However, the two little big brothers said on the public screen, “We promised to take you to chicken dinner!”
“Little Big Sister, I think you played well too. Why don’t we add each other as friends after the game ends and have chicken dinner together the next time?”
Most men would be very happy to meet female players in such games. They liked to see themselves as individual heroes, and hoped to act as the protectors or escorts for these female players. It was a mystifying sense of purpose. To them, taking a girl to chicken dinner was much more fulfilling than having chicken dinner themselves.
Little Yichen glanced at Youyou, hesitating. Should he tell them the truth? They would likely be very disappointed and aggrieved, right?!
Still, as Youyou had said, the winners had to be determined eventually. The worst that could happen was to reveal their identities and let the little big brothers decide!
So Little Yichen mustered his courage and said, “Actually… we’re not girls…”
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There was a long dead silence, so dead that Little Yichen thought the game had jammed. The local server of this game had not been released yet, and the current server was unstable with frequent hiccups.
Little Yichen thought the server was seizing up, until he heard a voice on the other end saying incredulously, “What?”
“You’re not girls? I thought you said you were girls?”
Only then did Little Yichen realize that the silence wasn’t due to the game jamming, it was because the two little big brothers couldn’t accept the fact and had gone silent!
Youyou buried his face in his hands, embarrassed.
Pretending to be a girl to play games was too pathetic. There was almost no good gaming experience, and there was no sense of mission to survive to the end. He only felt that he was stumbling along the way, lying low to get by.
Little Yichen explained awkwardly, “Actually… we’re both boys.”
“You guys are using a voice changer?!” The boy sounded angry all of a sudden.
A voice changer was a type of software. When the user launched the software and spoke through it, it would simulate the voices of other characters. Some male players cheated and bought this voice changer. Then, they pretended to be girls to cheat their way to chicken dinner. Players termed such people collectively as “shemales”.
The boy hurried to explain. “It’s not a voice changer! We’re only eleven. Our voices haven’t broke yet… so…”
Before he could finish, he heard a flurry of footsteps. Then the two male players came up to them, clutching their guns.
He heard an angry cry. “Liar!”
Then the boy saw an electric spark on the screen…
Tututututu…
The two male players raked them with AKM guns. Soon, an interface popped up on the screen.
“Keep up the good work, chicken dinner next time!”
The team came in second. Little Yichen was too stunned to respond for a long time.
The two little big brothers had turned on them. Hearing Little Yichen confess his identity as a boy, they shot him and Youyou dead.
“This…” Little Yichen was thoroughly dumbfounded. He had thought of countless endings, but he had never thought that it would end like this! “Hey!”
You can’t do that!
Just because he had lied to them that they were girls, they had turned their backs on them? They had worked together and slain close to 100 players to come to the finals. Did they not have the slightest sense of brotherhood? They were comrades!
Youyou saw the look on Little Yichen’s face, and was finally unable to take it all in. He burst out laughing. “Hahahaha! You’ve been shot to death! Hahaha!”
