【Zhou Xiang】The Tropic

1.

Ye Guiren's appearance was an accident.

In fact, the four members of their team belong to the first-year party without exception, and have reached the critical moment of the mid-term exam.Under pressure, all the friends except him chose to study hard voluntarily or compulsively. Only he, a "seeing through the world" who, in his own words, "couldn't get the pass line anyway" continued to be extremely ambitious. Squatting in an Internet cafe to play games.

The team was gone, so he had to fight against the wild team. The Fountain Square had the most people, so he came to try his luck.Who would have thought that luck would be so good, that she would meet Zhou Zekai as soon as she went online!

Who is Zhou Zekai?Big brother's female ticket!Who is the eldest brother? The eldest brother is a fairy who can fly him!Today's daily task is stable!

Overjoyed, he put aside the iron law of "don't disturb other people's love" and stuck to it cheekily.

"So you didn't do your daily routine?" Sun Xiang saw through his ultimate purpose of selling misery at a glance.

"Hey..." Ye Guiren rubbed his hands and scratched his head in the game, "Brother is so clever! Brother please hug your thigh!"

Do you really want to bring this rookie with you...

While hesitating, Zhou Zekai's private chat popped up: "Take him to finish, and review after finishing."

The corner of Sun Xiang's mouth twitched. There are countless school-weary teenagers in online games. How can you control it? Isn't your trick a bit superfluous?

However, he was only slandering.

In fact, Sun Xiang didn't want to admit it, his heart softened, and he wanted to go with Zhou Zekai.

He accepted to form a team, and asked Ye Guiren to open two trumpets to make up the numbers and start the daily dungeon journey.

At first glance, the configuration of this team is not bad. There are four full-level queens in total. Zhou Zekai has just passed level 50, but his skills and combat awareness can make up for the lack of levels.The problem is, there are not many who can actually fight—the two trumpets of Ye Guiren lie down in the picture, which is equal to a corpse.Ye Guiren's equipment not only looks unorthodox, but the actual attribute matching is also super unorthodox, completely messed up in his head.Zhou Zekai's equipment skills are complete, but the gems have not been cleaned, the gems have not been inlaid, the forging has not been used, and then weakened by one layer...

Sun Xiang glanced at the team information, and the only thought in his mind was: Damn, I want to tow the plane.

However, after actually starting the cycle mission, Sun Xiang found that this dungeon was far more cheating than he thought.

With a strong sense of being "taken away", the Yeguiren students only do one thing after entering the picture - release the buff, then immediately hide in a place where the range attack cannot reach, and start chatting on the water screen.

That's right, chatting!I don’t know where this friend has such a strong desire to confide, from the teacher’s class criticism to the girl he likes being preempted by others, and then to the fact that the hot strips at the store at the door are out of stock. …

As much as Sun Xiang and Zhou Zekai beat up the boss here, he just worked so hard on the team channel.

Sun Xiang once suspected that this guy really regarded himself as the big brother, otherwise how could he have changed his previous style of being the boss of the cabbage team?

However, this was not the thing that made Sun Xiang vomit blood the most.

Just when they entered the third stage dungeon, Ye Guiren casually mentioned that mathematics is really difficult and he didn't write a single word for today's homework. As a result, Zhou Zekai didn't know where he made a mistake, so he answered: "What subject can't you?"

"Is it possible?! Big, big brother!" Ye Guiren was learning cooking, but his brain was particularly active, so he immediately climbed up the pole, "Send me a screenshot?!"

Sun Xiang poked the boss's hand and was almost swept away by the chain of fire.

Looking at Ye Guiren's speech, he felt extremely complicated.On the one hand, the other party was very kind, firmly remembering that ZzK1124 was his "female ticket", knowing that if he wanted to trouble Zhou Zekai, he had to ask his permission first, which fully satisfied Sun Xiang's self-esteem as a straight man, and he expressed his satisfaction and pride.On the other hand, if Zhou Zekai helps to solve the math problems, as the "big brother" who "brings a female ticket to the book", he will be embarrassed to let Zhou Zekai continue to kill monsters...

Zhou Zekai's dead body, Ye Guiren's dead body, and his trumpet's, Brother Xiang is not just a normal tow plane, but one tow four!Super train man?

Sun Xiang: ...

What else can I do with the younger brother I recognize, the "sister-in-law" I recognize?

Continue to accept your fate!

He typed on the team channel with difficulty: no problem. @Zzk1124 You lie down too.

ZzK1124: Hmm.

Yeguiren 9028: Thank you, brother and sister-in-law!Long live the eldest brother and sister-in-law!

Sun Xiang: ...

2.

At 11:58:23, the unprecedented towing trip finally ended with the howling of the last BOSS falling down.

"After receiving the reward, do your homework quickly! Your sister-in-law has tutored three big questions, and her ideas are clearer than the reference books, and the rest will always do the same?!"

"Yes, yes, yes, yes!" Ye Guiren slapped his chest loudly, and then made a gesture of wiping away tears, "The elder brother is my own brother, and the elder sister-in-law is my own sister-in-law! Brother and sister-in-law are as loving as mountains, and younger brother will never forget it." study hard, improve every day!"

Sun Xiang couldn't help it, he covered his stomach and laughed out loud.I have to say that although the brat on the opposite side is quite incomprehensible running the train with his mouth full, he is really thick-skinned and has a really sweet mouth. Imagine yourself at the age of 16, and asking him to say half a word of such compliments and tricks is equivalent to death

He raised his head and involuntarily looked in Zhou Zekai's direction, and the latter looked over helplessly, mouthing, "Very powerful."

"Yeah," Sun Xiang teased half-jokingly, "I hope he will really study hard in the future, listen carefully in class, and don't come to you to help with homework tomorrow. Mr. Zhou's working hours are not usually expensive."

Mr. Zhou drank his saliva leisurely, pretending that he didn't hear Boss Sun's trash talk.

3.

After Ye Guiren went offline, Sun Xiang took Zhou Zekai to the main city to find a forging workshop, intending to upgrade the weapon attributes.When Zhou Zekai was researching evolution options at the blacksmith NPC, he went back to his warehouse and took a bag of colorful gems and badges.

Sun Xiang didn't ask for money or say no: "Deal."

Zhou Zekai reacted quickly, he didn't fill in a gold coin, so he confirmed it directly.

Sun Xiang: "Don't worry about it, it's all inlaid. You can't pretend to be a girl lying dead when you turn around, so you can do your best."

Zhou Zekai didn't seem to hear his teasing: "Yes."

Not long after the weapons were forged, Zhou Zekai integrated gemstones and badges onto the two guns according to the inlay plan he had considered before.Looking at the panel again, it really has improved a lot.

Sun Xiang: "You're welcome, and you don't ask how much the total is? Smoking.jpg"

Zhou Zekai: "Big brother pays the bill, it's only right and proper."

Sun Xiang came down with black lines all over his head.He curled his lips and looked in Zhou Zekai's direction, as expected, he looked at him innocently.

All right, he already knew that he should have learned a lot from the pit early on. He remembered that Zhou Zekai in the online game was more skinny and difficult to deal with than in reality. He even dreamed of teasing others. When was he not the one who choked in the end?

4.

After Sun Xiang finished washing, the light in the living room was still on.

He poured a glass of water, passed by Zhou Zekai, and stopped.

"Still have a job?" "Yeah."

While speaking, Sun Xiang glanced casually across Zhou Zekai's mailbox interface, and vaguely saw three-digit unread emails.It turns out that what Zhou Zekai said earlier about "come to an end" really means "the second half".Sun Xiang secretly sighed.

He patted Zhou Zekai on the shoulder, and muttered: "I know, it's not easy to be the heir to a wealthy family. You work hard. Rest early."

Zhou Zekai rubbed his temples, and looked at him helplessly: "Thank you."

At three o'clock in the morning, Sun Xiang got up to go to the bathroom, and found that there was still a slight light shining through the crack of the door, which was exactly the same as the last impression before going to bed.

He yawned and pushed the door out. Sure enough, Zhou Zekai was still working on something in front of the computer, with one hand holding the water glass and the other resting on his chin, with unconcealable fatigue in his eyes and brows.

Maybe it was because he was too focused, until Sun Xiang was only one meter away from him, Zhou Zekai suddenly turned his head: "...Why did you wake up? It's still very early."

Sun Xiang looked at him helplessly and sympathetically: "Morning? You slept too late."

Zhou Zekai was taken aback when he heard the words, let go of the cup, and slowly squeezed the space between his eyebrows: "It's coming soon."

Sun Xiang yawned again, and pressed his stomach after the yawn: "What should I do, I seem to be a little hungry."

Zhou Zekai was about to persuade him to go to bed quickly, when Sun Xiang continued to say, as if he could hear his inner voice: "I'm sure I won't be able to sleep if I'm hungry, but there is food in the refrigerator, how about I cook some noodles? "

5.

After 10 minutes, the two of them finished their last sip of noodle soup and let out a satisfied sigh in unison.

The air was silent for a few seconds, "Hahahaha!" Sun Xiang couldn't help but laughed first, breaking the sudden embarrassment, "Thank you for praising the chef's craftsmanship!"

Speaking of this, he seemed to suddenly think of something, took out his phone, edited an ins, attached a photo of the noodles when they were just out of the oven, and wrote: "Late Night Cafeteria by Mr.S"

After posting, Sun Xiang happily enjoyed the ecstatic likes and comments from the night cats, and then remembered to explain to Zhou Zekai: "Speaking of likes, I suddenly remembered that I haven't posted on ins for a long time, and by the way let those who are not asleep People get hungry!"

In order for Zhou Zekai to experience the hunger-inducing power of this ins, he purposely flipped the phone over and handed it to Zhou Zekai to show off, so that the other side could confirm it.

Zhou Zekai glanced at it silently, without saying anything, got up and took away the dishes and chopsticks of the two of them, and threw them into the dishwasher.

Sun Xiang got bored, went back to his room to wash his hands and rinse his mouth, stuffed the quilt, and continued to sleep.

As everyone knows, his ins added a new follower called "Z" not long after, and he gave Sun Xiang's latest ins a little heart.However, this account, with a blank avatar, a blank profile, and a blank dynamic, looks like a three-no-one account.So I scan him regularly to follow those gossip fans without anyone paying attention to it.

6.

When Sun Xiang woke up the next day, he was indeed the only one left in the huge apartment.

Not surprised by Sun Xiang's surprise, he went to Zhou Zekai's gym to complete his routine exercise. Afterwards, he made a breakfast, ate it deliciously, and left here too.

Today's schedule is very tight.

First, Sun Xiang went back to his home to check the progress of the renovation.

Although he was mentally prepared, Sun Xiang was quite surprised when he saw for the first time that the construction team could complete the wall repainting so efficiently and meticulously that it was difficult to pick out the bumps with a magnifying glass.

What surprised him even more was that the construction team took extra care to protect the rest of the house. They used professional dust-proof and dust-proof materials to cover every piece of furniture tightly, and specially added a layer of thick blankets on the floor. The workers were careful when they entered and exited, and did not cause any damage to the house.

After Sun Xiang watched it for 5 minutes, he completely let go of his hanging heart and was extremely satisfied.

The construction leader refused to hand over the cigarettes, saying that it would take about 3 days to restore the original state.Compared with the estimated construction period, it was fully 24 hours ahead of schedule.Sun Xiang sincerely thanked him for his hard work, left a box of mineral water, and left the scene happily.

Next, Sun Xiang drove to the Mercury Club in the suburbs to attend the weekly business meeting.

Just as the elevator door opened, there was a loud "bang", followed by an angry roar: "Think clearly! Is it more important to compete or pick up girls!"

7.

When Sun Xiang got out of the elevator, the corridor had returned to silence.In front of the line of sight, a middle-aged man was holding the threshold with one hand, his face was flushed red, like an angry bull, his shoulders were constantly heaving.

"Which dead child made our old Deng angry again?" Sun Xiang put his hands in his jacket pockets and walked forward with a smile.

Only then did Manager Deng realize who it was, and his expression immediately became very exciting, with embarrassment, annoyance, and headache.

"Brother Xiang," he is actually much older than Sun Xiang, but he is used to calling him this way, "Who else is that little bastard Qian Yiqian! If you don't play well in the game, you have learned a lot of bad habits and won a game." The MPV is dragged to the sky, and it is impossible to say anything, and the door is slammed as soon as it is said, and sooner or later he will have a heart attack!"

Sun Xiang's expression darkened when he heard this, and he wrapped his arms around Manager Deng's shoulders: "Don't worry, let's talk in the room."

8.

Qian Yiqian was the mage player with "fluctuating levels" that Zhao Yaoyao reported several times before.

Coincidentally, his specific occupation is the same as Yeguiren's, that is, the most popular "element blaster" after the second turn of the Mage Department.As one of the few long-distance professions in the club, he is also a veteran player who was there when the team was first formed. Barely ranked in the circle.In addition to technology, in terms of personal conditions alone, at the age of 17, with a height of 1.7 meters and five meters, he still has Zhou Zheng's facial features, and his skin is not dark. In the era of e-sports traffic, it is indeed easy to attract the attention of fans, especially female fans. force.

"The team is not an idol group, and there is no reason to prohibit dating. Fortunately, most of our players are relatively clear-headed, only him, and he—" Manager Deng sighed heavily, shaking his head, "Why can't we resist the temptation?!"

The employee next to him explained: "After the start of the first season, a round of all-platform campaigns was carried out for the main election according to the plan. The main purpose is to increase the number of supporting fans on the spot and improve morale..."

"It also makes investors more satisfied with the Weibo data." Manager Deng added.

"Yeah." Sun Xiang nodded, "That's the right idea. The investors did mention to me that Mercury is getting more and more popular. You guys did the right thing."

"Well, looking at the general direction, it must be valuable. Especially in the last month, because we won two games in a row, the data is skyrocketing, including topic discussions, the number of fan groups, the number of followers of players and official Weibo, etc. " Manager Deng handed over a page of the report, on which Qian Yiqian's increase in fans on Weibo was circled by a highlighter, "We allow players to interact with fans after training. Then this little bastard may be born with a relatively high EQ in this regard." Well, his fans are increasing very fast, besides Wu Yue, he is the most awesome! No, something went wrong!"

"Oh? Let me see." Sun Xiang raised his eyebrows, turned on his phone, and logged into Weibo.His official account and main players are related to each other, but he has been busy recently, so he has seldom swiped and missed a lot of new developments.

As expected, he successfully found a particularly frequently reposted content among a group of Aite's own notifications.

#包人##前进奖赛# [Fang Shiyu from the 818 e-sports circle——QYQ, I call you a scumbag, do you dare to answer! 】

Jiugongge, big-character posters, long Weibo, nearly ten thousand retweets, angry comments... Sun Xiang glanced at it quickly, and frowned deeply: "We are so busy in the main election?"

"Hehe, girls are more attractive than Glory. If there is no opportunity, they will create opportunities." Zhao Yaoyao's voice came from behind.

He didn't know when he entered the office, and he was leaning against the wall with his chest folded at the moment, with a mocking arc on his mouth: "Sneaking during the training camp, lying about asking for leave during the competition schedule, and pretending to be sick to hide from the media, anyway, there are ways... Brother Xiang, this kind of person cannot be kept. His mind is no longer on glory. Recently, his performance has fluctuated more and more, and it may damage the atmosphere of the team. I take back the suggestion of re-observation last time, hoping to directly fire him .”

Sun Xiang pondered for a moment: "I agree to fire him. But have you thought about who to replace him?"

9.

After being busy all day, Sun Xiang didn't realize until evening that he had to mention the progress of the decoration to Zhou Zekai, expressing his gratitude along the way.

So he wrote a short email, roughly describing the current state, and when he finished writing, just before he was about to press the send button, he suddenly pouted and laughed.

In what age, the two of them actually still use the communication method of the last century, emails to emails.Interestingly, modern communication methods pay attention to efficiency. For Zhou Zekai who is busy at work every day, emails are indeed more likely to be seen immediately than WeChat and QQ, so there is no sense of disobedience in using them. .

Looking at it this way, Fang Minghua, who has Zhou Zekai's mobile phone number and WeChat account, is less efficient in contacting people than himself.

After Sun Xiang had finished his music, he clicked send.

As expected, Zhou Zekai's email was replied in just half a minute.

The consistent style of cherishing words like gold: You're welcome.

Sun Xiang imagined the serious look of the person on the opposite side when he typed these three words, and suddenly he had the idea of ​​teasing him: "Mr. Zhou, the canteen will continue to open tonight, do you still have time to come?"

An hour later, while Sun Xiang was preparing the dishes, he secretly regretted that he was so cheap—the spicy rabbit head was too much to eat, who made Zhou Zekai come back to eat naturally?

However, it wasn't that there were no surprises at all—this time, Zhou Zekai not only brought his work notebook, but also a small box of roasted sweet potatoes!

It’s just that it’s not the kind baked in a big stove on the street, it’s served by a five-star hotel restaurant, but the appearance is equally good, once the burnt skin is peeled off, the golden inside is revealed, and the sweet and soft taste is wafted Come out, it's a big move.

And all of this, just because Sun Xiang mentioned that he missed the street food he ate during his business trip to Beijing during the chat the night before, someone remembered it in his heart.

Sun Xiang was in a good mood, and he reciprocated the favor by helping Zhou Zekai fry a piece of his special dish - codfish in butter.

In this regard, Zhou Zekai said that Sun Xiang is a primary school student's way of repaying gratitude-instead of feeding each other snacks, it is better to consider giving himself some other things in the game materials.

Sun Xiang stuck out his tongue: Like to eat or not.After all, he quickly moved the plate in front of him.

Zhou Zekai had sharp eyesight and quick hands, and snatched the plate back in the next second.

"That's enough, that's enough! How old are you!" Sun Xiang raised his hands in surrender, "Someone likes it, and I'm too happy, if you grab it again, it will be cold, eat it quickly!"

10.

That night was slightly different from the previous day. Before 11 o'clock, Zhou Zekai suspended his work and told Sun Xiang that he could go online.

Sun Xiang had no reason to refuse, and the two logged into the game one after the other, and met at the old place - the notice board in Fountain Square.

What's funny is that Ye Guiren seems to have installed a monitor on the two of them. Before Sun Xiang finished changing his equipment, Ye Guiren's figure happily ran over from not far away.

This friend was jumping and waving, with a non-mainstream equipment and stupid movements, he was particularly eye-catching among the bustling players: "Good evening, big brother and sister-in-law!"

Sun Xiang was in a calm mood: "Good evening! Have you finished your homework?"

Ye Guiren obviously choked, and after almost ten seconds, he replied resentfully: "...It's already done, brother, how can you not trust me?"

The surprised person turned into Sun Xiang: "You are amazing! Sahua.jpg"

Ye Guiren didn't boast at all, and immediately confessed: "Actually...hehe, it's my cousin who is amazing! He's been staying at my house for the past two days, and he's very strict! He stares at me doing my homework after school. Have no idea!"

Cousin teaching you to do your homework?How dare you say it proudly?Sun Xiang couldn't help but exchanged a speechless look with Zhou Zekai.

In the game, Ye Guiren didn't feel embarrassed at all, and still said braggingly: "Really, my cousin is super good! Not only is he good at studying, but he is also very good at glory! Brother, did you make it? His name is JJC The winning rate is 87%! The only three victories of my JJC are all won by him!"

87%?Sun Xiang stared at this number, his eyes flashed.

Anyone who is familiar with New Glory knows that ordinary players have a PK winning rate of 70%, which is already considered a master level. More than 80%, it can definitely attract the attention of team scouts.And 87%... If he remembered correctly, this figure was not even reached by several of Mercury's main candidates.

It is not an exaggeration to say that such a good seedling is a million-dollar lottery ticket, so why did he just let himself run into it?

Since Yegui people usually talk about it, although Sun Xiang is excited, he still maintains quite a sense of reason.He said to Zhou Zekai: "Wait a moment." He decided to spend a few more minutes to get a deeper understanding.

Sun: "Oh? So 6? Isn't your cousin here? Tell him to get on the number, we..."

What he originally wanted to say was "Let's watch and watch", but Zhou Zekai walked up to him at some point and said, "Let's PK."

When Sun Xiang raised his head, he found that Zhou Zekai's eyes were extraordinarily bright, and his own eyes reflected in the other's eyes seemed to be the same... full of radiance.

Sun Xiang's lips curled up, his fingers paused for two seconds, and he finished typing: "Let your sister-in-law compete with him!"

TBC