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How Dare You Attack My Support! chapter 12
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Chapter 12
At EG Esports Club.
“Did you see that? I was leading Gu Zixing by twenty CS during the
first fifteen minutes in today’s scrims!”
Qi Chen walks out of the practice room holding his head up high. The
team’s manager, Qin Xiangnan, follows him out.
“Did you forget to credit Yao Le who was your support? Ol’ Gu
only has himself,” Qin Xiangnan tsks.
“Wouldn’t that make me look bad?” Qi Chen asks, spreading his
hands out as if he was stating the obvious. Yao Le, who is playing
with his phone while walking behind them, chuckles upon hearing their
conversation.
Qin Xiangnan replies, “Hmph, I should record what you’ve just
said and send it to Zixing. We’ll see how he shoots back at you.”
“Oh, can he though? Is he capable of that?”
“What are you talking about?”
Qi Chen turns around and sees Gu Zixing standing in front of the
lobby vending machine holding two bottles of water.
“I said I was beating a boosted monkey by 20 CS during scrims just
now.” Qi Chen’s face brims with confidence. He reaches to grab
the unopened bottle from Gu Zixing, but his hand is slapped away.
“You’re right.” Gu Zixing narrows his eyes and gives him a
mischievous smile. “Seems like you didn’t waste a bit of your
energy doing over two thousand push-ups.”
“You’ve still got the nerve to mention that! I covered a thousand
and five of those push-ups for you!”
“You’re the best.”
“And you’re welcome. Just gimme that bottle.”
“Okay, okay.” Gu Zixing gives up and passes him the unopened
bottle.
When Qi Chen opens the bottle and raises it to his mouth, he notices
Manager Qin gesturing towards Yao Le with his eyes.
Qi Chen suddenly understands what he means. He eagerly passes the
untouched bottle to Yao Le.
“Come on, have some water! Good job during scrims!”
Yao Le lifts his head from his phone screen. He hesitates while
looking at the bottle, observing Gu Zixing from the corner of his
eye. He shakes his head and says, “It’s alright. I’m heading to
the dining hall.”
Yao Le then walks away by himself before Qi Chen can say anything.
Watching Yao Le leaving, he wonders if he has done something wrong…
“Xing-xing!”
“What?” Gu Zixing, looking at his phone, is unaware of what
happened.
“Sorry, I didn’t know this bottle was for Yao Le!”
“No worries… What?” Gu Zixing furrows his brows. “Who said it
was for him?”
“Huh?” Qi Chen looks at him blankly as does Manager Qin who is
also wearing a similar expression.
“I had extra coins and just bought another bottle.” Gu Zixing
finally lifts his eyes from his phone. He looks at Qi Chen. “What
has it got to do with Yao Le?”
Nothing to do with him? Really?
Qi Chen senses something odd in Gu Zixing’s tone, but Gu Zixing
stops him from asking anything by changing the subject.
“Did you ask the HR department to check out that support?”
“Yeah, how did you know?”
“They sent me a message to confirm whether I’d agreed to that.”
“Yeah, but I don’t think I spoke to HR? Just uh… some
department that scouts for new players.”
“Yup, that is HR.”
“Oh.” Qi Chen shrugs. Aside from practicing games, he’s usually
uninterested in club matters.
“It’s part of their job anyway. I saw that you seemed really
interested in that guy, so I sent them his game ID and server to
check him out.”
“You really do have nothing better to do.” Gu Zixing
furrows his brows, seeming to disapprove of his actions. Yet, he
continues, “So… did they find out anything about him?”
“Ah-ha! I knew you’d be curious!” Qi Chen is entertained by his
reaction. Though Gu Zixing’s habit of keeping things to himself can
be annoying at times, Qi Chen finds it adorable that Gu Zixing is
quite different on the inside.
“He’s a streamer who signed with ToothCat, the streaming
platform. His name is Qiao Yanzhou and he’s been playing League for
six to seven years,” Qi Chen rattles on, as if familiar with the
person in question. “This is just what they've found from his
Weibo. I didn’t ask them hack in or anything.”
“How old is he?”
“Twenty, I think.”
“Tsk.”
“He’s a little old, but a few trainers who had watched his stream
said that his basic mechanics were good enough. Even if he can’t be
a starter, it shouldn’t be a problem for him to be a sub, training
partner or part of the scouting staff.” Qi Chen pats Gu Zixing’s
shoulder. “C’mon, he’s also a loyal fan of yours. Give him a
chance.”
“Well then, ask the staff to keep an eye on him. ToothCat is one of
EG’s subsidiaries. I don’t want to see such talent being poached
by the other clubs,” Gu Zixing demands before instructing. “Send
me his streaming ID later.”
“Alrighty.”
Qiao Yanzhou has gone back to sleep after hanging up Liang Dong’s
call and wakes up at noon.
Since he has to clock in ten streaming hours today, he decides to
start at two in the afternoon.
Qiao Yanzhou yawns.
Scrolling through his WeChat while brushing his teeth, he notices a
new friend request.
“Star sent you a friend request.”
Huh, who’s this? The profile pic’s a silly-looking fat pug…
Qiao Yanzhou considers it for a moment and accepts the request after
deciding that this account is nothing like those salespeople or
advertisers.
YZ Qiao: ??
Qiao Yanzhou casually sends two question marks to ask for their
identity. Other than playing games, he is extremely lazy about using
his hands for anything, even when it comes to jerking off.
But there is no reply.
Qiao Yanzhou sits in front of his TV after washing up, still staring
at his phone. He checks out their profile page and finds…
emptiness.
There’s only a single post on his profile though - a post shared
from elsewhere four years ago.
The heading reads: “2014 EG Esports Club Officially Launches Pro
Gamer Training Program. Now Recruiting!”
Hm…? OMG DON’T TELL ME IT’S THAT MASTER!
Qiao Yanzhou nervously exits the profile and opens the conversation.
No reply.
Getting impatient, he decides to start his stream first.
Ten hours… What should I stream today?
He launches LoL out of habit while he’s still considering but, to
his surprise, many of his viewers start protesting.
AnnieTibbers: switch it up, c’mon!
WhatsGreenWithForgiveness: didn’t u promise to stream a horror
game if EG lost?
LooLoofa: chicken dinner!
Pigeon: Overwatch ranked lets goooooo
Qiao Yanzhou reads the endless incoming chat and already feels
drained. People say that it’s impossible to please everybody –
ugh, so true.
He actually has a large collection of games and consoles, including a
PlayStation 4, a PlayStation VR, an XBox and a Switch. He even owns
an obscene number of games on platforms like Steam and Uplay on his
computer.
As a long-time gaming otaku, Qiao Yanzhou has never been hesitant
about choosing which game to play. This time though…
Before EG lost, Qiao Yanzhou had thought that the game was pretty
much a certain victory. That was why he’d sworn to stream horror
games if EG lost. He’d even downloaded a bunch of horror games,
thanks to his viewers’ fervent persuasion, such as Outlast 2,
Resident Evil 7, Layers of Fear, Five Nights at Freddy's, The Evil
Within, Silent Hill: Homecoming, Silent Hill: Downpour…
What the viewers didn’t know was that horror games were his biggest
weakness. He can’t even finish watching the trailers without almost
pissing his pants.
But there’s no return for Qiao Yanzhou now. He digs his own grave.
He reaps what he sowed.
At this moment, the chat window is bursting with requests to stream a
horror game. Qiao Yanzhou sees that his viewers are getting out of
hand and hurriedly says, “My dear friends, it’s broad daylight
now and not the best time for horror games. Shall we do it tonight
instead?”
LiangCi: u’re chickening out again
TakeMyMagicSword: im sure u’re gonna dodge tonight
BabyFace: c’mon dun be scared
Qiao Yanzhou is at his wits’ end. He bites his lips and clenches
his fist before displaying his resolution. “Alright, I’ll change
the name of my stream to ‘HORROR GAMES @ 9PM OR I’LL CROSSPLAY’.
Will that do?”
Anonymous972: Okay.
Anonymous712: Okokok.
Anonymous152: Deal.
Qiao Yanzhou’s suggestion receives approval from all his viewers,
and his chat window is now filled with mood of celebration.
Anonymous734: It’d be perfect to turn on ur webcam for tonight’s
stream!
Anonymous982: actually i feel like seeing ur female cosplay rn!
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