Chapter 192: 195. Chapter 192: Xiaogui, let's do our best next round!

195. Chapter 192: Xiaogui, let's do our best next round!

"Holy crap! Matched against Beifang!!"

danking said excitedly toward the camera in his stream.

【Father-son match, father-son match】

【Why is danking able to laugh so happily?】

【We're going to get slaughtered this game】

【How can you get matched against Beifang and Zywoo while playing FACEIT?】

【Isn't that guy Beifang supposed to be playing FPL instead of coming to FACEIT to smurf?】

danking didn't care at all about the skepticism in the stream's chat, a confident smile on his face, "Today, I'm going to take a huge chunk of points from him!!"

Beifang had only just exited the TS voice channel when danking started blustering and bragging.

"Don't, holy crap danking, I want to win a round!" Xiaogui hurriedly urged him, wanting to stop danking from jinxing it.

As Xu Beifang's old duo partner, danking perhaps wasn't fully aware of his strength.

But Xiaogui had been roaming FPL for nearly half a month, and his head had been blown off by Xu Beifang so many times that he clearly understood his dominance on the Ladder; he knew this game would be very difficult.

The map was Mirage.

danking had recently been promoted to the Primary Team and was feeling very confident; hearing Xiaogui's words, he said dismissively: "Xu Haowen, what's wrong with you? Playing CS: GO requires confidence!!"

"What's a mere little Xu? Even if s1mple were matched on the opposite side, I'd still take his points today; you just have to be confident!"

"Besides, I know Beifang. Back when we used to duo on 5E, my stats were usually better."

Back then, Xu Beifang was still in his growth phase, and he was playing with a Rifle, so his stats definitely weren't as good as yours!

Xiaogui muttered to himself.

Seeming to sense his teammate's doubts, danking doubled down, "Don't worry, I'll definitely carry this game and let them see the strength of Tyloo's Secondary Sniper, alright!"

Entering the game, danking's side started on defense.

During the 20-second preparation time, his teammates also recognized that the opponent was Xu Beifang.

Although he didn't appear frequently in various major tournaments, in the FPL clips within the community, Xu Beifang was already becoming the fourth instructor-level figure of FPL.

Casual players were still somewhat familiar with him.

"There's a Professional Player on the other side, everyone needs to get serious this round," a random teammate said.

Under Xu Beifang's reminder, danking had started learning English very early on, and now he could barely manage basic English communication.

Part of the reason he was able to make it onto the Primary Team was because of this.

At this moment, he spoke up to soothe his random teammates' emotions: "Don't worry, we also have Professional Players. Both I and somebody are top-tier pros; watch us crush them this round!"

The Pistol Round began, and danking went straight into VIP, using his Handgun to hold T Spawn directly.

But soon he heard an Arch Smoke pop on A Site, and worrying that his teammates couldn't hold under the pressure, he hurried over to reinforce.

But just as he walked next to Jungle, a flashbang blinded him completely, and once his vision vaguely recovered, he saw Terrorists at three different angles within his field of view.

【Zywoo used a P250 and a nice Flashbang to get a Headshot kill on danking】

【Zywoo used a P250 and a nice Flashbang to get a Headshot kill on...】

Two kills in an instant; danking gasped.

The viewers in the stream saw this scene and didn't hold back in their mockery.

【Getting triple-peeked by the enemy and blinded by a single Flashbang, you did well enough to even get to that point, keep it up, you useless thing!】

【Trash】

【Hahahaha】

【That coordination is a bit terrifying】

【A Site melted instantly】

【...】

As the thrower for this round, Xu Beifang basically didn't participate in any frontal combat and successfully planted the bomb to score, not even seeing a single person.

But looking at the red dots on the radar, he was still a bit puzzled.

Why is this danking standing in the middle of the road dueling?

Is he playing around?

Successfully winning the Pistol Round, Xu Beifang bought Full Armor and a Galil with utility, continuing to charge toward Mid.

Zywoo helped by throwing a VIP Smoke from T Spawn, ensuring Xu Beifang wouldn't be in a disadvantageous dueling position right away.

Sidestepping into the Sandbag, confirming no one was in Mid, Xu Beifang didn't stop his pace.

Playing FACEIT was meant to be relaxing, so they naturally wouldn't be doing Default Control like in a match, considering information from the whole map.

He arrived under the Archway with big steps, and after a simple peek, he saw a policeman holding a Desert Eagle directly at the Archway; one Headshot took him out immediately.

Instantly, someone peeked out from the left, and Xu Beifang adjusted his aim, Spray Transferring a burst.

The first burst of the Spray Transfer didn't hit the person on the left, but he immediately followed up by wallbanging the Wooden Board between the Archway and the Jump Platform.

【nice used a Galil to Wallbang and kill danking】

"Holy crap, that Gunplay!" danking sat up straight, "There's just no way to play against this!"

The kill feed in the top right corner scrolled by; Xiaogui, who was at B Site, saw that A Site had been wiped out again in an instant.

"What's the situation?" Xiaogui asked danking, a question from the bottom of his heart.

"Can't win against a no-armor Handgun!" danking said helplessly; he believed this wave was just a matter of weaponry—he had a no-armor Desert Eagle, and since the first shot didn't hit, there was basically no chance afterward.

"It's fine, Brother Gui, I'll carry later; I can't carry with a weapon disadvantage right now."

As soon as he saved up enough economy to buy a rifle for a Long Gun Round, the situation would improve.

Xu Beifang didn't know what the Tyloo duo was thinking; he only felt that the randoms on the other side were playing very loosely, and he could push through them quite casually.

Entering the Full Buy Round, the random teammate called for a late-timing B execute.

Xu Beifang and Zywoo had no objections; having an offensive idea in a public match made it easier for them to execute.

But one teammate at A1 still wouldn't listen to advice, intending to find an opportunity at A1, and dry-peeked out without waiting for anyone else to coordinate.

Then Xu Beifang saw a kill notification for danking appear in the top right corner.

Starting 4v5, that familiar feeling had arrived.

Xu Beifang threw a VIP Smoke for Mid, assisting Zywoo in taking control of Mid.

After throwing the utility, he followed Zywoo's footsteps, and the two held angles in Mid for a while, waiting for the opponents to make a mistake and peek.

But the opponents were very cautious and didn't give them any opportunity to make a play.

"I'll throw an Arch Smoke and VIP Fire, shall we hit B Small?" Zywoo asked.

Xu Beifang thought for a moment: "You take them and pinch B Site, I'll stay at the Archway and play around for a bit."

A set of utility was thrown into Mid, and Xu Beifang silently mixed into the smoke inside the Archway, waiting for the timing to push forward.

Zywoo initiated the attack first, securing a kill inside the Black Room through Pre-aim.

Seeing this, Xu Beifang, hidden in the smoke inside the Archway, listened to the footsteps moving away from Jungle and crept toward the Jump Platform.

The sudden pressure on B Site made the CTs' Retake very fast.

But the random player watching the flank had no idea that someone had already entered the Jump Platform.

After Xu Beifang took down the enemy at the Jump Platform, he combined it with the previous information and instantly understood the current situation at A Site.

"You can rotate to A directly through the Sewer, there shouldn't be anyone at A Site now."

Hearing the judgment from the pro player on the team, the others hurriedly began to rotate.

danking had rotated back to the Supermarket early, but A Site suddenly fell, catching him off guard.

He knew internally that Jungle might have already been occupied, so he held an angle with his scope on the VIP Dog Hole, guarding against where enemies might appear.

But half a leg abruptly appeared in his field of vision, and the opponent rushed in. danking immediately relied on his Reaction to press Firing.

"Bang!"

But before the bullet could even be fired, his helmet was blown off.

【nice used sg553 to get a Headshot kill on danking】

Looking at the kill notification in the top right, Xiaogui pressed Tab to take a look at the scoreboard.

"Tie Dan! How are you 1-3 already! Where is the carry you promised??"

danking shifted in his gaming chair, "I got caught timing by Beifang and was pre-fired, it's fine, wait until I find some rhythm, I'll carry in ten minutes, okay."

Xiaogui was helpless; A Site was being broken through every round, how was he supposed to play when he was the one defending B and having to Retake every time?

"Where is Beifang?"

"He's camping in Jungle."

Seeing this, Xiaogui lost the thought of Retaking, "Beifang is carrying!"

After saying that, both of them started laughing.

10 minutes later...

When the held sniper rifle was torn apart by Xu Beifang's AK47 in one shot, and Xiaogui failed to win the Clutch against Zywoo, under this high pressure, one teammate chose to desert and leave the game.

Looking at the metaphysical 7:1 score on the screen.

danking comforted the teammate next to him: "It's okay Xiaogui, let's do better next round."

Facing this situation, Xiaogui could only let out a long sigh.

And then this game, under the eyes of the viewers in the livestream, lost as expected.

Even though Xu Beifang and Zywoo were 2 carrying 3, they combined for 43 kills over 20 rounds, literally cracking their heads open.

【Why is there no Map 2, why is there no Map 2!】

【It really was a father-son match, haha】

【Xiaogui told him not to jinx it before the match, but he wouldn't listen, look at him now, stupid】

【He got his head smashed in, this is the difference between a room moderator and a streamer!】

danking looked at the post-match stats and sighed: "Damn it, this Beifang and Zywoo are too strong!"

"I'm so furious after getting beaten like that, the two of them are worthy of being FPL top-tier players, they are truly fierce!"

Only after facing him head-on once did Tie Dan realize there was a reason Xu Beifang could achieve such good results.

He could clearly feel that Xu Beifang didn't play strictly, yet there were still no major flaws, and he wouldn't make any unnecessary mistakes.

Long-term systematic training made Xu Beifang's movements very precise.

And relatively speaking, in the environment in China where he stayed up late, his habits were worse.

The road he has to walk is still very long...

After the match ended, Xu Beifang felt refreshed.

He originally just wanted to play casually, but he didn't expect to run into danking and the other guy, which piqued their interest.

Xu Beifang entered danking's TS voice channel and said with a smile: "What's going on, you guys aren't doing so well today!"

Although he was already a bit convinced internally, danking was still very stubborn, "What could we do? Our teammate quit halfway through, otherwise we definitely would have turned this game around on you."

"Tsk tsk tsk! That's a big mouth you've got."

"Why couldn't we turn it around? The two of us racked up nearly 40 kills in an uphill battle, if our teammate hadn't quit, we really would have turned it around on you, don't get cocky!" Tie Dan and Gangzi had been playing ranked together on 5E for a while, and now their mouths were getting tougher too.

Xiaogui tried to turn the enemy Dage into a friend, asking: "Do you want to play ranked together?"

Xu Beifang refused: "Just playing one FACEIT match to warm up, I'm going to FPL with Zywoo to find people soon. Playing with randoms has a lower competitive level, and with the Major starting soon, I need to improve my form."

Hearing this, Xiaogui turned his head in the gaming room to look at danking, suddenly wondering why he felt like abandoning danking to play FPL.

But in the end, he still didn't say those words; although Xiaogui could be quite a buzzkill, his emotional intelligence wasn't low.

Besides, they wouldn't be able to play many more matches; they had to review the VODs shortly, and there was a practice match after lunch.

Having come to Serbia for a training camp, Tyloo's schedule was extremely tight.

……

He left the TS voice channel with danking.

Xu Beifang switched modes to enter the FPL channel and began queuing for a match.

He glanced at the bullet comments on his secondary monitor out of the corner of his eye.

【danking's mouth is still as stubborn as ever.】

【Can he even play in a Major now? It seems like he got a Sticker directly, right?】

【The room moderator has been so arrogant since getting promoted recently; I suggest Little Xu torture Tie Dan during the Major.】

The system notification sound rang in his ears once again.

【Beep!】

【Suggestion received: Torture Tie Dan in the Major. Difficulty: 5 stars. Upon completion, you can obtain a C-rank Treasure Chest.】

This Suggestion Mission was still quite difficult.

Tyloo's current strength wasn't weak, but because they hadn't participated in any major tournaments at the start of the year, their world ranking had slipped.

However, they were a member of the Legend Stage at the last Major, so their strength was still worth noting.

Xu Beifang was still confident about torturing danking; after all, the current danking was participating in a large-scale tournament for the First Time, and his tournament experience was too lacking.

But at the upcoming Katowice Major, Vitality might not necessarily be matched against Tyloo; that was a problem!

Perhaps that was the reason why this Suggestion Mission had a difficulty of 5 stars.

However, he was actually quite looking forward to facing this new Tyloo.

But, with mo leaving and bntet taking over as the in-game leader, was this really a correct decision?

Xu Beifang was very skeptical about this decision by Tyloo.

Xu Beifang practiced his movement in the Reaction mini-game while waiting for the game to start.

It wasn't until the intense FPL session in the afternoon ended that Xu Beifang finally heard the system remind him again.

【Beep!】

【Suggestion Mission: Play the Faker Reaction mini-game. Today's cumulative time has reached 1 hour. Reward: D-rank Treasure Chest……】

Xu Beifang suddenly became interested and opened this chest directly, trying to see if he could pull a miracle from a single draw.

【D-rank Treasure Chest is opening……】

【Congratulations to the host for obtaining 134 Listen-to-Advice Value.】

【Congratulations to the host for obtaining the skill: Extraordinary Focus! Description: This skill is an active skill. Once activated, it can increase the host's focus, at the cost of the eyes becoming more prone to fatigue. Activation method: Keep eyes within 20 centimeters of the screen.】

Seeing this skill, Xu Beifang suddenly thought of the desk postures of xantares and Kuang Ge; they basically had their faces pressed against their monitors.

In the community of his past life, there was a joke about this practice of theirs—they were trying to smell the scent of the match with their noses.

This posture was in stark contrast to that of Elige, Ji Ge.

Elige's nickname was the "Esports Civil Servant," and he was at the other extreme; he placed his monitor as far away as possible during matches.

In the tournament cameras, you could never see Elige's monitor, and the cameraman had to find an angle just to film it.

Xu Beifang hadn't expected that he would actually obtain such a skill.

But would it lead to eye fatigue?

He planned to try it out after dinner to confirm the specific function and effect of the skill.

Although it had negative side effects, if it could be used at just the right moment, it would still be a great help.

……