Ch10 - But his body tells the truth!

Edited by Noks

The sharp arrow shot out with a “shh—” sound and directly flew through the window of the building facing him, hitting an enemy who had just started to loot something.

[System] You knocked down arcticfox with a headshot with your bow.

[System] You killed arcticfox with a bow.

There was more than 200 meters of distance between the two buildings. In the absence of a scope, having very good vision in games became imperative. No one expected Wen Xi to be able to hit someone even in this way.

“Bro, 666 ah!” Ai Zhe was also surprised by the operation Wen Xi had carried out. “WTF, you’re this skilled, and you’re still letting me carry you?”

“You haven’t seen me shooting a gun…” As he spoke, Wen Xi took out a pair of binoculars to observe if there was any movement in the window opposite him, but didn’t see any signs of the recently killed player’s teammates. He immediately lowered his angle of view and noticed an enemy on the ground. At a glance, he saw that it was an Asian male character with short black hair—Momo.

He was currently sprinting in his direction.

“Shit! Murder cries for vengeance ah, this person!” Ai Zhe couldn’t resist crying out, “I told you ba, you can hide for a little while, but you can’t hide for the whole match!”

Wen Xi didn’t respond.

He put down his binoculars, took out his bow, and aimed it in Momo’s direction. Then he raised the angle of the bow and released an arrow!

[System] You knocked down Momo with a headshot with a bow.

Ai Zhe: !!!

Upon seeing this system prompt, not only was Ai Zhe shocked, but the barrage also turned into a mass of [God Xi is awesome].

[Hitting a moving target and also making it a headshot, that’s really powerful!]

[WTF how did he do that? Is this still human?!]

[Our God Xi is a god ah!]

After Wen Xi shot this arrow, and while the bow and arrow were still cooling down, he used the binoculars to confirm Momo’s position once again. It turned out that the other party had cleverly thrown out a smoke grenade to cover himself.

After the 5-second cooldown, Wen Xi shot another arrow at Momo, but nothing happened this time.

Momo had already saved himself by using a bandage during this span of time. After he got up, he didn’t rush to apply any medicine, and instead shot at the window where Wen Xi was located!

[System] Momo knocked you down with a headshot with a sniper rifle.

Wen Xi quickly used bandages to save himself before using a first-aid kit.

By this time, he was already bereft of both helmet and armor. If he got shot in the head when he wasn’t at full health, then it would directly be “game over” for him.

Ai Zhe said, “WTF, it’s too exciting ba, bro? If it’s not you headshotting him, then it’s him headshotting you…”

Wen Xi responded, “Don’t talk.”

Ai Zhe: ???

When Wen Xi said these words, his tone was obviously different, containing less hesitation and more mechanical coldness.

All the stream followers who knew him well understood that he had now become serious.

[God Xi has begun to take it seriously!]

[The less he talks, the larger the matter.]

[Love Pig turn off your mic, don’t affect my family’s God Xi!]

Ai Zhe: ???

Wow, you actually want him to turn off his mic!

They wanted him—the most popular game anchor of JJ Livestreams—to turn off his mic!

This match’s stream followers weren’t any good ah!

Ai Zhe complained internally, but he really did turn off his mic.

He also wanted to know if Wen Xi could kill Momo.

However he thought about it, he felt that it was a bit peculiar. On one side was a newbie who had just been introduced to the game two days ago and aside from having a handgun, only had a bow.

On the other side was an Unknown Passerby A.

How did these two players generate the same kind of tension that would be created between two professional rivals when confronting each other?

In total silence, Wen Xi looked out of the window with his binoculars. After making sure that there was no one there, he flipped out of the window and climbed to the roof of the building by using the pipe on the wall.

Then he ran to the other side of the building and flipped back into it by using a window situated on that side, after having carefully climbed down a pipe again.

Ai Zhe couldn’t understand what he was doing, and he didn’t dare ask either.

Until he saw Wen Xi go downstairs, find a motorcycle, and slip away.

Slip… away…

Ai Zhe: “…”

The barrage:

[??? ]

[What’s the situation?]

[Just leaving like that?!]

Having confirmed that Wen Xi was really leaving the area, Ai Zhe couldn’t stand it anymore and started to complain, “Bro, you sounded so serious that I thought you were going to initiate a ‘only one of us is getting out of this alive’ situation against the other party, but it turns out that you just wanted to run away like this?”

“What rubbish are you talking about?” Wen Xi wasn’t being serious as he spoke now, “I call this a strategic retreat!”

Ai Zhe retorted, “You fucking made me and the stream followers feel frantic and look very embarrassed! We already took off our pants, and this is what you show us?!”

“Even your pants are off? Then… ” Wen Xi blinked his eyes as he responded, “Then, put them back on bei?”

“No, you…” Ai Zhe said these two words before realizing that he couldn’t go on. He laughed until he couldn’t laugh anymore. Suddenly, he understood why everyone in the barrage always said that Wen Xi was cute.

Some of this person’s operations were really… so flirty, to the extent that it was cute.

But the actual person didn’t seem to have any consciousness of it yet?

With this natural, completely serious tone he spoke in, it was really impossible to get angry at him.

*

The first circle appeared when Wen Xi had driven his motorcycle halfway through Area C. The areas covered by the circle were C, D, and M.

He quickly changed directions and drove the motorcycle towards Area M. During this period, he managed to kill one person directly with the motorcycle, and had then gotten off the vehicle to kill another person with a gun.

Seeing that he simply left after he finished killing the players, Ai Zhe wondered aloud, “You’re not going to lap them up?”

Wen Xi froze. “What is lapping them up?”

“WTF, you don’t even know about lapping them up?! Are you for real?”

Only after getting over his surprise did Ai Zhe remember that Wen Xi was still a new player. He could only patiently explain, “Lapping them up is looting them ah. Press tab.”

Wen Xi obediently pressed it, but nothing happened.

Ai Zhe said, “….Who told you to press it when you’re just in empty space? Go to where the corpses from just now are and press it there ah!”

“Oh, oh.” Wen Xi quickly drove the motorcycle back to the location of the two bodies.

Although SGH was a shooting game, for the sake of passing the censors, there was no blood generated when a character was hit, and of course, the bodies wouldn’t remain as corpses after death.

Instead, what would be left would be a box containing all the objects the character carried—phrases like “landing and turning into a lootbox” originated due to this.

Wen Xi looted a dozen or so bandages, five first-aid kits, four medical kits, and two hand grenades from the two boxes.

Along with a shotgun.

Ai Zhe asked, “You’re… not taking the assault rifle or the sniper rifle?”

Wen Xi replied, “They’re useless if you can’t hit people.”

Ai Zhe was also left speechless.

So far, he hadn’t seen Wen Xi use a gun to shoot enemies who were more than 10 meters away.

However, the technique with which Wen Xi shot an arrow was so good that Ai Zhe kept thinking that his gun shooting technique shouldn’t be too much worse.

That was until Wen Xi’s fans touched on his livestream’s most well-known topic.

[God Xi’s gun marksmanship and archery are in inverse proportion to each other!]

[Only God Xi with a bow is God Xi, the God Xi using a gun becomes the master of outlining the body…]

[Nonsense! Our Xixi’s gun shooting technique is also very good! Just doesn’t hit anyone!]

Ai Zhe looked at the barrage and laughed until he couldn’t breath. “Hahaha, my stream followers… My followers in the stream are saying that your gun marksmanship is so good that you’ve never hit anyone!”

Wen Xi coughed, and answered in an exact copy of the tone that Ai Zhe had used in his response, “This is called having skills.”

[hhhhh God Xi has been corrupted by Love Pig!]

[God Xi’s face is getting thicker and thicker!]

Soon after this, Wen Xi had driven the motorcycle to the foot of the mountain and had seen Momo’s ID appear several times on the top right corner of the screen.

Ai Zhe said, “This person is really awesome ah. He’s got ten or so kills ba?”

“En, 13.” Wen Xi stated with certainty.

Ai Zhe was stunned for a moment, and then replied, “Dare I say that you were always keeping track of the count? You really paid attention to them ma?”

Wen Xi just let out an “er”, not knowing how to respond.

He thought if he said yes ba, then other people would misunderstand.

But if he said no ba, it would bring about a feeling of a cover-up.

However, after reflecting, he realized that he really did pay attention to Momo, because he had counted the number of kills Momo had gotten during this time, and had ignored all the other IDs.

Finally, Wen Xi decided to just “act cute and confused” to bypass the situation. “I just… wanted to see if he had died yet. However, every time I saw his ID, it turned out that he had killed someone. This person is too fierce ba. I don’t want to fight him at all, I’m afraid.”

Ai Zhe: “…”

That said, after Wen Xi had climbed up the mountain, occupied a favorable position, and used his binoculars to catch a hint of Momo’s shadow, it was an arrow that flew out!

[System] You hit Momo with an arrow.

[System] Momo shot you with a sniper rifle.

These two system messages appeared almost at the same time. After Wen Xi was hit, he quickly manipulated his character into retreating, thereby allowing his character to leave Momo’s visual range, after which he used a bandage to make up for his lost health.

Barrage:

[Don’t want to fight him, huh?

[Didn’t you say you didn’t want to fight him?]

[Actually didn’t get a headshot! God Xi, tell the truth, isn’t it that you cannot quite bring yourself to kill the other party?!]

Wen Xi glanced at the barrage as he applied some medicine. Upon seeing these lines in the barrage, he couldn’t stay still and exclaimed right then and there, “How could that be! I saw him as he was running, and I only shot after judging the spot he would go to. Who knew that he would stop so suddenly, and that’s the only reason it didn’t become a headshot…”

“My Xi ah…” Ai Zhe couldn’t bear to listen any more. “Have you ever heard the phrase, ‘overexplaining and digging yourself deeper’?”

Wen Xi didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. “Why have you even started to randomly cause a fuss… hurry up and sing!”

After he said that, the way the wind was blowing in the barrage shifted instantly.

[Yeah Love Pig, you still haven’t sung yet!]

[Love Pig, hurry up and sing a battle song!]

“Okay, okay, okay.” Ai Zhe dug up the song list again and said, “Really… this is the song that represents my profound interpretation of what playing with fire means…”

Wen Xi interrupted, “Wait, shut up first.”

Ai Zhe: “…”

Ai Zhe really wanted to say—bro, one minute you want me to sing, the next minute you want me to shut up—exactly what do you want me to do ma!

But even if he didn’t say it, many of the lines in the barrage had already said the words that were in his heart.

However, most of them were just joking.

[Love Pig: I don’t know if it’s my place to say this, but I have some curse words to say.]

[Lololol I’m about to die laughing. In fact, it’s fine if you sing with your mouth closed, Love Pig!]

[The one talking about singing with your mouth closed, don’t leave! Does your teacher know you’re so witty?]

In fact, at this time, since his character had been dead for a while, Ai Zhe could choose to completely switch off his in-game mic and only interact with the stream followers in his livestream.

But he was really curious about whether Wen Xi could kill Momo or not, so he continued to watch the battle without saying a word.

Wen Xi started to move to the side after he finished applying some medicine. He ran to a place he thought was safe, took out his binoculars, stood up and looked out at random, showing his head as he did so.

The first time he did this, he didn’t see Momo, so he crouched and moved a few more steps to the side, then showed his head as he stood up again, and successfully caught sight of Momo’s figure.

“Found him,” he said.

The barrage was full of question marks. Obviously, none of them had Wen Xi’s kind of eyesight.

Ai Zhe felt that now was the right time to show off a bit.

He turned off the mic for his in-game voice channel and explained to his stream followers, “Didn’t you guys see it? Just then, there was a person running in the camera’s field of vision.”

As soon as he said that, he saw Wen Xi suddenly shoot an arrow into the sky!

[System] You knocked down Momo with a headshot with a bow.

At least this time it was a headshot.

But it actually didn’t manage to kill him?

Wen Xi was stunned, then quickly realized that Momo must have looted a spare helmet from someone’s body.

Right at that moment, he heard gunshots coming from nearby.

Wen Xi was suddenly alerted, but he got shot several times before he could shift positions. With great effort, he managed to hide in a safe place.

[System] maxboxzz shot you with a shotgun.

A shotgun was also called a sprayer.

The damage of a shotgun wasn’t so high, but since the bullets scattered around, it wasn’t easy to hide from.

Wen Xi was shot several times in a row, and his health fell to only 15%. He quickly used a first-aid kit on himself.

After applying the medicine, he equipped his shotgun and got ready to rush out.

However, just after he took a step…

[Momo killed maxboxzz with a headshot with a sniper rifle. The remaining number of survivors is 27.]

Wen Xi: “…”

He couldn’t remember the number of times this had already happened, but it seemed that all the people who had shot and hurt him had died under Momo’s hands.

Again, the barrage began to arbitrarily pair them off.

Some people even directly started shipping his and Momo’s CP.

Wen Xi felt complicated after reading this.

He could be sure that he was just curious and appreciative towards Momo—curious about his identity, appreciative of his marksmanship.

But he wasn’t sure what Momo considered him to be?

Momo had obviously been chasing him this entire time with the goal of fighting against him, but he had also killed all the people who had wanted to kill him…

——did he want to express that he was solely Momo’s prey?

There really were some stream followers who thought the same way Wen Xi did.

[Momo: Only I can kill Xixi!]

[Momo: Try touching my Xi again?!]

[Whoever dares make a move on my Xi, I’ll shoot!]

Wen Xi didn’t know whether to laugh or cry, and was not in the mood to pay attention to them.

Next, for a long duration, Wen Xi and Momo were almost “moving parallel” to each other.

Wen Xi was on the mountain while Momo was at the bottom of the mountain. The two of them moved in the same direction and kept fighting as they ran.

Wen Xi shot towards the bottom of the mountain, and Momo shot towards the top of the mountain. Neither could completely kill off the other, but along the way, they did manage to kill off a lot of other people.

[Momo killed Maya with a headshot with a sniper rifle. The remaining number of survivors is 25.]

[Wency killed KID1412 with a headshot with a bow. The remaining number of survivors is 24.]

[Momo killed shenmegui with an assault rifle. The remaining number of survivors is 23.]

[Wency killed JokAA with a shotgun. The remaining number of survivors is 21.]

Finally, the second circle appeared. Fortunately, it encircled Wen Xi inside it, but Momo was located outside the circle.

Wen Xi wanted to see if the barrage was praising him for his good luck or not, but when he looked at it, the barrage was full of “Loving each other and killing each other” and “Large-scale domestic violence”.

Wen Xi: “…”

Finally, a normal person said a normal sentence—

“Bro, your luck isn’t bad ah!” Ai Zhe was excited, as if he had seen the dawn of victory. “Let Ge teach you, use the shotgun to spray him! Keep spraying! Don’t let him come inside! Let him die of poison on the outside!”

“That… isn’t that too cruel?” Wen Xi asked as he equipped the shotgun.

Ai Zhe replied, “….fucking hell, you think it’s cruel but you still switch to a gun?!”

[Lolololol, his mouth says no, but his body tells the truth!]

[God Xi is making me die of laughter lololol!]

[Momo: I’ve protected you so many times, and you treat me like this?]

Wen Xi was also amused by his “words not matching his deeds” and chuckled a few times.

His “words” were fine, and his “deeds” were also fine. All of this was part of his first reaction, and before Ai Zhe had complained about it, he hadn’t even realized it.

Ai Zhe also didn’t care. In high spirits, he became a spring water commander. “I have experience in blocking people ah! I do it often!”

Wen Xi commented, “…You’re actually very proud of that.”

Ai Zhe replied, “That’s right!”

Wen Xi: “…”

Ai Zhe said, “Let me tell you, you just block from the front up there. That concave place, see it? You’ll get a wide view there, and if you crouch there, you can spray wherever he comes up from! If he doesn’t get sprayed by you to death, then he’ll still get poisoned to death!”

“OK, that plan will work,” Wen Xi agreed, and actually obediently crouched in the spot that Ai Zhe had indicated.

Sure enough, before long, Momo appeared in his view.

Wen Xi didn’t hesitate to hoist the shotgun while switching to first person perspective, pointed it at him, and sent out a spray of bullets!

After a “dadadada” noise…

Nothing happened.

Momo, standing without any damage: “…”

Wen Xi: “…”

Ai Zhe: ???

Ai Zhe looked at his screen with his mouth wide open. He had so many curses bubbling in his mind that he didn’t even know where to start!

It took a long time for him to react, but that was when he shouted at Wen Xi, “Run!”

Sadly, it was already too late.

[System] Momo knocked you down with a headshot with an assault rifle.

[System] Momo killed you with a headshot with an assault rifle.

[System] You have been killed.

Wen Xi: “…”

Ai Zhe: “…”

At this moment, Wen Xi’s computer screen turned gray.

His character fell to the ground miserably, still holding onto the shotgun that had had little effect.

Ai Zhe fell silent for a long time before his voice could return to him. “Xi, I know your shooting skills are bad, but I didn’t expect them to be this bad… You had a shotgun and pointed it at someone and sprayed, but not even half a bullet managed to hit the other party. You want to tell me how you did that?”

Wen Xi replied, “…I want to know about that more than you do.”

Ai Zhe said, “And you call this not knowing how to steady the gun? You didn’t steady it at all ah, bro! ”

Wen Xi asked, “Steady the gun… how do you do that?” He paused before asking further, “You have to steady a shotgun as well?”

Ai Zhe surrendered; he had already surrendered ten thousand times over.

But all he could do was patiently explain, “Of course you have to ah, all the guns that have recoil have to be steadied—haven’t you heard the saying ma, that those who can steady the gun are the shotguns, and those who can’t steady the gun are the real sprayers.”

“Noooo, haven’t heard it…” Wen Xi responded, trying to explain, “I thought that since the shotgun’s bullets are so scattered, one of them would have to hit…”

“You… I… I have nothing more to say, okay.” At last, Ai Zhe somewhat felt that he was carrying a newbie. “Let’s go again, let’s go again, and in the next match, I’ll give my shotgun to you and teach you how to stabilize the gun.”

“Okay~” With someone teaching him how to handle the recoil for free, naturally, Wen Xi was happy.

Over the past two days, he had only practiced bows and had gotten familiar with the game maps. He hadn’t really studied how to use guns.

At first, he wasn’t even able to tell the difference between an assault rifle and a shotgun.

“Let’s do a squad match this time ba.” Ai Zhe said, “Us two against the other four-man teams, just asking if you’re scared or not!”

Wen Xi replied, “I’m fine either way ah.”

Wen Xi really didn’t mind; he just thought that Ai Zhe had become tired of playing duos and wanted to play squads to change up the mood.

He didn’t know that Ai Zhe was being selfish—he actually didn’t want to meet the person named Momo again.

Although with Momo there, the feel in their livestream had become pretty good—especially when Wen Xi and Momo had been trading headshots. With such a tense and exciting atmosphere, let alone the stream who was watching and screaming, even Ai Zhe had felt his blood boil while watching it.

However, Ai Zhe had noticed that the rate at which the number of his fans grew was obviously not as good as before.

The reason for this was very simple—his operations were being suppressed by Momo.

For two consecutive matches, Momo had killed him first and then chased after Wen Xi, indicating that the only thing that person cared about was Wen Xi. While he, Ai Zhe, was probably just an eyesore for Momo.

This kind of feeling made Ai Zhe very uncomfortable.

Originally, he had come to the rookie camp to carry Wen Xi. He had wanted to show-off a wave of operations, but what was the end result? He didn’t get to show-off any operations, but Wen Xi, who had that Momo, got to show-off a wave of “affection”.

But that was okay. If they played squad matches, they wouldn’t run into Momo ba.

Unfortunately, the Ai Zhe who thought in such a manner, hadn’t expected at all that Wen Xi would receive a friend request from Momo within this short period of time.

Wen Xi pretty much accepted the request immediately and then, feeling surprised, typed a message to the other party.

Wency: How come you’re already dead?

Momo: Threw a grenade at myself.

Wency: ???

Momo: Still playing?

Wency: En, queueing up for squad.

Momo: Squad, huh? Understood.

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Juurensha: Poor Ai Zhe, thirdwheeling off to the side.

Noks: Momo has declared it—Wency can only become my prey. Go away, Ai Zhe, your rookie-carrying skills are unneeded!