It really hurts-

Lin Jiang thought to himself.

Why is there still anyone watching the game with an iron cup?

And what are you smashing him for? He's the one who came up to take the blame, and if he wants to smash it, he's going to smash Alike, he doesn't pretend to force the game to win early.

He held his smashed head, and in a trance, he suddenly saw the interface of League of Legends many years ago.

Years of professional habits made him ghostly press the mouse, the game entered, and he was assigned to the middle unit, and the id was prominently displayed: AD deplasticizer.

"Depletion" is a term in League of Legends, which roughly means that a single click can make the opposite AD die, which is a very arrogant and malicious ID.

Lin Jiang was young and ignorant at that time, and he had no one in his eyes, but he was interviewed by the manager once, and he honestly changed it.

Looking at the old ID in front of him, Lin Jiang was a little confused.

He seemed to be dreaming, as if some unknown magnetic field was controlling him, and countless connected magnetic field lines controlled his hand to lock his once favorite hero: Tribulation.

As the master of the shadow stream, Zai is a well-deserved mid-lane killer, and any AD is a soldier who has no ability to take care of himself in front of him.

Lin Jiang won a total of 14 heads in this game, of which 9 heads were contributed by the opposite side of the road, and in the last wave of team battles, he won five kills.

Behind him, I don't know when the crowd was around, "I'll go, this robbery is awesome!" ”

"When the Internet café reported his ID just now, I was still thinking about who was so arrogant? It's really a great god......"

"I'm playing AD, and I got goosebumps on my arms just now when I watched him operate."

"Hey, you're so good, why don't you go professional?"

Lin Jiang suddenly remembered that it was because someone in the Internet café said this sentence that he embarked on the path of his career.

The picture swirled around and came to his team entry competition, where he won the quota as easily as he did back then, and then the trials, internal competitions, training competitions, and official competitions.

He won medal after medal, created myth after myth, and led KUG to climb to one height after another.

Later, he encountered a version change, and the mid laner changed from the C position to the functional position, and the jungler Zeng Yuan also joked with him: "Ah Jiang, I heard that the version is going to change, are you going to lose your job in the future?" ”

Lin Jiang didn't care about his ridicule, "Players all over the world are unemployed, and it is impossible for me to be unemployed." ”

He decisively changed his style of play, from a fixed C position to a team-type midlaner.

For victory, smooth the edges and corners.

For the sake of trophies, be willing to be green leaves.

Until the end, when the version of the mid-laner carry came back, everyone forgot about it, including himself-

He used to be a mid-lane killer and a nightmare for young AD.

"Your style of play is not ornamental, and the audience doesn't like to watch it."

"Why don't you dare take the assassins?"

"Lin Jiang, are you afraid?"

“……”

"river, you're just a small river, why do you want to be the sea?"

Countless defeats, countless withdrawals, countless doubts about oneself.

The picture ends with a pair of black sneakers.

The long hallway looked like a beast about to devour him, and the Alike on the other side stared at him with a playful smile on the corner of his mouth.

"Why is it impossible to accept your failure? River, your time has passed, and now is my time. ”

No......

Lin Jiang wanted to refute him, but he seemed to be a bystander in this life, and he didn't have any decision.

Fate kept taking him forward, and finally stayed on the contract that was a pit every step and a cake every sentence, and it was this contract that made him fall into the abyss from which he could never recover.

The empty conference room was as quiet as a slaughterhouse, and the manager sat across from him, smiling kindly.

"Ah Jiang, the club has really shown the best sincerity."

"You see that your current state is really not as good as it was back then, your popularity is also declining, and the club is also going to make a profit."

"It's really the best solution you can think of."

He signed it without even thinking about it.

At that time, Lin Jiang never expected that the club had made two preparations, and they were signing him while trying hard to sign Alike.

When he saw Alike sitting in his seat with bad intentions, Lin Jiang felt that he had been stabbed in the back several times.

He stood in front of Alike and grimaced for the first time.

"Get up from my place."

Alike patted his chair memoristically, as if thinking of something, and suddenly got up to meet him.

He smiled playfully to death, "River, I said it would cost you after that game, now that feng shui is turning, you wait to be stepped into the dirt by me......"

Later, a proverb became a prophecy.

No, Lin Jiang felt like he couldn't breathe.

Step by step in front of you is a pit contract.

Don't sign it!

Criss-crossing magnetic field lines appeared around him, controlling his behavior, and the more he struggled, the more those magnetic field lines were rigidly contained.

The soul and body seem to be divided into two subjects, his soul is resisting, while his body is rigidly pressed on the track of fate and cannot be separated.

Seeing that the contract is about to take effect, he is about to be pulled back to the dark past, where life is worse than death.

Lin Jiang's eyes were as red as bloody, and he struggled to break free from his fate despite being cut bloody by the magnetic field lines, and the magnetic field lines were overwhelmed and began to break, one, two, countless ......

He finally broke free of control and pounced to stop the pen in his hand.

"Don't sign!"

The magnetic field lines around him disappeared in an instant, and he completely took control of his body, and all his senses became extremely clear.

Lin Jiang looked at the pen in his hand incredulously, and couldn't help pressing it twice, this touch is too real, it doesn't look like a dream at all, it's like-

He's really back to the day the contract was signed!

Lin Jiang's gaze instantly moved to the signed document, and the word "Jiang" on it was only the last stroke.

The manager's voice came to my ear: "Eh, is the pen out of ink?" You use mine. ”

The heavy pen rolled to his hand, and the cold touch made Lin Jiang withdraw his hand, and he stared at the contract in his hand, his heart beating wildly.

He doesn't care if it's true or not.

He had only one thought on his mind now—

To hell with this contract!

The contract was torn open in his hand with a "bang", and Lin Jiang was afraid that it would take effect, so he was not sure, so he tore it twice.

The manager, who was originally calm, began to panic: "Ajiang, you can bring up any dissatisfaction with you, and we can discuss it again......

Lin Jiang didn't have anything to discuss with him, he slapped the torn contract on the table, "Is this the same price when you signed Alike?" Ten times more. ”

The manager's head was sweating, "Ajiang, listen to my explanation......"

"This money," Lin Jiang propped up the table and said what he had been holding in his heart: "You also want to sign me for five years?" Dreaming. ”

The grievances and three hellish lives that were held back in his heart finally got a vent at this moment, like a Pandora's box that had been opened, raging maliciously.

The manager's expression changed from shock to apprehension, and finally became cautious: "Ajiang, have you heard any rumors?" Believe me, the club will never treat you badly......"

Lin Jiang sneered at him, as if asking him rhetorically, "Do you think I believe it?" Then he turned around decisively with a cold face and slammed the door away.

He had wanted to do it for a long time.

Countless midnight dreams, I want to slam that contract on the table and throw it in their faces-

Lin Jiang slammed the door and left, walking faster and faster in that familiar corridor, and the pleasure of breaking free from fate was incredible.

At the end of the hallway was still the pair of black sneakers.

Alike stopped in front of him and, as he had then, gloating at him.

"River, aren't you welcome to me? I'm going to be a member of KUG soon. ”

Lin Jiang glanced at him with the eyes of a dog, bypassed him and returned to the room, wrote his resignation, and then packed his things and prepared to leave.

Alike looked at him for a while, and then suddenly reacted, "Where are you packing your things?" ”

"Go home."

Alike：“？ ”

His face changed, "You didn't renew your contract with the club?" ”

Lin Jiang stopped packing his hands and looked up at him, Alike saw a cold color in those gentle eyes for the first time, "No more." ”

Alike wasn't sure if Lin Jiang was scared and ready to run away, or if he didn't care to be on a team with him and couldn't wait to leave.

He lowered his voice coldly: "You're going to admit defeat?" ”

Lin Jiang just didn't hear it, he packed up his things and left without looking back when he got the news that he could leave.

When he left, someone in the club already knew about it, and Zeng Yuan, the jungler who usually had the best relationship with him, called him as soon as possible.

"Ajiang, what are you doing? Have you been decapitated? Come back quickly, this year's transfer period is coming to an end, aren't you afraid of not having a game when you leave KUG? I'll help you say something good later, manager, you should come back first......"

Lin Jiang looked at the free sky and the endless road ahead, and suddenly felt unprecedented relaxation: "No, I won't come back." ”

Zeng Yuan hated that iron could not become steel: "Where can you go if you leave KUG?" ”

Lin Jiang's voice was very brisk: "Go to the sinking team, go to LDL, go to be an anchor, in short, you won't die of hunger." ”

Zeng Yuan sensed that he wasn't joking, "Why did you suddenly make this decision?" Did the club bully you? ”

This late concern across time and space made Lin Jiang's eyes moisten slightly, when he was pressed to the substitute position, Zeng Yuan was the only one who said good things for him.

It's just that KUG is no longer the KUG of the year, with team changes, high-level departures, and shareholders don't know how many batches have been replaced.

He used to be the backbone of this place, but now, he is nothing.

"KUG is not worth it."

The moment he pushed open the revolving door, Lin Jiang felt the freedom he had been away from for a long time.

On the tallest building in S City, in the dark sky, under the neon lights that flow in all directions, the colored light screen flickers-

Welcome to 2023.