Chapter 220: 224. Chapter 220: Ji Ge, nice has handed in his homework to you! (52

224. Chapter 220: Ji Ge, nice has handed in his homework to you! (52

Watching the Clutch that was ultimately lost, Twistzz's mouth opened, but in the end, he remained silently helpless.

He felt that his own play in that wave had been very good; he had secured two kills in the Small Pit and back site, dragged the time out fully, and traded enough kills.

Yet his teammates still couldn't close it out, which was incredibly regrettable.

nitr0 chose to call a timeout to let Liquid catch their breath.

The score had already reached 6:3, and Liquid was still the trailing side.

If they didn't break Vitality's rhythm, they might lose this Map 1.

"Hold B Site from the back; nice's aim is too hot. Let's slow down for a few rounds."

Calming down, nitr0 also realized that Banana was considered nice's strength; since they couldn't gain an advantage in a head-on duel, it was better to just let the opponent play further back.

nice had many tricks up his sleeve in Banana, but if he followed the main force in a wave attack, he would only be able to follow them for Trade Kills, which would be easier for them to restrict.

nitr0 spoke tactfully, but stewie2k sighed obscurely.

Retreating time and time again—wasn't this clearly telling them not to keep feeding on B Site?

He wanted to retort, but he had indeed played poorly in Banana today, and he lacked the confidence to speak up.

At this moment, he also suddenly remembered that he seemed to have had an encounter with nice last year.

At that time, he was still on MIBR, and he had also been crushed by nice's head-on performance on Inferno.

nice's rate of improvement was incredibly fast, and his playstyle was worlds apart from the average player; facing the IGL's command, stewie2k could only nod.

……

After the timeout, Liquid's strategy in Banana changed to avoiding conflict, which caused Xu Beifang's kill count to slow down.

Liquid finally managed to secure a point during an A Site offensive and defensive exchange, relying on Twistzz's performance.

Only this time, stewie2k didn't dare to continue shooting the bodies.

After he had played around with shooting bodies earlier, Vitality had immediately scored a round. NBK was actually looking forward to it, thinking that if stewie2k's body-shooting made nice angry again, he would explode once more, but that was just a fantasy.

In the remaining rounds of the first half, although Liquid scored occasionally, the overall rhythm remained in Vitality's hands.

Actively giving up the fight for the front of Banana allowed Vitality to gain map control extremely easily.

Their subsequent defense was under immense pressure, and they could only rely on nitr0's intuition to rotate for early Trade Kills, but the results were not ideal.

After the first half, the score was locked at 10:5, with Vitality leading by 5 points.

……

"nice's first half today was so beautiful!!"

At the Vitality player bench, Coach finally ended his silence mode, gushing about his excitement.

During the first half, anyone with a discerning eye could see who had been influencing the direction of the entire match.

Their Entry Fragger's dominant performance in Banana, which made Liquid afraid to even control Banana, was already a terrifying result.

If one were to speak with data, nice had also secured a terrifying 26 kills in the half, more than many players get in an entire match!

Xu Beifang curled his lips into an arc; his teammates' praise was the best evaluation of his hard work in the first half.

He leaned his head against the gaming chair and closed his eyes to rest for a moment.

The bald Coach saw this situation and fished a black eye mask out of his backpack: "Wear this and rest for a few minutes; your eyes might feel a bit more comfortable."

Xu Beifang didn't stand on ceremony; he put on the eye mask, adjusted the seat underneath him, and turned the gaming chair into a recliner.

The bald Coach then continued to discuss with apEX how to set up the defense for the early stages of the second half.

The director didn't miss this interesting shot and filmed it.

【Good guy, Liquid isn't pulling their weight, they've actually made nice sleepy】

【Although, Twistzz also got 18 kills in the first half, but this guy here is just a freak】

【No way, who has a boss that starts in their Second Stage right from the get-go!】

【Incarnation of a monitor! This Banana play got my blood boiling】

【Could it be? Is there really a chance?】

【……】

The audience in the livestream chat discussed fervently; interesting scenes outside the match were quite rare.

The 3-minute halftime break didn't dampen the fans' enthusiasm; they were frantically discussing the possible developments of the second half in the livestream.

"Are you okay?" Zywoo had been keeping an eye on Xu Beifang's situation, and seeing him rubbing his eyes, he couldn't help but ask.

Xu Beifang smiled: "No problem, I have to thank the Coach for preparing the eye mask, I've recovered to full health!"

Everyone knew he was joking; it was only 3 minutes, not even enough time to make instant noodles, so how could he have recovered?

The few of them chatted and laughed as they began to enter the second half of the match.

After the side switch, Vitality had arrived on the CT side.

According to the setup during the halftime break, Xu Beifang went to B Site alone to perform a jiggle peek for information.

As for A Site, it was a 4A heavy defense.

This was apEX's idea; he believed that after the first half, the opponent should be wary of Xu Beifang, making it more likely they would attack A Site next.

Xu Beifang kept jiggle peeking at the corner of the Yellow Wall, scouting for information in Banana.

But he had been pressing the ADAD keys for ten thousand years, and he hadn't seen any movement in Banana.

Immediately after, he saw a firefight break out on A Site; Xu Beifang pushed forward from Banana, but before he could press to T Spawn, the sound of a round victory rang in his ears.

The 4A heavy defense's combat power was indeed very fierce.

"This gamble stack was top-tier!" Xu Beifang praised.

apEX laughed: "It's all thanks to you putting on the pressure."

Without the deterrent force Xu Beifang had displayed in the first half, he wouldn't have gambled on the Pistol Round.

In the Pistol Round, they didn't even manage to plant the bomb, so Liquid simply went for a naked eco, playing tic-tac-toe at T Spawn.

In the final segment, they chose to execute a jump into A2, but before they could even deal effective damage, they were focused down and finished off by RPK in the Pit and Zywoo at the Bomb Site.

However, once they entered the Full Buy Round, Liquid managed to find some rhythm; several A Site explosive executes were successful, and they recovered a few rounds in a row.

But in the second Full Buy Round, veterans RPK and NBK finally stood up at A Site, delivering a double five-kill head-on, which made Xu Beifang take notice.

The score arrived at 13:8 without anyone realizing it.

"Let's put more pressure on Banana," Xu Beifang suggested, "We can't let the opponents execute so easily every round. I'll push directly to the front of Banana and let them know I'm at the close angle, forcing them to come deal with me. Otherwise, NBK can just rotate back; betting 4A is fine too."

Apex nodded: "Sure, I'll come over and throw the first round of utility for you. You'll have a Smoke Grenade left later, so you won't get locked down at the close angle."

As the IGL, Apex still placed great importance on his teammates' ideas.

Especially the ideas of Nice and Zywoo, since this team's playstyle was built around the two of them.

The countdown ended, and Xu Beifang arrived at Banana with two teammates.

At the start, he threw a close-range fire to prevent anyone from standing there.

Although the opponents hadn't come to Banana for several rounds, some utility could not be spared.

As the close-range fire slowly dissipated, Apex threw a Banana Road Entrance smoke, and Xu Beifang also threw a Banana Road Middle grenade.

After throwing the utility, Xu Beifang asked NBK for a Flashbang in Banana, then actively peeked out.

They applied full pressure, and Liquid could finally no longer remain indifferent; they threw a Banana Road Middle smoke, seemingly to split Banana.

Xu Beifang used this setup quite often on the offensive side; once the pressure of Map Control on Banana became too great, he would throw a Banana Road Middle smoke to create a One-Way effect.

But this smoke from the opponent... it didn't even seal off the entire vision of the middle section; it was clearly just thrown out randomly from T Spawn.

After thinking for a moment, Xu Beifang chose to hide directly inside the smoke grenade the opponent had thrown, his crosshair aimed toward T Spawn, ready to fire at any moment.

The Banana Road Entrance smoke slowly dissipated, and Stewie2k carefully peeked at the situation in Banana.

The smoke grenade next to the Wood Pile startled him, and then he realized he had thrown his own poorly.

However, a poorly thrown smoke grenade also had one benefit: it allowed him to see the view toward the Barrel, and he didn't see anyone holding a direct angle.

"Nice should still be hanging around the Stone Slab. Should I apply some pressure here, or help the main force?" Stewie2k asked for the situation over voice comms.

This time, Liquid intended to learn from Apex's advanced tactics and execute a jump into Second Floor during a Full Buy Round.

Nitr0 glanced at Stewie2k's position, thought for a moment, and made a decision: "I'll throw the Connector smoke immediately. You help me throw an A1 pop-flash to pretend we're clearing A1, then I'll throw two consecutive flashes for A2, and you guys fly into the floor directly."

The two quickly agreed, and Stewie2k moved directly to the Sewer, starting to aim and throw his utility.

"Liquid is preparing to execute a floor jump, but Nice has already snuck out from Banana! Nice doesn't care at all; with someone covering his back, his playstyle can be very casual!"

"We've seen this scene in too many matches, but against a top-10 team, this is the first time we've seen Nice dry-peek like this." Xiao Bo wore a joyful smile, because he knew what was about to happen.

Xu Beifang saw Stewie2k in front of him, his AUG aimed at the opponent's head.

"Bang!"

【Nice used AUG to headshot Stewie2k】

The extremely close engagement distance allowed the AUG to get a one-tap headshot, achieving the effect of an AK47.

After getting a kill, Xu Beifang peeked toward Mid. Nitr0 heard the gunfire behind him and Stewie2k's desperate callouts, and immediately turned to fire.

Unfortunately, having just thrown his utility, he was still in the stiffness of switching weapons; he could only spin wildly, trying to dodge Nice's aim.

But it was all in vain!

"Rat-tat-tat..."

【Nice used AUG to headshot Nitr0】

"A2 is pushing directly, Nice pushed out from Banana, all our information has been taken!!" Nitr0 shouted in the voice chat; this forward push by Nice had completely disrupted their offensive plan.

On the other side.

After Xu Beifang took down Nitr0, he continued to push forward and loudly reminded his teammates over voice comms: "Watch A1 and A2, Mid is empty, they might be planning to jump the floor."

He himself had pushed out from Banana and cleared the information at Mid.

The remaining three opponents could only be in the Side Path and the area inside A2; combined with the previous movement of the two Terrorists at Mid, the possibility of a floor jump was extremely high.

"Only one Flashbang, the effect isn't enough!" Xiao Bo commentated quickly, "Liquid can only dry-peek out. Zywoo, who came over from Connector, caught one and left one heavily damaged. RPK in the Pit successfully got the trade kill. Ji Ge in A2 wanted to save his weapon, but Nice had already snuck to the Boiler Room and held him dead!"

"Tsk tsk..." Xiao Bo looked at Vitality's score jumping to 14 and said with a smile: "This Nice's courage is truly huge. As long as you ignore him, he'll come out to find you for a gunfight."

"This is Nice. If you ignore him, he sneaks out; if you try to deal with him, you might not even win the head-on fight. It's just very annoying!"

On the Liquid player bench, Nitr0 was also speechless in the face of the round's failure.

"How could he push out at this moment!"

Although they had recovered quite a lot of the score before, Zywoo was sitting at A Site, and the trade of numbers had always been quite dramatic, so Liquid had never managed to accumulate any economy.

This resulted in the previous round's economy not being high, and most of the Flashbangs for the floor jump were with Nitr0.

But who could have imagined that before the Flashbangs were even thrown, they were all taken out by a Nice who had pushed forward.

What kind of situation was this?

The main force hadn't even made a move, and their supplies were intercepted; how were they supposed to play?

Stewie2k explained: "I held Banana at the first timing, I didn't see anyone pushing... either he stepped into the Tree Position or the Recess while I was smoking, this is just too abnormal."

The Director (EliGE) on the side scratched his hair and didn't want to speak.

His feel for the game was actually good today, but he had been playing Retake for the entire first half.

Coming to the offensive side in the second half, his teammates kept having problems, and this offensive wave didn't even have flashes left; how were they supposed to play?

Just jumping out of the second floor to let people practice their spray, I guess.

"That callout was very timely; I almost got caught in the timing of switching utility." RPK smiled and fist-bumped Xu Beifang.

If he were to be taken out in this wave and the opponent occupied the Small Pit, it would truly be a headache.

"If he dares to ignore Banana, I dare to go forward and cause them trouble," Xu Beifang said with a confident smile.

A successful experience in Banana had allowed him to accumulate immense confidence on this map.

Once he chose it, he felt that in this position of Banana, even Astralis was not impossible to play against.

Liquid's economy was poor, so they chose to save money and concede a round, which Vitality took without any surprise.

The score reached 15:8, and they were just one round away from securing match point.

At this moment, Liquid executed a very decisive B Site rush.

Facing such a bold decision, Xu Beifang did not react in time and was caught off guard at the first moment.

After all, this was match point, and they were rushing B on match point?

Liquid, are you playing the game like this?

Having one match point taken back was not a big problem for Vitality; they could still play a Full Buy Round, and they still had a margin for error in the score.

Apex spoke up: "Let's stick to a 3B start and control Banana first. If they intend to rush again, we'll retreat on the first wave and then use grenades together to bleed them out."

Xu Beifang nodded, bought an AUG and a full set of utility, and started heading toward Banana.

At the start of this round, Apex immediately threw a Banana Road Entrance smoke, showing his tough attitude.

Xu Beifang threw the fire at the close angle as usual to prevent the opponent from rushing.

However, after waiting for two seconds, they felt that the opponent's desire to control Banana this round was not strong.

"Burn the back point; I'm going to push forward for information in a moment."

Upon hearing this, Apex threw a fire that fully covered the Recess in Banana and reminded Xu Beifang that only the Tree Position could be stood in.

"I know," Xu Beifang indicated he would be careful, then asked NBK for a flashbang inside Banana to apply pressure forward.

It was the same scene, except this time the opponent's mid-section smoke did not bloom.

As a veteran of playing Banana, Xu Beifang understood very well how to use this smoke and where its weaknesses were.

He crouched directly below the Wood Pile at the Tree Position.

Standing on the Wood Pile with this smoke could create a One-Way effect, allowing one to see clearly near the Barrel in Banana.

But for the area below the Smoke Grenade and the close angles, it could not be seen.

Crouching at the close angle, if someone stepped on top of the Wood Pile, one could actually gain vision first.

"Apex, don't go too far. Once I start Firing, you peek out to help me with a Trade Kill; I feel like there's going to be a fight this wave."

Xu Beifang clearly heard footsteps walking into Banana.

"Nice is in Banana again, this time defending while pushing through the smoke. But Liquid also knew that if they didn't clear the close angle, subsequent attacks wouldn't be peaceful, so Stewie2k and NAF searched the Tree Position and Recess very carefully."

"They weren't in a hurry, instead waiting quietly for the Smoke Grenade to dissipate."

Time ticked away, and the 15-second Smoke Grenade finally reached its limit, slowly drifting away.

As the shadows disappeared, Xu Beifang also saw the Terrorist in the Recess.

The Crosshair snapped over instantly, aiming and Firing in one fluid motion.

But the moment he got the kill, he heard footsteps on his right.

His position was destined to be inflexible, so this wave had to rely on Gunplay!

Without releasing the left mouse button, he controlled the Mouse with his right hand to pull the Crosshair over directly.

Stewie2k wanted to rush out for a Trade Kill, but he ran right into the bullets and was taken out.

At the same time, someone peeked out from T Spawn and was Spraying wildly at him; Xu Beifang pulled the Crosshair back again!

【Nice used AUG to get a Headshot kill on NAF】

【Nice used AUG to get a kill on Stewie2k】

【Nice used AUG to get a Headshot kill on Elige】

"As the smoke clears, it's the moment for both sides to face off; Nice instantly takes one down, this Spray Transfer!! One, two, three, he took down everyone who appeared in his field of vision!!" Xiao Bo in the livestream room was full of disbelief, "Apex pulled out from behind the Stone Slab to help with a Trade Kill, only to find his teammate had already finished a 1v3 and killed everyone!!"

【???】

【Holy crap, what is this??】

【This Spray Transfer!! I'm sweating】

【Nice! My superman!!】

【Ji Ge, Nice has handed in his homework to you】

【This is too terrifying】

【This boss's Second Stage firepower is a bit exaggerated!】

【Is little Xu a bit ridiculous today??】

【...】

The audience in the livestream room filled the screen with question marks; this frontal Spray Transfer taking down three people really left them unable to comprehend it.

But that didn't hinder their love for Nice; this is a star player, always able to turn the impossible into the possible.

And the players on the field didn't have thoughts much better than that.

Apex, who was behind preparing to Trade Kill, heard the gunfire and immediately peeked out to help.

But he instantly saw three corpses, which made him laugh.

"Do you have to be this exaggerated? Brother, you aren't actually cheating, are you!"

The others just kept shouting 'Nice'.

On Liquid's side, Elige and nitr0 were also very helpless.

They were still in the Map Control phase, and their teammates had all died in Banana; how were they supposed to play?

In a 2v5 Clutch, they were Liquid, not FaZe; they didn't have that 2v-everything corporate culture.

Looking at that ID in the kill feed in the top right corner, the director pursed his lips, knowing that Map 1 was already lost.

……