Chapter 66: The Alliance Support Who Was Suppressed by His Teammates (Part 9)
Time passed in a flash. Under the intense training, the new Dawn team had become more and more perfect.
The other teams had tried to find out in various ways, and Yu Lin would also stream every month, but his moves were impossible to learn.
After all, not many internet-addicted young men would carefully study the principles of the map and then learn the Qimen Bagua from a book.
The trolls on the forum who had been singing a different tune about Dawn had been quiet for a period of time. They felt that Dawn’s career luck was simply heartbreaking. An SSR had left, and a cheater had come, right?
The problem was that this cheater had just been a small soldier who was being beaten by everyone when he was in another team.
So tired.
The forum was therefore calm for a period of time, and it was not until the league roster came out that it had exploded again.
Dawn’s first match was against LKN. However, LKN was not a local team. The four members were all foreign players, and their strength was strong and not to be underestimated.
LKN had narrowly lost last year, and this year, they had made a comeback with a menacing aura. They had not expected to run into Dawn in the first round and had been sent back to the loser’s bracket.
The twenty-four teams in the alliance had drawn each other, and the two super-strong teams had run into each other in the first round. What kind of luck was this?
The forum was instantly energized.
『A life-and-death match for the gamblers.』
『They’re playing so big right from the start. Whichever of these two teams goes to the loser’s bracket will be laughed to death, right?』
『Losing to foreign players is the most embarrassing.』
『The person upstairs should stop being so sarcastic. You dog. Is it very glorious for you that your dad lost?』
『LKN had said in an interview last year that only Dawn in the local division had a little strength, but it was only God Zhuang. The match they had narrowly lost was because a teammate had been stuck, and a substitute had been put in temporarily. Otherwise, the local division was all trash.』
『Idiot. Dawn has to win. If they lose, I’ll hate them for the rest of my life.』
The weather on the day of the match was not very good. It was raining lightly, but it was very cool. The fine raindrops hit the ground, and the dark road was soaked, and the grass on the side of the road was lush.
The people in the car were all drowsy.
Fang Cheng had a jacket on, and he had been leaning his head on his hand and browsing Weibo. After a while, he found that it was all kinds of polls, and he had fallen asleep out of boredom.
The others were staring out the window in a daze.
Yu Lin had also been in a daze. He was sitting by Zhuang Ningyu’s side, and he was wearing a well-fitting team uniform, and he was resting with his eyes closed.
The league was about to start, and it was also his debut. Duan Qiancheng had rushed to let him wear the new team uniform.
Compared to the low-key style of the past, the new team uniform had the team logo embroidered on the chest, and below it was the English initials. From a distance, in the dim twilight, the shimmering golden light was like it had been woven by light and the sea.
The color of the Dawn team uniform was famously beautiful, and the few team members were all clothes racks. The morning light fell from the car window. Duan Qiancheng sat in the back, and as he looked at this and that, he calculated the sales of the merchandise and smiled with satisfaction.
Fang Cheng was sleeping soundly, and he was unconsciously leaning on Lin Qingchuan. Hearing the sound, he shivered for some reason. Lin Qingchuan felt it and raised his hand to adjust the air conditioning.
However, Duan Qiancheng was really black-hearted when he was making money, but his taste was also really good.
Lin Qingchuan lowered his head and glanced at the baby face on his shoulder. It was already fair, and it was even fairer under the deep blue team uniform, and he was even pouting.
The car was quiet.
Zhuang Ningyu was leaning against the back of the chair, and in the mottled light and shadow of the morning light, he looked out the window. The car shook a little, and his gaze returned, and it fell on Yu Lin, who was dozing off on the back of the chair.
His boyfriend’s skin was fair, and he was buried in the well-fitting deep blue team uniform, which made him look thin. His eyelashes were like raven feathers, and they were covering his eyelids. When he was not smiling, his features were cold, and he was not as tense as usual.
He was sleeping, and he moved his arm, and in the movement, the team logo floated, like a golden stream of light that had flashed across the sea at night.
Zhuang Ningyu looked at him, and the arm by the window did not move, and his gaze was as calm as a distant mountain.
An unknown amount of time passed.
A car in front of them had not moved for a long time, and the traffic was almost stuck. The sound of horns was heard from all directions, and they were all at different pitches, and the noise made the sleeping person frown slightly.
His eyelids trembled, as if he were about to wake up.
Suddenly, as if a palm had covered his ear.
Then his chin was gently pressed down, and he leaned down, and then there was a very faint cold scent.
Yu Lin leaned on Zhuang Ningyu’s shoulder, and his breathing was ragged for a second, and then he heard a reassuring voice, “Continue to sleep.”
***
After a nap, the group of them were refreshed when they got out of the car.
In the end, Zhuang Ningyu had also taken a nap, but his self-control was good. He had not moved at all, and when he had gotten out of the car, besides his right shoulder, even his collar was not very messy.
His expression was placid as he walked forward.
Yu Lin’s hair was a little messy. As he was getting out of the car, he was lowering his head to pull the zipper, and he heard Fang Cheng’s panicked voice from behind, “Damn, drool. Did I drool in my sleep? Let me see?”
Then there was Lin Qingchuan’s disgusted voice, “Get lost.”
“Okay, okay.” Duan Qiancheng had originally left, but he had come back and reminded them in a low voice, “The fans are all watching. Pay attention to your image. Fang Cheng, don’t blame me for not reminding you. You don’t want your merchandise next season to be a pacifier, do you?”
Fang Cheng was known for having many mom fans. Because he had almost tripped once when he was walking too fast, when it was time to vote for the merchandise for that season, his mom fans had all voted for a baby anti-fall head protector for him, and they had used it on their own fur babies, and they had posted all kinds of close-ups on Weibo.
Hearing this, Fang Cheng’s memories came back, and his face turned ashen. “Ahhhhh! Don’t remind me!”
Lin Qingchuan let out a light sneer. His best-selling merchandise was his pair of silver-rimmed glasses that he never took off.
As for Zhuang Ningyu and Yu Lin, Duan Qiancheng glanced at the two people who were almost walking side by side.
The former had no unpopular merchandise, and the latter was still unknown.
As a top team in the alliance, Dawn had entered the venue in the midst of the fans’ crowded screams.
Because it was the first match, Duan Qiancheng had not given Yu Lin too much pressure, but he had told him in a low voice, “Your former teammate is causing trouble on Weibo again. The things he said are very nasty.”
He paused for a moment. “I’ve taken a look. Their team doesn’t have anyone who can fight. They’ll probably run into us in the quarterfinals. How about it? Do you have the confidence to get revenge?”
He was almost encouraging him.
Zhuang Ningyu sat on the sofa and looked at him, and he raised his eyebrows slightly. Yu Lin was standing by the water dispenser with a glass of water, and he nodded seriously. “I do.”
“Very good.” Duan Qiancheng was satisfied with his attitude.
In fact, after a period of time, he and Tan Hua had talked many times, and he had a good idea in his heart. However, this regular season was even more shocking than anyone had imagined.
It was expected that as the top teams in the alliance, Dawn and LKN, with a newcomer in the starting lineup, the first two matches would be a stalemate, and it would be difficult to tell the winner, and the winner would be decided in the last game.
However, there were people whose operational awareness was so perverted that it broke the convention.
In the past, it was Zhuang Ningyu, who had almost dominated the local division. Now, the new team member he had absorbed was as perverted as him, even though he was a support with not much aggression.
But in the perverted maps of “Under the Stars,” it was very uncomfortable for a support to be able to bite people accurately.
In the first match, the Sumeru illusion, this map was called super disgusting by the players. The map would place a virtual clone of the player, and its appearance and operation were almost no different from the player. If you hit the wrong one, you would be tricked into using a skill, and at the same time, it would drop the player’s health.
Because the health was not much, it was not enough to cause fatal damage, and the items to identify the clone were difficult to find, so it was not the focus of the match in the past.
However, when the match started, both the live stream room and the stadium were dumbfounded.
At the beginning, Dawn had no intention of blowing up the enemy’s supply points first as they had in the past. They had gone straight for the illusion, and they had hit the right one every time. In LKN’s collapsed counter-operation, they had blown up the opponent’s support.
Without a support, this game had ended in thirty-four minutes. The victory sign had popped up, and the forum had exploded.
『Damn, it’s definitely a cheat. Why can Dawn distinguish the illusion? Is there a difference between this thing and the real person?』
『Logically speaking, there is no difference at all. It’s a one-to-one copy of the real person’s operation trajectory. I’m more suspicious that Dawn has bribed the organizers. Is the local division already so rotten?』
『Are you rotten, you horse? The forum has long since shared the method of identification. Who are you to blame if you can’t learn it yourself?』
『Is the person upstairs talking about that stream-of-consciousness post? It seems to be saying that there is a difference in feeling between a real person’s operation and a data-derived one… no, is this even considered a skill?』
『Am I the only one who is curious? It’s clearly one person, one position. Why is the performance so different in two teams?』
『Hehe, someone has finally discovered this. Someone is crying wolf and bullying their teammates. For details, please see the link… the three hundred days of being bullied in the team.』
『Damn, I’ve seen this post. Vicious suppression, financial control, and mental PUA. Even a passerby would find it outrageous. No way. If it’s true, some former teammates are really shameless.』
For a time, doubts and exclamations flew together.
Fortunately, the map would not refresh the same one in a short period of time.
The next match was more conventional, but a conventional map tested the operation more. LKN’s mentality had already collapsed, and the four of them were huddled together, and their firepower was very fierce.
Unfortunately, they had run into Dawn, and they had been sent away by the well-coordinated and surgically precise operation.
This match had been a stalemate for forty-six minutes, but in the end, Dawn had won a complete victory.
After the match, LKN had refused to be interviewed, and the entire gaming circle had exploded.
The newcomer’s debut operation in the first round was overly eye-catching. In the post-match interview, the four members of Dawn stood under the camera to answer questions.
The reporter was an old hand in the alliance and had a good relationship with Dawn. He didn’t ask any sharp questions, but just routinely congratulated them.
He smiled and looked at Zhuang Ningyu. “Little God Yu’s performance today was brilliant. In the second game, Little God Fang was almost done for, but he had rushed into the pit and had healed him for a counter-kill. Seven’s taste is as good as ever. Congratulations to Dawn for getting another great general.”
Zhuang Ningyu’s expression was placid as he replied, and the corners of his lips, which were as cold as jade, suddenly curled up slightly. “En, Little God Yu is awesome.”
By his side, Yu Lin, who was quietly and calmly answering the reporter’s questions, heard this and lifted his eyelids slightly, and the tips of his ears silently turned a little red.
In the midst of Fang Cheng’s shouting and Lin Qingchuan’s watertight answers, a photo was taken in the interview room.
It was the starting point for the local division to go to the world, and it was also a new journey for the team.
***
After the match, there was a small gathering. Duan Qiancheng was happy, and after a period of time, he finally agreed to have a drink again, but it could not be too much, and it could only be a hot pot at the base.
Downstairs, it was lively and exciting. Fang Cheng was so happy that he was squealing. He opened a smurf account on Weibo and was passionately arguing with LKN’s fans. Lin Qingchuan told him to be quiet. Zhou Cheng and Tan Hua were talking, and a few kids from the second team were discussing tactics in a low voice.
The chaotic sound broke through the roof. Upstairs, the balcony was quiet.
Zhuang Ningyu was on the phone. Duan Qiancheng had been calling him for a long time and had not seen him, so he had sent Yu Lin to call him.
Seeing his boyfriend push the door open and come in, he was stunned for a moment, and he stood there obediently and waited. Zhuang Ningyu’s cold voice softened a little. He waved his hand and signaled for Yu Lin to come over, and at the same time, he ended the conversation in a few words. “I know.”
The temperature in the base was suitable. Yu Lin had taken off his jacket, and he was wearing a deep blue T-shirt inside.
In the dim twilight, he seemed to have merged with the dark night. Only his long and slender, fair arms were hanging down, and they were dazzling.
Zhuang Ningyu lowered his eyes to look at him.
The two of them had been together for a period of time, and he had not been a beast in the dead of night.
However, they had won the first battle, and the group stage roster had placed the biggest boss at the very front. At least for a long time, there would be no opponents for Dawn.
In the past, he had been worried about affecting the little kid’s state, but now…
At this time, Duan Qiancheng was talking downstairs, and Fang Cheng was shouting. The night was dark, and the balcony was filled with the fragrance of flowers.
When he kissed him, the flowers on the balcony had trembled for a few seconds.
His boyfriend’s neck and ears were all red. He pressed his lips together and would only call him, “Captain.”