Chapter 97

Jiao Yang woke up; it was already noon. The fatigue had vanished, and his condition was fully restored.

Even though he had practiced with the Desert Eagle without armor in his dreams until he felt like vomiting, he was still full of energy in reality. At this moment, he couldn't wait to play a couple of CS matches to verify his results.

However, there was a match coming up soon, and counting the time for lunch, he probably wouldn't be able to start a game.

As for the dream? Since the other party couldn't affect him, he would just ignore it.

He glanced at his phone; An Wenxin had sent two messages.

The latest one told him to get up quickly and prepare for the match; she was waiting for people at the Canteen.

The other was a screenshot of an email sent a few hours ago.

What? The "Galactic Battleship" FaZe was offering a huge sum to sign him?!!

Jiao Yang hurriedly zoomed in: "100,000 Euros?" After glancing at the transfer fee, Jiao Yang put his phone down and continued washing his face.

It seemed his performance in FaZe's eyes was probably at the level of a bottom-tier European professional player. There might be many other factors mixed in, but it shouldn't be higher than mid-tier.

Should he call them impressive? They actually found him in less than a month and were willing to offer such an attractive chip.

Not to mention that it was a trial; even if it were just as a substitute, having played matches for FaZe would definitely be a huge help to his professional career.

And from the data collected earlier, FaZe really needed a stable Sniper right now, which meant the chances of passing were very high.

Moreover, he had enough confidence that, based on his current strength, he could still take root in the European top tier.

If Jiao Yang didn't have the status of a Dota2 player and was just an ordinary CS professional player, he definitely would have gone.

Unfortunately, there were no "ifs." The chips FaZe offered weren't worth giving up his generous treatment at VG; it wasn't even enough to cover the breach-of-contract penalty.

For some reason, the auntie gave him more food today.

In the Canteen, An Wenxin looked like she was waiting for a rabbit to hit a tree rather than eating.

"Where are Liang Dui and the others?"

"Seems like they're still sleeping."

"Why doesn't the Coach go call them to get up? The match is almost starting."

"I'll go call them after I finish eating."

"6"

"You aren't socially anxious and afraid to go, are you?" Jiao Yang thought about the urging messages An Wenxin sent; it was impossible for her to wake those people up.

"No!" Perhaps feeling her confidence wasn't sufficient, she added: "Anyway, they're all in the base, and there's still over an hour left; they can't run away."

"True, it's hard to say about the others, but Liang Dui will definitely wake up on time."

Sure enough, Jiao Yang's words were prophetic; advent walked into the Canteen yawning, with JamYoung and zhokiNg behind him.

However, their mental states weren't good. Looking at it this way, the brain's recovery speed in the dream was indeed accelerated.

"aumaN isn't up yet?" As soon as he came in and saw Jiao Yang and the other, advent immediately thought of the only guy missing and said angrily: "Eats the most, sleeps the earliest, gets up the latest—is he a pig?"

Saying this, he was about to turn back to grab aumaN, but the others persuaded him to finish his meal first.

By the time the five of them gathered at aumaN's door, there was only one hour left until the match.

Knock, knock, knock~

advent knocked on the door.

No response.

This time, advent used his foot, but there was still no response.

Just as he was considering taking the door off its hinges, the phone in his pocket rang.

aumaN: "Where are you guys? You aren't abandoning me already, are you?"

In the Training Room, when asked why he got up so early, aumaN held his head high: "Isn't it because you guys want to kick me? I have to show a professional attitude!"

"Then why did you sleep so early?" advent questioned.

"I have to arrange my schedule reasonably! It was 2:30 AM yesterday, and with a 2:00 PM match, Jiao Yang was about to collapse."

"..."

Hearing aumaN's words, An Wenxin was a bit surprised: "You guys didn't sleep until 2:30?"

Jiao Yang thought about it; he was probably the only one with the ability to fall asleep so quickly. Everyone else probably didn't sleep until three or four.

"Coach, you have to stand up for me! The unscrupulous Captain is bullying his teammates ————" aumaN finally found his chance and immediately stood on the Coach's side.

"Alright, it was my fault for not paying attention yesterday."

advent was thinking about playing a second-tier team tomorrow; the condition didn't matter, but the key was playing MVP and Tyloo.

They didn't have much research on this new MVP, and the only data was from the previous EPL Qualifier and IEM Sydney.

Jiao Yang had returned late, and JamYoung's strength wasn't guaranteed compared to kaze.

In this situation, if they wanted to win, they had to seize the time to train, even if it meant compressing sleep.

Jiao Yang realized it instantly; advent was taking the match too seriously.

There was nothing wrong with wanting to win, but the problem was the chaos caused by wanting to win too much.

"Liang Dui, can you accept us failing right now?"

With one sentence, advent woke up instantly. As the Captain, he had shared too much pressure with his teammates, and this was only because he didn't want to lose to kaze.

If he held this mindset, once they lost, no matter which teammate it was, they would be hurt.

Just as he wanted to say something, An Wenxin stood up: "This is my problem; I should have urged you to have a healthy schedule yesterday."

Jiao Yang had said that the blame outside the arena should be borne by the Coach, so even for the smallest conflict within the team, she needed to be responsible.

Seeing everyone start the "blame-taking" mode, aumaN naturally wouldn't miss out: "My problem, I shouldn't have gotten up so early."

This successfully made everyone realize the importance of having an active member in the team.

Playing B00T wasn't too tortuous, just a bit unconventional.

Especially since B00T played Nuke right off the bat; even aumaN felt something was fishy, but under Jiao Yang's insistence, VG still chose it.

As a result, the opponent was indeed well-prepared, and advent's commands were blown out of the water.

This was a rare case of an Asian team blowing advent's commands out of the water on Nuke.

Unfortunately, VG had Jiao Yang.

One round of breaking A alone in the Yellow Room, one round of a five-kill with a Desert Eagle outside.

Two key rounds of brute force destroyed the opponent's perfect commands.

When the teammates heard Jiao Yang say, "It's a pity they had armor; they couldn't even fire their guns," after completing the five-kill outside with a Desert Eagle, they were all stunned.

——

By the time they reached map two, Mirage, the disadvantage in dueling that should have appeared didn't.

JamYoung suddenly stepped up, making breakthrough after breakthrough with opening kills.

Coupled with an even more outrageous Jiao Yang, the opponent knelt down to VG's marksmanship once again.

After this match, the bullet comments all expressed: 【I could take advent's position too; just let Jiao Yang and JamYoung do the killing.】

【aumaN went invisible beautifully again, luckily this time he just couldn't find anyone to kill.】

【zhokiNg: You promised to be the re-fragger, at least leave a few for me to re-frag!】

【Depends on JamYoung's performance; if it's like yesterday, it'll be shaky against Tyloo.】

【This VG is too terrifying; it feels like if they're in good shape, they're definitely at the international top-tier level.】

【Nonsense, who can maintain good shape all the time?】

【Jiao Yang, whose rating in this tournament hasn't been lower than the Captain's height:?】