Zone B was the first to lose a man, and Yang Yu immediately rotated back to Market.
When the attackers executed onto B, they threw a smoke at the Market window, blocking his view of the inside of B site.
Yang Yu understood very clearly at this moment that most of the enemy’s attention was on the Market door.
So he played it in reverse. He took the initiative to silently creep out through the Market window smoke.
It was a risky move, the kind of play that put him right on the edge of a blade.
But Yang Yu knew that with the B anchor gone, if he didn’t play it this way, the retake afterward would be impossible.
He slipped quietly out of the smoke. Sure enough, the attackers had not guarded against this angle, and he soon caught the side of a Terrorist in B apartments.
Yang Yu immediately opened fire.
“Pfft!”
[Calm Down a Little killed Don’t Rush Yet with a USP headshot]
The instant he got the kill, Yang Yu was exposed. He dragged his crosshair to the right—the Terrorist from B Short had already swung out.
Yang Yu tapped rhythmically on the spot, and his second shot landed a headshot.
[Calm Down a Little killed Why Do I Get Hungry Whenever I Start Gaming with a USP headshot]
But just as he was about to continue, a bullet pierced through the smoke with precision and struck him in the head.
“Market door!” Yang Yu quickly called the position.
He really hadn’t expected the opponent to have already shift-walked to that spot.
So this guy had been on the other side of the smoke the whole time.
Yang Yu forced his way out and traded for two, leaving his teammates a three-on-three残局.
His teammates also gave it everything they had, but ended up trading three for zero.
As the player who had given away the opening kill that round, Wan Jiqi took the initiative to rally everyone. “Unlucky, unlucky.”
Yang Yu smiled. Although he was the only player on his side who had gotten any kills this round, he wasn’t in a hurry.
Because of the bizarre ELO system, Yang Yu’s stats at his current rank were already extremely exaggerated.
At this stage, he had long since grown used to dragging four people up the ladder.
That was the disgusting thing about the ELO system: playing badly got rewarded, playing well got punished.
But Yang Yu had a good mentality. In a way, this was just weighted training.
Their purple teammate also spoke up. “Masters don’t win pistol rounds. No big deal, brothers.”
After losing the pistol round, as the defenders, they tacitly ecoed the next round.
In CS:GO, ECO referred to an economy round—in order to have more money for rifles, they would buy little or even no weapons and utility for that round, saving their cash.
Naturally, there was no surprise that round. They were directly flattened.
The match entered the third round. Yang Yu bought half armor and an A1, along with a little utility, then went straight below A apartments to listen for movement.
He heard nothing on A side, but bad news came from B.
[Don’t Rush Yet killed User6323607 with an AK-47 headshot]
Their setup this round was still somewhat biased toward B.
Looking at the completely empty B site on the minimap, Yang Yu instantly knew things were about to go wrong.
Very soon, the teammate who had rotated back to Market was also killed.
Yang Yu turned around without hesitation.
A minute and thirty-five seconds into the round, it was already three versus five. What else was there to say?
Save immediately.
Wan Jiqi said, sounding slightly embarrassed, “My brother, I got instantly deleted by them. They’re a little accurate.”
Their blue random teammate said, “Send more people B. Don’t push forward either. Just hold from the back positions.”
B was falling too quickly. Even if they wanted to retake, they were powerless to do so.
Wan Jiqi then called, “Next round, the two of us will eco and hold B. You three rifles can stand on A.”
It was a decent tactic, concentrating the team’s stronger firepower into one area.
However, the enemy had fully committed to smashing into B.
With only two little pistols there, B was lost again.
The three-man A group saved their guns once more.
The score had already reached 0:4.
The gap on the scoreboard was growing larger and larger, and pressure gradually surged up.
……
Inside Wan Jiqi’s livestream.
Watching Wan Jiqi repeatedly become the breakthrough point for the team, the chat in the livestream began joking around.
[Wanchu’s performance today is dead weight!]
[B gets broken every round. If it were me, I’d have started flaming already.]
[None of his teammates are human either. Nobody’s killing anyone.]
[A left mouse button soft as cotton, a hold like pig trotters, delicious pork belly…]
Wan Jiqi complained somewhat irritably in his stream, “This ladder game feels wrong today. Are players in Perfect World A rank all this accurate now?”
He truly felt that something was off. The opponent’s gunskill seemed far more accurate than theirs, completely unlike players of the same level.
Normally, at the Perfect World A rank, he really was the kind of存在 who could roam like a dragon.
But for some reason, no matter how he played today, everything felt wrong.
Now that the situation was against them, and the chat on his second monitor was frantically applying pressure, Wan Jiqi, who had already been under no small amount of pressure, immediately felt the game become even harder.
The score reached 0:4. The fifth round began.
Their purple teammate said, “I’m buying an AWP to watch mid.”
Wan Jiqi’s spawn was still close to B. This round, he had utility, so he planned to play it a little safer.
But after thinking about it, he still said, “Someone else come B to help me. I feel like they’ll hit B again.”
Hearing this, Yang Yu replied, “I’ll help you. How do you want to play it?”
“Brother, do you know how to throw the anti-clear flash outside B apartments?” Wan Jiqi said. “You can boost me into B apartments first. I’ll go straight out to counter-clear and catch the people near underpass.”
“No.”
Wan Jiqi: “……”
Sure enough, the utility reserves of ladder randoms were not ideal.
But he had expected as much. This wasn’t exactly a very standard piece of utility, so it was normal.
“Then just boost me into B apartments. Later, jiggle around by van and act as bait for me, how about it?” Wan Jiqi suggested.
He planned to hide in the small corner of B apartments.
First, he could listen for information in B apartments.
Second, if the enemy really intended to attack B, he could catch a huge backstab!
Wan Jiqi was not that rigid a person.
Dying instantly for several rounds in a row had already left his hands feeling ice cold.
Since his gunskill couldn’t hold up, then he had to play with a bit of tactical cooperation.
Yang Yu was also quite cooperative. At the start of the round, he went straight below B apartments and boosted the guy who was probably Wan Jiqi up.
Immediately after that, he threw a molotov into B apartments, making an anti-rush gesture toward the enemy.
At that very instant, the sounds of an AWP and AK came from mid.
“One mid lit hard! AWP leg shot, didn’t die!” Purple opened his mic and passed them a not-so-great piece of information.
“Connector smoked. Can’t watch B Short anymore,” the guy on A also relayed.
Yang Yu sorted through this information in his mind.
Mid was out of control, and the enemy had directly smoked off Connector. This was the rhythm of taking B Short.
In other words, the enemy had seen that Wan Jiqi wasn’t playing well and planned to come to B to farm him.
“Brother, this won’t work. We have to proactively counter-clear B apartments, or they’re going to pinch us. This won’t be playable.”
The experienced Wan Jiqi also realized the problem.
They had to cut a bloody path out from one side and break the enemy’s encirclement. If they could clear out the B apartments side, then even if they gave up the site to the enemy, the pressure wouldn’t be so great.
“Can you throw a flash into B apartments for me?” Wan Jiqi said as he began pushing forward. However, CS:GO’s timing demons were somewhat unreasonable. Just as he was asking for utility, the Terrorists in B apartments had already moved.
Wan Jiqi hastily returned fire, but he was still killed.
“B apartments! B apartments! They’re hitting B!” Wan Jiqi urgently called the position, then shouted painfully in his livestream, “They’re even catching the timing when I talk, huh? How am I supposed to play this!”
He felt like he had messed up this round again.
The situation was already unfavorable. They had finally saved enough economy for a rifle round, but in the end, he still hadn’t killed a single person.
If they lost this rifle round too, they would have to enter another economy round. Unless they directly pulled off a big comeback afterward, the enemy would slowly snowball them, and this game would be gone.
Yang Yu, holding a flash grenade beside van, was also startled by the Terrorist who suddenly rushed out of B apartments.
The instant Wan Jiqi was killed, he immediately crouched to avoid the headshot line and switched back to the M4A1 in his hands.
Then came a pre-aimed spring-head shot.
“Da-da-da!”
Three bullets fired out, two of them striking toward the opponent’s head.
Headshot!
[Calm Down a Little killed Don’t Rush Yet with an M4A1 headshot]
After getting one kill, Yang Yu did not think about continuing to stall. Instead, he took a step back, jumped directly onto the barrels behind van.
The enemy had already confirmed his position. Before they got into place, he had to make a slight change.
For example, in this wave, he used his positioning to avoid the opponent’s headline, preventing the enemy from pre-aiming and pre-firing him.
Utility flew toward B like rain. Almost as soon as Yang Yu steadied himself, he saw a Terrorist rush out from the kitchen side of B apartments.
Yang Yu had already been guarding against this position. The moment he saw the opponent come out, his crosshair instantly locked on.
“Da-da-da!”
The bullets struck the opponent’s head cleanly and decisively.
Another headshot!
[Calm Down a Little killed Why Do I Get Hungry Whenever I Start Gaming with an M4A1 headshot]
Wan Jiqi watched and shouted excitedly, “Nice shot!”
But the heated battle was not over. Almost the instant he killed the opponent, Yang Yu saw another Terrorist surge out of B apartments.
With this kind of trade-frag speed, there was no time for a second adjustment. Yang Yu relied on instinct to spray and control his recoil. While crouching to avoid the headshot line, he held the trigger down to the very end.
“Da-da-da…”
M4A1 bullets poured out, and just before the magazine was about to run dry, Yang Yu landed another headshot and secured the kill.
[Calm Down a Little killed Standing on the Moral High Ground to Pee with an M4A1 headshot]
“One more B Short!!” Wan Jiqi shouted at the top of his lungs.
Yang Yu only had two bullets left in his gun, but he did not rush to reload, because he had already heard footsteps from the side.
However, those footsteps were not coming from B Short, but from the bombsite.
Yang Yu got down from the barrels beside van.
Judging by the sound, the opponent had already reached the boxes on site. Now that the footsteps had stopped, he was probably hard-holding Yang Yu’s position beside the site boxes.
Clearly, Yang Yu’s three sudden headshot kills had also made the opponents rein themselves in a little.
He had only two bullets left, and his HP was less than half.
Yang Yu glanced at the minimap. Because the teammate at Window had died early, the teammates on A could not rotate back that quickly.
This B site crisis could only be resolved by himself.
Although he only had two bullets left, the teammate had called that the one coming from B Short was extremely low. As long as he hit one shot, it would be enough.
Yang Yu paused briefly at van, quickly adjusted his crosshair, and after making full preparations, directly maxed out his movement speed and swung out without hesitation.
The Terrorist on site was patiently holding van. “He’s at van. I’ve got him locked down. You push forward and we’ll swing him together!”
Yang Yu’s somewhat insane chain of headshot kills had indeed made them a little apprehensive.
And judging from the scoreboard, Yang Yu was indeed the most combat-capable person on the CT side. He had to be respected.
The next second, he suddenly saw a figure flash past van.
“Bang!”
[Calm Down a Little killed Be Wary When Teammates Call Someone Lit with an M4A1 headshot]
“He swung out from van! His A1’s out of bullets!”
After making the call, he was extremely astonished.
From his perspective, Yang Yu had rushed out together with the bullets, giving him no time to react at all.
The moment he appeared, two headshots blasted him dead.
Did he have to be this accurate?!
And from the kill feed in the upper right corner, every kill this guy got was a headshot.
With four teammates killed in a row, an ominous feeling had already arisen in his heart.
Sure enough, the consecutive deaths of his teammates also panicked the last Terrorist in B apartments. He had also heard his teammate say that the opponent was out of bullets, so he immediately stopped shift-walking and chased out from B apartments, wanting to quickly finish Yang Yu off before dealing with the remaining two CTs.
The chaotic situation had ultimately made him lose his composure a little.
Yang Yu had originally planned to reload, but when he heard the footsteps from B apartments chasing over, he could only switch to his pistol and be forced to meet the enemy.
“Last one B apartments!!” Wan Jiqi was as calm as a heartless callout machine.
Yang Yu’s almost insane operation in this round had already filled him with boundless expectation.
Even if Yang Yu died here, it wouldn’t matter, because he had already created the possibility for the brothers on A to retake.
But Yang Yu did not give up.
The consecutive kills made Yang Yu’s heart pound wildly. He didn’t know whether he could win this fight either. Almost entirely on instinct, he switched to the USP, turned back, and held the angle.
The instant he saw the opponent rush out of B apartments, his crosshair was already dragged over.
He was forced to return fire right there on the spot.
While making tiny counter-strafing steps, he pulled the trigger.
“Bang!”
“Da-da…”
“Bang!”
[Calm Down a Little killed Occasional Whiffs—Often Occasional with a USP headshot]
The instant this final kill was secured, the 0 above their heads representing the CT side’s score finally jumped to 1.
When Yang Yu got this last kill, his face carried the joy of victory. He quickly ran to the bombsite and picked up an AK.
“Ah!!!”
“Fucking amazing!!! Holy shit!!!”
“Brother, five kills, five headshots!! You’re the Director, holy shit!!”
At this moment, Wan Jiqi could no longer suppress his desire to express himself. He opened his mic and shouted passionately, “Brother, standing there at van, you were like a turret! They couldn’t beat you at all!”
“That spray transfer and positioning were simply invincible!! You were like a spinning top, brother!!”
And inside Wan Jiqi’s livestream, the chat completely exploded!
……