Chapter 70: Nine Out of Ten Apertures Opened

"Damn it! Headshot again, this is too fake!"

Watching the character he controlled get knocked to the ground by a few shots from an AK, Cheng Huaiyu felt numb. He threw his mouse and shouted, "Is that New Member on the other side really playing CS for the first time? Isn't he playing the pig to eat the tiger?"

Although Cheng Huaiyu was a noob, he was still an old veteran with three years of FPS experience. To be headshot-killed by a newcomer today even made him suspect the other party was using a mouse macro.

"Don't be afraid, Cheng Ge, I'm still alive. One-on-one duel, you know my skills." Li Xu nervously controlled his character to rotate back to point A from Banana, only to be sent away by a headshot the moment he rounded the corner.

"Cheng Ge, I'm coming to join you!"

"……"

"Pretty impressive." Li Xu clicked his tongue in amazement and said, "Her headshot line is set too accurately, I can't win a gunfight. Give me a sniper rifle next round, I'll deal with her."

"I'll go scout the situation over there first." Cheng Huaiyu, who had been killed all night, didn't want to keep playing at all. He quickly exited the LAN room and ran to Xu Heng's private room to see if the girls' group had really hired a ringer.

In fact, there was no such thing as a ringer. There were always only three people in Xu Heng's room, and with Xu Heng's skills, he wasn't qualified to play for Jiang Mengyuan anyway.

After arriving at the room, Cheng Huaiyu stood behind Jiang Mengyuan and watched for a few minutes, discovering that she really was just that strong!

No matter how the people in the room changed, no one could escape her AK bullets, causing every new passerby who joined to consciously quit after being slaughtered for two rounds. Many people thought this person named JMY in the LAN room was a top-tier FPS expert from some esports platform.

"Junior, is this your first time touching a shooting game? Have you never played anything similar before?" After watching for a few minutes, Cheng Huaiyu couldn't help but ask.

"Similar..." Jiang Mengyuan controlled the mouse to create an Inferno in Inferno while frowning in thought, "Does Contra count as a shooting game? I played it with my dad when I was little."

"That's traditional 2D, it's fundamentally different from 3D," Cheng Huaiyu said. "Your skills don't look like someone who just touched a 3D shooting game."

"But it really is my first time playing. It feels quite simple, simpler than Contra."

Cheng Huaiyu silently watched her computer screen. Jiang Mengyuan finished her AK magazine without taking out the last person defending point B at the police spawn, so she quickly switched to her Glock, added a few shots, and took the opponent down.

This weapon-switching speed, this shooting accuracy—you say it's your first time playing?

He looked at Xu Heng, and Xu Heng shrugged at him.

"I taught her the basic key bindings. It is indeed her first time playing, but geniuses exist in this world. She should be a genius in the field of FPS games."

"Like Akagi from Legend of the Gambler?"

Xu Heng nodded: "Yes."

The corners of Cheng Huaiyu's mouth twitched slightly, and he helplessly accepted the fact that his three years of shooting were inferior to the novice Jiang Mengyuan's shooting.

But turning to think about it, if his Esports Club had a peerless genius like Jiang Mengyuan, could they win some glory for Jinling in next year's CS National University League?

You have to know, Jinling didn't have a single school enter the knockout stages in this year's CS University League, and naturally, their Jinling University wasn't on the list either.

During the summer vacation, Cheng Huaiyu could only stay at home and watch the GameFY channel broadcast other schools' battles. Watching those people fight on the broadcast, and even getting on TV news, he was very envious.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but sigh: "Heaven bless the Jinling University Esports Club."

At this moment, Jiang Mengyuan couldn't actually understand the meaning of his words, because she still just viewed CS as a form of entertainment and didn't feel the game had much competitiveness.

In the entire internet cafe, those who claimed to be CS experts would be beaten back one by one after entering. Sometimes five people would rush her face, only to have two of them killed in return. Everyone's level was clearly not on the same tier, evolving into a one-sided slaughter, so the competitiveness became much weaker.

Playing until ten o'clock at night, Jiang Mengyuan finally exited the LAN room with reluctance, letting those experts who were already hiding in corners trembling with fear breathe a sigh of relief.

"This game is so hard, Yuanyuan~" In the seat next to Jiang Mengyuan, Chang Lingling threw down her mouse and exited at the same time, complaining, "I was being killed the whole time, and even when I occasionally hit someone, I wasn't the one who got the kill."

Hearing this, Jiang Mengyuan couldn't help but frown: "Is it hard?"

"Of course it's hard! How many did you kill, Yuanyuan?" Chang Lingling leaned over, saw the bright and distinct forty-one in the kill column, and then retreated sheepishly, "So the person who kept popping up messages about killing people was you."

Killing over forty in one full match meant an average of at least two kills per round. Looking at her own score of only ten points this round, six of which were obtained from planting the bomb, the two simply couldn't be compared.

"The name is the initials of my name."

"I can tell. You have more talent than me. In this regard, I only understand nine out of ten apertures."

"Isn't that already enough?"

Chang Lingling scratched her head and said: "Because the last aperture is completely blocked."

Jiang Mengyuan was amused by her pun and laughed while covering her mouth.

"What's so funny? Tell me about it too!" Just then, Xu Heng returned from outside the room, saw this scene, and asked with a smile.

Jiang Mengyuan, who was still open in front of her roommate, immediately became reserved again, blushing and lowering her head as she said: "It's nothing."

"Don't be shy, Yuanyuan, the senior isn't a flood dragon or a wild beast." Chang Lingling said to Xu Heng, "Just now Yuanyuan was laughing at me for only having ten points in a round, while she got over a hundred points just like that."

"So impressive? Yuanyuan's talent for CS is even higher than I thought~" Xu Heng feigned surprise.

Jiang Mengyuan was embarrassed by his praise, while Chang Lingling teased: "Yo yo yo, 'Yuanyuan' already? Is the senior preparing to make a move on our Yuanyuan?"

"What do you mean 'make a move'? I call this exchanging sincerity for sincerity. I'm sincerely making friends with the junior. I can call you Lingling too."

"My name is already ABB, so it doesn't count."

Chang Lingling exchanged a few witty remarks with Xu Heng, and the sense of distance Jiang Mengyuan felt due to not being familiar with Xu Heng also narrowed quite a bit.

Only then did Xu Heng place the bag in his hand on the table and smile: "Treating you both to milk tea."

"Is it Xiang Piao Piao?" Chang Lingling blinked.

Xiang Piao Piao had only been out for two years and was in its most rapid stage of development. Whether in TV commercials or on the streets, one could see Xiang Piao Piao's slogan—selling one billion cups a year, the cups connected could circle the Earth three times.

In this day and age, brand-name milk tea shops hadn't expanded on a large scale in the mainland, and for many people, the synonym for milk tea was Xiang Piao Piao.

"No, it's the handmade milk tea shop across from the internet cafe. It just opened recently."

"What is a handmade milk tea shop?" Both girls were relatively unfamiliar with this term.

Xu Heng explained: "It's a shop that helps you brew your Xiang Piao Piao."