In the dorm, he snacked with Qian Duole while gaming with Chen Zijie.
The three of them carried on like that for an hour.
[Gaming skill +1] [Reaction speed +1]
Gu Qing glanced at the text notifications.
Sure enough.
After obtaining the [Devouring] attribute,
he could no longer gain attributes from the [Big Eater] tag.
In response,
Gu Qing decisively put down his snacks without eating another bite and chose to focus on gaming with Chen Zijie.
Since he could no longer grind attributes from them, even a dog wouldn't eat these snacks that did his body almost no good.
Before the next match began, Gu Qing brought up his reaction attribute to check the numbers.
[Cumulative reaction speed +84]
He needed just 16 more points to reach 100 and obtain the attribute-lightning-fast reflexes.
In other words, he still had to play games with Zi Jie for another 16 hours.
It was two in the afternoon.
If they played for 16 hours straight, it would be six in the morning.
Allowing for meals and things like that, they would probably finish at seven in the morning instead.
With that thought,
Gu Qing turned toward Chen Zijie beside him and asked with a smile, "Zi Jie, how about we go to an internet café tonight and duo queue all night to climb the ranks?"
Then he added, "My treat. Instant noodles, braised eggs, ham sausages, and iced black tea included."
Gaming all night in the dorm would disturb their other roommates' sleep.
They could only do it at an internet café outside.
Although Chen Zijie loved gaming, he never did anything as unhealthy as staying up all night.
But when he thought about how he and Gu Qing had kept winning while duo queuing over the past few days,
his rank had climbed from Diamond at the start to Grandmaster now before he knew it.
He was only about 200 League Points away from Challenger.
The more he thought about it, the more tempted Chen Zijie became. He nodded decisively.
"Sure, let's stay up! We'll win a dozen or more in a row and reach Challenger together!"
"No problem. Leave it to me. I guarantee I'll carry you to Challenger."
Gu Qing spoke with complete confidence.
In just a few short days, their roles had completely reversed.
Before, Chen Zijie had always used a smurf account to carry Gu Qing, slaughtering those Bronze and Silver noobs in low-level matches.
Now, Gu Qing was carrying Chen Zijie's main account up the ranks, slaughtering Master and Grandmaster players in high-level matches.
All he could say was that the attributes obtained from the tags were far too overpowered.
They gamed together in the dorm for eight hours straight.
Seeing that Gao Fei and Qian Duole were both going to bed,
Gu Qing and Chen Zijie headed for the internet café, officially beginning their all-nighter.
They arrived at the internet café.
They got their computers set up.
They bought instant noodles, ham sausages, braised eggs, and iced black tea.
Gu Qing brought up his reaction attribute and took a look.
[Cumulative reaction speed +92]
Almost there. Just eight more hours, and I'll get the lightning-fast reflexes attribute.
"Gu Qing, hurry up and ban a champion! The countdown's almost over!"
"Okay, okay."
"Ban Yasuo, so some idiot teammate doesn't pick him."
"Sure."
Gu Qing first banned Yasuo, then picked Azir mid and began his first ranked match of the night.
Time ticked by.
They won one ranked match after another.
The moment their League of Legends ranks successfully reached Challenger,
the reaction speed attribute Gu Qing had been longing for also reached 100 points.
[You played games with your roommate Chen Zijie for over an hour] x8 [Gaming skill +1] x8 [Reaction speed +1] x8 [Your cumulative reaction speed reached 100 points. You successfully obtained the attribute-lightning-fast reflexes] [Lightning-fast reflexes: your reaction speed is greatly increased]
The instant the text notifications appeared,
a sudden, intense stabbing pain shot through Gu Qing's head.
It hurt so much that his body twitched.
His eyes instinctively squeezed shut.
And when the pain passed and he opened his eyes again,
the sight before him left him stunned.
Everything in his field of vision had actually slowed down dozens or even a hundred times!
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It was as though someone had pressed a slow-motion button on the entire world.
Everything he saw had slowed down.
Sound had slowed down too.
Even his own movements had become incredibly slow.
Everything had slowed down dozens or even a hundred times.
Gu Qing slowly turned his eyes toward a fly flying nearby.
The Fly Emperor, lightning-fast in an ordinary person's eyes,
now looked as though it were being held back by thick, viscous air. He could clearly make out the frequency of its wingbeats, and its flight path was plain to see.
"Fly Emperor, you fly far too slowly in the eyes of this Immortal Venerable."
With a somewhat childish air of grandeur, Gu Qing raised his hand, curled a finger, aimed at the flying fly, and flicked lightly.
A sharp crack rang out!
The fly's body burst apart on the spot.
It instantly flew backward and slammed into a wall.
It became a lifeless corpse.
"The lightning-fast reflexes attribute has pushed my neural response speed to the extreme."
"Once I grind out knotted muscles later, maybe my physical speed can reach the extreme too."
"When the two combine and my neural responses sync perfectly with my movements, I might be able to dodge bullets easily, or even catch them barehanded."
At the thought of himself catching bullets barehanded,
Gu Qing's breathing quickened, his eyes filled with irrepressible excitement and anticipation.
They left the internet café.
They returned to the dorm.
Without even showering, Gu Qing and Chen Zijie flopped onto their beds and fell straight asleep.
As for their morning class coming up,
they would just skip it.
Time always passed quickly in deep sleep.
In the blink of an eye,
it was past noon.
Qian Duole, who had gone out to class that morning, returned.
He made rather a lot of noise opening the door.
A few loud clanks woke both Gu Qing and Chen Zijie, who were sleeping inside.
Qian Duole hadn't wanted to wake them either.
The blame lay with the dorm's badly worn-out door lock.
It often took forcefully jamming in the key and twisting hard to wrench the door open.
Gu Qing woke groggily and found a character panel floating before his eyes.
He was a little puzzled. He had been sleeping so deeply, completely unconscious, so how had this panel appeared on its own?
But he didn't dwell on it and soon began reading the information on it.
[Name: Gu Qing] [Age: 21] [Devouring (can be upgraded or fused): your digestive ability is greatly increased] [Lightning-fast reflexes (can be upgraded or fused): your reaction speed is greatly increased]
Can be upgraded or fused?
But how exactly do I upgrade or fuse them?
There isn't a single hint.
Forget it. I'll figure it out gradually later.
There's no rush...
With a thought, Gu Qing dismissed the panel and looked at Chen Zijie, who had also just woken up.
"Zi Jie, cafeteria or takeout?"
"Takeout. Can't be bothered to go downstairs."
Chen Zijie sat on his bed, looking bleary-eyed as he spoke.
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