"€400 a week. The club will provide room and board, and the contract covers your share of the prize money. You can take a look."
THREAT handed the contract to Su Zhe. "It's a three-month contract. If you perform well, the club will consider renewing it afterward."
Su Zhe took the contract and read it carefully. The clauses were still dense and hard to understand, but he didn't spot any problems, so he signed his name right away.
Seeing Su Zhe sign the contract without a hitch, THREAT smiled, thinking how easy young people were to fool.
Even if they paid his salary for the full three months, it would only cost them a few thousand euros. For a club of their size, that was a drop in the ocean.
Besides, a short three-month contract could make newcomers feel pressured and bring out their potential.
"My management skills really are getting better and better." THREAT took a sip of hot tea, smugly thinking to himself.
If Su Zhe had known what THREAT was thinking, he probably would have laughed.
Forget a three-month contract—even if they'd offered him a one-month contract that cost him money, he would've taken out a loan to sign it.
After leaving the manager's office, he stopped by the Training Room again.
When k0nfig saw him, he immediately came over. "How did it go?"
Su Zhe replied, "I've signed the contract."
A smile spread across k0nfig's face again. "Really? I knew you could do it! With you on the team, our results are definitely going to improve!"
Seeing the smile on k0nfig's face, Su Zhe smiled too and looked around at the others in the Training Room.
He didn't know what everyone else thought, but the team atmosphere seemed great so far. He was looking forward to the start of his professional career more and more.
After saying goodbye to everyone at Nip, he left the club and went to a hotel room he'd booked earlier.
The CSGO professional scene had entered its off-season, and the members of Nip were about to start their holiday as well.
The Katowice qualifiers wouldn't be held for more than a month, which gave Su Zhe a chance to return to China and take care of a few personal matters.
He would return to the club in half a month to train with everyone at Nip and prepare for the upcoming events.
After washing up at the hotel, Su Zhe lay down on the bed, finally able to relax. He was already drifting off to sleep, but he forced himself to summon the system.
[Congratulations, Host! You have successfully joined a professional team and begun a new chapter in your life. The system is upgrading.]
[System upgrade complete. Map proficiency system added.]
[Congratulations, Host! You have completed the mission: become a starting member of a team within one year. You have received an S-rank reward.]
[Received Rise Points: 1578]
[Randomizing S-rank reward.]
[Congratulations, Host! You have received the reward: Simulation Training Ground]
"?"
"Simulation training? What's that supposed to be?"
Su Zhe had thought an S-rank reward would be something earth-shattering—at the very least, a flash of golden light that would blind him.
And that was it? The name was so ordinary, too.
Curious, he found the reward in his system. With just a thought, his surroundings changed rapidly.
Just like the scene from his earlier skill insights, everything around him was still an unfathomable black. But Su Zhe, who had just been lying in bed, was now sitting in front of a computer.
He focused on the computer screen. It showed the CSGO2 game interface.
There were also two options on the screen: [Attack] and [Defense].
He selected [Attack] with his mind. The screen changed, bringing him to outside A1 on Mirage.
[Please select a professional player to defend.]
After seeing the prompt, Su Zhe thought for a moment and chose donk.
He still couldn't forget donk's Quad Kill with an AK during the skill insight.
[Use any means necessary to break through donk's defense and plant the bomb.]
"Huh? That's it? Just one defender?"
Su Zhe was a little puzzled. He wasn't trying to brag, but with his current reaction speed and aim, he had to admit that donk was strong. Still, if there was only one defender, he should be able to get through after a few tries, right?
So he started controlling the mouse and keyboard, ready to make his move.
Su Zhe first adjusted his position and pre-aimed the spot above the CT jump-up, but when he saw no one there, he widened his angle and pre-aimed below the jump-up.
Suddenly, he caught sight of a CT moving quickly. Su Zhe immediately counter-strafed and was just about to line up his aim when the screen turned black.
"Running AK?"
He'd seen the CT moving, then a bullet suddenly came flying, and he was headshot.
"Something's off."
So Su Zhe tried again, but the result was the same. He was instantly taken out once more.
This time, watching closely, he could clearly tell that donk had paused for a moment while moving.
"So this is mobile defense. What was I even doing before?"
Compared to donk's movement and holding angles, Su Zhe's own approach had been like child's play.
Before, he'd only shifted between two or three positions. But donk moved over a much wider area.
In CSGO, character movement was like driving a vehicle. A character could move quickly, but still needed time to accelerate. The whole process went from slow to fast.
Donk's wide movements let him reach maximum speed. Under those conditions, holding an angle depended even more on his aim.
Still unconvinced, Su Zhe tried breaking through several more times, but the result was always the same: he was slower to fire than his opponent.
After facing five professional players during his Nip tryout, he'd thought that all he lacked was game experience, and that his aim and positioning were already good enough to compete with the pros.
But now it seemed even the things he was proudest of were still far from good enough.
If even an unknown professional player could beat him with ease, what about the star players?
With no luck breaking through, Su Zhe switched from attack to defense. The screen changed again, and he found himself at the CT jump-up.
"Then I'll fight magic with magic."
Like donk, Su Zhe began moving widely while holding his angle. When he suddenly spotted a T at A1, he quickly counter-strafed to line up his aim.
"Rat-tat-tat!"
[Donk used AK-47 to headshot Arrow]
"?"
What the hell was that? He could even swing out and instantly kill me like that!
After half an hour of trying, Su Zhe exited the "Simulation Training Ground."
He'd been completely outclassed by his opponent at even the most basic things!
Always just a little short! Always just a little short!
Yet that tiny difference was enough to make the gap between them seem immense.
"I'll get some rest and keep at it later." Su Zhe let out a long breath after exiting the training ground. "What's up with the heating in this room? It's so hot I'm sweating."
After trying out the "Simulation Training Ground," he knew the reward definitely lived up to its S-rank rating.
When would he normally get the chance to go 1v1 against a professional player?
The "Simulation Training Ground" let him try as many times as he wanted, choose different professional players, and even change maps with a thought.
It was an absolute training godsend! Though it was easy to get tilted...
Thanks to I'm Going to Start a Group, Bye Bye for the 500 Rise Points! Thanks, boss!
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