Chapter 78

Hearing this, the two French players from LDLC were startled. Rpk actually revealed his relationship with G2 directly; wasn't he afraid of making the Vitality management suspicious?

Only NBK, who was in the same club, knew that the Vitality management wouldn't care about such things. They didn't suspect those they used, and didn't use those they suspected, forming a sharp contrast with the French clubs of the past.

After all, as a newly established team, Vitality was thirsty for talent. Even apEX had jumped ship directly from G2, and ZywOo was a suspected cheater, yet that didn't hinder the management's trust in them at all.

However, NBK didn't think as highly of this Martin as Rpk did. G2 was notoriously stingy; since they had already bought this all-French lineup, there was no possibility of changing it in the short term.

Unless Mart1n showed strength shocking enough to change that, but by then, G2 wouldn't be the only club wanting him.

Jiao Yang's not-so-fluent English came through the voice channel—This book is first published on Tiantiankan Novels, 🆃🆃🅺. 🆃🆆, providing you with an error-free and non-disordered reading experience.

"G2? Sorry, not interested."

Jiao Yang did have some understanding of G2. They seemed okay in terms of LOL, but their reputation in CS was just average.

As for Dota 2? They didn't even have a team.

As a foreigner, joining would mean having to learn English or French, and living in a foreign land...

Even so, what would the salary and benefits be? If they didn't release stickers, would it be as high as the Ti prize money?

On paper, it felt like they were completely blown out of the water by VG.

Not to mention his friendship with Aqing, advent, aumaN, and zhokiNg.

"Alright then..."

Rpk realized there was indeed no need to push a random player into a fire pit for the sake of his own grudges; the current G2 was a mess.

However, in the eyes of the others, this Martin was a bit too arrogant. A normal CS player, even if they had no interest, should have said, "Let me consider it."

After all, G2 was one of the few top-tier clubs in France worth mentioning; countless people wanted to go there but had no way in!

Under the unconventional defense of Jiao Yang's sniper rifle, the five members of G2 were destroyed without surprise. Even though they had won the pistol round, the score still reached 15:7.

"Martin, why do you like the second floor so much?" LOGAN complained.

Ever since the sides swapped in the second half and Jiao Yang became a T, he always wanted to go check out the second floor for some reason.

Even when his teammates asked how to play, he would subconsciously say—Let's fly to the second floor!

This was a situation that wouldn't normally happen. By controlling the variables, Jiao Yang pushed up his glasses with his middle finger.

There is only one truth—

【apEX's Sniper Manual】 has a huge problem!

Once again, under the cover of his teammate's flashbang, Jiao Yang flew out of the second floor.

Before he even landed, the opponent had already turned away to avoid the flash...

If he were caught in the timing of his hang time, Jiao Yang would be close to death.

Without even thinking, he fired the sniper rifle directly!

Bang.

【Mart1n used AWP to jump-blind-snipe headshot kill Lucky】

"Looks like I'm the luckier one."

The bullets from the M4 at the bomb site drifted continuously over his head; Jiao Yang lowered his head to pull the bolt.

Looking at the seemingly unwilling expression on Lucky's corpse, he chuckled, and without a word, raised his head and opened the scope.

"I said... have you shot enough?" The barrel pointed straight at the opponent who was delusional about re-fragging.

Bang! The bullet pierced directly through the enemy's skull, blood splattered on the box, and there was one more corpse in the town—

【Mart1n used AWP to headshot kill shox】

Two kills; Jiao Yang, with one man and one sniper rifle, forcibly tore open the defense of A Site.

Simple, fast, and refreshing—is this the charm of flying to the second floor?!

If he hadn't been lined up and executed in the pistol round earlier, he would have really believed it...

Isn't this entirely dependent on the state of his teammates?!!

Could it be that this apEX's Sniper Manual just makes teammates fly to the second floor every round?

The game ended, and Jiao Yang couldn't wait to browse the system's settlement—

【System detected game end】

【Loading settlement interface for you】

【Talent for this match: apEX's Sniper Manual】

【You have completed the basic task: 'Encourage' the team's sniper to perform amazing sniper rifle operations】

【Congratulations on obtaining: Talent Points x200 (Since your aiming attribute has reached the cap, the corresponding attribute has been converted into Talent Points)】

【You have completed the hidden task: Make others think you are the team's sniper】

【Congratulations on obtaining: apEX's Sniper Manual · Talent Solidification Lv. 1 (Increases the team sniper's short-term sniper rifle usage state by 10% after receiving punishment or reward, cannot be stacked)】

【Talent draw settlement for this time is complete】

This works too?

There was only one sniper in the team, Jiao Yang, so others naturally thought he was the sniper.

What's up with this apEX? Would anyone still think he is ZywOo?

Could it be that he is also France's ultimate weapon?

Without a word, he used the overflowing Talent Points to max out the talent directly, and even then, 555 points remained.

The effect of 【apEX's Sniper Manual】 changed to—Increases the team sniper's long-term sniper rifle state by 30% after receiving punishment or reward, cannot be stacked.

After thinking about it, this effect was very useful for VG.

His and Kaze's double-sniper setup would definitely see a huge improvement under this buff.

It seems he needs to buy more gifts so it's easier to give them out later; since he's giving one to Kaze, he can't leave the others out.

It's just that he didn't know what the local specialties of France were; it seems he'll have to ask someone another day.

Knock, knock, knock~ Jiao Yang's hotel room door was knocked.

"Just a moment."

Jiao Yang had been killed by a re-frag after rushing and trading one person; he took off his headset and opened the door.

"Hm? No one?" Looking at the empty space in front of him, Jiao Yang felt it was a bit eerie.

Suddenly, a hand blocked his view.

"Holy shit, it's haunted." Jiao Yang was startled.

"No, are you fucking trolling me?"

Jiao Yang lowered his head following the voice and realized there really was someone in front of him—VG. Dota2's position 3, Yang Hai.

This really couldn't be blamed on Jiao Yang for not noticing; Yang Hai was just really short.

Jiao Yang was a bit puzzled as to why this person would come to find him specifically.

He didn't have much interaction with Yang Hai in Dota 2; his grievances were mostly with the two supports.

Although Yang Hai had a bad temper and low character, he wasn't disgusting.

"I'm playing CS, come find me later if you have something."

Jiao Yang didn't even close the door, just ran back to the computer and put on his headset, looking exactly like a gaming addict.

As expected, he had only traded one in the last round, and his teammates hadn't held on, leading to the site being broken.

Because the IEM Sydney was about to start, the strongest combat power in FPL now consisted only of some second-tier teams, and many of these second-tier teams were directly on vacation, so there were mostly streamers and high-level players.

In this game, he was matched with 4 random experts whose records couldn't be found on HLTV, while the opposing side had two third-tier professionals.

Mirage, this desert map, was also a map of marksmanship; the outcome mostly depended on the contest for the Middle.

And VIP was an extremely important defensive position.

Because Jiao Yang spawned in VIP almost every round, and his sniper rifle was stable enough, the terrorists gave VIP smoke every single time.

"Oh? Not a fast smoke?" Looking at the VIP smoke that hadn't been sealed yet, Jiao Yang rarely took out a prop—an incendiary grenade.

He threw it on the floor, the flames spread in VIP, and immediately after, the smoke grenade arrived as scheduled and exploded early.

The terrorists at the Terrorist Entrance would never have imagined that a hunter had been waiting for them behind the smoke.

Bang! Bang! Two gunshots.

Before the opponents could react, Jiao Yang had already killed two terrorists at the Terrorist Entrance, then jumped down from VIP and took out the terrorist synchronized in the Sewer, locking in the victory early.

"Holy shit, that's awesome!"

The shout from beside him startled Jiao Yang.

He turned his head abruptly and found it was still Yang Hai.

"Scared you?" Yang Hai laughed: "You're so fucking focused when playing CS; I've never seen that when playing Dota."

Jiao Yang frowned; he hadn't noticed that himself, maybe those talents that improved concentration were taking effect.

The opponents were on an ECO round next, no need to pay too much attention; Jiao Yang hung his sniper rifle in VIP: "What's up?"

"No rush, you play first." Yang Hai pulled up a small chair and sat down.

The opponents didn't come through the Middle; Jiao Yang told his teammates the information.

"Your English is okay, quite fluent." Yang Hai complimented him insincerely.

At this point, Jiao Yang already knew there was something fishy; Yang Hai didn't compliment people for no reason, he was usually most active when scolding people.

He didn't care much; the B Site second floor had already started flying, and he had to rotate from the Dog Hole to the Supermarket to retake.

"I just realized you don't even have a knife, Jiao Yang. How about I gift you one?"

Yang Hai should be the one who plays CS the most in the Dota 2 team; the others were all led into the pit by him, and he was the most concerned about skins and such.

One shouldn't accept rewards without merit; Jiao Yang wasn't stupid enough to be tricked by a knife, so he acted as if he hadn't heard.

The B Site flight was fast, but his teammates had saved their lives; at this time, using a sniper rifle to hold the point was a bit inappropriate, so Jiao Yang switched to the P2000.

Since the opponents were on an ECO round without armor, a pistol like the P2000 might be more useful than a sniper rifle that required bolt-action.

Watching Jiao Yang cleanly and neatly take care of the terrorists who were delusional about planting the bomb under the coordination of his teammates, Yang Hai suddenly felt Jiao Yang looked incredibly cool.

The score was fixed at 16:10; Jiao Yang had already won 11 games in a row in FPL, and he hadn't encountered the scene of ten professional players in one game again. It seems that to stably obtain talents, one still has to play in large-scale tournaments.

"Alright, say it, what's up." Putting down his headset again, Jiao Yang looked at Yang Hai, who was a head shorter than him.

Yang Hai gave two embarrassed laughs and then asked: "Heard a little sister came?"

Jiao Yang understood immediately; this guy was asking about An Wenxin.

"Uh-huh? What do you want to do?"

"Hey, just want to make a friend. Heard you have her contact info, how did you add her?" Yang Hai patted Jiao Yang on the shoulder, winking.

"Oh? Ding Yu said that?"

"Aqing said that."

Jiao Yang smiled; among the few people, only Aqing might have her contact info. It seems everyone was too lazy to deal with Yang Hai and was passing the buck here.

"I really do have her contact info, 5E friend, added her by chance while playing CS."

"Damn, so you can really meet girls playing CS. If I'd known, I wouldn't have played with those idiots."

"Didn't you meet a girl when playing Dota? She was even a female streamer."

This brings up an interesting story about Yang Hai.

Once, when Yang Hai was playing Dota 2 ranked, he met a female streamer who was borrowing an account. Seeing the female streamer's non-human operations, he couldn't help but scold her a few times, and the female streamer replied, "With your skills, you still want to go to Ti?"

As a result, the following year, he entered the Ti arena he had dreamed of, and then was kicked out in two games.

"You idiot, you're poking my sore spot, aren't you." Yang Hai couldn't help but scold a few times: "Damn, I remember now, your performance at Ti8 was even worse than mine."

Jiao Yang twitched the corner of his mouth, speechless.

At that time, the VG main team he was on had indeed played one fewer round in the lower bracket than the VG second team Yang Hai was on, and they had boarded the plane early.

The current VG was the combination of those two teams at the time. Besides keeping him and Zhang Jun, they also brought over Yang Hai, Pan Da, and coach Bai Jie from the second team, and finally found Ding Yu from who knows where.

It was precisely because of this that although the results were okay, there was a very obvious rift in the team.

Jiao Yang didn't like this atmosphere, which also had to do with his inability to communicate with the people from the second team.

The people from the second team were too aggressive, to the point where everyone had to integrate into their rhythm.

Zhang Jun, as the carry, was socially anxious, and his position was biased towards farming; Ding Yu, as a newcomer, only knew how to stick together and hung out with Pan Da.

Jiao Yang was the only one who was neither a carry nor liked to stick together, so for him, he had never felt happy playing Dota at VG.

Now, with the help of the 【Babel Fish】, he somewhat understood Yang Hai; this person's words had no malice, just pure foul-mouthedness.

If it were the past, if Yang Hai questioned his results, Jiao Yang would definitely have pushed the blame onto his teammates at the time, finding reasons like "National Team" or "Old Eleven" being too old.

But now, he would say—

"Just thinking about having to lead you to win a Major makes me feel sick."

"Hahaha, screw you, it's me leading you to win the championship."

Yang Hai usually only joked with people he considered acquaintances and didn't mind acquaintances joking with him; in fact, Jiao Yang had long been an acquaintance in his heart.

"Seriously, teach me CS. I just saw you were too fucking awesome, worthy of being a professional player."

As the saying goes, "eat someone's food and your mouth gets soft, take someone's gifts and your hands get short." With the opponent's sugar-coated bullets, Jiao Yang really didn't know how to respond for a moment.

"Can't you watch tutorials yourself?"

"There really aren't many CS tutorials; they all just say to practice shooting and practice props. It's good enough if a novice can learn counter-strafing."

Jiao Yang thought about how An Wenxin had also asked him to produce some systematic tutorials, saying she hoped to let new players enter the pit faster and better; he didn't expect someone to really have this need.

"How about this, after the match is over, I'll go ask Lao Liang to make a few videos and teach some real stuff."

advent looked like he was very suitable for this kind of thing, but he was a bit too busy; it seems he really had to ask Aqing for a proper coach to assist.

Yang Hai got the news and nodded excitedly; he had always felt that he had some talent in CS, but was troubled by having no one to teach him.

"That's it then, I'm leaving."

"Yeah, get lost quickly." Jiao Yang sighed, finally sending this guy away.

As a result, Yang Hai walked halfway and turned back directly, saying: "By the way, give me the girl's 5E account."

"Add me as a friend first, let's find a time to play a game, and it'll be more natural to add her then."

Just kidding, how could Jiao Yang leak an account without others' consent? Like Aqing and the others, he chose to pass the buck and stall.

Even so, Yang Hai still had to thank him: "Awesome, Jiao Yang, considering things so thoughtfully, you must have picked up a lot of girls, right?"

"I sent you my account, get lost quickly."

Jiao Yang waved his hand, put his headset back on, and started FPL matchmaking.

Just kidding, the time in Europe was so short; he had to grab as many talents as he could.

Yang Hai left Jiao Yang's room, muttering to himself: "Pretentious."