“Advance me ‘2021 peak S1mple-level strength!’”
【Current credit score insufficient. Host, please complete missions to increase your credit score……】
“I can’t even advance peak S1mple’s strength? Then what use are you!”
Yang Yu mercilessly roasted the system’s capabilities in his heart.
Although he had expected as much, he had still been looking forward to a little divine power from the system.
What if it succeeded?
What level was S1mple at in 2021?
Put it this way.
That year’s S1mple was the undisputed number one. In League of Legends pro terms, he was Faker at his peak.
Of course, his playstyle was more like TheShy in 2018.
If he could directly advance himself to S1mple’s 2021 level, Yang Yu would be willing even if it meant living in a mansion and driving luxury cars.
Unfortunately, the system still shattered his fantasy.
Sitting in front of his computer, Yang Yu glanced at the time.
December 1, 2022. Thursday. 13:44.
As the craziest day of the week, Yang Yu and his classmates’ professional courses had already ended in the morning. The rest of the day was free time, extremely relaxed.
Two people from Dorm 302 had already gone out on dates, leaving only two internet-addicted youths in the room.
“Potato, wanna run two passionate games of Ascent? My aim’s on fire today. I’ll carry you straight up to Ascendant!”
Xu Kun sent Yang Yu a sweet duo-queue invitation. Potato was Yang Yu’s nickname.
“Chicken Bro, forget it.” Yang Yu refused without hesitation. “My heart belongs to Mirage now!”
“I told you not to call me Chicken Bro.” Xu Kun looked like he was about to lose it. “Fine, I’m going solo queue.”
“Got it, Chicken Bro.”
It had taken him a very long road to enter Ascent, but it had taken less than two weeks for him to throw himself into the embrace of Mirage.
Before university, Yang Yu had not played many FPS games. CS 1.6 from computer class counted as one, and that gunfight dream of three hundred million mice counted as another.
After entering university, he was quickly drawn in by Valorant.
Valorant was a decent FPS game, but one issue was that its underlying logic meant its negative feedback was very strong. On top of that, comparisons with CSGO made the community discourse rather unpleasant.
In the end, after one community argument, Yang Yu chose to enter the pit of CSGO.
At the time, Yang Yu had simply wanted to see what CSGO was all about.
Valorant and CSGO were already competing products, and their game modes were similar, so Yang Yu very quickly managed to get started with CSGO.
He also slowly began to experience all sorts of enjoyment in CSGO: the thrill of getting kills, the joy of team victory, the pleasure of using outstanding utility to split up the battlefield and suppress the enemy.
Very soon, he was dragged into the pit by one “nice shot, bro” after another from his CSGO seniors.
However, for Yang Yu, who was still a newbie, the most painful thing about CSGO was—its entry barrier was too high.
Counter-strafing, map understanding, information gathering, recoil control—
All of these required massive amounts of time to practice.
Of course, for a community game like CSGO, these techniques and beginner methods could all be learned through various tutorials on Bilibili or Douyin.
However, Yang Yu was not a diligent person.
His state was the same as most people’s: intermittently filled with lofty ambitions, persistently muddling through life.
CSGO training consumed far too much time.
But most young people who liked playing competitive games also had relatively strong desires to win.
After failing yet another promotion match to Perfect World C+, Yang Yu completely overheated and chose to scroll through some videos to relax his brain.
Then he scrolled to a video of the French pro player ZywOo bringing his girlfriend along and slaughtering the ladder with 51 kills.
After watching the whole video, Yang Yu’s face was already covered in question marks.
ZywOo’s CSGO level was truly unfathomable. Some of his plays were completely beyond what someone at Yang Yu’s stage could understand.
If he had to evaluate it with the simplest word—
Hacks!
After finishing the entire video, Yang Yu could not help sighing. “If only I had ZywOo’s level. Wouldn’t I just slaughter ladder……”
Actually, his evaluation was rather reserved. If he had ZywOo’s level, he could slaughter even the pro scene.
Very quickly, a line of text appeared before his eyes: 【Advancing ZywOo’s ladder level……】
【Current credit score insufficient. Host, please complete missions to increase credit score……】
Yang Yu, who had originally been somewhat bored, instantly perked up!
As a long-time web novel reader, he was far too familiar with this scene.
【Displaying host’s basic information……】
【Host: Yang Yu】
【Age: 18】
【Current Rank: Perfect World C+】
【Firepower: 44】
【Rifling: 45】
【Sniping: 68】
【Trading: 32】
【Game Sense: 67】
【Clutching: 56】
【Map Understanding: 45】
【Mentality: 78】
【Utility Usage: 38】
【Credit Score Rating: C】
【Advance Points: 0】
【Current Advance Ability: 1. None】
He tried advancing “Wang Baoqiang’s acting ability” and “CET-6 English ability,” but received no response at all.
As for games, he tried advancing the peak strength of Faker, the strongest League of Legends player, but there was also no response.
Yang Yu’s heart gradually calmed down, and he understood that the system could only advance abilities related to CSGO.
Recently, he just so happened to be obsessed with CSGO. Other than attending class, all he thought about was grinding ranks like crazy.
He tried communicating with the system for a while longer.
In the end, he obtained quite a bit of information.
This system was very simple. It was similar to a loan platform, allowing Yang Yu to directly borrow certain pro players’ abilities. Afterward, he did not need to pay any interest; he only needed to complete the efforts corresponding to those abilities.
Obtain the ability first, put in the effort afterward, and no interest was required.
This ability was honestly a little bugged.
Although, in the process of obtaining these abilities, Yang Yu still needed to put in the effort himself.
But it was like that widely circulated picture online: a miner dug for treasure for half a day, only to give up when he was just one pickaxe swing away from the treasure.
In this world, effort had a tremendous effect.
But Yang Yu knew his own personality. His enthusiasm burned fiercely for three minutes at a time, and over the past dozen-plus years, giving up halfway had been a common occurrence.
Over the years, handwriting practice, fitness, basketball, all kinds of things in games—he had failed to persist in any of them.
But this system could allow him to lock onto the location of that treasure, then find the shortest path to dig it out.
As long as he planned it well, he could always walk on the correct road and would not go astray during the process of effort.
After understanding the system’s terrifying ability, Yang Yu already felt his heart thumping loudly.
Immediately afterward, he began thinking about what ability to advance next.
For his first ability, he definitely wanted to get as close as possible to an outstanding pro player.
For example, S1mple, ZywOo, device, and players like that.
However, after changing through more than a dozen player IDs in a row, every attempt showed 【Credit score insufficient】. He wanted to raise his credit score, but for the time being, there were no prompts at all.
Yang Yu kept lowering his target, but even when he lowered it to those lesser-known pro players later on, it still showed that he had not succeeded.
Yang Yu understood then that the upper limit of the system’s first advance ability was not that high.
At this moment, he suddenly thought of something. When he failed his promotion match just now, the top fragger on the other side had clearly been smurfing.
Since he could not advance a pro player’s full strength, would it be feasible to advance the level of a ladder opponent?
【Advance “Team TyLoo’s somebody himself” full strength!】
【Beep…… Strength can be advanced. Hardware conditions insufficient. Advance failed……】
The strength could be advanced, but hardware conditions were insufficient……
Holy shit!
Even a C+ game has people turning it on!
Bro, are you a poet or what!
Yang Yu finally understood just how many freaks and monsters there were in the C+ rank.
He was left a little speechless.
At that moment, inspiration suddenly flashed through his mind.
Since there was no way to obtain a complete pro player’s personal abilities, could he advance certain abilities or talents from some pro players?
The moment Yang Yu thought of it, he acted.
At this time, the ID of a relatively quiet pro player suddenly popped into his mind.
“Advance B1t’s headshot talent!”
Yang Yu looked somewhat nervously at the transparent box in front of him. He was a little worried that he would see the familiar 【Credit score insufficient】.
However, this time, the scene before his eyes was different.
【B1t’s headshot talent has been advanced……】
【Cost of advance: Obtain 500 headshot kills in Deathmatch mode for 30 consecutive days……】
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