How Could I Possibly Like Him?

When Jing, an esports legend, died on the day he won the championship, his only regret was not seeing his rival Lu Zhiye cry tears of agony after finding out Jing was the champion.

Unexpected...

Chapter 26 Jinjiang Novel Reading Exclusive I'm tired of typing too much, nothing new...

Chapter 26 Jinjiang Novel Reading Exclusive I'm tired of typing too much, nothing new...

The new season hasn't even fully begun, but this successful doubles match has filled the entire Apex division of SFD with a positive and upbeat atmosphere. Even Jiang Yuan, who usually loves to slack off, showed up in the training room that morning.

Shi Jing practiced shooting for half an hour while sitting at the camera position with two slices of toast in his mouth. Just when he was thinking of getting a cup of refreshing mint tea, he was called to the office by the fat manager.

"Sweetheart, come here, sit down." The fat manager has been smiling when he sees him these days, and his tone has become more enthusiastic.

Shi Jing didn't hesitate and pulled a chair to sit down: "What are you doing?"

"I'm not doing anything, I just called you here to give you a compliment," the chubby manager said. "Is that all you're eating this morning? The restaurant has breakfast, with or without soup. You can't just get by with two slices of toast."

Shi Jing swallowed the toast: "Are you done? Then I'm leaving."

"Don't be impatient," the coach, who had entered later, said with a smile. "Let the manager praise you a little more. You've achieved such great results right after joining the team. The money he'll save on the buzz alone will make him happy."

It would be fine if I didn’t mention the hot search, but as soon as I mentioned him, I remembered him.

Shi Jing: "Have the league's game statistics been released?"

Coach Wan: "I let it go, what's wrong?"

Shi Jing took out his cell phone.

Every game has records of damage, kills, etc. The data of certain popular teams and popular players will be released on the official Weibo of the Apex event after the game, and the club itself will also bring in a wave of traffic.

Coach Wan: "You want to see the stats? No need to check. Our team's stats are trending right now. They were just posted today, so they should still be there."

Shi Jing clicked on the hot search.

[Wild Duo Match Amazing Stats Released! Amazing Critical Hit Rate...]

Shi Jing: “?”

I scrolled down six or seven pages and finally saw himself on the ninth one.

Fortunately, the title this time is relatively normal.

Shi Jing opened the data sheet and frowned.

"Is there something wrong?" Coach Wan saw his expression and thought the data was wrong.

"No." Shi Jing said, "I'm number one in damage and number one in kills."

The fat manager applauded: "Yes, that's great!"

Shi Jing: “…”

Shi Jing: "Then why is Lu Zhiye the number one trending search?"

That doesn't make sense.

SFD definitely paid him money to buy the hot search ranking.

"Xiao Lu is number one on the trending search again? Oh, that's normal. His fans are just awesome. I never have to worry about trending topics." The fat manager came over. "Let me see where you are. Oh, ninth. Not bad. Those tens of thousands I gave you weren't wasted. You've already made it into the top ten so quickly."

Shi Jing: “?”

Shi Jing took several seconds to react: "Did I pay for my trending search?"

"Not entirely. Your own topic reached number 17. I saw that the momentum was good, so I asked the team to get you into the top ten," said the fat manager.

The Tiangang is reversed.

It turns out that SFD spent money to buy his hot searches.

Shi Jing was silent.

"Don't worry, you're new and won't have a huge fan base at first. These steps are necessary. Everyone starts out this way, it's nothing." The chubby manager assumed he was worried about buying trending topics and being criticized. "Besides, you've gained several thousand followers after just one match. Considering the scale of the Apex Duos Tournament in China, that's already a very good result."

Seeing that he still looked upset, the fat manager consoled him, "If that doesn't work, you can go talk to Xiao Lu and try to get some of his attention!"

Shi Jing: “?”

The fat manager winked at him and said, "Xiao Lu is very easygoing. You can take advantage of his popularity. He will definitely not mind such a small matter! Don't worry."

Shi Jing: “…”

Fuck me?

Last week was the first doubles match, which was quite special. After the official start of the competition, there will be three matches every week until the start of the new season. This can be regarded as a warm-up for the competition.

After the weekend, they will play for three consecutive days. Although SFD won the first game, it is far from being able to sit back and relax. After the morning routine training, Coach Wan held a meeting.

"The data team has carefully studied the replays and playing methods of your first three games. There is no problem with your ideas and playing methods, but you still need to make some changes in subsequent games." Coach Wan put their data on the big screen.

Shi Jing didn't understand: "The idea and play style are fine, why do you want to change it again?"

The assistant coach explained, "No matter what, we've taken advantage of other teams' lack of understanding of us. SFD hasn't seriously played doubles matches in previous years, so teams like HUN and LA won't focus on us."

The newly appointed assistant coach was a long-haired lady in work clothes, holding a tablet and some documents. She looked very capable and spoke in an organized manner.

When she spoke, Jiang Yuan, who was fiddling with his phone to grab the consumption vouchers, looked up and glanced at her a few more times.

"That's right," Coach Wan said. "Not having participated as often in previous years is actually an advantage for us. Other clubs don't have as much data to study. But this also means they'll thoroughly review your last three games and make targeted tactical adjustments."

Shi Jing understood, but didn't pay much attention to it. He stretched his legs forward and changed to a more comfortable sitting position.

"How can they target us?" He lazily leaned against the armrest. "There are only two of us. We can't play a four-man match. Can we improve our marksmanship in three days?"

Zhou Lian, who had just arrived late with Lu Zhiye, was stunned.

To be honest, Shi Jing's words were quite arrogant.

Marksmanship is something that relies on both talent and years of continuous training. Improving in three days is impossible, unless you resort to cheating.

This statement means that the shooting skills of the players from other teams are not taken seriously.

Zhou Lian had never seen any player say such arrogant words in front of so many people and the coaching staff.

And he's a newcomer in the industry.

But thinking about it again, it seems that since joining the team, Shi Jing has never concealed his confidence in his own abilities, and... his disdain for others.

Zhou Lian felt that he was the embodiment of the saying, "If hard work is useful, what's the point of having genius?"

But his debut game and all his recent performances are worthy of such a crazy temper.

He looked at the newcomer a few more times and felt a little envious.

Lu Zhiye asked, "What did HUN and LA play in yesterday's training match?"

Shi Jing suddenly heard his voice beside him and looked up. He didn't know when this person had come over.

wrong.

Wasn’t it Zhou Lian who just came over and pulled out the chair?

As he was thinking this, he saw Zhou Lian change his seat to the opposite side.

Shi Jing: “…”

Coach Wan replied, "HUN and LA switched out heroes for other positions, probably because they wanted to play the European duo strategy."

European region.

As we all know, if the symbol of the North American region is excellent shooting skills, then the European region is the representative of all kinds of tricks and disgusting tactics.

"HUN used a support-based strategy in their scrimmages, using a shieldman," the assistant coach said. "LA is also experimenting with using a flex player with a mirage, and it's working quite well, especially on small maps and in housed areas. This combination of skills has a near 100% win rate."

Mirage, also a support hero, can create numerous clones, obstructing vision and making it difficult to distinguish between the real and fake versions. Hitting one of his clones will cause the illusion to mark the enemy's position, effectively giving the opponent a free perspective.

Being in the housing area is a nightmare.

Shi Jing has seen many people playing with these dirty things.

"You mean we can't continue to play double breakthrough position?" He looked at Coach Wan.

No need to duo queue with Lu Zhiye every day?

Is there such a good thing?

A slight noise came from the direction where Lu Zhiye had just sat down.

Shi Jing glanced at him and saw him put his phone on the table.

?

What's the matter.

Are you still acting like a spoiled brat?

"It's not that you can't play it at all, but you can't rely solely on this double penetration." Coach Wan said, "We've all seen Xiao Lu's improvement in penetration recently. I also suggest you practice other positions as well."

He finished speaking and glanced at the team members sitting at the table.

"Of course, you're the ones playing the game. We're just providing tactical analysis and suggestions. The most intuitive feeling on the court is still the players themselves," Coach Wan continued. "Jiang Yuan's support position is one of the best in the league, and Jiahang's libero is also very good. You can try out different combinations."

Shi Jing didn't care: "I'm fine, I can play any position."

Jiang Yuan: "You can also play support heroes?"

"?" Shi Jing said, "I know more heroes than you've ever drunk milk tea."

Jiang Yuan: “…”

Jiang Yuan: "Why are you attacking me? I'm just asking a question."

Song Jiahang: "Are you cheesy?"

Jiang Yuan snorted and turned away, ignoring them.

Hearing Shi Jing say this, Coach Wan was very surprised: "Then you can try other positions when you have time."

"OK."

Shi Jing originally thought that no matter how impressive the tactics were, they were nothing compared to absolute strength. The other configurations could just be practiced, but the key was still the double breakthrough position.

But starting from a certain sentence just now, there was a vague gaze watching him.

Shi Jing is on the left.

There was no one sitting there except Lu Zhiye.

The words were on the tip of his tongue, but Shi Jing didn't look at Lu Zhiye's expression. He put his arms behind his head and said nonchalantly, "I remember there was a tactic called "Nurse with Illusion" that could pull people up infinitely. It was quite interesting."

Coach Wan, unaware of the undercurrents, said with a smile, "Then you can practice with Jiang Yuan. But... can you bear to leave Xiao Lu behind? Stop duo-queuing with your idol?"

Shi Jing: “…”

Shi Jing continued to ignore the burning gaze from the left: "There's nothing much to practice. I get tired of it after playing too much. It's not new."

After the meeting, Shi Jing was in a much better mood after winning a victory in public. He slowly took out his phone and searched for training match videos of other teams.

After returning to the training room and logging back into the game, Shi Jing entered the shooting range and played the Power Boy double board jump for a few minutes. He then discovered that the camera position next to him was empty.

He played another solo game to warm up, and when it was over, the chair was still empty.

Shi Jing glanced at the door, but there was no one there.

"Where's the captain?" someone happened to ask.

Song Jiahang: "I don't know. I saw him go out after receiving a call. Maybe something happened."

"Hey, that's perfect, Sweetie, let's play duo!" Jiang Yuan turned around and said to him happily.

Shi Jing turned his head suddenly.

Grass.

If you're not here, then you're not here. What's the point of him seeing it?

It's not necessary to practice duo row with him.

Shi Jing responded, returned to his lazy expression, and invited Jiang Yuan to join the group.

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Lu Zhiye's seat remained empty until after dinner.

Shi Jing and Jiang Yuan played double support positions for the entire afternoon and had a pretty good time.

Lifeline's passive ability to activate and rescue teammates, combined with Illusion's fake body and the invisibility of the Galar, the two of them are like indestructible cockroaches, as if they have turned on the infinite life cheat.

The enemy had clearly knocked them down, but in the blink of an eye, they were back on their feet. As soon as they knocked one down, another came up, endlessly, and no matter how hard they tried, they could never kill them all. Two of them could actually fight like a division.

It must be said that although the European teams lack in hard power, they are quite professional in figuring out how to disgust others.

Jiang Yuan’s favorite is the gameplay with the most barrage of comments. The whole training room was filled with the sound of his laughter all afternoon.

After dinner, Shi Jing was wondering whether to continue. As soon as he entered the door——

"Brother, you're back?" Jiang Yuanxian saw Lu Zhiye sitting at the camera seat. "Brother, you weren't here this afternoon. I don't know how much fun it was for us to play as two supports. You were really pulling people in. It made me laugh to death..."

After saying that, he found that Lu Zhiye had entered waiting mode.

Lu Zhiye raised his eyes and looked at him indifferently.

Jiang Yuan was very tactful and gave up his seat. "OK. Got it, brother. You two can have fun, I'm leaving now."

Shi Jing: “……?”

Shi Jing turned around and received an invitation to form a team in the game.

“…”

never mind.

It’s already the afternoon, let’s play two games.

After dinner, it is the time when e-sports teenagers are most energetic. In a training room, five people are scattered in three different teams, playing fiercely.

Shi Jing's side was also in full swing.

No one is talking in the voice chat, but the operation is about to reach red temperature.

As soon as Lu Zhiye joined the team, he chose a support hero, Luoba.

Shi Jing thought he had made the wrong choice, figuring he had accidentally clicked it during the pre-selection and would change it back later. But Lu Zhiye simply clicked the lock.

Shi Jing paused.

I glanced at the camera position not far away.

Lu Zhiye sat upright as usual, staring at the screen with his eyelashes drooping, with no other expression on his face.

Roba is fine too.

Although Luoba is a support, she has a long displacement skill and a short CD, so it is no problem for her to play more aggressively.

Moreover, this hero's ultimate skill can steal things, and even supplies from far away can be snatched up by you. With Loba in your team, you don't have to worry about being without guns or accessories. It grows very quickly and is also suitable for fast-paced games.

As a result, the first big move he made was to plunge the store into the ground.

A flash of golden light.

Shi Jing's eyes lit up and he clicked on the store.

——【Shotgun Bolt, Level 4.】

Shi Jing: “…”

The only piece of junk among all the gold accessories.

"Sorry." Lu Zhiye also saw what was happening in the ultimate move, "I only saw gold."

"..." Considering that he had basic marksmanship, the two of them cooperated without any problems and still finished the game smoothly and took first place.

Shi Jing didn't say much about this ultimate move.

It shouldn't be intentional.

Second game.

Lu Zhiye locked a wire tube.

Support position.

The ultimate skill can lay a bunch of cables within the range, which will explode when the enemy touches them. The damage is very high and it is very useful in the final circle.

So in the final round, he made a final move -

It was thrown accurately into the valley between the two houses and fell down.

Shi Jing: "Can you throw this crookedly?"

"It's my first time playing this." Lu Zhiye turned around and shot the enemy who was trying to sneak up on him. "The trajectory is different."

Shi Jing: “…”

After two rounds, Shi Jing had become alert.

I watched Lu Zhiye's mouse move across Luo Ba, across the wire tube, and across the illusion.

Finally it stopped on the wet nurse.

One second.

Two seconds.

Three seconds.

Shi Jing couldn't bear it anymore: "What on earth do you want to do?"

Lu Zhiye: "Practice the support position."

Shi Jing: “?”

Shi Jing: "Playing double breakthrough, what kind of support position are you practicing?"

Lu Zhiye was quiet for two seconds, then turned his head slightly, looking at him with his dark eyes: "If you don't practice now, the one you like will go duo queue with someone else."

Shi Jing: “…”

Shi Jing was stunned for a moment, then realized what he said, and his entire ears turned red all the way to the base of his neck in an instant.

The training room was full, with all the players from Team One present.

He said it so directly.

damn it.

Shi Jing froze in front of the computer, being controlled by him for several minutes.

After a long while, they confirmed that everyone was wearing headphones and fighting passionately. No one noticed them, and no one heard Lu Zhiye's incredible speech just now.

The time slowed down.

Lu Zhiye spoke again: "What's wrong with you?"

nothing.

He is fine.

Shi Jing silently clicked to start matching.

He swore.

Sooner or later he will kill Lu Zhiye.

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The author has something to say: Thank you to my wives for the nutrient solution and the overlord tickets, thank you for your support~