Chapter 35
On the night of April 10, 2019, in a female dormitory at a university in Shanghai.
An Wenxin, wearing pink pajamas, hugged her phone and twisted around on her bed from time to time.
"Xinxin, I've seen you smiling all day, what happy thing happened?" Roommate A was curious about An Wenxin's excited appearance.
A small hand reached out from the bed, clutching a phone; the picture on the phone screen clearly wrote a few large characters—【Claimed - VG Electronic Sports Club Offline Viewing Qualification】
"Deng deng deng~ deng—" The sound of discovering treasure in a game was emitted, and An Wenxin then explained: "I grabbed the match tickets!"
Roommate B, who was applying a facial mask, leaned over and asked suspiciously: "Didn't you already quit the e-sports club? We thought you didn't have this hobby anymore."
Roommate A also echoed: "Yeah, I haven't seen you playing with those people recently either."
An Wenxin poked her head out from the bed and said excitedly: "Didn't I tell you before that I met a really amazing professional player and added him as a friend?"
The roommates nodded; it was something from several days ago, but they had an impression of it, and she had even posted screenshots in the group at the time, and there were quite a few people in the live broadcast room.
"He actually switched from Dota to CS to be a coach!"
An Wenxin's little mouth opened wide, as if she were saying something incredible.
However, the roommates who hadn't had much contact with games didn't know what there was to be surprised about:
"Dota? Is it very similar to Honor of Kings? Isn't that something the older generation plays?"
Hearing this question, An Wenxin immediately assumed the posture of a girls' dormitory game encyclopedia: "No, Dota used to be a mod for Warcraft III..."
Looking at the blank expressions of her roommates, she realized the problem; they wouldn't understand even if she told them these things!
"No, no, the point is he switched games! He won a championship in one game and then switched to another game to be a coach; don't you think that's cool?"
"Don't understand, they're all games, there shouldn't be any difference, right?"
"..."
At night, the light drizzle of Qingming finally ended.
Tomorrow, sunny.
At two o'clock in the afternoon, the people who came to watch the match had already gathered in groups at the entrance of the VG club.
Ticket checking was about to begin, and people were chatting in twos and threes.
"To be honest, daring to hold this kind of offline self-proof, and playing a match directly, I don't think he really cheated."
"Hard to say, what if he just goes up to mix in, and then says the opponent is too strong, what can that prove?"
"Exactly, unless he can beat people into submission, saying anything is useless."
"Let's not talk about this, have you heard? This offline event was specially organized by Aqing for Jiao Yang."
"Heard about it, wanting to protect his own player, spending a bit more money, it's quite normal."
"There's no need to make such a big scene, though."
"I have some inside information here, not guaranteed to be true, do you want to hear it?"
"Speak if you have something to say, spit it out if you have to."
"I heard that Jiao Yang and Aqing are somewhat related..."
"..."
An Wenxin came to watch the match alone, listening to these people's nonsense, and the time spent queuing passed quickly.
After checking her ticket and passing the security check, she walked along the fence for a long time before seeing the appearance of the VG base.
The VG base was a villa covering a huge area, with a minimalist technological style; on the glass door was VG's huge team LOGO, with the nine large characters "VG Electronic Sports Club" written below, the whole thing in black and white.
Because of the viewing event, the staff were no longer standing at the front desk but were pointing the way for the audience outside; besides that, there was also quite a bit more security.
Past the gate was the honor room, with various medals and photos of the players displayed on the walls, and various trophies placed in the center, among which was a Major trophy that had just been obtained.
However, there was a vacancy at the highest point in the center; judging from the empty position, what was missing was not a trophy of a conventional shape.
VG's viewing instructions didn't say that taking photos was not allowed; seeing such a scene, An Wenxin, who had been interested in e-sports since she was a child, only hated that she hadn't brought her camera, so she could only use her phone to frantically take pictures, enduring the noise in the low-light environment.
Bang, her shoulder bumped into something.
"Ah! Sorry." An Wenxin blurted out.
Looking closely, it was a familiar-looking male wearing a baseball cap, who was dragging a suitcase and looked to be in a hurry.
"Oh, it's fine." Saying that, he walked toward the elevator, and the security didn't stop him.
An Wenxin then remembered, wasn't this Ding Yu from the VG. Dota2 division?
Wasn't he traveling out of town with his teammates?
Opening his blog, the latest one was still the mountain climbing photo posted by Yang Hai yesterday, and there was no news of the trip ending.
Could it be... he came back to watch the match?
Soon, she verified her guess.
Ding Yu was sitting in a seat that was also toward the back, not taking off his baseball cap, and even wearing sunglasses.
He was playing Three Kingdoms Kill on his phone, using Guan Yu and Zhao Yun.
Right from the start, the Carry directly revealed Yuan Shao and Jia Xu; An Wenxin could already recite the lines by heart.
"Crossbowmen ready, release the prison!"
"Everyone go to the spa!"
"Even the gods can't save you, even the gods can't save you!"
In no time, the Shu, Wu, and Warlord factions were all wiped out, and finally, Great Wei took over the match and won the victory.
Ding Yu looked up and saw that the players hadn't arrived yet, so he seized the time to start another game.
Is he that addicted? An Wenxin shook her head and began to focus on the field.
The big screen had already started playing some highlight videos, but if you didn't say this was a team highlight, most people would think this was a personal show of 【VG's Ori himself】.
After all, 90% of the content was Ori slaughtering all sides with various unexpected operations.
There were already quite a few people in the audience discussing it:
"This is too shameless, is this how you package a player?"
"Exactly, exactly, the 'Jiao content' is 99%."
"The IDs on the opposite side seem to be quite a few pro players, is it true or false? Accompanying him to act?"
"That's also a bit too crazy, I'll have to see what level it is when they really start playing."
An Wenxin was also a bit surprised; the distance from the last time she queued with Jiao Yang was long if you said it was long, and short if you said it was short, only ten days or so, but Jiao Yang's operations compared to then could already be called a super evolution.
She originally thought this match was just to let Jiao Yang prove himself offline and then safely switch to being a coach; now it seems the VG club has other ideas.
On the other side, the long-lost 6657 live broadcast room.
The title of the live broadcast room had been changed to 【VG VS 8EASY】.
The fans who had been waiting for Wanjiqi for many days finally realized that their "God Wan" was coming back!
The popularity of the live broadcast room rose rapidly, and the screen was already filled with bullet comments before the broadcast even started.
【God Wan big brother brother brother brother brother, you finally came back.】
【What mountain is so high that even the Pig Charm has to climb for so long?】
【Rain God went back to his hometown and washed the bowls but couldn't find a place to put them, shouting "Where is the cupboard?" and then God Wan ran over in a hurry.】
"Brothers, I'm here." God Wan's unique voice sounded in the live broadcast room.
End of Chapter
