FOG [e-sport]

Chapter 98

Chapter 98:

On the day of the final, the two teams arrived at the final venue early in the morning.

Unlike for a usual regular season game, the two teams had already visited the stadium and done a dress rehearsal the day before. No other people were allowed to use the stadium. The players’ spare peripherals too were placed in the stadium and adjusted the day before. The teams’ logos were also posted on their respective lounges a few days ago. Compared with the regular season and semi-final matches, the overall arrangements had improved by several levels.

Perhaps they’d been influenced by Team Saint’s display of self-sacrifice or perhaps it was because the relationship between the members of the NSN and Free has always been close or perhaps it was because they didn’t want to put too much pressure on the two teams before going to the World Championships but the air around this season’s finals was not filled with the smell of gunpowder. Gone was the fans’ usual posture of being irreconcilable adversaries. Regardless whether they were ordinary players or fans of either teams, most people had a very gentle disposition before the game. Normally during that period after the audience has entered the stadium but before the game starts, fans of the two teams would be chanting slogans and cheers, trying to outdo the other. This time, these yelling noises were gone. After NSN fans shouted some cheers, Free’s fans didn’t try to rally their forces to yell their own cheers louder. They merely shouted a few cheers as well and then stopped.

“Today, Yu Sui’s girlfriends and Shi Luo’s older sisters are so gentle.” The assistant referee was coming to Free’s lounge to ask for Zhou Huo’s signature. Hearing a few shouts from the fans outside, he stopped unexpectedly and said, “NSN fans actually dared to shout their cheers first? Normally, your fans wouldn’t tolerate this. When did they suddenly have such good tempers?”

Zhou Huo signed one by one on the pages for the manager in charge. Pretending innocence and disinterest after success, he smiled, “Our fans have always had very good tempers. They would never get into some meaningless cheering one-upmanship.”

The assistant shrugged. He glanced at Yu Sui and Shi Luo who were reading the coach’s notes together not far away. He whispered to Zhou Huo, “Now, they’re standing aloof from worldly strife? When you played against the Bison in the regular season before, your fans overwhelmed the other team’s fans so loudly that we couldn’t even get proper audio. All we could get were audio from your team.”

Zhou Huo said in his heart, can it be the same for those they have old enmities with?

Zhou Huo signed everything he needed to and smiled, “We’re making less trouble for you guys, right? Isn’t that good?”

“Of course it’s good. But when it comes to the world stage, we don’t mind you giving us more trouble.” The assistant referee winked and smiled. “Fans in foreign competitions are amazing at boo-ing the competition to mess with their morale. Don’t be bullied by them, you hear?”

“Certainly.”

Zhou Huo sent off the assistant referee and walked in front of the players who were relaxing with their eyes closed. “How is it? No problems, right?”

“What problem could there be?” Chen Huo said with a relaxed expression. He said helplessly, “Don’t think we aren’t nervous enough. It’s f-ing NSN who isn’t nervous enough, alright? That little brat Wawa even contacted me last night and asked me if we wanted to eat out after the competition. He even asked me what we wanted to eat. I swear, doesn’t Old Gu care about this? We’re going to compete in a match, okay?! What does he think he’s doing playing ‘happy families’?”

“Really, in all my years of playing this is the first time I’m playing a final with such a low smell of gunpowder. It’s good enough that we don’t have any enmity between us but getting along so well like we’re in-laws is just too much.” Puppy glanced at Shi Luo and tsk-ed. “I don’t understand why Wawa is so at home with our team, it’s like he considers it as half his home.”