"Anything else you need?" Tang Rou asked.

One of them seemed to glance at the screen of Tang Rou's computer at the front desk and smiled, saying, "A beauty playing Glory too?"

"Yeah..."

"I wonder if there are any experts in this internet cafe?" the person continued to ask.

"Glory experts?" Tang Rou was taken aback.

"That's right!"

"What counts as an expert?" Tang Rou asked.

"Well... I'm afraid we'll only know after playing," the person said with a smile.

"Play with who? You?" Tang Rou asked.

"Either of us is fine!"

"You are?"

"We're from Hongtai Internet Cafe over there," the person said.

"Oh, I understand," Tang Rou nodded. Although she hadn't been playing Glory for long, she'd been working at Happy Internet Cafe for quite some time, and she knew a thing or two about what went on between internet cafes.

Glory was an extremely popular game, and in any internet cafe, more than half of the customers were playing Glory. Naturally, each internet cafe would use the game to do things to attract business. For example, hosting Glory competitions or broadcasting professional league matches like Chen Guo did, could all be considered ways to please Glory players.

Many players would regularly go to the same internet cafe to play games, and over time, they developed a strong sense of belonging to that internet cafe. Just like the teams in the professional scene or the guilds in the game, Glory players in internet cafes formed factions. And because internet cafes were in business competition with each other, the owners would sometimes intentionally guide the players, so Glory players from different internet cafes would occasionally have battles, of course, in Glory.

And these two people in front of her had come directly to the door, claiming to be from a certain internet cafe, and immediately asking if there were any Glory experts. Tang Rou had seen this kind of thing many times at Happy Internet Cafe even before she started playing Glory. Chen Guo and the other Glory players called it "kicking the arena."

Most of the time, "kicking the arena" was just players wanting to show off and have a little bit of glory. However, some internet cafe owners would also be behind the scenes, fueling the fire. No one could say for sure how much this helped business, but if your own internet cafe's Glory level was higher than others, it felt like you had the upper hand in the competition, which was quite satisfying.

Tang Rou knew about Hongtai Internet Cafe that these two people mentioned. It wasn't too far from Happy Internet Cafe and was also a decent-sized internet cafe. The owner of that internet cafe knew Chen Guo, and Tang Rou had met him. She could clearly see the envy and jealousy he had for Happy's location.

Being located across from the Excellent Era Club gave it a strange attraction for Glory players. The owner of Hongtai couldn't get Happy's location, so he always wanted to surpass Happy Internet Cafe in Glory, so that everyone around would know that the broken internet cafe across from Excellent Era wasn't anything special.

Unfortunately, the guy had been trying for years and hadn't really gotten his wish. Chen Guo's business tactics helped her internet cafe win over a lot of Excellent Era fans. Players who could become fans of the team were undoubtedly loyal Glory fans themselves, and their skill levels weren't bad. Although there hadn't been any outstanding experts, the same was true for Hongtai. Everyone was just a bunch of evenly matched players, and it would be a joke to actually go to someone's door to kick the arena.

So although Hongtai Internet Cafe had been competing, they had never used the quick method of kicking the arena. They had always organized matches and invited Happy to battle, whether it was one-on-one, KOF, or group battles. They looked completely proper. As a result, after fighting for years, no one had been able to completely overwhelm the other. But according to the small score algorithm in the professional scene, Happy had the advantage, so the owner of Hongtai was naturally very depressed.

But today, Hongtai had actually sent people to kick the arena. This was the first time.

Kicking the arena was a double-edged sword. If you succeeded, it would be glorious; but if you were sent back right away, it would be a huge embarrassment. So if you dared to kick the arena, you were either too arrogant, or you really had something up your sleeve. Tang Rou was sizing up the two people when she suddenly heard another voice, "Hahaha, where's your Boss Chen? Why isn't she watching?"

Tang Rou turned her head and recognized that the person who had come in was the owner of Hongtai.

"Boss Ma, you're so free today!" Tang Rou greeted. This Hongtai boss's surname was Ma, his name was Chenyi, and like Chen Guo, he was also a Glory fan. His internet cafe and Chen Guo's Happy competed in Glory, and it was hard to say whether it was a business competition or two Glory fans competing in Glory.

"Yo, it's Little Tang! Where's Old Chen?" Ma Chenyi said loudly on purpose, and he was also deliberately calling Chen Guo "Old Chen." Women were always concerned about their age, and the rivalry between Ma Chenyi and Chen Guo was all-encompassing.

"She's upstairs. Should I call her down for you?" Tang Rou said.

"Call her, of course, call her! Hurry up and call her down to watch the show." Ma Chenyi seemed to be in a very good mood today.

"Wait a moment," Tang Rou smiled. The boss had personally come to kick the arena, so it was clear that he was very confident this time. Tang Rou knew that Chen Guo cared about this a lot, but Tang Rou wasn't worried at all. There was a god-level player squatting in the internet cafe right now! What kind of expert could Ma Chenyi recognize that was more powerful than Ye Xiu? A person who could really challenge Ye Xiu wouldn't be standing here so peacefully. As soon as they came in, they would cause a huge commotion. Those would all be great gods in the professional scene.

Upstairs, Chen Guo had just started playing the game with Ye Xiu when she received a text message from Tang Rou. When she saw that Ma Chenyi had brought people to kick the arena, she immediately laughed out loud.

If it were before, Chen Guo would have been a little nervous if this guy dared to come up and kick the arena in person. But now, with a guy like Ye Xiu around, how strong could the opponent be?

"What are you laughing at?" Chen Guo laughed so loud that she startled Ye Xiu.

"Someone's here to kick the arena," Chen Guo said.

"Hmm?"

"They're downstairs," Chen Guo said.

"Oh, you're talking about the internet cafe!" Ye Xiu had really seen everything in his Glory experience. He was no stranger to the matter of internet cafes kicking the arena. And he quickly understood why Chen Guo was laughing. With him around, kicking the arena at Happy was like kicking an iron plate.

"Why don't you come down with me?" Chen Guo said, clearly not planning to hide anything. She wanted to take the atomic bomb down directly. She wanted to see the look on Ma Chenyi's face when the two "experts" he confidently brought to kick the arena were instantly beaten down.

"Kicking the arena... I've been here for more than two months, but it's never happened before. Who are they?" Ye Xiu asked.

"They're old acquaintances. If you usually go out to buy cigarettes and walk a little further, you might see them. There's a Hongtai Internet Cafe around the corner across the street, you know it?" Chen Guo said.

Ye Xiu said helplessly, "Of course I know it. I've only been staying here with you for two months, but I've lived in this area for several years. I'm very familiar with it, just like you."

"Oh oh... I forgot," Chen Guo said, "It's that internet cafe. They've come to kick the arena. I really don't know what kind of expert he picked up, to have such audacity."

"Have they come before?"

"No, we've only organized matches before," Chen Guo said.

"I see... This... Maybe there's something special about them!" Ye Xiu said.

Downstairs, Tang Rou sent the text message and waited for a long time without a reply, and Chen Guo didn't come down either. She was wondering what was going on. Ma Chenyi wasn't in a hurry, and with a confident look, he chuckled, "What's wrong? Did Old Chen hear that I came in person and get scared?"

"Yeah, I'm so scared!" Chen Guo's voice directly interrupted Ma Chenyi's words, and she came down from the stairs.

"Old Chen!" Ma Chenyi immediately greeted, "Long time no see! Did you have a good New Year? Sigh, another year has passed in the blink of an eye. You're another year older, you're almost in your thirties. Do you have a boyfriend yet? Do you want me to introduce you to one?"

Ma Chenyi's opening was ridicule and sarcasm, but this was already a fixed routine between him and Chen Guo. Just like Chen Guo's resistance to Ye Xiu had improved, after years of being angry with Ma Chenyi, Chen Guo's resistance to him was already very strong. Chen Guo wouldn't get angry at this trash talk at all.

"You're really not original! Have you counted how many years you've used this line?" Not getting angry didn't mean she wouldn't fight back, of course.

"Haha, isn't today about bringing something new? Kicking the arena, do you like it?" Ma Chenyi said with a smile. He deliberately emphasized the three words "kicking the arena," as if he wanted to shout so loud that people on the second floor could hear it. Many Glory players in the internet cafe, even those wearing headphones while playing the game, were really alarmed by it.

Anyone who frequented internet cafes knew the meaning of the three words "kicking the arena." Hearing this, they had already started looking up and saw the extremely arrogant Ma Chenyi at the door. They immediately felt disgusted with this guy and hoped that the arena kicking would turn out to be a joke.

"How do you want to kick?" Chen Guo asked calmly.

"Simple, as long as someone can defeat these two, we'll leave immediately," Ma Chenyi said loudly again.

As soon as he said this, there was another uproar in the internet cafe. Kicking the arena was kicking the arena, but there were many ways to kick it. Usually, they would arrange a few matches and see who won. But the words this guy had released meant that he wanted to defeat the entire Happy team, which meant that the two people who came might have overwhelming strength. Only such people would not be afraid of the internet cafe's many people in a tag-team battle.

"Leave immediately? It seems like we haven't had such a casual come and go as you're saying, right?" Chen Guo said.

"Oh? Then what kind of bet do you want today?" Ma Chenyi asked.