Fu Yanqing woke up from the hospital bed, stayed for a while, and cursed "fuck" in a low voice.
She didn't expect that after squinting for a while, she could still dream about the bad things in the past, so she simply stopped sleeping and sat on the balcony to look outside. In the middle of the night, only one car passed by on the street from time to time, and two rows of faint street lights hung under the moon, making it look a bit lonely.
The boy on the hospital bed coughed twice and woke up with a gasp. He saw Fu Yanqing sitting on the balcony and chuckled: "Why are you sitting there thinking about spring?"
Fu Yanqing said angrily: "Get out of here."
The person on the hospital bed is a supervisor who retired a few years ago. His ID is Tony. At that time, Fu Yanqing and the others laughed at this ID for a long time. Everyone who went to the barber shop had to give him a compliment.
If these players are divided according to the time of their debut, Jam can be regarded as the first generation. Now all the first generation players have retired, started a family, and turned behind the scenes. As the first wave of pioneers in the industry, when they were young, everyone There are several scenes of apotheosis of gods.
Pu Yun and the others are the second generation, the rising stars of the gods, in the era of mass production by big guys. In the past few years, all those who have entered the circle are geniuses among geniuses. Just look at Pu Yun himself. The highlights of one season are more than many players in a career. many.
After that, it will be an inevitable downhill road, and then it will continue into the operating era of popularity and traffic. There are not so many pure people, and of course there are not so many good-looking scenes and achievements.
Tony and Bo Yun debuted in the same year, and both were amateurs and started directly in the starting lineup. Bo Yun was good at strong full-court control, and Tony was good at meticulous and stable performance. They were once called the regulatory twins.
But e-sports is a very cruel circle. Almost no one can maintain their peak condition all the time. In addition, as the competition becomes more and more popular, more and more newcomers come here, and each of them can be called a "genius" or two. Words, genius is just the threshold to enter the circle.
But in China, one genius in a million can pick out 140,000.
Tony has been a substitute in the team for the next few years. The new manager is a rare full-court control type like cloud-moving, and he will only be 18 years old.
Like all e-sports players, Tony himself was of course unwilling to give in. He thought he could still play, so he spent time on the bench year after year. He worked harder day by day, but his strength could never catch up with the newcomers.
In the end, I was scolded until I retired, and was scolded until I developed mental illness. Then I was diagnosed with early-stage liver cancer, which rapidly worsened in just one or two years. Now, every day is getting worse, and every night I am so painful that I can’t sleep. A good night's sleep.
The world is like this. The year after he first won the trophy, the year when he was at his peak, fans chanted Tony’s name, saying that he had the right to be free from spraying forever. They put him on a pedestal and demanded that every supervisor They are all aligned with him.
After his strength slowly declined and he was replaced by a new person, everyone seemed to have forgotten his achievements overnight. He suddenly turned into a clown that everyone yelled at. Once he appeared in the edited video, the barrage First slide through a big chunk of "humor."
When Tony was admitted to the hospital with a massive hemorrhage, he had only one thought in his mind: If only I were younger.
But he was actually only twenty years old.
Eighteen-year-old Tony never imagined that he would have this day, just like eighteen-year-old Jam never thought that he would retire one day.
Tony couldn't sleep, and neither could Fu Yanqing. The two of them had their own concerns, but they were in harmony inexplicably.
Tony has now given up on himself to the point where his heart is as calm as water. Now even if the haters stand in front of him and yell at him as a "rookie", he can still laugh and ask why he is not a "rookie" and prefers birds to chickens.
This comrade became as indifferent as a chrysanthemum after his illness was confirmed to be in an advanced stage, so much so that he showed extraordinary interest in the gossip and anecdotes of his friends.
Tony now really looked like Mr. Tony in the barber shop with his orchid fingers and purple highlights. He smiled and said to Fu Yanqing: "Your little girlfriend has joined the team. When will you bring her to me?"
Fu Yanqing glared at him: "It's not my girlfriend, it's my ex-girlfriend!"
Tony said in a good temper: "Okay, okay, ex-girlfriend. When will you bring your ex-girlfriend to me?"
Fu Yanqing was really shocked: "You are sick, what can you say to my ex-girlfriend?"
Tony said with great interest: "Let's see who can make Pu Yun, who fell asleep for a second backstage at the game, toss and turn all night long and stay awake all night."
Fu Yanqing: "..."
Fu Yanqing returned to the base the next day with dark circles under her eyes. The first thing she did was to go back to her room and fall asleep. She didn't crawl out of the room until two o'clock in the afternoon. When she opened the door, she ran into Qiao Yu.
The rooms of Qiao Yu and Fu Yanqing were not close to each other because Fu Yanqing was afraid of noise. The room was at the end of the corridor and no one would pass by easily. Qiao Yu suddenly appeared here. Fu Yanqing couldn't think of any other explanation other than her clear purpose.
Qiao Yu was not in a hurry when she saw her and handed her a cup of something: "Brother Zoe asked me to call you and said that I wanted to talk to everyone about the qualifying competition."
Fu Yanqing looked down and saw that a cup of milk, Sijichun, was stuffed into her hand. Even the coolness was just right for her liking.
Fu Yanqing raised his eyes and glanced at Qiao Yu. Because he had just woken up, his eyelids were stretched and he looked particularly cold.
Qiao Yu seemed a little scared and said cautiously: "I'm sorry, I don't know if you like this."
Fu Yanqing felt that Qiao Yu was really good at pretending to be pitiful. As long as she showed that cautious look, no one would be able to help but become soft-hearted, and an uncontrollable desire to protect her would arise. Qiao Yu seems to be born with this skill.
Fu Yanqing laughed inexplicably, walked in slippers and said, "I like it."
Everyone was already seated in the conference room. Fu Yanqing and Qiao Yu were the last to arrive, so of course they sat in two empty seats next to each other. Zoe put up the PPT she made and briefly talked about this year's COA qualifiers.
"This year will be the same as last year, with eight club teams and eight private teams selected through auditions. It will still be a BO3 with eight teams in one group. But this year it will be the same as in the Japanese division, with at least half of the private teams in each group." As far as Identity V is concerned, because it is very popular in Japan, the foreign teams it faces every year are the most powerful Japanese teams and are IVL's biggest opponents.
Yu Yan clasped her hands together: "Don't fight the civilian team, don't fight the civilian team, don't fight the civilian team..."
Qiao Yu wondered: "Why? Shouldn't the civilian team be better than the professional team?"
Zhang Chanyue explained: "Professional teams know each other well. Everyone is in the same system and understands a lot. Folk teams have too many unique skills. You would never guess that those folk big shots would drag down the proficiency of an unpopular character." How high. Last year, a civilian team’s supervisor used Su Umsi to capture WCG. If we faced it ourselves, the chances of winning would not be great.”
Zoe said: "It's not that scary. At most, I will get some characters that people may not expect. Now that the professional system is so mature, there must be a reason for some characters not to play. Last year, the supervision was strong, and there was no such thing in the end." Entering the group stage? Well, look at which private teams have done well in the past few years?”
Yu Yan cried sadly: "But it's embarrassing to lose to the civilian team."
Qiao Yu quietly raised the corner of her mouth, but was caught by Yu Yan. Yu Yan's face became even more mournful: "Qiao Qiao, you are still laughing at me!"
Qiao Yu sat very obediently: "No, I just think that if I hadn't been in JT, I should be in the civilian team now."
When Yu Yan thought of that scene, she shuddered: "Forget it, just stay in our team. I don't want to fight if I meet you."
Jam knocked on Yu Yan's head: "What are you afraid of? If you are afraid, you are afraid of turning the clouds."
Fu Yanqing sneered and said lazily: "Well, I'm scared to death."
Fu Yanqing was sitting behind Qiao Yu, and the laughter rolling out of his throat completely reached Qiao Yu's ears, which made Qiao Yu's ears feel a little hot and she was embarrassed to look back.
Zoe turned over the PPT page: "The schedule is also down. We will play SUN in the second game next week. The level of the SUN team fluctuates up and down. There is no pressure to clear the clouds. Supervision needs to pay special attention."
Qiao Yu didn't pay much attention to the game before. Even if she did, she only watched Fu Yanqing's. She didn't know SUN's supervision and asked: "Why?"
As soon as she said this, everyone looked over in unison.
Qiao Yu: "?"
Zoe explained: "SUN's supervision light replaces Tony's field control and flow supervision."
Everyone in JT has never met Light, but they all know Tony. In addition, Qiao Yu has also heard about Tony in the past two days. Although she doesn't hate Light, she feels sorry for Tony in her heart.
Everyone has selfish motives. As Tony's friends, everyone more or less hopes that Light will overturn. This is not against him, but just to save Tony.
There was a moment of silence in the conference room. Fu Yanqing knew clearly the little thoughts hidden in this silence, and couldn't help but said coldly: "What are you doing? Doesn't Light deserve to lose because he is not as pitiful as others?"
Yu Yan couldn't help but explain: "That's not what we meant..."
Fu Yanqing flicked the water droplets on the wall of the milk tea cup: "If you want to win, train yourself well. Even if you want to win, you guys have a low chance of winning against Light. What's more, Tony is a sick man, what's the point of being angry? Fight? ”
Yu Yan pursed her lips, feeling that Fu Yanqing's words were a bit unpleasant. Couldn't Sick Yangzi be able to speak out? But I also knew in my heart that Fu Yanqing said this to stop everyone from thinking about complaining about Tony all day long, because Tony had no grievance at all.
If you want to win Light, you can, but don't say it's for Tony.
E-sports has long been included in national sports projects, and everyone speaks with their own hands.
Yu Yan nodded heavily: "Okay! I won't sleep tonight! Qiaoqiao, let's work together again!"
Qiao Yu got up early in the morning to train, spent most of the day in ambush at Fu Yanqing's door at noon, and had an appointment with Bai Zang to train all afternoon. Qiao Yu planned to rest at night: "...Oh."
Everyone is rushing to practice cooperation with Qiao Yu, because Qiao Yu's operational thinking is too out-of-the-box and her style is very different. If she doesn't get along, it's easy to get out of touch with everyone.
JT has a specially prepared sparring partner for Fu Yanqing, because the team members often have to practice coordination in customization and can't take care of it. The sparring partner does not need to have very good skills, just above average level to ensure that Fu Yanqing will not lose touch.
Qiao Yu was about to practice rescuing people with Bai Zang. As soon as she entered the training room, she heard Yu Yan shouting in surprise: "Sister, have you ordered milk tea? My favorite Yangzhi Manna, I love you to death, sister!"
Fu Yanqing was too lazy to pay attention to her and went online to play sparring.
Qiao Yu knew that if Fu Yanqing ordered something, everyone would have a share, so she couldn't help but look forward to it and quickly returned to her seat.
Then I saw a glass of strawberry milk.
(End of chapter)