FOG [e-sport]

Chapter 54

For the next two hours, Shi Luo endured his thoroughly red left ear and slept, keeping his posture completely proper and motionless.

Sometime after, Zhou Huo came over to help the camera crew take a half-minute video to be used as material. He sighed and whispered to the sleepless Yu Sui, “Evil is sleeping really well today. He didn’t play with his phone, eat snacks, or toss and turn. Looks like he’s honestly trying to catch up on sleep.”

Yu Sui was playing Tetris on his phone. He sneered when he heard that, but didn’t expose Shi Luo.

After about two hours, the plane landed smoothly. After picking up their luggage, they all headed straight to the competition venue.

“You don’t need to be nervous about playing against Ten Thousand Mountains. Just play normally and we’ll be fine.”

After arriving in the competition venue lounge, Old Qiao turned on his tablet and called up Ten Thousand Mountains’ information. He said, “Their style of play is a bit reckless, but they’re not reckless the same way you are. After all, their personal ability is inferior to yours. They’re impulsive and easily make mistakes. Their overall rhythm is a little bit violent. You just need to catch their mistakes and keep amplifying them.”

Aside from Shi Luo, these people didn’t know much about the current players in China. When the three of them went abroad, there wasn’t even a Ten Thousand Mountains Club then. Puppy raised his eyes and lazily said, “Violent? Hearing this word, I’m starting to get a bad feeling. Are their players violent?”

“No.” Shi Luo opened his peripherals bag and took out the keyboard and mouse. He whispered, “They’re pretty even-tempered, especially their captain.”

Old Qiao nodded. “Yes, Ten Thousand Mountains’ captain is famous for being good-tempered. If I remember correctly, Xiao Jun, Ten Thousand Mountains’ captain, is friends with you, right, Shi Luo?”

Shi Luo untangled power cords and shook his head. “Not friends, exactly…just our paths crossed a bit.”

Yu Sui was also taking out his own peripherals. After hearing that, he looked at Old Qiao. “Who’s…Xiao Jun?”

“He’s a player who came from the secondary league just a year ago. You don’t know him since you were abroad.” The game was about to start and Old Qiao didn’t have much time to explain. He simply said, “Anyway, he’s a good guy, very willing to endure hardships. But that doesn’t matter, you just need to play well. Just now, I said they’re pretty violent in their play but don’t let that mislead you trying to figure out if they’re playing violently or not.”

Zhou Huo, who had just checked in, returned to the lounge and heard them talking. “Who’s violent? Ten Thousand Mountains isn’t violent. Before we came, their manager even sent me a message and told me that Ten Thousand Mountains welcomes Team Free. The people of Chongqing are very warm and hospitable. They said, ‘If you dare to come, we’ll dare to lose.’”

Chen Huo couldn’t help laughing. “Now that’s just too non-violent! Have a little pride, why don’t they!”

“They themselves know that their level isn’t high enough so they’re just staying upbeat.” Zhou Huo smiled, “Their club is really good. Every time they play against other teams, after the game, their coaches would come over to give their greetings and also to ask the other team to share their perspectives. They ask if you could share some of your opinion with them.”

Chen Huo was completely relieved. “That f*cking fight with Bison before cast a shadow over me. Not to mention, we’ve come to our opponent’s turf. If they decide to start something with us here, it won’t be easy to clarify things.”