Ch40 - Mac, you calamitous loathsome man!

Edited by kat and Noks

All three of Wen Xi’s shots had hit the enemy, and two of his arrows had knocked people down. Yet, in the end, Ling Shuyi had dealt the final blow, so all of the kills naturally went to Ling Shuyi.

A teammate stealing his kills and knocking him down— This scene felt inexplicably familiar?

At the moment, the livestream’s barrage was laughing at his expense and was filled with [Hahahaha].

[Karma cannot be outrun, and the heavens will spare no one!]

[What kind of peculiar team is CLM? They keep beating up their own teammates lololol!]

[The whole team is so simple and dumb, I’m about to die laughing!]

Wen Xi was a little speechless, but once he found his tongue again, he also thought it was a bit funny.

After he rescued himself, he left the area. Ling Shuyi was stunned for a few seconds before he thought of applying any medicine himself— He had a mournful expression, and he couldn’t help thinking, Alas, the life of a cat is so short and bitter that it’s not worth staying on Earth.

He had shot his teammate’s wife, and was afraid that he would be hammered to death by the captain after the competition!

In the first row of the audience, Chen Xiao glanced at Mo Chen, who was sitting beside him, and saw him staring at Ling Shuyi on the screen with narrowed eyes, obviously planning something.

Chen Xiao couldn’t help coughing, and tried to save this cat’s life. “There wasn’t any other way to deal with this situation. The main point is that Kitty didn’t know that Wen Xi was…”

“I know,” Mo Chen interrupted him lightly.

Chen Xiao looked up at the sky—with your double standards and attitude that contains no bottom line, you knowing is what’s scary.

“There are a lot of teams that jumped to the same place in this match ah!” Magic Xi all of a sudden couldn’t help but sigh emotionally as she continued, “In the solo competition, it’s easier to earn points from kills than from the rankings, so the teams of four will usually discuss in advance and jump to different places in order to obtain more kills. However, that doesn’t seem to be the case for this match at all?”

“It should be a tactical adjustment based on the last match’s situation,” Xiao Bu replied, “Maybe they felt like it would be too dangerous to move around alone due to Wency’s attack range. Magic Xi, look ah. Pretty much all of the teams that jumped together jumped near Wency. However, moving further away from Wency, many teams still jumped separately!”

After it was pointed out, Magic Xi also noticed it, and added, “Yi? This match is very peculiar. Everyone is either jumping near Wency or jumping much further away from him. There are very few people who jumped in between!”

Xiao Bu commented, “In fact, it’s easy to understand la. It shows that almost all of the teams realize that Wency is the biggest threat they have to face in this competition. Therefore, you can observe two different strategies being implemented: one is to avoid battling in the early stages, that is, to avoid Wency as much as possible in the early stages of the game. The other is to get rid of Wency from the very beginning. With the latter strategy, of course, the more combat power they can gather together, the better.”

Magic Xi exclaimed, “So it’s like that!”

It was the fate of the strong to be targeted. When a person is too strong, it would be easy for others to regard them as a thorn in their side, and want to get rid of them quickly.

Mo Chen looked at the screen and saw Wen Xi running frantically the entire time, trying to make it into another area. Although he was a little worried that Wen Xi would be intercepted, he was more so lost in reminiscing his past.

When he had just been rising up in the gaming circle, he had also been besieged by other teams. There were even teams that had joined hands in private, and had taken advantage of loopholes in the rules in order to attack him repeatedly.

Yet in the end, they had all died by his hands.

So later on, the number of teams that tried to besiege him had gradually decreased, but more and more teams would try to besiege his teammates instead.

Needless to say, regarding the issue of Ling Shuyi turning into a lootbox upon landing for several matches in a row, besides him truly playing unsteadily, it was also the result of being targeted.

During squad competitions, the other teams would kill his teammates whenever they got the chance. All Mo Chen could do was to help his teammates get revenge. He thought that if he killed them off a few more times, then they would no longer dare to provoke his teammates.

However, in actuality, the other teams, especially YEY and MQ, seemed to have found his weak point. Instead of giving up, they began to target his teammates even more crazily, and would kill his teammates first before attacking him together. If they tried several times, they could eventually kill him off just through the sheer weight of numbers.

——For these two teams, killing him meant winning the championship.

Thinking of this, Mo Chen pursed his lower lip, and moved his gaze away from the big screen to the spot where Wen Xi sat. A trace of eagerness flashed through his eyes.

In SGH’s professional league, the points acquired from the squad matches accounted for a large proportion of the team’s total points. At the end of the day, it was still a team competition, and no single person could win the championship on their own.

Even the number one sharpshooter god needed teammates.

And the teammate Mo Chen needed the most right now was Wen Xi.

On the screen, the director had just shifted the camera away from Wen Xi in order to observe the development of battle situations in other places. However, as soon as he cut away, a kill prompt belonging to Wen Xi appeared in the upper right corner of the screen, so he could only cut back to him.

At this time, Wen Xi had already obtained his first kill and was moving to his next location, just like a hunter searching for his next prey.

“Geez, I suddenly feel like my hair is standing on end…”

Mo Chen heard some people talking behind him.

“He’s just directly searching everywhere for people to kill!”

“You get points for each kill, so isn’t it normal to search for people to kill ba?”

“That being said, he gives me a very different feeling. How to say? He’s like a hunter, and everyone else is his prey! JY still wants to surround him? What a joke. It’s like a flock of sheep besieging a wolf— Don’t you get that feeling?”

“I kind of see it…”

“Even if Kitty didn’t show up, he still had the ability to kill all of the people outside the door ba!”

These words sounded very passionate, even though they were all very abstract.

Chen Xiao secretly rolled his eyes—This person had obviously been shocked into a delusional state by Wen Xi’s maneuvers, just like the many people who thought that Mo Chen was invincible and unbeatable. However, they were both human, so how could they not possess weaknesses.

If Ling Shuyi hadn’t appeared, it would have been very difficult to escape from JY, even for Wen Xi.

Thinking up to this point, Chen Xiao subconsciously turned to look at Mo Chen, wanting to see if he shared his disdain. However, the result was that he ended up watching as the corner of Mo Chen’s lip clearly rose.

Chen Xiao: ???

Mo Chen was currently very happy. He obviously knew that the people behind him were talking nonsense, but he still felt very happy hearing it~

Chen Xiao turned around silently—Alright, he was convinced. The captain, who had always been objective and calm, and who could even be called cold-blooded and merciless, was really twisted completely around Wen Xi’s finger.

Finally, during the solo competition’s second game, all of CLM’s members successfully reached the final circle.

There were also two YEEY team members, as well as the QAQ captain.

Ling Shuyi took the lead in launching an attack. Relying on the fact that he had more teammates and was carrying an assault rifle, he rushed towards YEEY’s two people, thinking that he would deplete their health as much as possible!

Of course, Lan Yan and Chen Wei, who were hiding in the dark, didn’t hesitate to throw grenades in his direction!

At the same time, Wen Xi also shot an arrow at him—after all, they were already in the final circle. It was better for him to collect his own team’s heads, right?

So, accompanied by two “Bangs!” and a “Shhppt”, Ling Shuyi died in a glorious battle.

To be honest, Ling Shuyi had been ready to sacrifice himself when he rushed over, but he didn’t expect that he would die so miserably—After being blown up and knocked down by Chen Wei, he was blown up and killed by Lan Yan. When he died, he even had an arrow sticking out through his head!

“Pfft—” Magic Xi couldn’t help laughing out loud and exclaiming, “Hahahaha Kitty is so tragic!”

“What’s going on? Are you not allowed to be a member of CLM if you don’t kill Kitty?” Xiao Bu didn’t know whether to laugh or cry, continuing, “Being killed by his teammates three times in a row, it’s really too tragic!”

Ling Shuyi took off his earphones, and was wearing an expression of someone who had been through life and death.

He surrendered, he surrendered. Who hadn’t hit a teammate before?

He was someone who had even hit Mo Chen before!

Although after hitting him, he was killed in return….

Ling Shuyi died miserably, but thanks to him, the balance of the final circle was broken, and YEEY was completely destroyed. Bunny, the captain of QAQ, was quickly discovered by the three remaining members of CLM. He wanted to take at least one person with him when he died, but in the end, he was headshotted by both Wen Xi and Chen Wei and was killed on the spot, without having the time to even toss out a grenade.

All that was left was just the infighting between the three people from CLM.

Wen Xi had fought against Ling Shuyi and Chen Wei in the previous final circle. Lan Yan was the only one whose strength he hadn’t experienced, so he wanted to try having a gunfight with him.

However, he had just taken an assault rifle from his backpack and was about to rush over when he saw Lan Yan and Chen Wei throw grenades at each other.

[CLM-Windy killed CLM-LY with a hand grenade]

[CLM-Windy was killed by a hand grenade]

【YOU WIN】

Wen Xi: ???

Wait? Why are you all dead before I could even try anything?!

[Hahahaha, this performance is a bit much ba!]

Chen Wei and Lan Yan’s act of “dying for love” was so obvious that even laymen could see it, let alone the commentators. However, Xiao Bu didn’t guess the real reason, and simply thought that CLM had discussed it before the game and said, “It can be seen that CLM wants to heavily support Wency during this competition! It might be why they even took part in this competition!”

Well, his last sentence was correct.

However, in the end, the reason Chen Wei and Lan Yan had tossed grenades at each other was because…

The two of them took off their headphones and looked in each other’s direction, their expressions conveying that they had “confirmed their survival.”

——It didn’t matter how many times you died in the game. As long as you don’t get killed by the captain in reality, you won!

“Congratulations to Wency on winning the second solo match! And, congratulations to CLM for obtaining the most points in the competition so far!” Magic Xi summed up cheerfully, and felt happy for Wen Xi.

Xiao Bu said, “This is the end of this morning’s competition! The squad match in the afternoon starts at 1 o’clock, so don’t miss it! That’s all, we’ll see you in the afternoon!”

As soon as the two commentators finished their summary, the image on the screen changed to ads—In the end, the Ice Cream Cup was also a competition sponsored by advertisements. The reason why it was called the Ice Cream Cup was because their biggest sponsor sold ice cream.

It was just that showing ice cream ads during autumn and winter seemed a bit crazy…

“Let’s go and eat.”

Just as soon as the game ended, Mo Chen appeared beside Wen Xi and patted him on the back naturally with a hand, praising, “You did well.”

Wen Xi let out a long sigh of relief, before getting up and looking at Mo Chen. He also felt like he had done well today~

But he felt that it was mainly because his opponents weren’t strong enough.

If Mo Chen had participated, he would definitely have done better ba?

Wen Xi was just about to leave for lunch with Mo Chen, but he had only taken a step before he heard Magic Xi call out, “Xixi!”

Wen Xi’s footsteps paused—Ah! He had forgotten Magic Xi’s existence for the Nth time today!

He didn’t know why, but he would always forget some important things after talking to Mo Chen…

Wen Xi looked back a bit awkwardly and met Magic Xi’s gaze. Fortunately, she didn’t seem to care, and she trotted speedily towards him and gave him a slight smile, before saying, “You did very well today! Good luck on the squad competition in the afternoon too ya!”

“Mhmm,” Wen Xi smiled back at her and said, “You look very pretty today.”

Magic Xi had truly dressed up prettily today. After wearing make-up and a cheongsam, she gave off the amazing feeling of having just walked out of a TV drama.

Magic Xi noticed that when Wen Xi praised her, Mo Chen had narrowed his eyes from his position beside Wen Xi.

Women were very observant. They weren’t like men who always focused on only one point, but would instead pay attention to many different things all at the same time.

Aware of Mo Chen’s gaze, Magic Xi almost instinctively looked up at him, with a trace of inquiry in her eyes.

Not expecting her to suddenly look up at him, Mo Chen was left a little dazed, before he quickly returned to his cold and indifferent gaze, as if saying—Woman, do not try to talk to me, I will not act as you wish.

Magic Xi was amused by her imagination and couldn’t help laughing. She nodded to Mo Chen in a friendly way and greeted, “Hello, captain~ I’m giving you my family’s Xixi, so be nice to him ah!”

Mo Chen indifferently responded, “There’s no need for you to say that.”

Chen Xiao was also nearby while the two people were talking, and the other CLM players also came over very quickly.

Chen Wei asked, “Yi? Do you guys know each other ah?”

Lan Yan said, “It makes sense. Wen Xi is a JJ Livestreams anchor, and Magic Xi is a JJ Livestreams director. Maybe she’s the person in charge of Wen Xi.”

“En, yes, I am in charge of Wen Xi.” Magic Xi smiled at Lan Yan.

Lan Yan froze, then raised his hand to cover his mouth and cough.

Magic Xi was curious about his reaction—Had he been stunned by her?

Magic Xi was still thinking about whether to tease them in order to develop a closer relationship with Wen Xi’s teammates when Mo Chen suddenly opened his mouth and spoke lightly, “We are about to go eat. Do you need anything else?”

His tone was very bright, but people with high EQ could immediately perceive that he was politely dismissing them.

Magic Xi had a high EQ, so she immediately noticed his invisible resistance. She said with a smile, “There’s nothing else, you guys go eat ba,” before patting Wen Xi on the shoulder and adding, “I still have things to do, so I’m leaving first la~”

“Mmhm.” Wen Xi didn’t notice anything. After saying goodbye to Magic Xi, he went to get food with everyone.

On the way there, he and Mo Chen walked alongside one another in the front, and didn’t discover that their other teammates, including the coach, were walking behind them, keeping a fair bit of distance between them.

Chen Wei looked at the pair’s backs. The more he looked, the more he couldn’t help but gossip, “Shall we make another bet?”

“What bet?” Lan Yan was interested this time.

A few days ago, he couldn’t stop thinking about how he wouldn’t be able to play in the competition and had been in a bad mood. However, he had thought through some things during the day and had secretly decided something. After doing so, he felt that the stone in his heart had finally fallen to the ground, and his mood improved by leaps and bounds.

Ling Shuyi, on the other hand, was impressively now an abandoned cat. Not only was he walking behind everyone else, but he also whispered softly, as if afraid that the two people in front of him would discover his existence, “It’s most likely betting on the relationship between the captain and the captain’s wife ba…”

“Hahaha,” Chen Wei was amused by his tone and words. “You’re even calling Wen Xi the captain’s wife now, so what bet can be made on their relationship ah? I want to bet on whether or not the captain will hold Wen Xi’s hand.”

When he said this, the others were all surprised!

They, uncontrollably, began to imagine Mo Chen’s expression if he secretly tried to hold Wen Xi’s hand, and all of their expressions turned a bit interesting.

“Hahaha, do you want to bet on it?” Chen Wei spoke as though he just wanted the world to be chaotic.

“I’ll bet.” The first one to respond to him was actually Lan Yan, who said, “I bet that he won’t. It’s the middle of the street, and A-Chen will still want to save face.”

“Then you really don’t know the captain!” Chen Wei replied, “Have you seen how after Wen Xi arrived, he’s gone crazy with double standards? You should know that his usual lofty and cold appearance is just a facade, and he doesn’t have a lower limit at all!”

“So you’re betting that he will?” Chen Xiao raised his eyebrows and replied, “I think you’re the one who’s gone crazy ba, I bet he won’t.”

“I bet he will,” Ling Shuyi said. His instinct as a cat told him that for Wen Xi, there was nothing too crazy for the captain!

“Oh, evenly split ah?” Chen Wei raised his eyebrows and said, “Then let’s bet on today’s meal ba! Whoever loses will pay the bill!”

Chen Xiao and Lan Yan replied, “Yes,” while Ling Shuyi turned his head and rolled his eyes—You guys can scheme away, but we came out to eat with the captain, so how would we even have the opportunity to pay the bill?

*

In the end, Lan Yan and Chen Xiao won the bet.

Up until they entered the restaurant and sat down, Mo Chen never took hold of Wen Xi’s hand.

When they crossed an intersection, Mo Chen had almost instinctively raised his arm to hold Wen Xi’s shoulder, afraid that he would be hit by a car.

Later, Chen Wei deeply reflected on himself—He actually thought that the captain would secretly take hold of Wen Xi’s hand! Which of his brain’s nerves had misfired?!

Was it rare for a captain to hold hands?! Does the captain need to be furtive?!

If the captain really wanted to do something to Wen Xi, he would directly press him up against a wall and kiss him ah!

“You sit on the inside.”

As soon as he entered the restaurant, Mo Chen began to display his “double standards” again, by leaving the warmest spot for Wen Xi to sit in. He sat down beside him, and didn’t spare any care for the others at all.

Fortunately, his teammates and coach were all used to it. They didn’t care about it and each one found himself a place to sit.

Ling Shuyi sat in a spot where Mo Chen wouldn’t pay much attention to him, and even deliberately moved his chair back.

Just as he was about to breathe a sigh of relief, he looked up to directly meet Mo Chen’s gaze. It scared him so much that his spirit nearly jumped out of his person, and he went tumbling off the chair and onto the ground.

Mo Chen said, “Kitty.”

Ling Shuyi hurried to say, “I will train when we go back! I’ll add on another week of training!”

Mo Chen: …

He hadn’t said anything yet?

“Since you are so ambitious, then good luck,” Mo Chen said expressionlessly, then added, “You played pretty well today. Keep it up.”

Ling Shuyi breathed a long sigh of relief, feeling a bit like a survivor making it through a disaster.

Then Mo Chen said what he really wanted to say, “You go order food with Chen Wei.”

——En, when he had just called out Ling Shuyi’s name, it was because he had just wanted him to go order food.

Before that, of course, he had to ask Wen Xi, “What do you want to eat?”

Wen Xi obediently said, “Whatever, anything is alright. I don’t avoid anything.”

“En, then—” Mo Chen casually listed several of Wen Xi’s favorite dishes, letting Ling Shuyi and Chen Wei order the rest.

When the two of them went to order, they both had “ indescribable” expressions on their faces.

Chen Wei said, “I can’t watch anymore.”

Ling Shuyi replied, “I also can’t watch anymore.”

Chen Wei said, “Why don’t the two of them just get married right here and now?!”

Ling Shuyi exclaimed, “Yes! That way, I can also call out ‘captain’s wife’ more smoothly!”

Chen Wei said, “That’s right! ….huh?”

At the same time, back at the table, Mo Chen suddenly received a call.

In fact, while the competition was on-going, he had received several calls. However, he didn’t hear his cellphone ring since it was silenced, so he hadn’t answered.

Now, he had taken out his cellphone and placed it on the table. The screen lit up, and only then did he realize that someone had called him, and had even made several repeated calls.

He looked at the caller ID, which displayed the name of the captain of YEY, Lightning…

He didn’t want to pick it up right now.

Until Wen Xi kindly reminded him, “You have a call.”

Mo Chen silently pressed the button to answer, directly putting it on speakerphone.

“What’s the matter?” he asked coldly.

As soon as he finished speaking, he heard a roar, “Mac, you calamitous loathsome man! Your calamitous loathsome team is full of calamitous loathsome men! Who else abducts people away like you do?! Our YEY team’s benefits are 1000 times, 10,000 times better. If you have the ability, then compete fairly! What kind of hero does private PY…”

Mo Chen interrupted, “Talk like an actual person.”

Lightning yelled, “Give us back Wency!”

Mo Chen hung up the call decisively.

Wen Xi was stunned for a long time before he recognized Lightning’s voice. After guessing the purpose of his phone call, he suddenly felt a little embarrassed.

“Lightning?” Chen Xiao asked casually.

Mo Chen let out an “en” and then said, “Wen Xi entered our team, so his eyes have gone red.”

Chen Xiao clicked his tongue twice. “International calls aren’t cheap, yet you just hung up like that.” After a pause, he added, “You should have let him shout more and spend more money.”

Wen Xi let out a “pfft—” and laughed. He had actually thought that Chen Xiao was distressed over Lightning’s money.

Also, calamitous loathsome men?

CLM— Didn’t the first letters of calamitous loathsome men make up CLM?

Eh, eh, eh? Could it be that CLM meant Calamitous Loathsome Men?!

Wen Xi was still in a state of shock by the time Ling Shuyi and Chen Wei came back after ordering food.

They came back just in time, and Wen Xi tried to ask them, “What’s the full name of our team ah?”

“CLM!” Ling Shuyi blurted out, and then gave him a “you’re not teasing me, right?” glance before saying, “Dear, are you okay? You’ve even changed your game ID, but you don’t know our team name?”

“Not that ah, I meant the full name,” Wen Xi seriously said, “I know our team is called CLM, but I don’t know the full name.”

——Don’t tell me it’s calamitous loathsome men, I refuse to accept it!

“What full name? The full name is CLM ah?” Ling Shuyi was confused. He had originally been sure about it, but now that Wen Xi had asked such a question, he was starting to feel unsure, and his last sentence became a question as well.

Chen Wei felt that it was time for him to come out onto the field and said, “Tch, tch, sure enough, this question of yours requires an answer from me.” He looked like he was about to gossip.

Wen Xi turned his gaze to him, and Ling Shuyi also looked at him curiously. Although Chen Xiao and Lan Yan also looked at him, their expressions were very calm. They looked like they were thinking, “I’m going to see what grand act you’re about to put on,” and, “Please start your performance.”

Chen Xiao even partook in leisurely sipping at his glass of water.

Then Chen Wei spoke in a mysterious tone, “The full name of CLM is of course: Captain Loves Men!”

Hearing this sentence, Chen Xiao went “pfft—” and spat out the mouthful of water he had just sipped!

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Juurensha: Ahahahaha, I really love Chen Wei, he’s so fun. And Kitty! Poor Kitty, please take care of him, team!

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