Chapter 165 The Team

Wei Chen didn't even unpack his luggage, nor did he ask how he would be settled. His attention towards the two beautiful women was fleeting. He turned his focus to the most important news in the Glory scene today with great speed, because this news might be closely related to their team making it into the professional league. In this instant, Chen Guo couldn't help but slightly change her view of this Glory veteran with no bottom line. No matter what kind of person he was, this passion for Glory was worthy of respect from any Glory professional player or gamer.

"What on earth is Jia Shi up to?" Wei Chen hurriedly asked Ye Xiu.

"How would I know?" Ye Xiu said.

"Aren't you being too distant?" Wei Chen said with a shocked expression. "Who are you? Jia Shi Da..."

"Da what da!" Ye Xiu hastily interrupted Wei Chen and pulled him out of the internet cafe. It was the busiest time at the internet cafe, and if Wei Chen revealed his identity as the great god Ye Qiu, he wouldn't have any peace in the future. Happy Internet Cafe would probably quickly become a Jia Shi hero monument for Jia Shi fans to visit and worship every day.

Wei Chen quickly understood Ye Xiu's actions and looked at him with disdain. "Still pretending to be a hidden boss?"

"Don't call me Ye Qiu, call me Ye Xiu, got it?" Ye Xiu said.

"He really has a smurf!" Wei Chen was shocked.

"Let's go, let's get you settled first," Ye Xiu said.

"Where to?" Wei Chen asked.

"A place to live," Ye Xiu said. The others helped Wei Chen with his luggage. They left the internet cafe and didn't walk far before arriving at the Shanglin Garden residential area.

Upon entering the spacious house, Wei Chen didn't "ah-yah" like Baozi had. The look of vicissitudes on his face was somewhat similar to the expression Ye Xiu had when he heard they were living in such a place. Clearly, as one of the earliest players in the professional scene, he and Ye Xiu had experienced the most difficult times of the early teams. Seeing the new generation's conditions, while not as good as professional clubs, was still enough for them to bitterly reminisce about the past. Especially for Wei Chen, he had essentially pioneered and didn't have the chance to enjoy the good times of the professional league's development and the clubs' booming business. The conditions Chen Guo provided touched him even more.

"There are six bedrooms upstairs. If everyone is here, we might need two people per room. I'm sorry for the inconvenience," Chen Guo said.

"It might be a bit of an inconvenience for a certain god, but we don't care. We come from humble beginnings, and these conditions are definitely not inconvenient," Wei Chen said resolutely.

"Thank you," Chen Guo smiled, her impression of Wei Chen improving.

Wei Chen casually walked around a couple of times, clearly not paying much attention to the living environment. He immediately returned and started discussing the news Jia Shi had broken that day.

"I really don't know what's going on," Ye Xiu said helplessly.

"Jia Shi is right over there. Can't you just walk back and ask around?" Wei Chen was very dissatisfied.

"Do you think that's possible?" Ye Xiu said.

"Even if you've fallen out with Jia Shi and it's inconvenient, there are so many people in the Jia Shi club, surely you have one friend you can talk to and get some information from? What about that beautiful woman who's your best partner? Did you fall out with her too?" Wei Chen said.

Wei Chen was naturally talking about Su Mucheng, but Wei Chen had retired when Su Mucheng entered the league, so his understanding of Su Mucheng was at the level of an average audience member. The average audience member knew that Ye Qiu and Su Mucheng were the best partners for many years in a row, but everyone knew that this only referred to their cooperation in the game. As for their private relationship, people could only listen to gossip and make guesses, and no one could say for sure.

As a result of Wei Chen's words, Chen Guo reacted. Of course, she knew that there were no problems between Su Mucheng and Ye Xiu, so she also looked at Ye Xiu.

"This isn't very convenient, is it?" Ye Xiu said.

"Why?" Wei Chen asked.

"After all, she's still a professional player for Jia Shi," Ye Xiu said.

"Oh?" Wei Chen acted surprised. "No wonder you're the best partner! It seems you two have a really good relationship. You're even concerned about her, you guy with no bottom line. You don't want her to be caught in the middle, right?"

When Chen Guo heard this, she suddenly understood. Su Mucheng was a very convenient eye in Jia Shi, so why hadn't Ye Xiu asked Su Mucheng about anything? It wasn't that Ye Xiu hadn't thought of it, but he was deliberately avoiding getting Su Mucheng involved right now. After all, Su Mucheng was still a member of the Jia Shi team. It would be quite unprofessional to casually reveal the team's problems.

"In that case..." Wei Chen thought for a moment, then his spirits lifted. He had an idea. "Why don't you lend me your QQ account? I'll ask, and afterwards you can pretend your account was hacked. How about it?"

"..." Ye Xiu didn't answer directly, but just looked at Wei Chen with a blank expression.

"Hmm? Not good? What a pity, such a powerful resource is not being fully utilized, it's such a pity. For the sake of the goal, we must be ruthless, we must use any means necessary! You're actually sentimental, I despise you, I must despise you. Which one is my room?"

"Just pick any room upstairs!" Ye Xiu said as if he hadn't heard Wei Chen's long string of complaints.

"I'll put my stuff down first and then come back to despise you." Wei Chen picked up his luggage and went upstairs.

"I'm in the first room upstairs, do you want to be my roommate!" Baozi shouted loudly.

"Are there any empty rooms now?" Wei Chen asked.

"Yes, only Baozi is in the first room, the others are empty," Chen Guo replied.

"Then I'll take a room by myself first..." Wei Chen said, not entering Baozi's first room, but taking his bag and entering the second room. But he clearly didn't plan to unpack immediately. After throwing his bag in, he quickly came out, still eager to discuss the grand plan with Ye Xiu.

"You can always guess something about Jia Shi's situation, right?" Wei Chen asked impatiently after returning.

"Well, judging from my understanding of Jia Shi's current personnel, Jia Shi is indeed prepared to be eliminated this time. But that doesn't mean they're doing it on purpose. It's very likely out of helplessness. The announcement today about Sun Xiang's injury is probably to find some reason for this terrible outcome. This shows that if possible, they still wouldn't want to see this result," Ye Xiu said.

"With Jia Shi's foundation, how could they not even have the confidence to keep their spot?" Wei Chen didn't understand at all.

"People's hearts are scattered, it's hard to lead the team! Jia Shi's problem isn't just in their tactics, it's mainly psychological," Ye Xiu said.

"Psychological?" Wei Chen said.

"I don't really want to admit that I caused it..." Ye Xiu sighed.

"Why does that sound so cheap?" Wei Chen stared blankly.

"The people from Jia Shi had contact with me in the game, and I wiped them out once," Ye Xiu said.

"What do you mean by the people from Jia Shi? The main team?" Wei Chen was surprised.

"Pretty much!" Ye Xiu said.

"Are you kidding? How did you do that!" Wei Chen said with disbelief.

"Relying on more people," Ye Xiu said.

"How many more?"

"Two," Ye Xiu said.

"They wouldn't all be ordinary players, would they?" Wei Chen said.

"They're a few people from Yi Zhan's guild, the ones who formed the Yi Zhan team now," Ye Xiu said.

"Then their strength should be pretty good, right?" Wei Chen said.

"Not bad."

"But to wipe out a professional team like Jia Shi, that's going too far..." Wei Chen said.

"Agreed," Ye Xiu nodded.

"When can you be a little more humble, even just a little bit?" Wei Chen said.

"I'm just stating the facts. Don't you also think this is unbelievable?" Ye Xiu said.

"Your lack of humility also makes me feel unbelievable," Wei Chen said.

"You're joking. With your lack of a bottom line, would anything surprise you?" Ye Xiu said.

"Cough!" Chen Guo coughed to interrupt. "Are you practicing trash talk?"

The two looked at each other.

"I'm warning you not to go off topic again!" Wei Chen said seriously, as if he was showing some of the aura of a captain.

"What I wanted to say, I've already said," Ye Xiu said.

"Well, if it's just like this, it might have a certain psychological impact on these Jia Shi players for a period of time. But for one victory or defeat to make a team collectively depressed and unable to recover, that's not the quality that professional players should have," Wei Chen said.

Ye Xiu nodded.

"Maybe we should watch their match recordings and analyze them carefully through their performances," Wei Chen said.

"Indeed," Ye Xiu said.

"Are there computers here? Is there internet?" Wei Chen looked around.

"Not yet..." Chen Guo said. The room had just been handed over yesterday and hadn't been fully furnished yet.

"Then back to the internet cafe?" Wei Chen asked.

"Alright!" Ye Xiu got up.

The other three followed along, basically just listening to the two of them talking back and forth. There was no way around it, in terms of professional skill, even if Wei Chen had retired for many years, he was still much stronger than the three of them. No matter how high Tang Rou and Baozi's operational skills were, they were far from being able to match these two old veterans in terms of awareness.

They left the residential area and returned to the internet cafe. They were in room 213, a four-person room, but now there were five people, so there weren't enough computers. Fortunately, they were just studying recordings, so one computer was enough.

Ye Xiu opened the recording files on his computer. The array of videos made Wei Chen praise, "Not bad, not bad, you've done your homework well."

"Let's watch this one first. This is after our PK in the game. Jia Shi started to lose their standard from here," Ye Xiu said.

"Okay," Wei Chen nodded. The two of them were hunched over in front of the computer. Chen Guo and Tang Rou looked at each other, feeling like they had suddenly been reduced to foot soldiers. Baozi didn't seem to feel anything about this, just seriously squeezed behind the two of them, very seriously watching the video as well.

"Comrades, we must study hard! If Jia Shi is really eliminated, then they will be the strongest competitor in our Challenger League. We must seize the time to seriously understand this opponent. Now, the former professional circle god, former Jia Shi captain, and the most shameless guy in the Glory circle, Comrade Ye... Xiu, will analyze this match for everyone," Wei Chen said.

Although the words were a bit nonsensical, Chen Guo suddenly realized that their team, from this moment on, had truly started to operate.