CH 216

Ch216 - Dropping trash talk before the game? They really had to respect Little Lunatic Wei!

translator: xiin

editors: apricot & juurensha

Everyone had difficulty believing it all the way until Y1’s van pulled into the base.

Wei Xiao took the lead in welcoming them, his smile sunny as he greeted them.

Yan Jiang was the third person to get out of the van. He was stunned for a brief moment when he saw Wei Xiao.

Wei Xiao: “Good evening, Captain Yan!”

Yan Jiang: “Hello.”

Wei Xiao: “Have you had dinner?”

Wei Xiao continued before Yan Jiang could answer, “If you haven’t eaten, preparations have been made at the base. You can eat first if you want.”

Yan Jiang: “I’ve eaten.”

Wei Xiao led them inside. “Alright, then. Let’s quickly get started, there’s a lot of games to play!”

It just so happened that FTW had arrived at this time, too. The old and new bases were close to each other, and walking over was a good way to help digest after their meal.

Ning Zhehan’s spirit had left his body from the moment he had received news of their training matches.

“Brother Le, I didn’t hear wrong, right? L&P, EVE, Pro, Y1?”

“We’re going to play a round robin competition with them at the old base??”

“Last year’s global top four are going to accompany us to train?”

Yue Wenle crunched and nodded.

Ning Zhehan snatched away the potato chips in his hand. There was a crunching sound. “Holy shit, I’m so nervous!”

How the hell was this a training match? This was a rehearsal for the global games!

Wei Xiao’s eyes were sharp, and he spotted Lu Feng from a distance.

He was no longer in a hurry to enter the building. Instead, he hurriedly waved his hand. “Captain, over here!”

If he had greeted Y1 with a sunny smile, then at this time, his smile was so full of vitality that it shone in all directions, bright enough to blind people!

Did he have to go so far with his captain, who he could see at any time with ease––this was what everyone from Y1 thought––the two captains were both cold air generators, but the Y1 members  would never dare to act so enthusiastically towards their own captain.

Lu Feng noticed the members of Y1 when he came over and nodded in greeting. His attitude was polite and distant, but human emotion appeared for a brief instant in those cold, black eyes when he looked at Wei Xiao.

With this contrast, the members of Y1 got it: No wonder Quiet was so daring. It turned out that the great demon king indulged him.

Yan Jiang never showed his anger or happiness, and there was no sense of nostalgia or sadness about revisiting his old home to be seen on his face. There was just an aura of unchanging calm that could persist for millions of years.

No one knew what he was thinking, just like how no one knew that the fragmented Team of Gods would reunite with FTW in this way three years later.

Yan Jiang, Yuan Ze, Xie He, Kim Sung-hyun, Lu Feng.

They were once the five most dazzling players in the China competition zone. They’d experienced splitting up, confusion, torment, and ups and downs, only to return to the place where their dreams had begun. All they could feel was that while material things remained the same, the people involved had changed.

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With five teams, there could only be two pairs of two fighting at any one time. The remaining team would have to wait out a game, and this was what the conference room was for. Of course, they could also go and watch the game directly in the training rooms.

Xiang Liu had also made arrangements for each team’s entourage. Drinks and snacks had been transported over from the base early on and placed where they could be obtained easily so that everyone could eat and drink as they wished.

Brother Liu was very steady when handling such things. There was no need for the players to concern themselves at all as he’d already made thorough arrangements.

The schedule for matches was also listed and put up. Five teams playing two round robin cycles meant that there would be quite a few games. Each game would last around 40 minutes, and it would be enough for them to play all the way until the next day.

However, everyone was in high spirits, and let alone playing until the second day, even playing until the third day wouldn’t be much of a problem.

There was no need for an exchange of greetings with so many people present, and they started playing directly. The first game in Training Room A was FTW vs L&P; Training Room B was EVE vs Pro. Y1 would just be watching the games for the time being.

Wei Xiao felt a bit regretful about this.

Yuan Ze noticed. “What, you don’t want to fight with me?”

Wei Xiao sighed.

Yuan Ze: “Scared of me?”

Wei Xiao: “Last year’s champion team is here, but we have to ‘start off’ with the runner-up team. How could I not be regretful?”

Yuan Ze: “………………”

Gary, who understood Chinese: “Quiet, you’re dead for sure!”

Wei Xiao comforted himself, “According to the rules, the opening game should be between the champions and the runner-ups. Looking at it that way, if you’re the runner-ups, then are we the champions?”

The implication was that they’d already locked in this year’s global championship!

Everyone in the training room who understood Chinese: “…………”

Dropping trash talk before the game? They really had to respect Little Lunatic Wei!

Old G was successfully enraged and swore a hard oath. If he didn’t win this game, then he’d write his name upside down!

This was the effect that Wei Xiao wanted. He wanted to really fight! They had to play all out with such a good opportunity!

Y1 was watching the games. They chose to stay in Training Room A.

Little Ning was nervous enough to explode. As soon as he thought of how the person sitting behind him was Yan Jiang from the champion team from last year, the legendary Y1, he had difficulty holding the mouse in his hand!

Wei Xiao was different. He turned back. “Captain Yan, come over here.”

Yan Jiang didn’t reply.

Wei Xiao’s lips curved, “Witness how I screw over Old G.”

Gary: “…………”

Yuan Ze rolled his eyes. “Enough…”

He choked before he could finish speaking, because Yan Jiang really did slide his e-sports chair over to sit behind Wei Xiao.

The dozen plus people in the room: “………………”

This favoritism was too obvious!

Even Y1’s jungler was jealous!

Oh, and FTW’s top-laner was also jealous.

Wei Xiao was keenly aware of his captain’s attitude from where he sat to his left and spoke quickly, “God Hai (Y1’s jungler), don’t be jealous, I’m not snatching away your captain. Look, I have my own captain!”

His desire for survival was very strong. His words may be telling Hai not to be jealous, but in fact, he was coaxing his own boyfriend.

Hai’s Chinese was average. He only understood half of what he heard and cluelessly looked over at his own captain.

How would Yan Jiang be willing to explain it to him?

Wei Xiao didn’t say it again in English. He was saying it for his own boyfriend to hear, so there was no need to translate it!

Lu Feng: “The shadow thief has been let out.” One sentence was enough to clear away all of Wei Xiao’s thoughts.

L&P hadn’t banned the shadow thief in round one and had boldly released it out to play.

Chen Feng: “Lock it in.”

They were in one training room, and everyone was facing each other. There was no need to communicate too much during the BP segment. Although there was a ‘prize’ for winning, it was still a training match. No matter how seriously it was played, it still couldn’t be compared with the real competition.

Wei Xiao asked L&P directly, “You guys are that confident?”

Old G: “Are you taking it or not? If you don’t want it, I’ll take it!”

It just so happened that Wei Xiao was in the first position. He locked it in directly.

Gary: “Watch me hammer you to bits.” He snatched up the death knight as he spoke. It seemed that he planned to use the death knight as a jungler talent.

Speaking of which, the death knight had quite an advantage against the shadow thief. It had many control skills and could stack up to multi-layer control with its combos. As long as it could send the shadow thief flying, it would be an easy matter for the death knight to interrupt the light arcs.

L&P was determined to suppress Wei Xiao to death. Gary took the death knight, and Yuan Ze took the blood warrior. They didn’t leave even a tiny path for the shadow thief to survive.

Compared with the death knight, the blood warrior really had an advantage over the shadow thief.

Its ultimate move gave it immunity for two seconds. No matter how many light arcs the other side brushed out, they would hit empty air when they landed on the blood warrior. By the time the shadow thief landed, the blood warrior’s blood stab combined with its blood cut was enough to send the shadow thief back to the resurrection fountain.

Wei Xiao tsked. “You guys are bullying me!”

Yan Jiang: “Elemental shaman.”

In order to fight back in such a situation, FTW could take the elemental shaman. If it was used well, not only could it provide escort for the shadow thief, it could also deal with the death knight’s forced control.

Bai Cai’s scalp tensed up when he heard this: Oh no, not everyone’s elemental shaman is as strong as yours, hey!

Lu Feng: “No need, give me the shadow thief.”

They were all in the same training room, and everyone could hear this voice that was neither loud nor quiet.

Old G, who was on the other side, “Ah? Little Lunatic Wei, you’re not playing jungler?”

“I am,” Wei Xiao took the gun thief, “Laozi’s gonna kill you.”

A line-up that they hadn’t found a chance to use during the entire domestic competition could finally be used at this time.

Who said that the shadow thief had to be used by the jungler? It could be used in the top lane and still beat the other side into seclusion!

There was no way for L&P to switch. The death knight would have an easy time fighting against the shadow thief in the early stages, but the blood warrior couldn’t be used as a jungler. It was too ineffective and would affect the rhythm of the game, so Yuan Ze could only stick with the blood warrior.

The blood warrior before level six……

Could only be strung up and beaten to death by Close.

No matter what, based on the BP segment of the first match, FTW didn’t have much to worry about!

Brother Cai cautiously picked through the support options and finally still chose to take the holy priest.

It wasn’t that he didn’t want to use the elemental shaman, but that L&P had banned it. It wasn’t his fault, really!

Compared with other teams, FTW could be considered quite familiar with L&P. But Little Ning was still a little nervous at the start and ended up being suppressed by VIVI for a few rounds of lane soldiers.

Later, Wei Xiao came over to pick on VIVI several times, helping Little Ning find his courage again. He started moving around to provide support.

Due to their advantage from the BP, L&P was very steady prior to reaching level six and didn’t take much action.

On the other hand, FTW didn’t want to remain timid. If not now, then when should they start? Any person they could take down was better than none.

After helping Ning Zhehan, Wei Xiao pretended to go to the bottom lane while in fact, he turned around and went to the top lane instead.

Everyone wore soundproof headphones once the game began. As long as they didn’t speak in a roar, it wouldn’t be possible to hear what the other side was saying. Of course, they could hear each other if they took off their headphones, but there was no need; this was just a training match, and doing such a thing was too much of a low blow.

No one spoke to the players after the game began. Yan Jiang also just sat at the side and watched.

Wei Xiao was using the gun thief, which tended towards being a toolman jungler. He didn’t need a high amount of farm to still deal considerable damage and control. It was a bit similar to the power thief.

Using the shadow thief for the top lane meant that FTW still needed a team fight starter. The gun thief happened to be a strong talent for starting group fights, making up for the shadow thief’s shortcomings. At the same time, it was also very suited to leading the game rhythm. FTW had played with this line-up many times, and they’d hammered the domestic teams into bits every time. This was precisely why they would never release the shadow thief in official games.

The little lunatic’s shadow thief could still be provoked for a bit.

The great demon king’s shadow thief––it had to be shown 100% respect!

Yuan Ze was an old pro, and he was very sharp. Wei Xiao had clearly shown himself heading down on the minimap, but Yuan Ze didn’t relax his vigilance at all. He was very on point with his positioning and skillfully adjusted his lane soldiers in order to prevent Wei Xiao from being able to attack and stab him.

Wei Xiao tsked. “Really annoying!”

Lu Feng: “Attack.”

His voice had just fallen when the shadow thief charged up with a shadow attack, rushing straight at the blood warrior.

The blood warrior immediately called out his phantoms, sending them right into Wei Xiao’s direction.

This level of alertness was just like he’d opened up a perspective hack!

But Wei Xiao didn’t panic. After avoiding the phantom, he aimed and stabbed his gun at Yuan Ze.

Yuan Ze made use of a lane soldier to adjust his positioning, stabbing at Lu Feng after avoiding the attack.

Lu Feng didn’t shrink away. He took the damage in order to move behind the blood warrior, stabbing with his shadow blade and causing a splash of blood to fly out.

Both of them were hit into a half health state at the same time. Wei Xiao leapt up with his gun, landing accurately on Yuan Ze when he fell. At the moment when he bounced up, the shadow thief’s flying blade stacked up with his shadow attack and the extra bonus from an attack launched from behind, ensuring that Yuan Ze couldn’t move.

System Announcement––

First Blood.

LU killed Marshal.

Wei Xiao, who’d gotten an easy assist, was delighted. “Captain, you’re amazing!”

Lu Feng: “……”

Wei Xiao: “I’m amazing too!”

Even with the sound insulation, Yuan Ze was able to hear the proud tone in this crazy bragging!

Gary: “Captain, don’t panic. I’m coming.”

Yuan Ze’s tone wasn’t good, “Like hell you’re coming.”

At the bottom lane, Old G cooperated with his own marksman to take down a double kill, so L&P hadn’t made a loss in this wave.

However, killing others wasn’t what Old G wanted. He wanted to mess with the little lunatic and great demon king.

When it came to a top-jungler battle, who had the strongest linkage? Old G didn’t plan on giving up this title.

By the time the blood warrior reached level six, the shadow thief started losing its advantage.

FTW decisively switched lanes. Close, who’d just arrived at the bottom lane, caught a flaw in bottom lane AA’s defenses, and charged right into his face with nine light arcs. Support player MO gave everything he had, shields, healing, and buffs, but was still unable to save the pitiful AA.

The situation changed again, with the balance tilting towards FTW.

AA: “Captain!”

Yuan Ze: “Switch.”

Since FTW switched lanes, they would, too.

The shadow thief shouldn’t even think of getting rid of the blood warrior.

Wei Xiao disdained Yuan Ze. “Are you a sticky toffee candy? Sticking to my captain like this.” After saying so, he made a sudden attack on the bottom lane and continued to mess with Yuan Ze.

The two sides fought back and forth during the game, but neither side obtained any absolute advantages.

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But one thing was certain.

Yan Jiang attached great importance to Wei Xiao. Although Chen Feng didn’t know what exactly it was he liked about Wei Xiao––mainly because this brat had too many unique points, and it was difficult to ascertain.

Chen Feng looked back at Wei Xiao, his heart warming.

This stinky brat was really likable, and he attracted all sorts of people.

He was more than half responsible for this roomful of people getting together.

In fact, Chen Feng understood that this so-called living at FTW held some attraction, but it wasn’t such a deep obsession.

They had agreed to this entertainment game more for the sake of the past FTW, and also for the present Close.

The unspeakable past from three years ago.

This past from three years ago that still was hard to look back on.

Regardless of whether it was guilt or regret, they were all unable to say it.

Young pride that stabbed and hurt the people closest to them.

Regret that couldn’t be fixed, and the past that couldn’t be made up for.

They could only tell each other about it through this most familiar battle.

Growth, experience.

Hoping everyone could walk on in glory and face the darkness.

In the first game, FTW won by a narrow margin.

Wei Xiao took off his headphones and wasn’t polite about his disdain. “Old G, can you do it or not?”

Old G: “…………” I’m going to go f*ck your mother’s name upside down!

Wei Xiao: “Weren’t you going to pick on the shadow thief? Come on, do it.”

Yuan Ze: “……………………”

Someone picked up the thread of the conversation, “Come on.”

Wei Xiao turned his head. The one who’d spoken was Yan Jiang.

Yan Jiang got up and walked over to Yuan Ze’s side. “We’ll release the shadow thief for you.” He said this to FTW.

The next game was FTW against Y1. L&P quickly made way, and even gloated a little. Gary said, “Little Lunatic Q, you’ll have to seek your own fortune!”

Wei Xiao would never back down or lose. “Don’t worry, I’m always lucky!”

It hadn’t been easy for Gary to finally understand an idiom, but he was unable to quip back after that retort. He turned back to look at Yuan Ze. Yuan Ze had gone over to where Yan Jiang had been seated before. He said evenly, “Come on, let me see how miserable your luck is.”

Wei Xiao wasn’t as polite to him as he was to Yan Jiang. He turned back warily, “Don’t try to steal my techniques.”

Yuan Ze: “……”

Wei Xiao pointed to himself and Lu Feng, then pointed to the two of them. “Top-jungler, e-sports competitors, got it?”

Yuan Ze: “…………” I got your daddy!

Although Wei Xiao disdained him, he didn’t really drive him away.

Yuan Ze had thick skin. What was one or two sentences? He sat and settled himself in very firmly, insisting on seeing all the ways that Wei Xiao would die, die, and die.

Y1 really did release the shadow thief. Chen Feng hesitated briefly.

Wei Xiao: “Take it! I’ll use it!”

Chen Feng: “……”

Wei Xiao: “Captain Yan, whatever tricks you have, just use them all on me. I’m not scared!”

Not only was he not scared, he was completely excited, okay!

Yuan Ze was too lazy to disparage him.

Chen Feng’s concerns were more practical.

Yan Jiang certainly wouldn’t just talk big. For him to release the shadow thief meant that he had ways to target it.

What did the shadow thief mean for FTW?

It was a killer ace, it was confidence, and it was a magic treasure that ensured wins.

This kind of thing was rather metaphysical.

When the belief wasn’t broken, the whole team’s morale would increase greatly, and looking at the shadow thief was like seeing the dawn of victory. This invisible bonus for the whole team could not be underestimated.

Once this belief was broken, there would be no more ‘special effect’.

Chen Feng didn’t want it to break in such an insignificant training match.

But this opportunity was placed right in front of them. If they didn’t give it a try not and waited until the official competition, they wouldn’t even have an opportunity to cry over their regrets…

Alright, then. He didn’t have to think so much about it. Wei Xiao was in the first position and snatched it up in a way that could only be described as quickly and cleanly.

Chen Feng sighed and tried to gain other opportunities for the team through BP. He only hoped that they wouldn’t lose too miserably.

Wei Xiao obviously planned to use the shadow thief himself. Lu Feng didn’t say much and took the divine warrior.

The divine warrior was a support type top-lane. It was clear that he planned to protect the shadow thief.

Was Wei Xiao not afraid at all?

He really was a little scared.

But his fear was different from other people’s.

Chen Feng was afraid that FTW’s shadow thief would collapse, and he was afraid that Wei Xiao would go into seclusion. He was afraid that he wouldn’t be able to achieve results with the shadow thief throughout the whole official competition.

Wei Xiao was only afraid of Lu Feng.

It was fine if he lost, and it was okay if he fell for various tricks. It was alright if he was beaten into collapse.

But it couldn’t be Lu Feng.

It couldn’t be Close’s shadow thief who was targeted into collapse by Yan Jiang.

So, he insta-locked the shadow thief.

As long as it was himself, then he wasn’t scared of any heaven or earth!

Yan Jiang took the elemental shaman, Y1’s jungler Hai used the berserker thief, and the top-laner took the blood warrior.

It was clearly a jungler core line-up and was very impolite about targeting the shadow thief.

What made it more interesting was that when L&P was targeting FTW, Yan Jiang had suggested that FTW use the elemental shaman. In this game, Y1 was targeting FTW and still using the elemental shaman.

The elemental shaman could support the shadow thief until it rose to the heavens, and it could also drag the shadow thief down from the sky until it had to be dug up from under the ground.

The fight at the old FTW base was burning hot with passion, but they didn’t know that the internet was trembling and quaking.

The keywords that were trending on hot search were so exciting that it made all the glory fans click on it––the Team of Gods were gathering at FTW!

At first, everyone thought that it was click bait. But their chins all dropped when they went in!

There was a candid photo that was like the real hammer of truth.

There were four vans in FTW’s parking lot. They all had official game decals, and they were each printed with the team logos.

Y1, EVE, L&P, Pro.

Why had last year’s global top four gathered at FTW?

Was it a feud or was it a scene dripping with dog blood?

Was it real people PK or was it a bloody battle between teams?

The Team of Gods, who would die before communicating with each other, had actually gotten together under the same roof?

Without mentioning anything else, the FTW fans were all crying one after the other.

The trending topics exploded. Their misery during those years was matched with their feelings of distress right now.

The Team of Gods fans who had laid down their banners and ceased their activity all revealed themselves and started talking about the old days.

What exactly were they doing?

Exactly what the hell were they doing!

The entire network was curious and really wished they could sneak over to find out.

The reason why the whereabouts of the Team of Gods had been exposed wasn’t due to FTW’s internal staff, but because of the paparazzi who followed the teams closely.

Someone had always been watching the teams ever since EVE and Y1 had settled in.

At the end of the day, they were global star players, and anything they could catch on camera would bring in traffic. Paying attention to them was too worthwhile.

Who could’ve known that they would be able to get such breaking news when their original intention had been to sneak in some private photos of God Xie?!

For a while, even the big capital daddies were startled.

What was going on?

Training match?

Would it be convenient for them to stream it?

There were sky high sponsorship fees at stake here!