Could He Really Be a Genius?

After the match ended, Su Zhe replayed the triple kill he had just gotten at White Car.

"Could holding angles while moving really work?"

Although his playtime still only qualified him as a new player, he could barely be considered a veteran of two eras.

What struck him most about CS2 was that the characters moved much faster.

If a stationary rifle hold could catch two people before, now it could catch at most one and a half.

That was still assuming the enemy did not know his exact position, which was why defenders now preferred to Push Out and take fights.

The risk was just too high, and he also had to expose his positioning information.

With that in mind, Su Zhe immediately opened the Demo from that match. After switching the perspective to the terrorists and carefully watching it through, he finally confirmed the thought in Heart.

The value of donk's gameplay insights was still rising!

"Tsk, tsk, you're even watching Demos now? I really Didn't Expect you to stick with it for a whole week. These past few days, every time I came back to the dorm, you were practicing your aim..." Xiao Guang's voice came from his bed.

He had stayed up until four in the morning reading novels last night, and only slowly woke up around noon.

He yawned. "Want to duo queue this afternoon? I'm just one match away from getting promoted to B..."

Su Zhe smiled and replied, "Can't duo queue anymore. I just reached A Division."

"How could we not be able to duo queue? Within 400 points... What?!"

Xiao Guang, who had still been groggy moments ago, instantly woke up and jumped down from his bed.

"How is that possible?! I saw that you hadn't even reached B+ a few days ago. How are you already A?!"

He took Su Zhe's mouse and opened the Perfect World Platform. Even after seeing the score displayed there, he still found it hard to believe.

Then he leaned over and peered through the transparent side panel of the computer case, but he did not find any extra hardware inside.

"Come on, bro! Did your Talent awaken or something?"

A week ago, both of them had still been C+, but one week later, there was already a Score Difference of more than 400 points between them!

Seeing Xiao Guang's sense of disappointment, Su Zhe comforted him. "What Talent? If I really had Talent, would I have spent more than 500 hours stuck at C+ before? Practice your aim more, and you can climb too."

"Haah... no, I can't." Xiao Guang sighed. "Back when I was home during summer break, I practiced my aim like crazy just like you did, but it had no effect at all..."

Xiao Guang looked deeply at him. "Maybe you're the kind of hardworking player who suddenly awakens, like Cold God..."

Most Professional Players displayed extremely high gaming Talent as soon as they first touched the game.

Things like earning FPL qualification as a teenager, or joining the first-tier professional scene before even becoming an adult.

But before coldzera went pro, people had always called him bad and said he had no Talent for professional play at all.

Yet he worked as though he refused to accept fate, and in the end, he still set foot on the path of becoming a Professional Player.

Then, just six months after debuting, he won the highest honor in CS:GO competition. At the time, Semper and Niko were both merely part of his backdrop.

Cold God had also claimed HLTV's TOP 1 player title for two consecutive years in 2016 and 2017.

He was the perfect embodiment of hard work and sudden enlightenment!

Huh? Me? Cold God?

Xiao Guang had previously treated his talk of going pro as a joke, but now he even dared compare him to Cold God.

Su Zhe smiled and patted Xiao Guang on the shoulder. "You're overthinking it. As long as you work hard, you'll definitely improve. It's just a matter of how much..."

Xiao Guang shook his head slightly. "It's enough for me to just have fun. Keep it up. Maybe you really can go pro someday. When that happens, remember to give me an autograph..."

While eating lunch, Su Zhe was scrolling through Douyin to kill time when he suddenly came across the video Leon Kai had specially made for him before.

He could not help giving Leon Kai a thumbs-up for his character. If it had been some other streamer, how could they possibly watch a Demo specifically for you unless you spent dozens or even hundreds? And Leon Kai had even made a video because he worried the person might not be in the Live Room.

As expected of Leon Kai, a man with character when it came to character, character when it came to aim, and character when it came to looks!

Listening to the advice Giraffe had given him one point at a time, he felt as though everything had changed, even though only a short week had passed.

A week ago, he had been a little C+ player. A week later, he already counted as a minor expert.

At this rate, I'll be Brother S in another week, top of the platform in a month, and before the New Year, I can go to Tianlu for a tryout with 259...

He casually opened the Douyin comment section and found that the comments were no different from those in the Live Room back then.

[Is this guy really not a troll? He wants to go pro with plays like this? Did he get his mind blown by smurfs?]

[With that Positioning and recoil control, I'd be better than him with my feet.]

[Does some C+ player seriously think he's better than Brother S?]

[I know this one. We C+ players are only worse than Demon King Brother S in Game Sense. When it comes to aim, we're not scared at all!]

As Su Zhe read the comments, he saw quite a few people tagging a whole bunch of friends to come laugh at him, and he could not help sighing.

He had been pretty happy about reaching A Division just now, but that feeling was completely gone. Couldn't they give a "Genius Youth" some time to develop? Eight out of ten of those keyboard warriors were not much better than he had been before.

Feeling instantly annoyed, Su Zhe opened the Perfect World app on his phone and took a screenshot of his match history and rank.

Then he posted it under that video.

[I'm here. Thanks for Brother Kai's advice.]

[After receiving Brother Kai's guidance, I found my own shortcomings. So after a week of high-intensity aim practice and Ladder matches, I finally reached A Division today.]

[But I still haven't woken up from my dream of going pro, so could everyone online give me some advice?]

After posting that long, blatantly humblebragging comment, much of the irritation in Su Zhe's Heart dissipated.

If any keyboard warriors dared mock him beneath that comment, he would go back and open a solo room to slap them in the face.

It would not matter if their ranks were too high for him to beat. After all, he was now a genuine A Division player.

After sucking the last bit of sauce off his Braised Chicken, Su Zhe picked up a napkin from beside him in the restaurant, wiped his mouth, and stood up to head toward the school dormitories.

But he did not know that as soon as he posted that comment, its likes began skyrocketing, pushing it straight to the top...

There were barely any sneers or mockery like he had expected. The replies underneath were all shock!

[Holy shit! I just looked it up. Bro, you really didn't Photoshop this!]

[What the hell! It's only been one week! Is Giraffe's advice really that useful?]

[I reached C+ in 100 hours, but it took me around 2,000 hours to reach A...]

[@LeonKai SHYEARKMIU Brother Kai, give me some advice too! I want to improve as well!]

[From C+ to A in one week... could he really be a genius?]

At home, Leon Kai was also bewildered as he watched the constant new Douyin notifications popping up.

"Am I getting popular?"