Chapter 60: Borrowing a Spot

Cheng Huaiyu carried the posters, Zhao Gaoyang carried the stools and folding table on his back, and Xu Heng followed behind them also carrying a small stool; then the three of them went downstairs to call the remaining two members of the Esports Club, which were those two from the Computer Major who hung out with them quite often.

One was from Shandong, Zheng Yang, tall and thin, with long, oily, and messy hair; the whole person looked like a bamboo pole with a bird's nest on top.

The other was also from Wannan like Xu Heng, one meter sixty tall, with a round face and gold-rimmed glasses, named Li Xu.

Because of the significant height difference when they stood together, Cheng Huaiyu often jokingly called them the Two Generals of Heng and Ha.

These two were also the main members of their Esports Club's CS team, and their marksmanship was quite good.

The five of them added up to the entire current personnel of the Jinling University Esports Club; although as time went on, the promotion of electronic games and competition would make the esports clubs of various universities increasingly perfect, for now, it was still a minor, unranked club.

The locations for club recruitment were basically all at the entrance of the cafeteria, because the cafeteria had a large flow of people, and freshmen would pass by here for all three meals a day, so setting up the club recruitment station at the cafeteria entrance was very convenient for attracting traffic.

Usually, after eating lunch or dinner, freshmen would form groups by dormitory to take a look at the various club recruitment stations; they might not join, but it indirectly achieved the purpose of promoting the club.

The area around Xu Heng and his roommates' dormitory was the school's Fourth Cafeteria; at this time, dozens of clubs had already packed this place full, and the paths had become somewhat impassable because of it.

Actually, if every club recruited separately at the entrance of different cafeterias, this situation wouldn't occur, but large clubs, in order to get freshmen to join their own clubs, would send personnel to set up a recruitment station at every cafeteria entrance, so although Jinling University didn't have a hundred clubs yet, there were already several hundred recruitment stations.

Xu Heng and the others arrived late, and there was simply no space for them to recruit; they had to communicate with other club members and get them to move aside to make a gap for them.

Although Cheng Huaiyu was the club president, he was most afraid of troublesome things like communicating with people, so he said, "I'll go to the print shop to print the recruitment forms first, you guys find a good spot, I'll come later," and then slipped away.

Zhao Gaoyang complained behind his back that he had no sense of responsibility and didn't care at all about the club he applied to found.

Li Xu pushed up his glasses and said that Cheng Ge was just this kind of person, cynical and used to being indulgent, but his nature wasn't bad.

Zhao Gaoyang muttered a few more words afterward, but the voice was too low, and the others didn't hear it clearly, so they didn't take it to heart.

Finding other clubs to give them space wasn't an easy task; if they had acquaintances, it would be easy to handle, but unfortunately, Xu Heng and his roommates were almost all loners; they didn't have a single person in the Go Club, Xiangqi Club, or Calligraphy Club, but fortunately, Zheng Yang had joined the Anime Club and had a few acquaintances there.

The Anime Club was also an inconspicuous small club, but compared to their Esports Club, the scale was much larger, and the preparations were complete, with a sunshade, a long table, and promotional advertisements; it actually looked quite decent.

Zheng Yang ran to the girl in the Anime Club who had a few freckles on her nose and asked, "Senior sister, could you please fold the corners of your two tables? We also want to set up a place for recruitment."

"Recruitment? Zheng Yang, which club are you recruiting for?" The freckled senior sister seemed to know Zheng Yang, and she asked with confusion.

"The Esports Club."

"Our school has this club?" The one who said this was the girl sitting next to the freckled senior sister, who was fanning herself with a folding fan printed with a pattern of Sanqian Yuan Nagi.

"Uh..." Zheng Yang scratched his bird's nest hair with some embarrassment.

Although what the girl said was hurtful, it was the truth; ninety percent of Jinling University students basically didn't know about the Esports Club.

For one, the Esports Club had only been established for a year, and for another, this club had no one in it, and it wasn't like the Guitar Club that went to the playground all day to show off their singing voices, so it was normal that no one knew about it.

Zheng Yang could only bite the bullet and say, "There is, it's a new club established last year, look, that's it over there."

He pointed at Xu Heng and the others.

The sunlight was blinding, and the girl fanning herself didn't see clearly what they looked like, but there were tall and short ones, and they seemed to be all boys, so she frowned and said, "Our space isn't big enough to begin with, and adding your Esports Club would squeeze us to death; besides, those of us from the Anime Club who came to recruit are all girls, do you boys have the nerve to ask girls to give up their space for you?"

"Yeah, yeah, we don't want to squeeze with boys, you guys smell like sweat." The remaining few girls also said with giggles.

These words immediately stumped Zheng Yang, and he stood there awkwardly, not knowing whether to leave or stay.

Not far away, Xu Heng saw Zheng Yang standing in front of the Anime Club communicating for a long time without any result, and he couldn't help but furrow his brows slightly.

He said to Zhao Gaoyang and Li Xu, who were still bragging to each other about how many people they killed in some game last night, "Zheng Yang's side doesn't seem to be going very smoothly, I'll go over and take a look."

"What? Yangzi ran into trouble?" Cheng Huaiyu, who had just rushed back, had a loud voice and was easily startled, "That won't do, I'll go over and take a look too."

"Yeah, Yangzi is our brother too, when a brother is in trouble, help comes from all sides." Zhao Gaoyang followed behind Cheng Huaiyu, echoing his words.

Xu Heng looked at Li Xu, who was hesitating to speak, and said helplessly, "Let's go together."

Li Xu nodded, and the four of them dragged their chairs and folding table to the Anime Club side.

Zheng Yang was still standing there like a big fool at this time.

"What's the word?" Xu Heng asked him in a low voice.

Zheng Yang shook his head with a bitter smile.

Seeing this, Cheng Huaiyu ran to the Anime Club girls and started making a scene, saying, "Are you guys giving my Yangzi a hard time? Damn it, it's just borrowing a piece of land, it's not like I'm asking for your lives."

It would have been better if he hadn't made a scene, but with this scene, those girls were even more dissatisfied, retorting, "We got up early to occupy this land, why should we share it with you? Who do you think you are! And listening to your club's name, it doesn't sound like anything good; 'Esports Club', I'm afraid it's just a den of iniquity for a bunch of unmotivated game addicts to play games!"

Cheng Huaiyu's brilliant maneuver directly intensified the conflict between the two sides; Xu Heng sighed with a headache. He actually knew that if he let Cheng Huaiyu come over, this kind of thing would happen; after all, Cheng Huaiyu's personality was prickly, and he liked to go against people.

"Yangzi is an acquaintance of yours, at least! I'm telling you, you girls are really going too far with your spoiled behavior! Hurry up and give us a spot, otherwise, I'll stand here all day today; if I don't have a place to recruit, you guys won't be able to recruit either."

Cheng Huaiyu was from the great Modu, where had he ever suffered such grievances? He angrily blocked the front of the Anime Club's table.

Those girls didn't care either, sneering, "If you want to stand, then stand, who's stopping you? If you have the ability, stand here for three days and three nights, maybe we'll give you half a spot."

It was still the hot weather of late summer and early autumn, and Jinling was like a small furnace, with temperatures over thirty degrees and a scorching sun; within a few minutes, Cheng Huaiyu was sweating profusely and his face was bright red.

The situation had become so rigid that Xu Heng, who had originally just wanted to come and watch the show, had to step forward and pull Cheng Huaiyu away from the front of the Anime Club.

"Our club president has a bit of a temper, please don't mind it, ladies; it really is difficult for you to have boys squeeze in with you. We'll go to the Volleyball Club next door to borrow a spot, sorry to bother you."

"Hey? Wait, junior." Just as Xu Heng was about to leave, he was suddenly called by that freckled senior sister, "Are you that... that cover singer who's very popular recently?"