Chapter 474

m0nesy felt even more powerless.

These two guys, NIKO and Nice, have terrifying combat effectiveness; their ability to seize opportunities is just too strong!

Nice used a tricky position, combined with the timing of the CTs pushing from CT Spawn, to directly secure a multi-kill.

And NIKO, who was at CT Spawn, judged the gunshots through sound-based positioning and successfully killed him, which left m0nesy feeling quite helpless.

They simply wouldn't give him a chance to play the clutch.

Now that their force buy round has been reset, the economy of both sides has instantly reversed; they have become the side with no money instead.

And what makes them most uncomfortable is that the economic gap is a bit awkward; they could choose to ECO, but G2 really needs m0nesy's AWP to perform, so they need to save up money to buy him one.

Therefore, in the third round, the members of G2 other than m0nesy chose to force buy and go for gunfights.

However, the outcome was not ideal; COL did not skimp on the use of utility, pushing caution to the extreme.

In the end, they tried to speed up a push through the Connector, and thanks to dupreeh's Desert Eagle, they took down two, but unfortunately, they were finished off by JKS in the Pit.

After losing the force buy round, hooxi also behaved himself and went straight into an economic round to make adjustments.

The score quickly reached 3:1, and the first full buy round on Inferno officially arrived.

As the commander for the early setup, NIKO anticipated that m0nesy would buy an AWP, so he also had Danking carry an AWP to try and limit m0nesy... at the very least, with an AWP on the CT side, m0nesy wouldn't be so reckless.

Because they had plenty of utility in hand for this round, NIKO set up a 3B start, intending to take control of Banana first.

Xu Beifang had the position closest to Mid, so he chose to help throw an opening smoke at the Banana entrance from the T side, intending to assist them in fighting for Banana.

"The first full buy round has started directly, both sides are fully equipped, COL has set up a 3B, and NIKO and Ji Ge have surged to the front to apply pressure."

"m0nesy is holding the Stone Slab with his AWP, and he is quickly obscured by a smoke grenade..."

"But what is this! He fired while timing the smoke and directly wallbanged both NIKO and Ji Ge to death?"

"COL has entered a 3v5 clutch just 1 minute and 43 seconds into the round, this kid!!"

The venue was also gasping in amazement at this one-shot-two-kill from the kid.

Although there was an element of luck in that shot, anyone with a sharp eye could see that the kid's thinking was very clear; even when the Banana entrance smoke popped, he didn't leave, intending to time his shot.

And it just so happened that NIKO and Elige surged out together to clear Banana, and were directly taken out by m0nesy's shot.

Xu Beifang, who was throwing a flashbang in the back, looked at the kill feed in the top right corner, speechless.

NIKO blamed himself, saying: "Luck isn't on our side, he timed that shot."

Danking asked: "What do we do? Look for an opportunity or?"

Entering a 3v5 clutch at the start of the round really makes this round hard to play.

Xu Beifang thought for a moment and didn't throw any follow-up utility in the B area, instead moving directly to reinforce the A area.

He intended to make a bold gamble.

If hooxi thought a bit more, he might attack the A area in the second timing, and then they would have a chance to turn the tide.

But unfortunately, although hooxi was cautious, he still chose to attack B in the second timing.

With a wave of explosive grenades, they easily took the B site, and the trio in the A area for COL had no other ideas and directly started saving their weapons.

Although they lost a point to G2, COL was not discouraged; this point was ultimately caused by m0nesy's early-game thinking and a bit of luck.

But m0nesy's luck couldn't be that good forever.

The sixth round began.

After thinking it over, NIKO began to issue orders: "The opponents are fighting for Banana quite aggressively, and we don't have that much utility, so let's focus on controlling the Stone Slab area for this point."

"And you guys at A, be more proactive and run some small tactics."

Danking's position was closer to A; otherwise, NIKO would have called this sniper to the B area for this point.

But in a situation where the position isn't ideal, it's better to play steadily and gather information on the opponent.

The countdown ended, and Xu Beifang headed to the B area as usual.

Following NIKO's early-game thinking, he only performed some control at the front of Banana.

He didn't attempt much inside Banana.

In fact, this is also a change brought about by the CS2 version.

Due to the influence of utility counters, the Banana entrance smoke doesn't have as much impact now.

In matches where there is a strong desire for Banana control, players prefer to use explosive grenades to guard against CTs pushing Banana.

This makes it very difficult for CTs to push forward.

Because when CTs push forward, they need to watch the Tree Position, the Recess, and even the T Spawn.

Terrorists who use explosive grenades can see the pushing CTs at a glance, and their focus can be more concentrated.

And since the previous push failed, this is just a temporary change in tactics.

Map control on the Banana side was methodical.

At the A site, JKS and Elige followed NIKO's plan and performed a small early-game package.

Elige entered the Boiler Room, while JKS was peeking at the entrance of the Boiler Room, seemingly scouting but actually acting as bait.

"G2's push speed on A2 is very fast, but COL is also setting up a package; nexa proactively threw a grenade at the VIP entrance, wanting to do some damage with the black smoke!"

"But what is this!!"

"This wine bottle!!"

Looking from the god's-eye view, Ma Xixi saw that COL's setup for this point was very successful; JKS perfectly drew Hunter's attention away.

As long as Hunter chased out, Elige could fire and kill him.

But the explosive grenade nexa threw created black smoke that briefly affected Elige's vision.

And in that split second, Hunter first instant-killed JKS, and then instantly performed a spray transfer to also kill Elige inside the Boiler Room.

"Hunter first instant-killed JKS at the far point, and then also took down Elige with a spray transfer!" Ma Xixi exclaimed, "Karrigan's breakthrough this time is a bit exaggerated!"

Danking, at the Connector, saw the sudden situation; he didn't rush to throw counter-utility, but instead un-scoped and moved silently toward the bomb site.

Because if he exposed his position this time, the A site would truly be lost.

He slipped into the map's fog; if he could trade one or two kills with his sniper rifle, then the two brothers at the B site would still have a chance to retake.

Hunter's burst this time once again put them into a 3v5 clutch.

Xu Beifang and NIKO also immediately started to retake from the B area.

Because in most cases, losing two people at the A site is already a rhythm that allows for a speed-up.

But halfway through the reinforcement, JKS spoke up again: "Something's not quite right... the utility the opponents are throwing is a bit fake."

Danking also said: "I didn't hear any footsteps in Mid at all."

Xu Beifang quickly recalled hooxi's style, and a sense of unease rose in his heart.

Suddenly thinking of something, he immediately shouted: "Everyone go, Danking, you follow us too, straight back to B!"

Because he thought of the style of this commander, hooxi, when he watched G2's match replays before.

In the previous point, he directly reinforced the A area instead of staying at the A site because hooxi, as a commander, loves to gamble; even in rounds that could be won by a simple push, he likes to gamble.

So Xu Beifang intended to reinforce early in the previous point, but didn't succeed.

This time, despite the double kill at the A site, there was still no movement, and he felt that hooxi must be planning to wait for them to retake the A site before attacking B.

So Xu Beifang also made a big gamble, directly taking all his teammates to reinforce the B area.

If G2 really came to attack B, then they would have a glimmer of a chance to turn the tide.

If G2 still attacked A in the second timing, then they would continue to save their weapons.

"The wine bottle spray transfer took down two, but hooxi doesn't intend to speed up, instead turning to B in the second timing!"

Ma Xixi originally wanted to praise hooxi's rational command, but suddenly saw all three COL members moving toward the B area.

"G2 originally had an excellent mid-game rotation, but Beifang seems to have thought of something, and the three of them started reinforcing in advance!"

"G2 would never expect that there would be three COL members in the B area in the second timing; will this be foreshadowing?"

The audience in the venue, under the guidance of the live commentators, also noticed this key point and started to jeer one by one.

"Oh oh oh oh oh~"

The sound of jeering rose, making the G2 players feel that something was wrong.

But they still followed hooxi's instructions to throw explosive grenades as usual.

Once the CT Spawn smoke and Coffin smoke were thrown, they coordinated with flashbangs and a group of them rushed directly into the bomb site.

And at this moment, Xu Beifang and NIKO were already standing at Coffin and CT Spawn; they had already arrived to reinforce.

"I'll make the first move, don't be in a hurry," NIKO reminded.

In Xu Beifang's current position, once he pushes through the smoke, he will become the target of everyone.

The terrorists' vigilance toward the Coffin position is still quite high.

And NIKO making the first move from the CT Spawn smoke was actually a wiser decision.

Because he understood that if he went out and got information, Xu Beifang could truly carry the team!

NIKO didn't throw any utility, directly grabbing a timing to pull out from the CT Spawn smoke and fight.

The moment he pulled out, his muzzle happened to be right on nexa's head.

NIKO didn't hesitate and directly opened fire with a spray.

【NIKO used M4A1 to get a headshot kill on nexa】

The moment he took down nexa, NIKO immediately turned to look toward the bomb site to perform a second wave of output.

hooxi, who was planting the bomb, was directly taken out by him; his solid fundamentals prevented NIKO from stopping his M4, and he continued toward m0nesy near the Two Boxes.

However, the opponent's trade kill finally arrived, and Hunter directly took down NIKO, who was frantically spray-transferring, from Banana.

"The older brother just performed a brilliant spray transfer, and the younger brother also has to show off!"

"NIKO grabbed a timing out of the CT Spawn smoke, and a spray transfer directly took down two and a half! With this, the clutch has become a 2v3, and COL seems to have a chance to take this point."

"Nice trade!" m0nesy praised in the voice chat.

If Hunter hadn't traded the kill this time, they probably would have died in an inexplicable way again.

hooxi reminded: "Be careful, the opponents might come to contest this clutch."

It was 5v3 before, but because of their old teammate relationship, their numerical advantage was no longer significant.

Given Nice's personality, he would likely proactively come to contest this clutch.

Thinking of this, he proactively had A Du throw a flashbang toward CT Spawn, and then had Hunter mix into the area near the CT Spawn tree.

m0nesy picked up the bomb and moved to plant it near the Two Boxes.

Because they had already lost control of Banana, if someone followed Hunter, they would be in trouble.

But what he couldn't figure out was that the audience at the venue started jeering again.

The audience at the venue started jeering all because the director cut the main perspective to Xu Beifang.

"NIKO pulled out from the CT Spawn and killed two, but Beifang didn't push through the smoke to trade; he should have rushed out directly, and maybe they would have won in one wave," Ma Xixi felt it was a pity, "Like this, although the position is still relatively mysterious, but... what is this?"

From his perspective, m0nesy followed the footsteps to pick up the bomb, and then Xu Beifang's crosshair followed m0nesy tightly from behind the smoke grenade.

"Beifang, no, although you are the home team, what are you doing? Has your crosshair stopped listening to you?"

Although most players could understand that this was sound-based positioning.

But they really saw sound-based positioning accurate to this degree for the first time.

Their perspective had X-ray, which could see m0nesy through the smoke grenade.

But Xu Beifang's crosshair followed m0nesy's movement the whole time.

And the moment m0nesy stopped to plant the bomb, Xu Beifang finally opened fire.

"Puff puff puff!"

【Nice used M4A1 to wallbang headshot kill m0nesy】

m0nesy's pain mask had already appeared; this was the second time today he had been killed through smoke.

And being killed this time made the situation even more unfavorable.

Because the number of people on both sides had entered a 2v2.

A Du, at the Dead Point, saw m0nesy get killed through smoke and also vigilantly watched the observation point, then took out a smoke grenade and threw another one.

Then he went to pick up the bomb, but because Hunter reminded him that the CT Spawn smoke was about to dissipate, he could only plant a bomb that wouldn't be affected by CT Spawn, but all his attention was on the Coffin smoke.

As soon as someone appeared at Coffin, he would immediately stand up and rely on cover to fight.

But what he didn't expect was that just as he was planting the bomb, he saw bullets pass through the smoke grenade and accurately hit his body.

He didn't even have time to let go before he was quickly killed.

The audience at the venue was already excited; this is the personal ability of star players, always creating miracles in ways they can't understand.

In the CSBOY live stream, the bullet screen was already flooded with "?"; they completely didn't understand why Xu Beifang's two wallbang kills could have such high precision.

"Beifang's wallbang is completely unreasonable; you can never imagine the power of Huaxia's core technology!" Ma Xixi shouted loudly in the live stream.

But just as Xu Beifang killed A Du, bad news also came from the CT Spawn side.

Hunter crouched at the Tree Position and directly killed Danking, who was reinforcing.

Hunter's thinking was also quite clear; after killing Danking, he immediately returned to the area under the platform and opened fire, mixing shots toward the Coffin smoke.

This wave was completely a pre-fire suppression.

If Xu Beifang intended to seize the opportunity to push through the smoke, then he would have a chance to directly pin Xu Beifang to death.

And if Xu Beifang didn't push through the smoke, Hunter would have time to gain the initiative.

Only then would he have a chance to win this 1v1 clutch.

Because Xu Beifang was reloading, he didn't proactively push through the smoke to seize the timing.

Now that it was 1v1, the situation seemed simple to him.

So he waited for Hunter to make the first move.

There were only 33 seconds left on the clock; the opponent had a chance to pick up the bomb and rotate, after all, rotating on Inferno only takes 20 seconds.

If the opponent really rotated, he wouldn't be worried, because JKS at the A site still had a defuse kit that could be picked up.

But the good news was that the opponent didn't know he didn't have a defuse kit.

Hunter also had no intention of rotating; now that both sides had locked positions, the advantage was actually his.

If he wanted to leave, he would have to run toward Banana with heavy footsteps, and then Nice's position would become unknown.

So he picked up the bomb and boldly faked a plant, but his attention was entirely behind the Coffin smoke.

Although he heard the opponent's bomb planting position, Xu Beifang didn't open fire.

Because shooting through the opponent from his position would be blocked by the Coffin, making it very difficult to kill them directly, and it would instead expose his position.

So he waited for the smoke to dissipate before taking action.

"Hunter is planting the bomb again, but Beifang still hasn't moved; this time it's a real plant."

"The smoke grenade is slowly dissipating, and Hunter is walking directly toward CT Spawn; his decision is correct. Now the two are circling each other, and Beifang doesn't have a defuse kit, so he has fallen into a passive position instead."

"But Beifang has a smoke grenade; he directly threw a CT Spawn smoke and then came to look at Coffin."

Hunter planted a bomb near the One Box, and Xu Beifang's thinking was clear.

With this bomb planted, it was impossible for the opponent to go toward Banana, which meant Hunter could only go to CT Spawn or stay at the Three Boxes and the Dead Point.

He was more inclined to go to CT Spawn, because in that position, one could also circle around the Coffin, which was a better choice.

The teammates didn't dare to breathe, quietly watching Xu Beifang play the clutch, their eyes filled with anticipation.

The venue also became quiet; everyone was waiting for this bullfighting encounter between Xu Beifang and Hunter.

They wanted to see whether Xu Beifang would ultimately win the clutch and turn the tide, or if Hunter would safely win this point with a five-kill.

The CT Spawn smoke grenade popped, and Xu Beifang also started to take action.

He first faked a bomb plant, then pulled toward the Three Boxes to check the Coffin position.

Because there was still plenty of time, he pushed forward silently all the way, clearing all the corners of the Coffin.

There was no one at the Coffin corner, which meant he was at CT Spawn.

Xu Beifang faked a bomb plant again, but Hunter still didn't appear.

Hunter was actually gambling; he had played against top-tier players many times and knew that players of the level of s1mple, Zywoo, and Beifang were all very arrogant when entering a clutch.

They all liked to kill their opponents first and then defuse the bomb.

So he directly hid inside the CT Spawn smoke grenade, not in a hurry to go out, just waiting for the moment the smoke dissipated to spray the One Box.

For this reason, he specifically stood in a position biased toward the right; in this position, he could see the entirety of the C4 as soon as the smoke dissipated, so it wouldn't be missed due to angle issues.

The next second, the sound of an M4A1 suddenly rang out.

The bullet passed through the smoke grenade and hit him directly on the head, instantly killing him.

【Nice used M4A1 to wallbang headshot kill Hunter】

"What, Beifang directly wallbanged Hunter inside the smoke grenade?" Ma Xixi laughed, "What is this!"

MO was also stunned on the side, "This Karrigan really has no way out."

"There's really no way, he ran into a guy with a frame," Ma Xixi couldn't stop laughing.

And the scene was also in an uproar; everyone couldn't believe that this clutch would end in this way.

Many people felt that Hunter was already calm enough, but the way Xu Beifang won the clutch always exceeded their expectations.

The moment Xu Beifang won the clutch, he took a long breath, and a smile appeared on his face.

He guessed right in this gambling-style clutch, and it really felt quite satisfying.

Then he turned his head, wanting to fist-bump his teammates, and saw NIKO leaning back, looking at Xu Beifang with an incredible expression.

That look seemed to be saying: "Beifang, are your parameters a bit too high?"

He didn't really understand this clutch.

Danking was laughing foolishly on the side: "If this were on the Perfect World platform, you would have been reported countless times!"

JKS added insult to injury with a dark sense of humor: "I've already reported him; he hit three people in a row in this clutch, and he didn't even see the opponent's shadow. If this isn't cheating, what is?"

This peculiar statement even made Ji Ge laugh.

COL was overjoyed, while the G2 members were all a bit red-faced.

Especially Hunter.

Who can understand, family? I got 4 kills and still couldn't win!

This Nice really still has the flavor of the past, a pure VAC guy!

The director replayed the brilliant kills, and Xu Beifang's three kills in the clutch were completely shown.

And then the audience at the venue was even more confused.

Because from this angle, Xu Beifang didn't even see a toe of the terrorist, but he forcibly wallbanged G2 into collapse.

Then the thoughtful director added a special X-ray to Xu Beifang's perspective, and the bullet screen in the live stream instantly calmed down.

【This is reasonable】

【So this is Beifang's perspective?】

【Too perverted, Beifang; I wouldn't dare to play like this even in the ladder】

【Complies with the principle of unquestionability】

【If you can't beat them, cheat】

【This guy's awareness is too strong; rotating in advance, sound-based wallbanging, clutch gambling, this dominance is too exaggerated】

G2 didn't call a timeout, but this clutch had a significant impact on them.

In the following matches, it was obvious that G2 was playing more anxiously.

The more anxious they were, the more likely they were to make mistakes.

On the other hand, for COL, Xu Beifang's confidence was also built up, and he became more proactive in the defense and offense of Banana in the following rounds.

In the subsequent matches, except for one top-tier gambling rotation by hooxi and m0nesy getting a triple kill with his AWP, COL steadily won all the other rounds.

Finally, the first half ended, and the score was fixed at 8:4.

G2 never expected that they would be beaten so miserably in the first half on their own map pick.

However, they were also a bit helpless, because COL's firepower is truly maxed out now, and the team has two superstars who can always stand up and perform.

And for the current G2, dupreeh and Hunter can only be considered stable, and the only one who can exert force is m0nesy.

If m0nesy doesn't exert force, the front line is basically done for.

Now, they can only hope to win the pistol round in the second half, and that no accidents will occur later.

In that case, there would still be room for operation.

(End of chapter)