[LOL] chase light

01

When the person sent by the PND club arrived, Qi Rui's plane was arriving.

After waiting at the airport pick-up gate for a long time, He Hu stared intently at the passing crowd, for fear of missing even one.After all, this is a big man, if it is lost, God knows where to find it.And the current PND top laner Gao Xiaoyang beside him is quite old, with his hands in his trouser pockets, and he looks like a master who doesn't care about world affairs.

When Qi Rui really appeared, He Hu in the crowd recognized him at a glance.Qi Rui was quite tall, wearing a hat, a scarf covering half of his face, and a gray coat that looked quite good. Compared with the sparse crowd who walked out of the airport together, he could be called quite conspicuous.

He Hu who greeted him briefly introduced himself.

"PND team leader, He Hu." Obviously he didn't know how bad the other party's "Chinese is not good" mentioned earlier, and he was afraid that he had used some too complicated vocabulary that would cause their initial communication to fail. "Excited that we will be working and living together for the next few years."

"Sariel, long time no see." Another person who had been standing silently beside He Hu finally spoke out. "Welcome to PND."

Qi Rui recognized Gao Xiaoyang.Only this time, they are no longer on the ALLSTAR stage, representing their respective divisions, but teammates belonging to the same team.

"Hello." After all, I still need to contact my parents occasionally. Qi Rui's spoken Chinese is actually not bad, but the tone is a bit blunt. "Devin, long time no see."

A hug was exchanged between Gao Xiaoyang and Qi Rui to reminisce.Seeing that the airport is not a good place for in-depth conversations, He Hu took them to the parking lot.The club sent a car to pick it up, and He Hu sat in the passenger seat, leaving the back row for young people who might have something to say.

Gao Xiaoyang opened the door for Qi Rui, Qi Rui glanced at him and thanked him in a low voice.

"Okay, you can take off the scarf and so on." Gao Xiaoyang sat in and closed the car door. "The heater is on in the car."

After taking off the scarf, Qi Rui leaned back as if he was relaxed, leaned against the soft seat and closed his eyes, with soft hair against his forehead, making him look younger than his actual age.

"Should I eat dinner before going to bed at the base, or keep it for you." Faced with Qi Rui's puzzled eyes turning his head to signal him to say it again, Gao Xiaoyang repeated the question again, and Qi Rui finally understood what the other party meant.

"I'm... not hungry." Qi Rui frowned, obviously correcting himself not to subconsciously answer the question in another language. "Airplane meal, I've eaten it."

Gao Xiaoyang understands this quite well.Qi Rui has lived in the United States for more than ten years. As a well-known player in North America, he represented the North American team in the S series finals. Now that he comes to the LPL competition area, there will definitely be many things that he is not used to.

Qi Rui, who had been flying at high altitude for a long time, began to doze off after answering Gao Xiaoyang's question, but judging from his facial expression, sleeping in the car was not much more comfortable than on the plane.Out of humanitarianism, Gao Xiaoyang took off his coat and put it on the other party.

Qi Rui didn't open his eyes, and muttered his second thank you today.

PND's training base is located in a villa area on the outskirts of City S.

It was already past dinner time when we arrived at the base, but the living room was abnormally full of people, including several players who usually fought hard at the front line at this point.

From the aunt who cooks to the players to the coaches, they are all eagerly waiting for the new members to join.As soon as a group of people walked in, a group of people at the table turned their heads quickly.

He Hu and Gao Xiaoyang were obviously not what they expected.Qi Rui, who was walking at the end, fell asleep a little drowsily, and was taken aback when he saw so many people. The team's jungler Kazuki quickly ran over and gave him a hug.

"..." Kazuki opened his mouth, but Qi Rui couldn't understand at all, and looked at Gao Xiaoyang, who was crossing his arms, as if asking for help.

With a headache, Gao Xiaoyang pulled Kazuki off Qi Rui, and then explained to Qi Rui that it was not his fault that he could not understand Korean between English and Chinese.

After introducing the rest of the people present in turn, He Hu stood up and said that Qi Rui still needs to get jet lag and take them away.

"Go back and do your own things, and you will still have time to get along in the future."

After signing Sariel, the club is preparing everything for him.The room was left by the former mid laner of PND. After being vacant for a period of time, after a thorough tidying up, it finally ushered in a new owner.Qi Rui didn't have much luggage, the big ones had already been mailed over, and the rest could barely fill a box.

"The bedding and padding are all new, and the air conditioner has also been tried, and it is good." He Hu pointed him in the direction of the bathroom, toilet and training room. "If you wake up hungry, go downstairs and turn left to the restaurant, there should be something for you to eat. If you don't have any other questions, say good night in advance."

After sending He Hu away, Qi Rui took a change of clothes from the box and went to the bathroom to take a simple shower, lying on the bed without feeling tired at all.That's not to say the conditions on the base were terrible: the mattresses were soft and the comforters smelled of the sun, either way better than the tenements he'd slept in when he first started his career.

He thought it was crazy enough for him to travel from California to Frankfurt with his papers alone at 17 just to play professionally with a bunch of guys he'd chatted with on the Internet.

As a result, three years later, he simply abandoned everything he had in North America, and came to another distant competition area.

Qi Rui had a dream that night.

The dream was the night when the last negotiation between him and the SN executive broke down, and ADCSean was waiting for him in the living room.

Sean is a pretty good white boy.They used to live together, train together, play Rank together, and even broadcast together.Qi Rui remembered that when they got their first prize money, Sean bought a used car and took him and their teammates halfway across the state to show off.

But these are all in the past.

"Rex" he stood up from the sofa, "you have to go."

He didn't use interrogative sentences, Qi Rui knew it.However, maybe it was Qi Rui's attitude that angered him more and more.

"Why?" His brown eyes shrank with anger.

"My contract has expired, and I don't intend to renew it with SN, so do you have any questions?" Facing an angry Sean, Qi Rui remained calm. "What's more, SN doesn't need to renew my contract. You will have new teammates. Forget about me, okay?"

"Betrayer." Sean looked at him hatefully, in the living room with no lights on, under the dim moonlight, Qi Rui could even see the freckles on his nose clearly. "Rex, you abandoned me and Alvin, and you will be punished."

But what Qi Rui did at that time was just shrugged, turned sideways, poured a glass of water, and returned to his room.

Until the day he got there, Sean didn't answer him again.

When he woke up, Qi Rui looked at the clock, it was 04:30 in the morning.Seven and a half hours, which was about the same as his usual sleep time, but Qi Rui only felt a splitting headache.

Many of his things in the United States have been canceled, including a series of mobile phone credit cards.This reminded him that he needs to buy a new mobile phone and apply for a card in the past few days.

After getting dressed, Qi Rui went downstairs and went to the restaurant to find something to eat as He Hu said.

It's a pity that PND doesn't have a 24-hour coffee machine, and he can only regret it a little in his heart.

After going downstairs, I found that the lights in the restaurant were actually on.But this is normal in the training base, someone will come out hungry in the middle of the night, so Qi Rui is not too surprised.

The people in the restaurant were cooking something in the semi-enclosed kitchen, Qi Rui had already looked at it curiously for a long time when he noticed someone behind him.

"It's you." The other party is quite tall, slightly taller than Qi Rui.

Qi Rui remembered who he was: PND's ADC and captain, Lin, Gu Linjun.A player who supported the entire team when PND was at its lowest point, it can even be said that he is the soul of PND.

When he came back to his senses, he found that Gu Linjun was looking at him with the same curiosity. The photogenic handsome face that appeared on LPL promotional posters all the year round was only a dozen centimeters away from him.

"Aren't you awake?" Gu Linjun waved to him in a friendly manner. "Or is jet lag not working so well?"

"Uh..." Qi Rui took a step back. "I'm coming for...dinner?"

He himself doesn't think 04:30 is a good time to eat.However, Gu Linjun agreed with this reason.

"That's right, you were taken away by He Niao as soon as you arrived, and you didn't even have time to eat dinner." Regarding the fact that he was hungry in the middle of the night and almost ate the food that Auntie Cook specially left for the new team members, Gu Linjun didn't understand at all. not ashamed. "I just happened to be hungry too."

Gu Linjun cooked a pot of noodles, cracked two poached eggs, then tore off the plastic wrap on the plate and heated it up, specially leaving two dishes for Qi Rui.

If Gao Xiaoyang was around, Gu Linjun's craftsmanship could only be said to be barely edible, and he would not suffer from food poisoning.But for Qi Rui, who has been poisoned by junk food and heavy beet dishes in Chinese restaurants all the year round, it is quite a novel experience.

"...Can't you get used to chili peppers?" Gu Linjun looked at Qi Rui who was almost in tears, looking so pitiful.

In case anyone comes down to drink water in the middle of the night and sees this scene, they may think that he is not compatible with the new AP.

But this is just an ordinary fish-flavored shredded pork... Gu Linjun stuffed another chopstick into his mouth.

In the end, Gu Linjun, who really couldn't stand it anymore, poured him a glass of cold water.Qi Rui, who finally managed to catch his breath, looked at the plate of fish-flavored shredded pork with awe unconsciously in his eyes.

"Spicy." He thought for a while. "It's not the same as what I ate in the United States."

"It's just different. At dawn, I will tell my aunt that our newcomers can't eat spicy food at all."

"Thank you."

The two continued to eat the rest in peace. Fortunately, another dish of vinegared lotus root slices was quite to Qi Rui's appetite, so that the kindness of Auntie Cooking would not be wasted.

They packed up the tableware together and went upstairs to their respective rooms.Gu Linjun's room and Qi Rui's room happened to be in two completely opposite directions.

"Oh, by the way, I forgot to tell you." Gu Linjun suddenly called out to him from behind.

"Ok?"

"On behalf of PND, I welcome you to our team and become a member of us."