Ch11 - Have a good meal.

Edited by Noks

The stream followers in Wen Xi’s livestream, upon seeing Wen Xi accept Momo’s friend request, couldn’t help but scream in the barrage.

[AHHHHH, my CP is real!]

[Hand-grenading yourself is too Sue-ish ba my god!]

[Together, together!]

Wen Xi looked at the barrage and sighed. “I said don’t be like this… If you guys tease me, I don’t mind, but you don’t know what the other side will think about it ah?”

[!!!]

[God Xi, you actually don’t mind!]

[It seems that my Xi has really fallen into enemy hands.]

Wen Xi: “…”

Wen Xi now knew what saying too much meant.

Before he could speak again, he heard Ai Zhe’s voice. “Hm? What were you talking about just now?”

Ai Zhe had already switched to squad mode, checked “no more teammates needed”, and clicked “Okay” before asking about this.

Right now, both he and Wen Xi were in the queueing map.

Wen Xi didn’t think much about it before obediently responding, “Just that the Momo who killed us just now, he added me.”

Ai Zhe replied, “Uh, then what?”

Wen Xi answered, “Then I told him that we were going to play squad, and it seems that he will also be coming.”

Ai Zhe: “…”

[Love Pig has closed himself off.]

[Anchor Love Pig has closed himself off online.]

Wen Xi saw similar lines appear in the barrage and was puzzled. He hesitated for a moment before he asked, “My stream followers are saying you’ve closed yourself off. Why?”

“Why else… Why did you go and tell him that we’re going to play squad!” Ai Zhe was really about to cry without tears. “Bro, don’t you know that I changed to squad to avoid him ma? A perfectly good great god who doesn’t fight in the high-ranked matches but goes to the rookie concentration camp to enact a bloodbath… if we hadn’t encountered him just now in those two matches, I could have gotten 20 kills. Do you believe me?”

“Believe, believe, believe.” Wen Xi didn’t know whether to laugh or cry.

He had never in his life met anyone more outspoken than Ai Zhe.

Then Ai Zhe kept going. “I feel like you didn’t sing the battle song well during the last match! Singing what ‘Burning Life’ ah, you singing that made us meet our deaths prematurely!”

[hhhhh facing your deaths prematurely is actually okay?]

[Love Pig threw the blame at Xixi again!]

[Why blame the battle song ah, just admit you’re noob (manual dog head)]

Wen Xi shrugged his shoulders. “It turns out I don’t have the talent required to sing battle songs, so you have to do it in this match.”

[Hahaha, no mental disturbances!]

[Xixi is right!]

[Love Pig, quickly sing!]

Once again, the situation backfired on Ai Zhe, and he just gave in. “Okay ba, I’ll do it, I’ll do it. It just so happens that I have found a song and haven’t sung it yet, so I’ll sing for you all—‘Passion Play’!”

‘Passion Play’—although it had the word ‘play’ in it—it was actually a love song. It depicted a kind of fierce burning love, like that of a moth determinedly fluttering towards the flame.

With the first line of the lyrics—”You’re like a bright red rose, with crystal dew falling on soft petals exposed”—Wen Xi, who was listening, had a head full of question marks.

But it seemed that Ai Zhe’s fans ate up this kind of style. As soon as Ai Zhe had sung half of the song, he started to thank viewers non-stop for the gifts he received, which made Wen Xi very jealous.

For some reason, he had the delusion of having lost a hundred million, what was going onnnn QAQ

Soon, the number of people in the queuing lobby reached more than 90 and stayed that way for more than 10 seconds, and so the match officially began.

This match had a total of 97 people.

Wen Xi and Ai Zhe were a two-man team, and that was to say that, apart from them, there were at least three other people who hadn’t formed a four-man team.

Wen Xi was very curious if Momo was among those three.

In retrospect, this person seemed to have never formed a team with anyone. He had always been alone.

“For this match jump to Area C! Area C, Area C, Area C!”

As soon as the plane started to fly, Ai Zhe didn’t wait to start an uproar.

It seemed that in this match, he was determined to avoid Momo.

Of course, Wen Xi didn’t have any objections and answered him in the affirmative very cheerfully.

The two areas for which his hands now had the best feel for were Area M and Area C.

The most uncomfortable area for him to play in was Area F.

So, he would like to avoid Area F and would prefer jumping to Area C.

For this match, Area C was positioned further away on the map, and by the time Wen Xi and Ai Zhe jumped, there weren’t many people left on the plane.

While landing, just like he had done in the last match, Wen Xi quickly counted the number of people who were jumping to Area C with them. “Eight.”

Ai Zhe was stunned, since he was late by one second in finishing the count— eight indeed.

After a moment of silence, he pretended that he hadn’t counted. “Eight, right? Kill them all! Say, you count very quickly, bro. Then in the future, the task of counting people will be given to you!”

“Okay.” Wen Xi didn’t have any objections; anyway, he had become used to counting the number of people while landing. “I’ll report the coordinates to you later.”

“Report the coordinates?” Ai Zhe hadn’t reacted yet.

Wen Xi replied, “Just… The enemy’s position ah, I’ll report it all to you later.”

Ai Zhe said, “Wtf, you remember all of them? You fucker, you’re a god ba!”

Ai Zhe really felt that after having played these three matches, he would have to go into seclusion right then and there.

These three matches had really exhausted him, both mentally and physically—either he would get beaten bloody by a passer-by or he would be attacked by a newbie.

At this time, the barrage was full of lines like [God Xi is a god ah, no problem there], which left Ai Zhe speechless.

He had almost forgotten that Wen Xi had already been called a god in ‘Spirit Trace’.

Since he had been called a god, he had to have some skills.

In this match, Wen Xi landed sooner than Ai Zhe and immediately stretched out a hand towards him while saying, “Give the shotgun to me.”

Only then did Ai Zhe remember that he had said he would teach Wen Xi how to stabilize the gun. After landing, he quickly threw the shotgun to him. “Here you are, here you are. When you use it in a bit, listen to my commands.”

“Okay~” Wen Xi’s voice was very cheerful.

His shooting skills being poor was the secondary reason for why he hadn’t bought a gun. The main reason was that he was poor…

So, even if it couldn’t play any significant role in his hands, he was happy to have a free shotgun to use~

At that moment, Wen Xi’s voice sounded like that of a child who had gotten a new toy, which made Ai Zhe laugh in spite of himself.

Ai Zhe had acted with great generosity, but he knew in his heart that his real self wasn’t so magnanimous, and was even the kind that haggled over every detail.

When he carried newbies, he was constantly worried about his own popularity being split with that of the newbie.

However, when facing Wen Xi, he really couldn’t be angry with him.

Maybe it was because Wen Xi felt too pure to him.

*

Wen Xi said, “There’s people at your 3 o’clock.”

[System] Azure knocked down Onepangci with a sniper rifle.

Ai Zhe yelled, “Shot him down!”

Wen Xi said, “There’s another one, they’re running.”

Ai Zhe exclaimed, “See them!”

[System] Azure knocked down Annx with a headshot with a sniper rifle.

[System] Azure shot and killed Onepangci with a sniper rifle.

[System] Azure shot and killed Annx with a sniper rifle.

Wen Xi looked at the system prompts on the screen and couldn’t help but call out to Ai Zhe, “Love Pig is awesome!”

Ai Zhe replied, “I told you to call me Handsome Zhe!”

Without Momo’s “chaos”, Ai Zhe finally had the room to give full scope to his abilities, and by now had already gathered five kills.

The enemy’s position was basically being reported to him by Wen Xi, and if he caught someone within his scope, they would definitely be down in three shots!

Obviously, Ai Zhe had skills and his title of a skills-based anchor was well-deserved.

It was no exaggeration when he said he could take 20 kills and win first place in such a rookie concentration camp match.

If it was a real, pure rookie concentration camp match, then forget even talking about 20 kills, he could even take 30 kills.

But it was a pity that he was fated to not be number one today.

Because he encountered Momo.

[System] Momo hit Azure with a headshot with a sniper rifle.

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

[System] Momo killed Azure with a headshot with a sniper rifle.

Three headshots; no matter how Ai Zhe hid or climbed, he couldn’t escape the fate of being killed.

This kind of scenario was like meeting a death god demanding his life; all struggles were in vain.

At the moment he was killed by Momo, if he hadn’t been livestreaming and had to take his own image as an anchor into consideration, Ai Zhe would have really liked to greet all 18 generations of Momo’s ancestors!

Shortly after he fell to the ground, Wen Xi managed to headshot and knock Momo down. Unfortunately, Wen Xi suffered from the bow’s long cooldown time. After the required five seconds had passed, he wanted to finish off Momo, but Momo had hid somewhere else a long time ago.

What followed was obviously a battle between Wen Xi and Momo.

One of them fled, and the other one chased. When they met other players on the way, they would smoothly headshot them and take the kill.

The whole barrage was once again flooded with comments about the two people’s “dog food”.

[Momo killed another one who wanted to kill Xixi!]

[Wow, God Xi, how can you bear to shoot him?]

[This kind of loving each other and killing each other is too beautiful to watch ba!]

In such an atmosphere, Ai Zhe helplessly watched the number of people in the upper right corner of the game interface drop from more than 50 to around 30, finally leaving only 10 remaining in the end.

It was the final circle.

This wasn’t Wen Xi’s first time playing in the finals, but it was his first time playing in the final round in a duo or squad match.

[Momo killed MLGV with a headshot with an assault rifle. The remaining number of survivors is 7.]

The final circle was in Area G, that is, the grassland area.

Wen Xi let his character lie in the grass and dared not move even an inch.

According to the direction from where the shot came and the kill prompts that appeared in the upper right corner of the screen, Momo wasn’t far from his location.

Then, the remaining five people, who formed at least two teams, were fighting hard against each other.

Since someone was fighting, Wen Xi naturally did not participate.

His goal was very clear—just last until the end. It didn’t matter whether he took any kills or not at this stage.

Momo obviously didn’t think the same.

After a loud bang——

[Momo killed Tony July with a frag grenade. The remaining number of survivors is 6.]

[Momo killed Mary June with a frag grenade. The remaining number of survivors is 5.]

[Momo killed Wind with a frag grenade. The remaining number of survivors is 4.]

[Momo killed DLG with a frag grenade. The remaining number of survivors is 3.]

“WTF!” Ai Zhe, who had silently been pretending to be dead up until now, couldn’t help it anymore. “One grenade killing four people… good show!”

His voice had just fallen when it was accompanied by the sound of a gunshot, and another kill prompt flashed on the screen.

[Momo killed FastFish with an assault rifle. The remaining number of survivors is 2.]

“Too fierce…” Ai Zhe was sure that Momo now had at least 25 kills in his hands.

It was true—Momo had 29 kills; Wen Xi had counted it very clearly.

Includings him, it would become 30.

It wasn’t like Wen Xi hadn’t ranked first when he played solo matches, but even in the match where he had gotten the most kills, he had still only made 18 kills.

29 kills… If he wasn’t playing in the same match as Momo and always paying attention to the kills prompts that appeared in the upper right corner of the screen, Wen Xi really wouldn’t be able to believe that someone could accomplish that.

At this time, the match had already lasted for more than half an hour. In a few minutes, the whole map would be devoid of safe zones.

In other words, if Wen Xi couldn’t kill Momo before the safe zone disappeared, he would then have to compete against him in terms of medicine, right up to the bitter end.

Ai Zhe asked Wen Xi, “How much medicine do you have?”

Wen Xi pressed the shortcut key to open his inventory and glanced inside. There were 4 bandages, 1 first-aid kit, and zero medical kits.

Emmm……

Ai Zhe exclaimed, “Go forward ba bro, if you can’t kill him, you’re going to die!”

Wen Xi obviously knew that.

With this amount of medicine, it would be impossible to out-compete Momo in that regard.

So, if he wanted to live to the end, the best way available right now was to rush out and kill Momo.

Do it when you think of it!

Wen Xi resolutely equipped the bow and shot an arrow in Momo’s direction!

There was almost no time for him to aim, and he locked on with just a brief flash through his first-person perspective.

Just now, while those people were fighting, Wen Xi had carefully and continuously adjusted his position in the grass, and was sure that Momo hadn’t noticed him yet.

He had also been keeping an eye on Momo’s movements this entire time.

So, he was utterly confident when he shot that arrow.

What happened after that was exactly what he thought should happen.

But it was still a bit different.

Because he hadn’t expected Momo to have a spare helmet!

So, even though he got headshotted when he wasn’t at full health, he didn’t die immediately.

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

“Shit! Hurry up and rush over there! Rush straight up there right now and use your fists to punch him!” Ai Zhe, who was watching the battle, was even more nervous than Wen Xi was at this moment.

Wen Xi didn’t say a word. He decided to let his character shift postures, standing up from lying down on the grass, then pressed the Shift key and started to rush towards Momo!

But just as he was rushing up to Momo’s location to engage in a fight, Momo threw something on the ground.

After the bang——

[System] Momo was killed by a frag grenade.

In fact, before the system prompt had appeared, Wen Xi had already realized that Momo had tossed a frag grenade, but he was out of time to escape and was instead scared to the extent of breaking out into a cold sweat.

Until he saw the big gold letters ‘YOU WIN’ on the screen…

Wen Xi breathed a long sigh of relief, while his whole person relaxed and then reclined to collapse, into his chair—he won! He beat Momo and became the champion of this match!

“AAAHHHHH! Awesome! Bro, you’re awesome!” Ai Zhe shouted wildly, and the atmosphere in the whole stream electrified to its highest point.

There were stream followers constantly sending gifts to Wen Xi. Wen Xi was moved, but he didn’t have the strength to talk.

He had never felt so tired from playing just a single match in a game before…

However, Wen Xi was very concerned about one point, “That… If he had just killed me first with an explosion, wouldn’t he have won?”

“No way ah.” Ai Zhe affirmed. “What are you thinking? You two should have originally died at the same time, but you had more health than he did ah! So no matter what position he used to throw that grenade, you would still have won in the end.”

“Uh?” Wen Xi blinked. “Then what did he mean by throwing that grenade?”

“Dying for the sake of his love for you bei!” Ai Zhe blurted out.

Wen Xi didn’t know whether to laugh or cry.

[Lolololol Love Pig understands so much ah!]

[It’s just dying for love ah, there’s no problem with that!]

[If we’re going to die, then let’s die together!]

[In life, you’re my person, in death, you’re my ghost!]

The more the barrage said, the more ridiculous it got. Wen Xi was too lazy to respond.

In his opinion, it was just that this person Momo would prefer to kill himself with a grenade than be killed by others.

Such a stubborn person.

After giving thanks for the wave of gifts, Ai Zhe said they were almost out of time, and that he would see everyone in the evening.

Wen Xi looked at the time, and time was really nearly up— after two minutes, it was going to be 4 o’clock.

After saying goodbye to Ai Zhe, he was ready to give thanks for the wave of gifts he had received and then end the stream to go eat.

Unexpectedly, the barrage urged him to poke Momo.

[Xixi, aren’t you going to say anything to Momo?]

[God Xi, you just killed him, and you’re not even going to go comfort him a bit!]

Wen Xi: ???

“I… What am I going to say ah?” Wen Xi asked with a head full of question marks. “What comfort? I only killed him in one match; he killed me in two matches. If someone is supposed to be comforting someone, it should still be him comforting me ba?”

[Hahahahaha! momo, did you hear that! Quickly come and comfort him!]

[Xixi seems very aggrieved, lolololol, I’m going to die of laughter!]

[God Xi, quickly go and poke! If you dare to go poke, I dare to smash deepwater torpedoes for you!]

Originally, Wen Xi had only intended on interacting with the barrage for a few more sentences, and hadn’t planned on poking Momo.

It wasn’t that he didn’t want to meet the demands of his stream followers, but mainly that he didn’t know what to say after poking Momo.

Sorry for killing you just now?

——If he really did send that, the other party would definitely regard him as insane.

But deepwater torpedoes?

One deepwater torpedo was 100 yuan, and after splitting it 50-50 with the platform, it would mean 50 yuan for him.

Wen Xi expressed: He could do this!

“You guys said it ah, if I dare to poke, then you guys dare to smash deepwater torpedoes!” Wen Xi said that and then clicked on his friends list, found Momo, and poked him.

In this world, no one could live without money.

However, Wen Xi was still principled, and it was impossible for him to really go comfort Momo. So he poked Momo and started some small talk that really couldn’t get any smaller.

Wency: Still playing?

Momo: No.

Initially, he planned on retreating after poking, but he hadn’t expected that the other side would reply back within seconds.

Wen Xi was stunned for a moment and couldn’t help asking further.

Wency: You’re busy?

Momo: En.

Wency: Then when will you be free?

Momo: What? You haven’t had enough of fighting against me yet?

Wency: No…

Seriously speaking, Wen Xi didn’t want to fight against Momo anymore. It was too tiring to fight against him; it was a big burden on his brain and hands.

He didn’t know if the other side felt the same way?

While he was struggling with what to say next, the other side took the lead in sending a message over to him.

Momo: Let’s have a duo match together another day ba.

Wen Xi: !!!

He pretty much replied “yes” within that very first moment.

The trickiest enemy was also the most reliable teammate.

It was absolutely impossible for him to refuse such a teammate, one who had just shown up at his doorstep.

Momo: Okay, logging off first. Have a good meal.

After Momo left such a message, he directly quit his account, without waiting for a response back from Wen Xi.

Wen Xi didn’t return to his senses for a long time after reading this message.

Then he looked at the barrage and discovered that the entire screen had already been covered in the words [Have a good meal], and various other kinds of [AHHH] and [it’s real] mixed in.

To tell the truth, Wen Xi was a bit confused.

He wanted to say that the other party may have just casually said that since it was time to eat… but he didn’t know why, this time around, even he couldn’t prevent himself from entertaining fanciful thoughts.

At the same time, on the other side, Ling Shuyi, who had gone to the training room to call Mo Chen for dinner, saw Mo Chen’s excessively gentle smile, and goosebumps broke out across his whole body.

After a long while, he finally found his voice. “Er, Captain, do you want to go out for dinner together?”

Mo Chen didn’t even turn his head when replying with an “en.”

Ling Shuyi kept feeling like Mo Chen’s tone today wasn’t very normal…

He carefully crept over, secretly snuck a look at Mo Chen’s computer screen, but didn’t see anything special.

By this time, Mo Chen had quit the game, and the screen just showed his computer desktop and the logo of the CLM team.

Ling Shuyi could only look away and guess blindly. “What are you doing? Did you encounter the person you were talking about again?”

Hearing this question, Mo Chen finally reacted. He turned his head and looked at Ling Shuyi. His cold gaze made Ling Shuyi shiver.

After a while, Mo Chen opened his mouth, his completely magnetic voice emotionless. “Resume training tomorrow, and rest early after dinner today.”

Ling Shuyi replied, “That’s necessary ah! I’ll sleep right after I get back from dinner!”

Mo Chen was too lazy to judge him. “… How is the youth training team doing?”

Ling Shuyi answered, “Just the way they were bei. It’s not like you don’t know what others think of CLM after the end of last season. The youth training team keeps changing from one batch of people after another. We can’t keep the ones who have real ability, and the ones that are willing to stay have heaps of problems. It’s just a vicious cycle.”

Mo Chen squinted and didn’t speak.

When Ling Shuyi looked at him being like this, he intuited that Mo Chen had come up with some kind of devilish idea. He hesitated for a moment, but still he tentatively asked, “What are you thinking?”

“I was thinking…”

Wency’s archery flashed through Mo Chen’s mind, and he was unable to resist quirking his mouth up again. “I want to trick someone into joining.”

—

Juurensha: Annnnd we have a plot being brewed in the heart of CLM!

Noks: We live together and… I’ll die before you this time! Momo is such a romantic… when he’s trying to con someone into joining his team…