Apple didn't get through the GI's video call, and after a few seconds of waiting, he rejected the call request.

The soldier frowned and looked at the phone screen, his emotions a little complicated.

It's not that he feels sorry for the 1,000 yuan in reward for Super Rocket, he just thinks that Apple's reluctance to contact him must have something to do with Apple's previous experiences. In other words, his and Mo Nian's guesses are likely to be correct, Apple has left the professional e-sports circle and come to this point, and there is definitely an article in it.

The reluctance to share the bad past with others does not mean that you have done something unspeakable, and it is very likely that you are reluctant to recall it because that past is too unbearable to look back on. Ning Yu, isn't that what it is?

It seems that as long as there is interest, there must be filth.

The soldier pinched his phone in his hand, frowned and pondered, thinking about how to find a breakthrough and let Apple speak.

He just wanted to know about Apple's experience, just to be able to sound the alarm for himself and Lonely in advance, to know what kind of person or people were going to embarrass him, what kind of people they had, what kind of means they had, and not to threaten anyone.

The soldier was thinking about it, when he suddenly felt the mobile phone in his hand vibrate, and then he saw that the mobile phone screen lit up, and there was a red envelope on it.

There are a total of five vibrations, so there are five red envelopes, all of which were sent by Apple through WeChat.

The soldier opened the dialog box and found that the five red envelopes sent back by Apple were each 200 yuan, and together they were exactly 1,000 yuan, which was the amount of the super rocket.

What does that mean?

The soldier was stunned and did not receive the red envelope.

In fact, even if Apple didn't tell him anything, he wouldn't feel sorry for the 1,000 dollars for gifts. Looking at the pride of the sky who once stood at the top of the professional e-sports circle, he has come to this point, which makes the soldiers feel from the bottom of their hearts...... Although it is not appropriate to say this, in fact, it is sympathy, even pity.

E-sports from scratch to today, countless young people in the name of dreams, pay their youth and blood, do not hesitate to give up all future possibilities, devote themselves to e-sports, but can really go to the end, after all, there are only a very few, most of them are unknown, until they give up completely, until they leave with regrets, to live that unsatisfactory life.

Remember that "Fullmetal Alchemist" mentioned that all things are exchanged equally. Then, the prosperity of e-sports today must be the result of countless vigorous times, countless hard sweats, and countless broken dream wings, which are exchanged for the most precious life time of countless young people.

Relatively comparatively, Apple should be regarded as a relatively good life among the countless people, at least able to rely on games to support their families and ensure their own survival, and they can not have to live under the scorching sun or sleep in the open to exchange pain and hard work for a meager salary.

The soldier commander sighed, picked up his phone, was too lazy to type, and replied to Apple with a voice message: I gave you a reward because I watched your live broadcast and recognized your competitive level, and it has nothing to do with the question I want to ask you. I won't accept the red envelope, and it will be automatically returned to you when the time comes. I'm sorry for the trouble you've caused, and since you don't want to, so be it. It's not early, you can rest early.

After the voice message was sent, the soldier threw his phone aside, lit a cigarette, and casually found a room with a relatively high popularity to watch the live broadcast of the game, and then went to the bathroom to wash up.

Half an hour later, the soldier walked out of the bathroom wiping his wet hair, picked up his phone to take a look at the current time, but saw two voice call requests from Apple, as well as some text messages.

"Did you sleep?"

"Good night! Let's talk when you have time. ”

"Thank you!"

The soldier was stunned, and then hurriedly sent a voice call request.

This time, the bell didn't ring a few times, and the other party connected the call.

"Hello, Instructor GI, I know you." Apple's voice was a little hoarse, and he could hear that he was tired, probably because of the long stay up late live broadcast.

"Hello Apple, I actually know you too. I'm sorry for you that you left the esports world during the upswing and missed out on the most valuable opportunity. You made it to the Honor of Kings career circle during the toughest time, and if you stayed at that time, you should be able to do very well now. ”

"Perhaps." From an unknown distance, the GI could also hear Apple's helpless wry smile.

"Can you tell me about you?" The GI asked, cutting to the point.

There was a sudden silence on Apple's side, and the GI could hear the "snapping" of the lighter, as well as the heavy exhalation. It seems that this topic is really Apple's sore spot, and every time it is revealed, it will make him feel a lot of pain, right?

The soldier waited for a while, but never heard Apple speak again, shook his head helplessly, and said, "If you don't want to say it, then ......."

"At that time? In fact, who wants to really leave? Apple suddenly spoke, interrupting the GI, and slowly began his story.

That year, the DA team had just been established and not long ago, but it made it to the first KPL in one fell swoop, and although it failed to win the championship, it was still a beautiful scenery and had a lot of fan support. As the core jungler of the DA team, Apple is definitely the popular king of the team.

Perhaps because of the sweetness, DA's senior management increased their investment in the team and recruited many very talented players, including the current leader of DA.

The addition of new players has greatly improved DA's strength and bench depth, and it stands to reason that all members should be nervously preparing for the next KPL championship to attack and strive for better results and higher bonuses.

Apple thinks the same way, and is really hopeful about the future, and every day is full of fighting spirit.

It was in this context that one day, the then DA head coach approached Apple and said that the team's playing style would change in the future, and the most important position involved was the jungler. Therefore, for the sake of the overall consideration of the team, the DA head coach gave Apple two ways to go.

The first is to let Apple sit on the bench as a substitute, but there will definitely not be many opportunities to play again.

The composition of the income of professional players is not complicated at all, in addition to the guaranteed salary and competition bonus, and then there is the performance bonus linked to the number of games played. If Apple's opportunity to play is cut off, it is equivalent to cutting more than half of Apple's revenue. But that's not what Apple minds the most, he really doesn't want to sit on the cold bench to be criticized and waste his good youth.

Since Apple can't accept this path, then he only has a second way to go, which is to terminate the contract with the DA club.

Apple, who is strong-blooded, chose to terminate the contract without hesitation, thinking that it would be a big deal to change the team, anyway, with his fame, it is not impossible to find another team to fight.

But after seeing the termination of the contract, Apple was directly dumbfounded, and it was almost blown up in anger.

Many of the terms in the contract are harsh, but not unacceptable. But there is one thing that Apple can't accept anyway. The content of that article is: You can't join any professional club related to Honor of Kings in any name within one year, and you can't play professional games related to Honor of Kings in any team, otherwise it will be considered a breach of contract and you need to pay up to one million liquidated damages.

This price, with Apple's fame at the time, should be willing to pay for it now. However, in the initial stage of KPL, a lot of capital has not yet been injected, and the entire mobile e-sports circle is still relatively poor, which is definitely astronomical.

However, because of such a clause, will he stay in this team that has seriously failed him? Apple's self-esteem makes him unacceptable.

So, after several quarrels, the angry Apple chose to terminate the contract, held back tears and full of anger, and left his e-sports dream that was difficult to give up.

No matter how difficult it is to give up, it must be given up after all; If you don't want to leave, you will leave after all.

The period after leaving DA was very painful for Apple. But what he didn't expect was nothing compared to the pain behind him.

More than a month later, someone took the initiative to find Apple, claiming to be the head of the content department of a live broadcast platform, hoping to sign Apple to its subsidiary and make Apple a popular game streamer.

The man seemed to be sincere and talked a lot with Apple, and also listed the income of many popular anchors on the platform, making Apple realize that relying on his own efforts, he could earn enough millions of "redemption fees" for himself through live broadcasts.

After some consideration, Apple agreed, and signed a contract with the other party.

Apple, which is not familiar with contract law, does not realize that there are a lot of overlord clauses and even traps in contracts. The guaranteed salary of up to 30,000 yuan per month must be directly linked to the gift income of Apple's live broadcast room, as for more bonuses, it is vague in the contract, it seems to be like that, but in fact, the right of interpretation belongs to the live broadcast platform, there is no specific sharing ratio, let alone a specific amount.

At that time, Apple also raised its own doubts, but after reading the contracts of several big anchors on the platform, Apple still signed it without hesitation, because the content of the contract is almost identical, and there is no problem with people signing it, so what is his problem?

Next, Apple ushered in a monotonous and boring live broadcast life every day, but thinking that with his own efforts, he could earn up to one million liquidated damages, he was still very motivated, and worked very hard, so that the popularity of his live broadcast room continued to rise, and the daily gift income stabilized at more than 5,000, and even more than 20,000 when it was high.

However, in the settlement of each month, in addition to the 30,000 salary income specified in the contract, the platform did not give Apple a penny of bonuses, and always deducted it for various reasons, which made him very angry and helpless.

Apple is very simple, and after suspending school to play e-sports, it has almost no real contact with this society, let alone how sinister this society is.

He thought that one day, the platform would no longer have any excuse to suppress his bonus, and it would definitely be issued to him. He, after all, is too young and too simple! Because through understanding him, I knew that the big anchors on the platform were also like him, and they had not received any bonuses except for the guaranteed salary, and if it weren't for the contract restrictions, they would have already jumped ship.

In addition to these, Apple also heard a familiar name from a streamer who belonged to the same platform, and remembered with shock and anger that that person was an investor in the DA club.

Before and after, Apple easily came to the conclusion that it was used as a tool to accumulate money, and became a victim of capitalists making money, sacrificing his dreams and his future!

From forcing him to leave the DA club, to sending someone to persuade him to be an anchor, to signing a contract, using a new contract to control his income and restrict his freedom, this link is really unguardable!

Apple was really angry this time, and he angrily found the person who signed the contract with him and offered to terminate the contract.

Originally, that person had coaxed him for everything before, like a Bole who couldn't bear to waste his talents, but at that moment, that person finally tore off the mask of hypocrisy, and only coldly informed Apple that everything should be done according to the contract, otherwise there would be more exaggerated liquidated damages waiting for Apple.

This time, Apple no longer chooses to compromise, he tossed and turned for days without sleep, and made a more costly decision for the sake of that poor dignity.

If it was his dream that he broke off his contract with the DA club at the beginning, then this time, his decision is enough to completely sacrifice everything he has now. But for this, he is willing to sacrifice, preferring to lose both, but also to get rid of the identity of becoming a tool for capitalists to accumulate wealth.

Termination? He didn't have the money to terminate the contract.

So, he began to shorten the live broadcast time, reduce the quality of the live broadcast, and tear up with fans during the live broadcast......

After this series of childish behaviors, within a month, the popularity of his live broadcast room fell by more than half.

The hypocrite found him at this time, knocking on the contract and threatening Apple with a salary cut, but Apple just sneered and violently kicked the man out of his rented apartment.

Since then, Apple has no access to any platform resources, and its popularity has only declined, and its salary has dropped from a guaranteed minimum of 30,000 yuan per month to 20,000, 10,000, and 5,000......

Finally, after Apple completely lost its use value, the platform was unwilling to invest any more in him, and terminated the contract with factors such as "personal behavior caused the decline in popularity of the live broadcast room", and finally gave Apple a free body.

So far, it has taken Apple more than a year to completely fall and turn from a genius to a waste material.

At this time, although he has regained his freedom and can return to the professional world to play, it is difficult to go back, because a series of smears from the top management of the DA club have made his reputation very bad, and his declining popularity has also made him worthless, so no club wants him.

Forced by life, after going around and around a few times, Apple can only be the anchor again, sign the current live broadcast platform, and everything has to work hard from scratch.

Apple is not afraid to tell the GI that if it weren't for the GI's super rocket tip, his gift income this month would definitely not be able to cross the line, and even the basic guaranteed salary might not be guaranteed.

"You're still young, keep working hard, strive to get back to the KPL, and slap those fat-headed and big-eared guys with your strength." The soldier sighed and persuaded.

Apple smiled bitterly: "Can I go back now?" ”

"As long as you want, you can. No one in the KPL team wants you, so you can fight from the bottom step by step. Actually, I'm in the same situation as you right now. But I believe I can go back! Apple, one day, let's meet in the KPL arena. ”

After a long silence, Apple almost gritted its teeth and replied with one word: "Good!" ”