Chapter 18 Disappointment

Seeing Ye Xiu leave so abruptly, Chen Guo and Tang Rou exchanged glances and then stood up.

"Help him quit the game." Chen Guo said to Tang Rou and quickly followed him out.

"Okay." Tang Rou replied, watching them leave one after the other.

Chen Guo walked out of the private room and saw that Ye Xiu hadn't gone far. He was just outside the window across the hall, smoking. Chen Guo slowly walked over, still pondering what to say, but when she got closer, she saw Ye Xiu stubbing out his half-smoked cigarette on the windowsill.

Chen Guo instinctively wanted to get angry, but she restrained herself at the last moment. She thought of Ye Xiu's emotions and decided to forgive him this time!

"You..." Chen Guo had just said one word when she suddenly heard Ye Xiu sigh softly. Looking out the window, he said faintly, "Jia Shi is finished."

"Huh?" Chen Guo hadn't quite understood when Ye Xiu had already turned around and walked away silently. Chen Guo looked out the window in the direction Ye Xiu had been looking. The Jia Shi training base, the team emblem still shone brightly in the sunlight.

But what about the team?

Chen Guo suddenly felt a pang of heartache. After all, this was a team she had invested several years of emotion in, not just admiring Ye Xiu and Su Mucheng.

If she felt this way, then how did Ye Xiu feel?

He hadn't said much about being forced to retire, and he hadn't shown any special consideration for Jia Shi in the game world. But that didn't mean he had no feelings for Jia Shi.

The addition of Sun Xiang was a source of hope for many Jia Shi supporters, and they were full of expectations.

Did Ye Xiu also have such expectations?

Chen Guo suddenly vaguely realized that Ye Xiu had made many people in Jia Shi uncomfortable. When he was there, Jia Shi's performance plummeted. He couldn't turn the situation around, so he chose to leave. Did he know that his departure was an effective way to save Jia Shi?

But the hateful Jia Shi had a petty mind and used every means to get rid of this burden in their eyes. They would probably never know that their captain had decided to let go to allow the team to change.

Wang Jiexi sacrificed a game to nurture the team's new generation of talent, even at the cost of his own reputation. But in the end, no one can always win in professional competition, and a single defeat wouldn't lead to eternal damnation. Moreover, his sacrifice could be understood and appreciated.

What about Ye Xiu?

Did anyone understand his departure? Did anyone realize his good intentions? Perhaps the people at Jia Shi were still pleased with themselves, thinking that it was their methods that forced Ye Xiu to retire? They probably didn't know that this matter could have been resolved peacefully. They didn't have to choose between the team and Ye Xiu, because their captain was willing to sacrifice himself for the team, even to the point of retiring...

His retirement was exchanged for Sun Xiang, a dazzling newcomer in the professional scene, also a genius.

Ye Xiu, like all Jia Shi fans, had expectations for Jia Shi's future.

But now, he had already felt disappointed.

Sun Xiang was only one aspect. After all, one couldn't expect too much from a rookie. Perhaps he was more disappointed in the entire Jia Shi team, for not properly guiding a newcomer. His disappointment wasn't directed at any individual in Jia Shi, but at the entire team, the entire club. Disagreements in philosophy were the beginning of his conflict with the club.

In the end, he made the painful decision to cut off his own arm, but the result was still regret and disappointment. He hadn't shown these emotions when he was abandoned and suppressed by Jia Shi. But he revealed them deeply when Jia Shi still showed no improvement.

Watching Ye Xiu silently walk back to the private room, Chen Guo found that her emotions were no longer calm. She wanted to cry...

"Oh, you're back?" In the private room, Tang Rou had just sat down in Ye Xiu's seat and hadn't even started playing with Lord Grim when she saw Ye Xiu return. She was about to say goodbye to the others in the game and log off.

"How long does it take to smoke a cigarette?" Ye Xiu smiled.

"Oh, so should I quit the game?" Tang Rou asked.

"Quit it first!" Ye Xiu waved his hand. If he didn't quit, he would have to continue to entangle with the various guilds, and he had already entangled enough. Running away was too time-consuming, it was better to simply log off.

"Okay." Tang Rou nodded, said goodbye to the people around Lord Grim in the game, and logged out. She also left her seat for Ye Xiu.

"How's it going in the tenth server?" Ye Xiu asked casually as he watched Tang Rou return to the game.

"Just the same old thing, dungeons, leveling..." Tang Rou said.

"Are you already doing the challenges to enter the Realm of the Gods?" Ye Xiu asked with a smile.

"Yeah! I'm giving it a try!" Tang Rou said.

"Didn't you already complete those tasks for the boss? Why are you still pushing yourself?" Ye Xiu shook his head.

"Looking for areas to improve!" Tang Rou said with a smile, then looked towards the door with a puzzled expression, "Where's Guo Guo?"

"Outside, probably!" Ye Xiu said.

"Didn't she go talk to you?"

"I was stubbing out my cigarette on the windowsill when she came over. She caught me, so I ran away. Whew!" Ye Xiu said.

Tang Rou leaned her head out from behind the monitor, glanced at Ye Xiu diagonally across from her, and then said calmly, "I see!"

"Level up quickly! The Realm of the Gods is much more fun than the normal servers," Ye Xiu said.

"It seems like it," Tang Rou nodded.

Then no one spoke again. Everyone operated their computers. Tang Rou was still in the game, her mouse and keyboard clicking busily, while Ye Xiu had left the game and no one knew what he was doing.

A moment later, Chen Guo returned to the private room, back to her seat opposite Ye Xiu, and also didn't say a word, burying herself in the game.

In the game, after Ye Xiu's Lord Grim logged out, Zhan Lou Lan and the others hadn't recovered yet! They had actually defeated Jia Shi's main team, and they were still immersed in unbelievable joy. They didn't even notice when that Deception suddenly disappeared.

Until a team suddenly rolled out of the street entrance.

"Perfect timing, my fighting spirit hasn't been released yet!" Forward Doesn't Know Shouted.

"Haha, let's go!" Zhan Lou Lan didn't stop them. The five of them were using alternate accounts and had nothing to worry about. Using underhanded tactics in secret was fine, everyone was a competitor, no matter how much you wanted to protect yourself, you couldn't avoid that fact. The important thing was not to reveal any flaws in the open, that was the law of survival for club guilds. Zhan Lou Lan and the others had been preparing to establish a team for a long time, so they understood these principles very well.

"Use these guys to practice your teamwork!" Zhan Lou Lan pointed with his sword, and the five of them charged forward fiercely, their momentum no less than before.

The team that collided with them at the street entrance was a standard ten-person team. The ten people who had received the order turned around and ran without engaging in battle when the five charged over with such momentum.

"Damn, how boring!" Forward Doesn't Know cursed.

"Chase them?" Little North asked.

"Chase them, we have nothing else to do anyway!" Zhan Lou Lan shouted.

The five ran up wildly, chasing, fighting, and having a great time. Their strength was indeed far from that of professional players, but compared to ordinary players, they could be called one in ten thousand. In addition, they demanded professional team standards from themselves, and their teamwork was better than that of ordinary guild teams. Five against ten, they weren't at a disadvantage at all.

The guild leader on their side received the news and hurriedly dispatched manpower to this side, even personally coming to oversee the battle.

Zhan Lou Lan and the others, however, had no intention of fighting guerilla warfare. They wanted to try to see what level they could reach with their five-person teamwork.

The fact that they had just wiped out Jia Shi's main team made the five of them feel high-spirited. Although there were seven people before, although the great god's command and coordination were a major factor, in the end, it was inseparable from their cooperation and efforts. The confidence that had been crushed before was now completely reignited.

We may be lacking compared to professional teams, but professional teams are by no means invincible!

The five of them had such thoughts in their hearts, and they were playing exceptionally fiercely at this time, charging and crashing in the melee without any chaos.

"Awesome! So awesome!" Forward Doesn't Know, a war fanatic, stepped on piles of enemy corpses, madly throwing spells while shouting repeatedly, as if that was the syllable of his spell incantation.

"I said, you guys should pay attention! Some equipment is still useful, pick it up." The cleric, Thousand Leaves Drifting, said while picking up a lightsaber that a swordsman had just dropped.

"That's right, look at that Deception, he didn't forget to pick up the equipment dropped by Sun Xiang and Liu Hao in the end," Zhan Lou Lan said.

"That's nonsense, he's a professional scavenger, those are all subconscious actions," Night Tide said.

"Speaking of that guy, his skill is also quite good, no less than ours. Lou Lan, go try to recruit him?" Forward Doesn't Know stopped his shouting and said something serious.

"That guy, many guilds have been trying to recruit him for a long time, but no one has succeeded. And look at him, he doesn't even know Sun Xiang, it doesn't seem like he's pretending, I don't know where that dead otaku came from," Zhan Lou Lan said with emotion.

"No matter how much of a dead otaku he is, he's playing Glory, how can he not know anything about the professional scene? That's too weird!" Forward Doesn't Know said.

"The world is so big, there are all kinds of strange things!" Zhan Lou Lan said.

"Hey! Can you guys stop chatting? I can't hold on anymore!" Little North shouted at this time. More and more people were gathering on the other side, and they were finally reaching the point where they couldn't hold on anymore.

"Kill! Kill until they're dead!" Zhan Lou Lan shouted, going to fight alongside Little North.

The presidents of the three major guilds had also arrived at the scene. They didn't expect to actually surround their opponents this time, and they were so excited that they were almost moved to tears. But when they came closer to take a look, there were five people... Why were there five people? Where were the other two?

After tracing back to the source and asking, they couldn't find out whether those two people were dead or just not seen. Finally, they tried searching and found that both of them were offline.

"Damn!" The three presidents immediately scratched their heads in frustration. What was the point of messing with these five alternate accounts from Yi Zhan Tian Xia when the main players weren't here? What was the point???