Ch74 - Just go ahead and call it strategizing!

Edited by kat

When Wen Xi took off his headset and looked at Mo Chen, his expression was similar to the casters in that it was a bit accusatory, but it was more helpless.

Mo Chen immediately laughed after meeting his gaze, before he stood up and walked over to him. “I really can’t bear to shoot you.”

“What’s more important, me or the championship?” Wen Xi couldn’t help asking.

“They’re both important.” Mo Chen didn’t even have to think before replying.

However, after he answered, he briefly fell into contemplation after remembering the “Petition to Change the SGH Competition System.” If it was really passed, then would that mean that he and Wen Xi would also have to compete against each other in the game?

Before he could snap out of it, Wen Xi took the initiative to hook his arm through his and said, “Let’s go ba.”

“En,” Mo Chen said and naturally clasped Wen Xi’s hand, all ten of their fingers intertwining as he led him to their team’s rest area.

The two people had already officially announced their relationship, so they completely didn’t care about other people watching them as they interacted with each other. “Unbridled” was the most appropriate word to describe how they were showing off their love.

However, neither of them were conscious of it.

Chen Xiao looked at the two helplessly and really wanted to pretend that he didn’t know them, but finally he took the initiative to welcome them with their thermoses. “You both played pretty well.”

“That’s true,” Mo Chen responded without attempting to be modest. He very naturally took his and Wen Xi’s thermoses from Chen Xiao before handing Wen Xi’s thermos to him, as if he feared that Chen Xiao’s hands might be poisonous.

Chen Xiao rolled his eyes and could barely bear to watch his actions.

After Wen Xi received his thermos, he noticed Chen Xiao’s silence and couldn’t help laughing. “If Momo and I can’t get first place while playing together, then our team is really finished.”

Fuck! Who was Momo? Chen Xiao would like to express that he didn’t recognize him!

Chen Wei and Ling Shuyi were standing to the side, but after hearing Wen Xi’s words they couldn’t pretend to not have heard them.

Chen Wei commented, “Wow, Xixi, do you mean that we are not as strong as you guys? Even though it’s true ba…why does it feel so uncomfortable to hear?”

Ling Shuyi said, “Xixi, you’ve been corrupted by the captain! You’re no longer that clever, soft, and cute Xixi anymore!”

Wen Xi blinked, his expression as innocent as could be.

Just when they thought he was going to say, “I’m just stating a fact,” he said seriously, “I never said I was clever, soft, and cute ah?”

Hearing this sentence, Mo Chen let out a “pfft” of laughter. Although everyone else had indescribable expressions, they were also suppressing their smiles.

Chen Xiao let out a long “en….” before finally asking the question he was most curious about since a little while ago. “Did you just call him Momo?”

Wen Xi looked at him. “What’s the matter? Isn’t his ID Momo?”

“You just keep pretending ba, you…. Is there a difference between calling him Momo and MoMo?” Chen Xiao rolled his eyes, disgusted by this overly intimate nickname.

However, Before Chen Xiao could recover, he saw Mo Chen naturally reach over and encircle Wen Xi’s waist. “You shouldn’t stand all the time. Come my beloved, let’s sit down and talk.”

Wen Xi knew that he was doing this on purpose and replied with a smile, “Okay.”

Sure enough, everyone was disgusted by them. Chen Wei and Ling Shuyi simultaneously let out a long “Yi~~~” while Chen Xiao wanted to die on the spot. Jiang Xinyi looked at them for a while before suddenly realizing something. He then turned his head and looked away in silence, pretending that he hadn’t been moved by the sweet interactions between the two.

Jiang Xinyi swore that he was a straight man, truly.

His understanding and empathy were just too strong, so if he even looked at the interactions between the two men, he could feel the sweetness between them.

Chen Wei thought that he couldn’t just let Mo Chen and Wen Xi scatter dog food crazily. He was also a person with a boyfriend, okay?

Therefore, he almost instinctively looked in the direction of Liu Weizhe.

And Liu Weizhe, as if guessing what he was thinking, immediately turned his head and snorted. His refusal couldn’t be more clear.

Yet as a result, Chen Wei was amused by his reaction and immediately laughed, feeling that his wife was too cute.

Soon, the break was over. and the second duo match was about to begin.

A-Yi laughed after seeing the duoCLM had sent in the queuing map on the screen. “It’s Newing and Kitty!”

“Wow, you’re a prophet ah!” Bunny Ji wasn’t stingy with her praise. “You’re very capable, you won!”

Yes, the CLM’s lineup for the duo match was Ling Shuyi and Jiang Xinyi, while Chen Wei was on the bench.

At the moment, he was sitting beside Liu Weizhe, waiting with him to see how his teammates would perform.

However, instead of showing a disappointed expression, he was a little pleased with himself—Just because he didn’t play on the first day, it didn’t mean that he wouldn’t play during the next day. How was CLM’s lineup for the summer games~

This was because according to the current competition system, the players who participated in the solo match couldn’t participate in the duo match for the same day. Therefore, even if the other teams had predicted CLM’s lineup for the duo match, they were unable to adjust their lineups.

At this moment, the YEY and MQ’s coaches had nearly shattered their teeth from gritting them so hard—Players could adjust their play styles on the field, but their lineups were determined in advance by them. Therefore, if YEY and MQ’s results weren’t ideal today, then they would have to shoulder the blame, and it would be really scummy blame!

CLM, this group of stinking rogues! Why change a perfectly good lineup!

However, compared with the solo competition, the two coaches were less worried about the duo competition.

After all, they had come up with their original lineups to deal with Mo Chen and Wen Xi. Was there a more terrifying duos combination than Mo Chen and Wen Xi?

Ermmm…… There really was.

Not long after the game began, Ling Shuyi and Jiang Xinyi not only gave the casters and the audience a great surprise, but also gave the other teams a huge shock.

Caster A-Yi began to challenge his ability to speak fast again, “Kitty rushed directly at Hana and Bow of the FFF team! Hana has aimed at him and is about to shoot…Yi? Smoke bomb! Newing threw a smoke grenade, and Kitty and Hana shot at almost the same time. Hana failed to hit him, while Hana was knocked down by Kitty…grenade! Newing threw a grenade! Hana and Bow already can’t dodge it! Hana has died! Bow has died!”

The whole process took place in a flash, making it difficult for A-Yi to explain clearly.

However, it wasn’t over yet. When the smoke was about to dissipate, another team rushed over with assault rifles, trying to be the oriole that the mantis didn’t notice as it stalked the cicada, but after firing into the smoke, nothing happened.

At some unknown point, Ling Shuyi had already left the cover of the smoke grenade and hid behind a low wall. Then, he and Jiang Xinyi counterattacked against the two people from two different directions. In the end, they caught one of them off-guard and took another two kills!

“Wow! Kitty and Newing are really too fierce when they work together ba!” Bunny Ji’s eyes lit up as she spoke, because she thought it was incredible. “When did they retreat? When did they come back? What’s going on? It’s like they knew there were two other people nearby!”

“Let’s take a look at the playback!” A-Yi said, looking at Jiang Xinyi’s perspective on the big screen. The more he watched, the more surprised he was. “Kitty moved first. He mainly rushed forward fiercely, and then grasped the opportunity to retreat from the smoke very well. Newing’s positioning was wonderful!”

“Yes!” Bunny Ji also saw it and explained, “The smoke grenade he threw when Kitty rushed in was very important, and he pretty much began to move right after throwing it. While Kitty and the smoke grenade attracted the other party’s attention, he naturally moved southeast of Hana and Bow, and then threw that grenade! That grenade was too accurate! I even think that he wanted to kill the entire team using that grenade from the beginning, and Kitty was just his cover!”

“And then, after Hana and Bow were killed, Kitty retreated, but Newing didn’t! He went around in the other direction, as if he knew where the enemy would come from. He laid a trap with the residual smoke as the lure. When the enemy was hooked, he and Kitty attacked from both sides!” A-Yi said, and could not help but marvel, “Too strong! This player Newing’s game sense is so strong! I don’t know if it can even be called game sense, I could just go ahead and call it strategizing!”

“My God! I have goosebumps!” Bunny Ji said, and as if to prove her words, raised her arm and rubbed it.

In fact, part of Jiang Xinyi’s ability had already been revealed during the spring games, so both the casters and the audience had been looking forward to him.

However, no one expected that he would not only not disappoint everyone, but instead he astonished everyone.

No one knew how deep his thoughts were. Not only was he able to use the enemy’s strengths to his advantage to a certain extent, but he also had already planned how to take down the next target while he was attacking his current target.

No one doubted that Ling Shuyi had retreated so promptly and positioned himself so well because he had obeyed his commands.

“Hahahaha, everybody’s expressions!” Chen Wei scanned the audience and was amused by the shock on everyone’s faces. “This is definitely the expression of someone worshiping a straight-A student!”

“Xiao Xin is so strong ah!” Chen Xiao couldn’t help saying.

“He has to be strong ah,” Mo Chen replied, “I’m even planning on giving him CLM.”

“Giving him the club?” Wen Xi blinked.

“……How can that be? I mean the team, of course.” Mo Chen didn’t know whether to laugh or cry, and fondly rubbed Wen Xi’s head.

In fact, he had already thought it through. After he won the championship and went to university, if he couldn’t balance both his studies and playing professionally, then he would regard the CLM club as his career to develop. He would be the boss, and then he would ask some other people to help him with day-to-day operations.

Sponsorships, advertisements, and whatnot, when the time came, he could accept any of those.

At the present though, he mainly regarded playing professionally as a dream he wanted to realize, so he didn’t want to think of these impure things.

However, using his own funds to support the club’s operations wasn’t a long term plan. After all, his funds were relatively limited. Besides the basic salary that he could get from his empty title at his parents’ company, he completely relied on their “loan”—Sooner or later, he would have to work hard to earn the money to pay back his parents.

“Mo Chen,” Wen Xi suddenly called out Mo Chen’s name, pulling him back from thinking about his future plans.

“What’s the matter?” Mo Chen almost instinctively reached over to touch Wen Xi’s shoulder, looking as though he wanted to encircle his arms around him and protect him anytime, anywhere.

Wen Xi pondered for a while before tentatively opening his mouth to ask, “If we don’t win the championship this year, will you continue to play or go to school?”

“Keep playing.” Mo Chen didn’t need any time to consider it and he just blurted it out.

Wen Xi asked, “What if you don’t win the championship next year?”

Mo Chen replied, “I’ll keep fighting on until I can’t move.”

Wen Xi pointed out, “But by then, you may miss the chance to go to university.”

Mo Chen replied, “It doesn’t matter. University isn’t necessary, but the championship is what I want.”

Wen Xi was stunned for a moment, but then thought it was reasonable.

Instead of worrying about what you might lose, it was better to recognize what your goals are, and then work towards them.

Thinking until this point, he couldn’t help smiling and exclaimed, “I will help you win the championship! It will happen this year! We are going to win this year!”

“En.” Seeing him smile, Mo Chen also couldn’t help but smile, and then tightened his grip on his shoulders a bit. “You will help me win—I have never doubted this.”

“Newing has 10 kills!” Bunny Ji’s exclamation pulled their attention back to the game. “He’s too strong! He clearly doesn’t seem aggressive, and plainly we always see Kitty rushing out in front of him, but he’s the one taking all the kills!”

“Will he also play in the afternoon’s squad match?” A-Yi asked. Before the duo match was even over, he suddenly had begun to look forward to the squad match in the afternoon, and couldn’t help but make a prediction. “I think that in the squad match in the afternoon, he’ll be in command!”

“A new recruit who had just joined CLM this year, commanding the ‘number one sharpshooter god!’”Bunny Ji truly didn’t dare to imagine it, but she also didn’t think it was unreasonable at all. “I think that’s possible. I really can’t wait to commentate on the squad match in the afternoon!”

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Juurensha: Well, I hope Chen Wei isn’t locked out of the competition for the whole day.

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