Liu Jiangqing leaned on the sofa and took out her mobile phone to look at it, the mask on her face still hadn't been removed, as if she had a habit of cleanliness in the world.

Suddenly, a figure sat opposite him, skillfully took out a pack of cigarettes and shook it, and in an instant he grabbed a cigarette between his fingers, and the crisp lighter click sounded in the hall, and the cigarette butts came out of the clouds, and the whole action was so coherent that it seemed to be magical.

"Do you smoke?" The visitor placed the half-pack of cigarettes in his hand in the middle of the table, with a silver zippo lighter on it.

"Nope." Liu Jiangqing simply refused and continued to look at her phone.

"Since you don't smoke, what are you doing here?" The visitor asked.

"It's stuffy inside." Liu Jiangqing, who was wearing a mask, replied casually.

"I'm still waiting for you to go back on stage, especially that little girl." The visitor puffed on his cigarette, "It's not good to escape like this." ”

"I didn't run away, I just didn't want to join in the fun."

The word "escape" in the other party's words is used too politely, but it is used very accurately in this matter. didn't want to come on stage to escape here, and the person who came from the opposite side with his mobile phone was also fleeing, but Liu Jiangqing still wanted to defend himself, so he quickly refuted it. When he said this, his fingers were still swiping the phone screen, but there was nothing open on it, just boringly swiping around on the interface of two pages lined with dense APP icons, pretending to be attentive.

"Whether it's an escape or not, it's actually easy to distinguish. The fugitives, cowering, quietly ran away. If you don't run away, you will go up and refuse directly, just like me. The visitor on the other side analyzed the word in great detail like a scholar, and praised himself in passing.

Liu Jiangqing put down her phone unhappily and stared at the comer, "If you don't go back to watch the game, what are you doing here?" ”

"Smoke a cigarette and call you back by the way." Xiao Yuan smiled, stretched out his hand and flicked it towards the edge of the ashtray, and the ash that still kept its shape was completely broken from the ignition point and fell into the clean ashtray, "If it's okay, go over and play, this game is not difficult for you." I didn't want to go when they chose me just now, but it was quite interesting to play, and I didn't come in vain. ”

"I don't want to do what no one can force me. You are the president of the Seven Suits, I can listen to your orders in the game, but now you can't command me. Liu Jiangqing replied arrogantly.

"If I still need to tell you this kind of thing in the form of an order, then I really think that Xiao Yuan has seen the wrong person." Xiao Yuan narrowed his eyes and took another deep puff of cigarette, "Lu Yunqian is on the stage, Tong Nian is also on the stage, they treat you as brothers, but you treat them as garbage." If you lose your character before you fight, you can lose so completely. Ay! That's it, you can smoke with me, and after smoking this, I'll go back and cheer them on. ”

“……”

Liu Jiangqing was a little unable to sit still by these thorny words, and finally looked at Xiao Yuan. Xiao Yuan instead smoked a cigarette leisurely and looked away, no longer looking at him, and the conversation between the two seemed to end here. The cigarette was more than halfway burned, like an hourglass counting down, moving towards the finish line as the spark flickered.

Every word in Xiao Yuan's words is more vicious than the "escape" in the previous sentence, and it even sounds a little cursing at first glance. But Liu Jiangqing didn't want to refute this sentence, and some of her heart still agreed with it.

Although he has let go of his grievances with Mingyue Pavilion and reconciled with Tong Nian in the game, Liu Jiangqing still can't face the stage and thousands of spectators that belong to the competitors. He is a player who has been retired for more than two years, and his strength is naturally not as good as before, at most he is considered a high-level player. But the opponents and viewers here will definitely compare him now with him in the past, and then they will inevitably come to a result - Liu Jiangqing is really not good, so Mingyue Pavilion doesn't want him.

This matter has always been a poisonous snake entrenched in Liu Jiangqing's heart, and his strength has declined, which is a fact that everyone can see. To be judged as a result would be to completely reject his athletic performance and hurt those who still choose to support him.

Although he is no longer a professional player, Liu Jiangqing still hopes that what will remain in the hearts of everyone is the exemplary assassin Tianjiangming, not a second-rate player.

He didn't want to tear up everyone's previous impression of him, so he simply chose to escape. When Tong Nian noticed Lu Yunqian's seat number, he slipped out of the hall directly, hoping that no one would see him.

But now that Xiao Yuan's words suddenly woke him up, he felt that he needed someone to scold him like this, the more painful the scolding, the better, and scold away all the cowardice in his heart and the remaining darkness, so that he had the courage to face those two important people and thousands of viewers again, instead of being a betrayer in a corner.

However, why is the person who woke him up the big smoker in front of him?

Liu Jiangqing, who realized the change in her heart, suddenly became interested in Xiao Yuan again, and re-examined the person sitting opposite. Xiao Yuan's down jacket was about on the seat, and he was only wearing a white sweater, which looked simple and clean. The angular face has a faint smile on it all the time, and it looks very relatable. There is a unique temperament of a literati between his eyebrows, but there is an uninhibited look in his eyes, which seems to be able to switch freely between scholars and ruffians at any time.

He soon discovered that the man's gesture of holding a cigarette was very unique, between the middle and ring fingers of his right hand. This posture is the usual posture of professional players smoking, and a long time ago, when he was an ordinary college student, an e-sports player I met was also playing a game leisurely with a cigarette in his hand, smoking and controlling the mouse.

The pair of slender and flexible hands in front of him and the unique posture of holding cigarettes seem to be the only proof that Xiao Yuan has ever been an e-sports player, and other than that, he is completely no different from ordinary people, nothing special. Suddenly, Liu Jiangqing felt that he was somewhat similar to himself, both were retired players, and they no longer had the strength they had at the beginning, but why did he seem so comfortable?

Also, who the hell is he?

“…… Your seat is VA05, and you can pass through VA04 through the middle corridor, but you deliberately passed through VA12, just to confirm me and Lu Yunqian, right? Liu Jiangqing knew that Xiao Yuan had already recognized his identity, so he simply opened the skylight and said brightly, "You already knew that we were coming, and you, or the person behind you, deliberately let us sit together so that you could contact us, right?" ”

"Hehehe......" Xiao Yuan suddenly laughed, this smile made the seriousness on the other side seem a little childish, "It's not so mysterious, I didn't know at first that you would come, and it's still my neighbor." But I can see that people's eyesight is okay, even if your face is half covered, it is not much different from the photos of the forum Internet café competition. Coming over from the other end just to confirm your identity, as for the girl, I only found out later when I saw the constant sword on her computer, and the girl's way of speaking is exactly the same as in the game, not difficult to identify. Xiao Yuan explained.