GTRSH Chapter 41

Yesterday Xu Le took the two to the game headquarters to get the penalty notice and sign it.

  He Ci burst out laughing when he saw the offense, and Yu Xinche exclaimed “Ah” and was also quite unbelievable.

“The officials said that looking around can be suspected of signalling to the people, so they don’t allow it.” The staff member in charge was just an ordinary worker. He didn’t want to offend the prince, so he said in a gentle voice, “We also think it’s ridiculous, but it’s hard to say anything since this is what the sponsor dad has decided.”

“We turned a blind eye to it before, but you two…” The staff member paused and smiled as if he understood. “You looked at each other too often. Our cameras captured it several times.”

Yu Xinche: “…”

He felt uncomfortable with this smile and thought that he didn’t observe He Ci very often. He only looked at He Ci once or twice when he was joking with him.

Didn’t the players from other teams communicate with their teammates when they played in the game?

There were several supplementary supporting documents on the back of the penalty ticket. Yu Xinche opened them and saw printed photos of them looking at each other.

He looked at He Ci 2 twice and He Ci looked at him 4 times.

Strictly speaking, there were actually three of He Ci’s, but once it seemed like he was looking at himself while speaking, and it took too long, so it was recorded.

He Ci didn’t react much when he saw the pictures. He quickly turned back to the first page and signed at the bottom.

There was no need to embarrass the staff, so Yu Xinche also signed his name beside He Ci’s. After that, Xu Le scanned the code to pay the fine and took the two of them out.

On the way back to the holding room, Xu Le saw that both of them were not very happy, so he comforted them: “Actually, it’s nothing to look at your teammates, it’s normal. The problem is that the CP of you two is too popular, and your fans have posted the animated pictures on the forum. It’s a bit unreasonable for them not to punish you.”

Yu Xinche: “Ah?”

He Ci was in a bad mood at the moment, but he spoke calmly and did not bring his emotions to others: “You can go and take a look at the post. If you don’t like it, send it to Brother Xu and he will ask someone to delete it.”

Xu Le hesitated for a moment and agreed: “…Well, that’s fine. We have some leftovers from our PR fees every year.”

Yu Xinche asked He Ci: “Have you deleted it before?”

He Ci: “No.”

“Hey, if he wants to delete it, he won’t have enough money.” Seeing Yu Xinche’s curiosity, Xu Le walked to his other side and began to share past events. “When he first debuted, he was very naive. He said everything he wanted and was crazy and stupid. While he attracted a lot of fans, he also attracted a lot of haters. When they had nothing to do, they would spread rumors about him online.”

“But I didn’t see anything exaggerated when I searched before.” Yu Xinche looked at He Ci and asked, “Did you use your strength to turn haters into fans?”

He Ci laughed, his focus was very biased: “Have you searched for me?”

Yu Xinche: “…This is not the point.”

“Okay.” He Ci didn’t ask any more questions and explained, “It’s not about strength, it might be about influence. One time, my life experience as a prince was accidentally exposed during a livestream. After the forum found out, they took the initiative to delete it.”

At this point he sneered, as if recalling a past event: “It was all gone overnight. It was quite exaggerated.”

Xu Le gritted his teeth when he mentioned the situation back then: “The management at that time were fucking bootlickers, they didn’t do anything practical, and they loved to act lofty.

We complained a lot in the beginning, but they were all left unanswered. No one paid any attention. After knowing that he was the prince, I guess the management was afraid that He Ci would find someone to deal with them, so they urgently found someone to deal with it, and some annoying commentators didn’t dare to lead the rhythm anymore.”

“Oh.” Yu Xinche seemed to be thinking about something. He was silent for a while before saying, “Then I won’t delete it. It doesn’t matter. You can ship it if you want. It’s enough for us to know that it’s fake.”

He Ci tilted his head to look at him, then walked a distance before saying “hmm”.

*

The next day was a rest day for the team. TZ takes 3-6 days off a month, and the specific holiday time would be flexibly adjusted according to the schedule.

The players didn’t have to practice that day and were free to go out. However, TZ was very hardworking and would play a few ranked games even if there was nothing important to do to keep up with their skills.

Yu Xinche was going to school, and his roommate’s birthday happened to be today, so he asked him if he had time to celebrate together.

He played two games in Jiangcheng, one coincided with the evening roll call in the college, and the other coincided with a professional class, so his friends had not come to watch the game in person yet.

Calculating the time, they hadn’t seen each other for half a month, so Yu Xinche agreed.

They had planned to watch a movie and have dinner, which would take more than an hour to travel from the base.

Yu Xinche got up early, prepared to play some games in the morning, and then set off for school after having lunch early.

It turned out that someone thought the same as he did. When he finished washing up and came out of the room, He Ci’s door opened.

He Ci usually wears dark-colored clothes like black and gray, but today he unexpectedly wore a white short-sleeved shirt and blue jeans.

The pants were not too loose, but a slim fit that made his legs look long and straight.

With this outfit, his cool and unapproachable temperament faded a lot. And, it might be Yu Xinche’s illusion, but the sense of oppression between his deep eyebrows when he looked at her seemed to disappear.

To describe it in a very clichéd way, he was like a popular senior on a university campus.

Yu Xinche looked at the other person for a long time. He Ci came over and snapped his fingers in his ear: “You don’t recognize me anymore?”

Yu Xinche spoke frankly: “It’s different from your usual style. What’s wrong with me looking at it a few more times? You don’t let me look?”

He Ci: “Look at me as much as you want. Just don’t look during the game.”

Yu Xinche snorted: “You’ve been punished more times than me.”

“Yeah.” He Ci nodded twice, “I’ll pay attention too.”

It was only a little after eight in the morning, and the base was quiet and the rest hadn’t woken up yet. The canteen auntie was on holiday today, so the two of them walked a bit and had breakfast at the breakfast shop outside the park.

Yu Xinche was hesitating between beef noodles and hot dry noodles. He wanted to eat both. Just as he was struggling, he saw the boss prepare a bowl of tofu noodles for a customer.

He immediately stopped worrying and said, “Tofu noodles and eggs.”

He Ci also thought for a while beside him, and finally ordered beef noodles and eggs.

Yu Xinche placed his order first, turned around to find a place to sit down, and wiped the table with some paper.

He Ci went to get two bowls of corn soup. This was a standard breakfast dish in breakfast shops, free of charge, and quite refreshing to drink when the food was too dry.

When he brought it to the table, Yu Xinche finally responded: “Ah, thank you. You can ask me to serve it myself.”

He Ci sat opposite him: “Why are you being so polite?”

Yu Xinche was in a good mood during the holiday, and he was not only more talkative, but also more lively. He blinked and pursed his throat slightly: “I have always been very polite.”

He Ci looked up at him and laughed.

At this time, the boss brought over the noodles and eggs. The two had similar eating habits. They both ate noodles first and started eating eggs when they were almost done.

Picking up the egg, Yu Xinche was not in a hurry to peel it. He asked He Ci: “Do you know how to peel an egg quickly and well?”

He Ci responded expressionlessly: “You want to test me?”

Yu Xinche laughed out loud: “No. This is my opening remark to introduce the topic.”

“Okay.” He Ci said “I don’t know” while knocking both ends of the egg on the table, rolling the egg, and finally looking at Yu Xinche, “How?”

He obviously knew how to peel it.

Yu Xinche cleared his throat and said, “I didn’t know this when I was a kid, and it was very hard to peel eggs every time, and the peeled eggs weren’t good either. Sometimes there were crumbs when I bit into them.”

“Yeah.” He Ci stopped what he was doing and listened to him.

“So I used to hate eating eggs. Later, my classmates taught me how to peel them. Every time I peeled off a complete shell, I felt a sense of accomplishment. I felt that the complete egg was a token of gratitude.”

“So you don’t hate eating it anymore?” He Ci asked, using the plastic bag to tear open a corner of the eggshell, and then peeled off a complete eggshell.

“Yeah.” Yu Xinche pointed at his eggs, “Great, you’ve met someone who’s here to repay you.”

“Then let’s see mine.”

He also cracked his own eggs at both ends, and felt something was wrong the first time he cracked them.

“Hmm?” Yu Xinche opened the plastic bag and found that the eggshell had been broken in the middle. This was because it was not properly protected during processing and it had already broken when the soup was cooked.

This kind of egg is very difficult to peel. Yu Xinche was helpless: “Okay, I met the vengeful egg.”

He Ci laughed out loud.

Then Yu Xinche began to peel the eggs in a depressed manner, only able to crack the eggshell a little at a time. He was extremely slow, stalling for time because he didn’t want to eat it anymore.

He Ci found it interesting. He watched him peeling the egg for a while before putting his own gratitude egg in front of Yu Xinche.

“Exchange it.”

He took the one from Yu Xinche’s hand: “Let yourself go, and let go of the egg.”

Yu Xinche looked at him steadily for a while before taking the one that was originally intended for He Ci.

The eggs were peeled through the plastic bag, very clean, he took a bite and said: “Thank you. Eggs peeled by my AD’s hands are delicious.”

After breakfast, the two returned to the base for training. The queuing time for a match in the morning was longer on weekends, so they played in duos.

While chatting during the wait, Yu Xinche found out that He Ci was going back to his parents’ home and dyed his hair back to normal.

Blue hair fades easily. He Ci has already had it recolored once, but now it has faded to blue-gray again. He doesn’t want to take care of it anymore, so he just dyed it back to black.

As for Yu Xinche himself, He Ci also knew that he was going to play with his classmates.

“What time? I’m on my way, I should be able to take you there.”

“Two o’clock.”

“That’s fine, let’s go after lunch.”

“Uh-huh.”

He Ci asked after a while: “What are your plans for the afternoon?”

“ah?”

“If you want to play in an internet cafe, don’t use their account. Strictly speaking, this is considered as power leveling, which is not allowed for professional players.”

“Oh, we’re not playing online games. We’re going to the movies.” Yu Xinche explained, “The birthday boy doesn’t like playing HIT. He likes FTK next door.”

FTK, Find The Key, was a shooting game that was launched two years earlier than HIT and is still popular today.

“Oh, right.” Yu Xinche suddenly thought, “The birthday boy likes CHASE. I think you mentioned him once before. Are you familiar with him?”

CHASE, Gu Zhui, was one of the top main attackers in the domestic FTK professional league and a Grand Slam player who had won all championships.

He Ci understood what he meant without further explanation: “Very familiar. If you want an autograph, we can go over at lunch time.”

“Is it okay? Is it torublesome? I have prepared a birthday present, but I just suddenly thought of it.”

“No trouble.” He Ci pinned Yu Xinche’s location in the game, “Don’t roam this time, just follow me. If I’m in a good mood, it won’t troublesome.”

When Yu Xinche usually played ranked games, he found it difficult to resist the urge to help his teammates when he saw them in trouble, so he would leave He Ci in the bottom lane from time to time.

He Ci had good skills and good awareness, so there would be no danger for him to play alone for a while, and Yu Xinche would always return to the bottom lane, so He Ci usually doesn’t say anything.

It was quite rare for him to make such a request, so Yu Xinche rushed back without stopping: “Okay, He Ci Ci Ci”

What he was reading was He Ci’s game id: Nuclear Magnetic Words. (核磁辞词 (hé cí cí cí))

At lunch time, He Ci first sent a message to CHASE, and then took Yu Xinche to Gu Zhui’s CQ team.

CQ was in the same industrial park as them and could be reached in a few minutes’ walk.

Because the cafeteria didn’t cook today, He Ci took Yu Xinche directly to the CQ cafeteria. He greeted them in advance, and Gu Zhui was waiting for them at the door.

When he saw the two of them for the first time, Gu Zhui smiled at Yu Xinche first, then raised his eyebrows and asked He Ci meaningfully:

“I was wondering why you came here all of a sudden, so you’re wearing couple outfits and want to show off?”

Yu Xinche: “?”

He looked at He Ci in confusion, then looked at himself.

He was wearing a blue and white patchwork long-sleeved shirt today, with a pair of off-white overalls.

I didn’t think so before, but now that Gu Zhui said this…

Yu Xinche’s face turned red instantly.

 

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