Chapter 47
Shi Luo choked and pulled his hand back like he’d suffered an electric shock. He was so ashad and resentful that he blurted out, “You were pretending and you actually admitted it?!”
Yu Sui adjusted the hem of his T-shirt and said softly, “You were rubbing so earnestly that my conscience couldn’t bear it.”
Shi Luo wanted to say ‘you still have a conscience?’. But thinking about it carefully, this person was indeed very conscientious. Saying this would be too hurtful. Shi Luo tried to hold back his blush. Gritting his teeth, he said, “That’s so magnanimous of you...”
Shi Luo took a couple steps back and sat down on a cushion on the floor. He took out a cigarette and held it between his lips. He lighted it up and with ears completely red, he said nothing and began to smoke.
Yu Sui looked silently at Shi Luo. “You were acting strange since we ca back from the ga. I don’t know what’s the matter with you. So I thought of tricking you into coming out so I can ask you.”
Shi Luo blew out so smoke and frowned, “You couldn’t have just...called ?”
Yu Sui looked at Shi Luo and asked in return, “If I had called you, would you have co? Could you have let your guard down...and be honest?”
Shi Luo took a puff and did not answer.
“Let’s chat.” It seed like the last ti this happened between the two of them was two years ago.
Since their reunion, there have always been other people or other matters between the two of them. But even when they’re alone, they were unable to be completely calm.
Yu Sui actually didn’t feel all that sad about how things have changed between them. If he wanted them to go back to those tis when there weren’t any unpleasantness between them then that would take ti. They’ve been apart for so long. How was it possible to say, ‘let bygones be bygones’ and let things just pass?
Misunderstanding can be clarified, gross injustices can be wiped clean, but wounds needed to slowly recover.
Yu Sui carefully observed Shi Luo’s expression. “What did I accidentally do to make you unhappy?”
“Nothing.” Shi Luo sullenly said, “I was just shocked when I saw that feelings diation talk show on your computer when we got back. I thought, I thought...”
Yu Sui was at a loss. “Thought what?”
Shi Luo indignantly mumbled, “I thought you really wanted to send and Violent Shu to that kind of show.”
Yu Sui: “...”
Yu Sui tried his hardest to make himself appear like a normal person. “I just haven’t seen this kind of thing before. I was curious. I wanted to take a look. It would be impossible to send you to participate in this kind of thing...”
“Yeah. I figured that after so thought.” Shi Luo smoked another cigarette. He said reluctantly, “My brain just short-circuited during dinner. Afterwards, I didn’t think about it anymore.”
Shi Luo looked distrustfully at Yu Sui. “Is your stomach really ok?”
“It’s really fine.” Yu Sui made his slag-ness clear. “It’s not uncomfortable at all. I was pretending all that ti just to trick you into looking for .”
Shi Luo was so furious that he snatched back the cup of water he had just gotten for Yu Sui.
Yu Sui reminded him. “But I already drank it.”
Shi Luo’s eyes were black and bright. He’s already drank it so there’s no way to retaliate?
Shi Luo took a puff of cigarette. He raised his hand and flicked soot into Yu Sui’s cup.
This action simply couldn’t be any ruder.
But when Yu Sui looked at him, Shi Luo obviously had on a flippant and impudent expression touched with a bit of regret that he might have been too rude. The corner of Yu Sui’s lips slightly ticked up.
He’s still a little brat.
Yu Sui’s cell phone suddenly rang. Shi Luo frowned. “Zhou Huo? He was the one who asked to look after you just now. You talk to him. I’m gonna head out.”
Before Shi Luo could get up, Yu Sui shook his head. “Gu Gan.”
Yu Sui pressed the hands-free option.
“Yu Sui?”
Over the phone, Gu Gan said, “Congratulations to Yu Shen on your first victory.”
“Thanks.” Yu Sui raised his eyes and looked at Shi Luo. “Shi Luo’s here with . Is sothing the matter?”
Gu Gan’s voice ca over the loudspeaker, “Evil, I watched your ga today. You played well.”
Shi Luo said in a muffled voice, “I didn’t really play well. I wasn’t able to cooperate well.”
“You’ve just ford a team. That’s normal. Just try to learn to get along slowly. I’ve got sothing to tell you guys.” Over at the other end of the line Gu Gan’s voice dropped a bit deeper. “European Division’s Sacred Sword Team asked us for a practice match.”
Yu Sui’s eyes t with Shi Luo’s.
Gu Gan added, “By the way, Sacred Sword scheduled a practice match with Saint yesterday.”
Saint, Angel Sword’s team, the Chinese Division champions last year.
“Are all the teams in the European division dead? They couldn’t find anyone to practice with so they absolutely had to insist on practicing with the team in our division?” Shi Luo narrowed his eyes. “Who won?”
Gu Gan said, “Sacred Sword.”
“They played three gas?” Shi Luo frowned and questioned closely, “How many to how many?”
Gu Gan sighed, “Two to zero.”
Shi Luo extinguished the cigarette butt. “F*ck.”
“The details of the practice match can’t be made public. This is the most basic professionalism. It was inconvenient for Saint to tell us more but they contacted our manager today and told him that if Sacred Sword asks for a practice match, we should find a way to politely refuse.” Gu Gan paused for a few seconds. “It’s probably because... Although their entire team has been replaced, their overall style is still the sa. They love to crush their opponents to the point of breaking their spirit. They play a bit dirty...you understand.”
Worried that the two didn’t understand, Gu Gan said it more bluntly, “Even if they crush you in the ga, they won’t end the match. They won’t destroy the resurrection stone either. They also love making their dic guard the resurrection stone and having him kill anyone that resurrects.”
Yu Sui said, exasperated, “No need to jog my mory. I rember my sins full well.”
Gu Gan, his straight-man-ness going off the charts, nodded, saying, “Right, that’s what you did to Shi Luo back then.”
Shi Luo felt entirely ill at ease and quietly lit a cigarette.
Gu Gan said to himself, “I thought that when you guys left Sacred Sword, they would at least need one season to recover. I never thought they’d be able to crush our no. 1 team right after they’d just reorganized.”
“They have nothing they need to recover from.” Yu Sui put down the phone between himself and Shi Luo. He said slowly, “Our departure wasn’t sudden. As early as half a year ago, the managent of the Sacred Sword Team was already asking to renew the contract. I never expressed any desire to. Sacred Sword must have been forming a new team half a year ago or even earlier than that.”
“So that’s it...” On the other end of the line, Gu Gan sounded lost in thought. “That makes sense. They had ample ti. Not to ntion, this ti they absorbed two teams in one go. They have more than enough players to choose from.”
Gu Gan added. “Now I understand. Two years ago, I didn’t understand how a European club like theirs could be so clear on the situation of the clubs over here and were even able to imdiately contact Ji Yanhan...turns out they’re the kind of club that specializes in buying teams and stripping it down, ah.”
Shi Luo didn’t care about what kind of foul operations Sacred Sword was involved in. He interrupted Gu Gan and questioned closely, “Captain Gu, so after Saint’s manager warned you, what happened? Did you decline their invitation for a practice match?”
Gu Gan said over the phone, “No.”
Shi Luo: “...”
Gu Gan said, “We agreed.”
Yu Sui smiled.
“Captain Gu, you...” Shi Luo gritted his teeth, “... Should I be thanking Sacred Sword in advance for their ntal Collapse Gift Package to Wawa?”
“What could we have done otherwise? Reject them?” Gu Gan said, “Although NSN doesn’t have any achievents to show in recent years, we’re also an old club that has survived for ten long years. No matter how great the disparity we must face it with our all. They have already co right at our doorsteps. How could we possibly reject their invitation because we’re afraid?”
Shi Luo was speechless for a while.
Yu Sui whispered, “The pride of an old veteran. They can’t refuse.”
“Evil, although you were only with NSN for two months, I still think of you as one of my forr teammates.” Gu Gan said, voice deep, “Don’t throw away the arrogance of a pro-player just because you squandered away two years at IAC. We may lose but we may not be afraid. Always rember this.”
“...” Shi Luo wanted to defend himself, explain that he was only worried for Wawa, who had weak psychological endurance. If it were himself, of course, he wouldn’t be afraid. But Shi Luo has always been very respectful towards Gu Gan and he didn’t want to talk back. He couldn’t only behave himself and listen to his admonishnt. “I’m sorry, Captain Gu. I understand.”
Gu Gan was also worthy of playing as a striker. When he attacked, he made sure to gun everything down. He added, “What’s more, you shouldn’t give up on yourself just because you’ve gone to Free, this new team of less than a month, with absolutely no heritage to speak of. You can always treat NSN as your mother team. Rember our NSN’s team training, take our motto as yours. Never say never, rember?”
“...” Yu Sui asked hesitantly, “Gu Gan, are you trying to use a crowd taunt? Shi Luo’s mother team should be FS, shouldn’t it?”
“But this ID, Evil, was registered with our team.” Gu Gan didn’t even have to think about it. “No matter how you think about it, Evil is a player who erged from our team. Back then, when he was at NSN, he dared to stand firm against Sacred Sword, now, he’s actually thinking of running away.”
Shi Luo was intimidated by Gu Gan’s overwhelming sense of moral courage and righteousness. He gave up on trying to explain and reluctantly said, “I-I understand. I won’t...give up on myself.”
Gu Gan was relieved. “Tomorrow, after the match, I will tell you the result. I’ll hang up.”
Gu Gan’s vehent presentation of his views thoroughly diffused the charm that had suffused Yu Sui’s room just now. The two of them looked at each other and then helplessly got up and headed towards the training room to continue practice.
With a strong enemy eyeing them nacingly, where would they have the ti to fix that matter about that stomachache?
The next day, Zhou Huo returned to the base, taking advantage of everyone having lunch in the dining room, he said, looking mysterious, “Have you all heard that Saint had a practice match with Sacred Sword the day before yesterday?”
“We know.” Puppy’s face was calm. “Yu Sui told us, two to zero. Our forr boss is rich, our forr boss is terrifying, our forr boss is scary good.”
“Hey, stop praising them!” Zhou Huo said, “Then do you know how miserably they bullied around Saint during the second ga?”
Old Qiao frowned. “How would you know this kind of detail? Let remind you guys now, we don’t play dirty here. Stealing the details of another team’s training matches must never ever be done. Never, no matter when or in which competitive region.”
“Relax, would I invite this kind of trouble upon myself?” Zhou Huo whispered, “It was Saint’s sniper, Illusion. He was so angry that he let it slip during his live broadcast. Illusion’s not very popular and not a lot of people watch his broadcasts so not a lot of people know. It only spread to a small group.”
Old Qiao breathed out a sigh of relief. “Then elaborate.”
“There’s not much to tell either. Illusion only said a few things.”
“They played two gas. The first was fine, they lost, that’s all. You know, Sacred Sword’s style has always been that the more they win, the more confident they are, and the more confident they are, the better they play. Their performance was even better during the second ga. From the very start, they pushed around Saint. Saint never could have imagined that a newly ford team could abuse their championship team that much. Their ntality was a bit unstable. The more they played, the more they went to pieces. In the end...”
“It seems that Sacred Sword heard that Angel Sword’s the best dic in our region. Oh, the forr being...” Zhou Huo looked at Yu Sui and waved his hand, “So they deliberately targeted Angel Sword. But Angel Sword’s a pure milktank-type dic. He can’t even use his dagger. He was abused but had no way to fight back. He could only endure. They attacked him the entire ga. He couldn’t even leave the resurrection stone. Sigh...”
Chen Huo and Angel Sword tead up just yesterday. He frowned. “F*ck, he’s a good guy! What are they bullying him for?”
“They’re deliberately making people sick with disgust.” Zhou Huo spreads his hands. “Thankfully, Angel Sword has a good ntality. He didn’t say anything despite being targeted and abused for an entire ga. After the ga, he did what had to be done and even took the team to review the ga. It was Illusion who couldn’t take it. He refused to do the ga review and went off on his own to play single row. Finally, it was Angel Sword by himself, who dragged Illusion to do the ga review. He couldn’t help telling this during his live broadcast, that’s how I found out.”
“A small incident of going AWOL.” Puppy’s thoughts were starting to drift. The more he heard, the more wistful he beca. “Why is their dic so warm and so gentle? Illusion refused to go to the ga review and not only was he not beaten for it, Angel Sword even brought him to do a personal ga review? What kind of angel is that?”
Yu Sui swallowed his mouthful of food and looked at Puppy. “What were you saying?”
“Nothing, nothing.” Puppy gave a forced laugh. “I was so moved I just couldn’t help it. Sigh, Sacred Sword is sick. Everyone knows they bought the players from two whole teams. What do they think they’re doing crossing over the ocean just to show off?!”
“Throwing down the gauntlet in advance.” Zhou Huo shook his head. “They asked NSN for a practice match today. I hope NSN can teach them to have so decency.”
Old Qiao nodded. “Let’s keep our hopes up. NSN’s not so vegetarian. They’ve also added a genius sniper this year. They’re very fierce.”
Shi Luo put down his chopsticks. “I hope so.”
That evening, just after their practice ga, Shi Luo received a ssage.
[AWA]: [Shi Ge, is it too late for to change to a striker now?]
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