Coke Fanatic Club, Caramel did not go to watch the draw ceremony. He sat on a chair in the training room, gasping for breath, with a lot of sweat dripping down his chin.
"Pig Head Caramel!" At this time, McCafé pushed the door and walked into the training room.
"Has the drawing ceremony begun?" Caramel wiped his cheek with a towel. For the past three months, he had been training with a sword against his neck.
According to incomplete statistics, there are a total of 147 types of legendary equipment in Holy Spirit that can be classified as swords, and there are countless epic equipment.
Caramel cannot use all weapons skillfully, but at least he can use every type of weapon very skillfully.
But it’s still not enough…
"Not yet, but President Pighead's dad came over to cause trouble and said he wanted to meet you." McCafé's tone sounded a little unhappy, and Caramel could understand why she was unhappy.
Bubble's father has not been seen since Coke Fanatic founded the team. Bubble's father is also a real estate developer. He has no understanding of the gaming industry, let alone e-sports. He is an absolutely pure businessman.
Although the money that Bubble used to build the club was the start-up capital from his biological father, the development of Coke Mania to its current scale was still driven by Bubble and Sprite.
"I'm not interested. It's just some meaningless stuff anyway."
Jiaotang was not very interested in this kind of thing that the leader came to investigate. Before becoming a professional player, Jiaotang worked as a leveling player in a leveling studio. The boss of the studio knew nothing about the game, so all the heavy lifting was put on his shoulders.
If he had had no other options, he would have resigned long ago. Fortunately, Bubble discovered him... and brought him to a broader new stage.
But the experiences of those years made Caramel very disgusted with this kind of "leader who knows nothing but insists on talking nonsense", let alone licking the other party's face and serving him.
"I don't want to see him either, but he's sitting in the competition meeting room watching the draw ceremony. We'll run into each other later." McAfee also looked helpless. "President Pighead is busy dealing with things right now."
"Just watch it in the game."
Although Caramel said this, he still followed McCafe to the team meeting room. In the training room, all the Coke-crazed players were already there, and the Queen May's draw ceremony was being played on the big screen in the training room.
But before Caramel could see clearly what lot Queen May drew, a middle-aged man in a suit came up and shook hands with Caramel.
"You must be contestant Caramel, you are so young and have the ability to walk like a dragon and a tiger, you really are a hero." The middle-aged man said something that made Caramel so embarrassed that he didn't know how to respond.
"Hello." Caramel replied politely.
I have met Bubble's biological father Caramel once or twice. Even if I haven't met him once or twice, I have seen him on TV shows. Bubble's father is a very famous entrepreneur in China, so famous that everyone knows him.
"How about it, young man? Are you confident in this competition?" the middle-aged man patted Caramel's arm and said.
Caramel wanted to respond with "yes", but suddenly a sigh-like wailing sound was heard from the training room.
"Oh my god! Queen May, I'm turning from a fan to a hater just like this."
"Why do I feel like there is something fishy going on?"
All the Coke-crazed players, whether they were from Team 2 or Team 1, wailed in grief.
The middle-aged man also loosened his grip on Caramel's hand and looked at the live broadcast on TV.
"What's wrong?" asked the middle-aged man.
"Our opponent in the round of 16 is the Holy Spirit Team, which... is not easy to beat." Bubble rubbed his forehead a little madly. He always felt that the role played by Queen May should be that of the goddess of luck.
It turns out that this lovely cat lady is a goddess of bad luck! She forced the worst draw in the competition on Coke Mania.
"Holy Spirit Team? Is it a strong team?"
"The human-machine team officially formed by the Holy Spirit." Bubble explained to his father.
"Human-computer? It's just a computer team. Your athletes are so strong, can't they beat five computers?"
The middle-aged man did not realize how strong the Holy Spirit NPCs were. It could be sensed from the fact that he referred to the professional players as athletes that he really knew very little about video games!
"Dad, if you don't understand, don't talk nonsense! The computer characters in Holy Spirit are not as simple as you think. One of them is called Thorne, and no player on our team has ever defeated him." Bubble was so distressed that he kept pulling his hair.
When he said this, the atmosphere in the Coke-crazy training room fell into a somewhat depressing silence.
"Xiao Li! Your father also played games. Don't joke with me. Aren't computer characters in games used for training?" The middle-aged man seemed a little unhappy when he heard Bubble's frustrated words. "Anyway! You must win the championship of this competition for me! Do you hear me?"
"The champion of the Holy Spirit League is not a piece of cabbage!" Bubble seemed to be about to have an argument with his father.
"We are about to prepare for the competition. Mr. Yu, I have arranged for someone to explain the detailed rules of the competition to you. Go outside and listen."
Sprite, who had been silent all the time, suddenly interrupted at this moment. The originally stiff atmosphere in the meeting room was finally slightly eased under Sprite's guidance. The middle-aged man also left after saying "the championship must be won" under the guidance of the person called by Sprite.
"My parents are also paying attention to this competition." Xue Bi looked at Bubble who was scratching his hair on the conference table and said, "They have discussed this matter with your father. Twenty percent of the shares of Dispute Company is a big temptation for anyone."
Bubble's father and Sprite's parents all have shares in Cokemania. Although not so much that it can influence Bubble's decision, at this time, the fathers seem more like enemies in Bubble's eyes.
"I know! But the Holy Spirit League championship is not so easy to win! That's why I'm so annoyed with these outsiders... and the Holy Spirit League champion has more than just 20% of the shares!" When Bubble said this, his eyes suddenly looked at the pile of trophies and medals displayed in the training room.
All of them were silver and bronze…none of them were gold.
That’s right, Coca-Cola Fever has an eight-year history since its establishment, and in these eight years, Coca-Cola Fever has not won a championship even once.
Coke Mania has always been a mid-tier team in China's e-sports circle, and the least favored team.
Now in this Holy Spirit League, Coke Fever advanced to the top 16 with the second place in points. Bubble's idea was that he only wanted the championship! If he won the championship, he would not even have the 20% of the shares!
"Let's go. The first game will start in three hours. You don't want to give up without even playing, do you?"
Caramel finally spoke up to break the silent atmosphere in the team. He clapped his hands at the players whose status as captain was beginning to waver.
"This is a team competition! Thorne isn't strong enough to beat the five of us alone, and... I've been looking forward to playing against Thorne for a long time." Caramel tried to encourage his teammates in a way that was completely incapable of boosting team spirit.
The cola fanatic contestants were amused by Caramel's words, but after everyone laughed, the atmosphere in the team became much better. Finally, under the leadership of Caramel, all the cola fanatics walked towards the stage to prove themselves.
(End of this chapter)