Chapter Thirty-Six: The Storm Rises
When Ren Tian returned to the hotel, Ji Heng had just finished a meeting and was eating a simple meal provided by the hotel in the temporary team training room, with beef burgers and huge cup milkshakes on the plate.
"You're back so soon, what are you two going to eat?" Ji Heng raised his head and asked.
"Japanese food is said to be the most authentic in the area, but I don't think it tastes very good." Ren Tian covered up the incident in his heart and said with a smile. She intuitively felt that it was better for Lee Seung-sub to tell Ji Heng about this matter, no matter how foolish those Koreans were, they couldn't get the head of the EVE team, at most it was just a matter between their Korean foreign aid and Bo Tao.
Ji Heng stretched out his hand to her, pulled her to her side and sat down, tilted his head to look at her again, and said, "Silly girl, you can't hide anything on your mind, what's wrong?" β
You're the one the human spirit is talking aboutγγγγγ Ren Tianqi scolded and said, "I just met Lee Seung-sub in a restaurant." β
"It's said that he made a few mistakes in the last game, and I haven't had time to watch the replay, what's wrong? Did he complain to you? This guy accosted you when he saw that I wasn't there, and you shouldn't pay attention to him. Ji Heng was still joking, not knowing that there was a big mess behind this matter.
"No, he's there talking to other people, but I think they seem to be talking about match-fixing."
Ji Heng was stunned for a moment, did not speak immediately, and thought for a while before saying: "How do you know that it is the Chinese who are talking to him about this?" β
Ren Tian just told the details of what had just happened, and when he said that Wu Xiaoyou was wearing an AI translator, even Ji Heng's eyebrows moved, and it seemed that he was quite impressed by the AI control of Xie Yi.
Listening to what Ren Tian said, Ji Heng's eyebrows slowly wrinkled, he and Li Chengxie have known each other for a long time, and they still have a good understanding of his character, Li Chengxie is definitely not a person who will betray the team for profit, what is the secret that no one knows.
"Okay, leave him alone, he's not from our team anyway. Besides, I don't have any evidence, so let's not take hearsay to heart. Ren Tian said, taking his hand and shaking it.
"Well, let's go take a nap and go to your room." Ji Heng stood up and took her hand.
"What? Don't train in the afternoon? Ren Tian asked with a red face.
Ji Heng nodded her nose amusedly, and said, "I'm talking about lying on the bed and chatting, what do you want?" β
Ren Tian rolled his eyes at him, and there was a faint disappointment in his heart.
"Don't be sad, I'll cooperate with you if you really want to do anything." Ji Heng smiled and leaned next to her ear and said, being pushed away by her slap.
So the two of them talked and laughed and walked to the room. Unexpectedly, as soon as I entered the elevator, I met Lee Seung-sub with a poor complexion.
Lee Seung-sub looked depressed, his eyes were a little red, he saw the two of them, and he barely raised a smile and said, "What a coincidence." β
Ren Tian thought to himself: "It's over, it's over, it's wrong." β
Sure enough, Ji Heng nodded at him and chatted with him in Korean.
When she arrived at Ren Tian's floor, Ji Heng said to her, "I'll talk to him for a while, and you go to sleep first." β
Ren Tian was helpless, so he had to whisper to him viciously: "Don't meddle in things!" β
Ji Heng nodded helplessly.
In the afternoon, I still trained as usual, and after dinner, everyone from EVE was chatting and bickering in the suite as usual, the door of the room opened, and the general leader of LPL, the leader of Botao, and Manager Fang stood at the door together, and there were two American policemen behind them, and this group of people called Ji Heng out.
Ren Tian was suddenly shocked, Ji Heng smiled at her, touched her head and said, "It's okay, I'll be back soon." β
But he didn't come back right away, and there was no news even late in the evening, and an even more terrible news reached the EVE team, Botao's foreign aid Lee Seung-sub attempted suicide in his room before dinner and has been sent to the hospital for rescue.
"Suicide attempt?" This news made Ren Tian's body chill, and she intuitively felt that this matter was related to what she heard, but Ji Heng couldn't get involved...
"They said that the police investigated the hotel's surveillance and found that Lee Seung-sub had been chatting with Brother Heng for a long time in the afternoon, and he was crying in the middle." Seeing the message posted by Xiao K in the WeChat group, Ren Tian was dumbfounded.
It wasn't until almost two o'clock in the evening that Ji Heng came back, and Ren Tian was still waiting for him in the team's room, and when he saw him, his face was very haggard.
"Are you okay?" Ren Tian stood up and walked over and hugged him.
"You know, something happened to Lee Seung-sub." Ji Heng's face showed a rare look of sadness and self-reproach.
Ren Tian touched his head silently, the two were quiet for a while, and Ren Tian said, "Let's go, go back to the room and sleep." β
Ji Heng nodded and followed Ren Tian back to the room.
Waiting until the two of them were lying on the bed, Ji Heng said: "In the afternoon, he told me about the match-fixing, someone was forcing him, I wanted to help him, but I didn't expect him to have an accident a few hours later." β
"Force him? I thought he was in it for the money. Ren Tian obediently snuggled his body tightly against Ji Heng.
Ji Heng: "Li Chengxie is a very good person, something happened to his family to be like this, I have promised to help him in the afternoon, I don't know how it will happen later... At this time, he heard the girl beside him already let out a soft cry, and it turned out that she was too sleepy to sleep.
Ji Heng turned to look at her face, and the big eyes that were usually extremely flexible were now tightly closed, like a frightened fawn. He gently got up to help her put the quilt on, closed his eyes and fell asleep.
Early the next morning, Manager Fang came to tell Ji Heng that Li Chengxie was out of danger last night, but he was still in a coma in the hospital, and then Ji Heng breathed a sigh of relief. There are still two games in EVE that day, although the matter of Botao's team Han aid Lee Seung-sub is boiling, but the game still has to continue, but all the teams seem to be a little depressed on the field today, and sure enough, Seung-sub's matter still cast a shadow on the event. When EVE stepped down victoriously, countless e-sports media immediately rushed over, scrambling to inquire about Ji Heng's connection to this matter.
"Ji Shuai, I heard that the last person Li Chengxie saw before committing suicide was you."
"Lee Seung-sub cried when he met you, according to the surveillance, what was the reason?"
"Both of your teams are the favorites to win the championship this year, and now that this kind of thing has happened to Botao's main force, do you have anything to say?"
All the EVE players were instructed by the club early this morning that they could not say anything about Lee Seung-sub and that silence was the only way to do it now, so they all just nodded to the media and walked to the back.
But those media will let them go away so easily, a male reporter rushed up, squeezed away the security guard and slammed the microphone into Ji Heng's face, the microphone hit Ji Heng's eyes impartially and fiercely, his expression remained unchanged, he just took a step back with his hands covering his eyes, Ren Tian hurriedly walked over to block him, and then turned around to see if his eyes were hurt.
"What are you going to do?" Xiao K's temper jumped in front of the reporter, his fists clenched tightly. The reporter was also startled, and both the cameraman took a step back.
Ji Heng took away the hand covering his eyes, shook his head at Ren Tian to signal that he was fine, and then stretched out his hand and patted Xiao K's shoulder and said, "It's okay, don't get angry." β
Xiao K saw that Ji Heng was fine, so he breathed a sigh of relief, and slowly let go of his fist.
"I'm sorry, about Lee Seung-sub, you can ask him when he wakes up, I'm sure he will wake up soon." Ji Heng said to a group of reporters.
The reporters were not satisfied with this answer, Ji Heng ignored them anymore, and pulled Ren Tian towards the lounge, and the flash lights of white flowers were lit up behind him.
Back in the room, Ren Tian deeply regretted what she told Ji Heng and Li Chengxie yesterday, she was so angry that she wanted to slap herself a few times, Ji Heng saw that she was so anxious, but came over to comfort her: "I was wrong, I didn't listen to you yesterday and made you worried." β
Ren Tian hugged her tightly and said, "I'll only make trouble for you." β
Ji Heng laughed and said, "I like you to trouble me, it's best to only trouble me for the rest of your life." β
Ren Tian saw that his expression was relaxed, and his mood was slightly better, and he asked hesitantly, "What should I do now?" β
Ji Heng kissed her gently and said, "Don't be afraid, it will be fine." β
Hearing this, Ren Tian's heart seemed to settle down, she didn't notice that the haze hidden in Ji Heng's eyes was getting heavier and heavier.
In the next two days, EVE won the group stage with a complete victory, but Ji Heng's words did not come, and the situation got worse.
South Korea's second-seeded team KT Club took the lead in protesting to the organizing committee, saying that Lee Seung-sub, a player from South Korea, has not yet woken up, and Chinese player Ji Heng, who has an unexplained relationship with his suicide, is still leading the EVE team as the captain, although there is no evidence that he is related to Lee Seung-sub's suicide, but when he met Lee Seung-sub that day, Lee Seung-sub's emotional loss of control was real. Now Ji Heng's appearance has seriously hurt the feelings of other clubs and e-sports players, so the organizing committee is officially asked to cancel Ji Heng's qualification from the competition.
When the news came, the LPL division immediately voiced its objections, because this kind of trumped-up charge to abolish the core of the LPL's most promising team is absolutely unacceptable to the Chinese division. However, KT Club South Korea has joined forces with teams from other regions to collectively put pressure on the organizing committee. If the strong EVE team can be eliminated from the competition, it is something that most teams like to see, so there are not a few echoes, even those clubs that have not directly asked for the disqualification of Heng Heng have also put forward the idea of banning Ji Heng for a few games first.
Before the eight-in-four competition, the decision of the organizing committee came out, and Ji Heng, the captain of the EVE team, was temporarily banned until Lee Seung-sub woke up!
EVE was fried internally, and Boss Wang personally called the senior management of TX Company and the organizing committee, and he himself was originally talking about work in Europe, but he immediately put down what he was doing and prepared to fly to Los Angeles. Manager Fang has been staying at the door of the organizing committee's office to find someone to negotiate the matter. Xiao K's red eyes were angry and he wanted to go to the leader of the KT team to make trouble, but Sun Haoying finally stopped him.
Ji Heng was relatively calm, he walked over and pressed the crazy little K, and said, "Calm down, it's only eight into four now." Besides, isn't there a cold front? β
It turns out that the substitute cold front with the AD position is indeed too predictable.
"Brother Heng, I can't stand that kind of hat they give you." Xiao K's face turned purple.
Ren Tian stood not far away and watched them, biting his lip and not knowing what he was thinking.
"I can't stand it and I have to endure it, I'm about to play an eight-in-four game, if you go to make trouble and ban you, our team will really be over." Ji Heng said that his expression was still so calm and flat, and the title of BH HENG was indeed not for nothing.
"But ... Captain, how can you play if you don't play in our gameγγγγγ Ah Kun was also angry enough on the side.
"You can fight how you want, we are the EVE team, not the Ji Heng team. If I'm not there, everyone won't fight? β
After hearing this, everyone fell silent, and they still had no confidence in their hearts. At this time, Ren Tian, who was standing on the side, spoke: "Ji Heng is right, he is not in us, we have to fight hard, we want to enter the top four against the KT team, we will definitely win!" Have you forgotten that there is still me as the big core? β
Everyone looked at her incredulously, Ji Heng smiled slightly, and also looked at the majestic girlfriend in front of him.
"We can do it, I've watched Leng Feng's training recently, and he's improving very quickly, definitely better than Team KT's AD. So what are we afraid of KT? Are you afraid that they will be shameless and shameless? Ren Tianchang blushed and continued.
Everyone thought about it and it seemed to be too, KT fought with them during the training camp, and each line was not their opponent, and they were suppressed to death, and now KT's only advantage is to rely on the turmoil of EVE's people after Ji Heng was dismounted.
"So, again, we're going to be able toβhammer them up." Ren Tian said in a loud voice.
Everyone looked at each other and couldn't help but applaud, Ji Heng smiled with great relief, like an old father watching his child finally grow up.
On the afternoon of this day, Ren Tian posted a Weibo in unconditional support for and trust Ji Heng, and his teammates followed up one after another, and Team F, EVE's old rival, their players and coaches also reposted this Weibo. Then, like dominoes, LPL players rushed to comment and retweet. Even those Korean players said that Ji Heng is a very good player, and they trust Ji Heng not to do anything to hurt Lee Seung-sub and the fairness of the game.
The most surprising thing is that Ji Heng's idol ROLAND, who has a large number of Twitter fans, also deliberately tweeted to express his support for trusting Ji Heng, because the principle of the law has always been that there is no suspicion of guilt, so this tweet has also caused a lot of retweets and support in foreign e-sports circles, and many foreign teams, including those players who have not had the opportunity to come to the S competition, have also expressed their disdain for the KT team's fake public and private efforts to attack opponents. For a while, the KT team became notorious in public opinion.
The match day between EVE and KT is coming soon, and before going on the court, Ren Tian stood in front of Ji Heng, pulled out the Pikachu necklace in his clothes, put it on his mouth and kissed it, and said, "Let it temporarily replace you and accompany me today." She raised her face, and when she was applying makeup today, she specially asked the makeup artist to paint a BH pattern on her face to show her support for Ji Heng.
Ji Heng touched her face and said, "BH... It is indeed a tough woman, and the KT team is miserable today. β
Ren Tian blinked triumphantly, and at this time, the music outside sounded, and the lineup of the four main players and one substitute of the EVE team came on the field.