Vol 1 Chapter 3 (1/2)

Chapter 3

Though it was such a hot day one of his hands was covered by a black glove.

The glove was very thin, showing off five slender fingers.  For those who didn’t know him, they would think that he was just wearing it to look cool.

But for someone who was supposed to be a professional player in Germany, selling computers in a computer city downtown…...he wouldn’t be wearing the glove for such a silly reason.

Slide stroke her hair with a smile.  “Do you want to be Zhen Zi (贞子, TL: Sadako, from Ring, the horror movie/book)  Your hair has grown this long.”  He gestured with his hand.  “It’s reached down to your thighs.  Isn’t it bothersome?  Won’t it take half an hour to wash it?”

“40 minutes.”  Seeing that he wasn’t answering her question, Ai Qing stopped poking at his sore spot.  “I don’t need to train ten some hours a day now, I have more than enough time to do unimportant things.”

He couldn’t help laughing.

Three years.

It seemed to have changed a lot of things.

Her roommate didn’t come back from her shopping after the two had finished their lunches.

Ai Qing chatted with Slide idly; their conversations were all on superficial, trivial gossips of daily life, which didn’t involve anything related to video game compet.i.tions.

In between, there were customers who came by to purchase computer accessories or to fix their computers.

People who liked video game compet.i.tions are more than likely fans of computer hardware.  Due to Slide’s past experiences, he understood well the needs of video gamers and most of the customers were enthusiasts of various video games.

Some were very polite and some were obnoxious.

Slide greeted everyone with smiles until there came three tall young men later.

One of them was holding the “Alien” which her roommate so envied.

“Boss, this computer is no good.”  The one who’s holding the computer said with a false smile.  “My younger brother came here yesterday and bought this computer.  It’s totally no good.  You even lied to the kid that this is a special computer for games?”

Ai Qing intuitively thought that this person had specially come looking for trouble.

Sure enough, after Slide said a few words patiently, the other two who had come with the man started to mock and ridicule Slide.  Saying that this was tricking the kids, how could this computer play any games, that it was just rubbish.

In the end, there were more and more onlookers.  Those three began attacking the store, questioned the quality of all the products sold in the store…...Ai Qing couldn’t stand it and finally said, “Alienware is the top notch computer for games.  A lot of professional video game contestants use it.  You can go online to check it; it had even sponsored World Tournaments before.”