Offside game

After the demolition of the company headquarters began, Liu Jun, following Su Yi's instructions, found the best landscaping company in Yanjing and handed them the landscaping design drawings for the company headquarters. Preparations for the headquarters landscaping project began, including on-site design modifications and the collection of tree species.

Su Yi had the greening design drawings for the Kesai ship to be very detailed. Based on the climate near the headquarters, there were strict requirements for the tree species in each location, so that the final effect would be the best.

Of course, Su Yi had his reasons for starting the greening preparations so quickly. The evolution of the Mother Nest was a recent development, and after evolving into a root-based state, it could assimilate these ground-level plants, making them the terminals for the Mother Nest to absorb energy. At that time, the energy storage efficiency of the Mother Nest would take a leap forward.

As his assets continued to grow, Su Yi had lost interest in making money. In fact, after receiving nearly 200 million yuan in royalties from Tiandi Software, money had become purely a game of increasing numbers for him. He wasn't inherently a person who cared much about money, and his current wealth was enough for him to live a carefree life even without doing anything. After all, in China, most people couldn't achieve his current wealth even after a lifetime of hard work. Everything he did now, including expanding the company and accumulating wealth, had only one purpose besides the sense of accomplishment akin to a seed growing into a towering tree: the ultimate evolution of the mother nest.

Humans are insignificant. From a very young age, Su Yi often felt fear in the dead of night. It was a fear of the unknown; he would unconsciously think about what a person is like after experiencing life and death. He couldn't help but imagine that unconscious state, a permanent slumber. Whenever that happened, his heart would be filled with fear. Whenever this happened, he couldn't help but think about the insignificance of life. Almost everyone spends their entire life busy on Earth, perhaps even just moving between cities. But now, Su Yi has another choice. The ultimate evolution of the Mother Nest is a spaceship capable of traveling through space—a dream for many.

Su Yi is working hard for this dream.

Two weeks into the semester, everyone had started experimenting with skipping classes. Of course, there were exceptions—some exceptional students who brazenly skipped classes within the first couple of days—but even at Jinghua University, such exceptional individuals were extremely rare. Most freshmen, after an initial period of observation, began tentatively skipping classes.

With Su Yi's current memory, the current courses are not difficult for him. However, the initial university life is always novel, so he just experiences it step by step. Recently, due to a lot of work at the company, he has become the king of truancy in his class.

Finally, after lying low for a long time, the girls, disregarding their still-unrecovered skin tone, began to familiarize themselves with the capital city, which they had known since childhood from textbooks.

The quiet dormitory also began its group activities every weekend. Su Yi talked to her at least once a day, so he was quite familiar with their activities. Therefore, he always tried to make time to accompany her. Although shopping wasn't much of a sport for Su Yi, he still found it a bit overwhelming to witness women's tireless comparison and critique of each item. Moreover, they mostly hung out with the girls from the quiet dormitory, and among those girls, only Anjing was holding Su Yi's hand, making him the only male among the girls, which made him quite awkward. When the girls weren't paying attention, Anjing would often look at Su Yi apologetically and occasionally quietly hold his hand, which comforted Su Yi greatly.

Because Ji Feng is currently forming a team to participate in the CS tournament organized by the Free Man Internet Cafe chain, he can't be asked to share the burden. However, being with the girl he likes makes these difficulties seem insignificant. After all, these are things every man has to go through.

To participate in the CS competition, Ji Feng skipped classes even more often than Su Yi. Fortunately, after practicing the Wu Da Heart Method, his memory also improved, so he didn't fall too far behind in his studies.

That day, Su Yi received a call from Ji Feng. He heard Ji Feng's voice on the other end: "Master, I have good news for you."

"Just say it, stop keeping me in suspense." Su Yi said with a laugh when he heard Ji Feng's feigned pause.

"Haha, starting today, I'll be your neighbor. I just signed a rental agreement with Mengyuan Apartments to rent a suite here for a year. But when I came to sign, there were only two suites left, so I had to choose the one with a better location, on the 5th floor. Driver, can you help me move in? I can't tell my roommates about my place, otherwise this place will become their territory again, and how will I find a girl to come here for a romantic getaway?"

Hearing Ji Feng's words, Su Yi was speechless for a moment, as usual. He still went downstairs to Ji Feng's suite. Ji Feng had been to Su Yi's room twice before, and the layout of the room he wanted this time was similar to Su Yi's, only the decor was slightly different. Ji Feng was inside, grinning foolishly at the girls downstairs outside the window. Seeing Su Yi enter, he couldn't suppress his excitement: "Master, I'm finally free, hehe... By the way, Master, just between you and me, did you bring that An Jing back to spend the night? Ouch, Master, that hurts, it's just like my sister's!" After Su Yi patted his shoulder mischievously, Ji Feng immediately became quiet.

Next, Su Yi accompanied Ji Feng to his dorm to retrieve some of his luggage. Ji Feng didn't have much stuff—just a suitcase and a laptop. He hadn't brought his toiletries, explaining that he liked to occasionally stay in the dorm to reminisce about his dorm life. His roommates overheard this and launched into another round of criticism. Before leaving, Ji Feng warned his roommates not to do anything indecent on his bed while he was away, which resulted in them chasing him out…

After putting everything back in Ji Feng's room, Su Yi accompanied Ji Feng on his usual grocery shopping trip. They didn't buy any cooking utensils, since Ji Feng couldn't cook himself. He figured there were plenty of restaurants downstairs, so he could just eat there. He'd save the cooking supplies for when he found a virtuous young woman who could cook. This left Su Yi feeling rather helpless.

After sorting and putting away all the things he bought, Ji Feng couldn't wait to connect the network cable, open his laptop and go online, exclaiming repeatedly, "This place is so convenient!"

Normally, people would cook a meal to celebrate moving, but since Ji Feng couldn't cook, Su Yi simply took him to a restaurant downstairs and treated him to a big meal as a way of celebrating.

During the meal, Ji Feng suddenly remembered something and said, "Oh right, I haven't told my cousin I moved in yet. She'll definitely complain to me again if she finds out. Oh, right, Master, my cousin also lives in this apartment. But she's really scary. Although she's the same type as my sister, with an angelic appearance but a Tyrannosaurus Rex soul, she's even scarier than my sister."

Ji Feng's analogy amused Su Yi. If Ji Yanran knew that Ji Feng had said that about him, she would probably go berserk again.

Ji Feng picked up the phone and called his cousin to tell her the good news about moving. After hanging up, Ji Feng said with lingering fear, "Phew, luckily my cousin went home today. Even so, she almost said she was going to come over and rip me off for a meal. Luckily, I told her I'd treat her another day, otherwise, Master, you would have had to pay quite a bit. She's really scary, scary is beyond words."

"Oh, right." As if remembering something, Ji Feng continued, "I should have invited Master's wife over too, Master." After saying that, he suddenly pulled out a chair and moved to a position where he felt safe, and continued, "I guess she knows about this place too." When he said this, his lewd expression made it easy for others to understand the meaning behind his words.

"Here we go again, kid. You think everyone's like you?" With that, Su Yi picked up a kernel of corn from the plate and flicked it at Ji Feng, hitting him squarely on the shoulder and causing him to cry out in pain.

However, Su Yi also realized that An Jing seemed genuinely unaware that he lived in the Dream Garden Apartment.

While verbally condemning Su Yi's brutality, Ji Feng continued grabbing food from the table. Su Yi, meanwhile, wondered how Ji Feng's team was doing with their training. It seemed the CS tournament was about to begin.

"Don't worry, Master. With my cousin and her two main players, plus the rest of us who are all skilled, we're all ranked within the top 100 on Lechang." At this point, Ji Feng couldn't help but ask, "Master, Lechang really is your creation? So Lechang Network is your company too?" Seeing Su Yi nod in agreement, Ji Feng exclaimed admiringly, "Master, you're truly amazing! You don't know, I just installed the international version of Lechang, and our team often goes to the European and American servers to challenge top players. But it seems the CS section on the European and American servers isn't as popular as the Asian section. However, there are quite a few top players in 'Evolution of History' on the European and American servers." He added proudly, "We also often organize trips to the Japanese servers to kill the Japanese. It's pretty fun, but there's not much challenge; there aren't many top players."

Currently, Lechang's game regions are divided into two main regions: Asia and Europe/America. Each region is further divided into numerous servers. For example, the Asia region includes several sub-regions: China, South Korea, Japan, Southeast Asia, West Asia, and Australia. Each sub-region also has many servers. Outside of China, almost every country has its own dedicated server. Of course, you can also join other servers. Thanks to Lechang's unique data stream compression technology, network issues don't have a significant impact. The only thing that might be affected is language, as these regions primarily use the local official language.

To achieve this, Lechang Network has spent hundreds of millions of yuan just on purchasing servers. Currently, Lechang's gaming platform boasts over 6000 million registered users and a peak concurrent user count exceeding 65, making it the world's largest interactive gaming platform. Lechang Chat, with over 8000 million registered users and 6000 million active users, ranks second only to Tencent, becoming the second-largest instant messaging software in China.

Faced with Lechang Chat's aggressive stance, Tencent had no choice but to change its pricing strategy and reopen free QQ number registration.