Chapter 50: Holy Shit—! Hacks—!
A moment later, the fire at the slab went out.
At second box, apEX threw a flash over yellow wall to retake control. It burst open, and ZywOo immediately swung out from behind the slab with his M4A1, his crosshair snapping rapidly into position.
But Big Potato’s expression froze slightly.
There was no one in his field of vision.
Only a freshly refreshed mid smoke.
“There’s no one banana. They’ve rotated.”
apEX was used to it.
No fighting in banana.
Inferno’s banana was just that magical a place. Both sides could go in and out here for half the round, dump a pile of utility, and in the end, very possibly, nothing would happen at all.
At least this round had produced two kills.
“They might be hitting A. Hurry back to retake.”
Though apEX was a mad dog, his thinking was still very clear. There was still 1:20 on the clock. If he and ZywOo both rotated back for a four-man A defense, and the opponents suddenly pulled a B-A-B, it would get awkward. He hurriedly added, “Don’t follow me! Find a chance to push through banana and see if you can flank them from mid!”
ZywOo nodded when he heard that, immediately holding his M4A1 and creeping forward from behind the slab.
And yet, the moment Big Potato began creeping forward,
Wanjiqi in the 6657 stream clamped his legs tight!
“Oh! Now G2 is rotating to hit A, but this play from God Li still has a setup. Only NiKo, huNter-, and Dark have gone to A. m0NESY stayed behind in the banana cubby, tucked close to the smoke at close range to watch their backs!”
“Then ZywOo is in serious trouble here!”
“A normal person seeing the smoke would definitely be wary of the danger behind it. But for G2, this is a smoke behind m0NESY. m0NESY in the cubby is stuck against the wall in front of the smoke, and ZywOo is still shift-walking forward. Is he going to pre-aim this cubby in front of the smoke?”
“Wait! What?”
Wanjiqi’s voice suddenly rose sharply.
It wasn’t that ZywOo pre-aimed it.
Instead, when ZywOo had nearly shift-walked up to the cubby and the tree position,
he suddenly stopped moving.
And since he stopped moving,
m0NESY, standing against the wall inside the cubby in front of the smoke, was even less likely to move.
For a moment, the two of them just stood there, separated by the corner of the cubby wall, directly going AFK on the spot.
Wanjiqi was dumbfounded.
“No, what is this… hacks?”
“I can understand m0NESY not moving. He was responsible for watching the rear in the first place, stopping anyone from pushing out right after his teammates left banana.
But what the hell is ZywOo not moving for? Waiting for the smoke to fade? That’s way too cautious, isn’t it? Wouldn’t a normal person, upon walking here, first clear tree and cubby? He just stopped dead on the spot, I swear.”
Even Wanjiqi himself was speechless as he said it.
And while he was speaking, the time in the round continued to tick away. In the blink of an eye, the timer had already entered the final minute.
At this moment, NiKo, who had crept to close mid, glanced at huNter- and Meng Lang behind him, then quickly took over command. “I’ll go connector in a bit. huNter-, you entry A1. Dark, help huNter- watch pit!”
After saying that, NiKo did not forget to speak to m0NESY, who was watching banana. “Ilya, if there’s no one banana, you can come back. You’ll be the trade entry.”
“Okay.”
m0NESY immediately nodded.
He saw that the mid smoke in banana had gradually dissipated, but everything ahead remained silent. He guessed that the A-site execute had probably drawn all the CTs’ attention, and the other side had most likely rotated back directly through CT spawn.
Hearing NiKo’s call, he no longer hesitated. He immediately pulled out his knife, turned around with loud steps, and ran toward mid, even pressing F once to inspect the butterfly knife in his hand.
However!
The instant he had run less than two steps after turning around!
“Pfft pfft pfft—!!!”
A crisp burst of M4A1 gunfire suddenly rang out from banana behind him!
Blood exploded from m0NESY’s back, and with a cry, he pitched forward and collapsed to the ground!
[Vitality-ZywOo killed G2-m0NESY with a headshot using the M4A1!]
“Ah?!”
m0NESY jolted in fright. Looking at the screen that had instantly turned gray, he was completely stunned!
No way!
He had been crouching in cubby for ages.
Where the hell did this guy come from?
When he looked more closely at the opponent’s ID, m0NESY instantly felt his face burn with embarrassment.
Without a doubt, the other side had seen right through him!
In the 6657 stream.
Wanjiqi immediately let out a long sigh filled with regret. “Aii——!!! m0NESY! My boy! In the end, you still don’t have ZywOo’s inhuman patience and ‘clarity’! Actually, if m0NESY had waited even just two more seconds! ZywOo might have moved first! He couldn’t have stayed in that position for long! What a pity! Such a pity!”
“Now m0NESY’s gone, ZywOo is definitely going to flank through mid. When he comes up behind G2, G2’s force-buy round is most likely going to be given away for free. Next round, they’ll still have no money. That’s basically Vitality taking three rounds in a row right from the start of the second half!”
Hearing Wanjiqi’s lament, the stream chat filled with all kinds of teasing:
“A pity? Are you sure ZywOo really would’ve moved first?”
“Clarity? All I see is a ‘hacker’ torturing humans.”
“Lmao, you like inspecting your butterfly knife while running?”
“…”
However, the battle at A site did not stop because of m0NESY’s death!
The observer camera quickly cut back to A!
From connector, NiKo’s Desert Eagle suddenly opened fire!
“Bang!”
[G2-NiKo killed Vitality-apEX with a headshot using the Desert Eagle!]
“Oh!!! Young Master Ni!!! He’s found his younger self again!”
Wanjiqi’s eyes suddenly lit up as he cried out, “One bullet! He takes off apEX, who was rotating in from connector! Beautiful Deagle headshot!”
“On A1, huNter- has also charged into site! But careful! Misutaaa is still hiding in pit!”
Rat-tat-tat—!
[Vitality-Misutaaa killed G2-huNter- with the FAMAS!]
Smack—!
Wanjiqi slapped his belly in frustration!
“Disaster! huNter- was too hasty!”
“Just now, m0NESY at banana was picked off by ZywOo, and Dark was bringing up the rear, so he didn’t have time to cover huNter-! huNter-’s attention was drawn by dupreeh in the dead corner on site, and the moment he turned his head, Misutaaa swung out from pit and stole him!”
“This is bad, this is bad! Now the bomb has dropped beside the tall box, and the situation instantly becomes a 2v3! But dupreeh in the dead spot and Misutaaa in pit have formed a ninety-degree crossfire! It’s very hard for Dark to pick up this bomb! And most crucially, ZywOo, who just picked off m0NESY, is about to arrive from mid! G2 has to make a decision quickly!”
Wanjiqi’s voice was filled with anxiety.
At this moment, Meng Lang moved!
Using the Scout’s advantage of having higher movement speed while scoped, he scoped in from the stable direction, held pit, and carefully moved toward the hay cart.
Misutaaa in pit tentatively jiggled his position, and Meng Lang instantly fired a shot!
Whoosh—!
Although the moving crosshair was unstable and the shot missed, the deterrent force of the bullet whistling past, combined with the lingering intimidation from his opening kill through the smoke, immediately made Misutaaa shrink back, not daring to show himself lightly again.
“Misutaaa doesn’t dare move! But in fact, he doesn’t need to move either!” Wanjiqi analyzed. “If Dark moves any farther forward to pick up the bomb, he’ll be completely exposed to the crossfire from dupreeh and Misutaaa! Not to mention ZywOo is almost here! G2’s asses are truly on fire!”
“Ai, speaking of fire, honestly, if only they had a molly right now. But G2 is too poor this round with this ECO force-buy. Their utility is seriously lacking! If they can’t clear pit, Dark has no way to move forward!” Wanjiqi sighed.
Unexpectedly,
the moment his words fell!
Meng Lang, behind the hay cart, scoped in again and decisively wide-swung forward with the Scout!
Almost at the same time, NiKo precisely threw the smoke grenade he had just picked up toward the dead spot, cutting off dupreeh’s vision!
“Good smoke! NiKo’s dead-spot smoke is too crucial!” Wanjiqi shouted. “But for Dark to just dry-swing like this is way too dangerous! But fortune is found in danger. His teammate’s crossfire has been blocked by smoke. Misutaaa didn’t peek first. He’s waiting for the timing!”
“Dark picked up the bomb! What? Is he planting straight away?!”
Hearing the sound of the bomb being planted,
Misutaaa in pit was seized by a surge of anger!
As the least conspicuous member among Vitality’s many star players, he had only held back just now for the sake of playing it safe. And now you’re holding a Scout and you still dare to plant?
Even if it’s a fake plant,
will you have time to fight back?
Thinking this, he directly wide-swung out from the other side of pit!
But he never expected that in that flash of lightning, Meng Lang’s scoped Scout had first been aimed at one side of pit, and then it suddenly flicked hard!
“Bang——!!!”
Blood splashed!
The Scout’s bullet drilled into his skull!
[G2-Dark killed Vitality-Misutaaa with a headshot using the SSG 08!]
“Misutaaa couldn’t hold back! He swung out! But Dark!!! He wasn’t planting at all! He was scoped in! Flick shot! My god! Another headshot!!! Dark’s flick was too fast! There really is something special about this Scout of his!”
Wanjiqi’s voice instantly tore apart!
But the danger had not yet been resolved!
“Rat-tat-tat—!”
At the edge of the dead-spot smoke, dupreeh, not willing to sit and wait for death inside the smoke, suddenly swung out. A spray of bullets directly took down NiKo, who had been holding the smoke!
[Vitality-dupreeh killed G2-NiKo with the M4A4!]
“NiKo is down! But dupreeh also got tagged in the body by NiKo’s Deagle! His HP isn’t healthy now! He doesn’t dare take a duel with Dark’s Scout! He wants to use the smoke to slip toward connector and regroup with ZywOo, who’s about to arrive!”
“Will Dark let him leave?!”
“Dark won’t let him leave!!!!”
Bang——!!!
Meng Lang had just finished killing Misutaaa, and the Scout’s extremely fast bolt cycle once again showed its advantage!
Without almost any pause, he pointed his barrel at the left side of the smoke where dupreeh’s figure had vanished and, relying on astonishing prediction, blind-fired a shot!
Thud—!
The bullet pierced through the smoke, and blood burst out!
Four-star General McDupreeh, shot in the back, abruptly toppled forward and fell to the ground!
[G2-Dark killed Vitality-dupreeh with the SSG 08!]
“Dark! It’s you again! Through the smoke again! He wall-banged dupreeh dead! Has your sense of clarity returned once more in this round?”
Wanjiqi’s voice cracked with excitement!
“Now it’s a 1v1 duel between you and ZywOo!”
“Can you keep seeing through everything?”
Fuck!
The instant apEX saw dupreeh get shot dead through smoke, he slammed his fist hard on the desk in anger!
They had rifles against pistols!
And now they had been dragged into a 1v1 by the other side—where the hell had this damn Scout come from?!
At the G2 player seats.
“Come on, buddy!”
HooXi could not help clenching both fists, breathing rapidly as he let out a low roar!
m0NESY beside him was also staring fixedly at the screen, his heart pounding wildly!
Now, it was a 1v1 clutch between Meng Lang and ZywOo!
Meng Lang quickly picked up the C4, planted it at the A1 bombsite, then raised his Scout and cautiously crept back toward A1 and mid.
“Oh! Just now, ZywOo seems to have accidentally made a footstep in mid! But he isn’t coming toward A1! He’s shift-walking straight up second mid!”
Wanjiqi stared intently at the minimap. “Dark is still creeping forward. He hasn’t seen anyone mid. He should have guessed that ZywOo has gone up second mid! Now the Scout is holding the side of second mid! ZywOo is getting closer and closer! He’s about to come out!”
When Wanjiqi reached this point, his eyes suddenly widened, and his voice filled with disbelief:
“Wait! What?! ZywOo, he… he went back to boiler room again?!!”
“Holy shit! Hacks—!”
Wanjiqi reacted instantly and cried out, losing his voice. “I get it! Footsteps! That footstep in mid just now wasn’t accidental at all! It was a fake footstep ZywOo deliberately gave Dark to hear!”
“ZywOo knew that once Dark heard the footstep, he would definitely clear out. At that point, when Dark found no one there, he would predict that ZywOo had gone up apartments!”
“But the footstep was fake! Going back to boiler was real!”
“He predicted Dark’s prediction!”
“ZywOo——! As expected! Are you the man with the clearest vision on this server? Is this the power of absolute clarity?!”
“Dark could never imagine that a CT retaking through second mid, halfway through creeping up, would suddenly turn around with no information and creep back to boiler room!!!”
“Now Dark is at A1, holding second mid! ZywOo has gone all the way around and is creeping out from boiler room. He has an absolutely perfect backstab timing!”
Sure enough!
The next second!
As ZywOo came out from boiler room, a perfect back appeared before his eyes.
At the Vitality player seats, apEX, who had just been pounding the table in frustration at how their rifle round had turned into this, finally let out a long breath when he saw this.
Damn it!!!
He’d really thought they were about to get overturned by the other side!
He immediately began shouting:
“Knife him! Knife him for me!”
ZywOo thought about it.
That was fine too.
This round, with rifles against ECO, they had lost so many people. A knife kill would give him some extra economy so he could drop guns for his teammates next round.
So he casually pulled out his knife…
“Oh——! He even wants the knife, I swear——!”
“Dark——! In this ECO force-buy round, your Scout has already killed three! You created a miracle! But in the end… in the end, are you still going to fall here?!”
Wanjiqi’s voice was full of regret, as though he had already seen the destined conclusion.
Yet at this very instant!
Meng Lang in the match seemed as though he had grown eyes in the back of his head, suddenly shuddering sharply!
[Spider-Sense]!
Immediately after, he turned one hundred and eighty degrees and scoped in with a movement so fast it bordered on instinct!
“Bang——!!!”
The Scout’s unique gunshot suddenly exploded!
Under Inferno’s setting sun, the final spray of blood splattered across the wall outside boiler room, and a figure crashed to the ground with a clang!
[G2-Dark killed Vitality-ZywOo with a headshot using the SSG 08!]
Four kills!!
ACE!!!
A heaven-shaking comeback!
An ECO force-buy round!
The T side had won the round!
“Holy shiiiiit————!!!”
This time, Wanjiqi was truly stunned!
His voice completely twisted and changed pitch, producing an extraordinary vocal fry beyond the scope of human understanding!
“Dark——!”
“He turned around and one-tapped ZywOo, I swear!”
“Holy shit! This… just who the hell is the real ‘hacker’ here?!”
Killing-intent perception?
Transparent World?
In that instant, the entire 6657 stream completely exploded!