In the coffee shop, Lao Xu sat across from me, and this situation reminded me of the beginning of the summer vacation.

This is the second day of our second division championship, and the Luna who witnessed our victory for the first time on the scene intends to give everyone on the team a long vacation before the start of the summer season, and after last night's supper carnival celebration party, the holiday of our players will officially start today, and Lao Xu and his coaching staff need to go back to the base first, sort out the video and data of the playoffs, this process will take about three or four days, so they have to go back to J City first. And the five of us plan to stay in N City for a few more days.

The train was still two hours away, but Lao Xu called me out alone at this time, apparently wanting to give me a few more words of advice at the time of parting.

I don't know if it's because of the ban on smoking in the training room, Lao Xu's addiction to smoking is much smaller than before, he picked up the coffee cup and looked at me meaningfully: "When I persuaded you to quit the pit a year ago, I didn't expect you to have such good luck, your starting line is actually higher than my ceiling, alas......"

Lao Xu has played city games throughout his career, and in the end he failed to make it to the stage of the minor league. Because when he entered the industry, it happened to be the hottest era of the whole game, and there were endless talented players, and the competition was extremely fierce. Although the game itself is constantly evolving, and the current players are certainly stronger than the previous ones, it is undeniable that the competitive environment of "Book Title" in that era was indeed harsher than it is now.

With the development of time, the popularity of the game continued to decline, and Lao Xu's career came to an end. If you use stocks to describe it, this is a typical buy at a high level and sell at a low price, and the result can only be a loss. And when I started playing professionally, it happened to be the lowest point of the game's popularity, and with a series of events and the launch of a new version, the game's popularity gradually picked up. But at that time, there were not many people willing to continue this troubled water, and due to the small number of new players, now you only need to submit qualifications to directly enter the minor league.

So Lao Xu said that my starting point is his ceiling is not wrong, from this example we can also see that a person's success is not only related to their own strength, but also to the development of the entire industry and their own luck. As the saying goes, even sows can fly in the winds of history.

Me: "Brother Xu, I was guided by you, if I didn't know you, I'm afraid I wouldn't have embarked on the path of career, what do you want to say in private when you pull me out now?" ”

Xu Zhiqiang: "You have now won the MVP of the minor league, and the starting point is very high. I think there's a good chance you're going to be a star. ”

Me: "You're too much of a winner, I'm just playing a little bit in the minor league, and I'm not far from the stars." ”

Xu Zhiqiang: "I'm not here to blow you, I'm here to pour cold water on you, the pressure of public opinion borne by star players is definitely not what we can imagine." ”

Me: "What do you say?" ”

Xu Zhiqiang: "Didn't we lose one game in the regular season? ”

Me: "yes. ”

Xu Zhiqiang: "I went to watch the barrage of that game, guess what?" ”

I could probably guess what he was trying to say; "There are a lot of people scolding us? It should be okay, first, we don't have so many fans, and the previous results are okay, occasionally a bad performance fans will not scold directly, even if they are uncomfortable. Second, we are a new team, and there are no grievances in history, and the rhythm cannot be brought to us. ”

Xu Zhiqiang: "That's why you're thinking about the problem too simply," he said, taking out his phone and showing me the video barrage of the loss to the Heart Tribulation team.

To be honest, I thought there would be some not-so-good remarks, but I've never seen such a vicious language come together. I simply greeted all five members of our team, starting from my grandfather's generation.

Me: "What's going on with these people?" Seeing that they scolded so harshly, I thought we had dug up their ancestral graves. What kind of hatred and resentment, damaging us so viciously when you lose a game? ”

Xu Zhiqiang: "Do you want to know where these people come from?" And why do you scold us? ”

I shook my head and thought to myself, "Could it be that I offended people during the live broadcast before?" ”

Xu Zhiqiang: "Later, I studied it carefully, and they were all black fans of the Moon God back then, and there were even many fans of the Phoenix Stone team back then. ”

Me: "Why don't the fans of the Phoenix Rock team follow their home team's games and come over and scold us?" ”

Xu Zhiqiang: "This is not simple, because our team is a team established by the Moon God, and the Tianyuan Relic and Phoenix Stone were old enemies back then." ”

Me: "That's all the Year of the Monkey and the Moon, Brother Tian has retired for almost three years, and the Moon God has also retired, is it necessary for them to hunt down until now?" ”

Xu Zhiqiang: "You have to know that for a long time after Brother Tian's retirement, the performance of the Phoenix Stone team was very unsatisfactory. And these fans are not willing to watch the home team's performance deteriorate, so they become so-called 'wandering fans'. ”

Me: "Wandering fan......"

Xu Zhiqiang: "Although they no longer support the Phoenix Stone team, their Black Moon God has become accustomed to it, and they have even forgotten why they hate him." It just so happened that in the last few years, Luna's form declined due to injuries. Therefore, seeing the defeat of the Tian Yuan Relic Team or the Moon God at that time became their greatest pleasure in watching e-sports competitions. ”

Me: "...... And such boring people. ”

Xu Zhiqiang: "After the Moon God retired, some of them came with our newly formed team, and they had no other hobbies, just looking forward to us losing." On weekdays, when we win, they pretend to be dead and don't speak, and once we stumble like the team that day, then this is the scene waiting for us. ”

Me: "That's too exaggerated, how can anyone never lose a game?" ”

Xu Zhiqiang: "Yes, as long as you are a person, you will lose, but this is the pressure that star players have to bear, every move, word and deed is under a magnifying glass, how many people love will be hated." As you can see, Luna has been retired for so long, but some sunspots still won't let him go. So if you become a star one day, you have to be prepared for that. ”

Me: "I think I should do some counseling before that. ”

Xu Zhiqiang: "Oh yes, there are still some situations that you have to pay attention to. As a star player, you must learn to recognize general fans, core fans, true love fans, cough cough, of course, the last one will also be called brain-dead fans by others. Of course, there are also black fans, passers-by and all kinds of anti-strings that are not good for you, including but not limited to, black powder, black powder, black road, etc. ”