Chapter 421 The best of both worlds

On summer nights, dots of neon lights illuminate the streets and alleys of Yuzhou.

Compared to the bustle of the food street, this street full of entertainment venues is much quieter, and the scent of food is gone in the air.

Xue Yuantong, who was sitting on the back seat of a mountain bike, looked at the brightly lit arcade on the street, and her heart shrank, as if there was something sinister and ominous hidden there.

She was a little hesitant. After all, she had never been to that kind of place.

Growing up, people around her warned her that game arcades were not a good place, they would only make people corrupt and addictive, and their learning would plummet, and there would be no recovery.

It is a place where wild beasts and monsters cannot be touched. There are gangsters with extremely low moral quality there. It is very dangerous for girls to enter.

Various thoughts were intertwined in her mind.

But there is another thought that keeps confusing her, 'Let's take a look, just once, if Jiang Ning is here, there is no danger!"

Xue Yuantong grabbed the corners of Jiang Ning's clothes with her small hands, feeling tangled in her heart.

Jiang Ning glanced back and noticed her confusion, 'I want to go, but I'm afraid.'

He didn't wait for her answer, so he simply stopped waiting and went straight to the door of the game arcade.

Xue Chuchu didn't say anything. She also stopped riding a battery car.

She is just a guest tonight, let him arrange it. Most of the time, Xue Chuchu has no idea.

Outside the arcade, a building similar to a shed with eaves was built. There were several billiard tables in the space below, and several boys who looked like students were having a great time playing.

When they saw the three of them, especially the outstanding-looking Xue Chuchu, their eyes were all sure.

In order to look cool, a boy used the technique of hitting the ball with his back, but his technique was too bad.

Jiang Ning led Tongtong across the billiard table and walked into the lobby, where the proprietress at the counter was watching TV.

"How to sell game coins?" Jiang Ning asked.

"One dollar and four." The landlady said, "It costs three yuan an hour to surf the Internet."

It's quite cheap...Jiang Ning gave me two yuan in exchange for 8 game coins.

He gave Tongtong three, and Xue Chuchu waved her hand to refuse, but Jiang Ning still gave her two.

Xue Yuantong weighed the game coins and looked down. There was a pattern printed on the game coins, which was slightly lighter than a one-yuan coin.

Jiang Ning followed the passage next to him and took a few steps in. The environment became dim and the air became a lot turbid. Jiang Ning mobilized his spiritual power and a wave of air rolled out.

Game music and the murmur of button joysticks emanated.

Where you enter, there are four or five rows of about 30 arcade machines, with seven or eight boys sitting on round stools and playing happily.

Xue Yuantong stared at the picture on the arcade screen. She felt confused at first. Her eyes were dazzled by the display of the smartphone and Jiang Ning.

Jiang Ning's consciousness was fully activated, and he scanned several arcade machines like a detector. He chose the two machines near the corner.

I don’t know how many people have touched the button rocker in the game arcade. The boss rarely cleans it, and there are many sweat stains on it.

Jiang Ning took out a bottle of alcohol, sprayed it a few times, and wiped it with paper.

Xue Chuchu was surprised, did he like to be clean so much? He actually carried alcohol with him.

After sitting down, she started choosing a game. Xue Yuantong said she wanted to play King of Fighters because she had often heard her classmates talk about these games in the past.

Jiang Ning said: "Are you playing?"

Xue Yuantong was stunned on the stool for a while, couldn't hold it in any longer, and said, "How do you insert coins?"

Jiang Ning helped her choose King of Fighters 97 step by step, and she picked up the joystick and joined the battle.

As for Xue Chuchu, after being asked by Jiang Ning, she said she could play anything.

Jiang Ning chose the War of the Three Kingdoms. This is the "fast Qi" version. It has a lot of "Qi" and you can enlarge your moves at will, making the game more enjoyable.

Xue Chuchu didn't know how to play games. It happened that this game was for two people. Jiang Ning invested two game coins and sat down with Xue Chuchu to play for two people.

When choosing a character at the beginning, Jiang Ning chose Ma Chao, and Xue Chuchu asked him what he should choose.

Jiang Ning said: "Zhuge Liang, it's relatively simple."

Xue Chuchu obediently chose Zhuge Liang.

Jiang Ning taught her to move the joystick up and down, and then press the button. Suddenly, with the sound of "Thunder!", thunder and lightning fell all over the screen, hitting the soldier.

Listening to the game music, Xue Chuchu found it quite fun.

Jiang Ning controlled Ma Chao and enlarged his move "Hide and Bend the Plains", and a bunch of flaming leopards rushed towards the enemy.

Their two group attack skills cleared the area very quickly, and most of the minions were killed as soon as they appeared and before they even launched an attack.

On the other side, Xue Yuantong, who had been training hard for the King of Fighters, had improved her skills rapidly. With her strong gaming talent, she actually defeated the final boss. After all, she was not familiar with the mechanism and fell there.

Xue Yuantong was full of confidence and lost the timidity she had when she first entered the arcade. She raised her chin and said provocatively:

"Jiang Ning, do you dare to challenge me?"

"Why don't you dare?" Jiang Ning gave up on Xue Chuchu and sat down with Xue Yuantong in front of a game console.

The game Jiang Ning chose was not a pure King of Fighters 97, it was called The King of Fighters 97 Rise Again, and it was an infinite version.

After putting in the coins, it came to the selection stage. Xue Yuantong chose three girls, Mai Shiranui, Athena, and Lianna.

Jiang Ning chose Orochi, Kusanagi Kyo, and Iori Yagami, who can be called the most shameless heroes.

"Hmph, I'll beat you up later." Xue Yuantong was very proud. Her gaming skills were quite impressive, and Jiang Ning had only seen a few of them.

Today, she is bound to let Jiang Ning know how terrifying and powerful she is.

Seeing her arrogant look, Jiang Ning suddenly laughed.

"Why are you laughing?" Xue Yuantong asked ignorantly.

"It's nothing, just play games." Jiang Ning said with a straight face.

Xue Yuantong: "Look at me alone and beat you three!"

At this time, Chu Chu also came to watch the battle. Without Jiang Ning's help, she was quickly beaten to death by the rebels.

At the beginning of the game, Xue Yuantong controlled Fire Dance and approached flexibly.

Jiang Ning pushed back a quarter of the joystick, the big snake raised his arms, and a white light suddenly lit up on the screen, 'The sun is shining'!

Huo Wu lost a lot of health in an instant, and Xue Yuantong was confused. Is this hero that powerful?

She resisted the blow and tried to charge forward again, but the big snake sent out another black particle, creating a circle of black holes.

Huo Wu lost a lot of blood again.

Jiang Ning added another hit, Sunshine Shining, and Huo Wu died.

Xue Yuantong was completely stunned. When the next character came on stage, she still had no power to resist and was in a hurry.

This time, she woke up and accused Jiang Ning:

"You are a scumbag, you choose a scumbag hero."

Under her strong protest, Jiang Ning manipulated Orochi to be killed and replaced with Kusanagi Kyo.

Xue Yuantong looked at the man on the screen, wearing a jacket, trousers and a white headband. He felt that this man looked normal and shouldn't be a bug.

As a result, Jiang Ning shook the joystick and hit a super kill. A big flame flashed and most of Xue Yuantong's Lianna lost most of her blood.

She huddled in a corner and held on to defend herself, waiting for an opportunity to counterattack. Then Jiang Ning fired four times, directly breaking through the defense and burning her to death.

Xue Yuantong is loveless, she is a game genius, but Jiang Ning actually takes advantage of the game mechanism, which is too abominable.

She also wanted to get the game currency to continue fighting Jiang Ning, but when she touched her pocket, she found that it was gone.

However, Xue Chuchu still had one coin, so she advised: "Tongtong, let's fight the Three Kingdoms War."

Jiang Ning handed the last coin on hand to Tongtong and asked them to play together.

Xue Yuantong chose Zhuge Liang and frantically played with the joysticks and buttons, 'strike with thunder' and 'call for wind and rain', and kept using them.

They fought all the way through the level and actually passed it successfully.

Jiang Ning looked at the time and saw that it was already past 12 o'clock. All the people who had been playing games had left. Except for them, there were only two new men in their early thirties.

Xue Yuantong was still unfinished, and her fingers hurt a little when she rubbed them.

After playing the game, Jiang Ning went to the front desk and got three cups of ice cream. They sat on the bench at the door, taking advantage of the dark night sky and the moon hanging in the sky, using wood chips to scoop out the ice cream and eat it.

After eating the ice cream, Xue Yuantong glanced at her thumb. It was red. She said pitifully: "Jiang Ning, you have blisters."

Jiang Ning took a look and saw that it was true.

She is a talented person. She can make blisters by playing arcade games.

Xue Chuchu: "It's okay, it will be gone tomorrow."

After a few words of comfort, Xue Yuantong felt much better. She looked at the billiard table, with the neatly arranged billiard balls on it, and suddenly asked:

"Jiang Ning, can you play billiards?"

"Yes."
To be continued...