Chapter 77: The water seems to be rising higher and higher.
After lunch, Lu Zhiyin began to busy herself with various tasks.
She first spent half an hour washing the school uniform that Long Qinxin had lent her. As it was a rainy day and she couldn’t hang the clothes out to dry, she dug out a fan from a corner of her home and hung the clothes on it to dry.
Water dripped onto the floor, making some of the ceramic tiles wet, but Lu Zhiyin didn’t pay much attention as her wheelchair tires were non-slip.
After washing the clothes, Lu Zhiyin started writing her novel again. On rainy days, listening to the increasingly loud rain outside, Lu Zhiyin’s thoughts flowed like a spring, and strings of words were typed out by her.
Although her writing style was not perfect, her sentences were coherent and easy to read.
She continued typing until it was almost dark before stopping.
In an afternoon, she had written eight thousand words. She casually posted half of it, turned on the lights in her room, and logged into her Qiuqiu and game accounts to see if anyone was looking for her.
Although she was typing fast today, she wasn’t sure if she would have time to type tomorrow, so she needed to keep some drafts in reserve for emergencies.
While thinking about her novel, she opened the game. No one had contacted her to help them rank up yet.
“…Maybe I should change my avatar.”
Lu Zhiyin touched her chin, thought for a moment, and quickly made a decision.
She took her phone to the door, pushed it open, and took a photo of the dense rain outside. She didn’t care if the photo was clear or not, and casually changed her game and Qiuqiu avatars to this photo.
At the same time, she changed her gender in the game to male. After all, in most people’s perception, males are always better at playing games, aren’t they?
Nodding to herself, Lu Zhiyin was temporarily free, so she decided to start a game. On one hand, it was to maintain her feel and skills, and on the other hand, it was to promote her reputation as much as possible.
She skillfully selected her signature hero and, as usual, won the game in six minutes with a thunderous performance. However, unlike before, this time Lu Zhiyin advertised a little.
“Contact me to rank up. Cheap, fast, and guaranteed. Full refund if you don’t rank up.”
She was still not very good at these things, but she had made a decent start.
After one game ended, Lu Zhiyin closed her eyes to rest, quietly listening to the rain outside.
At some point, the accumulated water was only one centimeter away from the door. It wouldn’t be long before the water would flood into the room.
It was only then that she noticed this problem.
If the water flooded the room, she wouldn’t be too affected, as she was usually in her wheelchair. However, it would be different for the furniture and some of the appliances placed on the ground.
“…Tsk…”
She looked up at the sky, which had become dark and heavy again, and felt a bit suffocated.
The heavy rain now was much more annoying than the light rain in the morning.
Her phone coincidentally beeped with a Qiuqiu message, further worsening her already gloomy mood.
“Is it Leng Qing Qiu again?”
She instinctively thought Leng Qing Qiu had something to ask her again. When she opened Qiuqiu, she didn’t see Leng Qing Qiu, but Ziyan, her client.
“Why did you change your avatar?”
It was a strange question, and Lu Zhiyin didn’t understand why she was asking about her avatar.
Were they that close?
“Because with a little girl’s avatar, no one looked for me for carries. Besides, my previous avatar was just a stock photo, so it doesn’t matter if I changed it.”
Lu Zhiyin briefly explained the reason for changing her avatar, not expecting this client to send her anything further.
However, she was wrong again.
“Can you play a game with me? Do you have a companionship service?”
The text in the chat box made Lu Zhiyin feel a bit flustered.
Companionship… Did she consider the possibility of being a companion? After all, companions earned more money than boosters. However, she knew that her speaking skills were not good, and she wasn’t good at pleasing people, so she probably had no chance of becoming a companion.
“Where are you?”
As Lu Zhiyin was thinking, the client on the other side seemed to be losing patience and urged her.
“I’m here, I accept.”
Gritting her teeth, Lu Zhiyin accepted this commission.
At worst, she just wouldn’t talk. As long as she could help the boss win, it should be fine?
“Regarding the price, how about five yuan per game?”
This price was actually a bit low, but Lu Zhiyin didn’t really know the industry standards. Five yuan was indeed higher than her previous per-star ranking rate for Ziyan.
Therefore, Lu Zhiyin agreed to the price proposed by Ziyan.
“Okay, no problem. Shall I log in now?”
After typing this, Lu Zhiyin immediately logged back into the game.
When there was a boss paying, the game was no longer a game, but work.
Thinking this, Ziyan went online shortly after.
Lu Zhiyin pulled her boss into her party, didn’t say much, and started the game.
During the hero selection phase, Ziyan turned on her microphone.
“Hello, can you hear me?”
“Yes.”
Replying to Ziyan’s question by typing, Lu Zhiyin casually snatched her most familiar hero, while her boss naturally locked in a support role.
Well… she was the boss, and she had paid, so Lu Zhiyin didn’t need to stop her from doing whatever she wanted.
Casually glancing at the opponent’s lineup, Lu Zhiyin started staring blankly at the rain outside the window.
This rank didn’t really make her take it seriously.
“Can you turn on your mic?”
The boss’s voice sounded in her ears, and Lu Zhiyin snapped back to attention.
She hesitated for a moment, then calmed herself down before clicking on her microphone.
“Of course, boss.”
A voice so sweet it was nauseating came out of her mouth and reached the girl on the other end.
“…?”
In her own bedroom, Zhu Qing was slightly stunned. After a brief communication with this “black slave” enforcer yesterday, she thought this person was male. She only wanted him to turn on his mic because having someone to talk to was slightly interesting.
She didn’t expect this person to actually be a sweet girl, or perhaps this was a voice changer?
It didn’t matter, it was just the internet, anything was fine.
Coming back to her senses, Zhu Qing remained silent. Actually, this voice was quite pleasant, wasn’t it?
“…”
On the other side, Lu Zhiyin hadn’t expected her voice to be so overly sweet.
Her cheeks felt hot… but it didn’t seem difficult? Perhaps it was because she knew the other person was female.
If Lu Zhiyin had to speak in such a cutesy voice to a male, she would probably get so angry she’d die.
Her gaze returned to the phone screen. She suddenly noticed that she had turned on the all-team mic instead of the party mic.
Her face turned even hotter, but fortunately, her teammates showed no unusual reactions.
If nothing unexpected happened, this game would end smoothly as usual.
