Ch81 - Domestic Trials 4

Edited by kat

Chen Wei took off his headphones and turned to look at the big screen.

When he saw his points and ranking, he let out a long sigh of relief.

He had thought that after the reform of the competition system, his role on the field would be greatly reduced.

Such was often the case. The professional arena hado many experts, so the players who weren’t skilled not only couldn’t take kills, but they also wouldn’t even know how they died.

Chen Wei’s game sense was very good, but his skills couldn’t keep up with it, which was very fatal for professional players.

In fact, during this match he had already tried his best to get kills, but at the end of the game, adding in Mo Chen and Wen Xi, he still only had nine kills in his hands.

However, it didn’t matter, since he still had the ranking points.

Although only the top three could get ranking points in the new competition system, hiding was meaningless if you couldn’t enter the top three.

But on the other hand, it would be enough to hide every match if he could break into the top three.

In this way, Chen Wei’s body completely relaxed, and the corners of his lips even rose.

However, just when he was ready to get up, he turned his head and met Mo Chen’s gaze.

Those two sharp eyes seemed to be saying—Dear, are you ready to welcome your gift of a couple playing doubles?

Chen Wei was embarrassed by his own brain and broke out in goosebumps, but he also felt the whole thing a little funny.

Of course, he didn’t dare to laugh. He stood up as fast as he could and rushed to the bathroom, saying, “I’m going to use the restroom!”

Mo Chen: ….

He hadn’t even said anything yet.

Mo Chen took off his earphones somewhat helplessly and rose to walk towards Wen Xi, but he had only walked halfway there when Jiang Xinyi bumped into him.

Jiang Xinyi was stunned for a moment. He had just wanted to greet, “Hello captain,” but before he could speak, Ling Shuyi pulled him away and said, “Wow, you are really not afraid to die ah! Crashing into the captain outside the game after stealing the captain’s wife’s kills in the game!”

“Huh? How did you know?” Jiang Xinyi raised his eyebrows and quickly realized, “Oh, you were nearby then. Weren’t you also planning on stealing Wen Xi’s kill?”

“Are the two situations comparable?” Ling Shuyi didn’t deny that he also had the idea of stealing Wen Xi’s kills. “Xixi stole my kill, so if I snatched one back, that would be called ‘courtesy demands reciprocity’! You didn’t have any kills stolen by Xixi, so that’s ‘taking without asking’!”

Jiang Xinyi rolled his eyes and said, “Your Chinese teacher is going to cry.”

Mo Chen looked at the pair’s backs and couldn’t help laughing.

Hearing his laughter, Wen Xi, who was still sitting in the e-sports chair, looked up at him and asked, “What’s the matter?”

Mo Chen replied, “Everyone who sees us acts as though they’re seeing the Heibai Wuchang.”

“They’re afraid of getting beat up by us as a couple bei,” Wen Xi blurted out.

Mo Chen was amused by this sentence. While laughing, he couldn’t help but raise his hand to rub Wen Xi’s head, thinking that he was too cute.

Not only did Wen Xi not dodge, but he also rubbed against Mo Chen’s hand and asked, “Are we like that?”

“Yes,” Mo Chen replied, “Next match, we’ll also steal their kills.”

Wen Xi didn’t respond, internally thinking—En….I seem to have already been stealing teammates’ kills.

Wait, Mo Chen also stole his kill!

In the end, he concluded, “Do we need a reason to steal kills?”

——As long as he managed to steal it, it was fine! Who cared whose kill it was.

“You’re right.” Mo Chen nodded his head, favoring him.

*

The 15 minute break soon ended, and the second solo match began.

This time, Wen Xi jumped to the city area.

The advantage of the city area was that there were many hiding places.

However, because of this, finding the enemy was a test of the players’ consciousness and eyesight.

People with poor game sense were completely unable to guess where the enemy was hiding, and many times, they were killed in battle before they could even react.

On the other hand, a person with good game sense could hide in a good position, and casually aim at a few places before pinpointing a person.

Wen Xi crouched under the edge of a window and took out his sniper rifle to aim at a building opposite him. Finding people was a walk in the park for him.

The other side seemed to be aware of him and aimed in his direction.

He ducked down in a hurry, before switching his weapon to his bow and directly shooting an arrow at the opposite side.

The arrow shot through the windowpane with a smashing sound.

When the other party heard the sound, he instinctively aimed in Wen Xi’s direction, but he hadn’t managed to shoot at him before the arrow came in and went through his head!

[System] You knocked down QKN-yaoyao with a headshot with a bow!

Knocked down!

Seeing this system prompt, Wen Xi got up at the fastest possible speed, swapping his sniper rifle before aiming and shooting at that person!

Bang.

[System] You killed QKN-yaoyao with a headshot with a sniper rifle!

At this time, the director had just cut the camera over to QKN’s yaoyao. When Wen Xi’s first arrow came flying in, the audience’s hearts all trembled, and they deeply felt the fear of being dominated by bows and arrows.

Before they managed to take a breath, another shot came, and the picture on the big screen turned gray.

“Too terrifying!” some people couldn’t help exclaiming, “Wency is really powerful ah!”

No one was more clear about how strong someone was than their enemy.

The director didn’t expect that when he randomly cut the camera somewhere, it would actually be someone opposite Wen Xi. When the arrow came flying over, even the director was shocked, and he felt as though his heart had stopped beating.

The bow’s unique trajectory was really overwhelming.

At that moment, he fully felt the creeping fear that the other players had when they were in the same area as Wen Xi.

It seemed as though his life wasn’t in his own hands, but in the hands of the archer assassin.

On the other side, the rest of CLM was also working hard to obtain their own points.

The new system gave them both pressure and opportunity.

Originally, one team could only let two players participate in the solo competition. After the reform of the competition system, as long as their individual strength was strong enough, no matter which team you were in, you would have an opportunity to advance to the Global Championship.

Some people said that after the reform to the competition system, the American teams that advocated individual heroism and paid attention to personal strength would rise.

However, players with strong personal strength didn’t just exist in the American teams.

No one could predict what this global tournament would look like. However, it could be predicted that this Global Championship would be more intense and exciting than those of previous years!

“Wency already has three kills!”

The screen was clearly showing the perspectives of other players, but A-Yi couldn’t ignore Wen Xi’s performance because his ID kept flashing in the upper right corner of the screen.

“He is really good ah!” Bunny Ji wasn’t stingy with her praise for Wen Xi. “I remember that during the Spring Championship, his gun accuracy wasn’t this good.”

“Yes, Wency has been improving this entire time. From the Spring Championship to the Summer Championship, and now at the Domestic Trials, his shooting skills have gotten better and better, and he’s gotten more skilled at switching between his bow and gun,” A-Yi said, “I feel like during the Spring Championship, the gap between him and Momo was very obvious. He was knocked down several times, and Momo was always the one who helped him kill the enemy. To put it bluntly, I don’t think Wency would have made it to the final circle without Momo.”

After a pause, he continued, “But in the game just now, he completely didn’t rely on Momo to get into the finals circle!”

“Ah, that’s right!” Bunny Ji recalled for a moment, and it was really true.

In the spring games, Mo Chen purposefully escorted Wen Xi into the final circle. During the summer games, the two had begun to cooperate, guarding each other with complete tacit understanding.

In today’s two matches, the two of them had played in different areas, and even stolen each other’s kills.

This wasn’t just a change brought about by the reform to the competition system. The most fundamental reason for this change was that Wen Xi had become stronger.

He had evolved from a strong newbie into a truly strong player.

It could be said that he grew up under the protection and cultivation of Mo Chen, and many traces of Mo Chen were evident in his playstyle.

For example, from the way he climbed up stairs and the way he dug up and utilized the game’s bugs, it was obvious that Mo Chen had patiently taught him all this.

This was because Mo Chen had developed all of these methods to play on his own. Without his guidance, others simply couldn’t imitate him, or rather, even if they wanted to imitate him, they couldn’t.

“I’ve discovered that CLM is really good at attracting talent?” Bunny Ji said, “Whether it’s Wency or Newing, these are people you can only bump into by chance and can’t search for. How did CLM meet all of them?”

“Hahaha, maybe it’s because this team was already very special ba,” A-Yi replied.

CLM was the only one of China’s top teams that operated on private funds rather than through sponsorships. Whether it was in advertisements or promotional videos, not even a shadow of any of their members could be found.

They had more time to train and rest than players from other teams, and their wages, bonuses, and benefits were all less restricted.

For them, right now, their dreams were more important than money.

People with dreams were always braver and more persistent than others.

However, not everyone had smooth sailing while pursuing their dreams.

Ling Shuyi, who had insisted on jumping to the forest area, bumped into Lightning soon after landing. He faced off against him in a gunfight, and after he found that he couldn’t beat him, he immediately hid behind a tree to give himself some medicine. He never expected that CC had also jumped to the forest area this match, and was hidden up high. After aiming at him, he headshotted him with a single shot.

[System] MQ-CC killed you with a headshot with a sniper rifle.

This prompt appeared so suddenly that Ling Shuyi was stunned for a long time before he realized that he had been killed.

He looked at his kill count: zero.

It was a very terrible sight.

“Ugh…” Chen Xiao, sitting in the players’ rest area, sighed and frowned slightly, worried about Ling Shuyi.

Chen Wei had been the one he had originally worried the most about. After all, the new competition system encouraged taking kills, and Chen Wei was the worst player in the team at taking kills.

Yet as a result, Chen Wei’s performance went beyond his expectations, and Ling Shuyi made him worried.

Ling Shuyi and Chen Wei were at two opposite extremes. Ling Shuyi fought very fiercely and was very good at taking kills.

However, it was because he was too fierce that he would die easily in the middle of a game. During solo matches, he only survived until the final circle a few times.

In fact, that also didn’t matter. Based on the new competition system, as long as he took enough kills, he would be okay whenever he was killed.

But to turn into a lootbox upon landing….that was a bit too much.

Not only was Chen Xiao worried, but Liu Weizhe, sitting beside him, also frowned after seeing the prompt that Ling Shuyi had been killed. “Is Kitty okay?”

“There are still six more matches, so it’s not a big problem,” Chen Xiao responded, “His luck wasn’t good this match, meeting both YEY’s and MQ’s team captains and getting wiped out from both sides.”

After speaking, he suddenly thought of something and froze—Wait, YEY and MQ’s team captains both appearing at Ling Shuyi’s landing location at the same time, was it really an accident?

Having just thought of this, he saw that in the game, Jiang Xinyi was chased by YEY’s two snipers before managing to escape.

Chen Xiao narrowed his eyes.

It seemed that the other teams were a bit restless after the rankings from the last match came out, and they were trying to take some measures to limit their CLM’s points.

Regarding this, they also had to take some measures to fight back.

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Juurensha: Makes sense that the other teams don’t want CLM hogging five spots. Still, go CLM!

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