Ch17 - I’ve avenged you

Edited by Noks

Wen Xi was suspicious of Mo Chen’s motivations for flirting with him, along with his reasons for egging him on to play professionally, but he had never doubted his skills—after confirming that he wasn’t a botter.

Therefore, upon hearing Mo Chen’s words, not only did Wen Xi not feel like they were wildly conceited, but instead thought that they gave off a very reassuring vibe.

He replied with an “okay.”

However, because Mo Chen had still been using the private chat channel when he said those words, all that Ai Zhe and Ruby heard was only Wen Xi’s “okay”, and thought that he was actually responding to Ai Zhe’s “Get ready to jump!”

Ai Zhe couldn’t help complaining, “Bro, your reaction time is a bit long ah?”

Wen Xi was stunned, and only after a while did he realize why Ai Zhe said this. He didn’t know whether to laugh or cry, but he also had no intentions of explaining anything.

However, even if he didn’t explain, some stream followers would help him explain the situation to Ai Zhe.

They not only told him that Wen Xi had been replying to Momo and not to him, but also explained why Momo had turned on his voice channel to say those words.

You could tell that everyone really liked this CP of Wen Xi and Momo.

Ai Zhe was helpless. “Okay, okay, don’t I know? Momo just cares about Xixi and is afraid of Xixi being wronged bei! It’s also that your family’s Xixi’s character is too easily misunderstood! ”

Wen Xi typed out a ?

By this time, the plane had already flown over Area F, and the four people successively pressed the F key to jump down.

Ai Zhe continued speaking on the topic while jumping down, “Some of you are attacking Momo for my sake. It’s unnecessary, it’s really unnecessary. That Momo person isn’t an anchor, so how much does he care about our livestreaming atmosphere? He’s just here to accompany Xixi… He also said it himself? Then that’s right! If it wasn’t for Xixi, we couldn’t even have been able to move his feelings with an invitation!”

After a pause, during which he probably saw another line in the barrage, he spoke again, “Yes, today I really don’t dare to make Xixi sing. Do you guys believe that if I dare to make him sing, then Momo will dare to come after me?”

“Hey, I’m secretly telling you guys, one look and you can tell that Momo is a side account. With that skill level, he can’t just be a low-ranked player in the national servers, so he really doesn’t care about you guys attacking him. Will he lose a pound of flesh if you guys attacked him?”

Ai Zhe just kept responding to the barrage by himself, but the more Wen Xi heard, the more he thought something was wrong, and he couldn’t help but interrupt, “What’s the matter? Is there someone attacking Momo over on your side?”

“What ma? People are only allowed to help you put yourself forward, and my stream followers aren’t allowed to help me put myself forward ah?” Ai Zhe asked a little bit tsundere-ly, as if he wasn’t the one who had just advised his stream followers not to attack Momo for his sake.

However, he was obviously joking, and soon added, “Don’t attack him, really don’t attack him. Livestreaming is for fun, don’t make it so that everyone becomes unhappy. But seriously ah, if my girlfriend is ignored, and while everyone else is talking, she gets all clammed up, and on top of that, if her character is very weak and easily bullied, I also wouldn’t be able to help but want to do something for her.”

Wen Xi didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. “…It sounds like you’re explaining for Momo, but why do I keep thinking you’re making a dig at me?”

“Because I am making a dig at you ah!” Ai Zhe blurted out.

“Er?” Wen Xi began to reflect on himself.

Ai Zhe said, “Hahaha, you won’t take it seriously ba? Too cute, my Xi.”

Mo Chen also couldn’t help laughing when he heard this.

He was still using the private chat channel, so only Wen Xi could hear his voice. This meant that the barrage in Wen Xi’s livestream and the one in Ai Zhe’s livestream were experiencing two totally different kinds of flavors right now.

The barrage in Wen Xi’s livestream:

[AHHHHHHH the way Momo laughs is too Sue-ish ba!]

[Who the f*ck could withstand this!]

[Reasonably speaking, if I were Momo, I also wouldn’t be able to not help Xixi hold up his head! Who let Xixi be this cute!]

The barrage in Ai Zhe’s livestream:

[Love Pig’s disposition is good ah!]

[Don’t try to whitewash it, that person may not thank you!]

[Momo has a main account? Then he should just take out his main account!]

“Eh? Speaking of that, I’m also curious about Momo’s main account.” All of a sudden, Ai Zhe asked, “Xi, do you know?”

Wen Xi was stunned at suddenly being cued. “I don’t know.” Then, recalling what Mo Chen had said to him, he hesitantly repeated it again, “But he said, only when I get into the top 10 of the national servers, or the top 50 of the overseas servers, would he be able to use his main account to accompany me.”

Top 10 in the national servers, top 50 in the overseas servers…

Ai Zhe actually thought he heard wrong. “These requirements are too… If I remember correctly, these seem to be the standard for getting selected into a professional team?”

Sure enough.

Wen Xi wasn’t surprised at all.

At this time, Mo Chen had already landed. As soon as he landed, he equipped his sniper rifle, raised it up, aimed, and shot—all in one go.

Bang!

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

Right after that was another shot.

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

By the time Wen Xi and Ai Zhe landed, Mo Chen already had a kill in his hands.

After Wen Xi landed, he exclaimed internally that Momo was indeed Momo, and at the same time, he tentatively reminded him, “You have one on your 3 o’clock.”

Ai Zhe said, “Great.”

Wen Xi said, “…um, I’m talking about Momo’s 3 o’clock.”

Ai Zhe: “…”

[Lololololol Love Pig is too funny ba!]

[There’s obviously four people, but why does Love Pig feel so much like a third wheel!]

While the barrage was laughing at Ai Zhe, Mo Chen had already made two headshots and killed the person whose position Wen Xi had reported.

Ai Zhe, who hadn’t even seen that person, nursed a grievance as he exclaimed, “He’s already so powerful, and you’re still reporting coordinates to him! You should report some to me ah!”

Ruby couldn’t pretend to have not heard this and so spoke up, “What do you think I was doing by jumping 2 seconds later than you? It was all just to report some coordinates to you ah!”

“Then that’s easy to deal with.” Wen Xi blinked and said, “I’ll report coordinates to Momo, and Ruby will report coordinates to Ai Zhe. This way, things won’t be disordered. Is this plan okay?”

Ai Zhe couldn’t cry or laugh. “How are you so resourceful… Say, you’re not allowed to call me Love Pig! Call me Handsome Zhe!”

While the three of them were talking, Momo killed another enemy.

Seeing the kills prompt on the screen, Wen Xi was slightly stunned.

Mo Chen hadn’t spoken half a word since he had landed. Wen Xi even suspected that he had turned off the in-game voice-chat channel in order to better capture the sounds around him.

However, in fact, after Mo Chen had landed, he had only blocked the voices of Ai Zhe and Ruby, and he could still hear Wen Xi’s voice.

So, after killing five people in a row and finding that Wen Xi had stopped reporting any more coordinates, he asked in confusion, “Why aren’t you reporting coordinates anymore?”

Wen Xi, who had just snatched a kill from Ai Zhe’s hands with a headshot with an arrow, didn’t even have time to hug himself before he heard Mo Chen’s voice and was startled. “Er, I thought you had actually turned off the in-game voice-chat channel.”

Mo Chen replied, “No, I only blocked those two people.”

Wen Xi: “…”

Is it really good if you say it just like that?

Mo Chen kept going. “In your case, if I block your voice channel, I will tell you.”

Wen Xi said, “Oh…”

[Lololololol, Momo, this double standard dog!]

[Although I have a foreboding that Love Pig’s fans would jump up after hearing this, I still want to say that I like Momo so much!]

[Love Pig’s fans are all his girlfriend fans and wife fans, and most of them are irrational. Just look at the lines they send in the barrage. Don’t take any of it to heart ah, Xixi and Momo!]

Wen Xi randomly selected several lines in the barrage to respond to, and then in order to not affect Mo Chen’s operations, he didn’t speak again.

For a while, his livestream once again turned into a “two-person act” being played by Ai Zhe and Ruby.

By the time the first circle began to shrink, the four of them had already emptied out the entire Area F.

Mo Chen had taken 7 kills, Wen Xi had taken 2, Ai Zhe had 1, and Ruby had 0.

“You only got one kill?” Ruby was also surprised. “Do you count as a skills-based anchor with numbers like that?!”

Ai Zhe wanted to cry without tears.

He knew that Momo was stronger than him, but he hadn’t expected him to be this much stronger.

When he had been their enemy, he hadn’t felt that he was this fierce. Now that he had become a teammate, he could obviously tell—Momo’s ability was superior to his in all aspects, and they weren’t at the same level at all.

“I declare that my title as a skills-based anchor will be destroyed and buried in this match, alright ba?” Ai Zhe couldn’t explain, so he could only slander himself, “In the future, everyone please call me an entertainment anchor!”

[Hahahaha, you already were one ah!]

[Love Pig, don’t cry! Stand up lol!]

For a while, everyone in the barrage was joking about Ai Zhe, and those who had attacked Momo before had now disappeared without leaving a trace.

After all, the game was still a world based on strength.

“I think Love Pig is quite cute,” Wen Xi said to Mo Chen.

Because it was hard to insert himself into the conversation between Ai Zhe and Ruby, Wen Xi simply turned off his in-game mic and only conversed with Mo Chen in the private voice-chat channel.

In response to his words, Mo Chen basically replied, “False impression.”

Hearing those two words, Wen Xi really was at a loss of whether he should laugh or cry. “Do you have any opinions against him? Or some misunderstandings about him?”

“No.” Mo Chen replied very decisively, “I’m not aiming at him, I’m just being alert towards all the people around you.”

Wen Xi: ???

[Lolololol this is him taking Love Pig as a love rival?]

[Momo: Xixi is just mine, no one else can try to draw close!]

[Momo: I’m not aiming at him, I just wanted to say that everyone here is trash, except you.]

Before reading the barrage, Wen Xi felt completely bewildered. After reading the lines in the barrage, his face carried an expression of complete confusion.

Their relationship had already progressed to reach the stage of jealousy?

Mo Chen didn’t actually think that any of what he had said was wrong—if Wen Xi and Ai Zhe grew too close, and Wen Xi grew even more reluctant to give up livestreaming to play professionally, then what?

Also, Wen Xi’s archery was so good, and he was so clever and cute. After he played more games and got into the high ranks, there would definitely be more than N number of professional teams coming, all trying to pull him in. How could he not be a bit alert?

Mo Chen really grew more uneasy the more he thought about it, and the more uneasy he was, the more ferociously he played.

[Momo killed Pear with a headshot with a sniper rifle. The remaining number of survivors is 62.]

[Momo killed Black Tea with a headshot with a sniper rifle. The remaining number of survivors is 60.]

[Momo killed freeair with a headshot with an assault rifle. The remaining number of survivors is 59.]

[Momo killed Play123 with a grenade. The remaining number of survivors is 58.]

“Wtf, how many kills was that, bro?” Ai Zhe looked at the kills prompts list in the upper right corner of the screen, and had nearly gone numb from staring at it.

Wen Xi, who had been counting the whole time, replied, “13.”

99 players had entered this match, and 58 were left, indicating that 41 players had already been eliminated.

Mo Chen had 13 kills in his hand, which means that more than a quarter of those who were eliminated had been killed by him.

Ai Zhe looked at the five kills in his own hands, and really wanted to cry without tears. “Too fierce, you couldn’t be a professional player ba? Based on your voice, you seem pretty young…” He paused before continuing, “But professional players can’t come and play in the lower ranks of the national servers ah, if you play too much here, your level will drop.”

Mo Chen had blocked him, so naturally he couldn’t hear his voice, and thus didn’t reply.

However, he had heard Wen Xi’s “13”, and couldn’t help but raise his eyebrows as he asked, “You’ve been counting this whole time?”

Wen Xi froze, then finally resigned himself to his fate and let out an “en” sound.

Mo Chen chuckled. “No need. It’s a rookie concentration camp match, it’s meaningless no matter how many kills I take.”

Wen Xi: “…”

But you still took so many!

The barrage, upon hearing Mo Chen’s words, couldn’t hold themselves back.

[Hear that, is that what an actual person says?!]

[So Momo, purely to accompany Xixi, decided to fight in rookie concentration camp matches. This reasoning isn’t wrong ba?]

[Obviously he’s an assassin, but he’s willing to become a grunt in the concentration camp for Xiao Xi, it’s true love!]

At this time, three consecutive system prompts appeared on the screens of all four people.

[System] Gold God shot Azure with a sniper rifle.

[System] Gold God shot Azure with a sniper rifle.

[System] Gold God shot Azure with a sniper rifle.

“Wtf? WTF?!” Ai Zhe covered his head and scurried away, but no matter where he fled to, this Gold God’s bullets followed him like a shadow.

In the end, this person mercilessly knocked him down and killed him.

If it was just this, of course, there would be no problem. Which great god hadn’t been capsized before in a game?

Not to even mention the time when Wen Xi had been playing Spirit Trace, where even he couldn’t win every single match in the arena, and his win rate had stabilized at around 90%.

The problem, however, was that up until Ai Zhe was killed, the other three people still hadn’t seen where this Gold God was?!

“Wtf, even if I hide in a room, he can find and hit me?!” Ai Zhe had never died so humbly before. “What is this? Running a bot ba!”

As soon as he said that, Ruby was also shot three times in a row and so started howling on the spot, “Save me, my god! This is definitely a botter ba! Whose bullets can go through walls?!”

As soon as she finished howling, she was finished off. She didn’t even have time to use a bandage.

Wen Xi froze for a while, then hurriedly reacted, using the voice channel to warn Mo Chen, “Careful, there’s a botter.”

Mo Chen replied, “En, discovered that.”

Ever since the poison circle had drawn inward towards Area C, they had all hurried to Area C, one after another, and the Gold God’s ID had appeared nonstop on the upper right corner of the screen.

Mo Chen had been aware that there was a botter since then.

However, he didn’t care about it very much. So what if he was running a bot, if he had the ability, then he should come and kill him ah!

[System] Gold God shot Wency with a sniper rifle.

[System] Gold God knocked down Wency with a headshot with a sniper rifle.

[System] Gold God shot and killed Wency with a sniper rifle.

Mo Chen: “…”

Wen Xi could only watch as he was being hit by bullets that seemed to be coming from nowhere. Seeing the screen suddenly turn gray, he fell into a stupor.

This was a botter who couldn’t possibly be more obvious. Perspective + X-Ray vision, maybe an aimbot too.

He silently clicked to watch the battle — at this moment, only Mo Chen was left alive in the team, so he could only watch from Mo Chen’s perspective.

However, even if Ai Zhe and Ruby were still alive, he would probably still choose Mo Chen’s perspective.

It had nothing to do with intimacy or closeness, it was just because he appreciated Mo Chen’s skills and wanted to seize the chance to be stealthily mentored.

Ever since Wen Xi had been taken away, Mo Chen had fallen silent. Although he hadn’t said much before, for some reason, his silence at this moment gave off the feeling of the pressure before an incoming storm.

That person with the Gold God ID was clearly aiming at their team. After killing Ai Zhe, Ruby, and Wen Xi, he aimed his gun at Mo Chen.

[System] Gold God shot you with a sniper rifle.

Even Mo Chen couldn’t dodge bullets that could cross through walls.

But Mo Chen didn’t give up. He pressed shift and sped towards the other side, not stopping at all midway.

This was because he knew that in the face of such a botter, hiding and running had already lost its meaning; there could only be a fight to the death!

“Just rushing over like that?!” Ai Zhe obviously couldn’t understand his current action. “Too reckless ba, bro! Right now you should definitely run away ah! The devil knows how far that person is from us? They could even be at the top of the mountain aiming at us!”

“No.” In order not to affect Mo Chen, Wen Xi turned off the in-game voice-chat channel and spoke in a voice channel that only Ai Zhe and Ruby had access to. “This person didn’t kill many people before. It was only after we entered Area C that he started killing people left and right, so they must be in Area C.”

Ai Zhe asked, “The problem is that there are so many houses in Area C. The devil knows which house he is in?”

Wen Xi replied, “That I don’t know…”

Ai Zhe interjected, “Why bother to fight? Directly blow yourself up with a grenade, get out of the match, and report the person ah! Get his account and IP address suspended!”

Wen Xi didn’t reply to him again, seriously concentrating on watching Mo Chen’s perspective.

By this time, Mo Chen had been shot four or five times. He had already had to replace both his armor and his helmet.

He rushed to the front of a house and skillfully and nimbly headed up three floors. Because he kept jumping around, going left one minute then right the other, he actually managed to make many of Gold God’s shots go wide.

Ai Zhe watched and watched, and unconsciously watched till he was in a daze— this staircase, rather than saying that Momo was climbing it, you could say that he was jumping up it. This angle, this speed—at a glance you could tell that he has undergone and experienced countless amounts of training. Not to mention ordinary players, not even him, a so-called “skills-based” anchor, could do this, and not even Blue Wolf could accomplish this.

This person, he couldn’t actually be a professional player ba?

Speaking of professional players, this attitude of coming straight to the point without hesitation, this style where there was not a hint of any redundant movements— it was a lot like one person…

Ai Zhe was still in a daze, but Mo Chen had already rushed into a room on the third floor with a clear goal in mind.

Then, he opened the door, turned around, and fired off a headshot!

[System] You knocked down Gold God with a headshot with an assault rifle.

[System] You killed Gold God with a headshot with an assault rifle.

All this happened like a crack of lightning or the sparking of flint. Before Wen Xi, Ai Zhe, Ruby, or any of the stream followers in the livestreams could return to their senses, Mo Chen had already taken out a frag grenade and simply thrown it at his own feet.

[System] You died of a frag grenade.

At the same time, he said to Wen Xi in a relieved tone, “Okay, I’ve avenged you.”

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Juurensha: I feel a bit bad for Love Pig getting overshadowed in his own stream, but this does seem to be getting to be a pretty exciting stream!

Also: Momo: Ahahaha, who cares about some botter–

System: The botter has killed Wency

Momo:…..THIS BOTTER IS DEAD MEAT

Noks: Man… Momo is seriously too cool! The way he took down that botter… Wen Xi… you better not be drooling at him, though I bet the stream followers will definitely drool at him! And he just cemented the CP even further. Can’t wait to see the lines in the barrage next chapter!