I will attack as a player!

Chapter 64 Xu Jin

The next morning.

The convenience store door was pushed open.

"Welcome to Neighbourhood Express Store."

Chu Wuji welcomed them while entering the cargo information.

Before he could even look up, a shadow fell over him, blocking the light from the incandescent bulb above Chu Wuji's head.

"Oh my, isn't this little Jiji? He's gotten so strong and muscular in the last few years!"

Upon hearing this unique nickname, Chu Wuji already knew who the newcomer was. He immediately threw a punch at the newcomer's groin, which was barely dodged.

"Uncle Xu, if you keep making me angry like that..."

"Isn't this just called getting used to it?"

Looking up, I saw a burly man wearing a burgundy suit, with his black curly hair tied up in a bun at the back of his head.

Xu Jin, Grandma Zhang's son, was kicked out of the house a few years ago for knocking over the braised pork that Grandma Zhang was steaming for the Chinese New Year. He had to fend for himself.

He had a somewhat thuggish personality. When Chu Wuji was still young, he would take Lei Hu to play marbles and blow up cow dung every day, and occasionally go to the school next to Chu Wuji's to collect protection money.

However, according to Grandma Zhang now, she seems to have become the boss of a large company, and is very young and promising.

The thuggish aura emanating from him hadn't dissipated yet, and even his sunglasses were amber-colored.

Xu Jin casually pulled over a plastic stool from the doorway and sat down in front of the cashier with an air of nonchalance, opening a bottle of liquor from the convenience store's refrigerator.

"Xiao Ji... Wu Ji, my mom told me you have a game that you're looking to get affiliated with a company?"

Xu Jin opened the bottle of wine with an air of arrogance, but didn't drink it.

He's allergic to alcohol; he only opens bottles to show off.

"Tsk, don't waste the wine in my shop. There's a drink over there that looks like alcohol, take that and drink it." Chu Wuji still brought up the existence of Pokémon.

Xu Jin readily agreed and grabbed a bottle of drink. Even though it contained no alcohol, he took a sip and pretended to drink strong liquor, clicking his tongue as if to say, "Then why don't you just work under my company?"

"Uncle Xu's game company?"

"Uh...no, but I just happen to be thinking of making a career change." Xu Jin chuckled. "Don't worry, you definitely won't lose money if you put it in my company!"

"And I guarantee that no big company will force you to give up the copyright. My employees are very clean in their work."

Clean? What a shocking choice of words.

"Okay." Anyway, Chu Wuji didn't care about this. As long as he could earn some money to upgrade the system, even a fly is meat.

"But won't you take a look first?"

"No need to watch anymore, I saw your sister-in-law's live stream last night, she played the game pretty well." Xu Jin raised an eyebrow as he said this: "Your sister-in-law is very pretty. You're usually so quiet, and now you suddenly have something big. I must have been mistaken back then."

"She's not my sister-in-law yet, but she's definitely my type." Chu Wuji didn't explain, but after saying that, he noticed Xu Jin's teasing look and looked back.

Gu Zixin had appeared behind him without his noticing, her face flushed and her eyes darting around.

「!?」

Chu Wuji was startled. How could he not sense Gu Zixin's presence?

No, it's not that my senses have weakened... they've been suppressed!

Looking up at Xu Jin again, Chu Wuji finally understood the implication behind the other's initial greeting.

How could a player's physique change? The so-called "getting stronger" is mostly because the opponent has seen through one's strength.

Suppressing perception is purely for personal amusement.

Uncle Xu is even stronger than I imagined.

"Uh, ah... who is this?" Feeling extremely embarrassed, Gu Zixin quickly changed the subject.

"Uncle Xu Jin, Grandma Zhang's son, will be the agent for the Pokémon game from now on." Chu Wuji didn't feel embarrassed at all; his ego was perfectly transparent.

"Oh, hello Uncle Xu."

"Hey!" Xu Jin's lewd face broke into a chrysanthemum-like smile as he patted Gu Zixin's shoulder. "Since you're calling me Uncle Xu, we're family. Here's a red envelope for you."

"So much! No, no, Uncle Xu, I can't accept this." It seemed that a lot of money had been transferred, which startled Gu Zixin, who waved her hand.

"Keep it; consider it a kind gesture from our partner."

"Wuji, you're being so distant. Shouldn't you say you're accepting it since it's all from family?" Xu Jin said, looking hurt.

"..." Chu Wuji was speechless for a moment: "But by the way, Uncle Xu, what's the name of your company? I'll draft the electronic contract right now."

"The company name... Oh my god, what's it called again?" Xu Jin scratched his head: "Hahaha, it's not that I have a bad memory, it's just that your grandma named the company. It sounds pretty fancy, but it's hard to pronounce. I don't usually call it that."

Xu Jin opened the brain-computer interface and searched for a while before suddenly realizing, "Oh, I remember now, it's called the Blade of Hecate, isn't that pretty cool?"

"Oh, the Blade of Hecate, which Hecate..." Chu Wuji also opened the electronic contract and started writing, then suddenly looked up: "Hmm?"

Hecate's Blade?

Why does that sound so familiar?

Chu Wuji turned around and saw that Gu Zixin was covered in sweat, her eyes were fixed on the cashier, she didn't dare to say a word, and her body was still trembling slightly.

"Uncle Xu, what does your company do?"

"Oh... uh? Housekeeping services? Cleaning services? I'll take on any kind of work."

"Assassin?"

Xu Jin exclaimed in surprise: "Wow! Wuji is truly insightful! I was wondering why Old Lin always praised you for being smart; you even guessed this!"

"..."

This world is too small! When are the developers going to update the map to a larger size?

After a moment of silence, Chu Wuji pointed to Gu Zixin behind him and said, "This employee of mine switched jobs from your company."

"what?"

Chu Wuji had already been very tactful. Gu Zixin had said that the Hecate Blade could only result in death from mission failure; there was no such thing as retirement. Once caught, it would be hunted down and killed.

Fortunately, Xu Jin reacted quickly. After only a moment of hesitation, he hurriedly said, "It's alright. I've approved your resignation application. I'll fire those temporary workers who aren't allowed to resign when I get back."

Chu Wuji remained silent, offering a moment of silence for half a second to mourn the innocent employees of Hecate's Blade.

After that, Chu Wuji took Xu Jin to experience Pokémon again, and finally finalized the cooperation agreement.

Chu Wuji can take 40% of the final net income. Xu Jin plans to start by operating the game online and adding offline blind box lotteries to build the IP.

Chu Wuji knew nothing about these things, so he handed it over to Xu Jin, sending him the server network address of the Pokémon collaboration terminal and letting him handle it.

Immediately afterwards, Xu Jin rushed back to plan layoffs.

After Xu Jin left, Gu Zixin, who hadn't said a word the whole time, finally breathed a sigh of relief, almost collapsing to the ground.

Gu Zixin wiped her thigh: "That scared me to death, thank goodness it was just sweat."

"How come the owner of Hecate's Blade is Grandma Zhang's son?!"

She simply couldn't reconcile the image of the boss who supposedly smeared people evenly on the floor because a subordinate had brought the wrong drink with the kind Grandma Zhang.

But... has my long-standing worry been resolved just like that?

Thinking back to the night she arrived here, she was constantly worried that she might attract the assassin and pose a threat to the boss and Grandma Zhang, and Gu Zixin felt a moment of daze.

Now it seems that the mother of a mafia boss is someone who doesn't even seem to be human.

So you think you're the cleanest one?

No, now even the boss has turned him into someone who's not human anymore...

"I feel like my life story could be written into a novel."