Chapter 246: 251. Chapter 246 Northern Expedition Army, Defying Heaven and Changing Fate (Ten-thousand-word chapter)

251. Chapter 246 Northern Expedition Army, Defying Heaven and Changing Fate (Ten-thousand-word chapter)

The contention of Overpass ended, VG in this map of their own choice, eventually failed to achieve victory.

After being 1v4 in the second half, it was taken down without any suspense.

1-0, Vitality took the first city.

The audience in the live broadcast room discussed a lot, today Vitality's state gave them many surprises, they completely didn't expect Nice would suddenly find his state and play such an outstanding performance.

The live broadcast screen is replaying the wonderful performance in Map 1, the picture of Xu Beifang spinning like a spinning top in the first half, making everyone feel a sense of gasping.

Director Zhao Gan is meticulously performing kill slow-motion, everyone can clearly see the predicament Xu Beifang was in at the beginning.

Standing in the middle of the big road, the position has been exposed, the left front and right front have confirmed the enemy's information.

In this situation, Nice attacked from both sides, breaking the situation with extremely fast reaction speed and gunplay.

From the slow motion, he only wasted 1 bullet in this wave of spray transfer, almost reaching the limit in the predicament.

Wanjiqi commented: "In this highlight, his frontal gunplay holding up is one reason, but when Nice got the information, he came to destroy VG's bomb explosion in advance, so this wave as long as he can get even one kill, it can play a big role."

"Nice's thinking is still quite clear."

Actually, in tier-one matches, there are not a few players with outstanding gunplay.

The most famous one is xantares, who is also a player with the title of FPL instructor, and even because of his outstanding performance in FPL, he is called the FPL chief instructor.

The other three players with instructor nicknames are Nice, s1mple, and Niko.

Guys like ropz can only be considered students in FPL.

But the Turkish fierce man who performed best in FPL, the gunplay link is full.

But there is more than just gunplay in the match, various utility restrictions, doing what in what time, is also a very important link.

This is the thing that can cash out the gunplay.

Wanjiqi also felt very emotional, the last time he commentated on Xu Beifang's match at IEM Shanghai, at that time he was just a stupid gun-man type character.

Although the positioning was quite spiritual, there was only gunplay to speak of, and the thinking in decision-making and clutches could only be said to be hard to describe.

But now, without knowing it, he already has a trend of developing towards a hexagonal player.

At least now, no matter which link, Nice's performance will not be too bad.

【Brother Beizi's state is really good today】

【If I remember correctly, he got two four-kills】

As the audience in the bullet screen chatted, they saw the settlement information of Map 1 appear on the screen.

Ranking first in kills in this match, it was Xu Beifang who had a strong presence in the first half.

nice: 30/2/12

Average damage per round: 134.9

【Good guy, who called this booster?】

【Although I don't fan Nice, this Map 1 was played too exaggeratedly, frontal is invincible】

【VG is really afraid of top-level big brothers coming out, once a carry comes out, the overall tactics can't be opened】

【Just took a look, 30 kills, 21 are headshots】

【The most outrageous thing is that this guy is still a 16:9 guy, how come he is so accurate!】

16:9 and 4:3 are two classic resolutions of CS: GO.

The 4:3 resolution mainly comes from the professional brothers of the early 1.6, everyone imitates the habits of the strong.

In the CS: GO game, the 4:3 resolution can make the character model wider, and the opponent's head is also larger, but the price is that the speed of the character appearing in the field of vision will be faster, and because of the resolution stretching, the overall field of vision will be a little bit missing compared to 16:9.

Compared to the 16:9 resolution's head being too small, this little shortcoming is irrelevant.

But Xu Beifang used this 16:9 resolution and could still play such an outstanding performance, which made many people's eyes light up.

Looking at Xu Beifang who was joking with others in the lens, Wanjiqi couldn't help but sigh: "Really worthy of being Pasha's direct disciple, Neo's only designated successor!"

After a short halftime break, both sides began to enter the confrontation of Map 2.

Map is Inferno.

This is Vitality's map selection, so they start as the offensive side.

It's just that even as the defensive side, the pressure VG felt was not small.

The Katowice Major just ended less than a month ago, in Poland, how terrifying Vitality's Inferno was, they watched it all the way offline.

Releasing Inferno this time was mainly to conduct some research, wanting to counter-target in this match.

As soon as they came up, VG chose a 4A1B defensive strategy.

This positioning is not randomly placed, but prepared.

kaze, who was defending B site alone, went straight to the banana road wooden barrel, wanting to scout B site information, but as soon as he came up, he was scouted by jackz, pierced in the head and slowed down, and then killed by trade-kill.

B site fell instantly, VG entered a 4v5 retake clutch at 1 minute 40 seconds, and Xu Beifang had already stood at the church gun position very early, this retake of theirs basically couldn't be played.

Finally, Vitality took the pistol round.

From here, it can also be seen that although VG is working very hard to move closer to the European system, there are still some problems in the playstyle.

If it were a European team choosing a 4A1B opening on Inferno, even if B site wanted to scout information, they wouldn't peek at the wooden barrel like kaze. At most, they would peek at the yellow wall.

Peeking at the wooden barrel, once there is someone at B site, if the gun is slightly accurate, then he dies, and the offensive side speeds up, the match will be like what happened on the field, the retake basically can't be played.

If there is a problem with the details, it will lead to a huge difference in the effect of the overall tactics.

CS: GO is a game of constantly piling up details. Wanjiqi can see that if VG wants to become a tier-one strong team, there are still many places to improve.

Vitality's mood is very good, Jack got a kill at the start, apex's command is also very good, they successfully took this pistol round.

Then in VG's force buy round, apex chose a wave of map control, and finally a flying second-floor playstyle.

This wave, VG really didn't expect it, and basically couldn't defend it.

The core logic of apex flying to the second floor in a long gun round is like this—you definitely won't expect that we will play this routine in a long gun round, at this time a surprise can win.

The score reached 4:0, the first long gun round of the second half started.

Xu Beifang bought an SG553 and arrived at the banana road, starting as usual to give a wooden barrel fire.

However, he didn't rush into the banana road in this round, because the opponent had just saved enough economy to play a long gun round, the number of utility in this round was very exaggerated.

Not different from what he expected, he waited at the banana road entrance, and saw a near-point fire and a middle-segment fire explode, followed by a grenade at the tree position.

The opponent's wave of utility set meal was directly filled.

As an experienced banana road player, Xu Beifang found that the control of the banana road in China is still very shallow, they seem to be just playing by using utility to clear points and give pressure.

The use of utility is not strong.

He counted the near-point fire he threw, and said when the near-point fire was about to go out: "Han Dou, help me throw a window flash."

apex, who had been grabbing flashbangs at the T-spawn, heard this and threw the flashbang out immediately.

Xu Beifang also threw a grenade towards the front point.

auman's playstyle is also relatively aggressive. Originally, after a wave of utility on the banana road, he planned to wait for the fire to go out, and then throw a self-help flash himself to pull horizontally and take a look.

But before the flashbang was grabbed, a flash made him cover his eyes, followed by a grenade, directly making him half health.

Damn!

What information can this counter-clear get?

With this health, pushing forward again, being hit by the opponent twice would be death.

259 saw the situation was not right, and opened his mouth: "Come back, let's play the back point."

Originally their idea was, let auman trade fire first at the near point, and then 259 would grab a flash at the coffin to counter-clear and play the second wave.

But now before trading fire, auman, who was responsible for fighting, was already low on health, so it was more reasonable to return to the back point and use utility to delay.

auman gave a stone slab smoke, directly slipping backward.

After Xu Beifang threw the grenade, he pushed forward quickly, touching all the way to the vicinity of the banana road stone slab, and then shouted to Han Dou for a flashbang.

The flashbang exploded, Xu Beifang pulled horizontally, jackz followed closely.

The two quickly cleared points in a wave, but didn't find the opponent's trace, this banana road was considered controlled.

"Heard the banana road near point was counter-cleared, 259 gave a classic counter-clear flash at the one-box, letting auman look at the banana road."

"But the terrorist wasn't that anxious, instead VG's B site defense became a problem, now there is only one smoke grenade and one fire, do you want to trade fire first to delay time?"

"Not yet, 259 first gave a smoke grenade to block the vision of B-pass."

But on the banana road, hearing the smoke grenade explode at B-pass, Xu Beifang not only didn't retreat because of this B-pass smoke, but instead called the teammates over.

"Dou Dou, I think we can come over and explode bombs to play a wave of B, the opponent gave two fires at the banana road at the start, they shouldn't have any defensive utility in their hands," Xu Beifang continued, "And it's already confirmed one is at the one-box, the other should be at the police station or coffin."

"Can come over and try." apex put the information in his brain, feeling it was indeed feasible.

"But no need to explode bombs, Nice and Jack, you two stick to the smoke, I'll give a top-level flash to B, you rush in directly, Zywoo follow behind to trade."

After throwing the smoke grenade, 259 started grabbing the incendiary grenade, same aiming point.

Waiting for the smoke grenade to dissipate, as long as auman gets information, he can directly throw a smoke to cut off B-pass.

"Bang!!"

A flashbang exploded, auman who was holding directly under the platform was instantly fully white, 259 saw the situation was not right, hurriedly threw the fire out.

But at this moment he forgot, he also threw a B-pass smoke just now, this fire hit the smoke grenade, it really just made a sound!

"Vitality wants to play something aggressive, but speeding up at this time is reasonable, after all, VG played too far back in the early stage, there was no information on Vitality at all."

"Speeding up at this time, just look at the first wave of confrontation."

"Good flash from Han Dou, directly fully white auman, Nice easily killed the first one, 259 pulled horizontally from the one-box to trade, was instantly killed by Old Jack, this B site is just gone."

Wei Wei commented beside him: "This is a bit too stable, no information on the banana road, not even information in the middle, just insisting on fighting the players' individual ability, but Brother Beizi and Jack's frontal breakthrough played well, this retake is not even necessary."

Inside Vitality's voice chat.

When entering the garbage time of the round, apex immediately commanded the team to start collecting guns.

However, the overall economy was not much, they pushed relatively cautiously, and finally only killed A-Zhong and the round ended.

apex smiled and bumped fists with Xu Beifang: "Just ask you, is my flashbang white? Is this flash top-level?"

"It is indeed a good flash." apex's flashbang fully whited auman who was holding directly under the platform, he got the first kill without any effort, this is really very key, Xu Beifang also didn't spare his praise.

shox looked over from the other end of the player bench, a pleasant smile on his face.

He had a clearer understanding of his big brother's ability to grab opportunities.

Xu Beifang also had a comfortable smile on his face, returning to the banana road, just like Old Wang opening the door of the young woman next door, it was so comfortable.

Entering the fifth round, apex asked Xu Beifang: "How do you plan to play the banana road in this round?"

He didn't rush to play the set tactics, if playing default map control, the overall rhythm has to be driven by Xu Beifang, so his thoughts on the banana road are very important.

He was in the first position, after considering: "Help me throw a wooden barrel one-way smoke, I'll play a fast wave on the banana road."

His banana road playstyle considers many layers, generally won't let the opponent grasp his rhythm, constantly switching between aggressive and stable.

However, the outside world has always labeled his banana road map control as aggressive, which he doesn't understand at all.

After the countdown ended, Xu Beifang rushed out of the T-spawn, apex behind him aimed early and threw that wooden barrel one-way smoke.

"Saved two long guns, plus a good loss bonus, VG chose to force buy, but this round is a 3B defensive opening."

"Nice is still the same old set, wooden barrel fire at the start... Whoa!! This time directly stepped on the fire to come hard!" Wanjiqi's tone rose instantly.

VG saved two long guns in the previous round, but 259 chose to piece together a force buy after considering.

He thought carefully, since Nice plays so aggressively on the banana road, they would use short guns to defend heavily at the near point of the banana road.

He prepared to grab flashbangs at the back point, letting auman and A-Zhong counter-clear at the sandbag behind the yellow wall.

This can not only exert the advantage of short guns, but after a short exchange of fire and swapping people, B site won't be too passive.

auman came to the sandbag with a FAMAS.

They didn't like using this broken gun before, thinking the FAMAS's damage was as cold as ice, scraping and scraping.

Many players even complained on the forum, is there really any need for this broken gun FAMAS to exist.

But as Xu Beifang repeatedly played stunning operations with the FAMAS on the professional field, they all understood.

FAMAS hitting people is still painful, it's mainly a problem with the person.

Sometimes lies don't hurt people, the truth is the sharp knife.

However, auman thought his FAMAS was also played well, as long as the first wave could be positioned, being able to trade one would be okay for this gun.

But just arriving at the sandbag, he keenly heard the sound of someone stepping on fire: "The opponent might speed up!! A-Zhong, come out and help me!!"

"My flashbang is grabbed, just say it if you want it!" 259 shouted at the coffin.

If the opponent really speeds up, then this flashbang of his might be the key point to change the situation.

But after waiting for a few seconds, they found that the banana road was quiet again.

A-Zhong curiously poked his head out.

Xu Beifang's first wave of suicide charge, under the cover of smoke, silently arrived near the wooden barrel.

Rubbing against the edge of the smoke, adjusting bit by bit, so that he wouldn't be exposed to the opponent's field of vision.

But the whole smoke grenade, for him, was still a one-way effect.

A head poked out on the left, Xu Beifang immediately fired and sprayed.

"Da da da..."

【nice used AK47 to get a headshot kill on zhoking】

"This is a one-way smoke, but A-Zhong doesn't understand at all, directly caught by Nice, killed in a burst."

Suddenly killed, A-Zhong was stunned for a moment, but quickly reacted to the report point from the sound of gunfire.

"There should be a one-way near the wooden barrel!!"

auman immediately fired and sprayed above the wooden barrel.

But by the time the bullets swept over, Xu Beifang had already moved silently and arrived at the far right of the smoke grenade.

Why this smoke grenade is top-level, it is because—it is a one-way smoke from two angles.

Xu Beifang was at the far right of the smoke grenade, sticking to the wall, quietly getting information, and then directly called for help: "Jack, help me throw a sandbag fire, burn him out."

The sandbag had just sounded with the FAMAS gunfire, his movements were fast, and he also confirmed there was someone beside the sandbag.

As long as there is a fire, the CT beside the sandbag can be forced out, and Xu Beifang, stuck at the edge of the smoke, had already held the crossing point.

auman stood behind the sandbag, didn't get a kill in a burst, but he didn't dare to go back easily.

Because he didn't know how this smoke was one-way.

And he still wanted to counter-clear with 259.

But a sandbag fire forced him to retreat backward.

In the process of moving, auman's attention was always staring at the vicinity of the wooden barrel, as long as there was gunfire there, he would immediately crouch and spray back.

"But auman couldn't imagine, the right side of this smoke grenade is also one-way, this left side finished fighting, the right side can still mix..." Wanjiqi also saw this kind of thing for the first time, "This is another research result of Nice."

If Ma Xixi were here, he would definitely say "top-level".

【This smoke is interesting, there are one-ways on both sides, feel like after learning it, you can get a wave of big points!】

【Useless, need teammates】

【CS: GO research duo, I see Nice and ropz often discussing various utility optimizations on Twitter】

【These two have full marks for their understanding of the game】

【I have been learning from Nice for a long time, the settings are all his, why am I not as strong as him? Could it be that there is a gap between my settings and his?】

【Just change Nice's brain over】

The audience in the live broadcast room's eyes lit up for this smoke grenade.

But the match on the field still didn't end.

After Xu Beifang got two kills, he directly started charging towards B site.

Although he was caught by 259 because of searching for points, Jack's trade-kill was fast, so he had no worries.

After 259 was traded and killed, B site fell again.

Vitality directly entered B site to plant the bomb.

And kaze and freeman were also helpless, this main force didn't achieve results, they could only save the guns again.

But what they regretted was that this gun-saving didn't succeed either.

Vitality's economy was sufficient, directly coming over to collect again.

Finally, at the cost of 3 for 2, they forcibly took down all their weapons.

But this is worth it, because VG's economy directly collapsed.

Coming up with a 5:0, the water friends watching the live broadcast also felt some gaps between the two sides.

This VG, to put it nicely, is playing stably.

To put it not nicely, it is playing too cowardly.

On the defensive side, they couldn't get the information on the banana road, and didn't dare to conduct secondary contention for the middle information, which made the overall defense very passive.

They could only rely on frontal duels.

The first wave of bomb explosion can get an advantage, then there is something to play, if they can't get an advantage, they can't play at all.

Finally, the first half ended, the score was fixed at 12:3.

The huge score gap made Vitality very happy, but they also understood in their hearts that this is not a must-win score.

After changing sides in the second half, apex didn't play any tricks, just a conventional 3A2B defense.

Xu Beifang was still swaying with dual pistols, and heard gunfire at A site, and kill information kept floating in the upper right corner.

【jackz used USP to get a headshot kill on auman】

【jackz used USP to get a headshot kill on zhongking】

【jackz used USP to get a headshot kill on...】

A wave of kill information floated in the upper right corner, they didn't even need to retake, the round was already over.

"What's the situation? Is it already brushed up today??" Xu Beifang said a bit unexpectedly.

Today on Map 2, he played very well on the banana road, but Jack was the one who got the most kills.

"The opponent is already anxious," Old Jack explained: "The opponent planned to fly to the second floor, but before the flashbang was thrown, people had already rushed out first, my crosshair happened to be placed on A2, no need to move at all."

They could all understand this situation, after all, they were leading by a big score, it was already very good that VG could organize effective tactics.

Anyone with eyes could see that VG's mentality had already exploded.

In the subsequent rounds, although they tried very hard to organize an offense, they still didn't manage to get even one round. Finally, this Inferno, the score was fixed at 16:3.

"Congratulations to Vitality, finally defeating VG with a 2-0 record!"

"After winning this BO3, Vitality's record in this StarSeries is 2-2, as long as they win one more BO3, they can officially enter the offline playoffs."

But Wanjiqi didn't say one sentence.

Vitality also had no chance of making mistakes, if they couldn't win the BO3 tomorrow, then Vitality would also announce their departure from the StarSeries stage just like VG today.

After the match ended, Xu Beifang accompanied Vitality's teammates to VG's player bench.

A-Zhong looked at Xu Beifang's tall figure and sighed implicitly.

He played the opposite position to Xu Beifang, and there were few frontal duels in this match.

But with the kill information of Nice constantly floating in the upper right corner, how could he not know the power of this guy in front of him.

"You guy are acting to fool us," A-Zhong bumped lightly against Xu Beifang's chest, "Exploding seeds just because you play us."

Xu Beifang put his hands together, "I was really a patient the past two days."

He was still unconvinced in his heart, after all, he hadn't exerted force in this match, and he had already lost.

Just felt very helpless.

But it's already like this, there's nothing to complain about.

CS: GO is a team game, in the short time of the match, whether individual ability can be exerted is also a very important link.

However, A-Zhong didn't feel too lost in his heart.

In the past half year, VG has gained a lot.

First, they got the qualification for the Katowice Major and successfully played good results in the Major.

After the off-season, in this StarSeries, they also crushed NaVi on the first day.

He has played against many players who were only in highlights before, feeling himself constantly getting stronger.

But compared to the progress speed of this guy in front of him, the gap is still too big!

kaze's mood is very complicated, when shaking hands with Xu Beifang, he couldn't help but ask in English: "Will you really get stronger by practicing like that?"

"Can effort really compare to talented players?"

Xu Beifang glanced at kaze, not surprised.

Compared to his experience, kaze is actually a true talent-type player.

He debuted in 2015, transferred to several teams before arriving at VG today.

But since his debut, kaze's worst year of data also had a 1.18 rating.

kaze is the kind of player who thinks talent is greater than everything.

But he also knows Xu Beifang's experience, starting to play CS: GO formally at 21, relying on a lot of effort, getting stronger at a very fast speed, and evolving into an existence they need to look up to without knowing it.

Talent and effort, which one is more important, he really doesn't understand.

Xu Beifang looked at kaze's somewhat lost face and said: "Actually, I think everyone has talent, but different people have different talents. My talent lies in being able to distinguish the correct path, and then climbing myself by effort."

"But I understand, actually my ceiling was locked long ago, and it's becoming more and more difficult to improve later, unlike you talent monsters who had inhuman strength very early."

kaze listened and felt very emotional.

As the current number one person in CNCSGO, Xu Beifang walked along listening to the suggestions of netizens, anchors, professional brothers, etc.

From the perspective of God, this program effect is full, but as the person himself, perhaps he is also very tormented in his heart.

kaze reached out and hugged Xu Beifang: "Looking forward to the next confrontation, I will definitely not miss the shot then."

Xu Beifang had a faint smile on his face: "I might become even stronger by then."

kaze had a faint smile on his face, he thought Nice's level today was enough to reach the top, but it wasn't an existence he couldn't touch.

As long as VG continues to move forward at the current pace, it's not impossible to surpass him in the future.

But kaze doesn't know that Xu Beifang's ceiling was indeed locked long ago, but he is still a long way from his ceiling.

After the handshake ended, Xu Beifang returned to the match room and started packing his peripherals.

But just as he packed his peripherals, he saw a female host leading a reporter walking towards him.

Looking at their bright smiles, Xu Beifang knew he was going to be caught for an interview.

At this time, Mitao hadn't evolved into a tank, wearing a black off-shoulder dress.

Xu Beifang glanced down.

These black silk stockings are really straight, no, these black silk stockings are really white...

Although Mitao's appearance can't be counted as too beautiful, these legs are indeed not bad.

(Seen when checking information, can't enjoy alone)

Mitao held the microphone, with a smile on her face: "Just won a BO3 victory, how is your mood now?"

Xu Beifang took back his gaze: "Successfully winning the match, the mood is of course very good, because if this match isn't taken, we will just leave."

They have the qualification for the StarSeries, mainly because HR withdrew, forcing the tournament group to find a team to make up the numbers, otherwise this match wouldn't be able to start at all.

Although it happened suddenly, Xu Beifang still wanted to play something in this home court in the local match.

But because of various reasons, he didn't perform well before. If he can't successfully advance next, then the fans who have expectations for him will definitely be very disappointed.

Xu Beifang doesn't want to see that kind of thing happen.

Mitao held the microphone and continued to ask: "Recently, everyone on the forum is praising you as the world's number one FAMAS, and you also played well with the FAMAS today. Do you have any unique understanding of this firearm?"

Xu Beifang held the microphone and pondered: "Thanks for everyone's praise, but I don't think there is anything to say about the FAMAS... This gun as a whole is not a particularly excellent firearm, many times it is just a helpless choice."

"As for the usage techniques, it's just trying to hit the head, and then practice more to get familiar with its trajectory."

After the match between Vitality and VG ended, there was still the Tyloo match, so many people didn't leave the live broadcast room.

At this moment, hearing Xu Beifang's words, many people rolled their eyes in front of their phones.

【What kind of Versailles?】

【A guy who uses FAMAS to screen-brush every day says FAMAS is not easy to use】

【Let me summarize—if you are bad, practice more!】

【What is the difference between this and the headshot brother sharing techniques back then—just pull the crosshair to the opponent's head and fire】

【Don't be too surprised, Nice is actually very talented, otherwise he wouldn't be the world's number one today】

【Don't you understand the power of growth-type players!】

The interview didn't ask too much, just played a little program effect and ended.

Xu Beifang also followed the team back to the hotel by car.

The big bald coach took them to review today's match.

Inferno ended with a big score, the overall play had no problems, the big bald coach didn't waste time on this.

But Map 1 Overpass, they watched it carefully.

They haven't played this map much, and the map proficiency is not high.

VG's tactics and map understanding are actually quite good, so they also have to learn from it.

Nearly an hour and a half, the review of this match finally ended, and they felt they gained a lot.

"Beifang, buy me milk tea." Zywoo's voice sounded in his ear.

He scratched Zywoo's chin with his hand: "When I first came to Shanghai, I could still see the neck, now it's gone, swimming for nothing."

Xu Beifang looked at Zywoo, originally after the off-season, he followed his brother to swim every day, and the previous thousand-layer chin had changed.

After arriving in Shanghai, Xu Beifang occasionally indulged and ordered a cup of milk tea, instead, he spoiled Shushu.

Zywoo now has to have at least one cup every day.

Then Xu Beifang saw the large documentary "The Disappearing Chin".

"It's okay, weight loss is a slow process, today is the last cup!" Zywoo said decisively.

"You have already had three in a row," Jack mercilessly poked Zywoo's bluff.

Xu Beifang just smiled, then opened Meituan and found a milk tea shop with a good rating nearby.

He also felt a bit emotional, Shanghai is worthy of being an international metropolis, there are really many milk tea shops.

They have changed a milk tea shop every day for the past few days, but haven't drunk from the same one yet.

"What do you say? Are you not drinking?" Xu Beifang turned and asked.

"Who said that! Beifang, give me one the same as yours."

"I want pearl milk tea!"

"I want one with taro balls!"

The group of people who were teasing Zywoo earlier, hearing Xu Beifang wanting to order, all opened their mouths to report what they wanted to drink.

Xu Beifang rolled his eyes and placed the order quickly.

6 cups of milk tea, plus delivery fee, cost about 130.

Although the cost of living in Shanghai is relatively high, the price of milk tea is still acceptable.

After ordering, Xu Beifang brushed his phone.

After the match with VG ended, the discussion on the forum was very lively.

【First stop of Northern Expedition! First cut VG!!】

Xu Beifang:???

Even if he didn't click on it, he knew why there was this post on the forum.

danking, this big mouth, really says everything.

Clicked in, sure enough, it was a chat screenshot of danking in the fan group.

His fans were chatting in the group about Vitality's state in the past few days, about Xu Beifang's state.

Tie Dan explained in the group that because Xu Beifang had sudden kidney stones, but he was already better, and today he was shouting in the lounge to start the Northern Expedition, turning over the teams on their heads one by one.

The water friends in the post saw this chat information, and one by one played memes.

【Stone Number One: A rifleman who got kidney stones】

Xu Beifang almost couldn't hold back.

Below there was another hot comment:

【Little VG, dare to block my Northern Expedition Army?】

【Lying in front of the Northern Expedition Army are: Internal and external troubles, natural winners, Astralis who don't deserve their position, Liquid Ma who is strong on the outside but weak on the inside, the end of the strong crossbow, Galaxy Battleship, NRG who is already in decline, fnc who is stumbling, North who is ill-fated...】

【Good guy, seems to really match!】

Below, the building was quickly crooked, and everyone started discussing today's match.

【Fortunately, Little Xu found his state today, 2-2, play one more match tomorrow, still have a chance to see Beifang offline】

【The Beifang who is not sick is invincible, two four-kills in Map 1 today, really outrageous】

【To be honest, that 1v4 is really exaggerated, VG gave a chance, but he forcibly grasped the chance】

【kaze is really a war criminal, if that shot didn't miss, he would have won, but he hit crooked】

【Say kaze is a war criminal, then the other three didn't even fire a shot?】

【Can only say that playing highlights in a clutch must be based on the opponent's mistakes, today Brother Bei is indeed a superman performance, Map 1 rating is over 2】

The comment section commented on the 1v4 clutch today, the water friends' praise made his face full of smiles.

But there was no lack of fans bringing rhythm.

【This wave is pure luck, blown so hard by you, he is really your dad】

【Wasn't he so poor the past two days, now that he played well for a small round, he is blown like this, laughing to death】

【Just a pure timing player, what is there to say】

He doesn't care about the haters' remarks.

He didn't think he could take down this clutch at the time, just tried his best to operate, trading one is not losing, two is blood profit.

Didn't expect to keep killing, really gave him a chance.

However, he thinks luck accounted for a large component in this wave.

kaze and freeman's positioning was already very rigorous, but kaze's shot hitting the leg gave him the possibility to continue operating.

But kaze was also really iron-headed here, knowing he hit the leg and still chose to use the sniper rifle.

If he switched to USP later, Xu Beifang wouldn't have so much room for operation.

However, sometimes success is also confidence, failure is also confidence.

And, luck in electronic sports is always written by the winner.

After resting for a while, Vitality started retake training, Xu Beifang had nothing to do and opened the live broadcast, wanting to interact with the audience.

Just as the live broadcast opened, a group of fans poured into it.

【Northern Expedition! Northern Expedition!】

【Beifang played really well today】

【According to the discussion on Tieba, winning the first stop of Northern Expedition today, then there are four matches left, it really matches!】

【Suggest Beifang win NRG tomorrow, defy heaven and change fate

【Can I still see the Prime Minister restore the Shu Han in CSGO?】

Xu Beifang was stunned for a moment, then teased:

"You all want my Seven-Star Lamp to go out, don't you?"

A pleasant sound rang out in his headphones.

【Ding!】

【Received suggestion: Defeat NRG, difficulty 4 stars, can obtain a C-level Treasure Chest upon completion】

【Received suggestion: Officially begin the Northern Expedition, win the championship, difficulty 7 stars, can obtain an S-level reward upon task completion】

Good grief, he had just started the stream, and the viewers' suggestions were already coming in.

Today's matchups had already ended, and the viewers had also obtained tomorrow's match groupings from the tournament organizer's bracket.

Vitality's opponent in the final round was NRG, who also had a 2-2 record.

This was also an old rival Xu Beifang had encountered along the way.

Xu Beifang had two previous encounters with this NRG squad.

Well, he lost both times.

The first time he met NRG was in the very first tournament after Xu Beifang joined VP to replace Morelz and officially became a professional player.

In that IEM Shanghai, Xu Beifang was considered one of the most outstanding players, performing at a very high level against various top teams.

But when facing NRG in the end, he had no power to fight back; his head was practically blown off.

At the time, the performance of Brehze and Ethan left a very deep impression on Xu Beifang.

The second time was the recently concluded IEM Katowice; during the Challenger Stage, they had encountered NRG, where they were targeted by NRG's map pool and were beaten black and blue after Nuke was picked.

This was also the reason why Vitality later trained so hard on Nuke.

Because encountering such a strong team on an unfamiliar map was truly too miserable; there was simply no room to fight back.

NRG's team strength had always been quite solid.

Even now, Xu Beifang didn't have the certainty of victory against NRG.

So when the viewers joked in the chat about a "Northern Expedition," it was actually quite fitting.

If Vitality couldn't beat NRG tomorrow, it would be like the Seven-Star Lamp being blown out.

However, even knowing tomorrow's match would be hard to play, Xu Beifang was still very much looking forward to it.

Honestly, he was extremely unwilling to accept those two previous losses at the hands of NRG.

Now that the team's overall strength had become stronger, Xu Beifang naturally wanted to get his revenge against NRG.

But as for how it would actually go, it would depend on the teammates' form during the match and how everyone performed.

As for this task of fighting all the way to the finals and finally lifting the trophy, the difficulty was truly not small.

Although due to scheduling conflicts, the two strongest teams this year were not present.

But whether it was NaVi, FaZe, or ENCE, they were all extremely powerful entities. To defeat them one by one, it required not only extensive preparation before the match but also the players being in top form on the day of the match.

Xu Beifang could only say, it was very challenging.

But a championship, though.

He didn't know how many nights he had dreamed of the scene of lifting the trophy.

When he first lifted a trophy, he had said spiritedly to that scantily-clad Taiwanese female host: "First time lifting a trophy, no experience." But after tossing and turning for over half a year, that remained his only time lifting a trophy.

Xu Beifang wanted to stand in the very center of the stage again and welcome that glory amidst everyone's cheers.

But wanting to walk to the center of the stage was no easy task.

Fortunately, although the start of the StarSeries was not good.

Jackz was sick, and Xu Beifang had a sudden bout of kidney stones.

But as both of their conditions improved, they felt that their training was getting better and better.

They were entering the first honeymoon period of the new lineup, and everyone's combat effectiveness was growing at a rapid speed.

Xu Beifang would spare no cost to strive in that direction!