Don't try to lie to me about falling in love [e-sports]

It was December when Crush left for Germany.

Their fan base has grown a lot. There is a drop-off team at the airport, and they took a group photo before leaving the customs.After more than ten hours of flight, Yu Xiaocong in the back row took out a Switch and started playing games. The plumber kept dying, and Mario kept cursing at his side.

Leaning halfway on the seat, the lights in the cabin were dimmed. He held a mobile phone in his hand, and occasionally pressed it to turn it on and then turned it off.

Chen Xi sat next to him with a puzzled expression: "Brother Sui, there is no internet right now."

With a "hmm" sound.

Put your phone back in your pocket and never take it out again.

After landing, the communication across more than half of the earth became less sensitive, and Yu Xiaocong was taken aback: "Tsk, I forgot to turn on roaming."

Just as Ma Liao was about to report Zheng Renxin's safety, he also remembered this: "Why don't you remember every time, let's go and find a place with WIFI first, and the APP can be opened."

Chen Xi and Si Tan nodded. The competition period was only over a week, and it would be a waste to get a phone card alone. Several people were dragging their luggage and walking towards Starbucks when their mobile phones rang.

It's not that a few people have sharp ears, but that the sound is too loud and obvious.

Bian Sui quickly stopped, took out his phone and glanced at it.

Chen Xi inexplicably felt that his eyes were a little anxious, as if he had been waiting on the plane for more than ten hours.

"Brother Sui, that's not kind." Yu Xiaocong leaned over: "Do you remember to use roaming to remind us?"

Bian Sui looked at the phone screen for a while, it was a reminder message from China Mobile, he looked away, and when he raised his head, his eyes were lonely for a moment, then he regained his composure, and opened his mouth to answer: "It's always been on."

"Okay, I have money."

A group of people clamored to get in the car and went to the hotel. In mid-December, the winter in northern Germany was cool and humid, not too different from Shanghai.

But the longitude and latitude move down, and it is a bit long and cold in the middle.

The noon sun was chilly, and the three foreign students, wrapped up like loaves of bread, lowered their heads to hide from the wind, opened the door and entered an Internet cafe.

The temperature in the room was more than 20 degrees, and the heating was turned on. Several people quickly took off their down jackets and only wore T-shirts and shirts inside.

The person who opened the Internet cafe was a local man, a typical fat white man. He kept taking out a bag of potato chips that was as long as the keyboard, and said hello to several people: "Number?"

This Internet cafe uses a credit card system, each person has a number, and the money is directly deducted from it when they come. The number is also an ID, which is used to log in to the computer.

One person went to the bar to swipe three cards, and then ordered food and drinks. It was past twelve o'clock at noon, and there was no one there.

At one o'clock, another gust of cold wind came in at the door, and a person walked in.

He was wearing a white down jacket, and because he was afraid of the cold, he also wore a fluffy earmuff on his head. When he took it off, he brushed up the hair around his ears, making him look very small.

The fat boss didn't ask him for a card, moved up a little, poured him a cup of Coke and brought it over, then pointed to a few foreign students across the way, and said something in bad Chinese: "You have eggs."

Gu Chao nodded at them, and then began to accompany them four rows.

Boys like this have a lot of pocket money and love to play games. He can often take them to eat chicken and get high scores. Usually, playing games costs tens of euros for an afternoon, and it only costs more than ten euros or tens of dollars for each person. I'm happy and don't feel anything.

Moreover, Gu Chao is a nanny-style service. From the parachute to the chicken at the end, he basically arranges it all by himself. Halfway through, he needs a magnification for a magnification, and a gun for a gun. .

Except for not being very talkative, the service is perfect.

From one o'clock to five o'clock, several people were still full of ideas, but a few men wearing team uniforms of the same color pattern came in at the door, greeted Gu Chao, and the four of them went upstairs together.

The fat man hastily poured three more Cokes and brought them up, and then came down to continue eating potato chips for a fee.

This Internet cafe is called Numbers, and it was set up by the four people above.

Two of them are locals. Like him, they don't like to socialize. There is also a Korean who is an international student from the nearby University of Technology. I heard that he used to be a professional player, and the other is Gu Chao.

The fat white man was most curious about Gu Chao.

When he was first called to be the stage, he thought this beautiful boy was amazing.In the morning, I attend classes at the next-door engineering university, and in the afternoon, a few other people have something to do, so they will take orders here to practice and play.

Sometimes I don’t have an order, so I go to the nearby dessert shop to work as a waiter for a few hours. Although the German is not standard, but because of its good looks, the female customers are very tolerant.

It is said that if you can buy this Internet cafe, you should not be too short of money, but Gu Chao is particularly short. As long as there is something to earn pocket money, he will take it without delaying training.

After the fat man emptied a bag of potato chips, he concluded that it might be because beautiful people like to spend money more.

The upper floor of the Internet cafe is not big, it is a separate private room with Numbers posted on the door.This place is not open to the public, the mouse and keyboard inside are all private, and the small private room is the place where the team usually trains, and it is also the base.

Compared with the domestic investment, systematic training and base, many of these foreign teams are formed by people who are interested in games. It is already a luxury to have an Internet cafe as a base camp.

A few people were not in a hurry to turn on the computer today, but head to head, got together and started buying tickets.

The Korean who spoke was named Jin Jixiu, that is, the team he had brought Gu Chao into to form. He was frowning and said in English at the moment:

"The ticket alone costs 100 Euros, which is a bit high."

The German homeboy next to him shook his stomach, very proficiently: "But the invitational tournament has a prize money of 100 million US dollars, and we will give it away if we win the championship. We can live with my grandma in Berlin."

The other couldn't help complaining: "Does your grandma really exist?"

In the world of e-sports, there are many corners where money cannot shine.

Unlike the wealthy teams with bosses investing in them, this small team relies on the profits of Internet cafes to support their daily expenses. They generally don't play European tournaments, and they don't play matches when they are going to the UK, because they have to pay money.

All in all, it's poor.

Although the prize money for this Berlin Invitational Tournament is generous, Gu Chao has never wanted to go because he has just paid his tuition fees, and the team has been playing for a long time in the Summer Split, so he is very short of money.

The urgent ones are in short supply.

They have made progress from the second tier in the qualifiers, and this year has indeed improved, and their cooperation is getting better and better. They won No.2 in the European Summer Split, which is considered a dark horse.

But if you go to Berlin to compete, you will inevitably have to spend a lot of money on hotel tickets, and it is hard to say whether you will get a ranking.

Gu Chao said slowly in English: "We haven't got a place for the global finals now. There will be an intercontinental competition at the end of the year. It's better to save money and play that one. Maybe we can get a place and rush in."

Brother Zhai curled his eyebrows.

Thinking about it this way, it is true that although the prize money of this invitational tournament is high, it is only the champion's prize money that is high, and there is no quota for the global competition, and the small Internet cafe downstairs has so much water, and it may not be able to make ends meet if you are not careful.

Holding the entry list, he shrugged his shoulders in frustration, and had to admit that what his Dongfang teammate said was more reasonable, so he put down the list: "Okay."

Gu Chao took it over and took a look.

Jin Jixiu trembled and regretted: "The bonus is nothing, but it's a pity that I took a photo with Random in the century."

The two homeboys shrugged at him, pointing to Gu Chao who was still looking down at the list, meaning that if he doesn't go, it's useless for you to cry to us, after all, it's the democratic team.

But Jin Jixiu didn't give any hope of changing Gu Chao's mind.This money-deprived person is more hard-hearted than anyone else. He still remembers that in the first year of Christmas, everyone went home on holiday, but Gu Chao sat at the front desk for two more months in order to make money, and no one persuaded him. don't go.

The three of them calmed down and planned to start ranking, but they didn't expect that the person next to the table didn't move, and suddenly said after a while:

"Or let's go."

Brother Zhai was taken aback for a moment, Jin Jixiu raised his head suddenly: "Aren't you saving money?"

To his surprise, Gu Chao's expression was a bit tangled.He seemed to be dazzled by something, his eyes were fixed on the list, and he couldn't take his eyes off.

Gu Chao paused for a moment, then said cruelly, "Or else first—"

"NONONONO!"

The fat man downstairs seemed to be very familiar with his beginning, and he rushed up in a second, and uttered two words in a local accent: "Don't fire me, I can give you my grandma's house in Berlin."

"..."

Brother Zhai looked at him coolly: "You also have a grandma?"

Fatty: "I really have a grandma."

On the Long Street approaching Christmas, the festive atmosphere is quite strong with red and green decorations next to the BigMate e-sports center.

There is a warm-up hall inside. The afternoon game has not yet arrived. Several people are practicing guns to maintain their hands. The jet lag and diet climate make many Asian teams who come here seem to be still adjusting and not so energetic.

Chen Xi always felt that Bian Sui was a little absent-minded.

Since he arrived in Germany, he has always turned on his phone from time to time, just to glance at the information.

Like a desperate man who stays at home late at night, his face becomes uglier when he looks at it once, and even uglier when he looks at it again.

Sitting in front of the computer today, there is already an air of don't mess with me.

This breath did not dissipate until he was seated in the competition seats.

The venue is very large and there are many teams. It is divided into east and west sides, with four rows on one side and two teams in one row.

Crush's seat is on the left, and there are two Korean teams and a Thai team in the front and back, both of which are from the Asian division.The European division is far away, on the top of the hill in the opposite seat.

Before it was time to confiscate things, Bian Sui still had the cell phone in his hand, and Chen Xi, who was sitting next to him, couldn't help it, so he asked, "Brother Sui, is your cell phone alright?"

Bian Sui frowned, and let out a "hmm".

Afterwards, as if remembering something, he turned sideways, approached him in the noise and said, "You send me a message."

Chen Xi was taken aback.

But he could only follow what the boss said, so he took out his phone from his pocket and sent a message to Bian Sui.

Although it was roaming, it was only 5 seconds away, and Bian Sui received it with a "ding".

The lights of the two mobile phones were slowly fading in the dark venue, Chen Xi saw that his face was so pale these days, he didn't dare to speak anymore,

Bian Sui simply put on his earphones and went into the game to shoot.

He probably also knew that he was in a bad state.So I stared at the screen, stopped paying attention to my surroundings, and wanted to concentrate.

Before the start of the game, there are usually all kinds of flashy shots and introductions, and there is no need to pay attention.It wasn't until the network was adjusted, the inspector finished recording the data, and started to enter the first game that Bian Sui's mood was almost calmed down.

The pace of international competitions has always been very fast.

Just after the second circle was drawn, the frame in the room area has already started to fight.

He glanced at the upper right corner, and there was a string of unknown and strange IDs.

"Numbers.4521 knocked down Crush.cleverless with M416"

作者有话要说：感谢在2020-04-0517:57:13~2020-04-0618:21:46期间为我投出霸王票或灌溉营养液的小天使哦~

Thanks to the little angels who cast the landmines: Wen Tao’s wife, Xiao Shan’s mother-in-law, Yabai, and Xiaoshu Populus;

感谢灌溉营养液的小天使：LJ.8瓶；滴答岚岚6瓶；长荙、游吟诗人、圆糖、摸鱼5瓶；七七3瓶；flechazo94、ic橙子的猫2瓶；棘耳朵、江言七、溱1瓶；

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