Ch24 - My situation is too tough!

Edited by yuuki and Noks

Wen Xi froze for a moment after he realized what was happening, and was lost on whether he should laugh or cry.

He had been so nervous while watching the competition that he hadn’t really paid any attention to the commentary…

Hearing only silence on his end, Magic Xi knew that he had completely forgotten about this matter. She thought it was funny and was quite amused by it. “Mac is very powerful, but you can’t just watch him show off all the time ah… So what are you planning on doing this afternoon?”

“Uh, aren’t there still the duo match competitions?” Wen Xi was still pretty optimistic about the livestream in the afternoon. After all, if worse came to worst, he could just keep silent and listen to the original commentary alongside the barrage.

He was not as poor this month as he had been the previous month. He could afford to pay his utility bills and eat three meals a day. He even had some savings left after buying new clothes, and he wouldn’t be able to use this money up in a short amount of time. He also didn’t need to send money or anything else back to his family.

Therefore, he had livestreamed more casually this month, with his game maneuvers and interactions with teammates and the barrage all being good. More than most of it had been done in a spontaneous fashion, and that too not for any sort of livestream effect.

However, there would still be many stream followers who would smash deep-water torpedoes on him because he got a headshot with one arrow. After all, that moment was really cool.

Probably aware of Wen Xi’s casual mindfulness, Magic Xi sighed and didn’t continue to force him. Instead, she kindly reminded him, “I don’t mind if you boast about Mac to me; I’m neither his fan or his anti. But when you stream in the afternoon, you should remember to hold back a bit. Mac has a lot of fans, but he also has a lot of antis. If you get targeted by his anti-fans, your livestream will soon turn into a battlefield.”

“Oh…” Wen Xi was lost in thought for a moment.

There were some things he wanted to say that he didn’t dare to—in fact, he felt that Mo Chen’s fans and his antis were the same people…

Magic Xi said, “Don’t just say ‘oh’, you need to actually listen and get it into your head ah! In the afternoon’s livestream, you really need to pay attention and learn a little more from Ai Zhe. Don’t be taken in by his appearance of not caring about Mac at all; he’s a giant Mac fanboy.”

“Eh?” Wen Xi really hadn’t known that.

“How about it? You can’t tell ba?” Magic Xi was a little pleased with herself as she explained, “Ai Zhe looks stupid, but in fact, he’s very smart. He has been livestreaming for so long, and his popularity has always been very stable because he knows what to say and what not to say.”

“Do you still remember the time you were livestreaming with him and Momo, and he helped Momo deal with his stream followers?” Magic Xi continued, “Although he was using a very excited tone at that time, carefully recall what he had said at that time. The reason he used to refute their statements was “insufficient evidence.” He didn’t try to wash Mac clean, and he also didn’t step on Mac along with some of his stream followers, so neither side was offended.”

“Yes oh,” Wen Xi responded randomly.

In fact, he had already forgotten what Ai Zhe had said at that time. He only remembered that even though many people had suspected that Momo was Mac, and Mo Chen had clearly already turned on his mic, he hadn’t bothered to explain it at all.

“Oh yeah, Momo hasn’t livestreamed with you for a long time now,” Magic Xi suddenly remembered this and asked, “Has he finished his exams? Say, doesn’t school start in September anyway?”

Wen Xi: “….”

The matter that Momo was Mac was of course something he couldn’t tell anyone.

Wen Xi hesitated for a moment, then decided to play dumb and answered, “Don’t know ah…I’ll ask him when the league is over.”

“Alright.” Magic Xi didn’t think much about it. She just said, “Pay more attention to the commentary in the next competition round,” and then she hung up after saying goodbye to Wen Xi.

Wen Xi put down his cellphone and breathed a sigh of relief at the end of the call. He suddenly felt the same thrill one would feel if they had tanked a test and did not dare to show their parents the grade, but then finally successfully managed to fool them and get away with it.

Although Magic Xi was his fan, the aura she emitted whenever she got serious really awed people.

At this time, a promotional video of the 16th SGH professional league was playing on the computer screen, with scenes from the real world and the game alternating. The figures of the players from behind and their game characters had been pieced together and edited, with sweat pouring down and hails of bullets in the background. This marketing video had been shot in a way that made one feel that they were really experiencing it all again.

Wen Xi was just guessing whether there was any scene of Mo Chen’s in this video when his cellphone rang again.

Magic Xi again?

Was there something she had forgotten to elaborate on just now?

Wen Xi picked up his cellphone doubtfully and saw that the caller ID said “Mo Chen”…

Clack—the cellphone that he had just picked up from the table slid out of his fingers and fell back onto the table.

Wen Xi hastily extended his other hand to rescue it as he was in a total hurry to put the cellphone to his ear.

At the moment he answered the call, his heart beat uncontrollably, and his mind was filled with scenes of Mo Chen’s wonderful performance in the game just now.

“Hello?” Wen Xi said cautiously, for fear that a loud voice would scare the other party away.

And Mo Chen, who was at the other end of the call, also had a bit of a cautious tone when he responded, “I…cough, you watched the game just now ba?”

Wen Xi replied, “Yes.”

Mo Chen asked, “Oh, what did you think?”

This was the second time he had heard this question, and Wen Xi, who had been “taken in” last time, hesitated to reply, before finally saying, “The game was very wonderful.”

Mo Chen asked, “And what else?”

Wen Xi continued, “The competition area was so big ah. I feel that it would be magnificent to actually go there to watch it ba.”

Mo Chen was silent. After a moment, he opened his mouth again and asked, “And what else?”

“And…”

Without waiting for Wen Xi to continue to dig up new angles to explore and reply to, the person who had started this topic, Mo Chen, really couldn’t help but feel lonely and so gave a hint—“How was Mac?”

“He was super hot!” Wen Xi expressed that he could answer this question!

Only after answering did he remember that the person calling him was Mac himself, but he didn’t mind letting the very person himself know about his appreciation of him. “Mac was so powerful ah! 9 out of 10 shots were headshots, and they were all made from even so far away! His hearing, competition awareness, and e-sports eyesight are all excellent, and I feel like that he is on a completely different level than the rest of the players!”

Hearing this content, the corners of Mo Chen’s lips gradually rose, and this action frightened his teammates around him half to death.

Ling Shuyi, who was just hydrating himself, inadvertently saw the budding smile on his lips. With a “pfft—” sound, he sprayed out all the water he had just drunk, then coughed violently.

Mo Chen glared at him, turned his back to him, and spoke in a kind of “doting” tone, “The competition starts from the moment you get on the plane. After getting on the plane, the first thing a player has to do is analyze the map and choose a spot to jump to. For example, in the match just now, the building where Mac jumped to was the highest point on the whole map. It is easy to defend and hard to attack, with the only threat being from the mountain. It’s very suitable for long-distance snipers, such as you.”

Wen Xi was stunned for a moment. Suddenly, he had a strange feeling—it couldn’t be that Mo Chen had jumped to the top of that building just to give him a demonstration?

While Wen Xi was still in a daze, Mo Chen opened his mouth again and asked, “How about it? Are you interested in the professional league? Do you want to try it out yourself?”

Wen Xi: “….”

Really a familiar sounding formula with a familiar taste.

“Don’t make it sound as if playing professionally is the same as making dumplings, would you?” Wen Xi couldn’t help but complain.

Mo Chen chuckled lightly as he replied, “In fact, it is almost the same? While you’re young, you can try anything out.”

Wen Xi didn’t respond. He was thinking.

Aware of the wavering of the person on the other side of the phone, Mo Chen nervously held his breath—it felt like there was a chance?!

After a while, Wen Xi’s answered with a “Give me some time.”

He didn’t promise.

But he also didn’t reject him.

“Okay.” The word Mo Chen replied with was quite restrained, but his heart was surging with excitement.

He didn’t reject him, so that meant he was thinking about it!

It felt like victory was in sight!

However, after saying goodbye to Wen Xi and hanging up the phone, Mo Chen’s eyes flashed with a trace of confusion.

Ling Shuyi had secretly kept an eye on him, since he had sensed that Mo Chen was not completely normal at the moment.

But out of respect and concern for his captain, he still tentatively asked, “What’s the matter?”

Mo Chen didn’t even turn his head as he explained his bewilderment, “The director didn’t point the camera at me?”

“How could that be?” Ling Shuyi blurted out.

“Right ah!” Mo Chen seriously said.

He was so handsome and famous that the director couldn’t have failed to point the camera at him…

Then the question was—why didn’t Wen Xi recognize him?

And he had even been ready to confess and apologize for this when he had called.

It couldn’t be that… Wen Xi was face blind?

Mo Chen didn’t even consider the idea that Wen Xi could be playing dumb because his impression of Wen Xi was that he was a little innocent who wouldn’t hesitate to even send strangers his own address.

He was too pure, too careless.

——It made people instinctively want to protect him.

*

Mo Chen didn’t take part in the duo competition, so Wen Xi could finally count as someone paying close attention to the commentary.

He turned down the volume and tried to provide commentary at the same time. However, he always kept feeling like something wasn’t quite right afterwards?

For example, when YEY’s Run knocked down MQ’s Ax:

Wen Xi commented, “No headshot, negative review!”

A-Yi said, “Run’s shot just now was too great! Ax has fallen to the ground, and his teammates dare not help him up. Can Ax save himself?!”

Then, when MQ’s FFJ beat back Run:

Wen Xi commented, “So many shots and he’s still not knocked down…”

Bunny Ji said, “AHHHH, Feijie beat back Run! Ax is still alive!”

A-Yi said, “Ax saved himself! Ax successfully retreated behind the wall under the cover of Feijie’s assistance!”

Bunny Ji said, “Too wonderful! It’s worthy of being called a fight between two strong teams!”

Wen Xi: ???

A few minutes later, LY of the CLM team was knocked down by a member of an unknown small team, before being directly finished off. Wen Xi let out an “Aiya.”

——Yes, CLM team, the one that Mo Chen was in.

Wen Xi said, “Sneak attacks are too shameful!”

Bunny Ji said, “Wow, that shot was a bit hot ah! People couldn’t defend themselves at all!”

A-Yi said, “But he was finished off too fast; he could have been used as a lure. You can tell that Lan Yan’s teammate originally wanted to save him.”

Bunny Ji added, “Yes, Windy had actually already gone over to that spot, but after Lan Yan was finished off, he turned around and left.”

A few minutes later, Windy was ambushed in a “public bathroom”, and he threw out a frag grenade and killed the entire team.

Wen Xi said, “Hot! Killed two with one grenade! Too handsome.”

A-Yi commented, “Why is Windy still here? He’s going to be too late if he doesn’t run from the poison circle soon!”

Bunny Ji said, “He probably thinks that it’s already too late, so he wants to gather a few more kills before he dies of the poison ba!”

Wen Xi: “….”

——My situation is too tough!

After discovering that his commentary conflicted with the original version several times, Wen Xi had deep doubts about life.

He didn’t understand why game moments that he thought were average and ordinary were wonderful moments in the eyes of the casters.

And why the exciting scenes in his eyes became scenes of players bringing about their own destruction in the eyes of the casters.

He really wanted to find someone right now to complain tearfully to—is there something wrong with me or with the world?!

Just as he was thinking along these lines, Magic Xi’s phone call came.

This time, Wen Xi had guessed that it would be Magic Xi, so he didn’t really react upon seeing the caller ID. He picked up the phone with a face that fully expressed that life had no meaning. “Hello?”

“The duo competition is over. Can you do commentary now?” Magic Xi asked him.

Wen Xi replied, “I think that I don’t have any talent at all in doing commentary… Can I just not turn on the mic in the afternoon?”

“No,” Magic Xi refused, and then helplessly laughed and said, “But I can find a partner for you—during this period, Ai Zhe and Blue Wolf have asked for leave to go to the competition site. In the afternoon, you and Ruby play together ba. Ruby isn’t that good at playing the game, but she has very rich theoretical knowledge. She can be in charge of the commentary, you just have to go along with her.”

Magic Xi really was worthy!

She was like a biological mother ah!

Wen Xi was immediately revitalized. He responded, “Okay!” but then noticed a detail, “Wait, Ai Zhe and Blue Wolf have both gone to the competition area? They went together?”

“Yes.” Magic Xi replied, not thinking there was anything strange about it. “They live in the same building, so maybe they made plans to go together ba.”

Wen Xi blinked, and sensed that there was something not quite right, but he couldn’t pinpoint it.

He didn’t care, and after thanking Magic Xi for a while, he hung up the phone happily.

It wasn’t until lunch that he suddenly remembered—right, he had read about Ai Zhe and Blue Wolf. One of them was from the South, and the other was from the North. How did they end up living together?

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Juurensha: ….I feel like Ai Zhe and Blue Wolf are a bit more than roommates! Also ahahaha, Momo completely buying Wen Xi’s innocent act.

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