A Race to The Top

"Dear Lubi, you have submitted a family application. Please gather ten like-minded friends within 48 hours of real time and invite them to build a family with you. Please do not wait for the deadline!"

"48 hours," Ling Xiaolu sighed, "I have known less than ten people since I played this game."

"So, who gave you the courage to apply for the family?"

"If you go out to solicit people, you should be able to get enough soon... No, there will be a lot more."

"That's just enough." Ji Meng was very confident about this.

"No, in that case, the family will be your licking dog, and the barking of "husband" and "husband" every day, who can bear it?"

Ji Mengpin made the subtext of Ling Xiaolu, with a smug expression on his face.

"If you can't stand others calling me'husband', just say it, I don't understand it."

Ling Xiaolu: "..."

He was also afraid that Ling Xiaolu would be really angry, and then added: "But what others call me is beyond my control and does not represent my personal position."

Ling Xiaolu: "..."

"Forget it, since you ask me so much, I will help you figure out a solution."

Ling Xiaolu: "...I really beg you. But you don't have any game friends, don't tell me you have to spend money to hire a mercenary brother."

"The mercenary has its own guild and will not join other families. You go home and wait, I will find someone."

Ling Xiaolu returned to Dongye and opened the pet food cabinet to find something to eat. Ji Meng is really good for the babies. Pet food is the most high-end in the game, and it is available in unlimited quantities. Ling Xiaolu has never found the cabinet empty.

So he can eat without restraint, anyway, Ji Meng will fill up as long as he sees the lack of food, and he hasn't found anyone stealing it at all.

He hopped onto the sofa with a bowl full of snacks, and the squirrels all leaned in and huddled with him. They were like a group of fat houses, eating while watching funny live broadcasts. Seeing the funny place, Ling Xiaolu was shaking so much that he almost turned his bowl upside down.

"Good morning, Fawn than!"

Lubi was taken aback, and finally managed to shake the contents of the bowl out.

"Ling Long! You scared me to death!" It only dared to speak so arrogantly when Ji Meng was away.

No one expected that Ling Long was the one who was frightened: "Bird, bird, bird..."

Ji Meng's Fei Chuo had a soft spot for Ling Long, and even though his wings were short, he couldn't stop the enthusiasm that held Ling Long in his arms.

Wrapped in the soft feathers of a bird, Ling Long was almost suffocated.

"save…"

Ling Xiaolu hurriedly stuffed the bowl into the squirrel's arms, rescued Linglong, and hurried away Fatty Tweet.

Ling Long slumped on the sofa, panting, and Ling Xiaolu fanned it with his palm.

"Is it better?"

Ling Long panted and said, "I was scared, scared to death."

After fanning for a long time, the poor little guy was relieved.

"Yunjiu's mask is scary, Li Zheng's vigilance is scary, and Ji Meng raises birds to be scary." Ling Long pretended to howl, "Dear Xiaolubi, I won't be able to stay by your side much."

"...Don't make excuses for your negligence."

Ling Long second returned to normal: "Speaking of dereliction of duty, I only took a half-day off yesterday, and I heard that you broke the game server card?"

"Well," Ling Xiaolu sneered, "I also help you check the quality of the terminal."

"Fortunately, this matter has no effect on me, but my colleagues in the hardware group are unlucky. Ji Meng complained directly to the project manager. They will work overtime to expand the capacity in the next few days."

"That's really sorry, in fact, it can be done without expansion..." Ling Xiaolu felt ashamed after hearing it.

Ling Long waved his tail: "It should have been improved. Whenever large-scale events, the server is always on the verge of collapse. We GMs are half-dead and worried, and have to bear complaints from players. As soon as I go to work today, the customer service department Everyone wants me to thank you."

Ling Xiaolu: ...Why did you do a good thing somehow?

"Then how can you thank me?"

Ling Long thought for a while: "I will give you a dance."

It jumped up and turned in two: "riding the dragon, dragon dongqiang, riding dragon dongqiang dongqiang..."

"STOP!" It was so hot ears + hot eyes.

"Then you say, what do you want to see? I will jump."

Ling Xiaolu's eyes wandered.

"Dear, Xin Shanyun does not allow employees to play games in private?"

"Dear, what help do you need?"

"Dear, I have applied for a family, but it must be established with ten people. If you have a private account, can you help me get a head?"

Ling Long twisted and thought for a moment: "I can't, but I can introduce someone over. This person has a special identity, don't ask, just treat him as an ordinary player."

"Special? Is it more special than my pseudo-green name?"

"I dare not talk about this, I can only promise..."

"What guarantee?"

"His is indeed a green name."

"Hush—" Ling Xiaolu suddenly lowered his voice, "Someone is coming."

There was movement outside. Ling Xiaolu looked at it and saw a little fat man who was about one meter six years old standing outside the courtyard wall, with thick eyebrows, short head, coarse cloth clothes, holding a match-like junior staff, blasting with ice magic. The gate of Ji Meng's house.

It was the first time that Ling Xiaolu saw such an arrogant newcomer. He was quite down-to-earth, but his name was a little girly, Xi'er.

"Hey, what are you doing, boy?"

The little brother glanced at him standing in the yard: "Who are you? Why are you at Ji Meng's house?"

"Do you know Ji Meng?"

"I am his friend."

"Ji Meng still has friends?" Ling Xiaolu suddenly realized, "Did he ask you to join our family?"

"He asked me to help, and didn't say what to do... Wait, is it possible that you are the only friend in his game? Great, I finally saw you!"

Ling Xiaolu froze: "Do you know me?"

"I am Ji Meng's only friend in reality!"

The two shook hands with tears, as if they had met a friend across the dimension wall:

"Nice to meet you."

"I really wronged you."

"You too."

"By the way, have you done the task together?"

"Uh, I did."

"That's good." The old mother was relieved.

The two hit it off.

"Your name is Lubi? Then I will call you Xiaolu, you can call me Xier."

"...Good Xier."

"Speaking of your face is so great, Ji Meng threatened me to come and help, or come to my house every day to stop me, the elementary school bully, you dare to provoke?"

"Don't dare to provoke you. Where's the school bully?"

"Come in a while. By the way, I will go to the nearby town to learn a few skills first. I don't think my spell is great, wait for me!"

After he said, he rolled over and rode on the weasel, and ran away. The weasel is yellow in shit, and his clothes are also yellow in shit. From the back, he has reached the realm of the unity of human and pet.

Unexpectedly, Ji Meng was quite good, and found someone so soon. Ling Xiaolu thought to himself, the only friends in reality are all called, and they are all they have...

The wind is blowing, and the pink petals are dancing in the wind, like snow flying. Ling Xiaolu grabbed a hand in the air and spread out his palms.

"Cherry blossoms?"

Ling Long suddenly became agitated, and his low voice couldn't hide his excitement: "Miss! Miss!"

Ling Xiaolu:?

"The true eldest lady of Xinshan! Our president's daughter!" Ling Long turned his head in excitement. If it weren't a dragon, Ling Xiaolu doubted whether it would rush to kiss the petals on the ground.

However, Ling Xiaolu quickly understood why it was so excited. The cherry blossoms all over the sky gathered into a human shape, with a firm skin, bright eyes, and long golden hair swaying with the wind. The thin armor with silver light envelops the rugged perfect figure-tube top, short skirt, stiletto boots up to the knee. Ling Xiaolu's eyes straightened, what a eldest lady, heroic and graceful!

More importantly, the orthodox lady of Xinshan named Chuqing has a golden name on her head!

"Ling, Ling, Linglong..." Ling Xiaolu stammered.

Ling Long was also fascinated by the beauty of the young lady's flourishing age: "Ah, I didn't expect to be here to meet the young lady..."

"Why didn't you tell me earlier that there are still girls on the appointment?!"

Ling Long turned around in confusion: "Is this important? We didn't restrict men to buying our engagement ring originally?"

"Of course it's important!" Ling Xiaolu shouted in a low voice, "If I had known that there was a girl dating, I wouldn't mind being a pet at all!"

"Fawn than! Calm down!"

The words from the back of his head didn't reach Ling Xiaolu's ears, and he rushed to Chu Qing:

"Miss! Real people don’t show their faces, and they don’t show real people! Don’t look at me like this, in fact I am—"

A string of sweet silver bells interrupted his reckless self-introduction. The lovely Lolita with a double ponytail followed Chuqing and sent it over, and after a round in the air, it fell to the ground lightly. She took Chuqing's arm and called "Master" sweetly.

Ling Xiaolu: o_____o?

"Here?" Chu Qing said hello, then turned around and asked Ling Xiaolu, "What did you just say you were?"

Ling Xiaolu looked up at the golden name on her head with a dull expression, then looked at the pink name on the head of the girl next to her, swallowed the words "human pet", and raised her chin stubbornly.

"Miss, do you still have cherry blossoms?"

With a flick of Chu Qing's fingers, petals fell one after another.

Ling Xiaolu has gone far.

"Where are you going?" the little girl said curiously.

"Don't ask, I just want to leave the world a lonely back."

"..."

"Where are you going?" The ill-tempered voice came from Ji Meng, "I called someone for you, where are you going?"

Ling Xiaolu was brought back to Chuqing by Ji Meng.

"Introduction, this is my sister Ji Qing, her pet is the first bud."

Ling Xiaolu started to introduce himself: "Good elder sister, good elder sister, I am Lubi, Bambi's Lubi."

"I know, you are my brother's gossip boyfriend."

Ling Xiaolu:? ? ?

"Sister!" Ji Meng said loudly.

"Am I wrong? Otherwise, why let us retire the family and help you gather the number of people? The last time you begged me so, you still fell in love with the rare baby I just caught."

"Sister!" Ji Meng flushed with anger, "Didn't I say that I'm not going to mention it!"

Ling Xiaolu was panicked: "My sister left the family specially for us? I'm afraid this is not so good."

"It's okay," Ji Qing wanted to tease him, "it happened that we had a conflict with the former family, and we were going to retire. Besides, we also set the conditions for coming here."

"What conditions?" Ling Xiaolu asked stupidly.

Ji Qing gave him a meaningful look: "You will know."

Chuya popped his head from behind Ji Qing and said quietly: "I am your CP fan!"

"...What kind of fan?" Ling Xiaolu was confused.

"Where's another guy? Why didn't he come?" Ji Meng suddenly raised the volume and changed the subject abruptly.

"Are you talking about Xi'er? He has just arrived."

"What?" Ji Meng's turn was surprised.

"Hi, brother!" Saying that Cao Cao arrived, Xi'er, who had merged with the weasel, ran back up and down again.

Ji Meng repeatedly looked at the person in front of him with complicated eyes, and asked with an extremely uncertain voice: "...Chang Huanxi?"

Chang Huanxi puts away his expression: "Don't call my real name! You are like everyone else. Use your real name when you surf the Internet? Respect others' privacy, okay?"

He squeezed his eyes slyly, the mung bean eyes looked very funny on the bread face, and there was a circle of small pockmarks around the cheekbones. The combination of these things made it hard to look straight.

"Call me Xier."

"Get away, I won't be called such a disgusting name."

Chang Huanxi was helpless: "Then you do it yourself."

"..." Ji Meng held back for a while, "A Huan!"

"No, this name looks like a dog."

Ji Meng couldn't bear it anymore: "Changzi! Do you like to listen!"

"Oh, let's do it, that's it, you can't help it."

He slipped to Ji Qing obediently: "Sister."

Ji Qing also recognized it: "Are you Chang Huanxi?"

"It's me, sister."

Ji Qing smiled: "Why do you make yourself like this?"

Chang Huanxi touched his head angrily: "I've been handsome for more than a decade, and I also want to live a different life."

"Unexpectedly, Xiao Meng would even pull you in to gather the number of people." Ji Qing's gaze crossed him and floated to Ling Xiaolu, still seeing people's heart beating faster.

"That is," Chang Huanxi grabbed Ling Xiaolu's neck with a grin, "After all, Brother Xiaolu is a talent, and I'm too late to meet each other."

The air pressure at the scene dropped suddenly, and the pressure came from the black face of Ji Meng.

Chang Huanxi was stared uncomfortably: "What do you see me doing?"

"Do you want to change your name?"

"Change your name? What's the name? My name is pretty good?"

"Over, son."

Chang Huanxi: "..."

He pulled his right arm back quietly, and touched it subconsciously. It was still there, and it was okay.

"Xiao Meng, how many of you do you have?" Ji Qing asked.

"Six."

Ling Xiaolu hurriedly said, "If there are no accidents, there will be seven. Someone introduced a friend over."

"What about people?"

"I haven't seen it yet."

"It doesn't make sense to listen."

Ji Qing calculated the addition and subtraction within ten: "In other words, before Xiao Meng asked us for help, there were only three of you."

Ling Xiaolu blamed embarrassment: "Yes."

"Courageous courage, come and add a friend."

The people present gave each other thumbs up, and Ling Xiaolu looked left and right at the friend panel. He couldn't believe that he and Missy had "followed" each other.

"We have just retired from the family, and there is a 24-hour cooldown. I hope you can make up ten people during this time."

Ji Qing chanted the teleportation spell, and the special effects that the two people transmitted at the same time were also very beautiful. Chu Ya hugged Ji Qing's waist from the front, and the wind curling the petals took the two off the ground.

Ji Qing smiled: "Chang Huanxi, I wish you a good time."

Chang Huanxi patted her chest and promised: "Don't worry, sister, the recruitment is on my body!"

"Little Lubi, I wish you and Ji Meng have fun too."

Ling Xiaolu: ...Why does his sentence sound different?

Chuya also freed up a hand: "Bye bye!"

"Sister, go slowly!"

Only three men remained at the scene.

"Hey, brother, your game is really fun. You can still bind a password when you cast a spell. My sister was embarrassed to show me just now. You must check this trick."

He took out a match stick.

"Slot!" Frost Archery.

"Fuck!" Ice Cone Technique.

"Mai selling batch!" Bing Yu Shu.

Ling Xiaolu:...

Ji Meng:...

The two turned around and left.

"Hey? Don't go, I haven't finished the demonstration yet, knock on Lima!"

Ling Xiaolu: "I don't know him."

Ji Meng: "I knew each other before, but now I don't know each other anymore."

Chang Huanxi: "Made mentally retarded! Immortal board!"