Chapter 6 Concealment Where is the boss?
“What kind of talk is this, what kind of talk!”
Li Qingming was the first to stand up and strongly support Mu Jiu coming to rescue him. Otherwise, according to the ruthless level of his other two roommates, he would definitely hang there until he died.
Seeing that Mu Jiu was already controlling Gongchengshi to head over, the other two roommates didn’t say anything more either.
Forget it, if the kid loves to play, let him play.
Since the start of the semester, Mu Jiu had been a good-natured pushover with a mild temper, often helping the roommates pick up meals. So compared to Li Qingming’s rowdy personality, they all subconsciously gave Mu Jiu a bit more indulgence.
Mu Jiu tried dragging the skill key to first understand the method Gongchengshi used to place Muqiang.
In the eyes of Yueshi on the table, it looked like Gongchengshi tentatively drew a completely useless wall, wasting a chunk of his health bar for nothing.
Witnessing everything, Li Qingming’s voice trembled slightly. He slowly turned his head towards Mu Jiu, and seeing his expression of serious study and sudden realization, asked in disbelief: “Mu Jiu, you… you aren’t playing this character for the first time, are you?”
He originally only made this guess preparing for the absolute worst-case scenario. He didn’t expect Mu Jiu to not feel like there was any problem at all, returning an innocent and pure smile, his tone relaxed, “Yeah, what’s wrong?”
He deliberately wanted to scare him a bit.
“!!!”
Daring to bring a character he was playing for the first time into ranked, he respected him as a real man, and thankfully there were no outsiders in this match.
He gasped, steadied his mentality, and then loudly protested: “Run quickly, run quickly! Don’t rescue me anymore! Run quickly!” It looked quite a bit like he was acting out a scene of heart-wrenching, star-crossed lovers.
He didn’t want him to die for love with him at all.
But the right to control the character was in Mu Jiu’s hands. No matter how miserably he screamed, Mu Jiu just chuckled and still arrived in front of him.
He rescued the person, and then casually drew a wall onto the boss to body-block him.
When Mu Jiu unhesitatingly came to rescue him, although Li Qingming sincerely felt a layer of being moved rise in his heart—what a good brother—he still couldn’t bear to watch the tragic scene that would follow. He quietly closed his eyes, waiting for the news of Gongchengshi‘s death.
“Yueshi, what are you blanking out for, run!” His roommate’s scolding woke him up. Li Qingming opened his eyes only to find that he was alive. He widened his eyes in pleasant surprise: “Huh? I lived?”
After reacting, he pulled out his legs and ran. Mu Jiu’s skills also became more and more proficient as he used them. Except for the first few walls he missed at the beginning, every wall managed to help Yueshi catch his breath.
“Thank you, Yifu, for saving my dog life.” Having been rescued a few times, Li Qingming’s gaze toward Mu Jiu grew increasingly fervent, as if he were looking at a super thick thigh to hug for future ranked matches.
Xuezhe finished deciphering his fragment and came over to help Gongchengshi protect the person together. After all, currently, Yueshi was the only person in the whole match who would die on his next hook.
Seeing Mu Jiu playing mind games with the boss, he raised an eyebrow: “Yo, Mu Jiu, you actually use the Kaqiang style.”
Gongchengshi had two main playstyles. The Huaqiang style relied on a high degree of familiarity with the map and coordinated rotations with teammates, precisely drawing walls at narrow chokepoints to block. However, Mu Jiu wasn’t familiar with this map, and he had absolutely no tacit coordination to speak of with Li Qingming. That was why he chose the Kaqiang style, which had a higher operational difficulty and a higher possibility of making mistakes.
Seeing that his own health bar had dropped just about enough and the fragment progress was roughly sufficient, with Xuezhe rushing over, Mu Jiu prepared to run away himself.
He responded modestly: “Just so-so.”
His roommate laughed and freed a hand to punch Mu Jiu. He really let him show off there.
“The gate is about to open, can Yueshi survive?” Zuojia opened the gate, the schadenfreude in his words hard to conceal. He was already prepared to let him pass away alone while the three of them exited beautifully.
The answer to him was Li Qingming’s howling: “I can’t, I can’t, I can’t, ahhhh Mu Jiu save me!” Right after screaming, he lay down peacefully on the ground.
He finally saw through it; aside from Mu Jiu, they were all heartless.
“What are you screaming for? Mu Jiu, ignore him, let him die on his own.” Thinking about how he hadn’t even seen the boss‘s face at the start of the game and inexplicably tanked three hits for him, Xuezhe got angry and retaliated.
Li Qingming turned his head, looking at Mu Jiu with teary eyes. If there’s no team spirit, what’s the point of playing four-queue!
Who would have known that just as the boss was preparing to drag the downed Yueshi onto the dissociation table, Gongchengshi darted out from some unknown nook or cranny and used the very last bit of his remaining health to CC the Controller. Yueshi came down from the dragged state, instantly recovering to a half-health status.
At the same time he lived, Gongchengshi also fell to the ground.
“Good brothers, for a lifetime!” Li Qingming felt grateful for exactly one second, then turned his head, pulled out his legs, and ran.
Si daoyou bu si pindao.
The boss looked at the departing Yueshi and the downed Gongchengshi by his feet. Recalling the painful experience of this entire match, he still felt Gongchengshi was more hateful. He decisively gave up on Yueshi and went to drag Gongchengshi onto the dissociation table, while Yueshi ran out the main gate without even looking back once.
The match ended. Li Qingming successfully reaped the contemptuous looks of his two roommates.
As for Mu Jiu, seeing them play happily, he also smiled genuinely.
They started another game. Under the eager gazes of his roommates, Mu Jiu didn’t pick ob again, but instead chose the Naima, Yaojishi.
Mu Jiu had misunderstood the meaning of the three of them, thinking they would feel more at ease and play more relaxedly if he didn’t play ob.
He didn’t expect that seeing Mu Jiu pick Yaojishi, his roommates would instantly droop in disappointment, having thought they could get carried again.
Seeing their disappointment, Mu Jiu tilted his head in confusion.
“Look, look at your faces. Just now you guys didn’t believe in Mu Jiu, but I was the first to stand up and firmly support Mu Jiu coming. It still has to be me, brothers?” Li Qingming clicked his tongue flirtatiously at Mu Jiu and raised his eyebrows.
“…” The one with the biggest face here is you.
The roommates were completely speechless.
Later, Mu Jiu confidently picked ob. Because he needed to familiarize himself with the characters, he prioritized picking a few whose operational modes shared common traits. Basically, in every match, he remained steady while pulling off flashy plays.
After finishing ranked, just as Mu Jiu took off his headphones, he felt a gloomy, ominous premonition behind his back. Turning his head sharply, he found his three roommates standing behind him, glaring like tigers watching their prey.
He slowly put away his headphones and turned around stiffly.
Led by Li Qingming, they were the first to begin the interrogation: “Mu Jiu, have you played this game before?”
He squinted slightly, looking ill-intentioned no matter how you looked at him. Mu Jiu felt that even if he denied it, they would absolutely not believe him.
Facing three staring gazes, he nodded hesitantly, “Yeah, three years ago… I played for a while. Later, to study for college entrance exams, I quit the game.”
“Wrong! You’re lying!”
Imitating the loud pronouncements of judges in TV dramas, Li Qingming clicked open Mu Jiu’s profile page. “This account of yours was just created this year.”
Mu Jiu followed where he was pointing. His eyes drifted upwards, “Ah this, it’s a newly bought account. My old account hasn’t been played in too long, and coming back to the game suddenly, I couldn’t keep up with leveling it.”
Regarding his explanation, the remaining two roommates pondered for a moment, exchanged a glance, and nodded. “Reasonable.”
After all, what Wuxian Weidu player didn’t have several accounts in their hands.
They dispelled their doubts. Leaving Li Qingming still clinging onto Mu Jiu and not letting go made him look like he was just making unreasonable trouble. It was just that no matter how he acted up, Mu Jiu wouldn’t get angry, but he also wouldn’t reveal any flaws.
Li Qingming couldn’t shake the feeling that there was a tail called the truth swaying back and forth in his brain, but no matter how he tried, he couldn’t catch it, driving him crazy with anxiety.
Finally, his roommate came over and slapped the back of his head. “Still making a fuss? Didn’t you want to play in the Gaoxiao Bei? You have a ready-made thick thigh to hug right here, why aren’t you hugging it!”
He brought up another matter to divert Li Qingming’s attention.
It wasn’t that they couldn’t tell Mu Jiu was hiding something, but since he didn’t want to say it, it was his privacy, and they shouldn’t press the issue. When Mu Jiu wanted to tell them, he naturally would.
Li Qingming instantly changed faces, smiling in an extremely sycophantic manner. “That’s right, Yifu, accompany us to play in the Gaoxiao Bei, please? With you here, won’t we be killing men if men block our way, killing gods if gods block our way, winning the championship all the way?”
Right now, just thinking about it made him want to start editing a montage of blooming flowers all the way to victory.
The Gaoxiao Bei was a league tournament held between major universities for Wuxian Weidu. Although the championship prize money wasn’t much, the focus was on participation. If one played exceptionally well, they might even receive olive branches thrown by major clubs and step onto the path of becoming a professional.
Of course, Li Qingming had no intention of going pro. Not only because he had some self-awareness about his own skill level, but more because he didn’t have such grand ambitions; he just wanted to be a well-behaved college student.
In short, they were just playing for fun.
Mu Jiu’s expression was serious as he listened to him finish. Having quit the game for several years, the best way to familiarize himself with the competitive arena was naturally to play matches. It would only benefit his return to the pro scene, so he was clearly quite interested. Looking at his roommates, his gaze finally settled on Li Qingming’s face. “What about teammates?”
“Us brothers here,” Li Qingming said as a matter of course.
Before knowing that Mu Jiu also played Wuxian Weidu, he had already worn down the other two roommates into agreeing.
“No, I mean, where is the boss?”
The rules for the Gaoxiao Bei and the IDL were similar. Each team’s starting lineup was composed of one player from the Controller faction and four from the Clearer faction, totaling five players.
Players from different factions of the two teams would compete separately in the first half and the second half, and finally, the points of the whole match would be added up. The boss gained 1 point for every human eliminated. The humans gained 1 point for every person who escaped. Uniquely, when the boss eliminated all four humans, or all four humans escaped, they would receive 1 extra bonus point.
So under the condition of maximum advantage, with the boss catching all four in the first half and all four humans escaping in the second half, the maximum point difference for a match could be 10:0.
Even if all four people in their dorm played, that only rounded up enough humans. Without a boss, they couldn’t participate.
Li Qingming also realized this. His brows furrowed as he thought bitterly and pondered deeply. Suddenly enlightened, he slapped the table and said: “We can go find Si Yan! The one from the medical department next door. He’s very famous, he was a major Wuxian Weidu streamer a long time ago, exclusively playing boss.”
Seeing Li Qingming stand up excitedly, the roommates thought he had some good idea. In the end, after he rambled on, they helplessly told him to sit down, rest, and wash up to go to sleep early.
“That Si Yan isn’t lacking in money or popularity, and he said long ago he’s not interested in going pro. Last year, someone from our school wanted to recruit him, paying three visits to his thatched cottage, yet they were firmly denied even seeing his face. He’s harder to invite than Zhuge Liang.”
Ever since Li Qingming successfully pulled Mu Jiu onto the team, he suddenly and inexplicably developed an impulse for that championship.
He simply had to edit this blooming flowers montage now. Patting his chest, he declared: “Leave it to me!”
Then, he climbed into bed with solemn vows.
Mu Jiu looked at the other two roommates, tilted his head, and shrugged. All three of them smiled helplessly.
They merely thought Li Qingming was just acting on another whim, and after a couple of days when he found out things weren’t working out, he would give up on his own. They didn’t expect that this time, he would be unyielding. First, he posed as someone who liked Si Yan on the confession wall to find out he loved eating the sweet and sour fish at San Shitang. Then, he tirelessly ate at the sweet and sour fish window in San Shitang for a week, three meals a day. By the end of it, he felt like he himself was about to turn sweet and sour.
Finally, he managed to ambush Si Yan coming to buy food.
Si Yan had just finished ordering. Upon returning to the seat where he had left his bag, he found someone sitting opposite him. Frowning slightly, he looked up and scanned the area. There were clearly many empty seats around, but he didn’t say anything, picking up his bag preparing to change seats.
Translator’s Notes:
- Kaqiang style (卡牆流): Wall-stuck style. Using the generated wall’s physical 3D model to trap or body-block the boss.
- Huaqiang style (劃牆流): Wall-drawing style. Drawing walls at choke points to block paths.
- Si daoyou bu si pindao (死道友不死貧道): “Dead fellow Daoist, not dead poor Daoist.” A saying originating from cultivation novels meaning “Better you die than me” or saving one’s own skin at the expense of others.
- Naima (奶媽): Healer / Support (literally “wet nurse”).
- Yaojishi (藥劑師): Pharmacist.
- Gaoxiao Bei (高校杯): High School / College Cup.
- San Shitang (三食堂): Canteen Three / Third Dining Hall.
- Biaobai qiang (表白牆): Confession wall. A public forum or social media page for university students to anonymously post confessions, look for missed connections, or ask questions.
- Three visits to the thatched cottage (三顧茅廬 – San gu maolu): An idiom referring to Liu Bei recruiting Zhuge Liang. It means to sincerely and repeatedly request someone to take up a post or help.
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