FOG [e-sport]

Chapter 81

Shi Luo gritted his teeth and wanted to snatch back his headphones. Yu Sui took Shi Luo’s headphones and avoided him with a step back. He said with a smile, “Feeling shy? So, do you usually listen to these things when you have your headphones on?”

“In the stadium lounges, the hallway before we go up on stage, on the road on our way back to the base after a match…” the more Yu Sui thought about it the more he felt that Shi Luo played too unrestrainedly at such a young age. “Shi Shen, I have found that since a long time ago, whenever you want to concentrate, you wear your headphones. I always thought you were listening to light music. Now, I’m suddenly having doubts about that…”

Shi Luo angrily grabbed the headphones from Yu Sui’s hand and gritted his teeth, “I haven’t heard it more than a few times! I only downloaded it a few days ago.”

“Where’s your evidence?” Yu Sui smiled. “The last time I heard this audio must have been four years ago. And you’re saying you just downloaded it?”

Shi Luo was speechless. He opened his music player with his face all red and whispered, “This is synched with the app on my mobile phone. Look for yourself… I’ve only listened to it five times in total.”

The backend dashboard of Shi Luo’s commonly used music player records the number of playbacks for each piece of audio. Yu Sui glanced at it and sure enough the number ‘5’ was displayed as the number of times that piece of audio Shi Luo had been listening to just now has been played back.

“I saw it by coincidence a few days ago. I was curious what it was about…so I went and listened to it.” Shi Luo turned off the music player and said like each word was being dragged out of him, “I listened to it and turns out it wasn’t anything interesting…”

Then Shi Luo closed the music player very quickly but Yu Sui’s eyes were too good. He noticed that there was a piece of audio with a garbled title amongst the Chinese and English songs in his playlist. What’s more the number of playbacks was displayed as “999+”.

There was no song information so it must be another piece of synthesized audio.

Yu Sui smiled. It was now four years later, the fan’s material library has also been updated and they had probably edited a 2.0 version.

Shi Luo was already embarrassed and it would be inconsiderate of him to expose him once again. Yu Sui pretended not to have seen it. He lowered his voice and laughed, “Listening to my R-18 synthesized audio while practicing; you better pay attention, Shi Shen.”

Shi Luo was furious. Just when he had finally worked up the spirit to exert himself, after practicing the use of his weapon for a while, his hand was finally feeling good. He suddenly figured out some key points for playing against NSN and wanted to play a round to try out that tactic. However, he was already feeling a little sleepy. That’s when he suddenly remembered the audio. The timing was perfect, there happened to be no one around and so he thought about listening to it to relieve his sleepiness. He never would have thought that a certain 21-year-old veteran could stay up late up until this hour and so he was caught red-handed.

Shi Luo logged out of his game account and quickly shut down his computer. His guilty gaze swept this way and that, refusing to look face-to-face with Yu Sui. “Listening to…you know…that…it helps me to stay awake.”

“Didn’t you just say that it wasn’t at all interesting?”

Shi Luo was unable to utter a word and Yu Sui looked at him with a smile in his eyes. He said seriously, “Really, if you need it, I can record an interesting one for you. Since you’re an old customer, I’ll even let you make a custom order.”