However, Brother Cai didn't want to laugh over it. He just wanted to shush––
F*ck, he was about to pee his pants from fear!
"It's Wei Xiao?"
This deep voice, which fans firmly believed could make them pregnant just by hearing it, rang out by Bai Cai's side…
He wasn't pregnant, but he was soon about to miscarry!!!
"Ye, yes."
Bai Cai looked at this thirty second long voice message and prayed sincerely: Old Wei, you'd better not have spouted any nonsense!
Lu Feng: "What did he say."
Bai Cai: "This…"
Lu Feng's eyelids lifted slightly, "Inconvenient?"
Bai Cai gave a start. His hand moved faster than his brain and had already clicked open the voice message––
"Goddamn, Old Bai… little cutie… sugar baby… for a lifetime… cute girl… I'm going to propose!"
Bai Cai: "...…"
What was the point in praying, he just needed to think for a moment to know that this beast who never censored his mouth would never say anything normal!
He even used little cutie, cute girl, and going to propose, Wei Xiao, you're a reincarnated firework, right? You want to go up to heaven every day!
Old Bai thought about how he still had a bit of a revolutionary friendship with this guy and prepared to save him a little, "About that…"
He fell into a daze even before he finished speaking.
What the hell?
F*ck!
Close smiled!
The Great Demon King smiled!
The man who was expressionless on the stage of the finals when he won the world championship cup was actually smiling!
It wasn't that obvious of a smile, and only the corners of his mouth were raised. The smile was very light, but it still managed to touch that pair of deep black eyes.
Bai Cai felt a stab of pain. If he took a photo of this, Lu Feng's wife fans, madame fans, girlfriend fans, might make him an income of a hundred million!
What a pity, he only had the brain to make money, but not the guts to actually do it.
"Not replying?" Lu Feng asked him.
Bai Cai put away his 'evil thoughts' and hurriedly said, "No, if I reply to him at this time, I might end up beating the grass and scaring the snake."
Seven o'clock in the morning for e-sports players was the same as two or three o'clock in the morning for ordinary people. It would be suspicious if they weren't still sleeping at this time.
Lu Feng thought about it, "True, let him sleep."
Bai Cai: "...…"
Was it because he wrote too many short stories? How come he always felt that things were a little weird?!
Lu Feng didn't say anything further and turned to go upstairs. Bai Cai let out a huge sigh of relief and collapsed like a rag in his chair.
Sorry, ah, Old Wei, it's not that your brother sold you out, it's really an unexpected event after unexpected event, it's all accidental!
Fine, he admitted that he was a little bit in the wrong. He really shouldn't have been 'pimping' in the training base.
This matter had to be explained from last night––
A new team member had joined FTW this year, a rebellious youth named Ning Zhehan who had dyed his hair granny grey. He was a mid-lane player.
The most authoritative training system was the youth training camp that was jointly established by the various clubs. It would hold trials every off-season; two years ago, Wei Xiao had been the rookie king. This year, it was Ning Zhehan.
This kid had some skills. He looked rash and impulsive, but in fact, he had a stable play style and could advance and retreat when needed. He could switch freely between mage assassins and fortress gunners, and had a strong level of adaptability.
As soon as the youth training camp ended, the teams would all start to fight over the newcomers, and FTW ultimately signed him at a sky-high price of 3 million.
A rookie going for such a high price was enough to prove how good he was.
Ning Zhehan was an eighteen year old youth. Having been praised and complimented in such a way, it was inevitable that he would become overconfident. When he came to FTW, he really believed that he could win glory for his country and come back with the world championship cup.
Yet as a result, two days after joining the team, Ning Zhehan became dispirited and passive.
In nine training games, he was an existence that totally dragged everyone back. He couldn't keep up with the rhythm, and his game consciousness was poor. Even the technique and skill that he was most proud of was so vulnerable it couldn't stand up to a single blow against the four-time champion Great Demon King.
How could there be such a powerful person? How could there be an existence that went against the heavens like this?
They both had two hands. How could the gap be so big!
Ning Zhehan's granny gray hair lost its luster, and he was really about to become an old granny.
Bai Cai had seen it all before. Over the years, how many talented players had flung themselves over to join FTW and then gone off into seclusion after being beaten flat?
It wasn't that he was exaggerating, but God Lu hadn't even been trying his best. If he really let himself go, perhaps only the big guys at the top of the League would be able to keep up with his rhythm.
Oh… and the Wei Xiao from two years ago.
Unfortunately, that beast didn't play in the professional circles.
In any case, Ning Zhehan couldn't do it. Don't judge based on how both of them were rookie kings.
These years, Bai Cai had developed a psychological shadow towards rookie kings. Although it was a bit miserable for an eighteen year old youth to go into seclusion, he didn't want to go comfort him and acted as though he hadn't seen anything.
Who could've known that even though he ignored him, this child would take the initiative to come find him? "Brother Cai, I heard that…"
His words were faltering, and he was extremely awkward.
Bai Cai understood as soon as he heard this, but he deliberately pretended not to understand, "Hm? What did you hear?"
Ning Zhehan hesitated to speak.
Bai Cai patted him on the shoulder and said, "Don't think too much about it. It's just a few training games, it's fine to lose."
But the problem was that they'd lost because of him. Ning Zhehan's face turned white.
Bai Cai was still smiling broadly, seemingly unaware of how distressing his words were.
Ning Zhehan bit down on his lower lip and steeled himself to say, "I heard that you know a god-level training partner."
"It's not that extreme." Bai Cai waved his hand, "He's an accompanying player, not some god-level anything."
Ning Zhehan was very serious, "But he's defeated 90% of the professional players in the League. Even the vice-captain of the TPT team is one of his defeated opponents!"
Bai Cai muttered, "About that…"
Ning Zhehan was no longer as awkward now that he'd said it out loud. He even seemed to yearn for it, "I heard about his legend when I was in the youth training camp––nobody knows his name, and nobody has seen him before. Nobody knows his real identity, but everyone knows that he's a behind-the-scenes powerful player in the China competition zone. Countless players have grown and improved under his hands, and countless vice-captain and even team captains figured out their play styles after experiencing his tempering…"
Bai Cai's teeth ached when he heard this. Although it was true, once he thought about how all of this was about that boy Wei Xiao…
He didn't deserve it!
Ning Zhehan spoke firmly, "Brother Cai, can you contact him for me? I want to grow!"
Bai Cai thought to himself: I think you want to inflict self-harm on yourself!
"He's really just an accompanying player." Bai Cai sighed and stressed, "One who takes money to play with you."
Ning Zhehan: "Eh?"
Bai Cai hadn't repeated the fact that he was an accompanying player for nothing. He was really trying to say the key point, "Two hundred per game, accompanying you until dawn."
Ning Zhehan: "...…"
Ning Zhehan's heated blood cooled down a lot. There were many legends about the god level accompanying player, about how he was the 'One Lamp Grandmaster' of the e-sports world, a godly player who'd broken through the professional player world, and how winning him was the same as winning against the Great Demon King…
There was no mention of money in the legends.
However, from another perspective, an accompanying player was good too, or even a trainer. They all needed to be able to feed themselves, and charging a fee was normal!
Ning Zhehan's awe of the 'grandmaster' became a little more personal and cordial, "That's fine!"
It was good to have the bill settled for goods that were delivered. Nobody would owe anyone!
Bai Cai: "200 a match refers to solo (1v1)."
Ning Zhehan: "Of course!"
Professional players sought out One Lamp Grandmaster in order to hone their personal strength. There were more things that needed to be considered in team competitions, but the Grandmaster was only one person. There was no way for him to do those.
Bai Cai smiled slightly, "Okay. I'll contact him for you."
At this time, Ning Zhehan only felt that Brother Cai was smiling like an old fox, but he hadn't yet realized how much his wallet would suffer.
After the first game…
Ning Zhehan was baffled, "This, this is so…"
He couldn't even use any strong words. This was simply too abnormal!
A 1v1 confrontation was different from 5v5. After the game began, both players would enter a long map, each guarding their own resurrection crystal, and start fighting as soon as they left their base.
In common solo matches, the players would give each other a little opportunity to develop, build up their talent points and equipment, and wait until they reached over level 10 before fighting. Ning Zhehan was already mutilated by level 1, and was forced to return to the resurrection crystal by level 2. By level 4…
Game over.
In just five short minutes, Ning Zhehan, who stood out amongst countless players, a newcomer who'd been signed into the top team FTW with a contract worth 3 million, had been hammered into a melon peel!
"Again!" Ning Zhehan didn't think twice before clicking to return to the game room.
Bai Cai was very calm, "Pay first?"
Ning Zhehan took out his cell phone, "I'll transfer it to you."
Bai Cai: "'Kay."
There was a ding as one thousand yuan entered the account.
One hour later…
Ning Zhehan was sweating profusely, and his head of granny grey hair was sticking out everywhere.
Five minutes a game, for a full twelve games. Not only had he not won, he hadn't even killed the other party once!
For an entire hour, he'd been toyed with until his scalp was numb. What made him doubt life even more was that he'd chosen all of the mid-lane heroes he was good at, and the other side had used the same heroes as him. He'd been defeated by the very heroes he was proudest of being good at!
"A, again…" Ning Zhehan's hands were starting to shake.
Bai Cai reminded him kindly, "You've already spent 2400, hey."
Two hundred a game, five minutes per game. One hour was 2400.
Ning Zhehan was stunned for a moment.
He suddenly thought of the sentence Bai Cai had said before.
Two hundred per game, accompanying you until dawn.
He'd scoffed at the time, thinking that it was just two hundred yuan.
Now…
F*ck, was this highway robbery?!
Bai Cai counselled him, "Don't be in a hurry and take your time, for tonight, first…"
Teenagers hated hearing these kinds of words the most, "Again! I'll transfer you five thousand!"
"'Kay."
Bai Cai clicked to accept the money and transferred it to Wei Xiao at a thirty-seventy split. At the same time, he also cursed, "Can't you f*cking hold back a little? This is a child that God Lu looks favorably on. Are you going to take responsibility if you ruin him?!"
Wei Xiao: "Close likes him?"
Bai Cai's heart thudded: Oh shit, I said the wrong thing.
Wei Xiao sent a kind and loving smiley face, "Don't worry. How can one see the rainbow if they don't experience the wind and rain?"
Bai Cai: "...…"
He began to feel sorry for Ning Zhehan. The 18 year old with the granny gray hair experienced a level of cruelty that he should not have experienced at his age that night.
One o'clock in the morning.
After spending ten thousand yuan and losing fifty games, the granny gray kid burst out in tears.
It wasn't an adjective.
It was true…
He really cried!
Bai Cai, who was experienced and knowledgeable, also felt a strange sense of heartache, "About that…"
Ning Zhehan probably hadn't ever cried like this even from childhood, "He… He…"
Bai Cai helped him curse, "That person is a cruel, heartless beast. You…"
"He is really too strong." Ning Zhehan whimpered and sobbed, "There are people beyond people, and heavens beyond heaven. It's my skill that is inferior. I'm going to apply for an extension in training time tomorrow. I need to work harder; I'm going to improve my personal strength. Only like this will I be able to keep up…"
Bai Cai: "...…"
Was this a motherf*cking 'overcoming mental blocks' after going into seclusion from losing in the training matches and getting hammered by Wei Xiao?!
Ning Zhehan left, and Bai Cai directly sent over a voice message to roar at Wei Xiao, "Is bullying children really amusing?! He cried! He wailed and cried! Laozi is most afraid of people crying, you know?!"
Wei Xiao's voice was lazy, "Ning Zhehan, right? He's quite talented."
Bai Cai was almost choked to death by his words: He'd lost every fight. He was really too f*cking talented.
Wei Xiao was in a pretty good mood, "Close's eye for talent wasn't bad this time. I almost lost in the last few games."
Bai Cai didn't believe a damn word, "You didn't use assassins all night!"
Wei Xiao's weakest heroes were mid-lane heroes. Tonight, he'd beaten Ning Zhehan's strengths with his own weakness, and even hammered him to the point of crying.
Wei Xiao laughed and said, "Wouldn't it be like bullying children if I used assassins?"
Bai Cai: "...…"
You've already been bullying them all night. How can you have the cheek to say that!
"It's late." Wei Xiao yawned. "I'm logging off."
Bai Cai: "Get lost, get lost, get lost!"
At one in the morning, Bai Cai wasn't about to go to sleep. He'd spent the day making up for his live broadcast hours and hadn't finished his quota of matches that day. He planned to charge up the rankings at this time.
He didn't stop till 5AM once he started playing.
Bai Cai quit the game and was about to shut down the computer when he saw an unread email.
It was sent at 3AM, and the sender was Wei Xiao. The subject––10000 Yuan Customer Exclusive: Sweet and Love-Filled After-Sales Service.
Bai Cai's mouth twitched, "Going wild won't kill you."
He clicked open the email, and there were two videos inside. He opened up the first one, and Wei Xiao's voice, which was a little lazy from fatigue, flowed out, "… positioning is too far forward, the essence of a poison user is to control the casting distance. Having a short reach doesn't mean you have to be close. Only when you can control the character at the maximum distance will you be able to play out the strongest DPS…"
This was a replay and evaluation video that was nearly thirty minutes long.
Wei Xiao had cut clips of twenty mistakes from the fifty solo games that evening and gave each a very pertinent evaluation, the standard of which was comparable to that of professional coaches.
Bai Cai saved it and sneered, "Little Ning, your ten thousand yuan really wasn't spent at a loss."
The second video was much larger and contained a full hour's worth of material.
Bai Cai's instincts told him that he shouldn't click it open, but he couldn't stop his cheap hands. He clicked it open––
"Just now was the reverse teaching material. Now, please enjoy the mid-lane grandmaster's highlights!"
Bai Cai only watched for half a minute, "F*ck!"
This one hour compilation was full of how Wei Xiao toyed with Ning Zhehan. They used the same heroes and the same talent points, but one was good enough to fly up to heaven while the other lay there on the ground. Such a sharp contrast made even an onlooker like him want to go into seclusion.
He even called it a sweet and love-filled after-sales service!
If Ning Zhehan received this second video, he would probably end up jumping off the top of the training base building!
Bai Cai was just about to turn off the video when a low inquiring voice came out from behind him, "This is Wei Xiao?"
Bai Cai: "!"
He used an entire lifetime of hand speed to turn off the video!
Unfortunately, it was too late.
Lu Feng held a cup of hot tea and looked down at him from above, "Wei Xiao knows Ning Zhehan?"
Bai Cai's back was stiff. He slowly turned his head back, "Captain… You… still remember Old Wei…?"
Not only did he remember him, he could even tell who it was by listening to his voice. This wasn't just remembering, right!
Lu Feng's gaze turned chilly, and his voice was even colder, "Open the video."
Bai Cai: "...…"
Lu Feng looked down at him.
Bai Cai shuddered and clicked open the second video.
The video picked up where it left off. Wei Xiao's lazy but arrogant voice came out––
"… How can I be so amazing? Look at the gap between casting spells, there isn't even 0.1 seconds of error time. Old Bai, I really don't understand, how could there be such an excellent person in this world…"
Bai Cai covered his face. He wanted to drill under the table and hide.
What made him collapse even further was…
This long video lasted for a full hour. Lu Feng watched the whole thing without stopping at all. He didn't fast forward, didn't pause, and didn't say a word!
Bai Cai seemed like he'd just been punished in public. His dignity had already been tossed away, "About that… Wei Xiao is working as an accompanying player."
Lu Feng's eyes were fixed on the screen, which currently displayed the last frame after the video finished playing. There was a line of big, black words––Please call me the King of Casters.
"Accompanying player?"
Bai Cai really wanted to close this stupid video. "Yes… he accompanies others to play games."
Lu Feng knew a bit about this kind of thing, "Which platform?"
Bai Cai thought about his 'business deal' with Wei Xiao––forget it, forget it, he wasn't able to save himself, let alone anyone else.
Bai Cai sold his good brother just like that, "Memeda Platform."
Lu Feng paused, then asked, "ID."
Bai Cai's face felt like it was burning, "7758521…" Kiss kiss me, I love you; Wei Xiaoxiao, can you have a bit of moral integrity!
Lu Feng: "..."
Bai Cai, who wanted to survive, tried to save himself, "He, he also made a replay video for Little Ning. It's this one…"
He hurriedly opened it up for Lu Feng.
After Lu Feng expressionlessly finished watching the video, the hot tea he'd made earlier had long cooled.
Bai Cai couldn't guess what the Great Demon King was thinking and could only try to lighten his breathing. It was so light that he was barely able to breathe!
"Not bad." Lu Feng spoke two words after the video ended.
Bai Cai was a little relieved, "Little Ning didn't lose out this time. There's…"
Even before he finished speaking, he heard Lu Feng continue, "Wei Xiao's mid-lane heroes aren't bad."
Bai Cai: "???"
He'd thought that Lu Feng was saying that the replay analysis was good, but it felt like he was saying that the Beast Wei had played well?
"Send me the video." Lu Feng set down his cup and took out his phone.
Bai Cai was stunned. He couldn't help it and asked, "Which one?"
Lu Feng: "The second one."
Bai Cai: "......"
There was a perfectly good replay video, yet you don't want it. What do you want to do with Wei Xiao's stupid one-man show video?!
Returning back to the present––
In the few short hours of the early morning, Brother Cai's hair was about to be boiled white! He calmed down his heart and listened to Wei Xiao's WeChat message again.
His attention had previously been completely caught up with the phrases 'little cutie', 'sugar baby', 'for a lifetime', and 'propose', and he hadn't paid any attention to the other content in the message.
He caught on to the key point after listening to it again.
Ten thousand games? Two million?
God Lu bought ten thousand games with Wei Xiao as an accompanying player?!
He felt that the captain might have been on his phone placing an order earlier!
Bai Cai thought about the matter of the video once again…
He couldn't reveal the truth. He sent a WeChat message to Wei Xiao, "Tell me honestly, did anything happen between you and God Lu two years ago?!"
Wei Xiao's reply was very quick, "You haven't gone to bed yet?"
Bai Cai was fierce, "Speak!"
Wei Xiao sent over a shy expression, "There's nothing much between me and Close, we just slept together."
Just. slept. together!
Bai Cai's scalp went numb. He immediately initiated a voice call, "You f*cker and God Lu…"
He'd known early on that this kid didn't follow the rules, but he really never expected that he really had no intentions of preserving his own life!
Wei Xiao yawned and said unconcernedly, "What, is your God Lu not a person? Does he not need to sleep?"
This wasn't a matter of sleeping or not!
Bai Cai's migraine was about to be triggered, "You really slept… slept…" F*ck, he couldn't say it out loud!
"Yeah." Wei Xiao chuckled briefly, "I even pillowed my head on his arm. I heard that it's what all of Close's online girlfriend fans dream of."
Bai Cai: "...…"
Wei Xiao seemed to be worried that he couldn't scare his good brother to death and continued to up the ante, "His figure is for real. He has a full eight pack, without a single one missing, but reasonably speaking, I don't quite understand. Based on his qualifications, wouldn't it be more profitable for him to make a debut in the entertainment world than to play games?"
Bai Cai ended up distracted by the shift in topic, "Don't use your money-grubbing vision to define God Lu's style."
Wei Xiao didn't agree, "I don't like hearing that. How can the entertainment circle be inferior in comparison…"
"I'm f*cking talking about likes and ideals. Is God Lu short on money… f*ck!" Bai Cai finally noticed that the conversation topic had detoured all the way to the Pacific Ocean and quickly dragged it back, "Stop interrupting me and continue talking about the matter of you and… sleeping together!"
Wei Xiao was surprised, "You want to hear the details?"
Bai Cai only now realized what it meant to lift up a stone and smash his own feet. He didn't want to hear it, he was afraid his ears would go deaf!
"Don't judge Close by his cold appearance. In fact, his temper is really good. I laid on him and he didn't get angry…"
Bai Cai was going crazy, "You… you laid on God Lu's body???"
Wei Xiao: "What else? With his stature, would I be able to get out of bed if he was the one lying on me?"
"Old Wei, how did you survive until today?!"
Wei Xiao: "Ah?"
Bai Cai was convinced. When comparing the gossip on his Weibo alternate account with this, it was simply like a small sorcerer in the presence of a great one. There was no comparison at all!
"You didn't refuse to sign with FTW because of this, right?"
Bai Cai felt that he'd figured out the truth. Two years ago, the supernova Wei Xiao was really like his name, 'valiant and brave' to the extreme. Today's rookie king Ning Zhehan might have signed at a high contract price, but he was a far cry from that dazzling level that drew everyone's gazes.
Not only had Wei Xiao been brilliant in the youth training camp, he'd also taken that team that was missing arms and legs to participate in training matches, mowing through the substitute teams of every major battle team.
Although the strength of the substitute teams of major battle teams couldn't be compared with the starting lineup, they were still solid, regular troops.
To them, a team from the youth training camp was no different from bronze players meeting kings. What kind of skill could they bring to the game?!
Yet Wei Xiao just happened to have the ability to gather together the entire team's strength and allow his teammates to play at 200% of their strength, winning one training match after another.
Bai Cai was his support and his teammate. Nobody knew better than him about how passionate Wei Xiao had been at the time.
At the time, many teams extended olive branches to Wei Xiao, but he didn't think twice before entering the FTW base. There was no other reason for it––he wanted to solo with Lu Feng.
Later on…
The day before signing the contract, Wei Xiao ran away.
Nobody knew the reason for it, and nobody knew what had happened, but nobody was able to contact that little 18-year-old brat.
This rookie king, who was known as the 'Polaris of the China competition zone, flared brilliantly when he appeared, then disappeared without a trace. At the time, he even went up on the hot search, but no matter how much the various teams hollered and promised high signing bonuses, Wei Xiao never appeared again.
The world of e-sports was crueler than that of the entertainment world, and the speed at which things refreshed was unparalleled.
By the time the new season began, the name Wei Xiao had already been forgotten, and nobody cared anymore.
Later on, Bai Cai ran into Wei Xiao by chance in a game. When he saw the way the opposite side played the jungle like a madman, he could feel hidden pain flaring up in his fingers.
Back then, in order to keep up with Wei Xiao and stuff him with a mouthful of milk, he'd broken several keyboards!
This nightmare-esque psychological shadow allowed him to recognize this beast at a glance.
After the game, Bai Cai had added him as a friend. The other side accepted instantly.
Old acquaintances meet again; Bai Cai's mood was complicated, and his emotions were still simmering. Who could've known that Wei Xiao would start off with the words, "Little brother, do you need an accompanying player? A royal sister, a loli, a sexy or sweet type; as long as you can't think of it, there's nothing this play partner can't do~"
To hell with 'simmering'! This beast only deserved one word, "F*ck!"
Wei Xiao: "Hey, little brother, calm down. We're just an accompanying player, not **."
Bai Cai sent over a voice message, "Wei Xiao, use human words!"
The other side was quiet for two seconds, then sent over a string of question marks. "Old Bai?"
There was a lump in Bai Cai's throat. He cursed, "You refused to go be a proper professional player and ran off to become an accompanying player instead?"
At the time, Wei Xiao had said something in response.
Oh, that guy never properly answered. He simply skittered across the topic and took the opportunity to lure him into a partnership. The two of them began to 'guide' other professional players.
Bai Cai thought about it for a moment now, and felt that he'd stumbled on the truth.
Did this kid's sexual orientation tend towards men?
Had he developed desires after seeing the light and run away after doing something indecent to God Lu?
F*ck, Wei Xiao, that was such scum male behavior!
What made it worse was, God Lu still remembered and thought about him?
Two years later, he recognized him just from the sound of his voice?
Not only did he 'collect' the video full of trash talk, he also spent two million to 'buy' Wei Xiaoxiao?
F*ck, Wei Xiao, you used him, then tossed him away!
Bai Cai's entire brain exploded, thoughts bubbling inside like boiling water.
"Old Bai?" Wei Xiao was puzzled, "Where did your thoughts go? Wasn't it just sleeping together? Do you need to be so surprised?"
Listen, just listen, was this human language?
"Didn't we almost sleep together too?" Wei Xiao's one sentence caused the boiling water in Bai Cai's mind to cool down, "Haven't you seen me when I'm sleepwalking?"
Bai Cai: "What?"
Wei Xiao: "There wasn't any empty dormitories when I first went to FTW, so Close let me sleep in his suite. I'm aware of my own problems, so I made sure to close the door. Who could've known that my sleepwalking problem had upgraded and could even open doors?! I was face to face with Close the instant I woke up. It was really like the sky was falling apart!"
Bai Cai: "......"
Wei Xiao: "But, Close's temper is really good. He just told me to get off him and didn't stab me to death…"
Bai Cai: "Wei Xiao."
Wei Xiao: "Hm?"
Brother Cai was about to go crazy, "F*ck your daddy!!!"
Wei Xiao pulled the