Chapter 10 - I’m too noob, so I won’t pick it up
Edited by Divetus and Noks
After sending the message, Yi Chen gently moved the mouse, clicked the red x at the top right of the webpage, shut down the computer and exhaled.
Then, he got up and walked to the French windows that overlooked a myriad of city lights, and unhurriedly answered his phone.
“En.”
“Yi Chen.” The voice of the old man at the other end wasn’t happy. “How could you only answer the phone now?”
Yi Chen’s lips pulled down, and his eyes flickered with impatience, but his tone was as usual. “What’s the matter?”
Seeing that the other party didn’t greet him, the old man took a few deep breaths before continuing, “When are you free? Let’s meet up — your grandfather made an agreement with me four years ago to let me undertake the Xu River project. How could you suddenly change the project leader without discussing this with me in advance?!”
“Uncle Chen,” Yi Chen smiled. “You said it yourself, that was what my grandfather promised. Naturally, you should seek him out for an explanation. I’m afraid nothing will change if you meet with me.”
“You!” The other party was so angry he nearly spit out blood.
Old man Yi pa.s.sed away three years ago. Telling him to go seek out old man Yi for help, wasn’t that just cursing him?!
“Yi Chen, what do you mean by that!”
Yi Chen heard the other party’s heavy breathing and only then, gradually, withdrew his smile. He felt that he had succeeded in angering him enough and said, “Eight o’clock Sunday morning, Mingguang Hotel.”
Hanging up the phone, the man pressed on a remote control, and the curtains slowly closed.
He took his shirt off with one hand, and his well-built physique was exposed to the air, the lines of his muscles rising and falling slightly with his breath.
Seemingly thinking of something, he stopped walking and unlocked his cellphone.
As the largest livestream platform, StarTV naturally had an app.
“Ding—”
After the sound of the download prompt rang out, he tossed his cellphone aside, grabbed a bathrobe, and turned around to enter the bathroom.
——
There were two knocks on the door.
The man sitting in the boss’ chair didn’t lift his head and indifferently said, “Scram.”
There was only one person who dared to knock on his office door without anyone notifying him beforehand.
Unfortunately, the door opened faster than he could say scram. A boy wearing casual clothes and sneakers worth tens of thousands of yuan grinned and came in carrying a ball. “Ge, I’ve missed you unbearably so!”
As if accustomed to receiving this kind of att.i.tude from the other person, Yi Chen turned the page over and quickly signed his name on the doc.u.ment with a pen. In a careless tone, he asked, “What?”
Yi Ran clicked his tongue, quickly walked to his desk, and fawned upon him as he said, “Ge, since I’m coming over to your house to eat soon, I thought I would travel there with you.”
“Do you not have a car?”
“Have one ah, and it’s the one you gave me!”
As he mentioned this, Yi Chen’s index finger and thumb closed together, and he couldn’t help rubbing them against each other. “Then, are your legs broken?”
Yi Ran said, “Aiya, Ge…”
“Say it ba.” Yi Chen closed the doc.u.ment and threw it aside. “What did you come to find me for?”
Yi Ran was surprised and thought that his cousin had mind-reading abilities.
But it didn’t matter. Seeing that the other side had already uncovered his purpose, he no longer talked in circles. He just threw the ball to the ground, pouted, and started to pour out his woes. “Ge, quickly save me! My dad froze all my cards and took away all my car keys while I was sleeping!”
“I’m now living in a friend’s house. It has a little over 100 square meters, and it’s nearly full after just putting down two beds… I only have 40 yuan in cash on me, and I can’t even buy a meal to eat–”
“What have you done?”
“I didn’t do anything ah.” Yi Ran sighed, “I, I just partic.i.p.ated in a few car races.”
Yi Chen sneered. “Then, you’ve done well for yourself.”
“It was justk2026; casually playing, not trying to win at all costs, there was no prize and the mountain we went to was safe, not steepk2026;” Yi Ran continued, “Ge, if you lend me some money, I’ll definitely return it to you later!”
“If you go home now, you won’t have to borrow it from me.”
“I won’t go back.” Yi Ran seemed to have thought of something, and his eyebrows drew together tightly. “The old man keeps bringing that woman back recently. I won’t go back even if I’m beaten to death this time!”
As he remembered the young woman that his uncle had recently been kicking up a fuss to get married to, Yi Chen raised his eyebrows slightly.
After a long pause, he asked, “How much do you want?”
Yi Ran was pleased. “One… Two million?”
“One million, I’ll get someone to give you a card later.”
Yi Ran was so extremely moved that he felt like the man in front of him had bursts of gold light shining out from behind him. “Ge, you’re truly like my real Ge! I tell you what ba, call me whenever you want to play PUBG again. I’ll be completely at your beck and call!”
Yi Chen finally raised his eyes and sneered again.
“I’ve thought about it again, and you had just better starve to death ba.”
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“Did he really say that?” Lu Xiuhe asked indistinctly as he slurped up a big bite of noodles.
“En.” Yu Yan put some chilli peppers in the noodles, and stirred them to spread out the heat with his movements. “That means he wants me to save him a spot, right?”
“It should be ba…The Boss is the Boss, even his way of speaking is different from others!”
Lu Xiuhe, who was still eating, suddenly thought of something. He leaned over and lowered his voice. “Ah! Xiao Yan, I heard ah, that QM Gaming is currently hiring.”
Yu Yan continued eating, and the spiciness of the noodles circulated in his mouth, making him sniffle constantly. “So what?”
“So what? I’m talking about QM, not the other team I mentioned before… who were they, aiya, I forgot that team’s name. QM though, is a formal team. Their domestic PUBG branch team’s strength? It’s in the top three in the country. This year, QM is going to partic.i.p.ate in the international compet.i.tion!”
Yu Yan nodded. “That’s quite powerful…”
“You’re still eating. Do you really understand what I’m saying, daddy?”
“Ah, what do you mean?”
“…” Lu Xiuhe was completely exasperated with him. “You should go apply for it ah! Do you know how much money professional players make nowadays?!”
“I won’t.”
“Why?”
Yu Yan drank a big mouthful of soup and only responded after a long time. “No reason… The noodle soup here is still so delicious.” He hadn’t gotten up at seven in the morning to take a bus over here in vain.
Lu Xiuhe: “…”
After he had his fill of food and drink, Yu Yan got up and paid.
While exiting the shop, Lu Xiuhe looked at the time. “There’s still a little time left before you need to get back and start streaming. Want to go to the Internet bar and play for a bit?”
Lu Xiuhe’s family’s Internet bar was just opposite the breakfast shop. Before he had bought a computer, Yu Yan had practically planted himself there every single day. Later, his superb game-play had attracted onlookers every time and resulted in him attracting more business for the Internet bar, so Boss Lu didn’t charge him an Internet fee anymore.
“Not going, I’m afraid I’ll lose track of time while playing.” Yu Yan was carrying a plastic bag in his hand. “I’ll deliver breakfast to Boss Lu and then leave.”
It was fortunate that Yu Yan hadn’t stayed, since he ran into a car accident on his way home. It was a chain accident involving four cars. Fortunately, no one was seriously injured, but it was very troublesome to tow the cars. Four injured people stood at the side of the road and even quarreled for a long time, resulting in the entire street being gridlocked. The other cars on the road were so jam-packed that even water couldn’t flow through, and everyone felt troubled.
When he got home, he removed the clothes that he had placed into the washing machine prior to leaving and hung them on the balcony to dry before he started his livestream.
[Anchor is so early. Are you going to draw stream followers today too?]
“Not going to draw any,” Yu Yan laughed, “Today, I’m going to play some solo matches.”
Last night, after Boss 1 left, he had drawn several rounds of followers again, but the end results weren’t very good. They were all new players who didn’t really know how to play.
If they had acted just like1 did, not talking and obediently following closely behind, then it would’ve been fine. Unfortunately, they were all very stubborn players, who didn’t know how to play. After a few matches, he was constantly just saving someone or on the way to save someone.
No matter how good his temper was, getting repeatedly trampled on all night made his mood somewhat unstable.
Since he was playing solos and he didn’t want to spend too much time searching for items, he directly chose Sanhok.
At present, PUBG had three maps: Erangel, Miramar, and Sanhok.
Erangel was a common map, in fact, it was actually the map that most players chose. The map was big, easy to hide in and the complex terrain offered players many kinds of fighting strategies. Because there were many open fields along with shelters to avoid battle in, this map was more newbie-friendly.
Miramar required high player skill levels. It had very few and very scattered houses, and very little supplies were available in the open desert. Since this map was a desert, it had no thick gra.s.s and very few shelters, it could be regarded as the Voldemort’s nemesis.
The playstyle offered by the Sanhok map was even more direct and simple. It was extremely rich in resources; a gun was nearly guaranteed in every house. The map was also smaller and more time-efficient. Basically, after running for just a bit, you would hear gunfire.
As soon as Sanhok was released, it immediately replaced Miramar in Yu Yan’s heart.
For no other reason except that when you’re surrounded by people, you can just open a door to get a gun in this map; it was so friendly to him, an unlucky player…
Speaking of which, Yu Yan jumped to Bootcamp, the area where the most intense gunfights on the map took place.
Yu Yan landed on a building’s roof, turned to open the door beside him and saw a gun.
Only… It was a VSS. As far as the eye could see, this was the only gun in the place.
The VSS. This was a sniper rifle that naturally came with a 4x scope and a silencer.
This brief introduction could just make people drool over it.
Unfortunately, if the developers opened a door for you, the window must also be closed.
To make a long story short, it’s——
I’m a VSS, I have a 4x scope and a silencer, but also have low damage, low muzzle velocity, heavy bullet drop and can’t hit things.
[Today, the anchor still can’t catch a break…]
[Call Miss Tuan Tuan!!]
[Search the next building.]
[This gun wastes my time whenever I reload it.]
Yu Yan didn’t even think about it before picking it up and loading it. “They’re all guns. Why divide them into high or low grades?”
After that, he crouched by the window, opened a scope towards the opposite roof, and successfully caught sight of an enemy, who, like him, was crouching behind the pillar searching for people.
Without even thinking about it, ‘bang bang’ went his gun——
Several rounds. .h.i.t.
The other side sputtered out some green blood, but they were still healthy and not dead. Yu Yan was just getting ready to make further shots, but the enemy had already retreated to bandage themselves up.
Yu Yan exclaimed, “Got directly hit so many times but still didn’t die…? I knew the damage was low, but I didn’t expect it to be this low. Has this been updated?”
He closed the scope and waited for the other side to peek again.
It wasn’t long before the enemy appeared and fired a shot at him. The sound was heavy, just like the sound of a cannon.
It was the sound of an M24.
Fortunately, the shot hit the wall. Yu Yan immediately opened the scope and once again, hit them twice, but the other side was unwilling to be outdone. The two of them began to vigorously and energetically snipe at each other, the large-scale fire of war encompa.s.sing them.
When Yu Yan ran out of ammo and was ready to retreat, he only heard— bang. A line of white words jumped out and then the screen grayed out.
[IPZZZZZZZ killed you with an M24]
[It’s as if I saw a Rolls Royce and an Aima electric scooter collide.]
[It took one minute and 27 seconds. The anchor directly hit the other side eight times. However, the other side only shot the anchor once, and the anchor died on the spot.]
Yu Yan: “…”
He silently closed the match screen.
For the next match, he still queued into Sanhok. This time, he decided to jump to Paradise resort. The houses in the middle of Paradise Resort were very large, and you rarely ran into a situation where there was only one gun.
He jumped on the balcony and turned to open the door——
A VSS laid quietly on the floor, and the gun border seemed to glow with a warm light.
Lines started to appear in the barrage.
[They’re all guns. Why divide them into high or low grades?]
[They’re all guns. Why divide them into high or low grades?]
[They’re all guns. Why divide them into high or low grades?]
“This is a G.o.d’s gun.” Yu Yan ran into the room and brushed past the VSS, not even looking back. “I’m too noob, so I won’t pick it up.”
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Divi: Lots of notes here, mostly on the VSS, but it’s not as bad as Yanyan makes it out to be if you’re a pro. Of course, there are better guns… but beggars can’t be choosers…