The knocks on the door made Xue Lan nervous again, and he subconsciously wanted to push Duan Wenzheng under the bed again.
Duan Wenzheng held his hand, his face darkening: "Come again?"
"… "
Xue Lan was choked by him and was about to explain his subconscious reaction, but Duan Wenzheng had already walked past him and opened the door of the room as if nothing happened.
Standing outside the door was Zhou Xiqing, who was about to raise his fist to knock on the door again.
Zhou Xinqing had just raised his fist, but when he saw the person inside the door, he was so scared that he withdrew his hand instantly.
"You, you, you, why are you in Lanlan's room?!"
Duan Wenzheng looked at the late night uninvited guest and said coldly: "If you have something to say, please say it quickly. If not, get out of here."
"… "
Looking at the animal that suddenly turned into a dog in front of him, Zhou Qing, who was originally feeling guilty, suddenly realized that it was not his turn to feel guilty at this time? !
He immediately rolled up his sleeves and said, "Duan Wenzheng, can you please restrain yourself a little? I just happened to catch someone cheating, how come you don't have any sense at all?"
Duan Wenzheng raised his eyebrows, without any shame on his face. Instead, he turned around and shouted behind him: "Come and catch me if you can..."
Before he could finish his words, Xue Lan covered his mouth at the speed of a 100-meter sprint: "W-what's the matter!!"
"..." Zhou Qing originally wanted to curse, but he took it back awkwardly after seeing Xue Lan. He scratched his head and said, "It's nothing..."
"Nothing, why are you knocking on the door in the middle of the night?" Duan Wenzheng said unkindly.
"..." Zhou Xinqing was choked again, and rolled his eyes in anger: "Why are you being so polite? You know it's the middle of the night, what are you doing?"
"Me?" Duan Wenzheng sneered and pushed Xue Lan's hand away: "Of course I am..."
"What are you doing?"
The sudden sound startled all three of them. They looked sideways in panic and saw a man standing at the end of the corridor.
"Team Captain..." Zhou Qing almost bit his tongue. He answered subconsciously: "I don't have me. I am not me. I am just the road..."
"We are discussing the tactics for the next game together!" Xue Lan was so shocked that he quickly interrupted him.
Zhou Qing heard Xue Lan speak so loudly for the first time, and was startled for a moment. When Wen Yan turned to him, all kinds of thoughts turned over in his mind, and finally he nodded stiffly: "Yes, let's discuss tactics."
Wen Yan's expression was tense, and he obviously didn't believe such words.
Duan Wenzheng broke away from Xue Lan's hand and asked unkindly, "Why, do you want to join?"
"You?!" Wen Yan's face instantly turned pale. He turned his gaze to Xue Lan and lowered his voice: "Come out with me."
Xue Lan felt that he still had not escaped the disaster. He walked around the two people on his side dejectedly and walked towards Wen Yan.
But he had just taken two steps when the man behind him grabbed him by the collar.
"Captain, it's so late, can't we wait until tomorrow to talk about it?"
Wen Yan's gaze turned to Duan Wenzheng and said coldly: "What tactics are you discussing so late at night?"
The tense atmosphere between the two teams once again made Xue Lan furious. He didn't understand why the two teams, who were fine during the afternoon ranking, were now tense again. Could it be...
Yes, Wen Yan must have misunderstood the relationship between him and Duan Wenzheng! !
He thought of this and hurriedly grabbed Duan Wenzheng: "Captain, you must have something important to talk to me about! You should go and rest first. I will continue to discuss tactics tomorrow."
Duan Wenzhen's face turned as dark as the bottom of a pot in an instant.
He seemed like he wanted to say something, but in the end he opened his lips and still didn't speak.
Xue Lan breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly followed Wen Yan's footsteps, walking downstairs with him.
In the dark night, Wen Yan walked out of the club and went to the 24-hour convenience store nearby. Xue Lan followed him all the way, but he didn't stop to talk. He followed him again in confusion.
Wen Yan didn't stay in the convenience store for long. He just bought two bottles of drinks and returned to the door of the club with Xue Lan after paying the bill. He didn't open the door, but sat down by the stairs in front of the door, and put a bottle of drink beside him, motioning Xue Lan to sit next to him.
Xue Lan walked over nervously, hesitated, and sat down beside him.
The scene seemed familiar, Xue Lan lowered his eyes and looked at the drink beside him, which was still the drink he gave to Wen Yan in the name of Duan Wenzheng. Wen Yan seemed to have kept the same habit since that day, but now Xue Lan saw this scene, and only guilt remained in his heart.
Guilt towards Wen Yan.
It's like a greedy child coveting other people's gifts.
Seeing that he hadn't finished, Wen Yan unscrewed the bottle for him and handed it back to him.
Xue Lan took it, and felt even more guilty. Before he could speak, Wen Yan said:
"Brother Nian wants Duan Wenzheng and I to take over the dual endorsement of "Dawn of Doom". What do you think about this?"
"..." Xue Lan didn't know why Wen Yan suddenly wanted to meet him. He looked at Wen Yan steadily and said hesitantly: "Very, very good, it would be great if you can endorse it together!"
"What about you? Do you want to take on an endorsement with Duan Wenzheng?"
Xue Lan felt his scalp tingling for a moment.
Why would Wen Yan have such a problem with himself
Did he think he was coveting his and Duan Wenzheng's dual generation? But how was that possible? Not to mention that he knew that the dual generation in the original text was the most glamorous part of resetwind, why would he want to steal Wen Yan's things...
But when he thought of his feelings for Duan Wenzhen, his heart felt like it was crushed by something again.
He took a deep breath.
"Captain, there's really nothing going on between me... and Duan Wenzheng, don't get me wrong." Xue Lan gritted his teeth and said word by word, "I will keep my distance from him in the future. I, I never thought of snatching your endorsement or anything. I'm sorry..."
Wen Yan didn't say anything for a long while. He looked at the nervous Xue Lan beside him and said, "I... didn't mean that."
"But it's true that you need to keep your distance from him." Wen Yan sighed, and then said, "Because the situation is just the opposite, I hope you can take over the endorsement of "Dawn of Doom" on my behalf."
“?!”
Xue Lan was completely stunned where he stood.
He seemed to be in deep self-doubt, wondering if he was hallucinating.
What Wen Yan said...
Said he hoped that he could take over the endorsement of "Dawn of Doom" in his place? !
And he said to keep a distance, is it because of the endorsement
But what is the connection between these things... These two things don't seem like they can be connected together.
“No, no, no…” Xue Lan was so scared that he quickly shook his head and waved his hands: “I really didn’t want to steal your endorsement, Captain, don’t get me wrong, I…”
"Don't be nervous." Wen Yan was rarely amused by his nervousness, and shook his head helplessly: "I hope you can take over the endorsement. There are personal reasons of my own that I cannot take over this endorsement, but it is not convenient for me to tell you now. But don't worry, I don't have any obsession with these things, and I really hope you can take over the endorsement on my behalf."
Xue Lan was unable to digest Wen Yan's words for a moment. He was silent for a while before he suddenly understood what Wen Yan wanted to express.
Wen Yan's hand injury, at some level, would be considered commercial fraud if there was any problem.
This is the concern mentioned in the original text. Wen Yan would consider this at this time, and he was also afraid that his own problems would affect the club, so he came to consult him.
Although he has some concerns, he will get Duan Wenzheng's comfort and secret help. The two of them get closer and closer because of the same secret. Finally, after the endorsement, they officially open up to each other and get together.
so…
All these concerns will be easily resolved.
However, Xue Lan couldn't let Wen Yan know that he was aware of his injuries.
"Captain, you and Duan Wenzheng are the most suitable representatives." Xue Lan said seriously and slowly, thinking carefully: "No matter what your concerns are, there will be solutions for everything. I just want to play the game well. If, if there is nothing else, I will go back first..."
"Wait a moment." Wen Yan called him again.
"Xue Lan." Wen Yan stood up and said solemnly: "This is the decision of my captain... and also the request of my friend."
As he spoke, he slowly pulled up his hanging sleeves under the dim light. Beneath the cuffs were heavily wrapped bandages.
Xue Lan's eyes were fixed on the bandage, and he was a little dazed for a moment.
Wen Yan would only put on a bandage when he had no other choice, because some things were hard to hide, and once they were discovered, it would be hard to explain the reason. In the original text, Wen Yan's injury worsened during the finals, so he gritted his teeth and put on a bandage to rush to the stadium.
But how could Wen Yan be...
Why would he tell himself this
Xue Lan was completely unable to react for a moment, wondering what was going on.
"I was injured accidentally in the previous seasons." Wen Yan said lightly, "But the situation has not been optimistic recently. If this incident affects the endorsement, it will not only be a problem for me, but also for the entire team. Xue Lan, I have thought about this matter for a long time and have considered it carefully. I hope you can just help me... and help LGW."
Xue Lan still found it hard to accept such a thing. He waved his hands and said, "I really can't do it, and, and..."
Xue Lan couldn't say something like "The captain's hands won't be a problem."
Because he knew better than anyone that such words were like adding another mountain to Wen Yan's shoulders.
"Xue Lan." Wen Yan lowered his head: "I know it's irresponsible to put certain things on your shoulders, but if one day I really... can't compete anymore, I hope that LGW can also hold up at that time... Now I and LGW both need you."
"I'll give you some time to think it over, and you don't need to feel any psychological burden."
"but… "
"The nature of endorsements is the same. E-sports players should still focus on the game. I hope you can concentrate on the game after accepting the endorsement and avoid any negative events, including... romance. Because you will be pushed to the forefront, and any step you take may affect the reputation, public opinion and the entire team. I don't want to put too much pressure on you, but LGW is the hard work of both me and your father..."
"I wanted to give you more time, but I... may not be able to wait that long."
"Xue Lan." Wen Yan pressed his shoulder heavily: "Just once, I hope you can help me."
…
Xue Lan returned to the room in a daze. The room was empty and there was no one there.
He sat quietly by the bed until the sky turned pale again.
The team stepped up their training for the upcoming game, and after the evening training, the three teams would line up and broadcast live. Wen Yan asked Xue Lan and Duan Wenzheng to take turns broadcasting live. Although the atmosphere of the three teams' game was not harmonious, it attracted countless live viewers.
The number of fans of Xue Lan and Duan Wenzheng has increased significantly.
only-
Since that day, Xue Lan often deliberately avoided Duan Wenzheng. The two of them had no communication except for the necessary words during training, and even if they happened to meet in the corridor, Xue Lan would lower his head and walk away quickly.
Duan Wenzheng also gradually fell silent.
There seemed to be an invisible wall between the two rooms, and the atmosphere became increasingly depressing as time passed.
In the same atmosphere, two pieces of news were heard by the crowd - a good news that could not be called good news, and a bad news that could not be called bad news.
The good news, which cannot be considered good news, is that the Thunder Team lost the game against the BTR Team, and they suddenly found themselves in a similar predicament as the Glory Team—if they lost another game, they would be forced to enter the Candidates Resurrection Match; and the bad news, which cannot be considered bad news, is that their opponent in the next game will be the Thunder Team, and they became more serious and depressed.
On the last night before the game.
After the training session was over, Wen Yan formed a team again and signaled Xue Lan to start the live broadcast.
"The game is tomorrow, are you still busy?" Zhou Qingqing said while yawning.
Wen Yan said: "There is a game tomorrow, so we will just play one game today and then go to rest."
Zhou Yuqing rubbed his hands in preparation: "Tomorrow we will play against Lei Ting, our old rival for so long, we must send him back home!!"
Xue Lan opened the live broadcast room and began to use his mobile phone to browse the recent game materials of the Thunder Team. He had read these materials countless times, and now that the game was approaching, he still took the time to take them out and read them repeatedly.
But when he looked up, he found that the barrage in his live broadcast room had exploded again.
This time, the barrage was not because of Duan Wenzhen or Wen Yan, but because of one thing - the people opposite him at this moment were Yuan Haoran, Liu Qi and Deng Ruiqiu from the Thunder Team.
The conflict between Yuan Haoran and Wen Yan was well known to everyone, and it was a result of years of accumulated conflicts. The relationship between Deng Ruiqiu and Xue Lan was also subtle in the eyes of the public.
In addition, tomorrow is the official match between the two teams—
They actually met in the top three qualifying before the game?!
The atmosphere in Xue Lan's live broadcast room instantly reached an unprecedented peak.
He subconsciously turned to Wen Yan and Duan Wenzheng beside him.
"The other side only has three people." Wen Yan calmly adjusted the configuration: "Don't be nervous."
Xue Lan seemed to have taken a reassurance pill and turned his gaze back to the screen. He did not turn on the microphone at this moment. After listening to Wen Yan's words, he also treated it seriously as a casual training match.
"Abandon the main path, I will take another path."
Under Wen Yan's command, Xue Lan and he moved along the path towards the enemy camp.
The three of them had cooperated countless times, so there was no need for too much talk for this cooperation. Not long after, they successfully cooperated to separate Deng Ruiqiu's three men and two road teammates after a team battle, and then took the opportunity to lead Yuan Haoran and Deng Ruiqiu to an abandoned factory building.
There was a factory building there. Duan Wenzheng had quietly hidden there when the two of them started planning.
Under the siege of three groups, Yuan Haoran realized something was wrong and took Deng Ruiqiu to hide in a small room on the third floor.
In that position, it was difficult for Duan Wenzheng to aim and shoot. If he tried to break through, he could only turn the 3v2 situation back into a 2v2 with no numerical advantage.
Wen Yan made a decision after a brief thought.
"You go up from the left side, I'll go up from the right side. Once you're outside the door, follow my instructions and rush through."
"receive."
Xue Lan followed Wen Yan's instructions and slid up the stairs from the left, but heard Wen Yan say again: "There is an abandoned instrument at the door of this room. Don't rush in immediately. After entering the room, remember to pay attention to the other party's position and hide behind the instrument for a while."
Xue Lan was confused.
For such a charge, he would generally find the right time to break through in one fell swoop. If he wanted to use cover as a buffer, he would have to look for the next opportunity to break through, and he might even be defeated by the enemy and miss the opportunity.
But at that moment, he heard Wen Yan's order to rush out.
Xue Lan immediately broke through the tightly closed iron door and rushed into the room.
Following Xue Lan's order, Yuan Haoran and Deng Ruiqiu, who were hiding in the room, opened fire instantly.
Xue Lan nimbly avoided the hail of bullets. He glanced at the place where the two were hiding and rolled behind the shelter that Wen Yan had set.
But he suddenly discovered that Wen Yan did not rush out the door with him!
Xue Lan was stunned. He turned his head in astonishment and looked at Wen Yan beside him.
Wen Yan had already taken his hands off the keyboard and his eyes were on him.
Xue Lan opened his lips, but the words he had no time to say were interrupted by the sound of gunfire from Yuan Haoran and Deng Ruiqiu. Xue Lan quickly turned his gaze back to the game and avoided the gunshots from both sides with a serious face.
Even if he was dumb at this moment, he guessed what Wen Yan meant.
Wen Yan had planned to let him rush in alone from the beginning, so he gave those special instructions before rushing in. Or, he might have secretly thought of such a plan since he lined up with the third person on the opposite side, so he led him to the front step by step.
If Xue Lan were to single out Deng Ruiqiu or Yuan Haoran, he wouldn't feel that there was anything he couldn't do.
But now there are two people on the opposite side.
One is a new attacker, and the other is a veteran professional attacker.
It is not a lineup of assaulters and medics, but a "cleaver team" that can take him away in one wave.
Xue Lan quickly took the blood-recovering injection and opened the map again to check the location of the three people.
At the moment, he was in the corner of the room, while Yuan Haoran and Deng Ruiqiu were at the other end of the room. If he forced his way in, the biggest possibility was that he would be directly picked into a hornet's nest by the two attackers.
While Xue Lan was taking the injection, he secretly decided to wait until the two people on the opposite side came to find him.
The barrage was already filled with words expressing confusion about Wen Yanxing and doubts about Xue Lan's ability, but Xue Lan ignored them all. He patiently lay low in the distance, just waiting for the other party's patience to run out so that they could rush towards him.
Xue Lan made the right bet.
At this moment, there were two other teammates in the factory besides Xue Lan, and the other two teammates were relatively far away, and the follow-up support was obviously unable to maintain the same as Xue Lan's.
Deng Ruiqiu was the first one who couldn't bear it anymore and was surprised.
Yuan Haoran did not agree at first, but seeing that Deng Ruiqiu had already stood out, he could only spit inwardly and followed.
But just when the two men were attacking from the left and right, Deng Ruiqiu, who had broken through the cover, suddenly heard a crisp sound under his feet, and a hand grenade rolled down to his feet without any warning!
He hurriedly tried to take advantage of the momentum to continue rushing forward, but just then, thick fog appeared in front of him.
The world under the fog was full of unpredictability, but the grenade area under his feet was unclear and there was thick fog in front of him. Deng Ruiqiu resolutely stepped into the foggy area in front of him after thinking for a moment.
The sound of footsteps could be heard faintly in the smoke.
He knew that his captain Yuan Haoran had also fallen into the smoke.
The emotions of the two people fell into extreme tension. With the sound of the grenade exploding, the two people quickly found each other in the smoke.
"Where is your name?" Yuan Haoran said angrily.
"How should I know?" Deng Ruiqiu also said in a bad tone.
His answer made Yuan Haoran very dissatisfied. Yuan Haoran scolded: "Didn't you just encounter this? Forget about the mistakes in the previous game, but why are you so bad now?"
Deng Ruiqiu's face was gloomy, but he did not respond.
His sight swept across the gradually fading mist, and in the world after the mist cleared, he vaguely caught a glimpse of a figure standing right in front of him!
“Over there!!”
Deng Ruiqiu shouted subconsciously, and at the same time he raised his gun and shot at the shadow in the mist. Yuan Haoran behind him also reacted immediately, raised his gun and was about to shoot in the direction of Deng Ruiqiu's report.
But just as they both raised their guns, in the room where the smoke was gradually dissipating, a bullet had already broken through the air along with the swirling and dissipating smoke, followed by - two... three!
At this moment, Yuan Haoran and Deng Ruiqiu were standing in a vertical row at Xue Lan's angle. At the moment when the two men raised their guns and tried to change their positions, three bursts of bullets were aimed at the heads of the two men at once, three shots in a row! !
On the screen of Xue Lan's live broadcast perspective, there were Yuan Haoran and Deng Ruiqiu's heads overlapping front and back!
The same headshot gun, three bullets, as long as two hit the target, with the same overlapping angle, both opponents can be taken away in one fell swoop!
The crowd in the live broadcast room that was noisy just now has now fallen into dead silence. Everyone couldn't help but stare with bated breath as the bullet followed its trajectory, cut through the drifting smoke, and rushed straight towards the two people!
The speed at which the bullets were fired was unavoidable, and Deng Ruiqiu could only watch the bullets flying towards him!
But at that moment, Yuan Haoran behind him took advantage of the situation and fell to the side. The bullet that passed by Deng Ruiqiu and then broke through the mist along the trajectory just barely grazed his arm!
After all, Yuan Haoran was a veteran player who had dominated the arena for many years. Before he could stagger to his side and stand firmly, he had already repositioned the gun and pulled the trigger in the direction of Xue Lan!