Chapter 128 Thorough Research

Speechless, Chen Guo still followed Ye Xiu to rewatch the match between Tyranny and Excellent Era. This time, it wasn't for fun, nor was it to share the atmosphere with like-minded people. This time, it was a true appreciation and study of the match.

Ye Xiu explained to Chen Guo in detail the rationale behind Zhang Xinjie's positioning of his character, Stone Not Turning. Chen Guo suddenly felt like she had seen a whole new world.

The subsequent viewing wasn't like watching a broadcast in one go. Ye Xiu would often pause at certain points, then rewind and rewatch repeatedly, changing perspectives. Only then did Chen Guo realize that Ye Xiu wasn't watching the live broadcast of the match, but the replay file of the game system that would be uploaded to the official website after the match.

This was the same as the match recordings in the arena. When replaying it with the dedicated Glory replay tool, you could freely switch between different perspectives. Without a doubt, the replay file was needed to study the match.

However, this type of replay file definitely needed to be downloaded, and the file size wasn't small. Chen Guo had just left, and Ye Xiu was already watching the replay, which meant that he had downloaded the file long ago and had prepared to study the match, not just on a whim.

'As expected of a professional...' Chen Guo thought to herself, slightly distracted. Because there were some parts that Ye Xiu watched repeatedly without saying anything. Chen Guo watched it twice and had no idea what he was looking at. Seeing Ye Xiu's serious expression, she didn't dare to interrupt him, so she could only space out on her own.

When Ye Xiu understood, sometimes he would explain it to Chen Guo, and sometimes he would continue without saying a word. Chen Guo didn't interrupt. She would listen when Ye Xiu spoke, and she wouldn't ask when Ye Xiu was silent.

In this way, Ye Xiu spent an hour watching this 24-minute match from beginning to end. And that wasn't all. After watching the end, he dragged it back to several time periods and watched a few places again.

Chen Guo was also feeling a lot of emotions at this time. She originally thought she was familiar enough with Glory and that the only difference between her and the professional players was in their skills. After listening to Ye Xiu's detailed analysis of this match, one detail after another made Chen Guo deeply feel that everything wasn't as simple as she had thought.

She suddenly remembered what Ye Xiu had said to mock Tang Rou: If you want to surpass them, at least figure out how big the gap is!

Chen Guo now realized that this sentence also applied to her, and even to many old Glory players. The gap between players like them, who treated the game as entertainment, and professional players, who treated the game as a goal, was something they couldn't imagine.

"Yeah, that's good." After rewatching a few more details, Ye Xiu nodded.

"Finished studying?" Chen Guo asked.

"More or less!" Ye Xiu said, casually creating a new document on the desktop, naming the file "Tyranny vs Excellent Era," and adding the date in parentheses. Then, he started writing something in the document.

Chen Guo watched for a while and realized that it was a summary of this match. Ye Xiu wrote down everything he had told Chen Guo before in the document, preparing to record it.

Chen Guo finally understood that professional players were much more hardworking than she had imagined. It wasn't as simple as playing games and practicing every day, and then going on stage to compete when the time came.

Chen Guo quietly stayed by her side. After Ye Xiu finished writing this document, he saved it. Then, the folder he entered shocked Chen Guo greatly. There were countless similar documents with filenames like 'Team A vs Team B plus date' in this folder.

"These..."

"The matches from the past two months," Ye Xiu said.

"You've watched them all?"

"Not all of them," Ye Xiu said.

"Can I take a look?" Chen Guo asked.

"Sure!" Ye Xiu made way for her. Chen Guo sat down, looked at the documents in this folder, and then opened one.

It was the same as the one Ye Xiu had just written. It analyzed and recorded some details in the match, from tactics to skills, and even the players' psychology and judgment at the time.

"This is too... too..." Chen Guo wanted to say something, but she couldn't find a suitable word to describe it.

"It's nothing, it's professional," Ye Xiu said casually.

"Is there anything I can do to help you with these?" Chen Guo realized how hard it was to be a professional player. If they really wanted to form a team, there was no doubt that Ye Xiu would be even more hardworking. Chen Guo wanted to help him share some of the burden.

"In the future, when there are more, you can help me organize them, and learn as you organize. When you get better, you can also try to write analysis reports," Ye Xiu said.

"I can't do that..." Chen Guo said quickly.

"Of course you can't now. I'm saying that if you really want to learn, then doing this kind of work is no problem," Ye Xiu said.

"Then I'll give it a try!" Chen Guo wasn't usually a person without confidence, but the problem was that compared to Ye Xiu in Glory, not many people could maintain strong confidence.

"It's not early, let's rest! We have to open the door at noon!" Ye Xiu said.

"Yeah, let's rest, what about you?"

"I'll rest too." Ye Xiu said, a rare trace of fatigue appearing on his face. In Chen Guo's eyes, as long as it was about Glory, this person always seemed to have endless energy. What was so special about tonight? He had done a few God Domain challenge missions and studied a replay of a match. It seemed that these things were more tiring than the usual leveling in dungeons.

The two tidied up and rested. Naturally, they wouldn't wake up until noon. When Ye Xiu woke up and came out of his room, he found that Chen Guo wasn't there. He tidied up a bit and went downstairs. The internet cafe was already open. On the afternoon of the eighth day of the new year, business was only so-so, and everyone wasn't too busy. Seeing Ye Xiu come down, the staff who had returned after the Spring Festival greeted Ye Xiu one after another.

Ye Xiu looked around and saw Chen Guo at their dedicated machine, directing someone to fiddle with something. Ye Xiu recognized this person. He was a computer technician who specialized in maintaining the computers at Happy Internet Cafe. He wasn't usually at the internet cafe, but he was basically on call when the computers had problems.

"What's wrong with the computer?" Ye Xiu asked as he walked over.

"I'm going to redo these machines. I'm going to separate them from the server and use a separate network cable," Chen Guo said.

"Why?" Ye Xiu asked, puzzled.

"Because we have intelligence that our team has collected and summarized. We can't be careless," Chen Guo said seriously.

"No joke?" Ye Xiu was a little suspicious.

"Of course. That folder of yours has already been transferred to the hard drive on your computer. Now only this computer has it. And I just encrypted it. I'll tell you the password later," Chen Guo whispered.

"Isn't that a bit of an exaggeration?" Ye Xiu also whispered.

"After all, this is just an internet cafe, unlike you guys in the clubs. We still have to be careful." Chen Guo glanced around warily. At this moment, it was as if the people sitting in the internet cafe weren't customers, but spies who had come to steal their secret information.

"I see..." Ye Xiu nodded, not saying anything more. He thought Chen Guo was doing a good job. The various teams in the pro scene did treat their equipment, tactics, and even their analysis of their opponents as secrets, and they wouldn't expose them easily. Although their Happy team only existed in name, it was good to have this awareness early on.

"Isn't Little Tang coming back today?" Ye Xiu asked while watching the person fiddle with the computer, chatting with Chen Guo.

"She called me and said she'll be back tomorrow," Chen Guo said.

"She's been on the game a lot these days," Ye Xiu said.

"Yeah, you guys took advantage of this Spring Festival event again," Chen Guo said.

During the Spring Festival holiday, the online rate of game players couldn't be said to be very low, but there weren't many elite players from the big guilds online. This phenomenon wasn't hard to understand. For ordinary players, it was normal to take the time to play games and have fun during the rare holiday. But for the people in these club guilds, playing games was like work. During the Spring Festival, not playing games was like taking a vacation, so not many people were dedicated enough to work hard during the Spring Festival. As a result, Ye Xiu, Su Mucheng, and Tang Rou's online rate during the Spring Festival was only high and not low. The rewards for the Spring Festival event were also generous. At the end of the seven days, the three of them dominated the top three spots on the level leaderboard in the tenth server.

Ye Xiu's Lord Grim ranked first, already level 50. After that was Tang Rou's Soft Mist, and then Su Mucheng's Cleansing Mist. Both were level 49, only distinguished by the amount of experience.

"Will these three characters be members of our team in the future?" Chen Guo asked. She was seriously considering the team more and more.

"Hopefully!" Ye Xiu said.

"Who are you less sure about?" Chen Guo asked.

"Little Tang!" Ye Xiu said.

"So you're saying that Mucheng will definitely join us?" Chen Guo was excited.

"I think she'll be happier with this choice," Ye Xiu said.

"Little Tang... I'll find a chance to talk to her properly..." Chen Guo said.

"Yeah..." Ye Xiu nodded.

"Three people aren't enough, of course," Chen Guo said.

"Let's take it slowly!" Ye Xiu said.

"Aren't characters like these not enough?"

"People need to become stronger, and characters also need to become stronger. If we're talking about the current situation, then there are too many things that aren't enough. We don't even have enough people!" Ye Xiu said.

"Is a year and a half enough time?" Chen Guo said.

"I have experience with forming a team from scratch!" Ye Xiu smiled.

"Tell me your plans!" Chen Guo said.

"Our current problem is that we lack people. There are two ways to find people: one is to discover and nurture them ourselves, and the other is to find ready-made players from other teams. We don't need to consider the latter method until we successfully enter the Alliance. Let's pay more attention to the people around us. You've been playing Glory for so long and have run an internet cafe for so long. Are there any people around you who you think are good?" Ye Xiu asked Chen Guo.