Chapter 13: Bad Luck, Bad Luck, Bad Luck!

"Buddy, buy some utility, are you saving for an AWP?"

After winning a Force Buy, the Counter-Terrorists hadn't scored a single point since, and Lanse, who had been losing all afternoon, was getting anxious.

But he didn't feel right about flaming Jiaoyang, the only one on the team who had scored, so he could only find other ways to vent his frustration.

For instance, Jiaoyang had indeed never bought utility, which resulted in his teammates exhausting their Economy by the seventh round, a Long Gun Round, while Jiaoyang still had two thousand in spare cash.

"Yeah."

Jiaoyang certainly knew the importance of utility, but he possessed the disastrous talent 【Broky's Prop Understanding】, which meant the utility he threw always resulted in accidents.

Previously in ranked matches, he had often thrown the Smoke Grenade meant for the Mirage VIP into the Sewer, thrown the anti-rush flash for Dust II A da as an offensive flash, or set off fireworks when he was supposed to throw an Incendiary Grenade at the Bomb Site to stop a defuse, sending his teammates' blood pressure through the roof.

Later, he learned his lesson: he stopped buying utility and stuck purely to raw aim.

As the seventh round began, he, Lanse, and Yellow rushed the Banana Path together.

The Banana Path on Inferno is a place every strategist must fight for, and also a site where accidents frequently occur.

The game of cat and mouse between the Counter-Terrorists and Terrorists here can be said to be the soul of this map.

Yellow threw the Terrorist Entrance Smoke at the back, while Lanse threw a close-range Incendiary Grenade, and Yellow followed up with a long-range Incendiary Grenade.

"Burned him."

Soon, the opponents threw a Smoke Grenade to extinguish the fire.

Lanse, impatient, peeked out from the Stone Slab to fight through the smoke, only to be killed by a shot from the enemy Sniper.

"Ori, pick up the Grenade, he's very low, it's up to you."

Picking up the Grenade, Jiaoyang was a bit dazed.

Should I go? I'm the one throwing the utility? For real?

And Wanjiqi, who had been burned down to just over ten health, crept out from the smoke—this was a timing absolutely no one could have expected!

He was already backing against the Stone Slab, waiting for his teammate's flash support.

With just a simple Stone Slab flash, he would be able to control the entire Banana Path and subsequently threaten the B Bomb Site.

At that point, whether to hit A or B would be entirely in the Terrorists' hands.

However, he did hear the sound of a pin being pulled on a piece of utility, but the sound was extremely close...

The Grenade left Jiaoyang's hand, and according to Jiaoyang's expectation, it was supposed to fly toward the Terrorist Entrance to finish off the low-health Terrorist who was running away.

Yet, the trajectory of the Grenade did not go as hoped; it moved through the air according to some extremely profound geometric principle.

Finally, it exploded right above Jiaoyang's head, on the Stone Slab.

【Broky's Prop Understanding】 truly did not disappoint Jiaoyang, as it caused another joke...

"Holy crap, it can even hit that." Lanse looked at the kill notification in the top left corner, stunned.

And only then did Jiaoyang realize that he wasn't the only one taking damage.

This doesn't make sense?!

In the past, 【Broky's Prop Understanding】 only ever had negative effects, but this time it actually had a positive one...

It must be 【s1mple's Angel's Protection】 at work!

Is it actually a luck-boosting talent?

On the other side, Wanjiqi's livestream chat was flooded with messages—

【Hahaha】

【Stinky egg!】

【Good riddance】

Wanjiqi watched as his teammates were devoured by the Counter-Terrorists, but he wasn't angry; they still had two full-buy rounds, and the advantage was huge!

"But this utility is god-tier; it's the first time I've seen a Stone Slab grenade explode right in the middle."

Jiaoyang's side pulled one back, bringing the score to 2:5; although there was still a gap, their Economy had at least recovered.

Especially since they had captured an AWP.

After thinking it over, Yellow threw the AWP to Jiaoyang.

"It's up to you, Sniper God."

This was because Jiaoyang's Desert Eagle performance in the second round was outstanding, and combined with him saving for an AWP these past few rounds, they assumed he was a Sniper.

But in reality, Jiaoyang's understanding of the AWP could only be described as better than nothing.

But since holding an angle with an AWP wasn't difficult anyway, he accepted it.

In return, he gave his M4A4 to Yellow, who had delivered the AWP.

"Buddy is pretty low-key."

Yellow looked at the default-skin M4 in his hand and said.

In the eighth round, the Terrorists were still playing a Default.

Wanjiqi, in the first position, went straight to contest the Banana Path.

But before he could get close to the Recess, he saw the opponent with the fly-head avatar aiming an AWP at him.

Hello.

Bang!

【VG's Ori himself used an AWP to kill C9's Shroud himself】

"Don't you guys have a Window Flash when playing this game?"

Wanjiqi was getting a bit angry and used voice chat to ask his teammates.

"Huh? Oh. Forgot, forgot, I'm going to contest the side path." Clueless Waste replied.

In the end, because they failed to take the Banana Path, the team was picked off by the Counter-Terrorists who pushed from the B Bomb Site while they were grouping up to execute an A-site bomb plant.

The score reached 3:5; the Terrorists really had no money left, only full Armor with MAC-10s, two AKs, and half a set of utility.

In the end, they decided to fast-push B Site.

The CTs threw an Incendiary Grenade at the close angle first, and the Terrorists directly extinguished the fire and rushed through the Smoke Grenade.

A flashbang was thrown, Lanse at the close angle was directly blinded and killed, while Jiaoyang, who was holding an angle with a sniper rifle in the middle, fired and immediately retreated.

He was very lucky, getting a Headshot while blinded to take out the opponent's strongest player, Wanjiqi.

However, this was also because the five Terrorists were grouped up quite densely, and no one paid it any mind.

Without another word, the four of them rushed directly toward the Bomb Site.

Bang, a gunshot rang out from the Triple Box.

Another one died, and the situation turned into a 3v4, but as long as they could take out the sniper, it would be a 3v3 post-plant situation.

"Triple Box," the Terrorist voice comms reported the position quickly.

The one in front holding a MAC-10 rushed up immediately; Jiaoyang had no time to scope in, and took them out with a Blind Snipe.

The Terrorist holding an AK immediately went to trade the kill.

Gunfire poured out, and after half a magazine, Jiaoyang, who was cycling the bolt, was still not dead.

"Damn it, did this guy get a Butterfly Knife? Why isn't he losing any health?" Now a soul, Wanjiqi witnessed the entire process from his teammate's perspective.

【Is your teammate even human?】

【This aim, it's like a horse.】

【The opponent's luck is also too good, crouching down happened to dodge all the bullets.】

【Bad luck, how come every time you look at someone, they die.】

Bang! Jiaoyang once again used a Blind Snipe to take down the Terrorist in front of him; the situation was already extremely unfavorable for the Terrorists.

The Terrorist who originally intended to perform the Bomb Planting had to cooperate with his teammates to clear out this Triple Box.

But when they wasted so much time clearing Jiaoyang, they had already lost.

The Retake from Connector had arrived, and coordinating with Jiaoyang's callouts, Huangse sprayed wildly toward the Triple Box, directly taking away the Terrorist on one side.

As for the other MAC-10 player who jumped out to peek the Triple Box, they were once again taken away by an extreme flicking Blind Snipe.

The familiar B Site, the familiar ID, the familiar quad-kill; the only thing that changed was that the Desert Eagle had become a sniper rifle.

"Mother of pearl, he really is a Sniper God!" The fallen Lanse witnessed the entire process; unlike Wanjiqi's victim perspective, from Jiaoyang's side, it was simply a slaughter show.

That Blind Snipe had a bit of s1mple's shadow; I don't even know how it hit.

Having lost three rounds in a row, the Terrorists really had no money left at all.

And in these three lost rounds, Wanjiqi had died in inexplicable ways.

The first time, he was hit by justice from above via a rotten egg.

The second time, his teammate forgot to throw a flash and he was sniped.

The third time, he was blinded but still sniped while blinded.

Isn't this just too unlucky?