Ye Xiu decisively renounced it, so Seven Fields and the others accepted it. They were all old friends and they split up the drops harmoniously. The Spider Venom would be sold for money. It didn't matter who chose it. After selling it, they would split the money up again. The Chestnut Boots was an ordinary Blue equipment, so everyone carelessly rolled for it. In the end, Sunset Clouds beautifully dispatched it with a perfect 100 points. As for the Mahogany Tachi, according to their future classes, it would go to either Sunset Clouds or Sleeping Moon. Sunset Clouds had just grabbed the Chestnut Boots. Although the value of it couldn't be compared to the value of the Mahogany Tachi, he still happily chose to renounce it. Sleeping Moon held the Mahogany Tachi both excitedly and somewhat strangely.
The first Spider Cave clear and now the first Spider Emperor kill, both times granted them huge experience rewards. Stolord had already risen to Level 12, while Seven Fields and the others would certainly level up after this dungeon. Killing the normal BOSS was too easy for them and they quickly dispatched it.
After clearing the dungeon, Sleeping Moon felt conflicted again. He had originally planned on leaving the party after this run, but he had just obtained the Mahogany Tachi. Taking equipment and then leaving, didn't seem like good manners. If I leave. No good; If I don't leave. Seven Fields had already told me to get out, if I don't leave then I'd lose face too.
Fortunately, Seven Fields was a good friend and took the initiative to call out to him. It seemed like what he had said in the dungeon was just a joke. And so things ended like this. With Stolord as the leader, everyone entered the Spider Cave once again.
Like Sleeping Moon, Blue River and his group from Blue Brook Guild were also conflicted and depressed. They weren't the first to clear Spider Cave. And of the three hidden BOSSes, two of them had already been stolen. This was their fourth time entering the dungeon. In the end, they still hadn't met one. Right as they were bitterly pressing on, another system announcement popped up. The last of the three hidden BOSSes in Spider Cave, the Spider Warrior, had been killed.
The first to clear the Spider Warrior were members from one of the three great guilds Herb Garden. And the previous hidden BOSS had been clear by members from the other great guild Tyrannical Ambition. From this, it could be seen that the three great guilds should have been evenly matched, but this time that guy, Stolord, had stolen it away. Stolord currently held the most records for first clears: three times. Furthermore, his party that followed him had stolen away two spots on the first clear leaderboards in the level 10 stage of the game. It made the Blue Brook Guild appear as if they had little face left. As for hidden BOSSes, they could only blame their bad luck on not meeting them. But when they thought about those 10 seconds they were off by, for the first dungeon clear, they could still only throw up blood.
All of the first clears were gone. Blue River and the others all fall into despair.
"Where did this Stolord come from? Have that village's people pay attention." Blue River said somewhat nervously.
That Ye Xiu, who they had an extremely bad impression of, was actually in high spirits. Leaving and entering the dungeon again and again, he was awfully busy. The opening of the tenth server busily and hurriedly passed just like this. Some people were happy while some were worried.
When Chen Guo woke up from her sleep, it was already eleven o'clock, close to noon. She was usually disciplined and rarely slept in. Only yesterday was the opening of the tenth server. Following that guy and watching the excitement, made her sleep in extremely late. Chen Guo calculated the time and found that she had slept for eight hours. Satisfied, she stretched and climbed out of her bed.
Chen Guo lived in the Internet Cafe. To be more precise, she slept in the small room on the second floor, in the same area as Ye Xiu.
Compared with the newcomer Ye Xiu, Chen Guo was extremely familiar with the environment. She had grown up in the Deme-Cybercafé, eating, sleeping, and working there. During her time as a student, instead of returning home like everyone else, she squeezed into the Deme-Cybercafé. For this reason, there were few misunderstandings.
Deme-Cybercafé was her home. Chen Guo had a deep impression of it ever since she was little. Because her parents were like this too, she carefully managed this Deme-Cybercafé as if it were family. When the Deme-Cybercafé was still extremely small, Chen Guo was also still extremely small. Nowadays, her home had grown extremely large, but as for her family, only she remained.
That year, at the time of her college entrance exam, Chen Guo's father suddenly passed away from heart disease.
Chen Guo didn't have a mother, at least, she had no impression of one. After arranging her father's funeral, her family relatives discussed how they would handle the Deme-Cybercafé. When they began talking about what they would do with Chen Guo, without even thinking, Chen Guo threw away her college admission notice and took over the Deme-Cybercafé. Her friends and family held looks of astonishment. She resembled her father and continued to manage the Deme-Cybercafé and look after the home.
In a flash, nine years had already passed.
The current Chen Guo had enough money to buy herself a comfortable living place, but she never had these sorts of thoughts. She felt extremely satisfied living in the Deme-Cybercafé. In the Deme-Cybercafé, she always felt steady and serene. Perhaps this was the feeling of family. Even though she was only one person, she never felt lonely.
"Today's weather is good!" Standing next to the window, Chen Guo looked outside. The silver-white world made the sunlight all the more dazzling.
"Father should go in bathe in it too!" Chen Guo joked. Picking up the picture of her and her dad, she put the picture on the window sill..
After putting on her clothes and washing her face, Chen Guo magically and happily slipped out of the living room. Seeing that the storage room door was already open, she snuck in her head and took a glimpse, but didn't see Ye Xiu.
"Where'd he go?" Chen Guo muttered.
Pulling open the door, Chen Guo immediately entered her Deme-Cybercafé. The Deme-Cybercafé was already filled to the capacity, all because of the opening of Glory's tenth server. After the all-night party left, the early-morning party immediately followed. Every screen had scenes of Glory. Every person wore headphones and laughed or raged into their microphones depending on the circumstance.
Chen Guo went down the stairs and to the front desk. She asked the little sister receptionist on-duty where Ye Xiu went.
The little sister pointed to deep in the Smoking Area.
"He's still playing?" Chen Guo said with great alarm. She quickly walked over there.
The smoking area was a place filled with foul black smoke. Ye Xiu was located in the middle of the main disaster area. Chen Guo furrowed her eyebrows and tried to wave away the smoke. She rushed close to Ye Xiu and lifted his headphones: "Still playing! Are you crazy?"
Ye Xiu turned around at lightning speed and nodded his head, saying "Morning." He immediately turned back and continued making "pa pa" sounds on his keyboard.
Chen Guo sweeped her eyes over the screen: "Spider Cave!"
"Yup."
"What level?"
"17."
Chen Guo was startled. She carefully looked at the screen and saw Stolord's experience bar. The bar was almost full. After this dungeon, he would level up to 18.
At this moment, there were still 20 minutes before 12 o'clock. To reach level 18 in 12 hours, that had to be a new record. Even though the system announcement didn't have these sort of statistics, many players on the forum used these numbers to prove how amazing their leveling speed was.
Chen Guo glanced again and saw clearly Ye Xiu's team mate.
Sleeping Moon? Chen Guo suddenly felt that she had seen this name before. Thinking carefully, she immediately recalled.
"Wasn't this person slandering you last night?" Chen Guo pointed to Sleeping Moon on the party list.
"Yup!"
"Then why are you in a party with him?" Chen Guo couldn't understand.
"Because of his slandering, I couldn't form a party with anyone." Ye Xiu said.
"Who asked you for this reason." Chen Guo grew angry.
"For someone as mature as me, how could I be mad at his slandering?" Ye Xiu laughed.
Chen Guo still didn't understand. Even if Ye Xiu didn't mind, why would the other person accept him into the party?
"What exactly happened?" Chen Guo asked.
"I reckon that when they first admitted me in, they had a plot set up for me. But after seeing that I played well, they felt that I would be helpful to them, so they let me go. Ye Xiu said.
"Then you just happily worked for them without any benefits?" Chen Guo felt extremely on Ye Xiu's behalf.
"It's nothing. It's okay." While Ye Xiu said this, on the screen, a lance flashed by killing off the Spider Lord that had been surrounded by the five of them. Chen Guo saw a bunch of system messages typed out neatly in the chat box. The party members Seven Fields, Sleeping Moon, Sunset Clouds, and Drifting Water all chose to renounce the equipment dropped from the Spider Lord.
"What is the meaning of this?" Chen Guo was astonished.
"I was very helpful to them, so they forced me to choose which equipment to take first. Sigh, there's nothing I can do!" While Ye Xiu said this, he decisively chose to renounce them. Through these priority picks, he had already collected a set of Blue equipment long ago. But these guys still wanted him to take a look first.
Chen Guo was dumbstruck. She felt that what Ye Xiu described was too modest. How was this working for them? Wasn't he the boss? Only the core of the party was qualified to have priority picks after finishing a BOSS,. Not only that, but the precondition was that they were all a group of friends that recognized each other. Only then would they let the player who did the most work have priority. But these party members? Before she had slept, it seemed like they were enemies. When she work up, how did they all suddenly become his little brothers?
"Clearly tell me how exactly this happened." Chen Guo wouldn't drop this matter and would ask until results came forth.
"It's because I helped them a lot!" Ye Xiu said.
"How much?"
"I carried them through the Spider Cave and Spider Emperor first clears." Ye Xiu said. "You completed three first clears in one night?" Chen Guo was shocked. She had played Chasing Haze for five years, but she didn't have a single first clear under her name. He only played throughout the night and a morning, not even 12 hours, but obtained three first clears. This was too dazzling.
"Good luck." Ye Xiu said. He lazily stretched and stood up from his chair. The party members on the screen had already logged out. A faint farewell could be heard from his headphones. Ye Xiu took the headphones from Chen Guo's hands. He put it up to his mouth shouting "See you later!" and then logged out of the game.
"I'm so sleepy. I'm going to sleep." Ye Xiu said.
"Do you want to eat something before sleeping?" While Chen Guo said this, she sized up Ye Xiu. Truthfully, when she looked at Ye Xiu's face, she couldn't see any signs of the word "sleepy". This person had pulled an all-nighter plus a morning. He did look a little listless, but the problem was that yesterday, when they had first met, he looked depressed as if he were half-dead. She really couldn't tell that he had been wounded by the weapon of no sleep.
"No need! After I sleep, I'll eat !" Ye Xiu shut down the computer and ran. Chen Guo had given him the keys to the second floor storage room last night. After opening the door to that pitifully tiny storage room, he covered his head with a pillow and fell asleep. As for this room, it actually suited sleeping during the day very nicely. When the door was closed, the small light that slipped through the window wouldn't disturb him at all.
Ye Xiu fell asleep quickly. He slept extremely well. When he awoke, the day turned dark again. It was hard to imagine that someone who had just recently experienced such a great rise and fall could sleep so simply. Sitting up from his bed, Ye Xiu didn't turn on the lights. He lit up a cigarette and after quietly smoking it, he got up and left the room.
The doors to the two small bedrooms were all locked up. Ye Xiu knew that one of these rooms was occupied by Chen Guo and the other was occupied by young lady named Tang Rou. He heard that Tang Rou was a long-time employee at Deme-Cybercafé. She had already worked there for almost two years, but in these past few days, she had taken a break. As for other Deme-Cybercafé employees that needed a living place, they lived in the nearby neighborhood. Chen Guo had rented an apartment for all of the employees to live in. Ye Xiu's place was a place for waiting until a vacancy opened up. Chen Guo indicated that as soon as a person stopped working, he would have the opportunity to obtain his own bed.
When he went to the bathroom at a convenient time, Ye Xiu saw a sticky note on the mirror. Bored, he took a glance and discovered that the sticky note was actually written to him. Chen Guo had already prepared a towel and toothbrush for him.
Ye Xiu tore down the sticky note and was somewhat at a loss. Mainly, he didn't think that the boss was so attentive. As for whether he was moved, this type of trivial matter wouldn't be enough, grateful would be more accurate.
After tidying the towel and toothbrush, Ye Xiu left and looked around for a bit. It was already 9 o'clock. He hadn't eaten food all day. Leaving the small inner rooms, he entered the Deme-Cybercafé and felt a little abnormal. Even though the second floor was a more costly higher quality area, it was a little too empty. Ye Xiu headed downstairs baffled. In the end, unexpectedly, the further he went, the darker it became. The Deme-Cybercafé's first floor actually had no lights turned on.
"Did something happen?" Ye Xiu glanced around at a loss. He discovered that although the first floor lights weren't turned on, there were a lot of people, so much so that there were quite a few trying to squeeze in. To wall in the south, a 200 inch diagonal projection hung high up. The projector streamed a scene and the sound echoed throughout the entire Deme-Cybercafé. Everyone was extremely quiet, whether they were sitting at a computer or standing in the passageway. It seemed as if they had all forgotten what the purpose of a Deme-Cybercafé was and treated it as a movie theatre, quietly gazing at the projection. Ye Xiu also quickly heard a voice commentating on the scene. Five words that he couldn't have been more familiar with appeared.
Ye Qiu, Ever-Stay.
The projection that was being streamed, to his shock, was a movie segment on the history of his professional career in Glory. The commentator also movingly described the series of accomplishments he had gained in his career in Glory.
Three time league champion, three time MVP, two time Rising Star, one time One Hit One Kill.
No matter if it was his team or other players, Ye Qiu was at the peak of the Glory Professional Alliance. He was the goal of every professional Glory player.
"Next, let's all commemorate the Battle God Ever-Stay that Ye Qiu controlled through these series of marvelous images." The commentator used a downcast sorrowful tone to cast. On the projection, invincible images of the Battle God Ever-Stay began showing on the screen. Before, any picture would have made the crowd go wild with excitement. But now, the Deme-Cybercafé was silent. There was no yelling or cheering. Everyone just silently looked as pictures flashed by one by one. They knew, from today onwards, everything there would be a thing of the past.
On that day at noon, Excellent Era Club called for a news conference and announced the retirement of their team captain Ye Qiu.
This ever mysterious expert didn't even participate in his own retirement news conference. Everyone only saw the Excellent Era manager take out Ye Qiu's signature on the agreement stating his retirement. The Excellent Era manager soon after proclaimed, that the retired Ye Qiu had tactfully declined the club's other positions and left the Excellent Era Club by himself.
The screen continuously flickered. Duels, slaughters, records, the commentator timely made progress and gradually made his way to Ye Qiu and Excellent Era's dismal situation. Within the Deme-Cybercafé crowd, faint sobbing could be heard.
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