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

"The Godfather is about to encounter Arrow, who is covering their retreat, but he's no match for him in a gunfight! The remaining two Black Panthers are finished; they're both locked down at the baseline!"

"Judging from this movement, she's trying to save her weapon, but there's still Arrow behind her!"

"Arrow caught one, he's already got a quadra kill! Can he catch a second one? Oh! This positioning is so fast! Yuurih was instantly killed as soon as she showed her face!"

"A pentakill ACE! This is the ultimate display of individual skill! A comeback with just a hero Desert Eagle!"

[Holy crap, what the hell is this?! Xiao Zhe killed them all by himself?!]

[Black Panther: Damn it, you scumbag, I'll report you after the match!]

[I'm stuck in Bengbu now. Is LVG heading towards becoming the Green Dragon? My teammates just need to draw the gun lines and throw some utility items, and that's it.]

[Xiao Zhe is really fierce; he single-handedly wiped them out.]

[Could LVG really beat Black Panther? That would greatly increase their chances of advancing to the main tournament!]

What did I just see? CNCS actually won the match?!

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Ace's pentakill with a half-armored Desert Eagle at the start of the game sparked a lot of discussion among viewers watching the live stream. It's worth noting that comebacks in matches are usually built on the opponent's mistakes.

However, Black Panther didn't make any mistakes this round; Su Zhe managed to steal all the attacks from the front.

If there was any mistake, it was that Chelo from Donut didn't wait for his teammates to come back to defend and tried to get a kill by himself with the MP9.

However, against an LVG with only a Desert Eagle, it's perfectly reasonable for the heavily armored submachine gunner to try and farm resources.

The player concluded, "The main reason was that Arrow's Desert Eagle was too fast and accurate in its positioning. It destroyed the Ruins first, and then quickly eliminated Chelo, who was defending Donut."

"If LVG hadn't secured those two kills and taken the A bomb site, they wouldn't have had any hope of turning the game around this round."

Seeing the cheering and celebrating crowd on the LVG players' bench, Black Panther and the others were on the verge of a mental breakdown.

Losing a round is fine, but losing in this way is really too humiliating.

It feels like you painstakingly leveled up your E skill for two rounds in ranked matches, finally got a full-armor sniper rifle, only to be instantly killed by a $700 Desert Eagle at the start of the game. Anyone would have to break through your defenses for a while.

Moreover, they once again felt the immense pressure that Su Zhe exerted on them, just like in the town of Tu Yi.

The Godfather took a deep breath, adjusted his mindset, and then comforted everyone in the team voice chat: "It's okay, the other side is in good form. Even if the Desert Eagle gets two kills in a row, there's nothing we can do. Once we get into the rifle rounds and have money to buy items and control the map, it will be much easier for us."

Upon hearing this, the Black Panthers also adjusted their emotions, after all, the competition had only just begun, and there were still many rounds to score points in the future.

Even with economic compensation, Black Panther, who had spent all his resources in the previous round, still needs to wait two more rounds to get all his guns and ammo back.

The score quickly reached 3-1, and the first long-range round of the first half began.

"Let's control B and the middle lane this round, and compress the opponent's space to maneuver like in picture two."

As he spoke, the Godfather equipped himself with a full-armor sniper rifle and said, "At the start of the game, you guys give smoke to B door and fire to B terminal, and then immediately use flashbangs to take control of the entire B terminal."

"If it's mid lane, just throw me a smoke grenade at the terrorist spawn point, and I'll use my AWP to hold off the terrorist spawn point by myself."

The Godfather's strategy this round was also simple, and he also discovered LVG's weakness, which was their weak map control ability.

If they can use their item and map advantages to control the entire B site and mid lane, LVG's only fighting area will be the A bomb site.

Although it's a single A-site defense, with Kashin's individual skill, as long as he detects the opponent's intention to bomb A site, he can stall until his teammates return to defend by simply throwing out a defensive smoke.

With the countdown over, the three Black Panthers rushed towards B site after delivering smoke to B door, preparing to use the items to take control of B company.

After aiming at the target and throwing out a fast VIP smoke grenade, Su Zhe headed directly towards the direction of the terrorist's entrance.

When he was with G2, he was on the attacking side of the Ancient Ruins map and followed NIko's instructions. After joining LVG, his task on the attacking side was specifically to control the mid lane.

Controlling the middle lane doesn't necessarily mean clearing out the entire middle lane. With a smoke grenade and a fire grenade from the CTs, no one can escape from the T's spawn point. The main objective is to prevent the enemy from pushing forward or to find opportunities to coordinate with other teammates.

Sure enough, when he arrived at the bandit's mouth, Black Panther's standard Thunder and Fire combo had already been delivered.

After that, all we could do was wait patiently for our teammates to finish getting the information before making a decision.

"They've given us smoke at B gate, Starry and I are in a tough spot to get out," Watermelon's voice came through the headset.

It's not that a smoke grenade from B door blocked their path, but rather that once they stepped outside the B door area, their teammates inside B door could no longer use their advantageous gun positions to provide cover.

Furthermore, there's the worry that the opposing B slant and the black room might coordinate a counter-purge. In such a narrow terrain as B slant, the CTs could easily wipe out anyone who came out of the B door with just a few utility items.

Su Zhe asked after smoking in the bandit's mouth, "Did the other side provide anti-Qing tools?"

Starry replied, "We exchanged fire, and he even used a flashbang."

After thinking for a moment, Su Zhe said, "I guess it was 3B who started it. Let's just assume it's true for now and then see how things go after the mid-lane item is finished."

At this point, the best course of action is to apply pressure to Hall A, knowing that there might be more people at point B, and lure out the defensive items at the main A site.

However, Su Zhe was also afraid that the opponent might use a sniper rifle to defend A in this round, and he might accidentally give away the first kill, so he thought about it and decided against it.

Time passed second by second, and one minute remained in the round.

Black Panther placed two more defensive smokes at the terrorist spawn point and B door, and the second one finally began to dissipate.

But for LVG right now, the biggest problem is that it's still difficult to get out of the middle lane and B gate, as the enemy may have already set up gun positions and are waiting to reap the rewards.

Watermelon said in his microphone, "How about we compress the attack time a bit more, and when there are 30 seconds left, we can use the bomb to speed up and attack A?"

Su Zhe thought about it and felt it was feasible, but he was also afraid that the other side had already retreated to the back post, and that he and his team were now just fighting against thin air.

So he said, "Jee, throw me a mid-lane flash, I'll peek at the information."

"Okay, I'll give it to you right away!"

As the flash went off, Su Zhe was just about to peek out when he heard the sound of a sniper rifle firing from the central recess.

Su Zhe felt a wave of fear. Fortunately, he had deliberately slowed down to prevent the opponent from shooting blindfolded after getting a free kill. But he didn't expect the opponent's sniper to be in the middle lane.

"Put some pressure on Hall A to bait out their defensive equipment!"

Realizing what was happening, Su Zhe immediately shouted, and without stopping his hand movements, he peeked out at the groove.

In his line of sight, the sniper rifle in the recess had already retreated into cover, but he could clearly see the tiny sniper barrel that was exposed.

Su Zhe didn't dare to go directly out of the enemy's mouth to attack the sniper rifle, fearing that someone from B Company was holding him off to the side, but naturally he wouldn't let the sniper rifle easily change position.

"The enemy's A site defense smoke has been fired!" Xiao Hua's voice came through the headset. Su Zhe's attention had just been drawn when he suddenly saw a flashbang flying over from B Company.

He instinctively prepared to backflash, but then suddenly saw the sniper rifle in the groove make a move in his peripheral vision.

'Are you trying to repeat yourself, or just run away?'
It was too late to retreat back into cover, and Su Zhe abruptly interrupted his back-turning movement.

"Bang~"

With his vision completely white, Su Zhe, still in a state of visual impairment, relied on his instincts to return the crosshair to fire.

"Da da da~"

Arrow, blinded, was then headshot and killed by FalleN with an AK-47.

"Huh? How could that hit?! That shot is too exaggerated! The crosshair even started moving, then after being flashed white, it stayed perfectly still in its original position, just in time to catch the repeeked Godfather!" Player couldn't help but exclaim.

The director's first-person perspective was always on Su Zhe, allowing the audience to clearly see Su Zhe's specific actions.

Catching the sniper rifle that Repeek came out is fine, but being repositioned by Flash White is a bit too outrageous, isn't it?

What a sense of space!
After Su Zhe located and fired based on his intuition, he immediately turned to look at Jee's computer screen next to him.

Upon seeing the kill notification on the screen, Su Zhe, who was still in a white-gathering state, immediately pressed the S key to retreat.

LVG secured a numerical advantage, and the kill came from a sniper rifle, which relieved a lot of the pressure from their early map control disadvantage.

However, now that they have a numerical advantage, they are not in a hurry to detonate the bomb at point A. What they need to do now is to obtain information about the Black Panthers' defense.

"Let one person stay at B gate to cover the rear. Starry, you bring the bag back and throw the cigarettes in the VIP area and the small black room with Jee. Let's take control of the middle lane first." Su Zhe explained the mid-round strategy.

Although Xigua had no problems with the initial tactical arrangements, his weakness was always the impromptu decision-making in the mid-game, so Su Zhe directly took over the command.

"it is good!"

"coming!"

After two smoke grenades exploded, Su Zhe, under Starry's mid-lane flash, directly pulled out of the enemy spawn point to get information.

After discovering that the entire middle lane was empty, the next offensive strategy became clear.

Inside the B gate, the watermelon once again transformed into a suicide truck, throwing away a set of attack tools for the B bomb site before heading straight up the slope to retrieve bomb site information.

"There are two people in B!" Watermelon shouted before he died.

Black Panther's defensive positioning became clear at a glance, and Su Zhe and Starry went straight down the middle to circle around the donut.

Su Zhe took a special look when he passed the groove, and breathed a slight sigh of relief when he found that the other side had not picked up the sniper rifle.

"Black Panthers have run out of early-game items, and they're having a hard time defending against LVG's encirclement! Relic's Kashin managed to catch the first-person-position Xiaohua while taking damage, but Jee behind him was also very accurate and successfully finished off the enemy!"

"And Chelo from the donut shop got hooked on from Hall A! Starry just happened to catch her turning sideways at the right moment!"

The attack on bomb site A went quite smoothly, thanks to the fact that Black Panther had used up all his utility resources in the early stages to control the map, making it difficult to defend against the terrorists' bombs later on.

Faced with a numerical disadvantage during the subsequent retake, the two Black Panthers players at B site opted to save their weapons.

The score gap between the two sides widened further.

Looking at the situation on the field, Wanji clicked his tongue and said, "Arrow's kill in the mid lane was really crucial, otherwise LVG would have been completely stifled at home."

Using items to acquire map resources in the early game is also a tactic, which prevents LVG from even having the opportunity to use items in the mid-game.

It was Su Zhe's kill that triggered a chain reaction in Black Panther's perfect map control, leading to them being forced to retreat to the bomb site for defense.

After losing the first rifle round, Black Panther was under pressure and immediately called the first match pause in map three.

After a one-minute timeout, the Black Panthers made significant changes to their defensive tactics.

It's also clear that the Black Panther team is far superior to LVG in terms of tactical reserves, which is the foundation a strong team should have.

They started reducing their resource investment in items in the early rounds, but tried to give Su Zhe the impression that "I can get items in the mid lane".

For example, after Su Zhe's teammates used Flash to escape, Black Panther used Runboost under VIP at the start of the game and stepped onto the high edge of the mid lane.

Faced with crisscrossing gun lines from above and below, even a god would have no choice but to accept his fate and give up the kill.

With Su Zhe dead, LVG's offensive system was paralyzed, resulting in countless vulnerabilities.

This allowed Black Panthers to rediscover their scoring rhythm in the mid-game.

However, thanks to their early lead and LVG's strong comeback, they still held a 7-5 lead at halftime.

"Whoo~"

Su Zhe breathed a sigh of relief after exchanging fist bumps with his teammates.

The pressure is too great!

He had to be extremely careful throughout, as if walking on thin ice, for fear that a single mistake would cause the team to lose points.

"This money is really hard-earned! I'm glad I didn't choose to compete in China back then," Su Zhe thought to himself after taking a sip of water.

It's not that he can't handle the pressure, but burning himself out in every game is too draining on his fighting spirit.

Although the domestic team members have also had a tough time, they can see their own potential. Right now, they just lack the process of accumulating experience, and it's understandable that they sometimes feel mentally exhausted and give up.

The audience has gotten used to it, and occasionally, when something really goes off, it receives countless compliments.

But Su Zhe is different. He has a system, which means he has an extremely high potential. In addition, given his personality, if he works so hard but doesn't achieve results or see any hope, he will be in trouble.

In the blink of an eye, he may feel incredibly exhausted and become more resigned than others.

"God A, you've worked hard! Don't worry! In the second half, I promise I can defend my area A well, and my teammates won't need to come back to defend!"

Jee seemed to sense Su Zhe's change in mood and immediately began to speak with a smile, offering emotional support.

Upon hearing this, Su Zhe's tense nerves relaxed considerably; the defensive side was indeed playing much more comfortably than the offensive side.

As long as you can deal with whatever comes your way, that's enough. But the key is not to retreat too often.

However, LVG has improved a lot in terms of gun skills under his special training recently, so he should have no problem defending regular positions.
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I'll adjust my sleep schedule to be less strenuous today, and start writing 10,000 words a day tomorrow. (End of Chapter)