Chapter 239: Everyone working together! (1/2)
As the last team, Pro didn’t have to draw a team. There was only one team left to be their opponents.
The match list for the eight into four came out, fresh out of the oven, and the brightest highlight was undoubtedly the third game, L&P vs FTW!
Old G was unable to smile anymore after getting this result. He looked gloomy and sad, as if FTW was a strong enemy who couldn’t be defeated.
This undoubtedly made the audience from China feel great.
Some were complacent, “FTW’s pretty good. They made last year’s runner-up feel so worried.”
“Although I don’t think we have a high chance of winning, I’m happy just seeing Old G look like this!”
“Sigh, this is bad luck. If the Team of Gods encountered each other, then maybe we could’ve grabbed a bargain and rushed into the top four.”
“Unfortunately, the competition committee is inhuman and insists on letting the top four stay around until the end…”
“There’s no helping it. They’re strong, and the strong are untouchable.”
There were some who were puzzled, “Does God G have to go so far? If L&P plays against FTW, I might not dare to say that their win rate is 80%, but it’s at least 70%.”
“How could there be such an absolute thing? FTW was super strong in the sixteen to eight!”
“But that doesn’t mean you can just step on other people’s prestige to increase your ambitions. Oh, even though that’s us…”
I think… it might be mostly guilt?”
“What’s there to be guilty about? They’re just borrowing a place from FTW. They just have to pay rent and be done with it, it’s not like they have to give up the championship for them too!”
“It must be because of Captain Yuan…”
Many fans of the Team of Gods burst out into tears when these words came out.
The director also purposely switched the camera over to show a close up of Old G’s face. He had thick features, but his eyes were a particularly clear blue and his eyelashes were very long. When he looked towards a corner beneath the stage, his expression seemed a little timid.
Yuan Ze sat there.
The fans who saw this scene, “…………”
“Right through the heart!”
“So, this means Yuan Ze didn’t want to go up against FTW, and now, Old G feels bad for the captain’s sake?”
“Why does Old Dog Yuan not want to play against FTW?”
“Oh man, like I said, Scum Man Yuan is actually the most soft-hearted one!”
“What’s he being soft-hearted about?”
“He doesn’t want to be the one to eliminate Lulu!”
Many people really started shedding tears on the spot when they saw this scrolling comment.
They might scold and curse or they may hate on them.
But they still loved this Team of Gods who had once led the China competition zone in shocking the entire world.
No one had a good time during that first year after the Team of Gods had split up.
Of the three that had gone abroad, even Yuan Ze, a mixed blood who had lived in North America for many years, encountered obstacles everywhere and had a rough time.
Not to mention Yan Jiang and Xie He who were in the European competition zone.
Players who had been safe in their own home country who got labeled with the title of ‘betrayer’ for going to a foreign country and losing favour at the same time. Nobody would bless their leaving.
In front of them were strange and hostile ‘teammates’, while behind them were compatriots who shamelessly abused them and wanted them to die while abroad…
The old fans who were unable to let go of them were almost tortured into pieces that year.
They cursed FTW, called the management trash, scolded fate for being unfair…
But they could only curse and scold.
Close was having difficulty holding up at home, while they travelled alone abroad.
That year had been the darkest year. The Team of Gods was like fallen stars, becoming insignificant rubble that almost sank to the bottom of the water.
However, they were unwilling and unreconciled to being ordinary, and they didn’t give in.
The next year, they began to glow and heat up.
Top four!
Runner up!
In just one season, they stood on the brightest stage again, thriving and glorious.
Only Close, only their FTW, fell again and again. They went from being the top team in the world to the laughing stock of the China competition zone.
Did the Team of Gods want to meet FTW in the globals?
Yes.
And no.
They wanted to have another good fight.
But they were also afraid of completely destroying their former home.
Yuan Ze was the most promising player for the singles championship, but he had abstained.
L&P’s senior management had criticized this and given Yuan Ze trouble over this many times.
Later, Yuan Ze picked out Old G from the youth training camp, taught him to play jungler, taught him how to play thieves, and also taught him solo…
Only after Gary could participate in the single player competition did LP&P let Yuan Ze off the hook.
From time to time, the post game interview for the globals would also include a question to Yuan Ze: “Why not participate in the singles? Is it because of Close?”
Yuan Ze was not the type to speak the human language. He opened his mouth and started, “Yeah…”
The host: “For the sake of old memories…”
Without waiting for the rest of such words to come out, Yuan Ze’s arrogant and domineering reply came, “Because I hate him, I hate this kind of favored genius the most.”
At the time, China had scolded Yuan Ze for a whole season because of this sentence. After that, L&P won the globals, and the fans wanted to throw tomatoes at their own computers.
They were so angry! How did this scum deserve to win the championship!
At the time, many people felt distressed for Close and distressed for FTW. The domestic fans were unprecedentedly united.
And it was in that year that Close found Quiet.
It was also that year that Mo Hui and Fu Li entered the professional arena.
That year, there were signs of recovery for China…
The Yuan Ze who brought about bloody rain and storms, who was referred to as Old Bandit Yuan by thousands of people…
––Was gentler and softer than anyone else.
After the draw, it was unusually silent inside L&P’s van on the way back to the base.
Yuan Ze sat on his own in the front row. His posture was still arrogant, and his long legs were stretched out. His elbows rested against the side of the window as his light gray eyes stared out into the traffic outside.
Old G didn’t say anything. No one made a single sound.
The car was quiet, filled only with the sound of breathing.
It wasn’t far from the venue to the base. When they arrived, Yuan Ze got off first.
Gary followed.
Yuan Ze gave him a sidelong look. “Cigarette?”
Gary hesitated.
Seeing Yuan Ze frowning in impatience, Old G could only take out his box of cigarettes and lightly tip out a thin cigarette.
In order to smoke less, Old G had recently started bringing ladies’ cigarettes with him!
Yuan Ze made an expression of distaste. “Feminine.”
Gary: “…………” He felt aggrieved but didn’t dare say it!
A ladies’ cigarette was still a cigarette. Yuan Ze took one, and Gary could only take out his lighter.
Yuan Ze accepted it, and there was a snap as he lit it up.
His slender fingers curled around the slim cigarette, while the five digits of his other hand played casually with the lighter. If this scene could be seen by his fans, there would be another round of shrill screams.
Old G wanted to scream too. He wanted to tell him to be careful and avoid dropping his lighter onto the ground!
Yuan Ze stared at him.
Gary’s eyes were glued to the lighter.
Yuan Ze tossed it at him. “How promising.”
Old G caught it like it was a treasure and stopped just short of blowing on it.
Yuan Ze spoke leisurely, “Big brother will buy you another one if it’s broken.”
Oh, this had also been a gift from Yuan Ze to Gary. It was last year’s birthday present.
Gary: “It’s a limited edition one; it can’t be bought!”
Yuan Ze rolled his eyes at him.
Old G knew that Yuan Ze was in a bad mood, but he didn’t know how to coax people. Let alone when it was Yuan Ze…
Gary wouldn’t be able to understand his captain in this lifetime.
Yuan Ze smoked the ladies’ cigarette and felt that it just lacked flavour. “Let’s go.”
Gary: “Ranking?”
Yuan Ze: “To buy cigarettes.”