He only felt a flicker of recognition at the name Wei Chen because he was questioning his age. After all, they didn't have any interaction, so he didn't think too much about it. But for the Blue Rain team, the name Wei Chen had a very different meaning. The latest issue of Esports Weekly was spread out on the table. The Blue Rain players gathered around, but no one called a stop, because everyone was stunned.

Even a kid like Lu Hanwen, who was many years younger than Wei Chen, had certainly heard the name Wei Chen. Wei Chen was a part of Blue Rain's history, the person who laid the foundation for the team. Blue Rain's current two great players both had a great relationship with Wei Chen.

The captain, Yu Wenzhou, inherited the warlock character, Soksar, which was the very character that Wei Chen had brought from the online game world into the professional scene. Later, he left, but his character remained, becoming a significant member in this era of shining stars.

And then there was Huang Shaotian. He was discovered by the first captain, Wei Chen, in the online game and brought into Blue Rain's training camp to be cultivated as an official professional player. It could be said that his relationship with Wei Chen was even more complex. Without Wei Chen, there might not be a Huang Shaotian today.

"How did Old Wei end up there?" Just hearing Huang Shaotian's address for Wei Chen, you could tell that Wei Chen held an extraordinary place in his heart. The term "Old Wei" was respectful but also intimate. Neither the current captain of Blue Rain, Yu Wenzhou, nor the second-generation captain, Fang Shijing, had ever been addressed in such a way.

"Did he have contact with Ye Qiu after he retired? Did Ye Qiu invite him when he made his comeback?" Yu Wenzhou speculated. The known information was pitifully scarce, but it definitely had something to do with Ye Qiu. Yu Wenzhou was sure of that.

"Did they have any friendship?" Huang Shaotian retorted.

Yu Wenzhou was also stunned. At that time, neither he nor Huang Shaotian were official players. They were just rookies in Blue Rain's training room. However, because it was the early days of the professional league, the club's system was far less standardized than it was now. The tiered nature between the training camp and the professional team wasn't so obvious. Everyone was pretty close. So, although they weren't in the same system, Yu Wenzhou and Huang Shaotian were still quite aware of the team's situation at the time.

"If you ask me, not only did they not have any friendship, but they probably hated each other to the bone! I remember in the first season's playoffs, we were eliminated by Excellent Era. After the match, Old Wei cursed Ye Qiu for almost half an hour, right?" Huang Shaotian recalled.

"It seems like there was such a thing," Yu Wenzhou nodded.

"Then you're saying those two are hooking up now?" Huang Shaotian said.

"Maybe... they're both unwilling to accept it!" Yu Wenzhou sighed.

Huang Shaotian was taken aback. Wei Chen's retirement at the time was quite embarrassing. In the second season, Blue Rain's performance declined sharply under his leadership, and he himself didn't perform as well as he should have. Everyone thought that Wei Chen was getting old. And in the team's training matches, he was unexpectedly defeated three times in a row by Yu Wenzhou. Although it was said that these matches where seniors instructed newcomers shouldn't be taken seriously, Yu Wenzhou at that time wasn't like Huang Shaotian, who had already been locked in as a future ace player. Back then, he had always been seen as someone without much talent.

Such a defeat inevitably filled the club with rumors. After that season, Wei Chen decisively retired, never interacting with the professional scene again, disappearing without a trace. But now, six years later, Wei Chen's name actually appeared in Esports Weekly. Could it be that he had been training in seclusion for the past six years?

"I have to see what level Old Wei is at now!" Huang Shaotian was the first to leave the crowd, found a computer, and searched for Happy's matches. Their Blue Rain team wouldn't bother paying attention to the Challenger League.

As soon as Huang Shaotian left, everyone followed. Yu Wenzhou looked behind him and saw that there was still an official match tonight, but now everyone was concerned about gossip. This wasn't a good thing. But if they were forced not to pay attention to this gossip, it might backfire and make it difficult for the players to concentrate, so he simply didn't stop them and let everyone join in the fun. As for himself, he stood silently to the side, watching Huang Shaotian fiddling with the computer.

"Got it!" Huang Shaotian was quick and soon found the video of the match between Happy and Team Excellent Era Conquer. There were many teams and matches in the initial stage of the Challenger League, so the official wouldn't organize any video recordings for you. The ones Huang Shaotian found were just uploaded by spectators who recorded them themselves.

The recording was of the entire first round of the event. Huang Shaotian originally just wanted to directly find Wei Chen's warlock fighting, but as soon as the first match started, he looked at the character, Steamed Bun Invasion. He knew him! Wasn't this the idiot who asked him about his star sign? Huang Shaotian immediately became interested, didn't move, and started watching the match.

After watching for a while, the Blue Rain team's players, including Huang Shaotian, all showed surprised expressions. After watching for a while longer, Huang Shaotian was the first to confirm and immediately burst out laughing: "As expected, he's an idiot! He actually can't find the way, hahaha, too idiotic."

Hearing this, everyone looked sideways. A player immediately asked, "Huang Shao, do you know this person?"

"Cough, how could I know such an idiot?" Huang Shaotian said, quickly wanting to drag the match, but in his heart, he especially wanted to see if this Steamed Bun Invasion had any special moves, so he dragged a little, played a little, dragged a little, played a little, until the end, when he found that Steamed Bun Invasion was actually beaten to death.

"Damn!" Huang Shaotian cursed.

The others looked sideways again, wondering what he was up to.

The second match, the starting player was One Inch Ash.

"The kid from Tiny Herb," someone immediately recognized him. The reports had mentioned him! Players from Tiny Herb were relatively eye-catching.

So Huang Shaotian didn't move in this match and enjoyed Qiao Yifan's performance with everyone. His final comment was: "Both sides have a lot of professionalism?"

Everyone immediately understood that Qiao Yifan's layout was certainly known to the spectator's God perspective. However, the Team Excellent Era Conquer player still fell for it, which meant that no one was reminding him offline. In the Challenger League's format, this was a high level of awareness. But on the other hand, even if you wanted to remind him of something, you had to do it with some skill. Otherwise, if you were too predictable because of the reminders and aroused suspicion, the opponent had the right to submit the match recording to the league for judgment after the match. If you did it too obviously, making it obvious at a glance, and it didn't pass the league's judgment, it would definitely be punished as a violation.

After this match ended, Blue Rain team's anticipation for Wei Chen's Wind Howl Formation finally came to the stage.

Wind Howl Formation's opponent was, coincidentally, Team Excellent Era Conquer's warlock, Leopold. A match between the same classes was the best way to show off your skills.

The ones watching now were all Blue Rain's professional players, so what was their inclination? From the beginning, no one hoped Leopold would do well. And it was exactly as they wished, Wind Howl Formation could basically do whatever he wanted to Leopold.

"Tsk tsk tsk, too miserable, pure teasing! Old Wei is still so... that something!" Huang Shaotian said.

Everyone was listening with bated breath! Right now, the Blue Rain team's players who had direct contact with Wei Chen were Yu Wenzhou and Huang Shaotian. You couldn't expect to hear gossip from the captain, so they were watching Huang Shaotian to reveal something, but he blocked the key words. Where did his usually endless chatter go?

However, Huang Shaotian's personality, although he was the team's ace player, was very casual with everyone. Someone immediately pointed out the key point: "Still that something, what is that something?"

"Cough!" Huang Shaotian coughed heavily, but didn't answer.

Everyone was watching Wind Howl Formation beat Leopold completely, not taking the match too seriously. But Yu Wenzhou was watching more carefully and suddenly interjected: "Wind Howl Formation's casting range advantage is obvious! Take a look at his equipment."

There were no amateurs present, they just didn't pay attention. Hearing the captain say this, they soon noticed it.

The recording could also be used to view the character's equipment. Huang Shaotian moved the mouse over, and the first piece was a silver equipment. The attributes of the silver equipment were hidden and couldn't be seen. Huang Shaotian exclaimed in surprise: "Not bad, he even has silver equipment!"

Then, he kept checking the other equipment, and the players present were all noting in their minds whether there was any casting range equipment. Until he moved to the weapon.

"Yo, the weapon is also silver!" Huang Shaotian exclaimed.

"It seems like it's on this weapon," Yu Wenzhou said. Of course, he was also very familiar with the warlock class.

"This casting range..." Huang Shaotian started paying attention, and his observation and judgment were also quite amazing. "Is it about two character widths shorter than Soksar?"

"But his equipment is still far from enough!" Yu Wenzhou said.

Huang Shaotian understood this. It wasn't necessarily just the weapon that increased casting range. With Wind Howl Formation's current equipment, there was a lot of room for improvement. Without imagining, if you replaced Soksar's current equipment with Wind Howl Formation's equipment, you could calculate how much Wind Howl Formation's casting range would increase. After all, most of the equipment on Wind Howl Formation was orange equipment with visible attributes. In fact, it was easy to expose the silver equipment's attributes with this kind of mixed equipment. Huang Shaotian already had a rough idea of ​​the attributes of the silver weapon in Wind Howl Formation's hand. He believed that Yu Wenzhou's judgment would only be clearer than his.

"It will exceed 1.4 character widths!"

Replacing Soksar's equipment was Huang Shaotian's own imagination, but after he finished, he directly said the conclusion. This meant that if Wind Howl Formation's silver weapon was paired with Soksar's silver equipment, it would be 1.4 character widths more than the current number one warlock in the league.

A 1.4 character width difference in casting range was enough to be a fatal advantage in high-level duels.

A veritable Hand of Death!