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

2024-5-24

neL, a well-known insider working for a French esports website, has once again revealed that Arrow, a player who has just emerged in the CS:GO professional scene and has achieved outstanding statistics in multiple tournaments, is in contact with G2's management and has apparently already signed a contract.

This news immediately left countless viewers speechless.

Given Arrow's recent performance, it's reasonable for him to join G2 as a free agent, but the sudden roster change during the tournament still surprised many people.

Previously, many netizens in China even began to speculate which team Arrow would join as a "smurf" in the next tournament.

As for the accuracy of this news, many people still believe it.

After all, neL had accurately revealed G2's signing of nexa and huNter's transition to an international team before, and he was also the first to break the news when FaZe contacted Coldzera a few years ago.

A promotional video recently released by G2 has made this news a done deal.

In the promotional video, Su Zhe appears in a conference room, accepting a test paper from an examiner and answering the questions.

Question 1:
Can you get the kill?

In the video, Su Zhe looks confident and directly selects "YES!" on the answer sheet.

Immediately afterwards, the video switched to a compilation of Su Zhe's kills from the previous few months, mostly featuring solo quadra kills or even penta kills.

Question 2:
Can you win this clutch situation?

Su Zhe glanced at the video camera with a smile, raised an eyebrow, and his meaning was simple: leave the answer to the viewers of the video.

The video then transitioned back to a compilation of Su Zhe's endgame plays.

1v3, 1v4, extreme bomb defusal, coupled with exciting background music, made many viewers eager to start a match on the ranked ladder.

Next came the third question:

If you had extra money, would you buy Niko a sniper rifle?

[A: It will be issued; B: It will definitely be issued; C: It will absolutely be issued; D: I'll issue it, bro]

Su Zhe smiled as he looked at the test paper, then marked all four options with an "X".

The camera then shifts again.

NIko, Breathing, the child, and the cousin sat on the judges' panel, and Su Zhe handed over the test paper.

After glancing at the answer, Niko said with some regret, "I'm sorry, you don't meet our club's requirements."

The person next to him grabbed the exam paper, pretended to glance at it, and then laughed, "Congratulations! You've been accepted into our G2!"

The video is about to end, ending with a photo of Su Zhe wearing a G2 team uniform.

The promotional video was released and numerous comments followed.

[What the heck is the third question?! Niko is definitely the team bully! (Angry emoji) Don't you dare bully our Xiao Zhe!]

[Finally, I don't have to worry about Xiao Zhe going to jail!]

[Previously, G2 could have easily won IEM Chengdu with a mediocre lineup, but now that Breathing is back and Nexa has been kicked out, is this G2 truly a dynasty now?]

[I seriously suspect that G2 only acquired A-God because they couldn't beat Na'Vi.]

[You know what? It's actually possible! Little Li has already caught six shrimps, and A-God hasn't lost to Na'Vi even once!]

I guarantee this is absolutely the best decision G2 has made this year. Let's win the Shanghai Major at the end of the year!

[Xiao Zhe has so many match highlights? He's only played in a few tournaments! He should learn from a certain former professional player in China.]

【.】

Su Zhe's transfer has attracted considerable attention both domestically and internationally.

Many people are looking forward to seeing what kind of amazing chemistry will emerge after this 18-year-old player officially joins G2.

Meanwhile, at the G2 Club training base in France, Su Zhe had finished warming up and began entering the training match server with Little Bee.

As with the usual training rules, the two teams each chose a map, and played a total of 24 rounds in two halves.

The main purpose is to use the opponent's reactions in the training map to find one's own shortcomings.

In terms of map selection, G2 chose the newly added map, Sand City.

The little bee chose the Desert City.

Map: Scorching Sand City

Vitality: apEX (DouDou), mezil, flameZ (HuoZai), ZywOo, Spinx
G2: huNter, NIko, m0NESY, HooXi, Arrow
In the first half of Game 2, the team chose to start on the offensive side.

After entering the server and looking at the IDs of the other players, Su Zhe felt an involuntary sense of pressure.

That guy debuted at number 1, and even at his lowest point in his career, he was only number 2!

Although it is said that Zaiwu's condition has declined significantly in the past six months due to weight loss, a large part of that decline is due to the stereotypical factors of the audience.

Because in the eyes of the audience, only when a vehicle is in its "explosive" form can it be considered to perform normally. If it's just performing normally, sorry, we can only call it FywOo.

Moreover, in the practice matches, he will be matched up against Spinx, who is currently considered the second-best free agent in the world.

Taz, who was behind him, seemed to sense the pressure on Su Zhe and stepped forward to massage his shoulders, saying, "Don't put too much pressure on yourself. Results aren't important. The main purpose of this training match is to test the results of our recent training."

"come on! Come on!"

Su Zhe nodded in response, and then turned his attention back to the training match.

Once all ten people were on the server, DouDou quickly started interacting on the public chat.

[apEX: No wonder they were in such a hurry to schedule scrims with us, turns out they've got a new player.]

[Arrow: Hello~Good afternoon everyone]

[Niko: Arrow, no need to be polite with this old man, James Harden]

[apEX: Niko, shut up! Did I talk to you?! Be careful, or I'll turn you from an o into an o!]

【NIko：.】

【flameZ: XD】

[HooXI: DouDou, even though it's just a practice match, don't let my command make you cry later.]

[apEX: You? Zaiwu, you're to keep an eye on this ID and kill him later. After the training match, I'll treat you to your favorite baguette.]

【ZywOo: I don't want to】

【mONESY：HHHHHH】

The conversation with the group completely relaxed Su Zhe. This Dou Dou was indeed just as the audience perceived her to be—a real chatterbox.

After a round of laughter and cheers, the training match officially began.

Pistol round.

Breath began to arrange tactics: "Later, the four of us will group up and slowly move out of A site. Arrow, you go around B1 from B2 at the start of the game and look for an opportunity to cut off the rear in the middle."

The tactics employed by the breathing team were very simple, mainly because the structure of the Sand 2 map was too simple, with only three straight paths. Even if you tried to be creative, you couldn't come up with any complicated tactics.

After the countdown ended, Su Zhe bought a half-armor at the store, then picked up his Glock and headed towards B2.

The CT team showed no intention of pushing forward, and Su Zhe followed the original plan smoothly to reach B1, taking the opportunity to peek at the information on the side road.

Only after finding no one around did they continue their advance towards the middle lane.

"The middle door is submerged."

After giving a tip to Niko, who was helping to cover the middle goal, he turned around and went to regroup with his teammates at the A goal.

Su Zhe had a plan in mind, so he went directly from B1 to the middle lane and began to peek little by little to gather specific information about the sand.

After shifting his position again, Su Zhe saw the CT figure positioned diagonally at the middle door. He tried firing a few shots but failed to secure a kill, so he immediately took cover behind the X-box.

"Bang~"

A flashbang suddenly flew out from the middle door and exploded in front of him. Fortunately, the X-box provided cover, so the flashbang did not completely blind him.

Is this an attempt to persuade me to withdraw? Or is it an attempt to overthrow the Qing dynasty?
Just as Su Zhe had an idea, he heard a flurry of footsteps.

"Puff~"

"boom!"

Arrow used a Glock to headshot Spinx.

After Su Zhe caught one of the men, before he could even turn his gun around, two guns were pressed against his forehead!

"Clap clap~"

ZywOo used dual Beretta weapons to headshot Arrow.

"There are two more sandy areas left!"

The angle of that flashbang was definitely from a distance, and with the two people rushing in from close range, the Little Bees started with at least three people in a defensive formation.

On the other side, the G2 team had already figured out the unsuspecting A team. After hearing Su Zhe's message, they immediately gave the order to pounce on A team.

The Little Bees started with a 1-3-1 defensive formation. After noticing the movement at A site, Fire Boy, playing solo, reported the information while trying to peek and get a kill.

Several shots hit his body, but Niko and the kid each took him down with a headshot.

But the road to University A is just too long, and the sandy area has already been filled with cargo and beans.

With a leap of faith, he strode across the CT spawn point to create firing lines for his teammates, while the other three also took the opportunity to cross the point and look for kills.

Ultimately, after one person, Breath, was sacrificed, Zaiwu and Doudou were both shot in the head by the child.

After the bomb was planted, mezil, who was playing solo at B, tried to retake the position but couldn't find any opportunities. He was headshot and killed by Kid as soon as he came out of the small alley cover.

"Nice! Well played, brothers!"

Although it was a training match, Niko still celebrated excitedly after winning the pistol round.

The breathing officer, after thinking for a moment, said, "This simple pistol round attack still needs to be accompanied by a smoke grenade from the CT spawn. If it weren't for the kid's good shooting just now, we probably would have had a hard time getting into the A bomb site."

He quickly noticed the flaws in this offensive strategy.

The main reason why Dust2 is an offensive map is that it is difficult for CTs to rotate back to defend. If they rotate back from the CT spawn to attack the Ts at the A bomb site, it is painful to think about, as it is a low-to-high attack.

However, if it's difficult to get past the point at A site, the CTs can easily use the cover provided by the CTs to steal resources.

After summarizing his experience, he turned to Su Zhe and smiled, "You did a good job gathering information, and you even managed to kill one of the two who used the counter-attack. Your marksmanship is pretty good!"

Su Zhe:?
So you can praise someone even if you change one of their names?

However, his trade of one kill was indeed crucial; otherwise, when A site was breached, the main force would have faced fire from three lines of gunfire, and the outcome of the pistol round would have been uncertain.

In the next round, the Little Bees opted for a force buy, with DouDou and ZaiWu each using a sniper rifle to defend A site, but it didn't make much of a difference, and G2 completely overwhelmed them in one wave.

The cargo carrier managed to take a shot, but DouDou's sniper rifle turned into a firework, firing several shots in a row.

After successfully winning the force buy game, G2 entered a scoring rhythm in the early game.

By the time the long-range rounds began, the score had already reached 3-0.

Breathing began to issue instructions: "The enemy's economy isn't enough to afford a sniper rifle. Here's what we'll do: Kid, you buy a sniper rifle and set it up on the sandy area in the middle. We'll use that tactic of flanking the enemy base together from the small path later."

After the countdown ended, Su Zhe followed his cousin and Niko, walking towards B1 together, planning to take control of the small path through the middle at the next turn.

This is also a common method of controlling the narrow passage in professional matches. It allows you to observe from B1 whether anyone has pushed out of the narrow passage to stand close to the point, preventing CTs from suddenly pushing forward to catch TIming.

The three successfully advanced to Exit B1, and the child, under the protection of breathing, began to move from the dark passage to the narrow passage.

"There's no one in the sandy area," came the child's message through the earpiece.

So Su Zhe and his two companions quietly made their way out from B1. Niko and his cousin went straight to the side path and used items to completely take control of it.

Su Zhe, meanwhile, was holding onto the props at B1 entrance, preparing for the next tactic.

"I didn't see anyone on the path!"

With Niko's information arriving, Su Zhe immediately threw a smoke grenade to the police spawn at B, while the kid on A slack also threw a smoke grenade to block the gun line at B door.

After the two smokes exploded, Su Zhe quietly made his way to the middle door. Under the cover of the two smokes on the left and right, he began to carefully search for people, in case there was a CT hiding in the sand.

Meanwhile, after observing the other party offering a cigarette to someone outside Gate A, he had already arrived at the alley and joined the others.

"Just detonate the bomb!"

This round, Little Bee started with a standard 2-1-2 defensive formation, since the kid had tried to draw a prize by firing a sniper rifle in the secret passage at the start of the round.

This also prevented DouDou from gathering information in the sand, fearing that she might be accidentally shot to death by a sniper rifle. She only dared to observe the sand area from the second firing position at the police spawn.

As the bomb exploded at the police's house, DouDou's first reaction was that the enemy was going to gank B from the middle, but the sudden explosion in the side lane made him wonder.

What kind of hook item did G2 give them? Are they just randomly throwing it around in scrims?
But the props on the small path are real. Fire Boy went to steal A door at the start of the game and is still setting up his gun in the big pit. Mezil, who is alone on the platform, is about to report that there are 10,000 bandits.

DouDou had no choice but to move from the police spawn point toward point A, but she had only taken a few steps when gunshots suddenly rang out behind her.

"Da da da~"

Arrow killed apEX with an AK-47.

"There's one in the police family!!"

The fallen DouDou quickly reported the location, and then realized what G2's tactical intention was. The bandits in the small path were just a hook!

The goal was to lure him back to defend Platform A, thus giving the free agent on the sand a chance to sneak up behind the enemy lines while shrouded in smoke.

With the frontal firepower from the small path, Su Zhe, after getting the kill on DouDou, ignored the A platform and immediately moved to the elevator position to peek at the A main site.

Sure enough, just a few seconds after setting up their guns, a CT's figure appeared.

Seeing this, Su Zhe turned around and pulled out again to aim and position.

"Da da da~"

Arrow used an AK-47 to headshot and kill flameZ.

Mezil, who had retreated to the slope, knew he was doomed. He peeked out and shot himself, but was then finished off by Niko.

As for the two Bs defending, Zhaiwu and Spinx didn't even bother to return to defense, choosing instead to stay put and save their guns. The score in the first half went all the way to 4-0!

"Perfect timing!" Breathing shouted excitedly as the C4 exploded. "Arrow! That smoke mix was absolutely brilliant!"

In fact, the tactic that Breath had designed before was only to allow Su Zhe to cover the rear on the sand. The smoke screens on the police emplacement and the other side were just to help him get out of the middle gate.

Unexpectedly, he had a flash of inspiration and directly used his teammates' attack information to seize DouDou's timing for the scout's base!

The effect was obvious: their main force only needed to deal with the defense of A, and they didn't even need to worry about the fire buff at A.

This made Breath think of his former teammate Nexa, and he couldn't help but sigh, "Sometimes the difference between people is even greater than the difference between a person and a dog."

But then, he couldn't help but laugh because DouDou was interacting with him on the public screen again.

[apEX: What kind of disgusting tactic is this? Are you targeting me specifically?]

[HooXi: With a K/D ratio of 0-4, you still need to be targeted? Go practice your aim tonight.]

[apEX: ? You bitch! You have the nerve to criticize me when you're 0-3?]

[Hooxi: Sorry, I can win the game without killing anyone now.] (End of Chapter)