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Chapter 40




Chapter 40: My Teammates Are All Crazy Chapter 40
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When Jing Yu gets downstairs, he is dressed in a light blue windbreaker. Underneath the unzipped article, a snow white short-sleeved tee peeks out, and his bottoms is similarly a pair of loose-fit exercise shorts that is black in colour.
Overall, he looks clean, tidy, and lively.
In comparison, Qin Fei, who is seated on the sofa waiting for him, is dressed in an outfit full of personality. The red and black intertwining long-sleeve is worn under a black jacket vest. Yet, bottoms are a pair of ripped jeans.
He gets up to get to Jing Yu’s side, hooking an arm around the back of his neck as if it’s only natural. With his other hand, he holds onto his phone, surfing the place they’re going to: “You don’t look like the type who often goes out. You fine with me deciding our destination?”
“En. Go ahead and decide ba, Fei Ge.” Jing Yu naturally doesn’t have any objection.
He turns his head to look at Qin Fei’s side profile which is close to him. That face seems handsome enough to render one speechless……
“Let’s head here then.”
Before he comes around, Qin Fei has already made his decision, opening the Navigator: “Bus, Train, Taxi, take your pick?”
Jing Yu needs a while before he realizes he’s asking him for his preferred mode of transport. He can’t help feeling surprised: “Is it far away?”
“Not far. Two stops by bus, one by train, only a few minutes by car.”
Jing Yu: “What about walking?”
Qin Fei: “……”
Jing Yu: “……Let’s pretend I never said that.”
Truth to be told, Jing Yu originally thought they would still be eating in the neighbourhood. Afterall, there are a lot of restaurants in this area.
Qin Fei tips his head and meets Jing Yu’s gaze. He’s a bit at a loss, yet he still wants to chuckle: “Don’t like taking cars?”
Jing Yu nods: “En…… Let’s go by train then.”
Qin Fei: “Alright. Did you bring your transport pass?”
Jing Yu: “Yes.”
Qin Fei: “Alright, let’s go.”
Qin Fei has always been independent and decisive. If he says he’ll go, he will go.
He releases Jing Yu’s neck, taking the lead to leave the clubhouse first. When Jing Yu steps out too, he pulls the clubhouse’s front door close, locking it up.
Jing Yu watches on as he locks the door. Suddenly, there is an odd sort of feeling – Today, there’s only them in the clubhouse, and now, they are heading out of the door together.
It’s almost like a date ah……
Qin Fei doesn’t notice his change. After pocketing his keys, he flanks his side and they head down the direction of the train station. He asks: “When did you start playing LD?”
“LD?”
“Demon Lord’s English name is Lord Devil, otherwise known as LD.”
“Oh~” This is the first time Jing Yu has heard of it, “I only started playing this year. I can’t remember how long it’s been. A few months, maybe? However, I did watch the last PGL.”
“Only played a few months, yet you’ve already invented your own combo attack. That’s amazing ah.”
“That’s because Moonshadow Spider’s abilities are fun to play with.”
“Does that go for other demons too? Self-invented combo attacks, that is.”
“The frequently played ones all have one, plus or minus a few.”
“That’s incredible ah.”
“Heheh……”
Chatting the whole way in this fashion, the two people arrive at their destination by train.
Jing Yu follows Qin Fei the whole way, and they arrive at the door of a restaurant that’s built using stacked up pieces of porcelain**. Before he can react, he already sees Qin Fei lifting a hand, signalling a two to the staff at the door: “Two people.”
(**瓷器堆砌 Like this, I suppose:)
Jing Yu: “? ? ?” Are they eating here?
He raises his head, flabbergasted, only to find rows of delicate fine porcelain forming the door’s edge. He can’t help thinking there’s something off about this – It’s only a meal, must they come to such a high-end restaurant?
“Let’s go in.” Qin Fei totally doesn’t pay any heed to Jing Yu’s shock. He grabs his hand, but as though realizing something, drops it like he’s burnt.
When Jing Yu has come back to himself and follows him in, he’s all the more dumbstruck by the décor of this restaurant – Everything’s porcelain everywhere! The ceiling is one, the walls are another, the table’s décor is the same……
Is this place a restaurant or a Porcelain shop?
If Qin Fei knows Jing Yu’s thoughts at the moment, he will surely spit out blood – Selling porcelain?! You can’t buy this restaurant even if you want to buy it ne! These porcelain are all decorations ah, decorations! Don’t you know how to appreciate it?
Jing Yu truly doesn’t.
His life has always been simple and neat – Clothes are worn for warmth, food is eaten to curb the hunger.
If there is anything he desires, that would only be the scores and rank in 《Demon Lord》.
Therefore, he doesn’t really understand why Qin Fei insists on bringing him to such an expensive restaurant to eat.
Nevertheless, since he is here, he also can’t turn tail and leave. Added to the fact that this is a restaurant Qin Fei chose……
Jing Yu caves and sits down opposite Qin Fei, quietly watching him order.
Qin Fei doesn’t hand him the menu, instead asking him a question: “Any allergies?”
Jing Yu: “I don’t like bitter gourds, chives, and garlic.”
Qin Fei: “These aren’t allergies. These are called pickiness.”
Jing Yu instantly puffs his cheeks up.
Qin Fei feigns ignorance, turning with good humour to face the waiter. He points at the menu, saying: “This, this, this, and this. One serving of each, without chives.”
“Understood.”
Shortly after, the waiter picks up the menu and leaves. Qin Fei turns his head back to look at Jing Yu without thinking. His face is no longer puffed up, but instead, two hands prop up his head, and he seems thoughtful.
Qin Fei can’t help raising his brows: “What is it?”
Jing Yu: “No, I was just thinking – You’re the one ordering everything, so does that mean, you’re treating me for this meal?”
“Yep.” Qin Fei intended to do this right from the beginning, “When you come out with me, you don’t have to pay a single cent.”
Why does he feel like something’s off somewhere……?
Jing Yu blinks: “Anyone who comes with you, they all don’t have to spend their money?”
“Of course not.” It’s not like Qin Fei is an ATM, “Unless they’re able to use Frozen Heart to pentakill in two minutes, and win a 1v3 with a Moonshadow Spider at low health.”
Jing Yu: “……”
That means that Qin Fei is treating him to this meal on account of him being PG’s Captain? Is it to thank him for his contribution to PG?
The pair chat as they eat. Once they’re done with the meal, they take a stroll around the area. Since there isn’t anything they want to buy in particular, they make a beeline to the cinemas.
The movie is a bit long. By the time it’s over, it’s almost dinnertime.
Jing Yu wouldn’t go to another high class restaurant even if he is beaten to death. Therefore, Qin Fei can only half-coax him to accept the Takoyaki he buys for him, and they eat happily as they make their way back to the clubhouse.
Later that day, Ye Hong, who knows these two have gone out, finally can’t bear this gossip-monger of a heart he has and messages Qin Fei over QQ:
Ye Hong: What did you guys do when you’re out?
Qin Fei: Had our lunch, took a stroll, watched a movie.
Ye Hong: That sounds pretty good. Any progress made?
Qin Fei: Learned that he doesn’t like to eat bitter gourds, chives, or garlic.
Ye Hong: Emmm…… Anything else?
Qin Fei: His appearance when he eats Takoyaki is like a hamster. Cute to the point where I’ve got a face of blood.
Ye Hong: ……
Ye Hong: Did you guys have a good chat?
Qin Fei: We kept talking non-stop ne.
Ye Hong: What did you chat about?
Qin Fei: Games, obviously.
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Ye Hong: ……
Ye Hong: Oh, right. You guys went to the cinemas? What did you see? A horror movie?
Qin Fei: Nope. A sci-fi movie. You’ve heard of Marvel, right? Every movie’s ultra-good.
Ye Hong: ……
Qin Fei: Strongly recommend.
Ye Hong: ……
Ye Hong: You’re done for.
Qin Fei: Why?
Ye Hong: You’re single because you’re too capable.
Qin Fei: Heh. Take care of yourself first ba.
Just like that, Qin Fei and Jing Yu’s first date is Over.
Although in the eyes of Ye Hong, these two’s “Date” didn’t make any progress, be it Qin Fei or Jing Yu, they are both generally satisfied with how this day went. Their attraction towards each other also correspondingly shot up.
Qin Fei (Inside) : Jing Yu’s so cute!
Jing Yu (Inside) : Fei Ge’s so handsome, so manly!
Qin Fei (Inside) : I’ve decided! I want him to be mine!
Jing Yu (Inside) : I must definitely help Fei Ge win the championship!
On the second day, PG’s members return one after the other. They begin warming up for the Qualifiers.
What they call Qualifiers means to split the 16 teams of the Preliminaries into 4 groups. Every 4 teams engage in a round-robin, then in the end, the two teams of that group who accumulate the most points advance to the Elimination Round.
Fang Luofan takes the five people into the Conference Room, turning on the projector.
What’s projected on the large screen is precisely the names of the 16 teams in the Qualifiers.
“We were sorted into Category A. So, let’s first take a look at Category A’s situation.” Saying this, he clicks open a PPT, “The four teams banded into Category A are: MOMO, Kcc, ANE, and us.”
“ANE, is it……” Ye Hong sighs, “There are only three Top 8 teams but two got sorted into Category A. How lamentable this must be to the newbies!”
Fang Luofan glares at him: “Don’t be full of yourself. Beware of karma coming back for you. Have you forgotten? In the last league, we also crawled out of a death trap like this.”
“Seems like that’s the case.” Ye Hong shrugs, falling silent.
Fang Luofan thus continues: “I got Xiao Yun to gather some information on MOMO and Kcc. It seems both of them debuted the last season, but they were unlucky enough to run into ANE and SOS in the Preliminaries and got thrashed.”
“After watching these two teams’ video records in this League, I realized their styles are quite similar. Both are generally flexible, and they both like to use high speed demons equipped with Teleport to assassinate and snatch the dragon.”
Snatching the Dragon?
Jing Yu scrunches his brows. He doesn’t know why, but he suddenly thought of that person threatening to snatch the dragon on the forum.
“However, if we take both of them into consideration, MOMO is slightly more stable and makes less mistakes, whereas Kcc is a slightly rash team. They easily throw away points due to their mistakes, but the risks they take also paid off multiple times and ended up flipping the tables.” Fang Luofan goes on to say, “In any case, all teams which got into the Qualifiers are not to be underestimated. The same thing applies as before. No matter which team you face, you must always……”
“Give it your all!” Luo Yiming steals his words!
Fang Luofan coolly glances at him: “So long as you know.”
Descending into a brief silence, he suddenly turns his line of sight on Jing Yu, tentatively saying: “Jing Yu, I feel like your Moonshadow Spider is much stronger compared to Frozen Heart ah. Why didn’t you use it?
Jing Yu startles, not thinking he’d be singled out. After hesitating a little, he innocently replies: “My experience with Moonshadow Spider isn’t sufficient. When I use her, I don’t feel as comfortable as with Frozen Heart. I was afraid I might make mistakes during the actual match, so I……”
“En. There is still time today. You can practice using her.”
Jing Yu: “……”
“In the first match, let’s use Moonshadow Spider ba.” Fang Luofan sounds as if he’s not discussing with Jing Yu, but rather, he’s already decided in his stead.
Jing Yu wants to ask for a reason, yet he can’t muster the bravery to do it. He turns his gaze almost subconsciously to Qin Fei, who is by his side.
Noticing his gaze, Qin Fei can’t help but smile, explaining Fang Luofan’s stance with a bit of powerlessness: “Right from the beginning, your favourite card has always been Frozen Heart. The Preliminaries broadcasted so many of our matches. The other teams are more or less aware of it, and they won’t go out of their way to ban your Moonshadow Spider. But, what if you use Moonshadow Spider on your very first match?”
Jing Yu catches on immediately: “Oh, so we are trying to cheat the enemy of a ban?”
Qin Fei looks at him with some appreciation: “Yes. That’s exactly what I mean. You’re pretty fast on the uptake. After banning your Moonshadow Spider, the enemy only has two bans left. No matter who they let out, it’ll still be beneficial for us.”
“Okay, I get it.” Jing Yu seriously nods his head, “In the first match, I will use Moonshadow Spider!”
Qin Fei appraises his serious face and can’t help cracking a smile.
— Today’s Jing Yu is ultra-cute too!
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