Chapter 16#
Thrown Flowers#
The person on the other side didn’t deliberately lower his voice. His tone was light, natural, and casual.
With only two words, the live room exploded.
The comments, which were already extremely difficult to discern, directly turned into a sheet of white. Only V-users, who changed into garish colors, were able to struggle to break through the crowd of comments.
[Voice! Slurp slurp!]
[Auntie play with him play with him!]
[My ears exploded wuwuwu! Voice-controlled welfare QAQ]
[Ah, so it’s a boy? I thought ‘shu’ was a girl, I was already prepared to ship them.]
[Boys don’t stop it (softly)]
[??? Seems to make sense?]
[Keep it in your own circles, this is esports, not a fandom circle.]
Shen Fang felt his ears go numb, and his fingers unconsciously curled.
The voice coming from the headphones hadn’t changed much from a few years ago, but the feeling it gave him was completely different from his impression.
This voice was colder, gentler.
Unlike before, when there was still a youthful, exuberant air. His whole person seemed to have settled over time, and he spoke with a calmness and composure. He had become more mature, more… attractive.
Wanted to hear his voice, wanted him to say a bit more, just a bit more.
“Is Number 1 not convenient to turn on his mic?”
Mo Xuzhi spoke. Number 5 girl paused for a while, seeing that Shen Fang still had no intention of speaking, and said, “If it’s not convenient then forget it…”
“Okay.”
Shen Fang said: “It’s not inconvenient.”
Little Zhou, who had moved silently to sit next to him, looked Shen Fang up and down, then took another look at the computer screen, somewhat confused.
They hadn’t even gotten off the plane yet, and the captain was already so excited his eyes were red?
Mo Xuzhi moved the mouse, slowly finding his touch.
As he expected, after several years of not playing, his skills had plummeted.
‘shen_’ still moved with him as before. The other party’s reaction was fast and his hand speed was also fast, and in the end, it turned into him being carried all the way to the final circle.
The other three teammates were all dead and were looking at them both eagerly.
[??? Is this ‘shu’ that some people were talking about? Good skills?]
[God Shen gave him all the good weapons, and as a result, he didn’t want them, insisting on holding a broken gun and shooting at air. Sigh, just playing.]
[Different from what I imagined… Forget it, it’s enough that the voice sounds good, can’t expect too much, brother say a few more words please.]
[Auntie is awesome! Able to hit from so far away!]
[Will this round flip? There are still so many people in the final circle.]
[One carrying four, truly no way. The god-tier teammate I originally thought of turned out to be just a decoration.]
Shen Fang had turned off the comments long after landing.
The number of people around increased, and he and ‘shu’ hid in a house to observe the surrounding situation.
As before, Shen Fang was responsible for the front, and Mo Xuzhi was responsible for the back.
The sound of vehicles passing came from outside.
Shen Fang listened carefully to the movement.
Mo Xuzhi walked along the wall and stopped at a certain place.
Chambered.
Calculating the distance in his heart, Mo Xuzhi operated the character to make a sudden turn, raising the gun to the window.
—And then there was no movement.
“Auntie, turn around, north by east thirty degrees.”
Hearing the voice, Shen Fang, who was still observing the situation outside in the front, turned around instantly, his muzzle pointing toward the direction Mo Xuzhi said without hesitation.
A gunshot.
[shen_ killed Passerby A]
[Was there someone behind just now???]
[I’m not only deaf, but also blind. I not only didn’t hear the footsteps behind, but the screen also shook and I didn’t see clearly what the Gun God did just now.]
[Awesome!]
[Gun God’s reaction speed is so fast!]
[How did ‘shu’ find out there was someone outside? Reasonably speaking, he shouldn’t be able to see it from his side.]
[What was ‘shu’ doing just now, why did he stop?]
In view of ‘shu’s series of operations just now, the netizens in the live room simply called him “Lose” directly. Within a short time, they had already gotten used to it. (TN: ‘shu’ sounds like ’lose’ in Chinese)
“Sorry, the hospital network is a bit bad.”
Mo Xuzhi moved the computer to the window, and the frozen screen finally moved again.
He finally understood why Ji Baiwen took the computer outside.
He asked again: “Did a motorcade pass just now?”
“Yeah. Not even half a minute ago.”
Shen Fang paused, “98k?”
“Yeah, found my touch.” Mo Xuzhi smiled, “After all, getting old, it’s time to go to bed.”
Although the netizens in the live room couldn’t understand what they were communicating, it didn’t stop them from seeing Shen Fang hand the 98k he was carrying to ‘shu’.
[Give it to him give it to him! MD who can stand this wuwu]
[Good grief, carried it all the way and wasn’t willing to waste a single bullet, turns out it was prepared for ‘shu’.]
[? Asking for 98k as soon as he opens his mouth, skills not up to par but still insists on having a good weapon.]
[Gun God! Remember what you said! 98k is your life, no one can snatch it away!]
[This round is really over.]
Then all the netizens saw the person with the name [shu] run straight out of the house, with Shen Fang following behind.
They saw ‘shu’ set up the 98k toward the vehicle in the distance.
Shen Fang, on the other hand, was patrolling the surroundings to see if anyone was lying in ambush in the shadows.
[No way no way, so far, ‘shu’ doesn’t really think he can hit it, right?]
“Bang”
“Bang”
…
“Bang”
Four gunshots rang across the wilderness.
[shu killed Passerby B with 98k]
[shu killed Passerby C with 98k]
[shu killed Passerby D with 98k]
Mo Xuzhi fired four shots in total. One shot aimed at the tire of the fast-moving vehicle, and after making the car stop, before the three people in the car could react, he chambered and aimed without a pause, one shot for each.
The number of teams displayed in the upper right corner decreased by one.
—‘shu’ wiped out a team alone.
[So… so smooth, the posture of my sliding kneel is also very smooth.]
[Awesome! Able to hit from so far away.]
[Wuwuwu is this an ancient god!!!]
[Finally know why Auntie gave the gun so quickly, if it were me I would directly offer up the person along with the gun.]
[So handsome!! Did anyone screen record? Just now I was busy watching wuwuwu]
[I recorded it!!!]
Collecting the resources of the three-person team, Mo Xuzhi and Shen Fang became visibly wealthy.
Then the two of them ran around the field, starting a slaughter.
The netizens in the live room didn’t know where to look for a while.
Both Shen Fang and ‘shu’ showed off their skills, and seeing one meant missing the other.
In the end, not surprisingly, they won the game.
When “Winner Winner Chicken Dinner” appeared on the screen, Mo Xuzhi took the opportunity to open the browser.
The game ended and returned to the preparation interface.
Not one of the five people in the team left.
The girl who had been active asked: “Shall we play another round?”
“Brothers, let’s play another round.”
It was still the voice of that familiar old brother.
The feeling of being carried to a win was too cool. They had a premonition that if they held these two tightly today, ranking up overnight would not be a dream.
Shen Fang’s eyelashes drooped, and he didn’t speak.
Mo Xuzhi smiled faintly and declined:
“Can’t hold out, I’ll stop here today, see you if fate allows.”
He had just searched for how to exit the room and only then knew to right-click on the character, after which the exit option would appear.
He played the game on a whim. Soon he would be going to the production crew, so he had to organize the research data before then, and he had to wake up early to go to the laboratory tomorrow.
After he finished speaking, the number of people in the room changed from 5/5 to 4/5.
Shen Fang also followed him out.
The two of them exited too quickly for the other three to add them as friends. Looking for the two of them from the rankings, they found that both of them had turned off friend requests.
Shen Fang opened the friend panel and saw that the familiar original avatar was still lit. He took the time to type on the keyboard, deleting the words he had typed over and over again, until they became a concise sentence:
[Can we play together tomorrow too?]
The message back there was a bit slow.
Shen Fang could even imagine ‘shu’s leisurely appearance.
[Been a bit busy these few days, definitely in the future ^_^]
Shen Fang’s hand typing on the keyboard stopped, and he lowered his head.
[Then can we add each other on WeChat?]
His fingers moved again and again, and Shen Fang typed a line of text but didn’t dare to send it for a long time.
He was afraid.
He was afraid that as soon as ‘shu’ went offline, he would never come online again.
He was also afraid that after sending this sentence, ‘shu’ would think he had ulterior motives and would no longer contact him.
Suddenly, a hand reached out from the side.
Shen Fang’s eye twitched.
Meeting Shen Fang’s gaze, Little Zhou generously patted his shoulder, his face serious: “If you want to act, act now. If the captain doesn’t ask for the contact information now, you’ll be crying when someone else gets it.”
[Little Zhou is awesome! Well done!]
[Although I feel Little Zhou’s words are a bit strange, it really is that way. Gun God don’t be afraid, just charge! We still want to see you play together.]
[Hahahahahahahahaha Little Zhou is the best wingman.]
[Auntie don’t be cowardly, just go! So good-looking and skills are good, no one will refuse.]
Shen Fang looked at the empty edit box and the new message sent, only feeling his head was a bit swollen.
His hand was a bit numb while his heart was also beating as if it was going to jump out of his chest, and his whole person was in an extremely tense state.
Finally, a message came from the other side.
[shu: Sorry, something suddenly came up, let’s talk next time ^_^]
After the message popped up, the avatar on the other side turned back to a sheet of gray.
Rejected in a roundabout way.
Little Zhou immediately took the stool under his butt and slipped away.
As if being sentenced to a final death, Shen Fang sat in the chair blankly for a while, then closed the chat interface and started another round of the game.
Shen Fang simply killed all night.
While Mo Xuzhi was thinking about how to reply to ‘shen_’, a phone call came in.
It was from the research institute, quite urgent.
Putting the game matter aside for the time being, Mo Xuzhi found his Bluetooth headphones, answered the call while tidying up the things around him.
“…Can make it, takes about an hour, you guys record the deflection path first… yeah, that file is at…”
“The number you dialed is busy, please try again later…”
Luo Wenyun hung up the phone, a pair of light gray pupils reflecting the dim blue light of the computer, no movement on his face.
The computer page was still at a certain Weibo.
This was the Weibo Mo Xuzhi posted today.
The moment he saw the photo, he understood.
“Stop the car.”
The assistant was startled by the sudden voice of Luo Wenyun and slammed on the brakes by the roadside.
“Brother Luo, what’s wrong?”
Luo Wenyun glanced at the large bouquet of blue flowers placed beside him, lit a cigarette, and said:
“All of these, throw them all away.”