Ch44 - Ling Shuyi couldn’t rise again.

Edited by kat

As early as when his first kill was stolen from him by Mo Chen, Wen Xi had figured out Mo Chen’s location based on the direction the gunshot came from.

He turned his sniper rifle on Mo Chen. Although Mo Chen had clearly already aimed at him, Wen Xi didn’t shoot. Instead, he shifted his aim and knocked down a person behind him. Then, he switched to his bow and used an arrow to kill off the person completely.

During this process, Mo Chen also decisively shot and knocked down a person not far from Wen Xi.

The two people were clearly in a face-to-face “gun-fight”, but unexpectedly, both people were undamaged, and the people around them fell down one by one.

Before watching the replay, everyone hadn’t thought much about it, and just thought that both of them were very skilled.

“Jumping over to Mac’s side? Do you want to die?”

“Wency’s bow is too strong!”

“Area C is already under CLM’s control!”

Then, they watched the replay.

Huh?

“Mac aimed in Wency’s direction, but knocked down everyone surrounding Wency!” Xiao Bu said in surprise, “Yi? Wency’s also targeting Mac…”

“They’re protecting each other?” Magic Xi had an inexplicable illusion of eating dog food…. How could that be! She was a determined MoXi CP fan! She had clearly wanted to see God Xi causing a bloodbath and crushing the number one sharpshooter god. How could such a scene that violated common sense appear?

It must be their strategy! Yes, it was just tactics!

Thinking of this, Magic Xi said decisively, “This strategy is pretty good ah! Not only can they take kills, but they also don’t have to fear any attacks from the rear!”

Xiao Bu suddenly saw the light and exclaimed, “So it’s a strategy! However, only Mac and Wency can use this strategy. Not just anyone can get a headshot with every shot!”

Audience below the stage: Oh, oh, so it’s a strategy… But why do I keep thinking something is off?

——Wasn’t it more convenient to kill enemies close to you?

Soon, seven minutes into the game, the first poison ring began to shrink.

Five minutes earlier, the safe zone boundaries had been announced. Mo Chen and Wen Xi saw that they were in the safe zone, so they weren’t panicked at all, focusing on killing off the people surrounding the other party.

Meanwhile, the people around them were panicking a bit at the moment.

At first, they had wanted to kill these two first, in order to stabilize the game.

However, in the end they were not only unable to kill these two people, but they were actually killed by them. Crawling around on the ground, they had to beat a tactical retreat.

Unfortunately, they were on the edge of the safe zone. They couldn’t escape from the safe zone ba, so they could only run to the other side of it.

——One could imagine what the consequences would be if people from various teams all fled in one direction.

For a while, the sound of gunfire broke out in every direction as all of the major teams mixed together and fought against each other chaotically.

Mo Chen and Wen Xi were originally killing enthusiastically. Seeing that no one was attacking them anymore, they casually began to watch the show, stealing several kills along the way—No matter who knocked someone down, they would rush to headshot them with a bullet or an arrow before anyone else, and take the kills for themselves.

QAQ team’s Mice was robbed of two consecutive kills, and was so angry that he wanted to attack both of them. However, as soon as half of his head peeked out from behind a building, he was directly knocked down by a bullet. An arrow then flew in, and just like that he couldn’t get up again.

“Mice had just barely shown his head and was knocked down with a headshot by Mac! Wency’s arrow followed up and took Mice’s head!” Xiao Bu commented, and couldn’t help but complain, “Magic Xi, are we watching a duo match right now?”

Magic Xi couldn’t help laughing and said, “I have to say that Mac and Wency cooperate together very well. When they participate in squad matches, their attack rhythm gives people a very comfortable feeling. There’s no more than one second between knocking someone down and then finishing them off, giving them absolutely no chance to be saved!”

Xiao Bu added, “But they can communicate with each other through their headphones during squad matches. They’re now in a solo match, yet they can still cooperate together to this extent without communicating with each other. It’s really amazing!”

A commotion broke out on the observation platform, and it was obvious that they also felt that tacit understanding between the two was terrifying.

However, Mo Chen and Wen Xi had actually just happened to attack the same target.

Their internal thoughts:

Wen Xi: Stole a kill! So happy!

Mo Chen: Tch, he was 0.1 seconds faster.

Wen Xi hadn’t played a solo match with Mo Chen for a long time, and felt that he was definitely much stronger than before.

Everything else aside, he knew that his current shooting skills were far from being comparable to Mo Chen’s, but compared to his former self, it was definitely like the difference between the heavens and the earth.

So, although he never mentioned it, he had always wanted to have a grand and spectacular fight against Mo Chen to see how large their gap was now.

However, they were participating in a competition, so for the sake of the team’s total score, Wen Xi couldn’t take any actions against Mo Chen. He could only compete against him on a different front, that was, to compete over the number of kills they had.

At the moment, he had seven kills, and Mo Chen had eight kills.

He was still one short, so he had to catch up!

Thinking until this point, Wen Xi immediately switched to his sniper rifle, and began sniping at everyone he managed to get in his crosshairs!

Unfortunately, this time, he failed to get a headshot. He only broke the other party’s level 3 helmet, and failed to knock him down.

With a half second difference, Mo Chen had already shot from the other side, headshotting and killing someone—Nine kills!

Damn!

Wen Xi narrowed his eyes and put away his gun. He flipped down from the roof of the building and climbed down the pipe, deciding to change to a better position.

During this match, the director had almost had no chance to move the camera away from the pair, and both the commentators and audience had watched with their mouths open for almost the entire time.

However, they just thought that the two people were very strong—they could take nearly 10 kills during just the first circle. People who didn’t know what was going on would think they were playing in a rookie concentration camp.

However, Coach Chen Xiao saw things differently and commented, “Wen Xi is doing really well today ah?”

“I also think so,” Lan Yan said, “He also played very well yesterday, but today’s he’s more…how to say it, fierce?”

“Ha ha, fierce sounds right,” Chen Xiao said with a smile, “Although he got first place twice in a row yesterday, he still fought relatively steadily. He wouldn’t stubbornly try to take a kill he wasn’t assured of. But today, he’s completely hitting whoever he can see.”

“Because today Mo Chen is playing,” Lan Yan said, not knowing whether to laugh or cry.

Wen Xi allowed Mo Chen to play to his full ability, and in turn, Mo Chen also let Wen Xi play freely, without any worries.

Although he wasn’t completely reconciled with it, Lan Yan had to admit—there were no better teammates in the world than the two of them.

It’s only when you help each other and make each other stronger that you can be called teammates.

Otherwise, even if you’re in the same team and playing in the same competition, you can only be said to be “making up the numbers.”

If one plus one couldn’t be greater than two, then there was no need to add.

Everyone felt that Lan Yan had regressed. Lan Yan himself had realized this, but he was more willing to believe that he just hadn’t met the person who would be greater than two when added with him.

This person didn’t exist in CLM, so he couldn’t just work hard and wait in CLM with his limited time. He was more willing to search in other places. Maybe he would find them?

His sniping ability wasn’t as good as Mo Chen and Wen Xi’s, his assault ability wasn’t as good as Ling Shuyi’s, and he wasn’t as good at avoiding conflict as Chen Wei.

On the contrary though, his sniping ability was much better than Ling Shuyi and Chen Wei’s, his assault ability wasn’t inferior to Wen Xi’s, and although there were very few times that he could last until the finals, he also didn’t have any black history of turning into a lootbox upon landing.

Therefore, Lan Yan believed that although his age was indeed on the older side for an e-sports player, he didn’t have to retire yet. It was just that CLM wasn’t suitable for him.

As he thought about it, Mo Chen and Wen Xi had already broken into the forest area all the way from the city area.

From the beginning until the end, the distance between the two people was no more than 50 meters. One would knock someone down, and the other would finish them off with a single shot. While protecting each other, they stole each other’s kills, and the kills in their hands were almost equal.

“I think Mac and Wency are a very good example of ‘teamwork’ in a solo match!” Xiao Bu said, “Since there is no way to communicate, if you don’t understand each other’s thought processes, then let alone cooperate together, you may even end up holding each other back. That’s why most teams still prefer to act separately, but Mac and Wency have helped us get rid of this preconception today!”

“Yes, they give me the feeling that a duo team has strayed into the solo match competition,” Magic Xi said. Although it was a bit of a pity that she hadn’t seen Wen Xi kill Mac, she had to admit that the cooperation between them was really good.

But this scene…she didn’t know why it felt a little familiar?

While Magic Xi was still confused, Wen Xi was suddenly hit by someone.

The hidden enemy shot the middle of Wen Xi’s head and destroyed his level 3 helmet.

Wen Xi was not knocked down, but this breathtaking scene still caused the audience to let out a cry of surprise.

However, just as Wen Xi was ready to counter with an arrow, a bullet flew out first.

The person who had attacked Wen Xi was shot down from the tree, and died from fall damage.

As for the person who had just helped to avenge Wen Xi, you didn’t even have to think to know it was Mo Chen!

At that moment, Magic Xi’s brain buzzed, and she suddenly had a strong sense of deja vu.

She’d seen this scene before!

Wasn’t this the scene that often appeared when Wen Xi and Momo were playing solo matches!

It was just that Wen Xi was stronger now and he was hit less often, so Mo Chen was now trying to help him finish off enemies who could hurt him, rather than finishing enemies who had already hurt him.

Magic Xi froze for a long time, before a terrible conjecture suddenly flashed through her mind.

Why would anyone guess that Momo was Mac.

Why when the domestic trials had started, Momo had disappeared.

Why Wen Xi was so crazy about Mac.

——At this moment, it seemed she had an answer to all of these questions.

It couldn’t be ba?

Magic Xi was startled by her conjecture. Before she could react, she saw the screen cut from Wen Xi’s perspective to Mac’s perspective.

Watching Mac’s perspective had a different feel than watching Wen Xi’s perspective.

Both of them were very cool, but in different ways.

When watching Wen Xi’s, you felt that the moment when his arrow hit someone’s head was particularly cool. When watching Mac’s perspective, no matter what he did, it felt cool.

Climbing trees, leaping, headshotting with his gun, every movement was so smooth and natural. It was as if the character living in the game world was alive and doing a variety of actions with their own consciousness, without any of the stiff feeling of being controlled by someone else.

It could be said that this was Mac’s personal style, which no one else could imitate.

And this kind of feeling, Magic Xi really had felt from Momo before.

It was just that Momo had been playing with Wen Xi all this time, and not livestreaming himself, so Magic Xi had no chance to see Momo’s personal perspective.

The competition was still going on, and Magic Xi was continuing to comment, but her mind had already floated off to who knows where.

She had originally been very happily shipping the MoXi CP, but now, thinking that Momo might be Mac, her mood was now somewhat complicated.

There was a kind of—after a lot of hard work, she had found a cub for her own cub, but suddenly found that the other cub was actually a beast….feeling. It was very complex.

Would her cub be devoured ah QAQ

The more she thought about it, the more worried Magic Xi became. She didn’t realize that her cub was currently acting like a beast as well, crazily cleaning up the enemies on the battlefield. The number of kills in his hands was almost the same as that of Mo Chen.

When Ling Shuyi and Chen Wei learned that Mo Chen was going to play, they knew that this solo match wasn’t going to be simple. So when they jumped, they both very smartly jumped to the area furthest from those two.

However, as the circle continued to shrink, they still inevitably entered the pair’s attack range.

Ling Shuyi had lost track of how many times he had been beaten by Wen Xi in the previous games, so this time he had learned to be good. He would rather find a place to avoid conflict with Chen Wei, and hand over the kills and such things to Wen Xi and them to steal.

But he was still too naive.

With Wen Xi, this archer assassin here, was there really anywhere that was safe?

He had hid behind a rock with only half of his shadow visible, but before he could boast of his quick-wittedness, he was headshotted by an arrow from the sky!

“Fuck!” Ling Shuyi couldn’t help crying out, but he soon comforted himself—It’s okay, it’s okay. Based on previous experience, Wen Xi wouldn’t hit him a second time, so he still had a chance to save himself.

Just after he finished comforting himself, bang!

[System] CLM-Mac killed you with a frag grenade.

[System] You have been killed in battle.

Ling Shuyi, ended.

Ling Shuyi couldn’t rise again.

“Pfft—” Chen Wei laughed on the spot, thinking that it was too funny.

Even Commentator Xiao Bu said, “Kitty… It kind of also counts as a skill to be killed by his teammates in every match.”

Magic Xi didn’t know whether to laugh or cry, and said, “Is this some kind of curse?”

When Wen Xi had hit Ling Shuyi, he had even let out an “aiya.” Yet, in the end, he didn’t even have time to repent before he saw the prompt that Ling Shuyi had been killed by Mo Chen, and he couldn’t help wanting to laugh.

Ling Shuyi’s expression showed an unwillingness to continue living, and he didn’t even watch the rest of the battle. He directly lied down on the table, and pretended to be dead.

Chen Wei thought that he could still avoid conflict.

He was lying in the grass in camouflage, and was slowly crawling forward. He thought that since there were eight people left, however it went, he should be able to dodge conflict and get into the top five ba?

By now, the game had reached the sixth circle, and the safe zone was at the junction of the forest and grassland areas.

In addition to their three CLM members, only two from JY, two from YEEY, and QAQ’s captain Bunny were still alive.

Lan Yan found that although the QAQ team played messily, sometimes good and sometimes bad, their team captain Bunny could survive to the finals in at least one out of three matches. His survivability could rival Chen Wei’s, but he had more kills than Chen Wei.

In this match so far, Chen Wei had only taken three kills, while Bunny had taken six, double his number!

As for Mo Chen and Wen Xi, the total number of kills in both of their hands at the moment had already exceeded 30!

The eight people who made it to the sixth circle this match were all hidden well. In order to force the enemy out, the two members from YEEY took the lead and threw a few mines at a place where some people might be hiding. After a lot of bombing, one of JY’s members fell to the ground and the other was forced out, and had to carry their assault rifle and engage in a gunfight with YEEY.

Chen Wei, the God of Conflict Avoidance, resolutely threw a grenade at the three people. Unexpectedly, Bunny first used his sniper rifle and grabbed a kill.

JY and YEEY each had a person taken away. Of the people remaining, one was exploded and killed by Chen Wei, while the other was taken out by Wen Xi with a bow. Bunny was knocked to the ground by Mo Chen with a headshot, and then killed by Chen Wei with an assault rifle.

Having stolen a kill from the captain, the end could be imagined—Chen Wei had just gotten the kill, but before he even had time to be happy, Mo Chen had mercilessly killed him.

The battle situation had become rather complicated for a while, and Xiao Bu, who hadn’t commented on SGH much before, commented in a way that could only be described as confused.

He felt that eight people had been instantly reduced to two before he could see what was going on.

Then, without waiting for him to return to his senses, the two became one in an instant.

The final winner was—Wen Xi!

Wen Xi was stunned as he looked at the words of “YOU WIN” on the screen, and didn’t return to his senses for a long time.

He had found the scene from just now inexplicably familiar—After Mo Chen had killed Chen Wei, he had almost immediately shot an arrow at Mo Chen. At the same time, Mo Chen had also fired a shot at him.

Wen Xi could still clearly remember that the last time he had shot an arrow at Mo Chen, he had been killed by Mo Chen before the arrow hit the other. Therefore, although his arrow had obviously passed through Mo Chen’s head, Mo Chen hadn’t taken any damage.

This time, he didn’t know whether it was out of obsession or for some other reason, but even though he knew that the shooting speed of a bow wasn’t as fast as that of a sniper rifle, Wen Xi still chose to shoot at Mo Chen with his bow.

Until the words “YOU WIN” popped up, Wen Xi had thought that he would die first—He had even seen the bullet that was fired at him.

But in the end, he actually won?!

The end of the match happened so quickly that when victory and defeat were determined, everyone, including the commentators, were confused and didn’t know what had happened.

In the end, the director reacted first and played back the scene in slow motion. Only then was Xiao Bu able to explain the entire process clearly. At the end of the scene, his eyes widened in disbelief, and he exclaimed, “…Mac fired a bullet at almost the same time that Wency shot an arrow at Mac, but it was Wency’s bow and arrow that killed Mac first!”

Magic Xi, who had been the one who most eagerly wanted to see Wen Xi kill Mac, was still very happy for Wen Xi, although she was vaguely aware that Mac and Momo may be the same person, “Hahahahaha, the number one sharpshooter god also has days like this!”

It was true that Mo Chen may have died in the middle of solo competitions from being surrounded and thrown into a pit before, but this was the first time that he had died in the finals.

Xiao Bu said, “The last few seconds of this match really made my hair stand on end! Wency can actually fight to a draw with Mac, and even vanquish Mac! However, during the last exchange, it actually wouldn’t be surprising no matter who hit the other first. In my opinion, the two of them pretty much hit each other at the same time!”

Magic Xi added, “Yes! Although Wency won first place, Mac still has a higher number of kills, one more than Wency. It’s a pity….”

Xiao Bu laughed and said, “Haha, anyway, congratulations to Wency! Congratulations to the CLM team for capturing another first place! Wency is definitely the strongest rookie to appear this year. Unfortunately, he appeared too late and couldn’t hurry and take part in the domestic trials. However, I believe he will surely shine in the competition next year!”

As the two commentators summarized the match, the players left the field one after another. Those who needed to get water got water, and those who needed to rest, rested.

Wen Xi turned his head instinctively and as expected, saw Mo Chen coming over to look for him. After hesitating, he asked him, “At the very end, did you take it easy on me?”

“No,” Mo Chen replied definitively and handed Wen Xi’s thermos to him, “It was me who was slow.”

Wen Xi took the thermos, and looked at him suspiciously as he twisted the lid off.

Mo Chen couldn’t help laughing and had to add, “I’m not like you, and I didn’t have weapons to switch to. The gun hadn’t cooled down yet, and I was desperate.”

“Oh…” Wen Xi believed him and drank from the thermos.

It was still warm lemon water, but for some reason, it tasted a little sweet today. It seemed that honey had been added.

At this time, Chen Wei passed by the two of them and asked, “Where’s Cat?”

Wen Xi paused before looking around, and in a glance saw Cat still lying on the computer table pretending to be dead. He didn’t know whether to laugh or cry.

Chen Wei followed his gaze and couldn’t help laughing, “Cat has been hit by us into seclusion.”

He had no choice but to walk over and push Ling Shuyi.

It was only then that Ling Shuyi sat up, leaning back and raising his head to give him an accusatory look.

Chen Wei smiled and patted his shoulder, consoling him, “Okay, okay, the match was for fun, so what are you doing taking it so seriously? The prize money comes first, and friendship second.”

“That’s true.” Thinking of getting the prize money, Ling Shuyi came back to life.

Their CLM team rarely participated in this kind of informal competition. It was better to say that, over the years, the top five teams in terms of points wouldn’t participate in this kind of competition. They felt as though it wasn’t worth it.

If they won, then everyone would think that it was just natural.. If they lost, then they would be mocked relentlessly everywhere and flamed in all sorts of ways until they couldn’t go on anymore.

So for the past few years, whenever this kind of competition had come up, Mo Chen had refused.

Rather than the prize money, their reason for participating this time was mainly to let Wen Xi get a feel for a competition’s atmosphere in advance.

“This kind of game that can just be won casually, every match we play, that’s one less. Enjoy it until it’s over,” Chen Wei said.

Ling Shuyi leaned forward and pondered for a while with one hand on his head. Suddenly he asked, “Are the global finals about to start?”

Chen Wei let out an “en.”

Ling Shuyi said, “I hope those two teams lose quickly and come back soon, so they can play training games with us.”

Chen Wei looked at him in surprise. “Why do you want to play training games all of a sudden? I haven’t seen you so active before ah?”

Ling Shuyi answered, “Because I suddenly feel that, compared to dying in your hands, I’d be a bit more comfortable dying at the hands of others.”

Chen Wei didn’t know whether to laugh or to cry, but he knew that he was joking and didn’t immediately complain.

Sure enough, Ling Shuyi’s next sentence was, “Just joking. In fact, I can’t wait to see those two teams being abused by the captain and Wen Xi until they’re all crawling around on the ground.”

“Yeah, it will be a wonderful sight,” Chen Wei said, and suddenly also looked forward a bit to playing training matches.

——The team was getting stronger. It was time to settle accounts between them, YEY, and MQ.

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Juurensha: Poor Kitty….this is Cat abuse! Wen Xi and Mo Chen in their solo match were really cool though!

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