Chapter 144

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

K burst out, “NoHomo, bullying the weak and fearing the strong isn’t done this way. Captain is so big, how did you not see him?”

Ji Zhiyao replied confidently, “Am I stupid, it’s not like I can beat Captain!”

Heng and K were left speechless.

They felt very aggrieved.

There was a smile in Mo Huaifeng’s eyes as he said coolly, “We’re going, let’s return to the base.”

The whole gang took the van and returned to the base.

The photographer was very efficient. At night, when Ji Zhiyao was watching a video of the previous national qualifiers, Yuan Wei notified them in the WeChat group chat that Mix’s official account had published a new post using the publicity stills that were taken that afternoon.

[Mix Battleteam OfficialV: Born for eSports, fight for glory. 2018.10.3, Heroes National Qualifiers, all of Mix Battleteam, is getting ready to set out! [image] ]

Ji Zhiyao loaded the three images that came with the post. Right in the middle was the team’s group photo and those of the starters and reserves on the two sides. On the left was Heng and Xiaofei and on the right was Xiao and him.

The photographer’s standards were excellent, a swift and fierce sense of a showdown was captured in those few photos. Coupled with the model of the team logo behind them and the watermark of the team logo on each of the photos, it gave people an even more special feeling. Just by looking at it, Ji Zhiyao was already seething with excitement all over.

He could not restrain himself and secretly tapped to load the comments.

[MixBattleteamFanClub: Mix is ready to set sail, all the true fans of the team, are you ready?]

[ItsLittleSweetie: Ahhhhhh! It’s our Xiao-god! Has Xiao-god returned to the team? Oh god, I’m about to be moved to tears.]

[ffffdd: I must say, our eSports scene’s visual rep team, these visuals are really up there.]

[I’mnotlisteningtoyou: Really, these visuals are more than enough to make it in the entertainment industry, today is also a day where I boast about my Mix battleteam.]

[JujuLittleDarling: I’m having a good impression of the reserve who just joined the team... he looks very neat and bright, though he can’t match up to Fi-god, but he’s really good looking.]

[auzeblowsthroughyourhair : Hey, the dramatic battleteam hasn’t flopped today?]

[LittleHappiness: Looking forward looking forward, don’t worry, we will always be behind you guys.]

...

Seeing that someone had praised him, Ji Zhiyao’s lips curled into a smile uncontrollably.

He reposted the post while he was at it.

[IndefiniteFutureV: I am ready, let’s work hard together! @//Mix Battleteam OfficialV: Born for eSports, fight for glory. 2018.10.3, Heroes National Qualifiers, all of Mix Battleteam, is getting ready to set out! [image] ]

After that, Ji Zhiyao refreshed his post and was surprised to find that before his post, Mix battleteam had published another post.

[Mix Battleteam OfficialV: Worthy of as much praise as the amount of slander borne. , the future is to be anticipated, with you and me together. [image] ]

Ji Zhiyao was so shocked that he could hardly hold his phone properly, he jabbed it a few times before he managed to open that image.

It was his individual photo.

The bits of hair before his forehead slightly covered his brows, a spirited look in his eyes, the corners of his lips lifted up. His right hand was on the left side of his chest, the spot below Mix’s team logo. His figure was tall and lean, but not thin.

Seems... a little handsome.

Ji Zhiyao thought for a while and liked this post but did not repost it.

Initially, the official account directly posting his individual photo was already attracting enough attention, if he continued on to repost it, there might be people who would think that he was being smug and overly complacent. This criticism was too heavy; he did not want to bear it.

Not even reading the comments below, Ji Zhiyao saved the photo and put his phone aside.

He looked towards the computer screen, only feeling that he was filled with energy from head to toe.

There was no way he could continue watching the video and keep his mind on it, Ji Zhiyao simply closed the page and called out to Heng, “Brother, come solo.”

Heng was playing Spider Solitaire and was taken aback by his words. “What the f*ck, you weren’t joking about it in the afternoon?”

“I’m such a serious person, I don’t ever joke.”

Heng almost spat out a mouthful of blood. “Isn’t there still K, why are you getting me alone?”

Ji Zhiyao picked up the laptop on the table and patted it. “I’ll finish you off then go to him, don’t be anxious, come one by one.”

“Bragging, are we?” Upon hearing his words, Heng began to take things seriously. He brought out his own laptop and pointed to the sofa. “Let’s go, we’ll solo!”

Both of them walked to beside the sofa, took one side each and sat down.

Before they entered the room, Ji Zhiyao suddenly had a wild idea, saying, “Let’s play something exciting, I’ll use a mid-lane champion and you’ll use an assassin. How does that sound?”

Heng’s eyes widened. “How’s that supposed to be done? I’ve never played in such a manner before.”

Ji Zhiyao replied completely unaffectedly, “It’s fine, I’ve never played this way too. There’s a first time for everything.”

“... Alright.”

Hence when it came to picking their champions, Ji Zhiyao picked a mage with long range attack, Heng picked a melee assassin.

When Ji Zhiyao played as a jungler, the assassins he picked were basically all melee attackers, there were rarely any that could do long range attacks. The match had just started, he first tested the mage’s abilities in the fountain and felt that it wasn’t too difficult, but the accuracy of attacks still needed to be studied.

In comparison, Heng was more miserable. He was all along used to long range attacking, it was his first time using this type of melee champion, naturally there were many areas that he wasn’t adapted to.

Both of them controlled their champions and shakily headed towards the defense turret at the very front.

Arriving at the mid-lane, Ji Zhiyao began to kill minions experimentally using his abilities.

Opposite him, Heng similarly attacked cautiously.

The minions were quickly wiped out by the both of them. Ji Zhiyao paused for a moment, then skipped on his short legs in Heng’s direction.

Heng was unwilling to be outdone and also did not believe that while it was both their first time playing, Ji Zhiyao would be able to grasp it better than him. He rushed right to a spot in front that was very close to the mid-laner Little Short Legs, closed his eyes and started throwing his abilities.

Ji Zhiyao dodged to the side, but because Little Short Legs ran too slowly, he was forcibly made to bear the attacks and lost half of his health.

He quickly moved to hide under the defense turret, silently throwing a few glances at Little Short Legs, he bought a pair of accelerated boots.

Then, while Heng was crying into the air, Ji Zhiyao used two long ranged attacks in Heng’s direction, the assassin also lost half of his health instantly.

Heng was beat senseless and spun around on the spot. Because he was left with little health and his gold wasn’t enough for him to purchase equipment, Ji Zhiyao did not dare to move in front. The two of them stared at each other from a distance, gazing at each other in speechless dismay.

In conclusion, this was a very exciting match of rookies going against each other.

In the end, Heng looked at the match record of 1:1 that was maintained for more than 30 minutes and sank into a breakdown. “Not playing anymore, I surrender. With the amount of time it took for this one match, it’s enough for me to play two matches of 5v5.”

Ji Zhiyao wiped his face with his hand, feeling tired at heart too. “Looks to be rather simple, but it’s so difficult when you play.”

“I hereby swear, that I will never touch any assassin again. If I do violate this, it’s purely because of my tampering hand.”

Ji Zhiyao leaned back lazily, drinking his yogurt as he agreed incoherently, “Me too. It’s still assassins that suit me best.”

“Want me to get K over here for you?”

Ji Zhiyao didn’t even think and rejected his offer right away. “I think not. What if I’m aggressive to him and he ends up surrendering? Captain definitely wouldn’t let him off.”

“Look at how awesome you are, standing akimbo and all.”

Ji Zhiyao laughed grinningly.

He picked up his laptop and returned to his seat. He had just sat down when he heard Mo Huaifeng ask, “Who won?”

“No winner or loser, considered a draw.” Ji Zhiyao replied without even turning his head. He stared at the computer screen, yet didn’t really feel like watching videos. After some careful deliberation, he launched the colored block program from last time, preparing to properly work some muscles.

Before doing so, he opened the livestream software.

Just a few days more, the month would be over again, the end of each month was spent religiously making up for livestream hours, it could be said to be a very hard time.

“Welcome to MCMix.Yao’s livestream room.” Ji Zhiyao put on his ear-mic, his eyes curving lightly as he smiled. “It’s the end of the month, here to accumulate some duration, won’t be gaming today, just training with a little program.”

[There’s even a livestream other than the photos today, my gosh, I’m so happy.]

[Training what, my melon? Are you starting to prepare for the national qualifiers?]

[Who suddenly became a passerby turned fan after seeing the publicity stills? With those looks, my entire life is set.]

[Are there no training tournaments this year?]

[My melonrind has gotten the favor of the official account, I have already saved the individual photo to be my wallpaper xoxo.]

[The one who was a passerby turned fan, you’re not alone. I must compliment, IndefiniteFuture is really a little elf.]

Ji Zhiyao said, “Yes, I’m currently preparing. There will be league matches, but the specific dates have not been confirmed.”

With that, he minimized the livestream room and began to battle against an entire screen of colored blocks with all of his mind.

He never realized that when he wasn’t there, the nature of the livestream room was as such.

[My melonrind is really becoming more and more handsome, feels like he grew from a little brat into a man overnight.]

[Ow ow melonrind I love you!]

[All natural, no preservatives and good at gaming too. Heaven please give me a boyfriend like this.]

[What are all these colored blocks on the screen used for? Oh my gosh, they’re changing so quickly, virtually a blur.]

[Is this one of the daily training subjects of professional players? It’s not easy, not easy.]

[In the future, whoever continues to say that eSports is just internet-addicted youths playing games, I will definitely fling this video onto his face. Such training, they’re more prone to become blind if it’s done for a long time.]

[Passerby, I feel like this little big brother isn’t as completely incapable as people say online. Such hand speed, is probably very difficult to attain, even for average professional players.]

[Training is really very tough]

Seeing that Ji Zhiyao was training with colored blocks, Mo Huaifeng took time to take a look. When one round ended, he spoke out, “The brightness of your screen is too high, adjust it.”

Ji Zhiyao rubbed his eyes, “I was wondering why it felt slightly off today. Captain where’s your eye drops? Let me use it for a bit.”

Mo Huaifeng stood up. “Hold on, I’ll go get it.”

Ji Zhiyao blinked forcefully, but felt that his eyeballs were still a little dry. He closed his eyes and sighed, then said into the mic, “Hold on a moment everyone, after I’m done applying eye drops then I’ll continue battling.”

[LOL have you gotten used to ordering Fi-god about usually, look at how Fi-god is doing everything uncomplainingly, being a captain and a mother.]

[Wow, our Fi is a little princess who doesn’t do chores at all.]

[Suddenly watching sweet interactions by this CP.]

[PDA always comes so unexpectedly.]

Mo Huaifeng brought the eye drops and stuffed it into Ji Zhiyao’s hand, still not forgetting to obscurely hook his pinky with his finger. “Here.”

“... Thanks Captain.”

The moment he felt his pinky being hooked, Ji Zhiyao’s whole heart instantly pounded nervously.

He did not open his eyes the whole time and totally did not know if the audience in the livestream room had caught that scene. If they had...

Ji Zhiyao fumbled around with great difficulty and twisted open the bottle cap, dripping a drop into each of his eyes. With no mind to check if his eyes still felt dry, he secretly stole a glance at Mo Huaifeng and forced himself to maximize the livestream room with a peaceful expression—

Very fortunately.

The screen was filled with people expressing their joy at the professing of love, mingled with those expressing their envy and jealousy, no one had witnessed the scene of Mo Huaifeng “seducing” him.

Ji Zhiyao sighed in relief and gave Mo Huaifeng a glare openly.

Mo Huaifeng happened to have caught it and asked with a smile, “Why are you glaring at me?”

In front of more than 30 thousand audiences in the livestream room, Ji Zhiyao had no choice but to bow his head and start spouting nonsense with gritted teeth. “I feel that the Captain who got eye drops for me is so handsome that the gods are angry at the world of man because of him, I want to bow in worship.”

“No need to be so polite.”

Nuo heard that line of flattery and rubbed the goosebumps on his arms with all his might. “NoHomo, that’s about enough, there must also be a limit to sucking up. Even if he’s your father, it’s not right to praise him like this everyday.”

Ji Zhiyao was filled with pent-up anger and glared angrily in return. “It’s none of your business!”

“Damn it! I just stated a fact, why are you treating me like this?”

[HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA I’m just f*cking left with this one word..]

[Nuo: what’s going on, what’s this, what happened]

[Died laughing in Nuo’s expression, can’t get out. Who can save me?]

[? ? ? Is this the day-to-day of the team that I’m a fan of? What happened to the promise of team members being united?]

[I can already foresee melonrind becoming Mix battleteam’s new team dictator after Fi-god with his superb flattering skills.]

Ji Zhiyao pretended that he did not see the rants in the comments as he went on his own way to minimize the livestream room and continued his colored blocks training.

His teammates’ voices sounded in his ear from time to time.

K: “Bastard Heng! I told you to quickly come to the top lane. The opposing mid-laner was left with just that bit of health and he got away.”

Heng: “I f*cking went over already and you’re telling me this? Can you use a beauty trap to hold him back?”

K: “Beauty my ass! If I could, would I still need you to come help me finish him off?”

Heng: “You can’t blame me either. Such work should be done by Xiao, where did he go?”

Xiao: “Just crawled out of the dragon’s cave, Captain already said, I am playing games in a like zen-like approach now, can’t be anxious.”

K: “Ahhhh how infuriating!”

Ji Zhiyao multi-tasked, as he was kept busy with his colored block test while secretly holding in his laughter.

He trained with the colored blocks for more than half an hour, then turned off his livestream and got up to get water from the kitchen.

Downing half a glass of water, Ji Zhiyao returned to the training and found that with the exception of Mo Huaifeng, the rest were all putting on their jackets, preparing to head out.

Seeing him walk, Xiaofei called out cheerfully, “Brother, get changed, let’s go for supper together. Hotpot, Captain’s treat.”

Ji Zhiyao look towards Mo Huaifeng and asked confusedly, “Captain’s treat? Then Captain, why aren’t you getting changed?”

Mo Huaifeng frowned, his face looking slightly pale and coughed twice. “I’m not feeling very well, don’t want to go.”

Ji Zhiyao glanced at him, then turned to tell Xiaofei and the rest, “I’m not very hungry, I shall not go too. You guys go ahead.”