Ye Kai's hands

Chen Guo didn't usually stay up all night. It was just that the new district opened today, and she followed to join in the excitement. After watching for a while, she quickly felt sleepy and leaned back in her chair, drifting off without realizing it.

Such sleep quality was naturally not high. Chen Guo simply didn't want to struggle to get up. In this half-asleep state, she couldn't help but notice the sound of the keyboard mixed with the clicking of the mouse. This sound was very familiar to a cybercafe owner, but the rhythm Chen Guo heard now was different. It was urgent at times, soft at others, with a rhythmic beat that made it sound like a percussion instrument. Chen Guo had never heard anyone play the keyboard and mouse like this. Was she dreaming?

Chen Guo suddenly woke up, steadied her mind, and listened carefully again. It seemed that it wasn't a dream. The sound came from right beside her, from the new network manager Ye Kai she had just recruited today.

Chen Guo sat up to take a look. The coat that was covering her slid off, and she quickly grabbed it and recognized it as Ye Kai's coat. She didn't expect him to be so attentive, she thought to herself, but when was the last time this coat was washed? It seemed a bit stale.

Chen Guo picked up the coat and sat up, ready to speak to Ye Kai, but she was stunned.

A pair of hands that could move one to tears appeared before her eyes—Ye Kai's hands.

These hands looked thin, with long fingers, and the joints were not as rough as those of an average man, but they were still distinct. The fingertips were fine, and the nails were neatly trimmed, which was seriously inconsistent with his somewhat sloppy appearance.

Chen Guo wasn't someone who usually paid much attention to hands, but later a girl with very pretty hands came to the cybercafe, and under her influence, Chen Guo gradually began to notice. Now, she was thoroughly shocked by Ye Kai's hands.

The hands were perfect, and the sound they made was like music, but the operation... Just looking at Ye Kai's left hand dancing on the keyboard, Chen Guo had only one feeling: his hand speed was so slow.

Hand speed, the number of operations per unit of time, usually measured by actions per minute, abbreviated as APM. Glory wasn't a strategy game; players were only controlling one character, but the use of skills was complex, and the precision of action was very high, so there was a great demand for hand speed.

A player with high APM could make moves faster and operate more precisely. The strength and timing of each keystroke directly affected the character's range of motion in the game, allowing for more variability in combat. However, whether this variability was good or bad needed to be distinguished. Some people just operated non-stop to make their APM look impressive, but those who could make each operation purposeful and achieve high APM were all top professional players.

An APM of 200 was a recognized benchmark in the Glory circle. Ordinary players whose APM soared above 200 were generally just messing around. Even professional players sometimes needed a special combat environment to hit speeds over 200, at least the opponent couldn't be too weak, and they needed to pull out an APM over 200 to cope.

For ordinary players, 70% had a hand speed in the range of 80 to 120, 25% were below 80, and the remaining 5% could exceed 120, constantly challenging 200. Among them, some were said to reach the professional standard of 200.

Chen Guo's average hand speed floated around 120, but since she could often add a little more to 120, she firmly believed she belonged to that 5%, a high-level player among gamers.

But at this moment, Ye Kai, in Chen Guo's eyes, was undoubtedly a member of the hand-disabled party who couldn't even reach 80. Once she noticed this, Chen Guo suddenly realized that the rhythmic sound of operations she had heard in her ears before had disappeared. Now, what she heard was the clear operation of a hand-disabled party due to slowness.

"Could it be that I was confused by sleep..." Chen Guo shook her head, trying to hear the feeling she had in her dream before, but found that she couldn't recall it. Now her attention was on the hand-disabled level of operation and a pair of beautiful hands that made her envious.

Chen Guo was so focused on these hands that she forgot to look at the screen. However, it wasn't long before Ye Kai's hands stopped, and Chen Guo then realized to look at the screen, immediately widening her eyes: "Night Cat Demon?"

When she said this, the Night Cat Demon had already flown high from the sky and landed on the ground, scattering items everywhere.

At the same time, Chen Guo saw a striking system announcement flash across the screen in the information area: District 10, Night Cat Demon first kill: Lord Grim.

"Damn!!" Chen Guo slapped Ye Kai on the shoulder: "You've got some skills!" Regardless of whether he was hand-disabled or not, being able to achieve the first kill was a feat Chen Guo had never accomplished before.

Ye Kai was focusing on checking what had dropped when the slap caught him off guard, almost causing him to swallow the cigarette in his mouth. A string of silver ash elegantly fell onto the keyboard. Chen Guo, who had been peeking at his operation from behind, leaned over and saw the scene, forgetting all about the hidden boss's first kill, and yanked Ye Kai's headphones off to roar in his ear: "Who allowed you to smoke here?"

"Huh?" Ye Kai still had the cigarette in his mouth, unextinguished, and was somewhat puzzled by Chen Guo's reaction.

"Didn't you see the no smoking sign?" Chen Guo pointed to the wall.

Ye Kai turned his head and scrutinized the sign on the wall: "Are you kidding? A cybercafe that doesn't allow smoking?"

"This area is a non-smoking zone. Go smoke in another section," Chen Guo pointed to another corner of the cybercafe.

"Let's go there," Ye Kai said.

"No, the smell of smoke gives me a headache," Chen Guo said.

"What should we do then?" Ye Kai seemed troubled as if facing a huge dilemma.

"Will you die if you smoke one less cigarette?" Chen Guo was angry.

"No, but I'll get a headache," Ye Kai said.

"You, you, you..." Chen Guo realized she was starting to understand this Ye Kai. He could easily accept living conditions like those in the storage room, but that didn't mean he was an easy person to deal with.

"I'll go to the smoking area myself, boss, you should rest," Ye Kai said at this time.

"Wait a minute, you haven't told me how you got this first kill!" Chen Guo said.

"It's nothing, the team members were all wiped out, the BOSS had little health left, I just picked up what was left," Ye Kai said casually.

"There's such good luck." Chen Guo's tone was still envious. She didn't care much about the rewards for the first kill of a low-level hidden BOSS, which was just more experience and money, and wouldn't yield any top-quality equipment. However, this record would be permanently listed on the leaderboard, becoming a legendary existence in the server, a feeling many players liked. For most ordinary players, the chance to be on such a leaderboard was only possible in the newbie phase. In the mid-to-late game, as the difficulty of dungeons increased, both dungeon first kills and hidden BOSS first kills required a stable and tacit high-level team. By the time it reached the divine realm, even such high-level teams had no chance, and the records were all held by professional teams in the competitive circle.