Chapter One Hundred and Three: One Week (1/2)

Yan Jin’s archer was a hero character with a huge performance difference between his upper and lower limits. Xiao Yu originally thought that Yan Jin’s playstyle was closer to the lower limits, but after watching for ten minutes, the hamster was shocked by the realization that the chairman’s abilities seemed to be hovering around the upper player limits.

The two hero characters met again on the middle route. Yan Jin, who had more experience points, casually shifted his character around and killed Chu Ge without losing a single drop of blood.

Very quickly, the scores reached 7-0. In fact, as a long-time player of Toxic, that was the first time Xiao Yu realized that it was possible to have such a score in a solo battle. Normally, the opponent’s crystal would have been destroyed after the player’s third or forth death. However, Yan Jin did not aim for the crystal. He even specifically commanded his minions not to stray too far from their defensive lines and played for ten whole minutes before the opponent’s tower was destroyed.

“Eak.” Xiao Yu called out weakly and successfully caught Chairman Yan’s attention.

“Hm?” Yan Jin lowered his cell phone and exercised his fingers.

“Squeakk.” How did you suddenly become so good at it?

Xiao Yu tried to probe.

Yan Jin watched him with a faint smile, implying all that needed to be said.

“Squeakk.” But you were terrible at it yesterday.

“That was a matter of yesterday.” Yan Jin reminded.

In fact, the reason Yan Jin was so terrible at the game yesterday was not because he was a newbie. It was because he felt that the little hamster using his two tiny paws to play a game was extremely adorable. When they were doing team battles, the hamster would be caught in a situation where two paws were not enough, and Xiao Yu would even put his feet into action. At that point, Yan Jin would silently switched to his camera app and sneakily take commemorative photos. As for team battles… those were not important.

Plus, whenever Yan Jin made a stupid move in the game, Xiao Yu would angrily voice his squeaks and gesticulate while saying gaming terms that the chairman couldn’t understand at all. Yan Jin found it to be new and interesting. Thus, he aggravated the situation even more by attempting some of the world’s stupidest moves.

Yet the above mentioned facts did not mean that Yan Jin did not ultimately get the gist of how to play the game after playing for three hours straight. It was true that he did not like playing games, and he almost never played any. However, he did have a relatively close hacker friend who was passionate in breaking codes and pirated software in his younger days. As such, Yan Jin did have some basic knowledge on how to play such games.

There would always be this kind of person in this world. No matter what they did, they would always learn faster, and even better than an average person.

Besides, the opponent was Chu Ge…

Eighty percent of his skill points had become invalid, and the remaining twenty percent were used on medical science.

Yan Jin had known for twenty years that Chu Ge was terrible at gaming.

Which was why –

“You should have more confidence in me.”

Xiao Yu fell into silence. He remembered Chu Ge claiming that Yan Jin was a fast learner in everything. He also remembered how Yan Jin said earlier on, “That’s not good. I just started playing not long ago.”

Initially, Xiao Yu thought Yan Jin was referring to the fact that he had just started playing not long ago; he would surely lose the game. Who would have expected that what Yan Jin really meant was, “It wouldn’t be good to crush Chu Ge as a newbie, would it?”

Xiao Yu felt very conflicted.

While he felt sorry for Chu Ge, he also felt that Yan Jin’s existence itself was a cheat.

At the same time, he seemed to understand Chu Ge’s feelings.

To have such a fellow for a friend, it must have been tough on him.

Chu Ge’s hero character revived again, but it was already a hopeless situation. Even if Yan Jin’s archer was to stood still in the middle, the minions on auto-pilot mode were almost done with destroying Chu Ge’s crystal.

The moment the crystal was destroyed, a phone call came.

Yan Jin laughed lightly and answered the call on handsfree mode, putting it in front of Xiao Yu.

“Will it kill you to let me win just once!!!” Chu Ge was bursting with rage from the other end.

“Squeak.” I’m sorry.

Xiao Yu apologized and was knocked on the back of his head by Yan Jin.

“I’m not done with you for bribing my pet.” Yan Jin spoke into the phone.

“What bribe are you talking about? If it wasn’t because I had something to attend to in the afternoon, I would not have rushed to ask for a duel now.”

“You’re afraid that you’ll lose even more tragically in the afternoon, aren’t you?” Yan Jin spilled the beans.

“Tch. I’m not skilled enough, so I shall not comment. This is the end of our friendship. Bye.”

Yan Jin did not object and replied with a question: “What are you up to in the afternoon?”

The opposite end suddenly went silent. Yan Jin did not talk either and the silence continued for four to five seconds.

The eerie atmosphere slightly puzzled Xiao Yu. He looked at Yan Jin and was shocked to realize that the smile on Yan Jin’s face earlier was gone.

“… to the hospital.” Moments later, a sulky reply came from the other end.

Xiao Yu became even more confused.

What’s wrong with Chu Ge going to the hospital? He is a doctor after all. Shouldn’t he be at the hospital working already? Could it be like what the news were saying about how doctors are suffering from occupational disease? But Yan Jin said that Chu Ge was just a doctor in name, and it’s impossible for him to get an occupational disease. Plus, even if Chu Ge was really ill, he could have gotten himself checked out in his own hospital, right?

Yan Jin hummed a reply and let out a sigh. He laughed: “If you had told me your sob story earlier, I might have allowed you to have the upper hand.”

“… Scram.”

Xiao Yu could not understand what the two people was trying to say behind their words. But that did not stop his sharp instincts from detecting an inside story that he was not informed of. After all, Yan Jin did not even look into the topic of why Chu Ge had left Xiao Yu behind on the fifteenth before they ended the call.

“Squeak.”