[defeat]

The emotionless electronic announcement and the scarlet word "Fail" in the center of the screen announce the end of the game and the outcome of the game.

The game-specific sound in the headset fades little by little until it is silent.

Shen Er's hand holding the mouse trembled uncontrollably, and his vision began to blur little by little, and the gray screen and the neon auditorium through the screen blurred together.

He pursed his lips and took off his headphones with trembling hands, and the cheers from all directions poured into his ears like a tidal wave, sounding harsh and helpless.

"Let's congratulate Team UMA on their 3:2 victory over Team KNG!" The narrator's voice was hoarse with overexcitement, "This is UMA's third Grand Slam and also the third FMVP (Most Valuable Player of the Grand Finals) for hyper players, let's cheer for him!" ”

Shen Er closed his eyes weakly, and the hot tears in his eyes slipped down like a silent rain.

"And thank you KNG for giving us such a great game—"

The words fell, and the director's camera moved from the other end, and the big screen changed from a smiling and cheering Hyper to a lonely and tearful Shen Er.

This is the second time that Shen Er has reached the World Championships.

In the first year of the UMA World Championship, they were killed in the Summer Championship, and KNG did not participate in the World Championship.

In the second year of UMA's championship, KNG lost to the LCK (Korea Division) and reached the quarterfinals.

And this year, KNG went all the way to the finals, and staged the LPL (China Division) civil war for the first time in the World Championship, but still lost to him.

Shen Er and Hyper debuted at the same time, and the two were inevitably compared.

Hyper is the pride of the sky in the e-sports circle, and his debut is the peak, and he is ...... An inconspicuous stepping stone.

"Let's go, go shake hands." Sitting next to him, his teammate stood up and patted him on the shoulder with a low floor.

Shen Er choked out an answer from his throat, and when he tried to get up by holding on to the armrest, he caught different voices among the crowd cheering for UMA—

"Owl, come on, don't cry!!"

Shen Er's wrist holding the armrest hurt inappropriately, forcing him to slump in his chair.

The sound of "come on" and the slightest hint of pain were like the last straw, almost pressing him out of breath.

I heard the exclamation of my teammates: "? What's wrong? ”

Shen Er's eyes were red, and he slowly lowered his head, his forehead against the edge of the table, from silent crying to suppressed crying.

The director's camera has not been moved, and he is like fragile glass on the big screen.

Perhaps because of the infection, the cheers from the audience became smaller and smaller, and the same words of encouragement came from different positions.

…… Shen Er cried even harder.

After a long time, his shoulder put another hand on his shoulder.

"Shen Er, are you okay?"

It was the voice of hyper, Shen Er sniffed, turned his head sideways and wiped the tears on his face with the back of his hand, and turned his head to look at him.

Shen Er shook his head and stood up with the support of Hyper.

"It's okay." Hyper patted his arm soothingly, took two steps back, and held out his hand to him, "See you next season." ”

Shen Er pursed his lips and didn't answer, raised his trembling hand to hold him, followed his teammates to shake hands with the other UMA players, and then left the field gloomily.

A door in the lounge couldn't stop the audience cheering for the championship again, and Shen Er took the thick coat on the sofa and folded it, and the KNG logo was completely obscured.

"Just work hard next season." The team manager looked at him and sighed silently, "It's okay, let's go back first." ”

Shen Er didn't say a word, and walked out of the competition venue with everyone.

It was raining heavily, and the damp and cold moisture was enveloping through the neckline of the cuffs, pulling the back of the wrist and causing a fine and piercing pain.

The bus back to the club stopped not far away, and the people next to it all rushed over one by two and got into the heated car.

Shen Er raised his head, looked at the dim night sky through the rain, put on his hat, stepped on the puddle reflecting the warm yellow light, and got into the car.

The whole atmosphere was oppressive during the drive back to the club.

Shen Er sat in the last row, his head against the window, listening to the sound of the rainstorm crackling on the glass, pressing his mobile phone to open Weibo, eight out of ten on the hot search list were from this game.

#UMA又双叒叕大满贯了#

#hyper真的好强#

……

#Owl泪洒赛场#

Shen Er clicked in.

[Does Owl have hyperphobia?,As long as he plays against hyper, he hasn't won]

[Isn't it just a dish, e-sports dish, it's the original sin]

[It can only be said that Owl is really unlucky, he is really not a vegetable, purely because hyper is too strong]

[No one is going to talk about the Owl uncrowned king, hot knowledge: there is only one champion]

He calmly looked at one Weibo after another, whether it was regret or ridicule, Shen Er did not show a trace of emotion.

Until—

[I watched KNG's documentary before and said that Owl often overloads practice, and when I watched him play today, he had an intramuscular patch in his sleeve, and I don't know if he can still play]

He pressed the lock screen button and closed his eyes.

The moment he returned to the club to take off his coat and hang it up, the manager saw his swollen wrist.

"Shen'er." The manager lowered his voice, "Come with me to the hospital tomorrow for a follow-up." ”

Shen Er turned his head sideways to meet his gaze and nodded slightly: "Got it." ”

After speaking, in the surprised eyes of everyone, he put on a T-shirt and carried his coat upstairs and went back to the room.

In the dimly lit room, only the phone screen shone dimly, and Shen Er's fingertips trembled as he tapped slowly on the screen.

[Hello everyone, I'm KNG's midlaner Owl Shener, and I'm planning to retire.] ]

Just one line of words, delete and edit, edit and delete.

Until he lost consciousness and fell asleep, he was reluctant to press the send button in the end.

Early the next morning, there was a knock on Shen Er's door, and at the door was a neatly dressed manager.

"Brush your teeth and wash your face, then eat something and take you to the hospital for a follow-up."

Shen Er is a frequent visitor to the hospital, the pungent smell of disinfectant has long been accustomed to it, bored queuing up for registration, he took out his mobile phone to open Weibo, and the first thing he saw was the retirement statement that was not sent out last night.

"Brother Liu, is my contract expiring?" Shen Er, who had been silent, suddenly spoke.

Before Brother Liu could consider a suitable answer, the "Shen Er" on the screen in the clinic climbed up to the first one, and a voice broadcast sounded at the same time.

He stood up on his knees: "I'll talk about this later, let's go for a review first." ”

Shen'er's occupational illness was more serious than they could have imagined.

Under the doctor's sentence "If you don't want to be disabled, retire as soon as possible", Brother Liu's expression became particularly ugly.

"It's okay, I guessed." Shen Er smiled, "Announce your retirement, I'll go to the bathroom." ”

After speaking, Shen Erwu walked to the top of the corridor, bypassed the bathroom, and walked into the artificial passage.

He leaned against the wall, looked at his swollen wrist with the medicine applied, lowered his head slightly, and his lips imprinted a kiss of affection on the pale palm.

Then, he took out his mobile phone from his pocket and issued the retirement statement that he had never been willing to send.

The trembling fingertips were unsteady, and the phone slipped from the fingertips, falling to the ground with a muffled sound, and bouncing down layer by layer.

Shen Er was stunned for a moment, then followed its trajectory and walked quickly downstairs.

The artificial passage of the hospital is paved with tiles, and coincidentally, this area has just been cleaned, and the tiles are still covered with water stains.

Shen Er's feet slipped and fell.

·

The head hurts.

Shen Er frowned, rubbed the back of his aching head with one hand, supported his elbows on the edge of the bed, and sat up.

"Awake? Is there anything uncomfortable? It was the nurse who was adjusting the infusion tube for him.

Shen Er looked at her: "Headache." ”

"You fell down the stairs, the headache is normal, there are no internal injuries after the examination, don't worry too much." The nurse took out a warm baby from her pocket and opened it, folded it in half and handed it to him, "It's cold, hold it, just ring the bell when this bottle is finished." ”

Fell down the stairs.

Shen Er's consciousness gradually returned.

Oh yes, he fell down the stairs.

He can lie in the hospital now, it must have been sent by Brother Liu.

Shen Er covered his head and looked around, the ward was a room for eight people, and the other beds were either sitting or sleeping, and there were people around, but ......

What about Brother Liu?!

With his temperament, he won't say that he is going to retire and leave him alone in the hospital!!

Seeing that the nurse was about to leave with a small cart, Shen Er hurriedly called out to her-

"Hello, I would like to ask, do you know where the person who sent me here is?"

The nurse turned her head sideways and pointed out the window: "He was still hospitalizing you at the front desk just now, he should come over later." ”

After Shen Er nodded and thanked him, his eyes fell on the hand he was infusion, feeling a little weird.

These hands...... Why does it look a little different from your own hands?

Shen Er frowned, endured the pain in his head, and stretched out his other hand from the quilt, the palm facing him.

The weirdness grew stronger.

Until the gaze falls on the wrist bone.

Shen Er suddenly realized the source of this strange feeling.

There are no mouse calluses or ganglion cysts on his wrist bones, but a thick layer of cocoons on the palms.

It's not like an esports player's hand.

He furrowed his eyebrows, blinked in disbelief, and habitually held his thumb with four fingers and folded it in the direction of his little finger.

There was no soreness.

He didn't even have tenosynovitis.

Shen Er looked up in shock, just in time to meet the man standing in his bed with a meal.

"You're finally awake." The man let out a long sigh, "You really scared me out of nowhere. He walked to Shen Er's side with the meal, opened the plastic bag, and put it on the cabinet next to him, "Are you hungry?" I'll go to the hospital cafeteria and get you a meal, let's eat some first. ”

Shen Er looked at him in a daze, the person in front of him looked familiar and unfamiliar, as if he had known him for a long time, and as if he hadn't been in contact with him for a long time.

"What's wrong with you?" The man stretched out his hand and waved in front of Shen Er, "Hey? ”

Shen Er opened his mouth, pondered for a while, and spat out a name uncertainly.

"Wang Chenyu?"

"Ah, what are you calling me for?" Wang Chenyu handed him the disposable chopsticks, "I thought you had amnesia with that expression just now, I didn't think it was so dramatic, I did a CT scan and the doctor said that you didn't have any internal injuries." ”

Shen Er thanked him with chopsticks, bowed his head and fell silent.

In his memory, Wang Chenyu seems to be his roommate from a long time ago, and the friendship between the two seems to have been very good......

After he went to play professionally, how could he have no intersection with him at all?

Since there is no intersection at all, how can he be in his hospital room?

Shen Er held chopsticks and stared at Wang Chenyu in a daze.

"No, what are you doing, Shen Er, staring at me like this is a little panicked." Wang Chenyu took a step back, wrung his eyebrows and hissed, "It can't be that there are any internal injuries that haven't been found...... I'll go to the doctor again! ”

When the words fell, Wang Chenyu ran away.

Shen Er's gaze chased him until he disappeared in front of his eyes.

It's weird.

At this moment, Shen Er's stomach gurgled at the right time, and hunger surged up.

He unpacked the disposable chopsticks and ate some of this very ordinary-looking meal in a twisted posture of placing the infusion flat in his left hand and holding the chopsticks in his right hand.

Soon, he saw the phone next to the lunch box.

Whether it's the model or the slightest trace of falling, this phone is not his, but the phone that will be placed in this position will not be the second person except for his.

Shen Er put down his chopsticks and picked up the phone with a mind full of doubts, and tried to enter his usual password-

Unlocked.

The phone is stuck in a novel interface, which means that the phone did not exit from this interface the moment before he fell.

But reading novels seems to have been his hobby for a long time, since he joined the professional team, he has no energy or time to read novels, and he clearly remembers that his mobile phone stayed on the Weibo interface before he fell.

One head and two big, and they are all abruptly raising question marks.

Press the lock screen button, but what appears in the dark screen is indeed your own face.

What's going on? Crossed?

Before Shen Er could sort out the messy threads in his mind, Wang Chenyu had already walked in with the doctor in a hurry.

"Doctor, he's really not right, can you take a closer look at him if there are any sequelae?" Wang Chenyu said anxiously, "He looks a little ...... now Not very smart? ”

Shen Er was still immersed in cognitive shock, and looked at the doctor with his mouth slightly open, looking at the expression that was indeed not very smart.

"Do you remember who he was?" The doctor walked to Shen Er's side, pointed at Wang Chenyu and asked.

Shen Er nodded hesitantly: "I probably remember ......"

"Do you remember where and how you fell?" The doctor asked again.

"I fell in the stairwell of the hospital, right?" The more Shen Er spoke, the less confident he became, and his voice became smaller and smaller, "It seems that he is stepping on a wet tile......"

Wang Chenyu was shocked.

The doctor took out a pen and wrote something neatly, and asked, "Then do you remember where you live?" Where do you work? ”

Shen Er tilted his head and muttered in a low voice, "I'm staying in a club...... Right? ”

The doctor pushed his glasses, nodded very calmly, tore off the piece of paper where he had just written, and handed it to Wang Chenyu: "Your friend has some symptoms of memory confusion, and it won't take long, just prescribe this medicine and let him take it on time." ”

After finishing speaking, the doctor walked to his side very intimately and changed the hanging bottle for him before leaving.

Wang Chenyu looked at Shen Er with the list, Shen Er sat on the hospital bed and looked at Wang Chenyu, and the two of them stared at each other.

"You said you fell in the hospital?" Wang Chenyu's expression was hideous, "How can you fall in the hospital if you haven't been in the hospital for 180 years?!" ”

Shen Er was also stunned by him: "Then I ......"

"I still live in a club, do we have the money to live in a club?" Wang Chenyu let out a long sigh, sat on the edge of Shen Er's bed with the list, and looked at him seriously: "Your name is Shen Er." ”

Shen Er was confused.

"You know that I am Wang Chenyu, and I should know that my name is Shen Er, right?" Wang Chenyu said, "If you remember, just nod." ”

Shen Er nodded obediently: "Remember." ”

"We live in a tube building in the old city, you fell down because you didn't eat at work until night yesterday, and you had low blood sugar when you climbed the stairs today, do you remember?"

Shen Er shook his head in a daze.

Wang Chenyu pursed his lips silently and nodded resignedly: "We both work in a bubble tea shop, do you remember?" ”

Shen Er twisted his eyebrows, as if he had a little impression, but it was a very distant feeling.

Wang Chenyu raised his head and sighed, and shook the piece of paper in his hand: "You lie down for a while, I only took half a day off, I have to go to work first and then ask for a day off for you by the way, I hope you can remember when I come back, save this medicine money, you will go on a trip today, and you will be on duty for three months." ”

Shen Er watched Wang Chenyu walk out of the ward, and turned on his mobile phone again with great suspicion.

There are few friends and a stumbling balance in WeChat.

Weibo doesn't exist on the phone at all.

There's also a bunch of unfamiliar software for reading novels.

What is this......

It's not for nothing that he's called Lucky E, what's the odd thing?

Fortunately, he didn't tell the doctor that he was an e-sports professional, otherwise Wang Chenyu might have turned his head and sent him to the psychiatric department next door to see if he had paranoia.

Shen Er silently swiped left and right with his mobile phone, clicked into the software and exited.

After one operation, this old and broken mobile phone ......

It's stuck.

Stuck on that original novel interface.

Shen Er wrinkled his eyebrows, and his muscle memory caused him to press and hold the side button to force it to shut down.

The moment the screen dimmed, his gaze fell on the last paragraph of the novel.

[Hello everyone, I'm KNG's midlaner Owl Shener, and I'm planning to retire.] ]