Ch78 - "If we’re going to get dirty, then everyone should get dirty."

Edited by kat

The fans who had originally been sluggishly supporting QAQ suddenly grew restless.

The atmosphere in the barrage grew even fouler.

Sure enough, on Weibo, the topic of “Angry’s mother’s psychosis” climbed to the bottom of the Hot Search list.

All the people who were originally focused on watching the competition livestream ran over to look at the Hot Search list.

The original Weibo post was made right after the second match had ended. As soon as it was posted, it directly bought a Hot Search slot.

There was no so-called evidence, and it was really just a rumor.

[Netizens don’t seem to have a good memory, and they all forgot what was said in the recording where they were saying that Angry played fixed matches. Angry’s mother was mentally ill, so Angry wouldn’t livestream? Let me help you guys remember that?]

At the start, all of the comments were one sided.

It was very obvious that it was a water army commenting and controlling the statements. There were only a few comments refuting the post, and they were quickly pushed down.

No matter what happened online though, the competition had to continue.

At the competitors’ seats, Shen Qi opened a bottle of water and drank two mouthfuls.

Behind him, Lu Ziye patted the obviously dejected Xu Leng and Lu Tun on the shoulder. He didn’t say much.

Shen Qi looked at the two depressed children and raised his eyebrows. “You’re affected by this?”

Xu Leng nodded and admitted it without a shred of hesitation.

It might be due to his lack of experience that he couldn’t take this kind of drop in rankings. It was as though he had returned to his feelings of powerlessness when he had participated in the training competition for the first time.

They were second from bottom in this match, and had been attacked under pressure.

He had been the first to be eliminated.

His shots hadn’t been accurate, and he couldn’t steady his gun.

Xu Leng’s right hand holding the mouse trembled a bit, but he couldn’t control it.

He knew that his current state would have a great impact on the next game, but he couldn’t restrain his emotions.

Shen Qi looked at him, and his gaze fell to his right hand. “Does your hand hurt?”

Xu Leng let out a breath, shook his head, and his voice was a little low. “No.”

“If your hand doesn’t hurt, then why is it trembling?” Shen Qi took another sip of water, half narrowed his eyes, and glanced in the direction of the camera.

Xu Leng bit his lower lip and didn’t say anything.

Their team had no substitutes.

He had to persist and continue.

There were three matches left, so he couldn’t be influenced by his emotions.

“Even if your hand really hurt.” Shen Qi was already looking at the screen again and didn’t look at Xu Leng’s eyes. At this time, he couldn’t say anything comforting.

“You have to finish playing the competition to leave.

“Professional players must be able to endure like professional players. No one can always sail smoothly.” He snorted. “You just ranked second to last in one match, and you’re this upset…”

Xu Leng was stimulated by the phrase “second to last,” and his hand holding the mouse tightened again.

“You haven’t even seen how they’re cursing us out online right now.” Shen Qi added this last sentence and didn’t say anything else. He stared at the screen and was pretty expressionless.

Xu Leng opened his mouth and said, “They must be cursing us out in a pretty ugly way.”

Lu Tun, who had originally also felt a bit lost, replied, “It’s not just ugly at this point. There are so many more flamers in the e-sports circle than in your live studio, and their mouths stink so bad. Besides typing, they can’t do anything else, and in their eyes, losing one match means you’re unforgivable trash.”

Ye Lai pulled at Lu Tun’s clothes. “Focus on getting ready for the next game.”

He twisted open a bottle of water and handed it to Xu Leng. “Don’t overthink it, it’s not your fault. We were targeted.”

Standing behind them, Lu Ziye pinched his brow.

Being targeted was really a difficult matter.

Xu Leng thanked him, and his expression improved a little. Once he took a gulp of cold water, the burning sensation in his heart was also mostly suppressed.

In the end, it only took one match for their total score to fall from first to second place.

“En, let’s play a bit dirty,” Shen Qi, who was silent for a while, suddenly spoke.

He licked the corners of his lips, and they quirked up.

Third match, Erangel.

The flight route went from Zharki to Novorepnoye, and QAQ jumped to the School as usual.

After landing and picking up a gun and ammunition, Shen Qi directly found a small corner to hide in, and pretty much didn’t move.

The other three also found places where they weren’t easily discoverable, and they really began to “hide.”

The camera moved to QAQ several times, but they didn’t move at all. If it weren’t for the audience having a bird’s eye perspective, they wouldn’t know at all that QAQ had landed here.

The School’s supplies had hardly been searched. Everyone had looted just a first aid kit and a gun.

No other teams jumped to the School this match, but the nearby Ruins, Pochinki, and Rozhok could be said to be crowded with people, and several teams had jumped to Georgopol.

The teams in Rozhok and Pochinki had started fighting a long time ago.

“At present, the game has been going for ten minutes, and there are still 14 teams left on the field. Compared with the first two matches, everyone is desperately fighting ah. Let’s take a look at the QAQ team.” Half was tongue-tied, and the perspective changed to another team. “QAQ changed its usual style in this match and began to hide, hahaha…”

Half laughed guiltily.

How was this just hiding ah. These four people hadn’t moved since they landed, and they didn’t even search for things. At least other teams that hid would fatten themselves up with loot.

They were purely just paddling around with no effort.

[Even the casters are speechless, what exactly is QAQ doing? Just throwing the match?]

[It can’t be that the captain has gone crazy]

[Rumormongers should die! Your whole fucking family is sick!]

[Saying that as soon as you open your mouth, if you don’t need your brain then you can give it to other people to use. Was your brain made the same way as M1G’s manager?]

[Brothers and sisters who can talk, talk some more. Other people are focusing on playing the competition, what shit are you stirring here?]

[It can’t be that M1G is scheming again ba?]

……

The game had gone on for 20 minutes now.

The School was still in the safe zone.

The teams around there, who were fighting until sparks flew, seemed to finally realize that the School existed.

“BZD rushed into the School and seemed to hesitate ah. When they landed, they should have seen that QAQ landed in the School, but now there seems to be no trace of the School having been searched.”

NALU said this and laughed.

Half also agreed and nodded.

This strategy.

BZD did hesitate as NALU had said.

No one seemed to have come to the School.

It was too quiet.

They listened outside for a while, but there were no footsteps.

However, they were professional players after all, and they still had some vigilance. At present, they guessed that QAQ was either still in School or had gone to another location. The kill prompts hadn’t provided any information on QAQ.

BZD’s captain hesitated for a while, but then still rushed in with his people.

“Captain, I’m about to go to sleep. When can we move?” Lu Tun yawned.

Shen Qi pressed the mouse and identified the direction of the team by the sound of their footsteps. “Wait.”

When the footsteps outside came closer and closer, right against their house, the door to the house opened.

The BZD players weren’t able to react.

Two of them directly fell.

BZD’s captain let out a “shit.”

He knew that QAQ should be here, but there had been no footsteps. The doors were all closed, and he couldn’t tell where they were.

In the end, they had been too impatient.

“Beautiful, QAQ takes four kill points! The safe zone is still at the School! It can’t be that QAQ is going to be the chosen of heaven this round?” Half grew excited again.

Xu Leng, his hands trembling slightly, let out a breath.

It was alright, they fought past them.

Shen Qi laughed and looted some medicine and ammunition before retreating and continuing to hide.

If you wanted to target them, then you would have to come find them.

If they didn’t move, the other parties would have to search for them one place at a time. That was, they were in the dark while the enemy was in the light, and at least they had an advantage.

“At present, only QAQ still has their full squad. QAQ’s kill score is four points, and BIG still has three people left with six kill points. There is also RAR who has one lone wolf left who has also come to the School. At present, the remaining three teams are all in the School, so we’ll see who makes the first move.”

“QAQ and BIG’s rankings in this match will determine their current total score ranking. We see that BIG is moving! This match, QAQ is really hiding ah.”

[Going with the casters’ complaints: Too dog-like]

[Hahahaha, BZD must be completely confused. Setting aside all four of you being in the same house, there’s not even a trace of things being looted outside, too dirty]

[Blindly guessing that QAQ will eat chicken]

[Heh heh, quickly stop the brainless praise ba, garbage team! Psychotic team hahaha, suggesting you change the name to psychotic team ba, it suits them more]

[M1G is the best! M1G is awesome!]

[Idiot? Isn’t this slander]

“BIG got another kill point, but they can’t find QAQ and have gone upstairs. They are getting ready to start a blanket search.”

“They see the box at the door! Wow! LAND threw a grenade! He blew up two while also falling down at the same time!”

Ye Lai smiled slightly. He had exchanged one for two.

BIG only had one person left while they still had three, although two were at low health.

Only Shifu could think of a damaging move like blowing yourself up.

On BIG’s side——

“They’re being so fucking vicious now? Even daring to blow themselves up?” WSS, who had been blown up, complained.

He Bin, who was far away, glanced at him and said, “Don’t swear.”

WSS shut up.

Shen Qi and Xu Leng directly threw out two smoke grenades, and then emerged from the room.

He Bin went downstairs and got ready to run.

Three people chased one.

Shen Qi snorted. “Cats chasing a mouse ah, it’s pretty great.”

The corner of the referee’s mouth drew up behind them.

“No personal attacks.”

Lu Ziye grabbed the referee’s hand that was about to write down a note. “It doesn’t count ba, that’s just a metaphor.”

The referee stared at him twice.

He stopped writing.

Shen Qi couldn’t hear what the referee was saying.

Right now, his whole body and mind were occupied with chasing down He Bin.

The footsteps were too clear, and He Bin couldn’t hide. He leaned against the door of a house for cover.

Finally, he took the initiative to stand up and fight Shen Qi.

“Congratulations to QAQ for successfully eating chicken in this match!”

At the end of this match, QAQ’s total points exceeded BIG’s again, and they returned to first place.

At the end of the third match, the chicken eating team still needed to send a team member onstage for an interview, and they still chose Ye Lai like before.

The half-time break this time was relatively long, since the players all needed to eat dinner.

He Bin took his dinner and sat in the middle of the QAQ lounge.

He began to comment without a shred of courtesy, “Very good, very dirty.”

Shen Qi smiled and patted He Bin on the shoulder. “Right back at you. I learned it from you. If we’re going to get dirty, then everyone should get dirty.”

The corners of He Bin’s lips quirked up, and he laughed.

Lu Tun drew close to Xu Leng’s ear. “What strange conversation is this? Is Idol not afraid of this being livestreamed?”

As soon as he said that, Shen Qi suddenly stood up, moved over to Ye Lai, and looked at He Bin. “Keep further away from me, you smell too much. It won’t be good if my boyfriend smells it.”

Although Gege was away, he still had to keep a distance from the “wild man.”

He Bin: …..

He Bin sniffed himself, but he didn’t smell like anything. He picked up his dinner and walked away expressionlessly.

Lu Ziye first went backstage to meet Duan Rong. When he came back, his expression wasn’t very good.

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The author has something to say:

Gamed too much, my eyes are inflamed, I….

Feel too bad, QAQ

Thank you for the mines and nutrient solution. It’s the end of the month, so do you understand? The nutrient solution is about to expire, and I want to try a different taste of nutrient solution

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