The Club was able to invite Sun Xiang, this type of new generation expert, that news helped uplift the mood. But the king of the first generation? He could only endure the wearing of time alone and sadly depart.
He walked free and easy, but in his heart he was absolutely unhappy. He still wanted to struggle. He still hadn't thought that his professional career had reached its end. But he already had no choice. Accept the conditions and become the Club's training partner? This would be a humiliating choice. But Ye Xiu could see through their tricks. He knew very clearly that the Club was certain that he wouldn't resign to this sort of humiliation and would definitely choose to leave.This was why they had given him the choice. If he had unexpectedly accepted it, then the Club would look for other methods to forcefully make him leave.
Although this was extremely cruel, from a business standpoint, this was the only choice. Because of the Alliance's commercialization, the Alliance had already turned merciless.
Ye Xiu hadn't reached retirement age yet. In fact, the Club also understood this point. Their option of retirement was their way of proving this. They not only wanted to get rid of this baggage, but also feared that a competitor would take this chance to grab him and easily become strong. They would rather thoroughly eliminate him than make him their future enemy.
Thus, forcing Ye Xiu into retirement was a result of their thinking. They undoubtedly succeeded. Ye Xiu saw through this, but could only follow their script and leave. A life and death struggle? He didn't want that because he still had another road to follow. Retiring for a year, this wasn't necessarily a bad situation. Going back a step opened up boundless opportunities. Although this step was bit big...
"Let's call it a day..." When the screen rolled over this caption, Ye Xiu finally couldn't watch it any longer. This sort of program deliberately tried to stir up emotions making some of the people in the Deme-Cybercafé directly burst into tears. But the sad, reminiscing, miserable feelings, among everyone, who could compare to him? Ye Xiu squeezed out of the crowd. He stood outside of the entrance and let out a sigh. But to his surprise, he heard a sobbing sound spread to his ears. He turned around and looked. Unexpectedly, it was Chen Guo hiding alone outside the door. Her eyes were also crystal bright.
They both saw each other. Not greeting didn't seem like a good choice, so Ye Xiu called out: "Boss, you're crying?"
"You beast. You don't even have this sort of feeling?" Chen Guo said.
"Too much, if it wasn't held back, wouldn't it have burst out by now?" Ye Xiu said.
"Die!" Chen Guo cursed, "Do you have any paper?"
Ye Xiu searched his body from head to toe: "Will a cigarette case work?"
"..."
"I'll go get some." Without waiting for the boss's response, Ye Xiu promptly ran back to the Deme-Cybercafé to look.
The sound of weeping grew loud, both males and females cried. This time, Ye Xiu couldn't hold back the sadness in his heart. He knew exactly who these people were crying for. Thinking of this, his eyes couldn't help but begin to tear up. Ye Xiu hastily went to the front desk and asked for a bag of paper napkins. Rushing out, he stuffed them into Chen Guo's hands. His back against the wall, he fished out a cigarette and lit it.
"What are you doing? Are you going to cry too? Do you need some paper?" Behind him, Chen Guo seemed to sense it.
"How could it be? How could I cry?" Ye Xiu turned his body and conveniently puffed out a mouthful of smoke towards Chen Guo's face.The tears that had just been wiped away reappeared because of the smoke.
Chen Guo waved her hands to get rid of the smoke. Unexpectedly, she didn't say anything and stuffed the paper napkins back into Ye Xiu's hands. She turned around and went back into the Deme-Cybercafé.
Ye Xiu leaned against the wall and silently smoked his cigarette. He took out a napkin and then wiped away some mucus. He then walked towards the small restaurant nearby.
After Ye Xiu, with a toothpick in his mouth, ate his fill and returned to the Deme-Cybercafé, the special commemoration movie of Ever-Stay had ended. But the atmosphere inside the Deme-Cybercafé still hadn't cleared yet. Many people's eyes were still red. Most of the people there were like this, so there was nothing to be embarrassed about. On the contrary, people like Ye Xiu, who held a calm expression on his face, were easily viewed as heartless beasts by everyone else. If you didn't explain that you didn't play Glory, then you would feel quite embarrassed when greeting others.
He didn't know where Boss Chen went, so Ye Xiu went to the front desk to ask around. Mainly, to ask about how this special broadcast came to be.
It turned out that whenever a Glory competition took place, the Deme-Cybercafé would put on this sort of special live stream. Originally, there wasn't a competition today, but for this type of big event like Ye Qiu's retirement, the e-sports stream would also quickly make this type of special program. As a result, the Demeter Internet Club would also show the stream as if it were a competition.
In the past, when the competition stream ended, everyone would be burning with anger and rush to play the game with unprecedented enthusiasm. It directly caused the Deme-Cybercafé to be packed with people and their revenue that day would rise sky high. But today, after this stream, the Glory players were all in a rare gloomy mood. Some even left at once to return home and cry into their pillows. Some went to three or five of their good friends and drunk together. Of course, there were people that continued to play games in the Deme-Cybercafé. After all, not everyone were fans of Ye Qiu. There were always a few people that didn't care about his retirement. But the overall atmosphere did infect them. Although they continued to play, they did feel somewhat listless.
The entire Deme-Cybercafé seemed very quiet. If it were an ordinary day, all the Glory players would definitely wear their headphones or shout with energy. The Cafe would be bustling with noise and excitement.
Ye Xiu was currently thinking of what to do when he saw Chen Guo come down from the second floor. He hurried over and called out: "Boss, do I officially start working today?"
"Okay." Chen Guo said, "But when you're working, you can't just casually sit down somewhere. You have to keep watch at this counter here."
"Can I play games?"
"You can. Just use that station." Chen Guo pointed to the computer that was currently being used to watch K-Dramas by the little sister at the counter.
"Can I smoke?" Ye Xiu asked. " Chen Guo looked at him in the eye and helplessly nodded her head: "You can smoke. You can smoke. But when I come over in the morning, there can't be any smoke smell or any cigarette ash."
"Understood." Ye Xiu said.
Soon after, Chen Guo taught Ye Xiu how to turn on and shut down the computers for guests. In the end, she said: "Truthfully, at this time, most of the guests pull all-nighters. At 11 o'clock, all the guests should have all arrived and their computers will automatically shut down at 7 in the morning. There's really not much for you to do. Just you being there is good enough. If the guests have any issues, they'll ring a bell."
"What happens if a computer malfunctions?" Ye Xiu asked. Although he wasn't computer illiterate, he still didn't have the skill to fix a broken computer.
"Restart it." Chen Guo said.
Ye Xiu wiped away his sweat: "And if restarting doesn't work?"
"Switch computer stations." Chen Guo said.
Ye Xiu started sweating again. Right when he was about to ask again, Chen Guo had already said: "You're on the night shift. There will be plenty of open computers, so you can just choose a random one. But write down what the computer's problem was, I'll look for a technician to come look at it the next day."
"Okay. Understood." Ye Xiu nodded his head.
Chen Guo, who had just recently wiped away her tears from Ye Qiu's retirement, now looked peaceful as if nothing had happened. She carefully explained again the things Ye Xiu needed to know and then randomly found a station to play Glory.
Ye Xiu stood nearby and glanced a few times at her screen. He saw that Chen Guo had entered the arena and engaging in PK. But it was obvious that she had something else on her mind. While she PKed, she repeatedly made several huge mistakes, the ones that all the low-skilled players made. After losing three rounds, Chen Guo tapped her keyboard and logged out of the game. She turned her head and saw Ye Xiu, who was standing around picking his teeth as if he had nothing to do. After glaring at him, she ran back to the second floor.
Ye Xiu looked at the time. There wasn't much time left until he had to start working at 11 o'clock. The little sister at the counter also grasped the time well. The K-Drama had finished at the perfect time. After the show finished, the time just happened to hit 11 o'clock. The little sister stood up and smiled towards Ye Xiu: "Brother Ye, then I'm going now?"
"Go go!" Ye Xiu had waited for the computer for a long time. The little sister wasn't the only employee finishing work at 11 o'clock. The daytime and evening time wouldn't be as empty as the all-night time. One person definitely wasn't enough to take care of everyone. The Deme-Cybercafé employees still weren't familiar with Ye Xiu, but they all recognized him. They all politely waved goodbye and left one by one.
The Deme-Cybercafé turned exceptionally empty. Keyboard and mouse could be clearly heard. Compared to the excitement at last night's new server opening, the place had flipped into a completely different sight. Thinking that this was all because of his retirement announcement, Ye Xiu softly let out a sigh and sat at the counter.
Inserting his account card, he logged into the game. When he entered, he received several messages. Ye Xiu opened them and looked. It was Seven Fields and his brothers lining up to greet him.
"Brother expert, you've come!"
"Seven Fields, Sunset Clouds, Drifting Water, the three all asked the same question, except for Sleeping Moon.
"Is everyone here?" Ye Xiu responded to all three of them.
"Oh, Sleeping Moon is gone." Seven Fields replied.
"Being difficult again?" Ye Xiu thought of that little guy.
"No, he's not feeling too well. Today, wasn't Ye Qiu's retirement announced? He really liked Ye Xiu, so he's a bit depressed. He's not coming to play tonight." Seven Fields said.
Ye Xiu truly didn't know whether to laugh or cry. He didn't think that that guy was actually one of his fans. If he let him know that he was Ye Qiu and that he had despicably and shamelessly attacked his idol, he didn't know what that guy would think.
"if we're missing a person, then Spider Cave's hidden BOSSes won't be too easy to kill." Ye Xiu said.
"Just randomly add someone?" Seven Fields suggested.
"Why don't we go to Skeleton Graveyard?" Ye Xiu said.
"Sure sure!!" Seven Fields immediately responded.
The Skeleton Graveyard was a Level 15-20 dungeon, Seven Fields and the others had thought of it long ago. They also hoped that Ye Xiu would lead them to grab a few more first clears again. But Ye Xiu's thoughts and requirements were different from theirs. Regarding first clearing a dungeon, this type of glory, Ye Xiu didn't care at all. In addition, to be the first to clear, they had to always keep their levels at the top of the standings. Ye Xiu had no way of doing this. It wasn't that his skill wasn't enough, it was that he didn't have enough time.
In the morning when he went offline, Stolord had been placed fifth in the tenth server level standings, but now? Ye Xiu opened up the standings and looked again. Stolord's name was no longer even there. The people placed at the very front were all already Level 22.
Why? Because players from big guilds were organized to level up crazily and grab first clears. An account would be used by two or three people, so the character would be online for 24 hours. They played using wheel tactics, making up for their lack of skill with hard work. No matter how great Ye Xiu's skill was, there was no way he could win against these players.
Due to this reason, the rewards for first clears were only ordinary. Besides the nice-looking name, it reflected that these troop's leveling speed greatly surpassed their actual skill and strength.
By comparison, the dungeon clearing records showed a more accurate representation of skill and strength.
This record used time as a measurement. At first, the system would set a time. If a team beat that time, then their time would be the new record. If it was beaten again, then it would switch again. This record breaking could be repeatedly done and the reward was generous. It wasn't like those first clear records with little experience and gold. There was a 100% chance of obtaining a Purple equipment while other rewards were randomly given.
This type of glory didn't exist in the beginner area because they would only start after Level 20 and higher dungeons. Ye Xiu looked and saw that the first Level 20 Frost Forest clear had already been completed. The original system record had been broken too. Behind it were the number of times it had been broken. At the present, the record had been broken three times. The current record was set by the Herb Garden team with 26:12:48 (min:sec:ms) at 18:23 in the afternoon.
Ye Xiu scratched his head a bit ashamed. He was a little fuzzy on the dungeon details, but he knew that this record would definitely be broken again. The highest level player was currently Level 22, while the final record would usually be set by a party of Level 25s. As long as a player in the party was over Level 25, then the dungeon record wouldn't count.
"Brother expert, we've already arrived at Skeleton Graveyard." Seven Fields sent a message at this time. These brothers were still at the same level as when they went offline. It looked like they were like Ye Xiu and also slept during the day.
"Okay, I'll be there right away." Ye Xiu controlled Stolord to hurry over to Skeleton Graveyard. Normally, they could have went to the dungeon as soon as they hit Level 15, but upgrading Ye Xiu's Kaleidescope Parasol required a lot of "Strong Spider Silk". Yesterday, he made clear his demands with Seven Fields and the others. He meant that after hitting Level 15, they could switch dungeons, but he wouldn't go. In the end, the four guys stayed behind too and followed Ye Xiu to Spider Cave.
Even after all this, he still didn't have enough "Strong Spider Silk". These materials had a 100% drop rate from the Spider Emperor, and the normal BOSSes only had a small chance. Ye Xiu and them bitterly cleared the dungeon 11 times. They met the hidden BOSSes three times. One of them was an Emperor, which dropped 5 "Strong Spider Silk". The other two hidden BOSSes were Spider Warriors, which did not drop the material. And then from the other BOSSes, he obtained another 7. In addition to the 4 he got from the first kill, he had 16 in total. Ye Xiu needed 40, so he was still missing 24.
If they kept up with yesterday's pace, they would still need to do this for two more days. Ye Xiu calculated, Seven Fields and the others had stayed with him in the Spider Cave the entire time and would soon reach Level 18. When they reached Level 20, they would be 5 Levels above the Spider Cave. In Glory, 5 levels were always important thresholds such as for equipment, skills, and experience. If they exceeded the dungeon by 5 levels, then they would receive less experience. At that point, "leveling" would no longer be efficient. Ye Xiu was too embarrassed to bring Seven Fields and the others to Spider Cave again to do his labor.
Relying on these guys to do my work isn't a good plan. I have to find another way. While Ye Xiu thought this, Stolord had already arrived at Skeleton Graveyard. He found Seven Fields in the crowd and asked to join their party. After entering the party, Seven Fields sent another message: "Do we still need another person?"
"It's not necessary." Ye Xiu replied. Thinking again, Skeleton Graveyard had materials he needed too. He just didn't need them yet. I haven't used the Kaleidescope Parasol for very long, but it's already become a burden. It isn't easy starting up again. Ye Xiu sighed and then entered the Skeleton Graveyard.
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