JD Logistics was fast. The computer parts Su Zhe had ordered online arrived one after another the very next day.
With Fat Brother and Xiao Guang helping out, it took them over an hour to assemble the desktop computer.
Looking at the sleek curves of the case, Su Zhe excitedly pressed the power button. As the fans slowly began to spin and their pleasant hum filled the room, he secretly resolved to stay with it for the rest of his life!
After a tedious round of setup and parameter tuning, Su Zhe immediately opened the Perfect World Platform and played a match.
Once the matchmaking succeeded and he officially entered the game, he immediately felt the difference his new computer made!
To get a good experience, he had spent a small fortune on the monitor. The 24-inch screen and 240 Hz refresh rate made it feel like he was playing an entirely different game from before!
Most importantly, the FPS in the upper-right corner stayed steadily around 300. The picture was more than a little smoother.
As the match began, Su Zhe focused his attention on the game.
After nearly half an hour of intense fighting, he finished with a KAD of 21/3/19. Yet because his teammates had underperformed, the game ultimately ended in a draw.
Su Zhe could not help sighing that he still was not strong enough. He could make an impact in evenly matched games, but he was not yet capable of opening with three kills and then winning a 1v2 clutch.
As the match results screen popped up, Su Zhe replayed the game in his mind.
There was no regret, only tears in his eyes! What kind of suffering had he endured before this?
Before replacing his computer, the moment he saw an enemy in a match, his frame rate would plummet wildly and make the game stutter. Then he could pull out his phone and scroll Douyin.
Now that his hardware had been comprehensively upgraded, Su Zhe could not wait to keep improving.
"Holy shit!" Xiao Guang's voice suddenly rang out. "When did you get so close to B+?"
"Yesterday morning, while you were asleep." Su Zhe answered rather calmly. He was no longer satisfied with B Division. His current goal was to reach S, or even claim the number one spot on the platform!
"Did you have Fat Brother play a few matches for you? Say you did! Hurry up and say you did!" Xiao Guang's voice was full of disbelief.
His own failure was painful enough, but a friend's success hurt even more.
Just yesterday, both of them had been C+ scrubs. Now Xiao Guang had dropped into C Division, while Su Zhe had quietly climbed all the way to B.
After Fat Brother shook his head slightly at him, Xiao Guang climbed onto his bed in a daze.
At this point, I might as well sleep.
Seeing Xiao Guang like this, Su Zhe could not help laughing. It was exactly the same expression and movement he had made after failing his own tribulation before!
Before striving hard with his new computer, he first checked the reward for his task.
[Ding~] [Task: Replace and upgrade your computer configuration. Reward obtained: D-class reward] [Host has successfully completed the task] [Obtained D-class reward. Randomizing] [Congratulations, Host. You have obtained Rise Points: 233] [Congratulations, Host. You have obtained a Professional Player's skill insights. Please choose one of frozen, Elige, and donk to receive the reward.]
So it was an insight-type skill. Su Zhe looked at the reward with some disappointment.
In the system shop, skill insights only cost 1,000 Rise Points. Compared to that, he felt he needed a skill like [Chosen One] more.
But which player should he choose for the insight?
He knew frozen. Chinese players called him Han Wang. At only twenty-one, he already had eight years of CSGO professional experience. He won a national championship at thirteen and joined a First Tier Team at sixteen.
After Niko and ropz, he was also Mouz's third-generation prison king.
An experience this fantastical would get an author flamed by readers if it were written into a novel. Did they even understand CSGO?
Elige was known as Brother Ji. His powerful Recoil Control made spray transfers look effortless in his hands. Of course, what left the deepest impression was still his textbook posture and the wide distance between him and his monitor, which earned him the nickname "Esports Civil Servant."
These two were IDs he often saw when watching matches, but who was this donk?
Su Zhe usually only watched matches for the excitement. After all, asking someone who had still been C+ two days ago to understand tactical setups in the Professional Arena was asking too much.
So Su Zhe had never looked into things deeply. He only knew the more famous players, like Niko and Semper.
But since donk could appear alongside Han Wang and Brother Ji among the skill options, he surely had his own specialty.
This left Su Zhe agonizing over the choice. A few minutes later—
[Do you choose donk?] [Yes]
He had just gone to HLTV's official website to search for information about donk, only to discover that this player was actually younger than him.
He was only sixteen this year!
And most terrifyingly, donk had the highest Rating of the three! His average Rating over the past month was as high as 1.38!
Compared to the other two players' data, he was miles ahead!
So Su Zhe wanted to see exactly what kind of magic this sixteen-year-old possessed!
[Activating donk's skill insights.]
The scene before him suddenly turned unreal, and then everything around him became pitch-black. Only a computer remained in front of him.
He quickly realized that he was inside donk's skill insights. The donk before him seemed to be in the middle of a match.
The map was Death Arena. This round, the opponents were on a Half Buy as the Attacking Side.
The early standard Map Control duties had already been completed. As a defender, donk held an AK-47 taken from the previous round and kept jiggle-peeking along the Side Path.
Suddenly, a terrorist swung out. Donk immediately crouched and began aiming while controlling his recoil. Then two more terrorists swung out together.
Facing the three terrorists' wide swing, donk did not panic at all. Instead, he chose to control his recoil and emptied the entire AK magazine.
Three messages immediately floated up in the upper-right corner, showing that the terrorists had been killed by Headshots.
After getting the triple kill, donk immediately checked whether any terrorists were pushing through the toilets on his right at the same time.
After finding no one, he looked back toward the Side Path. The moment a terrorist emerged from the sewer entrance, his crosshair snapped over.
Two taps earned him another Headshot kill.
During the kills, Su Zhe could clearly feel donk's thoughts.
Confidence!
The belief that, with the weapon advantage in his hands, he could hold off every last one of them!
This confidence even made Su Zhe, who usually called himself a suicide squad member in games, feel somewhat ashamed. After all, as a defender in Ladder matches, he would never dare to stand in the open and challenge enemies head-on.
But why did he keep moving while Direct Holding as a defender?
Just as Su Zhe was puzzled, the scene before him shifted once again.
The map changed to Mirage, and this time donk was on the Attacking Side.
This round, donk gathered with his team at A1 right from the start.
After waiting for the opponents' first wave of standard defensive utility to fade, donk directly coordinated with his team and threw a Jungle smoke.
Then, as the first man in, he charged forward without hesitation under his teammates' Flashbang cover. He entered A1 and secured the Bomb Site position.
When he saw half a CT's body exposed behind Long Box, his crosshair instantly shifted over, and the kill followed.
Then, after hearing someone pushing through the Jungle smoke on the right-side balcony, he sprayed back through the smoke along the bullet tracers and secured a double kill.
At that moment, he suddenly heard a grenade explode near the CT Spawn smoke. Realizing the opponents might be about to use the blast to clear the smoke and finish them off, he swiftly turned around!
When he saw the CT behind the smoke that had been blown apart, he instantly stopped moving and began controlling his recoil after a quick stop, claiming a triple kill.
From entering A1 to securing the triple kill, the entire process had taken only ten seconds!
The surroundings gradually began to blur, and the scene before Su Zhe turned back into the familiar dorm room.
At that moment, he was somewhat dumbfounded as he muttered, "No raw stats! It was all parameters!"
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