That summer, the sun was blazing, the wind was hot, and the flocks of cicadas hidden in the leafy trees were chirping endlessly. The old people moved the square stools, sat in the shade of the trees, and fanned the wind leisurely with bamboo fans, not caring about the noise of the insects above their heads.

On the street of the community, an eight-year-old boy with a newly knotted blood scab on his knee, wearing suit shorts and a small vest, looking like a wild monkey, said to the girl who was quite agreeable after chatting:

"Well, do you want to play together?"

The little girl is a mixed-race child who has just moved to this ancient country. In the face of the boy's invitation, her clear and innocent starry eyes blinked, and with a gaze that seemed to be able to see through the boy, she stared at him for a while before nodding and saying, "Okay." ”

From a very young age, she could intuitively sense whether others were pretending or malicious. It was as if it was a strange telepathic force that was formless and formless. Mom told her that she had inherited some of her father's talents.

The boy in front of him who reported his family name was Li Pu was a very pure and straightforward person. The girl thought to herself. So she didn't say no, but she didn't expect too much either.

Every time she moved, she lost her original neighbor friends — well, only small neighbors, no little friends.

Only mom and books won't leave her.

Despite her young age, she was used to it. It's just that maybe it's because I'm a little too childish...... I still hope to have friends other than books and stuffed dolls, and a partner who will chat with her.

"Where are you going?" The little girl followed closely behind the boy.

"What do you like to play?" The little boy waved a picked wicker as if he were wielding a soft sword. What a self-satisfied guy!

"Read!" The little girl held up the comic magazine "Painting King Big Book" in her hand.

"Oh, I like to watch it too, but I've been watching it for a long time. Let's have some other fun. The little boy named Li Pu thought for a while, "By the way, have you ever made a foreign film?" ”

"What is a foreign film?" The little girl didn't understand, probably because the boys in this country liked to play. Just like the boys in the place where they used to live loved to play baseball.

"That's it, it's called a foreign film, or a foreign painting." Li Pu took out a small stack of cards from the pocket of his suit pants and handed it to the girl.

When the girl looked at it, it was all small pieces of colored paper cut into squares. It is painted with a cartoon pattern that is poorly drawn. The cards seem to have been folded for a long time, crumpled and crumpled into triangles.

"How do you play this?" The girl asked.

"That's it, fold it up, shoot it the side, and rely on the wind to turn the foreign film over." Li Pu explained: "It's all yours to turn it over!" ”

"Are these little cards any use?" The girl blinked.

"Do you want to say that it is useful...... Li Pu thought for a while, spread out his foreign pieces like playing cards, and displayed: "Take it back and look at it, there are all kinds of patterns." ”

"But it's not pretty."

The girl expressed her opinion bluntly. The crumpled little cards are filled with ugly robots, or Saint Seiya that is clearly not the original drawing of Masami Sadada, which is much more ugly than the large stack of Magic cards in his own home.

"Uh, okay. This game hasn't been very popular lately. Li Pu was a little frustrated, he used to like this game very much. A pile of foreign films is still pestering my father to buy it.

He thought about it again, and then said, "Why don't you go and play games?" Have you ever been in the games room? ”

"Nope." The girl shook her head.

"Then I'll take you." Li Pu patted his chest and said: "I still have two yuan, I can buy eight game coins, half of you!" He thought about it again, "Or buy four coins, and the remaining one dollar will buy two red bean popsicles, one for each of us." ”

The girl nodded, she had already rejected the play once, and this time she didn't want to refuse again.

The arcade where the boy frequented was a common unlicensed video game store in the mid-90s. After being laid off from their jobs in an old bungalow in an alley, they opened a video game store in their home with a lot of business acumen. Three dollars can rent an hour of doubles Sega Vi and Nintendo respectively in front of a few color TVs, the richer children are generally alone and then find a friend to accompany themselves, and more video game fans are looking for their own unknown players to each give a piece of five cents, you can try to save change and play more time.

On the other side, there are seven seated arcade machines on the wall, which are respectively plugged into the "Bloody Temple", "Street Fighter 2", "Samurai Shodown 1&2", "Famous General", "Dinosaur Kombat" and the latest "94 King of Fighting". Except for "Famous General" and "Dinosaur Kombat", the others are all fighting games - all because the black-hearted boss of the video game store is now a fighting game that is far more likely to consume players' in-game currency than side-scrolling.

In 1994, the "minors are not allowed" regulation in entertainment venues had not yet been issued, and few stores cared, and players were engrossed in their struggle. A junior elementary school student as big as Li Pu and the girl ran in, but they were just looked at a few more times by others.

"Yo, this foreign girl is so watery!" The old woman who was selling game coins at an old table saw the girl who came in with Li Pu, and her eyes suddenly lit up, "I haven't seen it before, which child is it?" As he spoke, he wanted to raise his hand and touch the girl's pink little face.

In the face of the overly enthusiastic aunt, the girl was probably a little shy, and suddenly hid behind Li Pu like a timid kitten.

"Auntie, don't worry about it, I want to buy a dollar of game currency. Then buy two red bean popsicles! Li Pu pulled out four crumpled five-pointed bills from his pocket.

He took the game currency and popsicle handed by the old woman. The boy gave half of the girl's share as promised.

Li Pu asked, "What do you want to play?" Hit or pass? ”

"Hmm~~~ I'll watch you play first, right?" The girl sucks the cheap red bean popsicle little by little with her slightly curled pink lips that have not yet been milked - it's so cold! Although the taste was not particularly sweet, it made her feel a little dizzy after walking a long way on the asphalt road under the scorching sun.

"Okay, when I'm done eating popsicles, I'm going to fight the latest king of country-versus-country fighting!" Li Pu tossed the two gold art bronze coins in his hand.

"Are you good at this?" The girl asked.

"Hehe, do you know how many levels there are in a fighting game?" Li Pu clasped his hands to his chest, and sold Guan Zi with the look of a little master.

"I don't know." The girl, who had never played with electric before, shook her head obediently.

"Then I'll explain them to you one by one, this is all my experience after careful observation." Li Pu approached the girl, as if he was really teaching cheats, and looked at her ear and said, "Do you see the big brother who is playing the "Hao Blood Temple Clan" over there?" ”

The girl opened her eyes wide and looked over, and in front of an arcade machine, a teenager about a junior high school student, was operating a game character who looked like a bald monk dressed in orange, grabbing the joystick with his left hand and slamming the four buttons with his right hand. Make the bald monk in the game "Drink ha!" "The ground screams for a while, kicks and splits the palms, but most of them are swings, and occasionally if you are lucky, you will hit that little, but you will be beaten more.

"This is the weakest smashing game. He didn't know how to fight at all, so he desperately shook and pressed, occasionally hitting his opponent a few times, to see if he was lucky. The boy shrugged, "But generally speaking, people who play like this often have to re-invest if they can't pass a level if they are unlucky." ”

"Well, it doesn't look like there's any discipline at all." Feeling her ears tickled by the boy's breath, the girl couldn't help but shrink her neck.

"There's another big brother," Li Pu used his gaze to guide the girl to look at another chubby teenager who was playing Street Fighter II from a distance, looking like a high school student, "He has already shaken out his skills, and he has been letting off air." If you continue to fight like this, you will have no problem passing three or four levels. ”

The boy paused deliberately, as if to show off, and said, "However, I am more powerful than him, because I not only know that pressing the punch button after shaking the circle can release qigong waves......" He drew a counterclockwise arc with his hand, "but also knows that first downward, then up for a while, and at the same time pressing the punch button, you can hit an invincible air punch!" ”

"Are you very good here?" The girl asked, tilting her little head, with interest.

"Uh, it's alright." Li Pu scratched his head and said honestly: "However, even if you have mastered the two great tricks of the Qi Relief Gong Wave and the Air Fist. There are still unbeatable machine masters. For example, the people over there......"

Li Pu pointed to a young man with glasses who was engrossed in fighting the "King of Fighters" with others. He said to the girl in a tone full of admiration: "His nickname is Brother Four-Eyed, and he is the most powerful person here!" In the games here, he can basically use one coin to clear the level. ”

"That's what I've always wanted to be. It's my dream to be at the level he is at now. ”

He seriously set a very worthless goal in life.

"Then I'll have fun too." The little girl with a wide range of interests did not laugh at this worthless goal that would be reprimanded by the teacher as a "plaything".

It's a pity that the four-eyed boy has been using his superb technique to dominate the machine, and all the other players can't challenge him. Li Pu watched from the side for a while, and couldn't help but try to go up and choose the "Mexican Squad" - the three-person team with the most similar skills to Street Fighter in this game - to challenge the four-eyed boy once, but lost badly, when the game character "Shiranui Mai", who was operated by the other party, waved a fan, violently swayed his breasts in a victory pose, mercilessly announcing that the boy was cut by the other party.

At this moment, on the game screen, the battle statistics belonging to the "British team" of Brother Four Eyes have already won the record of twelve challengers.

This "King of Fighters 94" is the latest game substrate that the store owner just bought, and it is just the right hit. Although Li Pu likes it very much, other players are also attracted to it. The boy pinched the last gold bronze hammer and hesitated whether to continue the challenge - if he lost again, he would not have to play, so he could only watch.

The girl, who had been watching from the side, suddenly stretched out her little white lotus hand, threw a game coin into the mouth of the coin, and smiled at the boy with shining eyes: "It seems to be fun, I'll play it too." ”

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