Chapter 1 A Suspect Start

Wei Chen and Baozi Invasion sent messages one after the other, and coupled with the peculiar date of April 1st, Ye Xiu immediately became suspicious. However, looking back, Wei Chen was asking for the address, planning to come over himself, which didn't seem like an April Fool's Day trap. Could it be that this guy thought there would be a welcoming ceremony for him here, and then he wouldn't come to stand everyone up? Although Wei Chen was shameless, he wasn't brainless enough to do that.

Looking at Baozi Invasion's side, there were more doubts. This guy had decisively bought a ticket a few days ago, and now suddenly he's saying he's on the train. So many days had passed, which didn't make sense. But then again, this was Baozi Invasion, who never conformed to common sense. It was wrong to use common sense to judge him. That's why Ye Xiu asked what Baozi Invasion had been up to these past few days!

"Sigh! No way around it." Baozi Invasion's message wasn't fast. Judging from the QQ display, Baozi Invasion was using a mobile phone, and the phone's keypad limited his hand speed.

"I actually bought the ticket that day, but then a bunch of my friends heard I was going to be a professional player, and they said they wanted to give me a send-off. Then there was a send-off today, another one tomorrow, and another one the day after tomorrow. It went on for several days, and my ticket was changed again and again, and finally it got changed to now," said Baozi Invasion.

"Then that's really hard on you..." Ye Xiu said.

"It's alright, it's alright, but I'm almost there now, Boss, where should I go!" Baozi Invasion asked.

Ye Xiu saw that this was another person actively asking for directions, so it didn't seem like an April Fool's trap either. So, treating him the same as Wei Chen, he directly gave him the address.

"Can you find it?" Ye Xiu asked Baozi Invasion after sending the address.

"Don't worry!" Baozi Invasion said confidently.

"Call this number if you can't find it." Ye Xiu gave Chen Guo's phone number to Baozi Invasion.

"I think there's absolutely zero chance I'll need that phone," said Baozi Invasion.

"Hope so!" Ye Xiu said.

After giving the two people the address, Ye Xiu went to find Chen Guo and told her the news. As a result, Chen Guo had a guarded expression, sizing up Ye Xiu for a few seconds before asking, "Really?"

Ye Xiu was helpless. On this special day, such caution was needed. Ye Xiu had to put on his most serious expression and say, "It's true. Besides, think about it, even if I wanted to pull an April Fool's joke, wouldn't this be a bit boring?"

Hearing this, Chen Guo didn't feel relieved at all, but instead looked even more guarded, and asked nervously, "Then what are you planning to do?"

"So old, still doing April Fool's?" Ye Xiu gave her a disdainful look, lit a cigarette, and left.

Speaking of April Fool's jokes, Chen Guo wasn't afraid. In the morning, Tang Rou and other internet cafe employees who came to work had played some small jokes on her. People wouldn't usually be too out of line. However, Chen Guo was really afraid that this Great God would cause a bloodbath in the game and pull off a joke with no limits. Seeing Ye Xiu dismissively look down on her and leave, Chen Guo didn't get angry at all. On the contrary, she felt relieved.

The next day passed routinely. April Fool's Day wasn't a big deal. The Glory game didn't prepare any special events for the holiday. However, in the professional scene, there was a match today, and since it was early April, it was the sprint stage for the professional circle.

Professional leagues are usually single matches per week, with adjustments for holidays or special circumstances. Usually, a season starts in mid-August of the current year and ends in early May of the following year. Then, in mid-to-late May, the playoffs, the climax of the entire season, take place, with the top eight teams in the league competing in a knockout tournament for the only championship title.

So, starting in April of each year, it's already the final few matches of the regular season. Some teams with extremely outstanding or extremely poor results may even be basically decided at this time.

For example, in the eighth season, April 1st happened to be a Saturday, a match day. There were five Saturdays in the month, five matches. In May, there were two more matches, seven matches in total, which was the entirety of the eighth season's regular season. There were seven matches left in April, which was slightly more than in previous seasons. Usually, there were only five or six matches left in April.

With the season at this stage, some situations had been decided. For example, Blue Rain, Samsara, Tiny Herb, and Tyranny. These four teams were leading the points and had already secured a spot in the playoffs. The remaining seven matches were to compete for a ranking. Judging from the current trend, Samsara Guild had continued to exert strength after the All-Stars event, surpassing Tiny Herb and charging to second place. In the remaining seven rounds of matches, it seemed that they were determined to compete with Blue Rain for the top spot in the regular season. Unfortunately, there were no direct matches between Samsara and Blue Rain in the remaining seven rounds, which reduced a major highlight.

To be honest, such early certainty was worry-free and effortless for the teams, but the alliance didn't welcome it. A popular saying in the Glory circle was to call this situation "killing the game."

Because in the remaining seven rounds, these four teams had already secured their playoff spots, so they had somewhat lost their suspense, causing a decrease in the viewership of their matches. These four teams were all popular and strong teams in the league, attracting the most attention. If their matches lost suspense, it would greatly affect the box office and broadcast ratings of the entire league.

As a result, at this stage, even the media's focus had shifted away from these popular teams and instead reported on the other teams competing for the remaining four spots.

Wind Howl, Void, Hundred Blossoms, 301, Royal Style, Thunder, and Misty Rain.

These seven teams were currently the focus of media reports. They were also the seven teams that had a theoretical possibility of making it into the playoffs.

Currently, Misty Rain and Void's positions were relatively stable, fully in control. Wind Howl and 301 faced great pressure. The three teams behind them would have to step over their corpses to rise. Although Thunder was currently in ninth place, temporarily not in the playoff zone, their remaining seven rounds were the easiest of the seven teams. Many people were optimistic about them entering the playoffs.

Before Zhang Jiale retired, Hundred Blossoms was a regular in the finals, not to mention the playoffs. It was a pity that their deployment was disrupted this season, and their results had been unstable. They were hovering at the gate of the playoffs, and now it looked like they were likely to fall behind, which made the fans extremely anxious.

Royal Style was in the most unfavorable situation among the seven teams, not only ranking last but also facing a difficult schedule. However, with the four strong teams already securing their playoff spots, the so-called difficult schedule might have some changes. It was difficult because they had to face strong teams, but now that the strong teams had secured their spots, their attitude towards the matches might be more relaxed, which might ultimately help Royal Style.

The various advantages and disadvantages of the seven teams were analyzed by experts, media, fans, and players, but on this slightly special day, none of them made the headlines.

April Fool's Glory Headline: Excellent Era eliminated! Is this an April Fool's joke??

That's right, Excellent Era, whose continued poor performance had not been improved, had returned to the edge of the relegation zone after the last round of the league. They were in third-to-last place, only 1 point higher than Everlasting, who was in second-to-last place.

1 point!

It was very likely that Team Excellent Era would jump back into the abyss of the relegation zone after this round of matches. And with their current morale, it was really questionable whether they could come back after jumping down again.

The media and fans had been criticizing Excellent Era for a month, and Excellent Era had repeatedly stated their position, but nothing had worked. Excellent Era's results continued to plummet like a rocket. There were occasional flashes of brilliance in the individual matches and team arena matches, but in the team matches, Excellent Era had not won a single victory in the entire month of March.

The disgusting present made fans endlessly miss the glorious past, and so the retired old captain Ye Qiu was repeatedly mentioned. The hypothetical question of what would happen if Ye Qiu was still around was always talked about with great interest at this time. Many people would happily forget that when Ye Qiu led the team and performed poorly, they were the same people who talked with great interest about what would happen if there was no Ye Qiu.

Excellent Era, who was on the headlines, also became the focus of this round of matches. So in Happy Internet Cafe, Chen Guo, who was broadcasting the matches with a normal heart, didn't deliberately avoid it as she had done before when Excellent Era was the focus. That night, the internet cafe scheduled Excellent Era's match.

After such a period of time, Happy Internet Cafe had digested the impact of not broadcasting Excellent Era's matches on a fixed schedule. Gradually, the weekend broadcasts returned to being lively.

Most people in H City were Excellent Era fans, but that would definitely not be everyone. Even in the area around the Excellent Era Club, it was impossible for it to be purely Excellent Era's territory.

Those who supported other teams, or were relatively neutral and just wanted to watch exciting matches and see big-name teams, found that Happy Internet Cafe's current broadcasts suited their taste, and they were happy to spend their weekends there. However, without common support and expectations, the atmosphere of watching the matches together was ultimately not as passionate as before.

However, even so, for some guys who had never seen such an internet cafe, it was still quite an incredible existence.

"What's going on? Is someone trying to cause trouble?"

A young man with long hair covering half of his face, and with a good appearance from the other half, stood at the entrance of Happy Internet Cafe, holding his phone, and carefully compared it with the Happy Internet Cafe sign. He stepped inside. As a result, the dark mass of people immediately made him feel this way.

But obviously, he wasn't afraid of causing trouble at all. He calmly came to the cashier, coolly flicked his long hair, opened his mouth to speak, suddenly stopped and flipped through his phone again, calling out to the cashier girl, "Wait a minute, I forgot my lines."