2004, Shenghua University, Chengdu.

It is late autumn when the leaves are falling all over the ground, and the sky is a little hazy, and occasionally a light breeze crosses, making people feel a burst of coolness.

Shenghua University is located in the suburbs of Chengdu, not well-known, the biggest event in the 60 years since the establishment of the school is that a central leader has visited the school. As you can see from the school gate, this is an extremely ordinary school.

However, in front of such an inconspicuous school gate, there are now many people, including teachers, students, school leaders, journalists, and even outsiders who come to visit. This lively scene is in stark contrast to the bleak autumn wind. Above the excited crowd, on the front of the beam of the school gate, a huge banner was hung, and the banner was printed in slightly exaggerated block letters: Congratulations to Xiao Xin for winning the championship of the China-South Korea E-sports Competition and winning glory for the country!

Xiao Xindo was on the school bus specially sent by the school to pick him up, next to his teammates from the school's e-sports team. Ah Ming was sitting in the front row, looking triumphantly at the lively school gate in front of him, when he suddenly jumped up and hugged his head and screamed: "It's miserable!" Miserable! I forgot to wash my face today, if there are beautiful fans who come to ask for a group photo, won't they even shine in the eye feces! ”，

"Hehe, Amin, what if your fans are men?"

Liu Fei, who was sitting next to Xiao Xin, smiled and joked to Ah Ming.

"Fei, don't scare Ah Ming, people are counting on finding a girlfriend this time."

Xiao Xin looked like "righteous and strict".

Ah Ming turned his head, looked at Xiao Xin and Liu Fei with great jealousy, and said, "Yes, I know that the two of you are happy, so don't come to ridicule me, a hard-working bachelor." O God! Help me! ”

Xiao Xin didn't deny it, looked at Liu Fei with a smile, and found that Liu Fei was also looking at him with a smile, his eyes were full of tenderness. Under the chair, the two hands were happily held together.

It's a pity that someone broke the warmth of this moment uninterestingly, "Hey, Zhu Jun, what are you pretending to be cool there?" Why don't you say a word? ”

Of course, it was Ah Ming who spoke, and the object of his questioning was the long-haired boy who sat in the back row of Xiao Xin without saying a word and had gloomy eyes.

Zhu Jun smiled reluctantly: "No, I'm looking out the window, there are a lot of people." ”

Ah Ming also looked out the car window, "Yes, there are so many people, damn!" Lao Xin, you are really famous this time. ”

"Haha, do you want me to introduce a beautiful Fans to you later?"

"Okay, wait until I wash my face."

Everyone's attention was attracted to the window, and Zhu Jun silently looked at Xiao Xin and Liu Fei who were snuggled together, and his face became more and more gloomy.

The car finally drove slowly to the school gate and stopped, the reporter hula came up, under the prior arrangement of the school, the first to get off the car was Xiao Xin, and the flashing lights flashed non-stop in an instant, and more than a dozen microphones also struggled to reach in front of Xiao Xin.

"Xiao Xin, I am a reporter for E-SPORT magazine, how do you feel about winning the confrontation between China and South Korea?"

"Xiao Xin, I am a reporter from the magazine "E-sports Field", congratulations on defeating the World Ghost King, how do you feel about this game?"

"Xiao Xin, I am a reporter for the program "Game Frontline", when do you plan to enter the professional circle? Which team will you join? ”

"Xiao Xin, I am a reporter from Sichuan TV, I heard that you usually train for less than 6 hours, how did you reach today's level?"

Behind the reporter was a large group of "Fans", some girls screamed excitedly when they saw Xiao Xin get out of the car, and some also held signs such as "Xiao Xin Xiao Xin I love you, just like mice love rice", and the boys looked at Xiao Xin with admiration and a little envy and jealousy. I don't know who took the lead, and the scene resounded with thunderous applause.

It was not the first time Xiao Xin had encountered such a scene, smiling, answering various questions very calmly, and waving to the applauding crowd.

Ah Ming, who was still in the car, stuck out his tongue: "Good guy, look at this movement, even if the governor comes, it won't be such a big battle." ”

Liu Fei looked at Xiao Xin with a smile and said, "He is now winning glory for the country, of course he is popular." ”

Ah Cheng said with a smile: "Sister-in-law, aren't you afraid that this kid can't withstand the sugar-coated shell?" ”

Liu Fei glanced at Ah Cheng: "What sister-in-law?" It's ugly! You think Xiao Xin is like you. ”

Liu Feixiu's eyes were full of disgust, her well-behaved nose was slightly wrinkled, and the delicate skin on her face seemed to be blown away, like a budding white lotus flower, which made Ah Ming and Zhu Jun stunned.

Ah Ming sighed: "Lao Xin, this kid is so blessed!" ”。

Zhu Jun looked at Liu Fei stupidly, his eyes suddenly drifted to Xiao Xin outside the car, and a trace of unwillingness flashed in his eyes.

At that time, although e-sports was not as deeply rooted in the hearts of the people as in 2006, because e-sports had just been listed as an official sports competition by the General Administration of Sports of the People's Republic of China, video games changed from the negative image of being regarded as "playthings" in the past, and began to appear in the form of sports competitions. The media has also stepped up its coverage, with major TV stations and newspapers and magazines broadcasting and reporting on esports match days.

Due to the intense competition and the high spectacle, there are more and more people who love e-sports, and the more mature commercialization system has also attracted many big chaebols to join. E-sports has finally become a sport that can be compared to football and basketball, and many young people have made it their goal to become professional gamers. Later, the industry media called 2004 "the first year of Chinese e-sports".

As one of the most popular e-sports projects, Warcraft 3 has also become a popular topic, with large competitions such as CEG, China Warcraft Individual Ranking Tournament, and Warcraft Super League coming into being, while internationally renowned events such as WCG, CPL, ESWC, ACON4 have also landed in China, which has further promoted the boom of Warcraft professional competitions in China, but at the same time, it has also made people realize the gap between the level of Warcraft in China and foreign countries.

The Warcraft stars are also burdened with more expectations while being courteous: as a sports power, China must also win a world championship in the emerging e-sports project! Unfortunately, the best result of Chinese players in international competitions was the runner-up in the WCG in 2003, and it is difficult for Chinese players to achieve good results in international competitions since then.

As an old rival of sports competitions, China naturally does not want to be thrown too far in the e-sports project, so the China-South Korea e-sports competition came into being. There are three events: FIFA, CS, and Warcraft.

The General Administration of Sports attaches great importance to this competition, and specially organizes competitions to select national team players, all of whom are elites among professional players, with the exception of one person, he is the Warcraft player - Xiao Xin, ID: TopOne.

At that time, Xiao Xin was still in college and did not join a professional team. But he wasn't unsung before that, he was the winner of the National Collegiate Warcraft League for two consecutive years, and, incredibly, he had one thing in common in both championships: all wins!

The college student competition adopts a three-set tiebreaker system, as the champion, from the regional selection tournament, at least 30 games must be played in one competition, that is, 90 sets, and the two tournaments are 180 sets, that is, in these 180 sets, he has not lost a single game and keeps winning all! It is extremely difficult to achieve such a result, because among college students, there are no masters of professional teams, and some famous professional players sighed after watching Xiao Xin's game: "Such a genius is like Manadora in football!" ”

Since then, "genius" has become synonymous with Xiao Xin. Some teams even directly invited Xiao Xin and promised that as long as he was willing to join, the position of captain would be his.

In the face of many invitations to join, Xiao Xin was not moved, because he had a dream: to form his own team with his good friend Ah Ming and girlfriend Liu Fei. Fighting and working hard with your best friend and beloved lover for your favorite monster is really more beautiful than a dream.

Ah Ming, Liu Fei, and Xiao Xin are all in the Warcraft team of Shenghua University, and Ah Ming's level is also the top among college students, and the 2V2 combination of Xiao Xin and Liu Fei is even more unique, plus Zhu Jun and another one, even if it is a regular 5-person team. Although there is a rookie, Xiao Xin, who has a 100% winning rate, and the 2V2 combination of the first in college, as long as Ah Ming and Zhu Jun win one game, it is enough, so Sheng Hua has also won the championship for two consecutive years in the college student Warcraft team competition.

As the national champion and the current school flower, this pair is a standard male and female appearance, ranking first in the celebrity couple list of Shenghua University. With the passage of time, the relationship between the two deepened day by day, and finally reached the point of talking about marriage, the two have already discussed, they will get married immediately after graduation, and then join hands as husband and wife players to enter the professional circle!

At this moment, Xiao Xin received a call from the national team. He is excited, not only because he was selected for the national team, but also because this time there is KE.Free, who is known as the "world's No. 1 immortal" in the Korean team.

Free was the winner of the WCG, CPL, and ACON4 tournaments in 2004, achieving an unprecedented "Triple Crown", only to lose to Sweden's Fod in ESWC, but that didn't stop him from becoming the best Warcraft player in the world. Free uses the undead, and Xiao Xin also uses the undead, Free is both his idol and the strongest opponent in his mind, so this confrontation between China and South Korea is exactly what Xiao Xin dreamed of.

"Either way, as long as you can fight Free!"

This is the attraction between the strong, and it is also the desire for the opponent!

Ah Ming, Zhu Jun and Liu Fei were invited to Beijing as Xiao Xin's "family and friend group", which is out of the importance of Xiao Xin, and it is also a gimmick, because the game is broadcast live by CCTV5, in order to diversify and entertain the live program, it is indispensable to interview the contestants' "family and friend group" before the game, on the one hand, to cheer for the contestants, on the other hand, to improve the cleaning rate, this trick can be seen everywhere in commercial competitions.

Now Coke broke Ah Ming, got out of his name, and was on TV, he had no stage fright in front of the camera, he talked eloquently, and accidentally poured out the love affair between Liu Fei and Xiao Xin, Liu Fei's beautiful appearance and Xiao Xin's legendary experience made the media hype it fiercely, and Xiao Xin had already become the focus of the game before it started.

But he doesn't care about these, he just thinks about the game with the South Korean team, the day before the game, the two sides determined the order of appearance, it seems that in order to fulfill Xiao Xin, he and Free are the last players on both sides to play, the game adopts a best-of-5 system, as long as the first 4 games are 2:2, Xiao Xin can get his wish and Free to fight a big game!