Chapter 467

"This?"

In his ears were the roaring cheers of the live audience; in the top right corner were Nice's illustrious battle achievements for this round.

device smiled helplessly, then typed in the public chat: "Nice spray transfer."

Facing his opponent's praise, Xu Beifang naturally accepted it all.

Nice: OVO~

Watching Xu Beifang's emoji response, device didn't rush. He smiled and said, "Nice's feel for the game is indeed a bit too good. Let's not play too aggressively for these next few rounds; let's use utility to grind down his shooting rhythm."

Even stavn, who was a bit unconvinced by device during the pistol round, felt the same way about this.

What kind of normal person can wipe out all five of them in one spray within two seconds?

Even if there was a tiny accident in the middle, it just proved that this guy Nice was on fire.

Using formulaic playstyles to limit COL's offense and drag out the attackers' rhythm is the best choice right now.

The long gun round officially began. The instruction NIKO gave was to unfold with a default map control, focusing overall on Banana and Mid.

NIKO didn't give overly specific instructions because he understood very well that on the current Inferno, Banana was becoming harder and harder to control, so whether they could control Banana depended on the CTs' intentions early on.

As the first in position, Xu Beifang threw a fire at the Banana barrel as usual at the start.

However, he didn't enter Banana; instead, he retreated to T Spawn immediately after throwing the fire.

Team A threw a Faze smoke at the start, then poured grenades into both Banana and the Mid connector, attempting to use HE grenades to lower their health and offset the damage gap between the M4 and AK.

But Xu Beifang's vigilant playstyle allowed him to avoid being bled out early on.

NIKO, on the side, was quite in sync; while he threw the fire, he also tossed a grenade toward the Stone Slab to bleed out any CTs who might be pushing forward.

"Wow! COL's early default utility usage is so thorough, burning and exploding! Wild-List Brother stepped on the fire and pushed out, instantly dropping to 20 HP!"

"But if they can successfully step into the close point, then this 3B start from Team A is still acceptable."

Xu Beifang watched the smoke at the Banana entrance bloom, then saw the left and right sides of the smoke being spammed. He didn't hear the sound of the CTs extinguishing the fire, so he immediately realized someone had stepped through the fire.

"I'm exploding the smoke!"

Xu Beifang said, pulling out a grenade and throwing it directly into the middle of the smoke.

Behind him, Danking heard this and immediately said, "I'm flashing!"

He had been hanging out in T Spawn from the start, ready to throw support flashes at any time.

Seeing Xu Beifang prepare to act in the second timing, he immediately coordinated with him.

The smoke at the Banana entrance was blown away. Wild-List Brother immediately looked over, but a flashbang exploded almost simultaneously, and his vision went completely white.

And before he could even open his eyes, AK47 bullets had emptied his remaining health.

【Nice+Danking flashbang killed staehr with an AK47】

"Wild-List Brother charged forward bravely, wanting to take control of Banana, but a smoke-exploding grenade combined with a red-card flash secured the first kill!" Wanjiqi took a breath. "This is a complete out-understanding of Banana."

"However, although they got the first kill, COL still doesn't have control of Banana, and they don't know that Banana is a 3B start."

"And the Snake-Rat brothers suddenly got smart. Snake stepped into the Recess in the second timing; his position is still a bit mysterious, and jabbi can trade at any time from the Stone Slab." Wanjiqi posed a question. "So, how does COL plan to play next?"

"Good shot!" Elige praised silently.

Danking asked, "Should we anti-rush B?"

They had already secured a first kill on B. According to his thinking, even if they didn't speed up, they had to force the opponents back to the bomb site and CT Spawn.

Xu Beifang looked at the mini-map and pondered. "No rush. The opponents should still have two people defending B; it's a 2A2B formation right now."

"Wait for this smoke to dissipate, then we'll move forward immediately. First, put pressure on B, then turn around and execute a bomb-toss A. Ji Ge and JKS, get ready."

JKS said "Mm," indicating he understood.

Following this line of thought, the two of them had to have control of A2.

While A2 was slowly pushing, the T Spawn trio was also preparing to move.

But just as they had this thought, a smoke grenade was thrown over from the Stone Slab direction, sealing off T Spawn directly.

"B is playing quite cautiously. jabbi threw a smoke directly at T Spawn, wanting to make the opponents think they are single-B scouting from the Stone Slab, and it can also continue to drag out time."

"So, should COL rotate to A now? But if they rotate to A, the Rat in the Recess can quickly sneak over from the back."

The opponent's addition of a T Spawn smoke made Xu Beifang even more certain that there were definitely two people in Banana.

It was even possible that one person had already pushed to the Tree Position or the Recess.

Because putting himself in the opponent's perspective, he realized the smoke was thrown too early.

In a match with a numerical disadvantage, you either take the initiative to trade kills, or you rely on utility to drag it out to the extreme, leaving the opponent no chance to utilize their numerical advantage.

Whether it's single-B or double-B, if they are defending from the back, they would definitely wait to see the terrorists' actions before throwing smoke.

Throwing it like this now only had one answer—this smoke was to protect a teammate's safety!

Therefore—

"NIKO, give me a fire. They should be stepping out at the close point. And Tie Dan, one second after my fire lands, throw an exploding grenade to clear the smoke and get vision of Banana."

Taking the incendiary grenade from NIKO, Xu Beifang began to hug the corner of the wall in Mid and started aiming.

First, he aimed at the edge of the stain; he couldn't aim at the stain itself, or the fire wouldn't work.

After finishing the aim, he kept his crosshair steady, walked left to the corner, and threw it directly forward.

Once this fire was thrown, stavn, who was at the close point, felt that things were going to be bad.

But he suddenly realized that this didn't seem to be a full-burn fire; it seemed safe in the corner of the Recess.

He excitedly shouted in the voice chat: "Brothers, I think I caught an amazing timing!"

The next scene already appeared in his mind: the opponents thinking the close point was safe.

He would manage his fire, start spraying a full clip to clear the screen, silence the people 'booing' him, and turn this venue into the Chengdu Library!

But the next second, he suddenly realized something was wrong, because the fire spread directly over.

He hurriedly switched to a smoke grenade to extinguish it, but it was already too late!

Immediately after, Danking blew up the T Spawn smoke. Xu Beifang moved forward to find an angle, and NIKO also coordinated by pulling out. They instantly saw a CT pull out horizontally next to the Stone Slab.

The two of them focused fire with a full spray.

【NIKO+Nice killed jabbi with an AK47 headshot】

The next second, another kill notification popped up in the top right corner.

【Nice killed stavn with an incendiary grenade】

"Beifang's fire seemed a bit off. Will stavn's position become a foreshadowing?"

"Frontally exploding the smoke again, jabbi pulled out and was instantly killed, but stavn was burned to death by the fire!"

"The Snake-Rat brothers didn't accomplish anything in Banana this round!"

Wanjiqi exclaimed: "It's all back. Even entering CS2, on the map Inferno, Team A always becomes Beifang's RBQ. They couldn't beat Beifang in Banana since the CSGO era, and now that they've come to CS2, they still can't beat him."

"The 3B Banana defense couldn't even trade a single person. Team A's device is stunned; how is this supposed to be played?"

"A 2v5 clutch, there's simply no chance."

After noticing stavn being burned to death in the top right, the T Spawn trio gathered and rushed toward B.

They had already secured 3 kills on B; even if the opponent rotated one person, they could easily deal with him by trading kills.

Amidst the applause of the live audience, they successfully planted the bomb.

After planting the bomb, Team A had no intention of retaking, as it was a 2v4 clutch.

However, Xu Beifang didn't give them a chance. For the first 20 seconds, he just let his teammates hold their angles quietly. Once he confirmed the opponents had no desire to retake, he signaled for Danking and Elige to coordinate and go find the remaining two, with JKS assisting on the side.

The two of them had a Mac-10 and a Galil; if they died, they would just swap weapons.

He and NIKO stayed to guard the bomb to avoid any accidents.

"The positions of the remaining two have been locked. Bro knows there's no avoiding it, so he stands up to help device fight the terrorist in the Graveyard, but Danking kills Bro with two headshots from his Mac-10!"

"Does Danking have a chance to hit the second one? Unfortunately, device caught this."

"He successfully saved an A1, but COL continues to score." Wanjiqi couldn't help but tease, "Team A lost this round because of this Banana..."

Team A, of course, understood this.

After all, the Banana start was a heavy 3B defense, but this heavy 3B defense couldn't even trade one person, and didn't even report the damage.

This made device feel something was wrong, so he hurriedly called for a timeout.

"What's going on with Banana?" device asked, puzzled. "How did it fall so suddenly?"

As the leader, device had to understand what happened at the time to take subsequent countermeasures.

Wild-List Brother looked helpless: "I went to fight for the close point, and was blinded and killed by the smoke-exploding grenade. I didn't even have a chance to fight back."

stavn's expression was a bit innocent: "I was holding the Recess, and the opponent threw a fire that was a bit off. I didn't expect it to spread over in the second timing... I thought it was an opportunity."

jabbi shrugged: "No way, I heard the smoke explode and pulled out to trade, but the two opponents were holding the fire directly, and I was instantly focused and killed."

device pursed his lips.

He roughly understood.

Wild-List Brother was nothing; he died in the early setup, and his early setup was reacted to by the opponents.

But the subsequent stavn and jabbi were purely outplayed by the opponents' game understanding.

Thinking of this, he had a headache.

The scenes of Banana collapsing time and time again during the old Team A era resurfaced in his mind.

That was definitely a painful memory.

In the Banana position, Nice is the most outstanding player, there is no doubt about that.

This is not because Nice's shooting is too strong, but because Nice plays too flexibly and has too many ways to gain an advantage.

device said helplessly: "Next round, you guys go half-armor pistols to adjust the economy. For the next full-buy round, don't be so aggressive in Banana; just control the Stone Slab area."

Originally, he saw Xu Beifang's feel was good, so he planned to take control of Banana and slowly utilize the advantage of utility to drag it out.

But now he realized that Nice had completely predicted their thoughts, and they couldn't beat him at the Banana close point at all.

Since they couldn't beat him at the close point, they would just move the control area backward.

Moving backward has one benefit: more utility can be used in the Stone Slab area, which can limit the opponent's push rhythm.

While device was thinking of a solution, this round officially began.

However, no miracle appeared; they were at a weapon disadvantage this round.

Although they successfully traded three kills, they still couldn't win the clutch.

The score reached 4:0.

Xu Beifang bumped fists with his teammates; the rhythm in the early stage went smoothly, which was quite good.

Although it was a pity to lose three long guns, not being reset was better than anything.

Everyone waited for NIKO to give instructions, and he looked at Xu Beifang: "Beifang, do you have any thoughts on your position? How about letting Danking buy an AWP to coordinate with you for a Jump Goat?"

During these days of practice matches, he finally began to understand Xu Beifang's exaggerated first-kill ability, and began to utilize this ability of Xu Beifang in the early stage.

As long as they get the first kill frontally, the other positions will be much easier.

Xu Beifang glanced back; Danking had already bought a big sniper.

But he thought about it and shook his head: "Forget it, Danking's position is not easy to coordinate with."

Danking's position was the furthest back, but that wasn't the main reason; it was because Danking had "old cold legs."

Tie Dan's own KZ level was actually okay, but the two-person coordination was lacking, and the movement coordination still needed time to practice.

But this wasn't easy to say out loud; after all, Tie Dan had his pride too.

"Alright then, this round we'll approach A..."

Before NIKO finished speaking, he heard Xu Beifang say: "Although we can't play Jump Goat, I can play a perverted one."

Looking at the smirk on Xu Beifang's face, NIKO had a bad premonition.

"COL has already taken 4 rounds in a row, and Team A has saved up enough for a long gun round, so this round is quite critical." Wanjiqi analyzed for the live audience. "If they can't take this point, COL's economy will be up, and Team A will have nothing to play with."

Team A was once the "white moonlight" in Wanjiqi's heart. Although his perspective was relatively neutral in this match, he still didn't want to see device lose so miserably.

"Team A chose a 3B2A start, no, it's 3A2B; the guys who went to B at the start were just to leave a set of utility at the Church entrance."

"And this time for COL, Beifang and NIKO stepped directly into Banana. Are they planning to clear it in the second timing?"

"Wait, the situation is a bit wrong!" Wanjiqi's voice suddenly became emotional because he saw on the mini-map that Xu Beifang and NIKO didn't stop their steps at all and were pushing forward at speed.

What Xu Beifang meant by playing a "perverted one" was to prepare an unconventional move: B site was going to get rough!

He was the first in position and rushed directly into Banana, then just threw an exploding grenade at the Yellow Wall and pushed forward with his AK, pre-aiming the whole way.

At this moment, his attention was highly focused, and he was ready to position and counter-strafe at any time.

NIKO followed closely behind, also supplementing with an exploding grenade. He didn't extinguish the fire either, because this wave was to play an unconventional move; if they extinguished the fire, the opponents would be on guard.

But two consecutive exploding grenades at the close point also made stavn, who was standing next to the Sandbag, vigilant.

He realized something was wrong, and the sound of the incendiary grenade burning came to his ears at the right time. He immediately set his crosshair to the position.

The next second, a terrorist rushed into his crosshair. At this moment, he only needed to pull the trigger to headshot and kill him.

But the sound of the AK47 came faster than his hand!

"Bang!"

【Nice killed stavn with an AK47 headshot】

"They sped up!" stavn shouted loudly in the voice chat.

Hearing this, jabbi, who was replenishing utility at CT Spawn, immediately threw a smoke grenade back to B Tunnel, intending to delay until his teammates could retake.

While the smoke grenade was exploding, he specifically jumped under the platform to avoid being spammed by the opponent.

"But COL is much more aggressive than they imagined. Even though both of them are only at half health, they still want to take out the second person on B!"

"Danking supplemented and blew up the smoke, then the two at the close point pulled out horizontally and looked under the platform together. jabbi obviously didn't expect COL's actions to be so fast and was killed directly!"

"This is the North Breakthrough; the Snake-Rat brothers on B have been sent off again!"

The live audience cheered for Xu Beifang's bold decision. On the IEM official stream, netizens also expressed their thoughts in the chat.

【???】

【Bei!!】

【I don't know why Team A dares to let Inferno through】

【The Snake-Rat brothers are too cabinet-like】

【Is B site really made of paper?】

【Beifang's AK is really stabbing around B site】

【Snake-Rat are still TOP 20? As expected, HLTV is purely a wild list】

【Snake-Rat have already been corrupted by Beifang】

【Why does Beifang make Banana look so simple?】

【Watching this makes me want to go play Inferno】

【...】

Xu Beifang's destructive B site breakthrough caused the Snake-Rat brothers on B to be killed at light speed. device looked at the kill notification in the top right corner, also quite helpless, and could only enter the weapon-saving phase again.

What could he do?

Less than 30 seconds into the start, both guys on B were dead; there wasn't even a chance to retake.

He opened the TAB key the next second to look at the scoreboard.

Nice: 13/1/0

He hadn't died once, had killed them 13 times, and even had a damn assist.

This ID combined with this exaggerated record.

Dead memories were attacking him again.

(End of chapter)