Editor: Decembery
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Qiu Yu didn’t broadcast again in the next few days.
The entire team had strength training in the afternoon. After finishing training, Qiu Yu got off the machine and used the hem of his t-shirt to wipe the droplets of sweat off his neck. Then, he bent down and picked up his water bottle before raising his head and finishing the last two mouthfuls of water.
Mu Feibai, standing not far from Qiu Yu, happened to see this series of movements.
The soft clothing retreated upwards to reveal a slim and pale waist. After a glimpse, the hem of the shirt fell back down to cover the gentle slope of muscles. Then, the fabric followed Qiu Yu’s bending movement to trace the outlines of his waist and hips, getting caught in the gap between the band of the trousers and waist when he stood back up—as though wrapping around his waist. As he leaned back, his slender neck arched backwards in a graceful curve, revealing a usually inconspicuous adam’s apple that bobbed up and down as he drank water, disturbing a droplet of sweat.
Feeling as though his body seemed to be urging him to do something, Mu Feibai quickly averted his line of sight.
However, even though it lasted only a few seconds, that image still seemed to be branded onto his retinas such that he could still see it even with his eyes closed.
“Captain,” Zhiou Shu suddenly leaned into Mu Feibai’s ear and laughed, “Be careful, your wolf’s tail is showing.”
Mu Feibai wasn’t polite, he directly placed a hand on Zhou Shu’s face and pushed him away. “Go away.”
Zhou Shu: “tsk tsk tsk.”
Mu Feibai: “Go “tsk” yourself.”
Zhou Shu: “Don’t be embarrassed la, it’s human nature, I understand…”
Mu Feibai: “Do you want to get beaten up?”
The two’s words were so childish that Qiu Yu took a glance and laughed in his heart: Sure enough, they were at the excitable age that even a couple of words can start a fight.
He felt a little hot after exercising so he habitually rolled up the sleeves of his t-shirt onto his shoulders, exposing his entire arm.
However he didn’t expect to hear a cold scoff from beside him, “Can you wear your clothes properly?”
Judging by this irascible tone, there was no one other than Du Chen.
Qiu Yu didn’t take him seriously and turned to walk towards the exit. As he passed Mu Feibai, he patted him on the arm, “Want to go get some food?”
In the previous two days when he was doing strength training by himself, it was always Mu Feibai who called him to go to the cafeteria, so his question also counted as a courtesy.
Mu Feibai subconsciously replied, “Sure, let’s go.”
However, he suddenly felt as though there was some strange remnant on the place his body was just touched. He couldn’t help but raise his hand to scratch his arm. The thoughts hidden in his mind couldn’t help overflowing: Qiu Yu’s hand is so soft, the pat didn’t hurt at all but rather felt a little itchy…
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His face immediately changed. Clearing his throat, he spoke in a rush, “Um wait, wait a minute, I should go back to take a quick shower first!”
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He waved towards Qiu Yu after speaking and followed Mu Feibai back to the dormitory.
Qiu Yu was used to roughing it out in the army and didn’t feel that there was a problem to eat while sweaty—let alone just being sweaty, he didn’t even mind eating when he was covered head to toe in dirt and blood after rolling around in fights during the apocalypse.
Indeed, boys in a peaceful world lived so delicately.
Delicate-boy Mu Feibai was standing under the showerhead, dousing himself with cold water.
His bracelet vibrated, revealing Zhou Shu’s message: [What are you running so quickly for?]
It was then followed with a smirking bear expression pack: [Did the flag raise?]
Mu Feibai didn’t bother to reply. He drenched his head in cold water for a while longer and only turned on the hot water until both his body and mind calmed down.
……
When evening training began that night, He Jingxing pulled Qiu Yu aside.
“You won’t be participating in rank today.” As he spoke, he nodded towards Mu Feibai who was passing by, and continued, “You’re going to go to the in-game challenge area and refresh the archery records.
Qiu Yu asked, “Archery?”
He Jingxing then said, “And all long-ranged weapons.”
Qiu Yu nodded his head in Mu Feibai’s direction. “All the current shooting records were made by the captain, so wouldn’t I be stealing the limelight from my own family?”
He didn’t actually care about the in-game challenge leaderboard so he didn’t care about those people on the internet clamouring for him to refresh the records these days. Even if someone led the rhythm to goad him on by saying he wasn’t attempting the challenges because he didn’t have the skills and didn’t want to be slapped in the face, or that the arrow he shot through Mu Feibai’s heart in a 1v1 confrontation was a mere fluke, Qiu Yu still didn’t give in.
After desperately fighting in the apocalypse for so long, he had long passed the age of trying to prove his ability to others, let alone care how those strangers on the internet may underestimate him.
Of course, He Jinxing didn’t know that Qiu Yu had long been indifferent to flattery or ridicule. Hearing Qiu Yu’s words, he immediately smiled, “Well you seem confident in beating Mu Feibai’s record.”
His original intention was just to let Qiu Yu create some top-level records to assuage those clamouring Eagle Riders fans. It could also serve as a warm-up before the start of the summer season and attract a new wave of attention.
Qiu Yu wasn’t humble in the slightest about his abilities, “Shooting is my forte.”
If weapons in the game were the same as that of real life—their lethality was not restricted by levels of enhancement, his existence would probably become the stuff of nightmares for all professional players.
“Just go for it and don’t be concerned about beating mine,” Mu Feibai overheard the coach and Qiu Yu’s conversation. Turning his head, he smiled, “I’ve been hanging there in first place on the leaderboards for quite some years now and I’m getting sick of being a target. If you can push me down, I’d be the one thanking you instead—I’ll take you out for a big meal.”
Seeing his playful smile, Zhou Shu knew that Mu Feibai had gotten over his embarrassment earlier in the afternoon so he chuckled a few times, raised his eyebrows, and made funny faces towards Mu Feibai.
Mu Feibai glared right back.
Qiu Yu looked towards Mu Feibai, “If I broke your record, you’re going to be the one scolded.”
Once a strong player is deified by the netizens, the public will impose upon them extremely harsh standards. Even if they only took one or two steps down the altar, they would be despised and ridiculed—Mu Feibai had been placed onthe highest altar by the title “god of war”. If his record were to be broken, if he were to lose a game, or make a mistake, there would be countless extremely ugly words of abuse directed towards him.
Mu Feibai sat in his game cabin and placed his left leg on his right knee. Raising his eyebrows, he replied, “Am I still scared of being scolded? After playing for so many years, my stable mentality has already been completely cultivated. You don’t have to worry about me.”
Qiu Yu had always liked capable and confident soldiers. Seeing Mu Feibai acting like this, he couldn’t help being reminded of a thorny recruit he had brought up before. His heart suddenly moved and he couldn’t help but want to tease Mu Feibai, “I heard that you’ve set up a flag for this before, that if there is someone who can break your record, you’ll live broadcast a sexy dance in women’s clothing?”
Mu Feibai: …
He never expected that someone would actually remember this flag.
That flag was planted when he first entered the youth league at the age of sixteen. He was young and energetic and uttered these words in an extremely chunni way after refreshing a couple of records. Who knew that people would bring up something from four years ago!
Zhou Shu couldn’t help laughing out loud and even Coach He found it amusing. Lin Jinxi and Lu Cun also laughed until they couldn’t stop and Du Chen tried and failed to keep a straight face, the corners of his mouth quirking up.
Mu Feibai scrunched up his nose exaggeratedly and patted the side of the seat in the game cabin seat, “Yeah I’ll broadcast! If you can really break my record, I will live broadcast a sexy dance in women’s clothing! I have never escaped without paying the bill for my fallen flags!”
“You have,” Zhou Shu didn’t leave him any face and jokingly continued, “You’ve said before that if Ghost turned out to be an Omega, you’d kneel and propose on the spot, hahahaha!”
Mu Feibai: …
Mu Feibai smiled in anger. With a raise of his eyebrows, he started to leave the gaming cabin, “Sure then, I’ll propose to him right here and now.”
Qiu Yu: …
Seeing that the joke was getting out of hand, Coach He quickly stopped him. “Alright, that’s enough. It’s already five minutes after training started, quickly go on rank and do what you’re supposed to be doing.”
As the coach provided the stairs to step down, everyone tacitly put aside the topic of “proposals”. The members smilingly shot each other a meaningful look before they obediently entered their gaming cabins.
There were many types of challenges in “Century’s Finale”, roughly divided into shooting, timed racing, skills, and combat. There were countless small sections in each category. If one wanted to attempt all of the shooting type challenges, it would take at least two or three hours, which happened to be the exact length of evening training.
Since he was going to attempt the challenges as a professional player, of course Qiu Yu had to use his competition account like everyone else did.
Hence, that evening, those who were paying attention to the challenge leadership boards had their attention drawn to a new ID—“EWG_Cupid”.
[Damn, who is this Cupid person? EWG—Eagle Rider? No way it’s the person I’m thinking of right?!]
[The promotional videos aren’t out yet, but he’s the only possible person, right? His surname just happens to be Qiu.]
[So does that mean that he chose to attempt the archery challenge first because of his ID? Oh my holy fuck, did you guys see his results??? 98.83 against live AI targets in the shooting field! Awesome!!!]
Live AI targets in the shooting field meant that a flying creature with the target would appear at a random position in a three-dimensional fan-shaped field. The appearances were calculated by AI and they would move around randomly within the shooting field. The scoring system also used a very complicated formula that considered the precise location the target was hit as well as other factors such as aiming time that held some weight in considering proficiency in archery.
Because of the complicated formula and various scoring factors, there were very few people, even among professional players, who could score above 95 points in shooting AI live targets. It was even more difficult when using a bow and arrow—those who could get above 90 were already considered god-tier marksmen.
The previous record holder was Mu Feibai, who had 96.35, which was 5.24 points higher than that of Wu Song who placed behind him in second.
[No wonder he has the confidence to take an ID like “Cupid”, what a guy!]
[He’s basically a god in shooting.]
[Ahhhh his arrow hit my heart! How could there be such a dazzling Omega in this world? I only hate that I am a Beta sobbbbb…]
[Speaking of, do you guys still remember the first time Qiu Yu solo-killed god Mu?]
[An arrow straight through the heart, right?]
[Oh no, I think I’m going to die, god Mu was shot straight through the heart by little angel Cupid’s arrow and from then on fell desperately and irrevocably in love with him… what kind of fated pairing is this! I’m going dizzy from shipping them, lock this CP up for me forever!!!]
That day, Qiu Yu completed the challenges long before evening training ended so he went back to the dormitory early.
Mu Feibai opened the door of his gaming cabin and sat in his seat, scrolling through his bracelet.
Seeing that Qiu Yu really broke that record he had held for many years, he couldn’t help smiling—he was the kind of person who only liked to play with people stronger than him. It’s only thrilling if there’s a challenge after all.
Seeing other people belittle him, the heart in his chest seemed to burn red-hot. Just like how rock climbing enthusiasts would want to face and conquer a newly discovered peak to become the first one to climb to the top and also… mark it as their own.
Zhou Shu leaned over. Supporting himself on the walls of the captain, he asked with a smirk, “Captain, you intentionally gave Qiu ge that ID, right?”
Mu Feibai pretended to not know what he was talking about, “What do you mean intentionally?”
Zhou Shu reached out a hand and poked him in the chest, “Aiyo, Cupid! I think you’ve really been shot through the heart by him, planning things in the dark so early… you couldn’t help it when you learned he was an Omega right?”
After a moment of silence, Mu Feibai shook his head.
No, it was earlier than that.
He admired “Ghost 2207” and never cared about the other party’s gender.
T/n: I survived my terrible Friday schedule… And thanks for all the good luck wishes last week, it was so sweet of u guys (^///^)
Thanks for the chapter! Hahaha he can’t escape that dance now~
Aish… 2months of saving gone in 2 hrs. Too bingeworthy too bingeworthy.
Blame my weak resolve
Thank you for the update ❤️💯
He he he, I knew the whole getting shot through the heart and cupid thing was gonna come up at some point XD it’s cute
Unfortunately our cupid is like a dead block of wood in regards to romantic interest right now 😂 Mr. Mu has his work cut out for him Thank you for the chapter ♡
Waiting for this all to end with Mu Feibai proposing For Real because, as we all know, he never runs out on a bill haha. In the meantime we’ll just have to settle for a live sexy dance in women’s clothes, alas,
Thank you so much for translating! I’m glad you made it through your Friday <3
i bet the netizens will remember very well that promise~
also i really hope mu feibai will support qiu yu in his decision to do a surgery and not try to dissuade him…
I am so in love with this story line
<3
Thank you for the chapter! 💚🤍💚🤍💚🤍💚🤍💚🤍
Mu Feibai’s next challenge: dress shopping. Lmao! Can’t wait, can’t wait! Hahahahaha! Thanks for the update 🤣❤️
Mu Feibai is such a good character and love interest! Really excited to see his and Qiu Yu’s relationship develop
My cheeks hurt from smiling so much (๑>◡<๑)