Chapter 141 (1/2)

Alcohol and Stories

Every single gaming console in the room represented a part of the Liu Yuxi of old, when she was vibrant and youthful.

Liu Yuxi was really good at playing these ‘ancient” games, the earliest, analogous arcade machines, the ones that required tokens to play with. She was extremely skilled at “King of Fighters 97”, and she could also clear the entire “Super Mario” game with just a single life in the old “Nintendo Family Computer” console.

She had proclaimed herself the King of these “ancient games”. Of course, she had the skills to prove that she was worthy of the title. Zhao Youyue had only heard of these ancient games but she never actually played them before…

Computers were already commonplace when Zhao Youyue was born. Even now, with the entirety of China being in the era of information technology, a smartphone can be used as a computer too. Flash games are now all over the place, and had completely overthrown the classics, big budget games which were made exclusively for gaming consoles. Any PC single-player game that takes up less than 50 or 60 gigabytes would only be shrugged off.

Liu Yuxi still had the passion for games, but she could no longer taste the thrill compared to back then.

She enjoyed hours on the old “Nintendo Family Computer” games with Wang Hua back then, and they would play together if it was a 2-player game. Wang Hua would sit beside and watch her play if she was playing a single player game. Whenever Liu Yuxi showed off her magnificent gaming skills, Wang Hua would be thrilled.

Of course, Liu Yuxi was happy too.

Liu Yuxi had hoped that Wang Hua would always remain by her side watching her playing video games. If only things had stayed that way, she would be in paradise.

Even though Liu Yuxi still keeps in contact with Wang Hua, but it was never the same as before. Just like how she plays games now, she could no longer feel the excitement when she had to sneak out to the arcade center just to play games, back then.

Time is always ticking, and nobody can ever escape the flow of time. As time passes, people change.

Time would slowly change everything and take away everything.

At this moment, Liu Yuxi realized that Zhao Youyue was like the young Wang Hua, and she also felt as if she had traveled back through time, becoming young again.

They played every single game on her various consoles, from the oldest to the latest…

Liu Yuxi, who was once a king in gaming, found herself getting completely overwhelmed by Zhao Youyue who had summoned the power of a certain something from “The Strongest King”!

Liu Yuxi could not even beat Zhao Youyue at “King of Fighters 97”, the game Liu Yuxi was most skilled at. Zhao Youyue had belted out an endless string of abusive words as she pummeled Liu Yuxi, leaving the latter sheepish and reflecting over her past behavior. She had treated Zhao Youyue poorly earlier, and now Zhao Youyue was venting her stress out through the games!

Well, it could not be helped. Although Zhao Youyue had never played all these ancient games before, with the help of “Yu Shengfan card”, her gaming talents were now at the peak of human limits. This ability allowed her to familiarize herself with any game in a short time!

Even though Liu Yuxi was good at playing games, she was not at the professional level. She could ravage an average person in “King of Fighters 97” because this was the game that she was really good at.

Zhao Youyue was a professional grade player, there was no way that she would lose in a game, not even in “King of Fighters 97”. The way Zhao Youyue used the character “Iori Yagami” was really mindblowing!