Wrong team

When Huobai finally got the courage to do his regular stream, he was already five minutes late, and he ran to the computer, setting everything up.

He first started the stream, excusing himself that he was late and that he will join in the game shortly. Huobai was reading some of the comments when he was logging in.

Most of the comments were saying it was okay to be late and that his eyes look tired, asking if he was sleeping properly, but one comment just started an avalanche of different comments.

It was someone calling himself DaXia, and he was supposed to be someone big in the game. But Huobai's memory wasn't that good, especially with names.

At least his memory wasn't as good as that guy's, Doom's, memory. That idiot was so out of this world he remembered every skill, and its default position, of every combat profession. Freak.

Huobai shook his head to wake from his unpleasant memories, to read the message out loud.

"We would like to invite you for a tryout. You are allowed to stream it if you like, I messaged you in the game." Huobai frowned. He hated the word allowed. He would do whatever he wanted, not listening to anyone. And tryouts for what? This was probably some scam.

But Huobai had to log in the game either way so he just kept talking total nonsense when having his webcam on the full display, logging in on the other display.

"Oh, yes, I will soon do only voice acting on the other channel I have. Don't worry. It's just I need to balance these things out." Huobai smiled with his words and eyes looking at the webcam because he knew it couldn't be seen under the mask.

He was streaming on YY and HuyaLive at the same time, under the name MoSHU, but he had another account on YY called FengSheng, on which he was only practicing voice acting and talking to others in the circle.

With his assurance, they calmed down and kept writing cheering messages. Some of them were cute, some weren't, but he got used to that.

He was finally in the game and server, so he minimized his webcam into the corner and streamed the game window. But he did that after he read the message that he got.

"So guys, this DaXia called me to this location. Do you think I should go there and talk to him, maybe I will get ganged up on." He chuckled into the microphone, amused by the picture that popped.

"'Be careful!' Of course, I will be careful. Should I call my new game friend to join me?" he asked and saw the flood of yes. So, he blackened the screen again and wrote to SIG. But he got no answer. Just after hitting send, he noticed SIG wasn't even online.

Suddenly Huobai was sad. He used to be with people, but now, when he thought he finally had a friend, he was all alone again.

"Ooooh, what a pity, my friend isn't online," he said, thankfully able to hide his sadness in his voice.

He showed the screen again and went to the location that was in the message. Three people already waited for them there. One of them called DaXia. The one that wrote him.

"So I'm here, what is this about…" he wrote in the nearby chat and read it out loud for his audience. He watched the chat erupt in screams of OMG and similar shouts.

"You really don't know who we are?" DaXia asked, but Huobai used the shrug action and wrote no. Not that he cared about anyone else in the game.

"Why 'How come?'? I just don't know them…" he answered one of the comments and proceeded to have a conversation with the three of them. They apparently wanted to take him into his guild and maybe a later professional team, if he was good enough.

The thought of a professional team made him shiver with excitement. It would prove to his father that he was able to do it. So he agreed to the instance clearing with them.

They formed a party and then entered the forest in which the forest guardian monster became feral and went on a killing spree. It wasn't a hard instance. It was a lot easier than the holiday event he cleared with that bastard. Before he turned on the voice chat, he actually asked the viewers for bets on how fast they would clear it.

He opened the chat and a cacophony of voices filled his ears, one being really unpleasant because of his sensitive hearing.

"Hello, I'm MoSHU," he introduced himself and heard a whistle that almost made his ears bleed how off-key it was.

"You really have a pleasant voice. If you were a girl, I would dig for you." Someone said and Huobai watched the reaction of the chat going off the charts. They were mostly defending Huobai.

"Sorry, for him, he is rude and ignorant," DaXia said and led them towards the forest. Without any directions, he ran off, expecting his team to follow.

It shocked Huobai how different leaders can be in terms of command. And somehow, he wasn't fond of DaXia's leadership.

"What are you doing?" someone shouted and Huobai frowned even more. He was doing what he was supposed to do. This boss had minions summoned after hitting enough rage. So he was conserving his strength and group spells to later times.

"You are not using all of your skills! You want us to lose?!" DaXia exclaimed and Huobai looked at the webcam, shrugged his shoulders, and did what he was said to do.

Of course, when they all attacked him at the same time, the boss summoned his minions from behind them, so they were surrounded.

"Use your group spells!" DaXia shouted, and Huobai held back his laughter.

"I used them, you told me to use them all!" he shouted back in fake panic and started using his minor spells, the only one that had a short cooldown and he could use them repeatedly.

It worked for some time, but there were too many minions to deal with. And when his health and MP started to be too close to death for Huobai to be comfortable with it, he decided to use Doom's tactic even though he hated it.

"Shoot for the three next to the boss, left! Make it fall on the boss!" he shouted, annoyed by the slowness and total lack of teamwork there.

The screen lit red for Huobai and showed that they lost, due to the time running out.

"It shows that SuoXiangWuDi is the usual leader. This was really messy," he read one of the comments while still connected to the voice chat.

"I think you are not fit for our team," DaXia said, and exited the party with all the members. Huobai chuckled and looked at the chat, saying how rude it was and all sorts of other not nice comments.

"Okay, okay. Thank you for defending me. But don't be hateful, it's okay for me. What if I continued playing and maybe my friend will show up online…" Huobai said, waiting for SIG. Somehow, he was getting attached to SIG's kindness he showed him. A complete stranger. It was really fascinating. Almost attractive.

Huobai stopped for a moment, shocked at his thoughts. But before he had to deal with those, a sound in his headset warned him he was being attacked by monsters.

He had to fight and not ponder about his preferences.