With some guidance and advice from him, my skills have improved by leaps and bounds. I later learned that our situation in the arena was not a "chance encounter", but a bug in the matchmaking system at that time, and if two people who had just played a game entered the arena queue again, the server would put them together again. That night, many players encountered this bug, saying that they were matched with the same person for multiple rounds in a row. But it was this kind of fate that caused this bug that made me meet such a friend.

But Xie Liuying's experience is a little more mysterious, and she knew Lao Xu long before I met Lao Xu. At that time, the league was the era of "Tianyue Competition", and it was also the most popular time. Xie Liuying was a fan girl back then, and she paid close attention to the progress of the league.

Before the start of the match and between matches, the broadcaster will broadcast a variety of advertisements. But one day, when I watched the game, it was not the advertisement that was inserted between the games, but the highlights of the city game. Yes, the city match that Lao Xu participated in at that time was not broadcast, but in order to encourage "low-level professional players", the official inserted the highlights of the time into the halftime of the top league.

Xie Liuying: "At that time, I saw that the warm sun player of the Rufeng team used the Huilong Thorn to hit a four, which was very handsome!" ”

Me: "Mm-hmm, I remember that game, it was against Meteor, and after getting to know him, I went to watch the video. ”

Xie Liuying: "Then I thought, the players in the city competition should not have a big card, there should be a chance to get to know each other, and then I sent a friend application in the game, but I didn't expect him to pass." However, he always thought I was a little boy, and I talked to him a few more words according to the contact information you gave me, which frightened him. ”

Me: "Although he agreed to see us this time, I wasn't sure he would be able to join. Although his current job is hard, the income is not bad, and he finally put down the "Book Title", and now he wants to pull him back to the pit, or as a trainer and not a professional player, I don't know if he can accept it. ”

People who want to become professional players have to be strong in their hearts, Lao Xu is not very old, only 22 years old, let him return to the e-sports circle at this time, but he has taken a back seat, I don't know if he will have ideas. Besides, three months ago, he had just persuaded me not to jump into the fire pit, and now I had to pull him back, which was always a little unreasonable.

Xie Liuying: "It's useless to think too much, the boat will naturally go straight to the bridge." ”

In fact, this time, because of the long distance, the moon god originally arranged for me to invite Lao Xu alone. But Xie Liuying felt that Song Yi, a noisy newcomer, should be left to Zhou Zhenyu for two days to rectify, and she didn't want to stay in the training room long before it was rectified. Moreover, the day after tomorrow is the finals of the "Book Title" league, by the book team against the Forget Worry team, the game happened to be held in my hometown C city, and to go to G city, we need to fly to C city first, so that we can adapt to the atmosphere of the arena in advance, to the moon god for an extra day off, and after recruiting Lao Xu, you can go to the scene to see the finals on the way back.

During the trip, I remembered the last time I went to G City to meet an archaeologist and visit the site museum, so I told Xie Liuying about the encounter with the bronze puppet and the symbols on it.

The Beta logo of the title matches the symbols on the monuments that have not yet been excavated, and later ruins have been found in sites that should belong to an earlier era.

I added, "Your Six Dragons Returning to the Sun Arrow was dug up by mistake like this. ”

Xie Liuying: "If someone else told me this kind of thing, I would definitely persuade him to believe in science." But what do you say...... I still believe it, but there is a reason for everything, but we may not be able to figure it out in our lifetimes. ”

We talked a lot along the way, and if I really came alone, I'm afraid the journey would have been a lot longer.

When we arrived in C City, it was getting late, and we made an appointment with Lao Xu to see you in G City tomorrow. After a tiring journey, I was trying to rest early, but suddenly received a call from Zhang Guangyue, whose voice sounded a little hurried:

"Chen Liao, look at the game forum, something happened again."

Alas, I knew that before I even stepped into the threshold of my career, all kinds of troubles followed, and now that I am an official professional player, I will have even more trouble in order to save this game that is about to cool down. Through this phone call, I learned what happened:

Taking advantage of some signs of recovery in the game, Wang Jing broke through the kettle and rented a large venue in City C to hold this year's "Book Title" finals. He lowered the price of tickets, hoping that more players and fans would come to watch the event, increase the popularity of the event, and build momentum for the next new version.

However, a wise man must make a mistake, and Wang Jingluo miscalculated the player's enthusiasm for the finals. Although the popularity of games and leagues has picked up slightly, players are not buying the finals, and the Internet is full of arguments:

"Anyway, this year's champion is Your Excellency Shu again, so I don't have a look."

"The light is not young, it is the object of official god-making, pro-son, there is no way."

"The Forget Worry team is sent, and the odds abroad are open to more than thirty to one."

……

In this public opinion environment, time passes day by day, but the sales of tickets are not optimistic. The thought that if there were a large number of empty seats in that huge venue at the time of the broadcast, it would obviously be counterproductive.

Although the popularity of the e-sports market in China has continued to rise in recent years, it has also won the favor of a lot of capital. But the truth is that drought is drought, and waterlogging is dying. Compared with those popular game events that were sold out by scalpers as soon as the tickets were released, the situation of the "Book Title" league that could not sell tickets even after the price was reduced is really sad.

Fortunately, there is no endless road, and Wang Jingluo quickly thought of a solution. "Fried Chicken Emperor" is a popular fast food chain brand today, and it is also one of the only important sponsors in the "Book Title" league. Faced with the embarrassing situation that the tickets could not be sold, Wang Jingluo went to the sponsor's father for help, hoping to engage in a wave of linkage and drive a win-win situation for each other.

"Fried Chicken Emperor" happened to be planning to launch a new hamburger product in the near future, so it agreed to Wang Jinglue's cooperation proposal. They built a pricey set meal around the new burger, and launched a nationwide campaign to buy a set meal and get tickets to the finals of "The Book Title" to alleviate this awkward situation.

In fact, in order to take into account the feelings of the players who have already purchased the tickets, although the price of the package is slightly higher than the actual ticket price, it is clear that this part of the ticket is almost officially "given away", in order not to make the finals scene look too deserted, and create the illusion that "our tickets are actually wanted".