Chapter 146

148. Chapter 147: Jame Time!

October 5, 2018, Friday.

The weather in Gusu District was sunny, with not a cloud in the sky.

Suitable for: traveling, trading, tourism, sleeping, engagement...

Xu Beifang had thought he would be in a leisurely state after returning home, but he was told by his brother that they were preparing to hold a banquet, and as the younger brother, he inevitably became busy.

He actually knew about this matter. Previously, when he explained to his family at the Hong Kong ZOTAC Cup that he wanted to play professionally, Xu Nanfang said he had found a girlfriend and was preparing to date her seriously.

He hadn't expected the engagement to come so quickly; all in all, they had only known each other for half a year.

But Xu Beifang thought about it carefully and felt it was normal. After all, this wasn't a campus romance that required a three-year marathon and a five-year backup plan.

Most people just decide to live a good life together after two people like each other and spend some time together.

And his sister-in-law was also prepared to live a good life with them. Because she was from Jiangxi, they were sensitive about the bride price.

They had discussed this matter before the engagement, and the Xu family was also prepared for a heavy financial blow.

But in the end, his sister-in-law Wang Xiaoya only asked for a bride price of less than 100,000, which was even much cheaper than most bride prices in Suzhou.

Her family's view on the bride price was that it was just a gesture; anyway, this thing would eventually be given to the young couple for their life.

Facing this result, Xu Beifang's parents couldn't be happier.

As the younger brother, Xu Beifang was also overjoyed while busy helping his older brother.

After all, the bride price in Jiangxi is adaptive; for ordinary families, it's fixed damage, and for wealthy families, it's a percentage—it's all about fairness and justice!

"Beifang, I watched your matches before. I really didn't expect our Xu family to produce such a talent. So many people were shouting for you off-stage; weren't you afraid?" Xu Nanfang, who had been busy all day, pulled his younger brother aside to ask.

You have to know that when he was in school, he would feel his legs shaking uncontrollably when the teacher pulled him onto the stage to recite lessons, feeling the eyes of his classmates staring at him.

How could his younger brother adapt to the shouting of so many foreigners, and even interact with them?

"What's there to be afraid of?" Xu Beifang explained to his older brother, "You just treat the group of people below as fish, and you won't feel nervous anymore."

"It's just a pity that you didn't win the championship~"

"Pity your head." His sister-in-law walked over and patted Xu Nanfang's head lightly, "It's already amazing. World number eight! You used to only see this on TV. The Xu family has produced a very good talent."

Xu Nanfang pulled his sister-in-law over and said with a smile, "What 'your Xu family'? Now it's 'our Xu family'."

Watching his older brother and sister-in-law showing off their affection in front of him without any scruples, Xu Beifang was like the old man on the subway looking at his phone:

"Is there any justice left? Is there any law? Single people express their protest!"

"Sigh, little uncle, don't go. You are now considered a young talent, it's about time to find a partner. I'll introduce a few to you. What kind do you like?"

Xu Beifang didn't expect that after dodging all the aunts and uncles, there was still a sister-in-law here urging him to get married.

He quickly returned to his room alone, lying on the bed and staring at the ceiling in a daze.

His older brother and sister-in-law's engagement banquet finally allowed him to be tainted with some atmosphere of life, no longer having only CS: GO content in his head all day long.

As for his sister-in-law saying she would introduce a partner to him, as a man with a normal sexual orientation, he didn't resist this, especially since he had already achieved some success and could be considered a "child of someone else's family."

But for him, the focus now still had to be on his career.

Especially after witnessing Astralis lifting the trophy in London and ascending to the throne amidst the cheers of tens of thousands of people, this thought of his became even stronger.

With his thoughts wandering, Xu Beifang also remembered that there were quite a few suggestion missions completed during the Major period, but he had forgotten about them because he later returned to Poland to buy out his contract and came over to help his older brother with the engagement.

Now that he was finally free, he turned his attention back to the system.

【Beep!】

【Congratulations to the host for completing the suggestion: Achieve a good result in the London Major. Difficulty unknown. Evaluating completion...】

【Completion evaluation complete: A-grade. Distributing rewards...】

【Congratulations to the host for obtaining 1145.14 Listen-to-Advice Value...】

【A-grade Treasure Chest (Major Special Edition) is being distributed...】

【Congratulations to the host for completing a 3-star suggestion: Perform a big stunt/blast the professional players in the performance match. After completion, you can obtain D-grade Treasure Chest x2...】

'A-grade Treasure Chest (Major Special Edition)'

Xu Beifang looked at the brackets of this treasure chest and raised his eyebrows, quite surprised.

After all, it was his first time seeing a treasure chest with a special mark behind it, and he was very much looking forward to the contents inside.

Behind it were two D-grade treasure chests obtained from the performance match stunt. Although the grade wasn't high, at least it was a case of "many a little makes a mickle," and one has to take it step by step.

And with the end of this Major, the upper limits of Xu Beifang's various attributes had become very high. His strongest positioning ability had already reached 93, but there was still room for improvement, which required his constant training and effort in his daily life.

After all, the system could only raise his lower limit; for the improvement of his upper limit, he still had to rely on various specialized training in his daily life and the sudden "enlightenment" after accumulating to a certain degree.

【Do you want to open the A-grade Treasure Chest (Major Special Edition)?】

"Yes."

【A-grade Treasure Chest (Major Special Edition) is opening...】

【Congratulations to the host for obtaining 'Instance-Monthly New Teacher'. Do you want to enter the new instance?】

【Congratulations to the host for obtaining Sniper Advanced Technique. Extracting player insight for you. You have obtained device's angle-holding sniper technique insight.】

Holy crab!!

For this Major suggestion reward, Xu Beifang was truly surprised.

Although it appeared to be an A-grade treasure chest, with the words "Major Special Edition" added, it was better than the rewards of an ordinary S-grade treasure chest; at the very least, it could be considered an S-grade treasure chest.

As expected of a Major! A top eight finish had already yielded such an exaggerated reward. What about the top four, runner-up, or even the champion later?

How rich would the rewards be!

Xu Beifang now wished he could return to London and drag Astralis back to give them a good beating!

But that was just a restless mood. He knew he didn't have that ability now, he didn't even have a team, he wasn't even as good as danking, so it was impossible for him to go up and 1v5.

And Astralis's current combat power wasn't something just anyone could mess with.

After his thoughts wandered, Xu Beifang looked back carefully at the rewards opened from the treasure chest.

First, it was another instance space.

Since becoming a professional player, Xu Beifang had obtained the 'Deathmatch Space' and 'Smoke-Mixing Space'. These two spaces could still bring him huge help, and if nothing went wrong, he would be able to use them for a long, long time.

So, Xu Beifang was very much looking forward to instance space-type rewards.

"Monthly New Teacher"—is it letting a coach teach me theoretical knowledge? Xu Beifang tried to understand the content from the name of the instance.

【Do you want to enter Instance-Monthly New Teacher?】

Xu Beifang's mind stirred.

"Yes!"

The next second, the scene before his eyes shattered, and Xu Beifang returned to that narrow space again. He sat skillfully in front of the computer, but he didn't see any players or coaches beside him.

An unboxing scene suddenly appeared in front of the computer. Xu Beifang was a bit speechless, but he had to say this was very CS: GO.

Shaking the box to open it, the avatars of players in the box flashed past, and finally stopped on a devout face.

In an instant, he seemed to hear God reciting the Bible. 【This month's teacher 'jame' has been simulated—in the following game, please have the host seize the AWP in jame's hands by any means necessary within the specified time to complete the mission.

Seize the AWP more than 5 times in 10 rounds to arrange the next teacher in advance.】

What the hell??

Seize his AWP from jame's hands?

What kind of epic instance is this!

But thinking about it carefully, for this player who was steady to the extreme, Xu Beifang was actually looking forward to playing against him for a while.

After confirmation, the instance duel officially began.

The map was Mirage. A route appeared on the ground telling him that jame was saving his gun in A2, and there were 40 seconds left on the clock overhead.

In other words, he had to find a way to kill jame within these 40 seconds and not let him save his AWP.

Xu Beifang pre-aimed bit by bit, guarding against jame holding A Site directly in A2, and then came to the A2 box headshot position, guarding against the dead point on the right.

After confirming no one was there, he slowly pre-aimed and walked inside.

Arriving near the wall, he slowly cleared the direct-holding area inside A2 with half his body.

But as he peeked and saw jame at the end of A2, the sounds of the AWP and AK-47 rang out almost simultaneously.

But Xu Beifang was still taken out by a sniper shot.

At this time, 3 options appeared on the screen: restart, God's eye view replay, and jame's personal perspective.

Xu Beifang chose to restart. This time, he simply didn't win the duel; there were no details to look at.

His timing was already quite good, but when a rifle faces an AWP, the fault tolerance is still very low.

After restarting, Xu Beifang chose to use the jiggling method this time, wanting to bait out jame's first sniper shot.

But after jiggling for a long time, his health bar was gone the moment he pulled out.

This time, he chose to view jame's personal perspective, wanting to see how jame handled this wave.

At the far point of A2, jame's AWP was holding the entrance of A2 directly.

Xu Beifang's jiggling targeting was very on point, only exposing one arm, looking like less than half a body.

If he were playing the sniper rifle himself, he might have already flicked onto him.

But jame was truly seeking stability; he directly pulled his crosshair one body-width to the left.

Xu Beifang peeked out and directly bumped into jame's crosshair. He didn't even need to adjust much, just press fire.

"As expected of Jame Time!" Xu Beifang sighed. This player, who would be famous for saving guns in the future, had another feature: extremely high stability.

He also found the role this instance played; it was also a space for gunplay duels.

This instance space could allow him to better understand the playstyles of these star players.

If he could make counter-measures against the characteristics of these different players, then when he met them in matches later, he would definitely be able to "thin-gauze" (crush) them!

However, his current demand for this instance was more intended to let him grind his own shortcomings.

In head-to-head games with masters, the shortcomings in gunplay techniques would slowly reveal themselves.

Xu Beifang had the opportunity to adjust. This instance space was equivalent to pulling in different professional players to play 1v1 bullfighting with himself every day.

It was definitely practice that could raise his upper limit.

Xu Beifang's rating for this instance space was 4.9 points. The remaining point was a complaint about Teacher jame—jame was simply too skilled in the eighteen martial arts of saving guns. Now, using a rifle to find his AWP, he only killed jame 3 times out of 10, and the rest were all taken out by that AWP.

Then he exited the instance space because there was still one reward left.

Xu Beifang's rifle level had already entered the tier-one level, and he could even play against guys like NiKo and electronic when his state exploded.

In comparison, his sniper level was much worse. Although he had used a sniper rifle on the Major stage, it was mostly relying on his positioning ability to play, and his selection of positions and timing weren't good, which to a large extent was because his understanding of the sniper rifle wasn't good enough.

However, Xu Beifang was also working very hard on the demos of some players, learning a lot from their POVs.

device was a sniper he liked very much. Because of Astralis's style, he only needed to make the best judgment according to the timing.

As a rifler, Xu Beifang could do this very well, after all, his experience was sufficient.

But if he were holding a sniper rifle, the decisions he made wouldn't necessarily be fitting.

So, obtaining device's sniper technique insight today could be considered solving his urgent need.

【Do you want to enter device's angle-holding sniper technique insight?】

"Yes."

At this thought, the scene shattered, and Xu Beifang entered device's perspective.

This was a match on Dust II. In the case of starting with a sniper rifle, and with device having a good position, he held the area where the Mid-Doors sand pit pushes up on the right with an AWP.

From device's thoughts, Xu Beifang could learn that the reason for this position was that the opponent could only see half of his body, making it harder to hit him.

When the AWP held the angle directly, he also kept shaking, and only after seeing his teammates enter B2 did he come to support A Long.

After his teammates took A Long at the start, device walked directly down into the Pit under the cover of the A Long crossing smoke.

Here, he didn't jump into the Pit, because as a sniper, he understood very well that if he jumped, with the platform holding an AWP, he might be sniped by a guy on the opposite side who was firing on all cylinders.

Feeling device's thoughts, Xu Beifang only felt his scalp tingling.

This was the reason why these player insights brought him huge improvements.

From basic reviews, he could only speculate on the player's thoughts based on the situation at the time and his own game understanding.

But in the insight, he could intuitively feel the thoughts behind device making certain decisions; it was almost as if device was teaching him hand-in-hand.

Then, as a sniper, besides breaking points and trading kills, he also needed to take on the task of covering the rear to a certain extent.

The team chose to rotate, leaving device in the Pit.

He rubbed against the small step on the far right of the Pit, jiggling to observe without scoping in.

Discovering the opponent appeared, he instantly positioned and fired. The unconventional position on the right meant the opponent didn't pre-aim at the first time, and he only exposed half a scalp position in that place.

Immediately following was device's famous angle-holding sniper shot.

Actually, from device's own thoughts, his angle-holding sniper shot didn't have many surprising places; it was just an understanding of timing, control of experience, and a not-too-bad reaction speed.

Compared to players like kennyS who liked to play difficult shots, device's playstyle relied more on game understanding, holding the sniper rifle in place in advance.

It could only be said that device's match experience was rich, and his personal techniques and details were too sufficient, making him the strongest angle-holding sniper in CS: GO.

Xu Beifang felt he had learned a lot today, and the knowledge had already filled his brain.