CS: The Last Dance, a Dance That Leads to Professional Success

Chapter 15 is a super big hit!

On May 9th, the sky was clear and blue.

The Antwerp Major has officially begun.

The first match,
TL vs EternalFire!

After a grueling 30-round battle, TL ultimately prevailed 16-14 over EternalFire.

The second match was between Little Bee and COL.

This match was purely a game of overwhelming numerical superiority.

In the Infernal Town map, Little Bee scored a 16-1 victory, and there might even be an element of paternal love in that point won by the opposing team.

That's just how hierarchical CS is.

Even if these second-tier teams advance to the Challenger Group through RMR, they are often relegated to the sidelines by top-tier teams.

The underdog storyline is still too rare in professional CS matches.

After this match, the next match will be between the European Warriors G2 and EG, who have been rebuilt with the core trio of the North American C9 champions.

Backstage, EG lounge.

"G2 is a tough team to beat," EG coach Vorborg sighed.

Although G2's performance this year has been poor, the team has quite a few star players.

The Bosnian twins, the older brother goes without saying, and the younger brother is the longest-serving rifler, He. The team also has the NAVI youth academy prodigy sniper, Prince.

Add Leonardo DiCaprio to the mix.
The lineup is still quite impressive.

"fine."

2K smiled confidently, “There’s an old Chinese saying, ‘Pick the softest persimmon.’ They’re just picking up trash, so we don’t need to be polite.”

autimatic, the rifleman and secondary sniper of the C9 squad, said without hesitation, "2K is right, this guy is our weak point, his map pool is too shallow."

How shallow?

"Remove Sand 2 and you can play anytime."

"Hahahaha!"

The EG lounge was instantly filled with a cheerful atmosphere.

At the same time, in the G2 lounge next door.

With five minutes to go before their turn, the G2 players huddled together, their right hands stacked in the middle, heads close together.

Coach XTQZZZ was talking rapidly as he demonstrated the pre-competition rope twisting technique.

In a corner, G2's staff set up a camera to continue filming the vlog.

"Guys! The competition is about to begin!"

"No matter where! No matter who the opponent is! No matter what the format is! Let's go all out!"

"I want you to maintain good communication, a good pace, and quick thinking to make the right decisions promptly! To achieve our goals!"

"Remember! The championship is won by a team, not by a single player!"

"So brothers, let's play well as a team! Everything we do in the game is a unified effort!"

"Alright! Time to go on stage! Let Go G2!"

Upon hearing this, everyone pressed down hard on their right hands.

"Let's Fakken go!!!"

After the pre-race rope-twisting session, the teammates chatted and laughed as they picked up their peripheral bags and prepared to head out.

At this moment, Meng Lang suddenly took out a bandage and began to wrap it around his right hand again and again until the extremely thin and flexible bandage perfectly conformed to the contours of his hand.

After finishing, he stretched his wrists and glanced at the system panel.

[Time-Lag Reverse Entropy Bandage - When wrapped, this bandage can completely suppress hand damage in the host and slowly reverse the healing process until complete recovery (Progress: 86.7%)]

coming soon!

The seal will be broken soon!
Meng Lang thought to himself.

Little Li and the others were taken aback when they saw this!
"No, Bro! Do you wear bandages when you play?"

The child couldn't help but ask.

"what happened?"

Meng Lang turned his head, puzzled, and asked, "Isn't that allowed in the competition?"

"." Everyone was speechless.

This isn't a question of whether or not to allow it!

Who plays a professional gamer with bandages wrapped around their body?!
Should we go to the battlefield wounded?

"No, not really." The child chuckled dryly, then couldn't help but ask, "I'm just curious, doesn't this affect how you operate it?"

“It won’t affect anything at all, it might even improve things,” Meng Lang said seriously.

That’s okay!
No one believed it at all.

However, recalling that Meng Lang also wore bandages during his trial at the G2 club's base and still delivered a very impressive performance, everyone simply let him be—it's not unacceptable for professional players to have some quirks in their matches.

Winning is the only true measure of success!
Although the Antwerp Major Challenger Stage matches were held offline, spectators were not allowed to enter the venue; instead, the matches were held behind closed doors in a studio.

Spectators will be allowed to watch the games in larger venues later in the competition.

Douyu, live stream room 6657.

"Here it comes! It's finally my favorite G2 match!"

"Girls, gather! Girls, gather!" "I came straight from get off work to watch Nini's match without even taking off my makeup! Anyone else like me? Let's find out!"

"Are there any girls like me who don't understand what 61b is up to, and just came here to ship the Nini and Haihai couple? Let's wait and see!"

"Stop squatting, you're bigger than me when you squat!"

"."

"No, am I the only one who came to see the black box tonight?"

"Same as above! I like Ni Ni Hei Hei! Ni Hei for short!"

"Machine! Machine! I haven't heard Shrimp Bro's funny stories from the third floor for a minute! Can you tell them again?"

"Get out of here if you want to hear funny stories! Don't you know 6657 is the largest NIKOFansCLUB in CN?"

"Where's Jiji? Little Bee just finished fighting and said she was going to the bathroom to wash her face, where did she go to wash it?"

"."

The colorful bullet comments of 6654 are scrolling by.

A man's voice suddenly came from the live stream.

"Holy crap! It's open? Thank goodness! I thought there wouldn't be a pistol round again."

"Oh, right, something funny just happened, guys."

"I went to the bathroom to wash my face, but I didn't expect my stomach to hurt and I had a big bowel movement."

"At that moment, I suddenly thought, 'Oh no! Will Dark's G2 debut tonight also be a huge mistake for us?'"

"Holy crap! I'm getting a little nervous, guys."

It has to be said, he's quite skilled at playing with machines.

One sentence turned 6657 into a smelly live stream room, with the chat filled with vomiting emojis.

At this moment, the director's camera cut to the competition venue.

In the studio, the players were logging into the server, and the players from G2 and EG appeared on camera one by one.

When the camera focused on them, the contestants all raised their hands to wave to the audience!
"Isn't the Crown Prince so handsome!"

"Leonard is in great shape today!"

"Holy crap! You!"

"Young Master Ni is truly getting more and more charming with age!"

"Where's Hei? He must be incredibly nervous playing against his former team today?"

"."

Jianghai University, male dormitory.

Li Shan frowned as he looked at the barrage of "Nini Haihai" comments filling the live stream.

These teams have too many fans of their star players. Although Meng Lang is a CN player, not many people in the live stream really care about him.

But today, for some reason, Li Shan felt a little concerned.

In fact, he, who has a level 30 badge in the 6657 live stream room, would usually follow the trend and send Nini Haihai as well.

Perhaps it was because he had inadvertently looked up Meng Lang's past that he suddenly wanted to know how this Chinese prodigy who went to Europe and America was doing now after experiencing the ups and downs of the past few days.

"Damn it, you stupid director, stop focusing on the celebrity guy!" Seeing the director's camera constantly switching back and forth between the kid and Niko, Li Shan felt a surge of irritation that he himself didn't realize, and couldn't help but curse.

The next second, a look of joy appeared on his face.

The director finally focused the camera on a handsome young man with an Eastern face, long, choppy hair, and powerful muscle definition beneath his team uniform.

In the video, the boy turns his head and glances at the camera, his eyes bright and clear.

of course,

This is not the point.

The point is,
At this moment, Meng Lang's face showed absolutely no sign of nervousness about facing his former employer.

Or perhaps it's the solemnity before the big competition.
He said something to Niko next to him, and Niko burst into laughter, laughing uncontrollably.

The atmosphere was completely relaxed!
Across from the studio, at the EG match booth, EG's in-game leader, Bananaman 2K, seemed to have noticed something.

He looked up at the smiling Meng Lang expressionlessly, then lowered his head and his face turned somewhat gloomy.

"Like to laugh?"

"Alright, then I'll beat you so badly you won't be laughing anymore!"

But at that moment, 2K glanced at Meng Lang's right hand and was slightly taken aback!
Is it a side effect of that punch?

Should!!!
You fucking act all high and mighty!

It makes it seem like you're trying so hard!

puff!
2K, gloating, burst out laughing!

At the same time, the director seemed to have finally discovered the key point!
The big screen immediately showed a close-up shot!

— Meng Lang's right hand, wrapped in bandages, finally appeared in the frame.

???

What the hell?

Playing a Major with your hand wrapped in bandages?