After the morning’s specialized classes ended, everyone from Dorm 302 had a meal of malatang at the Second Canteen, then returned to the dorm one after another.
Huang Zicheng started washing yesterday’s clothes by the sink, while Xu Kun, feeling a little carb-dazed, began taking an afternoon nap. Yang Yu turned on his computer and started grinding ranked.
Mo Han, meanwhile, was playing the role of a director, secretly observing the others in Dorm 302.
It turned out that Huang Zicheng, who had already given up on the idea of climbing the ladder himself, still dreamed of CNCS making it into a Major. He hoped that one day he would be able to see a domestic team shine on the Major stage.
As for Chicken Bro, he hadn’t touched Valorant lately either. After learning how to get stronger, he had been frantically shooting bots on Aimbot maps to train his aim. Recently, he had even changed his playstyle, slowly practicing retakes to fix his habit of getting nervous the moment he saw an enemy.
They were all young. None of them felt they were worse than anyone else. Potato making it to S rank had let him see the possibility of reaching S rank too.
As for Potato… that went without saying.
He had only just finished class and lunch, yet he was already sitting in front of his computer and practicing.
Right now, he was going for 1,000 deathmatch headshots. In his words, this was called warming up. After that would come the ranked ladder grind.
Once everything was over at night, he still had to watch two of ropz’s match demos.
Seeing how much effort everyone in the dorm was putting into CSGO left Mo Han, an entertainment player, somewhat lost.
He tried hard to recall the brainless joy of charging forward on C+, that wild and carefree playstyle, attempting to shake off the desire in his heart to become stronger.
In truth, he wanted to climb ranks too. He just didn’t want it to feel like going to work.
Thinking this, Mo Han rolled over on his bed and said to Yang Yu below, “Potato.”
Yang Yu took off his headphones. “Hm?”
“Teach me how to practice aim later. Just make the intensity a little lower,” Mo Han said somewhat awkwardly. “I’ll climb a bit too. Otherwise, later on, the whole dorm won’t even be able to queue together.”
“Sure,” Yang Yu answered crisply.
Seeing his roommates influenced by him one by one and beginning to walk the path toward becoming stronger made him quite happy inside.
“Crank the intensity all the way up for him.” After hanging up the last piece of clothing, Huang Zicheng shook off his hands and came over to Yang Yu’s side. He asked, “Potato, there seems to be more and more discussion about you in the community lately. There are even several cheat-review streamers reviewing your ladder demos. Are you really not going to respond?”
“No need.” Yang Yu teased, “The HLTV TOP list is about to be released. Once they see me in the TOP 1 spot, they won’t doubt me anymore.”
“Good lord, you’re already taking out loans on that, huh?” Mo Han laughed.
“Forget it, TOP 1 is a little low. I’d better become the GOAT in the future!”
Huang Zicheng squeezed Yang Yu’s shoulder. “You’re actually planning to become a goat, huh, you guy?”
Amid the joking, Yang Yu finished this deathmatch. His deathmatch training for the day had also ended, and he immediately started ladder matchmaking.
As for this kind of prodigy-proving-himself segment, he felt it was completely unnecessary. After all, even if you proved yourself, there would still be people saying your playstyle was different, that you didn’t play like that online, blah blah blah.
Just like San Ye from LVG right now. Back then, people hammered him for cheating. Now he had become a professional player, yet there were still people saying he had cheated back then.
So Yang Yu felt that proving himself was a thankless task. There was no need for it at all.
Very quickly, Perfect World showed that a match had been found. Huang Zicheng glanced at it. “All right, looks like you’ll have one more person reviewing you for cheats this game.”
Yang Yu: “?”
Huang Zicheng: “You matched into our CNCS Batman!”
…
A certain Ya platform.
Inside Leonkai’s livestream room.
“Today’s program is carrying a useless clipper to S rank!”
After starting his stream, Leonkai explained the situation for what came next.
As an honest man whose program effect was rather poor, he couldn’t create much entertainment value by solo queueing on stream, so he would occasionally bring viewers along to play.
Only when he cast matches during tournament season would he enter his professional field—quite a few insomniac players would come over and fall asleep to the sound of his commentary.
But the moment he logged on, he realized something was off.
“Holy shit, Five-Spice Egg, how are you already S?”
Originally, he had been thinking that the streamer would carry the clipper hard and become the ultimate thigh, but unexpectedly, he himself was only in his S promotion match, while the clipper Five-Spice Egg was already S with five stars.
“I secretly played a little by myself yesterday and rushed straight to S,” Five-Spice Egg answered.
[The streamer said he’d get to S in three days, but I’ve watched A+ in this stream room for a month]
[Useless streamer can’t win, so he called in the big-handed clipper]
[So today’s program is not ending the stream until you hit S?]
[That’s this month’s program]
[Lose! Lose! Lose!]
[Happy now that a big bro is carrying]
After the clipper “Five-Spice Egg” entered the party, the two of them quickly found a match.
The map this time was Inferno.
Leonkai said confidently, “Mirage has too many weird things. This game on Inferno, I’ll let you all see what real slaughter looks like!”
[Slaughter? Tomorrow’s stream title—Today’s Stream: Rushing to A+]
[Are the opponents locals?]
[If it really doesn’t work, let’s switch to Valorant]
[He used to be a prodigy too]
As the match loaded into the map and he returned to the familiar Inferno, Leonkai said with full confidence, “Inferno counts as one of my strong maps. This game is guaranteed to push me into S.”
During warmup, he ran all the way into Banana. With an extremely smooth flick on a single frame, he directly blew up the head of someone running into Banana.
[Boss Shy killed Calm Down with an AK47 headshot]
“My feel is really back! NMMDW, I’m going to kill 40 this game!” Leonkai said with overflowing confidence, as if trying to hypnotize himself.
Soon, after the last potato-computer player entered the game, the match officially began.
After thinking it over, Leonkai proposed a French-style tactic. “For pistol round, how about we fly out of second floor? I’ll buy smoke and flashes. I’ll throw the cart smoke right away, then two flashes to send you guys out from A apartments.”
A random teammate laughed and said, “So it’s super Vitality? Then we have to give it a taste.”
When the countdown ended, the main Terrorist force started sprinting toward A apartments.
On Inferno, the tactic of flying out of apartments was just like rushing B—both were one-wave acceleration plays, very European and American.
Five-Spice Egg was first position for the team. He didn’t hold down Shift right away. When he reached the area under VIP, he silenced his steps, and only at the spiral stairs did he use a jump-peek to check the situation inside A apartments.
As a native S player, he still had the details he ought to have.
That jump-peek successfully let him see the CT at the balcony of A apartments.
Five-Spice Egg immediately shouted, “One A apartments!! Do it, do it!!”
Yang Yu held a USP and quietly watched the spiral stairs. The first Terrorist suddenly jumping out was beyond his expectations, but he didn’t hurry to chase with his crosshair. He still held the original position.
Soon, the trade fragger appeared, and only then did Yang Yu pull the trigger.
“Pa!”
[Calm Down killed Hirasawa Yui with a USP headshot]
After getting this kill, Yang Yu didn’t get greedy. He immediately retreated. “Lots of footsteps A apartments. The other side seems like they’re going to fly out.”
He retreated onto the A apartments balcony, but he didn’t rush to drop down.
After thinking it over, he didn’t even hold the angle directly. Instead, he listened from behind cover, judging positions by sound.
After the first exchange, the attacking side directly started their move. Very quickly, Yang Yu also heard footsteps closing in. Seeing this, he directly peeked out with pre-fire and tapped twice.
“Pa!”
[Calm Down killed Doesn’t Eat Beef with a USP headshot]
But the opponent’s trading efficiency was also quite good. At this distance, they gave him a headshot through the wall, directly leaving him with a sliver of health.
Only then did Yang Yu do a spin jump, but he still didn’t go down. Instead, he landed in the corner of the balcony.
His teammates were already in position around the site. There was no need at all to drop from this position; he could form quite a good crossfire with his teammates.
As two flashbangs popped, the main Terrorist force in A apartments began surging out crazily.
From the information he had collected and his teammate’s callouts, Leonkai learned that there was a heavily damaged enemy in pit.
Using the cover of the cart smoke he had thrown, he directly did a spin jump and headed down toward pit.
His idea was very simple. He only needed to hit the opponent’s body once, and the other side would die directly. Then he could occupy pit and apply pressure toward the site in sync with his teammate at A1.
But while he was flying through the air in a spin jump, he suddenly saw a fly head on the balcony holding a USP and watching him.
So that landing sound wasn’t onto pit, but onto the balcony… Leonkai’s heart filled with “holy shit.” Immediately after, with a “pa,” the teeth-grating sound of a headshot rang out, and he was plucked right out of the air.
“There’s still one balcony!!” Leonkai loudly called the site. The last Terrorist in A apartments finally rushed out as well and traded off the low-HP CT on the balcony.
But the problem was that the CT retake players were already in position. The remaining two were also killed one after another in the firefight.
Five-Spice Egg said in voice chat, “President, this tactic of yours doesn’t work!”
“What does this have to do with the tactic?!” Leonkai explained. “It was purely that the guy on second floor just took everyone down, okay? He killed three by himself. No tactic of mine would’ve worked!”
At this moment, he turned to look at the barrage, only to discover that the chat was discussing something else.
[Bro Kai seems to have matched into Calm Bro]
[That little general who cheats?]
[Looks like Bro Kai can make another video later]
[No, is this guy really that good?]
Leonkai raised an eyebrow and said to Five-Spice Egg in his voice software, “Take this game seriously. Maybe we’ll have material.”
Leonkai was an idealist.
In the CSGO he loved, he had become a streamer. From the prodigy of the past to the ordinary player whose strength had declined now, throughout that process, he had always persisted in helping the community review suspected cheaters.
As a streamer who had character when it came to character, and character when it came to aim.
For a highly competitive FPS game, the appearance of cheats was inevitable.
The number of cheats in CSGO actually wasn’t that enormous. After all, Valve, whose main job was going on vacation and side job was going to work, would still supervise things once in a while.
Unlike the rotten orange next door—when players saw cheats appear there, they only wanted to laugh.
Community cheat-reviewing was a form of “justice enforcement” carried out without any authority to supervise. With his rather restrained attitude over the years, Leonkai had become the “Batman” in the hearts of players.
The player “Calm Down,” because he had matched into Wanjiqi and, relying on outstanding stats and an almost exaggerated headshot rate, had been called a cheater by community players.
Once that wave of rhythm started, quite a few streamers who only wanted traffic began downloading “Calm Down’s” match demos and using a magnifying glass to look for problems. In the cheat-review segment, they had already sentenced “Calm Down” to death.
Leonkai had privately watched the demo where “Calm Down” ran into Wanjiqi and had not found too many problems.
Today, they just so happened to run into each other. After this match finished, it would be the best cheat-review material.
But before that, Leonkai did want to see what exactly was going on with the other side.
A prodigy?
Who hadn’t been a prodigy once?
Leonkai thought again of the time when he had once been full of spirit.
But in the blink of an eye, they ECO’d a round, and the match arrived at the third round. Both sides now had rifles to play with.
Leonkai straightened up in his chair. Entering the rifle round, it was time to start taking points.
…
Arriving at the first rifle round, Yang Yu held the M4A1 from the previous point, bought a few more utilities, and directly headed toward A apartments.
The teammate playing green said, “I’m planning to push a bit from spiral. Can you come with me?”
“I’ll go with you,” Yang Yu responded. “Then blue, stay at link and don’t get too aggressive.”
This point was a 3A2B setup. If they planned to play more aggressively in A apartments, then link had to be played more conservatively.
Otherwise, if they made no noise on their side and link suddenly fell, the two sites would be split apart, and the follow-up would be very uncomfortable.
“No problem.” The random at link was also a little surprised. The community all said this “Calm Down” was a lock-on cheater, but hearing this exchange, he suddenly felt he didn’t quite seem like one.
Because someone who was really cheating simply wouldn’t think about cooperating on all these winding details.
The green teammate held a FAMAS and directly charged toward spiral. During his forward push, he threw an incendiary above the doorframe of the spiral stairs.
After bouncing, the incendiary finally landed behind the two of them. It counted as a backs-to-the-wall molotov, cutting off their retreat completely.
But this molotov had one benefit: it could cover the sound of their forward footsteps.
Green peeked down from the spiral stairs with no thought of retreat.
Yang Yu followed him the whole way, but in a silent state.
After green pressed down, he quickly caught the timing of a Terrorist beside the white door in side lane.
The first shot from the FAMAS was a headshot. Unfortunately, the opponent reacted quickly as well and immediately gave him a headshot in return.
[Boss Shy killed Completely Crazy with an AK47 headshot]
“Hit head, not dead, heavily tagged!” Green hurriedly called.
On Leonkai’s side, he narrowly got the counter-kill and also let out a long breath. He began retreating toward cover while reloading.
However, at the very instant he was reloading, another person pushed out from behind the spiral stairs.
“Da da!”
[Calm Down + Completely Crazy killed Boss Shy with an M4A1 headshot]
“There’s another one side lane!!” Leonkai quickly called, then complained, “They pushed two people from spiral at the start? Should be 3A2B. B site can apply some pressure.”
After getting the kill, Yang Yu directly withdrew from A apartments.
This A apartments coordinated forward push had resulted in a one-for-one, but they weren’t profiting.
Moreover, this forward push had exposed their information. The opponent was very likely to hit one side directly.
After thinking it over, Yang Yu chose to return to link.
The teammate at link was also very smart and immediately shrank back into the link cubby, forming a bait-and-trade setup.
But at this moment, the B-site teammate called, “They’re at Banana barrels.”
Seeing this, Yang Yu said, “Link, just hang there alone. Just don’t die.”
As he spoke, he threw an incendiary into mid and tossed his smoke grenade to the teammate in the cubby. This way, if the other side planned to accelerate from mid, he would have enough utility to delay them.
After giving his teammate utility support, Yang Yu directly pulled out his knife and began rushing toward B.
Under Leonkai’s suggestion, the attacking side had already begun pressuring B.
CT smoke and coffins smoke had both been thrown.
Five-Spice Egg even seized on the mistake of the other side holding unreasonable angles and quietly slipped into the CT smoke.
“The other side seems not to know I’m here. Don’t rush front. Wait for me to sneak to coffins and kill one first!!”
Five-Spice Egg said excitedly.
He held his gun and directly crept out of the smoke. But the moment he gained vision, he saw an M4 pointed at his forehead.
Yang Yu: “Hello!”
“Da da!”
[Calm Down killed Five-Spice Egg OvO with an M4A1 headshot]
“Holy shit, how is this bro already at CT spawn?!” Five-Spice Egg was utterly puzzled. He had always thought the other side was 2A2B, and only after confirming there were two people at B had he dared to sneak like that. In the end, the instant he came out, a gun barrel was stuffed into his mouth. How was he supposed to play?
After Yang Yu killed Five-Spice Egg, the two teammates on site immediately swung out to gather information.
The Terrorist at fake door directly sprayed down the CT at coffins with one magazine.
After Yang Yu got the information, he also swung out without hesitation and directly locked on to spray.
“Da da da!”
[Calm Down killed Hirasawa Yui with an M4A1 headshot]
After getting this kill, Yang Yu immediately swapped to the AK dropped by Five-Spice Egg. He held for two seconds and saw no further movement, then directly rotated back toward A.
His read was correct. While he was still on the way to rotate, a firefight had already broken out in mid.
The guy at link used an off-angle to kill one, but he couldn’t escape either and was traded by the opponent.
Yang Yu kept his footsteps going the entire time and directly filled in at link, just in time to catch the back of someone walking toward A1.
“Da da da!”
[Calm Down killed My AK Spray Pulls Left with an AK47 headshot]
[MVP: Calm Down eliminated the most enemies]
“Nice shots, bro!!” The teammate who had just been holding link praised him. He increasingly felt that Yang Yu wasn’t cheating. These waves of play were extremely reasonable. All kinds of movements made them play very comfortably, and the cooperation was maxed out. How could he possibly be a cheater?
If he really were cheating, then since he was already cheating, all he had to do was kill everyone. Why would he need cooperation?
“That rotate was key,” Green, who had died early, also praised him, then added, “So, bro, can you drop me one?”
“You already called me bro, so what else is there to say?” Yang Yu directly tossed an AWP to his teammate.
“Holy shit, even the big sniper is here?” Green also shouted, “Then what else is there to say? Bro, however you want to play, I’ll cooperate with you!”
…
Compared to the relaxed CT side, the mood on the attacking side was mainly one of confusion.
“Holy shit, why is that Calm Bro all over the entire map?!”
Leonkai was also at a loss. “This guy finished fighting in A apartments and went to B, then the moment he finished fighting at B, he immediately rotated back. So he’s farming WeChat steps inside the map, huh.”
But he had to admit that the guy on the other side had played this round extremely beautifully, and extremely crucially.
Leonkai thought for a moment. “We don’t have much utility this point. Let’s give up Banana first, then go control it at second timing.”
Leonkai planned to lead people to first take A apartments. Their loss in the previous round was mainly because they had lost control of A apartments in the follow-up, resulting in too little information across the whole map, which allowed that guy on the other side to roam freely.
At the start, they arranged for three people to head to side lane. With only one incendiary available, no one held from T spawn; all of them came to the close position under VIP.
After Yang Yu threw an incendiary at T ramp, he first held for a bit to confirm no one was stepping through the fire.
Then, hugging the wall on the right side of the mid T-junction entrance, he pressed all the way down.
During the forward push, his attention was on side lane the entire time.
Just as he moved his crosshair over, he suddenly saw a Terrorist holding an angle on him. The two of them immediately began exchanging fire.
But Leonkai’s aim was not particularly ideal. Or perhaps Leonkai’s neck was too long and his head a little too big, allowing Yang Yu’s first shot to hit Leonkai in the head.
“Bang!”
[Calm Down killed Boss Shy with an AK47 headshot]
“He pushed down mid!” Leonkai shouted.
Five-Spice Egg immediately swung over to trade.
Yang Yu saw a figure flash by on the left, and his muzzle instinctively snapped over.
“Pa!”
[Calm Down killed Five-Spice Egg OVO with an AK47 headshot]
I thought that was a speed bump.
Taking down two in one wave, Yang Yu also knew when to quit while ahead. He directly retreated from the mid T-junction.
At this moment, the teammate in A apartments called, “There’s still one footstep side lane!”
Seeing this, Yang Yu adjusted from link and directly peeked out.
The opponent fired first, but Yang Yu’s crosshair pulled straight to the head.
“Pa!”
One tap!
Just one bullet!
The AWP Yang Yu had dropped also did not fire blanks. Very quickly, he sniped the Terrorist at T ramp from A1.
The teammate at Banana also killed the final Terrorist.
The score reached 4:0.
[MVP: Calm Down eliminated the most enemies]
And at that instant, the screen entered a pause.
…
This pause was called by Leonkai on his own initiative.
Because he was a little dumbfounded.
Bro fired first and got instantly counter-killed. Five-Spice Egg went for the trade and got instantly deleted. A random teammate hard-held an angle and got tapped.
By now, that guy on the other side was already 11/1, and his headshot rate was an exaggerated 100%.
Since he had been the first one killed just now, he directly transformed into esports Medusa—whoever he looked at died.
But the POVs of the three people getting killed were all a little too exaggerated. For a moment, Leonkai felt somewhat intimidated.
That reaction and placement—was it really not an auto-trigger plus aimbot?
Yesterday I said I’d set a fixed update time, but today I ended up updating late because something came up. Sorry, sorry. I’ll work hard to build up some saved chapters first before setting a fixed time.