Book 3: Go Go Squid [English Version]

Chapter 38 - Tempest of the Sealed Chamber ("▔□▔)

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Author: Mo Bao Fei Bao
English Translator: hoju hui3r.wordpress.com

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Chapter 38
Tempest of the Sealed Chamber ("▔□▔)

Tong Nian stared at that password, and after piecing it together more than ten times and confirming that it indeed was his name written out in pinyin, she excitedly hugged her phone to herself. She did not know how she should reply to this WeChat message, but yet, she really wanted to reply with something. Until-

Gn: Starting training now. Don't reply.

Oh, right. This time of night was K&K's training time.

Like a good girl, she put away her phone.

Yaya soon returned to see Tong Nian fiddling with her computer and downloading the new shooter game, Tempest of the Sealed Chamber. Shooter game?! Yaya nearly fainted. Why was this kid, who did not even know how to play Lianliankan, suddenly starting to play shooter games? Needless to say, it definitely had something to do with that middle-aged uncle dude. Her heart and mind ached with grief and bitterness, but still, she maintained her calm as she walked over. "Let's go have ice cream?"

Required download time was seven to eight hours. Obviously, she wouldn't have enough time, right?

A speed-up plug-in?

Yes, a speed-up plug-in.

Tong Nian was completely immersed in her own world, trying various methods to increase the download speed, and did not even know that the person behind her was inviting her to go out. Even when Yaya had brought her coat and hat over to her, pulled her up from the chair, and, after helping her put everything on, dragged her out of the dormitory, her mind was still in a fog. "Where are we going?"

"To have ice cream."

"Huh?" Who ate ice cream in March?

Muddledly, she followed her out and was led to a shopping centre not far away, into a little shop that sold handmade ice cream.

Out of the two or three people in the shop, there was one person she knew: the captain of her ACM-ICPC team. "What a coincidence."

The boy hurriedly stood up from his chair. "Yeah, such a coincidence. What do you guys want to eat?"

Yaya's gaze scanned around. "I'm easy. Oh, right. Tong Nian, my mouse is broken. I'm going upstairs to buy one."

Tong Nian gave an "oh, okay" in response.

It was only after Yaya had left that she realized something was not right. Their dormitory room had lots of mice, won from the various little competitions she had participated in or randomly given to her by the Students' Union and teachers in Administration. There were so many that they would not even be able to use them all.

Why did she need to buy a new one?

However, she quickly gave up on pondering on this bizarre question and turned her mind to repeatedly muse over whether those several speed-up plug-ins would be able to finish downloading the game on time. So, for this entire hour of ice cream-eating, the boy in front of her tried to find a variety of topics to chat with her about, but she still ended up bringing the conversation over to the question of increasing download speeds...