Chapter 112

May 28, 2019, 8:30 AM Dallas time. The players' hotel had already begun providing breakfast buffet service.

Because Jiao Yang's mental energy recovered faster, he woke up slightly earlier than the rest of VG.

In the restaurant, he was not surprised to discover a familiar figure. "Bonjour."

Jiao Yang waved his hand. ZywOo heard the familiar French and immediately raised his head; seeing Jiao Yang, he was stunned for a moment.

"Why are you here?"

He did not know that Jiao Yang was a professional player; he just felt it was magical.

Whether it was conjuring a parfait out of thin air or suddenly appearing in Dallas, he was practically like a magician.

Through the 【Babel Fish】, Jiao Yang captured the joy within ZywOo's shock quite well, smiled, and said to his phone: "If I said I'm your fan here to support you, would you believe me?"

The translated electronic voice reached ZywOo's ears. The silly ZywOo automatically ignored the second half of the sentence, truly believing Jiao Yang was his fan.

After all, when Jiao Yang said "I dreamed that you could become a Major Champion in the future" back then, it really did look exactly like a supporter.

"I will do my best!"

Vitality's first-round opponent was the North team. Because the team logo was a lion, it was also known as the North Lion team.

North Lion was a Danish team founded in 2017, led by the very stable big brother valde, and their previous results were passable. However, they lost to VG in the Minor qualifiers for the last Katowice Major, losing their qualification for the Major, and the team fell into a slump.

After failing again at IEM Sydney, the North Lion management decided to change the roster in May, replacing cadiaN with the newcomer JUGi. Currently, they had achieved good results in the ESL European division, winning against strong teams like NaVi, Heroic, and BIG, and were currently ranked 13th in the world.

Therefore, even Vitality, currently ranked 5th in the world, was under no small amount of pressure.

Just as Jiao Yang wanted to explain that he was actually a professional CS player, a mature, sturdy man with a tank-like build leaned over from not far away and asked with a frown: "Mathieu, what's going on?"

ZywOo hurriedly explained: "This is a fan friend of mine, it's nothing."

From the sturdy man's voice and his concern for ZywOo, Jiao Yang immediately judged that this was RpK, who had previously invited him to try out for G2.

"If he's a fan, chasing you to the restaurant is a bit exaggerated! Mathieu, don't get tricked."

"No, no."

"Alright, ALEX is calling you, saying there's a tactical change. Come with me."

Under RpK's extreme protectiveness, ZywOo had no choice but to give Jiao Yang an apologetic look.

Jiao Yang didn't mind these things; in any case, there would be plenty of opportunities to meet in the future.

He was more curious about apEX. After all, he had spent a large amount of talent points to upgrade 【ZywOo's Dungeon Imprisonment】 to Lv. 10, and the additional effect obtained was: when teammates perform poorly, self-status increases by 100%, and one can always maintain a good mindset.

This "always maintain a good mindset" didn't seem very useful to him, but for others, it might be completely different.

Some genius teenagers are mentally unstable; whenever they encounter a strong enemy or fail consecutively at a critical score, they get "red-warmed," thus missing many opportunities.

If they could also maintain a mindset like ZywOo's, it wouldn't affect their own operations, nor would it affect their teammates' mindset, so whether it's the team or the individual, they would definitely be able to go higher and further.

It can be seen that the Lv. 10 talent is a qualitative change, completely worth thousands of talent points.

It's just that to unlock the upper limit, it seems one must first have contact with the player, and perhaps even reach a good relationship.

Among the participating teams in this DH Dallas, he only had the talents of apEX and rain.

Compared to rain's social butterfly talent, 【apEX's Sniper Manual】 was clearly more practical.

This was also the reason why he wanted to see apEX, this esports Mr. Bean.

"What are you spacing out for?" aumaN approached from somewhere.

"Oh, it's nothing. Why are you up so early?" Jiao Yang withdrew his gaze from the system and began to choose from the buffet.

aumaN said righteously: "As a professional player, developing the habit of going to bed early and waking up early is also a form of training."

Unfortunately, the action of him pressing down the hat on his head exposed his true purpose—he didn't want to be pranked by his teammates.

"If you really don't like this hairstyle, shaving it all off is fine too."

Anyway, 【Hairstyle Director's Hair Clipper】 only requires it to be cool; aumaN being bald should also be quite cool.

Facing Jiao Yang's suggestion, aumaN was concise: "Get lost!"

In an unknown corner of the United States, the curtain of a dim and cramped room was tightly closed. The sour, rotten smell of alcohol and mold permeated the air, and beer bottles and pizza boxes were piled up like mountains.

Together.

A white male in his forties was curled up, his eyes looking at the screen that was somewhat blindingly bright.

The screen showed the live stream of the retired North American CS player Iru, who was scrolling through the match details page on HLTV.

"Oh, if you ask me what the winning percentage is for Liquid, I can only say 100%."

In the camera, Iru glanced at the scrolling comments and answered directly.

The old white man learned this news and immediately switched the page to the corresponding betting site.

The numbers on it confirmed Iru's conclusion well; the support rate for Liquid was already close to 1, leaving people with no desire to follow suit.

"WTF? How did VG get a guy with a 1.67 rating? Didn't they just lose IEM Sydney?

"

【Hey, this Ori just won the Paris Disney Major, didn't expect him to be so good at CS too.】

This comment was clearly from a Dota 2 player, and they had some understanding of 0ri's situation, recognizing Jiao Yang in the profile photo at once.

"What do you mean? You're saying this man is holding a Dota 2 championship while fishing in the world of CS?"

Iru opened the Liquidpedia and searched for Ori; it was indeed exactly the same as the profile photo in the CS match information.

"Oh, God, what the hell is this."

Iru opened his arms and widened his eyes, his entire face involuntarily sticking close to the screen, making an unbelievable expression.

The comments increased rapidly along with the exaggerated performance; the audience just loves to watch the streamer be startled.

"He is a genius, however, in CN, the gold content of this data will be greatly discounted."

【You're right, that place full of hacks and match-fixing, it's not strange for any data to appear.】

【Probably just some star-making, then the club sells it for a good price. I heard Liquid spent a lot of money.】

【Is Liquid crazy? Their CS results are so good!】

【Could it be 2K returning to C9? Really miss Boston 2018.】

The old white man didn't miss the days of C9 winning the championship like the comments, but switched back to the betting site.

His bloodshot eyes stared fixedly at the jumping numbers on the screen: 1.17, 1.24, 1.4.

It was really rising slowly! At this time, the 1.4 support rate was already very tempting!

"VG shouldn't have much of a chance. Although NiP put in their coach, pita isn't exactly a scrub."

"On the contrary, VG's newcomer JamYoung's results against Asian first-tier teams aren't too good."

"REZ just loves opponents with poor paper strength. You guys just watch when the time comes—"

Iru analyzed it for a while, and the conclusion was to look down on VG.

Just as the number fell slightly to 1.37, the old white man immediately bet all his chips, becoming a loyal supporter of NiP.

The same scene was being staged all over the world—

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