Ch47 - Kill Wency!

Edited by kat

The training match was set for five days from now.

Now that they had a goal, all the members of CLM became more motivated to train.

However, at the same time, Ling Shuyi and Chen Wei suddenly found that their captain had become a bit abnormal.

Although he had also become abnormal after he met Wen Xi, his attitude towards them had still stayed the same as before.

But now, Mo Chen’s attitude towards them had also changed.

“Kitty, don’t rush to the front alone. A sniper rifle’s cooldown time isn’t as fast as that of an assault rifle’s, so I can’t cover you.”

Cover…him?

Ling Shuyi thought that he heard wrong, but he was sure that it had been Mo Chen’s voice.

Almost instinctively, he took a few steps back. Before he could react, a bullet went “shhh” and flew past his face, knocking down an enemy somewhere in front of him.

Obviously, this shot was fired by Mo Chen.

Ling Shuyi was still in a daze when Mo Chen said, “Chen Wei, keep up with me. If you’re too far away, then I can’t protect you.”

Protect…him?

Chen Wei was surprised for a moment, then quickly responded with an “oh” sound.

You had to know, when they had played squad together before, Mo Chen’s orders had all been very concise.

“Kitty, forward.” “Wen Xi goes with me.” “Chen Wei, give me medicine.”

Not a single superfluous word was spoken.

Once he found out that his teammates couldn’t fulfill his orders, he simply didn’t speak, and was mute while playing the competition. His teammates were in charge of being lively, and he was in charge of avenging them after they died.

But for some reason, after chatting with the manager for a few minutes, Mo Chen suddenly became wordy.

“Kitty, get up there! Slow down, come back! No, you don’t have the right rhythm…Tch, let’s do a few rounds of duo matches. You’ll cover me in the back and see how I play.”

Ling Shuyi: ???

Wait, what did he do wrong? Why did he have the feeling that the captain was targeting him?

Having just thought this, he then heard Mo Chen point his finger at someone else. “Chen Wei, don’t just stand there in the back. When you see that we’ve stopped, take out your assault rifle!”

“Yi… Isn’t my position a medic?” Chen Wei hesitantly asked.

You could move faster when you weren’t holding a gun, so wasn’t that more convenient to go rescue your teammates ah?

In SGH, although a teammate helping you up wasn’t as fast as applying a bandage yourself, it wouldn’t use up any bandages.

A teammate could also choose to use a bandage on you while helping you up, which was a little faster than using one yourself. This was why many teams had specialized medics.

Mo Chen had never said anything before about Chen Wei hanging out in the back while everyone else was in the middle of a gunfight. His most common words towards him were, “Give me medicine.”

But this time, Mo Chen clearly pointed out, “With our current lineup, one more assault is more useful than one more medic.”

“So….Captain, are you going to make me an assault?” Chen Wei asked uncertainly, unable to voice how he was feeling right now.

He was a little flattered?

If he could really transition into an assault, that was of course all he could wish for.

Everyone wanted to be in the best possible position when playing during a competition, and no one was really willing to just be a medic.

Mo Chen let out an “en” and didn’t explain any more. Chen Wei seemed to have been very greatly encouraged and cried out loudly, “I’ll work hard!”

In the training time after that, Mo Chen repeatedly pointed out Ling Shuyi’s and Chen Wei’s many shortcomings. He seemed to be wordier and pickier than before, but both Ling Shuyi and Chen Wei benefited a lot.

However, the two people still couldn’t hold back from complaining during their lunch break.

Ling Shuyi asked, “Is the captain finally unable to stand how noob we are?”

Chen Wei replied, “After all, we have such a strong new teammate… Wait a minute. I suddenly realize that he never said anything about Wen Xi from the beginning to the end!”

“He’s just calling a spade a spade. Wen Xi is really better than you guys,” Coach Chen Xiao said, adding insult to injury, “Both his technique and pacing is better than you guys. He can complete all of A-Chen’s orders, and even to a very high degree. What can A-Chen say about him?”

“Tch, makes sense.” Chen Wei scratched his head. After a period of silence, he suddenly said, “However, I don’t know why, but I actually really like the current captain.”

Although he’d been criticized and felt frustrated the entire time, he still inexplicably felt that he’d been taken seriously.

“Me too,” Ling Shuyi said.

Since he had occupied a fixed position in the team for a longer time, he could feel the changes in Mo Chen more than Chen Wei could, as well as the changes that occured in him.

He felt that during the past training sessions, he usually would fumble around by himself, wanting to improve, wanting to become strong, and wanting to be a teammate worthy of Mo Chen.

But now, he clearly felt that Mo Chen was consciously guiding him, and wanted to make progress with him and the rest of the team, instead of everyone being in charge of their own progress.

Well, he had an inexplicable feeling right now that he had turned from a wild cat to a domestic cat. What was with that?

At this time, Mo Chen was resting in his room.

Originally, he would spend his lunch break time basically training, but today for some reason he felt particularly tired, so he wanted to take advantage of the lunch break to lie in bed for a while.

Soon after lying down, however, there was a knock at the door.

This sound was full of careful inquiry, and he could instantly tell it was Wen Xi.

Mo Chen immediately came to and rubbed his eyes, before sitting up from his bed and saying, “Come in.”

With his permission, Wen Xi carefully opened the door and stuck in half his head, asking, “Are you sleeping? Then I’ll wait for a moment…”

“Come in,” Mo Chen interrupted him. He got out of bed while he spoke, and pulled his chair over beside his bed. “Come and sit.”

“Ah…okay. ” Wen Xi hesitated for a moment, but seeing that Mo Chen had already helped him move a chair over, in the end it was “difficult to refuse such kindness.” After closing the door, he went to the chair and sat down.

“What can I do for you?” Mo Chen asked while pouring a cup of hot water for Wen Xi, and handed it to him.

“Thank you.” Wen Xi took the water and thought that since he had already even come in and sat down, if he didn’t speak clearly now, it looked like he wouldn’t be able to leave for awhile… Finally, he explained his intentions, “What did the manager say to you?”

Hearing this question, Mo Chen’s eyelashes trembled, and he sat down on the edge of the bed, not immediately replying.

Wen Xi wasn’t sure if he was angry with him and apologized, “Sorry, I admit I was initially a little curious, but then I became worried about you. I don’t know what he said to you, but I feel you are more stressed now, and I was wondering if I could share a bit of the burden with you…”

After speaking, Mo Chen suddenly laughed, one part helpless and one part relieved. He resisted the impulse to raise his hand to touch Wen Xi’s head and asked, “Am I stressed? Is it that obvious?”

Wen Xi thought about it carefully. “It’s pretty obvious—You’ve been picking on Kitty and Chen Wei’s mistakes all day long.”

That was not a sign of stress ah, darling…

Mo Chen couldn’t help but smile. He actually wasn’t stressed, and it was just that he now had a goal to work towards. However, he didn’t rush to explain, but asked Wen Xi, “How do you think I am towards those two?”

“Uh, pretty good ah?” Wen Xi blinked and didn’t understand why Mo Chen had suddenly asked this. “Although I feel like you are very cold to people other than me, you never lose your temper or curse out people. You’re also very good to us in the game, and have been protecting us the entire time.”

“Really.” Mo Chen was temporarily lost in thought.

So it turned out this was how he appeared in Wen Xi’s eyes. On the other hand, he didn’t know what he was like in the eyes of Ling Shuyi and Chen Wei…

Mo Chen sighed. Originally, he hadn’t wanted to share these words with anyone, but at this moment, he didn’t know why, but he especially wanted to tell Wen Xi. “Regarding me not losing my temper, it’s not that I don’t want to, but that I can’t—since I can’t count on them… However, that was before. Now, I hope they all will improve, and I want the whole team to be stronger as well. Was I too impatient, and made you feel that I was too strict?”

“No way la,” Wen Xi said, finally understanding where Mo Chen’s stress was coming from. He could also guess broadly at what the manager had said to him.

He leaned forward, resting a hand on Mo Chen’s shoulder, and said with a smile, “It’s fine, take your time. Anyway—you have me now.”

——Training must be done, and progress must also be made. However, with me there and with me to support you, it’s fine if Ling Shuyi and Chen Wei take it slowly. It doesn’t have to be so urgent.

Mo Chen looked at Wen Xi absent-mindedly.

He understood what Wen Xi meant, but these words of Wen Xi… They were too easy for him to misunderstand.

For a moment, he was even willing to believe that he wasn’t misunderstanding his words.

However, he quickly came to his senses and replied with a smile, “En, I have you now.”

Wen Xi was speechless—Sure enough, Mo Chen was an old verteran and wouldn’t complain about his choice of word, even going so far as to return the same words to him, completely unchanged.

“Regarding what the manager told me…” All of a sudden, Mo Chen opened his mouth again and took the initiative to mention it. “In fact, I didn’t tell him when Lan Yan had transferred. He only knew about it a few days later, and by that time Lan Yan had already terminated his contract. He was angry about it, so he took the opportunity to come over and curse me out without even using half of a dirty word.”

Wen Xi heard this and had a completely doubtful expression. “That’s what happened?”

Mo Chen let out a definitive “en.”

Wen Xi believed him and was a bit surprised. “He actually dared to curse you out?”

He thought that Mo Chen had the final say in all club matters.

“I had no way out, he’s very good-looking,” Mo Chen talked nonsense.

“Ah?” Wen Xi was stunned.

Before he could react, Mo Chen said with a smile, “But not as good-looking as you.”

Wen Xi: ???

Mo Chen looked at Wen Xi’s stunned expression, feeling that it was a little cute. Finally, he couldn’t help it and gently reached out his hand to flick his nose and said, “What else do you want to know? Take advantage of the fact that I’m not very sleepy right now, and I can satisfy you in one breath.”

Wen Xi’s heart rate suddenly quickened. The area of his nose touched by Mo Chen felt weak and numb, and his face had heated up uncontrollably.

He pretty much stood up in a panic, then faltered and said, “Er, I….I have nothing else to ask. You’re taking a nap ba? I won’t disturb you anymore.”

“Okay,” Mo Chen said, and didn’t realize that his previous actions weren’t quite right.

It wasn’t until Wen Xi had left his room, closing the door behind him, that he felt the numbness on his fingers and raised his hand in front of his eyes.

Just now…what did he do?

*

Lan Yan had left, which meant that CLM’s regular team had no substitutes.

Before the start of the training match, Mo Chen took a day to see the level of CLM’s current secondary CLM team for the first time, and was greatly disappointed.

Ling Shuyi and Chen Wei were still able to be guided by him, but the members of the secondary team were really useless. They couldn’t even compare to one of Lan Yan’s fingers.

Lan Yan had transferred, and the other people could be described as not quite ready at best, so Liu Weizhe was really angry. He almost pointed at Mo Chen’s nose and scolded—Are you stupid about your own condition? What if you have another accident? Lan Yan left, so who can play for you?

However, in the end he didn’t use this kind of extreme scolding method. Instead, he spoke around it and said that Mo Chen didn’t cherish his teammates, and then guided him to get along well with his current teammates in case the same thing happened again.

He began to look for new substitute players himself.

Mo Chen knew all of this

Liu Weizhe had always stressed that he “didn’t come to the team often.” It wasn’t to emphasize how precious his time was, but to mock himself—because he had to split his time between both his studies and the club, he couldn’t focus his attention on the club all the time. Even regarding Lan Yan’s transfer, he had only learned about it after the fact.

Those who didn’t know Liu Weizhe would think that he thought highly of himself. No matter who he was talking to, he always gave the feeling of standing high up and talking down to you.

However, Mo Chen had known him for an entire year, and knew that he didn’t have a malicious bone in his body. The reason why he had talked to him so much was because he really had attached importance to the club—He really hoped that the club would improve.

This was the most basic professional quality of a manager, and Liu Weizhe satisfied it. He also completed all the work Mo Chen had handed to him well, never letting him down.

Therefore, Mo Chen felt that there was some truth in his words and he listened and wouldn’t go after his tone or attitude.

“Regarding the matter of substitute players, A-Zhe said he would think up a solution so we could focus on the game,” Coach Chen Xiao said to Mo Chen the day before the training match.

“Understood.” Mo Chen’s head didn’t even turn around when he answered.

“As for the secondary team…”

“Tch.” After the secondary team was mentioned, Mo Chen got angry and said, “Don’t worry about it now. Wait for us to win the championship, and I don’t believe that we’ll be unable to recruit people then.”

“Haha, okay,” Chen Xiao responded, inexplicably feeling that Mo Chen’s expression of hating iron for not being steel was a bit cute.

How to say it, compared with his previous attitude of being indifferent to everything outside the competition, he now appeared more like a captain and a boss.

*

Soon, it was the day of the training match.

“Are you all ready?” Mo Chen put on his earphones and suddenly asked this question.

Everyone was stunned.

Wen Xi was the first one to react and said, “En.”

Ling Shuyi then said, “I’m ready! Today is the day we’ll overturn YEY and MQ! ”

Chen Wei added, “We’ll settle old accounts and new accounts together, and have one battle to overturn them and redeem ourselves!”

Mo Chen slowly said, “It seems that all your trash talk is ready, so you can turn on your mics and flame them.”

Ling Shuyi & Chen Wei: ???

Wait a minute. When you asked if we were ready, you were talking about trash talk?

“You—you really want us to turn on our mics and flame them?” Ling Shuyi wanted to wuss out now.

“That’s not too good ba…” Chen Wei also added.

Mo Chen said calmly, “Isn’t it common sense to use trash talk before a competition?”

Wen Xi couldn’t help laughing a bit before saying, “Then I’ll do it?”

Mo Chen replied, “Alright.”

Ling Shuyi and Chen Wei both had confused expressions. They didn’t expect Mo Chen would really allow it and even more didn’t expect that—Wen Xi really dared to do it.

With more and more teams entering the queuing map, Wen Xi opened the game mic and switched to the public channel. He said in a very calm voice, “Hello, I’m Wency, CLM’s new member. The captain sent me to greet you. I hope that in the next game, we can all start happily, and end after beating you all into seclusion.”

“Hahahahaha, what the hell!” Ling Shuyi laughed on the spot.

“End after beating you all into seclusion is too cool…” Chen Wei didn’t know whether to laugh or cry.

After they finished laughing, they suddenly reacted—Huh? The captain seemed to have more blame shoved to him?

Mo Chen was also laughing at the moment, just not out loud.

He didn’t expect that Wen Xi really dared to say it, and also had directly said that he ordered it.

Wen Xi turned off the mic after talking, and let out a long sigh of relief.

Seriously, if he hadn’t added the word “Captain” to it, he really would not dare to pull in such hatred.

——Anyway, it was Mo Chen who allowed them to say trash talk, so it wasn’t wrong to say that he ordered it?

When he turned his head, he saw that Mo Chen was looking at him with an expression that said “I really can’t do anything to you.”

Before the two people could gaze at each other for a while, Lightning’s voice came from their earphones, “Wow, I can’t act like I didn’t hear that! Mac, you wait for me. In just a bit, I’ll kill you first!”

Mo Chen replied, “If you have the ability, try it.”

CC cut in, “Mac’s head is mine. Lightning, step to the side.”

Lightning yelled, “Shit! You scram! First come, first serve, understand? Mac’s head is definitely mine!”

Mo Chen commented, “Oh, you guys keep talking like you can kill me.”

For a while, the chat channel was extremely lively, and the captains and team members of the major teams came out one after another to show off their trash talk.

Both Ling Shuyi and Chen Wei had originally been restless and ready to make trouble, and they had also wanted to try out some trash talk. However, they were now completely unable to join in on the conversation, and could only listen to the excitement in silence.

After most of the trash talk had been exhausted, the game began.

The rules of the training match were completely in accordance with the formal competition’s rules. However, because it was still in essence a training match, the players wouldn’t be given too much rest time—The solo, duo, and squad matches would all have two matches each. It would probably take a little more than three hours to play. They would then go to lunch directly after they finished playing, before playing again in the afternoon depending on the situation.

The first game was a solo match.

After boarding the plane, Wen Xi glanced at the number of people in the upper right corner. There were actually 100 people, but before the game, the list Liu Weizhe had sent only had 21 teams on it.

Were there more than four people per team?

Wen Xi didn’t think deeply, and took a look at the map. The center of the map was the grassland area, while the mountain and city areas he was good at were in remote places.

Before he could look more, he found that someone had already jumped.

Taking a closer look, eh? It seemed to be Mo Chen?

Mo Chen said, “I jumped. If you want to kill me, then hurry up.”

Wen Xi: ….

Mo Chen had said these words directly in the public channel for everyone to hear.

After he spoke, a large number of people scrambled to jump down, and the scene appeared quite spectacular.

Wen Xi simply couldn’t believe what had just happened—Could a training match actually be like this!

Because it was a solo match, their four CLM players had lost their shared voice channel when the match had started.

However, they were all quite close to each other since they were in a training room,, so Wen Xi could vaguely hear Ling Shuyi or Chen Wei cursing, but was unclear on exactly what they were cursing.

In fact, the one who had started to curse was Ling Shuyi. “Fuck! I jumped too ah! Why did I jump ah! Help me, holy shit!”

Chen Xiao, who was watching the battle behind the four of them, didn’t know whether to laugh or cry.

Training competitions were for training ah—For Mo Chen, if the scene wasn’t exciting enough, then there was no point to it.

Wen Xi had originally hesitated on whether to jump into the mountain area or the city area. Now, after he saw Mo Chen jump down, and then a large group of people jump after him, he didn’t know whether it was because he was worried or for some other reason, but he pushed F down with a flick of his hand.

He also jumped!

After opening his parachute, he turned his point of view and for the first time, failed to count the number of people who jumped.

The entire sky was covered with black parachutes. Even if he missed a few, there were at least 40, nearly half of the contestants!

“Tch tch tch.” Chen Wei was both afraid and lost in wonder. He prayed for his teammates while flying to a small corner of the map with no one around.

The first area the plane passed through was the forest area, so whether it was Mo Chen, Ling Shuyi, or Wen Xi, they all jumped to this area.

After Wen Xi jumped down, he couldn’t find Mo Chen or Ling Shuyi’s positions, so he could only protect himself first.

The sound of gunfire and hand grenade explosions continued to ring around him, both far and near, and Wen Xi’s blood began to boil—He swore that this was the first time since he came into contact with SGH that he had heard such intense gunfire.

Then, among the sound of gunfire, the sound of his arrow became especially clear.

“Shhppt—” A light sound, sharp and neat, flew up before hurrying down, and then, an accurate headshot!

[System] You knocked down DOL-Ming with a headshot with a bow.

The elegant parabola sharply contrasted the moment of its impact, giving off a cool feeling that was incomparable to any other weapon in the game.

Wen Xi laughed and decisively switched to his sniper rifle, shooting at the body of the person from just now!

[System] You killed DOL-Ming with a sniper rifle.

Headshots were pretty cool, but if you could kill the other party without a headshot, they were unnecessary.

Any weapon should be used purposefully, and the same was true of skills. They were not used for show, but to win—All of this was taught to him by Mo Chen.

After getting a kill, Wen Xi moved decisively, wanting to find a safer place to assassinate his second target.

However, after taking just two steps, a bullet came out of nowhere and wiped out a quarter of his health.

[System] MQ-FFJ shot you with a sniper rifle.

MQ！

Seeing the name of the team, Wen Xi’s heart rate suddenly accelerated, and he felt a little nervous.

All along, he had known and recognized this team through the computer screen, but this was his first time to fight against this team.

The gunfire around him was too noisy and disorderly for him to know where the other party had hit him from.

Wen Xi was a little flustered. He didn’t know what to do for a moment, so he could only go back to his original place and hide behind the tree. However, the other side could still hit him from there.

[System] MQ-FFJ shot you with a sniper rifle.

This shot made a critical hit. Wen Xi’s armor was gone, and his health had dropped to less than half.

He quickly put on his spare armor and then equipped himself with his sniper rifle. He took aim at the direction he suspected the shots were coming from and actually managed to catch sight of the person!

He was there!

Wen Xi decisively fired—“Bang”— he hit FFJ’s helmet. At the same time, another shot sounded out from afar, and it was aimed at the same person.

[System] You hit MQ-FFJ with a headshot with a sniper rifle.

[CLM-Mac killed MQ-FFJ with a headshot with a sniper rifle.]

Mac! Mo Chen!

The moment he saw this ID, even though it was clearly a solo match and he had even been robbed of his kill, Wen Xi let out a sigh in relief.

He hid behind the tree and used a first-aid kit on himself. After filling up his health, he had just wanted to go meet up with Mo Chen when he heard Mo Chen’s voice on the public channel.

Mo Chen said, “Which one of you dare to make another move against him?”

Wen Xi: ….

Lightning yelled, “Shit! I really want to see if you can protect him! The whole army, listen up, change of target, kill Wency!”

CC said, “MQ team order received.”

Ming said, “DOL team received it too! Bros, help avenge me!”

Lightning added, “The whole YEY team, rush up with me!”

Wen Xi looked up at the sky.

Who could tell him why things had turned out like this?

They were playing a solo match, right?

—

Juurensha: Ohhhhh poor XIxi, hahaha. Still, Mo Chen will probably keep him safe. And hahaha to Kitty and CW being so weirded out by Mo Chen actually acting like a captain for once. (Somewhere, Liu Weizhe is like, you’re welcome.)

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