at home suffered from a plague and were unlucky. After talking about the work of the school, the family talked about the work of the school: a certain professor has an odd temper and cannot afford to serve him; a certain student is the second generation and takes money to settle the situation; the relationship between the new beautiful girl in the academic affairs office and a certain dean is unknown......

At first, Ge Jian thought that Assistant Teacher Zhao was leaving him because of face, and after saying a few words, he would leave a step for the two of them to leave, but now he found out that he had pulled two cushions. Thinking of this, it was inevitable that Assistant Teacher Zhao glanced at it strangely, and the other party also looked apologetic.

"The object who has been in charge for half a year blows, come out to drink with him. I can't stand the way he drank too much, so you two will help me later. You can rest assured about the things that are done, to be honest, what you wrote in the afternoon is really good. "It seems that Assistant Teacher Zhao is determined to pull the two into the water.

Ge Jian didn't think there would be any problems with his Bi She, but suddenly understood what the assistant teacher meant: "Then is he drinking too much now?"

Assistant Teacher Zhao tugged at the corners of his mouth and said, "There are still about ten bottles left." ”

As soon as the words fell, I heard a bang, and Yan Ming, who was next to him, paused a bottle of beer on the table. Ge Jian's heart was cold, if he was disappointed in life, Yan Ming would definitely throw out the other three people a few streets, this kind of non-stop complaining of not knowing the blessing in the blessing was most likely to provoke Yan Ming. Just when Ge Jian thought that he was going to open the jewelry and open the big explosion of three kills, he saw him laugh, and then as if he was a different person, he chatted with the surname Hu. In less than ten sentences, he has already called him a brother and a brother, and ten glasses of wine have been eaten, and the topic has changed from the complaint of a resentful woman to the pride of a husband. The words 'When you have money, you must thank your ex-girlfriend for not marrying', Assistant Teacher Zhao also became interested, and he kept raising his glass.

The next three people sang and danced, until the night market was about to disperse at three o'clock in the second half of the night, Yan Ming relied on his own amount of alcohol to let go of the two assistant teachers, and Ge Jian was dumbfounded.

"You must have thought about what to do with them before you got them drunk, right?" asked Ge Jian as he looked at the two big men lying on the table.

"It doesn't seem to be. ”

Ge Jian silently raised his middle finger at the latter.

(1.3)

Things didn't turn out to be as troublesome as Jie Jian imagined. Although the assistant teacher surnamed Hu drank a lot, he still retained a trace of reason, and in his vague guidance, Ge Jian and Yan Ming helped the two drunk men to the apartment rented by the assistant professor Hu.

The size of the room is very small, except for a bed and a table, there is only a one-person wide aisle connecting to a balcony that is also one person wide. After putting the two drunks on the single bed indiscriminately, Ge Jian and Yan Ming sat at the table tiredly, Yan Ming was fine, Ge Jian was already out of breath.

"This Nima doesn't even have an elevator. Ge Jian grumbled softly.

"I've never seen a five-story elevator. Yan Ming picked up the folder on the table as he spoke, opened it, and read it softly: "Class in the Ant Colony: On the Causal Relationship between the Existence of Super Individuals and the Formation of Classes." University teachers are different, just look at this title and look at it. ”

Strictly speaking, these two people can't be called university teachers yet, but Ge Jian doesn't bother to correct them. "It's the same if you drink too much!" Ge Jian pressed his right shoulder with his left hand and turned slightly, he had never taken care of a drunk person, and it was really hard to help someone up the stairs just now. turned his head to look at the two big men who were hugging each other, and wanted to take out his mobile phone to take a picture, but he still gave up.

Returning to the situation where the two of them sat opposite each other, the atmosphere was cold again, and Yan Ming, who could talk to everyone, didn't know how to go back to the topic a few hours ago again.

This is not surprising, Yan Ming's request for the game is unusual. In the eyes of outsiders, it is also unbelievable, requiring fresh graduates of a first-class university to play games during the completion of the program, which is probably a little more serious than asking the top students who are reviewing the college entrance examination to participate in the training camp of the Chinese Football League.

And it's hard for Ge Jian, who has been blocked by his mother in an Internet café since he was in junior high school, and vowed not to play games before the college entrance examination. After going to college, I continued to concentrate on my studies, and my mother kept talking about the harm of the game, and the leather sword was able to not touch the game, so there was really no need to upset my mother.

"Let's talk about the game first. Ge Jian was the first to speak, "Maybe there is another way to go." ”

"News from a friend in the imperial capital, half a month later, there is a guy who doesn't know what the second generation is going to form a team, and it is the kind that relies on the studio. Yan Ming said slowly in a slightly hoarse voice after drinking: "I'm going to try it." ”

Ge Jian nodded slightly, there has been a lot of news about various e-sports recently, and it can be regarded as a way out for Yan Ming. "What can I do?"

"The first round of auditions is not a big problem. I'm not sure about the random wheel battles in the last few rounds, and what's worse is that I'm past the best age for esports and probably need the top three to stand a chance. So you have to be a babysitter. ”

"Hmm. Ge Jian understood Yan Ming's situation, "It's a good idea to let me be a 'nursery', but I'm afraid I can't support it." ”

"Video games also require talent, and I've always thought you have that talent. Yan Ming stared straight at the leather sword.

"Should I say thank you?" said Ge Jian, who disagreed with such a compliment. At this time, Assistant Teacher Hu snored, and his voice was not small. Ge Jian looked at the wall clock, it was already four o'clock in the morning, and he felt a wave of sleepiness hit him. Because he is not addicted to alcohol, he didn't drink much just now, and he was not drunk at this time, and the best way to simply dispel sleepiness is to wash his face, which is to get up with a leather sword and turn into the bathroom.

Yan Ming's face was desperate: "Big brother, you haven't played Dota, don't you feel regretful in your college career?"

"Hey, maybe. The voice was accompanied by the sound of rushing water: "What's the matter with not eating for three days?"

"I had a big fight with my family. "The voice was flat, and there was no more meaning to explain.

Ge Jian guessed slightly, but was not surprised: "Do you still have money in your pocket?"

"Cleaner than the face. ”

"What if it doesn't work out?" washed away his sleepiness, Ge Jian turned out of the bathroom, his eyes fixed on Yan Ming.

"I won't talk about it anymore. Yan Ming looked relaxed and indifferent.

"What should I do?" was already a situation of fighting against the water, and Ge Jian also dissipated the idea of persuasion.

"The friend who gave me the news in the imperial capital has an arrangement, and for half a month, the two of us can concentrate on practicing. ”

"When are you leaving?"

"The sooner the better!" Yan Ming's voice revealed joy.

"Then be chic, just go, and sleep on the train. "When it comes to taking time off, you just need to call during the day. "I'll give it my all. ”

"I believe in you. Yan Ming stood up and bowed in thanks, but he didn't raise his head for a long time.

"Wash your face and refresh yourself!" I'll go back to my dorm room and get some things and go to the train station. With that, Ge Jian turned around and went out. Secretly, don't cry, you kid, I don't want to see it.

（2.1）

On the way to the train station, Ge Jian always had a sense of unreality, and his words and deeds were as if he was not himself. The reason for saying the words 'just go', Ge Jian thought it was because he drank too much. In addition, if you don't look at Yan Ming's tears, she is as handsome as if she is possessed by a hero. But if you think about it carefully, there is a key question: Yan Ming, are you crying or not? If you don't cry, wouldn't Lao Tzu be the same.

Until he got on the train, Ge Jian failed to find conclusive evidence about whether he cried or not. Thinking about it from another perspective, I would definitely bring such an ugly thing into the coffin, and finally give up the inquiry.

Ge Jian hadn't slept all night, and as soon as his butt was glued to the train seat, he felt that his eyelids were heavier than a thousand catties, but he heard Yan Ming muttering and asking, "Is it a bit extravagant to take the high-speed train?" Yan Ming, who was sitting opposite, looked at the price on the ticket with a tangled expression.

"Cheap cars all depart at night, and there are only fifteen days in half a month, so it's a race against time!" Ge Jian also felt a little pain in his heart, but if he waited until the evening to leave, wouldn't all the rhetoric just now become a joke, and he had to slap his swollen face and become fat. Instead, he asked for the specific details after arriving in the imperial capital. But I didn't want Yan Ming to answer like this: I don't know, listen to my friend's arrangement.

Ge Jian was immediately stunned, and then felt a shock to his body, and the train actually drove at this time. At this point, Ge Jian reluctantly spoke: "Promise me, if your friend asks you to count the money, don't count it!"

"What do you mean?"

"It is inevitable that people will be bought, but it would be too embarrassing to count the money yourself. ”

“...... , It's useless for me to explain, you will naturally feel at ease after meeting him. By the way, his name is Brother Dao. After speaking, he smiled slightly

"Damn, I'm even more at ease, okay!

"It's just a screen name. ”

In the train station of the imperial capital, Yan Ming got in touch with Brother Dao. Then, according to the instructions, in the conversion between the subway and the bus, finally when it was completely dark, I came to the other party's house, an ordinary residential community outside the sixth ring road.

At the first glance of Brother Dao when he opened the door, Ge Jian was really relieved, and the only sigh was the third of the three laws of screen names: screen names may be completely opposite to the actual situation.

When Yan Ming met Brother Dao in an online game a few years ago, he was a tall elf ranger called 'Prodigal Son Knife', and the title of Brother Dao came from this. Unexpectedly, it is reasonable that this guy's body is a short and dumpty. The height of 1.6 meters is thicker and shorter due to obesity, and the protruding belly is like that of a pregnant woman. The front and back double-layered chin and bulging cheeks prop up the big face, but the already small facial features are cautiously gathered together, and with the white skin like rice paper, there is a blank effect like an ink painting. When the two words blank space appeared in Ge Jian's mind, he almost couldn't suppress his laughter.

Yan Ming warmly hugged Brother Dao who opened the door, and after entering the door, he gave a brief introduction to Brother Dao and Ge Jian. Ge Jian wanted to say a few polite greetings, but he didn't want Brother Dao to say, 'Let's do the right thing', so he took the two of them to the four computers in the living room, and the computer screen was already a logged in game interface.

Yan Ming sat next to Brother Dao without saying a word, Ge Jian looked at the suitcase at the door, and said in his heart that he had never seen such a monkey in a hurry, but he shook his head and followed.

As soon as you sit down on your butt, a 'Cherry ** invites you to join the team' pops up on the screen, click to accept, and the game begins. Although it was the first time he had played this game, he quickly discovered that it was a four-person squad. The names of the first three people are: cherry**, apple**, banana**, Ge Jian felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't say it. The last team-mate was Rudgula, who didn't seem to be here.

The chat quickly began in the squad channel:

- Ludgula: Finally at Brother Dao's house?

- Apple** (Yan Ming): It's time to exhaust me (emoji = sweat)

- Ruddgula: Who is Banana?

- Banana** (Leather Sword): I am Leather Sword.

- Rudgula: ...... Who?

- Ruddgula: Real name?

- Apple** (Yan Ming): My good brother, I came to help, I haven't played this game.

- Countdown to the start of the game: 5

- Ludgula: Oh...... , your real name is Ge Jian?Brother Bird, what is your real name?

- Countdown to the start of the game: 4

-Apple** (Yan Ming): If you say your real name, I'll tell you mine.

- Countdown to the start of the game: 3

- Countdown to the start of the game: 2

- Ruddgula: I said it earlier, but you don't believe it. (Emoji = Sad)

-Apple** (Yan Ming): Cut~

- Countdown to the start of the game: 1

Accompanied by a sound effect, the screen displays a screen reading a progress bar, and the chat ends.

Ge Jian admired the exquisite background picture and asked, "Who is this Ludgula?"

"The girl in the Northeast is very interesting, but she is a bit of a secondary two. Yan Ming replied with a smile, his expression as if he was introducing his naughty sister.

"People are not in vain, boys!" Brother Dao on the side also interjected.

"What middle two?" Ge Jian heard words he didn't understand.

"She said her name was Rudgula and she was the vampire queen. In a few words, the game had already begun, and Yan Ming no longer explained, but introduced the specific content of the game.

The first time in the history of Ge Jian this kind of game experience is muddy, the only thing that impresses me is the sound effect of the character's death, especially when the team is destroyed, as if it is the beginning of a symphony of fate.

"That's winning, right?" Watching the huge red base building collapse, Ge Jian asked uncertainly.

"Hmm!" Yan Ming let go of the mouse and turned his wrists with his hands clasped together, "What does it feel?"

"I'm a little hungry. ”

"Hey!" Yan Ming cried out dissatisfied.

"It doesn't feel anything. "Ge Jian told the truth. "But it feels so simple. ”

"This game doesn't have an economic equipment system like other games of this type, so it's easy to get started. The key to victory or defeat is to anticipate the enemy's intentions, and a sense of rhythm is required from fighting for the map mechanics to dodging sieges. Yan Ming talked about his own gaming experience.

"It's useless to say so much, when you see the hero on the other side, it's right to go up recklessly. "Brother Dao on one side obviously has different opinions.

Ge Jian suddenly realized that he had found the reason for the group annihilation just a few times.

A string of text suddenly floated on the screen.

- Ludgula: Brother Dao is right, just do it, don't be cowardly. (Emoji = Confidence)

"Can she hear us?" asked Ge Jian in surprise.

- Ludgula: Big brother, have you ever heard of voice chat software?

"UT is still UC's, and it seems to have been used back then. As he spoke, Ge Jian turned his head to look at Yan Ming for confirmation, which was when the two of them were messing around in the Internet café. Although Ge Jian knows about the all-round war of social software over the years, he doesn't know when and where, the software he said has been swept into the garbage heap.

- Ludgula: Brother Bird, where did you find the primitives? (emoji = thriller)

"Next game, next game. Leather Sword wittily changed the subject, tapping Ready at the bottom of the middle of the screen.

"Since you can hear it, why don't you command it?" Ge Jian was a little concerned about the title of the primitive, but he was more concerned about the outcome of the game.

"These two won't listen. Yan Ming smiled helplessly.