Chapter 33

Xu Beifang rode his beloved little electric scooter to the supermarket and bought more than two catties of beef, a bunch of tomorrow-see, and also bought a few bottles of soda and half a watermelon. The checkout cost him 124 yuan in total.

This consumption was still very high, but today, whether it was for his birthday or finally getting a professional invitation letter, it was worth celebrating.

After buying the vegetables for lunch, Xu Beifang asked the young lady at the checkout:

"Let me ask, is there a gym in our county?"

Strictly speaking, Xu Beifang was a countryman. Before going to university, he didn't go to the county town much and knew nothing about the news in the county town. It was better to ask the locals about these things.

"It seems that a swimming pool opened in the old town area two months ago, but I haven't heard of a gym."

Xu Beifang thanked the young lady, paid the money, put the things on the little electric scooter, and wandered around the county town twice, still without finding any signs of a gym.

"Forget it, it seems this plan has to be shelved for now."

This was just a small episode, Xu Beifang didn't have much disappointment, because he had received VP's invitation, and his heart was already filled with ecstasy.

But he also had a question in his heart, which was why VP would suddenly invite him? And perform so eagerly, it shouldn't be like this logically.

Even if his performance today was very good, it needed to go through the process step by step, observe for a period of time, and then invite to participate in a trial. This was the conventional path from a random king to professional.

No matter how he thought about it, he couldn't figure it out. Xu Beifang threw this question out of his mind, returned home, started washing vegetables, and started preparing lunch.

After Xu Beifang left the voice chat, the VP four-stack didn't continue the ladder match. No one spoke, and the voice chat fell into a cold silence.

"Pasha, are you a bit too eager? You don't even need a trial? It's too absurd!" Neo's voice broke the silence in the voice chat. He questioned Pasha in confusion.

Although the performance of the new team member was indeed poor, they had also had the idea of changing people in their hearts, but Pasha played a few ranking matches today and suddenly determined the personnel, which was really hard for them to accept.

"We still have time..."

"There's no time!" Pasha interrupted Neo. Without his usual gentleness and heartiness, his tone was serious. "Since the beginning of the year, the team's results have been continuously declining! The management already has opinions about us. If this continues, VP's future is worrying!"

Byali added: "It shouldn't be that bad, right? The management just likes to talk. Didn't the gossip about disbanding the team come out last time? Later, it was left unsettled."

"If the results continue like this, the news that VP is going to disband can become real!" Pasha said, "Don't you understand that the gossip was released by the management to test us?"

"CS: GO is already a very old project. We haven't achieved results, and VP's CS: GO division has been losing money. The management is making ends meet. Do you think they will be willing to continue investing?"

Although he came from the bottom, Pasha saw these interest-related things very clearly.

The management released the gossip mainly to test their wind direction and also to give everyone a psychological cushion.

If the results are good later, there is a possibility of continuing. If the results are not good, they can logically disband it.

The others in the voice chat also fell silent. In the end, passion belongs to these people.

For the club, it is more of an interest relationship, they are just working.

"Haven't you noticed that in the last month, the manager of our division hasn't communicated much with us? They are already disappointed in us now, don't expect us to achieve good results, just waiting for an opportunity to disband us."

Neo was persuaded by Pasha, but still asked stubbornly: "Then what about Morelz? We change him without communicating with him? That's not very good."

Neo, who has the name of the God of War, is not a person who likes to come into contact with new things, or perhaps he is older and more nostalgic.

Although Morelz hasn't been here for a long time, at least he is more familiar than 'nice', whom he has only been in contact with for a morning.

"Let nice join as a substitute for now. As for the trial you mentioned, you should have actually discovered that in those few team matches, I have been letting him play Morelz's position. The match against Astralis also let me see this guy's ability."

In that ladder match crashing into Astralis, both sides fought with real fire later, and all professional means were used.

It's just a pity that the VP members' state declined seriously, and the shooting skills declined a bit when it came to overtime.

Pasha said: "nice is very strong in the front! Don't forget, this guy is playing ladder with us with a ping of 130. This is definitely a FACEIT random king-level player. He hasn't ranked on the list now, just because the number of matches is not enough!"

"What about the management?" Byali said the question everyone cared about most.

Pasha smiled self-deprecatingly: "Now all their thoughts are on PUBG, they don't even care about our recent training. For this kind of selection problem, as long as we all agree, the manager won't refute... We are about to retire. I had a conflict with him before, and he has always been afraid that I would find an opportunity to beat him up, so he will agree."

The fire of PUBG has become a phenomenal game in the FPS category. It is a heavy blow to CS: GO. Quite a few teams and players in the circle who can't make it have transferred to 'eating chicken', hoping to make achievements in this new project that is hot on the whole network. VP's manager now also has this idea.

Neo was silent for several breaths, and finally said.

"Then do you think nice will be the person to help us get out of the predicament?"

"... I don't know either." Pasha wanted to give his old friend a positive answer, but in fact, he was also confused in his heart.

A random king in the ladder, even if the stats shown are good, and the performance in the barely trial just now is also good, but can he really change the team's predicament?

You know, the Morelz we want to replace now didn't perform poorly at the beginning.

After a while, Neo's hearty laughter came from the voice chat: "If you say so, I'm relieved. If you were 100% sure, I really wouldn't believe you."

"Just treat him as our last gamble before retiring! And, we don't necessarily need young people to shine. He only needs to be a normal-level player. Relying on ourselves, VP can still achieve results!"

"So just like what Piggy said, Pasha, play less eating chicken in the next few months!"

As a legendary player active from the 1.6 era to the present, Neo also has his own pride. He doesn't want to believe or accept letting a newcomer save the team from fire and water.

As long as the newcomer's performance isn't like Morelz's negative record every game, they still have the possibility of regaining their former glory!

At the same time, Xu Beifang finished the stir-fried beef he cooked.

After moving around in the village, he returned home and prepared to start formal training and grinding with VP.

When he touched the mouse, he inexplicably remembered a passage:

Dear Egg, seeing the words is like meeting. I have already obtained my professional ticket on FACEIT and am about to board the professional stage. Presumably, you will also shine in Tyloo's youth training. Recalling the last time we met, you were still 1.3 meters tall. I hope that next time we fight, you can be as usual, waiting for me, your loving Beifang.

A bit late, because there's no saved manuscript, haha.

(End of chapter)