Ch26 - I am willing

Edited by Kat and Noks

Momo was Mac ah!

——Of course, he couldn’t just shout that out.

“Momo…… That’s different. What I admire about Mac is his skills. I admire Momo…” Wen Xi explained halfway, then suddenly realized, “Wait, Momo and I were forcibly put into a CP by you guys in the first place, so why should I explain ah?”

[Lololol God Xi you unintentionally divulged something!]

[You said you admire Momo!]

[Admiration can be rounded up to liking him!]

“You can round up like that?” Wen Xi gave up on explaining any further.

He decided to ignore the barrage, and joined Ruby in the great cause of praising Mac.

Ruby yelled, “AHHHHH! He flicked his gun and got a headshot!”

Wen Xi said, “Too quick! It happened in the blink of an eye!”

Ruby asked, “What kind of immortal maneuver is this?!”

Wen Xi said, “Mac is awesome!”

[hhhhh, so what we’re watching right now is a praising Mac livestream?]

[Two Mac fans gathered together is inexplicably fun?]

[Hahahaha, watching what professional league, we’re just praising Mac ah!]

As a result, the agreed upon livestream of commentary on the league had become a livestream dedicated to praising Mac.

However, in this match, Mo Chen really did play very well. Like Ruby had said, as long as Mo Chen stepped onto the field, he would never let anyone down.

As for his teammates, Ling Shuyi played quite well. He entered head-to-head gun battles against enemies twice, and just barely won both times. The audience was sweating at the edge of their seats while watching him, but at the same time, they couldn’t help but applaud his courage.

Windy, or Chen Wei, played as a medic almost the entire time, without displaying any brilliant plays.

LY, or Lan Yan, made frequent mistakes, and was taken out by an enemy’s frag grenade 10 minutes into the match, which caused people to doubt his strength.

Carrying such a group of pig teammates, the final result could be imagined—Mo Chen alone made it to the final circle after putting in great effort, but was caught by a pincer attack orchestrated by two different teams coming into the circle from both the front and behind.

Even when he was on the verge of death, he played to his absolute limit. After killing two people with an assault rifle, he used a frag grenade to take the other two with him to perish together. He finished the squad match with 11 kills and was sixth and third in the individual and team match rankings, respectively.

Because the professional league counted kills, and Mo Chen had gotten the most kills in the entire competition, their team actually got enough points to surpass MQ, who had won the squad match, and temporarily ranked first!

——First place CLM, second place MQ!

As soon as these results came out, the whole audience cheered, and Wen Xi and Ruby of course also yelled excitedly!

However, Wen Xi felt a little uneasy after cheering.

He thought about how, if he agreed to play professionally with Mo Chen and joined CLM, would Ling Shuyi, Chen Wei, and Lan Yan really all become his teammates?

In other words… who would he be replacing from amongst these people?

*

After a 10 minute break, the squad competition entered its second half.

A total of 50 teams were participating in the domestic trials, so they had been divided into two halves using a lottery system.

In other words, different from the solo and duo competitions, there were two squad competitions held every day, with 25 teams competing against each other in each match.

It was a two-week long competition. During the first week, 30 teams would be eliminated based on their total accumulated points, thereby leaving only 20 teams to compete in the second week to determine both the champion and the runner up.

Both Wen Xi and Ruby lacked interest in the second squad match.

——There was no spirit in a competition without Mac!

However, they were still livestreaming, so the two of them seriously provided commentary for a bit.

Ruby said, “Run is a bit reckless. If it wasn’t for Lightning, he would have no chance of saving himself.”

Wen Xi agreed, “Yes, Lightning rushed out at just the right time, but sadly sacrificed a piece of armor.”

The barrage:

[???]

[So you guys can actually provide normal commentary!]

[2333 Who are you guys? Give those two little Mac fan cuties back to us!]

Wen Xi continued, “However, Bunny’s gun technique has room for improvement. If it had been Mac, he would have not left any opportunity for Run to retreat.”

Ruby added, “If it was Mac standing in Bunny’s position, don’t mention Run, even Lightning would be in danger, okay!”

The barrage:

[Lolololol I was wrong, a Mac fan will always be a Mac fan!]

[A qualified Mac fan needs to praise Mac no matter the occasion!]

In this way, even though Mac wasn’t in the competition, Wen Xi and Ruby still praised Mac until flowers rained down from the heavens.

After finishing praising Mac, no, they meant after the professional league matches had ended for the day, the two of them played a few duo matches.

He didn’t know whether it was because he was in a good mood or something, but Wen Xi’s hands felt extraordinary good. Even he was surprised when he won first place for three consecutive matches, getting a dozen or so kills each match.

However, after ending the livestream, Wen Xi suddenly thought of a problem and asked Ruby, “We’ve completely exposed ourselves, so what should Ai Zhe do?”

Ruby was stunned for a moment and didn’t realize what he was referring to as she asked, “Are you worried that Love Pig will no longer form a team with us after coming back?”

Wen Xi replied, “No ah, isn’t he also a Mac fan?”

Ruby exclaimed, “What?! He’s also a Mac fan?!”

Wen Xi didn’t know whether to laugh or cry—you had to admit that Ai Zhe had hidden it really deeply. He was a big Mac fanboy, but had even hidden it from his partner of many years.

In fact, Wen Xi believed that, among those who paid attention to the SGH professional league, who wasn’t a Mac fan?

With this so-called “tough love,” those people slandering Mac may curse him with their mouths, but in their hearts may praise him even more excessively than him and Ruby.

Just when he was about to discuss how to tell Ai Zhe about how they had “exposed themselves” with Ruby, Wen Xi’s cellphone suddenly rang.

This time, Wen Xi wasn’t sure whether the person calling him was Mo Chen or Magic Xi, but his heart still trembled when he heard it ring.

“Just a moment. I need to take a call,” after telling Ruby this, he decisively muted his mic and picked up his phone.

He looked at the caller ID and—it was Mo Chen!

Wen Xi tried hard to restrain the excitement sprouting in his heart and picked up the phone. “Hello?”

Mo Chen heard his voice but didn’t hurry to reply, and first coughed.

He didn’t believe that Wen Xi still hadn’t figured out that he was Mac!

However, hearing his cough, Wen Xi asked very naively, “What’s the matter? Does your throat feel uncomfortable?”

“No…” Mo Chen said, and sighed helplessly before resigning himself to his fate and asking, “You saw the entire competition ba?”

“Yes.”

“Is there something you want to say to me?” Mo Chen then asked.

It wasn’t that he didn’t want to admit that he was Mac. After all, if he wanted to hide it then he wouldn’t have told Wen Xi his real name from the beginning.

He was mainly curious about how Wen Xi would react after he found out, so he kept holding back.

Yet as a result, he hadn’t still hadn’t admitted it, and Wen Xi seemed to still be pretending that he didn’t know?

Wen Xi replied, “Mac played great in every game! Although YEY got the most points in the end, I think today’s MVP must be Mac!”

Mo Chen should be happy at being praised again, but now he was a little confused—He couldn’t understand why Wen Xi didn’t recognize him?

So he couldn’t help but ask, “What about when compared to me?”

Wen Xi froze, and thought that this question felt a bit familiar—wasn’t this what he had asked Mo Chen?

He remembered that Mo Chen’s answer at that time was…

Wen Xi replied, “It’s different. Although you’re both strong, you create bloodbaths in the rookie concentration camp, while Mac plays in the professional league.”

Mo Chen: “….”

Today, Mo Chen finally understood what it meant to lift a rock, only to smash it on his own foot.

But what could he do?

Wen Xi had replied with his own words, so of course he was going to dote on him. “That’s right…”

Wen Xi couldn’t help laughing.

He swore that his words just now weren’t intentional. However, after saying them, he had imagined Mo Chen’s reactions, and felt that it must be very hard for him to keep hiding his identity….

Wen Xi really wanted to know when Mo Chen would actually be willing to admit that he was Mac, so he deliberately said, “The two teams MQ and YEY are also very strong, and I feel that their overall strength is even greater than CLM’s!”

“You think too much,” Mo Chen retorted immediately, “Mac alone could kill both their entire teams.”

His words made Wen Xi laugh soundlessly, almost to the point of hammering his hand on the table, but he managed to hold himself back.

He thought that Mo Chen was too cute when he boasted about himself.

On the other end of the cellphone, Mo Chen had praised himself expressionlessly, but in his heart, he was actually embarrassed—He was finished, what if Wen Xi had known he was Mac since a long time ago and purposely hadn’t mentioned it?

Originally, he had planned to admit it himself, but how could he ever admit it now?

Wen Xi echoed him while suppressing his laughter, “You’re right. Mac is really strong enough to do that, and is capable of propping up an entire team by himself…”

Mo Chen was silent and thought about it carefully again. There was no way that Wen Xi still didn’t know that he was Mac, so he finally decided to stop skirting around the matter. “Enough you. As long as I won’t admit it, you’ll just keep pretending you don’t know?”

Wen Xi blinked—Huh?

Had he been found out?

How?

He had thought that he had put on a pretty good act ah?

They say if you don’t understand, just ask, so Wen Xi tentatively asked, “How did you know that I already knew…”

“We’ve met in person,” Mo Chen interrupted him, “And the director pointed the camera at me. Although my hairstyle changed, it’s not like I got plastic surgery. ”

Wen Xi: !!!

“So it’s like that,” Wen Xi understood and replied, “All my hard work in pretending I didn’t know has been wasted…”

Mo Chen didn’t know whether to laugh or cry.

Sometimes, he couldn’t tell whether Wen Xi was being really silly or just playing dumb—it was already so obvious, so why would it be necessary for him to pretend he didn’t know?!

But he didn’t seem to have the right to remonstrate him.

Both of them had waited for the other person to reveal the truth first, but in the end neither of them wanted to, so the blame laid with both of them?

In that case, he could only take the initiative.

Mo Chen said a bit helplessly, “I’m Mac.”

“Uh…” Wen Xi suddenly lost his voice.

He had known that Mo Chen was Mac before the professional league had begun, but back then, he could still communicate with him without any pressure, even to the extent of praising Mac in front of him.

However, he didn’t know why, but after listening to Mo Chen admit it himself, Wen Xi didn’t know what to say.

After noticing his strange behavior, Mo Chen softened his voice and added, “Relax, you don’t have to be nervous. After all, you’re someone who has previously killed and beaten me in the game.”

Wen Xi replied, “I’m not nervous.”

Mo Chen: “….”

Wen Xi was really at a bit of a loss and didn’t know what to say at the moment, but he was sure that this feeling wasn’t due to nervousness.

It was due to…excitement?

When he realized that he was talking to the person that he had been praising all day, he felt as though the situation had turned into something very unreal, and he felt as though his heart had been set aflame.

This was the first time that Wen Xi had felt this way. Could this be how people felt when they worshipped someone?

Then, he recalled Mo Chen in today’s professional league competition, and the wonderful manner in which he had performed, and his mood grew increasingly excited.

To be honest, Wen Xi was still not interested in playing professionally—he prefered watching others play rather than playing himself.

However, regarding the invitation of “playing professionally with Mo Chen…”—He admitted that he was interested.

Wen Xi finished sorting out his emotions, and broke the awkward silence by sounding the other out and asking, “Why aren’t you egging me on to play professionally?”

Mo Chen thought—was he joking?

He guiltily touched his nose and put on some airs as he replied, “I have to give you time to think. After all, this isn’t a matter that can be decided rashly…”

Wen Xi didn’t wait for him to finish his sentence and immediately spoke three words, “I am willing.”

—

Juurensha: !!!! He’s willing! Mo Chen, you didn’t have to trick him after all!

Noks: No, all Mac had to do was play professionally live for Wen Xi! That’s all it took to get him hooked!

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