"It was Ahimsa." The people around Duan Ke explained patiently, "Exist followed Ahimsa to find the direction where their sniper left and roughly estimated the sniper's location."
Duan Ke nodded as if he understood, but his eyes involuntarily revealed approval and satisfaction.
The other party suddenly asked casually: "Do you like Lan... exist?"
"Then..." Duan Ke swallowed his answer subconsciously, and remembered what Duan Wenzheng once said, "I can see that you really like Lanlan." He immediately turned his head away in annoyance: "Of course not! I was just taking a look!"
"..." The person next to him glanced at him strangely, wondering who was the one who insisted on speaking for Xue Lan just now... But when he remembered that he just said that he came to catch his daughter-in-law who was watching the game, he once again thought that this person might really not understand or like e-sports, and shut up awkwardly.
…
The blue smoke wilderness at this moment.
After Xue Lan calculated the approximate location of Cheetah, the sniper of the TXT team, he immediately made a detour to Cheetah before the enemy medics, and actually arrived one step earlier than Ahimsa. He looked at the top of the boulder from behind, and rushed straight to the top of the mountain.
The medical soldier Ahimsa was not far away from him. After he rushed onto the boulder, Ahimsa was about to run under the boulder.
"He wanted to take Cheetah away before Ahimsa arrived!"
"But how did he determine Cheetah's location?" another commentator asked incredulously, "Even if he found Cheetah's location from behind before rushing to the high ground, how did he determine that Cheetah was hiding on this boulder before that!"
Several commentators were having a heated discussion when the first direct conflict occurred on the boulder.
Xue Lan took advantage of Cheetah's unawareness and cleared most of his blood in one fell swoop. When everyone in the audience was holding their breath in excitement, TXT's medic had already rushed onto the boulder and replenished Cheetah's blood instantly at the maximum distance!
Xue Lan seemed to be afraid and hid behind a shelter nearby.
But just as he was about to hide in the bunker, a bullet from behind just missed him, instantly reducing his health to 20%!
No one expected that the originally favorable situation would be reversed in such a short time. The people in the LGW audience who were holding their breath in anticipation all took a deep breath in nervousness.
Xue Lan had clearly gained an advantage with his sharp judgment and strong momentum just a moment ago, but now the situation was completely reversed because of the arrival of the enemy medic, and the advantage he had just gained turned into a disadvantage in an instant...
Just one shot can eliminate him from this game.
"Cheetah has already joined up with ahimsa, and the new captain of LGW has been reduced to 13% health. With this level of health, Cheetah only needs one shot to kill him easily, not to mention that he has the cooperation of ahimsa!"
From the commentary, it seemed as if the game was a foregone conclusion.
"Wind should really come to this battlefield to help. How can a newbie face the two members of TXT and the new veteran alone?"
"If he had a stealth chip, he could have left!" The commentator shook his head and said, "It's a pity that the new captain is still too young and too irritated. Now he only has a broken shield. What's the use!"
The audience had complaints about the commentary, but everyone subconsciously felt that what they said made sense. On the live broadcast screen, Xue Lan hid behind a bunker to replenish his blood-recovery injection, while the two members of Team TXT were already approaching his bunker step by step.
Everyone's heart hung high as they followed the footsteps of the two members of Team TXT. Suddenly, a burst of gunfire in the distance shifted everyone's attention and the director's perspective to another place where the blood loss and damage were higher at the moment—
Where Duan Wenzhen is, the battle for the two assaulters to rush to the top has begun!
"I thought this would be the first battlefield." The foreign commentator stared at the split screen nervously: "LGW's current situation is very bad. The new captain's health is barely restored to 17% and he has to fight two opponents with full status. Even if Wind arrives, the sniper only has 9% health. LGW is really... very passive now."
On the live broadcast screen, two assaulters quickly rushed to the cover. Duan Wenzhen gave up his sniper position and hid behind the cover nearby.
The audience present couldn't help but sweat for the two of them.
At this moment, on the two battlefields, Xue Lan and Duan Wenzheng fell into the same situation at the same time.
Especially Xue Lan.
Duan Wenzheng's health is over halfway, and Wen Yan is coming to support him. On the other hand, Xue Lan's health is still below the red line, and Cheetah and Ahimsa are approaching the bunker step by step...
"What, what should I do..."
Duan Ke felt cold sweat on his forehead, on one side was his son, and on the other side was... Although he couldn't understand these games, he could see that the two were in the same desperate situation.
The people around him didn't say anything.
Duan Ke anxiously turned his gaze back to the screen. Just as he was getting nervous, he suddenly remembered what the person next to him had just said - "We should trust them."
Yes.
Although he always said that Duan Wenzheng was useless and a bastard, and that he was always annoyed by his unorthodox ways, but...
He always knew that Duan Wenzhen never let him down at such a critical moment.
Duan Ke's anxious mood finally calmed down, and he stared at the screen with the people around him. Although the person next to him looked calm, his fingertips on the armrest were quietly clenched.
…
Seats in lgw.
Listen to the approaching footsteps.
Xue Lan and Duan Wen Zheng actually moved at the same time. Duan Wen Zheng turned over and came out from the other side, firing a shot at the two people who were approaching step by step, while Xue Lan once again placed the grenade under his feet, stood up and jumped onto the rock behind him that served as a cover!
…
The shelter was not big, so he was able to flip over to the rock in one fell swoop, but even if he flipped over, he could not escape the damage range of his own grenade.
The spectator area of the stadium was dead silent.
The commentators in the domestic live broadcast room all had their eyes fixed on the broadcast screen, and at this moment they were so nervous that they were rubbing their hands repeatedly.
Everyone in the live broadcast room had forgotten to send comments, and even those who were watching the live broadcast and eating snacks had forgotten to chew.
At this moment, all time seems to be infinitely stretched and frozen into a still picture.
It was so quiet that the only sound I could hear was my accelerating heartbeat and my nervous, labored breathing.
The bullet broke through the frozen time at this moment, rushing through the two black gun muzzles with unstoppable heat!
Everyone in the spectator area held their breath.
The main screen that the commentator and director did not deliberately switch was frozen on Duan Wenzheng's second battlefield because of the damage ranking at the last moment, while the split screen on the side took into account Xue Lan's first battlefield. Between the main screen and the side screen, people saw bullets burst out of the chamber almost at the same time -
Duan Wenzhen's bullet broke through the swirling smoke and hit the attacker who was trying to get around the cover without any error.
The assaulter fell down amid overlapping gunfire. Behind his slowly falling figure was Wen Yan, who arrived in time with only a trace of blood left. The two of them turned their guns towards the other assaulter at the same time.
There was a burst of muffled cheers from the audience!
Such seamless cooperation rekindled the gloomy mood of all the audience.
But the cheers were short-lived and before they could flourish, everyone's attention was once again fixed on the split-screen battlefield.
Before the bullet rushed out of the assault rifle, Ahimsa seemed to hear the sound of footsteps and immediately opened the medical shield and began to be alert. Cheetah set up the gun and planned to get rid of this fledgling team leader as quickly as possible.
The two of them fixed their eyes on the bunker in front of them, and turned their heads behind the bunker cautiously...
A figure suddenly climbed onto the rock in front of him, and just as Cheetah raised his gun, there was a sudden "bang" sound under his feet - a grenade exploded, instantly breaking through the medic's shield and reducing the health of both of them by nearly one-fifth.
Xue Lan on the bunker did not hide at all. When everyone was secretly worried about him, they saw a faint light with a mist around him, like the light of hope shining through the darkness and the guiding star in the silent night sky.
Such light enveloped him in an instant, and almost at the same time, the sound of a grenade exploding rang out!
The light was like a gentle feather, building a thick white shield wall above his blood line. It was more dazzling than the medic's shield, and much thicker and stronger!
That is—
Shield chip!
The explosion of the grenade did not break through the shield's defense line. As everyone watched with bated breath, the man with the remaining light in his eyes leaped up and pulled the trigger at the moment when the two people's attention was attracted by the grenade!
Shocked exclamations were heard again from the audience, but almost everyone's eyes were fixed on the screen during this exclamation.
Duan Ke and the people beside him also stared at the screen nervously.
Under everyone's gaze, the bullet flew out of the gun's dark muzzle. As Ahimsa quickly pressed the blood replenishment button, Cheetah raised the muzzle again and pressed the trigger to aim at the enemy -
People watched with bated breath as the bullet flew out of Xue Lan's gun. Then the second bullet hit the tail of the previous one, and then the third... the fourth...
The fifth one!!!
Five shots in a row!
These five bullets cut through the smoke and clouds that were lurking in the wilderness under the setting sun, and intersected with the bullets flying from the muzzle of the Cheetah in the air.
Like a sharp blade cutting through the darkness, it rushed straight towards Cheetah's face with a hidden edge, and Cheetah's bullet also went in the opposite direction!
Ahimsa's fingers instinctively tapped several skills that could greatly restore health, but in that split second, Cheetah's health line was frozen in place! Ahimsa kept looking at the skill cooldown time at the bottom of the screen...
The cooling time was still counting down, but the final short 3 seconds now seemed so long that it was despairing.
Bullets hit Cheetah's chest one by one, and after three bullets, his character finally fell to the ground.
The remaining two bullets continued along their trajectory toward his back.
Some people in the stands couldn't help but stand up.
They were just wondering why Xue Lan didn't shoot directly on the rock, but chose to climb up the rock and then jump down and shoot at the same time. This would not only waste time, but also cause the bullet to be unstable due to the turbulence of the fall.
Now they know.
Everyone even trembled slightly because of excitement—
The reason why Xue Lan did not skip this action might be to avoid Cheetah's bullet, but more importantly, to block the point where the two people in front of him overlapped.
Ahimsa's blood-replenishing skill was locked on the teammate who had just fallen. The moment his teammate fell, he saw the bullet flying towards him!
But at this point, it's too late!
Because the two bullets had hit his chest, knocking him down instantly as his defense was already lower than that of the attacker.
The main split screen of the live broadcast had switched from the perspective of Duan Wenzhen and Wen Yan, who had knocked down another attacker, to Xue Lan's perspective at this moment due to the comparison of damage values.
The boy who jumped off the rock was landing steadily on the ground. The sunset in the blue smoke wilderness embedded the golden color among the drifting blue sand and smoke. The boy stood up slowly. Perhaps it was because the sunset was too dazzling, his resolute figure in this vast wilderness made everyone present burst into tears unconsciously.
"lgw!"
The fat man stood up excitedly, wiped the moisture from the corners of his eyes with one hand, and raised the light board in his hand as high as possible -
"lgw!!exist!!!"
The on-site commentator came back to his senses from his daze.
"The 14th Dawn of Doom World Finals, the champion team is - LGW team!"
Everyone knows that standing up in such an arena is not in line with etiquette.
But at this moment, everyone stood up, holding up their light boards and banners, or pulling off their headscarves. They cheered and hugged each other, pulled up the stickers with LGW and the national flag on their shirts, and with tears in their eyes, the deafening shouts lingered in the stadium for a long time.
"lgw!!"
"lgw!!!"
Duan Ke, who was originally sitting in the first row, was actually infected by the atmosphere at this moment. He stood up and shouted excitedly with everyone else.
…
"The champion is LGW!" The domestic commentator announced excitedly: "LGW has fulfilled their promise, they have won the international competition of "Dawn of Doom" again!"
"Exist once again proved himself with his strength, proving that there is no obsolete skill in "Dawn of Doom"!!"
At this moment, the comments in the domestic live broadcasts have been flooded with a sea of "lgw" and "exist".
…
Duan Ke's excited shouting was in sharp contrast to his calm and composed appearance just now. The solemn-looking man sitting next to him unconsciously smiled. He lowered his eyes slightly, hiding the excitement in his eyes, and stood up and walked towards the backstage.
Duan Ke watched him leave in confusion, then quickly followed him while looking at the excited crowd behind him.
"What are you doing here?"
"What are you going to do?"
As the two looked at each other, they saw that several contestants had already walked out of the competition room in the strictly blocked backstage.
The man didn't dare to delay any longer and hurriedly walked to the backstage, and Duan Ke followed behind him. After the man showed his work ID, the guard signaled him to go through, but stopped Duan Ke behind him.
Duan Ke was so excited that he wanted to call out to the person in front of him, but that person turned around and said, "We're together, let him in."
The security guard then let Duan Ke go.
"Are you a staff member?" Duan Ke hurriedly walked up to him.
“…” The man glanced at him, then glanced at the audience who were still screaming behind the door: “Now you know what e-sports is, right?”
"I know, I know!" Duan Ke was so excited that he could hardly calm down: "I know now."
The man was about to give a few more instructions when he saw Xue Lan and others coming out.
He had forgotten everything he wanted to say at this moment, and stood there, staring at the boy who walked out from the crowd. At this moment, he had lost the sharp edge he had on the court, and smiled shyly and timidly in front of his teammates.
The young man seemed to notice this side and looked in his direction.
At this moment, his heart seemed to have returned to the time more than 20 years ago when he was racing on the track with several friends.
Xue Lan's eyes were stunned for a moment.
He actually came to watch his own game
Although, although this is his team's game, but...
In a trance, the man actually saw the person who walked into the backstage and slightly opened his arms to him.
Xue Lan's heart began to beat uncontrollably again, and he stood still.
At this moment, a figure beside that person suddenly walked quickly to Xue Lan and excitedly hugged Xue Lan in his arms.
"Lanlan, you are so amazing! I am proud of you!!"
"… "
Xue Lan stood there in a daze.
Why does this sound like...
He looked up blankly and saw the people standing a few steps away from him. He stiffly withdrew his hand, walked quickly to the people and asked with a dark face, "What are you doing?!"
Duan Ke, who was pulled away by Duan Wenzheng, was puzzled. He turned around to look at the person who had watched the game with him, and introduced her again in a friendly and proud manner: "Let me introduce you! This is my daughter-in-law!"
Xue Lan and others: “…”
"Well, boss, let me explain..."
"Boss?!" Duan Ke took a breath of cold air.
"..." Xue Yuanshan's face turned dark. He glanced at the dumbfounded people in front of him, and then returned his gaze to Xue Lan: "I am the boss of LGW, but unfortunately, I happen to be the father of your 'daughter-in-law'."
“… … ”
The voluntary staff watching the game felt that they were not proficient in Chinese for a moment. Chinese is their mother tongue, and they knew every word they said...
But when put together, suddenly I couldn't understand any of it.
Duan Ke was petrified on the spot.
…
In the lgw lounge.
Xue Lan stood there trembling with fear, but Duan Wenzheng looked normal, occasionally glancing at someone standing beside him like a primary school student.
Opposite the two of them were Xue Yuanshan and Duan Ke.
The atmosphere was tense.
Xie Zhinian, who was standing nearby, raised his hand to wipe the cold sweat from his forehead. Then he heard a knock on the door and Zhou Kanqing's voice came cautiously:
"Brother Nian, the host is calling us for an interview."
Xie Zhinian, who was called over, looked at Xue Yuanshan awkwardly: "Boss..."
"I'm not deaf, I can hear."
"..." Xie Zhinian didn't dare to speak anymore.
Xue Yuanshan rolled his eyes at Xue Lan and turned his unfriendly gaze to Duan Ke: "Boss Duan, shouldn't you explain what you just said and the report on the Internet?"
Duan Ke's expression instantly became as cowardly as Xue Lan's.
Xue Lan didn't know how to ease the awkward atmosphere at the moment, and he didn't know why Duan Ke suddenly called him when he clearly didn't accept him... And what was the report Xue Yuanshan mentioned
"that… "
Before he could open his mouth, Xue Yuanshan glared at him.
"… "
"I said this the last time you asked me." In front of the two people who immediately gave in, Duan Wenzheng explained: "If one championship can't make everyone less dissatisfied with us, then we can win two championships. If two doesn't work, then we can win three."
“This is our first championship.”
As Duan Wen Zheng spoke, he seemed to inadvertently clench Xue Lan's hand beside him, and unconsciously raised the corners of his lips as he looked at Xue Lan with horror.
Although Xue Lan was so nervous that she wanted to pull her hand out of his palm, the two of them were now facing each other's parents... Xue Lan gritted his teeth and mustered up the courage to look at Xue Yuanshan in front of him.
“Please trust us!”
Duan Ke originally wanted to put on airs in front of the two men, but at the moment there was someone who was more difficult to deal with than himself. Xue Lan, whose face was red because of nervousness but who was still trying hard to beg for mercy, was just too unlikeable... Duan Ke turned his head with a hint of softness in his heart and looked at the person next to him.
"Children's things, they grow up too..."
Xue Yuanshan looked at the two people's clasped hands with an obscure gaze, then turned to look at Duan Ke.
"..." Duan Ke choked again.
There was another knock on the door.
"Boss, boss, boss." Xie Zhinian said like a cassette tape: "Remember, remember, remember, everyone is outside the door. If you have any..."
Xue Yuanshan glared at him angrily: "You can't even speak?"
"..." Xie Zhinian wiped the sweat from his forehead awkwardly: "No, boss, what should we say to the reporters?"
"What do you mean?" Xue Yuanshan said coldly, "You were already prepared before, just say whatever you want to say."
Xie Zhinian widened his eyes in surprise.
"What's the matter?"
Xie Zhinian cleared his throat and said, "It's time for the children to receive their awards."
Xue Yuanshan took one last look at the two people in front of him and snorted coldly, "Go ahead."
Xue Lan then felt relieved and pulled Duan Wenzheng out of the lounge as if escaping.
The two of them walked quickly onto the stage with their teammates who had been waiting outside the door for a long time.
At this moment, they went from being cramped in the small room just now to being in the vast world, and Xue Lan unexpectedly regained his composure.
Until the host handed the microphone to him.
"Exist, you brought us such a wonderful game and won the championship for LGW. As far as we know, this is only the first year of your professional career! Do you have anything to say to the fans present?"
"..." Xue Lan's self-consolation of "I can do it, I can do it, no problem" just a second ago was actually an announcement of failure.
He held the microphone awkwardly and looked around at the sea of people in front of him.
In the end, he was the first to bow deeply.
"I'm sorry, and... thank you everyone." Xue Lan lowered his eyes slightly and said seriously: "Thank you all for being here, and thank you for forgiving my past mistakes. I know that some people may not be able to accept me like this, but it doesn't matter. I will take every game seriously. I will do my best to work hard with my teammates to play every game well."
"Exist is so cute when he asks questions seriously!" the foreign host joked with a smile. Just when Xue Lan was having a hard time accepting this culture and questioning style and became more nervous, she heard the host ask again: "You and Reset were so brave to announce your relationship before the game. Have you ever thought about whether fans would think that this might be related to the game if you lose the game?"
Xue Lan stood there in a daze amid the screams from the audience.
Why he can understand every word the host says.
But together.
How come he couldn't understand at all
What does losing the game have to do with this? What does it mean to be brave enough to announce a relationship
and reset? !
"… "
Xue Lan was completely stunned!!!
When did he announce his relationship with Duan Wenzheng? ! !
How come he was totally unaware?!
Xue Lan turned his head in horror and looked to the side, only to see Zhou Kanqing turning his head away awkwardly, while Duan Wenzheng was looking at him with a smile on his face, as if he hadn't noticed anything.
"… "
He was already in a mess because of the matter between Xue Yuanshan and Duan Ke, why now... He just played a game, why did the whole world change
The audience thought Xue Lan's confusion was just shyness, and screams were heard again.
"Now the boss of LGW has announced that you are his son, and said that he didn't make it public before because he didn't want such an identity to give him any privileges." The host asked again with a smile: "DW Entertainment's boss Duan Ke has previously clarified your relationship, but when he clarified your relationship, he said that you don't have any improper relationship with him, and the one who has an improper relationship with you is his son. I wonder if Reset has seen this explanation. Will he mind having such a 'rival in love'?"
"… "
Xue Lan's head was a mess again.
He now had no idea what the host was saying.
Why are post-match interviews so terrible? Can he ever go back and play another game
"We still want to answer some questions related to the competition first." Just when the host wanted to ask again, Wen Yan interrupted him calmly.
Don't reject me so directly. The host shrugged and was about to ask the next question.
"I don't have any rivals in love." Duan Wenzheng took out the contestant card from his pocket: "Excuse me, my last name is Duan."
There was a moment of dead silence in the audience.
The boss of DW Entertainment, Duan Ke... seems to have the surname Duan. According to this inference, his son should also have the surname... Duan.
After the silence, screams were heard again from the excited audience.
Even the host, who originally wanted to make things difficult intentionally or unintentionally, was stunned where he was.
"What's the next question?"
Wen Yan's words brought the host back to his senses, and he brought the question back to the competition at the end of the live interview.
“Do you have anything you want to say to the audience here and to the people who supported you before the live broadcast?”
Xue Lan handed the microphone to Lu You very naturally.
"… "
At times like these, it is time for Lu You to perform his usual praises from all sides.
"First of all, we would like to thank everyone who came to support us. We have walked through countless stadiums with faith along the way..."
Only after Lu You mechanically finished his thank-you speech did the host signal him to pass the microphone to the next person.
Wen Yan frowned in disapproval, but still took the microphone and said a concluding word of thanks. Even Xue Lan was not spared—
"I really like the line in "Dawn of the Last Days": 'I took root in the darkness before dawn and guarded the dawn, only because I have the most loyal faith behind me.' I hope that this 'Dawn of the Last Days' spirit can lead us to guard our common faith together." Xue Lan's eyes were sincere but unshakable: "Our country is a place where such loyalty and faith are condensed. As the country of origin of "Dawn of the Last Days", we look forward to the new season and everyone coming to China!"
But the interview was not over yet. With a bad feeling, Wen Yan watched Zhou Kanqing take over Xue Lan's microphone and said, "Finally, we would like to ask Team TXT if they feel good about being beaten by the people who took shortcuts."
"… "
Wen Yan sighed amid the screams of the audience, as if he had silently accepted this "team culture".
But before he could sort out his thoughts, he suddenly realized something even worse.
Not only Wen Yan, everyone turned their heads with strange expressions and looked at Duan Wenzhen who naturally took the microphone from Zhou Kanqing again.
Duan Wenzheng raised his eyebrows under such gazes, as if he didn't know why these people didn't believe him, and said in a voice more harmless than Lu You:
"Thank you for your support and love, thank you to everyone who came to watch this game, thank you to those who let us stick to our beliefs, and thank you to everyone who persisted on the road to dreams. In order to give back to everyone who does not want to be ordinary and has an indestructible belief, we will use time to prove it in every game that follows."
"Thank you LGW for bringing us such a wonderful game." After the host's closing remarks, the national flag representing the championship team was hung high in the middle of the arena: "Now I declare that the venue for the 15th Dawn of Doom World Finals is China!!"
At this moment, the expressions of several people became solemn. They stared at the rising national flag with serious attention.
Amidst flying streamers and countless excited cheers, they raised the trophy that symbolized victory together.
They fulfilled their promise and returned to their hometown with "Dawn of Doom".
The prosperity was gone, but the team members had never expected that Duan Wenzheng would say such ordinary yet inspiring words in the interview.
Just when they breathed a sigh of relief and were about to leave, they suddenly heard Duan Wenzheng say again:
“But I’m not good at English.”
“In my dictionary, faith is pronounced as… exist.”
Amid the screams of the audience and the helpless looks of several teammates, his eyes gently fell on the boy standing shoulder to shoulder with him. This prosperity will eventually come to an end, but the end is the beginning of the next story.
What never ends are the people on the road and their most steadfast beliefs as they rush towards their dreams.
Because time will be the best answer.
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