Yang Yu’s 1v5 in the pistol round ended in a regretful defeat, bringing the score to 0:1.
Fortunately, he had managed to get four kills, and with the bomb successfully planted, they still had a decent amount of room to work with.
But in the second round, Yang Yu’s spawn position was rather far forward.
Dust2 was just that kind of map. The Terrorists couldn’t afford to lose Long A, just like Danking couldn’t afford to lose betel nut.
With the best spawn, Yang Yu charged toward Long A without the slightest hesitation, and his teammates behind him were also very proactive in throwing Long A flashbangs for him.
Immediately afterward, Yang Yu turned into a cosplay of an unlucky bastard, never opening his eyes once at Long A until the moment he died.
The fight at Long A in the second round did not go smoothly, becoming the fuse that led to their loss that round.
By the time they entered the third round, the attacking side was completely broke and could only go for an ECO.
“No worries. Real experts don’t win the first three rounds. Next, it’s our turn to pop off,” a teammate said considerately in voice chat, rallying the team.
Yang Yu bought half armor and a Desert Eagle, then went to Upper B to watch the flank.
He waited patiently on Upper B, and before long, gunfire came from mid. Good news from his teammates also appeared in the top right corner.
【Qi Tian Da Sheng 123 killed My Art Style Is Above Yours with an M4A4 headshot】
【Xi’an Tang Man killed Strengthened Black Soil with an MP9】
【Evil Meow Meow Meow killed Eat My Blue Silver Entanglement with a Desert Eagle headshot】
In an instant, mid had produced a one-for-two trade.
“They pushed up mid! They’re pressing mid!”
Listening to his teammate’s callout, Yang Yu also began advancing toward Lower B, trying to see if he could catch someone from the side.
……
“Accurate as hell, Tiedan!”
“Push straight through mid, te-te-te!”
With the situation going smoothly, the CT-side members had already entered a frenzy of kill-stealing.
In rifle rounds, kills had to be earned through scheming mind games and flawless aim. But in an ECO round like this, they had to use rifles to smash those little pistols to pieces!
They had to bully the weak with the strong.
So QUQU directly led his teammates charging toward T spawn, beginning an aggressive push.
Danking, however, was in no hurry to rush out. As a professional player, his discipline was still much higher than these ladder players’.
Moreover, because of Tyloo’s style, the possibility of being overturned in ECO rounds was far too high, so deep down he was actually somewhat resistant to this kind of kill-farming. But it was only ladder, and he believed he could hold things together.
He helped cover the side angles for his teammates, assisting them as they pushed forward.
After his teammates rushed outside Long Doors, he suddenly seemed to sense killing intent and instantly turned his head toward Lower B.
A Terrorist was holding a pistol and aiming at him. Danking hurried to fire, but in the end, he was still too slow.
“Bang!”
【Calm Down killed Qi Tian Da Sheng 123 with a Desert Eagle headshot】
“Lower B! Lower B!” Danking quickly called the position, then saw Yang Yu had already sucked away his gun. “He picked up my A4.”
After getting the A4, Yang Yu immediately tucked back into Lower B.
He glanced up at the kill feed. After taking out Danking, what was left for him was a 1v3 clutch.
The bomb was outside Long Doors, not easy to retrieve.
What Yang Yu was thinking was to first try and kill one, then rely on the C4 to play the mind game.
These thoughts had only just flashed through his mind when he heard footsteps coming from mid doors. He immediately raised his gun, ready to hold, but the other side’s footsteps quickly faded away.
Clearly, they were planning to go guard the bomb.
“If you can’t do it, just save,” his teammate said.
It had been an ECO to begin with. Trading away two and saving an M4 would already be quite a good result.
Yang Yu, however, said nothing and walked toward T spawn.
Seeing the situation, his teammates understood as well. Yang Yu was still planning to give it a try. Everyone immediately fell silent, letting Yang Yu slowly work things out on his own.
Yang Yu made loud steps back to the back garden, then began walking silently, using half-body peeks little by little to scout and slowly gather information on the opponents.
The bomb had dropped in a very awkward position. Since the opponents hadn’t come to hunt him, they were clearly planning to take it slow and guard the bomb.
Yang Yu slowly cleared the area near T spawn by the tunnels, but still did not find any enemies.
Under these circumstances, there was some helplessness to it. He could only advance toward the extremely dangerous area outside Long Doors.
But just then, footsteps suddenly sounded from the left. A fly-head holding an MP9 charged out toward him.
Hearing the footsteps, Yang Yu dragged his crosshair over and, against the opponent’s MP9 spray, successfully landed a headshot.
Yang Yu understood very well that the opponents could not possibly let it end there. In high-level matches like this, everyone tried as much as possible to avoid the situation being broken down into 1v1v1s.
So the instant he killed the CT in tunnels, Yang Yu turned his head toward Long A.
At the moment he turned, he saw two fly-heads appearing simultaneously from the left and right sides of Long A.
Seeing this double peek, the few members watching had only one thought in their hearts—over.
But Yang Yu noticed one detail. The weapons in the hands of the two fly-heads opposite him were an M4A1 and an MP9. There was still a chance!
Yang Yu instantly dragged his muzzle toward the fly-head near the yellow car. His recoil-control foundation from Elige was displayed to the fullest at this moment. After swiftly killing him, Yang Yu yanked his muzzle over at extreme speed.
His crosshair instantly locked onto the CT’s head on the right. Relying on an almost muscle-memory-like understanding of bullet trajectory, Yang Yu forcibly controlled the M4A4’s bullets into a straight line.
And the headshot talent originating from B1T allowed him, even during this kind of spray transfer, to still press the bullets onto the headshot line.
“Dadadadadada!”
The M4A4’s bullets poured out wildly. The M4, which was by no means easy to control, was as obedient in Yang Yu’s hands as an extension of his own arm.
In less than two seconds, all three CTs who appeared in his field of view had been melted.
【Calm Down killed Xi’an Tang Man with an M4A4 headshot】
【Calm Down killed God of Mini World with an M4A4 headshot】
【Calm Down killed The Wind That Misses You Still Blew to Qingyun Sect with an M4A4 headshot】
With one spray transfer, he successfully got three kills, and the M4A4 in Yang Yu’s hands even had 7 bullets left.
At this moment, Yang Yu merely switched out his Karambit with calm understatement, entered tunnels, and picked up the smoke grenade dropped by the CT.
Then, he could enjoy the music box that belonged to him.
The moment Yang Yu won, the teammates who had been silent for more than half the round could no longer hold back and shouted out directly: “Ah!!”
“Holy shit, that spray transfer!!”
“Bro, you’re insanely lucky! You smashed all of them apart!”
“Holy shit, insane! A 1v3!! ECO comeback! You like pushing?”
On the attacking side, everyone was jubilant because of Yang Yu’s comeback.
On the defending side, everyone was dumbfounded.
In his livestream, Danking seemed to mutate on the spot, suddenly standing up and saying in extreme astonishment, “Is this the value of a genius youngster? Give him even the slightest chance and he flips all of us over!”
“That spray transfer was like damn aimbot.”
【Last pistol round he almost 1v5’d, this round a 1v3 four-kill. This Potato Grenade is seriously ridiculous】
【This guy really is a genius youngster. When I first saw him from Wan Ji Qi, he was still A+. Now he’s already S with who knows how many stars】
【This guy is absolutely a ladder demon king. He destroyed Wan Ji Qi and Leon Kai. Are you telling me Danking can’t do it either?】
【How old is this guy? Is there a chance to pull him into pro play?】
He had been killed early, and had pretty much watched the whole kill cam for that play. From the speed at which Yang Yu deleted people, he could feel how fast that spray transfer had been.
It really was somewhat ridiculous.
Danking also typed in public chat to interact.
Qi Tian Da Sheng 123: that spray was good
Calm Down: thanks
Danking immediately laughed.
Kind of interesting, huh.
The match entered the fourth round. After being overturned, the CT side’s economy instantly exploded.
At this time, QUQU suggested, “How about we play something unconventional and push straight up from mid and Lower B?”
They didn’t have much economy to begin with. If they could shorten the gunfight distance at this point, trading one would be huge profit. Getting three or more kills would make this round completely worth it.
Seeing this, Danking also said, “Go, go, go! If they can make a comeback, we can make one too!”
After the countdown ended, Danking led the main force straight from mid doors toward Long Doors.
After Dust2’s last rework, it had become more difficult for the Terrorists to gather information. Without an AWP watching mid, they advanced toward T spawn quite smoothly.
On the attacking side, because of spawn positions this round, they chose to send more people toward B by default and execute a delayed B take.
They left Yang Yu alone outside A to watch the flank and gather information.
There wasn’t much movement at Long A, so Yang Yu chose to hold T spawn with his AK-47.
He had just turned his head when he suddenly saw a fly-head surging up from mid.
Yang Yu’s crosshair instantly locked on.
“Pa!”
【Calm Down killed God of Mini World with an AK-47 headshot】
“That Calm bro is outside Long Doors!” After Mini was killed, he quickly called the position.
Seeing this, Danking directly threw a flashbang and immediately rushed up.
Yang Yu saw the trajectory of the flashbang and subconsciously turned away from it, then fired another shot at the CT rushing into view.
“Pa!”
【Calm Down killed Qi Tian Da Sheng 123 with an AK-47 headshot】
Another fly-head rushed out from behind. Yang Yu pulled the trigger again.
“Pa!”
【Calm Down killed Xi’an Tang Man with an AK-47 headshot】
……
Inside Huya Danking’s livestream.
Danking looked at the three kills in the top right, somewhat unable to make sense of it and somewhat confused.
He looked at the camera and asked in great bewilderment, “If I didn’t hear wrong, he only fired three shots, right?”
【Three shots killed all three useless bums】
【Is this guy on the other side really not cheating? He’s suppressing Danking】
【Heh, a genius youngster, huh. Who knows what he’s got】
After getting confirmation, Danking pretended to be angry and said, “No, this guy is treating us like BOTs! Three shots and he killed all of us bros!”
“Even when I play against Vitality, I’ve never been humiliated like this!”
Seeing this, QUQU said, “Giving them a few points is enough. From now on, we have to get serious.”
However, in the following few rounds, the opposing “Calm Down” didn’t really pop off much. Their B site became the breakthrough point, and they began losing points consecutively.
Though they were pro players and high-level streamer players, retaking B site on Dust2 had always been a historical problem, with a difficulty comparable to watching Leon Kai’s stream for two hours without falling asleep.
The score quickly reached 7:2.
The extremely powerless match finally made Danking truly intend to get a little more serious.
He took the initiative and asked his teammate for a gun. “Mini, drop me an AWP. You really can’t play this map without an AWP.”
Seeing this, his teammate immediately dropped him a sniper rifle. Danking also picked up the big sniper and went directly to contest Long A.
……
The attacking side’s spawns this round were all rather awkward.
They were neither particularly close to A site nor particularly close to B site.
So after discussing it, the group could only slowly control the map and work things out.
As the one closest to Long A, Yang Yu naturally arrived near Long Doors.
Although this spawn position didn’t allow him to rush out Long A immediately, he could still gather information on how many people were contesting Long A and listen for whether the other side had gone down into pit.
Yang Yu quietly listened to the movement, watching the opening molotov at Long Doors extinguish, yet the other side made no further moves.
At this moment, his teammate at yellow car asked, “Bro, are you going out Long A? I can give you a pop flash for Long.”
“We can try it. Wait until I’m in position,” Yang Yu replied.
He began hugging the wall toward Long Doors. But just as he was about to ask his teammate for the flash, a smoke grenade flew toward his direction.
An opportunity!
There was no time to ask his teammate for the flash. Yang Yu quickly got ready and directly swung out while pre-aiming the Long A corner.
The instant he swung out, he saw an AWP at the Long A corner and a CT on the right who was in the middle of switching weapons.
Yang Yu had already prepared for a wide swing. This time, his crosshair was directly beside the fly-head at the Long A corner, and with a slight adjustment—
The AK-47’s extremely high damage instantly killed him. Then Yang Yu’s arm tensed, and his muzzle snapped straight to the right.
“Dadadadadada!”
【Calm Down killed Qi Tian Da Sheng 123 with an AK-47 headshot】
【Calm Down killed God of Mini World with an AK-47】
“Long A is broken!!” Yang Yu shouted excitedly in voice chat. “Brothers, two down Long A! Hit A with me!”
After reminding his teammates of the situation at Long A, Yang Yu’s footsteps did not stop either. He sprinted straight along the Long A slope.
The CT side had not expected the Long A duo to die so quickly, but they still immediately began rotating back.
When QUQU rotated to the area below platform, he took the initiative to throw a flash toward the middle of Long road, then peeked out, wanting to catch the timing.
But just as he threw the flashbang, he saw someone appear together with the flash.
“Dadada!”
【Calm Down killed Xi’an Tang Man with an AK-47 headshot】
After taking out the first CT rotating back, Yang Yu fired repeated taps toward the CT in the sand area, finally landing the headshot on the fourth bullet.
【Calm Down killed The Wind That Misses You Still Blew to Qingyun Sect with an AK-47 headshot】
“Holy shit, bro, you really turned it on, didn’t you!!”
“What the hell, the parameters are maxed out!”
“Going for the ace? Last one’s with me. He pushed from Upper B to Lower B.” Yang Yu’s outstanding play had even made his teammates start helping him find the last opponent’s position.
Yang Yu did not dampen his teammates’ enthusiasm either and directly began pushing forward from Catwalk.
Very soon, he heard footsteps and saw the final CT about to enter tunnels.
His crosshair dragged over.
Instant one-tap!
【Round MVP: Calm Down killed all enemies.】
【Calm Down’s accuracy this round was 100%.】
In the CT-side voice chat, QUQU asked in confusion, “Weren’t there two of you at Long A? How did you both drop instantly?”
The reason they lost this point was because Long A collapsed. After that, every retake was all about timing.
Danking could only reply helplessly, “We got caught on timing. There really was nothing we could do.”
He had held Long A with the big sniper for a while, and seeing God of Mini World add a Long Doors smoke, he wanted to rotate to another position.
How could he have expected that at this exact timing, the opposing “Potato Grenade” would rush out?
He really was damn Potato Grenade.
This thing exploded instantly!
The score had already reached 8:2. The gap in score was not as large as imagined.
Danking felt that they still might be able to make a comeback, but then again, it didn’t seem very possible for them to make a comeback.
……
The insane pop-off in the early game, combined with the fact that the other side included an actual professional player, made Yang Yu subconsciously think this match would be an exhilarating, action-packed battle.
However, the subsequent plot exceeded his expectations. Perhaps his consecutive performances had activated his teammates.
In the following rounds, they practically steamrolled all the way through, directly beating the other side 16:5.
They had almost blown the opponents apart in a crushing fashion.
It went so smoothly that even Yang Yu felt astonished.
But by the end of the match, Yang Yu had also successfully put up an outstanding scoreline of 31 kills and 7 deaths. His post-match rating was an exaggerated 1.97.
Relying on this excellent data, Yang Yu looked at Danking’s avatar and sent a friend request.
In a daze, he seemed to see the gears of fate quietly begin to turn.
……
P.S. A bonus chapter later will include a similar clip of the protagonist getting three heads with three bullets.
Today, CNCS skins finally stopped burning.