Ch39 - Dealt a heavy blow to his teammate!

Edited by kat and Noks

Wen Xi had felt a little nervous before the first match of the solo competition had started.

He had told himself to focus on the game, but as soon as the thought that the game would count towards the team’s final total points appeared in his mind, along with the fact that Mo Chen was here watching the fight, he had felt all kinds of uneasy—not only being afraid that he would drag down the team, but also afraid of letting Mo Chen down.

However, after the game actually started, he didn’t know if it was because he had played too many matches and had developed muscle memory, but Wen Xi clearly knew what he should do.

He jumped out, opened his parachute, landed on the ground, and got the first kill—all without any stray thoughts crossing his mind. He treated this match just like a normal point-farming match and fought accordingly.

Ever since the end of the domestic trials, Wen Xi had been cultivating his professional awareness. To be precise, he had been cultivating his sense for taking kills.

Therefore, every enemy he encountered died by his hands—he pretty much would see one player, kill one player, and if he saw two, then he would kill both of them! Even if someone else knocked down his target, he would never let go of any kills that he could snatch away!

Because his performance was so amazing, the director would often focus the camera on him, which left the audience with the inexplicable impression that they were watching Wen Xi’s personal livestream.

As the poison circle continued to shrink and move around, Wen Xi had to move to the new safe areas, and so, he inevitably got closer to his teammates.

Ling Shuyi’s hands felt good today, and he was using his assault rifle super smoothly. Up until now, he had not lost a gun fight against anyone. However, his health had dropped into the critical zone several times, which was pretty scary.

He knocked down another person with his assault rifle, but before he could finish them off with his pistol, an arrow flew out from nowhere and suddenly pierced through his “prey.”

[CLM-Wency killed JY-Lex with a headshot with a bow!]

Ling Shuyi: ???

Ge, why are you even snatching away your teammate’s kills ah?

[System] CLM-Wency knocked you down with a headshot with a bow!

What the fuck! Ge! Don’t hit your own people ah!

SGH’s solo matches prohibited assistance between team members, but that was limited to just communicating and trading equipment—that was to say, teaming up was allowed to a certain extent, so long as they didn’t use their mics to talk or share equipment.

For example, members of the same team could choose to not attack each other. If they had enough tacit understanding between them, they could divide the work and cooperate together, with one being responsible for knocking people down, and the other being responsible for finishing them off.

Therefore, after Wen Xi robbed Ling Shuyi of his kill and then when he was almost buried by Wen Xi, his heart broke, and he finally believed that Wen Xi had never previously played professionally.

——Had no one told him about the hidden rules of solo matches?!

Fortunately, Wen Xi realized it was his teammate after shooting the arrow, and so he immediately put his bow away and left, pretending that nothing had happened.

It wasn’t his fault; you couldn’t see your enemies’ IDs in the game. At such a distance, when he used his bow, he didn’t have any scopes, so he couldn’t see anyone clearly. He had just seen a helmet shaking like a target, beckoning to him, and his hands began to itch so….

“Hahahahahaha! He dealt a heavy blow to his teammate!” Commentator Xiao Bu couldn’t keep from laughing as he watched. “But now I can explain ha. The reason why the bow is tough to use, apart from the difficulty in controlling the distance the arrow flies to, is the issue of the scope—a bow cannot be equipped with a scope.”

“It wouldn’t help to equip one.” Magic Xi didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. “After all, an arrow’s trajectory is not like the nearly straight line trajectory of a bullet. Besides helping to see the enemy’s appearance, a scope won’t really be of any help to a weapon like a bow.”

While they were talking, the screen showed that Ling Shuyi had already revived himself using some bandages, before running far away from Wen Xi.

Cat had been nearly scared to death, OK!

However, if Wen Xi had previously learned that he shouldn’t attack his teammates, then that should count as him making a mistake just now ba? When the game was over, the captain would definitely scold him!

Ling Shuyi still remembered that during a training match a few months ago, after he had accidentally hit Mo Chen, Mo Chen had killed him with a backhand and had forced extra training on him for a whole week.

However, Ling Shuyi had ignored one thing, and that was—he wasn’t Wen Xi, and Wen Xi wasn’t him.

At this moment, Mo Chen’s face was full of regret, and he lamented, “Why didn’t he kill that cat? He let it escape.”

Chen Xiao: “…”

So you can actually act even more shameless.

By the third circle, Wen Xi had 16 kills in his hands, Ling Shuyi had eight, and Chen Wei had two.

Although Lan Yan had more kills than Chen Wei, with four in his hands, he had been sneak-attacked on the way to the safety zone, and had thus become the first player in CLM to exit the match.

After Lan Yan died, he didn’t leave the competition scene and instead chose to spectate the battle.

He switched views between his teammates for a while, before finally staying on Wen Xi’s perspective.

There were now less than 20 players still alive in the game.

With fewer and fewer people, and the safety zone getting increasingly smaller, it was inevitable—Wen Xi met his teammates again.

[System] You knocked down CLM-Cat with a headshot with a bow.

Wen Xi: ?

Ling Shuyi: ???

“WTF, again!” Ling Shuyi felt that he would die at Wen Xie’s hands sooner or later. “Look carefully before shooting, okay!”

He couldn’t help shouting this, but Wen Xi couldn’t hear him at all right now.

Lan Yan originally wanted to take a closer look at Wen Xi’s maneuvers, but didn’t expect to see this giant mistake and couldn’t help laughing for a while.

“Okay, CLM’s Wency has successfully knocked down his teammate Kitty again!” Even Xiao Bu had started to become glib about the situation.

Magic Xi followed along and also teased, “Congratulations to Kitty for once again getting to experience the fear of being dominated by a teammate!”

Mo Chen let out a “pfft—”, before raising his hand and rubbing his nose, pretending that he hadn’t laughed.

Chen Xiao was speechless. “…. Don’t just sit around having fun. This problem has to be solved ba?”

“It’s fine,” Mo Chen didn’t take it seriously and said, “When it’s time for the formal competition, each team can only send two people into the solo competition. I’ll go with him. He won’t hit me.”

These words were the same as saying—“the little animal that I’ve raised up won’t bite me.”

Chen Xiao really didn’t know where this kind of self-confidence of his came from?

“If worst comes to worst, then Kitty can still do the solo match, while Wen Xi and Chen Wei can do the duo match,” Mo Chen added.

“En, that will do,” Chen Xiao replied, “You finally spoke like a human being.”

Ling Shuyi used a bandage for the second time to save himself from Wen Xi’s tyranny. He really wanted to despair.

He wanted to be as far away from Wen Xi as possible.

However, just as he had increased the distance between them after exerting great effort, he was forced to retreat his steps back in that direction by the next poison circle.

Hearing the “shhpt—” sound of a bow being released, Ling Shuyi almost instinctively swung his mouse, manipulating his character to quickly lean to the side.

At that moment, a slender arrow nearly rubbed against his ears as it hurtled past him!

“Hm? Wency missed?” Xiao Bu was a little surprised.

So far, although not all of Wen Xi’s arrows resulted in headshots, all of them did hit their target. However, this arrow actually hit empty air?

“No.” Magic Xi didn’t believe that Wen Xi’s arrow would miss its target. “I feel like Kitty dodged. Can the director show a replay of Kitty’s perspective?”

As soon as she spoke, a slow motion replay of Ling Shuyi’s perspective from a minute ago appeared on the screen.

Thus, everyone saw the incredible scene— after Wen Xi had shot the arrow, Ling Shuyi dodged it with a seemingly incredible reaction speed!

At present, Ling Shuyi had participated in very few open competitions. Therefore, although the commentators had mentioned his quick reaction speed during the domestic trials, no one had really gotten to see it. They only knew that he was really quick at turning into a lootbox upon landing.

However, at that moment, he used his actions to tell everyone—his reaction speed was really fast, to an almost unbelievable level!

“He dodged it?!” Xiao Bu couldn’t believe his eyes.

“Yes, Kitty dodged Wency’s arrow!” Magic Xi affirmed.

After this matter was confirmed, the entire venue was thrown into an uproar.

“My God, how could you react to this? Did you dodge based on your intuition?”

“WTF! What kind of monsters are all in CLM?!”

The more the game progressed, the faster it became.

Everyone watched as the number of survivors in the upper right-hand corner decreased from a dozen to just a few, until there were only five left.

The final results were determined in a flash.

Ling Shuyi rushed into a house with an assault rifle to prepare for a double kill, but Wen Xi shot an arrow in, and Chen Wei came out of nowhere and threw a grenade into the room.

Ling Shuyi’s perspective:

[System] CLM-Wency knocked you down with a headshot with a bow.

[System] CLM-Windy killed you with a hand grenade.

[System] You are dead.

Ling Shuyi: ???

What kind of teammates were these?!

In this way, although Chen Wei had only taken two kills since the beginning of the competition, he had now taken three kills at once with a single grenade, and his total kills turned into five—one of whom was Ling Shuyi.

Although it was inevitable for members of the same team to have to fight against each other towards the end of a solo match, being knocked down by one teammate and finished off by another still made Ling Shuyi quite speechless.

Especially since before this incident, he had been knocked down by Wen Xi for no less than two times!

No one had ever expected this kind of show at the end of the game, and the audience couldn’t help roaring with laughter.

That went even for the commentators….

“Hahahahahaha, Kitty was too miserable this match ba!” Xiao Bu laughed so hard that tears came out.

“Really too miserable!” Magic Xi had even felt a bit distressed for him as she watched, saying, “He keeps getting beaten up by his own teammates hahahahaha!”

——En, although she felt distressed for him, it was funny, so she still had to laugh.

Finally, Wen Xi and Chen Wei faced off in a gunfight. Chen Wei obviously just gave in, nearly lying down and resigning himself to getting fucked over.

What a joke, if he dared to kill Wen Xi, he would be taken out by the captain later, okay?

Therefore, in the Ice Cream Cup first solo competition, Wen Xi got 21 kills, scored first place, and earned an insurmountably high score for CLM.

Adding on the achievements of Ling Shuyi, Chen Wei, and Lan Yan, CLM had a total of 40 kills! That was nearly half the contestants participating!

“CLM is still powerful ah! They’re worthy of being number three in the domestic total points ranking!” Xiao Bu couldn’t help sighing emotionally as he said, “It’s really strange. I didn’t think that the members of CLM besides Mac were so powerful before ah?”

These words of his drew a bit of aggro, but he had voiced what a lot of people were thinking.

Magic Xi quickly helped him circle back by saying, “The important point is that Wency is too strong! One person taking 21 kills, this strength gap is too obvious! With regards to Kitty, he’s actually been improving this entire time. He performed pretty well this match, and I’m looking forward to his performance in the future! Windy is still the same, too good at being careless!”

“Hahahaha yes, too careless!”

The two commentators didn’t mention Lan Yan. At this moment, Lan Yan had taken off his earphones and could hear their voices, and so felt a bit uncomfortable.

However, he really hadn’t played well today, so there was nothing to say.

After the first solo match ended, there was a 10 minute break.

Wen Xi stood up from his e-sports chair. Suddenly, his legs went soft, and he nearly fell back into his chair. However, he was caught just in time.

Wen Xi froze for a moment before turning his head in surprise, and met Mo Chen’s soft eyes.

At this moment, Mo Chen’s gaze held traces of worry as he asked, “Are your legs numb?”

“No… All of a sudden, I just lost my strength,” Wen Xi said. He borrowed Mo Chen’s arm and stood firmly, letting out a secret sigh of relief.

It was only after Mo Chen saw that nothing was wrong with him that he felt reassured in letting go of him and asking, “How do you feel?”

Wen Xi recalled the game just now. It seemed that he had basically only felt nervous right before the game had started. “It’s okay, it’s just…”

He thought of the arrows he had shot at Ling Shuyi and was a little embarrassed.

That was what he was thinking when he saw Ling Shuyi approaching.

Wen Xi coughed and apologized, “Sorry, I didn’t mean to shoot you.”

Ling Shuyi was speechless. “….Ge, let’s count this as me begging you. I’m the only one here whose avatar has pigtails and a skirt on. Would you mind checking things clearly before shooting?”

Wen Xi had just wanted to say “alright,” but before he could even open his mouth, he heard Mo Chen lightly say, “It’s better to kill the wrong person than to let someone get away.”

Wen Xi: En? Is that right?

Ling Shuyi: !!!

Ah, their captain was probably hopeless!

Wen Xi went to the bathroom, before coming back to drink water. As soon as he picked up the bottle of mineral water on the table, it was seized by Mo Chen, and he warned, “Remember not to touch any food and water provided by the competition site in the future.”

Wen Xi blinked suspiciously—Would he be poisoned?

Before he could figure out what was going on, Mo Chen had stuffed a thermos into his hands and told him, “Drink this.”

Wen Xi hesitated for a bit before he took it, unscrewed the bottle cap, and took a sip. It was slightly sour, room-temperature lemon water.

However, Wen Xi didn’t pay attention to the taste and instead asked, “Is this your cup?”

Mo Chen was startled for a moment, before replying “You weren’t sure whose cup it is but you drank it anyway?”

Wen Xi was dumbfounded.

He had just felt that Mo Chen was so kind to him that he definitely wouldn’t harm him….

Besides, if it was really Mo Chen’s cup, it wasn’t like he minded ah orz.

“You’re overthinking it. I haven’t drunk from it. The thermos is new,” Mo Chen said, “I helped you soak the lemons in the morning, so now the temperature is just right.”

“Oh…” Wen Xi said. He didn’t know why, but he didn’t feel reassured, and even felt a kind of subtle loss?

However, thinking that it was the drink that Mo Chen had specially prepared for him, he took another big gulp in satisfaction~

“Alright, drink less.” Mo Chen didn’t give a chance to explain before he snatched away the thermos, screwing the lid on. He looked at Wen Xi’s slightly puffed up face that had on an expression of dissatisfaction, and couldn’t help laughing before adding “….so that while you’re halfway through playing, you don’t suddenly have a bathroom emergency.”

Erm, that made sense.

Wen Xi instantly felt relieved and smiled slightly at Mo Chen. “Okay, I’ll listen to you.”

After going to the bathroom, Ling Shuyi and Chen Wei came back in time to see this scene, and both of them broke out in goosebumps.

Ling Shuyi hissed and said, “In the future, will this scene happen every day?”

Chen Wei let out an “en” and said, “Most likely.”

Ling Shuyi clicked his tongue. “Tch, tch, tch, being able to make the captain this docile and obedient, this newbie is really talented. How can I make the captain so gentle towards me?”

“En?” Chen Wei raised his eyebrows as if he had noticed something funny and spoke in a bantering tone, “Are you sure you want the captain to be like that towards you?”

Ling Shuyi froze, and thinking of the reason hidden behind all this gentleness, started shivering on the spot. “Forget it, forget it, pretend I didn’t say anything.”

He was for the moment a straight man here, and wouldn’t be able to stand a man being so gentle towards him….

Yi, thinking like that, this newbie was a bit special to be able to withstand the captain’s gentle offensive oh?

*

Mo Chen chatted with Wen Xi for the entire duration of the half-time break.

Magic Xi could only look on from afar, unable to find a chance to say hello to Wen Xi. Finally, she gave up.

While Wen Xi chatted with Mo Chen, he had completely forgotten about Magic Xi’s existence.

It wasn’t until the solo competition’s second game had begun that he heard Magic Xi’s voice just before he put on his earphones. It was only then that Wen Xi remembered— Ah! He had completely forgotten about Magic Xi!

After being given the cold shoulder, Magic Xi was a little disappointed. However, thinking about how Wen Xi had played so well today, she immediately dialed her energy all the way up to 12 and announced: “Welcome back! This is the livestream for the first Ice Cream Cup SGH competition in S city. I’m Commentator Magic Xi~”

“I’m Commentator Xiao Bu!”

Like Magic Xi, Xiao Bu was a director of JJ Livestreams gaming streams, but he was mainly responsible for MOBA-type games. Therefore, he had pretty much no interaction with SGH hosts like Wen Xi, Ai Zhe, and Blue Wolf.

However, he had a good relationship with Magic Xi in private, and often listened to her talking about Wen Xi.

During the 10 minute break just now, he had asked Magic Xi, “Is this Wency that God Xi that you’re a fan of ah?”

“That’s right ah~” Magic Xi replied, “Isn’t he super powerful?!”

“Ha ha ha,” Xiao Bu couldn’t help laughing and said, “He’s powerful, really powerful. I feel like after this competition, he’ll get really popular. The SGH professional circle will receive a shock ba.”

He had guessed that this should be the first time that Wen Xi had participated in an open competition on behalf of CLM. CLM may have wanted to use this competition in order to secretly announce that Wen Xi had joined the team, and perhaps also declare war on the two teams whose total scores were above theirs.

He didn’t know what reaction those two teams would have after watching this competition.

For the second solo match, who knew if they had changed their tactics to deal with the bug called Wen Xi, but there were a lot more teams where all four people jumped to the same location.

However, this match, Wen Xi jumped into the urban area. He noticed a house that had people inside, so he threw a grenade into it. As a result, he was lucky enough to blow up an entire team of people and gain four kills?!

In fact, at this moment, it wasn’t just the spectators on the scene that were watching the competition, but also stream followers, who were watching the livestream in front of their computer screens.

Because the commentators invited were JJ directors, the livestream for the Ice Cream Cup was also being hosted on the JJ platform.

There were many people who knew Wen Xi and were watching him.

[AHHHHHHH, God Xi is too hot!]

[WTF, too amazing!]

[I declare that from now on, I’m a God Xi fan!]

[Although it’s an informal game, he took 20 plus kills in the first match. He’s really strong!]

[No matter what, my family’s Xixi is one of the top ten experts in the national server ah! How can he not be great?!]

[Don’t forget everyone, he was also Spirit Trace’s number one great god!]

Spirit Trace was far less popular than SGH, so many people didn’t know that Wen Xi had already been declared a god in another game before being called the “archer assassin” by SGH players.

For a while, Wen Xi related discussion posts in the forum multiplied rapidly.

However, even before the match concluded, people continued to discuss it.

For example, after Wen Xi had just killed a team with a grenade:

[Good show ah!]

[66666!]

[If he can control the bow that well, then what does a grenade count as?! Of course, you can still blow up whatever you want!]

The commentators’ responses were surprisingly consistent with the tone of the barrage.

“Hahaha, four kills with one grenade, yes!” The more Xiao Bu commented, the more he liked this player Wen Xi. He suddenly understood why Magic Xi paid so much attention to him. “Wency always has a way of surprising us! All of a sudden, I’m looking forward to his future performance. I can’t wait to see him play in an official game!”

“I’m also looking forward to it!” Magic Xi said, “I hope to see him play in the spring competition next year!”

While speaking, the director changed the camera angle to show the people near Wen Xi, and found that four people were crouching outside the room Wen Xi was in, with an appearance of waiting for a rabbit to kill itself by smashing into a tree.

“Yi? All four of them are from JY,” Magic Xi was startled, and said, “Are they preparing to surround Wency? That’s too blatant ba!”

Xiao Bu caught himself holding his breath for Wen Xi. “It seems that Wency hasn’t discovered their existence yet. If he leaves the room directly, he will be shot until he looks like a sieve!”

Wen Xi didn’t know that there were four people crouching outside his room, but he had counted the number of people while he was landing and saw that several teams had jumped nearby. He immediately realized that they might come to surround him.

So, he guessed that someone was crouching outside.

The best way to avoid the people outside the room was to jump out of the window and climb along the pipe to get to another room.

However, there were also people outside the window, so jumping directly out of it would be no different from seeking death.

Then that left only two choices—either kill all the people outside the window and leap out to leave. Or, open the door and rush out, kill all the people outside, and leave.

Wen Xi chose the former.

This was when the bow’s benefits appeared.

As a time-delayed projectile weapon, the bow had a parabolic trajectory that gave almost everyone a headache. However, when it came to Wen Xi, this became his strongest defense—he could crouch down when he shot an arrow, with his head remaining lower than the window frame, and allow the arrow to elegantly arc through the window frame before falling down naturally.

“Shhppt—”

[CLM-Wency has killed QAQ-Sugar with a head shot with a bow.]

“It looks like Wency is planning on cleaning up the people outside the window first!” Xiao Bu saw through his plan at a glance, and couldn’t help sighing emotionally as he continued, “It’s really cool to get a headshot with a single arrow! It’s a wonderfully cool feeling! It’s like, how to say? It just feels like something out of a fantasy novel, you know what I mean?”

Magic Xi didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. Originally, she had also wanted to cheer for Wen Xi, but after Xiao Bu’s words, she didn’t know what to say. “Are you trying to say that you are completely clueless as to how he did it?”

“Yes, yes, yes!” Xiao Bu responded, “Really, every time I see Wency shoot an arrow, I wonder how it will manage to hit his target? But he always manages to hit them! And his headshot rate is so high! It’s really incredible!”

“That’s because he has a feel for it after accumulating experience ba!” However, Magic Xi had been a fan of Wen Xi’s since he had played Spirit Trace, so she knew the duration of time he had played with a bow. Although she said that he was skilled and had a good feel for the bow, in fact, it was because he had accumulated muscle memory that had built up by shooting out arrow after arrow ba.

In Wen Xi’s hands, a bow was no longer an ordinary weapon, but an extension of his own body.

As part of his own body, of course he would know how to control it.

All of a sudden, a person flashed past the 4x scope of Wen Xi’s sniper rifle—pigtails and wearing a skirt. It was Ling Shuyi!

“Kitty?” Magic Xi recognized the person at a glance.

“Hm? Is Wency going to mercilessly destroy Cat again?” Xiao Bu wasn’t worried about Ling Shuyi, and was even celebrating his misfortune.

However, Wen Xi was using his sniper rifle this time. With the help of his scope, he was finally able to recognize his teammate!

He decisively put away his gun, ready to wait for Ling Shuyi to enter the building so they could collaborate and take care of the ambush outside the door.

But he had forgotten one thing—Ling Shuyi didn’t come to save him. He didn’t even know that Wen Xi was inside the building.

Thus, the moment he heard the sound of gunfire outside the door, Wen Xi opened the door excitedly. However, after raising his assault rifle and firing three shots, he was knocked to the ground by a headshot.

[System] CLM-Cat knocked you down with a headshot with a shotgun.

Wen Xi: “….”

Ling Shuyi: ?!

Ling Shuyi had used a shotgun to sweep across the hall and had caught the four JY players unaware. With only a sliver of his health left, he had successfully obtained four kills. However, he looked at the ID that had suddenly appeared in his notifications and then glanced at Wen Xi, who was lying in front of him while speechlessly applying bandages. The first thought that flashed in his mind was—It’s over. I hurt the captain’s wife. I’ll be killed by the captain after this competition.

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Juurensha: Poor Kitty ahahahaha. Still he kind of got his revenge! (Although Mo Chen is probably going to make him pay for it…)

kat: xixi wants his indirect kiss hahaha

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