Ch49 - That's his wife!

Edited by kat

Mo Chen was stunned for a moment. He thought that Wen Xi would choose Chen Wei after saying he didn’t want to be protected by him anymore. He was already prepared to tell him what to pay attention to when he and Chen Wei played the duo match together.

However, Wen Xi unexpectedly in the end still chose him.

In fact, Wen Xi thought very simply. He became an e-sports player because he wanted to fight alongside Mo Chen and give him a hand. Therefore, for him, there was no second choice for a duo partner.

The reason why he didn’t want to be protected by Mo Chen was just because the previous game had been a solo match, and he had still wanted to compete against Mo Chen.

When admiring a person, one would always unconsciously compare oneself to him, hoping to be able to catch up to him and one day be able to walk alongside him.

However, in a duo match, Wen Xi would definitely support Mo Chen, and gamble everything on him.

Under Wen Xi’s firm gaze, Mo Chen laughed. “Alright, I accept.”

It would have been fine if he didn’t say anything, but once he said this sentence, Ling Shuyi and Chen Wei both broke out in goosebumps.

Chen Wei even let out a “yi~” before saying, “I declare to you that I accept—What kind of large-scale confession scene is this?!”

Ling Shuyi also said, “What’s the matter with you two? It’s just choosing a duo match partner, but you guys make it sound like you’re choosing a life partner!”

Mo Chen clicked his tongue and gave the two people a disgusted look. “You’re overthinking it. Also, you’re blaming us? All you know how to do is to think of messy things all day long. Can’t you pay more attention to actual business?”

“A-Chen is right.” Coach Chen Xiao took the opportunity to echo.

Mo Chen continued, “You’re even shipping your teammates’ CP, completely insane.”

Chen Xiao exclaimed, “That’s right!”

Mo Chen added, “Are you two gay yourselves ba?”

Chen Xiao didn’t know whether to laugh or cry—He didn’t dare to continue that train of thought.

Chen Wei didn’t care and said, “I don’t care, I’m fine with either men or women.”

“I…” Ling Shuyi expressed his reluctance to answer the question, so he retorted, “You two are so ambiguous, so you can’t blame others for overthinking it. Let alone us, other teams must also have doubts about your relationship.”

After guarding Wen Xi for the entire match, Mo Chen finally killed himself with a grenade because he didn’t have the heart to move against him and all that. Were these things a captain would do?!

Who would believe you if you said there were no selfish motives involved?

The other teams really had noticed something based on what they had observed in the last match, but most of them didn’t think deeply on it. At the very most, they made a few complaints about it.

“Mac is too fond of that newbie ba?”

“He just wants to flaunt everything at us bei.”

“Tch, it’s too reckless. Kill them!”

Soon, the second duo match began.

Mo Chen and Wen Xi were one team, and Ling Shuyi and Chen Wei were another.

In fact, many teams had guessed that Mo Chen and Wen Xi would pair up before the game began, but when they actually saw the two people in the queuing map, they still couldn’t help but suck in a breath.

“Mac and Wency are a team.” MQ’s team captain CC frowned, and instinctively wanted to stay away from them.

However, Lightning, the captain of the YEY team, declared war directly in the public channel and said, “Let’s compete over who can kill Mac and Wency ba! Kill one of them and get 50 points! Kill both of them and get 100 points!”

Was it really okay to change the rules like this?

Wen Xi couldn’t help but internally complain about it.

However, Mo Chen responded calmly, “That’s a most welcome opportunity, as it saves me the time of looking for you all.”

Worthy of being Mo Chen!

Wen Xi could see that, Mo Chen wanted everyone to attack him during the training match in order to increase the competition’s difficulty and achieve a greater effect on his training.

As a result, a good training match was turned into a game of “hunting Mac and Wency” just by Lightning’s declaration of war and Mo Chen’s ridicule.

Ling Shuyi and Chen Wei were delighted to see and hear this.

Ling Shuyi said, “We’ll jump far away from them.”

Chen Wei agreed, “We really have to.”

After boarding the plane, the four of them looked at the map and found that the mountain, city, and forest areas were all crowded together. The terrain in the middle of the map was very complex, while the periphery regions were covered by grasslands and desert.

It directly forced everyone to jump to one place!

The first area the plane passed through was the grassland area. Only six people jumped down.

Mo Chen and Wen Xi jumped when they passed through the city area, while Ling Shuyi and Chen Wei jumped into the forest area.

To their surprise, the number of people who jumped to the same area as Mo Chen was lower than the last match. There were only a little over 30 people, with most of them choosing to jump to the mountain or forest areas.

It didn’t seem that Lightning’s instigation was very successful.

“Did Lightning jump?” Mo Chen asked when he landed.

Wen Xi, who was responsible for observing the enemy’s positions, saw the dazzling golden hair at a glance and replied, “Yes, he’s about 300 meters away from us at 10 o’clock.”

“Good,” Mo Chen said, the corner of his lip curving up. “Let’s kill him first.”

Regardless of whether or not they wanted to be besieged, those who dared to declare war on them must be killed!

“Affirmative,” Wen Xi said, and the corner of his lips also drew up.

They wanted to hunt them? The whole field was their hunting ground. It wasn’t certain who was the hunter and who was the prey~

So, when they landed, they both had smirks on their faces.

Mo Chen was the first to land. He immediately equipped his sniper rifle and aimed in Lightning’s direction, before firing a shot!

Bang——

[System] CLM-Mac hit YEY-Lightning with a headshot with a sniper rifle.

A headshot, crisp and clear-cut! Unfortunately, it didn’t knock him down.

But that was fine, because there was still Wen Xi.

[System] CLM-Wency knocked down YEY-Lightning with a headshot with a bow.

[System] CLM-Wency killed YEY-Lightning with a sniper rifle.

Lightning, dead.

“Pfft.” CC, who had always had a high degree of cold facial paralysis, laughed on the spot and celebrated the result.

His teammate, Ax, couldn’t believe what he had just heard and asked, “Captain, were you laughing just now?”

CC returned to his cold and lofty state in a second. “No.”

Ax let out an “Oh.”

It had been a long time since Lightning had turned into a lootbox upon landing. After being killed by the pair, he looked at his gray computer screen for a long time before thinking to protest on the public channel, “Fuck, if you have the ability then wait until I get my gun equipped before attacking!”

Mo Chen responded lazily, “Those who have already been killed in battle are not qualified to speak.”

Lightning still wanted to say something else, but his coach pulled him away from the computer, along with his chair. “Okay, okay, you already died in battle, so why continue to speak nonsense? Isn’t it shameful!”

After he finished speaking, he glanced at the screen where Lightning had already turned into a lootbox and couldn’t help but click his tongue. “There’s already no one who can hold back Mac.”

Many people hadn’t realized what it meant for Mo Chen and Wen Xi to play a duo match together. They just thought that they had a good understanding of each other, and that their skills would be strengthened.

However, YEY’s coach had already predicted the outcome of the duo match.

With Wen Xi, Mo Chen was no longer just the “number one gunslinger god” who could score a headshot with every shot, but a heavenly botter who could take two headshots in a row and directly finish someone off!

With such a combination, it was fated that anyone who met them would die! There was no solution at all!

Both YEY and MQ had gotten the Ice Cream Cup game video half a month ago, but they still had not found a way to retaliate against Mo Chen and Wen Xi’s combination.

Originally, they had planned to take a rest for a period of time after returning home. After all, it was still too early for the spring games, and there would be an entire year before the next championship.

However, thinking about Mo Chen and Wen Xi’s dazzling performance during the Ice Cream Cup, they had trouble sleeping and eating. In the end, they had finally decided to do a few training matches early on and explore what was going on in actual combat.

As for the result of their exploration… At present, it could be said that there was no result.

“Bypass them during the next squad game.” In the end, YEY’s coach ordered, “Let’s not persist in fighting them and get points from kills instead!”

By the time the first circle had been refreshed, Mo Chen and Wen Xi already had dozens of kills in their hands, and there was a very sparse number of people left in the city area.

The two people slaughtered wherever they went, just like a pair of death-ushering Heibai Wuchang.

For a moment, the arrows and bullets flew together, and kills and boxes littered the ground.

“Too fierce!”

“How the fuck are we supposed to beat that!”

“They’re coming over here, save me, holy shit!”

——These were the voices of many teams.

MQ desperately wanted stability, so they all jumped to a place far away from Mo Chen and Wen Xi, so they were still alive to take kills for the time being.

However, even if you added up all the kills between their two teams, it still wasn’t as many as what Wen Xi himself had.

In this match, Wen Xi almost completely followed Mo Chen’s pace. He would hit whoever Mo Chen would hit, and hide whenever Mo Chen would hide.

Tactics? Mo Chen’s.

Kills? His~

So during this match, Wen Xi found playing to be very relaxing and pleasant. He didn’t have to think too much, and all he had to do was pick up kills~

However, he could hardly imagine that Mo Chen was also playing happily.

Whoever he hit would now have to die, and he didn’t even need to make a follow-up attack—This was something that was beyond his imagination before.

As early as when he first met Wen Xi, Mo Chen knew that Wen Xi would not let him down.

However, Wen Xi had performed beyond his expectations, surprising him as he broke through his own limits again and again.

He went from being able to use only the bow, to being able to also get headshots with a gun, and then to being able to switch freely between the bow and guns to get headshots.

He went from breaking into the top 10 in the national servers, to breaking into the top 50 in the overseas servers, and now breaking into the top 30.

Mo Chen couldn’t help laughing. “You are really powerful.”

“En?” Wen Xi froze, and only managed to snap out of it after awhile, smiling as he replied, “As powerful as you?”

“You’re better than me,” Mo Chen blurted out.

Wen Xi was stunned after hearing his words, and was unsure of whether Mo Chen was being serious, or just flattering him.

That reminded him, from the first day he had met Mo Chen, he couldn’t tell which of his words were serious and which of them were joking.

He couldn’t tell whether his ambiguous words were truly flirting with him, or simply teasing him.

Wen Xi only knew—the present him kind of wanted to flirt back.

“In my heart, you are still the best.” Wen Xi returned to his senses and smiled as he replied.

Bang.

Mo Chen shot a bullet that brushed past the enemy’s head and hit empty air.

Not waiting for his chagrin, Wen Xi’s arrow followed closely behind. He made a headshot with a single arrow, and killed them directly!

They were tacitly silent for a moment, before they both pretended that nothing had happened.

Mo Chen said, “Let’s go and loot them.”

Wen Xi replied, “En.”

Ling Shuyi and Chen Wei were wearing headphones and obviously couldn’t hear their conversation, but Coach Chen Xiao heard them both clearly and couldn’t help but show a look of astonishment.

Since Wen Xi had joined CLM, Mo Chen’s attitude towards him was obviously different from his attitude towards others.

Wen Xi had always accepted Mo Chen’s “preferential treatment”, but he seldom responded to it. More often, he would complain—Do you know how to use your words or not?

However, he would occasionally seriously say words that could be misunderstood like just now.

Chen Xiao had asked Mo Chen long ago whether he was serious about pursuing Wen Xi. Although Mo Chen’s answer had been very ambiguous, Chen Xiao could at least confirm that he wasn’t joking about it.

Still, Chen Xiao had originally thought that Wen Xi had no thoughts towards Mo Chen in that respect.

However, he now began to doubt his judgment.

While he was still in a daze, there was another “bang“. Mo Chen knocked down the MQ’s captain CC, and Wen Xi’s arrow followed up as well, headshotting him and finishing him off.

Having gotten the heads of two captains of two strong teams in one match, Wen Xi was not only satisfied, but bursting with joy~

In this match, he had taken back all the kills that Mo Chen had stolen from him. He had never had this many kills in his hands before!

At the end of the day, he alone had 25 kills in his hands!

When “YOU WIN” appeared on the screen, Wen Xi couldn’t help cheering.

Mo Chen turned his head to look at him and couldn’t help but show what could be called a doting smile. “Happy?”

“Happy~” Wen Xi blurted out without thinking.

Mo Chen asked, “So do you still want me to stop protecting you?”

Wen Xi turned his head alertly and met his gaze, before saying seriously, “It’s alright to help each other in duo and squad matches. During solo matches, you can help, but don’t constantly keep an eye on me ah.”

Mo Chen didn’t take his words seriously and asked, “If I don’t keep an eye on you, then who should I keep an eye on?”

Wen Xi fell mute.

“Fuck!” Ling Shuyi had just taken off his headphones and heard such a conversation. He resented that he couldn’t just cut his own ears off and said, “It used to be a secret show, but now it’s beginning to be a public show?”

Chen Wei disagreed, “Haven’t they been a public show this entire time? When was it ever secret?”

Chen Xiao walked behind them and smacked their heads with both hands. “You both were killed right after the fourth circle was refreshed! Your combined kills don’t even add up to 10! Are you guys ashamed!”

Ling Shuyi and Chen Wei quieted down again.

Hearing this sentence, Mo Chen finally moved his eyes from Wen Xi’s face and turned to the two of them. “Don’t worry about it now and just play the next competition well. I’ll review it in the evening.”

Ling Shuyi and Chen Wei obediently agreed.

All of them were a little tired after playing two matches, but they only had five minutes of rest time before the third squad match. They pretty much just went to the bathroom before boarding the plane again.

Before they boarded the plane, the major teams’ coaches gave some instructions to their players, hoping that they could make some adjustments for the next training match.

Their instructions were almost identical—Stay away from CLM!

“The present CLM isn’t something that our normal tactics can deal with,” MQ’s coach said, “We chose to avoid fighting them during the last match, and although we didn’t live to the end, we had the second highest number of kills, more than YEY. It’s better to adopt the same tactics for this match.”

“En,” CC agreed and said, “The domestic trials have two spots. If we can’t get first place, at the very least we must ensure that we can get second place. It’s meaningless to stubbornly go up against CLM and have to exit the competition early. Lightning is the best bad example for this.”

Everyone in MQ agreed. YEY’s Lightning suddenly sneezed twice, asking, “Who is cursing me out?”

“Me,” YEY’s coach said mercilessly, “The training match is not a formal competition, but it can be said to be a preview of the formal competition. I don’t object to you playing in a more relaxed fashion, but don’t waste your time. Especially you, Lightning. You’ve been playing around for two matches now, so shouldn’t you be more serious for the next match ba?”

“I wasn’t just playing around…” Lightning retorted, but his voice dwindled off, and he obviously felt guilty.

However, he had truly wanted to see if he could kill Mac.

Lightning’s sniping ability wasn’t very strong. His hit rate was about 80%, but his headshot rate was less than 20%. So, he knew that if he wanted to kill Mac, the best way to kill him was to shoot him within a certain range.

When he and Mac had gotten into face-to-face gun fights in the past, he could win around one out of five of those battles. With the help of his teammates, he could increase the chances of him winning to at least 70%.

Therefore, he thought that he could use these tactics this time.

But the truth was—he couldn’t even get close to Mac now!

For two matches in a row, he couldn’t even find Mac’s location when all of a sudden, he would die at Wency’s hands.

Lightning wasn’t resigned to this, but he also knew that Mac wasn’t as easy to deal with as before, so he could only accept the coach’s arrangement. “Alright, alright la, during this match I’ll avoid him as much as possible in the early stages.”

As a result, the four members of CLM were surprised when only two teams jumped to the same area as them during the third squad match. They had even jumped as far away from the four of them as they could, so that when the four players landed, they had no targets to hit.

Ling Shuyi exclaimed, “Crap, what’s this situation?”

Chen Wei asked, “They all scared away by the captain and Wen Xi ba?”

Ling Shuyi cheered, “Good show ah!”

Since they had no targets, then they had to go find them bei.

Wen Xi said, “They seem to have all jumped into the forest area.”

Chen Wei added, “We have two teams in this area. They’re both in the 11 o’clock direction, at least 500 meters away.”

Mo Chen said, “Okay, then let’s go that way.”

Thus, after they found a car, they drove towards the forest area to the north of the map.

In SGH this stylish game, although there were no weapons and medical supplies you could pick up on the desert island, there were still cars and boats you could drive, and you could even use the cars and boats to hit people.

Unfortunately, the four members of CLM had jumped to the city area. The enemies were hiding on the upper floors, so it was impossible for them to randomly roam around on the streets. It also ruined their idea of directly hitting people with the car to kill them.

“We’re almost there.” After Chen Wei spoke, they heard a “bang, bang” ring out as two bullets hit the car, instantly scaring him into a panic. “Not good, we’ve been found!”

“What are you panicking for,” Mo Chen calmly replied as he turned the steering wheel, allowing the car to drive straight into the building before saying succinctly, “Get off, go upstairs, kill!”

With his words, the four people got out of the car and rushed upstairs together.

Wen Xi then witnessed Mo Chen’s climbing skills from his own perspective—He truly “climbed up” these stairs instead of simply “walking up”. He clambered onto the handrail, and within a few leaps, he was already on the third floor. His speed was so fast that one couldn’t help doubting whether they were playing the same game as him.

Wen Xi wanted to try after watching, so he manipulated his character to climb up onto the handrail on the third floor and jumped forward. However, he hit the opposite handrail and fell back to the first floor, and fell directly to the ground.

Emmm……

[System] CLM-Wency has been knocked down due to falling damage.

Mo Chen had climbed to the fourth floor, but when he saw this system prompt he laughed on the spot, “Hahaha…”

Having never heard the captain laugh in the game, Ling Shuyi and Chen Wei couldn’t help but break out in goosebumps.

If they had made such a mistake, Mo Chen might not scold them, but he would definitely have an ugly expression, and use his dour gaze to let them know the fear of being dominated by emotional abuse.

Thus, this scene was simply unimaginable in their eyes!

What was more was that Mo Chen, who had already climbed to the fourth floor, suddenly returned to his original path and climbed down.

He actually climbed down…

Ling Shuyi & Chen Wei: ???

Mo Chen said, “The enemy that just shot at us is on the fifth floor. You two go up and kill them.”

Ling Shuyi said, “Uh… And you, captain?”

Mo Chen replied, “I’m going to save someone.”

Ling Shuyi said, “But…”

Ling Shuyi originally wanted to say that Wen Xi had bandages to save himself, so there was no need at all to go back to save him ah?

However, before he could finish his sentence, Chen Wei interrupted him, “But what! Is the person captain saving an ordinary person? That’s his wife!”

Mo Chen said, “Chen Wei.”

“……Cough, Captain, I’m here.” Chen Wei shivered.

Mo Chen said, “If you can speak like that, then talk some more.”

Chen Wei: “….”

He had thought that the captain would accuse him of “overthinking”, and he had never expected to hear such a sentence.

For a moment, Chen Wei thought that he had gone crazy from shipping CPs and was hallucinating?!

Wen Xi was stunned when he heard this sentence, but then he couldn’t help laughing. He didn’t try to refute him at all.

When he saw Mo Chen come down, he cancelled using his bandage.

Mo Chen approached him and helped him up himself.

Wen Xi said, “Sorry ah.”

Mo Chen replied, “It’s okay. Want to learn how to climb stairs? I’ll teach you. ”

Ling Shuyi and Chen Wei couldn’t listen anymore. They felt that they would get killed even before they rushed up due to their teammates stuffing dog food into their mouths, rather than the enemy killing them.

Chen Xiao, who was watching the battle behind the four, also raised his hand to cover his eyes. He couldn’t even complain—What training match were they playing! What were you guys doing?!

Everyone else would play around during the solo and duo matches, then play seriously during the squad matches. How come when it came to their team, it became showing off their skills during the solo and duo matches, and then showing off their love during the squad matches?!

Oh no, they had also shown off a lot of their love during the solo and duo matches….

Chen Xiao had thought that Mo Chen had just done this on a whim to disgust his teammates. Unexpectedly, he really demonstrated the correct way to climb the stairs to Wen Xi. He climbed from the first floor to the second floor, and then from the second floor back to the first floor patiently demonstrating several times, and even explaining while demonstrating. It could be said that he had given it much thought.

Wen Xi tried it himself. He could see and understand the individual moves, but it was really difficult to connect.

He succeeded only once in ten times before hanging onto the second’s floor handrail for half a day, not daring to make another move.

He was encouraged by Mo Chen to continue to try to climb up, but sure enough, he failed to connect the actions together and fell back to the first floor miserably.

However, he didn’t give up and immediately made his next attempt.

Chen Xiao clicked his tongue. He very much doubted that these two people still remembered that they were playing a training match.

At this time, Ling Shuyi and Chen Wei were both lying on the stairs on the fifth floor, but didn’t dare to move.

They didn’t know where the enemy was, and were afraid that they would be killed as soon as they rushed up. How would that be any different than just sending them kills.

But at the same time, they didn’t know if the enemy would suddenly rush out to attack them, so they were both in a panic.

However, even though they didn’t know what to do, at that very moment, the four enemies who were hiding in the room were looking through the crack of the door, and were even more flustered than they were.

“Where is everyone? Why haven’t they come up yet? Shall I go out and have a look?”

“Don’t move! It’s Mac who is coming ah! You will die as soon as you go out!”

“Holy shit, stop talking, you guys! I can’t hear their footsteps!”

The four of them immediately fell into silence, and then crouched nervously for a few minutes….

“Where is everyone?”

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Juurensha: Two of them are busy in their two-person climbing world, and the other two are in a panic. And yay, canonical bi Chen Wei, and maybe not straight Kitty?

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