Chapter 3: Full-time Night Shift

  Did I win?

  Chen Guo was stunned for a moment. The two words "Flash of Glory" were the iconic victory symbol of the competitive arena, equivalent to "".

  But how long had he been away? 40 seconds? 50 seconds? Chen Guo glanced at his watch, definitely less than a minute. And the result? The opponent who had just lost 52 rounds to him was "honored" by this person in less than a minute?

  Chen Guo had even forgotten to rush over and grab back her account, hoping that the person would play another round so she could take a good look. But what she saw was that the person had already exited the game with ease, as if they didn't have much interest in the computer. Stretching his waist, he looked around casually. As soon as he turned his head, he saw Chen Guo staring at him with wide eyes, and quickly explained: "You hadn't quit the game just now, I sat down and the battle had already started, I helped you win, don't worry!"

  "How long has it been?" Chen Guo asked.

  "About 40 seconds!" Ye Qiu said.

  Chen Guo's mouth was agape, but the other party still said with a hint of regret: "My hands were numb, otherwise 30 seconds would have been enough."

  30 seconds...... 30 seconds can defeat an opponent who couldn't win a single game in 52 games, what kind of person is this?

  Could it be a professional from the Jia Shi team? Chen Guo suddenly thought of this. She knew that the Jia Shi club was not too far from her internet cafe. But then she thought again, wouldn't she be able to recognize someone from the Jia Shi team?! Unless this person was Ye Qiu, the expert who never shows his face.

  Ye Qiu! As soon as Chen Guo thought of this name, he became excited, but thinking that this expert was always low-key, if he rushed up to ask, the person would probably not admit it. After hesitating for a moment, Chen Guo suddenly remembered something and ran back to the front desk in a flash.

  "What's the name of the guest who registered for room C-47?" Chen Guo asked the receptionist.

  "Ye Xiu," Little Sister said.

  "Ye Xi... Ye Qiu? Indeed!" Chen Guo was excited, in her opinion this was truly a case of "this place has no silver three hundred taels", only then would it prove that this person is indeed Ye Qiu. If he had really written 'Ye Qiu' himself, she wouldn't have believed it!

  "Haha... Chen Guo's smile was sinister, she had already prepared to search for everything that could be found to get Ye Qiu's signature. Ye Qiu's signature! Who has it? Nobody!"

  Just then, little sister added another sentence: "He even forgot his ID card."

  "ID card?" Chen Guo was taken aback, only then realizing that he had gotten too excited. Internet cafe registration required real-name registration, of course they would need to show their ID cards, who could register with a fake name?

  "Where's the ID? Let me see." Chen Guo took the ID from Xiao Mei and looked at it. Indeed, it was written "Ye Xiu" in a very real way. Suddenly, he felt a wave of disappointment and had an urge to change the character "Xiu" to "Qiu".

  After learning that this person was not the low-key expert he had admired for a long time, although he was still curious about his strength, his interest had already disappeared by half. Chen Guo sulkily returned to C District 47, and handed Ye Xiu's ID back: "You forgot to take your ID."

  "Oh, thank you." Ye Xiu hastily replied, "Are you from the internet cafe?"

  "Ah, I'm the boss."

  "Oh? Boss, that's great. I just saw on your internet cafe's webpage that you're recruiting a network manager?" Ye Xiu asked.

  "Ah...... yeah......" Chen Guo didn't expect this person to suddenly say something like that, she was just thinking about how to get him to spar with her, and now it seemed like a perfect excuse.

  "I've taken a look and I think I meet all the requirements. The job and treatment are also fine, what do you think? Consider it, boss," Ye Xiu said.

  "Oh, then you'll have to win a one-on-one match against me to gain honor." Chen Guo said.

  "What? Is there such a thing?" Ye Xiu turned his body over to look.

  "No need to look anymore, I've added it," said Chen Guo.

  Ye Xiu was taken aback, but immediately understood that his previous win was too professional. The beautiful boss had become curious about his skills. Unfortunately... Ye Xiu sighed and shook his head, saying: "I can't beat you."

  "Why?" Chen Guo was taken aback.

  "Because I don't have an account that can beat you," Ye Xiu said.

  "Account... what's your level? What equipment?" Chen Guo asked.

  "No levels, no equipment." Ye Xiu said.

  "Impossible?" Chen Guo was somewhat incredulous. Defeating an opponent he couldn't beat in over 40 seconds? There was only one noob account that could do something like that, so how did they manage to cultivate such skills?

  "The original account has been given away." Ye Xiu could only say this.

  "Oh, I see... You're really generous." Chen Guo sighed in admiration. This person's strength was so powerful, their account must be impressive too. A strong account like that is worth a lot of money, and they just gave it away casually, what a lavish gesture.

  "Yes, too generous." Ye Xiu smiled wryly. The account he had handed over was the God of Fighting's One Autumn Leaf, and to describe it with just two words "generous" was truly being too stingy.

  "Are you ready to go play in the new district?" Chen Guo asked.

  "New district?" Ye Xiu was taken aback, glanced at today's date, and suddenly realized.

  Tomorrow is the 10th anniversary of Glory's operation. Since its second anniversary, Glory has opened a new district at midnight on each anniversary day every year. The sale of the tenth edition account card started three months ago. Old players who are not playing smoothly in the old district and newcomers who are ready to enter Glory have already prepared their new district accounts for this day with eager anticipation.

  Now the open is Honor of Kings 10th district, thinking back to the autumn of one leaf that was still an account in the first district of Honor of Kings. Later, when Honor updated Chapter 5: Realm of the Gods, I reached the standard with many top players and completed the skill challenge, becoming one of the first batch of players and accounts to have public graph access qualifications for the Realm of the Gods.

  Now that the championship has been taken away, his glorious professional career has also come to an end. However, coincidentally, he encountered a new server opening, Ye Xiu's thoughts were stirred up, and ten years of memories suddenly flashed back into his mind.

  "New district?" Ye Xiu muttered to himself.

  "I remember it was possible to transfer districts before the new district opened, right?" Ye Xiu suddenly asked Chen Guo.

  "Only first-class empty numbers will do," said Chen Guo.

  "Then I'll give it a try," Ye Xiu said, pulling out an account card from his pocket and quickly entering the Glory transfer zone application page. Chen Guo looked at the account card in surprise: "This can't be a first edition card, can it?"

  "It's a first edition card." Ye Xiu smiled. The Glory account cards were released once a year, and the first edition card was almost ten years old now.

  Chen Guo looked at Ye Xiu in surprise: "How many years have you been playing Glory?" A card can be dead, a person can be alive. A card may last for ten years, but a person may not necessarily do so.

  "It's been almost ten years." Ye Xiu replied, confirming he was a player-card combination.

  Chen Guo had already felt quite senior after five years, but he didn't expect the guy in front of him to be more than twice his age. Ten years, that was the first batch of Glory players, able to play all the way until now and still have the enthusiasm to go to a new server, what kind of spirit was this?

  While talking, "Transfer successful" is already displayed on the page.

  "It's done." Ye Xiu withdrew the account card and held it in his hand, instantly recalling all the memories associated with this first edition card.

  "Are you saying you want to be a web administrator?" Chen Guo suddenly brought up this topic again.

  "Yes." Ye Xiu hastily returned from his memories to reality.

  "Which one are you looking at?" Chen Guo asked.

  "Night shift," Ye Xiu said.

  "Oh, are you okay with that?" Chen Guo was surprised. The night shift was a special shift from 11 pm to 7 am every day, and the monthly salary was three hundred more than others, but very few people applied for it. After all, many people were not willing to reverse their days and nights, so Chen Guo's side was currently taking turns, if someone really applied for this full-time night shift, everyone would be relieved.

  "Anyway, I just like being busy at night." Ye Xiu said.

  Chen Guo carefully sized up the person in front of her, whose hair and beard hadn't been taken care of for at least half a month. His face was somewhat pale and puffy, although fair-skinned, it was that kind of sickly pallor. His two eyes were staring straight at her, looking rather listless. She had seen this look many times before, the young boys who frequently came to his internet cafe for all-nighters often looked like this. The guy in front of her wasn't young, yet he still looked so down and out, contemptible.

  Despise whoever despises, someone is willing to be a full-time night cat Chen Guo is still very welcome, let alone she is also curious about the person's ten-year-old tour strength, and immediately slapped the board: "Okay, then I'll take you in."

  "Thank you boss."

  "If you've seen the conditions clearly, then follow them," said Chen Guo.

  "No problem."

  "Alright, follow me!" Chen Guo was decisive in her actions and immediately started ordering Ye Xiu around like an employee. She had him move a pile of new keyboards that had just arrived today to the storage room on the second floor.

  Chen Guo's internet cafe was called "Xing Xin Network Club", which was considered a high-end internet cafe. It had two floors, with over a thousand computers, and the second floor was slightly smaller but more luxurious, making it a high-end area. Moreover, there was a hidden suite inside, consisting of two rooms and a living room, as well as a storage room. Ye Xiu had been busy moving keyboards around and had already inspected this suite. The job posting could be written: "Meals and accommodation provided". Ye Xiu had just left the club and hadn't thought about his next step yet, but with conditions like meals and accommodation provided, it was equivalent to having a place to settle down, which made him interested in the network manager position.

  It seems that this set of rooms is the "enclosed" place, the decoration is simple but clean and tidy, very good. Ye Xiu was very satisfied, thinking while moving the last few keyboards up to arrange them.

  "Alright, this is where you'll be staying." Chen Guo said, pointing to the low and small bed squeezed in the storage room as Ye Xiu finished up.

  "Huh?" Ye Xiu was taken aback. He had imagined that his living quarters would be the bright and clean suite outside, or at least the sofa in the living room. This... Ye Xiu looked up and saw that there was a small window on the west wall near the top of the storage room, which seemed to face the streetlights on the road outside. When he turned off the light in the storage room, the window immediately became dimly lit, like it was haunted.

  "Uh, this is a bit off, you'll have to make do for now... actually, my internet cafe isn't that busy, not too many or too few people, and the recruitment notices you saw were from a while ago." Chen Guo said.

  "Oh, I see! No big deal, it's fine." Ye Xiu immediately expressed his attitude, but his nonchalant demeanor made Chen Guo feel a bit guilty. This small storage room was indeed not like a place where people lived.

  "In our free time, we just play with computers and stuff downstairs, it's no big deal, since we're all family and don't charge each other," said Chen Guo.

  "You're also very generous, boss!"

  "Cough, thousands of computers, what's the difference with just one more?" Chen Guo said.

  "What's the usual customer flow like?" Ye Xiu asked.

  "It's not bad, anyway I'm satisfied," Chen Guo said. "Of course, the number of people who work night shifts is relatively small, mostly university students from nearby universities who come to pull all-nighters. You don't have much to do, just take a look around."

  "I understand."

  "How about this, in order to adapt to the new job, why don't we pull an all-nighter tonight? I'll also test your ability to work through the night." Chen Guo said.

  "No problem, full marks for ability." Ye Xiu gave Chen Guo two thumbs up, indicating that staying up all night was his strong suit.

  "Alright, let's go, I'll treat you to a midnight snack." said Chen Guo.

  "Oh? What's for food?"

  "It's getting late, there's a small restaurant across the street that should still be open. Go take a look and buy a few dishes back, I don't eat celery." Chen Guo said as he took out 200 yuan from his pocket and handed it to Ye Xiu.

  "It's snowing!" Ye Xiu said.

  "It's just across the road, it's not far, how much snow can be poured? Let's go quickly." Chen Guo said.

  Ye Xiu helplessly went out to buy some midnight snacks. Having just changed jobs, he was being ordered around non-stop, but in his heart, he didn't feel particularly depressed. This woman would casually chat with people for a few sentences and then wouldn't treat them like outsiders anymore; this kind of familiarity made people feel quite comfortable and intimate. As he thought about this, Ye Xiu suddenly realized that he hadn't even asked what his new boss's name was.

  During the public period, there will be two updates every day at around 12:00 and 20:00. Since my little assistant for automatic updates is not available temporarily, I can't guarantee the exact timing. Also, the new book doesn't have much exciting content in the first week, so please bear with me in the comments section!