Chapter 92

Chapter 92: I Take Gaming Seriously! (Extra Chapter for 600 Monthly Tickets)

Du Zihan took the gaming tokens Mei Fang offered and hurriedly inserted them into the game machine. He continued to shoot at the boss with his gun.

Mei Fang and the others watched Du Zihan play from behind. However, Du Zihan’s skills were clearly not enough to handle this boss. Xia Yuan, who was watching, had her blood pressure rising. She couldn’t bear it any longer and tugged on Mei Fang’s arm.

“Ah Fang, go up and help him; he’ll just die again and have to ask you for money.”

“It wouldn’t be right to do that. If we start a second player at this point, the boss will regain health. The general rule is not to continue someone else’s boss battle; that’s the agreed-upon rule.”

“There’s such a rule…”

Relying on the hard coins provided by a mysterious person, Du Zihan shot wildly and fought the boss in a very crude manner. Finally, he defeated the end-of-level boss with only one soul flame remaining.

“Yay! Damn! F***!”

After winning, Du Zihan continued to curse. The kids around him cheered and jumped, feeling very immersed.

Today, Du Zihan had already achieved his goal, so he glanced at the next levels and let the boys watching eagerly take over the machine.

“Thanks, man. We… know each other, right? You seem familiar.”

“Oh, Du Zihan, you really can’t recognize us? We were kindergarten classmates. I’m Xia Yuan. Do you remember me?”

“You? Are you Xia Yuan?” Du Zihan frowned, thinking about the name for a while. “I… don’t quite remember, but I have a slight impression…”

“I’m Mei Fang. This is Lin You Xi. Have you completely forgotten us?”

As soon as Du Zihan heard Mei Fang’s name, he immediately recognized him. “Oh, you’re the one who wet the bed in front of everyone and had to get cleaned up. The bed-wetting king!”

Xia Yuan and Lin You Xi couldn’t help but smile, exchanging a knowing look. Peng Xue also covered her mouth and laughed, but the injured Mei Fang stubbornly said:

“Can’t you remember anything else? Like when we ran away during our roller-skating competition in elementary school.”

Du Zihan’s face turned red immediately. He scratched his head and said, “We were young back then and didn’t know better. Why would I still remember that?”

“Do you still remember challenging Ah Fang to another competition later on?”

Du Zihan scratched his head again. “I do remember… But I really thought you moved to Baizhou. Now, I don’t play roller-skating much anymore.”

“Oh… Is that so…”

Xia Yuan suddenly looked very disappointed. “We were thinking, since we met here, maybe we could complete our childhood regrets…”

Mei Fang felt something was off and couldn’t help but think to himself:

“Your childhood regret wouldn’t be wanting to see Du Zihan kneel down and apologize to You Xi, would it?”

At this moment, Peng Xue stepped forward confidently and patted Du Zihan on the shoulder.

“Hey, I knew your name sounded familiar. Du Zihan, do you remember me?”

At this age, both boys and girls were more conscious of gender, so physical contact was rare. Du Zihan immediately shrank back, feeling very embarrassed after being patted by Peng Xue.

“Who… who are you?”

“I’m Peng Xue. We were elementary school classmates. We even sat together for a while. Did you forget?”

Xia Yuan felt very puzzled. “Du Zihan repeated a grade, how could you two be classmates?”

“He must have been a classmate before he repeated a grade,” Lin You Xi chimed in. “Du Zihan repeated in third grade, right? That’s probably when you guys met.”

“Yeah, before third grade,” Peng Xue couldn’t help but sigh. “Wow, Baimei County is really small. We run into old acquaintances everywhere.”

“You… you’re Peng Xue?”

Du Zihan shook his head, unable to believe it. “I can’t recognize you… I can’t recognize you at all.”

“Speaking of the past, I used to fight with Du Zihan a lot… He always called me stinky woman and wouldn’t let me cross the line. I found him very annoying back then,” Peng Xue talked about the past without restraint, which resonated strongly with Xia Yuan.

“That’s right! He said that to me too!” Xia Yuan puffed up angrily. “Du Zihan, do you have to call every girl a stinky woman?”

“What? That was back then… Boys are like that.”

Du Zihan wasn’t exactly clean-mouthed now, but as he grew older, he became more considerate. He was only more vulgar when playing games with boys.

When it came to girls, he barely interacted with them, so he stumbled when Xia Yuan and Peng Xue tried to talk to him now.

But Xia Yuan wasn’t letting Du Zihan off easily:

“How can all boys be like that? Look at our Ah Fang; he doesn’t swear. As you’re about to start middle school, don’t be rude to new girls like you used to.”

It felt like he was being lectured like a child…

But Du Zihan really didn’t dare to argue with Xia Yuan, nodding in agreement instead.

Of course, seeing Du Zihan now, who seemed so timid compared to before, Mei Fang lost his enthusiasm for the roller-skating competition. “I bought a lot of tokens. Du Zihan, want to play with us?”

“I don’t have any money left,” Du Zihan said, having spent all his money on shooting.

“No worries, I’ll treat you.”

Mei Fang gave some tokens to Du Zihan, and Du Zihan’s enthusiasm surged. “I know this place well. Let me show you around!”

Du Zihan picked up his earlier passion to show Mei Fang around, leading them to check out the arcade machines.

This former sissy bed-wetting king was now playing with these two girls and even added Peng Xue, who was annoying and chatty since elementary school.

Ah, if only Mei Fang hadn’t brought these girls along…

“This place might not have many arcade machines, but they have a special joystick machine. Look at this! It’s the rare ‘King of Fighters 2002,’ with lots of new characters and moves. The balance is great. It’s way better than the 9798 versions people are tired of elsewhere.”

Mei Fang immediately nodded in agreement. “Yeah, 2002 isn’t seen much in Baimei County. I’ve only heard it exists in Bai Zhou city arcades.”

After all, this was the twilight era of arcades…

“So, let’s give it a try. The controls are different!”

Du Zihan sat down beside the machine and beckoned Mei Fang. “Mei Fang, come play with me. You’ll see the difference right away.”

But Mei Fang wasn’t in a hurry to play first. He discussed with Lin You Xi and Xia Yuan. “Do you want to play? If you do, come on. Who wants to go first?”

“I don’t really want to play fighting games.”

Xia Yuan was lying—she just didn’t want to play with Du Zihan.

“I don’t play arcades much. I’ll just watch you.”

Peng Xue shook her head as well, only wanting to watch the fun.

Lin You Xi seemed somewhat eager—she was still unsteady in her roller-skates and kept holding onto Mei Fang’s shoulder.

“You Xi, you want to play? Go ahead and try.”

Xia Yuan encouraged Lin You Xi. “It’s perfect to settle the score from back then.”

Lin You Xi immediately glared at Xia Yuan. “I’m not that vengeful. I’ve long forgotten that incident.”

“Aiya, Mei Fang, you’re not playing?”

Seeing Lin You Xi prepare to sit down and play against him, Du Zihan panicked. He scratched his head and said, “How can I play with her? I take gaming seriously. I won’t hold back against girls either. If I make her cry, that wouldn’t be good, right?”

“Hahaha…”

As soon as Du Zihan finished speaking, Mei Fang and Xia Yuan couldn’t help but laugh.

“Don’t worry, just play seriously. Our You Xi isn’t that easy to cry.”

Mei Fang had full confidence in Lin You Xi’s skills, and Xia Yuan added fuel to the fire.

“Du Zihan, if you can beat our You Xi, I’ll give you ten bucks.”

“Deal!”

The extra chapter for 600 monthly tickets has temporarily been added! As for additional chapters based on average subscriptions… please be kind and gentle with me. I’ll definitely add more if I have the energy!

(End of Chapter)