"Thanks for the Little Heart, bro~ Thanks XX for the follow~"
Xiao Guang, sitting on the left in a Niko jersey, made a heart with his hands toward the camera and spoke in a sugary voice.
A note reading "Always Maintain Doubt" was stuck to the chest of his jersey.
"Ooh! Thanks for the Light Card, big bro~ Thanks, my favorite big bro~"
Fat Brother, sitting on the right in a s1mple jersey, winked at the camera and spoke in a coy voice.
Then he returned to his rough voice, pointed at the camera, and said "fiercely," "Why you bully me!"
Su Zhe, sitting between them in a Zai Wu jersey and concentrating on Ladder, couldn't help shuddering.
That was just too disgusting! He was practically breaking out in goose bumps!
Yesterday, unable to withstand the two men's persuasion, Su Zhe had agreed to the Live Stream Circle Rice Plan.
He had meant to refuse on the grounds that he was too focused on the match to chat with viewers. But the two of them had simply waved a hand and told him to focus on playing; they'd handle all the other odds and ends.
All Su Zhe had to do was say "I don't know" every so often throughout the stream."
Besides, he still hadn't paid off the computer he'd bought. And so, after being persuaded little by little, his Live Stream Career Debut began.
The Live Room had around seven or eight hundred viewers—not too many, not too few. Most had been drawn over from the comments under those two videos, eager to see what all the fuss was about.
Unexpectedly, the Show Effect was so good that quite a few viewers actually stuck around.
For a complete newcomer, this was already an incredible viewer count!
After finishing a match, Su Zhe cleared his throat and stammered, "I... I... don't know..."
[Can't hold it together—I came to watch the Genius Youth, but I didn't expect something this abstract.]
[The three bros are kinda handsome! Anyone up for a date~ (IP: Chengdu)]
[They're so good at creating Show Effect. You guys deserve to rake in the money!]
[@Leon Kai, come see how they stream. Pay attention and learn!]
[Hahahaha, Sen Zai Ni streaming together. This is interesting!]
[Just wondering, is this the stream for people, N2ko, and FywOo?]
The three of them glanced at the packed comments beside them, exchanged looks, and burst out laughing.
They hadn't expected streaming to be this much fun.
Moya Live Room.
Danking, who had just finished playing Valorant, looked at the comments in his Live Room and started putting on a show of his own.
"'Give the Shanghai Major a try'? Don't worry, guys. I'm definitely getting a spot in the Shanghai Major show match."
"So what if I'm playing Valorant? I'll play whatever the hell I want! You guys think you can control me now? If Moya's management hadn't stopped me from switching to the Valorant section, I'd have cut ties with CSGO ages ago!"
"Fine, fine! I'll play CSGO, okay? I'll play a couple of rounds of Dragon and show you what Veteran Style looks like!"
"You're saying I play CSGO on 5E because I'm scared of running into pros? You guys are ridiculous! I'll go bully you Bullet Screen Dogs on Perfect World instead!"
"Come on! Queue with me from A+ to S Division. If you get the other side, you'll see how I crush you!"
"What kind of comments are these? Keep it up and I'll give away ten 188s for free... Forget it, one dime to get on the screen. Clear the comments!"
After setting up the giveaway, Danking looked at the packed comments and happily opened Perfect World Platform, which he hadn't used in ages.
At nine on Friday night, Perfect World Platform was packed. After matching for over a minute, Su Zhe successfully entered a match.
The map was one of the maps Chinese players liked most: Mirage.
Aside from when he needed to complete missions that required him to select maps one by one, Su Zhe always chose Open All Maps.
He'd also noticed that when he selected all the Active Maps, the map he got was most likely Mirage.
As for Dust II, it wasn't even in the Active Maps, so he hadn't checked it at all.
Neither side was using a Little Overlord Learning Machine. Soon, all ten players had entered the server, and the game began.
Su Zhe started the First Half on defense.
"Holy shit! I got matched with Dan Zong!" Before the Pistol Round countdown had even ended, he heard a teammate shout excitedly over voice chat.
Right afterward, the Public Screen in the bottom-left corner of the screen erupted in excited back-and-forth.
Su Zhe knew Danking, after all. The memes about "Kong Bei Qie" and "Sticker Dream" were so popular that he'd heard of them before he even started playing CSGO.
And wasn't he the Chinese pro with the highest average Rating?
Su Zhe stopped looking at the Live Room comments and focused on the match. The European pros he'd run into before hadn't been good enough. Now he'd see how he did against a Chinese one!
He bought Half Armor from the shop. As soon as the countdown ended, he jumped into Mid from near the VIP Window and pushed forward along the wall.
Danking was heading toward T Spawn with a teammate's P250. "I haven't played CS in a few days, but when I Push Out of T Spawn, I'll definitely get a Headshot on someone at VIP! Watch this!"
"Pew pew!"
[The Cape's Number One Breakthrough Player used a USP to headshot and kill the Monkey King]
Danking covered his face. "I'm screwed! He's already pushing up? He doesn't see me as a person at all!"
He figured everyone knew how good he was, so surely they'd show him some respect when they ran into him in Ladder.
He hadn't expected his opponent to push up so suddenly at the start! His crosshair had been Pre-aimed at VIP, but his opponent had already gotten up close.
Couldn't he show him a little respect?
After killing Danking, Su Zhe used his advantageous angle to peek for information inside T Spawn again.
When he saw no one there, he told his teammates to watch out for a Speed Up, then continued pushing forward.
"Watch your backs, guys! If you're going B, do it quickly. Once the Second Floor smoke clears, go straight into the Bomb Site. The guy who killed me's about to circle around." Danking warned them over team voice chat.
"Don't worry, Dan Zong! I'll hold the flank alone. You guys go straight to the Bomb Site! I—"
Before he could finish, a CT suddenly swung out. He immediately tried to line up his mouse, but the wide swing was just too fast. Caught unprepared, his crosshair couldn't keep up!
"Pew pew!"
[The Cape's Number One Breakthrough Player used a USP to headshot and kill AAA Li Ji Barbecue Restaurant]
With Su Zhe pushing forward and successfully flanking, he took two kills, giving his teammates information in time to rotate back to B point. They won the 5v3 Pistol Round without trouble.
In the second round, the CTs faced a force-buy from the Terrorists, who hadn't planted the bomb. They chose to push up Mid with SMGs.
Danking had hoped to turn things around with a Desert Eagle, but after several days away from CSGO, his aim and feel were so poor that he was quickly taken down.
He glanced at the comments on his second screen and saw that most of them said things like "That's it?" and "Go back to playing Valorant."
He didn't care, of course. But deep down, his competitive streak still made him want to win the match.
He opened his mic and called, "Guys, save this round. Next round, let me have an AWP. I'll carry!"
By the time the game reached the Full Buy Round, the score was already 3–0.
Danking got his wish and received an AWP from a teammate.
"I've got a good position this round. I'll take a shot from Mid, then look for a chance to go up Side Path and pinch B with the guys on the second-floor B entrance."
The CTs were playing a 3-1-1 Defensive Formation this round. Su Zhe had planned to keep pushing up Mid, but three teammates headed straight for the A bomb site at the start.
The last teammate also bought an AWP and went into the VIP Window. Su Zhe had no choice but to head to B by himself.
But as soon as he jumped through the Market Window into the B bomb site, he saw the notification in the upper-right corner that his VIP teammate had been killed by an AWP.
"My bad! That AWP from Dan Zong is still fast. I lost the duel."
His teammate's death in Mid put Su Zhe in an awkward position. All three teammates at A had rifles, and knowing there was an AWP in Mid, they naturally didn't dare show themselves. That left Su Zhe needing to watch Side Path, too.
With Mid out of control, the A players also had plenty of angles to cover, so they couldn't get to the B bomb site right away to help.
After thinking it over, Su Zhe threw a defensive smoke on Side Path, then slipped into the Small Dark Room, figuring he'd secure one side first.
"They've thrown a full smoke at Archway! They might be pinching B! Wait for us to rotate back. Blue, you watch A alone!" His yellow teammate at Archway shouted immediately.
Unlike pro matches, Ladder matches didn't involve complex tactics. Even when players had a strategy, it was usually just a simple execute. They didn't try fake executes to bait rotations.
The teams weren't fixed, and the more complicated things got, the more likely they were to make mistakes. So once the CTs spotted the Terrorists' intentions, they immediately changed their Defensive Formation. But first, Su Zhe had to hold off the initial push.
In the Small Dark Room, Su Zhe kept jiggling his position while holding the angle, occasionally glancing at VIP to make sure no lurker suddenly jumped up.
Suddenly, a Side Path Flashbang popped, drawing his attention toward Side Path.
A Terrorist silhouette immediately flashed past the entrance to the Small Dark Room. Su Zhe reacted at once and snapped his crosshair onto it.
"Tat-tat-tat~"
[The Cape's Number One Breakthrough Player used an M4A1 Silenced to kill You Lower Your Head For Me To Lick]
"He's above the Small Dark Room!" You Lower Your Head For Me To Lick shouted at once.
With the information from his teammate, Kato Megumi pre-aimed and swung wide!
His pre-aim was extremely solid. When he swung out, his crosshair was already on Su Zhe's head. But before he could press the fire button, Su Zhe's character moved again!
Kato Megumi couldn't adjust his aim in time. His AK fired, and he tried to control the spray on the second beat, but he was still too slow!
For a Terrorist who swung out, counter-strafed, and fired without landing the first shot, it was basically no different from shooting a bot.
"Tat-tat-tat~"
[The Cape's Number One Breakthrough Player used an M4A1 Silenced to headshot and kill Kato Megumi]
Danking, at the back of the group on Side Path, had been watching Archway and VIP to make sure no CT could sneak up behind them. But as he watched his teammates fall one after another, he had no choice but to come over and get information on the Small Dark Room.
Feeling confident, he chose to peek again immediately!
"Bang~"
A miss!
Su Zhe had just emptied his twenty bullets after taking down two players in a row. Danking didn't give him a chance; while Su Zhe was reloading, he immediately pulled out his Glock.
The two of them were like Graves and Jhin from League of Legends, both on low health and out of bullets, desperately reloading.
Su Zhe realized he'd be slower, so he pulled out his knife and went straight into melee.
"Slash!"
The knife connected. Danking finally pulled out his Glock and fired, but Su Zhe was just too hard to track as he weaved around.
Danking landed two shots to the body, but against body armor, they barely did any damage.
Another knife struck home.
[The Cape's Number One Breakthrough Player used a knife to kill Danking]
"I*/￥%"
Seeing Danking lose it, the comments in his Live Room started flying by.
[?????????]
[Are you even human! You sucked up your teammates' cash to buy an AWP and only got one kill?]
[Hahahahaha! Three against one and he got all three of them!]
[I get it now, Lü Zhenghao's putting on a show again.]
[Good lord, the Black Room God of War! He took out three in a row!]
[That opponent's ID looks familiar!]
With all three players on Side Path wiped out, the Terrorists couldn't continue their push.
The two players coming through the second-floor B entrance made it into the site, but the CTs rotated back quickly on this map. First, the player carrying the bomb got caught at the perfect timing while planting. The last player couldn't do anything against several angles of fire.
After losing his temper, Danking gradually calmed down, but he was still unconvinced. "Next round, let me have an AWP again. I'll show them the true strength of an [Asia's Number One Sniper]! We've got this!"
Then he lowered his head and put on a battle face.
Thanks to Wujian Tiandi for the 100-point tip! Thank you, boss!
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