YY Live.
Wuwukai, who had finally managed to come online while yawning, greeted his viewers with practiced ease as he logged into his Chinese server account.
The moment he got on, private messages stretching from right to left left him completely dumbfounded.
LGD丶White Crescent: Kai-ge, do you know Eight-Level Gale?
Royal丶Chris: Ugly Kai, didn’t you chat with that Eight-Level Gale a few days ago? Where is he?
IG丶PDD: Flirty Kai, our coach asked me to ask you—do you know Eight-Level Gale’s phone number or QQ?
OMG丶Xiamu: White, you know Eight-Level Gale, right? Can you give me his number?
Back in those days, private messages would open chat windows in the lower-left corner of the client, and right now, Wuwukai’s chat boxes were already packed full from left to right.
From top-tier teams like IG and Royal, to first-rate teams like VG, OMG, and LGD.
Some were coaches, some were managers, and some were even players Wuwukai knew.
All of them, without prior agreement, had sent private messages to Wuwukai.
There was only one core question:
You know [Eight-Level Gale]? Quick, quick, quick! Give me his contact info!
Wuwukai was completely baffled.
He hadn’t really been looking at the rankings lately. Every day, he had just been playing for fun with his viewers to create show effects.
Chu Bai had climbed the ladder far too quickly.
Under the terrifying hidden MMR stacked up by his one-hundred-percent win rate, he was gaining an absurd forty-plus points in almost every game.
Forget Wuwukai—even some of the actors and crews on Server One who wanted to break his one-hundred-percent win rate had never imagined it.
So much so that those who wanted to ruin Chu Bai’s win rate couldn’t even queue into him at all.
Why?
Because when Chu Bai was in Diamond, he wasn’t easy to match with. At that time, there were too many low-point Masters in Diamond on the Chinese server, so at most one or two actors could get into his games.
And with Chu Bai’s strength after reaching Diamond, what could one or two actors in a Master-tier game even do?
Even if they both went AFK, Chu Bai would merely have a harder time winning.
Not to mention, there was still something called [LeaverBuster] at this time.
The deterrent power of [LeaverBuster] was not something the later system of deducting ten credit points could compare to.
When it said you couldn’t play, you genuinely couldn’t play.
If you dared to grief, [LeaverBuster] could force you to go play co-op versus AI, or else make you queue for more than half an hour.
And after Chu Bai reached Diamond I, the people he queued into were high-point Masters with eight or nine hundred points, as well as lower-ranked Challengers.
The composition of this group was actually quite fixed.
In the early days, before Challengers from other regions came to Server One, there were only so many people in the high ranks of each region.
They would never joke around with their own points just to act against Chu Bai.
On top of that, Chu Bai gained around forty points per game. In reality, he simply couldn’t encounter that many actors or crews.
He climbed too fast. Even if the crews wanted to stop him, they couldn’t make it in time.
In the novel, it seemed like more than a dozen chapters had passed, but in reality, it had only been a little over a week. Chu Bai had gone from Diamond IV to Diamond I in less than a day.
Once they missed that opportunity, there were basically no actors who could queue into him anymore.
Watching Wuwukai’s dumbfounded expression, the barrage couldn’t help but laugh.
—Hahahaha, another one
—I watched PDD’s stream last night too, and a bunch of people were asking him whether he knew [Eight-Level Gale], hahahaha
—Holy crap, who exactly is Eight-Level Gale? Why is everyone looking for him?!
—That Talon who’s number one on the Chinese server with a one-hundred-percent win rate
—Just came from Puppy’s stream. Puppy sounded so wronged, saying their coach told him a few days ago to wait and see, so he didn’t contact him. Now that the guy’s gone missing, they’ve started panicking. He’s been muttering like Xianglin’s Wife ever since
—Hahaha, so many high-ranked Chinese server players have been getting private messages. These coaches have gone insane, hahahaha!
Wuwukai glanced at the barrage and only then roughly understood what had happened. He hurriedly opened the Chinese server rankings and took a look, then couldn’t help shouting:
“Holy crap, brothers, this is terrifying!”
“That bro is already second on the Chinese server? And so many people are looking for him?!”
Just as he was speaking, his phone rang.
He looked at the caller. It was Royal’s youth training coach.
Wuwukai froze.
“Crap. Is it too late to tell Chris to close the door now?”
What was happening in Wuwukai’s stream was merely a microcosm.
In truth, Server One on the Chinese server had indeed gone a little crazy by now.
Chu Bai had thought it would take a few more days, but he had underestimated just how much attention those coaches and managers were paying to him.
On the afternoon of the day he decided to switch over to the Korean server, there were already coaches who had added him and couldn’t help but start privately messaging him.
Now that he had been offline for more than a full day, these coaches had truly gone completely insane.
—I only hesitated for one second, and you’re telling me he’s gone?!
That was what they were thinking right now.
Regret!
Extreme regret!
The connections between these coaches were extremely tangled, and the entire high-rank scene of Server One had begun to stir because of their movements.
So much so that now, in high-ranked games on Server One, as soon as people got in, someone would inevitably type in all-chat:
Does anyone know Eight-Level Gale? Our coach is looking for him!
The reason these people had hesitated before was because they didn’t know Chu Bai’s age or the specific state of his champion pool, so they planned to wait a couple more days.
Now that the person had vanished, what was there to be reserved about!
On that Chinese server account where Chu Bai had not logged in, all sorts of messages had already crammed his private chat window to bursting.
—Hello, may I ask if you have any plans to go pro? We can offer a signing fee of four hundred thousand, with contracts signed once every three years. Hello?
—Are you interested in coming to LGD? We at LGD will continue to increase investment in the future. We think you have great potential. The contract won’t be a problem.
—You know XX on our team, right? Have you considered going pro? We can discuss all conditions offline. We can reimburse your airfare and hotel expenses. We are very sincere.
Private messages like these were already everywhere.
The reason these teams hadn’t made a move before was purely because they wanted to finish things in one stroke.
This was also the current style of LPL team coaches when dealing with players they were extremely optimistic about.
Either don’t make a move, or once they did, use absolutely excellent conditions to impress the other party.
In fact, over the past few days, they had all been trying to contact their own bosses precisely so they could obtain greater autonomy and better conditions.
One could imagine how numb they felt now when they learned that Chu Bai had not logged in for more than a day.
So that was what led to the violent turbulence in the Chinese server’s high ranks.
Bang, bang, bang!
The iron door downstairs was knocked on with a series of loud crashes.
Wuwukai looked back and saw Royal’s head coach, Chris, standing behind him with a dark expression.
Wuwukai: …
Forget telling Chris to close the door. Right now, Chris was probably the most dangerous one of all!
“Why didn’t you tell me you knew him? I spent the whole night looking for someone, and I still haven’t slept. Lu Benwei, you motherf—”
Chris smiled without warmth and patted him on the shoulder.
“I didn’t expect him to reach second on the Chinese server this quickly either!”
Wuwukai wanted to cry but had no tears.
“It’s first on the Chinese server. It’s just that he stopped playing afterward, so that Korean climbed back to first.”
Chris added with a cold laugh,
“You’d better get him into our Royal. Otherwise, when the youth training coach comes to trouble you later, don’t feel wronged, got it!”
WE Club.
Wei Shen and Sima Laozei hung up the phone yet again with twitching faces, facing each other in speechless silence.
“…How many calls have you answered today?”
“Eight. You?”
“Seven.”
“Oh, then I have a few more friends. Haha, hahaha…”
Wei Shen laughed dryly.
A vein jumped on Sima Laozei’s forehead. “What time is it, and you’re still joking? I’ve been annoyed to death today.”
As one of the first people to come into contact with Chu Bai, Sima Laozei’s connection to Chu Bai had already been dug out by those resourceful coaches.
As for Wei Shen, that was purely because he knew a lot of people.
“So that guy was actually valued this much?”
Wei Shen felt a little sour.
“Because other than him, before this, only Dopa from Korea had ever hit Challenger with a one-hundred-percent win rate.”
Sima Laozei sneered. “You bastard, don’t tell me you think your Rank results back when you joined youth training could compare to his?”
“No, but why didn’t they contact him a few days ago? Now that he’s gone, they’re suddenly anxious.”
Sima Laozei asked in return:
“You think your coach doesn’t need to contact the boss first if he wants to offer good conditions?”
Wei Shen thought about it and realized that was true. He could only sigh.
In the end, it was still because Chu Bai had climbed far too fast. Under normal circumstances, they generally would have had time to negotiate properly, and something like this definitely wouldn’t have happened.
It was already past one in the morning, and Wei Shen was duoing with Sima Laozei.
Starting in the afternoon, Sima Laozei had called Chu Bai every so often.
Unfortunately, he had never gotten through.
Because this was currently Chu Bai’s first day charging hard on the Korean server, and he had tossed his phone aside without touching it at all.
Just as both of them were starting to feel numb, Sima Laozei’s phone rang.
Caller: Chu Bai
The two immediately looked at each other. Sima Laozei made a prompt decision and picked up the phone:
“Hello?”
“Hello… You called me nearly ten times. Did something happen?”
The exhaustion in Chu Bai’s voice on the other end was very obvious.
Sima Laozei fell silent for a moment before asking, “You don’t know? The Chinese server is about to go crazy right now. A whole bunch of people are looking for you.”
“Chu Bai, where did you go? You’re not on the Chinese server at all.”
Chu Bai froze for a moment.
It’s not like I’m the Chinese server’s Running Man. It should be fine if I don’t go on the Chinese server for a while, right?
“What’s going on?”
“You don’t know? Those coaches are all looking for you right now, like they’ve issued a jianghu kill order.”
Wei Shen muttered softly from the side, “Isn’t it a jianghu ravage-and-kill order?”
Then Sima Laozei shot him a dead-fish-eyed death stare.
What time was it? And this idiot was still trying to be clever.
“I dunno!”
Chu Bai was genuinely a little confused.
After a long round of communication, he finally understood what had happened.
Chu Bai, somewhere between laughing and crying, said, “All right. I’ve troubled you two during this period. I’m actually preparing to rush for first on the Korean server. Tell them to come to YY Live, room number XXXXXX, to look for me then.”
He couldn’t very well log onto his Chinese server account and negotiate with these coaches now, could he?
Many of the coaches weren’t even on his friend list.
It would be better to just throw them a stream room. If there was anything to discuss, they could add each other on QQ afterward.
“Fine. This way, I can also give those bastards an explanation.”
Sima Laozei nodded noncommittally, then suddenly asked, “Then have you decided which team to join?”
Chu Bai replied instantly, “In any case, not WE.”
Sima Laozei froze for a moment, and then he and Wei Shen couldn’t help laughing.
The news spread from one to ten, then from ten to a hundred.
When Chu Bai opened his own stream the next day, even he couldn’t help feeling a little stunned.
Ones, tens, hundreds, thousands, ten-thousands… a hundred thousand?
His stream’s popularity…
There were actually a full eight hundred thousand plus?!