Ch41 - You’re going to transfer?

Edited by yuuki and kat

Captain Loves Men.

—This phrase translated into Chinese was: 队长喜欢男的.

Wen Xi stared wide-eyed at Chen Wei for a while. Seeing that he had a completely serious expression, he really believed him for a moment.

He turned his head to look at Mo Chen, his eyes full of inquiry.

However, Mo Chen looked as if he had heard nothing, and simply poured himself a drink, and along the way also helped pour Wen Xi a cup.

“Well, thank you,” Wem Xi thanked, before finally being unable to resist anymore and asking, “Is what he said true?”

Mo Chen didn’t even turn his head when he asked back, “What do you think?”

Wen Xi coughed and rubbed his nose with a bit of embarrassment.

Truthfully, he had long since been vaguely aware of Mo Chen’s interest in himself. It was just that he hadn’t dared to confirm it since after all, they were both men.

But what if Mo Chen truly liked men?

Wen Xi had just wanted to answer with, “I think so,” but before those words could escape his mouth, Chen Xiao slapped Chen Wei’s head! However, he hit him very lightly.

“Captain Loves Men?! You’re so showy! If your English is so good, then why haven’t you already ascended to the heavens!”

While he was talking, he wiped up all the water he had just spat out with a napkin.

Wen Xi looked at the two people with a confused expression. He tilted his head, expressing his doubts with his eyes—So, that wasn’t it?

Finally, Lan Yan couldn’t bear to keep watching and explained helplessly, “Don’t listen to Chen Wei’s nonsense. CLM doesn’t have that messy meaning. CLM is just all of our last names together.”

“Eh? What do you mean ah?” Ling Shuyi felt a little dizzy.

He had just joined CLM earlier in the year, and no one had mentioned CLM’s origin to him before.

However, he had searched online. CLM really didn’t stand for anything, or it was better to say that the full name was just CLM.

“Don’t tell me that you just blindly came up with it and randomly picked three letters?” Ling Shuyi guessed.

“No way,” Chen Xiao glared at him as he said, “Do you think we seem like such casual people?”

Ling Shuyi had an expression saying “You keep talking then,” and to the side, Chen Wei stuck out his tongue.

Chen Wei was obviously aware of the true meaning of CLM, and had deliberately played a trick on Wen Xi. At the same time, he also threw the captain into a pit.

Lan Yan sighed, but had no alternative other than to explain, “Alright, I won’t keep you guys in suspense anymore. In fact, the team name is very simple. It’s just the four of our surnames. C is Chen, L is Lan, and M is Mo. When our team was just established, there were only four of us—Me, Mo Chen, Chen Xiao, and Chen Wei.” He pointed to each person as he spoke.

When Chen Xiao was pointed at, he sighed, “Oh, at that time I really felt that the four of us could fight together for a lifetime…”

Lan Yan was about to say something, but suddenly bit his tongue and stayed quiet.

Suddenly, Ling Shuyi pointed to himself. “Eh? My last name is L too!”

Hearing this, Lan Yan suddenly laughed, “Yes, I have a successor now.”

Ling Shuyi blinked and didn’t respond.

Chen Xiao and Chen Wei seemed to suddenly realize something, but after looking at Lan Yan for a while, they finally said nothing.

It sounded like Lan Yan was planning on giving up on something.

Was he preparing to retire?

Soon, the food came, and the people stopped talking and began to eat.

During the meal, the more Chen Wei thought about it, the more he thought that it was a pity—How was he making fun of Wen Xi? No, he was assisting him ah! He had really been curious about how the captain would reply to Wen Xi. With the captain being entranced senseless by Wen Xi, he might have really admitted it.

He completely blamed his own family’s Lao Ge for his quick mouth! Tch, he had no tacit understanding!

When they had almost finished eating, Chen Xiao went outside for a smoke. Chen Wei secretly followed him to complain, “The captain really does like men ah, so it’s not like I was wrong.”

Chen Xiao glared at him. “I think you are really itching for a beating. Do you want to go do extra training with Kitty that badly?”

“If I have to do extra training, then I’ll do extra training,” Chen Wei puffed out his cheeks and said glumly, “I just can’t bear the sight of those two people who are so plainly lovey-dovey, but still have to pretend to just have a relationship of pure brotherhood.”

“But A-Chen has a wife ah,” Chen Xiao suddenly said.

“Ah?” Chen Wei was confused.

Chen Xiao said, “Did you forget? The last time we all ate together, he was watching that beauty’s livestream and said that she was his wife.”

“……Oh, so you’re talking about that kind of ‘wife’.” Chen Wei had thought he meant that Mo Chen was married, and had been given a scare.

No, Mo Chen wasn’t old enough to get married.

“The key isn’t what kind of ‘wife’ he has, but that—” Chen Xiao solemnly said, “This shows that he likes women ba?”

Chen Wei replied, “You are so naïve! Maybe the captain is bisexual!”

Chen Xiao: “….”

They couldn’t chat anymore about this.

Besides, plainly speaking, this counted as Mo Chen’s private matter ba. What were they doing chatting about it so energetically?

*

After lunch, thinking that there was still some time before the game would start in the afternoon, they went back to the hotel to have a rest, before going to the venue.

They didn’t arrive late, but there were actually more people on the scene than in the morning.

“Are they all here to see the captain?” Wen Xi guessed.

“No, maybe they all came to see you,” Ling Shuyi replied.

Wen Xi was stunned for a moment, and he hadn’t yet responded when he heard Chen Wei speak, “What’s the matter with both of you? Couldn’t they have come to see our entire team?”

Indeed, many people on the scene had only known that CLM was participating in the Ice Cream Cup after the matches in the morning, and had all rushed over to watch them.

Soon, it was 1 o’clock.

The commentators were in place, and the players had entered the arena to begin testing out their equipment.

“Welcome back to the livestream of S City’s first Ice Cream Cup SGH competition. I’m Commentator Xiao Bu!”

“And I’m Commentator Magic Xi~”

When Xiao Bu and Magic Xi’s voices appeared, the large screen finally stopped showing advertisements and cut back to the two of them.

At the same time, JJ Livestreams also began to synchronously stream the image on the large screen.

The two squad matches were about to start.

All of CLM’s people who would participate were already down on stage, and the people watching the battle became Chen Xiao and Lan Yan.

At the moment, Chen Xiao’s thoughts were not on the competition, but were focused on other matters.

He was still thinking about the matter of Mo Chen’s “wife”—Weird, he hadn’t thought of it before, but after remembering the matter today, he suddenly felt like…Wen Xi looked a bit like the person he had seen on Mo Chen’s cellphone screen that day?!

Still in a daze, he suddenly heard Lan Yan ask, “What are you thinking about?”

Chen Xiao was startled for a moment, before he snapped out of it. Before replying to Lan Yan, he comforted himself internally—He probably had remembered incorrectly ba.

“Nothing,” he replied, following up with a question, “What are your plans for the future?”

This time it was Lan Yan who was startled.

After a period of silence, he asked with a smile, “What do you mean by that?”

Chen Xiao reached out to hook an arm around Lan Yan’s neck and sighed, “Ugh, between the two of us, there’s no need for us to tiptoe around the issue ba? I can’t ignore the words you said to Kitty at dinner. Speaking about a successor with a tone like you’re about to leave, don’t tell me that you said all that spontaneously.”

Lan Yan smiled helplessly and turned to face forward, the smile at the corner of his lips gradually fading.

After a moment, he said quietly, “Yeah, we know each other too well… So you should know that I’m not willing to be a substitute.”

Chen Xiao was about to speak, but bit his tongue.

Lan Yan continued, “Wen Xi is very strong, we don’t even have to mention A-Chen, and Kitty has also been continuously improving. Although A-Wei’s sense of presence is weak, at least he won’t hinder the team, unlike me…”

Chen Xiao looked at his side profile, wanting to comfort him, but at the same time he knew that the last thing Lan Yan needed was comfort.

“CLM doesn’t need me anymore,” Lan Yan said this very calmly, “The team name may have my surname, but I no longer have a position in the team.” He paused, before continuing, “But it’s my dream to win the championship with my own hands, and I won’t give up on it.”

Hearing this, Chen Xiao already understood his decision. “You’re going to transfer?”

“En.” Lan Yan didn’t hesitate to nod and admit it before apologizing.

Chen Xiao helplessly patted him on the shoulder with the hand that was hooked around his neck. “What apology, it should be us apologizing to you for being unable to take you to win the championship with us.”

Lan Yan laughed, but didn’t refute him or say anything else.

It was impossible to hold no resentment at all. After all, it was a fact that CLM had abandoned him.

All the passion and laughter from a year ago now seemed like a complete joke.

However, Lan Yan understood their decision.

This was just how e-sports was. It was unlike a job, where those with seniority had the right to speak.

At the end of the day, e-sports was all based on strength.

Natural selection, survival of the fittest—pure and cruel.

Chen Xiao asked, “Have you already decided which team you’re going to go to?”

Lan Yan let out an “en.”

Chen Xiao then asked, “Then we will be enemies in the future?”

Lan Yan laughed and replied, “During the competition, we’ll be enemies, but outside of that, we’ll still be friends.”

In fact, from the perspective of onlookers, Lan Yan’s choice seemed quite irrational.

The current CLM was the closest to winning a championship.

If he stayed in CLM, even if he was a substitute who couldn’t play, he would at least be a member of CLM and be able to witness the moment his team became the champion.

However, if he went to another team, no matter whether he had the opportunity to play in the competition or not, in order to win the championship, he would have to beat CLM.

Chen Xiao was very aware of this, so he believed that Lan Yan must have taken this all into consideration before making his decision to transfer.

Since he had chosen to transfer, he should be prepared to become CLM’s enemy.

Perhaps, for Lan Yan, being able to play was more important than being able to win the championship.

Therefore, Chen Xiao didn’t say anything, and simply gave Lan Yan an encouraging pat on his shoulder.

By this time, all of the players participating in the squad competition had entered the queuing map.

Xiao Bu and Magic Xi had nothing to comment on for the time being, so they started to randomly chat.

Xiao Bu asked, “Magic Xi also plays SGH ba?”

“Of course,” Magic Xi replied, “I’m very crazy about shooting games, and I’ve played most of them oh~”

Xiao Bu said, “That makes sense. Our JJ Livestreams is different from other livestream platforms, and we are very strict in our recruitment of directors. In other words, the person in charge of a game channel must be able to play games, and also play them well.”

Magic Xi laughed, “Hahaha, this way we can better guide the anchors under us ma!”

Xiao Bu said, “So, all the anchors who come to our JJ Livestreams can all receive very good guidance!”

Magic Xi exclaimed, “Yes!”

Chen Xiao commented, “This ad is getting pushed…”

Lan Yan finished, “So hard.”

After listening to the two people’s hardcore advertising, the rest of the audience on the scene also couldn’t stop laughing.

Before they could recover, the competition began.

From the 22 teams participating in the competition, 88 players instantly appeared on the plane.

CLM’s four were no exception.

This wasn’t the first time that Wen Xi had played a squad match with Mo Chen, but it was the first time that Wen Xi was playing a squad match with Mo Chen in a competition. So, his heart was currently beating very fast, and he felt that it would jump out of his chest at any time. He couldn’t tell if he was nervous or excited.

This continued until Mo Chen’s voice came from the headset, “Jump to Area M.”

His voice sounded different from his normal gentleness. At the moment, it gave people a kind of cold and mechanical feeling, but it allowed Wen Xi to quickly calm down and look at the map.

In this match, Area M would be the last area that the plane would pass through. It was very remote, giving off the impression that “the safe area would never refresh here.”

Wen Xi was a little confused, and didn’t understand why he wanted to jump there. Although it was his best area, the location was so remote that it wasn’t conducive to racing against the poison circle. Additionally, jumping too late also wasn’t favorable for racking up points from kills.

When they had trained, they either jumped to the first area the plane passed through, or jumped to the center of the map.

However, Mo Chen was not only the captain, but also their commander.

Other than as a last resort, it was necessary to follow the commander’s orders in order to better gather the team’s strength.

Therefore, when Mo Chen told them to jump to Area M, not a single person raised an objection to his decision.

However, even if they didn’t say anything, they couldn’t help thinking about it chaotically.

Ling Shuyi: Wow, we’re jumping to the area your family’s Wen Xi is best at in the first match. You’re not even trying to cover it up at all oh?

Chen Wei: Wow, in order to prevent another team from encircling Wen Xi like in the last match, we’re actually jumping into the last area. Can he be more obvious at protecting his wife?

The commentators also thought it was strange.

[CLM still hasn’t jumped yet?]

When Xiao Bu questioned it, the plane had already almost reached Area M. At this time, several notable teams, including YEEY and JY, had already jumped off the plane. QAQ had also jumped out at the beginning, leaving CLM alone.

It could be seen that YEEY and JY had planned to wait for CLM to jump before following them, so they didn’t jump even when the plane had passed through several areas they often jumped to.

But later, who knew if they could no longer wait any longer, or if there was some other reason, but they suddenly changed their minds and both jumped to Area D that was adjacent to Area M.

In the end, besides CLM, there was only one other small unknown team jumping to Area M.

Chen Wei was in charge of reporting coordinates in CLM. With him memorizing the enemy’s position, other members of their team could just focus on parachuting down, so they landed very quickly.

Before they reached the ground, Chen Wei began to report, “Just one team, at 8 o’clock.”

When he didn’t refer to anyone in particular, the “8 o’clock” direction was relative to the circular map.

“Received,” Mo Chen responded lightly just before landing, and then with his fastest speed, he equipped his sniper rifle and shot in that direction with a “bang“. He had headshotted the enemy!

While he was shooting, Wen Xi also landed. Similarly, he equipped his bow, before firing an arrow at the same target!

[System] CLM-Mac hit FFF-Hana with a headshot with a sniper rifle.

[System] CLM-Wency killed FFF-Hana with a headshot with a bow.

These two system prompts appeared on Ling Shuyi and Chen Wei’s screens with absolutely no more than a second between them!

Ling Shuyi’s mouth fell wide open, and he silently praised—Seckill! Good show!

Magic Xi saw this scene and directly exclaimed, “Two headshots in a row!”

“They gave their enemy absolutely no time to react!” Xiao Bu was also shocked. “This team CLM was already enough of a headache with just Mac, but now there is also a Wency. The union of the number one sharpshooter god and the archer assassin seems to be an unsolvable problem ah!”

En? There seemed to be something off with these words?

The players participating in the competition couldn’t hear the commentators because they were wearing earphones.

All they could hear was the sounds of gunfire, footsteps, and the communication among their teammates.

After Mo Chen and Wen Xi finished off the FFF team member together, the other members of the opposing team decisively scattered, parachuting in directions far away from them.

However, this actually just lengthened the time it took them to land.

Therefore, before they landed, Mo Chen and Wen Xi killed another one of them. Ling Shuyi also carried an assault rifle and rushed over to a different enemy. When they, he pointed it at his face and let out a tututu!

“I’ve killed one!” Ling Shuyi called out. He suddenly felt like his blood was boiling over, and kept feeling as though he could kill off everyone on his own!

Having two great God teammates was just not the same ah! Their momentum was getting stronger, wasn’t it! It was just like gaining a buff!

[System] FFF-Bow shot CLM-Cat with an assault rifle.

Ling Shuyi: “….”

Chen Wei asked, “Kitty, have you gone dumb?”

Ling Shuyi replied, “I’m not, I haven’t. I can fight back!”

After getting shot like that, Ling Shuyi used his fastest speed to respond, turning to chase the person who had shot at him with a burst of tutututu. Finally, he successfully counterattacked and killed him!

At this point, the only team that had jumped to the same area as their CLM was completely destroyed, and CLM had successfully occupied the highest point on the map.

Chen Wei asked, “Kitty, what daze were you in just now?”

“Wow, I already said that it’s over!” Ling Shuyi retorted stiffly and began to reflect on himself—It seemed that no matter how strong his teammates became, he couldn’t transform from a cat into a tiger.

Mo Chen didn’t pay attention to those two, instead lying on the mountain and aiming at the enemy in the distance. Wen Xi also followed him to crouch down and lay down beside him.

Although Ling Shuyi and Chen Wei didn’t use sniper rifles, since the two of them looked so comfortable, they also lay down beside them.

Four people lay in a row on the mountain for a while, each aiming a sniper rifle at the enemy in the distance. The image appeared somewhat comical.

However, YEEY and JY who had jumped to the desert area were both very smart. After finishing off the other enemies in that area, they immediately tunneled into the forest area, and no matter where CLM aimed, they couldn’t be found.

“It can be seen that YEEY and JY are both on guard against CLM,” Xiao Bu explained, “I now know why they changed their mind at the last minute and chose to jump to Area D instead of Area M.”

——If they had tried to squeeze into Area M with CLM, it wouldn’t have just been the FFF team that was completely destroyed now.

Soon, the first circle refreshed, and it was actually in Area F! With Area F as the center, half of Area D was included, and Area M was completely sacrificed.

“The circle of the wrath of heavens, ugh,” Ling Shuyi sighed.

“It’s very normal. We jumped so far away, and it never seemed like an area that would be favored by the circle,” Chen Wei shrugged and said, “What else can we do? We’ll race the poison bei. ”

“Go down the mountain and see if there is a car.”

With Mo Chen’s words, they immediately set off. One after another, they each got up and went down the mountain.

They really did find a car at the foot of the mountain!

And it was even a jeep!

The four of them got in the car, leaving the driver’s seat to Mo Chen.

Thus, Mo Chen drove the car full of people. However, he didn’t drive the car to Area F, but drove to Area C adjacent to both Area F and Area D. That was, the city area.

“Can we make it into the circle?” Ling Shuyi hesitantly asked.

If it had been before, Ling Shuyi would never have doubted Mo Chen’s decision at all. But now, he really kind of suspected that Mo Chen had driven to the city area not because this route was safer, but because Wen Xi was good at the city area…

However, in the face of his question, Mo Chen responded with certainty, “I calculated it, and we can make it.”

Since he said that, then of course Ling Shuyi chose to believe him, and his attention shifted to something else—From the beginning of the competition until now, it seemed that Wen Xi hadn’t said a word?

“Wen Xi?” Ling Shuyi tentatively called out.

Wen Xi let out an “En?” with a confused expression.

Ling Shuyi said, “Oh, it’s okay. I was just making sure your mic was still connected to ours.”

Wen Xi didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. “…I just don’t like to talk while I play games.”

“Aren’t you an anchor?” Ling Shuyi was a little surprised and asked, “I thought anchors were all very good at talking.”

Thinking back, Wen Xi didn’t seem to talk much during training either. It was just that the atmosphere was more relaxed during training, with him and Chen Wei both saying whatever they wanted. Now that they were being quiet, they had noticed Wen Xi’s silence.

Wen Xi was just about to answer, but he didn’t even have time to open his mouth before Mo Chen interrupted, “Kitty, shut up.”

Chen Wei immediately gloated and added, “We’re competing, so why are you chatting.”

Ling Shuyi rolled his eyes—He didn’t say more than a few words ba? What’s more, we just confirmed with an 8x scope that no one is in the desert area, so what’s the matter with chatting?

However, since Mo Chen had spoken, Ling Shuyi still obediently fell into silence.

Yet, he hadn’t been silent for long before he heard Mo Chen speak again, “Wen Xi.”

Wen Xi replied, “Huh?”

Mo Chen asked, “Nervous?”

Wen Xi replied, “I’m alright.”

Mo Chen asked, “How are your hands feelings?”

Wen Xi replied, “Not bad.”

Mo Chen said, “En, that’s good. This is the first time you’re playing in a competition, so the main thing is to gain experience. The bonus isn’t as important. ” After a pause, he then added, “I think the neighborhood around the venue is good. Once the competition is over, let’s go stroll around nearby ba.”

Wen Xi replied, “Okay~”

Ling Shuyi & Chen Wei: ???

When Mo Chen had first opened his mouth, Ling Shuyi and Chen Wei had naively thought that he was going to arrange their tactics. Yet he had simply chatted away, and instead of mentioning a single word about tactics, they had talked about taking a stroll?!

Ling Shuyi’s lips twitched, and he finally realized that Mo Chen had just told him to shut up, not because he was chatting during the competition, but because he was chatting with Wen Xi!

Chen Wei also finally realized that Mo Chen had told Ling Shuyi to shut up, not because he was chatting during the game, but because he was Ling Shuyi and not Wen Xi!

After thinking it through, the two people cursed in their hearts at the same time—This double standard dog!

Fortunately, after Mo Chen drove the car to the vicinity of the city, he still carefully arranged their tactics. “When I tell you to get out of the car, then get out of the car immediately. Do you see the wall in front? Just directly rush in that direction and do not stop. There are at least five teams on this side of the city, so kill them all.”

The team let out an “en” one after another.

Then Mo Chen lightly added, “Wen Xi, stick with me. As long as I’m here, I will definitely never allow anyone to hurt you.”

Wen Xi replied, “En, I’ll do whatever you want me to do.”

Ling Shuyi & Chen Wei: ….

This competition, they couldn’t play any further.

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Juurensha: Aw man, Lan Yan’s situation was rough….but Chen Wei and Ling Shuyi’s situation may be rougher??? All the dogfood, all the time, even during competition time ahahahaha. Although I’m glad Chen Wei points out that Mo Chen could be bi (even if he’s wrong–Mo Chen is apparently Wen Xi-sexual hahaha)

kat: They don’t shoot bullets or arrows, just dog food haha

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