Chapter 34 ◎ Call Me Brother ◎
Lin Sumo seemed to have forgotten that he was still streaming.
Earlier, the bullet comments in the livestream and the private messages in the backend had already exploded. Yet Lin Sumo remained unaware, dropping bombs one after another, stunning the fans into confusion.
After finishing a game, Lin Sumo finally saw the streaming platform he had minimized in the background.
Lin Sumo’s brain heated up, and he froze for an instant. Then, recalling the conversation with Cheng Yuan in the game just now, he realized he seemed to have said things he shouldn’t have. He hurriedly turned off the stream without even saying goodbye.
Lin Sumo couldn’t care about much else and dialed Song Hong directly. Estimating that Song Hong probably already knew, he opened his mouth with a strong desire for survival: “Song, Manager Song, listen to my explanation. I really didn’t mean to. I, I just accidentally forgot I was still streaming. So, sorry!”
On the other end of the phone, Song Hong rubbed his forehead: “Alright, alright, my ancestor. You turn off the stream first, I’ll handle it, okay?”
Lin Sumo said weakly: “I turned it off. Just turned it off.”
“Okay,” Song Hong finally breathed a sigh of relief. “Don’t move now. Don’t stream, don’t reply to private messages and comments, and don’t duo queue with others. Just solo queue by yourself, hear me?”
Lin Sumo: “Ah, heard you.”
Song Hong didn’t say anything else to him and hung up directly.
Putting down the phone, Lin Sumo stared at the computer in a daze.
He glanced at the date in the bottom right corner of the computer and suddenly realized the next regular season match was the day after tomorrow.
“Arranging matches so tightly, are they crazy?”
Lin Sumo sat in place for half a minute, finally getting up, planning to go to the balcony for some air.
He felt he was quite like a mental patient right now.
Walking to the balcony, Lin Sumo suddenly discovered Pei Yun was there too.
Lin Sumo wanted to leave for a second, but felt it would look too deliberate. So Lin Sumo gritted his teeth and walked next to Pei Yun: “Yo, what are you doing?”
“Mental case,” Pei Yun didn’t even turn his head. “Only you can come out?”
Lin Sumo: “Hey you…”
Lin Sumo “you”-ed for a long time but didn’t manage to say a single word.
Lin Sumo gave up struggling and looked up at Pei Yun.
Then he discovered that Pei Yun was actually smiling.
He stood in the light, letting the light shine on his face. Traces of a smile rippled from the corners of his mouth, spreading across his entire face like waves stirred on the water’s surface.
Lin Sumo’s expression was unnatural for a moment: “You, did you lose control of your facial muscles… what’s so funny?”
Pei Yun continued to smile, and the smile even had a tendency to intensify, causing the corners of Lin Sumo’s mouth to rise uncontrollably as well. In the end, it was a bizarre scene of these two people laughing non-stop together on the balcony.
Lin Sumo finally recovered to normal, his tone still carrying an unconcealable smile: “Alright, I’m going back first. You hurry back too, or your wages will be docked later.”
“Mn,” Pei Yun responded. “Let’s go.”
Lin Sumo paused, only then realizing Pei Yun wanted to go back with him. He hummed an acknowledgement and walked side by side with Pei Yun back to the training room.
He thought he was very calm, unaware that his flushed cheeks betrayed him.
As soon as he returned to the computer, Lin Sumo went to message Song Hong: [Manager Song, I should be able to duo queue with Print, right?]
[Manager Song Hong]: [This is allowed.]
Lin Sumo sent him an “OK” emoji.
[Manager Song Hong]: [But Big Brother.]
[Manager Song Hong]: [I thought you just asked in the stream about what it’s like to like someone.]
[Manager Song Hong]: [Turns out you actually cursed people in public???]
Solve: [I was in a bad mood at the time, I was too rash!]
[Manager Song Hong]: [……Forget it, forget it. You just queue for yours, I’ll clean up the mess.]
Lin Sumo thanked Song Hong for a good long while, then went into the game to find Pei Yun: [Brother Marksman, duo together?]
Pei Yun didn’t reply to him, but sent him a party invite a few seconds later.
Lin Sumo turned on his mic: “Pretty fast speed, Brother.”
Pei Yun gave a “mn” and then clicked start.
Both used smurf accounts, but their skills were there. Queuing together for two hours, they both entered the top 300 in ranking.
“Wait for me a sec, I’ll get on my main account,” Lin Sumo said. “Climbing rank with you is pretty fast, Brother.”
Pei Yun concisely threw two words at him: “Hurry up.”
Lin Sumo switched accounts and saw Pei Yun pulling him with his main account. He accepted the invite: “You switched accounts too?”
“Didn’t you already see it,” Pei Yun said. “I’m rushing points.”
Lin Sumo: “Okay.”
He went behind Pei Yun’s station and patted Pei Yun’s shoulder: “Let’s go.”
Several people went downstairs and sat around the dining table on the first floor. Bafflingly, Lin Sumo sat next to Pei Yun.
Lin Sumo held a skewer of roasted meat in his hand, and Pei Yun gave him another chicken wing: “Eat more. You’ve gotten thinner since coming to Luowen. How will I explain to Auntie when we go back?”
Lin Sumo suddenly remembered the matter of his mom asking Pei Yun to look after him. He secretly complained about Mother Lin worrying blindly, while enjoying the benefits Pei Yun gave him. After all, this was something that would absolutely never happen in the past.
Yu Pei handed Pei Yun a skewer of roasted meat: “Don’t just care about Solve, you eat more too.”
Before Pei Yun could refuse, Lin Sumo spoke first: “Captain Yu, you don’t need to give it to him. He doesn’t eat these greasy things.”
Yu Pei raised an eyebrow and looked at Pei Yun. Seeing that he really didn’t eat it, he teased: “As expected of growing up together, you just understand him.”
This time it was Pei Yun’s turn to be surprised: “How did you know?”
“Knew it when we ate hotpot last time,” Yu Pei smiled. “You went to mix the dipping sauce at the time, I asked Little Mo-mo. And not only do I know, everyone else knows too.”
Pei Yun: “……”
“Cough cough,” Lin Sumo coughed lightly twice to hide his embarrassment. “Pei Yun, don’t mind it. Anyway, we are all on the same team. Having been together for so long, it’s still necessary to tell the truth.”
Who expected Pei Yun to suddenly turn his head to look at him and raise an eyebrow: “Not calling me Brother anymore?”
Lin Sumo: “……”
He simply wanted to give Pei Yun a slap. Why go crazy when everything was fine ahhh!
The other teammates looked curious: “Ah? What Brother?”
“Eh, I have something to say about this,” Song Hong raised his hand. “Didn’t I clean up the mess of Lin Sumo’s livestream today? Then I discovered that he actually calls Pei Yun ‘Brother’ usually! Calling him ‘Brother Marksman’.”
Lin Sumo’s face was hot enough to steam: “He, he is older than me… Is there a problem with me calling him Brother!”
“I finally know why fans ship your CP,” Jiang He laughed until he couldn’t breathe. “I’d ship it too if I were them. This interaction, sweet.”
Xiao Lanyu held back his laughter until he almost had internal injuries: “This ‘Brother’ call, indeed sweet.”
Lin Sumo: “……”
Hey hey, is there anyone to control this?
Does he not need face?
Lin Sumo looked at Pei Yun resentfully, with an expression of “it’s all your fault.”
Pei Yun shrugged, indicating he had no choice either.
In the end, Lin Sumo was simply about to explode from anger at his own teammates during this BBQ meal.
Upstairs, Lin Sumo was furious: “Pei Yun, you did it on purpose, right? You feel uncomfortable if you don’t act like a jerk for a day, don’t you?”
Pei Yun looked at Lin Sumo, who was about to explode, and wanted to laugh for a moment: “Alright, alright, not on purpose, okay?”
Lin Sumo gritted his teeth in anger, speaking word by word: “Okay! My! Ass!”
“I think you can take a look at the Weibo Jiang He posted first.” Pei Yun reminded him.
Lin Sumo’s anger instantly subsided. He took out his phone skeptically. As soon as he clicked the Weibo icon, Lin Sumo saw the post Jiang He sent to his and Pei Yun’s CP super-topic.
【@Trust-Drift】: 【Whispering to tell you guys, Lin Sumo usually calls Pei Yun ‘Brother’.】
Lin Sumo: “……”
He almost roared in Jiang He’s direction: “Jiang He! Do you want to die!”
Jiang He laughed like crazy, waving his hand at Lin Sumo, his mouth full of ‘hahaha’.
Lin Sumo: “……”
He really couldn’t stay in this place for a second longer.
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