Soon after the start of the A-level league in the Western Theater, the Sichuan B-level selection tournament, which is one of the eight regions in the Western Theater, also kicked off.

It wasn't until this time that Zhou Kai knew that the original B-level team also had a fixed event, and when he joined the "Blade" last year, the selection tournament of that year had already ended, so he didn't know that the B-level team had a regional selection tournament before participating in the "Death Elimination".

But Zhou Kai didn't see this selection tournament as a big deal, after all, he had even participated in the A-level team competition, not to mention that it was only a regional-level competition.

What upset him was ---- Lin Xuedong.

His silence in the conference room last time was, in Lin Xuedong's opinion, a sign of weakness. After that, Lin Xuedong not only did not pick it up, but intensified it, often sneering at Zhou Kai, Zhou Kai saw the love of being a teammate, and the face of persuasion with Shao Nan on the side, and did not care about him, but he knew that he and Lin Xuedong had no possibility of reconciliation.

In fact, the deterioration of the relationship between them, Hou Liping, as the team manager, knew about it. If he could stand up and do the work of both sides and mediate, maybe things would not have developed to this point.

In Zhou Kai's eyes, this Hou Liping is completely a good gentleman who follows Lin Xuedong and follows in the same direction. Just because Lin Xuedong is Xue Hanlong's nephew, he, the team manager, is more like Lin Xuedong's mouthpiece in many cases, and even consults Lin Xuedong's opinion first for many decisions.

In terms of the relationship between Zhou Kai and Lin Xuedong, he stood on Lin Xuedong's side, fortunately, he had not deliberately made things difficult for Zhou Kai, otherwise, Zhou Kai might not have been able to stay in "Hanlong" for a long time.

Now there are more than 30 players in the "Hanlong team" one after another, divided into two levels: first-line players and second-line players, because Zhou Kai has been personally paid attention to by Xue Hanlong, so Lin Xuedong, who is the captain, still did not kick Zhou Kai out of the main team even if he hated him.

However, their relationship had a serious impact on the team's results.

Because of this year's competition system reform, even for the B-level team, the number of participants has been adjusted to 12 people, and the number of participants has greatly reduced the prominent role of individuals in the game, and the current competition pays more attention to the use of tactics and the cooperation between players.

In the first game, Zhou Kai noticed this, although they won that game, but Zhou Kai knew in his heart that it was just a relationship that the other party was really too weak.

In the second game, they fully exposed this weakness, and Lin Xuedong's tactics were also a little problematic at that time, when Zhou Kai pointed it out to him, Lin Xuedong scoffed, and the other players, even Shao Nan did not stand on his side, as a result, they lost to each other 0-1 in that game, but after the game, Lin Xuedong thought that it was just the other party's luck.

In the third game, when Zhou Kai expressed his opinion again, Lin Xuedong only said two words---- "Shut up!" Zhou Kai didn't speak again, he felt disheartened for the first time, he didn't know what future this team would have in the future with such a captain, and he began to miss Kong Xiyuan.

The result of the game was not as expected by Zhou Kai, but in Lin Xuedong's mouth, it turned out that Zhou Kai did not understand his tactical intentions, resulting in losing the game.

The only thing that comforted Zhou Kai was that after the game, Shao Nan and the other four team members walked up to Zhou Kai and patted him on the shoulder meaningfully, although they didn't say anything, but the affirmation in their eyes made Zhou Kai's heart that had fallen to the freezing point have a trace of warmth, at least there were still people who believed in him.

Today is the fourth game, and the opponent is an old B-level team "Pearl Team".

In recent years, due to the country's increased investment in WG sports, especially the reform of this year's competition system and the upgrading of the competition system, this sport has attracted the attention of more audiences, which means a huge advertising effect. What's more, there are ticket revenues, advertising fees, broadcast rights, etc., more and more companies want to come in and get a piece of the pie, which is also the reason why there are more and more B-level teams.

The expansion of the team also means the expansion of the demand for players, for the new team, they all hope to find excellent players, and the powerful players also hope that they can make more money. Therefore, for these newly established teams, seeing who has invested more and is bigger has become the only criterion for whether they can gain a foothold in this market.

But for the old team, they don't have too many such problems, due to the accumulation of time, the general old team has a solid reserve talent base. Of course, this is also inseparable from their previous investment. But the investment at that time and the investment now are completely different.

Take Zhou Kai's salary as an example, the basic salary of more than 10,000 yuan he gets now is almost the salary level of an A-level main player two years ago. Moreover, he is not the highest in the current B-tier team, and many of the veteran members of the A-tier team who are about to retire have been poached into the B-tier team, and their salaries are even higher than when they were in the A-tier team before.

At the same time as the salary increases, the overall combat level of the B-level team is also improved, and due to the large number of experienced veteran players joining, the level of the entire B-level area is rapidly moving closer to the A-level area.

"Pearl Team" is a veteran team, it was established back to ten years ago, the team established ten years ago, and now it is still mixed in the B-level area, it can be regarded as the only one that has achieved only success.

In fact, in history, it has also entered the A-level area three times, but it has also been kicked out of the A-level area three times, and the last time it was kicked out, Li Jinli, the boss of the Pearl Group, although he did not disband the team, he still reduced his investment in the team.

But this year, after his son Li Lingbin took over the group, he took advantage of this huge wave of WG movement reform to increase investment in the team, and their goal, like Xue Hanlong, is to win the A-level team promotion at the end of this year.

At the player transfer auction at the beginning of this year, Li Lingbin sold five players and bought only one, but the transfer fee of this player is equal to the total transfer fee of the five players multiplied by two.

I have to say that Li Lingbin found a very strong captain for his team----- Shang Zhijie.