Regarding Yu Xiao's failure to study and go to participate in WCG, there are still great opinions at home, which was a holiday training camp before, which did not affect others, but after the start of the new school year, Yu Xiao still has to stay in the capital to compete, so he will not do it at home.

"What do you think, you don't go to school anymore, and you don't want your graduation certificate? Then what are you going to do in the future, without a diploma, what can you do if you don't play games?"

"Look at Cheng Ran, they are all science champions, and they haven't messed around like you......"

"Cheng Ran supports you?...... Cheng Ran can't support you......"

Yu Xiao stayed in the capital to continue playing, and then the school in Rongcheng started, and the school could only be suspended, which meant that his studies were interrupted, and it would be difficult for Yu Xiao to get a degree certificate. This matter was very noisy, so Yu Xiao's parents also called Cheng Ran and asked Cheng Ran to persuade Yu Xiao to go back to school.

Entrusted by Yu Xiao's parents, Cheng Ran could only contact Yu Xiao again for him to consider, if it was affected by emotional failure, it was not necessary, it was equivalent to escaping.

As a result, Yu Xiao's reply on the phone was quite eloquent," My aunt is in Rongcheng, you know, she lives on the other side of the Funan River, before my aunt walked out from the mountains and seas, my mother used to tell me about my aunt's deeds, how to come out and work hard alone, the family is unfortunate, fortunately, there is a sister of mine, my sister is big, save money, how not easy, my sister got married that year, she cried into tears, everyone knows how difficult she is, then my sister has a child, so I helped take care of the child, I went to see them, saw my aunt's temples white and ran with the child who had just walked, suddenly there was a moment to feel, as if people are such a cycle, young and strong, find a stable job, and then get married and have children, the focus is on the child, half a life has passed, the child's child is born, and then he continues to help take care of the child...... When I thought about it, I suddenly felt scared...... It seems that I also see what my life will look like now, in a few years, in decades......"

"I'm not like you, Cheng Ran. You have your own goals, you know what you do, you suddenly woke up when you were in middle school, and now even if you are not at Tsinghua University and Peking University, you are at HKUST, I know that you will definitely succeed in your studies and make your own career......

But I'm different, I have self-knowledge, my biggest self-knowledge is to understand that I don't have a career that I naturally love, and there is a high probability that I won't be able to find it in the future, if I graduate in the future, then I will definitely look for a job step by step like everyone else, maybe just be an office worker, 9 to 5, and become a member of those who crowd the bus every morning.

Otherwise, I would have listened to my mother's civil service exam, and maybe my family would have a relationship to make it easy for me to become a clerk or something, and live a semi-retired life of making a cup of tea in the office and spreading newspapers early......

But Cheng Ran, just such a life...... I can't breathe when I think about it, I don't want to live this life. I have a talent for playing games, I can do it, and now that the name e-sports has been proposed, I have caught up, and I can even go out to play games and win glory for the country, and now everyone looks at computer games like watching a flood of beasts, and someone has to tell them that games can also be a kind of intellectual competition, and it is up to people like me to change this impression and perception......"

"Really...... Super secondary two. Cheng Ran thought for a while over there and said, "But...... And very sincerely. But your parents asked me to persuade you, don't think that I took you into the pit, what do you say that I support you, your parents will hate me at that time. ”

"You're not afraid. One world, two brothers, or you will carry this pot. You just tell them casually, if I can't find a job without education or something in the future, you can just open a back door for me, and you can give me a place in the Tianxing Gym...... It's okay for me to be a network administrator, just rely on you as the boss, and I'm afraid that my brother won't have anything to eat......"

Cheng Ran sighed, "It's not like I'm just saying it, your father is already planning to leave to look for you, just reveal this point, you can do it yourself......"

"Lying down...... This time it's dead, it's dead......"

Yu Xiao's father finally went to the capital to find him, and three days after going to the capital, Yu Xiao's father, who was tasked with Yu Xiao's mother and all the relatives and friends who heard this, recalled Yu Xiao's father, and returned to Rongcheng with his bags.

Alone.

In the face of Yu Xiao's mother's tearful questioning, the father of Yu Xiao, who had two drinks with the coach and the owner of the game company, visited Yu Xiao's accommodation and Internet café, and finally left Yu Xiao a thousand yuan, and took the train back to Rongcheng under the farewell of the boss of the game company, persuaded on the side, "The children have grown up in the end, I will go back to see it this time, it is quite regular, and I will pay them a full-time salary, 2,000 per month...... He has a good level of technique, the coach said that he has a flexible brain, and he is one of the three people who are most likely to go to South Korea, and they are very optimistic about him. He'll be back from the finals in a while, so he can continue to take classes at that time, and then go back when he goes to South Korea......"

Yu Xiao's mother was anxious again, only to know that she should not find this man who is better than her own son, her son's cow is stubborn and difficult to pull back, but the one next to her will follow the cow's rope and drag it into the ditch, "It's nice to say, it's intermittent, what kind of book is this, can you learn something, can you pass the exam, if you can't pass the exam, the school won't give you a graduation certificate, and your youth will be wasted!"

Yu Xiao's father coughed, "Hey, you can still think of a way halfway, the University of Electronic Science and Technology and Fulong have a good relationship...... When the time comes, find a relationship, dredge and dredge, I believe that a graduation certificate is still possible......"

Yu Xiao's mother stopped crying, and looked at her husband, who had probably made up her mind, her eyes rolled, "Really!?"

......

Then everyone has been paying attention to Yu Xiao's affairs, and in October, he advanced to the top 16.

The photos of Yishui players on the official website of the Asian Union list Yu Xiao's photos and names, and the artistic photos of holding his arms are still a bit handsome.

The title is "Eight Major City Legions - Imperial City Battle!"

Now in the interstellar section of the forum of the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, where Yu Xiao is located, there are people who know Yu Xiao, who is nicknamed "skykill", and is called the person who wants to live every day.

Sometimes Cheng Ran looks at it and feels tsk, look at this nickname, it is a completely different style from Yu Xiao in ordinary life. It's really in the game that Yu Xiao will incarnate into this kind of demon king-level existence.

Liu Ying also called, smiled and said, "I saw Yu Xiao's photo ......", in the Q group chat established between friends, Yao Beibei will also take the link on the official website Aite Yu Xiao, saying "There is a future, ......", Yu Xiao will joke with Yao Beibei in his free time, and the people next to him will be happy.

But overall, there is still an expectation, like seeing Yu Xiao reach the top eight on the official website, or the top four. That's almost the limit of what can be imagined, but everyone hasn't thought much about it in the future, after all, Yu Xiao has not been a person who can carry the Ding since he was a child.

But in the end, Yu Xiao also entered the quarterfinals. After all, it is not a big company at this time, and human resources are limited, so it is sent to the extent of news broadcasts.

In November, the battle for hegemony in the imperial city came to an end, Xie Feibai called, because Yu Xiao had been in contact with Cheng Ran before the beginning of this period of time, reporting his state, and the two sometimes discussed techniques and tactics, although Cheng Ran said that he had two souls, but to be honest, the game was not played much, there was no such condition when he was in college, and naturally he could not have a free and full college life like ordinary people, and now at the level of the national team like Yu Xiao, all the tactics of the prophets are useless, and the average number of rounds played every day makes normal people smack, what kind of tactical tactics have been practiced and encounteredThe problem is to guess the opponent's thinking when you really play.

It stands to reason that it was the end time of the game, but it was Xie Feibai's call, "Only the top three in the comprehensive strength of the Chinese finals are eligible to go to South Korea to participate in the interstellar competition, and Yu Xiao is fourth, it seems that he can't go to South Korea." ”

After this matter was made public, a group of people who knew Yu Xiao and also paid attention to it felt regretful.

Everyone comforted him in the Q group, but Yu Xiao didn't reply. The call went over and no one answered.

In the end, he only answered Cheng Ran's phone, Yu Xiao said that he didn't regret it, really, he was able to see all the great gods he had heard about before, and in the end, he was able to compete together, which was like a dream, and he couldn't go on in the end, but most people are not like this.

The top four are already very powerful, although maybe in a few years, no one will know him who is the top four, at least this experience is very meaningful, just like Lao Tzu knows you Cheng Ran, you can blow for a lifetime.

......

When Yu Xiao packed his things and was about to go home, the coach asked him to stay for a few more days, because the visas to South Korea had not been fully processed, so it was on the safe side. In the end, there was a business trip, and there was a problem with the visa of the third player, and it was too late to reapply for it, so Yu Xiao came on as a substitute and qualified to go to South Korea to compete.

Seoul, South Korea, will bring together more than 400 players from 37 countries and regions.

Yu Xiao became one of them.

In mid-December, Cheng Ran took a leave of absence from HKUST and went to South Korea with Cheng Qi as a representative of Lianzhong, and Xie Feibai followed.

The interstellar event that the Chinese team participated in in Seoul is not advantageous in the individual competition, and it is unlikely to win the championship of the project, everyone arrived to find that WCG also has an interstellar doubles project, and hurriedly registered Yu Xiao and another player named "Adi", the two cooperated with each other in the capital, and had considerable experience, and the 22 items were temporarily on the battlefield, and the two of them were the most suitable.

In the interstellar individual event, the Chinese team lost one after another, and the best results were not ranked, Yu Xiao lost against an American player "DHLII", and the American player was defeated in the quarterfinals.

But the 2v2 project is unexpectedly stale.

has been staggering to the top of the pyramid to the finals.

Originally, Lianzhong sent Vice President Ren Qi to this event, but because Cheng Ran was going to help Yu Xiao, Cheng Qi also went with him.

When a group of people arrived, the WCG pavilion area in Seoul was of course incomparable with later generations from Cheng Ran's eyes, and this era was really a little simple. However, the tense, dazzling, and enthusiastic atmosphere is the same no matter what the period.

Cheng Qi refused to give him some special treatment from the organizers, and some of the projects were rejected as award presenters, or speeches before the opening, all of which were rejected together, this is still the home of Samsung and the South Korean government, and the Chinese co-organizers are actually making up their popularity, just like the Asian League game under the jurisdiction of Lianzhong, that is, to bear the cost of the competition in China, Seoul competition, all the expenses of the players' accommodation and board, are covered by Samsung Electronics, and the wealth is abundant. This was the necessary global marketing for Samsung to enter the world market as an international giant at that time, which was different from Fulong's strategy of large-scale construction in various places.

Cheng Qi, who did not participate in all commercial activities, went to the venue with Cheng Ran and Xie Feibai casually in those two days, watched the Chinese team with four events, ate Korean snacks and food that did not suit the taste, and arrived at Yu Xiao on the day of the game.

In the interstellar 2v2 finals, Yu Xiao "Skykill", and the Chinese team represented by "Adi" played the two famous world-class masters of the German team, "Kimo" and "Fish Bubble Eye".

It was a really tight match. The intensity of the two sides was forced to a 2-2 draw at one point.

After all, the venue is not big, but the thousands of spectators at the scene are already boiling, and countless people cheer and shout for this white-hot game.

When it was the most intense, Cheng Ran also left his seat, and shook his fist with Xie Feibai and Cheng Qi, and he couldn't lose his momentum.

The match ended in a flat putt, and the Chinese team won the championship.

At that moment, the audience applauded.

Cheng Ran saw Yu Xiao and his teammates, who were almost in collapse in the seat, took off their headphones, looked at the applause and shouts in all directions, and could see that their faces were still blank in a state of confusion.

Champion of the Chinese team.

Yu Xiao - the first WCG Interstellar Doubles Champion!

Yu Xiao took a photo in front of the podium, which was taken by Cheng Ran, it was two people standing in front of the host's podium, behind them was "THE 1st WORLD......" background stage, two people held a five-star red flag on the left and right, Yu Xiao crossed his legs, standing there very domineeringly, but the posture was not very elegant, the other hand held the corner of the national flag, shrugged his shoulders, and raised his arms hard. Later, according to Yu Xiao, his head was blank, and he hadn't recovered from the information about winning the championship.

$6,000 bonus. Yu Xiao divided half and got 3,000,25,000 yuan.

After returning to China, Yu Xiao was treated like a hero, and the Central Channel 5 Sports Channel has begun to pay attention to e-sports, and soon the five sets will broadcast a program dedicated to e-sports at five or six o'clock in the afternoon, that is to say, at that time, you will be able to see the interstellar and various events on TV like watching live broadcasts in later generations, and the Central Channel 5 interviewed Yu Xiao.

Local newspapers in Rongcheng reported on Yu Xiao's deeds, neighbors encouraged children with his deeds, and relatives and friends praised him everywhere. Even in the Fulong compound, everyone gave a thumbs up when they talked about Yu Xiao. The villain, who didn't study, stopped classes, and ran to play games, instantly became a positive character.

Yu Xiao found Cheng Ran after being interviewed, and the kid's expression had a smug expression that couldn't be concealed, "I'm twenty years old." Remember when we were kids, we made a bet?"

Cheng Ran was stunned, "What bet?"

"It's just that when you and I are twenty years old, whoever will be famous will be more famous......" The kid gestured to him with a "yes!" gesture, and teased him, "Now it seems that buddy, I am one step ahead." ”

Cheng Ran couldn't laugh or cry, "Get out, you can stand like this, soldier!"

Cheng Ran looks like he is talking about the building of the Marine Corps built by the Terrans in the interstellar game. But this sentence is used to "stand on the side!" that only two people can understand.

Yu Xiao haha pointed out, "Base!" This refers to the base camp building of the game.

The two of them sang and harmonized, gags, like teenagers.

It's just that Yu Xiao couldn't have imagined that he said this too early.

Spring 2002.

An amazing event happened.

A breakthrough in a major domestic research field.

It has alarmed all sectors of Chinese society.

HKUST High-tech Building, Chip R&D Center.

Chen Yue's "Guoxin No. 1" ...... Born out of nowhere!

(Happy New Year!19 years have passed, 20 years have been with you on New Year's Eve.) This year, I hope you and I can create more surprises. ）