After dinner, Lin Xiao returned to his room and lay down on Simmons' big bed, his whole body sinking into the comfortable and soft quilt.

Turning over, lying face up in a large font, Lin Xiao looked at the ceiling in a daze.

Recalling the conversation with my parents at the dinner table just now, my mother is naturally a typical mother who dotes on herself very much; And what his father said, he also understood the painstaking and ardent expectations.

Esports ...... Pro Gamer ......

Such words flashed through his mind, Lin Xiao shook his head again, just like his father told him, now that he is in his third year of high school, the last year of his high school career is crucial, he really can't devote himself to the game like the previous two years, and put his studies aside.

But......

remembered the "world championship" mentioned by my mother when she defended herself just now, and the corners of Lin Xiao's mouth couldn't help but hook:

The WCG World Finals half a year ago was indeed an extremely painful battle.

Merely...... The North American Glory team that lost in the end was probably in a bad mood when they looked at the empty arena on their opponent's side after the game......

After lying on the bed for a while, Lin Xiao stood up and walked to his computer desk and sat down, turning on the computer host.

Today is only the first day of transfer, and I only took one computer class, so I don't have any homework to do in the evening, and I can turn on the computer to relax for a while, and from tomorrow, I guess I can only play on the weekend.

When the computer was turned on and entered the desktop, Lin Xiao controlled the mouse to open the browser, quickly entered an address, and then pressed the enter key to confirm.

The browser ran a search for a while, and the interface quickly presented a screen of a game website called "Home of DOTA".

His eyes swept over the pictures and text on the homepage of the website, looking at the videos explaining the system and the battle reports officially released by the website, Lin Xiao sighed a little.

The names of many teams and players that he was familiar with in the past have gradually disappeared from view, including many of his old friends and opponents.

Some people choose to retire and say goodbye to the professional esports industry, while others move on to other games and continue their professional esports careers.

Lin Xiao clicked on the official forum in the upper right corner of the homepage, entered a "gossip irrigation" section that he used to hang out about, and swept through the posts one by one with nostalgic intentions.

"It's a bit of a big drop in popularity......"

"It's much more deserted than it used to be."

"Hey, sure enough, most of the players have thrown themselves into the arms of masturbation......

While muttering, Lin Xiao manipulated the mouse to quickly pull down the page, and suddenly, his movements paused slightly.

A thread appeared in his sight.

Then he couldn't take his eyes off it:

"The indelible brilliance, commemorating the mysterious king who elegantly hides in the darkness - NO." 》

"Ah...... This kind of nickname, it sounds like a collapse now......"

"Killing Matt's non-mainstream rural pretending to be a sense of ......"

"I knew I wouldn't play like this in the first place—"

He habitually complained with broken thoughts in his mouth, but I have to say that when he saw this title, Lin Xiao only felt that his heart couldn't help but tremble slightly.

After a moment's hesitation, Lin Xiao clicked on the post, and the first thing that caught his eye was a video that could be watched by clicking on it, and after selecting to confirm the playback, the light in the video screen dimmed suddenly.

A low, rich but faintly passionate and shocking rhythm of the background music slowly played.

At the beginning of the video, there is a footage of Team NO's career journey, and in the upper right corner of the screen, lines of subtitles continue to emerge, describing a series of achievements and honors achieved by Team NO.

In three years, he has won three World WCG Championships, 24 online league championships, seven runners-up, two annual World Most Popular Team titles, and the only team to be inducted into the WCG Hall of Fame.

In those days, Team NO was a pinnacle that could only be admired in the Dota professional circle, a myth that could not be surpassed.

Looking at the scenes that were quickly projected in the video, Lin Xiao's thoughts were a little trance-like, and the fragments of past memories sealed in his heart flashed in front of him like a marquee.

……

He still remembers when he first built Team NO.

It was just a group of like-minded friends who suddenly came together one day and formed a purely entertaining team.

Even from the beginning, they didn't plan to expose their identities, thinking that they wanted to play mystery and be the most unique one in the former Dota professional esports circle.

It is precisely because of this intention that they chose to sign up for various online events, and it was in this large and small online competition that their NO team swept almost all other opponents in the national server.

Even some world-class online tournaments, facing the top teams from North America, Europe, and South Korea, they are still winning one championship after another with great strength and ferocity.

Later, as their team's fame grew, many tournament organizers would gradually invite them to participate in some offline events, but no matter how tempting the other party tried to make them, they simply rejected them.

Two and a half years ago, when they participated in the first WCG World Finals, they received an exceptional invitation from the WCG official, and the only requirement was that they had to be offline.

But the five of them still insisted on only competing online.

The matter was reported to the organizer's top management for urgent discussion.

What should I do?

Should this kind of special case be allowed?

During the organizers' discussions, countless players in the entire Dota game community launched an initiative to vote on the Internet, supporting their NO team to participate in the finals as an online team, and gathered hundreds of thousands of players from home and abroad to sign and write an open letter to the organizers to send a request.

As a result, the organizers chose to take a step back and compromise again, acknowledging their identity as the only team participating online.

It was also in that World Finals that their NO team lived up to expectations and won all the way again, firmly reaching the top of the championship with a terrifying record of zero defeats.

Since then, the myth of their NO has been completely laid.

……

When Lin Xiao came back to his senses, the video had already reached the second half, and the originally high-pitched and blood-burning background music atmosphere changed and began to become low and sad.

Screenshots of the game news reports of the year kept switching between the screenings: "Blockbuster Breaking News: There is a problem within the NO team and it is about to be disbanded-", "StarTV explores in-depth and unveils the mystery of the NO team for you." "The Mythical Team of the Past Regrets Became a Brilliant Sound"......

Looking at the video screen playing silently, Lin Xiao's eyes darkened slightly.

Like the headline in the first screenshot, the so-called "There is a problem within the team", to be exact, should be pointed to the current person alone.

Originally, after the WCG finals half a year ago, their NO team had been seriously planning and preparing to really enter the professional esports field and compete in those offline events with their real identity, but it was at that time that his father's stern rebuke forced him to change his decision.

He still vividly remembers that on the night after defeating Team Glory North America to win his third championship, when he helplessly and guiltily asked his companions to quit the team on the team's five-member YY voice channel, the atmosphere in the channel that was originally cheering and celebrating suddenly fell silent.

And after the hard persuasion failed, 002's angry rebuke:

"One, what the hell do you think!? ――”

But anyway...... No matter how much he loves DOTA and e-sports, even if he no longer agrees with some of the evaluations that his father made when he angrily reprimanded him, Lin Xiao is powerless to refute it.

After all, in the domestic environment, playing games ...... It will only be considered unproductive.

Even today, when the domestic e-sports industry has gradually developed, people who are engaged in this area ...... It's still just going to be considered unprofitable.

What's the use of having a good time?

Isn't it just a game-player?

Pros, can you make money?

How much money can you make?

Go out to meet people with this identity, how many people can look down on you!?

This sentence was like a mountain, when his father moved them out one by one, Lin Xiao was silent and speechless, and even was about to be overwhelmed.

If you are unable to refute it, you can only compromise and accept it.

Lin Xiao also recognizes the importance of the college entrance examination for a student, so this is another reason why he promised his family that he would work hard to prepare for the exam and review hard in the next year.

But no matter what, when recalling these things, Lin Xiao still has the guilt of failing his teammates and companions in his heart.

At this moment, the progress bar of the video has reached the last tenth, and the content of the video has also entered the end.

Just as Lin Xiao shook his head, leaving his messy thoughts behind him and preparing to turn off the video, in the picture, accompanied by low and sad music, a few lines of subtitles slowly emerged:

[It was the best of times. 】

[It is also the era of NO.] 】

[The dazzling myths of those years may gradually fade with time, but our memories will be cherished forever.] 】

[The last word, to our eternal pride-]

At this point, no matter how dark the picture is, when it is lit up again, there are only two lines of vigorous and firm words left:

[All the way through thick and thin. 】

[No complaints, no regrets. 】

"This sensational music is accompanied by this kind of text...... Deliberately cheating on tears......"

He muttered in his mouth, but Lin Xiao also had some mixed feelings in his heart.

And when he pulled the post down and saw the neat and incomparably "wind and rain together, no regrets" message text in the reply, one page of the floor, ten pages, and one hundred pages were still firm, Lin Xiao's eyes finally couldn't help but heat up.

Taking a deep breath, Lin Xiao calmed down the turbulent emotions in his heart.

He knows very well the hearts of the players who left these messages, which is not only a simple support for the NO team, but also a sincere feeling for e-sports.

What they truly love is e-sports that can bring them passionate passion and sincere emotion.

Just like him.

Thinking of this, Lin Xiao's mood gradually calmed down.

Of course, he will have to prepare for the college entrance examination in the next six months, but this will not reduce his sincere love for e-sports by half a point.

No matter what his family thinks, he firmly believes in his heart that he has esports blood in his veins.

He likes the flamboyance and vitality of the e-sports atmosphere, and longs for the burning and passion of fierce confrontation with opponents on the field.

So...... The time limit is half a year.

Lin Xiao's eyes flickered slightly.

The glory of the former NO team in DOTA has turned the page with this game that has gradually fallen silent.

In the new era of esports, the game of League of Legends has been spreading rapidly to the whole world with an unstoppable momentum.

Half a year later, he will unload the cumbersome baggage he has on his body and re-stage the legendary return in a new esports professional circle with a new attitude.

After all, he is the captain of the mysterious team that single-handedly created the myth of the Dota esports professional circle.

The god-level storage zài who ranked first in the list of the top ten strongest players in the Dota by countless players in the past.

The first place in the NO team sequence -

NO。 001。