Chapter 9: Game PK

  "Sack, our team is not online now, we can't beat them," I was chased by a warrior and ran around, my blood volume was in danger several times.

  Gu Xue Lin sat beside me, she wasn't here to fight, but was enthusiastically killing monsters. A minute ago, she had just gotten a small piece of equipment, which made her very excited.

  "It's okay, let's hold on for a while, Crow and Flatbean said they'll be online later," the sack said.

  "Mu Xian, gunnysack, hurry up, in front of the weapon shop, those bastards are here again." Someone shouted from the gang.

  "I was originally planning to go to Huoyue Temple this afternoon for a fight, but now, this fight has been going on for over two hours." I complained.

  "What are you going to the Fox Moon Temple for? A medal or a bracelet? I have plenty of them in my warehouse, if you're lacking, I can give you some." As he spoke, Sack ran and stabbed, only to hear a miserable scream, "Ah——", someone fell to the ground.

  A line of red words appeared in the dialogue box on the screen: "Legendary ring dropped at Mengchong Province (342, 335)"

  I tried hard to restrain my thoughts, not thinking about these dirty and vulgar things, but the more I tried to hold back from thinking, the clearer my inner thoughts became, and then I started to breathe rapidly and tense up.

  I don't know if it's because of those four words "beautiful woman overnight" and the phone number that followed, but it gave me a kind of thrill.

  I just feel like I'm really damn despicable.

  Because I have always thought that even if I am not a straightforward and honest gentleman, I am absolutely not this kind of shameless and despicable scoundrel.

  Since I was young, I have only slept with two girls.

  One is Gao Xue Lin, and the other is a girl from a law school I met when I was working as an editor at a magazine company for half a year.

  We only maintained a month of romantic relationship and then broke up.

  The reason for the breakup was absurd. She didn't like to add cilantro when eating noodles, but liked to add a lot of vinegar, while I was the opposite, liking to add a lot of cilantro and not liking to add vinegar.

  Then we parted ways amicably.

  The girl soon had a new boyfriend.

  It wasn't until more than half a year had passed that I realized the reason we broke up was not because of coriander or vinegar, but because I didn't want to accompany her to go shopping, see the sea, climb mountains, visit amusement parks, or go to night markets. Instead, I often stayed cooped up at home. In her eyes, I had become a very dull person.

  So when Gu Xue Lin came to find me during that National Day holiday, I took her to all these places.

  Those days, we had a lot of fun.

  Later on, we naturally ended up together. If she didn't have to attend classes, out of the 24 hours in a day, we spent 23 and a half hours together.

  Sometimes I really can't tell the difference between this kind of thing and getting married. Maybe that's what a "naked marriage" is all about.

  Now, squatting in the toilet, facing these few words on the door, I actually had such dirty and vulgar thoughts, I think I'm a failure as a person.

  I feel I owe an apology to Gu Xue Lin.

  I'm sorry for her trust in me, and even more sorry for her care about me.

  This is clearly a desecration of her, a desecration of this feeling, and also an insult to my own character.

  My brain is almost out of control.

  Two ideas collided fiercely in intense interweaving.

  One scolds oneself for being hypocritical, filthy and despicable.

  Another thing I strongly refute is that it's natural and shouldn't be judged simply by moral standards.

  It made me sweat all over, from head to toe, wet and dripping, as if I had just been pulled out of the water.

  I thought of the burlap sack's words, haven't you had no contact with society? You should experience society well before writing.

  So is this considered an experience?

  I suppose so.

  For some inexplicable reason, everything is accidental.

  My hands trembling, I took out my phone from my pocket and then dialed the number on the door.

  When I finished pressing eleven digits, my thumb stopped on the green dial button.

  Do we really have to fight our way through?

  I hesitated for a moment and then pressed on.

  At that moment, I didn't know what reason made me actually dial the phone call.

  The air suddenly became stagnant, my heart suddenly tightened, I could hear my own heartbeat, "thump---thump---" as if it had already jumped to the tip of my throat, and with a little more effort, it would jump out of my mouth. I was afraid that my heart would really jump out, so I tightly closed my mouth.

  I felt a tremble all over my body, as if I was about to fall down, so I had to lean against the wall beside me.

  The phone rang "ding-ding" twice, but no one answered.

  Maybe it was someone's prank, and on the door, there was a phone number written like this.

  I'm guessing so.

  Forget it, might as well hang up then.

  My hand trembled as I pressed the cancel button.

  The phone hung up.

  I let out a breath of air, and at this moment, a drop of sweat on my forehead "pattered" down to the ground beside my foot.

  I wiped the sweat from my forehead with my hand.

  At this time, I just heard the mobile phone "buzz" and started vibrating.

  My heart suddenly rose to my throat again.

  Was it that person who called just now?

  I quickly lowered my head and saw that the incoming call displayed "Gǔ Xuělín" in three characters.

  What a relief, I let out a sigh of relief.

  Pressed the answer button.

  "Are you okay? It's been over twenty minutes already."

  "Oh, I'm fine, I'll be right back."

  Gu Xue Lin hung up the phone.

  I started flushing the toilet, then after flushing, I opened the door and walked out.

  The hemp bag rushed up and picked up the ring. "Heh, just killed five or six people in a while, and exploded this legendary ring."

  "It's okay, I'll give you a few pieces of Huoyue later." I saw the legendary knife on Ma Dai's hand and thought of how his Huoyue knife had just exploded because of card jamming.

  "I'll have the Moonwhisper Knife appraised tonight," said Masha with great confidence.

  "This sword has been appraised over a dozen times," someone in the guild said.

  "Uh-huh, you guys go ahead and play, I'll go use the restroom." As I said that, I took off my headphones, stood up, and pulled out my seat.

  "What's wrong?" asked Gu Xue Lin as she saw me stand up.

  "Oh, I'll just go to the bathroom." I said with a smile, "The ice cream I ate on the road earlier is making my stomach feel a bit uncomfortable, it's nothing, maybe squatting for a bit will help."

  "Ah," Gu Xue Lin nodded slightly.

  "You go on playing," I said, waving my hand at her as I headed towards the toilet in the northeast corner of the internet cafe.

  Gu Xue Lin lowered her head again and continued playing the game.