Welcome to Your 18th Birthday - Chapter 1
Chapter 1: Xu Du, are you deaf?
The raindrops fell, hitting the glass continuously, making a crisp sound.
In the dim room, the young man sat on a chair, staring at the flashing screen, his fingers tapping the keyboard rapidly.
The upper left corner of the live broadcast room showed a pitiful few dozen popularity points, and there were only a few sporadic barrages.
[Zai Zai has a really nice voice, but he doesn’t talk much.]
[Newbie streamer? Your clockwork proficiency is worrying, how dare you play in master’s level with this kind of proficiency?]
[Although the clockwork proficiency is really low, but in master’s level this mending number is also very bull. Is the streamer playing a small account?]
On the small map, Xu Du controlled the Clockwork Mage to repeatedly pull the strings on the line, and with his delicate operation, he suppressed the opponent’s mid laner.
When the report of our Fiora being killed came again from the top lane, the jungler finally couldn’t help but typed a taunt.
[Teammate] Jungle Ghost Hunter (Prince): Is the top laner an orphan? Do you even know how to play? Fiora’s already like a dog giving away kills and you’re sending one too?
Fiora, who was already being targeted by the opposing jungler, was not willing to be outdone.
[Teammate] The Unyielding God of War (Fiora): How many times has the opposing jungler come to the top lane? Have you been there?
[Teammate] The Unyielding God of War (Fiora): Mid and bottom lanes, have you ever seen the jungler step out of the jungle?
Xu Du did not express his opinion. He controlled Clockwork to quietly go around to the bushes on the upper road.
Our Fiora was once again caught in a one-on-two dilemma. While the enemy’s Prince and Lee Sin’s skills were cooling down, Clockwork flashed in and killed them both with a combo.
Double Kill!
Fox came over to take advantage of the situation, but Xu Du moved around and turned off all his skills, waiting for the CD to finish before counterattacking.
Triple Kill!
With a set of smooth movements and combos, Clockwork killed three enemies directly, and the barrage in the live broadcast room was instantly flooded with amazement and praise.
[??? My mom asked me why I was kneeling down to watch the live broadcast!]
[The streamer is awesome!! The positioning is so detailed!]
[Aaaah! It would be a shame if he didn’t go and be a professional with his hand speed, reaction, and awareness!!!]
Teammates also refreshed two messages along with the barrage.
[Teammate] The Unyielding God of Pressure (Fiora): Bro, I will put you in my family tree right now!
[Teammate] The Unyielding God of War (Fiora): From now on, I will let all my descendants come and worship you.
Even Xu Du couldn’t help but frown when he saw these two messages.
[Teammate] Eclipse (Clockwork): No need, just fight well.
[Teammate] The Unyielding God of War (Fiora): Okay, Daddy!
The bottom lane group realized that the key to victory lies in the middle lane, and the marksman decisively asked the support to protect Xu Du while he himself took on the pressure.
Under Xu Du’s command, the game ended quickly and the enemy crystal exploded.
Victory!
The number of followers in the live broadcast room continued to rise. After Xu Du thanked the audience for their gifts and was about to arrange the next game, he suddenly heard the sound of a key roughly poking into a lock downstairs.
The young man’s fingers suddenly tightened.
“I’m out.” He whispered and quickly clicked the off button.
Almost at the same time, the sound of fists hitting the door echoed throughout the house.
“Xu Du!”
A strong smell of alcohol seeped in through the crack in the door, and the tendons on the back of the boy’s neck suddenly tensed.
Without getting a response from the boy, the banging on the door suddenly turned into the loud noise of slamming the door with the body.
“Xu Du, are you deaf?!”
The door of the room finally couldn’t withstand the constant pounding of an adult man, and Xu Jianhai rushed in. His eyes immediately locked onto the game interface on the screen before he could close it.
“You turned a deaf ear to what I said? I raised you for eighteen years and you turned out to be a trash who only knows how to play games!”
He grabbed the keyboard and smashed it to the ground, and the smell of alcohol mixed with saliva sprayed on the boy’s face.
Without responding to Xu Jianhai’s words, the young man sat quietly in the chair, his eyes numbly fixed on the keyboard that he had worked so hard to save up for two months to buy.
This indifference was like adding fuel to the fire, completely enraging the drunkard. He raised his hand and slapped his own son hard in the face, “I asked you and you didn’t hear me? I’ll make you pretend to be deaf and dumb!”
Xu Du tilted his head, his left ear buzzing. His right hand fell to his side, and his little finger joint trembled slightly uncontrollably.
Rain kept washing the old window glass, and Xu Jianhai turned and left after venting his anger.
Xu Du sat in the chair silently for a while before slowly standing up.
He gently placed the broken keyboard on the table and brushed the broken interface with his fingertips.
The sound of the tin box lid opening mixed with Xu Jianhai’s snoring.
The young man pinched the raised corner of the ID card and stuffed the cracked mobile phone and the ID card side by side into his trouser pocket.
The voice-controlled light in the corridor suddenly lit up the moment the door was opened. Night rain came with the sour smell of alcohol. Xu Du walked down the stairs expressionlessly, stepping on the broken bottles on the ground.
The rusty bus started slowly in the rain and jolted along the flooded road.
“We have arrived at the Street Alley Station. Please be careful when getting off the bus.”
Following the sound of the bus warning, Xu Du stepped onto the stairs in the continuous rain and pushed open the shaking glass door under the faded neon sign of “Zuan Internet Cafe”.
The lights in the Internet cafe are dim, the blue light of the screen floats in the air, and the sounds of keyboard typing and mouse clicking can be heard one after another.
Xu Du walked straight to the front desk and tapped his fingers on the countertop. The girl at the front desk was looking down at her phone. When she heard the voice, she looked up and was stunned when she saw Xu Du’s face.
The boy’s face looked particularly stern under the lights of the Internet cafe, with a high nose bridge and a tight jawline. The small mole at the end of his left eye was faintly visible in the dim light, giving him an indescribable sense of alienation.
The girl at the front desk immediately put her phone upside down on the table. Her ears turned red as she took out the registration form from the side, “Number seat…”
“Seat 16 in the corner.” Without raising his eyelids, Xu Du slid his index finger across the table, pressing the ID card against it, “All night.”
The red light of the barcode scanner scanned the ID card. Xu Du took back the ID card and turned to the No. 16 seat.
The leather swivel chair at seat No. 16 was facing the air-conditioning vent. Xu Du pulled the swivel chair that was soaked with the musty smell of the air-conditioning and sat down.
The yellow-haired man next door was listening to Zuan’s swear words in his earphones, “Assisting your mother in buying vegetables will definitely increase the price!”
The greasy hair ends trembled as the yellow-haired man tapped the keyboard, and the mineral water bottle was shaking on the table.
“Damn! Is this Jie cheating?” The yellow-haired man’s curses kept ringing in my ears.
Xu Du glanced at him, lowered his eyes and pressed the power button.
“This is definitely cheating…” The yellow-haired man’s voice suddenly weakened, with an obvious cry, “Why do the skills seem to have no cooldown time…”
The yellow-haired man’s crying tone was so obvious that Xu Du subconsciously turned his head. It was the first time he saw someone being beaten to tears by an opponent in the game.
The yellow-haired boy’s eyes were red and his snot bubbles popped on the monitor, reflecting a colorful halo in the blue light of the screen.
In the game, next to the corpse of 0/9/1 Yasuo, the enemy Zed was using basic attacks to draw a heart in the river, and the yellow-haired ID “Rage Little Tornado” was spelled as “Suddenly Dead Little Tornado” by the opponent.
“Dude!” The yellow-haired man suddenly turned around, and the hot air with the smell of leeks rushed directly into Xu Du’s face, “Take a look and see if this catastrophe is about to start—”
His arm was still on the back of Xu Du’s chair, but his eyes were glued to the King’s logo on the other person’s screen, and the rest of the words got stuck in his throat and turned into goose calls.
Xu Du frowned and leaned back, keeping a safe distance from the yellow-haired man.
The yellow-haired guy, however, jumped over as if he had discovered a new world, and began to perform a stand-up comedy with half of his nose hanging down, “Dude! Dude!! Look at this bastard who sends me a thumbs-up emoji every time he kills me! Is this something a human would do?”
The Zed on the screen was typing on the public screen.
[Everyone] You are really bad (Zed): Yasuo, your positioning is like an old lady doing square dance.
The yellow-haired man’s wailing instantly rose eight degrees, “He is insulting my e-sports dream again!”
He was about to roll his face onto the mechanical keyboard.
Xu Du quickly picked up the mineral water bottle on his desk and pressed it against the yellow-haired man’s forehead, and finally spoke, “He always calculates when the cannon cart is about to die, and just at the critical moment when you attack, he sends a clone to dodge.”
The yellow-haired man’s tears were hanging in his eyes, “Cannon cart? What cannon cart? My economy is so low that I can only ride a children’s tricycle!”
Xu Du glanced at the yellow-haired man again and took over the opponent’s keyboard.
Yasuo suddenly rushed towards the minions, and the wind wall just blocked Zed’s attack. The moment Zed dodged and changed position, Yasuo’s sword flashed, pierced through the low-health minions, and rolled up a whirlwind to blow Zed into the attack range of the defense tower.
Yasuo killed Zed
Huang Mao’s eyes widened, and when he reacted, he picked up the mouse pad with Yasuo’s head on it and was about to kowtow three times and nine times.
“Dad! Your operation is simply amazing!”
Xu Du once again pressed the mineral water bottle against Huang Mao’s forehead, “Twenty yuan, help you turn the tables.”
Huang Mao stopped his movements instantly, and switched to a flattering smile like an eunuch, “Dad! Your son will buy you another bottle of iced happy water!”
In the following team battles, he led his teammates to play perfect cooperation again and again with his deep understanding and ultimate operation of the hero Yasuo.
As the team battle progressed, Yasuo’s equipment gradually took shape, and the damage became extremely terrifying. In the last wave of team battles that determined the outcome, Xu Du first used the minions to rush into the enemy crowd. After the enemy’s control skills were used up, he decisively activated his ultimate move and knocked the enemy’s key C position away.
The enemy heroes fell one by one, and the advantage of their own team on the screen became more and more obvious. Finally, the crystal exploded and the word victory appeared.
At the same time, the Internet cafe’s broadcast sounded synchronously, “Congratulations to the player at the 15th camera position for using the Yasuo to get a pentakill in the game. This announcement is hereby announced and praised!”
There was a burst of exclamations and whistles in the Internet cafe, and many players turned to look at the No. 15 seat.
Xu Du stared at the victory screen calmly, while the yellow-haired man beside him was dancing around the chair, muttering, “Pentakill, hehe!”
Time passed quietly, and before he knew it, night had fallen.
The lights in the Internet cafe were dim, smoke was lingering, and the sound of keyboards and mouse clicks intertwined.
Xu Du felt a dull pain in his cervical spine. He stretched his muscles and saw the plastic chair at the 15th seat position shaking slightly. The yellow-haired man had left at some point, and was replaced by a young couple who were sharing a milk tea straw.
At this moment, three unread messages suddenly popped up on the cracked phone screen.
[From the reviews, you have never failed as a power leveler?]
[I want to ensure a win rate of more than 90%.]
[Master, do you want to take the offer?]
Xu Du picked up the phone on the table and quickly typed a line of words on the nine-square grid with his thumb.
[Yes, 50% deposit.]
Perhaps because he saw the 99% favorable rating on the homepage, the boss’s transfer arrived almost instantly.
Xu Du heard a slight vibration prompt from his phone, and the notification of the account arrival on the lock screen reflected his slightly drooping eyelashes.
[The account has been sent, play it now.]
The screenshot of the account sent by the boss was quickly transferred to Xu Du’s phone. Xu Du logged into the game, and an ID named “Rabbit is Super Fierce” immediately appeared in front of him.
He glanced at the pink ID that was about to overflow with girlish heart, and the name of another boss who played for him last week involuntarily emerged in his mind – [Strong Man Zhao Tiezhu].
He shook his head and stopped worrying about the name. He clicked on the rune page of “Rabbit is Super Fierce” and began to adjust the configuration.
Xu Du, who was obsessed with runes, did not notice that a message quietly popped up on the top of the phone that was thrown next to the computer and muted, The professional player you follow, VOR-Xian Jiangxian, has opened a live broadcast room, go and watch it~