CS: You are only 16 years old, and you want me to make a comeback?

Chapter 240: Some of Jiang Yang's Lack of Professional Ethics
On May 2022, 5, the weather in Antwerp was sunny.

As GL broke the normal perception and won the Major trophy, the Antwerp Major gradually ended in this incredible and regretful mood.

The players who came to watch the game also gradually began to leave the city.

The Born Winners who failed to defend their title, Heroic who failed to reach the semi-finals, and the Galaxy Battleship who shed tears on the court...

And that high-spirited GL team and that arrogant young genius.

Those wonderful and regretful moments will remain in their hearts for a long time.

In reality, the atmosphere of e-sports in Antwerp has gradually declined, but the discussion on the Internet has been extremely intense. GL won the championship, surpassing a number of favorites to win the championship. This news continued to ferment on the Internet.

As the protagonist at the center of the incident, Jiang Yang woke up 17 hours after winning the trophy.

Jiang Yang was awakened from his dream. He woke up and took a look at the trophy and MVP medal on the bedside table, and his uneasy heart was relieved.

He was afraid that what he experienced last night was just a dream, but fortunately, everything was so real, and the prize for the winner was already placed next to him.

Then the headache from staying up late slowly came up.

But even though he felt a little unwell, he was happy in his heart.

He was still in a daze when he heard his teammates discussing in the room.

"IM, what would you like for dinner later?"

"For some reason I want to eat KFC egg tarts."

Altman retorted: "But today is not Thursday, why eat KFC?"

Jiang Yang was quite speechless listening to their conversation: "Do we have to eat KFC on Thursdays? We are the Major champions now!"

He propped himself up from the bed and recalled: "If I remember correctly, we will be able to get half of the total prize money in Antwerp this time."

Major means more than just honor for CSGO professional players.

Major also has the highest prize pool among all CSGO events, with a total prize pool of 100 million US dollars. As the winning team, GL can monopolize half of the total prize money, which means they can get 50 US dollars as a prize.

Well, that’s just the ranking bonus.

As the winning team, GL will receive a very considerable income from the sticker share of the players in this Major.

"Then how much can we get ourselves?" Ultraman asked impatiently.

He is also quite special. This Antwerp Major is his first Major championship and also his first CSGO championship.

So a lot of content is unknown to him.

Jiang Yang thought for a moment and said, "I haven't calculated it specifically, but after deducting the money given to the club and taking into account taxes, we should get about 60,000 to 70,000 US dollars."

Ultraman counted on his fingers and said, "That's a lot!"

"Then I really don't have to wait until Thursday to eat at KFC. I'm going to splurge today and order every single item at KFC!"

IM gave Ultraman a thumbs up: "Too powerful!"

Then he took the camera and shot at Jiang Yang: "Young, what are you going to do with the prize money and the money from the stickers?"

“Stock up on 10,000 of my own stickers, and achieve financial freedom the year I retire!”

IM was originally holding the camera and asking his teammates what they thought after winning the championship, but today he turned into a GL vlog cameraman.

Unexpectedly, Jiang Yang received a wave of top-quality materials.

Sometimes he really felt that Jiang Yang was a genius.

If you stock up on 10,000 of his own stickers now, when the year of his retirement is announced, the entire market will definitely be ignited.

Ultraman on the side shook his head and said with disdain: "Your surfing speed is still too slow."

He looked at Jiang Yang: "Do you think you can afford 10,000 stickers of your own now?"

Jiang Yang: “?”

IM: “?”

The two men looked at Ultraman in confusion, not understanding what Ultraman meant.

Ultraman didn't keep the secret: "Yang, you have no idea how popular you are now."

As he said that, he directly opened the international version of Buff.

BUFF is a CSGO accessories software, in which players can trade their own accessories.

Ultraman searched for 'young' directly in the search bar, and clicked 'Stamp I young (gold) I 2021 Stockholm Championship' in the pop-up prompt.

"what!!!"

As the search was completed, all three people in the room shouted in unison.

"Seize the young master?"

I saw that the sticker price column clearly showed 16666.

Jiang Yang and IM both widened their eyes and looked at the number in disbelief.

Jiang Yang actually had an expectation that the price of his stickers would go up, but he didn't expect it to reach this point.

The price of celebrity player stickers is relatively higher because more people buy them.

But a sticker costing over a thousand yuan is already expensive enough. Before Jiang Yang’s visit, the price of gold stickers in Stockholm was stable at around 3000 yuan.

He thought that after winning the championship this time, his salary would increase to 5-6k, which would be good enough, but he never expected it to increase directly to five figures.

He still underestimated the enthusiasm of CNCS.

At this time, Jiang Yang looked at Ultraman with some confusion: "Don't you know? What are you shouting?"

Ultraman retorted: "I didn't expect it to rise so much. When I checked this morning, the lowest was only 9999. It has risen by 7000 in just one day!"

He slapped his thigh in annoyance: "I never thought it could go up any higher. The sky is falling!"

Jiang Yang looked at Ultraman curiously: "What do you mean?"

Ultraman retorted: "I had four of your gold stickers in my inventory before, and I was thinking of sticking them on the Asimov. Today, the price is so high..."

IM added: "I feel that this Asimov has to be built."

Jiang Yang thought for a moment and said, "This one is 16,000 yuan. I really can't afford to buy a few stickers for myself."

He wiped the non-existent sweat from his forehead and said to the camera: "I have been using stickers for a year, but I can't afford to buy stickers for myself. Who in my family understands me?"

Ultraman swiped it casually at this time.

I saw that the original price of 16666 became 16888.

The price of stickers is still rising, and the BUFF is still working!

However, Jiang Yang was just joking. From this moment on, he also felt the love that the domestic community had for him.

Although the angle of this enthusiasm was a bit wrong, he still liked it very much.

But he also knew that the price was a bit too high.

Although it is rare for him to win the championship, his emotions after winning the championship are a bit too exaggerated, and he will still calm down a lot later.

So he immediately turned to look at Ultraman: "I made so much money from selling my stickers today, I suggest that Ultraman treat us tonight!"

IM raised his right hand suddenly, and said sincerely: "I second!"

Jiang Yang continued: "The vote count is 2:1. The proposal is passed. The meeting is adjourned!!"

Jiang Yang said this as he lifted the quilt and lay down in bed again.

IM held the camera and started shooting the scenery outside the window of Antwerp.

Ultraman looked at his two teammates in a daze, not knowing why he had to treat them dinner in the evening for no apparent reason.

Did he agree? Then I'll treat you tonight!
Jiang Yang's proposal was just a joke to Ultraman.

When it really comes to dinner time, he may not let Ultraman treat him.

However, he really did not expect that the sticker price would increase so dramatically.

He found that the mood in the community seemed a little exaggerated.

Jiang Yang lay on the bed and started browsing on his phone.

He couldn't sleep after winning the championship yesterday. He beat Faceit for a long time and now he doesn't feel like getting up to play games.

Plus, my head was a bit aching, so I just checked my phone for a while to relax.

As soon as he turned on the Internet, he heard the phone ringing wildly, which scared Jiang Yang to death.

The phone even froze for a few seconds before it recovered.

Jiang Yang saw that people had sent him a huge amount of messages on several different social softwares.

There are mostly different classmates on WeChat. Many of his classmates in high school played CSGO. After they knew that Jiang Yang had become a professional player, they also sent him messages.

There were even many classmates who had never contacted me before, who sent me messages and were surprised: "Jiang Yang, how did you become an e-sports player and win the world championship?"

Jiang Yang casually opened his Moments and saw many classmates posting about their own championship wins.

Li Hua even posted several messages on WeChat Moments:

"Congratulations to my buddy Jiang Yang for becoming the champion of the 2022 Antwerp Major! Congratulations to Xiao Yang for becoming the youngest Major MVP in CSGO history!"

The following is a nine-grid photo.

It’s true, the photos taken by these official photographers really have that e-sports feel.

Many boys in his circle of friends sent him messages congratulating him on his victory, which surprised Jiang Yang a little, because in his impression, this was the treatment IG received in 18.

Didn’t you expect that he has now become a group of professional players similar to IG?

Reaching the same level as a group of players he once liked made Jiang Yang feel a little different.

At the same time, this also made Jiang Yang feel that the popularity of CSGO in China is really getting higher and higher.

I think I should have contributed a lot to this.

When Jiang Yang thought of this, he couldn't help but hum a few words, feeling quite proud.

After reading the Moments, he went to check Twitter.

On Twitter, there were more professional players, hosts, analysts and club officials from Europe congratulating him and commenting on the final.

For example, the official G2 team did something really cool and released a post.

"NIKO won his Major title."

Below is a photo of Jiang Yang being held by NIKO.

This photo was taken during the Cato period and shows Jiang Yang and NIKO playing around.

Jiang Yang is now the Major champion. NIKO picked Jiang Yang up, but it was NIKO who picked up the Major champion.

Many professional players also posted messages saying that they never predicted that Jiang Yang would win the championship.

Jiang Yang's performance in winning the championship this time really shocked them, and many of their worldviews were shocked.

Although Jiang Yang has always performed well and his statistics are excellent, the pressure he feels in Major and other competitions is completely different.

They really didn't expect that at the Antwerp Major, Jiang Yang gave them a big surprise, or even scared them.

They had never seen a player's influence in a game be so exaggerated.

Their reaction also made Jiang Yang quite happy.

At the beginning, everyone fell into a blind spot in thinking, and they all thought that his previous performances were just the bonus of being a rookie.

Everyone thought that even if he performed well, it would take some time for him to win the Major trophy.

After all, there have been many outstanding star players in CSGO over the years. Even someone as strong as S1mple has experienced ups and downs for many years, lost twice in the Major finals, and finally won the championship on the third try.

People in the CSGO world all believe that talented young men are always accompanied by regrets, and many are waiting to see the scene of Jiang Yang's regretful defeat.

But Jiang Yang just didn't agree with this and felt a little unconvinced.

It feels so good to see these people’s perceptions being broken.

After browsing Twitter for a while, Jiang Yang felt it was boring.

He simply came to the perfect post-match commentary section, wanting to see how passers-by viewed yesterday's final.

The first comment made Jiang Yang laugh.

[Cousin: I have an outdoor barometer called Rain, what do you have?
siuhy: I have young
Cousin: I have the world's number one free man ropz, what do you have?
siuhy: I have young
Cousin: I have the top endgame master sniper Broky, what do you have?
siuhy: I have young
Cousin: I have the world's number one headshot king, Twistzz, what do you have?
siuhy: I have young
Cousin: I have...Puff (vomiting blood)]

This comment is indeed a bit outrageous. This is mainly because Jiang Yang's performance in the final was exaggerated. However, this also gave Jiang Yang a lot of freedom to engage in free fire.

In this final, as long as Jiang Yang has his own ideas, Siuhy will never refute or come up with new tactics.

In other words, Jiang Yang doesn’t have many ideas most of the time, otherwise GL would almost become Jiang Yang’s one-man show.

In today's GL, the other four have sacrificed a lot of their own space.

Jiang Yang's exaggerated statistics are due to their contribution.

The capabilities of the Galaxy Battleship are relatively balanced, while on the GL side, Jiang Yang is far ahead with the other four people.

Therefore, Jiang Yang doesn’t think that there is any problem with his teammates. Being able to win the Antwerp Major proves that they don’t have those problems.

He continued to look down.

[The person standing in front of you now is an all-around player who debuted at the age of 16 and led the Steel Helmets to enter the Legends Group to fight against Mori Zaitang. At the age of 17, he became the IEM Katovitz MVP and the youngest Major MVP in history as a substitute. With a rating of 1.81, he led the team to shut out the world's number one Faze. Now let us congratulate the new king on his coronation. 2022 is destined to be a young year! 】

[I thought the online era was over, and the professional competition in CSGO had been solidified. Even if the level of T0 teams fluctuated, they were not that different. When T0 competed with first-tier teams, it was difficult for first-tier teams to beat them. The gap between first-tier teams and second-tier teams was even bigger than a dog-eat-dog fight. But I didn't expect that my cousin single-handedly broke this stereotype of all the audience.]

[After nine months of being a Major MVP, I feel like my worldview has been shattered]

[Who says CNCS is not good? This CNCS is amazing! ]

[After watching the entire final, the biggest feeling I had was that Young’s shooting was just too good. The shooting skills at the final level were all very good, but the shots of the other players were more or less a bit sniper-like, but my cousin’s perspective was really steady. Except for a 1v4 endgame where he missed a shot, in other shots of the gun battle, whenever he fired, I felt that the other player was going to die.]

[It's not just his marksmanship, my cousin's awareness is also outrageous. His positioning in the finals was scary, but his marksmanship + awareness managed to pull it off.]

[Now I'm beginning to wonder, GL was completely destroyed by the first-tier teams, so they would be willing to let such a young man step on their heads. Next, the first-tier teams will target my cousin, and the nine supreme leaders will really get excited.]

This is not difficult to guess. His current style of play, which does not care much and uses reaction and positioning to overpower the opponent, breaks the existing thinking.

Originally, first-line teams believed that tactics, positioning and discipline were more important than individual ability.

But now Jiang Yang's performance has quietly changed the importance of these people.

If you think those first-line teams would just give up, Jiang Yang thinks that is absolutely impossible.

However, Jiang Yang will naturally update his playing style and find out his own shortcomings.

By then, it will be a state of responding to each move as it comes.

He also wanted to see what tactics these first-tier teams would use to deal with him in the next competition.

At this time, Jiang Yang suddenly remembered that after the end of EPL, the system seemed to have a main task.

Now that 'Lao Deng' has successfully counterattacked, we have to wait and see what the subsequent rewards will be.

[At the age of 18, you joined TELCO because of your outstanding talent. In this era when people lost hope in CNCS, you performed well in the last CSGO Major and became one of the most outstanding new stars of this Major. Your outstanding performance led the team to the Legend Group. Although it was due to luck in the draw, the final result still ignited hope for domestic players. ]

[At the age of 19, you successfully replaced Danking and officially became the sniper of Tenlu. The appearance of the new lineup gave you hope for the future. You began to pursue large-scale competitions to achieve better results. The 2024 IEM Katowice became your goal. It was also in this Katowice that you really entered the eyes of the world...]

[…The explosive performance allowed TEL to keep moving forward in the group stage, and finally came to the last round. You met the dark horse spirit this time, and you also met your old enemy donk! You and donk kept bombarding each other in the game, and the outstanding performance of the two of you let the world know what the strongest genius of the new generation is! However, the turbulent period of CS2 still had a huge impact on snipers. Sometimes even the problem of the server swallowing bullets had a huge impact on you. In the end, you lost to donk in this BO3, and TEL was finally eliminated. But for the domestic team, this was really a glorious defeat. ]

[Green Dragon finally won the IEM Katowice championship, and you also saw your true level. You were no longer satisfied with Tianlu, accepted the olive branch of NIP, and became the sniper rifle that NIP needed most...]

Jiang Yang took a breath. This paragraph of text seemed to contain too much information for him.

So if there was no system, this little butterfly, would he finally become a professional player two years later? Or would he join Tianlu?
But this is indeed more like an Asian plot.

But he didn't expect that donk was so powerful?
In Katowice in 2024, he was able to step on him and win the Katowice championship.

And CS2024 will be in 2? The 2023 Paris Major is actually the last CSGO Major?

In other words, there is only more than a year left until the end of CSGO?

This huge amount of information impacted Jiang Yang so much that he couldn't react for a while.

But in the end, 'Lao Deng' still went to Europe, which was quite in line with his philosophy.

Jiang Yang actually also wanted to return to Tianlu. Playing CS in his hometown is the dream of many people.

At least Jiang Yang has always had this idea in his mind, but now his family is disconnected. He has finally achieved some results, and it is difficult for him to form an Asian galactic battleship.

So you can only take care of yourself first.

He continued to look down.

[You performed very well in NIP and led them to become a truly first-tier team, but everyone knows that without you, NIP can only become a second-tier team...]

[You have not won the championship for a long time, which makes you feel a little impatient. Your teammates who have no fighting power and abstract commands make you feel that training is meaningless. After all, the decision of whether to win the game is not in your hands. Under such circumstances, you launched a palace drama that shocked the circle! ]

[You performed an epic 1-on-5 fight in NIP. You beat four teammates and the coach to death. Although their strength did not meet your needs, this exaggerated move also made you inherit the name of MO and become the best in the world. ]

WHAT?

what?
One kick five! 'Lao Deng', are you that strong?
It was hard for him to imagine how 'Old Deng' actually operated, and how he was able to kick out all the other people in the team in the end. It was really a bit exaggerated.

You know, MO is just one kicking three.

However, he started to slack off in training, which showed that Jiang Yang lacked professional ethics.

[But after the palace fight, NIP didn't find a better candidate, and no one wanted to go to this mess. You carried NIP through two Majors, and finally after losing the Shanghai Major, NIKO invited you to join the Falcons. ]

[Your teammates are no longer four non-humans, which gives you new motivation. With the joint efforts of you and NIKO, the Falcons finally stopped losing repeatedly. You have achieved a lot of results and have become a regular in the quarterfinals of the competition. ]

[In the 2025 PGL Cluj finals, Falcons even won their first CS championship, which is also the first trophy in your career...]

[However, the good times didn’t last long. Neglecting training led to an unstable state, and you became a Rez (plus) version in the game, which made your fans very distressed. You finally started to train hard, but it was too late. In the first Major in 2025, Falcons fell in the last round of the Legends Group. After the failure, you knew everything, but you didn’t dare to look back at NIKO...]

[After a year of ups and downs in the Falcons, the conflicts within the team became more and more intense. You finally couldn't stand yourself anymore and chose to transfer to G2. This time you gave up your favorite sniper rifle and became a rifleman next to m0nesy. In fact, m0nesy mentioned that you could carry the sniper rifle, but you refused, perhaps because you didn't dare...]

[You, who picked up a rifle, have become an evergreen in G2. You are no longer as unstable as before, but you have also lost your edge. There are many talented people on the field, but you have never been able to achieve any particularly good results. You mustered up the courage to try again, but you were beaten by the talented teenager donk of the same period and your faith was shattered. You can't admit that there is a huge gap between you and donk...]

[You choose to retire and return to China, taking a break, becoming a live streamer who tells stories about your former teammates. Perhaps it is your talent that makes you a big hit in the live stream, and your live streamer becomes a gathering place for all the online trolls. However, countless nights when you recall everything that happened, you can only convince yourself that life is full of regrets.]

[At the age of 30, your professional performance was dismal, and you were beaten by a talented teenager of the same period, and your faith was broken. Finally, you made a living by live streaming. When you were a guest at your cousin's house, you saw your cousin's level and felt the purest happiness from CS. You decided to return to the path of CSGO and start the last dance! ]

Looking at the densely packed words in front of him, Jiang Yang sighed deeply.

So Lao Deng, is this your past?
He originally thought that Old Deng's past was just a waste of talent, but he didn't expect that Old Deng's journey was not easy.

He could feel Lao Deng's high spirits between the lines, as if he could also see Lao Deng's expectations for the future when he entered Europe, but he gradually became depressed after what he experienced.

He once thought that he was the protagonist of his own destiny, but ultimately he failed to achieve a result that could prove himself. He knew his pride, so he could also understand the reluctance and compromise that made Lao Deng make those decisions. He went to Europe for the sake of results, but failed to achieve any results.

He joined Falcons for the sake of his teammates and NIKO, but in the end he became the untrustworthy person. In order to make others trustworthy, he gave up his favorite sniper rifle and chose a rifle, but he failed to achieve anything. In the end, he could only return home in disgrace.

Really, thank you for your hard work.

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(End of this chapter)