Book 3: Glory on the Other Side


    Chapter 35


    After Ai Qing woke up, she packed up her luggage, pulled her


    sister up from the bed, and told her that she was leaving.  If her


    sister wanted to continue to sleep, then she could stay. “Make


    sure to lock the door.”


    “Where are you going?”  Her sister was so sleepy that she fell


    back into the bed.


    “SP headquarters.”


    She really wanted to be with the team during this time, temporarily


    tabling all the complicated issues.


    When Ai Qing appeared at the SP headquarter dorm, with her


    luggage, to swipe open the door to her room, people in the hallway


    were quite surprised to see her there.  This room was always Ai


    Qing’s. They had a cleaning lady come in regularly like a hotel,


    so she could always move in at any time. She spent half an hour


    sorting out her room, then she picked up her room cardkey and


    SP has four training rooms.


    Each training room had a sign with the name of each team.


    Ai Qing pushed open the glass door that read <Secret Room


    Storm>.  There were more than twenty men inside, who were


    all startled to see her.


    Today was still an off day.  These single guys were so bored as


    none of them had a girlfriend and all their friends were from the


    same club.  Since they had no place to go, they all came to the


    training room to pass the time.


    But the manager didn’t living at the headquarters, what was she


    doing here today?


    “Why are you guys staring at me……”  Ai Qing was a little


    embarrassed. “I’ll be living at the club until the National Finals ends.”


    They were even more startled.


    It was Slide who came to her rescue.  He waved to her. “Come


    over here, Gou Gou.  We were just about to play a game. You


    came just at the right time.”


    Interested, she walked over to hear Slide’s explanation.  Briefly


    speaking, A team was too bored plus the Guangzhou competition


    had ignited their competitive spirit, they wanted to play with RAP


    in a private game.


    Of course, they weren’t the ones looking for trouble.


    Afterall it was RAP, after beating Buff at the Guangzhou show match,


    verbally blasted their arch enemy SP during their post-game interview, again.


    “Another reason is------Dt is so popular right now.  His accumulated


    score is the highest in all four servers.”  All continued to talk after Ai


    Qing sat down. “After he won at the Guangzhou competition, he grew


    even more popular.  K&K’s popularity is overshadowing SP. If we don’t


    play a good game now, even the other SP’s regions will forget we even exist.”


    Inin’s eyes had brightened up.  He wasn’t paying attention to what Slide


    and All were talking about.  He just excited to hear the name “Dt”, more


    excited than if he had been praised.  “Dt must be the first Secret Room maestro.”


    All pressed down Inin’s head in annoyance.  “Ya little brat. If you continue


    your personal worship, I’ll beat you up.”


    A maestro?


    A maestro leads a whole era.  An honorary title given to the person who


    Ai Qing became lost in her thoughts.


    Dt had left before her sister arrived at her home.


    So what should she do next.  Should she find a time to talk with him?


    But after last night, she couldn’t face him normally at all.  He wanted to


    bed her in less than ten days after getting together.  She even began to


    doubt whether the Wu Bai she had liked was actually the real him.


    Perhaps the kind of relationship she was looking for was a totally different


    one from what he was pursuing.


    “Gou Gou?”  Slide slanted his head and asked her,  “Should we play a


    game with them?”


    Ai Qing pulled back her distracted heart and looked at her own teammates,


    “All right. As long as you aren’t afraid of leaking our tactics.”


    Slide laughed.  “The really good ones won’t get cracked in such a short time.”


    Once they made the decision, there was nothing more to say about the matter.


    They sent out the invitation.  Once the opponent accepted, then they could


    start the game and begin.


    They waited for about three minutes.  A chat window popped out on the


    computer: The opponent had accepted.  Please wait for a connection.


    “Is the ping[1] ok?”


    “Ok, no problem.”  Following signaled the OK gesture and pulled out a


    chicken drumstick from the box, taking a bite out of it.  “Too cool. Brothers,


    beat up these insidious people into a pulp.”


    Four big men who cursed occasionally and a young boy who cried easily


    were all ranked in the top ten on the server.  They had all won the


    championships in Asia or world tournaments in different games before.


    This was…... her team.


    [1]: ping is the time delay for communication between the player and the game serve