Chapter 2 C District No. 47

  "What's with all the tugging?!"

  "Letting him retire is also good for him, what else can he do?"

  "Fine, fine, consider him sensible for not thinking of relying on the club for a lifetime."

  Ye Qiu and Su Mu left, the people who stayed in the conference room seemed to suddenly come back to their senses, and the whispers of discussion started again. Sun Xiang's face was uncertain, he didn't participate, but instead leaned over to the manager: "I don't understand, why did he accept this condition?"

  "He has no choice but to accept," said the manager.

  "Why?"

  "He can't afford the penalty," said the manager.

  "Un... unthinkable?" Sun Xiang was shocked. Ye Qiu had been a professional player in the league for seven years, and he was one of the best. Even if he refused all commercial activities, his salary alone would be enough to pay off the penalty for terminating the contract a year and a half early.

  "You're not from that era, you haven't experienced it. In the early days of the league, professional players weren't as glorious as they are now, everyone was barely scraping by, and most people were part-time. Those who were eliminated back then were really miserable, wasting their youth on games without developing any skills, and afterwards, life was very difficult. Ye Qiu was a genius from that era, relying on his skills to get to where he is today, but he has many friends like that."

  "You mean his property was mostly used to help those friends of his?" Sun Xiang's eyes widened.

  "Not bad."

  "Since he also needs money badly, why doesn't he accept commercial activities?" Sun Xiang asked.

  "This person has no one who knows the reason," said the manager.

  "Do you have any guesses?" Sun Xiang asked.

  "Maybe it's something to do with his family," said the manager.

  "Oh?"

  "No one has ever known anything about his family, and he never talks about it either. It's strange, so I have this suspicion," the manager said.

  "This person has so many stories on him!" Sun Xiang held the Ye Qiu's One Autumn Leaf account card, he also knew that One Autumn Leaf was an entertainment account created by Ye Qiu in online games long before the professional league was formed, and it had been used until now, one of the oldest accounts in the Glory scene.

  "Alright, let's not talk about him anymore. The boss had something to attend to today and couldn't come, but he specifically gave me this bottle of red wine that he has been treasuring for many years, especially to welcome you." the manager said.

  "Haha, thank you so much! With Jia Shi having me, it's time for a comeback."

  Ye Qiu left.

  Su Mu Cheng stood at the entrance of the club, watching Ye Qiu walk away until he disappeared. He kept turning back to wave at her, and Su Mu Cheng was already in tears.

  "There's nothing much else to say, Ye Qiu said a total of eight words: 'Take a year off and come back.'"

  Su Mu nodded heavily, without saying a word. She was no longer the naive little girl she once was, and had already gained the courage to take on many things by herself.

  The sky is floating with snowflakes, this winter is so cold.

  Is it snowing?

  When Ye Qiu left the club, he didn't think about what to do next. The life that had been going on for so many years was suddenly going to change, and he also felt a bit uncomfortable. He just wanted to walk like this for now, walk all the way until he figured things out.

  Who would have thought that the sky wouldn't give him this opportunity, but instead it started snowing at this time, and getting heavier. The swirling snowflakes quickly soaked his shoulders, and his hair also froze into icicles, he couldn't stay out any longer.

  Ye Qiu looked around and saw an internet cafe by the road. Despite it being late at night, the lights were still shining brightly. He immediately sprinted towards the internet cafe.

  The internet cafe was warm and cozy, Ye Qiu shook off the snowflakes on his body as he rushed in and started up a computer at the front desk.

  "Machine No. 47 in Area C." The little girl at the counter reported the location of the machine, then handed back the ID card to the person who had started it up. When she looked up, however, the person was already gone. The little girl didn't seem surprised or concerned, apparently this kind of thing had happened many times before. She silently put away the ID card, knowing that the missing person would come looking for it eventually.

  C area 47th machine, Ye Qiu found it along the row number. This internet cafe is not small in scale, with a considerable number of machines, and there's even a second floor. C area... Ye Qiu saw the district number plate hanging from the ceiling, he didn't need to go upstairs after all.

  When he counted to the 47th machine, Ye Qiu was stunned. There was clearly a woman sitting in this position, playing Honor of Kings and competing with someone in the arena, her intense operations causing her high ponytail to swing back and forth.

  Looking at her profile, seeing the role of Gunner in her screen, Ye Qiu was a bit dazed, he almost thought it was Su Mucheng sitting in this position.

  But he soon realized that this was not the case, Su Mu Cheng was always so gentle and calm, even in intense PK confrontations, she could maintain a smile. To say that Ye Qiu sometimes looked at her smiling and blasting people into smithereens with one shot, and then politely said sorry, inexplicably felt a chill.

  As for the girl in front of her, her appearance is just as beautiful and pure and gentle, but the ferocity with which she bites her teeth and pounds the keyboard and mouse makes one feel that her looks are simply a thorough deception.

  "The killing intent is too terrifying, but what a pity..." Ye Qiu saw clearly on the screen that this woman was about to be in trouble. Sure enough, the slight opening she had just revealed was seized by her opponent, who launched a combo attack, and the little remaining life was instantly cleared.

  "Shut up!" Ye Qiu heard this woman yell angrily, waving her hand and slamming the keyboard, directly closing the game.

  Ye Qiu was hesitating whether to continue or not, when the woman turned her head and caught sight of Ye Qiu's hesitation. She stood up abruptly and asked: "Are you going to play?"

  Ye Qiu nodded.

  "Sit down!" The woman said and had already left.

  Ye Qiu shook his head at this ordinary player's unstable competitive state and finally sat down in position.

  Chen Guoyu was extremely depressed. Just now, she had a 1v1 match with someone in the Honor Arena and played 52 rounds, but she didn't win a single round. She couldn't believe this was real.

  Her own account was not bad, Chen Guo touched the "Zhu Yan Xia" in her pocket, and among ordinary players, this account could be said to be quite strong. Chen Guo's level was also not low, she had been playing Honor of Kings for a full five years. Just now, her opponent's account was not as good as hers, but the result was that she couldn't win a single game in 52 games.

  "He's a master." Chen Guo nodded and came to a conclusion.

  "Boss lady, you haven't logged out of the game yet? How did that person start playing?" Chen Guo was walking and thinking when he suddenly heard a sentence. Chen Guo turned his head to look and saw a familiar customer from the internet cafe next to him, leaning forward to look at the computer he had just been sitting at.

  No good! Chen Guoxin was shocked and hurriedly flew back. The popularity of Honor of Kings has made the Honor account login device a regular computer accessory, especially in internet cafes. Since the card only needs to be inserted when logging into the game, in public places like internet cafes, everyone usually inserts the card to log in and then puts it away.

  This card has a number, if the card is lost, it can be reported and the thief will not be able to use it. However, in internet cafes, people often carelessly forget to log out or pretend to log out of games, resulting in others taking their money and equipment. Chen Guo just lost 52 rounds in a row and was extremely angry, he wasn't paying attention and didn't exit the game, only switching back to the computer desktop.

  Chen Guo hastily rushed forward and indeed saw that guy controlling her account, but it seemed like he wasn't scanning equipment, rather he was in the arena enthusiastically battling with someone. Chen Guo hadn't even had time to shout when two big words jumped out on the screen: "Glory!"

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