I don’t know if Shen Yanming was looking at people with tinted glasses, but when shaking hands with the opposing player before the game, Shen Yanming always felt that Moonlight looked gentle, but there was something bad hidden under his smile.
Maybe it wasn't Shen Yanming's illusion. After all, if a normal person wanted to express friendliness, he would not lift only one corner of his mouth, making the whole face unbalanced. In simple terms, his whole face was distorted.
No matter if he has bad intentions or not, everything is decided by strength. In the early years when the e-sports industry was not yet large, there were occasionally some unruly behaviors in e-sports competitions, such as judging the situation by the reactions of the audience, or even asking the audience to report points directly, or mocking on the public screen, and some more exaggerated and radical fans would throw bottles on the stage... Now the competition has long been standardized, and it is difficult for some people to make trouble even if they want to.
I don't know what Moonlight is so proud of. If we just rely on his strength, although TR is not bad either, it shouldn't make Moonlight so confident that he can show such a smug expression, right
Shen Yanming really wanted to tell him that instead of trying so hard to put on a crooked and evil smile and look like a son-in-law, he should just worry about himself.
The reason why Shen Yanming thought so, besides wanting to see the truth on the field, there was another reason -
At this moment, the pretty female commentator who was also the host walked to the first row of the audience and handed the microphone to a female audience member. The female audience member smiled shyly at the camera.
The noise in the field gradually grew louder, and Shen Yanming recognized that this was Moonlight's girlfriend.
Their image as a loving model couple is indeed deeply rooted in people's hearts. The host has already started the interview. The girlfriend said that she was originally studying in another city 2,000 kilometers away. In order to watch the Moonlight competition, she rushed to finish her homework and then asked for leave to come here. Although she missed many previous games, she finally caught up with this one.
The more Shen Yanming listened, the more uncomfortable he felt. He didn't know if this silly girl knew that her boyfriend was a love cheater. He thought that if this matter was exposed, Moonlight would basically say goodbye to his career. It was just a pity for the girl.
He glanced at Pudding, who happened to be thinking the same thing and looked over at him. The two looked at each other, Shen Yanming pursed his lips and shook his head.
He Changkong stood between the two of them, looking puzzled as they exchanged strange glances across him. He put his hand on Shen Yanming's shoulder and gave him a questioning look.
It was just an ordinary shoulder-hug, and Shen Yanming trembled unconsciously. It was not good to talk about this gossip too blatantly, so he leaned close to He Changkong's ear and said, "I'll tell you when we get back."
After saying that, Shen Yanming stood up again and waited for the host to give the order to enter the contestant room.
He Changkong touched his ear.
After the gimmick is over, we still have to play the game well.
For some reason, TMM did not arrange a training match with TR, but as the old saying goes, knowing yourself and your enemy is the key to success. Before the match, they studied a lot of TR's other games. The team's play style was quite standard. For example, they usually split into two lanes at the beginning, one for treasure hunting and the other for fighting the enemy.
Unexpectedly, for a long time after the start of the game, the milk and thorn duo wandering outside were unable to find a fight, until pudding shouted "Oh shit".
Pudding: "Four of them came over to me directly."
It is also a tactic for four people to band together and use their numbers to bully the weak, but under normal circumstances, they should prioritize besieging the more fragile output. However, these people were like crazy, ignoring the nightmare next to pudding and just surrounded pudding to attack.
This is really a bit confusing.
After a while, TR's nurse and tank even held down Nightmare and fought him, while the remaining two DPS focused their fire and used their skills on Pudding as if they were free.
Even the commentator was puzzled: "Is this a new tactic they developed? But isn't it too early to use it now?"
Generally, any new play styles and operations are kept as a last resort and will not be used in the regular season, which is not the final stage of the fierce battle. Even if the opponent is a relatively strong team, the competition system does not mean that you have to go home if you lose. The final settlement is based on points. There is no need to reveal the trump card so early.
Shen Yanming also looked confused: "Do you want us to go over?"
He Changkong asked: "Can you hold on for a while?"
pudding/nodding: "Okay, I can take it."
He Changkong marked a point on the map and said to Shen Yanming, "Two goblins have spawned here. Let's go see if we can get the buff first, and then go to provide support after we get it."
According to their usual game data, they have more than enough time to trigger a random event and then join a team battle.
At this moment, an unexpected event occurred.
Meng Yan was dragged by the opposing nanny and tank. Although they didn't have much output, one had high health and the other had longevity, like a perpetual motion machine. The skills Meng Yan used were like stones thrown into the deep sea, splashing a little water before disappearing into the water. Later, he simply didn't want to pay attention to the two. However, when he wanted to go over to help pudding fight, the nanny threw a control skill at him, and he dodged it, and after dodging it, he was further away from pudding.
After finally changing direction and jumping to Pudding's side by taking advantage of the terrain, Meng Yan aimed his previously accumulated combo at Moonlight, who was also a mage on the opposite side.
The strange thing was that Moonlight didn't even try to hide. Meng Yan thought to himself that this was bad, and shouted to Pudding, "Retreat, retreat, retreat!"
Moonlight's character took a mirror and pointed it in the direction of Pudding, reflecting the damage inflicted by Meng Yan directly onto Pudding.
This mirror is also a prop given by random events. It can reflect damage, but it is so rare that players usually don't take it too seriously. How can you fight if you are worried about the damage being reflected every time you fight? Just practice Tai Chi.
Meng Yan didn't expect that the opponent was so lucky that he got the mirror shortly after the start.
In fact, under normal circumstances, pudding can be avoided.
Now he almost dodged it, but he was still a little bit slow. He was already besieged by two output players and his health was not very healthy. Now he was hit like this and fell to the ground.
Pudding bit her lip: "... I'm sorry."
At first Meng Yan ignored him. Without pudding, he would have to fight one against four. However, a one-on-four counterattack with low health required the right time, place and people. In addition to excellent skills and psychological quality, it really depends on a little luck.
He played like a tiger, but in the end he still couldn't escape the fate of being beaten to death by the four opponents. When the bodies of the two characters fell side by side, Meng Yan turned around and took a look at Pudding.
Seeing Pudding's pale face, Meng Yan also frowned: "Tell me the truth, are you in pain again?"
The white on pudding's face now is not the white from foundation. Even if it is covered with foundation, anyone can still see that his condition is not good.
Pudding shook his head: "Really not."
He didn't lie, he didn't feel any pain.
He went home last night and had an argument with his father, who had been released from the police station at some point. Later in the argument, his father wanted to hit his mother again. He stood in front of him and his injuries were inevitably pulled, and he even suffered some secondary injuries.
It hurt at that time, and it still hurt the next day. But he secretly got a shot to seal the wound before returning to the base, so he doesn't feel the pain for now.
There should be no problem playing the game normally.
But he forgot that his mental state was not good and he overestimated himself.
The teams that made it to the second round of the regular season were not bad. Unless there were actors, it would be hard for them to be crushed. They might have to fight for their reactions at the critical moment. Just like just now, he was just a little bit late, just a little bit, maybe in the blink of an eye, he would have died.
He didn't want to make excuses: "It's indeed my fault, but it has nothing to do with the shoulder."
He Changkong said: "It's okay, just fight hard next time."
Meng Yan also said "um", "It's okay."
Shen Yanming followed suit: "Don't think about the pretty sister when you're playing."
pudding: “…Okay.”
After taking two kills from TMM, TR seemed to want to kill the remaining two in one fell swoop. Unfortunately, they failed to do so.
However, after He Changkong caught Kong and resurrected the two corpses of his team, Pudding's subsequent performance was still not satisfactory. There were no major mistakes, but he was always a beat slower at the critical moment. And it was probably a vicious cycle. The later the game went, the more Pudding felt powerless.
Compared with the relatively dull atmosphere on the tmm side, the tr side was obviously much more cheerful and full of laughter.
One of the team members teased Moonlight: "You are really good to come up with such a tactic."
moonlight just smiled.
When he first proposed to focus all firepower on pudding, others thought he was crazy. He spent a lot of effort to convince the team members that pudding would definitely be TMM's weak point in this round. Attacking a weak point is to find a breakthrough in the game, which is completely different from simply besieging pudding as a player.
But he didn't tell others how he knew pudding would be a shortcoming.
He has a pudding mentality.
If you want to mess with someone's mentality these days, you can't just make a few taunts like you did in the past. What kind of insults have you not heard after being a contestant for so long? Are you afraid of a few harmless verbal attacks from you? Not to mention that taunting someone will result in punishment.
But what he did was much more than just sarcasm - he knew it was disgusting, so he didn't tell anyone else.
It's not a well-known fact that pudding has a bad father, but it's not a secret either. Back then, pudding probably wanted to appear honest, so he would tell anyone who asked him about it.
Pudding's scumbag father was a gambler and alcoholic. When he was drunk, he would beat his wife and children at home. When Pudding was young, he could only be beaten with him. He also secretly called the police, but the police in their small place thought it was a family matter and just smoothed things over when they came. When he grew up and could resist, his father stopped beating him. Pudding thought his father had changed, until one day he came back from school early and witnessed his mother being beaten. Then he realized that his father had not changed, but just knew how to bully people when he was not around. His mother was a weak traditional housewife and did not dare to tell her son about it.
Pudding had a fight with his father at that time, and on impulse he took his mother on an overnight train to Haicheng.
He could no longer go to school and was penniless, but luckily he played some games in his spare time. He sent his rank information to all the clubs that had posted recruitment information and joined the youth training team. At the beginning, he could only get a few thousand yuan, but it was enough for the mother and son to make ends meet.
Later I heard that his father got drunk and beat someone up and was in police custody. Pudding helped his mother file a lawsuit in court, and finally his parents got divorced.
There is also a future for pudding. The game gets better and better, and finally you become the champion.
The mother and son have lived in peace and tranquility until now.
Of course, maybe Pudding didn't tell others so much about it, but after being passed down from one person to another, everyone would slowly complete the whole story. Moonlight thought that it was Pudding's fault for not protecting his privacy well. There is a reason why people say that family disgrace should not be made public.
He didn't want to do this, but his new boyfriend had hinted to him that the people in TMM looked down on him, and he lost his mind and said in front of his boyfriend that he would definitely win a game against the other party and feel proud. He just wanted to try his best to see if he could win, after all, it's hard to do such a show.
As a result, someone handed him a pillow when he was sleepy. When he was browsing the forum out of boredom, he saw a post.
The post said that a new man had moved in. He was said to be a gangster, had been in jail and was released. He kept saying to them that his son was a world champion. Others told him to stop talking, but he was furious because he could not produce any evidence.
Actually, no one paid much attention to this post. After all, it was just a boring chat, and the poster did not specifically say who the world champion was, so the post soon sank.
It just happened that moonlight saw this post when it was still on the homepage.
Moonlight recalled the old gossip he had heard when he was a youth player, and tried to contact him, only to find out that this person was actually Pudding's biological father.
He didn't do anything, just found a new SIM card and sent a message to the father, saying that your son now earns more money from playing a game than some people can earn in their entire lives, you are his father, he has to be filial to you, if you ask him for it, he will definitely give it to you. Finally, he sent Pudding's private address in Haicheng - addresses are easy to find out, and people in the circle who are close to each other can find out each other's addresses by chatting with them.
And just when the game was about to start, Moonlight did this.
He got what he wanted.
Pudding really doesn't work very well.
He felt that they would definitely win this time. If Pudding continued to play, he would definitely play worse and worse. Even if an unknown new player came on as a substitute, he might not be able to play well. Anyway, the advantage was on their side.
It was hard to concentrate when pudding was playing. He had barely managed to kick his dad out last night, but when he came to play today, he was still worried about his mother's safety. When he made a mistake, he felt that it was all because of him, and the pressure suddenly increased a lot.
Mingming has played in many competitions before, and he knows in his heart that he needs to stay calm in times like this, but he just finds it difficult to do so.
The first game was fought hard and ended in failure.
Pudding didn't say anything else. After returning to the lounge, he apologized to his brothers again. His voice sounded a little dull: "I'm not in good shape, let Ritian go up... I'm sorry, Tiantian should have played the first game. I overestimated myself." In addition to overestimating himself, he was also worried that Ritian had no experience and was afraid that he might not be able to handle it, so he decided to hold on as long as he could.
It is still necessary to review, identify problems, and avoid similar problems in the future, but this is not something that needs to be done now.
The team members saw that Pudding had a very bad face, and they knew in their hearts that he should be the one suffering the most. They had already lost, and there was no point in blaming their brothers at this time.
Meng Yan went over and put his arm around Pudding's shoulders. Usually he always complained about him, but now he couldn't say anything unpleasant. "It's okay. Just watch our show from behind. We can have a good chat after we finish fighting."
Pudding responded glumly.
The coach hesitated for a second, and finally looked at Sunday who had also come to Pudding's side: "Sunday, can you play?"
Sunday clenched his fist and nodded, with a gleam in his narrowed eyes: "I'm fine! I'm not Sunday now, I'm Ipudding Plus, I'm going to use the will of my Ding Ding Hiong to beat them up!"
Sunday's Mandarin was really bad, and the word "will" sounded like "last will". Pudding's pale face finally showed a little smile. He touched Sunday's head and said, "You don't have to say it so horribly. I'm still alive..."
Sunday nudged him and said: "I will fight hard."
Shen Yanming came over and patted Pudding on the shoulder: "Have a good rest, Brother Dingding."
Pudding now felt like he was at some scenic spot. Everyone who came over had to put their handprint here to show they had been there. Even He Changkong came over and patted him on the shoulder.
Pudding let out a long sigh.
The remaining few people discussed the next battle plan with the coach and manager.
Shen Yanming didn't know what exactly happened, but looking at the reactions of Zhuo Minxing and Moonlight before they went on stage, he now had a vague idea.
When he was provoked by Zhuo Minxing and others, Shen Yanming just thought they were crazy and bluffing, and didn't think too much about it.
A person cannot be overconfident for no reason unless he guesses the outcome in advance.
Moonlight and his team were so ambitious, and with that bizarre style of play, it's likely that they knew there would be problems with Pudding.
Of course, he was being too absolute in thinking this way, but if this was possible...
Maybe TR and the others could predict in advance that there would be a substitution in the second game.
However, apart from Shen Yanming and his friends, no one else knows very much about Sunday. Even the people in Team 2 don't know where this person comes from.
The main reason is that the ID "Liu Ritian" is too offensive, so the club decided not to disclose the identity after discussion, so as not to affect the image. Therefore, almost no one outside knows that Sunday is Liu Ritian, the first tank among passers-by.
Moreover, Sunday had never been in the youth training team before. He just played with the people in Team 1 directly, so it was difficult for others to know what his strength was.
Shen Yanming pulled his hat and said solemnly: "If someone messes with our brothers, we must beat him back ten times as hard."
In fact, he felt that he had spoken lightly. With new hatred and old grudges added to them, he would not be able to vent his anger unless he beat them back a hundred times.
Sunday raised his arms and shouted, and used an idiom: "I agree, tooth for tooth!"
For some reason, Meng Yan corrected this insignificant pronunciation error: "Also, second tone."
Sunday: "Give it back! Let them give their teeth back!"
Meng Yan: "... Oh, that's not how it's used."
Shen Yanming expressed his thoughts: "TR won a game, and they may think that our morale is low, and they don't know how Ritian plays... In fact, we have played many games with Ritian, and there is absolutely no problem with cooperation. But they don't know that they will definitely observe Ritian's performance at the beginning of the next game."
Others agreed with him.
Shen Yanming added: "We can use their own tricks to trick Ritian into making some small mistakes that are within our control, and then we can lure him into the trap."
He Changkong: "Catching a turtle in a jar."
Shen Yanming looked at He Changkong in surprise: "You cursed."
He Changkong: “?”
Shen Yanming: "You said they are cuckolds."
He Changkong paused for a moment, then smiled and rubbed Shen Yanming's head through his hat.
A few people got together again to discuss how to do it specifically.
Before going on stage, everyone once again used pudding as a place to check in, and this time everyone pressed it on his head.
Pudding was angry: "You guys messed up my ponytail!"
Shen Yanming walked out laughing: "Hahahaha, I finally got my revenge for having my hair damaged by dyeing."
At the beginning of the second game, TMM and the others did as planned. When the opponent attacked, Sunday deliberately did not dodge and even made a strange move.
Meng Yan seemed to be hiding behind a rock on purpose. Logically, the deeper he hid, the better, so that he would not be discovered by the enemy so quickly. However, Sunday's movement directly exposed Meng Yan to the enemy's vision.
If they could hear the reactions of the audience or see the comments in the live broadcast at this time, they would be able to hear the curses.
People said all kinds of things. They said that Pudding's poor performance was unexpected, and he was even worse when he came on as a substitute. There was no doubt that he was doomed to fail.
The players on TR's side were also still immersed in a happy and peaceful atmosphere. They were originally worried whether the substitutes who came on would be a killer.
The result, that's it? That's it
The tmm team members could actually guess that the other people’s reactions would probably be like this.
But they didn't take it to heart.
At this moment, Shen Yanming replaced He Changkong's usual position and took charge of this game - after all, he was the one who basically thought of how to play this game.
He and He Changkong squatted silently on the tree, staring closely at the situation below.
It seems that Meng Yan was the one in ambush. TR must have thought that the ambush would be useless if it was discovered. They were still thinking about capturing Meng Yan, but they didn't expect that their current situation is exactly in line with the saying "the mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind".
"Attention, all departments. The turtle is coming. The operation to catch the turtle begins now—" Shen Yanming blew a whistle and glanced at He Changkong next to him. "Brother Kong, I'm going to jump down. Remember to protect me!"
"Well," He Changkong covered Shen Yanming the moment he landed, "Go ahead and don't worry."