Chapter 41: The Past and the Past
Wang Yafei thought to himself that professional players don't seem to be a big deal, they are just composed of a group of little kids, and then sit in front of the computer for a long time to play games, and finally become frail and sickly fat.
"Does playing games hurt my body?" Wang Yafei asked, he has been practicing so hard recently, but he doesn't feel that there is anything in his body that he can't bear, he eats when he should eat, sleeps when he should sleep, and has not been affected in any way.
"It's different now, the current professional circle has poured into a lot of highly educated people, and it has long been formalized, in addition to having a good accommodation environment, there is also a reasonable work and rest time, many e-sports clubs are also equipped with nutritionists, physiotherapists or something, it can be said that there is no difference between e-sports and other sports competitions, e-sports clubs and football clubs are similar, under the standardized operation, I personally think that engaging in this profession has no impact on the body, But we didn't have such good conditions in that era......" Uncle Ling spoke with a very melancholy expression, as if he was lamenting that he was not born in a good era.
"That'...... To put it bluntly, the problem with your shaking hands is also because of the game. Wang Yafei asked after thinking about it.
"I don't know, anyway, it was a night of practice, and I can't remember the first time this happened, it seems to be a competition." Uncle Ling said thoughtfully, and then smiled bitterly: "Speaking of which, I am also to blame, at that time I was known in the professional circle for being tired and immortal, but ...... Man is not a machine after all. ”
Wang Yafei felt that Uncle Ling's words were a little insincere, Wang Yafei guessed that Uncle Ling must have remembered when he was in this situation for the first time, but since Uncle Ling said that he didn't remember, Wang Yafei didn't want to ask deeply.
"I've forgotten where I got, so let's go on, although I'm trying to get rid of Dota, there are some things that I can't get rid of if I want to get rid of them, and that's all I'm good at, and I have to make some money for it with it."
Wang Yafei didn't understand what it meant to mix up some wine money, and Uncle Ling also saw Wang Yafei's doubts.
"I'm an amateur technical coach right now, sometimes writing for the media, sometimes I'm providing tactical support for some professional clubs, but I'm dictating because I don't have to type on a keyboard."
"That'...... Don't you usually chat online? Don't use QQ? Wang Yafei felt a little unbelievable and interjected.
"Chat, the voice chat won't be over."
Wang Yafei thought to himself that his reaction was really slow, and he didn't necessarily have to type when chatting online.
"If you want to make some extra money, you have to come to the Internet café to watch the game, and you don't need to do it to watch the game...... There is no need to move the mouse, no need to move the keyboard, no need to cāo to make ......" does not need cāo to make these words, Uncle Ling repeated it many times.
Wang Yafei looked at Uncle Ling, who had a somewhat helpless expression, and wanted to comfort him, but he didn't know what to say.
"Then yesterday, you played a game with me......"
"Yes, I didn't do much cāo, there was a period in the middle when the situation was more difficult to move a few times, I was glad that I was finally able to play a complete game, who knew that it was almost over and began to shake again, you haven't experienced that feeling, the whole claw is like someone else's, I don't listen to my own call at all, every time my hand trembles, I want to cut off my hand." Uncle Ling's tone was a little excited, and it was the first time Wang Yafei had seen Uncle Ling so excited.
Looking at the excited Uncle Ling, Wang Yafei didn't dare to speak, Uncle Ling may have also noticed that his words were a little excessive, and immediately regained his calm, Uncle Ling stretched his waist and then pulled Wang Yafei aside, Wang Yafei, who was pulled aside by Uncle Ling, saw Uncle Ling's face with a slightly decadent smile again.
"I guess I lost badly last night."
Wang Yafei's eyes widened.
"How do you know that?"
"You know, it's not easy, I remembered your game ID yesterday, I searched for your ID this morning, and I saw your game record, 0 kills and 11 deaths, it's not easy, I thought you could at least kill one or two." Uncle Ling said with a smile.
Wang Yafei could only bow his head in shame, and the tragic data of 0 kills and 11 deaths made Wang Yafei unable to argue.
"Don't be discouraged, boy, we'll start the class now, do you know what Dota is?" Uncle Ling asked meaningfully.
Wang Yafei was happy when he heard it, and the yin haze of 0 kills and 11 deaths disappeared in an instant.
"Isn't Dota just the game we played, you teachers like to play tricks, and you don't want to teach me the Divine Palm, but also ask me what Dota is."
Listening to Wang Yafei's answer, Uncle Ling was not angry, he just put away his smile: "Dota is a game, but for me, this was my profession, and it is also the whole of my life, if you want to play this game well, you must understand its past and present life." ”
Wang Yafei knew that Uncle Ling was going to start lecturing, although it was probably a boring theory, but he still put on a serious listening look, after all, every teacher had to fiddle with knowledge, just like their medical teacher had to talk about the origin of nurses at the beginning.
"Dota wasn't originally a full-fledged duli game like it is now, it was just a map under the Warcraft 3 engine, a map with only a few mB."
Wang Yafei said yes, he didn't understand what it meant to use a map under the engine of "Warcraft 3", but it was generally good to listen to it as a mythical story.
"It's just a few mBs of stuff that started the dream of a generation, do you know how many people around the world have played or touched this game?"
Of course Wang Yafei didn't know, he could only shake his head and say he didn't know.
"One out of every 20 people on this planet has played this game, and if you add up the amount of time everyone has spent playing this game, it's enough for humans to go back to the age of dinosaurs."
"Damn, Uncle Ling, do you have any factual basis for this data?" Even if Wang Yafei had guessed that the game Dota should be quite popular on a global scale, Wang Yafei never expected it to be so exaggerated, and to copy this data to play mahjong, Wang Yafei still believed it.
Uncle Ling glanced at Wang Yafei with disdain, dreaming of this kind of thing, it is not allowed for others to question it casually.
"Even now, it's hard for me to explain why this five-on-five game has so much magic, but this is Dota, it's a game that allows me to play for a day without eating or sleeping, can make me give up my studies to gamble my whole future for me, can make me buy a standing ticket to stand up for a night and go to other cities to compete, even if I am disabled now, I have never regretted it, I can proudly say to everyone that I am a Dota player and a Dota pro."
Listening to Uncle Ling's words, Wang Yafei gradually began to get excited inexplicably, although Wang Yafei didn't really understand Uncle Ling's current feelings, but Uncle Ling's tone made his young heart start to beat, and he began to feel the surging ups and downs of the heart that this game can bring to people.
"The game of Dota has developed into a game with a duli client, and the content of the game has become richer and richer over time, with more and more heroes, and more and more props, and the skills of each hero have also undergone various modifications, just take Parker, who you are more familiar with, its phase transfer skills used to consume magic, of course, these changes are relatively small, and the skills of some heroes have long been unrecognizable."
Hearing this, Wang Yafei was really interested.
"Dota was not the first to rise in China at the beginning, at the beginning it was foreign players who were the first to get hooked on this game, in our country, it can be said that the rise of Dota and the university campus are inseparable, this easy-to-understand game soon spread among the dormitories, and became the favorite of college boys."
Wang Yafei can understand this point better, he himself only came into contact with Dota when he entered the campus, but he did not enter the university campus, but the campus of the health school.
"Dota has witnessed the youth of a generation, so some people say that it is a game for lonely people to pass the time, but I don't agree with this statement, for me, Dota is a game worth playing for all those who have dreams."
Wang Yafei felt in a daze that the more Uncle Ling spoke, the heavier he became, he was a dream at every turn, Qingchun, and he really looked like a teacher.
"At the beginning, the Dota technology of foreign players was much higher than that of domestic players, and the world competition was basically monopolized by foreign players, and I personally watched the competition of foreign masters gradually grow, at that time, foreign masters were like gods in my mind, you may like singers, football stars, basketball stars now, but my idol at that time was a foreign Dota master, I dreamed of joining the team to become a world champion like them."
Wang Yafei feels that this dream is really a bit great, and he himself just wants to become a master at most, and he can easily defeat Wei Yushi, but he never wants to win any world championships.
"Driven by my dream, I also became a small accomplished player, so I formed a team with other like-minded friends, we started with amateur competitions step by step, and finally through a series of online and offline competitions, we finally won a regional offline competition championship a year later, and this championship opened the door for me to play professionally."
Wang Yafei thought about it, he thought that Uncle Ling could go from amateur to professional, it was great, it was like playing football, there were many people who played it, but there were few who became professional players.
"But at that time the profession was brutal and I said goodbye to my former teammates."
"Why say goodbye to your former teammates?" Wang Yafei interjected incomprehensibly.
"Because people only take me alone."
"How is this possible, aren't you a team to win the championship together, it stands to reason that one of your teams should be called to play professionally, like the current singing competition, a group that wins the championship is also signed by the company together, how can it be said that only one person is signed." Wang Yafei said dissatisfied.
Uncle Ling shook his head bitterly.
"At that time, how could the professional circle be compared with the entertainment industry, although our team won the championship together, maybe my performance was more brilliant, anyway, the managers at that time only valued me, and I had to abandon my former teammates."
Wang Yafei felt that Uncle Ling was not doing this authentically, it was a typical bending waist for five buckets of rice, and Uncle Ling also saw what he meant from Wang Yafei's eyes.
"At that time, I also struggled for a long time, but the dream of playing professionally still drove me to choose to do it, and the conditions of the manager at that time were very clear, either I would go with him, or I would continue to play with mud with my teammates."
Hearing what Uncle Ling said, Wang Yafei thought that it was reasonable, just like Ronaldo, it was impossible for him to play football in his hometown for the rest of his life, and he would always go to a big team.