Ch76 - Conference?

Edited by kat

Mo Chen dimmed the screen of his phone in time, so Wen Xi didn’t see clearly what was displayed on the screen.

However, Wen Xi didn’t care, and soon snapped out of it to ask him, “Are you going to drink beer or coconut milk?”

Mo Chen hesitated for a moment before saying, “Coke ba.”

“Okay~” Wen Xi replied, then got a coke from Ling Shuyi and poured a cup for Mo Chen.

Chatting was essential for dinner parties, so everyone talked happily, their topics ranging from the competition to life, from the past to the future, from those present to those who weren’t present.

Who knew who started the topic first, but after chatting for a while they suddenly started talking about Lan Yan.

“He’s doing pretty well right now ba?” Chen Xiao still missed this old friend very much. After all, he had played together with him for a year. “Who is still in contact with him? Raise your hand?”

Chen Wei raised his hand, Ling Shuyi raised his hand, and Liu Weizhe raised his hand. After seeing each other, they were all surprised.

Ling Shuyi exclaimed, “Wow, I thought I was the only one harassing him! So you guys actually also were…”

“No, that’s just you,” Liu Weizhe interrupted him, before putting down his hand and picking up his coconut milk to drink. “Lan Yan took the initiative to contact Xiao Wei and me.”

The expression on Ling Shuyi’s face immediately stiffened.

“Hahahaha, it’s not like that la!” Chen Wei scratched his head and said, “Sometimes he takes the initiative to talk to me, and sometimes I do. We’re all friends, so it’s normal for us to chat.”

Chen Xiao clicked his tongue, “Tch, no wonder QAQ fights so fiercely whenever they run into us. All of you leaked information ba!”

He said this in a joking tone. Everyone knew that he was joking, so they didn’t refute it and laughed it off.

“He’s doing pretty well right now,” Liu Weizhe spoke faintly, bringing the topic back on the right track. “Although QAQ’s total points aren’t good, and the chance of them participating in global competitions is unlikely, he has been able to play all the time, so that’s pretty good—and he has won many championships in informal competitions.”

“Maybe that’s what he wants ba,” Chen Wei said with a sigh, and he didn’t notice anything odd about Liu Weizhe’s words—QAQ’s final rankings in the Spring and Summer Championships were fourth and sixth place, respectively. It could be said that they were totally out of the global competition, but Liu Weizhe had said that it was “unlikely.”

“Wen Xi, how long has it been since you last livestreamed?” Liu Weizhe suddenly looked at Wen Xi and asked.

Wen Xi froze, obviously not expecting that he would get called on, and it was a bit before he answered, “Quite a long time ba?”

He’d been playing in the Summer Championship for nearly half a month, and they had training before the Summer Championship, so he could hardly find any time for livestreaming.

At first, Blue Wolf, Ai Zhe, and them would ask him in a small groupchat whether he had time to livestream together with them. Later, they knew that he was busy, so they didn’t really send him any messages.

Wen Xi didn’t know why Liu Weizhe had suddenly asked him this, until Liu Weizhe added, “Lan Yan seems to have signed with JJ Livestreams.”

“Eh?” Hearing this, almost all the people present let out cries of surprise.

Wen Xi hadn’t yet responded when Chen Wei said with disbelief, “Holy shit! When did this happen? How come I didn’t know anything about it?!”

Ling Shuyi said, “I also didn’t know… I even sent him a message before I came here, asking him if he would like to come eat with us. It’s so not part of the bro code to sign with a livestreaming platform and not tell us ba!”

Liu Weizhe was silent for a moment before he replied, “It’s normal. After all, we’re not part of the same team now, so there’s no need to tell us anything specially.” After a pause, he continued, “He signed with JJ Livestreams about a week ago, around the end of the regular season. At that time, you guys were busy training and weren’t on the Internet, so not knowing isn’t strange.”

“But A-Yan actually began to livestream…” Chen Xiao felt that it was very incredible. “He’s so passionate about playing in competitions, so I didn’t think he’d put any thought into doing anything else.”

“Maybe he’s preparing for his retirement ba,” Mo Chen guessed, “I don’t think he can play for more than a few more years.”

“Indeed,” Liu Weizhe responded, “QAQ has recruited another group of strong team members. Let alone Lan Yan, even their captain is likely to be replaced.”

Both of them spoke directly and didn’t take the feelings of other people in the room into account at all, so the atmosphere in the private room became a little heavy.

But at the same time, all the people present were very clear that even if they didn’t talk about it, this problem would still exist.

E-sports had both brilliant and cruel aspects.

“But…” Chen Wei suddenly said, “He’s already played and signed the livestreaming contract. He’s tried everything he wanted to. He worked hard, so at least he won’t regret it.”

“That’s true,” Liu Weizhe echoed, “Lan Yan is very clear on what he wants and will give everything for his goal. I really appreciate that about him.”

Chen Wei said, “Speaking of that, there’s a new ice cream shop near my home. Kitty, do you want to come and eat some? You can come to my house along the way to play oh~”

Ling Shuyi, who didn’t tend to overthink things, was immediately distracted by this sentence and responded happily, “Okay ah, okay ah~”

Chen Wei said, “But I can’t tell the difference between soft-serve and normal ice cream? People say they’re two different things.”

“Ah?” Ling Shuyi had a confused expression as he asked, “Don’t they refer to the same thing?”

“Not exactly,” Jiang Xinyi replied, “The air volumes in them are different. If I remember correctly, the air volume in soft-serve ice cream is 80-100%, while the air volume in hard ice cream is 30-60%.”

“Ah?” Ling Shuyi was more confused.

This time, even Chen Wei, who had skillfully changed the topic, was also confused. “What is ‘air volume? I thought the difference was that one was harder and the other was softer…”

Everyone then launched a heated discussion and began to search for information on the topic, and soon left Lan Yan’s matter behind.

However, while Wen Xi was listening, he unconsciously fell into contemplation for a bit.

He vaguely remembered that before Lan Yan left the CLM club, he seemed to have asked him for Magic Xi’s contact information…. He couldn’t have been thinking that he was going to be an anchor in the future even back then ba?

*

After the dinner party, everyone went back to the hotel.

Mo Chen hesitated for a moment, but in the end he didn’t tell everyone about the reform to the competition system. He decided to tell them after they went back to the club.

The next day, they flew back to S city.

Shortly after getting off the plane, when Mo Chen was crazily swiping through Weibos and forums, trying to collect more information to inform them better, Ling Shuyi suddenly said, “Have you seen the latest Weibo post from the SGH officials?!”

Mo Chen froze slightly, then showed a normal expression—It made sense for them to find out. The competition was over, so idly scrolling through Weibo was normal.

Chen Wei exclaimed, “Wtf, I was just about to say that! I didn’t think much when I saw the petition submitted by the United States teams a week ago, and I thought that they probably wouldn’t get a reply. Yet as a result, I just looked at Weibo, and it actually f*cking passed!”

“It’s not strange ba?” Jiang Xinyi said, “After all, there were so many countries that supported it, and only one publicly opposed it.”

Mo Chen raised his eyebrows, a bit surprised.

He thought that only he and the coach knew about this matter. He didn’t expect that these little bunnies had also paid attention to it in private, and it was just that they hadn’t said anything about it.

On the other hand, Wen Xi really didn’t know. “What petition? What are you guys talking about?”

He opened his cellphone to check as he asked. However, just after he lifted his cellphone, Mo Chen gently pressed down on it with his palm.

“Don’t look at your cellphone while you walk,” Mo Chen said gently, hugging his waist, “First, let’s back to the club. We’ll have a meeting after we get back, and everything will be made clear.”

“Okay~” Wen Xi responded obediently and put his cellphone back into his pocket.

About an hour and a half later, everyone arrived one after another at the club. They were completely exhausted, and lay paralyzed on the sofa in the hall.

Mo Chen originally wanted to immediately hold a meeting, but after seeing that everyone was sleepy, he felt a bit helpless. In the end, he let everyone rest for a while and then had a meeting after dinner.

After dinner, everyone entered the long lost meeting room, and then Mo Chen got straight to the main point. “You should all know about the competition system’s reform ba? The contents of the reform have been clearly written out in the official Weibo. I will summarize it briefly. It will divide the solo, duo, and squad matches into three separate competitions, so total points will no longer be calculated. The way the points are calculated has also changed. Before, different rankings gave a different amount of points, but now only the top three will get ranking points, and everyone outside the top three can only get kill points. The amount of points received from the rankings is also a lot less than before.

“The reform was basically carried out based on the petition submitted by the U.S. teams, but we can also see the officials’ own ideas, and how they changed it to make it more fair.” After Mo Chen spoke, he looked in Chen Wei’s direction either intentionally or unintentionally, only to see that he was attentively looking at messages on his phone. His face didn’t have the slightest irritation or uneasiness visible, and he appeared very calm.

In fact, they had known that the officials would reform SGH’s competition system for a long time. Most of the shock in the SGH e-sports circle was due to the officials’ efficiency—They knew it would be reformed, but they didn’t expect it would happen so fast!

Chen Wei was the same.

Early on, when he knew that the U.S. teams had submitted such an application, he had a premonition that his value as a professional SGH player would be greatly reduced if the application was approved.

Therefore, after seeing the content of the reform, his mental state was still relatively stable.

Anyway, he had already thought through it. Even if he became one of CLM’s substitutes, he was willing.

However, Mo Chen didn’t know what he was thinking, so he stopped talking. In the end, he didn’t talk about how it would affect their lineup. Instead, he made several predictions. “Once this news comes out, the entire e-sports circle will certainly be in turmoil. First of all, the Global Championship’s competition system will certainly change. In order to adapt to the Global Championship’s new competition system, some adjustments to the domestic trial’s competition system will certainly be made, and even the way teams are screened for the global finals may change this year.”

“Uh, then we fought in vain all spring and summer?” Ling Shuyi was a little frightened.

“You can’t say that for sure ba?” Chen Xiao replied, “At least we won the championship cup. That was an honor, and also an affirmation of our strength.” After a pause, he continued, “However, the impact of the Spring and Summer Championships’ points on the domestic trials will certainly be weakened by this reform, although the details will depend on what is said at the conference.”

“Conference?” Ling Shuyi asked with a confused expression, “What conference?”

“What? Don’t you guys know?” Chen Xiao was surprised. “After the SGH League’s official announcement yesterday, the SGH branch of the E-sports General Administration wants to urgently assemble the managers for the top 20 teams in China to hold an interim conference in B city. The conference is going to happen in three days, so A-Zhe has already rushed back to pack his bags ah?”

“Holy shit! How come he didn’t even tell me!”

Hearing this, Chen Wei immediately stood up and rushed to the door. “I will go with him!”

—

Juurensha: Ehhhhh I’m not sure if I like this. CW might not mind getting taken down to substitute but I MIND FOR HIM.

Please check out and support the novel by buying the raws here! You can use the guide here to figure out how to charge points to your account, and I haven’t been having any issues using my points right after charging my account. Please don’t pirate the raws, that just hurts the author.