Volume 3 - CH 35

Book 3: Glory on the Other Side

Chapter 35

After Ai Qing woke up, she packed up her luggage, pulled her

sister up from the bed, and told her that she was leaving.  If her

sister wanted to continue to sleep, then she could stay. “Make

sure to lock the door.”

“Where are you going?”  Her sister was so sleepy that she fell

back into the bed.

“SP headquarters.”

She really wanted to be with the team during this time, temporarily

tabling all the complicated issues.

When Ai Qing appeared at the SP headquarter dorm, with her

luggage, to swipe open the door to her room, people in the hallway

were quite surprised to see her there.  This room was always Ai

Qing’s. They had a cleaning lady come in regularly like a hotel,

so she could always move in at any time. She spent half an hour

sorting out her room, then she picked up her room cardkey and

SP has four training rooms.

Each training room had a sign with the name of each team.

Ai Qing pushed open the glass door that read <Secret Room

Storm>.  There were more than twenty men inside, who were

all startled to see her.

Today was still an off day.  These single guys were so bored as

none of them had a girlfriend and all their friends were from the

same club.  Since they had no place to go, they all came to the

training room to pass the time.

But the manager didn’t living at the headquarters, what was she

doing here today?

“Why are you guys staring at me……”  Ai Qing was a little

embarrassed. “I’ll be living at the club until the National Finals ends.”

They were even more startled.

It was Slide who came to her rescue.  He waved to her. “Come

over here, Gou Gou.  We were just about to play a game. You

came just at the right time.”

Interested, she walked over to hear Slide’s explanation.  Briefly

speaking, A team was too bored plus the Guangzhou competition

had ignited their competitive spirit, they wanted to play with RAP

in a private game.

Of course, they weren’t the ones looking for trouble.

Afterall it was RAP, after beating Buff at the Guangzhou show match,

verbally blasted their arch enemy SP during their post-game interview, again.

“Another reason is------Dt is so popular right now.  His accumulated

score is the highest in all four servers.”  All continued to talk after Ai

Qing sat down. “After he won at the Guangzhou competition, he grew

even more popular.  K&K’s popularity is overshadowing SP. If we don’t

play a good game now, even the other SP’s regions will forget we even exist.”

Inin’s eyes had brightened up.  He wasn’t paying attention to what Slide

and All were talking about.  He just excited to hear the name “Dt”, more

excited than if he had been praised.  “Dt must be the first Secret Room maestro.”

All pressed down Inin’s head in annoyance.  “Ya little brat. If you continue

your personal worship, I’ll beat you up.”

A maestro?

A maestro leads a whole era.  An honorary title given to the person who

Ai Qing became lost in her thoughts.

Dt had left before her sister arrived at her home.

So what should she do next.  Should she find a time to talk with him?

But after last night, she couldn’t face him normally at all.  He wanted to

bed her in less than ten days after getting together.  She even began to

doubt whether the Wu Bai she had liked was actually the real him.

Perhaps the kind of relationship she was looking for was a totally different

one from what he was pursuing.

“Gou Gou?”  Slide slanted his head and asked her,  “Should we play a

game with them?”

Ai Qing pulled back her distracted heart and looked at her own teammates,  

“All right. As long as you aren’t afraid of leaking our tactics.”

Slide laughed.  “The really good ones won’t get cracked in such a short time.”

Once they made the decision, there was nothing more to say about the matter.

They sent out the invitation.  Once the opponent accepted, then they could

start the game and begin.

They waited for about three minutes.  A chat window popped out on the

computer: The opponent had accepted.  Please wait for a connection.

“Is the ping[1] ok?”

“Ok, no problem.”  Following signaled the OK gesture and pulled out a

chicken drumstick from the box, taking a bite out of it.  “Too cool. Brothers,

beat up these insidious people into a pulp.”

Four big men who cursed occasionally and a young boy who cried easily

were all ranked in the top ten on the server.  They had all won the

championships in Asia or world tournaments in different games before.

This was…... her team.

[1]: ping is the time delay for communication between the player and the game serve