Chapter 16: Drifting for Half a Life, Only Regretting Not Meeting a Wise Lord

April 14, 2018, Saturday.

Suitable for today: Engagement, opening warehouses, praying for blessings, sacrifices, seeking children, ranking up...

After finishing deathmatch practice last night and washing up, it was already close to 12 o'clock. But with the powerful effect of the 【Muscle Repair Potion】, he felt refreshed again after sleeping for just 8 hours.

However, the price was that his 【Listen-to-Advice Value】 was down to only 339.

Today was Saturday, a day that should have been spent sleeping soundly in bed. But after listening to the netizens' advice, Xu Beifang's life had become increasingly regular, and he had already changed his clothes and arrived at the track.

There were still quite a few people exercising at Xijiang University in the early morning. Xu Beifang didn't stand out too much among them. After a simple warm-up to get his muscles moving, he began his 5-kilometer run for the day.

After finishing the 5 kilometers, Xu Beifang looked at his phone, panting; the time displayed was a staggering 39 minutes and 32 seconds.

"Improved a bit from yesterday, at least I ran it in under 40 minutes."

Although Xu Beifang had a pair of long legs, his thin body made such exercise not so easy for him. During this five-kilometer run, he even took a break once in the middle.

After a simple stretch of his leg muscles on the track, Xu Beifang wiped the sweat off his body with a towel, went to the cafeteria to buy more than 10 steamed buns and a cup of soy milk, and returned to the dorm.

While eating breakfast, he searched on his phone for various operations for starting a live stream.

Today was Saturday, so he happened to have time to finish setting up the stream. Although the task of streaming aiming practice was only 1 star, completing it would only yield an F-grade treasure chest.

But many a little makes a mickle; wasn't his gunplay improved bit by bit like this?

Xu Beifang was sitting in his seat looking at the guides on Bilibili, while Xiao Ming on the opposite bed woke up smelling the aroma.

Looking at the seven or eight buns left on the table, "Damn, Beifang, can you eat that much by yourself?"

Xu Beifang handed three buns to Xiao Ming, but pulled them back just as Xiao Ming was about to take them.

Xiao Ming immediately cupped his hands in a salute and shouted playfully: "Drifting for half a life, only regretting not meeting a wise lord. If you, sir, do not abandon..."

Xu Beifang waved his hand; he was just teasing Xiao Ming and had no intention of actually being a foster father.

Xiao Ming chuckled, took the buns, and got out of bed to wash up. Looking at his foster father who was deep in thought, he asked casually: "Beifang, what are you looking at?"

"I want to start a live stream on Bilibili, but I don't know how to operate it."

"Live streaming? You should ask me about that!" Xiao Ming laughed. "I used to be an old ACG fan who went to comic cons to do outdoor streaming."

"You know about live streaming?"

"You're looking down on me!"

After saying that, he walked quickly back to his spot, opened his closet, fumbled around underneath, and pulled out a webcam still covered in spiderwebs.

"This webcam cost me quite a bit of money, you know? Take it and use it. I'll go wash up first, and I'll teach you about streaming stuff in a bit."

Xu Beifang was half-believing Xiao Ming's words. He wiped the spiderwebs off the webcam with a tissue and placed it on the table.

Half an hour later, Xiao Ming finally opened the live stream on the computer and taught Xu Beifang the operation methods for the streaming software in detail.

Looking at his own face appearing in the lens in the top right corner, Xu Beifang felt a bit nervous for a moment.

Should he turn off the camera?

But thinking about it carefully, if he really became a professional player in the future, he would have to compete under the gaze of tens of thousands of people in offline matches. If he couldn't even handle a few scattered viewers behind a screen now, wouldn't his legs go soft when the audience started heckling him on the professional stage?

He mentioned his plan to stream to the dorm, clearing it with his roommates in advance. After all, the dorm wasn't his own home, and it wouldn't be good to cause conflict because of streaming.

After debugging the equipment again, Xu Beifang thought for a moment and typed in the title:

"Striving to practice aiming and go pro."

He clicked confirm and started the stream.

He looked nervously at the laptop on the right. Because of the arrival of the new computer, the laptop that had started gathering dust had become his secondary screen under Xiao Ming's suggestion, used to watch the live stream comments sent by viewers.

【Student Li Hua: The streamer is so handsome!!】

Xu Beifang was just about to reply humbly when he realized something and turned to look at Xiao Ming, only to see that guy chuckling; clearly, this comment was just sent by him.

Forget it, as a small streamer, he probably wouldn't have anyone watching for now, so he might as well take the initiative to practice aiming.

Xu Beifang followed danking's suggestion, opened the aim-bot map, and began his daily practice of 1000 bots.

Jinnan Jun was a very niche CSGO blogger on Bilibili. His account mainly featured recordings of some foreign matches so that players who loved CSGO could see some high-quality foreign games.

At the same time, his account also featured recordings of ladder matches of some well-known domestic players, used to attract traffic for some of the players' personal fans.

However, the videos with the highest popularity on his account were still a program he started a few months ago called—CSGO Fun Sharing Meeting.

In this program, some interesting clips of a group of Tyloo professional players in high-rank matches were all put together. The overall tone was more entertainment-oriented, allowing everyone to relax in their spare time.

Just yesterday, a recording of a ladder match by Qiezi allowed him to find new material. Thinking of the "21-year-old genius teenager" who had recently become a bit popular in the circle among the opponents, he felt that the upcoming video had the potential to go even further.

Having finished editing the latest video, he was thinking about what title to use when he saw a pop-up window above:

The up-master you follow, "Our game is flourishing!", has started streaming...

He had just thought about the buzz surrounding this genius teenager in the circle when he saw him start a stream. Jinnan Jun clicked in immediately.

"Striving to practice aiming and go pro."

Looking at the information conveyed by the title, Jinnan Jun shook his head. Judging from the recent actions of this Zhengzheng Shang, he was very likely treating going pro as his goal.

It was precisely because he had come into contact with the professional circle that Jinnan Jun knew the difficulties involved.

At the age of 21, he was considered quite old even for a professional youth training team. Even if he showed extraordinary ability, which domestic club would dare to take him?

Besides, at the current stage, there were only two teams in the country that could be of any real use.

Whether it was VG or Tyloo, their lineups were very complete and had been improving slowly. Under such circumstances, there was no reason to let a newcomer join.

As for youth training, it was still the same problem: this guy's age was too old!

But this didn't affect Jinnan Jun's appreciation for "Zhengzheng Shang". After all, normal people couldn't help but like someone with such strong execution and the determination to work hard for a goal.

And looking at "Zhengzheng Shang"'s currently skilled and precise aiming movements, he couldn't help but sigh—"This damn speed of improvement is too fast!"

The comment area on the right was still empty, but Jinnan Jun had a strange feeling that if he could maintain this speed of improvement, it wasn't impossible for him to have a chance.

After all, strength was the king of esports!

The LOL scene next door was still being ruled by South Korea, but didn't SKT's former top laner Ma Da Tou also enter the industry and shine at the age of 21?

Maintaining this speed of improvement, did "Zhengzheng Shang" still have the possibility of becoming a professional player?

Jinnan Jun's heart stirred, and he started recording the screen on his computer—if this genius teenager in front of him could really become a professional player, then his current record would become a heavy stroke on this inspirational path.

Then he typed and sent a comment:

"Streamer, keep it up! Hope to see you on the competitive stage in the future."

Xu Beifang heard the notification sound of the comment, turned his head to look, stopped his movements, and thanked him.

As the streaming time slowly passed, viewers gradually entered the room. Some netizens who received the push notification and came to check the situation found that Xu Beifang was really practicing aiming, and the level he showed was quite good, which shocked them all at once.

【Damn, netizens suggested streaming yesterday, and he's really here today. This execution!】

【This aiming practice is really beautiful, I feel like I could watch it for a year】

【Streamer, give some advice, how can I learn your gunplay】

Looking at the content of the comments on the right screen, Xu Beifang smiled helplessly.

Maintaining the rhythm of hitting bots, he said to the camera: "I started streaming because I wanted you to give me some advice to improve my level. My own level isn't even up to par, so how could I have any advice to provide to you!"

Before the stream, I practiced according to previous advice, and after the stream, I'm still practicing according to previous advice. Then wasn't this stream started for nothing?

After hearing Xu Beifang's answer, the few netizens in the room felt it made a lot of sense:

【You really can't say that, it's really the case. The streamer's own level isn't up to par... wait, my ass! This gunplay can already crush me】

【The streamer hasn't realized his gunplay has already evolved】

【Looking at this silky operation, I feel like I could crack melon seeds for a whole day if I had a bag】

"Don't reward yourself today" entered the room, "Gao Qi Ruo" entered the room, "I really don't want to rush B" entered the room...

As the comments in the room started chatting one by one, netizens who received the streaming notification and those who randomly clicked into the room all stayed in this atmosphere.

After finishing 1000 bots, Xu Beifang stood up, stretched, and moved his body slightly.

And under the lens, Xu Beifang stood up like a bamboo pole.

【Damn, the streamer is so tall!】

【Didn't notice before, the streamer is too thin!】

【Looking at the streamer's frail appearance, I like him even more】

【Get lost, you weirdo!!】

【No weirdos allowed!】

【Streamer, eat more every day, you're too thin.】

Looking at this comment, Xu Beifang replied: "I'm working hard on exercising. I'm doing all the exercise items suggested by netizens before, running 5 kilometers every day, 100 burpees, I'm practicing them all."

Hearing this, the netizens in the room were a bit confused.

【Ah!! You actually took it seriously!】

【That idiot was just talking nonsense, this intensity is not a beginner's training intensity at all, don't mess around like this!】

【Listening to advice isn't done like this, you have to actively distinguish!】

Hearing Xu Beifang's explanation, they were all speechless for a moment. Xu Beifang was a bit too honest! For a moment, they all had opinions about the netizen who gave the advice.

Giving advice was fine, but there was no need to be so reckless.

【The streamer is too thin now. With such a big frame and not much meat on his body, exercising at this time actually doesn't do much. Suggest the streamer eat more at every meal, at least gain 30 pounds of meat first, and then the effect of exercising will appear.】

【Indeed, he looks quite delicate and is quite tall, but he's like a stalk.】

Beep!

【Received advice, gain 30 pounds, difficulty 5 stars, can obtain C-grade treasure chest after completion...】

Xu Beifang sighed. There was actually nothing he could do about this.

There were always people in this world with a constitution that easily gains weight, and always people with a constitution that easily loses weight. He belonged to the latter, usually having no appetite and not gaining weight easily from eating.

However, for the sake of this C-grade treasure chest, Xu Beifang still planned to work hard.

Isn't it just eating? Who can't do that!

Agreeing to the netizens' request, Xu Beifang opened the 5E battle platform, preparing to start today's journey of ranking up.

Coincidentally, just as he logged into the platform, danking on his friend list came online.

Xu Beifang sent a message: "Coming?"

danking replied: "Charge!"

The two agreed to start their sweet duo-queue ranking journey.

PS: A bit of popular science, Jinnan Jun is an important reason why Qiezi and others became popular in domestic CSGO. Those memes like A1 high flash all spread from here.

His role for Qiezi is similar to Qidian for PDD.

First round of recommendations today, everyone don't "stockpile" the book these few days! There is another chapter this afternoon, and tomorrow will still be three updates.

It won't be long before entering the professional scene, everyone can guess which first-tier team he will go to. Prize competition, prize is a music kit. First, let's rule out NaVi.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 17 =====