Black Tech Internet Cafe System

Chapter 2: Resident Evil One: Virtual Reality Remake

Translator: Noodletown Translations  Editor: Noodletown Translations

Fang Qi gently pulled his sleeves up and glanced at him, his tone a little unfriendly. “Do you have a problem with it?”

Wang Tai asked, “Do you still remember that Lingyun Academy is holding its entrance examinations tomorrow? Time’s almost up; have you signed up?”

Fang Qi shook his hands. “I’m not going to go. I need to tend to this shop.”

“Tend to this shop?” Wang Tai froze for a second as he carefully looked Fang Qi up and down. “Did you give up?”

Then, he chuckled and pulled up a bench to sit on. “It’s good that you gave up though. This might not be your cup of tea, but something will be. In my opinion, you don’t have to put all your eggs in one basket.”

He then stuck out his carrot-sized fingers and made a cross with them. “I think learning martial arts is no better than farming these days. My dad already saw through that. He said if I still don’t get in this year, he’s going to send me to a school so I can study and become a scholar.”

Wang Tai blabbed on and on, his saliva flying everywhere. Fang Qi, however, laughed nonchalantly as he got up from his chair. “I didn’t give up. I… never wanted to go in the first place.”

“What do you mean?” Wang Tai was immediately confused by what he said; he remembered clearly that Fang Qi once swore he was going to get into Lingyun Academy and make something of himself.

Has he really changed?

Fang Qi sat back down and pointed at the computer in front of them. “Take a look at this.”

Wang Tai scratched his head. “I didn’t get to ask you yet, but what does your new shop do? This? What’s this?”

“This is called a computer,” Fang Qi said. “Consider it a spiritual artifact. But, you can’t do a lot on it yet. There’s only one game called Resident Evil.”

“Game?” Wang Tai thought back to the games he used to play as a child and laughed. “Aren’t we too old now to still play games?”

“Why don’t you try it out yourself?” Fang Qi couldn’t explain himself clearly, so he pointed at the blackboard. “Of course, you will have to pay first.”

“It’s just money, how much are we talking?” Wang Tai glanced over at the blackboard and burst out in laughter. “Seven crystals an hour? You’ve got to be kidding me!”

Although people here mainly used the Earthly Branches to calculate time, Wang Tai still knew what the word ‘hour’ meant.

(TL: Earthly Branches is just another way to determine the time, one branch is equal to approximately two hours.)

His family was considerably wealthy since they owned a restaurant in a big city like this. However, seven crystals were still a big number, especially for a young man who didn’t even have a source of income!

“I’m not kidding; that’s how much it costs,” Fang Qi said in all seriousness.

Upon seeing Fang Qi’s expression, Wang Tai’s face fell. “Qi, seriously? I came to support you, and you’re really going to rip me off like this?”

Fang Qi completely anticipated this reaction, so he explained, “Why would I rip you off? If you trust me, just pay up and try. If you’re not satisfied afterward, I’ll refund you your money. What do you say?”

Upon hearing this, Wang Tai’s expression softened a little. “Really?”

He glanced at Fang Qi suspiciously before pulling up a chair and sitting down.