Chapter 60: At this rate, who will still scrim with us?

How did we get clicked again?

Uzi was still thinking about how to play in the upcoming team fight when the screen switched, leaving them stunned.

They clicked surrender again! "I don't know."

AJ scratched the back of his head and said, "I don't feel like we were ahead by much, so why did we surrender?"

"Let me ask."

Uzi switched over and saw that doinb's account had gone offline outright, and he exclaimed in surprise, "How did he go offline?"

"Huh?"

Su Xing blinked slightly, "Is the network having problems?"

"I'll ask A Le."

Uzi opened his friend list and asked A Le what had happened; a few seconds later, holding back laughter, he said, "Holy shit, Su Xing, you've done all the bad things."

???

Su Xing's face was full of question marks: "I didn't do anything, how did I end up doing all the bad things?"

"A Le replied, saying you shattered doinb's resolve."

Uzi laughed and said, "Holy shit, how did he even go offline? Did he really get so upset he went autistic?"

Su Xing: "This can't be blamed on me, can it?"

"He went offline?"

Upon hearing that, AJ also looked stunned and said, "That really is having his defenses broken; otherwise, how could he have gone offline?"

Everyone in the circle knows that doinb takes streaming very seriously; even when playing professionally, aside from not streaming on match days, he streams rain or shine at any other time.

Yet today he went offline directly during this prime time slot; it's clear he suffered a huge blow, otherwise he wouldn't have done this.

"Let me count: yesterday Ning and Xiaocaobao almost had a falling out in the jungle, Zi Tai got played so hard he went offline flushed, reportedly didn't sleep all night, and today you directly shattered doinb's resolve—"

Uzi did the math and gave a wry smile: "Damn, at this rate, who will still scrim with us?"

Su Xing: "To be fair, this really can't be blamed on him being too heavy-handed, right?" "Bai Yun also seems to be watching our stream, sending a private chat saying he won't play the later scrim, saying he's afraid the jungle will cause a falling out."

AJ suddenly spoke up, saying, "What should we do?"

Everyone: "The plan was to first play doinb in the first match, then Bai Yun in the second, but now we've shattered doinb's resolve, and Bai Yun, seeing that, felt something was off and simply said he wouldn't play either—this left even Uzi at a loss."

"So should we still play?"

Bei Shang wanted to speak but held back; if there's no team to play with, he'll just go play a companion game. "Even temporarily, we can't find a team to play with."

Uzi thought for a moment and said, "How about we play ranked flex?"

"Ranked flex doesn't have much weight, does it?"

Su Xing casually remarked, "If I remember correctly, in many players' mouths, the so-called ranked flex King is even worse than solo/double gold."

"Now ranked flex has a lot of weight."

Uzi laughed and said, "The top fifty accounts are all full-time boosters on them; some are Korean-Chinese King specialists, some are active pros, and honestly, I think they're a bit higher weight than scrims."

Scrims are just a bunch of old guys having fun, but at the top of ranked flex it's all kinds of King specialists and unknown pros mixed together; even some top active pros coming over wouldn't be confident saying they could easily win.

"Alright, up to you."

Su Xing was a bit surprised but didn't pursue it further; anyway, it's still early, so if Uzi and the others want to play ranked flex, I'll keep them company for a while.

"If you're going to play ranked flex, then I won't come." Bei Shang said at this point, "Or why don't you find another jungler?"

"Fine, go attend to your business."

Uzi nodded and said, "I'll go ask Le Yan if he wants to come."

Just like that, after Bei Shang left not long later, Le Yan appeared in the YY channel, and his first words upon entering made everyone laugh.

"You little brat, you killed the thought of the champion mid laner doinb making a comeback, huh? Nice job, carry me."

"He actually wants to make a comeback?"

Su Xing's face was full of dark lines, "No, since we're all here to play the Old Man Cup, don't harbor any fantasies."

Moreover, in his impression, doinb isn't young either; as that old saying goes, 'wife, kids, house, car—whatever you want, you got it'—how could he still compete with young people? 'He really does want to.'

Le Yan gave a sharp comment: "But after just finishing, he probably doesn't want to anymore; his tone before leaving was quite disappointed, hoping he's okay."

Everyone: "Come on, come on, let's play flex."

Uzi changed the topic and said, "Maybe we can still catch that little Bei Shang."

Days passed quickly; because Su Xing's strength was too buggy, the whole team couldn't arrange scrims with other Old Man Cup teams, so each day after waking up and opening the stream, the only thing we could do was play high-score flex ranked with Uzi and them in region one.

Fortunately, the region one high-score ranked flex does have some weight now; besides letting Su Xing do recovery training, AJ and Xiao Duan also made considerable improvements in a very short time.

The old top laners in the Old Man Cup might not apply much pressure, but everyone in ranked flex is ruthless, giving no mercy at all.

AJ started with frequent 0-8, 0-10 records, which gradually became 0-5, 0-3; describable in four words, his improvement is lightning fast.

Time came to the fourth day,

Just as Su Xing finished a Korean server ranked match and was about to have dinner, his phone rang.

He glanced at the caller ID; it was Gao Wen.

"Hey?"

Su Xing was curious why Gao Wen suddenly called him; aren't all matters usually left as messages on WeChat? "Are you in front of your computer now?"

Gao Wen's tone was somewhat urgent as she asked, "Open Huya and take a look at the match."

"Uh, what's up with the match?"

Su Xing sat back down at his computer with doubt, opened the Huya webpage to see the MSI match livestream, but as soon as he entered, he heard the commentator say that TES had been sent off 3-0. "TES lost."

Gao Wen softly said, "Lost 3-0 to G2."

"As expected."

Su Xing didn't find it very surprising, after all he had guessed beforehand—wait, no, hold on, what was the score I guessed earlier?

For a moment, Su Xing fell silent.

Last time when I predicted tes 2:3 losing to GenG, the livestream was already a pandemonium; this time, what will happen in my livestream again? "The problem is that tes's general manager has found me."

Gao Wen slowly opened her mouth and said: "He seems very interested in you and even proposed an interesting idea."

"What idea?"

If I remember correctly, tes's general manager Guo Hao is quite well-regarded in the industry; it's said that many professional players are willing to become sworn brothers with him.

"He wants Huya to find five retired players to form a team, which must include you."

Gao Wen paused slightly, then said: "Then you'll play a BO5 against the current tes; of course, this process will be anonymous and confidential on tes's side, while you can livestream but are not allowed to reveal that the opponent is the tes team."

(End of chapter)