8: Chapter 8: Is it possible that you've been scammed?

Tan Zhuoren was very excited.

Through this game, he could prove whether Lu Miaoxin had been ripped off.

He could prove whether he was right.

The two of them were currently in an ambiguous stage of their relationship.

He was very willing to show off in front of Lu Miaoxin.

He finished his meal in just a few bites.

Then he said, "You probably aren't in a hurry to use your phone, right?"

"After you finish eating..."

"...let's go to the library to read for a while."

"This game is quite large."

"With the way the campus network is..."

"...it'll probably take a few hours to download."

Lu Miaoxin raised an eyebrow. "Huh?"

"It takes that long to download?"

Tan Zhuoren nodded. "On one hand, the campus network speed is indeed quite slow."

"On the other hand, the heroic battle records game is 500 MB."

"This isn't a small game like Temple Run or Angry Birds."

"Back then, I started downloading it at night..."

"...then went to sleep."

"It was just finished when I woke up."

"But our school's campus network was just upgraded."

"It'll be much faster than when I downloaded it."

"Right now..."

"I think two or three hours should be about enough."

This meant that for the next two or three hours...

...Lu Miaoxin wouldn't be able to play on her phone.

Because in this era...

...you couldn't exit to the background while downloading.

The RAM was simply too small.

As soon as you exited...

...the download would stop.

Of course, in this era...

People weren't that addicted to their phones yet.

In this era...

...if someone was constantly holding their phone...

...they were usually considered to have an internet addiction.

Lu Miaoxin didn't have much of an internet addiction.

She only used her phone for QQ, WeChat, and listening to music.

It was only two or three hours without playing on her phone...

...she could handle it.

So she nodded. "It's fine."

"Let's wait a bit longer."

"There are no classes this afternoon anyway."

"Let's go to the library to read for a while..."

"...and wait for it to finish downloading."

Tan Zhuoren: "Okay!"

"Xinxin, you go ahead and eat."

"I'll go buy a bottle of soda for you."

Lu Miaoxin was indeed a bit thirsty.

She nodded.

So Tan Zhuoren eagerly went to the store outside to buy a drink.

He bought two bottles of Coke...

...and came back.

Upon returning, he found...

...Lu Miaoxin was already typing on her phone.

Obviously, she was chatting on QQ or WeChat.

Tan Zhuoren handed the Coke to Lu Miaoxin and said, "Why aren't you downloading?"

"Did the download fail?"

Seeing Lu Miaoxin already playing on her phone...

...he thought the download time must have been too long...

...and Lu Miaoxin couldn't take it anymore...

...so she picked up her phone to play.

Doing so would definitely cause the game download to fail.

Lu Miaoxin shook her head and said, "It didn't fail, did it?"

"I see it shows that it's already downloaded..."

"...so I replied to a message."

"What?"

Tan Zhuoren was shocked.

"Downloaded?"

"That's impossible, right?"

"When did our school's network speed get so fast?"

He hurriedly took the phone from Lu Miaoxin's hand.

He found that the app store really did show it was downloaded.

Next to it was the option: "Installation package ready, install now."

"Holy crap! Is this phone's network speed that fast?"

"Downloading such a large game took less than an hour."

"No, not even half an hour!"

He immediately clicked "Install Now."

An installation interface began to appear.

Similarly, phones of this era couldn't exit to the background during installation.

It had to stay on this interface in the foreground...

...to install successfully.

Otherwise, it would easily fail to install.

After he clicked install now...

...he put the phone aside again.

"This phone is indeed very impressive."

"It has already exceeded my expectations!"

"But I think we should still test it properly..."

"...to see where its limit really is!"

"I didn't expect the download speed to be so fast."

"It's much faster than my network speed."

Seeing how impressive this phone was...

Tan Zhuoren felt he was losing face.

His expression turned a bit sour.

At first, he thought Lu Miaoxin was definitely scammed.

But he didn't expect it to be real!

The camera and memory specs were all real!

The download speed was also so fast!

Now he was adamant that the processor must be garbage.

Although the download speed wasn't slow...

...he estimated the installation would be very slow...

...and it would be very laggy when playing games.

But as soon as he put the phone aside...

...he saw a prompt on the screen saying decompression was complete...

...enter the game immediately.

"Holy shit, for real?"

Tan Zhuoren even blurted out a swear word in front of the person he liked.

He was truly too shocked right now.

He couldn't even bother to maintain his image in front of his goddess.

Thinking back to how he confidently said the phone's processor must be garbage...

...he felt like a total clown now.

"No! I must squeeze its performance to the limit later!"

So he immediately entered the game.

He felt that entering the game was also very fast.

It took less than a few seconds...

...to enter the game's main interface.

Whereas his phone would take at least ten-odd seconds to enter the game.

Lu Miaoxin saw that Tan Zhuoren's expression was a bit poor...

...and he was also a bit agitated.

So she said, "How about we don't test it anymore?"

"Anyway, I don't really play games."

"This is enough for me."

Tan Zhuoren shook his head repeatedly. "No!"

"How can that be!"

"We've already tested it to this point."

"I must squeeze its performance to the limit!"

"To see how strong it really is!"

Then he opened the game settings.

He maxed out the frame rate to 30 FPS.

He set the graphics quality to the highest.

Then he immediately started a match.

Lu Miaoxin watched from the side.

Seeing Tan Zhuoren so agitated...

...she knew that the fact her phone was better than his...

...and cheaper too...

...made him feel like he was losing face.

She didn't want to hurt Tan Zhuoren's self-esteem.

She suggested not testing it anymore.

But Tan Zhuoren was determined to test it.

So Lu Miaoxin didn't say anything more.

Tan Zhuoren even chose a very flashy hero, Li Bai.

Flashy heroes like this usually required high skill and attention to detail.

Requiring high skill and attention to detail meant...

...if there was even a slight lag...

...it would definitely affect the feel...

...leading to a terrible gaming experience.

But after playing for a few minutes...

He was completely won over!

On this phone, it felt like there was no lag at all!

Even with all the graphics settings maxed out...

...it basically ran at full frame rate!

It was very smooth to play!

He also performed very well this match.

He was already "Godlike" very quickly.

He felt this was his true technical level.

With this phone...

He felt he could even push for the number one rank on the entire server!

Looking back at his own Ideal a8 FE...

...although it could basically maintain 30 FPS on medium settings...

...it would still lag from time to time.

But on this xiaomi 4...

...not a single instance of lag occurred!

"Holy crap, this phone is just too awesome!"

After finishing the match...

Tan Zhuoren couldn't put the phone down.

At this moment, he had long forgotten about losing face in front of Lu Miaoxin.

He was only busy marveling at how amazing this phone was.

Unexpectedly, at the critical moment, Lu Miaoxin dealt him another blow.

She stared with her big eyes and said, "My 1999 phone is even smoother than the one you bought for 3500."

"Do you think there's a possibility..."

"...that it wasn't me who was scammed..."

"...but you?"