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Chapter 22: Ye Qiu’s Retirement (1)

Editor: GravityTales

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.


Chapter 23: Ye Qiu’s Retirement (2)

Editor: GravityTales

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.


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