Chapter 30

On the other side of the world...

VG. Dota2 Division's team building—

"It's not bad, living in the mountains is really not bad." Yang Hai said, sighing with emotion while smoking a cigarette and lying on a lounge chair, enjoying the natural scenery of the mountains.

On another lounge chair, Pan Da nodded in agreement: "Being off for a month is just too damn awesome! Should have come out to travel sooner."

"Don't get too carried away, you guys still need to train for a few days." Bai Jie walked out of the villa with a bottle of beer.

"No rush, Jiao Yang is so fierce right now, we can just play the Major casually." Yang Hai said nonchalantly.

"You guys talk so nicely, but you didn't even bring him along when you came out to play." Bai Jie took a swig of beer, making a 's-ha' sound.

"What's the point of bringing him? Look at Zhang Jun, he's still upstairs playing ladder to rank up, it's boring." When Yang Hai mentioned Zhang Jun, he happened to glance at Ding Yu next to him, and seeing him playing on his phone, he scolded: "It's not that I'm complaining, Ding Yu, why are you holding that broken phone every day? What's so good about it?"

"Huh? I'm looking at the club's announcement." After his phone was taken away by Yang Hai, Ding Yu finally snapped out of it.

"Let me see." Yang Hai narrowed his eyes: "It really is a club announcement, but isn't this news from the CS side?"

【Creating an exact copy! VG. Ori lands in CSGO!】

Yang Hai rubbed his eyes; although he had been crazy all night, he still didn't expect to have such an absurd dream.

"Is today April Fool's Day?"

"Three days have already passed, is your brain broken?" Bai Jie slapped him on the head.

Sss, that actually hurt~ Since it's not a dream—

"Then why the hell did Jiao Yang run off to the CSGO division?!!"

At the same time, the MAX community had already exploded.

【Is VG crazy? Won a Major and switched departments? Ori became VG. CS coach】

【Awesome, VG really has the guts, changing their midlaner right before the Major. But here's the problem, who are they replacing him with?】

【I have a great recommendation, why not poach the other Brother J, it just so happens that A-Jun can flex.】

【Great, great, why don't you recommend the Ti8 champion inflame?】

【Feels like VG is being a bit impulsive, how is this going to work?】

【I've been saying VG has some issues, Jiao Yang didn't even stand with the team when they lifted the trophy after winning the Major, this confirms it.】

【Isn't there talk that Jiao Yang was cheating in CS? Does everyone not know?】

Compared to the M78 Star... MAX community where Dota2 players gather, the 5E Forum was an even bigger explosion.

It wasn't because of a simple coaching incident, but because someone posted a thread titled 【VG, due to internal discord, suspected of demoting big brothers freeman and kaze, team stats attached】.

It stated that the poster learned through internal personnel how the VG Qiyou Trio suppressed freeman and kaze, intentionally throwing games, which led to VG suddenly losing three games in a row after beating NaVi, including discussions by foreign netizens (gamblers) about this, and finally took a screenshot of the training stats of the Qiyou Trio, JamYoung, and Jiao Yang, noting that the opponents were 2600 ELO on the 5E ladder.

Among them, 【HG. JamYoung】 occupied the first place, while 【VG's Ori himself】 was at the bottom.

In an instant, replies flooded the post, and the page count was increasing by the second.

【I knew why zhokiNg was like a wilted vegetable after beating NaVi, turns out he was throwing!】

【This guy Ori is a cheater! Even with cheats, he plays so poorly, he's only good for bullying streamers like Laionkai.】

【This is the foundation of CNCS! Gambling, skins, cheats, do you guys even have such a pure gaming environment?】

【No, I think Jiao Yang might be a bit bad, but the cheating is too absurd, would someone really accompany him to throw?】

【Besides, he's going to play in matches, won't everything be clear then?】

【An online tournament and you're proud of it? If you have the guts, play offline.】

【The apologists are really good at spinning, if you've ever watched it, you'd know he's cheating, what does playing in a match prove? s1mple is even Top 1, can you say he's never cheated?】

【Regardless, demoting freeman and kaze is too absurd, VG is completely G now.】

Aqing, who was looking forward to the surprised reactions of netizens, scrolled through his blog and found that no one was praising Jiao Yang for being awesome; they were all predicting their downfall.

Only some hardcore fans were tagging him under the official blog—

【Aqing, what's the situation? Not playing Ti9? Don't mess around!】

【Is it true, is your club this abstract? (Attached the trending demotion post)】

【I thought Brother Jiao was just playing CSGO for fun, turns out he's for real?!】

Aqing thought for a moment and posted an explanatory blog, the general meaning being—Jiao Yang is just a substitute for CSGO, the post is pure nonsense, Kaze will play in the next match, and the Dota2 lineup remains unchanged to prepare for winning the championship.

As soon as this message was sent out, it was forwarded to the 5E Forum, and soon someone discovered a blind spot—

【They said Kaze will play, but what about freeman? Isn't this admitting that freeman was demoted?】

Suddenly, everyone chimed in and ran to freeman's Twitter to ask what was going on.

freeman updated his tweet a few hours later:

【Thank you for the fans' concern. Due to some reasons, I have to leave VG in May. I wanted to finish IEM Sydney before leaving, but I didn't expect to be demoted so quickly... In any case, I understand the club's decision and wish my teammates a smooth performance in the next match.】

This completely confirmed that the VG club bullies honest people, and even passersby who don't usually watch matches started bashing VG, telling VG to kick Ori and JamYoung and let freeman go back to play.

After all, the qualification for IEM Sydney was earned by freeman himself!

For a time, voices attacking Jiao Yang, Aqing, and the VG club spread everywhere through hot searches, and even the big boss of VG, Lao Ding, who was busy with business, learned of this news.

After dealing with the client, Lao Ding called Aqing, and the call was answered quickly:

"Aqing, what's going on? How did Jiao Yang run off to the CS side? Why didn't I know?"

"I did it, didn't go through your procedures." Aqing admitted directly; for those of them who play with money, they aren't really afraid.

It's all a loss anyway, a small loss is better than a happy big loss.

"Are you sure?" Lao Ding didn't argue, only caring about what to do next. However, he doesn't play games much and doesn't know the situation.

"Do I not know more about this than you? Jiao Yang really has something, doesn't that Zhang Xi (freeman) have things to do? I actually just thought about having a substitute go up and play two games."

"Zhang Xi didn't negotiate with the club before posting the message?" Lao Ding immediately grasped the point.

"No." Aqing also realized it and cursed: "Damn, someone is setting me up."

"Don't panic yet, I'll go find PR." Lao Ding prepared to mobilize his connections.

Aqing rarely refused: "Wait, don't! Leave it to me first."

Finding PR now would most likely mean clarification plus cold treatment, which is equivalent to swallowing one's pride and admitting a mistake.

Not to mention how stifling that would be, more importantly, he made a promise to Jiao Yang; if he really compromised, where would he put his face?

This is not the ending he wanted!

Hanging up the phone, Aqing opened his contacts and found—"Jiao Yang 0722"