Chapter 45

Three days later, on Team Bisons home court, Team Bison met the new Team Free.

Zhou Huo was now one of their own. He knew that there had been some conflict between them and the Bison Team two years ago, but he didnt know the details. Zhou Huo was very sensitive to this fact. He warned them repeatedly that under his management of the team, there can be no incident of violence.

A new team, a new season, a new aura. On the way to the Bison Teams home stadium, Zhou Huo tried his hardest to rouse everyones enthusiasm. Im not asking you to outperform yourselves, but you must display your strength and let everyone see. Understand?!

The four internet addicted teenagers, except for Yu Sui, were all immersed in playing with their phones. None of them were roused.

The only one who wasnt playing on his phone, had his eyes closed instead, trying to make up for lost sleep.

Zhou Huo sighed. Forget it, all of you should already know what you need to do anyway.

Only Old Qiao was still idle, and Zhou Huo was left with no one to chat with but Old Qiao. Whats the friction between you guys and Bison exactly? Whys the relationship been you two so subtle?

Thats not called friction. Old Qiao said sadly, Thats a blood feud. It was something that happened when Violent Shu was still just a brat who played as a sub. Do you really want to hear it?

Of course, Zhou Huo wanted to hear about it.

Old Qiao patted his stomach and slowly narrated the tale. These people had already dismissed this matter from their minds but as Old Qiao began to recount the story, the expression on their faces began to change until they could practically compete with each other on who had the worst expression on. When Shi Luo heard the part about Yu Sui entering the hospital, the expression on his face had darkened completely.

Zhou Huo looked carefully at everyone and regretfully asked, Should Ihave not asked at this time?

Too late now. Chen Huo rubbed his wrist. Its been a few years since Ive last seen him. I dont know if my old friends been doing well

Shi Luo said coldly, Wont you be seeing him in a little bit?

Zhou Huo made a face palm. Why am I such a big gossip

Half an hour later, they arrived at the venue. There were too many fans on the scene and the driver didnt dare stop in the midst of them. He drove directly into venues underground parking lot.

Everyone went directly from the underground parking lot to the backstage lounge. Zhou Huo stared intently at Shi Luo and Chen Huo, lest someone take advantage of a lapse in his attention and go bounding off to Team Bisons lounge. Fortunately, the waiting time during regular season games was pretty short. After less than an hour of waiting in the lounge, the match started.

This was the first time Team Free would be participating in an official competition, and there wasnt a single empty seat in the stadium.

It wasnt only the fans who were enthusiastically watching this game. As expected, all the other first league teams apart from Team Bison were also paying close attention to this match.

While testing out their equipment before the game, Chen Huo, laughingly said while testing out his mic, Guess. Do you think all the other teams are watching the matchs broadcast in their bases?

Puppy smiled. I dont wanna be too shameless but Im guessingyeah, they probably all are.

Chen Huo raised an eyebrow and said, I dont know what theyre saying about me, but they should all be cheering for us, right? Aiya, now Im thinking twice about going all out. I might expose too much of our tactics. Maybe Im just gonna play this easy.

Dont be too optimistic. Shi Luo said coldly, All the teams are competing for a spot in the playoffs. Why should they cheer for you? And who knows? Maybe Ji Yanhans also watching the broadcast. Waiting for us to make a fool of ourselves.

Once Ji Yanhan was brought up, everyone lost their weariness. Chen Huo was instantly filled with fighting spirit. Lets give them a good fight! We have to play our best! For old scores and new grievances!

Puppy stopped himself from laughing. He sighed, Shi Luo, I like your way of encouraging your teammates.

Puppy tested his equipment and leaned against his gaming chair. Captain, arent you going to say a few words? Its tradition for the captain to issue a three-thousand word manifesto before the first game of the regular season, right?

Yu Sui moved his mic. Thanks. Theres not a lot to be said.

You should at least go through the motions of it. Puppy looked into the glass soundproof room on the right side of the stadium. Look at Team Bison over there. Violent Shu looks like hes pretty fired up. Hes definitely trying to raise his teams spirits. You should say something too.

Yu Sui took a light breath and he did things very perfunctorily. Lets have a good fight.

Puppy snorted. Add a few more sentences! How many years has it been already? You always do a half-assed job of this.

Yu Sui was helpless. OK

Yu Sui looked at the computer screen and after a moment, he said, Our team is still too new. The team itself has no results. Weve just gotten here by playing through the qualifiers. Right now, in the eyes of other clubs in the league, were just a disruptor. If we want them to show us some respect, theres only one way and thats to win.

Up to now, there are still some old FS fans who blame us for eliminating FS chance to be promoted back. They think we snatched FS spot in the league. Yu Sui swept his eyes around the stadium. We have always used only one way to deal with these slanderous rumors. We let our results do the talking.

Well let the match results show this place, this season and this entire league that Free belongs here.

Shi Luo froze and couldnt help turning to look at Yu Sui.

Chen Huo murmured. Whisper is Whisper. Every time, you

Did you get all that? Yu Sui instantly relaxed. He adjusted his microphone, and asked, Later, if youre going to make our team do a promo vid for the season, you can edit that just now.

The referee who was monitoring their team chat for the match, said into their team chat. Its been recorded.

Yu Sui felt relieved. My mission has been completed.

Chen Huo rolled his eyes. And here I f*cking thought you were really trying to boost our morale.

After a few words, the referee signaled that the game was about to begin. Everyone settled down and the game began.

As soon as the countdown for the match finished, the four of them seemed to move as one. They put away their joking expressions and immediately rushed out of their resurrection stone.

From the four Free Team members perspective, Bisons half of the map was shrouded in dense fog. They couldnt see anything.

Chen Huo and Yu Sui, moved together as a unit and quickly went to the two teams common boundary on the map. Shi Luo went off alone to secretly clear out a path on the west side of the map. As the sniper, Puppy was the only character with a scope. He temporarily stayed towards the back, using his scope to report on the enemys situation and using his shots as the situation calls for it.

Bison always opens their games with the two strikers and medic rushing to the front line. Whether they would do the same this time was uncertain. Puppy hurriedly reminded, Chen Huo, quickly clear the fog. Theres a big possibility that there would be three people coming. I cant see it clearly over here.

Chen Huo went to put down the purification dish at the junction of the map. He was a natural bait at this moment. Sure enough, in the middle of the animation of putting down the dish, shots were fired from the dense fog. Yu Sui had been waiting for this moment. Judging the location by gunshots, a dagger suddenly appeared behind the bunker and came striking down. Chen Huo took advantage of this half a second to successfully put down the purification dish. He got up and opened fire. The two of them worked together to take down one of Bisons strikers. The head count went to Yu Sui.

Bisons other striker was also beaten to half-blood. They quickly backed away and hid behind a bunker. Over by the other side, Puppy said, Shi Luo, if you dont leave now, theyre gonna find you. Dont try to sneak around anymore. Go look for Yu Sui and Chen Huo.

In order to make the most of their time, since running out of the resurrection stone, Shi Luo hadnt met up with Yu Sui. Right now, he didnt have any shield or any sort of stat boosts. He also wasnt overly greedy. After hearing what Puppy said, he didnt wait for the next purification dish to be placed successfully and quickly went to find Yu Sui. Give me a shield.

Yu Sui mended his own and Chen Huos health and then gave Shi Luo a shield. The three of them hid behind the bunker and quietly waited.

The rustling of the grass at the common boundary of the map became more and more obvious. Shi Luo and Chen Huo came out of the bunker at the same exact time and opened fire, collecting the head of Bison Teams other striker.

Okay, lets clear the fog. Puppy was relieved. Both strikers are gone. Theyre not gonna dare show their faces for the next half minute.

Chen Huo continued to clear the front of the poisonous fog and attract firepower, while Shi Luo returned to the left side of the map to clear the path.

This was a tactic they used a lot in the past. Taking full advantage of the players excellent skills, one striker and the medic would be used to fight against the opponents strikers and medic. While their other striker goes another way to secretly create a small path, placing their opponents in straitened circumstances.

Bison also has a sniper monitoring the field, and naturally it wont take long for him to discover Shi Luos movements, but as long as Yu Sui and Chen Huo can rain down firepower on the front line, they wont be able to break off and deal with Shi Luo. Otherwise, it would only take a moment for Yu Sui and Chen Huo to open a breach at the front of the map and directly wipe them out.

From behind, Puppy kept an eye on the opponents movements while covertly letting out some shots. He couldnt help ridiculing, I think Violent Shus on the verge of mental collapse. Its three of them against two of you. Its a major embarrassment.

Violent Shus mentality really had collapsed. After the three of them gradually began to lose against Yu Sui and Chen Huo, they had one of the strikers, sneakily break away.

Yu Sui noticed that the footsteps behind the fog didnt seem quite right. There seems to be one less person on the opposite side. Shi Luo, be careful of any incoming guests.

While clearing out the poisonous fog by himself, Shi Luo whispered, I heard you.

Shi Luo took his time. He didnt rush. As much as possible, he kept behind the bunker, laying down the purifying dishes. The purified areas overlapped but he didnt feel distressed about the waste of purifying dishes. He moved steadily and surely; all the while making sure that he didnt expose his position behind the bunker. Even when the Bison striker approached, he didnt rush. He immediately held off, keeping completely still, waiting for the other party to move.

Shi Luo and the Bison striker kept watch on each other for nearly a minute. It was Bisons striker who gave in first. He turned sideways to open fire but the moment he did so, Puppy, whod been staring at him the whole entire time, fired a shot and directly took his head.

Nice. Puppy sighed, Shi Luo, so steady. I was almost stuck in this position.

Shi Luo didnt say anything back. It has been twelve minutes since the game started and Free had yet to give up a single head while Bison had already lost five in a row. They basically had no way of turning this game around.

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