The Esports Big Shot Wants to Cuddle His New Teammate Every Day chapter 55

Chapter 55

The first ranked match was on a sniper-favored map, Vinia Harbor.

As soon as Xu Ziyan entered the map, he didn’t need to hesitate at all; he directly selected the Healing Sniper Rifle, Healing Vial, and Taser.

During the preparation time, Shen Xiao leaned over to look at his screen and said, “Child of the version. First day of the new version, aren’t you going to start a stream?”

After saying that, he lowered his voice, whispering as if passing on secret intelligence, “It’s the beginning of the month! Hurry up and pad your runtime!”

Xu Ziyan didn’t like streaming very much and always forgot about it, leading to him frantically making up hours at the end of every month. Reminded by Shen Xiao now, he felt as if waking from a dream and hurriedly logged into the streaming software.

Surprisingly, there were quite a few people squatting in his stream room. Just after starting the stream, the popularity instantly shot up to over a million.

Aside from the few times he grouped with Xie Wei, he really hadn’t seen so many viewers as soon as he started streaming, and he froze for a moment.

[Started streaming! Caught him!]

[God Ice! Wuwuwu quick quick quick teach me the Medic Sniper flow, just went to the shooting range to practice for a bit and almost cried.]

[Sniper flow can’t heal self, I really can’t survive T T How to play, how to play.]

[Bold prediction: Ice will top the healing charts.]

[Be bolder, number one overall.]

[Up there, God Xie is watching you.]

[Grass, I forgot.]

Xu Ziyan quickly adjusted the stream interface, opened the danmu assistant, and then switched back to the game.

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With ten seconds left in the start countdown, he slung the sniper rifle onto his back. “It’s my first time using this gun too. I’m not too familiar with the feel and damage yet, everyone please bear with me.”

Thirty seconds after saying this, he opened his scope on top of a shipping container and sniped the enemy medic with three shots.

[? This is being unfamiliar?]

[Asking me to bear with what exactly? Is this Versailles?]

[This doesn’t seem like a place I should be.]

Xu Ziyan said, “It’s just that everyone isn’t too familiar with the new version yet. The opposing medic has awareness; he was constantly hiding from our sniper’s vision, but he forgot I was there too.”

As he spoke, he turned sideways to hide in a blind spot to reload. Within a few nimble jumps, he had transferred to another location.

The frontline assault on the point was already at critical health. Xu Ziyan threw a Healing Vial. The sound effect of the bottle shattering was crisp and pleasant to the ear. Immediately, a healing buff appeared on the friendly assault, while the enemy seemed to be surrounded by a black mist.

“Is this the Vulnerability Buff?”

Xu Ziyan murmured to himself. He scoped in; with the healing bonus, two shots pulled the assault’s precarious health line back to full.

Although the enemy sniper managed a timely headshot kill on one person, the two assaults suffering from the vulnerability buff soon died under focused fire. And this shot also exposed his own position. Xu Ziyan reacted extremely fast, coordinating with his own sniper to secure the kill.

Point A cleared. The frontline assault stood on the point to capture it. Just as Xu Ziyan wanted to adjust slightly, he heard footsteps coming from the adjacent shipping container.

Startled, he pulled out the taser and crouched against the wall.

Almost at the same time he crouched, the figure of the enemy assault appeared at the intersection.

Xu Ziyan rolled, barely dodging a few rounds. He stepped forward with the taser wanting to stun the opponent, but unexpectedly, this assault also had fast reactions. Taking a slight step back, he caused Xu Ziyan’s strike to miss.

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Immediately after, another spray of bullets swept over.

Although Xu Ziyan had smashed the Healing Vial down, because the healing amount of the vial hadn’t been modified, it was still only fifty points. It was passable in the previous version where everyone had one hundred health, but now with everyone averaging two hundred health, these fifty points seemed somewhat pitiful.

The game interface turned grey; respawn countdown started.

The assault who came to cut him was immediately picked off by his own sniper, but losing the medic meant losing follow-up support. Coupled with the enemy sniper still being alive, the friendly assault helplessly had to retreat from Point A again.

This team wipe actually failed to capture Point A.

Xu Ziyan frowned slightly. “My bad. I forgot that respawn times are all halved now.”

[Damn, reviving so fast. Does this mean for attackers on capture maps, besides attacking, they also have to defend?]

“Yeah,” Xu Ziyan said. “The defending side’s margin for error has increased.”

[The officials really kept their word. Said they wanted to adjust the pace, and directly gave room for error. Awesome.]

Character respawned. Xu Ziyan didn’t look at the danmu anymore. Leaving the spawn point, he climbed directly up the nearest iron tower, grabbed the railing, swung lightly, and swung directly onto the shipping container in front.

[Holy crap, exciting.]

[This distance control is too precise.]

Xu Ziyan moved his feet, and his hands didn’t stay idle either. He opened the sniper scope, aimed at the teammate in distant Point A, and with two shots, pulled one of the assaults back from the brink of death.

Then he closed the scope, put away the gun, grabbed the high platform in front with one hand, climbed up, and scoped in to heal again.

Moving and stopping like this all the way. Fortunately, the friendly assaults also knew when to advance and retreat. Before Xu Ziyan arrived, they intentionally circled around, preventing any other casualties.

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Xu Ziyan jumped off the shipping container and topped up the two assaults’ health again.

It had to be said, after switching healing to a sniper rifle, although the range increased and healing output rose relatively, the mental effort required was greater than before. Just as the danmu said, the inability to heal oneself combined with the sniper rifle’s natural disadvantage in close combat caused a significant drop in fault tolerance and survival rate.

The floor was very low, but the ceiling was also very high.

If it were still the original rifle, then after being cut down just now, Xu Ziyan wouldn’t have been able to achieve the operation of providing long-range support while moving like that.

He licked his lips, feeling not the least bit discouraged by the increase in game difficulty; instead, he was increasingly eager to try.

“Opposing assault is coming, flanking.” Xu Ziyan blinked. “Coming to find me again.”

[Then why aren’t you running?]

[The intersection ahead is being held by the sniper, can’t you see? Saying this, I think you’re at most Bronze 1000 points.]

[Is this medic environment still meant for humans?]

[Thought it was a buff, actually…]

[Wuwuwu I don’t want to play medic anymore.]

After all, most medic players were girls. Xu Ziyan was amused and said, “It’s okay, it’s okay. Early in the version, a period of adaptation is needed. Look, when the smoke grenade was just changed, there was a bunch of wailing too, but it’s all fine now.”

In the interval while he spoke, the assault’s footsteps were getting closer.

Xu Ziyan didn’t attempt to crouch and prepare an ambush again. Instead, he directly took out the taser, then lightly clicked the mouse.

On the screen, the taser in the medic’s hand lit up with a ghostly blue light, emitting a “bzzzt” sound, and the skill usage count in the bottom left decreased by one.

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Skills with limited uses were very precious in a match, yet Xu Ziyan wasted one here for nothing.

Some in the danmu didn’t understand and asked.

[Is that a mistake?]

The opposing assault clearly heard this sound too. His footsteps paused, then he flashed out at the container entrance with even greater speed.

Xu Ziyan smiled. Raising his hand, this time, the assault retreated quickly to dodge again. But he never expected that what landed in front of him this time wasn’t the taser, but a Healing Vial.

The black mist of vulnerability instantly shrouded his body. The assault realized something and wanted to move forward, but it was too late; that step back had taken him out of the container’s cover.

The sniper who had been waiting for a long time followed up with a shot, a direct headshot. Although the assault had a shield bonus, under the influence of the vulnerability effect combined with the damage from the Healing Vial, the kill was successfully secured by the sniper.

The stream room was instantly flooded with “666”.

[? Is this your prediction?]

[Hugging the wall to bait movement, taser sound to guide the assault to retreat, instant switch to Healing Vial for vulnerability Debuff, coordinate with sniper to take the head… I think I learned it.]

[Too strong, too strong.]

[Am I the only one who thinks the teammate sniper is pretty strong? Sniping the enemy sniper earlier, and killing the assault just now, the coordination was truly seamless.]

[Mn… indeed pretty strong.]

[Speaking of which, this sniper ID looks really familiar too. Who was it again?]

Xu Ziyan captured Point A and glanced at the danmu. He also truly felt that tacit understanding, so he asked in passing, “Very familiar? Who is this sniper?”

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[Hahahahahahaha]

[Mn, I can’t say.]

[? Are you asking seriously?]

[I guess someone is going to be heartbroken, but I won’t say who.]

As soon as Xu Ziyan entered the game, he was choosing equipment and starting the stream. Plus, he hadn’t adapted to the new version yet, spending all his mental effort on the match—where would he have time to look at teammate IDs?

Seeing the screen full of “Hahaha” but absolutely no mention of the sniper’s identity, he was a bit puzzled and opened the team list to take a look.

In the sniper column, the ID Shining hung there quietly, followed by a nearly perfect score of 4-0-3.

Xu Ziyan’s hand on the keyboard trembled, and his character slid directly off the roof.

This is called a little familiar?

This is called pretty good?

This!

He blushed belatedly, and his voice involuntarily became a few degrees quieter. “This… why didn’t anyone say anything?”

[What happened to the streamer, voice got quiet.]

[Who could have thought you actually didn’t know!]

[I can tell, you’re a fake fan.]

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[Hahahaha everyone thought you knew! And we already spammed a wave of ‘God Xie NB’ earlier! You were just analyzing the battle and didn’t notice!]

Xu Ziyan coughed awkwardly twice, moved his fingers, and climbed back onto the roof.

“I really didn’t notice,” he said. “If I had noticed…”

[If you had noticed, then what?]

Xu Ziyan quietly glanced in the direction of Xie Wei’s station and whispered, “Then how could I possibly not give him resources the whole time?”

After speaking, ignoring the screen full of question marks, he fretted again. “My positioning was wrong for several waves at the containers. If I had known… I should have just been outside the box, otherwise, I blocked the sniper’s vision too much.”

He was true to his word. The Healing Vials were no longer aimed at the frontline assaults; instead, he smashed them at opponents whenever he could, using them directly as offensive skills.

The opposing assaults were frantic. Originally, after adding shields, they weren’t so easily headshot killed anymore. But this bottle was dead set on them; even if it meant sacrificing teammates, it insisted on smashing into them.

When they tried to flank, a perfectly timed Heartbeat Sensor would jump out at just the right moment. With their position located, the flank was voided. When they arrived at the position, waiting for them was either a taser or simply thin air.

With the outpouring of resources, Xie Wei was like a fish in water. They struggled a bit at Point A, but Point B was practically bulldozed through.

The word “Victory” popped up. Shining, as expected, was the MVP.

Only then did Xu Ziyan breathe a sigh of relief and give Xie Wei a like.

Turning his head to see the teasing in the danmu, he coughed lightly. “This is… trust in a teammate.”

[Understood.]

[Those who get it, get it.]

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