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During their subsequent communications with the ground, a sharp-eyed ground aerospace staff member from a certain university in Tokyo noticed that the three astronauts in space had not changed in weight, but their faces looked much rounder.
Interlude 357 (40)
"Why are there so many more beautiful girls?"
Li muttered to himself even more quietly.
These past few days, he noticed that many very pretty girls had moved into nearby apartments while he was at work, which meant that Li Geng saw many pretty girls every time he went to and from get off work.
However, this has nothing to do with Li Geng. He's not some kind of lustful creature who can't resist pretty girls. Besides, Xilin and her friends have already raised Li Geng's standards considerably.
Li Geng has been living a peaceful life lately, and his relationship with Xilin is progressing steadily. Li Geng is not in a hurry, and Xilin is not in a hurry either. The two of them occasionally squat in the flower shop to play games together.
The two seem to be heading in the direction of becoming hardcore gamers.
As usual, Li Geng went to the flower shop after get off work.
"Brother Li, you're here. Please have a seat. The food is almost ready," Kiana, dressed as a cook, greeted Li Geng with a smile.
Li could see Kiana and Sirin's mother, Cecilia, busy in the kitchen. Cecilia seemed to be a very good cook, and Kiana had inherited that skill, but Sirin couldn't cook.
After Li Geng took his seat, Xi Lin also came down from the second floor.
"Let's play together tonight!" she said with an eager smile.
"Okay," Li Geng first looked at Cecilia and Kiana, and only agreed to Sirin's idea after they nodded.
Dinner was a simple and cozy home-style meal of four dishes and a soup. After eating and drinking his fill, Li Geng couldn't help but praise Cecilia.
"Sister Cecilia, your cooking is really good."
"Oh dear, I'm not that young."
Cecilia said with a smile.
"Mom looks very young, and when we go grocery shopping together, people often mistake her for my older sister." Kiana skillfully cleared the table, looking every bit the perfect wife and mother, almost a carbon copy of Cecilia.
After stretching comfortably, Sirin and Kiana tidied up together.
Li Geng smiled and responded with a few words. He was somewhat emotional, realizing how lucky he was to have met Cecilia and her family.
He actually wanted to help with cleaning and washing the dishes, but Kiana took the initiative to do those things, leaving Li to stay with Xilin.
After having dinner with Cecilia and her family, Celine excitedly pulled Li away from the flower shop.
Li Geng was somewhat puzzled.
"Where are we going?" he asked.
"Hmm," Sirin gave a mysterious soft hum, "You'll find out when you come with me."
Seeing Xilin's mysterious appearance, Li Geng suppressed his curiosity.
Before long, Xilin brought Li Geng to an ordinary residential area.
The neighborhood was just average, looking no different from any other neighborhood. But what surprised Li even more was how good-looking everyone was.
Members from all 12 clans were secretly watching Li Geng and Xilin, but after a few glances, they returned to normal.
The residents of this community are all members of 12 family groups.
As for the original people, they have all moved to other places one after another.
Li Geng, who was walking with Xilin, was unaware of all this. He simply followed Xilin to the door of a house in Building 2 of the residential complex.
"Where is this?" Li Geng looked at Xilin with a puzzled expression as she took out her key and opened the door.
"Hmm, the place Mom rented," Xilin said, leading Li Geng through the gate.
The house wasn't big, about the same size as Li Geng's old house, but this was Shanghai, where land was incredibly valuable, and even renting was very expensive.
While Li Geng was still wondering why Xilin had brought him here, Xilin pulled Li Geng into a room.
After Xilin opened the door, the room layout was revealed to Li Geng. It was a very warm and cute girl's room, but the key point was that there were two computers in the room, which were obviously used for playing games.
This is completely out of place with the style of a girl's room, and it looks very out of place.
"Hmm," Xilin pulled out the gray gaming chair, looking at Li Geng with a smile in her eyes.
"Huh?" Li Geng was taken aback.
However, at this moment, Xilin was already sitting in another white gaming chair.
"What do you want to play?" Sirin asked, clicking on the vast library of games on her computer screen.
Without further hesitation, Li Geng sat down next to Xilin with a slightly excited feeling, looking at the seemingly high-end computer in front of him, feeling extremely excited.
"Let's try this," Li Geng said, clicking on a well-known FPS game.
He and Celine had also played together.
Xilin then invited Li Geng to team up online.
Just then, Celine's cell phone suddenly rang.
She frowned, but couldn't ignore it. After answering the phone, she heard a familiar voice on the other end.
"Hey, you frizzy cat, wanna play together?" Fu Shi asked excitedly.
At that moment, a team-up request popped up on Xilin's computer screen.
Li Geng also recognized the person who called; it was Xilin's friend, someone they had played games with before.
He looked at Celine and asked for her opinion.
Celine felt a little annoyed, but she had no choice but to agree.
"Fine"
But when she clicked to accept the request, more team requests popped up on the game screen, pushing Fu Shi's team request down.
A game character with the game ID "Metal Gear Cloth Wolf Fang" joined the team, Sirin's game ID is "Miracle Magical Girl", and Li Geng's game ID is "Ob a string of letters".
"Ahem, it's me," a mature yet childlike cough sounded in the team voice chat.
"..." Sirin was speechless. She saw a bunch of messages pop up on her phone. Fu Shi and Bronya were arguing in the chat group.
Bronya was the one who squeezed out of the talisman and was pulled into the group.
'Why does this voice sound somewhat familiar?' Li Geng wondered.
The voice sounded somewhat familiar to Li Geng, but he thought it was just a similarity.
At this moment, more team-up requests popped up on the computer screen.
After Xilin agreed to the application, the IDs of the two members who joined the team were 【Today's Wind is a Little Noisy】 and 【Kiss Kiss Kiss】.
"We can begin," Wendy said in the team voice chat.
“Mmm,” Ellie echoed.
After they joined the team, Xilin noticed that the chat messages on her phone became more frequent.
"......beep" The call to Xilin's phone was disconnected.
Because her spot was taken, Sirin felt that Treasure Hunt might have to go to the real Wendy and Ellie offline.
Bronya in the group didn't say anything. She felt a little guilty. She was the first to seize the opportunity to join, as were Wendy and Ellie, who directly squeezed Shi Bao out.
"Um, let's begin." Li Geng felt that something was amiss, but he didn't know exactly what had happened. Now that the team was complete, let's get started.
"Hmm," Xilin chuckled softly, then started the game.
"..." However, after the game match was successfully completed, Sirin frowned again.
The opponents I was matched with had the following IDs: [Azure Thunder Dragon Roar], [Skywalker], [Blue Four-Leaf Clover], [Little Knowledge Treasure], and a stranger.
The four opponents they were matched with were naturally all Herrschers: Raiden Mei, Gretchen, Anna, and Shiki, plus their own Herrscher.
This match featured eight Herrschers.
Li Geng and the other random player they were matched with were unaware of these things and planned to explore the area during the game's warm-up phase.
However, when Li Geng passed by the central gate of the game map, he saw a bullet pass through the central gate and directly blow [Metal Gear Solid Wolf Fang]'s head off. A notification also popped up in the upper right corner of the game screen.
[Xiao Shibao] used a sniper rifle to headshot and kill [Metal Gear Cloth Fang].
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【Metal Gear Solid Wolf Fang】：@【Xiao Shi Bao】expressionless.jpg
[Xiaoshibao]: @[Metal Gear Cloth Wolf Fang] grinning.jpg
Miracle☆Magical Girl: Oh ho!
Blue four-leaf clover: candle.jpg
Li Geng soon saw another notification pop up on the screen.
[Metal Gear Solid Wolf Fang] used a rifle to headshot and kill [Little Knowledge Treasure].
[Blue Clover] killed [Miracle Magical Girl] with a rifle.
"..." Xilin calmly gripped the mouse.
After the warm-up phase, Li Geng went to defend other areas. Coincidentally, a random player on the other side also encountered Li Geng. The two engaged in a pistol duel, but neither managed to hit the other even after emptying their magazines.
However, at this moment, in the open area A of the game map, 8 players were already killing each other, and several kill notifications refreshed within a few seconds.
When Li Geng came to his senses, he found that his teammates were down to only [KissKissKiss], while the four opponents on the other side had all been wiped out, leaving only random players who were fighting with Li Geng, who was a noob.
The random player was also unaware of what had happened and suddenly found himself alone.
"What's going on with you guys?" he couldn't help but ask into the microphone.
"Don't worry, we'll win," Raiden Mei replied, as she prepared to teach the four Herrschers on the other side a lesson.
The passersby were somewhat surprised that the players were female, but the second battle started quickly, and they joined the attack on a certain location together.
"Bang bang bang!"
Before the random player could react, a series of gunshots rang out, and the random player was headshot and killed, leaving only the low-health [Blue Clover] as his teammate.
Li Geng didn't realize what had happened, and soon he was all alone.
"What's going on over there?" Li Geng couldn't help but ask Xilin.
"It's a small problem," Xilin laughed, but Li felt that Xilin's smile was slightly scary.
When Li Geng returned to provide support, he saw the low-health [Blue Clover]. Immediately afterward, there was a deafening burst of gunfire. However, Li Geng realized that it took the enemy a long time to reduce him to low health. After he fired, he killed [Blue Clover].
In the following matches, Li Geng was puzzled as to why he was always the last one to survive. In fact, the random player was also confused. If he didn't go to area A, he would also be the last one to survive. After being instantly killed several times when he left the gate of area A, he and Li Geng were playing a noob game in area B.
In Area A, it's a battle of gods, with matches always ending in a few seconds or even ten seconds, and the scores going back and forth, almost evenly matched.
Li Geng didn't notice anything wrong because Xilin kept telling him to defend in Zone B, while she and his teammates would take over Zone A and the middle gate.
When the game was tied, Li opted for overtime, and the opposing team agreed.
At this point, a random player noticed something was wrong and turned on the recording and live stream at the start of overtime. After being killed at the mid gate at the beginning of the game, he switched to watch his teammates' perspective.
"Isn't this a bit outrageous?" The random player was not very skilled, but the people who came into the random player's live stream could see that something was wrong with this match.
"Holy crap, that's some serious marksmanship!"
"Are they all girls? My goodness!"
It's not like cheating, but it's even better than cheating.
Gradually, some skilled players also saw the live stream. With friends and acquaintances joining in, the second overtime match attracted many top players from the gaming community. Even some professional players came over curiously and were stunned.
"I couldn't have fought back even if I went up there, that reaction was just too fast," some professional players couldn't help but comment, which then attracted even more attention.
Li Geng was unaware of all this. He knew he was terrible at the game, so he enthusiastically cooperated with his teammates by throwing items. Sometimes he would play against random, noob players, while on the other side, it was a battle of gods.
After the fourth overtime period, Li Geng, who had been playing for a long time, was very happy, but also tired.
This bizarre match, featuring both noobs and pros, eventually came to an end, and the random players subsequently posted the replay, including footage from both sides' perspectives, online.
After the video was released, many professional gamers said that it would be difficult to survive in such a god-like match; those eight god-like players fighting each other were too terrifying.
Li Geng naturally didn't care about these things. He knew that Xilin was very skilled and had a lot of fun with her.
After playing other games with Xilin for a while, Li Geng suddenly remembered something, then took out his phone and opened [Honkai Impact 3rd: Civilization].
This game seems to have online multiplayer functionality.
"Want to try this? It's a lot of fun," Li Geng said to Xilin.