"Jue-Ge, right on time. We’ve just finished a scenario," Wang Tanzhi said after he adding Feng Bujue to the team.
It was 2:00 AM in the morning. When Feng Bujue got into his login space, he accepted Little Tan’s invitation to join his team.
"You’ve been training very fast." Feng Bujue checked the level of the three players in the team. Last time he met Little Tan, he was still at level 12. Now, he was at the same level with Like Rain and Dispirited, which was level 14.
"I bought EXP cards. Moreover, we’ve just completed a medium-length scenario," answered Little Tan.
"Excellent. You guys go queue and play more, I’m going to check out the Killing Game mode then we will play together," said Feng Bujue.
Dispirited’s voice came along from the call channel. "Don’t forget the signing thing."
"Ah, right. The description says that entering a union could increase the EXP for the team," Feng Bujue said, "so, I’m going to invite you to my conference room and we will discuss there."
He touched the screen to send the conference room invite. After that, he opened the menu to check the link related to the union function. After some touches, a system prompt popped up. [Before you confirm your operation, please make sure your bag has at least one unoccupied slot.]
Feng Bujue touched the confirm button and another window popped up. [Please enter the name of your union and the list of co-signing members.]
Then, he paused and thought, "Yeah. I need to discuss this with them. If I chose a name randomly, it will be fine with Little Tan, but perhaps Like Rain and Dispirited wouldn’t want to sign."
Feng Bujue turned away from the screen and touched the button of the Conference Room. When the elevator opened, he entered the room. The other three were there already.
Little Tan and Dispirited had all changed from the default clothing of newbies.
Dispirited was wearing a full set of anti-terrorism military black uniform. Her whole body was covered, without even a split to be found. If she didn’t take off her black cotton mask and the helmet, she wouldn't look much different from the counter-terrorist organization in CS (1). It was even hard to tell her gender from a far distance. It seemed that she was determined to develop herself in shooting aspect.
Little Tan had bought himself a costume of the "assassin brothers". He was wearing a scarlet jacket, accompanied with a gold cap, which had a hood. If he wore the hood, it could cover half of his face. On his upper body, his waist and calves, there were many leather pockets that could carry flying knives, bullets or medicines. He was wearing gloves and a pair of deerskin fast boots. At the first glance, he did have the demeanor of an assassin.
These two persons were well-armed, but at this moment, they were doing something very contrast to their appearance. Dispirited with her full set of anti-terrorism uniform was having ice cream, and Little Tan the assassin was eating potato chips.
"Hey dude, what is going on with the snacks?" asked Feng Bujue.
"I bought it at the system’s shops," Little Tan said, "although it is just virtual taste sensory simulation, it can ease the desire." He stretched his arm to offer the snack bag. "Jue-Ge, do you want some?"
"I know where to buy them. I mean, why did you buy snacks?" said Feng Bujue.
"Ouch… because they said potato chips are on sale at 50% for the Open Server event…" answered Little Tan.
"Sale-off your head! Just waste your bag’s slots like that!" said Feng Bujue.
Dispirited added, "You can also buy more slots for your bag." She licked her ice cream. "Enlarging the 10-slot bag to 15-slot bag costs one million coins."
"It means 100 RMB for each slot~" cried Feng Bujue. The exchange rate of 1:2000 instantly appeared in his mind. "Yeah, I should be careful with the game coins. There are so many things that need money."
Now, Feng Bujue didn’t have any free money to recharge. He thought that he could earn money from Thriller Paradise, thus, this topic wasn’t a good one to continue. At this moment, Feng Bujue turned around and found Like Rain was standing against the wall next to the door. Of course, with her characteristics, Like Rain wouldn’t buy things like snacks there. When their eyes met, she spoke up first. "I didn’t mean it this afternoon."
"Yeah, it’s alright," Feng Bujue answered, "di… didn’t you tell me in the mail before?"
"So…" Like Rain mumbled, "you are that type…"
"Hmm, what are you talking about?" Feng Bujue could feel that she was implying something.
Dispirited smiled from the table. "My cousin was thinking that you are sort of a guy who can break up with his girlfriend via text message."
"Don’t listen to this kid," Like Rain corrected, "I just thought that you are some kind of a voluble guy."
"Hey, it means…." Feng Bujue felt irritated.
Little Tan laughed out loud. He slapped the table while crumble of chips sprayed out from his mouth. "Drawing blood from the first prick!"
"I can draw blood from you with the first prick!" said Feng Bujue.
Dispirited intervened them. "Good. You boys still have time to troll each other. We should talk about our common business now. Where is the application for the establishment of our union?"
"I still haven’t taken it," Feng Bujue answered, "I just want to ask you guys, what should we call our union?"
"Ah? Now you turn to democracy," Dispirited continued, "yeah, we haven’t considered it yet."
Like Rain said, "Now we are going to discuss it. You guys propose, I’m in charge of objecting the ugly ones."
"Rain-Jie, we haven’t said anything, how do you know it would be ugly?" said Little Tan.
"Oh boy, just several hours of being apart, why does he call you Jie now?" Feng Bujue asked Like Rain.
"You wanna do so?" Like Rain still used the calm and cold voice to answer him.
"I did once, but you told me that I’m not older than you, so it’s not suitable, right?" Feng Bujue said, "If I call you Meizi (younger sister) you will think I’m taking little advantages from you, isn’t it?"
"I’ve forgotten that, but you have just reminded me. So, are you automatically giving up this chance?" asked Like Rain
"Tsk~ who needs that. From the ancient time up to now, named ‘younger brothers’ are the ones who serve you, named ‘emperor’ are the ones who give you nine deaths and still alive. I don’t care about this," Feng Bujue said, "I think Like Rain is a good name to call."
"Cousin, this is so-called ‘loosen the reins only to grasp it better’," said Dispirited with a smile. Although her tone was always mischievous, she usually hit the nail on its head. "She does want you to call her Like Rain."
"If you don’t talk, nobody will think that you are mute." Like Rain rolled her eyes at her little cousin, who just sold her down the river. She casually stepped forward and sat down next to her.
Dispirited stuck her tongue out, seizing the chance and continued, "I suggest our union to be called… Sad Rain Sigh Wind!" Actually, when she started it, she hadn’t come up with anything yet. Luckily, she was quick witted enough to finish her idea.
"Why are your names placed in front of our names?" said Little Tan.
"Do you have a problem with that?"
"Yeah… from now on, maybe we will have more members. Long-Ge would join us too. This name should be considered." Since Little Tan didn’t dare to say ‘I have a problem’, he then tried to express his objection flexibly.
Feng Bujue crossed his arms in front of his chest and said with a musing face, "I suggest… Abnormal Mankind Research Center."
"Veto." Like Rain said calmly just 0.00001 second after Feng Bujue had finished.
"Why?" asked Feng Bujue shamelessly.
"Ugly!" Like Rain didn’t say that. It was Dispirited and Little Tan who said that in unison.
"Dude, spit out one." Feng Bujue didn’t haggle with schoolgirls, but used his threatening eyes to scare Wang Tanzhi. "If you can’t come up with a good one, I will chop you off and feed the piggies."
"Whose verse is that! Who do you think you are playing!" Little Tan cried, "At least, you have to give me some time to think!"
"Anyway, we don’t have a new matter. Everyone, just take your time and think about it." Like Rain leaned against the backrest of her chair.
"First, we should set up the union’s keynote. The unions like Order and The Immortals are all the name of the studios. And the other imposing names like The Invincibles, Emperors, Dominating the World something, are already found in the game. Small Unions like us can’t be compared to others in terms of finance or personnel. Thus, such exposing names should be passed," Feng Bujue said while he was sitting on the conference table, positioning himself as a businessman with 10 interlaced fingers put in front of him. "Second, the names that could cause confusion or lengthy ones which expose the manners of some sort of rotten homebody or fujoshi (2) assaulting the nostrils, we’d better not to consider them. An example of this sort of names is ‘Far East Magic Daytime Sleep Tong’. If we use such type of names, we would be able to draw some brats who are approximately at Little Tan’s mental age to join us."
"Hey! You are the one who did the research! If you didn’t, why do you have such huge information!" cried Little Tan.
"And last one, names in English, Japanese or French, or some pieces of rare languages mixed with Martian are easy to misread, and they are –beep—suspected. So, just cross them then," continued Feng Bujue.
"You can still use the censor sound to say what you want! How did you do that!"
"Good, those are the prerequisites that we are going to brainstorm," Feng Bujue said, "if anybody comes up with a bad suggestion, we will chop Little Tan and feed the piggies."
"Why does it matter to me if the others can’t give a good suggestion!?" Little Tan threw some potato chips to Feng Bujue. "Even if I can’t give a good suggestion, I can’t be chopped off and be fed to the pigs! There’s no setting for this chopping and feeding pigs in this game!"
Naming was an annoying matter. Besides what Feng Bujue had mentioned, there was something else they needed to consider. As they had different interests, even if the name of the union couldn’t satisfy everybody, at least it shouldn’t make some members abhor it. Besides, it would be awful that other people couldn’t understand the union’s name since they had to wear the union’s badge and play with other players. If they had used the name ‘Abnormal Mankind Research Center’, it would have been fine if Feng Bujue wore this logo swaggering somewhere. But if the girls wore this and went out, it wasn’t good since others would consider them as weirdo aunties.
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CS: Counter Strike is a first-person shooter video game which was first created as a tactical first-person shooter video game developed by Valve Corporation which originated from a Half-Life modification by Minh "Gooseman" Le and Jess "Cliffe" Cliffe. By the fourth beta version, Valve Software, the developer who created Half-Life, began assisting in the development of Counter-Strike. In 2000, Valve bought the rights to Counter-Strike, and would publish the title for Microsoft Windows that year, and later in 2003 for the Xbox. OS X and Linux ports were available in January 2013.
(2) Fujoshi: Japanese terms for yaoi female fans, a pun which denotes their way of seeing homosexual relationships in media as being "rotten". The male equivalent is called a fudanshi.
"Jue-Ge, right on time. We’ve just finished a scenario," Wang Tanzhi said after he adding Feng Bujue to the team.
It was 2:00 AM in the morning. When Feng Bujue got into his login space, he accepted Little Tan’s invitation to join his team.
"You’ve been training very fast." Feng Bujue checked the level of the three players in the team. Last time he met Little Tan, he was still at level 12. Now, he was at the same level with Like Rain and Dispirited, which was level 14.
"I bought EXP cards. Moreover, we’ve just completed a medium-length scenario," answered Little Tan.
"Excellent. You guys go queue and play more, I’m going to check out the Killing Game mode then we will play together," said Feng Bujue.
Dispirited’s voice came along from the call channel. "Don’t forget the signing thing."
"Ah, right. The description says that entering a union could increase the EXP for the team," Feng Bujue said, "so, I’m going to invite you to my conference room and we will discuss there."
He touched the screen to send the conference room invite. After that, he opened the menu to check the link related to the union function. After some touches, a system prompt popped up. [Before you confirm your operation, please make sure your bag has at least one unoccupied slot.]
Feng Bujue touched the confirm button and another window popped up. [Please enter the name of your union and the list of co-signing members.]
Then, he paused and thought, "Yeah. I need to discuss this with them. If I chose a name randomly, it will be fine with Little Tan, but perhaps Like Rain and Dispirited wouldn’t want to sign."
Feng Bujue turned away from the screen and touched the button of the Conference Room. When the elevator opened, he entered the room. The other three were there already.
Little Tan and Dispirited had all changed from the default clothing of newbies.
Dispirited was wearing a full set of anti-terrorism military black uniform. Her whole body was covered, without even a split to be found. If she didn’t take off her black cotton mask and the helmet, she wouldn't look much different from the counter-terrorist organization in CS (1). It was even hard to tell her gender from a far distance. It seemed that she was determined to develop herself in shooting aspect.
Little Tan had bought himself a costume of the "assassin brothers". He was wearing a scarlet jacket, accompanied with a gold cap, which had a hood. If he wore the hood, it could cover half of his face. On his upper body, his waist and calves, there were many leather pockets that could carry flying knives, bullets or medicines. He was wearing gloves and a pair of deerskin fast boots. At the first glance, he did have the demeanor of an assassin.
These two persons were well-armed, but at this moment, they were doing something very contrast to their appearance. Dispirited with her full set of anti-terrorism uniform was having ice cream, and Little Tan the assassin was eating potato chips.
"Hey dude, what is going on with the snacks?" asked Feng Bujue.
"I bought it at the system’s shops," Little Tan said, "although it is just virtual taste sensory simulation, it can ease the desire." He stretched his arm to offer the snack bag. "Jue-Ge, do you want some?"
"I know where to buy them. I mean, why did you buy snacks?" said Feng Bujue.
"Ouch… because they said potato chips are on sale at 50% for the Open Server event…" answered Little Tan.
"Sale-off your head! Just waste your bag’s slots like that!" said Feng Bujue.
Dispirited added, "You can also buy more slots for your bag." She licked her ice cream. "Enlarging the 10-slot bag to 15-slot bag costs one million coins."
"It means 100 RMB for each slot~" cried Feng Bujue. The exchange rate of 1:2000 instantly appeared in his mind. "Yeah, I should be careful with the game coins. There are so many things that need money."
Now, Feng Bujue didn’t have any free money to recharge. He thought that he could earn money from Thriller Paradise, thus, this topic wasn’t a good one to continue. At this moment, Feng Bujue turned around and found Like Rain was standing against the wall next to the door. Of course, with her characteristics, Like Rain wouldn’t buy things like snacks there. When their eyes met, she spoke up first. "I didn’t mean it this afternoon."
"Yeah, it’s alright," Feng Bujue answered, "di… didn’t you tell me in the mail before?"
"So…" Like Rain mumbled, "you are that type…"
"Hmm, what are you talking about?" Feng Bujue could feel that she was implying something.
Dispirited smiled from the table. "My cousin was thinking that you are sort of a guy who can break up with his girlfriend via text message."
"Don’t listen to this kid," Like Rain corrected, "I just thought that you are some kind of a voluble guy."
"Hey, it means…." Feng Bujue felt irritated.
Little Tan laughed out loud. He slapped the table while crumble of chips sprayed out from his mouth. "Drawing blood from the first prick!"
"I can draw blood from you with the first prick!" said Feng Bujue.
Dispirited intervened them. "Good. You boys still have time to troll each other. We should talk about our common business now. Where is the application for the establishment of our union?"
"I still haven’t taken it," Feng Bujue answered, "I just want to ask you guys, what should we call our union?"
"Ah? Now you turn to democracy," Dispirited continued, "yeah, we haven’t considered it yet."
Like Rain said, "Now we are going to discuss it. You guys propose, I’m in charge of objecting the ugly ones."
"Rain-Jie, we haven’t said anything, how do you know it would be ugly?" said Little Tan.
"Oh boy, just several hours of being apart, why does he call you Jie now?" Feng Bujue asked Like Rain.
"You wanna do so?" Like Rain still used the calm and cold voice to answer him.
"I did once, but you told me that I’m not older than you, so it’s not suitable, right?" Feng Bujue said, "If I call you Meizi (younger sister) you will think I’m taking little advantages from you, isn’t it?"
"I’ve forgotten that, but you have just reminded me. So, are you automatically giving up this chance?" asked Like Rain
"Tsk~ who needs that. From the ancient time up to now, named ‘younger brothers’ are the ones who serve you, named ‘emperor’ are the ones who give you nine deaths and still alive. I don’t care about this," Feng Bujue said, "I think Like Rain is a good name to call."
"Cousin, this is so-called ‘loosen the reins only to grasp it better’," said Dispirited with a smile. Although her tone was always mischievous, she usually hit the nail on its head. "She does want you to call her Like Rain."
"If you don’t talk, nobody will think that you are mute." Like Rain rolled her eyes at her little cousin, who just sold her down the river. She casually stepped forward and sat down next to her.
Dispirited stuck her tongue out, seizing the chance and continued, "I suggest our union to be called… Sad Rain Sigh Wind!" Actually, when she started it, she hadn’t come up with anything yet. Luckily, she was quick witted enough to finish her idea.
"Why are your names placed in front of our names?" said Little Tan.
"Do you have a problem with that?"
"Yeah… from now on, maybe we will have more members. Long-Ge would join us too. This name should be considered." Since Little Tan didn’t dare to say ‘I have a problem’, he then tried to express his objection flexibly.
Feng Bujue crossed his arms in front of his chest and said with a musing face, "I suggest… Abnormal Mankind Research Center."
"Veto." Like Rain said calmly just 0.00001 second after Feng Bujue had finished.
"Why?" asked Feng Bujue shamelessly.
"Ugly!" Like Rain didn’t say that. It was Dispirited and Little Tan who said that in unison.
"Dude, spit out one." Feng Bujue didn’t haggle with schoolgirls, but used his threatening eyes to scare Wang Tanzhi. "If you can’t come up with a good one, I will chop you off and feed the piggies."
"Whose verse is that! Who do you think you are playing!" Little Tan cried, "At least, you have to give me some time to think!"
"Anyway, we don’t have a new matter. Everyone, just take your time and think about it." Like Rain leaned against the backrest of her chair.
"First, we should set up the union’s keynote. The unions like Order and The Immortals are all the name of the studios. And the other imposing names like The Invincibles, Emperors, Dominating the World something, are already found in the game. Small Unions like us can’t be compared to others in terms of finance or personnel. Thus, such exposing names should be passed," Feng Bujue said while he was sitting on the conference table, positioning himself as a businessman with 10 interlaced fingers put in front of him. "Second, the names that could cause confusion or lengthy ones which expose the manners of some sort of rotten homebody or fujoshi (2) assaulting the nostrils, we’d better not to consider them. An example of this sort of names is ‘Far East Magic Daytime Sleep Tong’. If we use such type of names, we would be able to draw some brats who are approximately at Little Tan’s mental age to join us."
"Hey! You are the one who did the research! If you didn’t, why do you have such huge information!" cried Little Tan.
"And last one, names in English, Japanese or French, or some pieces of rare languages mixed with Martian are easy to misread, and they are –beep—suspected. So, just cross them then," continued Feng Bujue.
"You can still use the censor sound to say what you want! How did you do that!"
"Good, those are the prerequisites that we are going to brainstorm," Feng Bujue said, "if anybody comes up with a bad suggestion, we will chop Little Tan and feed the piggies."
"Why does it matter to me if the others can’t give a good suggestion!?" Little Tan threw some potato chips to Feng Bujue. "Even if I can’t give a good suggestion, I can’t be chopped off and be fed to the pigs! There’s no setting for this chopping and feeding pigs in this game!"
Naming was an annoying matter. Besides what Feng Bujue had mentioned, there was something else they needed to consider. As they had different interests, even if the name of the union couldn’t satisfy everybody, at least it shouldn’t make some members abhor it. Besides, it would be awful that other people couldn’t understand the union’s name since they had to wear the union’s badge and play with other players. If they had used the name ‘Abnormal Mankind Research Center’, it would have been fine if Feng Bujue wore this logo swaggering somewhere. But if the girls wore this and went out, it wasn’t good since others would consider them as weirdo aunties.
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CS: Counter Strike is a first-person shooter video game which was first created as a tactical first-person shooter video game developed by Valve Corporation which originated from a Half-Life modification by Minh "Gooseman" Le and Jess "Cliffe" Cliffe. By the fourth beta version, Valve Software, the developer who created Half-Life, began assisting in the development of Counter-Strike. In 2000, Valve bought the rights to Counter-Strike, and would publish the title for Microsoft Windows that year, and later in 2003 for the Xbox. OS X and Linux ports were available in January 2013.
(2) Fujoshi: Japanese terms for yaoi female fans, a pun which denotes their way of seeing homosexual relationships in media as being "rotten". The male equivalent is called a fudanshi.
