Chapter 1 Chapter 1 Red Medicine Hall
In 2004, San Francisco, USA, WCG (World Electronic Sports Competition) Awards Ceremony.
"StarCraft runner-up—China—Suyao!"
Beside the award presenter who spoke pure English, stood 19-year-old Su Yao. She was only as tall as a foreigner's shoulder. She accepted the national flag and the trophy in the countless spotlights, with a childish smile on her face. A 19-year-old oriental girl with shoulder-length black hair and deep dimples when she smiles is the focus of attention today. She holds up the national flag and trophy with both hands, and generously lets media from all over the world include her in the headlines of game websites, newspapers and magazines.
The WCG runner-up, however, stole the show.
But from the corner of Su Yao's eyes, she kept looking at a dark corner under the stands, and she didn't know what she was thinking, as if she didn't come here for the bonus and ranking.
"Champion of StarCraft—China—ThanaTos!"
Then, the award presenter announced the champion, which was also the last award at the ceremony. When she heard the name ThanaTos, the smile on Su Yao's face froze. The men of ThanaTos came to the stage step by step from the darkness.
Yes, she never thought of winning the championship. She knew that she would definitely lose to him, and he could make her shit out of her with his eyes closed.
ThanaTos, an almost mythical existence, was already a WCG champion at the age when Su Yaopidianpidian followed his male classmates to skip classes to learn how to play StarCraft.
But no one has ever seen the face of ThanaTos, and no one knows the real name of ThanaTos——Su Yao stared blankly at this no matter where she went, no matter how important the occasion was, even when she was in the last match with her, she would always wear a A man with a peaked cap and big black sunglasses who only goes by the pseudonym ThanaTos—she doesn't even know his age.
All she knows is that she has a tower in her heart. On the top of the tower, there used to be little red flowers, class representatives, captains, piano tenth grade certificates, admission letters from key universities... The things she wanted since childhood, she passed Work hard, she got it all, because her parents said, as long as you get these, they will not interfere with your game.
Su Yao can clear Contra with one life. Su Yao is familiar with every shortcut in Super Mario. Su Yao can tell the attributes of every monster in Dungeons and Dragons. Later, she heard ThanaTos from a boy for the first time. The legendary deeds of the character, she started to play StarCraft, she relentlessly participated in the regional competitions and selection competitions again and again, so many years later, she knew that he was the only one on the top of her tower.
Now she finally stood beside him holding the silver trophy.
"Don't stand still, girl." The award presenter thought that Su Yao was brooding over the loss to ThanaTos in the final, so he patted Su Yao's shoulder lightly, motioning for the champion and runner-up to shake hands.
"Can I say a few words?" Su Yao raised her head and asked the awarding officer, her throat was dry.
The microphone was handed to her.
"ThanaTos, I...I want to see what you look like..."
Su Yao couldn't believe that the girl who was chic and generous just now had her face burning hot. Her voice would be as thin as a mosquito.
...he was indifferent.
In the continuous sound of shutters, Su Yao blushed, and she was desperate, "ThanaTos!" She said loudly, "I like you! I have liked you for a long time! I follow you! I am only standing here !"
The audience suddenly fell silent. The reporters and other contestants all opened their mouths into a zero shape. No one expected that there would be such a sexy scene at the awards ceremony. They even stopped the chance to grab the headlines and were all silent Waiting for ThanaTos' answer.
ThanaTos, the god of death in Greek mythology.
Su Yao only felt that her nails were dug into her palm, and the wait for a few seconds seemed as long as a century.
It was the humorous award presenter who was the first to react, and he hurriedly asked someone to put another microphone to ThanaTos.
But he didn't answer.
"Feel sorry."
He used Chinese, but said these two words lightly.
He turned and left.
In that year, Su Yao's entire world lost its color.
"Today is a good day. Everything you want can come true. Tomorrow will be a good day again. You can't wait for a thousand dollars. Today and tomorrow are good days..." Su Yao was woken up by her mobile phone alarm. This is early winter 2010. Su Yao was rolling around in the quilt in a daze, when she suddenly had a jolt, she seemed to think of something, picked up her phone and looked, shit, it's 8:55. She rolled and crawled out the door. "You still remember coming to work, Su Yao, you have been late 28 times this month, if you don't want to do it, leave early." The big face of the leader seemed to be still reprimanding her in front of her. It was over, Su Yao sat in the taxi and patted her chest. The leader just scolded her yesterday, and she will be late again today. Although she couldn't figure it out, how did the leader calculate the 28 shifts when she only worked 22 days a month? "Master, could you please drive faster?" While urging the driver to slam on the accelerator, Su Yao's mind raced with excuses for being late. Traffic jam, another traffic jam, visit from my aunt, fever, flu, toothache, gastroptosis, second visit to my aunt, mumps, nasal cavity inflammation, keratitis, emphysema, third visit to my aunt Visit... But she has used all these reasons this month. "Should I say I have uremia? No, no, it's too harsh, or is it uterine bleeding? Or hemorrhoids cracked? Will the leader kill me..." Su Yao was struggling, and the phone sang "Today is a good day, tomorrow will be a good day" again. Good day your sister! The animal in Su Yao's heart was roaring. She picked up her phone and saw that it was Liu Changsi's call. Liu Changsi was Su Yao’s roommate and buddy when she was in college. Since the WCG match in San Francisco in 2004, Suyao, the youngest oriental girl and the rookie expected by the whole world, quit the competitive game career. She no longer plays, she no longer looks, She stopped laughing, and her tower came crashing down. The super hand skills she has practiced for more than ten years brought her a radiant youth. She also thought that she would take e-sports as a profession and go further and further on this road. However, she finally walked away with the shit out of her. She went back to China, studied, took exams, graduated, worked, looked at the face of her boss, took a meager salary, and lived a life of nine to five. Even so, she was content with the life of ordinary people. She grew her hair , grew long fingernails, and under the influence of Liu Changsi, she began to watch anime, novels, and "Days of JQ with the Great God" such vulgar and obscene stories full of obscenities. "It would be great if I could also meet a great god!" At that time, Liu Changsi twisted his waist in a nympho, lying on the forum of the online game "Human World", reading the biographies of those famous players. Su Yao also laughed heartlessly with her, no one knew about her past, the trophy was covered with dust for six years, even she herself forgot in a trance. "Yaoyao, play online games with me. This is it! Human world! I just got popular!" Liu Changsi shook Su Yao's shoulder, "I know you don't like to play games, it doesn't matter, you don't know how to play online games as my sister taught you. It’s really not as idiotic and boring as you said, look how beautiful you look! Maybe you can have an affair with the great gods in it, hahaha!” Su Yao glanced at the screen. This game is really exquisite and attractive, and she doesn't need to spend any brains to conceive a strategy. She was originally determined not to touch any games, but under the pressure of her best friend, she agreed to play with her. Su Yao Comfort yourself, this is just a casual online game, not a competitive game. At that time, Liu Changsi's game character "Liu Shui Chang Si" was level 102, a professional lone ranger. She was holding a snow crystal longbow with azure blue light, standing majestically on the cliff - shooting birds. "Haha, Yaoyao, don't worry that no one will bully you, sister is covering you!" Liu Changsi watched with satisfaction as Su Yao created a new level 1 account - character name: "Red Medicine Hall", occupation... Su Yao saw the four major professions of the Mage Department: Temple Priest, Summoner, Five Elements Sorcerer, and Dark Wizard, and also saw the four major professions of the Warrior Department: Silver Moon Warrior, Dragon Warrior, Knights of the Round Table, Two-Sword Martyr, and so on. See the four major occupations of the Wandering Department: Hidden Rogue, Shadowless Assassin, Lone Ranger, and Vagabond.The twelve major occupations have their own merits. Su Yao chose back and forth, and finally chose the most inconspicuous hidden thief. "Oh, Yaoyao, why didn't you choose a mage? The mage department is very popular now. People are rushing to get a dungeon in a team. You can change it. Don't choose a thief. The game is still the first version, and the professional balance has not been adjusted. Come here, the thieves are the weakest, their blood is thin, and their attack and defense are low. Look at the teams at the entrance of the dungeon, they all say that there is a shortage of people, and they all say that the thieves are not in the same group..." Su Yao didn't care, she thought the thief was pretty good, low-key and mysterious, and she especially liked the word "shenyin", she didn't care about his professional balance. Sometimes people are like this, they will fall in love because of some strange obsessions. Amid Liu Changsi's long sighs and short sighs, a semester soon passed. "Liu Shui Chang Si" has reached level 140. This game has more players and less experience, and the road to upgrade is long. Level 140 characters were already quite popular at that time. What about Su Yao? Liu Changsi, who was still standing on the cliff and shot the bird to upgrade, turned his head to look at Su Yao's screen and cried. "Red Medicine Hall", 200, full level. Full server, the first hidden thief. So sometimes it is like this, the more you think about keeping a low profile, the fate will take you on the opposite track. Su Yao is distressed. She doesn't want to appear on the top row of the ranking list, but the inertia of a professional player for ten years in her bones makes her unable to resist killing monsters, leveling up, and fighting with others to PK and exchange operation skills. The strange experience is low. In order to satisfy certain violent players, the developer has set up PK with other players to gain experience points. The higher the level of defeating players, the more experience they will get. It's more cost-effective. Of course, if you lose, you will be deducted backwards, and the deduction is quite miserable. Someone fell from more than one hundred levels overnight to more than eighty levels. If you kill monsters with this experience, you will have to kill monsters for two months to get back. Therefore, the game business brazenly told the relevant departments that our game advocates harmony and friendliness among young people, and does not advocate violent PK. However, they may have forgotten that there is a type of people in the world called professional players. For example, Su Yao, a former competitive player who participated in WCG, her hand skills have not regressed much in the past six years. She easily challenged players with much higher levels and equipment than her. She absorbed their experience and blood, and went to the She has never lost a single match in a thousand PK games. When Liu Changsi was struggling to make dungeons, leveling, howling, and crying, Su Yao easily reached the full level. It was also in that year that she met Ji Canghai. "Yaoyao, have you seen the ranking? The voting on the "Human World" website has just ended, and the photo album of you and Brother Canghai has lived up to expectations and ranked first, ahhahaha! Congratulations! Happy candies! Red envelopes! Now the entire Tianya The city is celebrating for you, hahaha, why don't you ask for leave from work, go to the game and have a look!" Liu Changsi's jubilant voice came from the phone, interrupting Su Yao's memory. "What's the rush, I'm only getting married next week." Su Yao was in a better mood, and said with a smile, "My aunt has come here three times this month, if I pretend to be my aunt, the leader will probably throw me out!"
"Today is a good day. Everything you want can come true. Tomorrow will be a good day again. You can't wait for a thousand dollars. Today and tomorrow are good days..." Su Yao was woken up by her mobile phone alarm. This is early winter 2010. Su Yao was rolling around in the quilt in a daze, when she suddenly had a jolt, she seemed to think of something, picked up her phone and looked, shit, it's 8:55. She rolled and crawled out the door. "You still remember coming to work, Su Yao, you have been late 28 times this month, if you don't want to do it, leave early." The big face of the leader seemed to be still reprimanding her in front of her. It was over, Su Yao sat in the taxi and patted her chest. The leader just scolded her yesterday, and she will be late again today. Although she couldn't figure it out, how did the leader calculate the 28 shifts when she only worked 22 days a month? "Master, could you please drive faster?" While urging the driver to slam on the accelerator, Su Yao's mind raced with excuses for being late. Traffic jam, another traffic jam, visit from my aunt, fever, flu, toothache, gastroptosis, second visit to my aunt, mumps, nasal cavity inflammation, keratitis, emphysema, third visit to my aunt Visit... But she has used all these reasons this month. "Should I say I have uremia? No, no, it's too harsh, or is it uterine bleeding? Or hemorrhoids cracked? Will the leader kill me..." Su Yao was struggling, and the phone sang "Today is a good day, tomorrow will be a good day" again. Good day your sister! The animal in Su Yao's heart was roaring. She picked up her phone and saw that it was Liu Changsi's call. Liu Changsi was Su Yao’s roommate and buddy when she was in college. Since the WCG match in San Francisco in 2004, Suyao, the youngest oriental girl and the rookie expected by the whole world, quit the competitive game career. She no longer plays, she no longer looks, She stopped laughing, and her tower came crashing down. The super hand skills she has practiced for more than ten years brought her a radiant youth. She also thought that she would take e-sports as a profession and go further and further on this road. However, she finally walked away with the shit out of her. She went back to China, studied, took exams, graduated, worked, looked at the face of her boss, took a meager salary, and lived a life of nine to five. Even so, she was content with the life of ordinary people. She grew her hair , grew long fingernails, and under the influence of Liu Changsi, she began to watch anime, novels, and "Days of JQ with the Great God" such vulgar and obscene stories full of obscenities. "It would be great if I could also meet a great god!" At that time, Liu Changsi twisted his waist in a nympho, lying on the forum of the online game "Human World", reading the biographies of those famous players. Su Yao also laughed heartlessly with her, no one knew about her past, the trophy was covered with dust for six years, even she herself forgot in a trance. "Yaoyao, play online games with me. This is it! Human world! I just got popular!" Liu Changsi shook Su Yao's shoulder, "I know you don't like to play games, it doesn't matter, you don't know how to play online games as my sister taught you. It’s really not as idiotic and boring as you said, look how beautiful you look! Maybe you can have an affair with the great gods in it, hahaha!” Su Yao glanced at the screen. This game is really exquisite and attractive, and she doesn't need to spend any brains to conceive a strategy. She was originally determined not to touch any games, but under the pressure of her best friend, she agreed to play with her. Su Yao Comfort yourself, this is just a casual online game, not a competitive game. At that time, Liu Changsi's game character "Liu Shui Chang Si" was level 102, a professional lone ranger. She was holding a snow crystal longbow with azure blue light, standing majestically on the cliff - shooting birds. "Haha, Yaoyao, don't worry that no one will bully you, sister is covering you!" Liu Changsi watched with satisfaction as Su Yao created a new level 1 account - character name: "Red Medicine Hall", occupation... Su Yao saw the four major professions of the Mage Department: Temple Priest, Summoner, Five Elements Sorcerer, and Dark Wizard, and also saw the four major professions of the Warrior Department: Silver Moon Warrior, Dragon Warrior, Knights of the Round Table, Two-Sword Martyr, and so on. See the four major occupations of the Wandering Department: Hidden Rogue, Shadowless Assassin, Lone Ranger, and Vagabond.The twelve major occupations have their own merits. Su Yao chose back and forth, and finally chose the most inconspicuous hidden thief. "Oh, Yaoyao, why didn't you choose a mage? The mage department is very popular now. People are rushing to get a dungeon in a team. You can change it. Don't choose a thief. The game is still the first version, and the professional balance has not been adjusted. Come here, the thieves are the weakest, their blood is thin, and their attack and defense are low. Look at the teams at the entrance of the dungeon, they all say that there is a shortage of people, and they all say that the thieves are not in the same group..." Su Yao didn't care, she thought the thief was pretty good, low-key and mysterious, and she especially liked the word "shenyin", she didn't care about his professional balance. Sometimes people are like this, they will fall in love because of some strange obsessions. Amid Liu Changsi's long sighs and short sighs, a semester soon passed. "Liu Shui Chang Si" has reached level 140. This game has more players and less experience, and the road to upgrade is long. Level 140 characters were already quite popular at that time. What about Su Yao? Liu Changsi, who was still standing on the cliff and shot the bird to upgrade, turned his head to look at Su Yao's screen and cried. "Red Medicine Hall", 200, full level. Full server, the first hidden thief. So sometimes it is like this, the more you think about keeping a low profile, the fate will take you on the opposite track. Su Yao is distressed. She doesn't want to appear on the top row of the ranking list, but the inertia of a professional player for ten years in her bones makes her unable to resist killing monsters, leveling up, and fighting with others to PK and exchange operation skills. The strange experience is low. In order to satisfy certain violent players, the developer has set up PK with other players to gain experience points. The higher the level of defeating players, the more experience they will get. It's more cost-effective. Of course, if you lose, you will be deducted backwards, and the deduction is quite miserable. Someone fell from more than one hundred levels overnight to more than eighty levels. If you kill monsters with this experience, you will have to kill monsters for two months to get back. Therefore, the game business brazenly told the relevant departments that our game advocates harmony and friendliness among young people, and does not advocate violent PK. However, they may have forgotten that there is a type of people in the world called professional players. For example, Su Yao, a former competitive player who participated in WCG, her hand skills have not regressed much in the past six years. She easily challenged players with much higher levels and equipment than her. She absorbed their experience and blood, and went to the She has never lost a single match in a thousand PK games. When Liu Changsi was struggling to make dungeons, leveling, howling, and crying, Su Yao easily reached the full level. It was also in that year that she met Ji Canghai. "Yaoyao, have you seen the ranking? The voting on the "Human World" website has just ended, and the photo album of you and Brother Canghai has lived up to expectations and ranked first, ahhahaha! Congratulations! Happy candies! Red envelopes! Now the entire Tianya The city is celebrating for you, hahaha, why don't you ask for leave from work, go to the game and have a look!" Liu Changsi's jubilant voice came from the phone, interrupting Su Yao's memory. "What's the rush, I'm only getting married next week." Su Yao was in a better mood, and said with a smile, "My aunt has come here three times this month, if I pretend to be my aunt, the leader will probably throw me out!"