Chapter 399: The beginning of the off-season

Li Wen sat on the sofa in the Vitality base, quietly looking at his phone.

"I didn't expect Astralis to say good things about you guys after the match. I thought they would say it was just bad form or something after the Major ended."

JackZ, who was holding coffee, walked over curiously, "There's such a thing, let me see."

He leaned his big head toward Li Wen. Li Wen handed his phone over.

The content in the picture is a video interview that gla1ve accepted.

The host's topic was a bit sharp: "gla1ve, this is the first time Astralis has fallen in the finals. How are you feeling now?"

Jack felt that this reporter must have some illness. Who would reveal someone's scars as soon as they interview them?

However, Jack's bad taste is very strong. He has won the championship for many days, and he is not so hostile to Astralis, but his impression cannot be changed so quickly.

gla1ve in the video froze for a moment, but quickly adjusted and answered: "It feels very bad. After all, we were aiming for the defending champion. We really wanted to prove to everyone that we still have the ability to win the Major."

Xu Beifang took a bottle of Coke from the refrigerator, and it was so refreshing after one sip.

But most people who can walk the path of CSGO professional have some dreams in their hearts.

Jack raised his eyebrows: "I understand this point. The coach often told us that confidence doesn't come from the void, it's fought out through victory after victory. Astralis won too much before and was a bit arrogant."

But gla1ve's interview is still very fan-attracting.

The interviewer continued to ask: "Then the Major has been over for 4 days, do you have any thoughts on that match now?"

Jack nodded and continued to watch.

Quite a few players have had that kind of feeling: the match was lost, but there was no real feeling.

gla1ve answered: "I'm sorry, our performance this time disappointed you. Our performance in this Major was not as good as before, but it was also because the members of Astralis lost some motivation."

So he must wait and see, and pick a group of teammates whose character and strength are qualified.

gla1ve was silent for a while, and then said: "However, we only gave device a terrible birthday."

He who is no longer inflated can truly afford the title of world's number one commander.

Li Wen was originally a Major runner-up commander. Whether it is ability or strength, it is impossible not to have plans to go further.

"Now we have found our opponent, our hearts have goals again. Next, Vitality will forge a dynasty path, we won't let them succeed so easily."

Xu Beifang walked in from outside and teased: "gla1ve's harsh words sound like coquetry."

Xu Beifang kicked Jack's shoe lightly: "What are you talking about? Commanders are indeed not lacking work, but the difficulty of finding a good team is very high."

After the Major ended, Li Wen originally planned to return to Finland, but G2 got Li Wen's contact information through Xu Beifang, and they took the initiative to invite Li Wen for a trial.

Li Wen shook his head: "Although I don't like Astralis very much, this is indeed a true expression."

"Don't worry, if you can't decide, you can also let us give you some advice." Xu Beifang said to Li Wen, "You know, I know quite a few people in the circle, and I can provide you with some suggestions."

"Both sides were quite fully prepared in this final, this is beyond doubt."

Li Wen looked at this scene and felt it was hard to hold back. The post-match interview of the semifinals, gla1ve said he would give device a big birthday gift, but now it seems that this birthday gift must be a bit terrible.

"I think the instructions I gave in the small town were all good, but in the 29th round, because of my omission..." gla1ve was silent again, "As you can see, Nice played a picture destined to be recorded in CSGO history, but the result could have been different."

Perhaps Team Astralis never realized this; what they took for granted as a top-tier team was already making other teams uncomfortable.

Indeed, gla1ve's aggressiveness needs to be strengthened.

"Actually, when I just lost the finals, I only had anger in my heart. I thought we shouldn't have played such a poor performance." gla1ve sighed, "What really made me feel painful was after the Major ended, seeing a familiar fan change to Vitality's avatar. At that moment, I felt sadness surge from the bottom of my heart."

Li Wen laughed listening to this.

"By the way, how was your trial at G2?" Xu Beifang asked.

"We tried our best, but unfortunately, our performance was not good enough." gla1ve said here and took a breath, "I don't think my performance in this BO3 was good enough. Some instructions I gave were great, but some rounds I also think I made mistakes. But you have to know, the style of each team is different, so it's hard to make specific judgments through information."

"However, I'm not in a hurry, I still have to consider during the off-season."

Li Wen looked at gla1ve's answer and couldn't help laughing: "I still like gla1ve's interview before the finals, how domineering."

Li Wen combed his blonde hair to the back of his head, "Should be nothing, G2 has a commander nexa, they are not that lacking in commanders, they might just want to try something."

The CSGO schedule is tight and the rhythm is intense.

Truly feeling failure is a small thing not long after, and the emotion of failure surges.

Immediately after, the reporter asked the last question:

"Then do you have anything you want to say to Astralis fans?"

When saying this, gla1ve's eyes revealed a faint disappointment.

Jack nodded: "Indeed no need to worry, commanders don't lack work anyway."

The reporter continued to ask: "Then can we talk about that final? Quite a few friends want to hear your views on that final as the parties involved."

If it's just for work, every transfer period commanders can find work.

The interview officially ended.

Li Wen nodded. In this final, both sides were very active in terms of targeting opponents and some adjustments before the match.

In the match, his ability in command was maxed out. Outside the match, he was humble, praised his opponents, and could take all the responsibility on himself.

"I only realized at that moment that we lost the Major—"

"I understand this, after all, he is a famous social socialite." Li Wen said with a smile.

Quite a few teams have contacted Li Wen through Xu Beifang's path. He has a certain understanding of Xu Beifang's connections.

"But it's really fast, another transfer period is here." Li Wen said with great emotion.

Last transfer period, he and his ENCE teammates were watching and analyzing these messages, eating melons in various ways.

Didn't expect this time, he also became the content of others eating melons.

"Beifang, when are you leaving?" Li Wen turned and asked.

"The plane this afternoon, have to leave in two hours."

"I think it's about the same, the work is all over, if I don't leave, this vacation will be gone."

Speaking of this, Xu Beifang looked painful: "Still work, went to talk about some work yesterday, almost made my blood pressure explode."

Li Wen raised his eyebrows: "Is this something I can listen to?"

He is a guest after all, not a member of Vitality.

"It's fine, I'll say something you can listen to." Xu Beifang shared with Li Wen, "Our boss Neo drew a big cake before, saying that all expenses in Berlin are paid by him, but in the end, the cost of the trophy is not paid."

"Does the Major trophy cost money?" Li Wen indicated he had no championship experience and didn't know about this at all.

Xu Beifang quickly explained to him.

Li Wen also understood.

There is only one Major trophy each year. This trophy is generally left in the club, and if the players want it themselves, they have to communicate with the event group and spend money to find a factory that makes the trophy to customize a replica.

"How much is the replica? Your big boss doesn't reimburse you for this?"

"5000 US dollars."

Li Wen couldn't hold it: "I said so, the five of you together is 25,000 US dollars, this expense is indeed quite a lot."

Xu Beifang shook his head: "This money is not small, not big, mainly because Neo is stingy, do you understand?"

For Neo's way of being stingy and pretending to be very generous every time, he expressed great speechlessness.

But fortunately, he gave himself a raise yesterday, which is the only consolation.

Saying this, Xu Beifang leaned on the sofa and closed his eyes.

The plane back to the country at night, all his things were packed, and the work at the club was arranged. There was nothing else to do next.

The impact after the Major ended spread bit by bit, and Xu Beifang also slowly accepted the fact that he had become a Major champion.

After being free, he remembered that he still had a system task to claim.

【Drop!】

【Suggestion task: Become a Major champion, difficulty 8 stars, after completion can get an S+ level treasure chest...】

【Task completed...】

【Distributing S+ level treasure chest (Major champion special edition)...】

"Whether to open the treasure chest?"

"Yes!"

【Treasure chest opened...】

【Congratulations to the host for Listen-to-Advice Value +259805...】

【Congratulations to the host for obtaining the instance space - Heroism. PS: Is the ending of the story really important?】

Xu Beifang looked down all the way. This Major didn't seem to give him much harvest.

He actually didn't care that much, because he is now one of the most outstanding professional players in the world, and he already has a set of his own playing style system.

Once individual ability reaches the peak, it's not that easy to improve further.

So this 250,000 Listen-to-Advice Value doesn't mean much to him, but rather the role that the subsequent instance space might bring him.

Heroism?

This name made Xu Beifang a bit strange, because it looks relatively obscure, unlike the instances he drew before that were so straightforward.

After all, before 【Unlimited Deathmatch】, 【Dissecting the Danes】, 【One-Man Guards the Pass】, and even the 【Gods and Ghosts】 he got not long ago, at least he could vaguely guess something.

But this Heroism still made Xu Beifang unable to grasp it.

Since he can't grasp it, then go feel it.

"Whether to enter the instance - Heroism?"

"Yes!"

The picture in front of him shattered, and he came to the familiar simulation space again, but this time, there were some floating modules around him, and some introductions were also written on them.

Xu Beifang reached out and clicked the one in front of him.

【Zeus's Fall】

Look to the left.

【Boston Nightmare】

Xu Beifang raised his eyebrows, he probably understood something, and looked to the right twice.

【The Price of Aggression】

Look to the right again - 【Fall of the Dynasty】

At Fall of the Dynasty, the entire border is green, and Xu Beifang's attention is focused on it, showing that it has been cleared.

Look back - 【Prince's Betrayal】

He seems to understand, this instance space seems to be talking about the battle situation of the Major over the years.

Why is 【Fall of the Dynasty】 displayed as cleared? Isn't it because they just smashed Astralis in Berlin, making this dynasty of Astralis fall?

Xu Beifang thought for a while and clicked on 【The Price of Aggression】.

【The Price of Aggression. Description: Aggression is the best knife, but if there is no knife edge storage, it may hurt itself.】

The next second, he appeared in an arena.

Memory went from blurry to familiar, and he quickly recalled - this is the Spodek Arena in Katowice.

The noise at the scene was constant, what appeared in front of him was the picture in the match, and in his ears was the excited shouting of the English stream commentators.

The map is Mirage, and the score is 13:13.

When NAVI used their slow attack to advance to the A area, they were stuck in the bomb site by ENCE using a very steady method, which made NAVI very anxious.

They urgently wanted to get kills to win this clutch.

"S1mple's AWP held off the CT rotating back from the spawn, but sergej and xseveN at the phone booth killed everyone else, leaving only S1mple alone to face this 1V4 clutch!"

"S1mple's AWP held off Li Wen, there isn't much time left, but he switched to an AK, and a burst directly pierced the CT behind the spawn!"

"This person is completely at another level, he can still plant the bomb! He threw a flashbang, got the position of the last CT, this is enough for him, he picked up the most trusted AWP again, but what is the price!"

"AWP repeek! No!"

Even if he saw this clutch again, Xu Beifang still felt regret for S1mple. This wave was indeed too regrettable.

S1mple's playing style was aggressive, but the aggressive playing style made him lose that shot that shouldn't have been lost.

Watching the regrettable picture appear again, Xu Beifang couldn't help but feel sentimental.

But the next second, the system popped up a prompt:

【Please choose your player!】

The fixed makeup photos of several people from 2018 NAVI floated in front of Xu Beifang.

Xu Beifang thought for a while. Since it is S1mple's regret, let's try to see if he can complete it from the sniper's perspective.

He quickly came to S1mple's perspective.

Originally from his perspective, he had already known the plot direction in advance, and he could easily play some sniper shots of the prediction type.

But when he really entered the game, it was completely different.

Don't know if it was the system's effect, he only remembered the information passed to him by his teammates.

After advancing silently, Xu Beifang entered the A bomb site carrying the AWP.

There wasn't much time left, he shouted in the voice: "Hold the spawn, I'll plant the bomb directly at the spawn, don't let them disturb me!"

Saying this, Xu Beifang planted a short box bomb.

The bomb was successfully planted, but Electronic and the others were also killed by the opponent.

Entered a very difficult 1V4 clutch.

Xu Beifang just finished planting the bomb and immediately held the spawn.

The enemy on the right side of the spawn peeked out, and Xu Beifang's AWP fired instantly.

"-Bang!"

The AWP hit allu's chest and took away his life.

But what made him suffocated was that xseveN next to the phone booth also pulled out. He just fired the AWP, and now he is in the stiffness of pulling the bolt.

Xu Beifang jumped toward the dead point as much as possible, but was pierced to death by the opponent's AUG in the air.

Watching the picture of the opponent quietly defusing the bomb, Xu Beifang sighed.

Sure enough, even if he changed to that position, it was not so easy to win.

He was on the scene at this moment, and was also full of pressure by ENCE's props, with no room to fight back, and the timing for operation was too little.

Added to his understanding of the AWP not being as outstanding as S1mple's, his grasp of the position and the timing of the AWP shot was not very good, leading to not winning the clutch.

Xu Beifang didn't simulate again immediately, but reviewed his own operations in his mind.

What made his eyes light up was that the moment he had this idea, the picture of the round he just played appeared in front of him.

He analyzed whether his own operations and the processing of NAVI at the time were wrong when he had certain information in the duel.

In fact, in high-intensity confrontation, compared to the problems in individual processing, team decision-making is more fatal.

For example, in this round, the timing of planting the bomb was problematic.

Before planting the bomb, he should have reduced the opponent's personnel first, or rushed to the spawn first to occupy the spawn position.

And there is the decision-making error in the early stage, which led to huge pressure in the later stage.

NAVI's advancing formation playing style is overall too slow, which leads to very little space for operation in the clutch.

If they pushed through and managed to create a man-count advantage, they could very comfortably handle the retake.

Added to the opponent's props might be used up in the middle and late stages, their overall advantage would be very big.

But if they couldn't get kills in the head-on exchange, it would be very headache-inducing.

Different systems have their worries. Only by being in it can the perception be deeper.

Sure enough, they still had stereotypes about this playing style before. Slow constipation attacks also have benefits, but the premise is that props exchange can win against the opponent, and head-on duels can win.

And, in the use of sniper rifles, he is indeed lacking compared to the top-tier.

The arrival of this instance is an unexpected joy.

"Wow!!" He wandered in the simulation instance for quite a while, and heard Jack exclaim as soon as he came out, "Is the big news of A-Long coming?"

Li Wen, who was brushing his phone on the side, looked at him surprisingly.

"War God left the team." He gestured to Xu Beifang, "That is NEO, he was kicked by Faze, and not only that, Guardian also ran away, he ran to NAVI."

shox, who just walked into the room, widened his eyes instantly: "So exciting, then who will play the commander and sniper for Faze next?"

Xu Beifang laughed: "NIKO, right? He has been a commander and a sniper, isn't this position just right?"

Originally hearing NIKO, shox was also shocked, but soon he heard that Xu Beifang was talking nonsense.

Xu Beifang picked up the Coke on the table and took another sip, then shouted: "Give you a wave of big news of A-Long, Faze is in contact with Coldzera, and they also found a young player, this new galaxy battleship is going to have a big blood change."

"Young player, who?"

"Broky."

The room was silent for a while, and shox said after a while: "Can this guy really play first-tier?"

Broky is quite famous in the circle. After all, this guy's perspective is really like a cheat.

Props are thrown randomly, pre-aiming is casual, and timing is outrageous.

Covering the ID can directly point to the unquestionable principle.

Xu Beifang smiles: "Be more tolerant, and NIKO's person, have some confidence in him."

Not to mention anything else, NIKO's vision is still very terrifying. Quite a few tomorrow's stars he valued have made a name for themselves on the field.

shox took a breath: "A bit terrifying, if it's really like what you said, this new battleship's combat power looks very strong!"

He turned to look at Xu Beifang: "We want to win the Grand Slam smoothly next, the difficulty is a bit big!"

Li Wen took the conversation on the side: "I'm still here, so confident? Be careful I smash you guys after the off-season!"

Xu Beifang saw the bald coach waving to him at the door. He immediately picked up the luggage that had been prepared at the door, and then waved to the people in the room:

"Then brothers, see you after the off-season!"

... ===== CHAPTER 400 =====