CS: Demon King C, you said I was a genius?

Chapter 148 Mom: Son, why didn’t you die? (2100)

“13-10！液体长痛了！恭喜G2，以2-0的大比分战胜液体，获得了本次Bo3的胜利！”

"At the same time, they also advanced to the winner's bracket finals. With just one more win, G2 can directly secure a spot in the knockout stage's semi-finals and compete in an offline arena!"

Although the scale of the IEM Chengdu event is not as large as Katowice, the competition system is similar.

Similarly, the first place in the winner's group will advance to the semi-finals, and the first place in the loser's group will advance to the semi-finals and play an additional round of eliminations.

The game is over at this point, but there’s still a sense of lingering excitement from playing the machine:

"Liquid actually played well enough, especially on the second map, the Ancient Ruins. Whether it was the fight for map control or the players' individual performances, there was nothing to fault."

"But there's nothing we can do about it. G2 is truly invincible with Arrow joining them!"

"G2 is a somewhat complex team to begin with, with their performance fluctuating wildly. However, Arrow's performance has been so consistent that he's become the guarantee of G2's bottom line."

[His performance is too stable? Is it a stable explosive performance? ]

[Hahahaha, I think the most rare thing about Xiaozhe is that his form doesn't suddenly drop.]

[I discovered something terrifying: has Xiaozhe's rating ever dropped below 1.0?]

[Yes, brother, yes, but winning the game does not necessarily mean the data is bad.]

[This is really unbearable. If Xiaozhe's data in NIP is bad, then the game will be lost.]

Xiaozhe is the team's responsible god. He can both drive the tempo and maintain the team's bottom line.

[ropz: I heard someone wants to steal my nickname? ]

【…】

While everyone was discussing in the comments, the person playing the machine had already skillfully opened the HLTV official website, ready to carefully appreciate the post-match data of this Bo3.

Although he had already made preparations, when the data chart was loaded, he couldn't help but gasp:
"Shh~ This record is really too exaggerated. The game in the first map was a bit smooth. Arrow played with the team and played a KD of 15-9, which is considered standard."

"But when it came to the Scorched Ancient Ruins, his stats were a bit too incredible. KD led the entire match with a 27-15 lead. Nexa and his cousin's kills combined weren't as many as Arrow alone!"

"He really is the god of responsibility for G2 map !"

【Outrageous! 】

I thought Xiaozhe was going to win easily when he joined G2, but I didn't expect him to be so dominant.

[It can be seen that Xiaozhe really wants a job]

[G2: Guys! I'm on the trailer too!]

[The total rating of the two pictures is 1.51. It's really a killing spree! ]

While the audience in the live broadcast room were hotly discussing Su Zhe's performance data, Su Zhe had already finished shaking hands with the Liquid team.

At this time, he was packing up peripherals with his teammates while chatting casually.

Niko suddenly turned around and asked, "Arrow, what did the Director say to you just now? I saw him talking to you for quite a while when you two were shaking hands."

"Huh? Oh! He asked me if I was interested in liquid." Su Zhe answered casually.

"Invite you to Liquid?" Niko suddenly felt anxious after hearing this.

Although Su Zhe is just a temporary worker in their G2, why does Niko feel like he is being NTred?
"So...how did you reply to him..." Niko asked expressionlessly but cautiously.

"I said we'll wait until this tournament is over. If we can't find a team, we can still give it a try."

Su Zhe turned to look at Niko and asked, "Are the salaries of the North American teams high?"

"Ah? North America? I advise you not to go!" Niko replied immediately.

Su Zhe was a little puzzled: "Why? Blue Star's treatment is pretty good, but the team's competitiveness is a bit lacking. Liquid should be about the same, right?"

"Uh..." Niko didn't know how to respond.

Liquid does have the competitiveness to win championships in major tournaments now, and Su Zhe's arrival has indeed strengthened the team, and it is a good fit no matter how you look at it.

But he just felt uncomfortable, so he casually replied: "Brother Dianzi's coaching is not suitable for you. If you go there, it will only limit your own performance."

"Really..." Su Zhe began to think.

But Niko felt very uncomfortable. He wanted this young player to have a bright future, but he didn't want him to become his opponent.

Isn't this answer misleading...

Judging from Su Zhe's current performance, going to any first-tier team would be a great reinforcement, but the timing is a little wrong.

It’s like seeing a beautiful woman throwing herself into your arms, but being unable to stand up.

In other words, it is not the end of the year off-season yet, otherwise Su Zhe would have been snatched up by major clubs.

"How about we bring him to G2...but will management agree to a replacement? And who would be the right replacement?"

Thinking of the management above, Niko felt a surge of anger in his heart, "What a bunch of idiots! Oh, forget it... I'll ask the higher-ups for advice after this game."

"If that doesn't work, I'll help him find a few more teams..."

After packing up their peripherals, everyone left the venue and returned to the hotel to rest.

After completing a Bo1 and Bo3 match today, there will be a loser group match tomorrow.

Their winner's group final will be scheduled for the day after tomorrow, leaving them with one day of preparation time.

As Su Zhe followed the G2 team out of the venue, he heard cheers coming from their ears.

At this time, a large number of fans had already gathered at the entrance of the venue, and many of them were taking pictures with their mobile phones.

"G2's fan base is still huge!" Su Zhe was quite emotional when looking at this scene.

He had never encountered such a situation when he played games abroad with NIP before.

"G2! G2!"

"Niko! Niko! Can you give me an autograph?"

"Kid! Mommy loves you!"

"Xiaozhe, my husband, I love you too! And Niko, my husband! Mua!"

"Huh?" Su Zhe suddenly heard an interesting shout. When he turned around and found that this sentence came from the mouth of a round-faced and bearded man, he felt a chill in his heart and quickened his pace towards the bus.

Maybe because the other members of G2 didn't understand Chinese, everyone was very enthusiastic and kept waving to the fans around them.

Niko was the most exaggerated. He would come forward to shake hands from time to time. But I don’t know when, there was another pack of Heiliqun cigarettes under his armpit.

Finally, thanks to the efforts of the stadium security personnel, several members of G2 squeezed onto the bus to the hotel.

"You Chinese fans are so enthusiastic! You send us food and cigarettes." Niko said happily after getting in the car.

"What's for food?" Su Zhe turned around and was stunned to see the pile of snacks in Niko's hand. "So many?"

"Do you want to eat it? I think this is delicious." Niko said as he handed Su Zhe a bag of snacks.

After Su Zhe took it, he looked at the three words "Tang Monk's Meat" on it and instantly lost his composure, and handed it to the child beside him:

"I was tired of eating these when I was a kid. You can try them, but... I suggest you eat less. Be careful of diarrhea."

"Really? It's okay. I have a healthy stomach and can handle it!"

……

After Su Zhe followed everyone back to the hotel, he was just about to lie down on the bed and check his phone when someone suddenly called him.

"Eh? Why did my mom suddenly look for me? She even called me?"

When Su Zhe saw the caller ID, he felt a little confused.

Who still makes phone calls these days, unless it's an emergency.

However, Su Zhe still pressed the answer button.

Soon, my mother's voice came from the other end of the phone, but for some reason, her voice sounded very anxious, even a little tearful.

"Hey! Who has my son's phone?! Where is my son now?"

Su Zhe panicked when he heard such an anxious question, and asked hurriedly: "Hello, Mom, it's me, what happened at home?! Hello?!"

But what was strange was that after Su Zhe finished speaking, his mother on the other end of the phone became less anxious again.

"Ah! Xiaozhe! Son, you are not dead!"

Su Zhe: ???

What do you mean I'm not dead?
He suspected that his mother was possessed by evil spirits, or had received a scam call. Just as he was about to ask, he heard his mother on the other end of the phone continue to ask:

"How are you feeling now? Has the driver been caught?"

Su Zhe was getting more and more confused, and replied: "What driver caused the accident? I'm fine, I just got back to the hotel."

"Are you really okay?!"

"real!"

"Then why am I on the news? Don't lie to me!"

"I really didn't lie to you!"

"No, let's make a video call."

Su Zhe:
He had no choice but to hang up the phone and send a video call again on WeChat.

When my mother saw Su Zhe lying safely on the bed in the hotel, she finally felt relieved.

After the two chatted for a few sentences, Su Zhe realized that his mother saw on the "news" that the car he was riding in was hit by a large truck.

And it's the kind that directly crashes into another world.

"Mom, where did you see this on the news? Do you have the same name as me?"

"No, it was talking about an e-sports player from some game, and it even had your picture in it. It scared me, so I called you in a hurry."

Su Zhe: ?
"Okay, as long as you're okay, I'll go cook for your dad."

Su Zhe hung up the video and was instantly furious when he saw the "news" video on Douyin sent by his mother.

"What a bunch of idiot shopping guides!"

In the past, when he was browsing Douyin, he would often see things like the plane carrying a certain professional player crashed, or some junk accessories infringing on his rights were being taken off the shelves.

I didn't expect that it would be his turn today.

At this time, the sound of the video is still playing on the phone:
According to reports, well-known esports player Arrow was hit by a large truck on his way back to his hotel while participating in the IEM Chengdu tournament. After emergency treatment, Arrow unfortunately died.

[In order to commemorate this player, Valve decided to remove his Copenhagen Major autograph stickers]

I don’t know if there are people in the comment section of the video who are either shills or fools, but there are people who actually said that they have stockpiled hundreds of his stickers.

However, there were not many comments, and Su Zhe was too lazy to clarify. If someone really believed it, he would have to mark it.

Fortunately, when they are old, they can go up to sell health products.

However, after such an incident, Su Zhe no longer had any thoughts of resting, but instead thought about the follow-up of the Chengdu event.

Although during lunch, Niko jokingly said that he would help him win a championship.

But Su Zhe came to G2 as a substitute this time with the goal of winning the cup.

It's not that they didn't have the idea of ​​winning the championship before, but NIP's overall strength was there at the time. Once they entered the second half of the competition where there were many strong teams, they became weak as the only core team.

It was still a situation where he couldn't win even if he tried his best.

Now that we have finally made it to G2, it would be a bit unreasonable not to yearn for the championship trophy.

When thinking of this, Su Zhe couldn't help feeling a little worried.

G2 players have strong individual abilities and overall have the strength to win the championship, but they still have a fatal flaw, which is that their map pool is too shallow.

As can be seen from the second picture of today's match against Liquid, it is still too difficult to win the game relying solely on personal ability.

Currently, G2 only has three strong maps.

Nuclear Crisis, Inferno, and the other one is Anubis.

Although the win rate of Death Tower is still acceptable, most of it is gained by playing against second-tier teams. It is still a bit disappointing when facing the real first-tier strong teams.

As a result, for these three strong maps, due to Su Zhe's personal reasons, G2 was unable to choose Anubis in the game.

If there are two strong maps, then the weakness will be too obvious.

In the next Bo3 event, as long as the opponent targets them slightly in the BP map phase, they can only get a map they are good at at most.

"Anubis. It's all because I didn't practice this map in NIP!"

Su Zhe suddenly seemed to think of something, and immediately opened the system page and found the [Endgame Simulator] he had obtained before.

After completing the endgame challenge of the arch, the second endgame challenge is the 1V5 on the Anubis map.

Because his understanding of the map was not at a professional level, and the five opponents in the endgame were all at a professional level, he failed to complete the endgame after trying for a long time.

Over time, he became frustrated and stopped trying.

"If I can complete this Anubis endgame challenge, then my understanding of this map will be at least up to standard."

Just do it! To win the championship!
With the influence of the skill [Energetic], Su Zhe did not feel tired even after playing two games in a row today, so he immediately started the [Endgame Simulator]

The scenes around him changed rapidly, and Su Zhe once again came to a void space where only computers existed.

After taking a deep breath, Su Zhe took over the computer mouse with both hands and focused his attention on the computer in front of him.

The scene returns to the outside of Anubis's Gate B.

The challenge time is 1 minute and 30 seconds.

1V5 endgame.

Attacker.

I don't have any props on me.

After the countdown of 321 ended, Su Zhe first set up a position on the left side of the obelisk at the B bomb site at the birth point outside the B gate.

The next moment, a CT figure flashed across his field of vision, and Su Zhe quickly pressed the fire button.

"Da da da~"

After successfully killing one person, a smoke bomb exploded in front of him at the defensive gate B.

There was plenty of time, so Su Zhe waited for the smoke bomb to dissipate, and time passed by minute by minute.

When the smoke began to dissipate, Su Zhe was about to enter Gate B to kill people, when four CTs suddenly appeared in his field of vision.
[Challenge failed]

"Whoo~"

Su Zhe was not discouraged. This was just a small test.

It has been a long time since he last challenged his opponent, and he has somewhat forgotten his opponent's movements and defensive habits.

"Come again!"

[Challenge failed]

"Just now, someone was blocking the way in the middle..."

[Challenge failed]

"Damn it, is there anyone hiding here? We need to search carefully."

[Challenge failed]

"Fuck! When did they come back to defend? We can't reveal any information yet."

[Challenge failed]

"..."

Su Zhe didn't want to just try again and again as he did before. Instead, after failing once, he would make a simple summary of the previous round.

In the process of failure, his understanding of this map gradually deepened.

There are five professional players practicing with one person. If it were in reality, how could there be such a good opportunity?

And there is another advantage...

"Fuck! This old bitch! That was so close!"

Su Zhe, whose face gradually turned red, punched the keyboard in front of him, and the keyboard began to splash everywhere under the force.

But soon, after a few seconds, the keyboard was back to normal.

After venting his emotions, Su Zhe was able to quickly adjust his mentality and focus on the game in front of him again.

[Challenge failed]

[Challenge failed]

【…】

Su Zhe has forgotten how many times he has failed, and how many punches he has thrown at his keyboard, mouse and monitor.

But there is indeed an effect. He has gone from being unable to do it to being "just one step away" from it.

But that point seemed to be an insurmountable gap.

The opponent is not a stupid bot, but will make real-time adjustments based on his actions, kills, and the location of leaked information. It is completely no different from playing a game.

"Again! Damn it! I won't sleep tonight if I don't beat the game!"

A sense of ruthlessness also rose in Su Zhe's heart, and he started to operate again.

[Challenge failed]

[Challenge failed]

【…】

“I feel like my consciousness has gone a bit mushroomy.”

Su Zhe rubbed his face hard several times, forced himself to cheer himself up, and focused his attention again.

Preparation time is over.

Su Zhe, who was at the spawn point outside Gate B, once again placed the crosshairs on the gap to the right of the obelisk.

A CT figure quickly passed by, and he immediately pressed the left button of the mouse to open fire.

"Da da da~"

The first kill was also the easiest one. After easily taking it, the defensive smoke of Gate B exploded again.

However, this time Su Zhe did not wait for the smoke to dissipate, nor did he turn around and leave immediately. Instead, he directly mixed the smoke towards the B connection position.

In his previous attempt, the opponent hit him with smoke in this position in the second time.

"Da da da~"

The bullets from the AK in Su Zhe's hand kept shooting out through the smoke bombs. After Su Zhe fired more than a dozen bullets, the kill feedback appeared at the bottom of the screen.

"A 1v3 endgame is much easier."

Just as Su Zhe relaxed his consciousness, he saw someone mixing the smoke on the right side of the smoke bomb.

At the same time, a flash bomb exploded in front of him. He hurriedly covered his eyes and hid in the shelter on the right.

When my vision returned, I only had more than 20 drops of blood left, which was just full.

"Are we going to fail again? It seems the CTs from the opposing B Company didn't return to defend immediately."

However, Su Zhe did not choose to give up directly, but planned to try again.

With the cover of the smoke from Gate B, he didn't have to worry about the other party coming out of the smoke to catch him immediately, so Su Zhe turned around and slowly advanced towards the bandit's location.

After making sure that the other party did not come around from the bandit's house to encircle him, Su Zhe continued to move towards the bandit's entrance.

He was very cautious along the way, walking on thin ice, fearing that there was another Lao Liu hiding somewhere on the other side.

Fortunately, no accidents happened along the way, and Su Zhe made his way from the bandit's entrance to the middle position.

Looking at Company A and Company B, Su Zhe hesitated again.

"I heard some noise outside Gate B just now. There must be a lot of people at Gate B right now."

"But after clearing out the A point and planting the bomb, I'll have to face more people's return defense. It's better to find an opportunity to steal two post-ups."

After some hesitation, Su Zhe made up his mind and began to advance towards the position of Company B.

After entering Company B, his nerves tensed up again, and he began to aim slightly in advance during the advance.

"There's no one on the stairs and no one at the bottom of the stairs." After searching the front, Su Zhe turned his head to face the police's house and began to peek again.

Suddenly, after seeing CT's figure, he immediately completed an emergency stop operation to locate it.

"Da da da~"

I managed to get the kill again without any danger, but at the same time, my health was already low, and after the gunfight, I only had three points of health left.

"Maybe A is one, B is another, and my information is exposed. It might be the same no matter where I go."

After making up his mind, Su Zhe once again advanced little by little towards point B.

When he reached the exit of Company B, he saw a body lying at his feet. It was the person who had just been killed in the smoke at Gate B.

And the most important thing is that he caught a glimpse of a prop on the corpse out of the corner of his eye!
Su Zhe quickly turned his head and found that there was no one at B restaurant, so he immediately walked forward and picked up the props.

It’s actually a key smoke bomb!
At this moment, Su Zhe even felt the system's prompt ringing in his ears. [Congratulations on obtaining the key prop: Smoke Bomb]

Su Zhe immediately fired a smoke bomb at the right side of the obelisk, and then quickly peeked to search the blind spot of platform B.

After finding that there was still no one there, Su Zhe immediately took out the C4 and started planting the bomb.

Of course, he didn't dare to plant the bomb directly when he was unsure of the opponent's position. Instead, he looked around after the fake bomb.

Suddenly, he saw the CT machine pulled out of the black room in his peripheral vision, and he swung his crosshairs directly over there.

"Da da da~"

A precise hit on the head! And he didn't get hit by a single bullet!
"The last one should be at the A site. The black room is occupied by people who may have returned from B Company and the police station."

After a quick analysis in his mind, Su Zhe went directly to the bunker on the right side of the obelisk to bury the bomb.

Just after putting down the C4, he suddenly heard footsteps coming from his right, and they were quite close!

"How did you get back on defense so quickly?!"

Su Zhe didn't dare to go up and fight head-on. His body with only three drops of blood was too fragile and could not withstand a single bullet.

He strode directly to the left side of the obelisk. After successfully re-entering the bunker, Su Zhe also saw the figure of the CT on the opposite side flash by.

But then the footsteps stopped.

"Are you holding me up right where you are? Or are you going around to the left?"

Su Zhe's heart was beating faster at this time - this was the closest he had ever been to success, and it caused him to start secreting a large amount of adrenaline.

"Your mother's kiss! Bet on it!"

Su Zhe took the initiative to move sideways to his right. The moment he saw the CT stand upright, he made an emergency stop, and the crosshairs had already been fixed on the opponent's head.

"Da da~"

[Challenge successful]

[Congratulations to Su Zhe for completing the endgame challenge and receiving the reward: 1000 Rise Points]

"NIIIICE!!!"

Su Zhe clenched his fist and shouted excitedly, his voice echoing in this empty space.

There were no spectators or teammates around to witness it.

He was cheering and feeling relieved for breaking through his own limits.

“Finally did it!”

Afterwards, Su Zhe lost the mood to check the content of the next endgame challenge and immediately exited the [Endgame Simulator].

打开系统界面，将新获得的1000点崛起点投入到【控枪】属性当中后，属性也从【76-81】变为了【77-82】

"Whoo~"

Su Zhe let out a long sigh, and after closing the system page, he found that the sky outside the floor-to-ceiling window had already turned gray.

"How long have I been doing this challenge?" Su Zhe picked up his phone and checked the time. "It's almost 6 o'clock in the morning. Almost ten hours."

Even with the blessing of the [Energetic] skill, Su Zhe still felt extremely tired, and could even hear a buzzing sound in his ears.

It even gave him the feeling of having fired seven or eight rounds in a row.
----

"Hey! Arrow, you're late today?!"

At around 10 o'clock in the morning, Su Zhe had just pushed open the door of the training room when he heard Taz's surprised question.

If it was someone who was always late, Taz certainly wouldn't be so surprised.

But during the past few days of getting along, Su Zhe was basically either the first or the second person to arrive at the training room, and the training time was only comparable to that of the internet-addicted teenager Xiao Hai.

So there was no blame in Taz's tone, only surprise.

After observing Su Zhe for a while, he asked worriedly, "Why are your eyes so dark? Didn't you get enough rest? Or are you sick?"

Su Zhe shook his head, walked straight to his seat and said, "No, I just got up late. I won't do it again next time."

"That's a bit rare!" Niko said jokingly, "We all thought you were missing and almost called the police."

"Looking at your condition, you didn't go to see your girlfriend last night."

As NIko spoke, a lewd smile appeared on his face, and the movements of his hands were even more lewd.

"Shrimp head man! Where did I get a girlfriend?"

Su Zhe pulled out a chair and sat down. While turning on his computer, he asked, "By the way, who will our opponent be tomorrow?"

"It's Mouz," Taz replied from behind him. "We need to prepare well. This team's ceiling isn't high, but they're still tough to deal with."

The reason why Mouz team has a low ceiling is that they don't have any particularly outstanding star players in their team, just like Team X back then.

But they are a real academic team with a very high lower limit, and the players' personal abilities are not weak either. This is why Mouz can often win S-level tournament championships.

"Come on! Which map should we start with today? I can't wait." NIko said, rubbing his hands.

"Uh, let's start with Nuclear Crisis. This map will most likely be released tomorrow." Taz said.

"Okay, no problem." Niko nodded in agreement.

"I have a suggestion," Su Zhe suddenly said, "How about starting with Anubis?"

"Huh? Anubis?" Niko thought he had misheard. "Don't you mean to avoid playing on this map?"

Su Zhe smiled and said, "The past is the past, and the present is the present. Starting today, we can play. Just let me get familiar with the team's tactics and prop throwing."

"That's great!" Taz behind him said excitedly with a fist pump.

Before, he was a little worried that the team would have difficulty in the later stages of the game due to the map pool.

If there is one more option in the game, the winning rate will undoubtedly be higher.

After that, Su Zhe followed the team on the Anubis map for an hour, and then continued to change the map.

The main reason is that Mouz is the same as NIP where Su Zhe stayed before, both of them are hexagonal warriors. As long as it is a Bo3 game, they will definitely ban this map first at the beginning.

Su Zhe just needs to familiarize himself with it briefly, so that he can use it as a secret weapon in the semi-finals or even the finals.

After a morning of training, it was lunch time.

As usual, Su Zhe went to the restaurant on the first floor with his teammates to eat. As for going out to eat, that was only an occasional thing.

Not to mention the expense issue, just going outside and being surrounded by fans is already troublesome.

At this time, there were already many professional players eating in the restaurant on the first floor.

The dining room on the first floor all has relatively small tables, just enough to seat four people, so G2 and his friends had to sit separately.

After Su Zhe got his meal, he sat at the same table with NIko and the child.

As the three of them were chatting and laughing, Brother Dianzi suddenly came over from a distance and asked, "Can we share a table?"

Nikko nodded and said, "Sit down, there's no one here."

After saying thank you, Brother Dianzi sat opposite Su Zhe.

Su Zhe couldn't help but find it a little funny when he saw the three words "Dian Zi Ge" written in Chinese on the chest of Dian Zi Ge's team jersey.

Team X, where Brother Pianzi was at the time, was on the road to the world because of the coach's cheating incident. No matter where they played, they would be booed.

The situation in China is rather special, as it is Brother Dianzi's only home ground.

Niko glanced around the hall and asked in confusion, "Eh? Aren't you guys eating in that corner over there? Why don't you go over there?"

Brother Dianzi was stunned when he heard this, then shook his head and said, "Forget it, we're already seated, it doesn't matter where we eat."

Then he asked, "Did I interrupt your conversation? I'll find another place."

Niko quickly waved his hands and said, "No, no, I'm just curious."

Although it is hard to describe Brother Dian Zi’s strength, his character is absolutely impeccable.

This is why he is loved by most audiences and professional players.

"By the way," Su Zhe seemed to remember something and said to Brother Dianzi, "What are the conditions of your liquid?"

"Huh? Why are you asking this?" Brother Dianzi asked back.

Su Zhe sighed and said, "I'm just worried that I can't find a new team right now. Yesterday, the director said that you guys at Liquid are short of people and asked if I wanted to go."

"So I'm just asking casually. If you're not comfortable talking about it, forget it. By the way, whose contract is expiring soon on Liquid? Can you give me some inside information?"

Brother Dianzi was stunned again after hearing this: "Lack of people? No one on our team has an expiring contract recently?"

As he spoke, he suddenly thought of something, and his expression turned a little grim. Then he changed his words and said, "I suggest you don't come..."

Su Zhe, who was eating with his head down, didn't notice Brother Dianzi's expression and asked in confusion, "Is the salary too low? Are Liquid really that stingy?"

In his impression, the North American teams are all like the former Shanxi coal bosses, and they are all generous.

Brother Dianzi curled his lips and said, "It has nothing to do with salary."

"Then why is it inappropriate?"

Brother Pianzi sighed again and said, "When there's someone in the team who always demands others revolve around him, you know how uncomfortable it is."

Oh? There's something new! — Niko and the child beside him pricked up their ears, wanting to hear what Brother Dianzi had to say next.

But Brother Pianzi had no desire to continue. He just sighed again and said, "Anyway, I won't lie to you. You will be better than Liquid in any first-tier team..."

As he spoke, Dianzige recalled the conversation he had with the Director yesterday—cadiaN, it seems you really want to integrate into Team Liquid...

"Is that so?"

Considering Brother Dianzi's good reputation in the industry, Su Zhe decided to trust Brother Dianzi and gave up the idea of ​​going to Liquid to give it a try.

What’s the point of having strong strength on paper for professional teams these days?

Even if we put the three top players of the past, Senpo, Zaiwu and Niko, into a team, we won't be able to achieve any good results if there are quarrels within the team every day.

Wasn’t the Galaxy Battleship’s lineup luxurious back then? Yet, it still ended in a mess in the end.

"It's just that it's so hard to find a job these days!" Su Zhe sighed in his heart.

Niko, who was standing by, seemed happy after hearing this, as if the treasure that was about to be snatched away was back in his pocket.

Afterwards, Brother Dianzi didn’t want to talk any more. He lowered his head, ate a few mouthfuls of food, and left.

"It seems that the internal structure of the liquid is not very harmonious..." Su Zhe looked at Brother Dianzi's back and said in a low voice.

"Hmm..." Niko continued, "I've heard about it before. There's a lot of conflict within Team Liquid. I initially thought it was just some unscrupulous media propaganda, but I didn't expect it to be true."

After lunch, everyone returned to the training room to prepare.

The day passed in the blink of an eye in the busyness, and soon it was time for the next day's competition to decide the first place in the winner's group.

This game is neither crucial nor non-critical for G2.

Even if you lose, you will not be eliminated directly, you will just have to play one more round of elimination.

But since they are ready to win the championship, they must be prepared to defeat all teams, so the G2 team is still very serious about this game.

At this time, Su Zhe had followed his teammates into the competition venue and was doing pre-match warm-up work.

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csboy live broadcast room.

After the broadcast started and before the game officially began, Masisi was chatting with the audience in the live broadcast room.

"Of course I'll be commentating the offline tournament in Chengdu. I'll start tonight."

"To be honest, I'm a little excited. It's been a while since I've commented on a game with Chinese players offline."

"Huh? You're saying that again? Isn't it Xiaozhe's freedom to play wherever he wants? He doesn't have to play in China. I think playing abroad is fine."

"Really? But I feel like Lao Jiu's tactics aren't really suitable for Xiao Zhe. Even if he goes to Tianlu, it'll be hard for him to fit in."

"Mo? Hahaha, Steel Helmet is just joining the competition for fun. You can't really expect them to make it to the knockout rounds, right? It's already very difficult to participate in the competition."

"Who will win between G2 and Mouz? Nonsense! Of course I choose G2, but it's hard to say. Both teams have a chance of winning the championship. It just depends on who is in better shape."

"Oh?! Thank you Masisi for eating the plane that my Big Bird sent. Thank you, Boss Big Bird!"

When Ma Xixi was happily chatting with the comments in the live broadcast room, the screen on the computer suddenly changed.

"It's time to start the map selection phase! Let's take a look at what the two teams will choose for their best-of-three matches."

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The map selection process for banning Mouz is still very tricky.

Although Mouz is a hexagonal team, its win rate on other maps is quite high.

Maps like Desert City, Death Amusement Park, Death Mansion and Ancient Ruins have had a win rate of over 80% in the past three months.

After Mouz banned Anubis first, Niko was troubled by the first banned map.

He began to ask his teammates for their opinions: "Should we ban Death Tower or Desert City first? I feel like the opponent's first map will definitely appear from one of these two maps."

"Why don't we ban the building? We can also play the desert city." The child said.

Since he is not sure about these two maps, he still prefers the Desert City map.

"I'll vote for the building, too."

Su Zhe's thoughts were the same as the child's.

After seeing that the other teammates did not express any opinions, Niko directly banned the Death Tower.

Sure enough, Mouz followed closely and locked onto the Desert City in Figure 1.

As for the second picture, NIko had nothing to worry about and directly chose Purgatory Town.

After another round of ban selection, Figure 3 shows us the ancient ruins.

"Damn it! Let's try to take them down directly in the first two maps!" Niko looked at the final three maps with a rather unhappy expression.

This is the disadvantage of a shallow map pool. The opponent's first and second bans directly ban their two strong maps.

Although in yesterday's game against Liquid, they successfully won the Ancient Ruins map.

But everyone still has a plan in mind. If the team members don't perform a burst of energy, it will be difficult for them to beat Mouz on this map.

Taz behind him reassured everyone, "Don't overthink it. Just do your best to win every map. Don't forget what our goal is this time."

"That's right! Come on, come on! Just do it!"

Everyone bumped fists with each other to encourage each other and began to prepare to enter the competition server in Figure 1.

Figure 1: Lost City in the Desert

Mouz: xertioN (Xie Xun), torzsi (Toge), Jimpphat (Little Jimmy), siuhy, Brolla (Bao Lan)
G2: Niko, huNter-, nexa, m0NESY, Arrow
As Mouz's map pick, G2 chose to start on the defensive side.

"Today's opponent is a bit difficult to deal with! There are three core output points." Torzsi said with some concern in the Mouz player seat.

"Eh? Torzsi? Have you heard?" Baolan on the side didn't seem to hear Torzsi's worry, but remembered something particularly funny.

"What did you hear?" Torzsi turned his head to look at Baolan.

"Hahahahaha!" Baolan couldn't help but burst into laughter before she even finished her words. "I heard, I heard that your looks are considered a loli in Chengdu, their country."

"Lori? What loli? I'm very manly, okay?" torzsi immediately retorted.

"That's enough!" Siuhy, the commander, stopped his teammates from playing around and said, "Let's focus on the game first."

"Although today's three selected pictures are very favorable to us, we still need to be cautious."

Baolan said, "Ah, what's there to be afraid of G2? What kind of command can Nikko give? The Arrow on the opposite side was also our defeated opponent in the Major. But don't worry, I will take it seriously in the competition."

Siuhy glanced at Baolan and said, "You'd better. Okay, let me tell you about the arrangements for the pistol round."

"We still don't know how G2's current lineup will organize their defense. We'll just default early on, focusing on gathering information and then steadily winning the pistol round."

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After the countdown ended, Su Zhe went straight to point B.

Although he was mainly guarding the arch when he was in NIP.

But now that he has Niko, the master of arches, he will not embarrass himself and will take the initiative to play the sub-B position.

As for the cousin who originally played the secondary B position, he had no objection and chose to replace Breathing as the main B position.

However, in order to prevent Mouz from starting with RushB, Niko made a pistol round with 3B.

After Su Zhe cut the supermarket window with a butterfly knife, he jumped to the window on the B2 floor where the small pillar B supported him.

"There has been no movement on the B2 floor. The other side probably doesn't plan to move up B anymore." After watching for a long time from the balcony, my cousin spoke into the team voice chat.

After hearing the message from his cousin, NIko leaned over the archway and took a peek at the location of the bandits.

After making sure the middle lane was clear, Niko said on the microphone, "Arrow, why don't you and Nexa come out of the alley together? Let's push forward and get the information from the bandits."

The entire map was a bit quiet, which made Niko a little panicked, so he chose to take the initiative to get information.

"Okay, here we are."

After Su Zhe and Nexa arrived at the trail, Su Zhe began to advance towards the bandit's entrance from the trail under the remote watch of NIko and Nexa.

The main reason is that G2 did not have any props in this round. They only had five USPs and five small armors, and they mainly focused on gun battles. At this time, there was nothing they could do except watch.

"Mouz is using a standard default opening attack. Two of them are on the A2 floor, two are at the bandit entrance, and one is also at the sewer. It seems like this tactic is planning a second archway A!"

"G2 happens to be a heavy B defense, and Arrow's laner is starting to push forward alone! Is this going to be a disaster?"

Su Zhe walked quietly all the way to the nearest point of the bandits' entrance, and then deliberately increased the distance between himself and the bunker, trying to use the mechanism of closer objects being larger and farther away to allow himself to see the other party first.

Without any props, he had to grasp every detail of how to use the gun.

After adjusting his position, Su Zhe aimed directly at the entrance to the second floor of the bandits and took big steps forward.

Suddenly, when he saw two bandits approaching the entrance, Su Zhe instantly lowered his crosshairs and swung it towards one of them's head.

"Puff~"

Arrow kills xertioN with a headshot using USP

"Arrow caught it! Mouz and the other guy obviously didn't expect the other party to be so bold! They couldn't react immediately and exchanged shots."

"Could the bandit Torzsi have restocked his gun? He didn't! Arrow was allowed to escape again! This is a shame!"

"But siuhy also found his way out of the sewer, looking for a kill in the side lane. No one in G2 was looking at this position at first!"

"Niko turned his head and took a look! He directly caught Siuhy's sideways kill!! Fortunately, he saw it, otherwise G2 would have been blown up!"

A wave of forward push successfully completed a zero-for-two exchange, which gave G2 a huge advantage in numbers in the game!
Then Mouz saw that the deployment in the middle lane had failed, so Baolan and Little Jimmy, who were the default on the A2 floor, chose to force their way out, but one of them was quickly caught by the kid at the police position.

Niko at the arch also reacted soon after, switching his position to the alert jump position and catching another person.

The only remaining bandit, Togo, was helpless. After trying to exchange a shot, he was killed by the G2 team's concentrated fire.

"NIce!! Keep it up!!"

After winning the pistol round, everyone in G2 started to get excited.

Then in the second round of the game, Mouz chose to use pure E to quickly get through the economic situation, and only gave Jimmy a Desert Eagle to try his luck in drawing a lottery.

But a Desert Eagle did not achieve any effect. Siuhy directed a speed-up sewer arch clamp A, but it was quickly broken up by the long gun defense of Xiaohai and NIko.

It’s just that my cousin felt a little itchy in his heart. He clearly heard the victory of the pistol, but as the main defender of B, he could only stay in the B bunk honestly.

The game smoothly entered into G2's scoring rhythm.

By the time the round reached the first rifle round, the score between the two sides had already been fixed at 2-0.

(End of this chapter)