“Holy shit!!!”
“Everyone, on your feet!!!”
“Dark’s response this round was so damn satisfying!”
“Come on, come on! Why aren’t the bananas barking anymore? Keep barking! Why are your faces green?”
“I really like something 2K said—‘Let me see what you can do.’”
“I’m dying! When he really showed you, you weren’t happy about it.”
“Hahaha! 2K got completely styled on this round. The guy slipped in right under his nose and killed all his teammates. He’s probably going to shut down once it sinks in.”
“.”
In the livestream chat, the viewers who had thought there was no point watching the clutch, switched screens during garbage time, or gone to the WC, came back with their faces full of shock!
“Bro, what the hell! I saw G2 about to all die and went to the WC. How did EG disappear when I came back?”
“Brother! You might not believe this, but someone just turned it around with an unarmored Glock!”
“Kid, that joke isn’t funny!”
“Kid! This isn’t a joke! I damn near pissed myself watching it! Definitely a clutch-of-the-year contender!”
“Valve isn’t going to make graffiti for this, are they?”
“.”
Before this round ended,
if someone had said that an unarmored Glock could clutch against five fully armored CTs with rifles, everyone probably would have thought they were joking!
That would only happen in a dream.
In fact, even when Meng Lang had already made it a 1v4, with only the last man remaining...
many people still didn’t dare believe that he could really kill the final one too!
But now,
it had all truly happened!
A 1v5!
Against a North American professional team!
And on the stage of the Major, the most elite and top-tier event in the CS professional scene!
It could be said that—
no matter who he was,
no matter what team he was on,
no matter what country he came from,
just this unprecedented individual highlight alone meant he was destined to never remain unknown again!
In the 6657 livestream room.
The bullet comments that had just been spamming “Dark trash,” “Bandage Bro,” and “bad and cocky” were instantly drowned beneath a tsunami of exclamation marks and question marks!
The stream nearly froze.
In the dormitory of Jianghai University, Li Shan shot up from his chair and slammed the table hard!
“Fucking insane!!!”
He took an excited breath. Looking at the screen full of “praise” in the bullet comments, an inexplicable sense of shared honor and vindication rose in his heart!
That was right!
From beginning to end, even though Meng Lang’s main defense at B short in the first half had not been good,
Li Shan had never doubted him!
He had seen Meng Lang’s FPL personal page. Before the Major began, those densely packed pages of match records and the nearly full page of green Ratings had made him firmly believe—
a hardworking
and talented young man
would not stay a pearl buried in dust forever.
As expected,
today, this pearl had only had one corner wiped clean, yet it already released a radiance that made the world turn its head!
Thinking back to the screen full of unbearable comments from trolls and haters in the livestream earlier,
his fingers flew across the keyboard. Carrying the emotions he had held in for the entire match, he sent out a colored bullet comment:
—“I don’t really understand CS matches. Can someone tell me, the guy who just got a five-kill clutch with an unarmored Glock, is he the ‘bad and cocky’ one the comments were talking about?”
The hallmark of 6657 was copying, and the trolls immediately began copying it like mad and flooding the screen.
The livestream room went quiet for an instant. In the next moment, the IDs that had been jumping around the most earlier instantly fell silent.
A few seconds later, only a few sparse comments drifted by, trying to save face:
“...Just lucky, right?”
“He just caught a timing by hiding and ambushing them. No need to overhype it.”
“Exactly. If he’s so good, carry in a rifle round too!”
“.”
At EG’s player booth.
There was a deathly silence!
The instant they lost this round, EG’s coach behind them called a timeout!
There was no choice!
They had to pause!
They had just been clutched against by an unarmored Glock, and their sniper CeRq had even been ruthlessly knifed while all four of his teammates were still alive!
At the time, he had been scared completely dumb!
As for the in-game leader 2K, there was even less to say.
After losing this clutch to an unarmored Glock, once the round ended, his face had turned the color of pig liver from anger, and his whole hand was trembling!
If they didn’t pause,
they would probably throw the next round too.
After a round of tactical adjustments, 2K, who had finally come back to his senses, forced out a smile.
“It’s fine, it’s fine! An accident! Purely an accident! We just got snuck up on by a stinking rat, that’s all. Our economy is still good. We can still buy rifles!”
He took a deep breath and once again tried to rally the team:
“Put in more effort, guys! Let’s take them out in one push! That round was just him getting lucky, picking up an AWP and flicking down a few people! It’s no big deal! Next round, focus up and don’t give them a chance!”
By the end, 2K himself had already pulled himself together!
That was right. So what if the opponent had played that clutch well? They were still leading 11:8!
Most importantly, they still had money this round!
As long as they steadily took the next round, they could once again destroy the opponent’s economy, then easily claim match point!
Only this time, 2K’s words did not really inspire them much. The only responses were the voices of agreement from the two members of the C9 clique.
As for CeRq, the sniper who had been knifed first, although he had suffered a huge fright, he had also watched the entire perspective of his teammates dying one after another.
At this moment, he could not help raising his head and glancing in Meng Lang’s direction across from him.
Lucky?
That eerie movement, those terrifying wallbangs, and that final flick AWP shot at the absolute limit of time!
Were those really just luck too?
At the same time, at G2’s player booth.
The atmosphere was completely different!
“Nice! Bro! You’re too strong!”
Niko forcefully rubbed Meng Lang’s hair, his face filled with excitement and disbelief.
Meng Lang scratched his head and smiled.
He knew there had been chance and luck in that round, and more than anything, it had relied on that sudden spark from his [Spider Sense] at the critical moment, so he was not too excited.
He glanced at the panel. The proficiency of [Spider Sense: Beginner] had already reached (27/100) during this period—he was now growing more and more familiar with this passive skill that triggered under stress.
Behind him, Coach XTQZZZ also took advantage of the opponent’s timeout to frantically explain the tactics for the next round!
“Listen! Dark! Next round, don’t solo lurk B again! Buy an AK and go mid. First, throw a good smoke for B short, then use utility and go into archway to coordinate with your teammates for an A split!”
“I know this is difficult! You’ll be the only one in mid, but right now, the team needs you!”
“We need you to use the method you’re best at in scrims! Wide swing! Take duels! Tear open their defense! Any problem?”
He looked at Meng Lang, his gaze burning.
At T spawn, Meng Lang had already given the AWP he had saved from the previous round to the kid.
The kid bought him an AK in return.
Meng Lang moved his right wrist, which was wrapped in bandages, then nodded without hesitation.
He did not say, I’ll do my best.
Instead, he said:
“No problem.”
[Desert Mirage: 90]
[Reaction: 91]
[Marksmanship (AK): 94.2 (+15↑)]
[Time-Lag Reverse Entropy Bandage—When wrapped in bandages, the host’s hand injuries can be completely suppressed, and treatment will slowly reverse them until full recovery. (Progress: 88.2%)]
His condition was perfect!
His feel was burning hot!
And,
he could finally get an AK!
At this moment, the score on the field was 11:8.
Although EG had been eco-clutched, the economic advantage they had built by taking the first three rounds of the second half was still there. They could still buy a full-armor, full-utility rifle round.
This meant
the next round was crucial!
Whoever lost would have no money.
1 minute and 55 seconds!
The twentieth round began!
In the 6657 livestream room, Wanjiqi adjusted his breathing, and his voice rose again:
“Alright, viewers! After that earth-shattering eco clutch, both sides are once again back on the same starting line! EG still has money on their side. A new round of full-armor, full-utility rifle-round confrontation is about to begin!
But I have to say, in matches, the explosion of a player’s individual ability in key rounds is just too important.
Let’s hope this clutch completed by Dark can help G2 find their form again!”
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