Chapter 269: 274. Chapter 268: Then, show me what you're made of! (Part 1)

274. Chapter 268: Then, show me what you're made of! (Part 1)

"Don't be discouraged." Head coach xtqzzz walked behind them, his tone unhurried. "From the moment NaVi suddenly chose Nuke, we should have been mentally prepared."

Although the Vitality members on the player stage appeared very calm, they couldn't help but feel a bit frustrated; after all, this was the first map of a BO5.

apex was the most annoyed; he took off his glasses and leaned back in his gaming chair, rubbing his temples.

During the confrontation on map one, his commanding was completely read through by Zeus.

Thinking about it now, perhaps Zeus had already thought about how to deal with them on this map before the match, having studied their playstyle very thoroughly.

Under normal circumstances, Vitality loses matches often because the players' form isn't good, and several people couldn't hold up in gunfights.

But in today's match, ZywOo's data was the best, and nice didn't keep up with the first tier, but his data was also positive.

But could apex blame him for not performing?

The real reason lay with himself; he didn't arrange his teammates in suitable positions, and nice often didn't even have the opportunity to engage in head-on combat at the first opportunity.

Coupled with the fact that after entering the finals, NaVi's discipline suddenly became stronger.

In this situation, asking an entry fragger to always be able to produce very outstanding performances in post-plant scenarios was asking too much.

After transitioning, among the teams he encountered, only ENCE's commander "Little Li" had made him feel somewhat uncomfortable.

But today, after colliding with the world's number one commander Zeus, he realized that he still had a certain gap compared to top-tier commanders.

Losing a map right at the start was devastating to the team's morale.

However, he didn't remain immersed in the emotions of the failure on map one, but patted his face, picked up the tactical paper, and began to think about the tactics for map two.

NaVi's targeted tactics on Nuke were excellent.

But,

Hadn't Vitality also made targeted preparations?

It was just because time was limited, and preparations could only be made for a few maps.

And on Inferno, which he was most proficient in, the various targeted tactics were the most complete!

It was just that the reason apex didn't have such strong confidence was mainly because of Zeus.

This guy often didn't play by the rules.

Map two: Inferno.

This was Vitality's own map pick, and they started as the attacking side.

During the halftime break, Vitality had already adjusted their emotions and re-invested their attention into the match.

In the pistol round, apex called a 3-2 B-site split tactic, because according to their research, NaVi's default didn't like to put people in the connector.

But this point was very unfortunate; Zeus once again didn't play by the rules.

He gambled on a 4A start, and Vitality's charge in the middle directly crashed into NaVi's net.

After a round of exchange, only ZywOo forcibly traded one.

After getting the information, Xu Beifang took jackz and directly sped up toward the B site.

The two moved quickly, directly clearing points in the bomb site. flamie proactively peeked out to seize the opportunity and killed jackz with one shot.

Xu Beifang pushed his Glock to the face at the close point and fired frantically, getting a kill.

"There is a police station smoke as cover, but NaVi's retake has already arrived at the police station. s1mple and Electronic are doing a double-boost, nice is fake-planting, but the result is a double-peek from above and below. nice still forcibly traded one, but there's no way."

Ma Xixi's mood on the commentary desk wasn't very high, because they didn't understand this wave of Zeus's gamble either.

He didn't get any information at the start, directly set up a 4-person package in the middle, and flamie in the B site also stood at the back point.

This was pure gambling.

It could only be said that Zeus's nickname of "Gambling Monster" was well-deserved.

Failing to plant the bomb, Xu Beifang asked apex: "Should we eco directly? Or force-buy and play with them?"

His voice was a bit muffled; falling into a disadvantageous situation again made his mood not very good.

apex looked at Xu Beifang's position; although it wasn't the best position, he was still in the first sequence and could effectively suppress the Banana Road.

Then, he directly threw a Galil to Xu Beifang.

"You buy full armor and utility, try to find an opportunity with them on the Banana Road."

This was both apEX's trust and a force-buy with tactical significance.

When playing against Renegades in the semi-finals, Renegades had played a similar tactic on Dust II, which caused them a lot of trouble at the time. If it weren't for Xu Beifang's timely cover, that point might have really been turned around.

So he wanted to let Xu Beifang try it.

Xu Beifang picked up the Galil, and after the countdown ended, he rushed directly into the Banana Road.

But just as he walked into the Banana Road, he saw unknown objects flying from behind the stone slab.

Xu Beifang, who had just finished throwing his fire, instantly knew he was done for, and shouted hoarsely in the voice chat: "4 HE grenades on the Banana Road, you can speed up to A directly!!"

The next second.

"Boom boom boom boom!"

Four HE grenades that exploded almost simultaneously instantly killed Xu Beifang.

"Zeus gambled on the point again at the first opportunity!" Wanjiqi said. "Zeus calculated Vitality's economy, and with an investment of 1200 dollars for 4 HE grenades at the start, he directly blew up nice who had a hero Galil."

"This gambling on the point with HE grenades might just be to deal with the speed boost, and nice was also an innocent victim."

Ma Xixi took over: "However, Vitality's reaction was also very fast. They didn't covet that Galil, but the main force started to speed up directly toward the A site. They knew there was only one person in the A site, and against NaVi, the position wasn't hard to guess."

"The whole world knows Electronic is in the pit, and how many can Electronic trade this wave?"

"Electronic stepped on the pit and held the A2 floor directly. shox, who tried to fly out, was instantly melted, and apex was also killed by Electronic's secondary positioning immediately after."

"Electronic turned his head to look at A1 again. ZywOo held the head-skin position and knocked him on the head first. jackz seized the opportunity to enter the bomb site directly to plant the bomb. Electronic peeked out again and was directly done in by ZywOo's calm aiming!"

A gasp erupted at the scene. ZywOo's use of position control to tear Electronic in the pit apart by hand was still very astonishing.

However, Electronic's role had already been played; he alone traded two in the A site and delayed enough time.

NaVi's retake arrived one after another. ZywOo wanted to proactively find people, but was sprayed and killed by the "Forklift King" who rushed over from A1.

jackz in the bomb site held his Glock and pulled frantically, but the opponent's bullets were suppressing him.

After his 20 Glock bullets were finished, he could only shrink behind cover to change magazines.

But just at this moment, a shadow that covered the sky and blocked the sun appeared.

s1mple held a butterfly knife and directly slashed at jackz.

【s1mple used a butterfly knife to kill jackz】

"The result is acceptable; at the cost of only one hero Galil, Vitality completed the bomb plant and also killed a long gun, so the next point will be a full-buy round directly." Wanjiqi comforted.

But the sound inside the venue was clearly not that calm.

s1mple used his knife kill again, making this stage his personal show.

"It's okay, it's okay." apEX said, "Being able to plant a bomb, we've already made a profit."

But at this time, he had already seen his entry fragger's face collapse, and he directly typed a '?' on the public screen.

Clearly, s1mple's idea of using a knife made him angry.

Noticing this scene, apEX said: "Stabilize your mindset, don't get hot-headed because of the opponent's operation."

Xu Beifang nodded, indicating he understood.

He looked at his position; this time he was in the first position, which was the best position to grab the Banana Road.

However, the scene of the opponent stuffing four HE grenades into his mouth in the previous point still made him feel a bit nervous.

The economy was good, and ZywOo, under apEX's request, bought a half-armor big sniper.

Xu Beifang also subconsciously calculated the opponent's economy; Electronic had just lost a long gun, so s1mple would very likely give his gun to him and then touch a big sniper out.

Even as an opponent, he knew s1mple was an extremely outstanding player.

Xu Beifang also often watched his POV in his daily life to learn playstyles and techniques.

So he understood very well what s1mple would do first if he took out a big sniper.

"The Banana Road will have HE grenades at the start, I'll go find trouble in the middle first." Xu Beifang said in the voice chat.

ZywOo asked: "How do you need me to coordinate with you?"

ZywOo was referring to things like catching a pop-flash in the middle.

Xu Beifang shook his head: "I'll operate it myself."

He didn't plan to give a pop-flash in the middle because a pop-flash in the middle would definitely make s1mple vigilant.

s1mple was very good at covering his eyes, reading the seconds in his heart, and then firing.

Xu Beifang didn't plan to give s1mple that reaction time.

"The score has reached 0:2, entering the first full-buy round. ZywOo directly bought a half-armor sniper, and s1mple's sniper rifle is also already in his hands. His position choice here is very aggressive; he came directly to the middle at the start, the big sniper holding the crossing point of the sewer!"

"But nice came directly to find him!!!"

After Xu Beifang entered the terrorist spawn, he directly took out an HE grenade and threw it toward the middle.

Although he was a bit angry at s1mple's actions, he still maintained his sanity.

Even if he didn't want to let s1mple have reaction time to prepare in advance, he didn't plan to just perform a wave of mysterious "Eastern dry-pulling."

This was also a technique he had explored in a ladder match recently; an HE grenade exploding in a specific area could raise dust and smoke, blocking the opponent's vision.

In certain specific situations, it could achieve miraculous effects.

After an HE grenade exploded, Xu Beifang had also adjusted his posture, and his whole body directly strafed wide to the right.

In the crosshair within his field of vision was s1mple carrying the big sniper!

"Bang!"

"nice!!!" Wanjiqi's originally somewhat worried voice instantly became extremely spirited.

s1mple was that kind of proactive player; among all the snipers in the world, very few were more aggressive than him.

He successfully got a knife kill in the previous point, and in this point, he bought a big sniper, so naturally, he had to start doing things.

At the start, he came directly to the middle, and the big sniper held the crossing point of the sewer, wanting to fight for reaction time and pull a shot.

An unknown object flew toward him, and s1mple's excellent dynamic vision made him not have any movements.

But the black smoke caused after the HE grenade exploded still affected his vision.

The next instant, s1mple just felt something was wrong in the terrorist spawn direction, and the gunshot had already rung out; he didn't even manage to fire his gun.

【nice used an AK47 to headshot kill s1mple】

Looking at the kill information in the upper right corner, s1mple said quickly with a helpless tone: "nice dry-pulled the middle directly, watch the middle."

He anticipated the opponent might dry-pull, but didn't expect the key point was that HE grenade; he really didn't see it clearly.

In the confrontation of top-tier matches, even if it only affected for a moment, it could lead to a drastic change in the result.

"nice did a wide strafe in the middle, held s1mple's pre-aim, and killed him with one shot. Actually, dry-pulling directly isn't a very good choice, but nice was too accurate this wave."

The moment Xu Beifang got the kill, the excited voices of his teammates came from Vitality's voice chat:

"Good shot!!"

"Beautiful!!"

From the beginning of map one, they had been in a suppressed state. Although everyone's mindset was still strong, they were still in urgent need of a victory.

Xu Beifang didn't stop his movements because he got the kill; he continued to walk forward and asked: "s1mple was killed by me, can you help me give a flash in the middle? There should only be one left in the middle... A1 gave smoke, one left in A1!!"

The teammates' thinking was very fast, and apEX also quickly summarized the information in his mind and answered: "You just walk forward, ZywOo helps him grab a flashbang, I'll give a connector smoke, and follow directly behind. Let's see if we can do a fast speed boost to the A site!"

Under apEX's quick communication, Vitality had already made the second wave of preparations.

Xu Beifang's footsteps didn't stop, and he didn't even think about letting go of his footsteps.

"Flash given!"

ZywOo's voice came from the voice chat, and Xu Beifang, hiding in the smoke grenade, faced A1 and strafed directly to the left.

Xu Beifang gained vision and saw a CT turn his head.

Edward was very experienced; he anticipated that Vitality might speed up and turned his back to the flashbang in advance.

"After getting the first kill, Vitality started to get rough in the middle. Does Edward understand? He turned his back to the flashbang in advance, he understands!" Ma Xixi said quickly.

Wanjiqi took over: "But Edward didn't play well, nice acted after the fact and directly headshot killed Edward!"

The live audience was shouting excitedly.

Wanjiqi's emotions were also stirred up: "Edward didn't win the gunfight, and now only Electronic is left in the A2 floor. Footsteps are coming, his position isn't easy to move around. How many can he hold this wave?"

The audience's gaze followed Wanjiqi's commentary, placing their focus on Electronic in the A2 floor and nice who was in A1.

It could be very clearly seen that nice didn't clear points, or rather, he was just using big footsteps to collect information for the team in the A bomb site this wave.

Two had already been killed by him in the A site; as long as nice could find Electronic's position, then there would be basically no problem in the A site this wave.

Looking at nice's slightly casual pre-aim, the NaVi fans off-stage felt some consolation.

In their view, as long as Electronic could hold this wave and let him return to the pit again.

Then NaVi would have a chance to fight back!

"nice!!!!" Wanjiqi's excited voice resounded through the entire venue.

Because they saw Electronic on the A2 floor holding an AUG and guarding the crossing point. He sprayed at Xu Beifang who appeared in his field of vision, but Xu Beifang instantly crouched.

Then Electronic was instantly knocked away as if by a mud truck, and even his corpse fell from the A2 floor.

"nice relied on his extreme positioning ability to directly counter-kill Electronic, and survived with single-digit health! This wave was pure individual ability. In front of the 'aiming maniac,' he staged what is called aiming ability!!"

【nice!!!!】

【This A site, under Little Xu's breakthrough, is like paper】

【nice is back again!!】

【In the last match there was basically no room for performance, this time coming to Inferno, it's like returning home again】

【North God directly dominated the A site, killed everyone】

The Vitality fans at the scene tried hard to make cheering sounds. From the defeat on map one to the early stage of map two, Vitality had always been in a suppressed state. Xu Beifang's sudden breakthrough in the A site let them see hope!

Wanjiqi looked at the camera of Xu Beifang in the live stream and couldn't help but laugh: "Perhaps it was s1mple's knife kill in the previous round that made nice angry; Beizige has already entered the second stage."

"A wild triple kill in the A site, he is like a sharp spear, fiercely piercing NaVi's defense. And nice isn't even satisfied; after getting three kills, he, with low health, ran directly to the library. With only single-digit health, he still wants to continue killing."

"It's just that Zeus isn't that stubborn, directly choosing to save his gun in the B site."

apEX originally heard Xu Beifang say he wanted to find an opportunity in the middle, and he didn't hold much expectation.

In fact, he still wanted Xu Beifang to return to the Banana Road to play, because Xu Beifang had produced too many eye-catching performances in that position.

But the final result left him somewhat stunned.

How did Xu Beifang tear s1mple apart at the start, and subsequently kill Edward and Electronic alone?

He was still deep in thought, but ZywOo next to him had already spoken: "Beifang, how was my flashbang?"

Xu Beifang shrugged, and a smile finally appeared on his face: "The flash was a good flash, it's just that it was turned away by Edward."

ZywOo had a helpless smile on his face: "Looks like I can't be the 'meritorious boy'."

"Haha, if you were the 'meritorious boy', this match might be gone today!" Xu Beifang said with a smile.

"nice's feel has completely come up. Twice in the Banana Road control, he successfully created a numerical advantage. NaVi instead became anxious, trying to use gambling on points to gain a numerical advantage."

"But the pressure nice gave alone was already big enough. Zeus peeked out from the police station and was instantly shot to half health. nice added an HE grenade, and Zeus directly ascended to heaven."

"nice is still probing forward alone. flamie shook from the dead point and was also sprayed and killed. However, s1mple on the one-box finally succeeded as a 'rat' and sprayed nice to death with one shot."

"But the problem is, shox has already sneaked out from the A2 floor on the A site, directly killing Electronic. The remaining one in the bomb site, Edward, was also cleared out. Vitality bloomed on both sides, and s1mple had no choice but to save his gun." Wanjiqi's tone was very pleasant.

Many viewers in front of their phones were also very happy.

Xu Nanfang looked at the screen in the competition area and said happily: "This is what's interesting. We need to get more points in the first half and pull the score gap open."

Everyone in the competition area also talked at once:

"Exactly, it's only interesting when Beizige starts killing."

"Don't worry, coming to the small town, Beifang is like returning home; he has found his form."

"My thought is that he finally woke up, and now he's going to start exerting force frantically!"

Although the score had reached 5:2, Xu Nanfang's brother-in-law was a bit worried, "What if we get turned around by a wave of points again?"

"Can't you wish Beifang something good?"

"I'm just speculating, we always have to look at the worst result."

Xu Nanfang thought for a while; his CS: GO level wasn't high, but because he had been cramming matches recently, he still had a little understanding of his own:

"What can we do? If we get chased, then we can only look at Beifang and the little fatty's operations, and see if they can fight back."

Vitality wasn't a team famous for tactics; what they excelled at were the two players Xu Beifang and ZywOo.

If they really were driven into that kind of situation by their opponents, then they could only look forward to the performance of the two star brothers in the team.

Relying on Xu Beifang's wild breakthrough, Vitality successfully found their rhythm.

They also took advantage of NaVi having no money and started a winning streak, directly pushing the score to 5:2.

It's just that at this time, during a push in the A site, the "Pit God of War" Electronic finally logged into his main account and was no longer unlucky.

He held an AUG, forcibly sprayed and transferred in the pit, killing three members of Vitality.

Vitality successfully planted the bomb, and it was a post-plant scenario for ZywOo and jackz.

They relied on operations to forcibly trade 3, and also left the last one at very low health.

It's just that they still couldn't delay enough time, letting s1mple complete the defuse.

NaVi also found their scoring rhythm, and the score began to spiral upward.

8:4

Arriving at the thirteenth round of Inferno.

"Arriving at the most important key round in the second half of the first half!" Ma Xixi looked at the economy of both sides. "Because of constant pulling, the economy of both sides has already entered the danger zone. Whichever side loses this round means they have to enter an eco in the next round."

Wanjiqi added on the side: "Of course, if the terrorists can plant the bomb, then they can still force-buy and gun-fight in the next point, not reaching the state of everyone having short guns."

However, his tone was still quite heavy.

Vitality was very proficient on this map and had now secured 8 points, but if they couldn't take this point, it was very likely that the final result of the first half would be 8:7.

Is there an advantage?

Inferno is a very balanced map, with the win rate of both attacking and defending sides being around 50%.

So Vitality getting 8 points in the first half definitely had an advantage.

It's just that the advantage wasn't big.

At least in their view, it hadn't reached the requirement.

Several consecutive rounds of successful defense made the NaVi fans off-stage very excited.

But in reality, Zeus understood very well that they were still the disadvantaged side. Although Vitality's offense wasn't that smooth, nice was still constantly gaining advantages on the offensive end.

Now that 12 rounds had been played, nice had already gotten 21 kills, which was enough to prove his exaggerated feel.

You have to know that ZywOo, who had the second most kills for Vitality, had only gotten 10 kills.

This was a dangerous signal.

Because this meant that the opponent's star player had found his feel, and apex could deploy tactics around the star player.

They were defending very strenuously and could only rely on his intuition to gamble on points; this was something he didn't want to see.

So after thinking for a while, Zeus said: "We'll start with 3B2A, and then s1mple will give the first set of utility in the B site and then directly cover the A site."

"After the first wave of utility exchange ends, try to proactively go out in the middle to get information."

"Beifang's performance in these few points is okay!" shox praised. "There have been kills in the Banana Road constantly."

Xu Beifang shook the tactical paper in front of his keyboard and then glanced at the big bald coach behind him: "This thing is too useful. Once NaVi's most basic positioning habits are figured out, I can find them and fight them, so naturally, it's smooth."

The opponent's positioning information, various conventional routines—they also remembered these things before.

But most of them were remembered generally; that is, you look at them once before the match, discuss for a while, and then how much you can remember is your own ability.

Truly entering the match, wanting to clearly remember the opponent's playstyle, positioning, and tactics during intense confrontation was a very difficult thing.

But now with the tactical paper, they could review it during tactical timeouts, round preparation stages, and the garbage time of saving guns.

Tactics could be clearer.

Hearing this, xtqzzz's mouth curled into an arc.

This tactical paper was just a flash of inspiration for him, but now it seems that Vitality can expand it later and make it a feature of their own.

Listening to the teammates' teasing, apex flipped through his tactical playstyle and found a playstyle he felt was suitable for the current state:

"Let's play this set next. First help nice gain control of the Banana Road, then let nice play by himself in the Banana Road, and others come to control the middle. nice will then perform a synchronized explosive grenade pull tactic."

This playstyle sounds quite simple; the core idea is to compress the opponent's map control and not let the defensive side gain too much information about the map.

Immediately after, give movement in two areas at the same time. As long as Xu Beifang can delay the retake of the B site, they will definitely be able to pull the opponent's positioning apart with simultaneous explosive grenades, and then tactically, they will have succeeded.

When the preparation time ended, the ten members of both sides moved again.

Xu Beifang had already figured out NaVi's basic playstyle in the Banana Road.

NaVi should have targeted his playstyle of liking to grab the Banana Road quickly, so they liked to bomb the middle section of the Banana Road at the first opportunity, or at the second opportunity, they would directly give HE grenades to the close point. So Xu Beifang gave a fire to the wooden barrel at the start and waited at the terrorist spawn.

"Boom boom!"

Two HE grenades exploded not far in front, taking away Xu Beifang's single-digit health.

However, after the utility exploded, he also happened to continue pushing forward.

"I'll push forward, is there a stone slab flash?"

ZywOo said: "I can give a stone slab flash."

jackz: "Then I'll give a yellow wall fire directly."

Three people gave a set of utility directly, and Xu Beifang also followed the flash explosion to break through to the forward point.

At the first moment of gaining vision, he saw someone covering their eyes and stepping on the fire to the left.

But the time was too short; Xu Beifang hadn't even reacted, and he had already slipped away.

"It's the classic light-speed map control mode in the Banana Road again. With only two fires, one grenade, and one flash, Vitality took control of the forward point." Ma Xixi said. "flamie's reaction was fast, otherwise this wave would have had to leave him behind."

Having coordinated with teammates to take control of the Banana Road, the tactical intent had already been achieved, so Xu Beifang didn't continue pushing forward.

Instead, he returned to behind the stone slab to face the wall, guarding against the opponent's counter-flash.

jackz and ZywOo, according to the arrangement on the tactical paper, began to group up and arrive at the middle.

shox had already cleared the A2 floor alone; he was now waiting in the boiler room, and next, he was ready to take control of the middle in one synchronized wave.

Several people arrived at the close point of the middle, ready to give a connector smoke at the close point, and then take A1 first.

But before apex gave the order to act, shox in the boiler room saw a black shadow flash past within his field of vision.

"Vitality has already grouped up and arrived at the middle, but NaVi has already made preparations for counter-flashing. s1mple's pop-flash exploded directly!" the English stream commentator shouted excitedly. "This is a very good timing. Vitality's middle trio is all white, and Edward's spray makes us feel as if we've returned to the past!"

"shox heard the gunshot and strafed out from the boiler room to cover, but s1mple switched guns immediately after throwing the flashbang, and the big sniper killed shox with one shot."

Inside the Baoshan Gymnasium, the passion of the Vitality fans was instantly cooled.

Everyone couldn't believe that the timing was so good, and the counter-flash happened to hit the moment Vitality was using explosive grenades.

【What is this Vitality playing, not one of them is turning away from the flash】

【I'm convinced, this Ma Xixi is truly a poisonous milk】

【Already secured 8 rounds, it's not that bad】

【Your requirements are too high; getting 8 points after losing the pistol round is very good】

【It's okay, we can still look forward to Little Xu's hero AK】

Everyone was discussing NaVi's counter-flash in the middle. No one expected NaVi's counter-flash to be so sudden, and it happened to hit the moment Vitality was using explosive grenades, which became somewhat terrible.

apex's expression was very vivid; he really wanted to ask why no one turned away from the flash at this moment.

But noticing Xu Beifang was still alive, he chose to suppress his emotions for the time being and kept his mouth shut.

Xu Beifang was still pretending to be a "wall-facer" when he saw the kill information in the upper right corner constantly refreshing.

He was instantly silent.

Where are my teammates? Where are my 4 big teammates?

The time was 1 minute 10 seconds, and he had to face this 1v5 head-on post-plant scenario.

At this moment, he suddenly heard a flashbang explode in the Banana Road, and Xu Beifang immediately strafed to the left.

In his field of vision was a CT who was clearing points. Xu Beifang had already prepared his pre-aim; he stood behind the stone slab just to guard against this wave of counter-flashing.

He sprayed and fired directly.

"A 5v1 numerical advantage, the CT chose to proactively counter-flash in the B site, but nice was already prepared, pre-judged your counter-flash, strafed out, and instantly hit flamie." Wanjiqi took a breath. "nice got a kill without injury, turning the 1v5 post-plant into a 1v4. Hmm, the difficulty is still very high."

"And the bomb was knocked off in the middle early on. Even though he still has a smoke grenade he can use, this bomb is still not easy to pick up."

Wanjiqi's words were not alarmist.

4 against 1, NaVi crushed Vitality in numbers.

And because the bomb was knocked off in A1, the initiative was still in NaVi's hands. They just needed to watch this bomb and not let Xu Beifang pick it up.

The moment flamie was killed, Zeus also confirmed the last terrorist was in the Banana Road.

"Did the bomb drop?" he asked, looking at the position of the C4 on the mini-map.

"Hmm, it dropped in A1, this bomb can be guarded." s1mple said.

Hearing this, Zeus went directly toward the A site.

Since it could be guarded, then they just needed to gather together.

nice's form on this map was surprisingly good; it was better not to let him have too many opportunities to operate.

They quickly returned to the A site and then set up a reasonably rational positioning.

Edward stood in the boiler room to scout information inside A2, and Electronic held the connector directly in the pit.

s1mple held the middle directly with his big sniper, and Zeus held the connector directly at the corner of the boiler room, which could also serve the role of helping s1mple cover at any time.

They just held their positions, waiting for the sound of victory at the moment the time ended.

Xu Beifang still wanted to operate a bit, because the opponent's economy wasn't very good either. If he could kill a few more, then NaVi's economy wouldn't be able to operate, and there would still be opportunities to score later.

Then he glanced at his inventory.

Main weapon: AK47

Secondary weapon: Desert Eagle

Melee weapon: Butterfly Knife

Utility: Smoke grenade, flashbang

HP: 92

There was still quite a lot of room to operate.

Xu Beifang threw a flashbang toward the Banana Road, then walked back to the terrorist spawn with big strides, and immediately peeked at A1 very carefully, guarding against s1mple's big sniper.

However, his series of actions was also "fighting wits and courage with the air."

He didn't see NaVi make any moves.

Clearly, they also understood that their economy wasn't high, and they couldn't lose too many firearms.

Xu Beifang probed at the close point of the middle and didn't find anyone standing in those unconventional positions holding directly.

The time was already 48 seconds left; there wasn't much time left for him to operate.

He calmed down, took a deep breath to adjust his rhythm, and jumped onto the VIP with a spin jump.

"Someone is on the VIP!" several people in NaVi's voice chat shouted in unison.

Even though Xu Beifang was using techniques to jump onto the VIP, NaVi's trio was very close to the VIP and could still hear the sound of pant legs bending.

However, they didn't make any special movements, just focused their attention on the VIP.

"They've already noticed this wave." Ma Xixi looked at the change in Edward's crosshair position, his face full of difficulty.

"nice is still probing forward. Will he anticipate that someone is holding directly in the boiler room? Because there is no information, this position is not easy to clear."

Wanjiqi also shook his head on the side; this wave indeed had no chance.

Now they could only see if Xu Beifang realized someone was standing in the boiler room and if he could trade one.

Although he was an outstanding Banana Road player, Xu Beifang didn't only know how to play the Banana Road.

His experience in VP made him no stranger to the A2 floor position.

Controlling his position, he first shook the T-junction of A2.

The VIP position usually requires someone to coordinate, and he alone could only use this "scouting" posture to face the enemy.

"Da da da..."

The moment he shook his body, the gunshot rang out from the left, but fortunately, his position control was excellent, and he didn't lose too much health.

"Someone is in the VIP!" Edward said, and then didn't speak anymore, because the first wave of back-shooting didn't pin him down, and he wasn't easy to move in the boiler room.

Xu Beifang didn't plan to let him go; he came to find trouble with NaVi, and he wouldn't let go of the opportunity to get a kill.

The moment he shrank back, Xu Beifang strafed out to the right again, and he had already prepared in his heart, firing with a pre-shot directly.

"Bang!"

【nice used an AK47 to headshot kill Edward】

The moment he killed Edward, Xu Beifang proactively probed the middle. He felt there should still be people at the close point, but the opponent didn't cover at the first opportunity, so he had to create some space for the opponent.

Xu Beifang pressed the R key and then instantly switched to the Desert Eagle.

Zeus wanted to cover at the first opportunity, but Edward was killed too quickly.

By the time he reacted, he felt nice was already prepared.

But suddenly, Zeus heard the sound of reloading in the boiler room. He couldn't hold it anymore and directly rushed into the boiler room with his gun.

"nice successfully killed Edward, but the common problem of FPS players... reloading... sigh, it's not 'reloading cancer'!" Ma Xixi explained excitedly. "This is a wave of information misdirection. nice used the sound of reloading to attract Zeus over to cover, and then used the Desert Eagle to kill Zeus!"

Xu Beifang's kill made the mood of the live audience feel like a roller coaster.

At first, seeing nice kill one instantly, they were instantly happy and started cheering.

Immediately after seeing him reload at such a time, they even had the mood to scold him.

Only then did they discover that it wasn't reloading, but an information game between pro players.

The situation was constantly changing, making their moods fluctuate accordingly.

When they saw Xu Beifang reloading, they just thought it was simple "reloading cancer." Who could have thought he wanted to use the Desert Eagle to hit people.

And, normal people wouldn't think of using this way to operate.

This was too confident, giving up a perfectly good rifle and proactively using the Desert Eagle to operate.

But they had to admit, Xu Beifang succeeded.

The bold operation gained him another kill.

The moment Xu Beifang killed Zeus, there was also a small episode.

That was s1mple subconsciously shooting a shot toward the source of the gunshot.

This was also s1mple's normal playstyle; he was a sniper who liked to wall-bang.

As s1mple's fans, they could always see s1mple wall-banging various objects.

Whenever he got a kill, fans would always kindly give the reputation of 【VAC】.

"Two kills in a row, nice still has 34 HP left, the post-plant has also reached 1v2, time is 30 seconds, is it possible that there is an opportunity to operate this wave?"

"Not necessarily, s1mple is still holding the boiler room directly from A1, Electronic is helping him hold the A2 floor, he only needs to watch the boiler room in this position." Wanjiqi analyzed. "Unless nice can kill s1mple in this extremely passive position in the boiler room while holding the pre-aim, then there is still a sliver of life."

When everyone realized this 1v5 post-plant had a chance to win, their breathing became heavier, and their eyes stared at the screen.

But Wanjiqi's analysis was indeed very reasonable in their view.

The boiler room was a very passive position because of the principle of "near big, far small." People peeking from the boiler room would expose their bodies first. In this wave of confrontation, it meant s1mple, who was holding the gun in advance, could kill him before nice even gained vision.

s1mple in the screen made a simple adjustment, sticking to the wall with his crosshair holding the boiler room directly, ensuring he could run back while missing the shot.

"A1 has a big sniper, and Electronic should be near the pit watching the A2 floor." ZywOo reminded in the voice chat.

Xu Beifang nodded to indicate he understood. After getting the information, it was even easier for him to handle.

He didn't proactively go to the boiler room to find trouble with s1mple, but moved backward silently and then came to the railing of the VIP, starting to aim.

This was a technique he learned in the "Silent Movement Mastery," called—Silent VIP Drop.

"nice is moving backward, there really isn't much time left, and he has also killed several of the opponent's long guns, saving the gun is a good choice... Hmm? What is he doing?" Ma Xixi's statement was slightly cautious; after all, nice's strange techniques had slapped his face many times.

Then the next second, he saw Xu Beifang fall from the VIP railing, and then as if the network was lagging, he fell down from the VIP platform in jerks.

Importantly, during the whole process, he didn't make any sound!

"Can you go down silently here too???" Ma Xixi said in astonishment.

The director also directly gave the camera to s1mple. s1mple's crosshair was still holding the boiler room and didn't make any movements.

The live audience gasped instantly, scaring s1mple into shaking his whole body, and he hurriedly changed his position again. He was worried that nice would use the audience's cheers to confirm his position and hit a pre-shot.

"This nice is really here to take the postgraduate entrance exam for CS: GO. This silent VIP drop directly entered s1mple's information blind spot!" Ma Xixi said with some expectation. "Is it possible that there is an opportunity to operate this wave?"

Wanjiqi added: "nice sneaked up from the middle silently, he peeked half-body, didn't expose any sound, s1mple's sniper rifle barrel is leaking!!"

"nice touched the close point of A1, has already picked up the bomb, but he still wants to deal with s1mple first!"

Xu Beifang looked at s1mple who was holding the sniper at the corner, and directly let go of his footsteps to run and gun to his face.

"Da da da!"

【nice used an AK47 to kill s1mple】

s1mple was very seriously holding the boiler room. After a long while, not seeing the opponent's trace, he proactively came to hold the middle, avoiding nice walking the spiral stairs to rotate through the middle.

Although doing so was a bit "sick," he felt nice's playstyle was like a "sick" guy.

He was still moving to adjust his crosshair, the crosshair was empty, when he suddenly saw someone holding an AK47 in his peripheral vision and stabbing it into his face.

s1mple's attention was already highly concentrated, and his whole body was scared into shaking, his face turning a few shades paler.

"nice is in A1!" s1mple hurriedly reported the position to his teammates.

But Xu Beifang, who got the kill, had already taken the bomb and was charging toward B with his knife out.

"nice killed s1mple! The 1v5 post-plant has become 1v1, but with 19 seconds left, can he really reach the B site?" Wanjiqi's tone was very expectant.

Among the FaZe members off-stage, NiKo and rain watched this time and remained silent.

Across the ocean, in MOUZ's training base, Karrigan, who was chatting with his little brothers, also fell into silence.

They all thought of an unbearable past at the same time.

So—

With 20 seconds left, can he really complete the rotation?

Electronic waited in the pit for a few seconds and soon reacted that the opponent was going to rotate.

At this time, he also hurriedly switched to his knife and ran toward the B site.

This was a race against time.

The venue was silent, and everyone was nervously watching the movements of both sides in the screen.

The discussion in the live stream was overwhelming, and the snow-like barrage filled the screen, making people have to increase the shielding level to see some information clearly.

They were all looking forward to the birth of a top-tier classic scene.

Xu Beifang charged past the stone slab with his knife out, and the time above his head had turned red.

The scene was silent, but he was inexplicably dry-mouthed, his heartbeat accelerating.

Until the moment he entered the one-box, Xu Beifang switched to the C4, jumped into the bomb site, and started planting the bomb.

"Time is running out, 6, 5, 4!!!!"

At this moment, the shouting at the scene had already rung out!

Because they knew nice had already fought for a 1v1 opportunity for himself. As long as he won this last duel, then inside this Baoshan Gymnasium, they would witness the birth of a classic 1v5!

"nice planted the bomb! He jumped directly to the three-box, he is still proactively peeking to find people to duel, he only has low health, he must kill Electronic instantly!" Wanjiqi said quickly. "Electronic sneaked over from the police station, he is still clearing the church, found no one in the church, so he can only speed up. After all, Electronic doesn't have a defuse kit."

Xu Beifang proactively peeked to the right, didn't see anyone in the police station, and then proactively looked at the left side.

The "fly head" in his field of vision was looking at the Banana Road direction, and his peripheral vision also saw him and was turning toward this direction.

Xu Beifang's crosshair had already completed the adjustment, and he clicked the mouse lightly with his left button.

"Strafed out from the three-box... nice!!!"

Everyone in the venue widened their eyes, watching Xu Beifang with low health behind the three-box, proactively peeking to the left, then crouching and pulling the trigger, a bullet shooting toward Electronic who was turning around.

"Bang!"

A crisp and neat gunshot, the bullet accurately hit Electronic's head.

It also seemed like an invisible heavy hammer, instantly smashing into everyone's heart.

The originally noisy Baoshan Gymnasium became much quieter because of this scene, but it was only for a moment...

The next second, huge cheers erupted from the Baoshan Gymnasium.

The audience's collective shouting made the entire venue shake.

Danking off-stage fully exerted his intellectual power, staring at the screen with wide eyes, his mouth constantly shouting "WTF."

And similar sounds in the venue were not few; everyone was using their own way to express their surprise at this post-plant scenario.

You have to know this is 1v5!!

In an S-tier tournament, a 1v5 that is hard to produce even once a year!

Under this exaggerated situation, it seemed only this kind of pure profanity could express the surprise in their hearts.

And Ma Xixi, who had received professional training, didn't freeze, but raised his tone and shouted loudly: "Onetap! nice succeeded, a 1v5 head-on post-plant, friends, come out and see God!!"

Wanjiqi added: "At this moment, this man with the ID 'nice', he is the God of the StarSeries! This man used a 1v5 post-plant to win the most critical round of the first half for Vitality!"

"This is too outrageous, brothers. From the group stage to the playoffs to the finals, we have seen s1mple produce countless eye-catching operations, and also seen the miracles created by Vitality's Gemini stars."

"But I can still say, this point is the most spectacular round we've seen in the StarSeries, no one else!"

And on the player stage, Xu Beifang, who won this post-plant, had his right hand trembling uncontrollably due to the surge of adrenaline.

He immediately shouted to the back: "Coach, call a timeout!"

After saying this, Xu Beifang looked at the shouting faces in the venue, looked at the Vitality flags waving.

He wanted to appear indifferent, but in the end, he couldn't help it, looking up and laughing loudly.

1v5!

This was the first 1v5 he created!

This feeling of challenging the limit was truly too good!

He turned his head to look at his teammates who were either excited or in a daze, and smiled: "Can't believe it, brothers, I successfully won this key round, I really love CS: GO so much!!"

As long as time hasn't stopped, everything is possible in CS: GO.

xtqzzz, who was in a daze, only then reacted and hurriedly said to the referee: "Referee, tactical timeout."

The referee reminded: "NaVi has already called a timeout."

Only then did they look at NaVi on the other side of the stage.

NaVi in the match room all had "collapsed faces."

They didn't know where the problem was?

From his own perspective, Zeus also found no big problem.

5 against 1 and being wiped out by nice alone, it sounded funny.

But the problem was, none of them felt they had made any big mistakes.

flamie died in a counter-flash.

Edward was killed after being caught from behind.

He himself was tricked while covering.

s1mple was even more helpless, not even knowing why nice appeared on his right side; he couldn't understand how the opponent reached that position.

Electronic, in the end, simply had bad timing and was headshot by nice.

If you want to say their discipline wasn't good, say they proactively sought people and were killed, they would admit it.

But this...

Zeus opened the scoreboard and looked at nice, who already had 26 kills in 13 rounds.

He suddenly smiled with relief.

Calling a tactical timeout didn't do any good for NaVi.

In the following few rounds, they didn't get a single point, and the final score of the first half was fixed at 11:4.

After a two-minute halftime break, NaVi finally adjusted their mindset, hoping to get the rhythm back in the second half confrontation.

But in the pistol round of the second half, shox killed three of them the moment he saw them in the A site, and NaVi's pistol round collapsed instantly.

Anyone with eyes could see that since that 1v5, the feel of both sides had changed drastically.

NaVi's head-on marksmanship began to have problems, while Vitality's defense was orderly.

After nice entered the defensive end, he continued his hot feel in the Banana Road, basically locking onto people the moment he saw them, making them shout again and again off-stage, and their throats became a bit dry for a while.

It wasn't until Vitality reached match point that NaVi awakened the "won't play until match point" bloodline.

s1mple and Electronic, in a passive situation at the start, played a 2v4 post-plant in the A site, gaining the first point of the second half for NaVi.

But before the NaVi fans could be happy for a few seconds, ZywOo's big sniper roared out a quadruple kill in the A site defense, directly blocking NaVi's offense outside the bomb site.

The remaining flamie was also unable to support the situation alone and lost the last point hastily.

The score for this Inferno was finally fixed at 16:5.

The big score came to 1:1, and both sides were tied, returning to the same starting line again.

Let's talk about yesterday's chapter. Yesterday, it really wasn't handled well; there was too much description of the opponent, and the plot setting here wasn't done well. This is my problem, and I'm truly sorry. This is my first time trying this.

As for what some readers said about the protagonist having no performance, I set it up as NaVi targeting him. And even in the peak period of ZywOo and nice, they would occasionally have times when they were invisible, right? As for learning more and more but playing worse and worse, guys, it's just one map. Look at a player of Ji Ge's level, who even played a 0.06 rating. My previous thought was that under the targeted special tactics of the opponent, ZywOo and Xu Beifang's performance was temporarily not that good. After all, the overall proficiency of this map isn't high, and there aren't that many things. Hmm—this can be discussed rationally, let's just leave it like this for now. ===== CHAPTER 270 =====