The Esports Big Shot Wants to Cuddle His New Teammate Every Day chapter 15

Chapter 15

In the last minute of the point capture, the enemy seemed to have given up, not organizing an attack for a long time. The Saint Cathedral was a point that was easy to defend and hard to attack. Seeing this, the Assaulter who had actively taken on the role of commander relaxed his vigilance and shifted the topic elsewhere.

Though he was called the commander, the team voice chat was more like a chat room for the two Assaulters.

There was no helping it; God Xie didn’t speak, and the Sniper’s role on this map was relatively small, so the Assaulters didn’t bother trying to talk to him. Xu Ziyan, on the other hand, was too nervous to say a word. Occasionally, when directed to move or provide backup, he would just execute the orders silently.

The two Assaulters exchanged words back and forth, blasting away at the front, cutting down healers and snipers. Back and forth, they even developed a bit of mutual appreciation, agreeing to add each other as friends and duo queue the next round.

Xu Ziyan crouched inside a small hut, listening to their conversation through his earphones. Holding his healing gun, his eyes were glued tightly to the roof of a small shop not far away.

Sunlight glinted; the muzzle of a sniper rifle hidden behind the eaves flashed with dazzling light.

That was Xie Wei’s position.

Actually, Xu Ziyan wasn’t a stranger to encountering Xie Wei in matches before, but today was different from the past. Before, he was just a random passerby A, B, or C to Xie Wei. Now, they knew each other, and they had even had the most intimate relationship…

Thinking of this, Xu Ziyan paused, his brows knitting slightly together. Immediately after, he gave a light laugh and pulled the corners of his mouth in self-mockery.

He had the mark, and he had genuinely liked Xie Wei for many years. That was why, after that accident happened, he didn’t feel revulsion, only shame and joy.

But to Xie Wei, he was probably just a frivolous Omega who sold his body to get on the team. As a fanboy, Xu Ziyan naturally knew how clean Xie Wei kept himself; his romantic relationships were basically nonexistent. The only mistake had happened with him.

Over these past days, Xu Ziyan had oscillated between “regret” and “no regret” hundreds of times. He had speculated on Xie Wei’s thoughts countless times, and even prepared himself on how to act like it was their first meeting when they saw each other again.

But the reality was, aside from the day he joined the team, Xie Wei hadn’t appeared once. Their chat history on Line stopped at that single word. Everything seemed to imply that their relationship ended there.

Xu Ziyan knew in his heart that this was the best ending. But meeting again today, he still couldn’t help himself; he was so excited and nervous that his hands were trembling.

giving the injection at the start, then risking death to run to the Bell Tower just to throw a smoke grenade… Xu Ziyan couldn’t even explain what was going through his own mind. These actions were naturally born out of affection and liking, but for Xie Wei, they were more likely just added trouble.

Put in his shoes, if such a “connection hire” existed, I would want this person as far away from me as possible.

Xu Ziyan bit his lip, his hand gripping the healing gun tightening unconsciously. At the top of the interface, the capture progress bar had reached ninety percent. He hesitated, then stood up, wanting to get to a place closer to Xie Wei.

The instant he stood up, a faint sound rang out behind him, like something hitting the ground.

Xu Ziyan didn’t react at first, but immediately after, he realized the true identity of that noise—someone had thrown a grenade through the window!

Previously assuming the other side had stopped resisting, Xu Ziyan hadn’t been hiding here and there like before. Seeing the grenade now, he realized: They didn’t stop resisting; they were biding their time! The enemy was confirming my position!

Although Saint Cathedral was easy to defend and hard to attack, due to the narrow terrain, Snipers outside could provide almost no help. Once the situation arose where allies had no Medic while the enemy did, the point could easily be stolen.

Normally, Xu Ziyan should have been guarding the point inside the Saint Cathedral with the other two Assaulters. But because of his selfish motives, he had run outside to a place where he could see Xie Wei.

Such a rookie mistake shouldn’t happen at this rank. Once the point was lost, the blame would be entirely his.

Xu Ziyan holstered his gun almost instinctively, crouched, then sprinted and side-rolled.

His reaction was already fast, but unfortunately, it was still too late. The moment his fingers touched the doorframe, the grenade exploded behind him. The heat wave and shockwave blasted him and the debris of the building out the door. His originally healthy HP bar bottomed out instantly.

This loud noise naturally attracted the attention of the others.

In the team voice chat, the two Assaulters guarding Saint Cathedral instantly stopped chatting, realizing the situation was bad. Xie Wei, situated on high ground, saw the situation even more clearly—not far away, amidst rolling thick smoke, a figure was blasted out the door along with building fragments.

“Holy crap…” the Assaulter who had previously taken on the command role stared blankly at the distant smoke. “Does anyone still play grenades on this map? I didn’t see him use it earlier. That’s too patient.”

“Stop talking about that,” the other Assaulter jumped down from the table in the church, raising his gun alertly. “That grenade was meant for our healer. It’s three against four; we might not be able to hold.”

The commander nodded. “Yeah. You watch the rear glass window; I’ll watch the main door.”

“OK.”

Xie Wei silently listened to the exchange between the two Assaulters on the voice channel without speaking. He lowered his head to the sniper scope, his gaze rapidly searching the vicinity of the exploded house for enemy traces.

Grenades are close-range explosives. Since it was thrown accurately into the house, it proved the thrower wasn’t far from the explosion point.

As long as he took care of that person, even if the subsequent defense lacked a Medic, they would still have a fighting chance.

Xie Wei didn’t have the slightest thought of blaming Xu Ziyan for making a mistake due to selfishness. In fact, he had discovered the Omega’s behavior long ago; he had simply tacitly allowed it.

His finger tightened on the trigger. He focused intently on every corner. Suddenly, a figure staggered up from the ruins of the explosion.

Xie Wei froze, then was surprised to discover that this figure wasn’t anyone else, but Xu Ziyan, whom everyone thought was dead for sure!

As a high-damage area-of-effect weapon, the shock of a grenade was impossible for a Medic to withstand. Xie Wei was truly surprised and couldn’t help asking, “You’re still alive?”

Suddenly hearing a third person’s voice in the channel, everyone was stunned.

Xu Ziyan had just struggled up from the ruins and was having a hard time healing himself. Hearing Xie Wei’s question, he hurriedly replied, “Alive, alive. Sorry, sorry, this was my bad…”

“No, bro!” The commander interrupted Xu Ziyan’s apology, pleasantly surprised. “Awesome! You didn’t die from that! How did you do it?”

While healing himself, Xu Ziyan dodged and weaved toward Saint Cathedral while answering his teammate’s question: “Just… tried hard to run to the very edge, then applied a shield and used an injection on myself. That’s it. It was also good luck that I didn’t die.”

After speaking, he said embarrassedly, “I’m really sorry, bro. My problem. I won’t run around randomly next time.”

As he spoke, he had already arrived at Saint Cathedral. The enemy clearly thought Xu Ziyan was dead too, so even their Sniper ran out to attack, not considering the next wave at all. Xu Ziyan wasn’t polite; he threw out armor packs and smoke grenades directly, using his healing gun to steal insane amounts of damage from the backline. The two Assaulters coordinated from the inside, dismantling the enemy’s attack entirely.

The last enemy who ran out of Saint Cathedral trying to survive a bit longer was picked off by Xie Wei, who had been lying in wait outside. Game victory.

The commander let out a long sigh of relief and gave Xu Ziyan a big thumbs up. “Amazing, brother. Add me, let’s duo if there’s a chance.”

Xu Ziyan smiled. “Not amazing, just good luck.”

Hearing this, Xie Wei raised an eyebrow noncommittally.

Good luck?

Xu Ziyan made it sound simple, but Xie Wei knew very well how difficult it was to complete that series of actions within that instant of reaction time. Sprinting, side-rolling while applying an armor pack to himself. After the armor broke, he had to watch his health and use the injection. If he had been slightly off, the health gained wouldn’t have been enough to withstand the explosion damage. And all these operations happened in the blink of an eye.

In other words, in one second, relying on reaction and mechanics, Xu Ziyan had forcefully propped himself up with two extra health bars.

Interesting.

This Omega clearly had real strength.

But since he has such strength, why did he do that kind of thing?

Xie Wei remembered Xu Ziyan sleeping from exhaustion in the training room a few days ago. He lowered his eyes and pondered for a moment, then picked up his phone and opened the chat with Head Coach Yu Guangzhou.

The last message was a tournament poster sent by Yu Guangzhou.

[Zhou: [Poster] The new Newcomer Cup is about to start. Don’t know if there are any good seedlings to pick.]

Xie Wei lifted his finger.

[Xie Wei: Is anyone from our team participating?]

Yu Guangzhou replied very quickly.

[Zhou: There are slots. We have a few candidates tentatively, but haven’t decided yet. Why?]

[Xie Wei: I’ll recommend one to you.]

Inside the coach’s office, Yu Guangzhou was startled. An ID involuntarily surfaced in his mind.

Just a few months ago, Xie Wei—who never touched romance and never cared about team selections—suddenly came to him, expressing he wanted to introduce a Medic into the second string. And that Medic was a member of their youth training camp, and an Omega to boot.

If it were anyone else, Yu Guangzhou would definitely have felt something was fishy. But Xie Wei’s image was simply too pristine, so he didn’t think much of it. He agreed, teased him for two days, and let it go.

Moreover, after joining the second string, that Medic’s performance was indeed very good. Lu Donglou had praised him several times, so Yu Guangzhou thought even less of it, assuming Xie Wei just cared about the team and was helping worry about the vacancy in the second string’s Medic position.

But now…

He hesitated and typed the ID he had in mind into the chat box. At the same time, Xie Wei’s message came in. The two messages appeared in the chat box almost simultaneously.

[Zhou: Ice?]

[Xie Wei: Ice.]