"Believe It or Not, He Can Tear Your Big Sniper Apart?"

Chapter 26 "Do You Believe He Can Tear Your Big Sniper Apart With His Bare Hands?" (4.2K Big Chapter!)

Su Zhe's rank-up speed was even faster than he had imagined.

The main reason was that the skill insights from donk and Niko were still exerting their force. Back when his foundation was insufficient, he could only grasp the surface-level stuff.

But as he improved across the board, he increasingly felt that the seemingly simple movements of those two were packed with countless details.

This also helped him gain experience and understanding that would normally require a massive number of matches to slowly accumulate.

On top of that, professional players and youth training players didn't have much time to grind the ladder, which made his rank-up speed as fast as a rocket.

[This rank-up speed is way too insane! Wasn't he just Diamond S half a month ago? Now he's Demon King S?]

[Can't blame him. Playing over 20 ladder matches a day, if you get a lucky win streak, the rank-up speed is really fast.]

[So, one more win and he'll be number one on the platform?]

[Feels like Xiao Zhe has no bottleneck at all. His score just keeps going up.]

[Demon King S? Seems average. Let the Ghost Sniper blast him once and he'll behave.]

[Ghost Sniper? At this rank, he'd turn the Ghost Sniper into a ghost head.]

Su Zhe's current ladder score was already 3489 points, ranking second, with only a 5-point gap from first.

Based on the situation where a win gave about 8 points, he only needed one more victory to successfully reach the top. Then, after collecting the system reward, he could move on to the European platform.

He was actually looking forward to the unknown challenge.

It was prime time in the evening, and matchmaking was fast. After waiting less than two minutes, Su Zhe successfully entered a game.

The map was Inferno. Su Zhe started on the Attacking Side. Just as the preparation time began, the bullet screen in his live room suddenly exploded.

[It's over! Looks like the streamer will have to wait a bit longer for platform first. The opponents are Kaze and Jamyoung duo queueing.]

[Damn! How are we supposed to win this? Aren't these two supposed to be in their base playing scrims? Coming to the ladder to bully people?]

[Xiao Zhe, keep it up! If you win this round, I'll write a blood letter to Tianlu recommending you for the main team starting lineup.]

Facing the dense barrage of comments, Su Zhe understood what was happening. He had run into two starting players from Tianlu.

"So what if they're pros! Watch me beat them!" Su Zhe said with a feigned dismissive tone.

After streaming for over twenty days, Su Zhe, who had been a bit shy in front of the camera at first, had gradually loosened up. But this remark was clearly made in a joking tone.

"That's right! Crush them!" "S1mple" and "Niko" chimed in loudly from the side. "Brothers, drop some small gifts! The next show is 'Zai Wu' ladder match against Kaze and Jamyoung!"

The whole vibe of the live room was starting to resemble those streams where guys wear leather loafers and wave their hands around like little flowers.

But somehow, viewers liked this kind of show effect, and they had made these changes to cater to the "market."

Earning that bread, nothing shameful about it.

Soon, all ten players successfully entered the server, and the game officially began. Su Zhe started on the Attacking Side.

"Let's go! Let's go!" Su Zhe's teammates were also visibly excited, cheering each other on before the match.

There were only so many top-tier solo queue players on the CN server, and they often matched together, becoming almost familiar faces.

Most of them were streamers or content creators. They had run into pro players quite a few times too. Their record might have more losses than wins, but it wasn't like they had never won.

"Play well! I think I've already got tomorrow's content. What's the plan for the Pistol Round?" Xiao Yu on the team spoke up. He was also a streamer on Douyin.

"Xiao Qi, you take command. You're kind of a pro player after all," [Qiyue] suggested. He was a top-tier solo queue king in the high-rank ladder.

Xiao Qi opened his mic and laughed, cursing, "What kind of pro player am I? I only played in a city-level offline tournament. Can I compare to Tianlu players?"

"But if no one else wants to command, I can do it. Oh, isn't this Xiao Zhe? About to hit number one?"

Su Zhe heard this and replied with a smile, "Yeah, I got lucky with a few wins in the afternoon. Just 5 points away."

"Alright! I'll play well this round. I guarantee you'll get number one," [Pang Hu] said over the mic. He was also a Douyin streamer.

Then he teased, "You're way too hardworking. You literally grinded your way to number one. Among all the Douyin streamers, you're the most intense."

Su Zhe was about to respond when Xiao Qi, acting as the temporary IGL, opened his mic and said, "Let's talk about the Pistol Round plan first. It's about to start."

"In a bit, Xiao Yu, you play a safe anchor in Mid. The rest of us four will hit Banana Path together." After saying this, Xiao Qi bought a smoke and a flash in the shop.

In a normal ladder match, he definitely wouldn't be this team-oriented with his utility purchases.

But since they were up against Kaze and Jamyoung, and his teammates had pushed him into the IGL role, a strange sense of responsibility suddenly welled up.

After the countdown ended, Su Zhe, who was in the first position, bought Half Armor and headed straight for Banana Path.

After taking the Banana Path cubby position and confirming that the CTs hadn't thrown any grenades, he took the lead and continued to walk quietly toward the Stone Slab area.

Every small movement was packed with details.

Ladder players, whether high or low rank, basically made decisions based on their own experience.

If they gave away their footsteps on Banana Path too early, it might allow the CTs at A Site to rotate early for support.

"Double-stack me. I'll step on the Stone Slab and check Sandbags," Su Zhe said over the mic.

Qiyue heard this and immediately crouched down. Su Zhe crouched on Qiyue's head, first spring-peeking over the Yellow Wall. Seeing no CT holding a Direct Hold, he stepped directly onto the Stone Slab and peeped out with a Small Stance toward the Sandbags position.

"No one close. Probably not many in B Zone."

Hearing Su Zhe's information, Xiao Qi pulled out a utility from his pocket. "Then let's just speed it up."

As the CT Spawn smoke and the B bomb site flash landed, Su Zhe, in the first position, immediately charged forward.

He first did a wide swing to confirm no one was at CT Spawn, then segmented his pre-aim toward the Coffin position.

At that moment, Kaze was crouching and standing at Coffin, peeking for info while chatting with Jamyoung sitting next to him.

With his focus scattered, the moment he spotted the Terrorists, he heard the sound of his own head being tapped.

"Rushing B!"

Kaze, now tagged to low HP by the Glock, immediately fell back to relay the info to his teammates, then set up at Church entrance to crossfire with the teammate at Three Boxes.

When Su Zhe saw the CT at Coffin retreat, he didn't dwell on it—his teammates behind him had the angle covered, and his main job was to gather all the info at the bomb site.

As he cleared behind One Box, the CT at Three Boxes peeked out proactively to look for a kill.

Ironically, Su Zhe in the first position didn't die—instead, Qiyue, who had stepped onto One Box, took the bullet for him and got headshot, instantly dropped.

Hearing the gunfire, Su Zhe didn't wait for his teammate to call out the position; he quickly flicked his mouse to the right, and the moment he spotted the CT peeking again, his crosshair snapped onto him.

"Bang! Bang!"

[Cape's Number One Breakthrough Player used Glock to headshot kill Qian Bao]

After securing the kill, Su Zhe knew someone might still be at Coffin, so he swiftly moved his crosshair again.

Kaze had wanted to catch a timing and sneak a side shot, but he didn't expect the opponent's reaction to be this fast. Seeing the Terrorist's crosshair turn toward him, he immediately aimed for the head—but after getting tagged in the head earlier, he was way too low.

"Bang!"

[Cape's Number One Breakthrough Player used Glock to kill Kaze]

"Nice shot, Zhe! Looks like I can just coast this round!" Pang Hu said as he planted the C4, praising him.

"You think the nickname 'Bulldozer' is just for show?" Xiao Qi teased in voice chat.

The great situation made the team atmosphere relaxed, and Bulldozer was Su Zhe's nickname.

Originally, it was just something his live room viewers came up with, but as Su Zhe terrorized the ranked ladder with his insane climbing speed and incredibly high breakthrough rate in matches, the nickname gradually spread.

With a 4v3 advantage and the C4 already planted, even with Jamyoung at A Site, he couldn't pull off a numbers-disadvantage comeback against the multiple gun lines at B bomb site.

The score between the two sides came to 1-0.

Kaze opened the data panel, looked at Su Zhe's ID, and said to Jamyoung beside him, "Isn't this the guy from the C+ rank who wanted to try out for our club? Now he's Demon King S?"

Jamyoung replied, "How long has it been since you last played ranked on Perfect World? The guy's almost at the top of the platform now."

Kaze was a bit surprised. "That cracked? Too bad he didn't come to our youth training."

Hearing the words "youth training," Jamyoung chuckled and joked, "If he came to youth training, would you be willing to give up your spot?"

Clearly, the joke about Su Zhe wanting to become a starter at Tianlu within a year had already spread among their club's players.

Kaze shot back, "Even if I gave up a spot, it wouldn't be for me—he doesn't play sniper anyway."

The tone of their conversation was relaxed, clearly not taking this ranked match seriously.

Their youth team had plenty of players capable of hitting rank one on the ladder—and they were still just youth trainees, weren't they?

After winning the Pistol Round, the CTs chose to force buy, and Su Zhe's side had expected this.

They used the close-to-mid-range advantage of SMGs to execute a fast hit on B bomb site with utility, winning the second round cleanly.

By the time both sides reached the first Full Buy Round, the score was already 3-0.

"What's the plan for the Full Buy Round? If we win this one, they're done!" Pang Hu said excitedly.

"How about we fly Second Floor?" Xiao Qi suggested.

Seeing no one object, he continued, "Then this round, we'll hit A with A1 and Second Floor together. Xiao Zhe, you hold Banana Path and play the flank."

After the simple plan was laid out, the Countdown ended.

Su Zhe bought full armor and utility, then headed straight for Banana Path.

Once the Full Buy Round started, facing the CTs' utility counterplay, Su Zhe found it much harder to hold his ground on Banana Path.

He first stood at T Spawn, waiting for the CTs' first wave of damage utility to end. Just as he was about to throw a self-flash to take a gun position, the CTs threw a smoke at T Spawn.

Su Zhe seized the gap between the CTs' utility throws, boldly sped up, and took the Cubby position.

The main reason was that Banana Path's position on this map, Inferno, was just too critical.

If the Terrorists could secure control of Banana Path, they could freely rotate, making it impossible for the CTs to predict their attack direction.

If he didn't take the risk to grab the opportunity and push into Banana Path now, once the CTs set up to hold the T Spawn smoke and then re-smoked it, he wouldn't be able to touch Banana Path for nearly a minute.

Don't ask why he was so experienced—it was all learned from painful lessons!

After taking the Cubby position on Banana Path, his teammate on Side Path successfully secured control of Second Floor.

At this rank, individual skill and game sense weren't lacking, but against a temporary team, discipline and team coordination were still far off.

Just as Xiao Qi was about to throw utility and push out, Qiyue peeked out of Second Floor too early—the moment his body showed, Kaze at the bomb site picked him off with the Big Sniper.

The disjointed attack also gave the CT in Big Pit a chance to throw a defensive smoke at Second Floor.

Xiao Qi didn't blame his teammate for the Give Away, long used to it. He glanced at the Minimap and said, "Xiao Zhe, can you find an opportunity on Banana Path?"

Su Zhe heard this and opened his mic: "I'll try."

Earlier, he'd avoided showing his body to keep the CT from gathering info and clearing him out. Now that the A Site push was stuck, he had to take the risk.

He started by jiggle-peeking, just in time to spot a CT doing the same and pulling back behind the Stone Slab.

So he placed his crosshair where the CT might wide-peek from and slowly advanced forward.

Suddenly, spotting a small black dot appear above the Stone Slab, he instantly flicked his crosshair.

"Tap!"

[Cape's Number One Breakthrough Player using AK-47 headshot killed Jamyoung]

"Ah! What the hell was that?!" Jamyoung, suddenly Headshot, was startled and couldn't help cursing.

He'd planned to double-peek with a teammate to catch any careless Terrorist—a trick that worked every time in pub matches—but the moment he stood up, he was dead.

"Did he predict the double-peek or was that pure Reaction?" Jamyoung grumbled. Either way, it made him think much more highly of Su Zhe.

With Jamyoung down, the lone CT holding B point didn't dare take risks and immediately fell back to the Back Point.

"Nice shot!" Qiyue, already dead, exclaimed. "Make some noise at B point, and we can rush Second Floor directly!"

Su Zhe had the same idea, so he threw a smoke at CT Spawn and continued pushing toward B bomb site.

Now Su Zhe's Pre-aim was much cleaner than before. He crouch-peeked, aiming at Coffin first, found no one, then adjusted his position.

He then pre-aimed the Dead Spot where Igoudala might be.

"Tap!"

[Cape's Number One Breakthrough Player using AK-47 headshot killed Qian Bao]

Just as Su Zhe got the kill and was about to tell his teammates to rotate, He didn't expect another CT to wide-peek from Coffin.

This time, his hands moved faster than his brain, instantly flicking his crosshair.

"Tap tap tap!"

[Cape's Number One Breakthrough Player using AK-47 headshot killed Mouyin luv]

The CT who'd just rotated from A bomb site didn't even take half of Su Zhe's health before being killed.

"Nice!! Quick rotate! Xiao Zhe, just hold Church!" Xiao Qi didn't wait for Su Zhe to speak, already moving with his teammates toward B bomb site.

As he ran with his knife out, he couldn't help admiring—no wonder he was called Bulldozer!

They'd planned to make some noise, but he'd just bulldozed the entire B point by himself!

The Terrorist rotate time on Inferno was 20 seconds—a number most CSGO players remembered.

Meanwhile, the two CTs at A bomb site had to worry about what position Su Zhe, already inside B bomb site, had taken.

They had to check every corner carefully. By the time Kaze reached CT Spawn with his Big Sniper, the Terrorists had already planted the bomb.

A 2v4 retake with no Gun Position advantage—the two could only return to A Area to save their weapons.

"Are you even good? Three of you against one, and he kills you all!" Kaze complained to Jamyoung beside him.

"Tsk..." Jamyoung didn't respond to Kaze's jab, instead sucking in a cold breath. "They weren't wrong—this kid's Reaction is insane. Believe me, he could tear apart your Big Sniper with an AK."

"I don't believe it." Kaze denied it immediately.

But seeing the serious look on Jamyoung's face, doubt crept into In Heart.