I still remember that it was 6:10 p.m. five years ago, twenty minutes before my mother got home. At this time, I should delete the browsing history of the smart TV before turning off the TV, put the remote control back where it belonged, go back to my bedroom, spread out the half-finished homework book, and pretend to be thinking about it with a pen in my mouth after hearing the sound of the key.

That afternoon was an exception, however, as the final of the ring match for the popular online competitive game "Book Title" was being broadcast live on TV. There is a reason why an online game called "Book Title" has such a strange name, and this name is mainly related to its complex story background and heart-wrenching main plot.

"Book Title" was officially in public beta three years ago, and at the beginning of its launch, it gained a large number of players with its excellent production, excellent plot, and era-leading gameplay, and in the terminal game market analysis report released at the end of the year, it reached nearly eighty percent of the user proportion. The so-called ring match is that each side sends ten players to face off one by one, and the winner of the previous round retains the remaining blood to continue to fight against the next opponent. At that time, I was in the second year of secondary school, and who wouldn't love watching a game like this?

In the TV, only the last player of the "Tian Yuan Legacy" team is left, and the star of the team, Luna, and their opponent "Phoenix Stone" team has six players left. Then, the unthinkable happened, the moon god took out four opponents with a single sword that was unparalleled in the world, and he still had 20% of his health left. At this time, the fifth player of "Phoenix Stone" appeared.

What happened in the next fifteen seconds or so was repeated in my mind for five years, and this set of operations, which came to be known as "Excalibur Without Shadows", was to intersperse a short movement between each button of the skill "Tian Yuan Nineteen Swords" (Tian Yuan Nineteen Swords), which originally required thirty-eight buttons to be pressed in twelve seconds (Tian Yuan Nineteen Swords actually had thirty-eight swords), and then at the nineteenth button, one shadow passed behind the enemy, and the remaining nineteen buttons were connected.

The end result is a hyperbola in the diagonal quadrant with the enemy's position as an asymptote. That is to say, in these 12 seconds, not only the effective APM must be as high as 380, but it is also necessary to predict the opponent's move without a trace of misplacement.

After the end of "Excalibur Without a Shadow", Luna's opponent didn't even react to what happened before he found that he had fallen to the ground with residual blood, which turned out to be a full-blood KO! There has never been a full-blooded KO in the professional arena of "Book Title", and even the commentator was shocked before he spoke in an excited voice: "Is that the Tianyuan Nineteen Swords?" That was the Tianyuan Nineteen Swords just now? We all thought that Tian Yuan Nineteen Swords was a PVE skill, because no fool would stand still and let you fight for 12 seconds. Another commentator took over: "But today, just today, what happened today tells us that the Tian Yuan Nineteen Sword is not a PVE skill, and its high damage only belongs to the Sword Master who can really use it!" We saw this man today! Let's once again dedicate our applause to the moon god, who has repeatedly performed miracles! ”

"Oh my God," the third commentator is a female commentator, "I didn't see what was going on at all, but I don't think it's a human manipulation, and humans shouldn't be able to do that." But it's not the operation of AI, and AI won't have such imagination. Now, there is only one player left for both teams, and the finale of the 'Phoenix Stone' team will be their captain, star player Tiange, who will face off against the Luna who performed superbly today, and at the same time, this pinnacle battle will also determine the championship of this tournament......

At this critical moment, the TV suddenly turned black, and there was an angry mother standing with a remote control in hand......

Now, five years later......

"Brother Xu, I'm sorry, I'm late" I pulled out the café chair and sat down across from a man with a raunchy stubble face, and this person was what I called "Brother Xu".

Lao Xu didn't look up at me, just took a sip of coffee in the cup, and said, "Your kid is really lucky, if my parents were so open-minded back then, I wouldn't have fallen to this." ”

Lao Xu is my netizen, of course, I met by playing "Book Title", two years ago I was abused by him in the arena ten times in a row, and later I learned that he was a second-tier professional player, although he didn't make a name for himself, but it was enough to abuse me as a "master in the grade". Don't look like a middle-aged uncle now, in fact, he is only twenty-two years old, but it is an advanced age for a professional player. He wanted to spend more time with me because, in his words, "it wasn't because we happened to be in a city and invited him to dinner every time we came out, but because I didn't play very long, but I could see that I had a lot of talent." ”

Lao Xu continued: "Chen Liao, I know you are very excited now, but today I am here to pour cold water on you, for the sake of our friends, I have some heartfelt words, my brother must talk to you today." ”

I was puzzled: "My dad and my mom have had a fight over this matter, how do you know if you don't try it now?" ”

Today is July 1st, and the college entrance examination scores have just come out, and if there are no accidents, I should be able to get into a fairly good university in the city. Three years ago, my father agreed with me that if I was admitted to university, I could give two months to try the road of e-sports, that is, I could earn 5,000 yuan through games in two months, but the 5,000 yuan could only be obtained through live webcasts, team salaries or event bonuses, and I could not engage in work such as playing on behalf of me. If I can earn 5000, then it means that I still have some talent in this area, and I can apply for a leave of absence to try, if I can't earn it, then it means that I have no talent, and it is better to report to the school honestly.

After the college entrance examination, my mother didn't expect my father to really count this agreement, in her opinion, or in the eyes of most people, people who are admitted to a good university and don't go to school, but go to do some e-sports must be crazy. Dad said that although our family is not rich, the conditions are not bad, what has Lao Tzu worked hard for every day since he was a child? Isn't it just so that our son can make choices freely in the future without too many scruples? Lao Tzu didn't have the conditions to do what he liked when he was a child, and now he is trying to create conditions so that his son can do what he likes, what's wrong?

In short, I don't know if my mother really couldn't beat my father in the end, or because she didn't believe that I could earn the 5,000 yuan on my own, she still acquiesced to the decision of the noisy father.

So from today, I moved out of the new house where my parents lived, moved into the old house of the family, equipped with a new computer suitable for playing "Book Title" and a full set of equipment, and started my dream journey. The first thing I can think of is naturally to ask Lao Xu, the only professional player I know, how to start his career and earn the 5,000 yuan. This brings us to today's meeting.