Round 1

The Day That All Earthlings Should Remember

February 15th, 2002 C.E.

A day that all earthlings should remember, especially for our comrade Liu Zuo, living in the Jian Ye District of NanJing City, Jiang Su Province, China.

Comrade Liu Zuo’s name was not Liu Zuo, he was called Liu Zuo (TL Note: The ‘Zuo’ in Liu Zuo’s current name is 左, meaning left, where as his old name, pronounced the same way, is 佐, meaning to assist/serve). It was said that his parents never thought this kid could be a leader one day, the best he can do is probably to serve someone else. “Serve” is a term used in ancient times, nowadays we call these people assistants. In that respect Liu Zuo was rather fortunate, as Assistant Liu would make for a terrible sounding name. Being coined an assistant forever before having a chance to make a name for yourself would’ve been rather boring.

Yet the real reason why Liu Zuo didn’t end up as Liu Zuo is because this guy had a screw lose back in elementary school, always forgetting to write the left half of the Zuo in his name during tests. Tests with a wrong name get a penalty. The penalty went on until Liu Zuo graduated elementary school, when Liu Zuo’s parents finally caught on, might as well change the kid’s name as he enters middle school. From then on, comrade Liu Zuo can proudly wear the name of Liu Zuo. Unfortunately, political study entered the test curriculum in middle school, and everyone became well versed in class conflict, spectrum of politics and so on. Thus, it was only natural that Liu Zuo’s name became a source of jokes. Rather than letting him lean left, everyone called him the “right winger”.

The “Right Winger” suffered until Gaokao, and that nickname was finally dropped. He entered a university neither outstanding nor terrible, right in Nanjing. While Nanjingers don’t have the kind of capital city pride of Beijingers, the feeling that Nanjing is the best city is still prominent. Especially Liu Zuo’s mother, who once commented at the end of a group trip organized by her workplace: “Nanjing really is nice, really nice, really nice! “As for nice in what way, she can’t say, but since then she is deadest on never moving anywhere else.

The “Right Winger” nickname didn’t catch on in university. While some people were tempted to make something of Liu Zuo’s name, such behavior got little attention with everyone in the university busy with romantic pursuits.  Liu Zuo was almost touched by the peaceful life he was finally able to enjoy, and there was more that the fate had in store for him.

 During Liu Zuo’s university time, a certain American from across the ocean named Bill Gates finally popularized personal computers. As per the butterfly effect, our comrade Liu Zuo was introduced to the personal computer as a result of Bill Gate’s work. The goddess of fate blew something into the head of the man that will henceforth be known as “Nerd Zuo” (This is Liu Zuo’s other, more pathetic nickname, bringing it up should be avoided at all costs), and Liu Zuo became a pro software programmer after becoming entranced with computers.

After graduation, Liu Zuo found a job in an IT company on ZhuJiang Road, where he worked as a programmer. The job was neither good nor bad, and the salary neither too high or too low. This all matches Liu Zuo rather well. His main duties in the office are:

(1)   Write codes.

(2)   Help his direct superior (Known as “Baldie Song”) repair IE homepage that was hijacked as a result of access to porn sites.

(3)   Chat girls up on QQ.

(4)   Serve as a keen listener for heart broken girls in the office. Liu Zuo had an impressive service record of comforting sad coworkers for over 100 times over the last two years.

(5)   Clean the office, helping Aunty Wang, the office janitor in maintaining a tidy office environment.

(6)   Fix every messed up computer in the office.

(7)   …...

(N) Play CS, but only when he is working overtime by himself. He hid the game files in a well-hidden folder, so it is unlikely anyone would find it.

        Never mind, let us return to February 15th, 2002 C.E.

That day, a chill breeze was blowing.

Liu Zuo is walking upon Zhu Jiang Road, the Road of Depression. Before the new year, it was the Road of Passion, but now all that’s left after the new year is depression. What's more depressing is that Liu Zuo is still suffering from his failed valentine. While Liu Zuo had chatted up quite a few girls online over the last two years, he doesn’t have the courage when it comes to actually meeting them. Yet there is finally that one love-struck girl that insisted on taking his “first meeting”.

Thus, on Valentine’s day yesterday, besides the lion bridge of Hunan Road, Liu Zuo bought a rose for the girl. His little heart was excited like when China tried to apply to host the Olympics (the 2000 one), and there is no better analogy as both events even ended in the same way, that of a shocking failure.

No matter what kind of mental preparation Liu Zuo had, this historic meeting can only be summarized as “beyond all expectation”. At a glance, it is obvious the girl is from some weight lifting team, yet her voice is sweet as honey. Liu Zuo barfed right in front of Cui’s Tanghulu store. The weightlifter even asked him worryingly “Are you alright?”. Liu Zuo replied: “No worries…..ate too much…. I’ll get used to it if I keep barfing.”

That is how Liu Zuo lost his “first meeting”, but at least he kept his first time. He secretly tossed away the goods he bought from the birth planning store and swore to never meet any internet dates again. Then he thought about it, and changed it to “Must check photos before meeting”. He gazed into the mirror, and in his anguish concluded that things turned out the way they did because “God envy my talents”. Why is it that all the online dates in web novels end up as heavenly beautiful, and I had to run into a weightlifter? There can be no other explanation besides that god envy my talents.

Under this backdrop of sadness, Liu Zuo turned his sadness into power, and played CS for the whole night. The next morning, he walks towards the office with dazed eyes and aching head. At the front, Aunt Wang sees Liu Zuo approaching and says happily: “Little Liu, you gotta help throw away the garbage that was left over from yesterday!”.

Liu Zuo sorrowfully walked towards his seat. Right when he sat down, the social butterfly of the office, Ms.Wu came crying: “Brother Zuo, my boyfriend broke up with me, what should I do? I already lost the courage to live, uwahhh….” Liu Zuo raises his head in pain: “You and your boyfriend broke up? What does that have to do with me?”. Ms.Wu exclaims in surprise and run away crying, all the while saying: “This isn’t the usual Liu Zuo….”

The boss, Baldie Song, hears all that commotion, and peaks his head out of his office door: “Liu Zuo, you came just in time, come in for a moment.”

The moment Liu Zuo enters, Baldie Song hands him a Yuxi cigarette. Liu Zuo immediately understood the situation: “Go ahead, what happened this time?”

Baldie Song: “It’s not what you think today. It seems there is a hacker that got into my computer and made a mess of things. Help me take a look.”

Liu Zuo turns on the computer and begins to examine it: “It is a bundleware that planted a trojan in your computer, have you downloaded anything recently?”

Baldie Song scratched his head and said sheepishly: “Just a couple pics yesterday……”

Liu Zuo: “I’ll help you delete it”

Baldie Song: “Can you save those pics?”

Liu Zuo: “At this point, I can’t even be sure what the hackers did and whether I can fix it at all, we will see about it.”

 Baldie Song gratefully took Liu Zuo’s hand: “Liu Zuo, you truly are a hard working comrade.”

Liu Zuo sat down before Baldie Song’s computer and examined the server, sure enough, it had been hacked. He deleted the trojan, but when he examined Baldie Song’s documents, he found that several of the most important documents had been deleted. That bastard sure went far, as even the backup files had been deleted. The documents included the newest shipment orders, invoices, and the newest partnership plan draft of the Nanjing branch office. Liu Zuo realized that the matter is serious, and immediately called Baldie Song to explain the issue.

Baldie song scratches what little hair he had left and thought about the matter for a moment, and then suddenly asks: “Are you sure you didn’t delete them by accident when you helped me organize the computer?”

Liu Zuo: “I’m not a retard, I…”

Baldie Song waves his hand: “Enough, no more, leave for now.”

Liu Zuo returned to his desk and his neighbor Ah Jay said: “Liu Zuo, are you prepared? The head office from Beijing is sending people to examine the work performance of the first quarters.

Liu Zuo Replies: “Walk your own path, let them examine what they want.”

Ah Jay waves his hand: “You’ve got style.”

Liu Zuo returned to dazing off with his sleepy eyes in front of his computer.

After returning from lunch, Liu Zuo realized that the atmosphere is a bit odd. His coworkers are all looking at him weirdly, and even Ah Jay seems as though he doesn’t want to say much to him. Liu Zuo tried to turn on the computer as usual, but it has been locked and his password no longer works.

Before he realizes what is going on, Baldie Song’s chubby, half-smiling face appears at the office door again.

“Liu Zuo, come in for a moment.”

Liu Zuo walks into Baldie Song’s office. Besides the Baldie, there are two more well-dressed individuals. You can tell that they are the so-called IT Elite with a glance --- One is grey suit grey tie, the other is blue suit blue tie. Baldie Song opens up: “Little Liu, you’ve been with us for sometimes now. You should know our rules, and now this matter puts me in a rather difficult spot.”

Liu Zuo replies: “Just be frank with it.”

Baldie Song looked like he was about to say something, but then looked at the grey suit and hesitated. The grey suit speaks up with a clear Beijing accent: “Liu Zuo, you are terminated”.

Liu Zuo: “Give me a reason first.”

Grey Suit: “You have deleted the most important document of Nanjing branch office…not only that, you also…”

Blue Suit: “installed the game software CS in your computer. Either of these two infractions…”

Grey Suit: “will be sufficient grounds for your termination. But now, we…”

Blue Suit: “wish to save you some face, why don’t you…”

Grey Suit: “write a letter of resignation, and we will count as you resigned.”

These two both spoke up in the same typical Beijing accent, even the pause and turns in their speech are identical. If you aren’t looking, it could easily pass for one person speaking. Liu Zuo thought they must have been working together for a long time to reach this level of spotless performance --- even lovers would have a hard time reaching this degree of coordination. Liu Zuo cannot help but admire the two: “Ok. I resign, but no need to write a letter, let’s just count it as a verbal resignation”. Then he turns to leave.

Baldie Song calls after him, hesitates a while and sighed: “Liu Zuo, you are a good lad.”

Liu Zuo left Baldie Song’s office, and all his coworkers looked toward him. Ms.Wu speaks up with a teary voice: “Liu Zuo, I’ve packed all your belongings in that cardboard box, you can take it and go.”

Ah Jay: “Good brother! I won’t forget it was you who taught me CS. I will always remember you!

The company accountant hands Liu Zuo an Envelope “All your salary and bonus for the month, I didn’t deduct a cent.” She follows up with an alluring smile that one would not expect from a woman with a school age child.

Another employee named Wang hands him a group photo: “Group photo from the Mt.Huang trip last year, we all signed it. Wish you luck! Farewell!”

Liu Zuo: “You guys sure are efficient…..”

As Liu Zuo again walks against the chilly breeze on ZhuJiang Road, it is that time in the afternoon where nothing is happening. Without work and any idea of what to do, Liu Zuo walks into an internet café and logs on to QQ. The profile picture of the girl he met yesterday was constantly shaking, it was the picture of an adorable kitten.

Liu Zuo felt sick again, and he went outside the net café and barfed some more. Now worried about potentially being left with chronic barfing, Liu Zuo braced himself and opened the girl’s message. It turns out that the girl was surprised that Liu Zuo had been so handsome, that he “Far surpassed Takeshi Kaneshiro, and was getting close to Jerry Yan”. She even added that, if she is in a good mood during the next date, she wouldn’t mind spending the night with Liu Zuo --- “In a pure manner”. Liu Zuo starts to feel sick again, “misfortune goes all the way, this is going to be the end of me”, he thought to himself.

Just as he is about to delete the girl from the friend list, a beep on QQ indicates someone is trying to add him. The request noted that the person has important matters to discuss. The person is named “Purple Monster”, and by that ID alone you can tell he ain’t up to good. Below is their conversation record:

Purple Monster: I need your help!

Left: Who are you?

Purple Monster: I am a CSER

Left: Boring~ The old security guard at my company’s front door is also a CSER. (Right after he said this, he realized that it is no longer “my company”)

Purple Monster: I’ll get to the point, I need your help on something!

Left: Speak.

Purple Monster: Avenge me!

Left: Stop. I don’t help people scrap.

Purple Monster: I meant avenge me in CS. I got my ass handed to me on the “Tian Tian Le” server, I need a pro to win it back for me.

Left: Is that so…… I’m not in the mood right now. Just lost my job, don’t even know how I’m going to survive from now on~

Purple Monster: I can pay, 20 bucks, just half an hour. If you win, the 20 bucks is yours.

Left: …………..(Thinking)

Purple Monster: Are you scared to duel others? I heard you are the FPS King of Nanjing.

Left:.. …………..(Continue thinking)

Purple Monster: Please, help me get back at him!

Left:.. …………...(Eureka)

Purple Monster: I beg of you……

Left: I’ll do it. Tell me the time, IP and your ID.

Purple Monster: Shit, I love you! Time is 11:00 – 11:30, IP is 61.218.33.50:27016, server is #2 Tian Tian Le. OP already agreed to provide us with a dueling arena and the server will be locked, only the two sides of the duel knows the password. The password is *******. Don’t forget you will have to use my ID, ZISEYAOMO, pinyin for Purple Monster!

Left: Okay.

Purple Monster: Also, you will have to talk some shit at him to help me get back at him!

Left: Can’t do it, I don’t know how to insult people.

Purple Monster: Five bucks! I will pay you five more dollars!

Left: Fine, but it can’t be too overboard.

Purple Monster: I’ve written a list of insults for him, and I will email it to you. The rest are all in your hands~

Liu Zuo put his hand behind his head and gave a deep stretch. He says to himself: “Well, Liu Zuo, face the heaven’s will! Become a bounty hunter from now on, and let’s get this 25 bucks first!”

He even smiled “I found a new job this soon.”

Leaving the netcafe, Liu Zuo bought two meat buns and ate as he went. Straight ahead, turn left, straight ahead, turn right, Shi Gu Road #28-3-201. He opens his home door and sighs. The room is messy as always, there will never be a miracle happening, nothing to look forward to. “No hard working maiden of the conch, no seven fairy maidens….” He thought to himself: “ All those stories mom told me are lies to fool my young and ignorant self……”

Yet there is a miracle in the room today.

The half of a ban left in Liu Zuo’s mouth dropped straight to the ground, perfect proof for the theory of gravity. He stares blankly at the smiling person in the middle of the room, oblivious to the fact that his bun had hit the deck. Alas, the person in the room is not the maiden of the conch, but a fat old man.

The fat old man spoke up in perfect Nanjing dialect with a smile: “Little Liu, ya’’ back? Shitter’s room’s a mess!”

Liu Zuo: “Landlord, sir……”

Fat old man: “Cut the crap! Hand over the rent for the next month!”

Liu Zuo: “I’m still not used to it when you get so straight to the point without even having a cup of tea first.”

Fat old man: “I am used to it. I’m waiting to fill my pot back home with rice.”

Liu Zuo sighs, and counts a few bills from his salary envelope for the old man. The old man licked his finger and counted the bills, nodded and walked towards the door with a smile on his face. Before he got to the door, the landlord suddenly turned around and asked: “Heard you often play with knives and guns, you wouldn’t happen to be one of them street people, right?”

Liu Zuo was speechless: “Landlord, your grace gives me way too much credit! I just play some CS from time to time, and have nothing to do with the gangs at all.”

The landlord sternly nodded his head: “Hmm. I see ya are rather honest. Tell ya what, The classmate of the old comrade of my brother-in-law’s sister-in-law’s husband is a policeman from the Gulou police department. Don’t ya try any funny business on my turf, or I’ll call the police to fix ya right up!

Liu Zuo returned the stern nod: “Don’t worry, landlord, I will be sure to not disturb the classmate of the old comrade of my brother-in-law’s sister-in-law’s husband no matter what. I am a law-abiding citizen!”

After sending off his highness the landlord, Liu Zuo browsed around the internet. He couldn’t stop thinking about Purple Monster’s commission. After who knows how long, it is finally the agreed upon time.

Time: 23:00PM, February 15th, 2002

Location: 218.66.32.44:27015

Map: ICEWORLD

Liu Zuo stands in the world of ice, dressed in traditional T clothing: little camo coat and face covering stockings, holding an AK47 assault rifle.

No one when he had arrived there, for how long he had stood there, or how much longer he shall wait there. He is just standing there, as though he had been standing there when this world of ice and snow first formed.

His hair waves gently with the wind under the balaclava, his firm gaze extends into the distance from the two holes cut from his mask.

His opponent is finally here.

It is just like two lovers, despite having been longing for each other, remains totally unprepared for a sudden meeting. The two of them gazed at each other, at a loss of words. Finally, Liu Zuo breaks the ice: “I’ve waited for you for a long time.”

“Blame the CTC. It took me a long time to get here, the internet is too crowded.”

“Then let’s start. No nades, flash, or smoke, no camp, anything else goes.”

“Okay……wait a moment. There is something that has to be said.”

“Speak.”

“You are a pig!”

With that, the person leaps up agilely, and begins to shoot towards Liu Zuo. Liu Zuo smiles and darts behind cover.

ICEWORLD, as the name implies, is a world of snow. Unlike maps used in normal matches, it is tiny, and very suited for people to settle deep grudges with one on one duels. It is also good for practice as all kinds of guns are dropped on the floor for the taking. Liu Zuo thought nothing of his opponent, and ran straight for the CT holding his Glock181. His footsteps making crunching sounds on the white snow.

The CT’s ID is indeed F5. Purple Monster already told Liu Zuo that this F5’s shooting really sucks, sucking to the point that even a noob like Purple Monsters knows that he sucks. Liu Zuo can’t figure out why two noobs would take things this far, making it all look like the battle of a century. Oh well, take care of the opponent in half an hour, screenshot the scoreboard and mail it to Purple Monster, and 25 bucks will be in his card. Liu Zuo can’t help but smile.

Just then, he noticed the CT appearing, as he is about to run in and shoot, he felt a powerless daze.

No, that is not an issue with the mouse. Liu Zuo was headshotted by F5, with the USP pistol of CT!

Liu Zuo was first surprised, and then angered. “I am the first group of CSER in China, coming from DF back in the day, and got dinked by a noob with a pistol right at the start?”

In the second round, he again charged with the Glock. Though this time he is a bit more careful. He hid behind a rocky wall, observing for any enemy movement. The ICEWORLD remains silent.

Liu Zuo wonders, could it be that F5 doesn’t know how to attack, and would only defend at one place? Or maybe he disconnected? Unlikely, his name is still on the scoreboard. While he is lost in thought, F5 suddenly appeared like a ghost in the corridor in front.

In that instant, surprise filled Liu Zuo’s heart. The opponent calmly used walking mode to conceal their footsteps to take him by surprise, and from the sound of his shooting he is still using the USP, with a silencer attached. Thoughts raced into Liu Zuo’s head as he returned fire: “Who is he? Who could he be? He dares to charge the enemy without a rifle like me? He is that confident that he can take me out?”

F5 is darting towards cover while shooting at Liu Zuo. Liu Zuo saw the opponent disappear behind the next cover. Liu Zuo had lost over 70 HP, the opponent was accurate and quick. Yet Liu Zuo clearly knows the opponent is wounded as well, the snow covered in blood. He did not hesitate to give chase, one or two more shots will be enough to send the opponent to see Karl Marx. Yet F5 had surprised him once more. Instead of running, F5 waited for Liu Zuo behind cover, the moment Liu Zuo showed his head, two quick shots sent Liu Zuo to Marx instead.

Despite dying twice in a row, Liu Zuo is now calmer than ever. He knows he is facing a real pro --- Only a real pro would make this much out of the most insignificant weapon in CS, the pistol. He stopped rushing in, and cast aside any thought of looking down on his opponent.

At the start of round three, Liu Zuo thought for a second, picked up a M4 and installed the silencer. The moment he picked up the gun, Liu Zuo thought of multiple attack plans. Either stay in the base, and go for quick headshots when the opponent shows themselves using M4’s power and accuracy to decide the battle. Or choosing a direct route to the CT spawn and take the opponent by surprise.

Quickly, he abandoned the first two plans and used the third. He will walk along the left side path with his M4, turn to the right halfway and charge towards the CT spawn in the middle. Thus, unless the opponent happens to choose the exact same route at the start, he can easily take the opponent by surprise. Liu Zuo moved to the left side path.

F5 did not take this route.

Liu Zuo immediately switches to walking, and turns to the right.

Sure enough, a figure darted past. It is F5, he ran straight for the T spawn without seeing Liu Zuo.

In CS, the most important resource is time. At the same level of skill, reaction time and time to shoot will determine life and death. The best way to control time is to control the enemy’s movement while hiding your own. Liu Zuo quickly changed his plan, instead of continuing on to CT spawn, he turned back from T spawn using the middle route. The moment F5 came out of the path, Liu Zuo tapped his trigger and headshotted F5 in three bullets.

After the shooting, Liu Zuo realized two things. One is that the opponent was still using the USP pistol, meaning he still hasn’t used a primary weapon; Two is he lost 56 HP. Liu Zuo’s heart skipped a beat --- The opponent was this far away and taken by surprise, yet still took 56HP off with his pistol, he is no push-over. Liu Zuo smiled, that’s more interesting. He starts to like this F5.

F5 was clearly surprised by Liu Zuo. Regardless of rotating around the map, timing of attack and accuracy of shots, Liu Zuo certainly has a top tier mindset and mechanics. Any real CSER can feel this. So at the start of the fourth round, F5 also picked M4 as his main weapon, and bought armor and helmet as well. He decided to rush straight from mid lane. Strangely, he can’t find Liu Zuo. Not in T spawn, not in any of the paths he wondered around, where did Liu Zuo go?

F5 starts to lose his patience. That kid that died to his USP must be scared now that he got a M4. F5 can hear footsteps around him, but he just can’t find Liu Zuo. F5 wandered around the tiny map over ten times. Finally, when he returned to CT spawn, he saw Liu Zuo crouched at the corner of the wall with his gun, he could almost feel the snarky smile on Liu Zuo’s face. But that is where his path stops. After three shots, F5’s body fell upon the ground, blood dyeing the snowy field read. Liu Zuo walked next to F5’s body and stood for a moment, perhaps in mockery, or perhaps in silent tribute.

The angered F5 insisted on believing that it was simply his misplay. He picked SG522. SG522’s ability to zoom allows it to almost be used akin to a rapid fire sniper rifle, and it's only disadvantage being slower fire rate. He guarded the exit to the right. Sure enough, Liu Zuo’s figure made its appearance. F5 was only able to get two shots off before Liu Zuo made his escape. F5 knew he had injured his opponent. He decided to jump out and give chase. “I Will kill that little bastard”. But the moment he leapt up, the unimaginable happened.

Based on the location where F5 peeked out, Liu Zuo killed him by shooting through the wall. F5 couldn’t believe this as he slumped to the ground. “Wallbang…. He wallbanged me.” F5, mumbled, “Who is he? Who could he be? He can’t be that newbie! Such clear calculation, such calm and decisive shooting…… he is a true pro!”

After 82 rounds, the score is 44:38 with Liu Zuo in the lead.

Since he started playing CS, Liu Zuo had not met such a tough opponent. Even though Liu Zuo is in the lead, the opponent is still stubbornly tough，each round being extremely tough to win. He starts to like F5 more and more. F5’s tactical mindset is clear, which is just like Liu Zuo, though his mechanic is slightly rough around the edges, there is no question his game sense is top tier.

“Heroes of ancient times often cherished one another, shame that I do not know what kind of impressive person this F5 really is?” Liu Zuo thought to himself. If it weren’t for the fact that he is trying to make a living, Liu Zuo truly would’ve liked to get to know this person and play with him together in the future.

“When you become a CSER of my caliber, you truly appreciate the loneliness of a pro. Victory is easy, it is the worthy opponent that is hard to find….” Thought Liu Zuo. “No wonder there are phrases like ‘In loneliness I seek defeat’, sigh…… truly it is lonely to be the hero.”

The half hour time is almost up. F5 began to fight against Liu Zuo with the MP5. This gun fires quickly and is light to carry, though it has fairly serious bullet spreads, its ability to attack on the move can be quite frustrating for the opponents to deal with. Liu Zuo rose to the challenge, grabbed an AK and began to fight the running battle. Two of them ran around the map like a pair of spinning tops. F5 smirked in his heart : “Isn’t it my strong point to win through confusion?”

But it would seem that it is also his opponent’s strong point. F5 could never establish the confusing field of fire he had hoped for --- Liu Zuo simply wouldn’t fall for his traps and tricks. No Matter what F5 tries, Liu Zuo can always locate the real location of F5, and subdue him with powerful firepower and accurate shots.

Finally, F5 could take no more and begin to type.

F5: “ You shitter, give my girlfriend back to me!”

F5: “ Even though you are my older cousin, you can’t bully me like this!”

F5: “ You will definitely be a bad influence for Xiao Mei if she plays MU with you”

Liu Zuo is stunned, this guy looks like a pro, why does he talk nonsense?. This is completely different from what Purple Monster said. Can someone not right in the head play CS this well? Seeing F5 running and typing like he owes the match, Liu Zuo grudging takes out Purple Monster’s insult list from his pants pocket and starts to type.

Liu Zuo: You are too arrogant, wait for me to teach you a lesson.

Liu Zuo: Why don’t you wash yourself up and stuff yourself in a coffin?

Liu Zuo: You want to get in team HOT? Sad~

Liu Zuo typed a few lines and noticed his opponent’s footsteps had stopped. He quietly peeks out and sees F5 standing in place. He took aim at F5’s head and took him out with three quick shots. F5 suddenly got angry and asked：”Why did you shoot me?”

Liu Zuo: “You are just standing there, if I don’t shoot you, who else?”

F5: “You have a point, but that is still a surprise attack. I am looking for the insult list. That insult earlier was the wrong one, hehe, sorry :) “

Liu Zuo almost faints. What kind of guy is this, preparing material ahead of time, and still klutzy enough to get them mixed up. Could it be that he…

The next round starts. F5 starts dropping insults again.

F5: I don’t want to say too much because we are in the same office, but you are way too full of yourself!

F5: What shit can you do besides sucking up to the boss?

F5: I’ll see if you have what it takes to kill me！

Liu Zuo is at a loss for words. Based on what Purple Monster told him, F5 is just a random person he met online, the two never met in person. However, as both play on the same server, they know each other. As F5 sucks but remains arrogant and mean, Purple Monster wants to find a mercenary to put F5 in his place.

Liu Zuo: “Comrade, you got the wrong list again, right? I am Purple Monster!”

F5 took a look, and smiled: “Haha, look at this old brain of mine! My bad, that was my mistake again! It’s all Pinyin’s fault，ZISEYAOMO is such a hard name to remember!”

While F5 was typing, Liu Zuo ran up to him and then took him out with a few more shots. 

F5: “Little shit, you jumped me again!”

Liu Zuo: “My bad, it's just that you are just standing there while typing, that’s too tempting for a killer!”

F5: “You sure ain’t a bad shot.”

Liu Zuo smiles and thinks to himself “Who does he think I am, ain’t a bad shot? But there is something I gotta make sure.”

Liu Zuo: “ Hey, F5, you…” Before he finishes typing, F5 interrupts him.

F5: “Don’t be so full of yourself! I had to see your stupid face in the sever all the time.”

F5: “You can’t even beat me with hacks, you deserve to get tea bagged.”

“Finally got the right insult list.” thought Liu Zuo. Now that they are on the same page, this guy sure is interesting.

“Hey,” says Liu Zuo: “You aren’t the real F5, right?”

F5: “Bullshit, I am the legendary F5. More handsome, stylish, and cooler than F4!”

Liu Zuo: “You are a merc aren’t you? Took someone’s money to help them settle grudges?”

F5 hesitates for a moment, then asks: “Don’t tell me you are also a merc? ….. No wonder your shooting isn’t half bad.”

Liu Zuo admits with pride: “Correct, I am the legendary online bounty hunter. Avenging grudges for gold.”

F5: “How much do you charge per match?”

Liu Zuo: “25 bucks, not much, but not little either!”

F5: “ I charge 50 per, you get what you pay for after all! My real ID is “Dangerous Fart”, you ask anyone out there, and they’d know of my name!”

Liu Zuo: “So you are saying, because you are more expensive, you are better at the game than I am?

F5: “Exactly!”

Liu Zuo: “Then there is no need to waste more words, take a look at the scoreboard! Let’s see who’s the real cheap deal!”