Three teammates have been gathered, the gifts have been sent, small chats have been exchanged, and big brother Xu has also seen enough jokes at his little brotherâs expense. Xu Shiwei put back his serious face and began to discuss tactics with Su Bei.
âHave you finished reading the information I sent?â Xu Shiwei took a seat and asked.
Xu Shiwei: âWhat is your opinion?â
Su Bei: âUnless we make a big blunder, winning shouldnât be a problem.â
For this âRed Hacker Challenge,â the number of people allowed in one team was 1 to 5 people. Before the finals began, each team could re-arrange their personnel. Many teams chose to fill up their members to the maximum.
Before the finals, some people volunteered to join Su Beiâs team, but all were refused. Using Xu Shiweiâs words: More people didnât necessarily equate to greater strength. One Xu Yangyang was enough. If there were more, he probably would die of anger before the opponents could get him.
Based on experience, even if it was 3 vs. 4, their opponentsâ overall strength was just average, so Su Bei was confident of winning.
Xu Shiwei: âAccording to their past tactics, paYam and Black Mud will maintain their defense. Zhou Tiancai is their primary attacker. Meanwhile, KIKI usually plays random roles according to the situation. paYam isnât a big deal, but when sneaking in, you have to be careful not to be detected by Black MudâŠâ
Xu Yangyang didnât understand his brotherâs discussion with Su Bei. Taking advantage of this moment, he opened the WeChat group he joined with Xie Minxuan and the others.
[Xu Yangyang]: I think I am dreaming!
[Liu Kai]: Are you not in the competition venue right now? What dream?
[Du Yiming]: What? Dreaming that you defeat your opponent in three seconds? Or winning the finals?
[Chen Ziâan]: I heard that dreams are projections of the opposite of reality.
[Liu Kai]: Are you dreaming that you win the competition directly?
[Xu Yangyang]: No! Compared with that, what Iâm going to say is even more shocking!
[Xu Yangyang]: I meet my god Q. Can you guess who I see?
Xu Yangyang directly took a photo of Su Bei discussing tactics with Xu Shiwei and another one of her conducting the final test on the equipment, and immediately sent it to the group. Although there was a bit backlit and the angle wasnât perfect, it still clearly been seen that the girl in the photos was Su Bei.
[Du Yiming]: What the h*ll!
[Chen Ziâan]: Is it real?!
Seeing everyoneâs surprise, Xu Yangyang put away his phone with satisfaction. He then nudged his elbow against Su Xiaobao: âBy the way, brother Bao, are you not surprised?â
Su Xiaobao: âOf what?â
Xu Yangyang: âSu Bei, ah. Su Bei is god Q, are you not surprised?â
âBrother Bao, you are not part of our circle, so you may not know.â After a pause, Xu Yangyang continued: âLet me tell you. Nowadays, god Qâs reputation in China hacker community is very high. She can be considered the top ten, basically the same with NBAâs no.23!â
Su Xiaobao simply glanced at Xu Yangyang: âIâve long known.â
There was no need for him to be surprised.
Xu Yang Yang: ââŠâŠâ
On the other side, Xu Shiwei was vigorously exchanging analysis about Black Mudâs weakness with Su Bei when he suddenly stuttered. The reason? He saw Mr. Qin entered the contestantâs area. To p it bluntly, the person Xu Shiwei afraid the most lately was not his parents, nor was his teacher at school, but baby Qâs father, Mr. Qin!
Xu Yangyang: âUncle Qin, hello.â
Qin Shao nodded at Xu Yangyang. Then his gaze moved at Su Bei, and Xu Shiwei next to her. He instantly frowned: Why is that kid sitting so close with his daughter?
Xu Shiwei wiped his sweat silently, then come forward to greet Mr. Qin and introduced himself: âUnclâMr. Qin, hello. Iâm Xu Yangyangâs brother, Xu Shiwei, and also Su Beiâs teammate.â
Although it was an accident, Xu Shiwei had called Mr. Qin âdaddyâ on the phone before. Now he could only hope that Mr. Qin didnât remember this blunder.
Unfortunately for Xu Shiwei, Mr. Qinâs memory was very good. There was no way he had forgotten the kid who once called to harass his daughter late at night. If werenât for later investigation showed that the Xu familyâs eldest son actually had decent conduct, Mr. Qin would have long slaughtered him.
When his big brother was in danger of facing Mr. Qinâs âdeath by thousand cutsâ punishment, Xu Yangyang once again nudged Su Xiaobao: âWhat about Uncle Qin? Has he long known Su Beiâs awesomeness?â
Su Xiaobao: âAnyway, earlier than you.â
Xu Yangyang was once again hit by 10,000 damage pointsââhe felt that Su Beiâs identity as [Q] has been known by everyone, except for the little pathetic himâŠ..
Before the match began, Su Beiâs received a text message from Lin Shaochi.
[Lin Shaochi]: Relax and just play as usual.
In order to not affect the contestantsâ normal performance, the organizer changed the system for all the matches before 1/4 finals from on-site audiences to a closed one. During each match, only the operating interface of each team would be streamed publicly. In other word, audiences could watch the contestants moves via the live streaming, but couldnât saw their faces.
As the competitionâs biggest sponsor and golden patron, Mr. Qin demanded this change from the organizer. He did this for Su Bei: The wound on her face hasnât fully healed yet, and she must be reluctant to show her face to the public like this.