Chapter 03: Human Gaydar, Hits Wherever It Points
Because of the accident on the way yesterday and the player being shaken up, NAVA management very humanely moved the official trial time to the second day after Xie Jingchu moved into the base.
Today was Xie Jingchu’s individual trial. The coaching team arranged three teammates and an opponent team for him, as well as a sniper account with a scrambled ID to prevent him from being recognized.
Pei Zhi and several other coaches gathered in the observation room. Each held a notebook in hand, staring intently at the two computers in front of them, ready to record Xie Jingchu’s game data.
The other starting members had nothing to do, so they sat behind them to watch. Shen Guanchao leaned back on the sofa holding his water cup, his expression composed.
Once everyone was ready, Pei Zhi entered the OB (Observer) slot and projected the game screen onto the screen in real-time.
Xie Jingchu, sitting alone in the training room, pressed the ready button, and the game began. He didn’t know who his teammates were or who his opponents were, but he knew—he had to win this one.
Upon entering the game, the main and sub-attackers split into two paths to attack the enemy’s plague defense line. The sub-attacker signaled for the medic to follow him, while the lone Xie Jingchu quickly moved to the water tower at Point C on his side and skillfully placed a portable ammo box to block the enemy’s vision.
The Point C water towers on both sides were located in the center of the map, allowing observation of the entry and exit railways of the defense lines on both sides.
At this moment, their main attacker had already taken the train to the edge of the enemy’s Point B defense line and ambushed the enemy sub-attacker, taking first blood.
From high ground, Xie Jingchu, controlling the map vision in real-time, spotted the enemy in a small western-style building near Point B. He signaled a retreat to his main attacker, who only had half a health bar left: “Opposite main attacker is coming, full status, run.”
Unfortunately, his main attacker had no intention of leaving. He had just taken a head, and although his own health bar was missing a chunk, his economy and level were higher than the opposing main attacker. He wanted to gamble.
Who didn’t want to show off in front of the coach? Who wanted to guard the water cooler in the substitute lounge forever?
He shrank into the building next to him, trying to ambush the opponent. Unfortunately, the opposing sniper had already caught his figure in the scope. A shot instantly shattered the window in front of him, the bullet hitting his right shoulder, causing his not-so-optimistic health bar to bottom out instantly.
Five percent health barely maintained his life.
Helplessly, he had no medic beside him, and he hadn’t brought a medical drone in his loadout. He could only constantly look for blind spots to avoid the sniper’s cold shots.
The enemy main attacker, who was already near Point B, finally arrived at the scene. Rushing into the building and spraying a few shots, he easily harvested the low-health player.
Perfectly interpreting the phrase “a man who is never content is like a snake trying to swallow an elephant.”
[NAVA·Lost killed NAVA·GN]
At the same time the death notification for his main attacker sounded—another notification followed closely.
[xjcbj killed NAVA·lost]
Xie Jingchu, who had been observing the enemy’s movements from the rear, suddenly sniped the enemy main attacker who had just taken the head.
Because the early-game damage wasn’t enough, in just over a second, he continuously opened his scope and instant-sniped twice to max out the damage. Before anyone could react, he took out the opposing main force.
Pei Zhi in the observation room couldn’t help but praise, “Beautiful!”
Behind him, Zoe hissed.
Fox glanced at him and asked, “What’s wrong?”
“Nothing… I stayed up late yesterday watching his past streams. He seems to switch points to cut vision after every kill, then continues sniping until all opponents in that area are dead,” Zoe said. “Those guys in the second team are no match for him at all. He’s too agile; if he misses a shot, he changes position. His reaction is fast too. I feel that even official players might not be able to escape his scope.”
“One time in ranked, ‘Hallucination’ from team CT matched against him. He made an accidental operational error and was killed by three consecutive snipes while having full health and full shield, even though cover was not far from Hallucination…”
“There are no fully automatic sniper weapons in the game settings, which means the three shots Hallucination took were all continuous quick-scopes.”
“Show your head and you’re dead. This Siren is too fast; he plays the sniper like an assault class. Sniper damage is insufficient in the early game, so he uses speed to fill that gap.”
On the real-time broadcast screen.
Just as Zoe said, after sniping the target, Xie Jingchu quickly left the water tower. He climbed the container group on the right to ascend the reservoir at the very edge of the map, adjusted his position, placed a portable ammo box again to block the opposite view, set up his sniper, and aimed in the direction where the enemy sniper had just fired the cold shot.
Three seconds later, the pleasant kill notification sounded again—
[xjcbj killed NAVA·Sin]
Zoe’s words were prophetic; the enemy sniper, Sin, was taken away by two quick snipes.
Sin couldn’t help but explode with a curse in the voice chat: “F*ck.”
He had never been crushed like this by a peer before!
In the mid-to-late game, Xie Jingchu farmed up. After taking out the opposing medic with one shot, he swapped the heavy sniper for a heavy cannon. He bypassed Point C, which the enemy had lost, and came near the heavily defended Point A to launch a surprise attack on the enemy main attacker.
Snipers were better at long-range combat. To fight a close-range battle—his weakness—against a main attacker, Xie Jingchu switched through several major skills in just two seconds.
First, he released a light shield drone to take most of the damage caused by the enemy, then instantly switched to a slow-down serum and threw it at the opponent’s feet. Rolling backward to open up the distance, he harvested the head with two heavy cannon shots.
With two enemies dead, Xie Jingchu unscrupulously destroyed the signal receiver at Point A. After breaking the Point A plague defense line, the game entered the final stage.
The last team fight.
Because of Xie Jingchu’s outstanding performance throughout, the enemy decided to focus their attack on him. Kill the main force first, and the remaining players would be nothing to fear; they could win easily.
Unfortunately—ideals are beautiful, reality is bony.
Their plan did not succeed.
Although Xie Jingchu was forced to take most of the firepower, during the back-and-forth kiting, he baited out countless enemy skills and forcefully seconds-killed the opposing main attacker and medic. After completing a double kill while outnumbered, his health finally bottomed out, and he fell in front of the enemy’s spawn point.
But his teammates completed the final mission of destroying the enemy’s Plague Statue. Game over. Siren’s debut battle was a victory.
12 (Kills) / 1 (Death) / 7 (Assists)
After the match ended, Xie Jingchu took off his headphones and moved his fingers, exhaling a long breath. He opened WeChat and sent a message to the only pinned person—
[Siren: (Image)]
It was a screenshot of the game stats just now.
Xie Jingchu sent it in a moment of happiness.
Knowing clearly that Shen Guanchao could see it from the backstage, he still sent it.
Like a primary school kid, asking for praise with a certificate of merit after getting good grades.
In the observation room, the “Parent” received the message and replied instantly—
[Flesh: Saw it, you are very amazing.] [Flesh: Brother Pei says no need to play anymore for now, you can log off first.] [Siren: Okay.]
Seeing the “Parent’s” reply, Xie Jingchu hooked up the corners of his lips and got up to go to the toilet.
On his way back, passing the window at the second-floor stairwell, he saw an unexpected scene.
The corridor lights were hazy. Shen Guanchao was leaning against the wall, head bowed, smoking. Puffs of smoke curled around his long purple hair.
He lifted his chin slightly, holding the cigarette with distinct, bony fingers, his sleeves rolled up to his forearms on both sides.
Hearing footsteps behind him, Shen Guanchao exhaled a mouthful of smoke, feeling the stimulation of the smoke passing through his lungs. He glanced at the newcomer, chuckling lightly, and asked in a gentle tone, “Are you okay?”
“I…”
Xie Jingchu was stunned by this look. His fingers curled unconsciously, nails digging into his palms, spreading a trace of pain.
He hadn’t heard Shen Guanchao speak to him in this tone for a long time.
As if after the passage of time, they were still intimate.
But Shen Guanchao’s next sentence woke him from his dream.
“When are you coming back? I miss you quite a bit.”
Shen Guanchao held the cigarette in his right hand and held his phone to his ear with his left, talking to someone else. The smile in his eyes was bottomless.
He hadn’t been talking to Xie Jingchu from the start. That gentle greeting and longing didn’t belong to Xie Jingchu.
Xie Jingchu ran away in panic and embarrassment. Shen Guanchao watched his back, frowned, extinguished the cigarette butt, and said to the person on the phone, “It’s nothing, a primary school kid throwing a tantrum.”
Will coax later.
When he returned to the training room, there were two more people inside: Zoe and Fox. Xie Jingchu walked to his seat and sat down. Zoe suddenly struck up a conversation with him.
Zoe changed his keyboard for a new one. “This is Flesh’s custom keyboard. Aren’t you a fan of my brother? My brother told Coach Pei to switch this model for you. Old Pei had something to do temporarily, so I came to change it.”
Xie Jingchu was still stuck in the scene just now, his eyes slightly red. “…Thank you.”
“No big deal.” Zoe’s heart had always been bigger than the Pacific Ocean; he didn’t notice his emotional state was off. After changing the keyboard, he went back to his own station to queue for ranked with Fox.
A moment later, Shen Guanchao finished his call and finally returned to the training room, draped in his team uniform coat.
The smell of smoke on him had mostly dissipated, and the gentle expression no longer existed.
Xie Jingchu had just finished a game. Seeing Shen Guanchao enter from the corner of his eye, he pursed his lips and let his thoughts run wild for a while before clicking the game button to enter the next match.
Shen Guanchao lowered his eyes and stared at him, taking in all his unnatural expressions. The corners of his lips pulled up.
A thrill of revenge rose in his heart.
Sure enough, those things one cannot obtain, whether defined as “Black Moonlight” or “White Moonlight,” will forever be a poisonous rose thorn in someone’s heart.
But even though someone’s hands were pricked full of blood, they still refused to let go.
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