Jiang Yang: "That's the Sound of an ECO!"

Who the hell makes a betting pool for kills in an ECO round?!

Ma Xixi was speechless. His cousin's thought process was getting way too bizarre.

The viewers in the stream hadn't expected this either, but they were here to have fun and kill time anyway. One after another, they started egging him on to open the betting pool.

[My cousin's bizarre train of thought has left me speechless.]

[I almost thought Cousin was a prodigy and was going to bet on whether he could get 40 kills this game.]

[Lmao, does the streamer think getting 10 kills against an ECO is easy?]

[I bet he can't!]

[Open it already, I'm ready to farm beans!!]

With Ma Xixi's help, Jiang Yang opened the betting pool.

Ma Xixi thought Jiang Yang was just messing around.

But Jiang Yang had confidence in himself.

Ranked matchmaking games weren't that interesting to begin with, so he naturally had to get the viewers involved. Otherwise, they would get bored after watching for a while.

Besides, his current strength lay in his ANTI-ECO performance, so this was the perfect thing to make content out of.

And even with the stream on, he would still play according to his usual ranked habits. When he went on a killing spree in ECO rounds later, the viewers would definitely tease him about it.

Since that was the case, he might as well face the potential backlash head-on.

That would earn their praise instead.

After waiting for quite a while, the match was finally found.

The map was Nuke.

Jiang Yang was on the CT side again.

He felt like the matchmaking system was a little broken. Lately, he had been getting placed on CT way too often at the start.

As Jiang Yang entered the game, he closed the betting pool in the streaming client.

[Can the streamer get 10 or more kills in ANTI-ECO rounds?]

The support rate for [No] was a whopping 98.3%.

There was no need to think about it. Even the people voting for [Yes] were just trying to make a big gamble.

Huya Betting used beans viewers could claim for free by watching streams, so it was basically just for fun.

That was why the viewers were so eager to join in.

Seeing this, Jiang Yang said to the camera, "Alright, alright. Today, I'll show you what it means to be a real special forces soldier when the enemy is on ECO!"

His ANTI-ECO performance was something every player in the same rank bracket would marvel at.

Other than that one high-quality match this afternoon, he had gotten a considerable number of kills in every other game.

The games he had personally played gave him plenty of confidence.

Naturally, the viewers didn't believe him.

It was indeed relatively easier to get kills in ANTI-ECO rounds.

But most players only got around twenty-four kills in an entire game. For Jiang Yang to get nearly half of that in ANTI-ECO rounds alone was far too difficult.

And when you knew the enemy was on ECO, the more impatient you were to get kills, the more likely you were to get turned around by them.

"Blue planted the bomb, then emptied an entire magazine into the Bomb Planter's back without killing him, and even got counter-killed!"

Jiang Yang felt his scalp go numb. "It's hard to imagine there isn't a bot sitting in front of that screen."

He had gotten two kills at Iron Plate in the pistol round, establishing a sizable advantage for his team. He had thought they would win the pistol round easily as usual.

But then one of the Ts popped off and evened out the numbers. Both sides later fought in B Area, and after the enemy planted the bomb, one teammate seized the opportunity—only to somehow put on the absurd performance of tracing the enemy's outline with his bullets.

Jiang Yang was dumbfounded, and the entertainment value was through the roof.

[This teammate is a true local.]

[What do you mean, true local? This is Karrigan-level skill!]

[A tribute to Big Cousin's twelve backshots.]

[This rank is still more entertaining than PL.]

[The enemy paid tribute to kennyS too. He stood up and one-tapped someone.]

There was a top professional CS:GO player named Karrigan who had once created the classic moment of firing twelve USP shots into someone's back and getting counter-killed.

Jiang Yang's ranked teammate had perfectly recreated it this time, and the stream viewers could barely hold it together.

After losing the pistol round, Jiang Yang had originally planned to save and get into a Full Buy Round earlier.

But when he looked over, every one of his teammates had bought weapons, so he bought one too.

Then, just as expected, they lost the round.

Jiang Yang thought they should ECO next, only to see one teammate buy a Desert Eagle and even seem to be considering armor and utility.

He could barely hold it together. If this kept up, wouldn't they be forcing forever? He hurriedly spoke over voice chat and reminded them to save for a Full Buy Round.

Well, would you look at that.

Although they had instinctively wanted to force-buy, they listened when Jiang Yang spoke.

Still, two of them were a little too quick with their hands and had already bought full armor Desert Eagles.

Yet to Jiang Yang's surprise, they actually turned the round around.

The teammates with full armor Desert Eagles didn't accomplish anything. Instead, the only one left alive was a guy with an unarmored USP.

The Ts knew they had no money that round. After planting the Bomb, they had no desire to watch it and all wanted to get the final kill.

But the Ts never imagined that the last CT was hiding on Third Floor. Listening to their footsteps fade away, he jumped straight down to the Bomb Site and started defusing.

Even after the defuse was complete, the T side still hadn't reacted.

Thanks to their random teammate's bold defuse, they took another round.

Jiang Yang and the other teammates all praised him, and their morale surged.

Before they knew it, the score had reached 2:2.

After winning two rounds in a row, Jiang Yang had already calculated that the enemy had almost no money left.

Then Jiang Yang raised his right hand beside his ear, making a gesture as if he were listening for something.

Ma Xixi looked at Jiang Yang in surprise. There didn't seem to be any special sound around them.

Then he heard Jiang Yang take a deep breath. "That's the sound of an ECO!"

That whole sequence of actions made the stream viewers burst out laughing.

[He's acting like it's real.]

[Can't wait to see Little Jiang get wrecked by an ECO.]

[You wanna special? Do you even understand special?]

[I really thought he heard something.]

[Little Jiang is too funny.]

Jiang Yang ignored the viewers' teasing and directly tossed his M4 to a teammate, buying an MP9 for himself.

As soon as the countdown ended, he eagerly headed toward Inner Site.

Because he had a good spawn, he quickly reached the area near Yellow Room.

He instinctively felt that throwing a Flashbang would be better here, so he immediately pulled one out and tossed it outside before pushing forward to scout.

The Flashbang exploded, and he saw two Ts Covering Eyes and firing wildly inside T-Spawn.

Jiang Yang did not hesitate. He held the MP9, counter-strafed, and opened fire.

If they had vision, he would definitely have run and gunned while keeping his distance.

But when they were fully flashed, stopping to kill them was undoubtedly the most efficient method.

"Da-da-da~"

[Miss, get out of the way used an MP9 to headshot and kill Our Three Are Too Strong.]

[Miss, get out of the way used an MP9 to kill So Hungry, Shouldn't Have Played Three Kingdoms Kill.]

Ma Xixi's eyes lit up, and he immediately became the kill counter. "Two already!"

Jiang Yang ignored Ma Xixi. Once he truly entered the game, his focus quickly became fully concentrated.

He pulled back into Yellow Room to reload, then threw another Flashbang toward T-Spawn.

After the Flashbang exploded, he peeked out again.

This time, a T swung out from the T-Spawn entrance. Clearly, the enemy had not been flashed.

Jiang Yang did not rush into a duel. Instead, he ran and fired to the right, pushing toward the enemy using Cover.

That T immediately chased after him with a Desert Eagle. Hearing the footsteps draw close, Jiang Yang jumped and fired.

Although weapons in CS:GO became inaccurate without counter-strafing, SMGs were still quite accurate when jump-firing at close range.

The enemy clearly had not expected him to do that and was sprayed down on the spot.

However, Jiang Yang had not expected someone else to swing out from the T-Spawn entrance for a Follow-up Shot. He quickly switched to his pistol and exchanged fire with the enemy.

The two of them strafed left and right at the T-Spawn entrance. In the end, Jiang Yang's aim won him the duel, and he landed a direct headshot.

At the same time, the teammate at Outer Site killed the enemy AWP.

The score became 3:2.

Jiang Yang said nothing. He simply held up four fingers to the camera, and at that moment, the grin on his face was harder to suppress than an AK.

Ma Xixi's eyes widened too. "Wait, farming kills against an ECO is this easy?"

He had played PL for a long time too, but he had never felt this game was so easy.

Although PL and Perfect World B were two different rank brackets, Jiang Yang was still just a newcomer who had recently started playing.

[I don't understand. That's already four kills?]

[The enemy are actual people. He just sprayed all of them down like that?]

[Why does it feel like he just rushed out and farmed the entire enemy team?]

[Is he really going to special his way to ten kills?]

[Someone tell me, why do I get instantly one-tapped by a Desert Eagle whenever I try this?]

[I know you're anxious, but don't be anxious yet. Isn't he still six kills short?]

[Exactly. It's just luck. He'll get one-tapped by a bullet soon enough and behave himself.]

Luck?... Jiang Yang snorted twice and paid little attention to those doubts.

He would show the people doubting him what real skill was!

After all, he was not someone who played recklessly. With [Hunter's ECO Special Tactics], he could see his own improvement in this area, and after every ECO, he would reflect and summarize.

He was not like ordinary random players who rushed out in a desperate hurry and started spraying everyone down.

Unless he got one-tapped by a bullet in the first wave, his later play would remain fairly rigorous.

He knew he could perform well in these rounds, which was why he dared to push forward so aggressively.

That was why he was extremely confident in his ANTI-ECO performance.

He continued focusing on the match, while Ma Xixi stayed beside him and kept count.

Then, over the following rounds, Jiang Yang got nine special forces kills in the first half.

He quickly broke the record of ten kills in the second half, and the number kept climbing.

By the end of the match, Ma Xixi had counted sixteen ECO kills in total.

And Jiang Yang's final kill stats were only 35/4/21.

At that moment, the stream chat completely exploded!

There'll be another chapter later tonight.