When Ji Chen was struggling over whether to remain silent or remind his brother that the apple juice had been drunk, Lin Zimao suddenly stopped doing his homework, looked up and asked him about commanding the game lineup.
"I've finished my homework. Senior, can you help me see how this lineup is arranged?"
The balance in Ji Chen's heart finally tilted towards Lin Zimao. Pretending not to see it was good for all three of them, and it didn't make them feel upset or embarrassed.
Besides, there was no point in improving the relationship with his junior now. He usually drank from the same bottle of water with other brothers. It didn't matter. It didn't matter. As long as he ignored Jiang Xuan's mysophobia, it would be fine and his junior would be spared embarrassment.
"The formation is like this. First, send out the right-wing mecha to harass the opponent, and then concentrate the troops to launch an attack from the left wing to catch the opponent off guard..."
When Ji Chen was halfway through his speech, Jiang Xuan looked up at them and began to pack his personal belongings.
He asked Ji Chen, "Are you going back?"
Ji Chen thought he was asking himself: "Let's go back first. I'll talk to my junior. I drove here today and it will be quick for me to go back."
Jiang Xuan glanced at Lin Zimao's face, said nothing more, took his apple juice and left. There was not much left in it.
After Jiang Xuan left, Lin Zimao stopped asking Ji Chen questions and said, "Senior, it's getting late. I should go back too."
Ji Chen was slightly stunned. His brother had just left for a few minutes, and he thought he could stay with Lin Zimao for a while, but who knew that the other party also wanted to go back to rest. However, he did have classes tomorrow, so he didn't delay him.
Ji Chen: "Is your place far away? I'll take you back."
Lin Zimao refused: "No, thank you, I live near the school and can walk there."
Ji Chen: "It's late at night, and the way back is dangerous. Do you really not want me to take you there?"
Lin Zimao told him a fact: "Senior, the top student in our sophomore year can't beat me, don't worry."
Ji Chen thought of the incident when Chu Liming had his front teeth knocked out: “…” Okay, I understand.
The two separated downstairs of the library, and Ji Chen went to the parking lot with great regret.
Lin Zimao walked in another direction, but he did not go home immediately. Instead, he went to the school playground. It was only around nine o'clock. Recently, after coming out of the library, he would run on the playground for an hour before going home.
At this time in the parking lot, Ji Chen found that Jiang Xuan's car was still there, so he walked over and knocked on his car window.
Ji Chen asked him, "Why don't you leave?"
Jiang Xuan looked behind him: "Just came over, ready to leave, are you alone?"
Ji Chen shrugged: "My junior didn't let me take him back, so I left by myself. I said I would take him back, and he said something that almost choked me."
Jiang Xuan was curious: "What did you say?"
Ji Chen: "I said I was worried about him going back alone, and he said that he looked down on me because he defeated the top second-year student in the combat department!"
Jiang Xuan raised his lips and said, "This is the truth. So what's the point of you pursuing him? His fighting ability is not as good as others."
Ji Chen: "Hey, you can't say that. If I win first place in the conducting competition, it will prove that I am better than him. After all, I am a conducting major. I can't be better than him."
Jiang Xuan did not immediately affirm Ji Chen's ability. He hoped that Lin Zimao would win: "Go back. We don't live too close."
"Okay, I'm leaving." In order to live in a river view room, Ji Chen had to run back and forth for an hour every day. Before leaving, he asked worriedly, "Hey, I say you don't really want to stop me from pursuing Lin Zimao, do you?"
Jiang Xuan didn't hesitate at all: "Anyway, I don't agree with you two being together, so it's best if you don't have any contact with each other."
Ji Chen: "Then I decided to give up for him."
Jiang Xuan: "Sure." He closed the car window.
Ji Chen quickly added, "I'm just kidding!" for fear that Jiang Xuan would take it seriously.
Jiang Xuan nodded. The way back was closer for him, so after seeing Ji Chen get in the car, he followed him back as well.
He thought that Lin Zimao had gone home when he got home, but looking at the dark house, there was only the sound of a meow to greet him, so it was obvious that he had not come back yet.
When he finished washing up and went downstairs to drink water, he heard the door open. Lin Zimao was sweating all over again.
Jiang Xuan asked him: "Did you run back?"
Lin Zimao said, "No." He changed his shoes and went straight upstairs. Jiaoyan actually followed him upstairs tonight.
In fact, it’s not that he can’t tell the difference between milk tea and apple juice, it’s just…
He glanced at Jiang Xuan who was washing cups with his head down, then turned around and continued to go upstairs.
Forget it, I won’t ask anymore.
Anyway, apple juice tastes better than milk tea.
The command competition started on Wednesday night, and quite a few people from Lin Zimao's class signed up, including Wang Yi. But the academic elites decided not to be cannon fodder this time, so they did not participate. Instead, they wondered when their department would have such a large-scale competition. But after thinking about it, it seemed that no one would come to participate in the mecha maintenance competition, right
This profession is hard, tiring and dirty! It's really not popular!
Except Jiang Xuan and Ji Chen, no one else knew that Lin Zimao had signed up. His competition at home did not affect others, so there was no need to say anything. If he lost, he lost. It was better to have less trouble than not.
Of course, he didn't lose.
There was a game that night, so he went straight home after a quick dinner at school. As soon as he got home, he went into his room, entered the holographic network, and found the game command area of Feige University.
There are too many people, and there is one match per night. The command competition is more brutal than the simulation cabin. The winner is decided by one round. If you lose, you lose, and there is no chance of a comeback. However, the rewards are also very generous. No department in Feige University is short of money.
However, Lin Zimao's goal is not to be the first, but a man-machine battle.
After he entered the competition area, he found his own competition room.
The preliminary round is also the elimination round. There are too many competition rooms, so there are very few people watching.
In such a simple atmosphere, Lin Zimao seemed more relaxed. What's more, he was using an anonymous account.
The first game begins.
The one who came in without anonymity was a first-year student in the Conducting Department.
Lin Zimao did not give his opponent any chance at the beginning. He directly summoned his mecha army to deal a heavy blow to the opponent's vanguard mecha team, and then outflanked them and went straight into the opponent's base camp.
Lin Zimao had a lot of fun, and as soon as he was having fun, the other person started crying.
What about the experience of commanding a battle? What a shitty experience! His mecha team was wiped out in less than 1 minute!
The contestant's roommates comforted him, don't be afraid, the brothers will come back to avenge you!
There was no further news after that. They continued to follow "Pepper and Salt's Dad" who had activated the anonymous vest function.
Oh shit, which boss opened this "Salt and Pepper Dad" account? This is too much!
Afterwards, they watched "Salt and Pepper's Dad" advance directly to the quarterfinals. As for revenge, it was just something they should just think about and not take it too seriously.
As for "Salt and Pepper's Dad", he just felt that directing the game was much simpler than he had imagined.
In the Mecha Academy, the top three popular majors are the Combat Department, the Command Department, and the Design Department. The Command Department is just as popular as the Combat Department. In addition to the fact that the Design Department tests one's design talent very much and the difficulty coefficient of entering this department is extremely high, the Combat Department and the Command Department rely on one's own military capabilities, so of course the requirements are not low.
Therefore, when a big man who could resolve a battle in minutes came out of the command department, many people speculated in the forum which big man in the third or fourth year of college this "Salt and Pepper Dad" was the pseudonym of.
They asked several big guys, and they all said that they did not participate in the command department competition.
That means this guy might be a sophomore
However, the top four sophomores who were more outstanding all made it into the top eight using their real names, so there was no such thing as using pseudonyms.
Among the remaining four people, the identity of one of them was revealed. He is Jiang Man, a freshman in the Mecha Combat Department. Now there are only three others left. Who will end the battle within 2 minutes? We want to know the identity of the boss and then beat him up.
What is the concept of 1 minute
Mecha battles are one-on-one, while command battles are group-on-group. It takes a certain amount of time to arrange the battle. It is not easy to consume the opponent's troops. Besides, 15 minutes is only enough for them to set up a plan. Don't they need to send undercover scouts to investigate the military situation
"Salt and Pepper's Dad" is completely different. No one knows how he can predict the opponent's moves. He strikes accurately in every round and surrounds the opponent in every round, leaving the opponent with no chance to fight back. They can only watch their own forces being eroded bit by bit, and they experience the helplessness of a miserable defeat in all aspects.
The forum has gone crazy.
Tell me, who is "Salt and Pepper's Dad"! ? Who is he!
1st Floor: I went back to watch the replay of the game, and “Salt and Pepper’s Dad”’s strategy was impeccable!
Second floor: I want any information about "Pepper and Salt's Dad" within three minutes!
Floor 3: Tomorrow will be the quarterfinals of the command competition, I want to go and reserve a spot to see how he ends up being eliminated!
…
Floor 122: To be honest, don’t you think this ten-minute curse routine is a bit familiar
Floor 123: That’s a bit like it.
OP: 122l123l, what are you talking about
Even though no one has guessed Lin Zimao's identity, or even if someone has guessed it but no one believes it, Lin Zimao remains the same.
Jiang Xuan is probably the only person who knows this process best.
Today is the weekend, and it is also the time for the quarter-finals of the command battle.
Jiang Xuan has been paying attention to the command competition. It is self-evident who "Pepper and Salt's Dad" is. No one knows the other party's identity better than him.
At some point, he gave up steak and changed his diet to be more filling.
Whenever his father Lin Zimao was at home, the number of times he ordered takeout became less and less.
Whenever Jiang Xuan cooks, Lin Zimao is responsible for washing the dishes after eating.
Jiang Xuan asked Lin Zimao: "What time does it start in the evening?"
Lin Zimao bit off a piece of still-warm vegetable: "Seven o'clock."
Jiang Xuan: "Who is the opponent?"
Lin Zimao asked him back: "Don't you know?" He asked even though he knew the answer.
Jiang Xuan said naturally: "Well, I don't know."
Lin Zimao: "Don't you want to cry when you say Ji Chen was blocked by me outside the semi-finals?"
Jiang Xuan: "No, he probably wants to die. He said he wanted to beat you."
Lin Zimao smiled and said, "I'll fight him for a full minute to give him face."
Jiang Xuan: “Okay.”
As soon as he finished speaking, Jiang Xuan received a video call request from his friend, but he rejected it and switched to voice chat.
Jiang Xuan asked him what was the matter.
Ji Chen: "Come and watch my game tonight!"
Jiang Xuan: “Yeah.”
Ji Chen: "They just said you definitely weren't interested. Hahaha, my bet worked!"
Jiang Xuan: "Don't be too happy yet, ask them whether they won or lost the bet tonight."
Ji Chen: "Damn, I knew you wouldn't let me go."
he asked his other friends on the other end, then said, "They bet on me to win!"
Jiang Xuan: "Then I'll lose the bet."
Ji Chen said angrily: "We are still not friends!"
Jiang Xuan looked at Lin Zimao, who was protecting the food in his bowl from the salt and pepper, and said, "Sometimes it is, sometimes it isn't."
Ji Chen: “…”