Yu Xinche finally thanked him very seriously and said that he would first learn about professional competitions and give He Ci a reply after careful consideration.
The conversation ended, He Ci’s avatar on the interface turned gray, and he went offline.
He looked at the chat box in silence for a long time.
To be fair, Yu Xinche had no passion for the major he studied and was not interested in it’s future career direction.
The high GPA and many projects were just the result of his obsessive-compulsive disorder of pursuing perfection and his competitive spirit. It seemed that he had a good future, but in fact he had no expectations for the future at all.
Having been used to following a routine since childhood, he suddenly now had the freedom to choose. He may be more confused than his peers about his future.
At this time, He Ci threw out such an invitation, no matter if it was bait or an olive branch, it would be a lie to say that Yu Xinche was not shaken.
Yu Xinche was a man of strong initiative. He does what he says and first searches for HIT professional competitions on the Internet.
The professional league was divided into different divisions. The domestic league was referred to as HPL, with two seasons a year, in autumn and winter and spring respectively.
Between the two seasons, there was also some entertainment competitions held by the game’s official website and large-scale events around the world.
It was the off-season now and domestic players were on vacation.
Yu Xinche calculated that the HIT team with poor performance could have about 4 months of vacation a year, one month more than school.
As for those with good results, if they participate in all competitions, they would have nearly 2 months to rest except for the Spring Festival holiday.
He searched other aspects and after browsing all the relevant information he could access in a short period of time, he felt that this profession was within his acceptable range.
At this time, the icon in the lower right corner of the computer flashed, and the senior student sent several messages.
– Senior: I happened to have something to do in the afternoon, I went to work on it and then forgot to reply.
– Senior: You controlled the enemy too early that time. If you controlled the enemy after he used R, the effect would be better.
– Senior: Wait, I forgot that you only play good-looking heroes… Don’t you know that Ice Spike’s Q and R are invincible? If you follow up with R immediately before the afterswing of Ice Spike’s Q ends, you will be invincible for a short period of time, and your skills will be immune to other’s ultimate.
Yu Xinche suddenly realized and sent a cat head emoticon.
– Senior: But I came to talk to you about something serious. I forgot to ask you during the day. What happened when you saw He Ci today?
The senior’s real name was Meng Lanyue. She was a senior from the same high school as Yu Xinche. She takes good care of him, was reliable and tight-lipped.
Yu Xinche did not hide anything and explained the key points of the matter.
The senior student didn’t say anything for a while, and then a video call came.
His roommate Lu Guo was going home tonight, so Yu Xinche was the only one in the dormitory. He answered the phone, and the senior student got straight to the point:
“Xiao Yu, you are indeed capable. Someone from our union wanted to ask you to do a livestream before… I mentioned this to you before.”
The senior sister works part-time as a host at Goldfish Live. Her popularity was not enough to be a mainstay, but she was considered mid-level in the industry. She doesn’t need to turn on the camera or curry favor with the top fans on the charts, so she had freedom.
“We discussed it at the time. You said you liked the game but didn’t want to do these messy things. First, you felt that being a streamer was unstable, and second, you were worried that it would wear away your passion for the game.”
“It’s the same with professional games. You have to play HIT for ten hours every day. You have to consider whether you can stick with it.”
“Also, although He Ci is very successful, not everyone is like him. There are many talented youngsters who become wallflowers of the losing team after entering the league. There are also many who can’t play once for several years, which is what people usually call ‘sitting on the bench and watching the water dispenser’.”
The senior sister’s worries were not unreasonable. Yu Xinche had also thought about these things, but ignorance was fearlessness. He felt that only by trying would he know whether he could do it. What if he really could do it?
He was about to refute, but the senior student spoke again:
“Of course, we have to look at everything dialectically.”
Yu Xinche: “…”
As expected of a member of the debate team, she was able to sort out the thinking of both sides by herself.
“If you can develop well, in addition to a high salary, you can get in touch with the best HIT players in the world. You always complained that your teammates can’t keep up with you. There are a lot of great players at the same level as you in the professional arena.”
These words touched Yu Xinche’s heart, and he hummed twice.
The senior student smiled and continued, “Besides, we still have our academic qualifications. If you don’t want to compete anymore, you can just go back to school. After graduation, you can find a job or go to graduate school. There won’t be any loss in your life progress. You can just take a gap year for two years to experience life.”
The two chatted some more, mainly about some situations in the circle that the senior had heard.
The more Yu Xinche listened, the less confident he became. The senior student might have heard it and teased him:
“He Ci is very arrogant, you know? He looks down on everyone. If you write about him inviting you back after being rejected once, you will be called ooc in fan fiction.”
“If this continues, it’s possible that He Ci will flash over to save you one day. I can’t imagine how wonderful the public opinion will be at that time.”
“Hmm.” Yu Xinche responded.
“Hey, maybe I’m too long-winded.” The senior student paused, “Anyway, take your time to think about it. If you have any questions, you can come to me.”
“It’s alright, thank you, senior.”
Without saying further pleasantries, Yu Xinche hung up the phone.
The senior student took such good care of him not only because they went to the same school, but also because his mother was her homeroom teacher at that time.
Yu Xinche’s parents were divorced, and they don’t take care of him much. They just send him living expenses regularly to fulfill their legal obligations.
When the senior student found out about this by accident, she started to take better care of him and over time she played the role of an older sister in his life.
She knows more about the circle, and many of the things she just talked about were “completely new experiences” that Yu Xinche had never had before.
There was too much knowledge pouring in, and he needed to sleep to digest it.
What you think about during the day would appear in your dreams at night. In the dream, Yu Xinche entered the game map of HIT, and He Ci beside him also became a hero.
The 3D concrete scene was very realistic, and the enemy’s skills would cause real pain when they hit your body.
Yu Xinche was badly injured, and the opponent’s ice cone was attacking him. At the critical moment, He Ci flashed over and gave him a shield to save him.
The sharp ice blades did not disappear but hit the shield barrier. Yu Xinche stretched out his hand to feel what the shield felt like, but as soon as he touched it, the shield disappeared and turned into white mist, obscuring his vision.
Then the white fog disappeared, and the scene in the dream changed into a strange room.
The surroundings were a little blurry, but Yu Xinche in the dream knew very well that this was a club.
Five figures in game uniforms walked side by side towards the door, while he sat alone on a bench, with no one around him except a water dispenser.
The bench was hard and cold, and his heart grew colder as he sat there. He wanted to stand up, but he seemed to be restrained and unable to move.
Yu Xinche struggled hard and woke up from the dream.
He blinked slowly, it turned out to be a dream.
It was already daybreak, and he didn’t have the habit of staying in bed, so he got up right away.
After breakfast, he turned on his computer and searched for a few HIT games to watch.
Time was limited, so he downloaded the forum app that his senior mentioned and wrote down the competitions that were most frequently recommended by netizens.
Of course, the sampling survey should also be as comprehensive and objective as possible. In addition to the TZ team’s games, he also watched some games from other domestic clubs and other regions.
He was so engrossed in it that he didn’t realized it.
Each of the champion teams performed brilliantly, the cooperation between the players was astonishing, and the team battles were “beautiful as a picture” as described in the comments.
Sometimes the ultimate operations and clever cooperation that appear in a team battle could be more than what he saw in a whole game.
However, those teams that were considered bad by everyone still dazzled Yu Xinche. Their matches were simply not on the same level as the ones he usually encountered.
Maybe they were a little bad from a God’s perspective, but from the perspective of the players, everyone in the game had remarkable performance and gaming strength that cannot be underestimated.
As for TZ where He Ci was, the team’s level had always been at the top of the league.
He Ci had a deep hero pool, and he played all kinds of heroes and tactics very well.
However, his style seemed to have changed in the past two years. Yu Xinche speculates that this was because the supports he pairs with were always changing, and they need to get used to each other and accommodate each other.
Before he knew it, the whole morning had passed and when the alarm rang, it was almost time for his afternoon elective class.
It was raining today, so Yu Xinche hurried out with an umbrella. He bought the last two siew mais and a bottle of milk at the convenience store downstairs. On the way to the classroom, he ate the meal with the umbrella in one hand and the siew mais in the other.
After class he continued to watch the game and spent the day like this.
At night, he didn’t dream about being a substitute beside the water dispenser. Instead, he dreamed of going on stage to play a game. He transformed into Tide himself and used a perfect ultimate move in the canyon, summoning a huge wave to roll over and kill all five opponents.
The dream seemed too beautiful to be real. When he woke up the next day, he thought about that move with a little regret.
He didn’t watch any more games that morning, but instead searched for some documentaries about various clubs to further experience the life of a professional player.
Some of the films were so well shot that when he watched them he couldn’t help but put himself in the story and empathize with the contestants, feeling the sorrows and joys of winning and losing.
It had been raining for the past two days. When he was about to leave after finishing his tutoring class in the afternoon, he found that in addition to his own umbrella, there was also a silver folding umbrella with the signature “TZ.FIX” logo hanging at the door.
Yu Xinche’s hand paused as he was about to open the door. He didn’t know He Ci before, but now that he knew him, he feels like he was everywhere.
The tutor’s student was a little surprised to see his reaction: “Hey, brother, you know He Ci? You said you didn’t watch the game before, so I didn’t talk about it.” He said proudly, “I’m a die-hard fan of FIX.”
Was it really okay to be a die-hard fanboy?
Yu Xinche hummed, “I started watching the game recently.”
“Oh, He Ci is very cool, right? He and SWAN were the top bot lane duo back then, and they were always so cool. That’s when I got into the game. But later on, the two of them were no longer in the same team. Everyone said that they were ‘a sky full of stars when together, but a pile of shit when apart’.”
“Ah?” Yu Xinche couldn’t help laughing.
“It seems like they didn’t get along at the time, so they parted ways. After they separated, He Ci’s support changed almost every year. He was very picky. The haters said it’s as if he was choosing a concubine…”
The student scratched his head and said, “Although I don’t want to admit it, I think what the black fans said is quite vivid.”
When Yu Xinche heard this for the first time, he felt mixed emotions.
Because he found out that he should be the concubine that the black fans were talking about.
His face seemed to be getting hot, and if he continued talking he might blush in front of the students.
Yu Xinche opened the door and quickly found an excuse to slip away.
It takes several minutes to walk to the bus stop near the community, and after getting off the bus, you still needed to walk a distance to get to the school. It was inconvenient on rainy days, so Yu Xinche simply took a taxi.
He walked towards the entrance of the community with an umbrella. After taking a look at the taxi app, it showed that he was in the queue and there were 35 people waiting for a taxi nearby.
With so many people, we have to wait until the year of the monkey and the month of the horse…
Yu Xinche turned off his phone in despair, and when he looked up, he saw a familiar person walking towards him.
He actually met He Ci again.
The heat on his face had not yet faded, and when he saw He Ci subconsciously thinking of the “selection of a concubine”, his face only became even hotter.
“What a coincidence.” He Ci went out for something urgent. On his way back, he saw a figure from a distance playing with his mobile phone with his head down, in the same posture as that day when he was not looking at the road.
“Ah, that’s quite a coincidence.” Yu Xinche replied.
Yu Xinche wore a casual short-sleeved shirt today, looking more gentle and stable than last time.
But as soon as he saw his face clearly, He Ci smiled and asked, “Is it very windy today?”
“What?” Yu Xinche was confused.
“Then why is your face so red?” He wasn’t steady at all, and considering his confused expression just now, he looked a little cute.
Yu Xinche frowned and looked at him, and said in a rare aggressive tone: “…It has nothing to do with you anyway.”
In He Ci’s impression, Yu Xinche had a good temper and didn’t get angry once during the whole afternoon of playing games.
Seeing that he seemed a little angry, He Ci found it funny and curious: “Huh? I didn’t say it had anything to do with me, so aren’t you overreacting?”
Yu Xinche was stunned for a moment, looking at him for a while, wanting to say something but hesitant. Finally, he said “Oh” stiffly and was about to leave.
He Ci stopped teasing and stepped aside to make way for him.
When the two passed each other, he noticed that Yu Xinche’s left shoulder was a little wet. The fabric of the shirt would easily change color when wet, and it was particularly obvious.
A moment of hesitation flashed through He Ci’s mind, but in the end he didn’t say anything.
After returning home, He Ci immediately changed his clothes.
It was still a bit windy today. He walked with an umbrella for less than ten minutes and his clothes were soaked by rain.
After packing up, he took the car keys and went out again. He had agreed with Xu Le two days ago, to go to the club to shoot a video.
Just now he was hesitating whether to call Yu Xinche and to give him a ride.
But then he thought it was unnecessary as they were not that familiar with each other yet.
More importantly, he was still waiting for Yu Xinche’s reply, and being too attentive would easily put pressure on others.
But this weather…
He Ci came out of the garage and looked at the sky. It seemed that the rain was getting heavier.
“Tsk.”
He expressed his dissatisfaction with this inexplicable kindness, then turned the steering wheel and drove towards the direction that Yu Xinche walked.
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