Chapter 44
Almost as soon as the message was sent, the party invitation from Shen Xiao arrived.
Xu Ziyan brought his own headphones and lowered his eyes to connect the headset to the computer tower. In the party, the small speaker icon next to Seamy lit up.
“Ice!” Shen Xiao howled as if seeing family. “Do you know what I just went through? Three games in a row! Same Medic! Could be sniped and caught to death sixteen times in one small round!”
Xu Ziyan was also stunned hearing this extraordinary data. “Sixteen times?”
In The Resistance, respawning once took thirty seconds, not counting the time to rush back to the battlefield from the spawn point.
Calculating based on an average duration of twenty minutes for a small round, this brother spent half the time dead or on the way to die.
Although there were many trolls, such a troll was rare. Xu Ziyan couldn’t help but feel pity. “It really wasn’t easy for you.”
Shen Xiao said, “Right!” Having finished complaining, he let it go, clicked the queue button, then remembered something. “By the way, I just checked the national server Medic leaderboard. Ice, when did you enter the top ten! Didn’t even tell your bro!”
He said dejectedly, “This way, I’m the only one in the whole team not in the top ten of the pro leaderboard…”
Xu Ziyan laughed. “It’s not like you care about these things.”
In terms of aim and mechanics alone, Shen Xiao could definitely rank in the top ten of the entire server. It was just that he was too impatient, often charging without considering consequences. The Resistance required not only mechanics but also a strategic mind looking at the overall situation; one mistake could ruin the whole game.
If Shen Xiao really calmed down, climbing ranks would be a sure thing. It wasn’t that he couldn’t calm down; it was just that, in Shen Xiao’s words, playing games was for fun, not a competition, so of course, play however makes you happy.
Plus, his account already had pro player certification. Even if he dropped to a thousand points, he would still be matched with teammates and opponents above 3500 points. Points were even less important to him.
“That’s what they say.” Shen Xiao sighed heavily. “Did you… check the ladder overall leaderboard?”
Xu Ziyan raised an eyebrow. “No.”
Shen Xiao said, “Go check.”
Full of doubts, Xu Ziyan opened the leaderboard. On the central throne, Shining’s ID was sparkling. Seeing it now, he remembered his actions just now and hurriedly moved his gaze down guiltily.
Then he saw that the ID in second place was actually Secret!
No wonder.
Whenever Shen Xiao mentioned Li Huanbin before, he gritted his teeth in hate. Seeing his “enemy” actually climb to the second position in the whole server now, he naturally felt even more unhappy, so he ran over to play ranked without even eating lunch.
Who knew luck wasn’t on his side; he met weird teammates and lost points three times in a row. Truly unlucky enough.
Xu Ziyan held back his laughter and searched his stomach for the few comforting lines he had. “Um… it’s okay. That’s because you didn’t play seriously. If you got serious, he wouldn’t stand a chance.”
Shen Xiao said indignantly, “Exactly! Ice, you still understand me!”
Xu Ziyan couldn’t hold it back and lowered his head to laugh. Coincidentally, the match was found at this moment, the sound effect covering this irrepressible laughter. The two clicked confirm to enter, and then Shen Xiao gave a low “Damn.”
In the list of matched teammates, the Sniper was a streamer, and the other Assaulter was impressively the Secret they just mentioned!
They say you shouldn’t talk about people; it’s true indeed.
Secret was obviously stunned too. The voice button next to him lit up, and after a pause, he laughed. “Oh my, whose cute little Assaulter is this?”
Shen Xiao’s teeth-grinding sound was exceptionally clear in the voice channel. “Cute my ass, your whole family is cute.”
Secret smiled, obviously not taking his curse to heart, and quickly selected his gun configuration.
The streamer also smelled the unusual atmosphere in the voice channel and very wisely avoided the two Assaulters, striking up a conversation with Xu Ziyan. “God Ice, what a coincidence. Are you duo-queuing with God Xiao?”
Although Xu Ziyan knew some fans called him that, it was the first time being called “God Ice” to his face. He was a bit embarrassed and replied, “Mn, duo queue.”
“Duo queue?” Secret acted as if he didn’t notice Shen Xiao’s dislike at all, interjecting with a smile upon hearing this. “Indeed should duo queue. Recently there’s a Medic intentionally feeding points in high rank.”
The streamer followed up, “Yeah, I met him too. Seems to be called… Lazy?”
“That’s him!” Shen Xiao’s voice instantly rose eight octaves. “Just pitted me for three fucking games!”
Xu Ziyan asked somewhat strangely, “Official admins haven’t done anything about this malicious behavior?”
Secret said, “They did. Last time was a warning. This time it will be a ban; should be banned by tomorrow.”
Shen Xiao huffed angrily, “This kind of person should be banned immediately, still giving a chance for a warning.”
Secret laughed. “Don’t be angry. Want to team up together? Carry you to get back the points you lost.”
Shen Xiao remembered the scene of teaming up with “Little Bear Cotton Candy” almost instantly. He refused categorically with immense vigilance, “Don’t even think about it! Ice and I are already locked! You better stay far away from me!”
Xu Ziyan: …He actually didn’t mind a trio queue. Bringing Secret along would only increase the win rate, not decrease it.
Secret’s laughter contained a hint of helplessness. “Didn’t I apologize to you already.”
“Scram!”
Xu Ziyan ate the melon (gossip) from close range with relish, having no thought of mediating at all. It was the streamer who looked at the wildly rising popularity in his live room and reminded these three gods with a wrinkled face: “Game is starting.”
Quarrel is quarrel, scores are scores. As soon as the words fell, Shen Xiao shouldered his gun and walked straight to the exit, ignoring Secret.
Secret and Xu Ziyan also organized their equipment respectively and devoted themselves to the match.
Needless to say, this ranked game was easily won. Throughout the game, Secret intentionally or unintentionally kept giving kills to Shen Xiao. In the settlement screen, Seamy’s score far exceeded the other three, becoming the MVP.
However, Shen Xiao didn’t appreciate this favor at all, gritting his teeth. “…Who asked you to be so hypocritical!”
Then he left the match indignantly.
Xu Ziyan followed and left. Seeing Shen Xiao still looking unhappy, he laughed. “You get angry when you lose, and angry when you win. What to do?”
Shen Xiao “tsk”-ed and said, “Ice, you aren’t streaming, right?”
Xu Ziyan said, “No.”
Shen Xiao chuckled. “It wasn’t just faking a loli voice to trick me last time.”
“Earlier than that, he stole my crush.”
Saying “stole” wasn’t actually accurate. It should be said that after seeing Li Huanbin, that girl fell in love at first sight with this top Alpha immediately. As for Shen Xiao who had a bitter crush on her? From beginning to end, she only treated Shen Xiao as a friend.
Although Li Huanbin didn’t get together with that girl later, Shen Xiao held a solid grudge against him. Later came the “Little Bear Cotton Candy” fiasco; new hatred added to old hate. This was why Shen Xiao hated Li Huanbin so much.
Finally, Shen Xiao concluded through gritted teeth, “A fox in human skin.”
Xu Ziyan truly ate a huge melon. Although he held reservations about Shen Xiao’s messy complaints earlier—after all, Li Huanbin couldn’t control who fell in love with him—he quite agreed with his last sentence.
Secret, as a person, felt truly too impeccable.
Different from distance or coldness, this feeling was more like boiling a frog in warm water. He seemed extremely close and intimate with everyone, able to have heart-to-heart talks with anyone, but in reality, he shut everyone out.
Not just as a person, Secret’s playstyle was also very “slippery.” It was extremely hard to pin him down when catching him, but ignore him, and he would always give you a shot in the back unexpectedly. Being a teammate was very comfortable, but once he became an opponent, he was a thorn hard to pull out.
After cursing, Shen Xiao clicked queue.
This time they found a match very quickly. As the map loaded in—
The streamer laughed awkwardly. “Hi, what a coincidence.”
Secret smiled. “Coincidence, coincidence.”
Xu Ziyan: …
Winning this game was truly mentally exhausting.
“Church direction, opposite Sniper plus Assaulter.” Xu Ziyan typed rapidly on the keyboard, smashing a healing bottle solidly onto the front line, then turned around and fired two shots, cleanly killing the Assaulter coming to cut him.
Just as he was concentrating, a warm hand caressed the back of his neck from behind.
Xie Wei’s slightly husky voice after drinking rang out: “Playing ranked?”
Xu Ziyan’s hand shook, firing a string of bullets into the wall by mistake.
In the voice channel, Shen Xiao was also completely dumbfounded. “…Captain Xie?”
This… wasn’t it the fucking New Year holiday? Why were these two together?
Could it be that Ice was at Captain Xie’s house right now?
He didn’t dare to think further.
The streamer watched the crazy barrage of comments in his live room and kept his mouth shut tight, not daring to speak.
Xie Wei was also slightly dizzy from drinking, so he didn’t think too much and spoke directly. Seeing Xu Ziyan’s shocked and flustered look, he reacted and laughed.
“Streaming?” Since he already spoke, might as well be more thorough. “Rest for a while after this game.”
Xu Ziyan was dizzy and nodded indiscriminately.
The voice channel that was lively just now was silent at this moment. After a long while, Shen Xiao stammered, “Uh, so, Ice, you and Captain Xie are still at the dorm?”
Someone offered a way out, so Xu Ziyan hurriedly went along with it. “…Mn, I booked my ticket late, haven’t left yet.”
He booked his ticket late, true, but why was Xie Wei there?
One lie needs a thousand lies to cover. Before Xu Ziyan could fabricate the next lie, he heard Secret laugh.
“Heard there was a sudden issue with the staff at TWG’s youth camp,” Secret said. “I thought it was resolved long ago. Didn’t expect Captain Xie to still be busy now?”
Unlike the flustered Shen Xiao and Xu Ziyan, his tone was flat but exceptionally certain, carrying a convincing power.
The fans watching in the Sniper’s live room were originally about to start spreading this earth-shattering gossip everywhere—going home together for New Year, who would believe there’s no relationship?
Now that Secret spoke, everyone calmed down, and the topic shifted entirely to what happened at the TWG youth camp.
Xu Ziyan breathed a sigh of relief.
After finishing this game and exiting the match, Shen Xiao said in the party voice chat, “This person has some redeeming qualities after all.”
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