December 31st.
The last day of the 20th century.
Today is a special day for everyone.
In a dozen hours, the people of East Eighth District will join hands to enter the new millennium and new century.
Both writers and scientists have high hopes for the next century, believing that the next century will be the key to the take-off of human civilization.
The arrival of the information age is as magical to mankind as the industrial revolution.
Although Xu Yiyang had already crossed a century and a millennium in his previous life, he was still very excited.
Because he will soon become the only person in the world who has spanned two millennia, and what's more, he has spanned 1999-2000 twice.
Today is the last day of the end of the century and the last working day of the end of the century. The saleswoman who sold him the house called him and told him the good news that he and his sister's blue-printed household registrations had been issued.
Once the blue seal household registration is obtained, the next step is to wait for the opportunity to regularize the household registration, and then help my sister contact a high school and transfer her student status there.
At present, the country has not started to crack down on college entrance examination immigrants, and college entrance examination immigrants are rare. Therefore, there are no restrictions on changing one's household registration to take the college entrance examination. The only requirement is that the student status must be officially transferred before the senior year of high school.
Therefore, Xu Yiyang still has one and a half years to operate this matter.
Of course, in his opinion, the sooner this happens, the better.
Shen Lele's blue-stamped household registration belongs to the second batch and is not expected to be available until around February next year.
The settlement of the household registration matter made Xu Yiyang relieved, but others did not dare to relax because he still had many things to do today.
Not only do they have to deal with the New Year's Day party in the evening, but they also have to prepare for tomorrow's game at Hongkou Stadium.
So at noon, Xu Yiyang and his roommates went to the gymnasium to check the current preparations of the venue.
After arriving at the venue, the cooperating execution company had already set up all on-site materials and equipment.
The stage of the competition is similar to the stage of the concert. There are ten competition computers on the recessed stage, five for each team. At the same time, they are no longer facing each other, but all facing the audience, with one team on the left side of the stage. , one team is on the right side of the stage.
There are two huge display screens hanging on both sides of the outside of the stage, two on each side. The staff are currently busy debugging the large screens on site.
The large screen area is not small, but the resolution is sorry, it is indeed much worse than that of later generations.
But the visual effects are pretty good, at least I can see the game screen clearly and what's going on in the game.
Great Wall Computer specially arranged several on-site engineers to help debug the game computers and the broadcast screen from the viewing perspective.
Everyone has no experience in engaging in this kind of live game competition, so we can only fumble around.
After the large-screen debugging was completed, the two viewing angles were displayed on the big screen.
The picture is OK, the smoothness is OK, and the latency is also very low. Basically, there are no problems.
Xu Yiyang breathed a sigh of relief, and at the same time, he was increasingly looking forward to tomorrow's game.
Tomorrow, the largest e-sports competition with the highest prize money in mainland China will be held here.
This is definitely an unprecedented and groundbreaking game for the Chinese e-sports field.
And it may go down in the history of China’s e-sports industry forever.
Perhaps a few years later, when China's e-sports industry develops rapidly and reaches its golden age, everyone will still remember that the enlightenment of China's e-sports started with an Internet cafe called New Century.
This Internet cafe was started by seven freshmen under the age of twenty.
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At six o'clock in the afternoon, everyone met in a hurry at an off-campus restaurant. After dinner, they went back to class, moved the bench, and headed to the playground to watch the New Year's Millennium Gala.
Xu Yiyang specifically told everyone to wear more clothes. Although the weather in Zhonghai is not very cold, sitting outdoors for several hours is quite tiring.
At the same time, he also reminded Shen Lele not to forget to post some warm babies in the dormitory, and it would be best to bring a few more.
Everyone gathered back to class after eating, drinking, and being fully armed, and then prepared to go to the stadium at seven o'clock.
Xu Yiyang brought a camera and planned to film all the programs in his class. Of course, he also wanted to film Li Haiyang's program.
The stadium stage has been set up, and this time the school has put a lot of thought into it. Large screens have also been added on both sides of the stage. The pictures captured by several camera positions on the scene can be broadcast on the big screen in real time.
However, like the large screens used in CS matches, the resolution is a bit low and rough.
The staff had already divided the areas for each hospital, each department, and each class, so as soon as they arrived, they were immediately guided to the designated areas.
Since everyone was carrying stools, we just sat down in the designated area.
There were more and more people at the scene, and within half an hour, the entire stadium was filled with people.
Xu Yiyang's class was located near the center, with many students forming a human wall around them, so they didn't feel cold at all.
The junior officers of the student union began to notify the students who had programs one by one that they had to go backstage to wait five programs in advance.
At eight o'clock sharp, the party started on time.
The hosts were two junior brothers and sisters. They seemed to have a lot of experience in hosting campus evening parties, and they spoke fluently.
Because this year's situation is indeed special, the string of words also repeatedly emphasizes the beautiful expectations for the new century and new millennium.
After finishing the string of words, the first program was the opening song and dance performed by the sophomores. The song was "Good Days" and the dance was a folk dance. Dozens of people wearing red coats and swinging red silk satins were dancing around. Chen on the side After looking at it fiercely, I couldn't help but say: "It feels like watching a duo."
Xu Yiyang smiled: "Maybe the choreographer is from Northeast China."
Chen Meng chuckled: "Don't say it, he looks quite friendly."
The opening dance ended, followed by the song "Spring Story" sung by several people.
Next, there was a skit "Preparing to Cross the Century" by a freshman class. It was about a short story about three generations of a family waiting to cross the century. However, it had no comedy effect and was not very interesting, so the audience's reaction was also mixed. Relatively bland.
As soon as the skit ended, Gu Sijia's modern dance came on stage.
Several girls were wearing uniform clothes, and Gu Sijia stood in the center of the front row.
Since the six girls were all wearing extremely slim-fitting 102 jeans, and the stage was more than one meter high, looking up from below, they looked like six long-legged goddesses. The visual effect was very shocking and caused a lot of screams as soon as they appeared on the stage. .
Through the big screen, you can see that Gu Sijia also deliberately put on stage makeup, which gave her a rare enchanting look.
The songs are upbeat and the dances are energetic. This show won a lot of applause from the audience, and also gained the admiration of a lot of boys and the envy of a lot of girls.
When Gu Sijia and the others returned to the class area, Xu Yiyang went out of his way to praise them.
After all, she is her daughter-in-law, so she must go up and encourage her.
The rest of the show was a little lackluster again.
The songs are all covers, and the dances are nothing new. Two of the crosstalks were even copied from Niu Qun and Feng Gong's crosstalks.
Shen Lele was about to go to the waiting room, and said nervously to Xu Yiyang: "My palms are sweaty now, and I am worried that I will not perform well..."
Xu Yiyang subconsciously stretched out his hand, held her little fist, wiped the sweat from her palms with his thumb, and said with a smile: "Don't be nervous, look at the singing shows that have been on stage now, all of them are amateurs, you just need to perform normally, It’s much stronger than them all.”
With Xu Yiyang holding her hand, Shen Lele felt a little more at ease.
Taking a deep breath, she said, "Then I'm going to wait."
"Okay." Xu Yiyang nodded: "Don't be nervous."
"I see!"
After Shen Lele left, Gu Sijia looked at Xu Yiyang's back and the empty seat next to Shen Lele, feeling a little strange.
She had seen the process of Xu Yiyang and Shen Lele holding hands just now. She felt very uncomfortable, but she didn't dare to think about it in her heart. She just told herself repeatedly that the reason why she felt uncomfortable was because she was worried about Tong Yuewei.
Just in time, Tong Yuewei's show has arrived.
The first half of the violin solo "Butterfly Lovers" was pretty good, but she suddenly played a wrong note in the second half. As a result, she had no performance experience. After making the mistake, she paused for a moment, then continued to play the wrong note. Exposed to everyone.
But a small mistake didn't hurt. When he stepped down from the stage, everyone still applauded affirmatively.
But Tong Yuewei cried immediately. When she returned to her class area, her eyes were still red. Gu Sijia hurried over to give her some advice.
After waiting for a while, the host came up to the stage and said: "Next, I would like to invite Shen Lele, a freshman from Class 5 of the English School, to sing a solo for us. The song is called "Bad Boy". Everyone welcomes it with applause. .”
(End of chapter)