Chapter 446: Side Story 1: The Person Who Is Remembered While Alive

May 28, 2023, Sunday.

Suitable for: Sacrifices, prayers, bathing, shaving, seeking children...

Li Wen just finished a match of Sunset City on the Tianjin server. Amidst the "No, buddy" tone, they lost the match without any surprise.

The lethality of "No, buddy" was too great, forcing Li Wen to switch projects to pass the time.

As the first FPS game for many young people, Valorant is quite interesting, but with the increase in competitiveness and the difference in player levels, the overall environment has become quite uncomfortable.

Li Wen came to the neighboring CSGO to play casually under such circumstances.

CSGO can have such great popularity in China without special promotion, and even keep Valorant unable to lift its head, it really has some substance.

For example, chatting in casual mode is very interesting, without any pressure.

In this Mirage match, everyone was busy with their own things.

After a casual match, his whole mood improved a lot.

Just at this moment, his shoulder was patted. Li Wen turned his head and found that the person who came was his roommate Huang Yu, who was also a loyal CSGO player.

"Why not Valorant anymore?"

Li Wen shook his head: "How to Valorant, I was beaten to death."

As he spoke, he suddenly remembered the IDs in the casual mode just now and asked curiously: "By the way, is Nice a very powerful player? I just played a few casual matches, and in every match, I could see Nice himself from Team VP, Nice himself from Vitality, Nice himself from Col..."

"Oh~" Huang Yu smiled, "You're talking about Brother Beizi, he's definitely powerful. He's our country's number one player, and even one of the strongest players internationally."

"Brother Beizi?"

"Nice's real name is Xu Beifang." Huang Yu raised his eyebrows, "Not only that, he's also our senior?"

"Ah!" Li Wen said in surprise, "He's also from Xijiang University?"

Huang Yu nodded: "Brother Beizi studied at our school until his sophomore year, then had a sudden enlightenment and went directly to play professionally, and then went on a rampage, beating that group of professional players until they didn't know who they were."

This statement not only failed to clear Li Wen's confusion but made him even more confused.

Studied until sophomore year, then killed his way into the professional circle, and went on a rampage, crushing those foreign professional players?

What kind of confusing plot is this?

Web novel authors can't even write it, okay!

"Talent?"

Huang Yu shook his head: "There must be talent, he just cashed in on his talent."

As he spoke, he started flipping through his phone and found Xu Beifang's account on Bilibili. Nowadays, Xu Beifang is also a well-known figure in the entire gaming field, and he already has 4 million fans on Bilibili, which is exaggerated.

He flipped all the way down and soon found the record clips of Xu Beifang's early days.

"Spending more than ten hours a day on training, can you do it?"

Li Wen frowned: "If it's one or two days, it's not impossible."

"What if it's day after day?" Huang Yu said with a smile, "This guy is like this, using day-after-day training, using his hard work to cash in on his talent."

"He first joined VP, and then the old men in the lineup retired, so he joined Vitality, and with Vitality, he became the strongest team at the time in one year. In 2019, he led the team to a good result of 6 championships in one year."

Huang Yu asked a question here: "And do you know how strong they were at the time?"

"Tell me in detail."

"Brother Beizi was firing map cannons at the time, asking other teams to knock them off the first position, but other teams just couldn't beat them." Huang Yu thought back to those days of chasing matches and still felt a bit blood-boiling, "19 passed, and in the first big tournament of 20, it was even more outrageous. After they confirmed their participation, others in that tournament could only compete for second place."

"Ah?" Li Wen couldn't believe it, "You're bragging."

Although he had just entered the FPS pit, he paid a lot of attention to esports matches.

He had been watching League of Legends matches all along, and even that year's IG, before the results came out, was still very controversial.

How can there be such a tournament where the championship is undisputed just after participating?

"If you don't believe it, go flip through the match discussions of that year, and you'll know what is called recognized strength." Huang Yu had a smile on his face. At that time, he also had this feeling as a roommate.

"Do you know the feeling of watching professional players become fish fry? He's really purely fishing!"

"Then what happened later?"

When asking this, Li Wen saw that Huang Yu's expression was obviously more complicated.

"That state was maintained for half a year, even if the team's lurker shox retired and was replaced by Australia's JKS, it was still very fierce."

Huang Yu sighed, "But blame that damn Vitality boss, he's really stingy!"

"Brother Beizi achieved so many results for Vitality, and JKS came for Brother Beizi, but after the contract expired, he wanted Brother Beizi to take a 40% pay cut. Who can agree to this!"

"Brother Beizi actually didn't have much pursuit at that stage, just enjoying the game was enough, but for no reason, his salary was reduced by 40%. Who can stand this?"

They fans didn't expect that the collapse of the dynasty wasn't because enemies appeared from the outside, but because it was collapsed by a boss.

"40%, this boss must be sick." Li Wen was also a bit puzzled. Buying such a strong player without adding money is already good, and he even wanted them to take a pay cut.

"Then did he sign later?"

"Of course not. With Beizige's current state, where wouldn't he be playing?" Huang Yu said. "Later he went to North America's Col, but there are too many noobs in North America. Let me put it this way: at the time, Col was Beifang and his four liabilities."

Li Wen felt a bit unbearable hearing this description.

It's really just a "Lao Wang" (prison king).

"But even so, he led Col to still be one of the top-ranked teams, so you can imagine how exaggerated his level is."

"But after playing for a year, he really couldn't take it, so he negotiated with the team to enter a free agent state."

"Then he came back to be a coach for Tyloo for a while and achieved some achievements, but later he seemed to shift his focus to life. I heard that G2 and Faze have been communicating with him recently, but there is no specific news." Speaking of this, Huang Yu smiled lewdly, "Secretly tell you, Brother Beizi fucks fans!"

Hearing this, the impression Li Wen had just built up in his heart seemed to be about to shatter the next second.

Huang Yu immediately added: "His wife is from our school, and she was also his fan."

Hearing this, Li Wen rolled his eyes at him, almost led astray by Huang Yu.

Finding a fan as a partner, it changed its flavor in Huang Yu's mouth.

"So he has retired?" Li Wen felt a bit regretful. From Huang Yu's words, it's not hard to feel the brilliance of Xu Beifang's professional career.

But now Xu Beifang has returned to life, which is a bit uncomfortable.

"You still have a chance to see Brother Beizi come back." Huang Yu said with a grin: "Now it's CSGO, no, it should be CS2."

"Since CS2 started, a guy named donk has emerged..."

"I know donk, that's that little 'Nan Niang' (sissy), right." donk had a very viral performance before, which also attracted Valorant players to watch.

"We were just thinking, with Brother Beizi's personality, will he return? By then, Nice vs donk, just thinking about it feels exciting."

After sharing with his roommate, Li Wen really became curious about Nice's professional experience.

He took the initiative to confirm whether Nice's professional experience was really like that. After all, his roommate didn't have many true words in his mouth.

But he didn't know until he looked, and he was really shocked when he looked.

Because he first thought that Nice was blown so hard by his roommate, he shouldn't be unranked on Hupu, right?

Then he searched 【CSGO】 on Hupu, and the first search related below was 【CSGO Player Ranking】.

That guy whose real name is Xu Beifang and ID is Nice was ranked first.

ID: Nice

Rating: 9.9 (14,396 netizens rated)

He subconsciously clicked on Nice's column to check the netizens' evaluation.

But what he saw first was not the evaluation, but the avatar netizens put for Nice.

Nice in the picture had a sturdy figure, solid muscles supporting the Vitality jersey, and he was holding the trophy with one hand, with a bright smile on his face.

Honestly, Nice is not a handsome guy in the strict sense, but this scene is really handsome.

He looked at the viral comments from netizens below:

【Can you teach me how to play Banana Road?】

【Genius is just the threshold to see my Beishen.】

【The only black spot is finding a fan as a wife, haha.】

【Personal ability ceiling, suppressing all professional players of the current generation.】

【You know he's going to fight you, but you just can't beat him.】

【He has ten thousand ways to get the first kill.】

"A bit exaggerated!" Li Wen marveled, and then he noticed that there was something like a profile above.

【Breakthrough Immortal, Personal Ability Ceiling, Strongest Listener!】

Seeing this, Li Wen suddenly had some impression, because a few years ago, there was a "Listen to Advice Kid" who went viral in the esports circle, and even brought fire to the sentence "Listen to advice and you'll be full."

Later, countless people who were not very confident in themselves but tried to seek change sought advice from others on the internet.

Although recently, because the influencer economy has become popular, this trend of listening to advice has become "demon pointing the way," such as "Meat Armor Faker," "Little Leyan," etc.

Li Wen suddenly had a flash of inspiration. Since Nice is so popular, will there be Nice's imitators?

He cut out of Hupu and searched on Bilibili.

He didn't know until he searched, and he was really shocked when he searched.

【ECO Round Nice】

He went in and saw Nice in the picture frantically doing push-ups under the encouragement of fans' gifts.

Well, he finally understood what "ECO Round Nice" meant.

He had just glanced at Nice's figure in the Hupu comment section, and it was as solid as a boxer.

And this one on the screen?

It's completely a stick insect.

The two arms looked like they had no meat at all, and this push-up became a butterfly flapping its wings.

On the left side of the live broadcast room, different gifts were written to do some things.

For example, 9.9 is needed to let the streamer play 1,000 bots.

6.6 is needed to let the streamer get 100 deathmatch kills.

1 yuan is needed to let the streamer do 10 push-ups.

Li Wen was also happy. The group of brats in the live broadcast room didn't send the 9.9 and 6.6 ones at all.

They specifically picked gifts that required physical activities like push-ups and burpees to send.

Li Wen also sent 10 push-ups while watching.

Nice's fans in the live broadcast room were also frantically scrolling.

【Let this guy know that it's not so easy to rely on imitating Beishen to eat.】

【Laugh to death, he has to do 3,000 push-ups today.】

【Buddy, don't fan yourself into a cold.】

【It's okay, he can hold on. Back then, my Beishen was also a bamboo pole, didn't he exercise every day? Now he has turned into a big muscle bully.】

【Brother Beizi seems to be able to bench press Zywoo now.】

【God-tier bench press Zywoo, buddy made me laugh.】

【Beishen posted a video before, it seems he has turned to functional training.】

【What's the use of such big muscles?】

【Useless, last time at the Huya King of Fighters Tournament, Giao Ge almost died with one punch.】

【Normal, Beifang's big brother is already doing MMA.】

What surprised Li Wen was that Nice's fans in the live broadcast room were relatively rational.

After scrolling a wave of gifts that could almost make "ECO Round Nice" black out, many fans started chatting in the live broadcast room.

After watching the streamer's butterfly flapping for a while, Li Wen also wanted to explore Nice's past even more, because he looked at the content of the fans chatting, and Nice was really such a bamboo pole before.

So how did he step by step turn from a bamboo pole college student into a muscle man top-tier professional player?

Fortunately, Nice's experience is checkable, so it was relatively easy for him to look it up, and he easily found some of Xu Beifang's past training routines and knew how he step by step became what he is today.

His roommate didn't lie either. Nice is really strong and very inspiring.

He had unknowingly become a Nice fan.

He finished reading Nice's professional career all the way, and was quite emotional about the disintegration of Vitality.

But he still finished reading some things that happened in the GO circle in recent years.

After the Vitality pay cut incident, Nice rested for several months, and after the contract period expired, he went to Col.

Col's boss was indeed generous, offering Nice a signing bonus of 500,000 USD at the time.

You have to know that before this, NIKO's transfer fee of 600,000 USD was already a ceiling.

But the signing bonus for Nice cost 500,000 USD.

The generous Col boss left a very good impression on Li Wen.

But this time the boss was okay, but the players were not.

North American CS talent withered very seriously. Nice was almost dragging the whole team forward. Under such circumstances, he could carry a tier-two team and keep them in the TOP 10, which was already a miracle.

In the end, it wasn't Nice who proposed to quit, but Col's boss who actively signaled that Nice could go and rest.

Although the results were good, Col changed people over and over again, but it didn't work.

Later, JKS joined, and there was some improvement, but the overall effect was not great.

It is worth mentioning that Nice and Col's coach also contributed countless funny scenes together. Now there are many memes in the GO circle that come from that period.

After Nice left, Vitality's situation was not good.

For a team that had dominated the arena for nearly a year, Vitality's status at this time was very high, but unfortunately, the team's only big daddy was forced away, and he was forced away by the boss.

Others inevitably felt a bit of "rabbit dies, fox grieves."

Plus Vitality, which had transformed into an international team, wanted to play hometown CS again. JKS, who had just arrived, was half-pushed and half-pulled to be released, and was finally bought by Col.

If apEX didn't want to change teams, many people suspected that Zywoo wanted to run away at that time.

But playing French hometown CS made Vitality's results drop wildly.

Once the ranking even reached world number 33.

Nice, because the team was too poor, played in COL for a year, but the online period makes people lose passion, plus the continuous deterioration of results, Nice chose to rest temporarily after communicating with Col's boss.

Later, it seemed that he met his current wife when he returned to Xijiang University to find friends, and the overall rhythm returned to life.

Although he didn't retire, in the international arena, he was only occasionally seen being pulled by some old friends as a firefighter.

Nice had already become a person who was remembered while alive in the circle.

After the online era ended, S1mple finally got his wish and helped NAVI win the championship.

Once again dominated an era.

Karrigan also ended his regrets, making the Galaxy Battleship roar again.

Jame also led his believers to the City of God.

Even in the last Major before CSGO ended, Zywoo finally found himself and led Vitality to win the Major championship.

And after entering CS2, donk emerged again.

But every time such a historical scene happened, someone would miss Nice, miss the brightest star that once shone in the CSGO arena.

So, Nice, what are you doing at this moment?

...... ===== CHAPTER 447 =====