Secret Room Book 3 - Chapter 9

Translated by Team DHH at http://dhh-workshop.blogspot.com



Playing Fish Trapped in Secret Room

Book 3: Glory on the Other Side

Chapter 9

“At night?”  He found the timing a bit odd.

She realized she had misspoke immediately,  “No, tomorrow morning. I misspoke….uhm, maybe around noon.”  She discovered that she had made a stupid mistake,  “It’s not confirmed yet.”

She only confirmed the names with Solo, then she left the office directly without confirming the flight time with the secretary.

“Are you guys flying there to watch the K&K A team compete?”  He asked suddenly.

“Umm.  Right.  Just to watch you guys compete.”  Somehow she felt a bit strange saying that.

“We are scheduled to play on the first day, tomorrow.”  He told her directly the exact time.

“Uhm…...I know.”

“If I’m guessing correctly, there is another team in the Guangzhou region which is your target of observation?”

“Uhm.”  She exhaled a breath lightly.  “Buff.”

“Buff is also scheduled for tomorrow.  We’ll be going to the finals directly, so we won’t be there till the afternoon.  Final competition starts at 3 pm.”

……

“Wu Bai?”  She interrupted him with a tiny voice,  “We don’t need to keep talking about work.”

……

He said, “Uhm. I just want to talk to you more.”

She stepped forward a little bit and jumped down one stair, “Then…...explain to me what ACM is.  I heard from Inin that you won the world championship?”

The rain had already stopped on their way here to the club.

Just then, several SP people passed Ai Qing.  They all nodded to her then continued their conversation. She stood right at the bottom of the stairs to the headquarters of the largest esports club and listened to him talk about the competition of another world------A strange subject which she didn’t understand at all, computer programming.

She knew nothing about it at all, but she listened carefully making an interjection from time to time.

They kept postponing their departure time to Guangzhou because Slide’s schedule was too tight.  When Ai Qing finally sat down at the VIP area of the competition arena, the preliminary competition was already about to finish.

SP’s seats were already reserved from the beginning.

When the four of them showed up and filled the empty row of seats, it naturally attracted attention from the audience.

Everyone who played this game and paid special attention to esports competitions knew Slide.

The hottest subject on the forums and Weibo was that SP would be adjusting their player line up at the Shanghai competition, so they paid attention to Bug also.  The captain of the B team was very outstanding, recruited specifically by Baona, and seemed very likely to swap out with the low ranking Xiaomi.

The audience had all kinds of expressions on their faces when they saw that SP’s observation team included the captains of both A and B teams, a manager, and Xiaomi. Amid the discussions among the audience, Ai Qing touched her stomach and whispered to Xiaomi, “I’m famished.”

Xiaomi was a little bit absent minded.  “You didn’t eat on the airplane, but now you say you are hungry.”

“I was airsick.  I didn’t have any appetite on the airplane.”  She continued to mutter,  “Would boss fire me if he knows that we arrived so late that we could only watch the game of the last group?”

Xiaomi forced out a smile, “No. How could they fire you. If anything they’d fire me first.”

Slide, sitting at her right hand side, was concentrating at the list of teams on the large screen and glanced at Ai Qing after he heard their conversation, which silently said: Look, boss really threw a hot potato to you.

Ai Qing shook her own name tag at him: This is the manager’s job.  You better worry about your own competition.

There was a commotion in the audience area suddenly.

K&K’s A team had come into the arena.  And everyone noticed that the captain of the Secret Room A team didn’t wear his most iconic apparel, the baseball hat.  When did this happen?  In America?

Right, he took off his hat in one of the StarCraft competitions in America.

The K&K fans were really boiling.  Suce a handsome person was finally willing to show his entire face.  As the esports industry became more and more like an idol business, it was especially exciting for the fans.

But apparently he didn’t know the side effect he had brought on.  Or, to put it in another way, he was very similar to Gun in some aspects.  They were unwilling to spend even an extra second to understand anybody or anything they were not interested in.

Dt apparently was looking at the VIP area before he sat down.

Ai Qing was looking at him, too.

His short hair softly covered his forehead.  She could only see his dark eyes from the distance, the rest of his expression and features of his face were not very clear, but …...he shouldn’t have any expression on his face, she thought.

He always lacked any sort of expression.

But apparently it wasn’t just her who was looking at Dt inside the arena.

The male commentator responsible for keeping the energy up during intermission also noticed where Dt was looking at.  “Haha.  If I’m not wrong, our K&K captain found his old opponent!”  The female commentator happened to be near the K&K rest area.  She passed the microphone to Dt quickly after she heard the male commentator,  “Do you want to say something to your old opponent?”

He sat down silently without saying anything.

It was…...awkwardly silent.

Translated by Team DHH at http://dhh-workshop.blogspot.com