Chapter 1 - The End is also the Beginning
Kyoto University's graduation ceremony was full of people. As one of the top universities in Japan, the graduation ceremony at this time did not look as solemn as expected.
At this time, on the huge screen in front of him, the final of the e-sports Golden Moon Championship of "Shushan" was being played! At the top of the screen, the big words "E-sports Academy" are also particularly conspicuous. As a new college of Kyoto University in recent years, the Esports Academy can be said to be a bold attempt by Kyoto University to adapt to the trend of the times, and the 200 people present here are the first batch of graduates of the Kyoto University Esports Academy.
The professional stream of esports academies is similarly simple, and is differentiated according to different game programs. As an emerging Chinese-style 3D first-person competitive game seven years ago, "Shushan" swept the world as soon as it was launched, replacing countless MOBA games and RPG games that were once in the limelight, and became a well-deserved leader in today's online game market.
On the sidelines, the dean of the esports college, who is exceptionally young compared to the other deans, has just finished his speech. Together with the graduates below, they stared intently at the wonderful screen.
And Chi Zhusheng sat in an inconspicuous corner, looking careless, and did not focus on the fierce competition like everyone else.
"Zhusheng, what do you want? You don't even watch the finals of the Esports Golden Moon Championship. The classmate on the side patted Chi Zhusheng's shoulder, and Chi Zhusheng suddenly came back to his senses and smiled silently.
It's just that his eyes still didn't stay on the screen for a single minute.
The classmates next to him were not surprised to see him like this, and continued to focus on the fierce competition.
On weekdays, Chi Zhusheng is such a silent person who is a little withdrawn, and only when he sees "Shu Mountain" will there be a different look in his eyes.
But such a person who rarely communicates with others scored a perfect score in the graduation examination and received the only invitation to stay in school. You must know that as the first batch of top colleges to open an e-sports academy, the teachers of Kyoto University's e-sports academy are basically retired professional players, and staying in the school represents his level, and it may even reach the professional level!
Chi Zhusheng stared at the water cup in front of him, picked it up and shook it, and then put it down.
He saw himself floating in the glass.
"We can see that He Tu, the captain of the Drunken Madness Clan, has already completed the record of one and two, and his blood volume is even half of it, the last person of the Immortal Clan, their captain Bai Qian, can he stop the hot state of He Tu?" The impassioned voice of the commentary sounded along with the cheers at the scene and the graduation ceremony, and Chi Zhusheng finally raised his head and looked at Bai Qian, the captain of the Qixian Immortal, who was slowly walking on the field.
Bai Qian waved his hand at the camera, and the pure white team uniform of Qi Xian matched his clean and youthful feeling, which attracted a burst of cheers.
An unsightly smile appeared on Chi Zhusheng's face, and he immediately stared at the screen.
Bai Qian inserted the account card. The cheers dispersed, and the whole audience held their breath, because the outcome of this game was crucial.
The professional competition system of "Shushan" is a point system. There are four points tournaments throughout the year, starting with the Star Team Challenge in December and ending with the Esports Golden Month Tournament in July. The overall points winner of the four points events will become the overall champion of the year.
This honor represents the highest level of "Shushan", and it is also the honor that all professional players dream of.
Prior to this game, the points of the Immortal and the Drunken Crazy were exactly the same! In other words, the winner of this game will also lift the trophy of the annual championship!
This is the first time in seven years that Qi Xian has stood on the stage of the decisive game, and it is also the best opportunity to break the seven-year monopoly of drunken mania on the annual championship.
How terrifying is this team of drunken madness? The five players in the five positions are all real stars, and their individual strength is at the terrifying level of five professional captains, and no one can take the championship away from them in a non-team fight. Even in a 5v5 team battle event that focuses on teamwork, they can turn the world upside down with their individual strength!
But the last points event of the year is the KOF Golden Month Championship of e-sports! Each team assigns three people to participate in the ring, with the winning character staying on the field and the losing team replacing the next player until all the characters are killed and the other team wins.
In this event, the winning character even retains the "winner's compensation" of the traditional KOF format, and the winning character will also recover a certain amount of lost health.
At that time, I was drunk and crazy, and I don't know how many times I staged a good show of wearing three, and even in the whole event, I didn't lose a single small game.
The CSA league has made a special change for this and eliminated the winner's compensation, but even so, the drunken mania is still an unbeatable gesture in the esports Golden Moon Championship!
Bai Qian took a deep breath, no matter what, he couldn't lose this game! Being worn three on the stage of the final is a shame that no one can accept.
And at the other end of the field, He Tu didn't pay attention to it.
Is he inflating and belittling Bai Qian? Or have you become numb to the championship and have lost your desire for it?
Neither! These are all interpretations of him by the outside world, and they are also the reasons for his mixed reputation.
Only the professional players who have competed against him, those who know him, know that these are not these. He's just playing, enjoying the game!
This is drunkenness, this is how to go! They never aim to win games, they are crazy in the eyes of other teams, the most frivolous people in the eyes of the media and players, win or lose? Champion? They don't care, what they want is the thrill of showing off the operation and the pleasure of completing the kill!
"Okay, we can see that Captain Bai Qian has entered the game, and the Immortal Clan who fought against the water randomly arrived on the map of the Empty Gully! This is not good news for the Immortal Clan! ”
The voice of the commentary sounded, and the hearts of the fans of the Immortal Clan were pinched!
There are a total of seventeen maps selected for the professional competition of "Shushan", and all of these maps are filmed in the game. Of the seventeen maps, there are four large maps, seven medium maps, and six small maps. And the Void Gully is a small map within a miniature map! There are only two spawn points in the entire map, one set at each end of the cliff. There is only one rope in the middle, but if you are not careful, you can fall to the bottom of the cliff.
A pure spelling operation, meeting is a fight map, is He Tu's favorite. And his win rate on this map is an astonishing 97 percent!
Chi Zhusheng also clenched his fists at the same time, he was also worried about Bai Qian, but it wasn't because this was a small map!
"Game on!" The narrator watched the countdown on the battle interface reset to zero, announcing the start of the game.
A playful smile appeared on He Tu's face, as if he had thought of something funny: "Is it empty...... Interesting! ”
If someone stood beside Bai Qian at this time, they would find that the left hand on his keyboard was shaking uncontrollably, and beads of sweat were constantly sliding down his face.
The cameraman in the competition room avoided Bai Qian.
"We can see that the two of them climbed the ropeway almost at the same time, and the next step is to see who can attack faster and hold down the position!"
"He Tu's chess spirit Emei character Lechuan took the lead! It's just that his starting move, why does it look a little strange? ”
Chi Zhusheng stood up suddenly, startling the classmates next to him.
What's going on here? can make Chi Zhusheng, who has always been calm, so excited.
Why? This answer, the professional players in the first season, have already seen the clue at this time.
He Tu is simulating the scene of Bai Qian's defeat in the final that year!
In the first season, Qi Xian's points were only one point behind Drunken Madness. And the two teams that met in the final at that time
That was Bai Qian's closest to the championship trophy, within reach, but also within reach.
When the drunken and frantic No. 3 position in the deciding game stood in front of Bai Qian, no one thought that Bai Qian would lose.
He is a veritable captain of the Qi Immortal, and the greatest hero of the Qi Immortal for a whole year. He is the highest player in KDA for a whole season, and he is Bai Qian, who can even fight He Tu, who was a god in a heads-up game at that time!
In that game, Bai Qian lost, and he lost completely. Because he did not lose to his opponent, but to himself.
"Shushan" water, air, land, and cavalry four combat methods, compared to land warfare, Bai Qian has not been afraid of anyone.
It was also this empty map, and when he used his trick of continuously turning and pressing the field of vision, he made a mistake.
It was Bai Qian's character who fell, as well as the championship trophy they had been looking forward to for a whole year.
Since then, Bai Qian is still a top professional player, but he has never performed like a god in the first season. This has naturally become Bai Qian's nightmare.
At this time, whether it is the relative position of the shot, or the form of the shot, it is exactly the same as the scene back then!
You must know that the third position that was drunk and crazy at that time was not a chess Emei! And how to use the shots of different professions, the simulation is exactly the same!
Bai Qian panicked, although he didn't make a mistake this time, he was stunned for a moment, and he also showed a big flaw. He Tu took the opportunity to directly bully himself and began a gorgeous output performance on the hook.
With a "click", the right hand that was tightly pinching the mouse slid down, and Bai Qian watched weakly as his character's blood volume on the screen continued to slide down in the brilliant light effects, but he didn't have the strength to fight back.
"It's over." Chi Zhusheng whispered these three words, turned around and left the overcrowded banquet hall.
Giving He Tu such an obvious flaw is no different from surrendering. If he can't even seize this kind of opportunity, he won't be the six-crown champion of "Shushan"!
No, now, it should be said that it is the seven-crown champion.
"Zhusheng, where are you going?" The sharp-eyed roommate saw Chi Zhusheng who turned to leave, and hurriedly chased after him and asked in a low voice, "This is the graduation ceremony!" If you want to go, you have to wait until the end. ”
Chi Zhusheng looked at his slightly helpless roommate, smiled and said:
"There's no need to look at it anymore, drunken and crazy wins. There is nothing else important about this graduation ceremony. There are some trivial things left, so don't participate."
"I remember that at 11 o'clock every night, he will start a live broadcast on the official platform of "Shushan", right?"
"Remember to go on time to check it out, there are surprises."
After speaking, Chi Zhusheng walked out of the banquet hall where the graduation ceremony was held, leaving only his confused roommate still in place.
Looking at the time on the phone, it is exactly ten o'clock in the evening, an hour, enough time for He Tu to finish the press conference and start the live broadcast normally.
As for celebrating and resting, it is absolutely impossible. Because in the annual points championship, they will represent the Chinese team in the WCG World Finals of the Shushan project, even if the Chinese team has always been difficult to meet on the world stage, they must always maintain their feelings. Although He Tu and his teammates often get drunk before a fight with their fans, starting a fight is even like getting drunk boxing. But when it comes to the World Championship, the group of unreliable geniuses who are drunk and crazy attaches great importance to it.
Walking in the direction of the dormitory, the mobile phone suddenly rang "Didi". didn't even look at who called, Chi Zhusheng picked it up directly.
He knew who would contact him at this time.
On the other end of the phone, there was a depressed and weak voice: "Takesheng, I lost again." ”
Chi Zhusheng's footsteps suddenly paused, and his tone was unusually soft: "Yes, you lost again." But you're losing yourself. Bai Qian, in my heart, you have never lost to anyone except yourself. ”
After being silent for a long time, Bai Qian sighed a little tiredly: "I can't pass my own level anymore." When the season is over, I'm going to take a break. ”
Bai Qian's voice suddenly lowered: "After all, my current position should have belonged to you." There's no one better suited to play professionally than you! If it weren't for the ...... back then"
Chi Zhusheng suddenly interrupted Bai Qian: "Do you treat me as a brother?" ”
Bai Qian was stunned for a moment, and then let out a heavy "um".
"That's enough. That position belongs to you. As the captain of the Immortal, no one can do it better than you, including me! What's more......" Chi Zhusheng suddenly laughed:
"No one can be a warrior with a sword and a poet who spits lotus flowers."
Chi Zhusheng hung up the phone, and Bai Qian, who was in the rest room outside the game, looked at a new message that popped up on his phone and laughed from the bottom of his heart.
"Let him see who is the real number one!"