Hu Die Lan

Chapter Nine: Ye Xiu's Hands

Chen Guo didn't actually have the habit of staying up all night. It was just that the new server opened today, so she followed along to see the excitement. After watching, she quickly felt sleepy, and she leaned back in her chair and dozed off.

Of course, the quality of sleep was not high. Chen Guo just didn't want to struggle to get up. In this half-asleep state, she couldn't help but notice the sound of the keyboard and mouse clicks coming from beside her. This sound was very familiar to a net cafe owner, but what Chen Guo heard at this moment was somewhat different. The sound was sometimes fast and sometimes slow, sometimes light and sometimes heavy, and it sounded very rhythmic. Chen Guo had never heard anyone play the keyboard and mouse like percussion instruments. Was she dreaming?

Chen Guo suddenly woke up, calmed herself down, and listened carefully again, and found that it didn't seem to be a dream. The sound came from her side, from the hands of Ye Xiu, the new net administrator she had just recruited today.

Chen Guo sat up to take a look. The coat covering her body slipped down. She quickly grabbed it and recognized it as Ye Xiu's coat. "I can't tell that this guy is quite careful," Chen Guo thought to herself, "but how long has this coat not been washed? It seems a little stale."

Chen Guo picked up the coat and sat up, ready to talk to Ye Xiu, but was suddenly stunned.

A pair of hands that could bring tears to one's eyes appeared before her eyes—Ye Xiu's hands.

These hands looked very thin, with slender fingers. The joints were not as thick and hard as those of ordinary men, but they were also very clear. The fingertips were very fine, and the nails were trimmed neatly and cleanly, which was seriously inconsistent with the guy's sloppy appearance.

Chen Guo was not originally a person who paid too much attention to hands, but later a girl with beautiful hands came to the internet cafe, and she gradually began to notice them under her influence. At this time, she was severely shocked by Ye Xiu's hands.

The hands were perfect, and the sound of the typing was like music, but this operation... Just looking at Ye Xiu's left hand dancing on the keyboard, Chen Guo had only one feeling: the hand speed was so slow.

Hand speed, that is, the number of operations per unit time, is generally calculated in minutes, referred to as Apm. Glory is not a strategy game. Players only control one unit, but the skill usage is complex and the action operation is very precise, so there is still a great demand for hand speed.

A player with a high hand speed can cast moves faster, and when the operation is refined, the force and time of each keystroke directly affect the range of motion of the character in the game. This allows the character to be more varied in combat. However, the quality of this change must be distinguished. Some people just keep operating in order to make their Apm look amazing and good-looking. Those who can truly make every operation purposeful and have a high Apm are all top professional players.

Apm 200 is currently a relatively recognized watershed in the Glory circle. If ordinary players' Apm exceeds 200, it is basically messing around. Even professional experts sometimes need special combat environments to achieve a hand speed of more than 200, at least the opponent cannot be too weak, and they need to use a hand speed of more than 200 to cope.

For ordinary players, 70% of people have a hand speed in the range of 80 to 120, 25% are hand disabled parties who can't even reach 80, and another 5% are experts among ordinary players who can exceed 120 and continue to challenge 200. It is said that some of them can reach the professional level of 200.

Chen Guo's average hand speed fluctuates around 120, but because in most cases she can hang a fraction of 120, Chen Guo firmly believes that she belongs to that 5% and is an expert among players.

But at this time, Ye Xiu, in Chen Guo's eyes, there was no doubt that he was a hand disabled party who couldn't even reach 80. Once she noticed this, Chen Guo suddenly found that the rhythmic operation sound she had heard before disappeared. What she heard at this time was the clear operation of a hand disabled party due to slowness.

"Could it be that I'm still half asleep..." Chen Guo shook her head, wanting to hear the feeling she had in her dream before, but found that she couldn't recall it at all. Now she was paying attention to this hand disabled level operation and a pair of hands that were so beautiful that they made people jealous.

Chen Guo only cared about looking at these hands and forgot to look at the screen, but before long, Ye Xiu's hands had stopped. Chen Guo then reacted and looked at the screen, immediately widening her eyes: "Dark Night Cat Demon?"

As she said this, the Dark Night Cat Demon had already fallen from the air to the ground, scattering things all over the place.

At the same time, Chen Guo saw a row of conspicuous system announcements flashing in the information area on the screen: Tenth Server, First Kill of Dark Night Cat Demon: Jun Mo Xiao.

"Damn it!!" Chen Guo slapped Ye Xiu on the shoulder: "You're pretty good!" Regardless of whether he was hand disabled or not, he was able to get the first kill, which was an achievement that Chen Guo had never achieved until now.

Ye Xiu was focused on preparing to see what had dropped. This slap caught him completely off guard, and he almost ate the cigarette butt in his mouth. As a result, he saw a string of silvery white cigarette ash falling gracefully onto the keyboard. Chen Guo, who was secretly peeking at his operation from behind, also leaned over. When she saw this scene, she forgot all about the first kill of the hidden Boss. She immediately pulled off Ye Xiu's headphones and roared in his ear, "Who told you to smoke here?"

"Huh?" Ye Xiu still had the cigarette butt in his mouth, not extinguished. He didn't quite understand what Chen Guo meant.

"Didn't you see the no smoking sign?" Chen Guo pointed to the wall.

Ye Xiu turned his head and carefully examined the sign on the wall twice: "Are you kidding me? No smoking in an internet cafe?"

"This is a non-smoking area. Go to the other area to smoke." Chen Guo pointed to another corner of the internet cafe.

"Then let's go over there," Ye Xiu said.

"I'm not going. The smell of smoke gives me a headache," Chen Guo said.

"Then what do we do?" Ye Xiu was as troubled as if he had encountered a major event.

"Can't you live without smoking one cigarette?" Chen Guo said angrily.

"No, but I'll have a headache," Ye Xiu said.

"You you you..." Chen Guo realized that she was starting to know this Ye Xiu. He could casually accept living conditions like the storage room, but this definitely didn't mean that this person was an easygoing person.

"I'll go to the smoking area myself. Boss, you can go and rest," Ye Xiu said at this time.

"Wait, you haven't told me what's going on with this first kill yet!" Chen Guo said.

"Nothing much. The team all died, the Boss didn't have much health left, and I picked up a ready-made one," Ye Xiu said easily.

"There's such a good thing?" Chen Guo's tone was still envious. She didn't really care about the first kill reward of this low-level hidden Boss. It was nothing more than more experience and more money, and it wouldn't give any top-quality equipment, but this record would always remain on the list, becoming a legendary existence in this server. This feeling was liked by many players. For most ordinary players, there was only a chance to be on such a list during the novice period. In the mid-to-late stages, the difficulty of the dungeons increased. Whether it was the first kill of the dungeon or the first kill of the hidden Boss, it required a stable and tacit high-level team to have a chance. When they reached the God Domain, even such a high-level team had no chance. The records there were all maintained by professional teams in the professional circle.

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