Don't Talk, There's a Girl

Luo Ye was from the capital, and among his classmates was another fellow townsman from there, so the two quickly got in touch.

After all, being far from home, it was good for fellow townsmen to look out for each other.

But after adding each other's contact information, Luo Ye regretted it.

Because this Xu Xiaojia was a total chatterbox.

"I forgot to check Green Bubble."

Before Luo Ye could send those seven words, Wang Dachui urged, "What are you dawdling for, Brother Luo Ye? Hurry up and log in."

"Okay."

Closing Green Bubble, Luo Ye logged into Honor of Kings.

Luo Ye was quite skilled at this game too. Though he was not among the absolute best, he was still the kind of Jungle King Brother who could carry random teammates.

"I'm gonna carry this game."

Wang Dachui's Marco Polo threw his ultimate into the team fight, leaving a whole wave of enemies low on health before being honorably killed—a perfect laborer.

Then Luo Ye's Kai Dad charged violently into the fight, killing one kid with every slash and easily harvesting kills.

"Brother Hammer, how many times have I told you? I'll start the team fight, and you just collect the kills. That way neither of us dies. But you insist on starting fights yourself," Luo Ye said.

"Heh, don't talk. My Marco Polo starts fights with precision and dies with precision. It's all about the details. You can't learn that."

Luo Ye:?

With a huge question mark hanging over his head, Luo Ye led everyone into a second match.

During those half a month of Military Training, Luo Ye had led everyone up to the Peerless Rank at over 30 Stars in King Rank.

After gaming, he still had to spend around three hours writing updates, so he barely got enough rest and wore dark circles under his eyes every day.

Today, Dorm 515 was getting ready to play again.

"Don't start yet. It's boring without girls. Let me see if there are any girls nearby," Wang Dachui said.

"With your skills, you want to carry girls? Don't think you're amazing just because you reached Peerless Rank. Brother Luo Ye carried us to this rank."

Suddenly, an invitation request appeared on Luo Ye's game screen.

Loves Hot Pot...

She played Honor of Kings too?

Luo Ye accepted the request.

Seeing a girl's avatar suddenly appear, Wang Dachui said excitedly,

"Don't talk, there's a girl!"

He thought she had been invited from the lobby by him, since he had just invited a whole bunch of girls.

Loves Hot Pot joined the party.

"Hello, hello. Do you have a mic?"

Wang Dachui turned on voice chat and immediately asked.

"Yes."

Loves Hot Pot said only one word, but Wang Dachui became unusually excited.

It was the voice of a cool mature older sister type. Just hearing it made his blood surge.

"Damn, Brother Hammer's luck is incredible. One pull and I got a mature older sister type."

Luo Ye was utterly speechless. Couldn't he see that she was Luo Ye's game friend?

"Start," Wang Dachui said impatiently.

Four Peerless Rank players with over 30 Stars, along with Loves Hot Pot at 48 Stars in King Rank, entered the game.

But Wang Dachui soon discovered that this girl had only said one word in the party interface...

During the game, she typed the entire time.

At the hero selection screen, Loves Hot Pot sensibly chose support. After all, girls had to understand social etiquette. With four fierce guys around, where would she even get a chance to shine?

She picked Yao Girl and followed Luo Ye's jungler from the start.

Originally, she had planned to help the marksman when she had time, but then she realized that Marco Polo was terrible.

What a noob.

How had a noob like this reached Peerless Rank?

So Yao Girl chose to follow the jungler the entire match.

Marco Polo was left alone in the bottom lane to face the enemy marksman and support. Occasionally, he also had to deal with sneak attacks from the enemy mid laner and jungler, while even the enemy clash-lane Guan Yu often came around from behind.

"Help!"

After going 0-6, Wang Dachui turned on voice chat again and complained bitterly, "Yao Yao, come help."

Yao Yao Princess remained unmoved.

If the marksman was useless, then a support following the marksman would just be delivering two kills to the enemy at once.

In the end, they lost this match as expected. Even though Luo Ye got a quad kill once, he could not overcome how awful his teammates were. And Loves Hot Pot, who seemed somewhat capable, had picked Yao Girl, who had little offensive power.

"I'm done, I'm done. I've played all day. If I keep playing, I'll go stupid."

Shen Qiao exited the game.

Seeing this, Wang Dachui, whose Marco Polo had gone 0-11, finally realized what the problem was. With a miserable expression, he said, "I'm done too. I'll go practice against bots and improve my skills."

Li Haoyang scratched his head. After hesitating for a moment, he also exited the game, then kept typing on his phone screen, apparently chatting with someone.

Only Luo Ye and Loves Hot Pot remained.

"I'm done playing."

Luo Ye typed those three words, then exited the game.

The next moment.

"Loves Hot Pot invites you to join a party."

Luo Ye was pulled back in once again.

"Three stars away from Honor of Kings."

The other party typed that in the chat box.

"No problem. I'll carry you."

"No, you play support."

Loves Hot Pot dropped those words, leaving Luo Ye completely confused.

Before he could react, she had already started matchmaking.

She wanted him to play support? Luo Ye was baffled.

But he did not care much about positions.

At the start, he picked Master Luban.

This match was in the bag.

Teammate in slot three: Do you know how to play Master Luban? Switch if you don't. Don't drag us down.

Loves Hot Pot: Shut up.

Teammate in slot three: Heh, little missy, you're pretty protective. Is this your man?

Loves Hot Pot: ...

The enemy will arrive at the battlefield in thirty seconds.

Luo Ye followed the marksman controlled by Loves Hot Pot the whole way, bringing Master Luban's skills into full play.

By the end, Luo Ye, the support, had more kills than their teammate in slot three.

Soon, after three consecutive victories, Luo Ye and Loves Hot Pot's powerful partnership brought Loves Hot Pot up to Honor of Kings.

"Good support."

Loves Hot Pot typed those words.

"You're pretty impressive too."

After exchanging a few polite compliments, Luo Ye typed, "You play Honor of Kings too? I thought you only played Battle Royale."

Loves Hot Pot: I play everything.

She had merely logged in out of habit to take a look and happened to see that Luo Ye was online too.

After all, when she played games, she either queued solo or played with other girls.

Only in Battle Royale did she have a gaming partner who played with her.

Luo Ye opened Loves Hot Pot's profile page and discovered that she was actually "Jiangcheng City's 7th Sun Shangxiang."

That was not the important part. The important part was that she was also in Jiangcheng.

Luo Ye: Are you in Jiangcheng too?

Loves Hot Pot: Jiangcheng University.

Seeing that, Luo Ye was slightly surprised. Could the person Gu Mingxuan had pulled into the game back then have been his colleague?

Luo Ye: Hello, teacher.

Loves Hot Pot: ...

When Su Baizhou saw the words "Hello, teacher," she nearly could not hold back her laughter.

For this Junior Underclassman to make the Iceberg Goddess laugh, he was quite capable.

Loves Hot Pot: I'm a student.

Seeing those four words, Luo Ye was stunned.

Gu Mingxuan had actually pulled one of his students into a game with him back then?

Then, finding typing too troublesome, he directly turned on his microphone.

"Hello. I didn't expect us to be schoolmates."

Luo Ye had never turned on his microphone when playing Battle Royale with her, but since they were schoolmates, Loves Hot Pot might very well soon become his real-life friend.

Loves Hot Pot did not turn on her microphone. Instead, she directly exited the party interface so quickly that Luo Ye did not even have time to react.

Meanwhile, in the girls' dormitory.

Su Baizhou was startled by Luo Ye's voice and hurriedly exited the game.

She never turned on her microphone in games and usually muted people who did.

She was extremely socially anxious online, so after all this time, Luo Ye was the only game friend she had made... and even that had been arranged by Gu Mingxuan.

But... turning an online friend into a real-life friend was exciting, and also rather interesting.

For some reason.

The rainy day flashed through Su Baizhou's mind, along with that young man's immature face...

The Iceberg Goddess paused slightly, and a faint smile appeared on her lips.