Chapter 98 097: Battle of Revenge!
Seeing the atmosphere in the room becoming increasingly tense, the team members were at a loss.
Gu Xing didn't know what to do.
The reason is simple.
He couldn't understand the Korean that Hongmi spoke at all!
Gu Xing could only feel the anger of his coach from his words. How to break up the fight?
The Marquis obviously had no intention of getting involved and ran to the toilet on the pretext of peeing.
The only one left in the team who understands Korean is Imp who is being scolded.
Team leader Jin Wenhyuk saw that something was wrong and took the initiative to calm down the atmosphere.
"Brother Chengrong, please calm down. We have something to talk about when we get back..." He smiled and smoothed things over. "The team members are hungry, so let's go out for a meal first."
In order to ensure their on-the-spot reaction and competitive status, Gu Xing and the others only ate a little food at noon. They thought of a quick victory, but they didn't expect to face OMG. Counting BP and rest between games, it dragged on for three hours.
The previous competition was intense and fierce, and the players were fully focused on the field and could not think about other things.
Now that they had received a tragic victory, the joy of victory gradually faded, and everyone felt hungry, which was really a bit uncomfortable.
When Hongmi heard the words of the team leader, she still pursed her lips and locked her eyes tightly on Imp, as if she wanted to poke a hole in Gu Shengbin's body.
Finally, he asked Jin Wenhe to take the team members out to eat.
Imp, on the other hand, was directly pulled back to the base by him, and is expected to continue the 1v1 battle.
After finding a seat at a McDonald's in Hongqiao Tiandi, World6 was very worried, "You said... they won't fight, right?"
Brother Long scoffed at this statement, "How is it possible that you are still fighting at your age?"
The girl from the world got excited, "I heard that Samsung's boss An placed a baseball bat in the training room of the base. If any team member disobeys, he will be hit with a stick!"
Xiao Duan's eyes widened and he couldn't believe this, "Really or not?"
Gu Xing was also doubtful.
If someone had told him this before he started playing professionally, he would never have taken it seriously.
But after coming to VG for a month, he also had a certain understanding of South Korea's seniority system and knew that the rules there were so strict that they were abnormal.
So now that Gu Xing heard this, he couldn't help but have doubts.
Mr. Hou, who was quietly eating a burger next to him, was left speechless by them. "That's fake news. The baseball bats were all handed to Zan Rong."
In terms of seniority, he is almost the same as An Bixin. They are the same age and started their careers very close to each other, so there is no harm in calling them by their first names.
"Ah..." World6's expression actually contained a bit of regret.
Gu Xing couldn't help but curse, what on earth were you expecting?
"And not all seniors in Korea are dictating to their juniors. It still depends on the specific environment." Mr. Hou's Chinese proficiency is getting deeper and deeper, and he even uses idioms. "For example, SKT is very relaxed."
"Qinghuan brother Marin and I were the eldest in the team at the time. We were joking with each other casually. The two of us left the team. Bengi has a good personality and 96line is not the kind of player who uses seniority to pressure others."
Jack interrupted, "What does 96 Lane mean?"
"Line," Gu Xing corrected him, jokingly, "How did you learn English?"
Yu Wenbo said confidently, "If my brother were good at English, would he still come here to work professionally?"
After speaking, he turned his curious eyes to the Marquis again.
"Sang Hyuk, Junzhi and Jae Wan, all three of them were born in 1996," Easyhoon explained. "The generational divisions in Korea are obvious. Only people of the same age can be called 'relatives' friends, so they will be particularly close. Fans say for 96Line”
Bae Junsik and Lee Jaewan, the real names of the SKT duo Bang and Wolf.
With generations of SKT veterans leaving the team, 96Line has a tendency to become the backbone of the team.
Everyone was still chatting, and someone saw the team members in the corner and excitedly came forward and asked for a photo.
The VG team all wore short-sleeved team uniforms, which made them very eye-catching in the business district.
Professional e-sports has become increasingly influential in recent years, not to mention the live broadcast industry is booming in 2016, which coincides with the peak period of League of Legends e-sports.
A variety of factors complement each other, and combined with VG's current impressive record in the LPL, their popularity has skyrocketed.
Hearing other people's requests, several team members were not comfortable with it.
The number of fans has increased dramatically in the past month, giving VG players who were used to being transparent a sense of unreality.
Gu Xing felt very happy when he saw his supporters.
He has always been good at dealing with strangers. He not only complied with the photo request, but also signed his ID on the VG makeup photo that the other party took out, and greeted a few fans by the way.
During this period, he always had a warm smile on his face and a gentle tone of voice, which made the supporters feel like spring breeze.
A fan was nervous when talking to Gu Xing at first. Seeing how kind his attitude was, his mood calmed down and said, "Little Gu, you have to work hard, I will come to the scene after the playoffs!"
"What Xiao Gu..." Gu Xing couldn't help but laugh and shook his head as he looked at the fans who were younger than him.
After waving goodbye to the group of supporters, Xiao Duan finally relaxed and quickly thanked his jungler, "Gu Xing, you can do it, thank you just now!"
He is introverted and really can't stand up to the enthusiastic fans. Fortunately, Gu Xing helped him stop many of them, otherwise he would have been embarrassed today.
Brother Long glanced briefly, "You thought we had no fans before, but now I give you a chance and you're useless!"
"I'm sure I can't react right away!" Xiao Duan defended.
Gu Xing stuffed the grilled chicken drumstick into his mouth and swallowed it along with the Coca-Cola, finally filling his stomach.
Jin Wenhe did not forget to pack two set meals for Hongmi and Imp, for fear that they would have nothing to eat.
Back at the base, Gu Xing found that the two men were still arguing.
Imp has poor articulation, and an important part of the quarrel was the speed of speech competition. He lost in this category and was no match for Redmi.
The two chattered in a language that Gu Xing couldn't understand at all, and they sounded exactly like rap.
The girl from the world was filled with admiration, "They came back half an hour earlier than us. It's quite impressive that they could argue for so long."
"If I go up there..." He imagined and simulated it in his mind, huddled in the gaming chair, "I'll probably be torn to pieces in two rounds."
World6's temper is as soft as his voice, and it is difficult for him to conflict with others.
If Hongmi scolded him, he felt that he would choose to pretend to be an ostrich and wait for the other person to calm down before trying to explain.
Considering the unrest in the base, Gu Xing did not start the live broadcast.
I just took the time to glance at the forum while waiting for qualifying.
As expected, the anti-stress bar was full of condemnation of Imp.
[This Calista plays like shit, I really belong to you Imp]
[Thanks to De Angel for helping him in the early stage, he will be given away as soon as the group starts! 】
【Who is De Angel? If I don't come to the bar for two days, will I be left behind? 】
[Virtue’s nickname, from now on I’ll call him De Angel Gundam Brother]
[Don’t be embarrassed, Kalista is not good at team fights. It’s not unacceptable that Imp died twice because of his poor condition today. Anyway, he just wins in the end]
After Gu Xing read the post, the quarrel behind him finally subsided.
His headset was given by the team. It is different from the one used in professional competitions. The price is much cheaper, and the sound isolation effect is very poor.
Unless you turn the volume up to the highest level, you can't completely block out the sounds coming from the back of the training room.
Realizing that the quarrel behind him gradually turned into a calm conversation and his tone became lower, Gu Xing quickly looked back as he returned to the city with his hero.
But they saw the two of them saying hello to Jin Wenhe and walking out together.
The curious baby Jack has been paying attention to them. When he saw them leaving the base, he immediately turned around and asked the team leader, "What's going on?"
"They went out to drink," Jin Wenhe, who was discussing the follow-up live broadcast activities with Douyu, replied, "I want to talk everything out."
"Can it be done?" Gu Xing was very doubtful.
After spending a month with Imp, he must admit that this ADC is indeed very strong and deserves to be the champion of the S4 World Championship.
But the problem is that the professional attitude is really bad.
Most of the time, one punch-in training is highlighted.
Hongmi had also tried to persuade her before, but the effect was quite average.
Imp basically spent three days fishing and two days drying the net, and after two days of hard work, his true colors were revealed.
Because of this, Gu Xingcai gave up hope on Hongmi's persuasion.
"What about the burgers you bought?" Jack looked at the McDonald's packaging bag and swallowed imperceptibly, "It can't be wasted."
"Whoever wants to eat can eat it..." Jin Wenhe opened the package, grabbed a Big Mac from it and threw it to Yu Wenbo, "Pay attention to your weight, I feel a lot fatter recently."
"Isn't this base food?" Jack opened the burger and wolfed it down. "I was too thin before, and I couldn't stomach any fat."
Until late at night, the two Koreans returned to the villa drunk.
Imp ran down after taking a shower, his cheeks were red and he was burping from wine, humming an unknown hometown tune.
He seems to be in a good mood.
Gu Xing's inner emotions were extremely complicated. He thought of the famous black question mark emoticon.
What happened?
Does this count as reconciliation?
Hongmi had a decent amount of alcohol and was not drunk. He knocked on the whiteboard and motioned for the players to look over.
"Announcing the personnel adjustments of the team..." Hongmi's message was conveyed to all the team members through Jin Wenhe, "Starting from tomorrow afternoon, JackeyLove will officially participate in the team rotation and start the game against IM the day after the war."
Although Jack was included in the roster previously reported to the league, except for the opening game, Yu Wenbo was firmly suppressed by Imp.
Now I finally have my day!
Jack was overjoyed.
To be fair, it is pure nonsense to say that he does not covet Ju Shengbin's starting position.
The two have a close personal relationship, but they still have a competitive relationship.
Yu Wenbo was extremely excited when he heard that he could start the game.
But then he quickly glanced at Imp.
Jack wanted to control his expression so as not to offend Imp.
Gu Shengbin guessed what he was thinking and patted Jack on the shoulder, "Play well when you go on the field. If you perform poorly, I'm ready to kick you back to the water cooler at any time!"
The rest of the team members whispered, obviously not expecting Hongmi to make such an adjustment.
"I talked a lot with Imp at night... He took the initiative to tell me that he wanted to stay on the bench for a while, adjust his condition, and come back when the time is right," Hongmi explained in detail, "JackeyLove happened to be performing well during this period. , I plan to make a rotation.”
Homme looked at Jack and said, "In terms of training matches alone, your performance is better than today's Imp. This is a starting spot that you have earned openly, so don't worry too much."
When Yu Wenbo heard his head coach's explanation and the recognition in his words, he smiled heartily.
He does want to compete for the starting job.
In other words, at this point, no one is willing to keep looking at the water dispenser.
But getting to the top depends on your true ability.
To add insult to injury or curse a starting player for being unable to play due to injury, Jack felt he was incapable of doing such a thing.
After the announcement, the players turned back to practice.
Gu Xing practiced as usual. He learned a lot of skills from Dandy these days, and he pulled World6 into the game and calculated it over and over again.
Currently, there is no training mode on the client. You can only create a custom room to enter the canyon. You need to get the gold coins you need first, and then buy equipment and repeat the game a little bit, which is relatively inefficient.
Working until three in the morning, Gu Xing looked at the dense data in the desktop document and let out a long sigh of relief, feeling satisfied.
He thanked World6 and prepared to print out the document. When he had nothing to do, he glanced at it to strengthen his memory.
After twisting his sore neck muscles, Gu Xing stood up and realized that none of his teammates had left the training room.
"Aren't you going to sleep?"
As usual, unless the game day coincides with a holiday, you have to continue training after returning from Hongqiao Tiandi.
However, the time will be a little more relaxed. After all, a formal game was played intensively, which also consumed a lot of energy from the team members.
Most of the time, I go upstairs to rest around two o'clock in the morning.
It's been an hour and no one has returned to the dormitory?
"Practice two more sets, I'm not sleepy now..." Jack geared up, preparing to enter the canyon and fight his opponent for another 800 rounds.
He learned that he can start in the next game. Now he is in an exciting period. He plans to increase the amount of practice to maintain his touch and perform better on the court.
"I can't sleep even when I go up," Mr. Hou opened a bag of potato chips and opened the IM game video. "IM's mid laner Athena is very strong. I have to study it carefully."
After EDE landed in the LPL and changed its name to IM, it underwent personnel changes.
The mid laner was changed from BaeMe to Athena.
This is an extremely strong Korean player who has played for the little-known semi-professional team ESCever for 2015.
He once led his team to defeat SKT, which won the world championship, and South Korean e-sports giant CJ in the Kespa Cup at the end of the year, and finally succeeded in winning the cup!
Although the top teams don't pay much attention to the Kespa Cup, it's incredible that a semi-professional team can break through and win the championship!
As Kespa Cup winners, they successfully participated in the 2015 IEM10 Cologne.
ESC was upset all the way. In the Cologne finals, they fought the then Rainbow team QG for five fierce games and won the championship again!
This team was as short and bright as a shooting star, crossing the end of 2015.
As the core of the team, Athena was recruited by EDG with a high salary.
When the second team EDE broke into the top league, he went to IM to reinforce them at the request of the home team.
Facts have proved that Athena is indeed outrageously fierce.
The yellow chickens, rock birds, and vampires he is good at are very suitable for the version, and IM's own slow operation style is also very suitable for Athena herself.
The good chemical reaction between the players and the team has made IM's recent performance even more popular.
Naturally, the Marquis must be well prepared.
"That's right, we have to kill IM!" Even the girls from the world shouted, "I still remember the revenge of one stone before!"
VG has only lost one big game so far in this summer split.
The opponent is IM!
Gu Xing was preparing for the college entrance examination at the time. He started World6 and was swept by IM with a straight score of 0-2.
World Girl performed very poorly in that game.
This is why the VG coaching staff decided to let Gu Xing play to put out the fire as soon as he came to the base.
Now thinking about the frustration of that game, World Girl gritted her teeth.
“The ones used by those hangers-on at IM are the same as the old lady’s foot-binding cloth. It’s smelly and long...”
Gu Xing laughed, "People can do sweeps and still be called bad? Then who are we?"
Brother Long had just finished a ranked game and turned around angrily, "I have to say, their style of play is really disgusting. If you drag them, just drag them hard!"
The two got started, and other team members joined in to express their dissatisfaction with IM.
"Normally speaking, our operations are about the same. If we control the jungle and field of view, we should be ready to take the baron and push the tower step by step, right?"
Xiao Duan complained, "IM doesn't do that. It plays like a turtle shell, doing nothing and just waiting for you to make mistakes!"
"It is simply the king of torture. Who can withstand it?"
This was the first time that Gu Xing heard them talk about their failure. He operated the printer and listened carefully at the same time.
The schedule of the regular season is relatively compact, with one or two games every week. Unless VG faces teams like EDG and RNG, they will hold a meeting before the game to study it specifically.
Otherwise, we will hold a small meeting to catch up on the version and the roles and systems that the other party is good at.
Therefore, Gu Xing did not know much about IM.
He also wanted to collect more information from his teammates.
"We strive to be more aggressive in the early stage to roll the snowball, and the eye position in the mid-term must be well arranged. IM especially likes to play around and teleport..."
Xiao Duan reminded Gu Xing with his fingers that these were the bloody lessons VG had accumulated from facing IM before.
Gu Xing nodded to indicate that he understood clearly.
After staying up until four o'clock in the morning, several team members finally planned to go back to sleep.
Gu Xing wanted to wait a little longer and get his Korean server account to a thousand points before going to rest.
He and Imp were the only two people left in the huge training room.
"Xiao Gu, take a look at it for me. If you find your opponent, just accept it." Gu Shengbin took out a pack of cigarettes from his trouser pocket, "I'll go outside to refresh myself."
Smoking is not allowed in the VG base, and long-time smokers like Imp have to leave the villa before smoking again.
Gu Xing looked at Gu Shengbin's leaving figure and couldn't figure out what he and Hongmi were talking about.
Imp, who was about to start showing off, was willing to accept the rotation, and now he is training until four or five in the morning like a chicken blood, returning to the training time before facing Deft...
Could it be that Hongmi gave him the ecstasy soup?
Gu Xing was suspicious.
Until he went upstairs and returned to the dormitory, Imp was still there, solo queue, looking extremely focused.
However, Imp had been stubborn in the past and could not sustain high-intensity training for a long time. This move was not convincing in Gu Xing's eyes.
The night before facing IM, VG’s official blog released the starting lineup for the next day.
JackeyLove replaced Imp and caused a stir in the comment area!
【What's going on? Puff, cool? My imp woo woo...】
[The winning streak in small games was cut off by OMG, so Imp will have to take the blame. It’s good to cool down a little bit]
[According to reliable sources, after the last game, VG broke into internal strife. Angelic scolded imp and died suddenly in a team fight, and the two even fought with chairs]
[This revelation is true at first glance. I am the chair at the VG base and saw Detian using a rocket launcher to drive Imp into the hospital]
Before the game, Gu Xing was browsing Weibo in the lounge of Hongqiao Tiandi. He glanced at the Weibo comments twice and was made to laugh and cry by the group of messages.
"Get ready to play, everyone, adjust your state," Jin Wenhe encouraged the players, "Winning or losing is a common thing in the military. Relax your mind and play seriously, and don't have any psychological burden!"
Having said that, several VG players are still full of passion for revenge.
On the other side of the backstage passage stood the IM players. Gu Xing initially said hello to the opponent's top laner AmazingJ.
The other person is also a fun-loving person. His smile looks exactly like the animal expressions circulated on the Internet, and his personality is very cheerful.
After just a few words of conversation, Gu Xing was forced to turn his head back by Xiao Duan.
"You have to be consistent with us and don't talk to the other person," Xiao Duan said righteously, "Besides, what do you two have to say?"
Gu Xing smiled helplessly, and just in time to receive the notification from the staff, he stepped onto the stage and took his seat in the contestant seats.
Jack turned around on the e-sports chair, checking that there were no problems with his runes, and then chatted with his jungler, "Lao Gu, how about you be a dog for me in this game?"
Gu Xing put on his headphones and teased Yu Wenbo, "Don't help you when the time comes. If you don't help, you will explode."
"You're kidding!" Jack was very dissatisfied, "Look at it today, buddy, let me show you what explosive output is!"
There were no empty seats in the audience.
IM's current situation is somewhat similar to VG's at the beginning of the season.
The results are acceptable, but the popularity is not high.
The five players are all of good quality, but the team's play style is slow and less enjoyable to watch. They have just entered the top league and have not made any famous performances.
Among the 12 LPL teams, IM's popularity is only ranked in the middle and lower reaches.
However, the number of VG fans who are rising now is rapidly expanding, filling the auditorium!
The supporters waved the support items they received from VG staff before the game, shouted the players’ IDs, and cheered them on!
"The pilot shot showed the newcomer JackeyLove," the commentator's voice was unique and had a crooked accent. You will know that you remember it as soon as you heard it. "This is his second appearance in the LPL!"
Qi Huan nodded slightly, "It is worth mentioning that during the mid-season transfer period, VG officially announced the joining of two players, Virtue and JackeyLove... and entering the second half of the season, today is their first time partnering on the same stage!" < br>
"That's right, IM's lineup rotation has stabilized, and Athena has secured the starting position. The team is now ranked third in Group B, and is very close to RNG in front of it!" I remember briefly introducing.
"In the previous round-robin match in the first round of the group, IM had the last laugh, giving VG their first defeat in the summer split, and it was also VG's only defeat so far!"
Qihuan hurriedly added, "But Virtue hadn't played yet at that time. Now VG is far stronger than before. I personally feel that from a competitive perspective, VG has a certain advantage."
He was very optimistic about Gu Xing. When commentating on other teams' games, he would often pull Gu Xing out to praise him.
I remember being noncommittal. Although he thought so too, he thought it was inappropriate to comment like this before the game.
Fortunately, there was a crisp sound, and the BP panel appeared on the big screen at the scene!
There are still some manuscripts to save, but it is appropriate to stop here.
More will be sent tomorrow.
Thanks to ‘Yuan Hao’, ‘MOMMO’, and ‘TL~Orca’ for the 1,500 starting coin reward.
(End of chapter)