Chapter 6 Either stay silent or become a blockbuster!
"Hmm~~~! This tripe is so crispy! Try it quickly!"
"Where are the shrimp sliders? Luo Baijiang, please pass the shrimp sliders to me!"
“Brothers, let’s enjoy the meal! The boss said you can eat whatever you want tonight, and you can drink Maotai!”
Nanshan Loquat Garden Hot Pot, the boys of the OG team at the dinner table Everyone was smiling happily, enjoying the food celebration after the victory in front of them.
"No, no, forget it's white, I'll just drink beer!" Cui Ze blocked l3est16's attempt to pour himself a drink, and responded with a polite smile.
Although they are all teammates who have fought for the e-sports dream together, in Cui Ze's heart, their relationship is not good enough to get drunk in front of each other.
Among the players in front of me, except for assistant Robin (Rashomon) who joined OG during the 2017 winter transfer, the rest of the players came after the spring split.
During the spring and summer transfers, the team owner not only sold GALA to SDG for river, but also sold the original starting jungler Jueju to VTG for l3est16.
The original two Korean players: starting top laner Clowz and backup mid laner Tank were also sold for money.
Rashomon is the oldest and an old man. Although he is the captain in name, he does not favor anyone in life and does not offend anyone.
So after GALA left, the only one who had the best relationship with Cui Ze and could be called a "friend" was top laner Zhu Dezhang (ZDZ) - this little brother he dug from Rank The king of passers-by comes out.
Seeing that Cui Ze didn't give him face, l3est16 was not upset. After all, in his opinion, the mid laner was the team's most important player. When he got to the LPL, he would still have to rely on his big daddy to attack hard.
After letting Cui Ze go, l3est16 immediately found ZDZ again: "Come on, come on, A Ze can't drink for free, Xiao Zhu, please go with me!"
River immediately followed and started to cheers : "Drink one! Drink one!"
Rashomon shook the wine glass in his hand, squinted his eyes and said nothing. He just smiled and watched his teammates on the table pushing and shouting, as if they were watching a show.
The wine glass was placed in front of him, and ZDZ felt a little dizzy just by smelling the smell of white wine.
Cui Ze couldn't stand it any longer, and stretched out his hand to stop him. However, he did not get angry, but handed the wine glass to the coach in charge of ordering takeout in the team: "Coach, Xiao Zhu is not under age yet and cannot drink. , don’t waste this Moutai thing. Please help me drink it.” Underage people can’t drink blindly. I drank this cup of Moutai!” The low-end wine that costs over a hundred yuan is much stronger!”
After sighing for a few words, he had the foresight to drag l3est16 and Rashomon together, and they drank and played guessing games together. The dinner table immediately showed a happy scene.
He buried his head and took two more bites of the food. Seeing ZDZ staring at the beer in his hand, Cui Ze smiled and handed over the unopened can of beer at hand.
“Hey, you are just right for drinking beer at your age.”
ZDZ muttered: “What age am I? Brother Aze, you are only a year older than me, why? He always talks in an old-fashioned way, like an adult."
Cui Ze shook his head and smiled, without explaining, he just clinked glasses with him.
After finishing a can of beer, he glanced at l3est16, who was playing guessing games very enthusiastically, and reminded him in a low voice: "There are many good and bad people in the e-sports circle. Some people seem to want to take you to play with them and make friends with you. But he has a lot of tricks behind his back.”
“I don’t know about the other guys, but Zhou Zhili (l3est16), you can be a teammate with him, but just be friends.”
ZDZ nodded, feeling that what Cui Ze said was reasonable. Anyway, he himself didn't really like l3est16 as a person. He always felt that this person was a bit like a gangster.
Taking a sip of beer and thinking about Cui Ze's words, ZDZ suddenly said in surprise: "Brother Aze, are you leaving?"
Cui Ze raised his eyebrows. , a little surprised that ZDZ could guess from the clues in his words that he had the idea of leaving the team.
He nodded without denying it.
ZDZ glanced at the people at the table, quickly pulled Cui Ze aside, and came to meet each other under a loquat tree.
“Why?”
“Aren’t we all in the LPL? Brother Aze, if you don’t like Zhou Zhili, why don’t you tell the boss and find another jungler? You are As the core of the OG team, the boss will definitely consider it carefully.”
ZDZ looked a little excited. He is not yet 17 years old. Before joining the OG team, he was just a person who was immersed in the online world and did not understand the world. Internet addicted boy.
Although he has good intuition, he is still a bit simple-minded after all, and it is difficult to think through some things quickly when he encounters them.
Cui Ze smiled silently and patted his shoulder.
“There are some things you don’t understand, but it doesn’t matter if I tell you now, but after you listen, you just pretend you haven’t heard it, understand?”
ZDZ was stunned for a while, There was a somewhat reluctant expression on his face, but he still nodded in agreement.
“It was okay before the league system was implemented, but now the owner of our team does not have the financial resources to support an LPL club, so there are only two possibilities for the OG team.”
"Either the boss introduces capital investment and cooperates to form a formal e-sports club, but if this is done, the name of the team and even the club will most likely be changed. And the most important thing is that with the continuous intervention of capital, the team Or the club's management rights are very likely to be gradually transferred."
"Finally, it will be swallowed up by outsiders."
After Cui Ze finished speaking, he jumped up and picked off a loquat, quickly. After peeling off the skin and biting it, his handsome face was so sore that it wrinkled into the shape of a chrysanthemum, completely distorted. "Bah, bah, bah! What the hell is this? Is it still a loquat? It's clearly a lemon!"
ZDZ quickly handed over the beer in his hand, and Cui Ze didn't care if he drooled. , quickly rinsed his mouth with beer to reduce the sour feeling in his mouth.
After slowing down for a while, Cui Ze said again:
“There is another situation, that is, the boss knows that he is beyond his capabilities, so he simply sells the teams that have qualified for the LPL. You must know that now there is only one LPL seat. The deposit is enough to reach a small goal, haha."
ZDZ was silent for a while, and said with a complicated mood:
"But Brother Aze, with your strength, no matter how the team appears in the future. Any changes should have no impact on you, right? If the team wants to make a name for itself after being promoted to the LPL, we should be kicked out or be transferred to the second team and continue to train in the LDL."
" So." ZDZ looked at him with a look of reluctance: "Why do you want to leave?"
"Because." Cui Ze looked away, unwilling to meet his eyes. He leaned against the loquat tree behind him and looked up at the night sky. He sighed softly: "I not only want to make a name for myself in the LPL, but I also don't want to put my Youth is wasted in a team with an uncertain future. "
"I want to win the championship, not just the LPL championship! But the MSI, the global finals!"
If it were something else! Man, ZDZ probably couldn't help but laugh at him a long time ago.
But the person who said this was Cui Ze, who guided him into the League of Legends e-sports field, made him a professional e-sports player, and took good care of him in life and training.
So even if I think he is a bit wishful thinking, ZDZ is still more willing to give blessings.
"Then I wish you good luck, Brother Aze."
Halfway through the dinner, the team boss also came.
The boss’s name is Chen Yu. He comes from a wealthy businessman family in Ningbo and is 30 years old this year.
After graduating from university, Chen Yu used a sum of money from his family to start his own business. As a result, he even lost his pants. Later, he started a chain of Internet cafes with his college roommates to gain experience. After the e-sports industry gradually emerged, he used the money to start his own business. I spent all my money to enter the game and wanted to try to see if I could make a fortune.
After more than two years of stumbling, I finally got a ticket to the LSPL through the City Championship Finals in the spring of 2017, and officially changed the team's name to OnlyGame in June of that year.
Although Chen Yu is a thorough businessman and has no need to negotiate when selling players, he still does a good job in providing logistical supplies for the team in terms of life, training, etc., and his wages and bonuses are never withheld or delayed.
So his arrival immediately made the dinner party more lively, and even Cui Ze made an "exception" to toast him with Maotai.
Late at night, OnlyGame’s celebration dinner finally came to an end after being lively for nearly three hours. Except for Cui Ze and ZDZ, who had restrained their drinking, the other players and coaches were already in a drunken state. .
As a good boss, Chen Yu naturally found a driver in advance and arranged for the team members and coaches to return to the hotel, but Cui Ze was left alone. It seemed that he had something to say.
As the driver packed the team members into the car one by one, Cui Ze wiped the sweat from his forehead, took a deep breath, and walked back to Chen Yu.
"What are your next ideas? I heard from Manager Wang that several LPL teams already want to invite you over for trial training."
Chen Yu spoke in a calm tone and took out a box from his pocket. Li Qun, who lived in Fuchun Mountain, took out two sticks, held one in his mouth, and gave one to Cui Ze.
Cui Ze thanked him, then took out a lighter from the corner of his backpack and lit himself up.
After his rebirth, in order to go further on the road of e-sports, he forced himself to get rid of many bad habits.
The last time I touched smoke was probably when I won the Spring Crown.
The craving for cigarettes has long gone, and what I smoke is the worldliness.
"Brother Huyu, when did you change your cigarettes? Aren't you always the proud smoker before?"
"Isn't this a gift from you? LPL seats are very valuable now. , It’s a pity that your contract is only for one year, otherwise I will definitely be able to stay in Fuchun Mountain Residence for a few more years, haha.”
Chen Yu did not mince words, because he knew very well in his heart. Regardless of whether OG finally wins the Summer Championship and takes the LPL seat, Cui Ze's increasingly strong strength after the middle of the regular season will make it impossible for OG to keep him.
In the winter transfer period of 2017, he gave Cui Ze a contract of at least two years, and he had to compete with South Korean mid laner Tank for the starting spot. For this reason, he offered a high-end monthly salary of 16,000 LDL.
Unexpectedly, Cui Ze said: There is no problem competing with the Korean mid laner for the starting spot, but he only signed a one-year contract.
In order to meet the condition of only signing the contract for one year, this young man, who was not yet 18 years old at the time, took the initiative to express his willingness to accept a basic salary of 6,000 yuan per month!
At that time, Chen Yu felt that Cui Ze was different.
Among the e-sports players, the vast majority are Internet-addicted teenagers who have not graduated from high school, and many of them have a big gap with their parents.
In such an environment, it is difficult for these teenagers who rush into the trap before they are even minors to withstand all kinds of temptations.
Provide them with a salary that looks good, and these inexperienced Internet-addicted teenagers will abandon their reason and sign their names on the blood-sucking contract full of twists and turns.
Due to lack of education and insufficient vision, if you really suffer a loss in a contract in the future, you can only break your teeth and swallow it in your stomach. If you want to cause trouble, you will probably end it hastily because of lack of connections. .
And Cui Ze, a rural boy who has never graduated from high school, was able to resist the temptation of a high-end salary, calmly and rationally negotiated with him, an adult who has been in business for many years, and finally signed a contract Low-paying contracts that greatly protect career freedom.
This guy will either remain silent or become a blockbuster!
(End of this chapter)