Two-Way Sniper

When she was in her teens, Qin Jue left her hometown for the first time and came to the strange Shanghai in order to avoid her brother who was released from prison.

This is the legendary e-sports capital of China, which can give him more opportunities to get in touch with professional e-sports, and also let him be alone in it, and be forced to grow up overnight.

Compared with the small city he was born in, this place is too prosperous. Every row of high-rise buildings makes him both extremely amazed and inexplicably disappointed. Even if he is just standing in a somewhat old train station, he feels that wearing a fake The sneakers and myself holding an old brick machine are incompatible with the sophistication here.

In order to survive in this southern metropolis, he has made sufficient preparations, such as carefully purchasing a brand of sportswear that he thinks cannot be seen as a pirated copy, such as shaving half of his originally delicate eyebrows, and spending his only savings A tattoo on one arm - even though it made him sleepless for several nights since he was afraid of pain since he was a child, he was quite proud of seeing the scarred face in the mirror complementing the black pattern on his arm.

With such an appearance and height, no one, no matter how powerful, would dare to provoke him.

Back then, he was prepared to be excluded, scrutinized, and disgusted by his teammates. He eagerly planned to be an indifferent and vicious troll just like in the game, so when he moved to a new team, the first thing he did was Silent occupied the bed that he thought was the best, and he had to stretch his arms out of the quilt when he slept.

Several teammates from the South are half a head shorter than him, and they haven't had any communication with him outside of the game for many days. Only a big brother from the Northeast is similar in stature to him, and occasionally chats with him.

Qin Jue is the youngest in the team, but he is also the most withdrawn in the team. He is always unwilling to go out with them in the middle of the night, until one time, the most vicious guy from the Northeast called him: "I didn't mean you , why are you so out of touch?"

Qin Jue couldn't afford a smart phone at that time, and the current in the microphone was messy, which shocked him and made him a little bit at a loss, but two seconds later, there was another voice from there: "I'll roast an elbow for you, do you want to eat it?" hot?"

Qin Jue was stunned, and jokes poured in from the other end: "I have no common language with people who don't eat spicy food", "Fuck off, if you eat spicy food, you will break off friendship", "Fuck, are you from Hunan, son?"

"I, I won't eat..." Qin Jue was so nervous that he was about to stutter, meaning that he didn't need their roasted elbows, but a few teammates misunderstood something and brought him back two big boxes of supper, saying: " If you don’t like spicy food, I won’t serve it to you.”

Although Qin Jue was stubborn and did not speak, he was still forced to move two steps by the fragrance.

After burying his head in two skewers, he still remembered to ask, "Who paid for it..."

Several teammates at that time did not answer directly, but looked at him with a smile, and said, "Anyway, next time you go out, you can treat yourself."

It seemed that it only took half a second for the uncommonly normal late night, and the young Qin Jue couldn't hold back his ferocious expression—he really didn't expect that the first time in his life, the collective life was not as he imagined in his mind fear.It is also a place where men gather, but surprisingly, no one expresses disgust towards him, and no one starts to bully or laugh at him.

Even if he attributed this to his acting skills, the teammates he met at most knew that he was avoiding his brother and never knew that he was gay, but he could still feel it during the process, and there were always three or two delicate people who saw it. There are some clues.

He used to be uneasy about this, but they never exposed it, except that they didn't touch his limbs like before, everything was the same.

——Why is this happening?He couldn't figure it out, and continued to move from a few small teams that didn't exist for a long time to the current giant IS team, and continued to play his role as a straight man, but until today, he still couldn't get an accurate answer.

***

"What's the matter with you these two days, they told you to go out and have a skewer and you didn't go?"

In the IS team base, in the early morning of a rare rest day, Liu Ze saw Cui Xuezhi and Shen Ye taking a few youth training boys out, Qi Ji also left early because of a cold, Qin Jue was the only one left in the training room , he was a little curious, "Have you not been out of the gate of the base for two or three days?"

Hearing this, Qin Jue's hands walking on the keyboard stopped suddenly, and it took him a long time to joke with him: "He...they are going out to whore, I won't go out if I have free ones."

Liu Ze smiled, walked over and patted him on the head with a notebook: "I didn't realize that our little Qi can do it. At such a young age, his business ability can reach the professional level?"

Qin Jue gripped the mouse nervously, his mouth was a little dimpled: "It's okay, 50 minutes...that's about the same level as mine."

"50 minutes? You?" Liu Ze laughed out loud, "Send a private message with a girl to start counting?"

The small talk in the training room was originally a flirtatious exchange as usual, but Qin Jue felt that his breathing was disordered from time to time, and he was a little unable to answer.

Because, the figure that appeared outside the gate of the base two days ago would suddenly rush into his mind, making him forget what he was talking about in the last scene in half a second, feeling his heart beating violently and his mind blank.

Even though he hadn't seen him for many years, his intuition told him that it was his half-brother Lu Yang, who was also the nightmare he had been hiding in the game for so many years and wanted to escape.

He believed that the other party must have looked for him with resentment during the five or six years he had been away from home.

Resent him for liking men like a scumbag father, resent him for not being considerate and grateful, resent him for forcing his mother to be disheartened and leave her hometown.

Qin Jue hides among the vast crowd of gamers, and hasn't been seen for five or six years. As long as he can make a living, he intends to continue doing so. Don't dream, don't want the future, just stay within his own safe range, No more rough scabs on the skin.

However, the disbandment of the DP team forced him to use the strength of the IS team to appear on the field where he should have appeared earlier.

From that moment on, he was ready to face the day, the nightmare that would overthrow his body again.

——The big deal is being dragged back into the darkness by his brother. As long as he proves the innocence of himself and the team, he will be worthy of the rescue and company that the game has given him for so many years.

But everything here is warmer and more beautiful than he imagined, and if he doesn't pay attention, he will have a new weakness, and he doesn't want to go back to the darkness, and he doesn't want this day to come so soon.

The only fortunate thing is that my brother still has some self-knowledge, so he didn't force his way into this security-heavy building. I'm afraid he just wandered around every day, like a patient hunter, waiting for his prey to appear.

He knew that it would be a matter of time before he faced the opponent, but he kept hiding in the base. He neither had the courage to step out, nor did he dare to tell everyone where the shameful scars on his stomach came from. He could only have a flustered and lucky heart , thinking that I can avoid one day, it is one day.

Just as his mind was in a mess, Liu Ze beside him pulled up the gaming chair and sat down, crossing his hands under his chin, holding a cigarette: "...What's the matter, Qin Jue? I still feel nervous about the international competition ? In the last round of the afternoon, the hand trembling seemed to be disharmonious with sex life, but I thought it was just a round of abnormal performance, so I didn't raise it separately, and I will focus on analyzing it tomorrow."

As he said that, Liu Ze joked, "Be prepared to be criticized by me so that you throw yourself into Xiao Qi's arms and cry~"

But at this moment, Qin Jue was shocked, and turned his gaze to the chaotic place outside the window where the light and darkness meet, and denied it: "I, Qi Ji and I don't have that kind of relationship."

"Ah?" Liu Ze was stunned, unable to react, what happened to him suddenly, "Why didn't I understand what you were talking about, Yanshen?"

"Just...that means I have nothing to do with him." Qin Jue frowned, not knowing what he was talking about.

And Liu Ze couldn't help but smirked: "Wow, you and Xiao Qi have used up a fucking bottle of lubricant, so it doesn't matter? ... Oh, by the way, don't just throw it in the trash next time, Cui Shen said he Such an innocent young woman would be embarrassed when cleaning up the room."

However, Qin Jue's nervous gaze was still trembling in the darkness, and he blurted out: "No...it really doesn't matter, he looks like a girl, can I even play around?"

Liu Zequan thought he was joking, and unhurriedly puffed out two puffs of cigarettes.

After a while, seeing him repeating this argument with a serious expression, Liu Ze was really a little confused: "...What do you mean, brother? Don't scare me?"

After all, in his understanding, Qin Jue is indeed straight and straight. If the trouble comes to the end, Qin Jue just can't resist Qi Ji's offensive, and chooses to get together with the other party for the sake of freshness and convenience. If it ends in a breakup Continuing to lick the ending of the little sister, the team's interpersonal relationship is not the usual embarrassment.

However, Qin Jue really covered his forehead, and he was so scared that he almost dropped a cigarette after saying a few words.

"It means that I, I am not gay. I have never taken it seriously and just flirted with him. What do you not understand?"

The air in the training room crackled and exploded into a bunch of small sparks. After Liu Ze was puzzled for several seconds, Qin Jue opened his closed eyes and tried to look at Liu Ze.

However, the moment he turned his head, there was a figure standing at the door, which suddenly broke into Qin Jue's field of vision, causing his heart to miss a beat, and his pupils startled as if they couldn't focus.

The flow of air seemed to stop.

The lights sprinkled on the boxy and cold bodies of all the machines, and Qi Ji, who appeared there at some unknown time, pushed the open door lightly and walked in.

As for Liu Ze, it took several seconds for him to realize that there was someone behind him. When he saw that it was Qi Ji, he was even more shocked—then, the conversation between the two young people, without any surprise, made him feel as if he was suffocated. Huddled in the seat and frozen, the whole person looked weak, helpless, and pitiful.

He heard Qin Jue's voice seem to be forced out in the silent air: "You... heard everything I said just now?"

Qi Ji lowered his eyes and took the spring-limited flavored fudge on the table, and replied in a hoarse voice: "Yes, I heard everything."

The crumpling sound of the plastic package pierced Liu Ze's eardrums, making him so nervous that he didn't dare to move, and even wanted to play a song by Adu, I shouldn't be here, I should be under the car - based on his experience, the following The plot will be like a pot of blood, mixed with questioning, crying, and hysteria. In extreme cases, as long as two people chase out the door, there will be thunderstorms in April, and a wave of e-sports will be staged. Unrequited love.

However, until the subtle silence spread to the corner, Qi Ji just turned around and left with his few packets of fudge, as if he didn't have the energy to say another word.

That back view was suddenly full of indifference that is rarely seen in ordinary times, Liu Ze's jaw trembled when he saw it, and when he turned his head to look at Qin Jue, he was even more startled by the ashen expression on his face.

This allowed Liu Ze to regain his coaching status in a second, and hurriedly reminded him: "Why don't you go after him?"

But in the calm night, it seemed that there was really heavy rain pouring down ahead of time.

Qin Jue in front of him just closed his lips and looked at his knees, as if his whole body had been drenched by a torrential rain, except for clenching his fists as hard as he could to stop its trembling, he didn't make any movements.