Partying all night was not on their schedule. Mei na did not have the will power to get up from bed. Li Huan, who somehow woke up back at the SNFX base, could not wake up either but she had to practice Legend of Ace for the 2019 LOACT.
All of Mei na's workers were sleeping and it was dead silent till 6 am.
For some reason, Ye Muchen was awake at 6 am without any tiredness or dizziness. He brushed his teeth and had a bath as usual. Going up the stairs from the storage room to the main floor, he heard footsteps and sound of a mouse (of a computer) clicking.
Muchen stopped for a moment to make sure it was not his brain playing tricks on him. It was not. "Is there a kidnapper? Maybe someone broke in to play games, I should go check." He thought to himself.
He went up the last four stairs and and opened the door by an inch. Muchen peeked through the gap and saw a figure.
The figure he saw wore a black hoodie, whose hood was not on the head, long, wavy reddish-brown hair and narrow shoulders. Ye Muchen assumed the person was a girl.
He opened the door a little wider and said softly, "Hello?". The chair which was less than twenty feet away, turned around. "Oh, I'm sorry, did I wake you up?" Said a soft voice.
Ye Muchen was quiet for a few seconds.
"We are closed. You can't play."
"I know but my sister owns this place and runs it. She allowed me to come inside."
"What's your sister's name? Also, what is your name?"
"Wang Mei na and I am Wang Xiaohua."
Suddenly, Mei na appeared out of nowhere and said, "We are closed for today, go back to sleep."
Ye Muchen stepped out of the narrow space behind the door and came out. While scratching his head, he said, "I can't sleep so I'll just play."
Mei na didn't have a problem and allowed her worker to play some games. Ye Muchen sat beside Xiaohua, Mei na's sister and saw her gaming skills.
She was the jungler and could not kill even a single monster. Then she went into the bottom lane and was trying to farm the minions but the enemy's Bottom and Support were already there. Again, she died for the 50th time in the past twenty seconds.
Even after her terrible skills, Ye Muchen saw the potential in her to do much better. "Do one thing, go into the bottom lane when atleast one player from your team is there and farm the minions to level up." Adviced Muchen.
Xiaohua was suspicious that he wanted her to loose but she wanted to win as well. She thought changing her strategy(God knows which strategy) would help her level up atleast till 2.
Meanwhile Ye Muchen put his own headphones on, tuned on the computer and started matching. By that time, Xiaohua's team had surrendered as the enemy team had destroyed all their turrets.
Turns out, Muchen and Xiaohua were matching at the same time which coincidentally, landed them in the same team. Just then, she peeked into Ye Muchen's screen to see his user only to figure out he was 'Swan Lord', the best anonymous LOA player.
"You are THE Swan Lord? What!?" Shouted Xiaohua loudly. "Shh." Shushed Ye Muchen. "Don't say it out loud, someone might hear us."
They both played the game together which lasted barely twenty minutes and thanks to Muchen, Xiaohua ranked a star higher.
Whereas Ye Muchen just turned off his computer and said, "I'm gonna go in my room for a bit. It was fun playing with you." He waved at his new friend and went in his room.
He sprung on his bed and took out his phone. He clicked on Amazon and searched for 'Gaming desktops'.
Millions of them popped up on the screen and Ye Muchen liked the designs on them. As he scrolled for five minutes, he found this desktop which he instantly fell in love with.
It was a high-end gaming desktop, Black, very sleek, 30×15 cm and overall it was perfect...or was it? "Forty-five thousand Yuan? That's quadruple my salary!"
His jaw dropped and he had no words left. "Maybe Mei na has some money I can borrow but it definitely won't be enough."
Each LOA gaming team had five main players and one substitute incase one of the member had an injury or unable to play due to some reason. This means that Ye Muchen would need six desktops.
If each desktop costs forty-five thousand Yuan then six would cost "WHAT?" Shouted Ye Muchen with his eyes wider than the gap between the Sun and Neptune. "270,000 Yuan! I can't even afford food from a vending machine!"
Muchen pressed the back button and searched for a desktop which was in his budget, which was, nothing. He decided to search for a monitor instead.
The first option was seventeen thousand Yuan while the second cost forty thousand. "17,000×6 is.....a hundred and two thousand(102,000). I think I have fifty thousand Yuan."
Poor Ye Muchen could not afford a single thing. He continued searching for essential things such as a mouse, keyboard, mouse pad, and so on. "This crap is triple times out of my budget. I have only one idea left."
He turned off Amazon and called Li Huan.
"What?"
"Can you give me some money? I need it badly."
"How much?"
"Like, a hundred... thousand."
There was some awkward silence and after thirty seconds, she cut the call. "Hey! Did she just cut the call? She's literally a millionaire."
He got up from his bed and walked up the stairs to the main floor. "Boss, I need some money." He said to Mei na. "You mean two hundred seventy thousand? No. You want a raise? Get a job somewhere else." Replied Mei na.
"Oh." Muchen sighed and said, "You heard me scream."
"Louder than a construction site."
"Please. I won't ask for more." Begged Muchen.
"Of course you will. You need a desktop, monitor, mouse, musepad, keyboard, gaming chairs, tables and what not." Said Mei na.
Ye Muchen thought of working at another place who doubled his salary but he loved his current job because he could play games whenever business was less. "A lemonade stand? Maybe I would get 0.02 cents per hour." Muchen said to himself.