Chapter 13 013: The ins and outs of dark chocolate (2-in-1)
Dad was startled by him, "You kid, why are you so startled?"
Gu Xing forced himself to calm down and asked his father about the cause and effect.
Father Gu put his son's coat on his forearm, "It was many years ago, when I was still working in the factory and you were in elementary school..."
Listening to his father's words, Gu Xing was brought back memories.
When I was a child, life at home was good. My parents were both secondary school students. After graduation, they worked in factories. They were not very wealthy, but fortunately they had stable jobs. The two of them even survived the wave of layoffs.
However, the 2008 financial crisis still crushed the factory and the couple were laid off, so they opened a small store outside the community.
Dad thought for a while and organized his words, "The factory has business dealings with Italy, and a colleague went to Turin on a business trip, so he brought this with him when he came back. I heard it's valuable."
He pointed to the chocolate in his hand, with a bit of nostalgia in his eyes, "Domori, someone was reading his name in the department at that time, and his colleagues joked about his mispronunciation."
"Your mother and I only got two pieces," Gu's father smiled gently, "I remember that day you won a prize in the Hua Luogeng Youth Mathematics Competition. When we were happy, we gave you one piece and the other piece to go home and look forward to. Looking forward to sharing it.”
"If you taste this chocolate now, can you still remember the taste back then?"
Gu Xing remembered it when he heard about the Hua Cup Award.
This is the reason why the Heiqiao brand logo always looked familiar when I saw it before.
He did get a piece of domori back then, but he hadn't finished elementary school at that time. Gu Xing, who was still young, didn't know the brand or the large number of foreign letters at all, and the chocolate was not kept in his hands for more than an hour.
After winning the prize and a piece of foreign chocolate, little Gu Xing was so excited that he ran home from the factory.
He didn't know why he didn't wait for his parents and chose to go home alone.
Thinking about it now, he was probably given a piece of chocolate alone and felt the need to go back quickly to show off to Gu Pan and declare that he was more favored by his parents than his sister.
He jumped on his short legs and rushed all the way to the seventh floor.
But before he entered the house, little Gu Xing saw Shen Guanshan, who had a better score than him in the China Cup, sitting on the steps of the corridor, his eyes as red as a rabbit from crying, and snot bubbles coming out of his nose.
He could only recall sporadic events that followed, and they were not very specific.
It seems that Shen Guanshan's grandfather passed away that day, and her parents were busy dealing with the funeral and comforting her grandma. No one cared about her being the star of the school and class that day. They just let her sit in the corridor so that she wouldn't get lost. .
Gu Xing only remembered how he clumsily comforted her when he was still young. For this reason, he even gritted his teeth and gave away the foreign chocolates he had just received. He finally stopped Shen Guanshan's crying, and then he patted his butt and replied. Home.
When all the memories were connected, Gu Xing finally understood why Shen Guanshan gave him this brand of chocolate yesterday, and he even looked at himself when he handed it over.
He covered the emotion in his eyes, smiled and joked with his father, and took back the box of chocolates.
Gu Xing sat down again and fell into deep thought.
Could it be that only the box of chocolates given to him by Shen Guanshan can open the Summoner's Rift in his mind?
This sounds too mysterious.
If it were left in the past, he would definitely sneer at it.
But after what happened last night, Gu Xing felt that this triggering mode was just that, and it was quite acceptable.
He looked at the packaging box again and saw that there were 344 days left before the shelf life.
There are only six small pieces in a box. I ate one piece last night. The virtual game simulated the factory director.
There are five pieces left. If this is really a trigger item, he must not eat it randomly.
Gu Xing collected them all and put them in a drawer for safekeeping in case of emergency.
Throughout the lunch break, he consulted with the members of the Seven Wolves of Ionia about youth training, and even hooked up with Ming, and the two became friends smoothly.
Ming worked as a starting assistant for the YM club in the domestic secondary league and was very experienced in this. It was not convenient for him to type while he was eating, so he simply made a voice call.
Gu Xing didn't hesitate, connected the headphones and decisively chose to connect.
"Hey, hey, hey," Ming's voice was very loud, "can you hear me?"
Gu Xing responded quickly.
"My real name is Shi Senming, you can call me Ming or Xiao Ming," Shi Senming said with a smile while sitting at the dining table, holding chopsticks in one hand and a mobile phone in the other. "You should be older, I haven't celebrated my 18th birthday yet."
"Hello, hello," Gu Xing introduced himself and exchanged a few pleasantries before turning to the topic. He was very curious about youth training, an area he had never been exposed to before. "There are a few questions that I don't quite understand..."< br>
After listening to Gu Xing's question, Shi Senming took two mouthfuls of rice into his mouth. He took this time to think about his words and then answered, "Whether you can pass the trial training of the youth training mainly depends on these factors. The first one is the score. , as long as your ranking score is high enough, you can basically stay.”
"How much is high?" Gu Xing hoped to get a clearer number, "1000 points for the king?"
"No, no, six or seven hundred is definitely enough. Many clubs like to raise young people. Of course, if you can reach a thousand points or even top the server, then you have to choose the youth training of each club, not The youth training will pick you.”
Gu Xing realized that the score was equivalent to his scarcity.
There are not many young players with high scores, and every club wants them; if there are a lot of young players with low scores, the team's demand is not that high.
In a sense, it leads to an imbalance of supply and demand, which evolves into the difference between a seller's market and a buyer's market.
Shi Senming continued, "The second one is the training match, which is 5v5 customization. Because there is a big gap between the daily ranking and the real game, many things cannot be seen, while the training match is more suitable for the stadium, and the youth training The coach will look at your communication skills, your compatibility with the team, etc..."
"To put it simply, we will use training matches to see if you are suitable for playing professionally." He spoke quickly, like a barrage of words. "As long as you don't be too autistic or have too unique a style of play, you'll be fine if you perform normally. .”
Shi Senming added here, "But it's not impossible to play alone. As long as your teammates can stand it, you can win."
"As for the salary, let me tell you the truth. There are no official games in the youth training, and the price offered by the first-tier clubs is basically several thousand. If you can hang out in the secondary league, you can basically get about 10,000 yuan a month, and above. Top league..."
Shi Senming said in an envious tone, "I didn't call you, and I don't know the details."
Gu Xing probably had some idea of salary levels.
In his opinion, this salary is not low. Not many young people working in Zhenhai now earn more than 10,000 yuan a month.
A mature idea came to his mind.
"Thank you, Xiao Ming." Gu Xing thanked him sincerely.
The person was not close to him, but just because he was in the same group, he helped him answer a lot of questions. Gu Xing was naturally grateful.
"It's okay, you gave me 25 points in yesterday's game with the blind monk," Shi Senming was still smiling. "If you go to EDG for trial training, you can also stop by YM to have a look. We are also very short of junglers here. Performance If you're good, you'll be given a starting spot... The team boss is PDD, you know PDD, right?"
When Gu Xing heard the name, what came to his mind was the S3 All-Star Game.
That was his first time watching a League of Legends game live.
In addition to the Rambo BBQ, PDD also has the famous scene where Zach is shot all over the place by Shy.
Even if Shy was taught a lesson in subsequent games, it would be useless. When most viewers mention PDD, they can always think of Zach.
Gu Xing agreed and then hung up the voice call.
He took out a notebook and wrote down the key information on it.
Gu Xing plans to go to Shanghai to experience the life of a professional player after the college entrance examination.
Now that the opportunity is in front of me, there is nothing to do during the summer vacation anyway. I still have money to play games. I can play for two months and then go to class when Fudan University starts. The money saved can be used as living expenses.
The goal now is clear.
While stabilizing your own performance, try to increase the score of the electronic server as much as possible.
The king ranking is your future bargaining power. It depends on how much money you can make during the summer vacation.
Gu Xing always said that he would just do it. He listened attentively during class in the afternoon, trying to improve his learning efficiency to a higher level, and went to the Internet cafe after school.
Ding Ran also followed. He plans to successfully and officially become an alchemy monk this week - get the golden five.
The Happy Hour Internet Cafe was only about seven or eight hundred meters away from the town. The two of them walked quickly and arrived at the door in a short time. They did not forget to take off the school badge before entering.
There is no requirement to wear school uniforms in daily life in the town. As long as they take off their school badges, others will not know that they are students at all.
"I can just play one game. I have to study in the evening when I go back." Ding Ran asked for a bottle of Pepsi, "Can you drink it?"
Gu Xing waved his hand and refused, "If you can play a game, it's a game. A little adds up to a lot."
There are more people surfing the Internet during the evening rush hour. There are two network administrators working in the Internet cafe at the same time today, including the young man from yesterday.
Gu Xing still has an impression of him. He never forgets to watch the EDG mid-season video during work. He really understands how to make money.
"Good evening." When he swiped his ID card, the young network administrator greeted him with a smile.
When Gu Xing and Ding Ran walked into the Internet cafe, he muttered to the colleague next to him, "Brother, this is the electronic king I told you about. He was assigned to the factory director yesterday afternoon."
The senior network administrator raised his eyes and glanced, "That's such a deep impression."
"During the Chinese New Year, he stayed here every day to play Super God and Pentakill to earn Internet fees. The boss originally thought he was deliberately looking for trouble, but when he went over and took a look, he found that the queues were all Electric Diamonds and Masters."
"Wow... no wonder I can steal the dragon from the factory director." The young man was very envious.
He also plays in the league, but his level is relatively average. He can't get out of the silver pit. He probably won't be able to fulfill his idol promise in this life.
Gu Xing ran to the idle No. 77 machine again and pressed the power button.
Ding Ran sat next to him and was gearing up, as if he wanted to warm up in this way.
The familiar announcement sounded again.
"The player surfing the Internet on machine 76 is the unyielding silver from Ionia..."
"Wairen, don't report it!" Even though Ding Ran often comes to play, he is often embarrassed. "Can you set it to gold or above before reporting the rank? This boss doesn't want to do business, right?"
The next announcement sounded, and many players without headphones looked around.
Most of them went to see Gu Xing of Unit 77.
Ding Ran was sitting next to him. He couldn't stand the sight of him, so he quickly lay down and acted like an ostrich.
Both of them logged into the Dianyi server. Gu Xing was originally used to playing solo, but now in order to increase his points, he wanted to find a friend to join him to ensure the efficiency of the points increase.
But after contacting me around, I found out that JackeyLove was playing the trumpet "Rhythm and Tenderness" and was in a double queue with Ming. It was said that they had been waiting for a quarter of an hour and there was still no one in the queue.
Rhythm and Tenderness: [Hurry up and line up, you might be the only one missing]
Since the system needs to balance hidden points and try to ensure that both players are at the same level, and the number of people in high-level segments is inherently small, the queuing time is quite unstable.
Gu Xing listened and clicked on the ranking system. Two seconds later, he entered the ranking BP interface!
"Are you really a king?" Ding Ran was stunned. "You can even rank faster than me in the gold promotion match?"
"It's just a coincidence..." Gu Xing replied, scanning the team chat channel, trying to find an acquaintance.
As expected, the other four teammates looked familiar.
In addition to JackeyLove and Ming, two other players are also considered high-scoring anchors: Huya Live, Tiger God and New's Torn Paradise.
MGB丶Ming: [Brother Xing, are we standing aside again? Ape dung, ape dung! 】
New Torn Paradise: [Good evening, everyone]
Rhythm and Tenderness: [I really only know how to play jungle and watch the crowd]
Gu Xing logged into QQ and found that JackeyLove had sent a YY voice room number to the Seven Wolves group, asking him to come up and hit the microphone.
He checked the Internet cafe computer and made sure it had YY voice before entering JackeyLove's channel.
Gu Xing connected his headphone cable to the host. As soon as he put it on, he heard the noisy sound in the voice channel and the sound of breathing.
Shi Senming was also there. He came up with a loud voice and scolded, "Yu Wenbo, you are going to die. Can you stop breathing in front of the microphone?"
"It's none of your business," JackeyLove scolded him, and then asked Xiang Gu Xing, "What do you call me, buddy?"
Shi Senming said, "Gu Xing, just call me Brother Xing."
JackeyLove was very obedient and actually called Brother Xing.
"No, no, no, I don't dare take it seriously," Gu Xing replied hurriedly, "Just call me by my name."
Like Xiangxiang and Chitanda's feedback, JackeyLove's voice sounded like someone in his twenties or thirties, and he couldn't afford to sound like this.
"This set is fine, everyone doesn't have to compete for position, everyone can do their job." Shi Senming was very happy.
He and JackeyLove went down the road, Torn Heaven played the mid lane, Tiger God went up the road, and Gu Xing played the jungle.
All five people play their own positions.
Today, when the pre-selection mode has not yet been implemented, it can be considered a very comfortable and harmonious ranking round.
"The mid laner chose robbery, I have to make up for some magic damage..." Gu Xing saw his lineup, "Do you think you should choose wine barrel or spider?"
"You can play whatever comes your way, and don't worry about us." JackeyLove was very confident. He and Shi Senming got Draven + Thresh, and they were killing indiscriminately in Dianyi.
Gu Xing thought for a moment and locked the spider, trying to open up the situation in the early stage.
The final lineup was locked in.
The red side where Gu Xing is: top laner Jax, jungler Spider, mid laner Zed, bottom laner Luther Levin + Thresh.
The opposite blue side: Top laner Riven, jungler Lee Sin, mid laner Lissandra, bottom lane Lucian + Braum.
Gu Xing pinched his fingers, ready to test his strength.
After the virtual training session last night, he felt that he had become a lot stronger, but he was not sure what level he was at.
Entering the game loading screen, they saw the IDs of the five people on the opposite side.
"Oh, they are all old acquaintances!" Shi Senming sighed with emotion.
On the opposite side, Shan Ruiwen is black and white, has high proficiency, and is quite famous in the national server.
The jungler's ID is "Glunious Sa, Director Dong", the mid laner Bingnu is Taiyuan Ma Chao, and the bottom lane duo are good brothers in the group.
Shoxiang and Chitanda.
"Kill, kill, kill, I will definitely take Xiangxiang's share today! Even Jesus can't keep him, I said so!" JackeyLove shouted in the voice.
Gu Xing is also full of fighting spirit, waiting for the arrival of Summoner's Rift!
See you tomorrow at 11:50.
Big chapter tomorrow.
PS: Regarding the cheat problem, the effect has been written out, and now it is nothing more than a trigger condition.
This chapter is half written, mainly to promote the plot. It is impossible to spend three or four chapters just talking about Goldfinger.
The triggering conditions serve as an introduction and will be officially clarified in a chapter soon.
(End of chapter)