Ch58 - What kind of monsters are CLM!

Edited by kat

After the CLM finished their meeting, they all took a bath and went to sleep.

The manager had warned them not to look at Weibo, the forums, or anything else during the competition, so that they wouldn’t see something they shouldn’t see that could affect their state during the game. They all listened to him—except Mo Chen.

When Mo Chen had just stepped into the e-sports circle and entered the public view, he didn’t take the online evaluations of him seriously. Even when he went to read the netizens’ comments about him, especially those of the anti-fans, he had a lighthearted attitude towards them.

It was ridiculous that these people who had never stepped into his life or even talked to him face to face thought that they knew him, and full-heartedly complained about their imaginary image of him.

Therefore, Mo Chen had always been above refuting them.

Since he didn’t take them to heart, there was no need to shirk from reading them.

However, even though he wouldn’t take them to heart, Mo Chen was way too lazy to flip through all those comments—He logged in to Weibo and looked at the 17th professional league’s official account for the first time. Their latest Weibo post announced the rankings for all the teams after the first day of the spring competition.

They hadn’t stayed on the scene for the second match of the squad competition, so they didn’t know the final result.

He had never expected that the champion of that match would be the QAQ team.

Yes, the QAQ that Lan Yan had gone to.

He and his new captain had worked together to survive until the end and got ten kills, obtaining the most points in that match. Their final total points put them in fourth place, right below MQ.

Mo Chen sighed with some emotion.

Maybe it wasn’t that Lan Yan had regressed, but that Mo Chen wasn’t able to allow him to properly utilize his strength.

However, even if Mo Chen had to make a decision again, he’d still allow Wen Xi to replace Lan Yan.

Therefore, when he saw QAQ’s achievements, he only felt a bit emotional, but not regretful.

At this time, he didn’t realize what Lan Yan’s departure meant, and didn’t take the real worry in Liu Weizhe’s words to heart.

*

The next day followed the same order of a solo match, duo match, and then squad match.

The first solo match, according to the final agreed-on arrangement last night, had Ling Shuyi and Chen Wei participating.

Ling Shuyi had experience in solo matches ah!

Therefore, instead of feeling nervous, he felt like a fish in water, and pledged to his teammates and coach, “Leave it to me ba! I’ll definitely help bring back a first place for all of you!”

He didn’t expect that everyone would roll their eyes at his words, all with disbelieving looks.

Chen Xiao had originally wanted to say, “It’ll already be really good if you don’t turn into a lootbox upon landing.” However, before the words left his mouth, he was afraid of pulling up any flags he shouldn’t pull up for the team, and swallowed those words back up again.

On the other hand, Liu Weizhe said coolly, “You’re bragging too much.”

Ling Shuyi hmphed and decided to let his teammates see his strength.

Chen Wei, who was pairing up with him, usually talked a lot, but at this moment, he was silent. It was obvious that he was a bit tense, but at the same time, there was a small trace of fighting spirit in his bright eyes. Obviously, he wasn’t intending to lie down and die.

When the two people went up to check their equipment, Chen Xiao suddenly said, “Maybe Xiao Wei will be very suitable for solo matches.”

Liu Weizhe wasn’t interested in games, so he didn’t reply.

After a moment of silence, Mo Chen said, “I also feel that way.”

Since joining the team, if Chen Wei wasn’t playing duo, then he was playing a squad match, and whether it was a duo or squad match, he always held the medic role.

It was mainly because, in terms of skills, he really wasn’t as good as the rest of CLM.

But his game awareness was definitely above many of those in CLM.

For example, Wen Xi could discover Mo Chen’s shadow and knock him down with an arrow, but he had never discovered Chen Wei’s shadow before.

So how exactly would Chen Wei fight this match?

Thinking until this point, the members of CLM who weren’t playing all couldn’t help but look forward to it.

After the game started, Ling Shuyi decisively jumped to the forest area, while Chen Wei jumped to the grassland area at the edge of the map.

Because the audience didn’t care that much about these two people, the director always cut the camera to MQ and YEY’s sides. CLM could only judge their own players’ situations by the kill prompts in the upper right corner of the screen.

Ten minutes into the game, Chen Wei’s ID hadn’t appeared in the upper right corner once, but Ling Shuyi’s ID had appeared there many times.

Wen Xi counted, “Five kills now.”

Mo Chen let out an “en,” not saying anything more.

During this match, the other teams still hadn’t given up on laying siege to CLM.

Some of the other teams’ actions were understandable, such as YEY and MQ. For them, lowering CLM’s points was equivalent to improving their own rankings.

However, some teams were already pretty much going for broke. They obviously knew that it was dangerous, but they still suicidally charged in, just like moths to a fire, as if they didn’t know what the outcome would be ya.

Even if you managed to defeat CLM, would you be able to gain any extra points?

Their spirit in facing difficulties was worthy of admiration, but once you have overestimated yourself and underestimated your enemies, it is no different from pointlessly sending yourself to your enemy.

“Six now.” Wen Xi had been counting Ling Shuyi’s kills the entire time, and his dangling heart gradually settled down.

He and Mo Chen both didn’t expect Ling Shuyi or Chen Wei to get first place in the solo match, but as long as they weren’t at the bottom, CLM wouldn’t lose!

However, in the end, just after they finished that thought, Ling Shuyi appeared on the screen—It wasn’t that the director had cut to his perspective, but that he had showed up in the perspective of MQ’s captain CC.

He appeared suddenly and got into a face-to-face gunfight with CC, and actually knocked CC down to the ground.

The audience all exclaimed, and the casters were also surprised.

“CLM’s Kitty Cat caught CC off-guard and hit him!” A-Yi shouted excitedly, “This is beyond everyone’s expectations! He judged CC’s position from the gunshots and kills prompts, but instead of escaping, he bravely rushed towards CC for a head-on gunfight! I had thought that YEY’s Run was the boldest player, and I never thought that Kitty was actually bolder than him!”

“Bold?” Mo Chen raised his eyebrows. “Kitty is bold, but Run is just reckless.”

Hearing his words, Wen Xi who was sitting next to him let out a “pfft” of laughter.

This was probably the legendary shielding the shortcomings of one’s own child?

They were both players who were skilled at getting into head-on gunfights, but while their own family’s Cat was bold, the other family’s Run was reckless.

In the end, CC failed to escape and was crisply and cleanly killed off by Ling Shuyi.

However, before Ling Shuyi could heal himself with medicine, Run appeared out of nowhere and rushed out, wanting to take his head.

Ling Shuyi knew that he couldn’t escape, and instead of struggling, he threw a grenade at Run.

So, shortly after Ling Shuyi was killed by Run, Run was also killed by a grenade with a bang!

“It wasn’t a loss! Kitty didn’t lose out with this maneuver!“ A-Yi said, “Although he didn’t get credited for Run’s death, he successfully restricted the upper limit of YEY’s possible points this match!”

“Yes!” Bunny Ji added, “After killing MQ’s CC and taking out YEY’s Run with a grenade, two strong teams have both lost one member. CLM definitely profited from this move!”

A-Yi said, “I have to say that Kitty’s reaction was quite fast! He should have realized he couldn’t survive when he saw Run and threw that grenade decisively. If he had chosen to shoot Run, he would only have made Run bleed a bit then.”

CLM’s people deeply favored this explanation. Therefore, although they felt it was a pity that Ling Shuyi had died, they didn’t feel frustrated like they did yesterday during the duo match when he had turned into a lootbox upon landing.

Chen Xiao even couldn’t help but joke, “He even said he could take first place. This counts as him slapping himself in the face—It’s like I’ve said before, you can’t pull a flag before the competition.”

At this time, there were less than 30 survivors in the match.

The director was constantly changing the screen’s perspective, and the camera basically cut to all the areas where there was fierce fighting.

Lightning and MQ team’s Ax frequently appeared on the screen, but Chen Wei’s ID hadn’t appeared once, let alone his avatar.

It was as if he had disappeared from the map, and it made one doubt whether he was still even alive on the battlefield.

“Is Xiao Wei still alive?” Chen Xiao had plainly been paying attention to the prompts in the upper-right corner of the screen this whole time, but he still couldn’t help but raise such a question.

“He’s still alive,” Liu Weizhe responded to him with great certainty.

Obviously, he had also been watching the kill prompts in the upper-right corner this entire time.

Chen Xiao asked, “How many kills has he taken?”

“Zero,” Liu Weizhe and Wen Xi replied to his question in unison.

Chen Xiao: ???

Chen Xiao thought he had heard wrong, but he was forced to accept it.

And Mo Chen, who was sitting behind him, laughed at the scene—How had he never noticed before that such treasure was hidden in his own team.

Time passed by, and the circles refreshed one after another.

The safe area was getting increasingly smaller, and there were only three people left standing.

One was YEY’s captain Lightning, another was QAQ’s captain Bunny, and the last one was CLM’s Windy, Chen Wei.

In the end, MQ’s Ax didn’t survive to the final circle.

At this moment, the casters had no choice but to notice Chen Wei, a player who had no sense of existence.

“Yi? CLM’s Windy is actually still alive!” Bunny Ji said with surprise, “The director didn’t cut to his perspective once, so I forgot that he existed!”

“I also almost forgot,” A-Yi said, “Windy really can hide… Wait, his kill count is zero?!”

With the words of the two casters, the director finally cut to Chen Wei’s perspective. At this time, A-Yi couldn’t help but exclaim at the kill count on Chen Wei’s screen.

The audience at the venue also couldn’t calm down, and was amazed.

“Wtf, he got zero kills and was able to hide his way into the final circle?! This is too…this is called being too good at hiding ba!”

“What kind of monsters are CLM!”

“Amazing, why didn’t I think that this player Windy was that awesome before?”

The last circle had refreshed in the mountain area. There were only two rocks left to take shelter behind, so the three who were still alive knew exactly where the others were.

However, just as Lightning and Bunny were ready to rush in, Chen Wei threw out two smoke grenades. For a while, the strong smoke surrounded the three people. No one could see the others, so they could only fire and throw grenades based on memory.

The audience watched the smoke on the big screen nervously and wondered who could survive until the end, until the words “YOU WIN” appeared suddenly on the screen.

The results happened so quickly that most people hadn’t even reacted yet.

That was, until Chen Xiao slapped his leg and exclaimed, “Beautiful!”

——He still remembered that the director had finally switched to Chen Wei’s perspective. That meant that the person who had won first place in the solo match was Chen Wei!

Indeed, the word displayed next to the “YOU WIN” was Chen Wei’s ID.

“It’s Windy! After Lightning shot Bunny with an assault rifle, Windy blew up Lightning with a grenade and got first place in the game!” A-Yi finally reacted and explained the last scene according to the playback from an omniscient perspective.

With his commentary, the audience also reacted and started shouting!

“Holy shit, what the hell!”

“Taking first place with one kill, awesome!”

“You can do that?!”

Seeing this result, Chen Xiao was once again in high spirits and had already stood up from his chair, too impatient to wait for Chen Wei and Ling Shuyi’s triumphant return.

He knew they would try their best, but he didn’t expect them to actually get this far!

Although Ling Shuyi had died early, he had helped CLM get seven kills. The most important thing was that he had also inflicted heavy losses on YEY and MQ, limiting their points.

And then, Chen Wei had succeeded in hiding until the end.

The two people’s points added together actually were the highest for this solo match!

Wen Xi couldn’t help laughing while Mo Chen raised his eyebrows, obviously not expecting that the two people who had always been following along behind him could actually achieve this much.

“My God, this result is really unexpected!”

The casters were as surprised as he was—Bunny Ji didn’t even know what to say due to her current astonishment. “During this match, Windy spent the entire time running from the poison circle. Besides running from the poison circle, he pretty much didn’t do anything else. I thought that he would die early on, and I didn’t expect that not only would he not die, but he would also hide and enter the final circle along the way, and even win first place!”

“Hahaha, this SGH game was so unexpected!” A-Yi said, “But Lightning played really well this match ah! He had head-to-head gunfights all the way, and a few times it felt like he was about to die in battle, but in the end he survived!”

Bunny Ji said, “Yes, Lightning really was amazing! Unfortunately, he only took second place, and Run died early. Although the YEY’s kill points are high, they won’t be able to suppress the ranking points.”

With the words from the two casters, the total points for each major team were calculated and displayed on the large screen.

A-Yi said, “Alright, we can see that the total points have been calculated. At the top is CLM, so let’s all congratulate CLM!”

Bunny Ji said, “But YEY in second place isn’t much worse off, so they still have a chance to surpass them!”

A-Yi said, “It’s actually MQ that is going to be surpassed by QAQ soon.”

“Ooh.” Chen Xiao looked at QAQ’s points on the big screen and raised an eyebrow in surprise. He obviously didn’t expect that the team that Lan Yan had joined would become so strong.

Had Lan Yan recovered to his original state? Or was it that him and Bunny teaming up had produced some sparks?

It seemed that tonight he would need to collect and study QAQ’s recent game videos.

The contestants soon left the field, and the audience also left for a break.

Ling Shuyi and Chen Wei were obviously very satisfied with their performance today, and they were laughing as they left the field.

They had even begun to mutually praise each other.

Ling Shuyi hooked an arm around Chen Wei’s neck and exclaimed, “Dog Ge is very strong ah!”

“Not that much, not that much.” Chen Wei hooked an arm around his neck as well, praising, “If we’re talking about strength then you’re strong for taking out two powerful enemies in one breath. If it wasn’t for you, I wouldn’t have the confidence to hide until the end!”

“Alright, alright,” Chen Xiao rolled his eyes and said, “You managed to take first place in a match after a while and your heads swelled up this much.”

Liu Weizhe laughed, but he still didn’t let them off. “After a while? This is obviously the first time.”

Indeed, it was the first time CLM had won first place in a formal competition without Mo Chen.

Ling Shuyi laughed happily, while Chen Wei felt that his nose was itchy and raised his hand to rub at it.

Noticing Chen Wei’s action, Liu Weizhe thought of something and the smile on his face instantly stiffened. After a moment of silence, he said, “The weather has warmed up recently and the temperature difference between day and night is quite large, so take care of yourself.”

“Rest assured Liu Jie!” Chen Wei smiled sunnily and assured, “I definitely won’t get sick before winning the championship!”

“Pei! Crow’s mouth!” Chen Xiao slapped him on his back, but this time, he didn’t use much strength. “I need to fix the issue of you guys constantly pulling up flags!”

Chen Wei jutted out his lower lip and Ling Shuyi stuck out his tongue, but the two of them didn’t speak anymore.

*

After the break, the duo match began.

Wen Xi went up and checked his own equipment. After making sure that there were no problems, he couldn’t help glancing at Mo Chen who wasn’t far away.

He didn’t know whether Mo Chen had noticed his gaze or not, but Mo Chen immediately looked back at him, stunning him.

Fortunately, he quickly snapped out of it and gave Mo Chen a smile.

Mo Chen returned a smile at him before putting on his headphones, and Wen Xi also wore his headphones.

After the two of them connected their mics, Wen Xi heard Mo Chen’s familiar, magnetic voice, “Perfect, we don’t need to cut each other’s throats in the final circle anymore.”

Wen Xi listened to his nice-sounding voice and became absent-minded for a moment, before laughing and replying, “Competing with medicine against each other was also pretty good.”

Mo Chen: Competing with medicine… You don’t know how much I had to pinch and calculate away to achieve that.

Yesterday, during the solo match, if he had just pressed another shortcut key and used one more first aid kit, then he would have been the last survivor instead of Wen Xi.

However, Mo Chen noticed that Wen Xi still hadn’t figured this matter out, and he didn’t plan on bluntly telling him, so he said, “Competing with medicine is very tiring.”

“That’s true. It’s always nerve-wracking and too energy sapping,” Wen Xi replied, “Duos is still better.”

“En, duos is better.”

They reached a consensus and looked at each other at the same time, giving each other a hearty smile.

What they didn’t know was that their teammates and coach were sitting in the rest area with expressions of concern.

They definitely weren’t worried about how the two of them would play in the game, but…

“The official recording for the official competition will be published publicly—Do they remember that ba?” Chen Xiao asked uneasily.

Chen Wei replied, “I don’t know.”

Ling Shuyi asked, “Should we remind them?”

Chen Xiao replied, “Yes, you can. You go remind them.”

Ling Shuyi wussed out, “No… going specifically to remind them of this always feels kind of weird?”

In the end, no one went to go remind Mo Chen and Wen Xi. On one hand, they felt that although they usually showed off in both dark and light, they were very serious about formal competitions, and should know what was proper. On the other hand, they felt that they showed off so often that not having it this one time wouldn’t make a difference.

Mo Chen and Wen Xi certainly didn’t know what the other was thinking, only knowing that they themselves were in a good mood at the moment.

Mo Chen: This is the first time I’m going on a duo match with Wen Xi in an official competition. I feel like I can take 98 kills!

Wen Xi: Finally, I can play duos with Mo Chen in an official competition. He definitely would never let him down!

Soon, the game began.

After being sent to the plane, the two of them glanced at the map at the same time, and then zoomed in on the map at pretty much the same time. They both had relaxed postures of being fine with jumping anywhere.

“Wen Xi.” Mo Chen called out in a light voice, “Where should we jump to?”

Wen Xi had a flash of thought and blurted out, “We should jump to wherever there’s more people.”

“I think so too.” Mo Chen said and couldn’t help but lightly laugh—It may make people feel that they were arrogant, but he really felt that as long as he was with Wen Xi, it didn’t matter where they jumped to or how many people surrounded them.

Wherever they jumped to, they could win.

“Okay, then the city area ba,” Mo Chen said.

“Okay, the city area then,” Wen Xi replied.

Mo Chen said, “You can fight me freely. I will protect you.”

Wen Xi replied, “Mmhm, I will protect you too~”

The corner of Mo Chen’s mouth rose.

He liked this sentence. He enjoyed the feeling of “intimacy” with Wen Xi, even if it wasn’t real.

He still remembered saying to Chen Xiao that he wanted to allow Wen Xi to take the initiative.

However, that didn’t mean he couldn’t do anything.

Actually, if he was telling the truth, right now he wasn’t sure of to what extent Wen Xi had feelings towards him. He wanted to wait for a more mature opportunity and then take him down in one fell swoop.

He wanted to succeed with his target and guarantee he wouldn’t fail.

Mo Chen had done a lot of unusual things in his life, and he had made a lot of gambles that changed his life. Because he wasn’t afraid of failure, he had the courage to bear the consequences of failure.

But in the case of confessing to Wen Xi, he admitted that he had been afraid of the possibility that Wen Xi would refuse him.

Before, there had only been one thing he was determined to get, and that was the SGH championship of the global competition.

Now, he had another desire—Wen Xi.

After the spring competition, he may need to take the time to think about how to take Wen Xi.

Such an idea flashed through Mo Chen’s mind and he became lost in thought for a moment. Fortunately, he very soon snapped out of it.

The city area soon arrived, and he and Wen Xi didn’t jump immediately, but waited for a while.

Yesterday, people tried to lay siege to Wen Xi during the solo match. However, today he learned that most teams were headed to the hills to avoid the two of them.

Therefore, they didn’t just want to not jump to the same area as them, but they were also trying to stay as far as possible from them.

And just because they had guessed their thought process, Mo Chen and Wen Xi didn’t jump immediately when the plane flew over the city area.

Sure enough, the major teams thought they weren’t jumping into the city and only then pressed the F key. One team after another jumped down, and in a short time, several teams had gone down, including the two snipers from YEY.

MQ found that YEY had jumped, and wanting to avoid them, didn’t jump.

“Thunder and Tornado of the YEY team have jumped to the city area!” A-Yi commented, “They’re one of the top three teams, yet only one of them jumped down. It seems that the city area will soon be occupied by YEY!”

“Yes! After YEY jumped down, no one else jumped there, so obviously they are very afraid of their strength!” Bunny Ji said, ‘Thunder and Tornado are both snipers. Their cooperation is getting increasingly better now, the only people I think can match them now are…”

Bunny Ji had only said half of a sentence, but before she could say the two IDs that she thought could compete against Thunder and Tornado, she saw the people with the two IDS jumping off the plane almost at the same time.

“CLM jumped!” she yelled on the spot and said, “Momo and Wency of CLM have also jumped to the city area!”

“Hahaha, there will be a lot to watch now,” A-Yi laughed and said, “Momo and Wency and Thunder and Tornado, the next battle in the city area will definitely be wonderful ba! Let’s wait and see!”

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Juurensha: Yaaaaay Cat and Dog FTW during their solo match! And of course, the legendary duo finally arrives at the formal competition.

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