Chapter 9 Ye Xiu's Hands

  Chen Guo didn't actually have the habit of staying up all night. It's just that the new district opened today, and he followed along to take a look at the excitement. After watching for a while, he soon felt drowsy, and leaning back against the chair, he dozed off unintentionally.

  The sleep quality was naturally not high, Chen Guo simply didn't want to struggle to get up. In this half-asleep and half-awake state, his ears couldn't help but notice the sound of keyboard clacking and mouse clicking coming from beside him. This kind of sound was very familiar to an internet cafe owner, but at this moment, what Chen Guo heard was somewhat different. The sound was sometimes urgent, sometimes slow, sometimes light, sometimes heavy, and it sounded extremely rhythmic. Chen Guo had never heard anyone who could play the keyboard and mouse like a percussion instrument before - was he dreaming?

  Chen Guo suddenly woke up with a start, composed herself and listened carefully again to find that it seemed not to be a dream. The voice came from beside her, from Ye Xiu, the new internet cafe manager she had just recruited today.

  Chen Guo sat up and looked around, the outer garment covering his body slid down, and he quickly grabbed it to take a look. He recognized that it was Ye Xiu's outer garment. Chen Guo thought to himself that this person was quite meticulous, but then wondered how long it had been since the garment was last washed? It seemed to have gone sour.

  Chen Guo picked up her jacket and sat up, just about to talk to Ye Xiu, but suddenly froze.

  A pair of hands that could bring tears streaming down one's face appeared before her eyes - Ye Xiu's hands.

  These hands look very slender, with long fingers and joints that are not as thick and hard as those of ordinary men, but still very clear. The fingertips are very fine, and the fingernails are neatly trimmed, which is quite inconsistent with this guy's somewhat sloppy appearance.

  Chen Guo wasn't originally someone who paid much attention to his opponents, but after a pretty girl with nice hands came to the internet cafe, he gradually started paying attention under her influence. However, it was Ye Xiu's pair of hands that shocked him this time.

  The hands are perfect hands, the sound of knocking is also like music, but this operation... Just looking at Ye Xiu's left hand jumping on the keyboard, Chen Guo only had one feeling: hand speed is too slow.

  Actions per minute, abbreviated as APM. Honor of Kings is not a strategy game, players only control one unit, but the skill usage is complex and the operation accuracy is very high, so there is still a great demand for hand speed.

  A player with high hand speed can make moves faster, and the finer operation makes every key press's strength and time directly affect the character's movement range in the game. This allows the character to be more varied in combat. However, whether this variation is good or bad still needs to be distinguished. Some people just keep operating non-stop to make their APM look amazing, but truly being able to make every operation deliberate while also achieving high APM is only possible for top-notch professional players.

  APM 200, this is a relatively recognized dividing line in the current Honor Circle. For ordinary players, APM soaring above 200 is basically just messing around. Even professional masters need some special combat environments to achieve an APM of over 200, at least their opponents can't be too weak, and they need to bring out an APM of over 200 to respond.

  For ordinary players, 70% of people's hand speed is between 80 and 120, 25% are disabled parties that can't even reach 80, and the remaining 5% are those who exceed 120 and continuously challenge 200. Among them, there are also many high-level players in ordinary players, and it is said that some of them have reached the professional level of 200.

  Chen Guo's hand speed was generally floating around 120, but since in most cases he could hang a zero head on 120, Chen Guo firmly believed that he belonged to the top 5% and was a high-level player.

  But at this time, Ye Xiu was not worth doubting in Chen Guo's eyes. This was absolutely a player with an APM of less than 80. As soon as she noticed this point, Chen Guo suddenly discovered that the extremely rhythmic operating sounds she had heard before were gone, and what she heard now was the clear operating sound of a player with slow hands.

  "Was I still half asleep..." Chen Guo shook her head, trying to recall the feeling from before she fell asleep, but no matter how hard she tried, she couldn't get it back. Now all she could focus on was this crippled-level operation, and a pair of hands that were so good-looking they made people jealous.

  Chen Guo was so focused on watching Ye Xiu's hands that he forgot to look at the screen. But before long, Ye Xiu's hands stopped moving, and Chen Guo finally came back to his senses. He looked up at the screen and his eyes widened in shock: "Darkness Cat Demon?"

  When he said this, the Dark Night Cat Demon had already flown down from high in the sky and smashed a bunch of things to the ground.

  At the same time, Chen Guo saw a row of eye-catching system announcements flashing in the information area on the screen: Tenth district, Dark Night Cat Demon first kill: Jun Mo Xiao.

  "Awesome!!" Chen Guo slapped Ye Xiu's shoulder with a loud smack: "You're really something!" Regardless of whether he was handicapped or not, he had actually managed to get the first kill. This was an achievement that Chen Guo had never seen before in all his years of gaming.

  Ye Xiu was so focused on preparing to go see what had been dropped that he didn't notice the slap coming, and almost swallowed the cigarette butt in his mouth. As a result, a string of silver-gray ash fell elegantly onto the keyboard. Chen Guo, who had been sneaking peeks at Ye Xiu's operations from behind him, also leaned over to take a look, and upon seeing this scene, completely forgot about the hidden BOSS's first kill, and immediately pulled off Ye Xiu's headphones and roared in his ear: "Who told you to smoke here?"

  "Huh?" Ye Xiu still had a cigarette in his mouth, and he didn't quite understand what Chen Guo meant.

  "No smoking! Didn't you see?" Chen Guo pointed at the wall.

  Ye Xiu turned his head and carefully examined the sign on the wall with a pair of eyes: "Are you kidding me? Internet cafes don't allow smoking?"

  "This side is a non-smoking area, go smoke at the other corner." Chen Guo pointed to another corner of the internet cafe.

  "Let's go then." Ye Xiu said.

  "I don't go, I smell smoke and get a headache," said Chen Guo.

  "What's going on?" Ye Xiu looked like he had encountered a huge problem.

  "Can you die from skipping one cigarette?" Chen Guo angrily said.

  "It can't be done, but it will give me a headache," Ye Xiu said.

  "..." Chen Guo found that she was starting to understand this Ye Xiu. The living conditions in the storage room he could very easily accept, but this absolutely couldn't explain that this person was a thrifty lamp.

  "I'll go to the smoking area myself, boss you can rest." Ye Xiu said at this time.

  "Wait a minute, you haven't told me what's going on with this murder yet!" Chen Guo said.

  "Not a big deal, everyone in the team is dead, the BOSS doesn't have much blood left, I just picked up an easy one." Ye Xiu said it quite casually.

  "Still, this is a good thing." Chen Guo's tone still carried a hint of envy. The first kill reward for this low-level hidden BOSS wasn't something she was particularly interested in, it was just some extra experience and money, no top-notch equipment would be dropped, but the record would remain on the rankings forever, becoming a legendary existence in this server, a feeling that many players liked. For most ordinary players, getting on such a ranking was only possible during the newbie period. In the mid-to-late game, instance difficulty increased, and whether it was an instance first kill or a hidden BOSS first kill, it required a high-level team with stable tacit understanding to be possible. By the time they reached the Divine Realm, even such high-level teams wouldn't have a chance, all the records there were held by professional teams from the esports circle.

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