Chapter 124: Is the Boss Doing a Comedy Livestream Today?

"All that hard work for a quest, and I only get a pack of cigarettes? How unlucky can I be?!" A wave of frustration washed over Fang Qi. "Could these cigarettes actually have some kind of special effect?"

Bewildered, Fang Qi turned the exquisitely crafted metal cigarette case over and over in his hands, inspecting it from every angle, but he couldn't figure anything out.

Right at that moment, a new line of text suddenly materialized on the system panel: Boss Brand Cigarettes are a special system creation. They can awaken one's latent potential, with no side effects.

"Huh...?! Awaken potential?!" Fang Qi stared at the description on the system panel, completely dumbfounded.

It was important to remember that the Sprite and Häagen-Dazs produced by the system had always been luxury items that tasted amazing but did little for one's actual abilities. Consequently, only customers who truly had money to burn dared to eat them regularly; everyone else only indulged occasionally to try something new.

Yet this pack of cigarettes actually possessed the power to awaken one's latent potential?!

"To smoke... or not to smoke...?" Fang Qi fell into a deep conflict. He had finally managed to quit smoking for a few years, and now the system decided to hand him a pack of cigarettes?!

"Should I try one first to see the effects?"

Just then, a sudden knocking sounded at his door: "Boss, someone downstairs says there's a malfunction with a computer in the shop. Do you want to come take a look?"

"A computer malfunction?!" Fang Qi, who had been lying on the bed, snapped upright and scrambled up. "How could a computer in my shop malfunction? Someone must be looking for trouble, right?"

As Fang Qi followed Jiang Xiaoyue downstairs, he heard Xiao Yulv still shouting, "Young master here has never even been to this shop, so how could I suddenly be blacklisted? It must be a malfunction with the shop's spiritual artifacts!"

Fang Qi listened and thought, "Why does that voice sound so familiar?"

"Xiao Yulv!" Fang Qi called out.

"Who's calling me..." The man wearing the zombie mask who had been shouting froze, his heart skipping a beat.

Oh no!

Before he could finish saying "me," Xiao Yulv suddenly felt his body go light, and he went flying out the door once again!

Su Tianji clapped her hands clean and sat back down in front of her computer, her expression icy.

Could he be any more embarrassing?!

On the other side.

"Hmm? The boss is finally out?!"

Opposite Xiao Yulv, two girls draped in black cloaks whispered, "So it's Xiao Yulv. Looks like he won't be playing, which works out perfectly to pull the boss in."

"This is just right." Nalan Hongwu was actually sitting right next to them, let out a cold snort, "That brat beat this old man so miserably last time. I definitely have to beat him back!"

"My hands have been full with city affairs these past few days, all thanks to that kid. Today, I'm pulling him in to give him a beating first!"

"Why did you pull Su Tianji in? Who invited her?"

"It doesn't matter. Anyway, only one person on the opposing side knows how to play, and the rest are all noobs!"

"More than just noobs!" An Huwei gave a sinister chuckle.

They had originally pulled people in just to practice their skills, never expecting that Fang Qi would arrive right at this moment.

"Should we contact Daoist Su and have her coordinate with us when the time comes?"

This time, several of them had secretly practiced their firearm skills in private, and they had specifically loaded a much more complex desert map!

They hadn't expected Fang Qi to run right into them at this exact moment!

Of all the people to trick, he had dared to trick these wily old veterans. This time, they would definitely give him a taste of his own medicine! They would teach this kid a lesson!

"Boss!" Right then, Nalan Mingxiu stood up expressionlessly.

"What? Is your computer malfunctioning too?" Fang Qi glanced at her.

"Want to play Counter-Strike?" Nalan Mingxiu asked.

"Play Counter-Strike with you guys? Your skills are way too poor..." Fang Qi glanced over at the group sitting together.

The expressions of the group twitched instantly, and they cursed inwardly, "Just wait, we'll beat you until you're begging for mercy!"

"It's fine, it's fine! We're just practicing our skills!" The man in the full-face paladin helmet walked over again, slinging an arm around Fang Qi's shoulder and saying, "Come, come, come, let's play a few rounds first."

Fang Qi was dragged along to open the game. Taking a look at the player count, it was quite a few—16 players, an 8v8.

It seemed they had already played a few rounds beforehand, because as soon as he entered the game, he heard a voice announcing a Counter-Terrorist victory.

According to the system's explanation, the Counter-Terrorists were roughly equivalent to a military faction, while the Terrorists required no further explanation, being similar to mountain bandits and robbers. They clearly understood the meaning behind it.

He casually started up a livestream.

"Huh? The boss is livestreaming again?!"

"Rare indeed! It's late at night, and he's finally broadcasting!"

"Is he going to stream Counter-Strike today?"

"Perfect, I always mess up when practicing flick shots with the sniper rifle. Let me watch first!"

Although quite a few people had already started playing the game, because so many people had come today, a good number of them also looked over.

"With so many people, smoking a cigarette shouldn't affect anything, right?" Fang Qi opened the cigarette case and found there were only ten cigarettes inside, which surprisingly came with a compact lighter.

"Who knew the system could be quite considerate sometimes?" Fang Qi's eyes lit up as he took out a cigarette and lit it for himself.

Su Tianji, who was just about to put on her virtual reality headset, also had her face darken. It looked like this round was going to be a bit difficult.

Fang Qi looked at the screen and took a leisurely puff, "Awaken potential...? Exactly how does it awaken it?"

"Doesn't seem to have any effect...?" Fortunately, the cigarette was genuinely aromatic without any strange odors. Fang Qi clamped the cigarette between two fingers while using the keyboard and mouse to operate his game character.

Since it was still the freeze time for buying weapons, Fang Qi glanced at the scoreboard and quickly typed a few words into the team channel: "Are you all newbies? RUSH B."

"RUSH B? What does that mean?" Everyone looked at each other in confusion.

"A new tactic?" The bullet screen was also filled with question marks.

Xue Daolv had only just started playing this game. He picked a submachine gun that he could afford in front of him and looked at Su Tianji with a bewildered expression, "What does it mean?"

Fang Qi's face stiffened. He really had become too accustomed to playing the game normally. He hastily typed again, "Everyone rush to the left with me."

Su Tianji's face darkened a bit more. I went through so much trouble to bring my sect master senior brother out to play Counter-Strike for once, and you can't even play seriously?

"If you want to smoke, just smoke. Why are you giving blind orders?"

Fang Qi: "How about you command then?"

Su Tianji: "..."

The round started, and Fang Qi casually issued a radio command: Follow Me.

"..." Fang Qi's face twitched. System, do you actually have a translation function or not?

But right now, there was no time to care about that much. He spammed a row of "GO, GO, GO" and quickly gathered his people to move out.

"Why are the boss's movements so stiff today?" Watching Fang Qi lead a group of players in a charge, the players watching the livestream quickly noticed the issue.

"His weapon switching speed looks fast, but every single movement is completely rigid."

"This lacks soul entirely."

"Lacks soul."

"...The boss is smoking and operating with a keyboard and mouse." Just then, a comment floated across the bullet screen.

"...Keyboard and mouse operation?"

"Boss, are you serious?"

"Boss, are you doing a comedy stream today?"

"Your tongue slipped and your character's lines came flying out?"

Row after row of comments flooded the screen, the unusually dense crowd today threatening to trigger an absolute avalanche of text.

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