If The Moon Can Be Counted As A Star - Chapter 5

As for her team mates inside the game

“Cape town bombing! Abort Looting! Abort!” RoadKillerRifle warned the others while they were searching for higher level guns.

BattleAxeEmpress knew that she was being hunted. Well, some of those who chased Empress were dead now. She had to pick up another suitable gun for her to play well.

RoadKillerRifle : “Go! Find shelter! Now!”

RagingLightSpeed has been away for sixteen minutes but they had to keep learning and understand to whatever situation it was.

Her abilities and the weapon she carried–were all that useful cause it had kept her alive through the game. When she was not yet AFK (Away from keyboard).

BattleAxeEmpress: “Rages location is far away from us. We have to go to her!”

“Let’s go get those wheels!” GunChaser had suggested ‘wheels’ again. However, Empress laughed it off through her mic.

“Was it funny?” Chase asked with an unpleasant tone.

Empress can still be heard holding back her giggles while she was speaking, “I already have a motorbike remember? Chase, you have a weak memory.”

“Call it weak, it would not bother me anyway. Besides, you will be killed like this–” Chase throws a grenade across the building then there were enemies running.

“Road Kill!”

RoadKillerRifle was already aiming for those enemies. With his Scar that has paired with x4 scope it was easy to spot one by one. However, these kind of scope does not distinguish enemies from objects.

“Bombing over! We have to go ahead!”

Gunshots triggered, showering a couple of bullets at the fallen enemies. Until the sound faded out.

Misses Zhi stared at her daughter who was currently spacing out by looking at the sofas string. She knew that her daughter was trying to understand things. She must have been a burden to her.

Without interrupting her daughter, Misses Zhi just slowly walked onward and quietly laid down in the sofa as she close her eyes.

Xiao Mei Zhi snapped back to reality, “Mo-” she lowered down her tone, “Ther.”

She sighed, “Sorry if I spaced out Mother. Sleep well, I will prepare our dinner.” She was just thinking previously about applying for another part-time job.

Then she head towards the kitchen, “Ouch!” The injury run through her left foot was like a fire. She disregarded the sharp shattered pieces in the floor for a second.

But the pain from her left foot was like syringes that had been injected into her skin and dipped with an alcohol. She took a deep breath as the pain from her foot gave out a shock of electricity being wired into her spine.

She glanced at the corner of the kitchen, near the garbage bags. There she spotted those pair of wet shoes she have and it seems like they were waving at her and telling her to wear any kind of footwear since was barefooted.

She placed those shoes aside about an hour ago and then she reconsidered on taking it back at the moment, “It would not be a bad idea to keep wearing you.” She told her lifeless shoes from a distance.

As she limped her way forward facing near the sink, the pain from her foot remained. She grab a hold of the wire that was connected with the cooker as she pulled it off gently.

The only things that were on the counter was two forks, two spoons, two pairs of chopsticks, the useful cooker, and the box of food for dinner. The cups were supposed to be used as their substitute plates, however her mother broke it into pieces.

No matter how hard her upcoming days be, as long as she has her mother then she can and will avoid the negative thinkings.

Now, her available option was to use half of the food box and cut it into half. It would fit them both. With her steady concentration in preparing dinner she manage to tore the food box apart without the food jumping out.

“One for mother.”

Xiao Mei Zhi limped away from the near sink counter holding the other half of the food box. She forced herself to ignore the injury. Her fingers were starting to get a little shaky. Yet, she did not care for it. She placed down the food on the table while the floor was still a mess. Then she goes back to the near sink to get her share.

“And one for me.” She said while taking the two pairs of chopsticks with her.

When the food has been settled down on the table, she remembered that she has a game to finish. She accidentally pressed her injured foot on the floor as she attempted to rush towards her room. With that action she realized there was a glass splinter on her foot– when she confidently thought that she only got a skin cut on her foot from those pieces. She could have doubled check it before rushing, but she was not thinking about it at all. So much for trying to ignore it.

Xiao Mei Zhi slapped a hand over her face, letting out a groan of frustration as she continues to hurriedly go to her room while limping all the way. She must put a good record on the game, if she fails to bring her group in the list then she failed her whole team.

They would not be mad at her, would they? Besides, she does not trust people. Even her own mother, she doubt it. Because of the past, it gave her a chance to grow a thick wall inside her self. Technically, no one should trust her too. No one can be trusted online but since they do not know her personally, she just pretended to be her alter ego ‘RagingLightSpeed’.

And even in real life, no one can be trusted. All those words she said to her mother were all positive points. However, even if she said that she would stay with her mother until she perish, she always have a doubt that her words could not be trusted at all. But she still insisted to do it.

The other side of her mind was just different.