Editor: Decembery
“You’ve also got thirsty fans now—worthy of being one of the Eagle Riders.”
When they returned to the club’s base the next day, Zhou Shu couldn’t help laughing when he heard about what happened in the comments section after Qiu Yu made a post to assure everyone. He even put on an imitation of a tired father, “The battle team’s god Qiu has grown up ah!”
Mu Feibai pushed the other away disgustedly and looked towards Qiu Yu, “Those fans don’t actually bear any bad intentions, you’ll see when you actually meet them at fan meets—they’re all cowards as cowardly as can be. None of them will actually dare to do anything.”
Qiu Yu wasn’t actually worried but still nodded upon hearing Mu Feibai, “I understand.”
“Speaking of, Captain, your comments section has been a little strange recently oh~.” Zhou Shu leaned over again smilingly, “It seems like the chicken squawks have become less frequent and they’re all worried that you’d run before paying—the ones about kneeling to propose on the spot and doing a sexy dance in women’s clothing. They’re all saying you still haven’t cashed in on them after such a long time, and that you’re no longer that cub who always fulfilled his promises from before!
Mu Feibai stared at him expressionlessly: …….
Zhou Shu turned around to ask Qiu Yu, “Also, has he taken you out for a big meal yet?”
Qiu Yu didn’t really mind whether or not he was treated to a meal but Zhou Shu was clearly just joking, so he cooperatively turned to eye Mu Feibai as though making a complaint.
“Ahem,” Mu Feibai rubbed his nose, “Of course, I’ll treat, how about today? What would you like to eat?”
Zhou Shu’s eyes visibly brightened and he turned to look expectantly towards Qiu Yu, mouthing: bar-be-que!
“Barbeque,” Qiu Yu went along with him, “Let’s all go and take this as an opportunity to celebrate our win.”
“Sure.”Mu Feibai seemed completely unconcerned about his wallet and agreed happily.
He really didn’t intend to pretend he never promised to treat the other to a meal. He originally planned to invite Qiu Yu to go out with him—just the two of them. However, he only knew after what happened last time at the hairdresser that the coach and the boss were actively preventing him from interacting alone with Qiu Yu! He really didn’t want to invite anyone to third wheel, hence he dragged on the promise until the present.
Since there’s no way for it to be a two-person world, it’s pretty nice to have the entire team go eat out together as well.
As for the proposal and sexy dance in women’s clothing…
One of them would get Qiu Yu involved. Even if he was okay with it, a proposal wasn’t something that should be said casually as a joke; as for the other one, Mu Feibai probably should have just gritted his teeth and did it before Qiu Yu arrived at the club. However, now that Qiu Yu was by his side, he didn’t want to completely destroy his image.
It seems like he needs to think of some way to make that bunch of fans whose only fear is world peace to miraculously have selective amnesia.
Hence tonight, the fans who have been keeping vigil on Mu Feibai’s social media went crazy—Mu Feibai actually dared to post a lucky-draw type update, saying that he would randomly choose eight netizens in the comment section to attend the live-broadcasted entertainment show he was to attend next Wednesday.
Of course, all this had a precondition:
We’re sorry for MTLers or people who like using reading mode, but our translations keep getting stolen by aggregators so we’re going to bring back the copy protection. If you need to MTL please retype the gibberish parts.
[The condition is that this benefit of carrying netizens in the live broadcast will be provided in compensation and exchange for the two flags from earlier bets, and only fans who have agreed to the exchange will be included in the selection pool. Moreover, once you’ve commented, there’s no going back.]
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[Mu Feibai you’re so evil! Fine! I agree! So quickly choose me!!!!!]
[Wahhhhhh so god Mu is going to run without paying after all… What a shame, I really wanted to see god Mu in drag QAQ (But I still choose to agree to the exchange! Because I also want to team up with god Mu and play in an entertainment match ahhhhhh!]
[Pick me, pick me! Where’s the fun in seeing god Mu in women’s clothing? I want to hug god Mu in the game!!!!]
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These fans had no one to plead to, it was unknown who first came up with the idea, but they eventually went to Qiu Yu’ account to tell on Mu Feibai.
[god Qiu! Please quickly go put Mu Feibai in line!]
[Wahhhh little angel Cupid can you watch Mu Feibai, he’s bullying people QAQ]
[No! I won’t agree to Mu Feibai’s scheme! Unless god Qiu joins him to carry netizens on the live broadcast!!!]
After this comment appeared, Mu Feibai and Qiu Yu’s fans acted as though they found a new territory and worked together to repeatedly post “Only if god Mu and god Qiu both carry us netizens in the live broadcast will we reluctantly get collective amnesia” until it was the top comment on both their accounts.
Qiu Yu: ……
Mu Feibai: ……
Qiu Yu had just finished his nightly strength training and went to look at the situation upon Zhou Shu’s reminder. He raised a hand to brush back his sweat soaked hair and looked exasperatedly towards Mu Feibai, “You started it.”
Mu Feibai raised his hands in surrender, “I’m being wronged! I didn’t know that they would do this…”
However he was smiling happily on the inside and decided to open some back doors for the fan who suggested it.
“Captain, you can’t keep spoiling your fans, look at how they’re acting as though completely unrestricted by the law or the heavens!” Zhou Shu laughed at Mu Feibai’s misfortune.
“There’s nothing that can be done,“ Mu Feibai gave a pampering smile and shrugged, “They like and support me so much, I can’t keep letting them down. Moreover, it’s me who made the bet first.”
He then turned towards Qiu Yu wearing a pitiful expression, “But if you aren’t willing…”
Qiu Yu didn’t say anything.
A slight smile hid at the corner of his lips and his gaze fell on Mu Feibai, giving him a once-over.
Trying to act pitiful and wronged in front of him?
Heh, these tricks have long been tried and discarded by the mischievous little soldiers he had taught before, how could he not see that there’s some sneaky little calculations in Mu Feibai’s heart!
Even though he wasn’t sure of what exactly those calculations entaiedl, this didn’t affect him from judging that Mu Feibai was actually having quite a lot of fun.
Therefore he decided that if Mu Feibai tried to gain ground via retreating, then that would be a good excuse for him to refuse.
Who knew, Mu Feibai’s words took a sharp turn. “…If you don’t agree, then I’ll beg you!”
And then, he suddenly drew closer to Qiu Yu and half squatted such that Qiu Yu was a head taller than him. He looked up towards Qiu Yu, “Gege, can you carry netizens on the live with me? Can you? Pretty please?”
Qiu Yu: ……
Zhou Shu bursted into a round of raucous laughter.
Not far away, Lin Jinxi raised his hands to cover his face while Lu Cun almost tripped and rolled off of the treadmill.
Du Chen put down the gym equipment in his hand and said with a strange expression on his face, “Captain, that’s actually really scary.”
Mu Feibai smiled and stood up. Finally recovering his normal demeanour, he looked at Qiu Yu with lowered eyes, “Can you help me this time, ge? The fans are really excited for it, right?”
After speaking, he bent over slightly and added, “I’m also very excited.”
They were a little close and as they had both just finished strength training, there was still a light layer of sweat covering them. Although there weren’t any pheromones leaking, the lingering scents around their bodies was a little more intense than usual.
The light smell of ginger bloated into Qiu Yu’s nose, once again brought to surface those warm memories.
Qiu Yu looked up and saw the shine of anticipation in Mu Feibai’s eyes. In the end, he couldn’t harden his heart enough to refuse, so he nodded, “Sure.”
Mu Feibai immediately turned on his bracelet to reply to the fans, not giving Qiu Yu any opportunity to take back his words.
Watching him interact with his fans, Qiu Yu said, “You don’t actually have to exchange anything for those bets, because everyone was just using them to joke around. Even if you found a way to compensate for them this time, there will still be people who don’t agree with the exchange.”
“I know,” Mu Feibai smiled gently, “The main goal is to formally address it so that they have an impression and won’t feel the disappointment in being stood up on. Even if someone jokes about not fulfilling promises, they would still understand on the inside and won’t keep expecting me to cash in on my bets.”
After a moment of silence, Qiu Yu said, “You are very gentle to your fans.”
Mu Feibai smiled, “Not that gentle right? I’ve dragged it on for pretty long, and since people are still thinking about it now, it shows that they do care about this a lot. I don’t want to be the kind of person who always makes big promises yet never actually addresses them. It doesn’t really count as gentle, that’s just the basics of respect.”
After speaking, he rubbed his nose and spoke sheepishly in a lowered tone, “If they never talked about it, that would mean no one cared so I would definitely just quietly move on and muddle through as though it never happened.”
Qiu Yu tilted his head and looked at him. “Then if Zhou Shu never said anything and I didn’t mind, then you’d muddle through and pretend you never promised to take us out for a big meal?”
Mu Feibai immediately denied it, “How could that be! I would never run without paying on my bets!”
Qiu Yu couldn’t help laughing.
Du Chen watched Qiu Yu and Mu Feibai leave the gym while talking and laughing from afar. After a while, he lowered his head and pursed his lips.
Lin Jinxi patted his shoulder, “Let’s head back to the dorm.”
Du Chen reached for his cup and downed the last mouthful. He shook his head, “I’m going to train in close combat for a little more, you should go back first.”
Lin Jinxi, “Trying this hard?”
Du Chen fiddled with his bracelet and said in a low voice, “If I can’t train until I can hold up the second carry then we will never be able to play without him…” Then that person must always hold on until the end, until his heart misses a beat and the game cabin screams in alarm, yet he still doesn’t dare to leave the arena.
Seeing that Du Chen wasn’t about to leave, Lin Jinxi called for Lu Cun.
Who knew that Lu Cun blushed and said, “I also want to train some movements for a while as well…”
“Did you guys make plans to do extra training together?” Lin Jinxi bitterly grabbed his hair, “Fine then, I’ll train for a little more as well.”
……
Qiu Yu and Mu Feibai were unaware of the younger members voluntarily undertaking additional training themselves.
This Wednesday, the Eagle Riders and Bluefin agreed to have a practice game during night training. Therefore, they had self-conducted training in the afternoon and Mu Feibai, after reporting to the coach, dragged Qiu Yu to start an entertainment broadcast.
The world of Century’s Finale was extremely vast. In addition to challenge boards associated with technical skills and battlefields.there were also quite a few fun entertainment and competitive mini-games.
There were many variations of this type of mini-games. The more competitive ones included escape rooms and car racing, while leisurely games included pictionary, fishing and more. The ways of having fun in these games increased the longer the game was in operation, hence Century’s Finale attracted quite a number of casual players despite being a battle-type game.
As Qiu Yu and Mu Feibai were professional players, their training accounts were at the top divisions, so they had to swap to their secondary accounts if they wanted to form a team with netizens. These mini-games didn’t have any restrictions on divisions, which meant they could occasionally be a reward that would allow them to play together with their fans.
Mu Feibai used his social media account to randomly draw eight fan accounts and also opened a back door for eight familiar IDs. He split them into two groups who would either team up with him or Qiu Yu and randomly chose an entertainment-type game via a draw.
This was the first time fans have been so close to Qiu Yu, as they weren’t very familiar with his personality, they were a little cautious. Agreeing to give the first draw to Qiu Yu, they said, “Come over, god Qiu! We trust you!”
Qiu Yu didn’t refuse and reached out to touch the computer in the room, drawing the first mini-game for the broadcast—“Survival in the wilderness”.
Thank you for the update!
Thank you for the chapter! I wonder when Qiu Yu will start looking at Feibai in a more than captain way… or maybe we have a long ways to go until then 😡
I love how indulgent Qiu Yu is in Mu Feibai! ><
Survival in the wilderness is got to be such a lucky draw for QY.
A literal wilderness soldier.
+1 a literal survivor in the wild apocalyptic world at that
Hi guys, from which chapters are the “warm memories” from? I completely forgot this event T
(“The light smell of ginger bloated into Qiu Yu’s nose, once again brought to surface those warm memories.”)
I think it’s talking about Qiu Yu’s previous life. They drank ginger tea during the apocalypse to warm up when it was cold.
I see! At first, I thought it was linked to his first heat, but that would make more sense. Thank you for your answer! ♡
I thought he was referring to the unexpected wet dreams hes had about ml. Could be either tbh.
Thank you for the update ❤️💯
I bet Qiu Yu’s teammates would go crazy over him more after playing with him. He really deserves respect! So so much!
Thanks for the update ❤️🤣❤️🤣