A Race to (Be) The Top

Xinshan's technical department was in a mess. This was the most serious technical failure since the player couldn't remove the collar.

Online was not much better. Almost all the people present tried to go offline and then go online again. There was no problem. It seemed that this bug was only aimed at Chang Huanxi.

Chang Huanxi, who won the big "award", had to explain over and over again on the phone:

"Mom, I'm not looking for an excuse not to eat, I really can't get off the line. …

"It's not a nonsensical game, it's a game played by Ji Meng's family.  …

"Which game doesn't have bugs?...Xinshan really didn't kidnap me, don't call the police, hey!"

Chang Huanxi's facial features, which were already gathered together, became more concentrated, making his bread-faced face bigger, rounder and more fluffy.

Ling walked over, and before he could speak, Chang Huanxi took the lead to comfort him.

"It's okay, don't worry."

He also stood on tiptoe and leaned into the other party's ear and whispered: "I won't complain about your company."

"Then you still go on a blind date?"

"Family... How many times have I explained that it's really not a blind date! Two families eat together, there are many people!"

"There are three forms of blind dates. The first is that only the two parties on the blind date are present, the second is that an intermediary is present, and the third is..."

"Stop!" Chang Huanxi interrupted him, "How do you understand it so clearly, don't you often go on blind dates?"

"I just checked."

"Just checked?" Chang Huanxi felt that the words were strange, and couldn't help but whispered twice, but couldn't tell what was wrong.

"Don't go on a blind date, okay?" Although this is a question, it is a statement tone, and the voice of Zero deliberately lowering his voice, in the words of a girl, is "Sue's dead voice".

Chang Huanxi was not a girl, but she was also teased to the point of being a mess, and what was even more deadly was that he swore he must have heard this voice somewhere before!

Zero took his hand further: "Stay with me forever, okay?"

"Okay..." Chang Huanxi seemed to be bewitched, but immediately regained consciousness, "Ah Ling, you...couldn't you like me?"

"like?"

Chang Huanxi still didn't realize that it was a question, he just felt incredible, pointing to himself: "Don't tell me, you can still be tempted by such a face?"

Zero replied very seriously, without seeming to be lying at all: "Is there anything wrong with this face? I think it's fine."

"..."

Chang Huanxi wanted to answer questions on a question-and-answer website, but what was it like to be attracted by a person who deviated from aesthetics?

But at the beginning, he squeezed such a face because he didn't want to be entangled by brainless nymphomaniacs. In "Elf Contract", there are also some people who have misconceived thoughts about the money-spending net zero son. Chang Huanxi does not reject the overtures of strangers like Ji Meng, but these people are all defeated by that face.

After all, this is a world where you can transform into handsome men and women for a little money. Even if you try your best to imitate Chang Huanxi's real appearance, you will still be shocked by his expressive, pockmarked, garlic-nosed bread face from time to time.

Chang Huanxi's reverse operation drove away many Yingying and Yanyan for him, and in the end only Ling lived firmly by his side.But Ling was classified as a "very close friend". Chang Huanxi never thought about developing online dating.

"Ling, I'm very happy when you say that. But..."

As soon as he finished these two words, Zero disappeared in front of him. Only an emergency logout can have such an effect.

Chang Huanxi was stunned. Could it be that he confessed his love on impulse, but he was too embarrassed to face himself, so he ran away?

But he didn't say "but" what's behind it?He didn't have to refuse...

The customer service hurriedly went online and gave feedback: "Hello, your problem has been solved, please check whether you can go offline normally."

Chang Huanxi opened the panel with a heavy heart, only to find that the offline button lit up again.

"...that's all right." He said listlessly.

The customer service apologized one after another: "I am very sorry for the inconvenience caused to you. I hope that your trip has not been delayed. We will definitely prevent such situations from happening in the future."

A "schedule" reminded Chang Huanxi that his top priority is to hurry to the dinner, and no matter what, he can't let his mother call the police!

However, at this moment, nothing can describe the turbulent waves in Ji Meng's heart.

Just now, Ling Xiaolu's image flickered twice quickly, as if the holographic projection was affected by a bad signal, disconnected and reconnected at high frequency in a short period of time, and even produced a few millimeters of displacement.

But Ling Xiaolu knew nothing about it, seeing Ji Meng staring at him without blinking, he subconsciously touched his face.

"Is there something on my face?"

Ji Meng didn't say a word, and after a while, his throat rolled with difficulty.He has clearly accepted the fact that Ling Xiaolu is an AI, why was he so shocked that he lost his words when the real evidence was presented in front of him.

He forcibly turned his eyes away from Ling Xiaolu to observe the people around him.The scene just happened so fast that he should be the only one who noticed it.

Fortunately, this is the case, otherwise it would definitely cause a commotion.

"No..." Ji Meng answered his last question, hesitating for a few times, stretched out his hand, and stroked the back of Ling Xiaolu's neck to check whether the switch was hidden.

"Although I can accept it, I can't guarantee that others can..., so you must be careful."

Ling Xiaolu: "..."

Xiaolubi called his father, Ji Meng left in a daze, Ling Xiaolu looked at his back and didn't know what to say.

"Are you having emotional problems?"

A joking voice sounded in his ears, Ling Xiaolu turned his head, almost blinded by Zhenjiu's golden name.

"I'm older than you. If you have any relationship problems, you can ask me. Maybe I can help you."

Ling Xiaolu wondered how to describe this matter: "If the person you like doesn't treat you as a human being, what should you do?"

"kill him."

"..."

Simple and rude, it is the style of Zhenjiu.

"Hahaha," a hearty laugh came from under Zhenjiu's mask, he rubbed Ling Xiaolu's head with a smile, "I'm just kidding."

"But," he put his hands in his pockets, "Based on my experience, love is the most unstable relationship in the game. If you get married today, you may die tomorrow. Do you know how many mouths I have seen since the internal test? Did the couple who swore to each other end up turning against each other? One day we shared luggage, and the next day we will see you on the reward list. If you have time, you should spend a whole day on the reward list to see what is real in the world."

Ling Xiaolu is listening to the teachings of Zhenjiu, a "comer" very seriously.

"Isn't it always together?"

"Maybe there are, but very few."

Zhenjiu tapped his forehead: "So, don't fall in love with people on the Internet easily, and you don't know what he looks like in real life, what's his name..."

"I know his name..." Ling Xiaolu retorted softly.

"Then do you know what kind of person he is?"

Ling Xiaolu couldn't answer. For some reason, Nan Xun's words came to his mind, "Brother Ji Meng is a very good, very good, very good person."

But even though Ji Meng is so "very good", he has never seen it with his own eyes. Ling Xiaolu couldn't help but envy Xiao Nanxun.

"... Where is Xiao Nanxun? Why didn't she come?"

Ling Xiaolu realized belatedly that almost all the main members of the family had been there, except Xiao Nanxun who was not there.

With Chang Huanxi's temperament, it is impossible to invite everyone to miss Nan Xun.

411 seemed to have a telepathy with him, and suddenly shouted in a hurry: "It's not good, patriarch! You watch the world channel!"

Ling Xiaolu called out the World Channel, and the last message was that someone sent a link to the live video, and then everyone rushed to watch the live broadcast as agreed, and the World Channel seemed to be frozen.

When the live broadcast started at one o'clock, Ling Xiaolu called out: "It's my master!"

On the screen, Shengxue in white is standing gracefully on the giant rock at the top of the waterfall, and facing him across the waterfall is his deadly rival Shiba.

How did these two people meet?When Ling Xiaolu thought of the words that Shiba had taunted Lizheng in the arena, he felt suffocated and angry.

Zhenjiu only glanced at it: "Shenjian Waterfall, I know where it is."

When the people from Lutou arrived, the two had already fought.Their figures intertwined and shuttled over the waterfall, with dazzling light effects, and their skills and moves were indistinguishable from the sound of the waterfall. The crowd who came after hearing the news cheered and applauded under the waterfall, and were splashed all over their faces by the huge water splashes caused by the moves from time to time.

Shiba's attack method was vicious and vicious, and when Ling Xiaolu landed, he subconsciously called out "Master!"

Hearing this sound, Li Zheng's movements were delayed for half a second, and Shiba caught his flaws, and kicked him down the waterfall. Li Zheng had to use his strength in the water to fly back to the huge rock, but the hem of his clothes was wet. Most of it.This scene was embarrassing, but Li Zheng still maintained his usual temperament, and there was no trace of embarrassment on the surface.

The onlookers sighed.

"Unexpectedly, Li Zheng fighting alone is no longer Shi Ba's opponent."

"I heard that this year's Fengyun Competition did not even report their names."

"Woo, my male god."

"Don't be a male god. Except for the one in the arena, I haven't won anyone in such a long time. It's time to step down from the altar."

Shiba, who wanted to take advantage of the victory to pursue him, was stopped by a black-clothed Zhenjiu. Shiba hit him a few times but couldn't take advantage of it, and was hit half of his body by Ji Meng's lightning, and jumped back to the spot pretending nothing happened. Slowly wait for the thunderbolt's paralyzing effect to wear off.

His body was paralyzed, but his mouth was not.

"Li Zheng, I can't see it, you have fallen to the point where you can't fight and you need to call a helper."

The people from Lutoushe were all concentrated on the side of Lizheng, and Zhenjiu hadn't stretched his muscles and bones yet, turning his neck and wrist lazily.

"Li Zheng, isn't he a member of the same family? There is such a good opportunity to reap the murderous aura, but you don't call me."

On the surface, he talked to Li Zheng, but actually denied Shi Ba's "calling a helper" and hinted that there were many people on the other side.

Sure enough, behind Shiba, there were still dozens of members of the family with the same crest on his head staring at this side. Even if Li won the fight just now, these people would not let it go.

Shi Ba snorted contemptuously: "Only we have many people? Don't you have any people?"

Ling Xiaolu wanted to ask from the beginning, why Nanxun and the man in gray were there?This situation is not like a personal dispute between Li Zheng and Shi Ba, but rather like the prelude to a group fight between two people leading two groups of people.

"Xiao Nanxun, what's going on?"

Nan Xun explained what happened before: "My brothers and sisters in the studio and I made money here, and those people came and killed us all indiscriminately."

"Where are the people in Dou Niwan? Haven't they been following you?"

"There were a lot of them, and Dou Niwan's two elder brothers were also killed."

The two "bodyguards" responsible for protecting Nan Xun bowed their heads in shame.

"Then Master Lizheng came, and then that person," Nan Xun carefully pointed at Shiba, "he also came, and they started fighting."

When a family member is killed, there is a notification on the family channel.

Calculated according to the time, when Nanxun was killed happened to be the time when Chang Huanxi's account malfunctioned. No one noticed this detail, only Lizheng traveled thousands of miles to support him alone.Unexpectedly, Yuanjia's road is narrow, and it happens to be the family where Shi Ba belongs to.

"Why didn't you call us for such a big matter?" Ji Meng's fierce tone was unmistakable, Ling Xiaolu was afraid that he would scare the child, so he secretly pushed him and gave him a wink.

Nan Xun lowered her head and muttered, "Because it's about the studio, I don't want to bother everyone..."

"Didn't I say it? Your business is my business." I wonder if Ling Xiaolu's wink has played a role, but Ji Meng's tone is better than before.

Nan Xun's wide eyes were full of gratitude. It was common for members of the studio to be killed, but this was the first time that so many people came to support them.

"Why did you kill members of our family?" Ling Xiaolu shouted to the opposite side as the patriarch.

Shi Ba sneered: "Does killing locusts need a reason?"

Locusts are the bottom layer of this game. Anyone who sees them can kill them easily. Anyway, they will never fight back. They will just wait for people to leave and fight silently and continue to make money. NPCs are more alive than them.

"Locusts shouldn't exist in the game. My clan members just purify the environment casually."

"They are not locusts," Ling Xiaolu raised his voice, "They are members of our family!"

A different expression appeared on the face of the man in gray, probably because no one had ever said such a thing before, and they were a little panicked and overwhelmed.

"Then please ask one of your family members," he meant Jinjiu, "does he need a reason to kill someone?"

Zhenjiu squatted on the ground bored before, but stood up now: "No need."

Shiba showed a proud look.

Zhenjiu: "Holographic online games, strength speaks."

As soon as Zhenjiu's body disappeared and appeared, one person in Shiba's camp turned into a ghost, and no one could clearly see how Chenjiu moved.

Shiba's face changed: "Zhenjiu, don't be too arrogant, believe it or not, I will send you to sit..."

His gaze fell on Jin Jiu's golden name: "...a roller coaster!"

Ling Xiaolu: "..."

This is too exciting!

Zhenjiu also smiled: "No hurry, after I kill all of you, you can try to send me to jail."

Shiba realized that talking to him would not bring him any benefits, so he made four appointments with each other. Their family members were not opponents at all, so he simply shifted the attack point to Lizheng again.

"Li Zheng, I have always regarded you as a strong enemy, but you have been reduced to being in the same family as the locust, and you still hide behind this kind of person and dare not come out. Looking at you like this, you really look like a shrinking turtle.

"Do I need to remind you that the registration deadline for this Wind and Cloud Competition is coming soon. I heard that you haven't registered yet? Are you afraid? Or are you afraid?

"But it's no wonder, if I were you, with a useless snake, I would be ashamed to sign up for the competition, otherwise I would be defeated by me again, what a shame."

The family members behind him laughed maliciously.

Li Zheng always had long eyelashes hanging down, showing no expression, but at this moment, the corners of his mouth had a slight uptick that was hardly noticeable.

Shi Ba closed his eyes forcefully, wondering if he had read it wrong, and when he opened it again, the other party had returned to its original state.

The comments of the onlookers reached Ling Xiaolu's ears one after another.

"So it's true that Li Zheng didn't sign up for the Wind and Cloud Competition!"

"It's because I know I can't beat the combination of Shiba and Qingmei."

"The last Lizheng tried their best and they were not their opponents. These two people have been working together for a year, and their strength has become stronger, but Lizheng didn't even find a fan name."

"If Lizheng bound Qingmei back then, the ending of the two of them would be reversed now. I guess he must regret it now."

"Registration is self-inflicted humiliation. Without a fan name, you can't win the competition."

……

"Enough!" Ling Xiaolu shouted crisply, successfully shutting up the audience, even the players who were posting barrage on the live broadcast stopped, wanting to see how this apprentice, who was favored by Li Zheng, would defend his master dignity.

"What? Can't listen anymore? Do you think your master is useless?" Although Shi Ba had lost to Ling Xiaolu, he didn't take him seriously, and his attitude was still arrogant.

Ling Xiaolu stood up and faced the constantly provocative Shiba across the waterfall.

Zhenjiu's voice sank: "Little brother."

Ji Meng also suddenly felt bad: "Lubi!"

Ling Xiaolu held down the back of his neck and drew a half circle along his neck.With two simple actions, he made the momentum of breaking the boat.

"Who said my master doesn't have a fan name?"