Chapter 1: Me and you originally had no fate, we only met because I spent money (2/2)
Wei Xiao tsked, his long and slender fingers moving over the keyboard. The sounds from the mechanical keyboard weren’t loud, but words came out pouring out like a flood.
[ Close made his debut in FTW at the age of 17 and won the first world championship for the team competition; at 18, he took on a difficult task at a critical time and led FTW to become the only team from China to leave the Asian competition zone and enter the global team competitions. In the eight to four semi-finals, Close took his thief and showed off until the previous champion sese’s scalp was numb, and in the second match, Close used a death knight to salvage the situation and turn the tide. In the third match… ]
He quickly and fluently wrote out hundreds of words, and because the number of words for each message was limited in the scrolling comments, he sent them in sections and filled up the screen skillfully and professionally, making even Close’s senior, hardcore fans feel inferior.
The haters still wanted to hate, but unfortunately, they couldn’t keep up with Wei Xiao’s typing speed. Secondly, their ‘historical knowledge’ wasn’t as rich as Wei Xiao’s, and they received ten sentences back for every one sentence they sent out. The haters only felt that there were millions of people sitting on the other side, each holding a machine gun and bombarding them until their scalps turned numb.
After purifying the scrolling comments, Wei Xiao happily closed the video and started to queue up for ranked matches.
<Glory> was a typical tower pushing game. There were ten players split into two teams, and blowing up the other side’s home base signified the end of the match.
As a 5v5 game, it was reasonable to say that it was only a team game competition. However, because Glory specifically tested a player’s operation and consciousness as well as the way an individual used their profession’s talent points, equipment, and so on, there were also single and double competitions.
Taking the global competition as an example, the prize for the individual (single) championship was 2 million USD, the doubles championship prize was 3 million USD, and the team competition championship’s prize could go as high as 30 million USD.
Based on the amount of money, it could be seen that the team competition was the real motherload.
It was a pity that China hadn’t even managed to enter the global finals during the past two years, let alone win the championship.
Only Close, as a god-level player from China, had won three consecutive championships in the global singles.
China always liked to say that he had won four consecutive championship titles because his first championship had been in the team competition.
It was a world championship that not only belonged to Close, but also belonged to the entire FTW team and the entire China competition zone!
However, three years had already passed…
China hadn’t won another global team competition championship cup.
Wei Xiao was queued into a match and entered the character selection screen. His mind was full of the thief that Lu Feng used in the video, and he selected it without thinking twice.
Someone immediately spoke up on the team communication channel.
“Little big brother, don’t toy with me. Thieves are so weak these days. Other than God Lu, who else can show off with it?”
“Don’t get overexcited from watching a video. Your thief and Close’s thief are like two completely different creatures.”
“Wake up, brother, we’re not professional players!”
Wei Xiao typed out a few words on his keyboard, “Lie down well.”
The team channel was silent for three seconds before someone began to chant––
“The cows are flying…”
“The people on the ground are blowing.”
“Acting like the wind…”
“Blowing until their face hurts.”
Wei Xiao moved his fingers and knocked out another line of words, “Don’t worry. I’ve won against Close before with a thief.”
Won against God Lu?
Why don’t you say that you’ve saved the galaxy!
Four people who had never met each other across the internet all spoke at the same time, “Brother, can you be a little less shameless?!”
Twenty minutes later, the expressions of these four people were fantastical, and the style of the conversation in the team channel suddenly changed––
“Little big brother, ah, no, big god, are you lacking in leg accessories? The kind that will lie down to rank up and won’t chatter and talk crap.”
“Big god, are you short on supports? I can play druid, shaman, or priest, and guarantee that your health doesn’t drop at all so that you can kill as you like.”
“F*ck me, this kind of battle achievement, this isn’t Close’s alt, right!?”
Wei Xiao took the opportunity to advertise: “Memeda accompanying player ID7758521. Waiting for bosses to place their orders~”
The four teammates: “????”
This godly, amazing thief was actually an accompanying player?
An accompanying player with a sky-high, amazing price.
They’d originally wanted to make an appointment, but when they saw the high price of 200 yuan a game, they silently said goodbye.
What the hell was this, 200 a game?!
Why didn’t he just go up to heaven!
After playing a match, Wei Xiao was a little sleepy again.
He couldn’t help it; there was no suspense in the entire process of crushing his opponents and playing just made him sleepy.
Wei Xiao shut the dog outside of his room and was about to go back to sleep when his cell phone beeped.
Oh, he’d forgotten to log out of his platform account. Had someone else left a message?
Wei Xiao casually swiped it open and found that someone had placed an order for him.
Was there really someone who would place an order for him for 200 yuan a game other than those beasts in the professional league?
Wei Xiao looked at it intently and fell into a daze.
Customer LU has ordered 10,000 games. Would you like to accept the order~
10,000 games?
Wei Xiao rubbed his eyes, counting carefully, then counting again. There were four zeroes. It was indeed ten thousand games.
200 yuan a game.
The 2 million yuan was shiny and dazzling.
Juurensha: I see Close is using his prize money well.
xiin: oookay, so i fell into another pit no regrets! this novel is super fun, super hilarious, and super sweet.
it’s about competitive e-sports, but don’t let that scare you away!! the novel will explain the gaming system, but any beginner gamer reader will be able to understand (for parts that might be confusing, i’ll try to add footnotes <del>even though i hate them</del>… or if not, ask in the comments!) and it’s generally like any modern MOBA game.
the other thing i wanted to say… there’s a lot of fun slang in this novel. some of it translates well into english, and some might be weird. i’ve tried to add footnotes where things might need explanations but sometimes they’re obscure and i might be wrong or unclear. feel free to ask! or tell me i’m wrong! i won’t mind~
in any case, enjoy!