"Ah... are you guys going to join the e-sports club?" Yao Yao Ling asked, suddenly remembering why she had come up to call them.

"Uh... um." Leng Yihan paused for a moment, then nodded.

"Okay, come with me. I'm a member of the e-sports club. We all know how strong you are. There's no need to queue up. Just do the test symbolically. Oh, by the way, my name is Qiling. Qi is the Qilin, and Ling is the Lingdong."

184 Esports Department

"Come with me." After saying this, Qi Ling turned and walked towards the entrance of the e-sports department. The boy sitting at the door was busy asking questions and registering something.

“Hey Li Xuan, come here…” Qi Ling looked at Luo Xue who had followed her.

"It's alright, I have to. I'm not very good at playing Oracle, so I'll just give it to Leng Yihan and the others," Luo Xue waved her hand and said.

"Okay, give me three. I've got three big shots here." Qi Ling held out her hand. "Alright, here you go..." Li Xuan said, pulling out three application forms from under the documents and handing them to Qi Ling. He continued questioning the people in front of him, not having time to figure out who had allowed Qi Ling to let them into the department without even the most basic questioning.

Qi Ling turned around and handed three registration forms to Leng Yihan and the other two. Everyone else saw this and wondered why this group of people could get registration forms without queuing.

"Could it be that they got in through connections...?"

"It's not impossible... It really makes a lot of sense, otherwise how would it make sense?"

With this scene unfolding, some rumors were inevitable, but Leng Yihan chose to ignore them. They knew their own strength best.

"Hey, Qiling, this isn't right—you haven't even done the most basic registration. That won't do!" Just as Leng Yihan took out her pen, someone suddenly spoke at the entrance of the e-sports department. Leng Yihan looked up and glanced at her. She seemed to be a senior high school student with black wavy hair cascading down her shoulders and obvious signs of makeup... She didn't look like a senior high school student at all.

"An Qingyi, I remember you're not in our esports department, are you?" Upon seeing the newcomer, Qi Ling's faint smile vanished, replaced by a blank expression.

"Yeah, I just came to see my boyfriend, but it seems I've caught something interesting—so many junior students are waiting, but you're giving others preferential treatment. Have you forgotten Senior Sangendo's philosophy of 'better to have none than to have bad ones'?"

Leng Yihan could also see that these two didn't get along with An Qingyi and were definitely here to cause trouble for Qiling.

"I haven't forgotten Senior's ideals, and I won't." Upon hearing An Qingyi mention Senior Sanjiandao, Qiling frowned, her voice turning cold.

"Huh? So what's going on now? Can you explain it to me?" An Qingyi narrowed his eyes and looked at Leng Yihan and the other two. "...Could it be that you're saying they have the strength to be over 4000 points at the beginning of the season? Don't forget what the senior said: 4000 points at the beginning of the season, 4200 points in the middle of the season, and over 4500 points at the end of the season."

“They have it,” Qi Ling replied, eliciting gasps from the crowd. 4000 points at the start of the season was impossible for most of them, and they were only now realizing how high the threshold for the e-sports department was.

"Pfft, how is that possible... Are you kidding me, hahaha? 4000 points at the start of the season? Them?" An Qingyi chuckled, her eyes filled with disdain as she looked at Leng Yihan.

Leng Yihan raised an eyebrow but didn't say anything. However, he knew that his temper was a bit bad right now. He disliked it the most when others questioned his Oracle technique. If it was someone of the same level or stronger than him, he didn't care how they insulted him. But these clowns... heh.

“Why is it impossible? Technology has limited your imagination. Let me tell you, the current season rankings are: first place is Extreme Cold with 5010 points, second place is Blue Moon with 4990 points, and Sound is ninth place with 4810 points…” Qi Ling said, then suddenly stopped, “Ah, I forgot, you probably don’t recognize the three of them, after all, you’re blind.”

"What do you want to say?" Upon hearing Qi Ling's words, An Qingyi subconsciously observed the three people more carefully. They did look somewhat familiar... but so what?

"Hmm, see? I knew I couldn't tell." Qi Ling's expressionless face turned into one that said, "Li Xuan, look at our three distinguished guests. Do you remember them? Oh right, I forgot to tell you, this is Xuanzi, and his current score is 4010." Qi Ling's last sentence was directed at Leng Yihan and the others.

As for Li Xuan... also known as Xuanzai, he was staring wide-eyed at Leng Yihan and the other two, his mouth twitching as he forced a smile. "Haha, the three of you... it's truly an honor to have you grace us with your presence..."

Unbeknownst to him, the humiliating memory of being forced to jump off a cliff by the five students from Class 1 of the first year of high school during the school festival last semester resurfaced in Li Xuan's mind. That was their worst defeat ever. As members of the e-sports club, they were utterly humiliated—of course, this was understandable, considering that their opponents were the number one player on the God Ranking, Ji Han, and Lan Yue, who had crushed professional players...

"You don't seem very welcoming... But there's no need for you to come, is there? You have to join a club in your second year of high school. I'm pretty good at Oracle, so I thought I'd try my luck in the e-sports club and see if you'd accept me. Looks like... I don't seem very popular." Leng Yihan said to Li Xuan while glancing at An Qingyi.

"Wait...that person...looks familiar?"

"Hey, isn't that guy... the number one on the God Ranking, Extreme Cold?"

Wow, it really does look a bit like it!

"Those two people narrating... Blue Moon and Voice?"

The queue erupted into chaos, complete disarray. Seeing the situation escalating, Qi Ling quickly grabbed Leng Yihan and pulled her inside. Leng Yihan then grabbed Leng Binglan, who in turn grabbed Lin Yin, and Lin Yin grabbed Luo Xue… The group burst into the e-sports club's building, leaving the students from other classes outside, who hadn't expected them to run so fast…

"Hey, is anyone else interested in signing up? To participate in the assessment, you need at least 3500 points, and then you need to score 4000 points within a month to officially become a member of the e-sports department. Anyone else want to come?" Li Xuan shouted loudly, trying to maintain order outside.

As for the people inside... they all felt like they had escaped a disaster and breathed a sigh of relief. At this moment, the curtain separating the two places was suddenly lifted, and a tall boy with short black hair came out to check the situation.

"Phew... Qi De, these three all want to join the e-sports club, and their basic information is all qualified. They just need to pass an assessment. There's also a classmate of theirs. This is Qi De, the 'De' in 'moral education'." After catching her breath, Qi Ling introduced the newcomers to the group of people around her.

"What is Wenbaqi... Hello, I am Qi De, Qi as in shoulder to shoulder, De as in moral education, and I am the current head of the e-sports department..." Qi De made a sarcastic remark before introducing himself.

"Hello, my name is Leng Yihan. Leng means cold, Yi means close, and Han means cold." With Leng Yihan taking the lead, the other two immediately introduced themselves.

"Welcome to the e-sports club, you three. And this one...?" Qi De looked at Luo Xue, who hadn't introduced herself yet.

"My name is Luo Xue. Luo is from Los Angeles, and Xue is from snowflakes. However, I'm not interested in joining the e-sports club at the moment, I'm sorry." Luo Xue smiled gently.

"Hmm, speaking of which... why do you guys look so out of breath? Were you just outside the e-sports department? And why is it so noisy outside..." Qi De asked, suddenly remembering the purpose of his trip.

"Oh, I forgot to tell you." Qi Ling clapped her hands, suddenly realizing, "These three have the game IDs of Extreme Cold, Tone, and Blue Moon. What do you think will happen after they're recognized?" Qi Ling blinked and looked at Qi De.

"Huh?" Qi De looked at the three of them in a daze. "Well... that's how it is." Leng Yihan said softly. Although he was a little embarrassed, he was still quite proud. After all, everyone has vanity. He was really proud to see Qi De's shocked expression.

"..." The silence in the room lasted for a few seconds, during which Qi De's expression was quite interesting, and it seemed that he was organizing his thoughts.

"Is it really... the real person?" Zid asked again.

“Absolutely genuine,” Leng Yihan said, though it seemed a bit strange to use that to describe herself… no, it really was strange!

"Uh... cough cough, even so... the assessment will still have to go through as usual. It's not that I want to spar with the three of you that I insist on making you undergo the assessment!" Qi De said jokingly.

"Senior, your face is practically screaming 'I want to fight you guys,' and what you just said and the strange voice you made just now are all conveying the message that 'I want to fight you guys but I'm too embarrassed to ask, so you have to ask me to'..." Qi Ling complained.

"Cough cough, yeah, I just want to fight, so what!"

Why does this guy seem like such a shameless senior...? Leng Yihan sized up the person in front of her and said, "No problem, the assessment will proceed as usual, but when does it start?"

"Oh! Now, come with me."

185 Three-pronged Wood

“Now,” Zid said.

“Now…?” Leng Yihan was taken aback. Right now… he wasn’t wearing the helmet to log into the game.

"Don't worry about the login issue. Luckily, our previous minister was Senior Sangendou, which is why the conditions are much better now," Qi De said, sighing as he walked back to where he had come from.

Leng Yihan is currently in what looks like the living room of an ordinary family home, separated by a curtain from the view on the other side. Qi De came out from here.

Qi De reached out from behind the curtain and waved to them. Leng Yihan immediately took a step and followed. After lifting the curtain and walking in, the first thing he saw stunned him.

Ten gaming pods, a full ten gaming pods! Keep in mind, these things cost ten times more than gaming headsets, around 30,000 yuan. Ten of them here, that's 300,000 yuan…

"Well, don't worry about logging into the game, the game pod can handle it." Qi De walked to a game pod and opened the door.

It was only at this moment that Leng Yihan realized that Huang Heng and Hetian Yu had disappeared... He hadn't even noticed; they had vanished without a trace.

“Um… Qiling, where are Huang Heng and Hetian Yu…” Leng Yihan asked. “Oh, them,” Qiling said without turning his head. “They’re not from the e-sports club. They’re just here to help out, so naturally they won’t be coming in.”

"I see..." Leng Yihan nodded. It seems that not everyone is from the e-sports department. As she thought of this, Leng Yihan began to look around the rest of the e-sports department.

Besides these ten gaming pods, there was another large item placed in the corner, presumably a server or something similar. In addition, there were ten computers. Although Leng Yihan didn't know much about them, he could recognize where the whole set of machines came from.

"RW's machines... it's a complete set, right... they're rich..." Leng Yihan muttered. If he remembered correctly, RW was a brand with extremely high technology in the electronics industry, involved in all aspects, including the development of the Oracle gaming headset.

“Yeah, that’s why I said if it weren’t for Senior Sanjiandao, you wouldn’t even imagine the current state of our e-sports club… But I haven’t experienced it myself.” Qi De shrugged. Ten computers were arranged in two rows, with five computers facing each other in each row.

It was only then that Leng Yihan realized that the computer against the wall in the row of computers indoors was being used by someone, apparently a female senior student...

"Oh, right, although we mainly handle the Oracles, we also try our hand at other games. In this case, our leader is that guy huddled in the corner playing on the computer." As Qi De spoke, he walked over to the only running computer and, to the woman's bewildered expression, pulled her up…

"Qide, what are you doing!" The senior immediately broke free from Qide, turned around and tripped him with a kick. She was so fast that even if Leng Yihan reacted in time, she probably wouldn't have been able to defend herself. Of course, this was without using her spiritual abilities.

"Ouch! Hiss... Sanjianmu, take it easy, it hurts!" Qi De tried to protect himself with his hand when he fell, but he still fell pretty hard.

"Heh, you're getting too cocky now that my brother's not around. Although I really dislike An Qingyi, it seems I still need to tell her what you usually do outside." The senior, known as Sanjianmu, sneered, her eyes flashing with a dangerous light, and raised her foot to stomp on Qi De.

"Stop, stop, stop! There are still junior students here!" Seeing that Sanjianmu was about to step on him, Qi De quickly crawled back, pointing to the five people standing in front of the ten game pods.

"?" Sanjianmu stopped moving, put his foot down, and looked over stiffly.

"Um... Good afternoon?" Leng Yihan waved awkwardly. Sanjianmu didn't reply, but silently sat down, tied up his originally loose black short hair, put on his headphones, and put his hands back on the keyboard and mouse. Everything was so mechanical.

"Hey, they're new here, aren't you going to say a welcome?" Just as Qi De got up, San Jianmu didn't say anything, still staring at the screen expressionlessly.

"Oh ho, you're shy?" Zid suddenly narrowed his eyes as if he had discovered something new.

But the next moment, he tripped over again as soon as he stood up. Sanjian put his headphones away, stepped on Qide, and walked over, stopping in front of the newcomers.

"Hello, senior!" For some reason, Leng Yihan suddenly felt a deep respect for the senior in front of her. Her fighting prowess was off the charts; she was definitely not someone to mess with...

"Hiss... Hello... My name is Sanjianmu, San as in one, two, three, Jian as in Yang Jian, and Mu as in wood. You can just call me Senior Mu. By the way, did you participate in the assessment?" Senior Sanjianmu's voice was devoid of emotion, completely different from her previous demeanor.

Are you... a little shy?

"Not yet, we're preparing now. Only three people will be tested. This one came in to take refuge because of a little accident. Ah, my name is Leng Yihan, you can call me whatever you want. This is Leng Binglan and Lin Yin, and this is Luo Xue." After Leng Yihan gave a brief introduction, Senior Sister Sanjianmu didn't say anything, but turned around and stomped on Qi De a few more times before pulling him up... no, it should be said that she dragged him over directly.

"There are three of you, right? Qiling, come over here, let's just do 3v3." Sanjianmu beckoned to Qiling, but a hint of displeasure appeared on her face. "Um... Senior Mu, you should do it yourself... I don't really want to fight them..."

"Huh?" A hint of doubt appeared in Sangenki's eyes.

“Xiao Mu, if you don’t want to get tortured, I recommend you let me do it alone…” Qi De said, being dragged along, but San Jian Mu immediately kicked him again: “Who called you Xiao Mu! Who else would get tortured by a few junior students! It has to be 3v3! You two have to come!” San Jian Mu glared at Qi Ling and Qi De.

"This..." Qi Ling's feelings were complicated. "I'm going online first. You're in charge of communication, Qi Ling." San Jianmu opened a game pod and went straight inside, leaving the others bewildered.

“Extreme Cold…you go online first, I’ll add you with my main account.” After hesitating for a few seconds, Qi Ling said to Leng Yihan.

"Oh~ You're the Elf Fairy, right?" Leng Yihan looked at Qiling with great interest.

"...Mind your own business, just log on." Qi Ling's eyebrows twitched; she felt uncomfortable seeing the way Lin Yin was looking at her...

"Alright, let's go online first." Leng Yihan said, and casually opened the game pod next to her. Lin Yin and Leng Binglan did the same without saying anything. It wasn't like the three of them hadn't used the game pod before—only in competitions.

"Phew... Qiling, you go online first. Luo Xue, right? You can use the computer for now. Remember not to shut down the server. Oh, by the way, the computers are all connected to the game pods, so you can watch the matches directly. After turning on the computer, just find a software called spectator. The tutorial inside will show you how to do it, so I won't go into details." Qi De took off his coat and put it on the table next to him as he spoke.

Qi Ling had already opened the gaming pod and climbed inside. Luo Xue nodded in response to Qi De's words, casually sat down in front of a computer, and turned it on without any hesitation. Qi De took a sip of water and then climbed into the gaming pod. Suddenly, the e-sports department was empty and completely silent.

"A divine oracle..." Luo Xue muttered. Her computer had already booted up successfully, and following Qi De's instructions, she opened the spectator software on the desktop...

-

The first thing Leng Yihan did after logging in was to send a friend request to the Elf Fairy. Luckily, she hadn't set it to reject all requests, otherwise the request would probably have failed.

The official team considered that people on the God Ranking might receive many friend requests, or be other celebrities, so they set requirements for friend requests. They could either reject all friend requests or wait until certain conditions are met before making a request.

Anyway, Leng Yihan can't add anyone as a friend except for the top 50 on the God Ranking.

Not long after, the Fairy Fairy accepted Leng Yihan's friend request, further confirming that Qiling was indeed the Fairy Fairy herself. Thinking about this, Leng Yihan felt a pang of regret; she hadn't even recognized her as a student from the same school… But that was understandable, considering she rarely even spoke to her own classmates, let alone people from other classes…

After agreeing for a while, the Fairy Fairy quickly sent him a message.

Fairy Fairy: Free Room 12, Password 197658.

Extreme cold: OK

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