Ch48 - I choose you.

Edited by kat

For a while, all the players of the major teams rushed over in Wen Xi’s direction. Wen Xi could only run while knocking down as many enemies as possible in order to strive for survival.

He now seriously suspected that Mo Chen had said that intentionally.

With a few words, Mo Chen had directed everyone’s hatred at him.

It couldn’t be that he was blaming him for throwing all the blame onto his head earlier ba?

Ling Shuyi and Chen Wei listened to what everyone was saying in the public channel and were laughing uncontrollably—They never thought that a training match could be so fun~

Chen Xiao stood behind the four people and watched the battle, and he also didn’t know whether to laugh or cry.

He turned his head subconsciously, and his gaze fell on Mo Chen’s computer screen. He suddenly found that Mo Chen’s muzzle was aimed at an enemy near Wen Xi, but he didn’t shoot. Chen Xiao couldn’t help but be stunned.

If it wasn’t a training match, Mo Chen would have fired this shot, not allowing anyone to covet Wen Xi’s head.

However, he was now clearly targeting the enemy, but he wasn’t shooting?

He couldn’t have done it intentionally ba? In order to train Wen Xi…

Chen Xiao thought of a guess, but before he could return to his senses, he saw an arrow go through the head of the person in Mo Chen’s crosshairs—Obviously, it was Wen Xi who did it.

Then Mo Chen shot his sniper rifle and finished him off, kills + 1

Chen Xiao: ???

Wen Xi: !!!

Wen Xi had used his bow to knock down that person, and had just wanted to switch to his sniper rifle to finish him off, but he hadn’t expected Mo Chen to steal his kill first.

At first, he thought it was just a coincidence that he and Mo Chen had aimed at the same target.

However, after knocking down three enemies in succession with all their heads going to Mo Chen, Wen Xi finally figured things out—Mo Chen was doing this on purpose!

He allowed him to become the target of public criticism, and hid in the dark to gather up kills?

How could he tolerate that!

Wen Xi snorted and valiantly knocked down two enemies with his assault rifle. He decisively swapped to his bow, but didn’t finish them off. Instead, he turned to shoot an arrow at Mo Chen’s hiding place!

He hadn’t confirmed Mo Chen’s position with a scope, but Mo Chen had just robbed him of three kills in a row. It was easy to infer his position from the three shots if he hadn’t moved.

Sure enough, after a “shhppt—” sound:

[System] You hit the CLM-Mac with your bow.

This arrow was stuck in Mo Chen’s shoulder. Mo Chen was caught off guard by this attack, and laughed right on the spot. “What are you doing?”

He was actually asking him what he was doing!

Wen Xi quickly finished off the two enemies from just now before hiding behind a tree and giving himself medicine, turning on his mic to say, “You stole my kills.”

After hearing him, Ling Shuyi and Chen Wei both had expressions of, “Wow…. so amazing.”

——In the entire e-sports circle, Wen Xi was the only one who dared to attack the captain and speak out against him in a bold and righteous manner.

However, Mo Chen was not only not angry but also responded with a smile, “I’m helping you finish people off and fight for time to escape.”

Wen Xi replied, “I don’t believe you.”

The captain being rejected had a mass appeal.

Ling Shuyi gloated and laughed out loud. As a result, he accidentally laughed too much and choked on his own saliva, coughing violently.

If it wasn’t for him coughing, he would have liked to make a sarcastic remark at the moment—Captain, your wife is angry and is the type that can’t be coaxed. You figure out what to do yourself ba~

However, you had to call a spade a spade. It was thanks to those two people drawing most of the fire that he had a chance to escape from the barrage of bullets.

The forest area was Ling Shuyi’s best area, so when he saw that it was the first area the plane passed through, he jumped down without thinking about it. Who knew that Mo Chen would say something like that.

Ling Shuyi escaped from the forest area, but Wen Xi didn’t want to escape at all. His bow and sniper rifle kept switching in his hands, and enemies were constantly falling around him. Although his health fluctuated up and down, he always killed the other party one step before he himself fell to the ground, and then he would fill up his health with medicine just in time.

During this, Chen Xiao’s eyes were stuck on Mo Chen’s computer screen the entire time. He discovered that no matter where Mo Chen moved, his scope was always aimed at the enemies near Wen Xi. Sometimes he would steal Wen Xi’s kill, and sometimes he would not, just like he was calculating something.

It couldn’t be that…he was calculating Wen Xi’s weapons’ cooldown time?!

Chen Xiao turned to look at Wen Xi’s computer screen, watching his and Mo Chen’s simultaneously. Finally, he thoroughly understood Mo Chen’s intentions.

Every time Mo Chen judged that Wen Xi could safely take a kill, Mo Chen wouldn’t steal it.

However, once he found that Wen Xi was in danger, he would take the kill first and let Wen Xi move on quickly.

I’m helping you finish them off and fight for time to escape—These words weren’t actually a joke, and he had spoken seriously!

Chen Xiao couldn’t help laughing.

In this manner, Mo Chen not only allowed Wen Xi and his other teammates a fair chance to fight, but also guaranteed Wen Xi’s safety to the greatest extent.

No one else would protect their wife to this extent.

Little did Chen Xiaoknow that Mo Chen was quite pleased as he protected Wen Xi—Worthy of being the person I pulled into the team myself. Quick, kill them all! Let them all feel the fear of being dominated by the bow!

Just like this, Wen Xi turned and ran into Lightning, the YEY team captain. Although he quickly pressed the shortcut key to take out his assault rifle, he was still knocked down by Lightning.

Mo Chen’s face instantly grew cold, and he aimed and shot at Lightning’s head!

[System] You knocked down YEY-Lightning with a headshot with a sniper rifle.

[System] You killed YEY-Lightning with a headshot with a sniper rifle.

Lightning had successfully knocked Wen Xi down, but was taken out by Mo Chen with two consecutive shots. He died so quickly that he doubted life in general!

Wen Xi blinked, and also hadn’t reacted yet.

He had thought he would die, but instead, the person who knocked him down was the first to die.

He saved himself with some bandages, and after topping off his health with a first aid kit, he wasn’t polite in looting Lightning’s box. He not only gained medical supplies, but also got a pile of frag grenades √

Lightning looked at his own gray screen and couldn’t help but turn on his mic and curse heavily, “Mac, you stinking rogue! If you have the ability, then come out and fight me in a gun-battle! Where’s the skill in attacking from the dark?!”

Mo Chen said, “Come on.”

Lightning: ???

Mo Chen continued, “Come on out and we’ll have a gun-battle ah, where are you?”

Lightning yelled, “What the fuck, you already forgot about killing me just now?!”

“Oh,” Mo Chen said lazily, “I’m actually willing to have a gun-battle with you, but if you can’t pick yourself up from the ground, then I can’t do anything about it.”

Hearing this, the public channel burst out with an explosion of laughter. Lightning immediately took off his headphones and stood up, exclaiming, “Where is this stinking rogue club? I’m going to rush over there and cut him!”

YEY’s coach was long since used to his occasional fits and said lightly, “If you go earlier, then you’ll return earlier. Remember to bring me a pack of cigarettes when you come back.”

Lightning: “…. ”

He actually wasn’t going to stop him? He couldn’t stay in this club any longer….

At this time, Wen Xi was taking advantage of the fact that he had so many grenades and was throwing them everywhere.

Frag grenades could explode enemies to death, but played a more important role in driving the enemy out.

Ax, an assault from MQ, was hiding behind a tree and had originally planned to wait for Wen Xi to walk over before launching a sneak attack on him. Unexpectedly, he was hit with a grenade in his face before he was ready to rush out, so he had to put away his gun and run away from the frag grenade’s blast radius as quickly as possible. However, he still lost a bit of health from the shrapnel produced by the frag grenade’s explosion.

[System] You hit MQ-Ax with the shrapnel from your frag grenade.

Seeing this system prompt, Wen Xi quickly equipped his bow and shot an arrow in the direction that Ax was running!

However, he didn’t expect that the other side would react quickly and suddenly brake, causing the arrow that Wen Xi had shot to brush past him. Then, he immediately threw out a smoke grenade and hid in the smoke.

The players of a strong team shouldn’t be underestimated.

However, Wen Xi didn’t give up. He hid behind a tree and threw three frag grenades in a row into the smoke, but in the end, only the shrapnel from the first grenade hit his opponent, and it failed to knock him down.

Had he already run away?

Wen Xi didn’t really want to let go of this kill, but he was also unsure if the person was still in the smoke.

He was hesitating over whether he should first change his position, when suddenly a gunshot rang out.

[CLM-Mac killed MQ-Ax with a headshot from a sniper rifle!]

“Beautiful!” Chen Xiao saw this scene through Mo Chen’s screen and couldn’t resist crying out.

Even though he had seen it countless times, watching such a nimble headshot still made his blood boil with excitement. He even had an impulse to return to the e-sports circle.

He had to say, watching Mo Chen play the game was very enjoyable. He was capable of producing an entire set of wonderful clips on his own.

His kill had been stolen again. Wen Xi was a bit displeased, but he also felt relieved.

He still didn’t know why Mo Chen was so keen on stealing his kills this match, but he felt that Mo Chen had been paying attention to his every move this entire time, supporting and protecting him, which made him feel very secure.

Fifteen minutes into the game, the second circle began to shrink, and the people still in the forest area had to move to the safe zone.

Ling Shuyi had already found a good position to toss people into a pit a long time ago, so he slaughtered his way to the safe zone and took five kills in one breath!

At this time, YEY only had had their funny captain killed off, while MQ only had their captain CC and their support SD left as survivors. The two teams knew that they couldn’t do anything against both Wen Xi and Mo Chen, so they moved into the safe zone early to fight the others.

“Wency……” YEY’s coach looked at the ID that constantly appeared in the upper right corner of the screen, and his expression became a bit grim.

The 16th professional league global finals had ended, which meant that they would once again have to fight for a place in the domestic trials.

MQ, this messed up team with extremely poor benefits, had continued to make progress and pressure them more each year. This year CLM, a small team that had only been established for a year and a half, had obtained such a troublesome newbie.

After listening to the coach chanting Wen Xi’s ID, Lightning, who had already given up on his plan and taken off his earphones, tentatively proposed, “What if I try to pull him in again? I don’t believe that the benefits of those stinking rogues will be better than our Yaay!”

……What the hell was Yaay?

The coach rolled his eyes and was too lazy to complain, and answered his question directly, “Pull my ass! They already announced it on their official Weibo, and played in a competition with him previously. The contract must have been signed long ago.”

Lightning sighed with an expression of utter regret on his face, but he soon got up and said optimistically, “It’s okay! Isn’t he just an archer assassin? He even lost in a gunfight to me just now!”

The coach gave him a disgusted look. “Yes, and then you died.”

Lightning was speechless.

At this time, Wen Xi had already moved into the safe zone. Unfortunately, he ran into MQ’s SD and was almost killed by the other party’s grenade. With great effort, he managed to spray the other party with a shotgun, but he was knocked down by CC, the captain of MQ, with a headshot from a distance.

Wen Xi was startled. For the nth time, he thought he was going to die. Yet as a result, Mo Chen knocked CC down before he could fire the second shot, and then shot and killed SD before could rescue himself as well!

Wen Xi was alive!

If Wen Xi had doubts before, then he could now pretty much be sure that Mo Chen had been protecting him all along.

Without Mo Chen, Wen Xi didn’t know how many times he would have died under each big team’s intense attack.

However, if it wasn’t for Mo Chen, he would not have been chased and almost killed by so many people or been in so much danger…

In fact, Mo Chen’s situation wasn’t much better than Wen Xi’s. Since it was a training match, everyone wanted to fight against him, the “number one sharpshooter god”, and all kinds of people had encircled him.

Fortunately, he had been used to this situation for a long time, so even if no one protected him, he was never in danger.

Unfortunately, because there were other enemies around him, he only had time to help Wen Xi knock down CC, but failed to finish him off before he ran away.

Mo Chen cleared all the people around him in one breath. After filling up his health with medicine, he didn’t give up and took aim at CC’s original location. As expected, he didn’t find anyone there, and he clicked his tongue.

Of all the teams, if Mo Chen had to say who he felt the most difficult enemy was, it would be CC.

In order to divide the work and cooperate together, many teams would split into specialized assaults and snipers, but CC was outstanding in both close combat and long-range attacks.

Therefore, Mo Chen wanted to kill CC the most in this competition—He was really a bit worried that he couldn’t keep Wen Xi safe from CC.

But at the same time, he also knew that Wen Xi wouldn’t be defeated so easily.

Wen Xi rescued himself with bandages and topped up his health, before taking a free moment to get on a motorcycle and rushing in CC’s former direction!

Although Wen Xi usually gave people a soft feeling, he was very vindictive.

In addition, he really wanted to play against CC a few more times to get a feel for the strength of a strong team captain.

The MQ team now only had CC still alive, so their team members and coach were all watching CC’s computer screen, hoping that he could survive to the end.

Nearly half of the people this match had jumped to the forest area, so the game had progressed very fast. At this moment, the game had reached the third circle, and the number of survivors was less than 20. If they were fast, then the final winner and losers could be determined by the fourth circle.

“Come on, Captain!” Ax encouraged him, even if CC couldn’t hear it.

However, almost at the moment when he spoke, an arrow came from who knew where and directly headshotted CC!

“What the fuck!”

“That scared me!”

“What’s going on?”

At this time, CC was located in the mountain area, and there were rocks in front of him. Let alone a player sniping him, they wouldn’t even be able to aim at him.

So when Wen Xi’s arrow came out of the blue, even CC, whose face wouldn’t change even if Mount Tai collapsed, was startled into his mouse twitching.

“How did he do it?” His teammates couldn’t believe it.

Finally, it was MQ’s coach who discovered a clue. “His shadow.”

CC’s had chosen a good spot. His entire body was blocked by rocks, so he couldn’t be hit with a sniper rifle. However, his shadow covered the rock and could be seen with a sniper rifle.

However, he hadn’t moved since just now, so even if someone saw his shadow, they would think it was a gap in the rock. His teammates wouldn’t even notice this detail, but Wen Xi actually noticed it!

As for why Wen Xi could notice it, of course it was because he used the bow ah!

When he and Mo Chen played squad matches together, almost all of the enemies that could be shot and killed with a sniper rifle were killed by Mo Chen. Therefore, Wen Xi’s targets would of course be the kind of enemy who was well hidden, with only their shadow or their gun’s muzzle peeking out.

It was almost his instinct now to look for shadows.

Additionally, Wen Xi knew CC’s general location from when he was headshotted by CC, so when he searched in that vicinity, any trace he found would arouse his vigilance.

This was the third time in the game that CC had fallen to the ground. It was now much slower to save himself with the bandages.

As soon as he revived himself and stood up, Wen Xi shot another arrow at him that he barely ducked away from!

When the arrow was embedded itself at CC’s feet, CC’s teammates and coach were sweating for him.

The archer assassin was worthy of his title, he was too terrifying!

Having just thought this, there was a gunshot far away, and CC’s screen suddenly turned gray.

[CLM-Mac has killed MQ-CC with a headshot with a sniper rifle!]

“Fuck!” CC’s teammates couldn’t help shouting.

They had actually forgotten that that devil Mac was still there!

In order to avoid Wen Xi’s second arrow, CC only had time to rescue himself with bandages, and didn’t fill up his health with a first-aid kit. Then, he had taken a step forward and left the shelter of the rocks, exposing half of his head.

——It was at this time that Mo Chen sniped and killed him!

“What kind of demons are in CLM?”

“Mac had been aiming over here from far away from the start ba?”

“Targeting our captain like that, it’s too much!”

En, they seemed to have forgotten that it was CC who had shot at Wen Xi first.

Wen Xi, who was again robbed of his kill by Mo Chen, was not reconciled to it, but he also knew that he couldn’t have gotten that kill in the end.

His gun-shooting skills were much better than before, but he knew that at his current level, he was unable to react in such a short time and seize the opportunity to headshot him. He may not be able to do it in the future either.

Mo Chen was really strong ah.

Wen Xi had felt this way more than once, and he couldn’t stop the corner of his lips from rising.

After killing the entire MQ team, it was now a lot easier to play. Wen Xi slaughtered his way into the fourth circle, and although he was injured from time to time after getting into gunfights with others, he had never been knocked down again.

All of a sudden, two kill notifications in a row popped up in the upper right corner of the screen, attracting Wen Xi’s attention.

[QAQ-LY killed YEY-Run with a frag grenade.]

[QAQ-LY killed YEY-Tornado with a headshot with a sniper rifle.]

LY? Lan Yan?

Even if he hadn’t actually fought alongside Lan Yan, they had still once been in the same team. Seeing this ID, Wen Xi felt a bit emotional.

On the other hand, Chen Wei was crouching in the grass, aiming at Lan Yan with his scope. He also had a complicated mood.

My former teammate, I can’t bear to take action against him ah…

Thinking like this, he resolutely put away his gun, before throwing a grenade in that direction!

[CLM-Windy killed QAQ-LY with a frag grenade!]

He felt one thing as he ruthlessly killed off his friends—cool!

Lan Yan, who had already joined QAQ, didn’t know whether to cry or laugh as he looked at his gray screen—Damn Xiao Wei, next match you’re finished!

Just after thinking this, Bunny, who had been lying in ambush for a long time, rushed over to Chen Wei’s hiding place carrying an assault rifle, and went tutututu!

[QAQ-Bunny killed CLM-Windy with a headshot with an assault rifle!]

“Pfft…” Lan Yan couldn’t help laughing.

When karma comes down to bear, who can the heavens spare?

He just didn’t expect retribution to come so fast!

Currently, there were only six people still alive in the solo competition. In addition to the three left in CLM, there were still YEY’s sniper Thunder, QAQ’s team captain Bunny, and DOL’s WAN.

The battle’s final outcome always occurred super quickly. Bunny had exposed his position in order to kill Chen Wei, so he immediately became the number one public target. In the end though, before he was killed, WAN, who was trying to kill him off, was shot by Wen Xi, but then the kill was stolen by Ling Shuyi.

After he finished stealing the kill, Ling Shuyi had a kind of “it’s over for me” feeling. He didn’t have time to escape before he was executed on the spot by Mo Chen.

Sure enough….

Ling Shuyi leaned back and took off his earphones, and just sat and watched Mo Chen and Wen Xi work together to kill Bunny and Thunder, before starting a familiar confrontation.

The pair’s tacit understanding was impeccable in anyone’s eyes. When they played a solo match together, it was just like they were playing together in a duo match. They would always manage to survive together to the end.

At this moment, everyone held their breath unconsciously and wondered who would win first place in this match.

Under their nervous gazes, Wen Xi shot an arrow at Mo Chen, and Mo Chen unhurriedly took out a grenade. Before he could throw it, he was knocked down by Wen Xi with an arrow, then Wen Xi switched to an assault rifle and with two tutu shots, finished him off.

“So anxious…” Mo Chen didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. He had failed to use the grenade and explode himself, and he kept feeling as though he had lost 100 million yuan.

It was only after Wen Xi killed Mo Chen that he realized that Mo Chen had just wanted to use the grenade on himself, and he was a little speechless—When you were tricking me to join the team, using a grenade and exploding yourself to promote good feelings was whatever, but what’s the point in setting off a grenade on yourself in a training match? Are you sick?

He took off his headphones and turned to look at Mo Chen, asking, “What are you doing?”

Mo Chen took off his headphones at almost the same time, and then stretched a bit. “It wasn’t easy to escort you all the way into the finals, so I couldn’t bear to kill you.”

These words could count as completely answering Wen Xi’s question. “So you really did escort me all the way.”

Mo Chen let out an “En,” not wanting to conceal it at all.

After all, he wasn’t Lei Feng.

Wen Xi curled his lower lip down. Although it felt pretty good to be escorted into the finals, it also meant that his own ability wasn’t enough to support him to survive to the end in the competition with so many strong teams also competing.

He felt a little frustrated….

He hesitated for a moment before still deciding to voice his own thoughts, “Don’t protect me next match. I want to try and see where I can end up on my own.”

“You’re overthinking it,” Mo Chen blurted out.

Wen Xi was about to complain when Mo Chen’s next sentence was, “Next match will be duos.”

Oh….

Then he had no other choice.

“Or next match, you can go with Chen Wei, and I’ll go with Kitty,” Mo Chen said, “Anyway, between me and Chen Wei, pick one.”

In fact, Mo Chen wanted to try both combinations to see which one was better for the team—Wasn’t a training match meant for stuff like this?

As for why he wasn’t letting Wen Xi and Ling Shuyi play duo together, the main reason was that Ling Shuyi was more suitable for solo matches than team matches, and was better at charging in than providing support. Mo Chen felt as if there was no difference playing solo matches versus duo matches with him.

Therefore, to let Wen Xi feel the charm of duo matches, it was better to let him and Chen Wei, who was good at support, form a pair.

Thinking like this, Mo Chen looked at Wen Xi and waited patiently for his answer.

Wen Xi turned his head and looked at Chen Wei. He looked back at Mo Chen and quickly made a choice. “I choose you.”

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Juurensha: Hahaha, of course Xixi would pick Mo Chen. Still, I do like that he wants to stand on his own two legs during solo (will Mo Chen ever let him though….)

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