Chapter 1 "Ye Xiu, someone's looking for you!" Chen Guo pushed open the training room door, with a bit of expectation. She wondered what expression Ye Xiu would have after these four great gods suddenly arrived.

"Who?" Chen Guo was disappointed. Ye Xiu didn't even bother to look up.

"Me." Han Wenqing didn't wait for Chen Guo to introduce him, speaking directly.

"What are you doing here?" Ye Xiu asked.

"Competition," Han Wenqing said.

"The competition's across the street," Ye Xiu said.

Instant silence.

The competition was tomorrow. Tyranny was obviously arriving in H City a day early, staying overnight to rest and adjust their condition before the match.

"Everyone, please sit down!" Chen Guo had to step in to resolve the awkwardness, gesturing for the four to sit on the beanbag chairs by the wall of the training room.

"Practicing, huh?" Lin Jingyan didn't go to sit, instead craning his neck to watch Happy's training.

"Don't you have any manners? Snooping on training?" Ye Xiu finally looked up, giving Lin Jingyan a look of disdain.

"Is this snooping?" Lin Jingyan ignored him, stubbornly continuing to watch.

Just then, Fang Rui made an operational mistake.

"Haha, feeling the pressure from behind?" Lin Jingyan laughed.

Fang Rui turned around and gave Lin Jingyan two middle fingers.

"Not bad with the transformation!" Lin Jingyan said seriously, putting away his joking tone.

"It's alright!" Fang Rui said.

The two then fell silent.

Former teammates, the Number One Thief and Number One Rogue, the famous criminal duo, had both been abandoned by their teams. No matter how dignified they acted, they couldn't make up for their feelings of loss. Now, one had gone to Tyranny to persist in playing with the little bit of glory he had left, while the other had come to the newly formed Happy team, changing his class to strengthen the team. Although they were no longer teammates, they still had the same goal. Next, they would face off against each other on the field. They could no longer fight side-by-side for that common goal, and one of them was destined to lose.

Fang Rui's training was interrupted, and the team coordination practice had to be stopped. Ye Xiu stood up and looked at the four of them. "What's the matter?"

"Nothing, we live nearby, just came over for a look." Zhang Jiale said "just walking around," and really did walk around, circling Happy's training computers. Finally, he stopped next to Ye Xiu, who had already stood up, looking at Ye Xiu's character, Lord Grim, the Lord Grim that troubled all the pros, big and small.

"Hey, let me try out your broken thing," Zhang Jiale said, trying to squeeze into Ye Xiu's seat.

"Don't you have any manners? Are you trying to steal a look at my equipment stats?" Of course Ye Xiu wouldn't let him.

"Haha, what secrets could your broken thing's stats still have? They've already been completely deduced," Zhang Jiale said.

Silver equipment's stats weren't displayed, but for a long time, Lord Grim's equipment had been one silver and twelve orange. Character stats were displayed, and orange equipment stats were also displayed. Only the Myriad Manifestations Umbrella was unknown, so it wasn't hard to calculate its stats.

"That was before. Now it's been upgraded again. Should I tell you about that too?" Ye Xiu said.

"Really? Level 75? So awesome, let me see," Zhang Jiale was still trying to snatch it. Strictly speaking, this was very, very inappropriate. Silver equipment was each team's secret; there was no way someone could force others to show it. Zhang Jiale was just relying on their familiarity and the fact that Happy was a makeshift team with no strict atmosphere, so he was messing around here.

"Go, go, go, go play somewhere else." Ye Xiu completely drove Zhang Jiale away, and the latter had no choice but to leave in disappointment. Ye Xiu looked at him, speechless. "Don't tell me you guys are here to scout information! We're going to call the cops if you do that!"

"Call the cops! How embarrassing!" Stepping up, Steamed Bun pulled a bag of canned drinks from under the table. He wrapped it around his hand, and a makeshift meteor hammer was born, mighty and menacing.

"Stop it, everyone!" Chen Guo shouted, really having a headache. These great gods were usually dazzling and high up above, and she couldn't help but worship them sometimes. But thinking about it carefully, none of them were older than her.

Under Chen Guo's scolding, the training room quieted down.

"What did you come here for?" Ye Xiu asked.

"Long time no see, just passing by for a visit," Zhang Xinjie answered. Chen Guo had offered them seats on the sofa, and Zhang Xinjie was the only one who sat properly on it. Now, he answered the question properly too, making Chen Guo feel like he was the only good person here.

"How is it? We're not bad here, right? Anyone want to come over? Our boss is here, so she can make the decision. Plead nicely, and maybe you can catch the last train to a championship in the winter transfer window," Ye Xiu said.

"You really want to win another championship," Zhang Jiale said.

"Who doesn't?" Ye Xiu said, but then added, "Oh, not you. You have to take out the 'another'."

"Fuck you!" Zhang Jiale cursed. There were many people in this room who didn't have a championship—Su Mucheng, Fang Rui, Lin Jingyan—but Ye Xiu specifically targeted him, obviously maliciously mocking his four second-place finishes.

It was said that one shouldn't expose other people's shortcomings, but when the relationship was close, it became specialized in exposing shortcomings. It was like how Zhang Jiale dared to do something as outrageous as trying to steal a look at someone's equipment. But the problem was that he didn't get to see the equipment, and instead was strongly mocked by Ye Xiu, making him depressed.

"If you don't have anything serious, then hurry up and leave. Don't delay our training," Ye Xiu waved his hand, chasing the four away.

"Still training at this hour?" Zhang Xinjie frowned. As someone who absolutely followed a training system, he couldn't accept that they were still training at this time of day before a competition.

"What do you know!" Ye Xiu threw these words at one of Glory's tactical masters, a man who knew a lot.

Zhang Xinjie didn't retort, standing up and saying, "It seems that your strength still needs urgent improvement!"

Chen Guo was shocked. With just such a simple clue, he had already guessed this much. This only good person was clearly quite terrifying!

"Not used to the unspecialized?" Zhang Xinjie looked at Su Mucheng and Fang Rui.

"You've guessed everything already. What's there to say?" Ye Xiu said helplessly.

"I hope the competition will be exciting," Zhang Xinjie said.

"It will be," Ye Xiu said.

"See you on the field tomorrow," Han Wenqing said as his last words. Then, the four from Tyranny left.

"I'm dizzy. They really just came over to say hello? How boring!" After the four left, Ye Xiu said with emotion.

"They guessed our situation," Chen Guo said, thinking of Zhang Xinjie's meticulous demeanor and accurate judgment. She felt a chill down her spine.

"It's not hard to guess," Ye Xiu said.

"What do we do?" Chen Guo asked.

"In the team competition, our chances of winning aren't high. The individual matches are the key we need to focus on," Ye Xiu said, looking at the time. "It's about time. Let's take a look at tomorrow's opponents together."

"Should we chase them back?" Steamed Bun asked.

"Huh?" Ye Xiu didn't understand.

"Aren't they tomorrow's opponents?" Steamed Bun said.

Ye Xiu was speechless. What was wrong with Steamed Bun again...

Afterward, the whole team went to the tactical room. The recordings of Tyranny's matches, especially the first three rounds, had already been collected and sorted out. Chen Guo felt that this wasn't a long-term solution when she thought of how Ye Xiu had to train the whole team intensely every day and still had to find time to sort out these things. Wei Chen could help to some extent, but he couldn't completely free Ye Xiu. Chen Guo could only be glad that they finally had Guan Rongfei and Wu Chen now. Otherwise, if Ye Xiu had to handle these two aspects himself, he would have to be cut into pieces.

Pro teams were really hard to manage! Chen Guo sighed. During this period, she was also expanding her staff. The guild side was progressing well, absorbing a lot of manpower, semi-professionals helping to manage the guild. Although these people weren't local, the work of the online gaming department didn't require them to be in the same city; as long as they had the internet, everything could be resolved.

Chen Guo also wanted to add more staff to the technical department. The destinations of the technical department staff after Excellent Era's dissolution became Chen Guo's primary target. She managed to get three contact methods of former colleagues from Guan Rongfei, but when she contacted them, she found out that they were still together, and still at Excellent Era—the new Excellent Era!

The new Excellent Era had signed up for this season's Challenger League. Chen Guo took a look. They were progressing smoothly. Excellent Era's current lineup was centered around Qiu Fei, and then some former Excellent Era training camp students. This season's Challenger League wasn't like last season's, with a behemoth like Excellent Era. Everything had returned to normal. Chen Guo casually looked around and actually saw Team Zhuxian, who they had faced last season. After firing the entire team, they had somehow found another group of people and made a comeback.

Lin Yi's group, who were directly fired by Team Zhuxian's writer boss, were invited by Chen Guo, but they said they needed to consider it. After that, there was no news. Chen Guo contacted them twice, but they were still hesitant.

It wasn't until the new season started that Lin Yi called. He and two other players from Team Zhuxian at the time finally decided to join Happy and work in the online gaming guild department.

The timing of this news allowed Chen Guo to understand Lin Yi's mentality. He still wanted to be a pro player. He had probably been working hard this summer to find such an opportunity. Until the new season started, he probably hadn't found a team. His dream of becoming a pro player was over, so he contacted Happy and became a member of the online gaming guild.

Lin Yi's skill was still quite high compared to ordinary players. He was able to serve as the captain of a team, so he had some extraordinary qualities. After joining, he quickly became Wu Chen's most capable assistant.

With the efforts of these people, Happy Guild was now developing steadily. The high-end battlefield was no longer involved by Ye Xiu and the others, losing its former powerful advantage, but the Happy forces in the ordinary servers were now actively operating. Happy was finally beginning to have its own channels for obtaining basic materials. The days when Ye Xiu sold himself to other guilds for a few dungeon materials in the tenth server would never be repeated.