PUBG: Fragment Collector
Chapter 20

Looks Exactly Like Love...

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020. Like Love

She only then remembered the news from a few days ago about Dumb Sister falling for a random player. She never expected that player to be Little Ming Bro.

Realizing this, Tuan Tuan's heart tightened, as if something most precious was being coveted and watched.

"No way. Even if you liked Little Ming Bro first, he hasn't agreed to be with you yet. I still have a chance! Fair competition—I won't lose!"

With that thought, Tuan Tuan regained her confidence and prepared to share the good news with Jiang Siming. But as it turned out, Jiang Siming was also on a call.

Jiang Siming really hadn't expected to stir up two female streamers in two days, both of them popular big names.

He'd just hung up on Tuan Tuan when he got a call from Dumb Sister.

Dumb Sister also stated her identity and purpose, and as they chatted warmly, Jiang Siming couldn't exactly brush her off.

After all, she'd ordered a month of his time.

Thinking about that month, Jiang Siming felt a bit awkward. Would she really make him accompany her for a full month?

"Brother Ming, don't worry. Even though I ordered a month, I won't force you to play with me, and I won't set a schedule. I'll still pay for the month. Just take me along whenever you have time to game."

Dumb Sister was very understanding.

Hearing that, Jiang Siming naturally relaxed and said with a smile, "Then thanks. That day you pulled me in, I was away from my computer dealing with something. By the time I finished and got to the lobby, you'd just gone offline."

Jiang Siming felt he should explain, since he'd made the girl wait an hour.

"Really?!"

Dumb Sister was overjoyed. She'd thought Jiang Siming was deliberately ignoring her, but it turned out to be a misunderstanding and a coincidence.

"Really. Truer than pearls."

"Pfft~"

With her knot untied, Dumb Sister's mood, like Tuan Tuan's, became fantastic.

A sweet smile returned to her face.

And with it came a strange feeling, a secret, sneaky little-girl scheming in her heart.

"Brother Ming, do you have time now? Want to play a game together?"

With the companion job back in his hands, Jiang Siming's earlier frustration vanished. Seeing it was still early, he agreed.

Dumb Sister, who'd been away from her seat for nearly half an hour, returned to her streaming computer from outside. Her best friend Erqian, who'd been filling in, sighed in relief and immediately got up to give her the seat.

"So? You look pretty happy?" Erqian teased.

"Wahaha, Brother Ming agreed to duo queue with me~" Dumb Sister didn't hide her joy at all.

The live stream room's audience could smell the sour stench of love.

"Tsk, earlier she was dead and lifeless, and now she's reborn?"

"As expected, women in love have negative IQs."

"Old Woman is deep in the swamp of love, can't pull herself out, can't control herself!"

"Old Woman, don't get too happy. Looks like Tuan Tuan likes God Ming too. You've got a rival."

"The guy above is right. Tuan Tuan seems to have fallen for God Ming too. Sigh, when will I ever be as awesome as him?"

Dumb Sister didn't have the mind to read the bullet comments now. She immediately put on her headset, logged into the game, and waited on YY.

This look of waiting for her lover—like love.

"You look like a concubine waiting for the emperor's favor," Erqian laughed.

"Get lost!" Dumb Sister blushed and cursed with a smile.

Soon, Jiang Siming's YY avatar appeared in the channel.

"Brother Ming, you're here~"

"Yeah. Invite me, or I'll pull you."

"Got it!"

Overjoyed, Dumb Sister pulled Jiang Siming into the game lobby.

She dressed her game character up beautifully with a bunch of skins.

Jiang Siming's character was just an ordinary male in a cheap short-sleeved shirt.

As it happened, PUBG had just had a big update, adding a snow map.

Having never played it, Jiang Siming and Dumb Sister decided to give it a try.

They loaded into the game on a completely unfamiliar map, snow everywhere.

As a girl from the south, Dumb Sister saw the snowy scenery and let out a romantic, girly scream.

"So pretty! Don't you think so, Brother Ming?"

Jiang Siming was seeing the new map for the first time too, and couldn't help nodding in agreement. Bluehole's maps were getting more and more beautiful.

From the island to the desert to the jungle, and now the snowfield, each map's detail kept improving.

Thanks to Tencent Daddy's investment, Bluehole had grown from a small workshop into a big company. Hundreds of billions in annual game profits were no joke.

Now, PUBG had completely become the top dog of FPS games. Its global player count rivaled League of Legends, sometimes even surpassing it.

The game had been running for nearly three years and was still popular. In internet cafes, chicken dinner and League players were almost evenly matched.

The main reason was that in Jiang Siming's world, PUBG's cheating problem had been handled very successfully. Combined with good marketing and constant content updates, the game kept getting better and lasting longer. Many celebrities loved playing it.

"Brother Ming, come look!"

Dumb Sister called out urgently.

Jiang Siming found her by a telephone pole. "What's wrong?"

Dumb Sister took a snowball from her waist and said to him, "Do what I do. Switch to first-person view and throw the snowball at the pole!"

Not sure what was going on, Jiang Siming followed along anyway.

Thump. The snowball hit the pole, and the scattered snowflakes sparkled with tiny specks of light under the sun.

"There are stars, Brother Ming! Did you see them?" Dumb Sister asked with a pure look.

Jiang Siming chuckled and played along. "Yeah, I saw them. They're really pretty."

"Hehe." Dumb Sister giggled dumbly.

For some reason, the audience in the Live Stream Room couldn't help but smile.

They felt like they were watching a beautiful love story sprouting and taking root.

The waiting time ended quickly, and everyone boarded the plane.

Above the snowy city, the scenery was laid out in full view.

Jiang Siming was also lost in the magnificent snow map when he unexpectedly noticed a red light flashing by the coast.

"Let's go here." Jiang Siming marked the spot immediately. Dumb Sister naturally had no objections.

At this point, even if he marked a spot in the middle of the ocean, she wouldn't hesitate to jump.

The two left the plane and flew toward their destination.

Unexpectedly, the parachuting mechanics had been updated too. You couldn't hold down Shift anymore, or you'd drop straight down.

Also, the parachute height and glide distance controls were very different. Landing even involved a sideways somersault on the ground.

This definitely made parachuting harder and more realistic.

But for Jiang Siming, it wasn't a problem at all. In fact, it felt smoother.

The higher the difficulty, the more time he could put between himself and others when landing.

Sure enough, by the time Jiang Siming had already landed, Dumb Sister was still diving straight down, her parachute not even open yet.

If Dumb Sister were an enemy, Jiang Siming could have killed her before her chute even opened, right there in the snowy Northern Europe sky.

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