The Secret of the Timeless River

By Lee Duong

As usual, Jiang Yuhan carried the CS-specific equipment on this sunny afternoon and rushed into the fifth Internet cafe that he was going to play this week - Dragon Internet Club Qiyuan Store. In the four days before this, Jiang Yuhan defeated four large-scale Internet cafes in a row, single-on-one and wheel-to-wheel bat

• Language: English
• Publisher: The Secret of the Timeless River
• Release date: May 20, 2024
• ISBN: 9798869386878

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As usual, Jiang Yuhan carried the CS-specific equipment on this sunny afternoon and rushed into the fifth Internet cafe that he was going to play this week - Dragon Internet Club Qiyuan Store. In the four days before this, Jiang Yuhan defeated four large-scale Internet cafes in a row, single-on-one and wheel-to-wheel battles, and was not afraid at all.

There were definitely no more than 5 people who could hit him with two bullets in a head-on encounter. Most of the animals had a stream of blood spurting out of their heads as soon as they saw his shadow flash out, and then they saw a wretched green-skinned bandit holding an AK47 stepping over them, with a cold light reflected on his thick glasses, and then a blue paint was sprayed on the body. In CS, being killed and sprayed with paint is an extremely humiliating thing, but those animals are not as skilled as others, and even if they are furious, they can't do anything to Jiang Yuhan. Sometimes when Jiang Yuhan is having fun, he will change to a knife after killing someone, squat on the corpse and cut the penis hard.

This Internet cafe is very big, and it is one of the best in Chengdu. The configuration of the Internet cafe's machines is also good. The central hall is full of 19-inch LCD monitors, Microsoft IE4.0 mice, and Microsoft red Xuanlong mouse pads. On both sides are flat-screen monitors. When Jiang Yuhan came in, he had already seen the CS screens displayed on the screens of several animals. He smiled calmly.

After Jiang Yuhan converted the Internet card into a membership card, he sat down in front of a relatively new-looking flat-screen monitor. The reason for choosing a flat-screen monitor was that a 19-inch LCD monitor was too large, and it would make the characters look elongated and enlarged, which would look awkward. In addition, there was a fatal flaw in playing CS with an LCD monitor, which was that many dark places could not be seen clearly, and it was easy to be murdered and spray-painted.

After Jiang Yuhan replaced his keyboard and mouse, he turned on the computer, then quickly entered the card number and password, and clicked on QQ as soon as he saw the desktop. After logging into QQ, Jiang Yuhan smiled lasciviously twice, and then opened the Tongba Chat. The so-called Tongba Chat means that you can view all users who have logged into QQ in the same Internet cafe, and you can chat with anyone without adding friends.

Jiang Yuhan randomly clicked on someone's QQ and typed a sentence in the dialog box: Challenge, single CS, those who think you are masters come, noobs get out! Local area network, room name: Rain.

After typing this sentence, Jiang Yuhan copied it, and then sent it to all online QQ users, regardless of gender, one by one. After sending it, he quickly built a host. As soon as the host was built, 10 animals rushed in quickly. As soon as these animals came in, they started to talk a lot.

A beast with the ID of banzhiqiang (as we all know, the local area network can only use English IDs, which means half a gun) typed out a line: MD, the headset is broken, I can only listen but not speak, broken internet bar! Rain, you are so arrogant, I will beat you to death. Do you think you are the Korean Rain?

Another animal with the ID buhuiAWP was even more arrogant: Damn, my headset is broken, I can't just scold you to death. I'm the worst at playing AWP, I'm going to use AWP to beat you up, and you won't be able to get out of the door.

This kind of people are naturally pretending to be cool. They call themselves people who can't use AWP, but in fact, their best weapon is AWP. The rest of them are the ones who are bullied by thousands of people.

Those with headsets started to curse, saying all sorts of things. Jiang Yuhan was used to it, so he ignored them. CS is about strength, no matter how good you are at talking. A dozen more beasts came in one after another, and judging by their IDs, there seemed to be a few girls. Jiang Yuhan chose the classic Sand 2 map, a map that had been played to death and had produced countless classic battles. A hardcore veteran could walk from the slope of the bandit base to the manure pit outside Gate A with his eyes closed.

Jiang Yuhan waited until they had made enough noise, pressed K, and said into the headset: Can you hear me?

Then many voices answered in unison: I can't hear you. Your headset is broken.

Jiang Yuhan almost fainted, and said in his heart: Damn, what a bunch of idiots. Then he continued: I will tell you the rules. You take turns to play against me each time. Each person has 5 rounds. You can only rush the 'A' gate, and you cannot plant C4. If I lose a round, I lose. Do you have any objections?

One of the animals asked, Don't you have any bets when you challenge the club? What if you lose?

Jiang Yuhan was stunned. Do you need to bet to challenge a club? He had never thought about this question. In the previous four Internet cafes, he just beat people and ran away, and no one asked him for the bet. The beast in this Internet cafe was indeed different. He even asked for the bet before letting him beat people. Obviously, no matter what the bet was , he could not lose. In recent years, few people in the whole Chengdu city dared to challenge him one-on-one. That's why he ran to the Internet cafe to abuse ignorant beasts. Just a year ago, when he defeated his last opponent CK007 and became the real number one in Chengdu, he was lonely as a master. No one challenged him. When he was bored, he could only open dozens of Boots to fight in a melee.

Jin Haofang was accused of using a headshot cheat. He was kicked out every time he entered the game. When all the beasts on the Battle.net saw his ID, they fled. He had changed countless aliases in the past year, and all of them were famous. No one likes to be abused, so when they see the ID of this perverted headshot king, they will run away. The winning rate of several IDs of this beast is more than 95%. Just looking at this data, I am scared to pee my pants. Who dares to fight him? And the 5% he lost was mostly killed instantly by beasts using violent cheats.

Jiang Yuhan thought for a while and said, If I lose, I will never play CS again. If you lose, all of you will change your QQ usernames to Rain is the best in the world. Hahahaha! For a master of Jiang Yuhan's level, the bet of never playing CS again is undoubtedly the biggest bet. CS is his second life.

Hearing his rampant lewd smile, the beasts were even more angry, but they said: Okay, that's it, you may never have the chance to play CS in this life. These people mentioned the ID Rain many times when they cursed, but no one knew that this ID was the champion of last year's CS individual competition, Rain. It seems that these beasts usually don't watch TV or read newspapers, but are just addicted to games, or they are just a group of rookies who don't pay attention to CS at all. If they knew, they wouldn't dare to fight Jiang Yuhan even if they had ten courage.

At the beginning of the game, the specific battle scene does not need to be described, but is repeated dramatically again and again. Jiang Yuhan was a bandit at first, born alone on the slope, while the police headquarters was a group of people. Jiang Yuhan used the shortcut key to buy an AK47 at the beginning of the game, and did not buy any flash or grenade. Then he made eight consecutive super jumps to reach Gate A, squatted in the corner early and aimed at the place where the CT appeared. No matter how the CT appeared, he would be shot in the head.

Within three bullets, they would be shot in the head. Some animals would throw flash bombs first, then jump out and still be shot. Some would squat on the ground and sneak out, only to hear the crisp sound of AK, and their heads would explode. Some would throw smoke bombs to cover, then run into the manure pit with a knife at the fastest speed, but unfortunately they would be shot in the head as soon as they rushed into the smoke, and their bodies would fall back suddenly. The same position was sprayed with paint countless times. It was Jiang Yuhan's turn to be the CT, and he still had the same super jump squatting. It felt more satisfying to shoot the head with the M4 with silencer.

Some animals were so upset after being abused that they didn't care about the rules and rushed directly from the middle gate, went around Jiang Yuhan's back to attack him, but if they failed to hit his head, what awaited them was the azure sky, the clear water, and lying on the ground looking at the blue sky and white clouds. Jiang Yuhan, who had been attacked once, became alert, so that the CT who was preparing for the attack pressed Shift and entered the A gate lightly, just in time to see a wretched green-skinned bandit holding an AK47 aimed at his huge head.

By the end of the fight, Jiang Yuhan's money remained at 16,000, and he occasionally replenished a few magazines, while the group of animals were beaten so hard that they could only rush out with the most primitive pistols to die. The animals were not stupid either, they took a few people as cannon fodder, and used the saved money to buy M4s and threw them to the experts, but they were still killed.

After being abused by Jiang Yuhan 5 times, each of the nearly 20 animals lost their temper. He didn't use heavy hands on the other girls, but used the bandit pistol to change to the three-shot mode and played slowly. Some animals began to complain: This Rain must be using a plug-in, cheating! T him out. The animal who said this was probably sleepy, or his head was stuck in the door, and he didn't even know that the OP was Jiang Yuhan.

Some even swore solemnly: This person is definitely cheating. If he isn't cheating, I'll write his name backwards! If he cheats, his whole family will die!

Jiang Yuhan said through the headset: If you think I'm cheating, you can come and watch me play. I'm at machine 15. As soon as he finished speaking, several animals stood up from all directions, pulled out their chairs and walked towards machine 15. Then they saw a handsome animal sitting at machine 15, holding a Logitech V470 Bluetooth mouse in his hand. Damn! Bluetooth wireless mouse, from Logitech! The keyboard on the table turned out to be an upgraded version of Logitech G15. Just seeing this set of equipment, the animals couldn't help but groan. Professional!! A wireless Bluetooth mouse needs to be installed with a driver, which means that this handsome animal carries a CD with him wherever he goes. He is not afraid of trouble! Jiang Yuhan waited for them to get closer and said, Look carefully. There is no perspective, no automatic aiming.

After that, he continued to fight with a beast. This time, he only bought a Desert Eagle and put away the AK. Then, he used a dazzling super jump to quickly jump to Gate A. The beasts watching behind were stunned. It was the first time they saw such a skillful super jump, which was done in one go without any pause. The shock in their hearts was only two words: master!

Still squatting, the CT took advantage of the fact that someone was watching the game and thought that the other party would not dare to cheat, so he rushed out with an M4 in a high-profile manner. Because he had been abused several times, he finally learned his lesson and knew that Jiang Yuhan would squat in the same place every time. So he jumped out and shot directly at the corner, but he suddenly realized that he didn't hear the beautiful sound of the silenced M4 after clicking the mouse so many times? When he woke up, he found that he was already lying on the ground. The green-skinned bandit on the opposite side was holding a Desert Eagle and jumped over with a super jump. A blue pistol logo was printed on his body. The beast immediately pressed K and yelled loudly: The spectator, did he cheat?

The few people watching the game were still immersed in the shock brought by Jiang Yuhan's superb shooting skills. For a moment, they even forgot to answer. Jiang Yuhan stood up silently and started to unplug the keyboard cable. Then he said in a very awesome way: You are a rookie. You are a rookie! Hurry up and change your online name.

The beasts watching the game got angry when they heard this. After all, they had played CS for several years and were occasionally called masters. Although they could only be abused in front of this pervert, this guy was too arrogant and said such insulting words. At that moment, several people could not help but said, You are amazing. You are so good, why don't you bring a WCG championship back to China? Come and play CF if you dare. If you are still so good in CF, then we will never play shooting games again. After the game, we will change our online names!

It was obvious that these guys were frequent hangers-on in this internet cafe. They knew each other and quickly spoke in unison, forcing Jiang Yuhan to compete with them in CF.

Jiang Yuhan plugged in the keyboard cable that he had just unplugged, then turned around and asked a question that made everyone stumble: What is CF? Several people immediately fell to the ground unconscious.

The animal in machine 16 who was playing CF nearby kindly pointed at his screen and said to Jiang Yuhan, It's this game, it's similar to CS, the Chinese name is: Cross Fire.

Jiang Yuhan took a look and suddenly realized that he had seen someone playing this game a long time ago, but he had always thought it was a special forces unit. Now he knew that this shooting game with exquisite graphics was called CF, which was only one letter different from CS. Jiang Yuhan asked another stupid question as soon as he opened his mouth: Why is CrossFire also called CF? Is it a clickbait? Do you want to take advantage of CS?

The animal playing CF was speechless, but fortunately it was an extremely kind animal. After a long pause, it finally explained: Because its English name is CrossFire, abbreviated as CF.

Jiang Yuhan touched his head and laughed dryly, Oh, I just don't know how to translate it into English. Thank you! The beast was speechless again, and simply ignored Jiang Yuhan, put on his headphones and concentrated on playing CrossFire.

The animal lying on the ground said in a half-dead voice: Do you dare to come? The rules are the same as before. Jiang Yuhan thought about it and felt that this game looked no different from CS. With his top CS level, it should not be difficult to get started, so he nodded and agreed. He didn't know that this nod would start a huge change in his life, so that he could no longer touch the game he loved most, and he could no longer be so powerful that he could beat people to death. Moreover, he went from being a top master that everyone looked up to to a complete rookie.

When the animals heard that he agreed,