"You're not a stranger."
Xue Lan answered seriously: "You are reset."
Duan Wenzheng didn't understand what he meant. He looked at his stubborn expression and asked, "How do you know I'm not going to the youth training camp tomorrow?"
Xue Lan hurriedly explained: "I heard them talking about the semi-professional invitational tournament, and they said they wanted you to..."
"wind?"
Duan Wenzheng raised his eyebrows and asked casually, "Do you like Wen Yan?"
Xue Lan's heart was filled with alarm.
Although it is not explicitly stated in the original novel, Duan Wenzhen is most likely already interested in Wen Yan, otherwise he would not have agreed to go to the youth training camp.
In order to prevent his idol from classifying him as an imaginary love rival, Xue Lan said sternly, "That's not true!"
But he remembered the original owner's confession video that had gone viral on the Internet... He held his head in pain.
"Wind is a good attacker and a good captain. I used to be... a little immature, but I won't be like that anymore." Xue Lan assured again, "Really."
The smile on Duan Wenzheng's lips deepened. When he saw Xue Lan stop downstairs, he stopped too.
Xue Lan’s home was indeed very close, and Duan Wenzheng handed the clothes in his hand to him.
"Aren't you going up with me?" Xue Lan took the clothes and asked with sparkling eyes.
Duan Wenzheng put away the candy on his fingertips, turned around and waved his hand lazily: "There is a long way to go."
Xue Lan returned home, packed his clothes, and was looking forward to the youth training camp life that was about to begin.
By the time he had finished cleaning up, he noticed that more than an hour had passed when he received a WeChat reminder on his phone.
reset:id
Xue Lan quickly sent him the ID of the commando account and changed his original strange WeChat name.
…
After dinner, Fatty returned to the Internet cafe with Lao Qi. When he saw Duan Wenzhen sitting there, his eyes lit up and he hurried over.
"Hey, Brother Zheng, you're back so early? Why didn't you go have dinner with your sister?"
Duan Wen Zheng didn't open the game. He glanced at the phone placed beside him whose screen had never turned on, and leaned back in his chair casually.
"Aren't you in a hurry to come back and lead you guys in ranked games?"
“Fuck!” Fatty rubbed his eyes and saw that there were indeed no clients lined up on his screen. He was so moved that he pulled Old Seven to turn on the computer: “Brother Zheng, we’ll be there soon!!”
"Speaking of girls." The fat man turned on his phone and laughed, "What do you think of her after you met her?"
Duan Wenzheng leaned back on the sofa, as if he was reminded of this afternoon again because of his words. If he had to find a word to describe it...
He raised the corner of his lips slightly: "Soft."
The fat man was stunned when he heard this, then smiled ambiguously: "Soft?"
Duan Wen Zheng didn't say anything. He thought of that person, and the interested smile on his lips deepened. His eyes fell on the quiet mobile phone beside him again.
"Brother Zheng, if you didn't lead us every day, your level would definitely be among the top three in the server!"
The fat man was so moved that he said, "You're still waiting, and you abandoned your girl for us..."
Duan Wenzheng was bored and listening to his mumbling, when suddenly his phone screen lit up—
exist：exist
His eyebrows raised, and his slender fingertips quickly typed a few letters on the keyboard. After clicking the add friend option and receiving the friend notification in the lower right corner, he left the chair behind him and sat up straight again.
"Brother Zheng, don't worry. We brothers will stay alive and won't cause any trouble for you!" Fatty excitedly logged into the game and opened the friend list: "Eh... Eh? Brother Zheng, why does it show that you are in the game?"
"Oh." Duan Wenzheng slightly raised his headset, as if he just remembered that there was such a person as Fatty: "You guys play first, I'll go play the survival game."
"...?" The fat man was shocked: "Why are you playing that? That's not an experience-earning mode, and you don't need experience..."
Before Duan Wenzheng could say anything, the fat man came back to his senses and caught a glimpse of the game queue interface where he was standing… His pupils trembled:
"Fuck, bringing a girl? Brother Zheng, which little fairy are you bringing to level up? You wanted to bring me and Lao Qi just a second ago, why did you turn around and abandon us!" The fat man pretended to be angry, but after thinking about it, he suddenly took a breath of cold air: "Could it be Bao..."
"Hey." Duan Wenzheng was afraid that his ears would be polluted, so he interrupted him and laughed and scolded him, "Grown man, don't call everyone baby, be careful of the impact."
“…” Who the hell called me baby first?!
The fat man looked at him with a face full of "showing off" and pressed his chest as if he had a heart attack. As moved as he was when he turned on the phone just now, he now wanted to strangle the person sitting not far behind him.
"Why don't we line up together?" Old Seven said casually.
"What are you lining up for?" The fat man shouted in a low voice. He glanced at Duan Wenzheng's computer screen behind him, rolled his eyes and said, "The girl belongs to everyone. How can we let Brother Zheng take care of her alone?"
…
Xue Lan listened to the two people's bickering in the team awkwardly. He lowered his head and his face turned red again.
"Open?"
Duan Wenzheng's low voice was like a feather brushing against the tip of his ear. Xue Lan pursed his lips to suppress his rapidly beating heart.
exist: I told you I’m not a girl.
"kindness."
Duan Wen Zheng still had that lazy smile on his face as if his fist was sinking into a sponge, and casually clicked to queue up.
The game entered the matching mode, and the enthusiasm on Xue Lan's face faded away. He quickly chose the chips that were more advantageous in the early stages.
The survival battle in "Dawn of Doom" is one of the main sources of experience for upgrading accounts in the early stage. Five people are also randomly matched, and hundreds of people are thrown into a large map at the same time. In the first 10 minutes, a large number of zombies will swarm out of various monster spawning points on the map, and there is a player protection mechanism, and they cannot attack other players during this period.
After ten minutes, the boss in the main city will be refreshed and player damage will be enabled. That will be the real battlefield between players.
Xue Lan and Duan Wenzhen were assigned to the heart of the "Bone Burial Icefield" with a randomly matched team. The location was not far from the boss refresh point and was quite good.
They planned to clear out the monsters in advance and then wait for the boss's spawn point.
Xue Lan cleared out the monsters quickly. Duan Wenzheng saw that the zombies nearby had been almost cleared out, so he simply put away his gun and went to find a car nearby.
"Huh?"
But he had been gone for a long time, and Xue Lan was wondering why he hadn't come back yet, when she heard a puzzled sigh from his earphone.
"What's wrong?" Xue Lan asked nervously.
"It's okay, just kill the monsters first to gain experience."
Duan Wenzhen's voice returned to calm. Xue Lan thought that he was still in the player protection period and he shouldn't run into any trouble, so he put his mind to it and continued to clear monsters.
But after he cleared all the monsters nearby, he still didn't see Duan Wenzheng coming back. Seeing that the time for the system to remove player protection was getting close, Xue Lan hurriedly opened the private chat interface.
exist：where
exist: I'll come find you.
“Here I come.”
As soon as he uttered the words, Duan Wenzheng's lazy voice came from the headset.
Xue Lan breathed a sigh of relief. Not long after, he saw Duan Wenzheng driving a car and stopping beside him. He quickly jumped into the car and followed him to the boss spawning place.
exist: What just happened
The off-road vehicle drove across the white ice field. The 10-minute limit was lifted, and a thick fog gradually filled the sky above the burying ice field. Xue Lan remembered Duan Wenzheng's doubtful voice just now, and asked calmly about the time he drove.
"It's okay. It took some time to find the car."
Xue Lan was puzzled. There were three car-washing stations near where they landed. Duan Wenzheng would not be unaware of this, but why did it take him so long...
Just as he was wondering, two figures gradually emerged from the mist ahead. Xue Lan heard a confident and familiar shout from nearby through the earphone:
"I built this road, and I planted this tree! If you want to pass this way, stay..."
“Bang, bang, bang—”
Before the man could finish his words, two people blocking the road fell to the ground in response to the sound of gunfire.
"What the hell?!"
"Wasn't Brother Zheng driving?! He couldn't shoot, how did we die?!"
The familiar voice was too loud, and this time it came not only from the nearby microphone, but also with the echo of the team voice...
Xue Lan reacted suddenly: "Those two people just now..."
Duan Wenzheng seemed not to hear the roar behind him: "The level of netizens this time is not good enough."
"..." The fat man finally couldn't help but complain: "Not good enough?! Do you dare to say that you didn't realize it was me?"
"I'm driving, of course I'm looking at the road, why are you looking at me?"
"I see. You must have known that we secretly drove away all the nearby cars to take revenge, so you forced her to shoot! Girl, don't let him lead you astray!"
"Oh?" Duan Wenzheng asked as if he had no idea, "Did you drive away all the cars nearby?"
"… "
Xue Lan listened to the wailing behind him, feeling both embarrassed and unable to hold back his laughter, but he really didn't notice that the people blocking his way were Fatty and Old Seven.
exist: Should I not have shot
"It's okay. I came all the way here to give you the experience. Just take it."
“… Duan! Wen! Zheng!!!”
Xue Lan listened to their bickering and unconsciously raised the corners of his lips. He was very envious of such bickering between friends, and even more envious of the fact that Duan Wenzheng always had good brothers who got along well with him no matter where he went.
Duan Wenzheng turned a deaf ear and continued driving towards the city where the boss spawned.
But he didn't go for the boss. Instead, after approaching the boss, he circled around the city that was mostly buried in the ice field, and asked Xue Lan to clean up the team that came to fight the boss. After all, in a survival battle, the boss is not the key part of experience. The number of kills and survival time are the important sources of experience.
Duan Wenzheng drove the car through the frozen city, but in such a turbulent environment, Xue Lan still held the gun steadily, and his shooting skills seemed to become more stable and proficient in the speeding off-road vehicle. When the surrounding players were almost cleared, Duan Wenzheng simply drove the car directly to the boss that had been killed, and went around the terrain to create opportunities for Xue Lan.
The speeding off-road vehicle disrupted the formation of several teams that were killing the boss. The teams that were originally fighting monsters at the same time suddenly focused their attention on the off-road vehicle that was running rampant.
The boss in front of them had less than 20% of his health left. In order to prevent the boss from escaping the battle, they each left someone behind to reduce his health, and unexpectedly, they all directed their main firepower at the SUV at the same time!
Duan Wenzheng looked at the incoming firepower, his voice still with a nonchalant laugh: "Hold on tight—"