Chapter I: WCG
In Beijing, in a gymnasium called the "Dragon Pavilion", the WCG World Finals are being staged.
WCG is an abbreviation for WorldCyberGamed, which means "Esports World Cup". WCG is the world's first and largest game culture festival. Its purpose is to establish the ESPORTS concept. Players from all over the world can experience the excitement and thrill of the game by participating in the WCG 'confrontation', and at the same time, the fair competition environment also creates opportunities for players from all over the world to win glory for their country. The WCG Organizing Committee was founded in 2000 and has been successfully held for 5 sessions. The standing competitions are: CS, Warcraft 3, StarCraft, FIFA series, Need for Speed series, Unreal Tournament series, etc.
The Dragon Pavilion, built in early 2006, was built in China to prepare for the WCG World Finals. The appearance of the Dragon Stadium is similar to that of the basketball arena, except that it is red all over, and the roof is made of pieces of steel glass skylights. The most special feature of this building is also the roof: if you look up from inside the building, you will see a golden dragon embedded in the glass skylight of the roof, almost obscuring the entire sky! This is where the name of the Dragon Pavilion comes from. Due to the reluctance of officials to disclose the details of the construction, the question of what materials the dragon was made of and how it was inlaid has become a mystery, which adds to the mystery of the dragon house. But more importantly, as the main venue for China's first WCG finals, the stadium has become a mecca for esports fans across the country.
Now, the "Holy Land" is bustling with activity, today is the last day of the WCG Finals, and with the Warcraft 3 Finals over, all that's left is the awards ceremony and the closing ceremony. The 8,000-seat hall was crowded with people, and everyone was still immersed in the thrilling final that had just ended.
"Hey! Did you just see that? 1. Blood back to the city! It's the first time I've seen it, and the TO is too strong! A tall man in leather said excitedly to his companion next to him.
"Dom is also very powerful, he almost stuck TO's DK with just a pikemon! But in the end, TO won a little bit. Another fat man also came over excitedly and interjected.
"Alas! It's a pity that none of the Chinese players made it to the finals. β
"Haha, forget it, you want to see Liu Fei again, right?"
"Cut! Don't you want to watch it? Such a beautiful MM player, and he also made it to the semi-finals! How many people in China want to see her! β
Just when the heated discussion was a bit off-topic, the hall rang in time for a melodious bell, which was the sound of a giant bell installed on the ceiling of the Dragon Pavilion. The bell struck through all the noise, and the hall fell silent. The dark stage slowly brightens, and a man and a woman walk onto the stage in the rising lights. The woman has a slender figure, wearing a black evening dress, sleeveless and low-cut, a long skirt on the floor, a sparkling pearl necklace on her fair neck, a delicate face, and a noble and elegant smile, showing the charm and classicism of oriental women. The audience has already begun to exclaim:
"It's so punctual! β¦β¦ Yes! She is Liu Fei! β
"Yes, it seems to be really Liu Fei!"
"I didn't expect to be so beautiful with makeup."
"Idiot! Don't insult my idol, she's as beautiful as she doesn't wear makeup! β
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The reporters who have been waiting for the "fierce news" are also not sparing their films at this time. Aiming at the beauty on the stage, she frantically pressed the shutter.
In the face of the surging crowd and countless flashing lights in the audience, the male host was a little overwhelmed, and he whispered to Liu Fei: "You are so popular, I'm really afraid that they will rush up, then I can't stop it." Liu Fei smiled faintly: "I'm not so charming." Let's hurry up. The male host reluctantly recalled the three souls and seven spirits who were taken away by this laughter, calmed down, and announced loudly: "The award ceremony begins!" β
The award ceremony entered a climax at the beginning, because the first item was to conduct a live interview with "the fourth place in this year's WCG Warcraft competition, and the only Chinese player to enter the semifinals, and the special guest of honor this time, Liu Fei, who is known as the first beauty in the game industry and now the first person in China's Warcraft" - when the host read this long list of titles in one breath, he almost didn't lose his breath.
The interviews are nothing more than questions such as, "Are you stressing out as a female professional gamer?" "How do you feel about being in the Final Four? "Who is the person you want to thank the most" and other uncreative questions, but the audience was surprisingly quiet, because everyone was extremely curious about this Warcraft beauty who always maintained a faint smile and was elegant and generous like everyone's ladies...... At the same time, it is inevitable that there will be a little bit of "fantasy". However, the next question shattered everyone's "illusions".
"Do you have a boyfriend?"
"Yes, he's the AS.Knight that everyone is familiar with." This time, even the host was a little surprised: "It turned out to be Knight!" So you're on the same team. It's said that you're still a 2v2 pair, but why didn't Knight come to the competition this time? β
"Yes, we've been practicing 2v2 for a long time, and I wanted to win the 2v2 championship this time, but he suddenly had something to do abroad, so he couldn't come. What a pity, alas! β
Speaking of her boyfriend, Liu Fei obviously talked a little more, and the last sigh was a little resentful, coupled with a slight frowning eyebrows, there was really a kind of style that I saw pity.
Someone in the audience couldn't help but have a nosebleed, "I can't stand it, it's so beautiful!" β
"Why do you have a boyfriend, I'm squirting!"
"Forget it, someone's boyfriend is Knight, and he can't fight!"
In order to put an end to the surging emotions in the audience again, the host hurriedly ended the interview and announced: "Now the awards are officially started." First of all, the DOOM3 winners are invited to take the stage to receive their prizes! β
When Liu Fei returned to the backstage, the award ceremony had ended, and only the closing ceremony remained. All the contestants had to go on stage for the closing ceremony, so the contestants were waiting for the announcement of going on stage backstage. The players of China's Warcraft also gathered together to chat. As soon as Liu Fei came back, everyone beckoned her over. Chen Jie, the captain of the AS team, put on a coat for Liu Fei, "Xiaofei, this time you can be in the limelight, and you can compare to the T.O who won the championship." Facing the captain who has always taken care of himself, Liu Fei felt a little kind, and said with a smile: "Brother Chen, don't laugh at me, I lost the game, what kind of limelight is there." β
"Hah! Isn't it still a showy thing to wear in this exaggerated outfit? If you wear it like this during a competition, you should win the championship, right? Liu Da Beauty? "It's Ah Ming who speaks, the 15th place in WCG this time, and he is a member of another famous team in China, FX, he is a well-known living treasure in the circle, and he loves to find trouble wherever he goes, but the level of Warcraft is still good, and he is 6th in this year's ranking competition. This sentence obviously has a strong provocative meaning, Chen Jie frowned, and was about to speak, but Liu Fei had already spoken first: "Ah Ming, you are talking to me for the first time in the past few days, I haven't seen you for so long, I thought you didn't know me anymore." β
"Damn! I really don't want to know you, but who called us classmates! Alas! In the face of beautiful women, Amin has no scruples about becoming "dirty".
"You're still classmates, huh? Which school? This time it was Lin who spoke, and he was also the 13th place of the AS team, WCG, which was the highest ranking of Chinese players except for Liu Fei and Chen Jie.
"Little school, you don't know what you know." Amin said with some crampedness that he didn't seem to have much affection for his alma mater.
"It's Shenghua University", Liu Fei is very simple.
"What?! Shenghua?! Is it the Sheng Hua of that "genius"? β
As soon as he heard the word "genius", Liu Fei's face rarely lost a smile, and he became silent with Ah Ming. But there weren't that many people next to him, and Team KT's Sun (WCG didn't make it to the round of 16, 5th place in the China Ranking Tournament) and Someboy (WCG didn't make it to the round of 16, 4th place in the China Ranking Tournament) also joined the discussion.
"Have you also heard of that "genius" of Shenghua? I also played against him, I had just become a professional gamer, and I was going to win a national Warcraft championship for college students, but I met him in the semi-finals for both years, and I didn't even win a set, and I almost me off! There was no sunshine on Sun's face when he said this, which showed that the competition that year hit him hard.
"Wow! You've also fought with him, and I want to fight with him too, I've only watched the two fights he had with that TO's master, and they were broadcast live on CCTV. But then he suddenly disappeared, and no one knew where he was. Someboy looked excited, as if he were telling a legend.
"Aren't you two from Shenghua? You haven't heard of that "genius", have you? β
"I didn't ...... No, what's ...... What a genius. Ah Ming said in a panic, Liu Fei looked at Ah Ming and seemed to be in deep thought.
At this time, a red-haired foreigner dressed in an avant-garde rider's uniform ran over, he was the world champion of the WCG Warcraft event - KE. TOγ TO is French, not only the top level of Warcraft, but also handsome and chic, plus the race he is good at is the undead, so he has the nickname of "Bright DK" in Europe, he and South Korea's SWAT and Sweden's Kit are known as the world's three immortal emperors, this time TO defeated the world's top Night Elf player Dom in the final and became a real emperor superstar. And Liu Fei also lost to him in the semifinals with a disparity of 0:3, which shows that there is still a big gap between China's level of Warcraft and the world's top.
But now TO is obviously not here to discuss the game, he is holding a large bouquet of roses from nowhere in his hand, ignoring the others, and goes straight to Liu Fei's front and puts on a cool pose.
"Fei, you are my sunshine! You are my hotbed, I was deeply attracted to you at first sight, and I swear to use my life to make you happy! Please be my girlfriend! β
The foreigner is indeed thicker-skinned, and when he says such a meaty thing and has a pious face, he almost kneels on one knee.
Liu Fei didn't seem to be used to it, and said neither humbly nor arrogantly: "Thank you, but I already have a boyfriend, I'm sorry." β
TO's expression remained unchanged and said, "Come to our team, you can't improve in China, go to us, you can have a higher level of opponents to practice with you." I'll help you too! "He is worthy of being a master of Warcraft, and he knows how to change his tactics at any time.
"Thank you, I can also improve in China, China's Warcraft players are very strong, and they will be stronger in the future!" Liu Fei rejected him again.
TO had no choice but to leave in a huff.
"Humph! Didn't take us seriously at all, what a "higher-level opponent"! It's crazy! Sun was furious at the fact that no one was in sight of TO.
"Alas! Who calls someone else a champion, he is indeed stronger. Lin said helplessly.
"If he had been, it wouldn't have been," Amin muttered.
"What did you say?" The crowd couldn't understand what he was saying.
"It's nothing", Ah Ming hurriedly waved his hand. Liu Fei glanced at Ah Ming deeply, and stopped talking.
At this time, the staff came to inform the contestants that they had come to the stage. The closing ceremony is about to begin. The most high-profile competition of the year, WCG2006, is finally coming to an end.
Ah Ming stood on the stage, looking at the foreigners holding trophies next to him, and suddenly muttered: "If only he were there"
"Bang! Bang! Bang! β
Countless fireworks exploded in mid-air, turning the night sky of the Dragon Pavilion into an incomparably brilliant one, and then passed away in a hurry.