The Esports Big Shot Wants to Cuddle His New Teammate Every Day chapter 30

Chapter 30

The next day, Xu Ziyan woke up early. Remembering Xie Wei’s instructions, he took out his phone and sent a message to Xie Wei.

Soon, Xie Wei sent a reply.

[Wait for me downstairs at the dorm. I’ll take you over.]

Xu Ziyan felt a bit strange; it wasn’t like he didn’t know the location of the First String training room. Why did Xie Wei act as if he was afraid he would get lost?

He only understood the reason when he followed Xie Wei into the training room.

Probably because it wasn’t official training time yet, the First String training room was very empty. In the warm morning sunlight, rows of machines were neatly arranged in the room. Beside them were a sofa and a coffee table, with a few novels and comics on the bookshelf. Facing the door was an entire wall of display shelves, packed full of honors TWG had won over the years.

And in front of a computer in the second row sat a graceful figure.

It was Qu Qingyue.

Needless to say, Xu Ziyan instantly felt a wave of awkwardness. He thought, no wonder. If Xie Wei wasn’t here and he bumped into Qu Qingyue alone, the situation would definitely be millions of times more awkward than now.

Before this incident, although Xu Ziyan and Qu Qingyue weren’t close, their relationship was passable.

But knowing Qu Qingyue was preparing to transfer, Xu Ziyan, as her replacement, felt awkward seeing her again.

More importantly, having seen the message she sent Xie Wei on New Year’s Day, he vaguely sensed that Qu Qingyue probably had feelings for Xie Wei.

Adding the rival relationship made it even more awkward.

Hearing the commotion, Qu Qingyue moved her gaze from the screen. Seeing Xie Wei, her eyebrows raised slightly, her eyes widened, and she curved her lips, about to speak, when she saw Xu Ziyan following behind.

So her smile froze on her lips.

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Xie Wei said, “Clear, this is the new substitute Medic for the First String, Ice. You knew each other before, so I won’t introduce much.”

Xu Ziyan and Qu Qingyue looked at each other, both seeing the stiffness in each other, and only greeted dryly.

Xie Wei brought Xu Ziyan to the newly vacated computer station, gave a few simple instructions, and returned to his own seat.

None of the three had personalities that liked talking during ranked matches. The training room fell into silence for a while, with only the sounds of keyboards and mice echoing back and forth.

Xu Ziyan connected his peripherals and turned on the computer. While waiting for it to boot, he quietly glanced in Qu Qingyue’s direction.

From his position, he could just see Qu Qingyue’s back. The girl was clearly distracted after his arrival. Her attention was no longer focused on the ranked match; instead, she turned her head from time to time to look in Xie Wei’s direction.

Xu Ziyan sighed deeply.

Just as he could guess Qu Qingyue’s feelings for Xie Wei from a single message, Qu Qingyue nine out of ten had also discovered his feelings for Xie Wei.

After chatting with Bai Ke yesterday, Xie Wei’s image in Xu Ziyan’s heart changed from a calm and steady figure who wouldn’t blink even if Mount Tai collapsed in front of him, to a block of wood who was careful and sensitive but completely clueless about emotional aspects.

He brought him here today indeed considering that he would feel uncomfortable meeting Qu Qingyue.

But he certainly didn’t expect that the reason for the discomfort wasn’t just the First String Medic position, but also because of him.

However, most likely, Xie Wei himself didn’t have self-awareness of the latter.

Xu Ziyan withdrew his gaze and logged into his account familiarly.

In any case, now was not the time to think about these things.

He knew there was still a gap between his level and those first-tier Medics in the league. To bridge this gap, he had to work even harder now so he wouldn’t show weakness on the competition stage.

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Just as Xu Ziyan guessed, Xie Wei had absolutely no awareness that he was sandwiched between two Omegas who liked him. At this moment, he was tapping the keyboard, replying to the message from Team KW’s captain scheduling a training match.

When he learned from Yu Guangzhou that Qu Qingyue was transferring, he was undoubtedly shocked.

Although player transfers were very common, the four members of TWG had walked from obscurity to their current glory together. There had been almost no personnel changes, and their recent results were fairly stable. Xie Wei really couldn’t think of a reason for Qu Qingyue’s decision to transfer.

But he respected Qu Qingyue’s decision. All feasts must come to an end. Besides, it wasn’t like they would never meet again. Being in the same league and still friends in-game, playing a couple of rounds together was something that could happen anytime, anywhere.

After a while, Shen Xiao and Bai Chen also arrived at the training room. They had been notified earlier, so they weren’t surprised to see Xu Ziyan.

Shen Xiao greeted Xu Ziyan very warmly. “Wow, Ice, didn’t expect to be teammates so soon. Awesome, awesome. As expected of the Rookie King Medic. What do you say, want to play a couple of ranked matches together?”

His voice wasn’t too loud or too soft, just enough for the whole training room to hear.

As his voice fell, Qu Qingyue’s back stiffened noticeably.

Xu Ziyan still had this much situational awareness. He smiled apologetically. “God Xiao, it’s my turn for independent training today. Carry me to rank up some other time?”

Shen Xiao didn’t sense anything wrong and laughed. “Sure, sure.”

He wanted to say something more but was quietly stopped by Bai Chen beside him. “Coach Yu is coming soon.”

So Shen Xiao had to stop talking and sat in his seat.

Xu Ziyan breathed a sigh of relief and couldn’t help but glance at Bai Chen.

If Xie Wei gave off a feeling of distance, then Bai Chen was thoroughly indifferent.

As an Assaulter, his style was incredibly calm. Including many split-second judgments and operations on the field, they were clearly results of rigorous thinking. It was hard to imagine how he did it.

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Shen Xiao’s style was carefree, looking down on heroes with steady, accurate, and ruthless marksmanship and excellent reaction speed. Bai Chen’s calmness and steadiness complemented him perfectly, keeping TWG’s assault line steadily at the forefront of the entire alliance.

When Xu Ziyan first met Bai Ke, he often wondered how someone as cold and solitary as Bai Chen could have such a talkative brother.

Now, Bai Chen changed in his heart from “good friend’s brother” to “good friend’s crush.” Xu Ziyan couldn’t help but look at Bai Chen a few more times.

Only to meet his cold gaze looking back. Startled, Xu Ziyan hurriedly withdrew his gaze, thinking: The personalities of these two Bai brothers are so different, but this keenness that seems to see through people at a glance is surprisingly consistent.

The First String’s training match was scheduled before dinner so they could review it right after dinner.

Today’s training match was against FTK. Their team liked to bind one Assaulter and Sniper to coordinate kills, while the other Assaulter and Medic were bound to provide frontal pressure. Although this playstyle suffered on Capture Point maps, the intensity was maxed out when encountering Escort missions.

In the first round, Yu Guangzhou still let the four First String regulars play. It happened to be a defense map. Xie Wei set up his gun on the clock tower. His accuracy was ridiculously high, practically one shot, one kill. Qu Qingyue’s healing support was also very on point, allowing the front-row Assaulters to output damage very comfortably. FTK couldn’t even capture Point A and lost helplessly.

This result was within expectations.

It was Xu Ziyan’s first time watching a training match between top teams, and he observed very seriously from the side. Just as he was thinking about how he would handle certain situations in the match if it were him, he heard Yu Guangzhou say, “Ice, second match, you go up and try.”

Although he knew he was here to fill the spot, Xu Ziyan didn’t expect the opportunity to come so quickly. It was only his first day joining the team, and he was directly put into a training match.

When he sat in front of the computer and joined the team, his fingers were trembling from rare nervousness.

He had imagined and longed for this scene countless times, thinking several times that he couldn’t possibly achieve it. Now sitting in TWG First String’s training room, looking at the ID TWG-Shining in the team, he felt blood rushing to his head, his nerves taut.

“Check your class and basic settings. Click ready when done.” In the headphones, Xie Wei’s voice was slightly different from reality but overlapped with the voice in the video Xu Ziyan watched back then. “Listen to commands, don’t be nervous.”

Xu Ziyan reacted immediately; the last sentence was said to him alone. His heart skipped a beat, but his nerves miraculously relaxed because of those three words.

In the second match, it was TWG’s turn to attack, while FTK defended.

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In the first match earlier, Qu Qingyue chose a pistol and smoke grenades.

Xu Ziyan, however, chose healing bottles and a taser gun after hesitation.

This also meant that apart from the limited control times of the taser gun, he completely gave up self-protection.

Outside the match, Qu Qingyue frowned slightly.

Regarding the choice of secondary weapons, everyone had their own preferences. But she couldn’t understand Xu Ziyan choosing healing bottles to increase healing output instead of armor packs that could stack armor for Assaulters.

Healing bottles certainly healed more, but the benefit of armor packs was more obvious: it could stack on top of the character’s base health. A character with one hundred health could be stacked to one hundred fifty health.

And a Sniper’s strongest bolt-action sniper bullet dealt one hundred twenty-five damage on a headshot. This meant the armor pack could protect the Assaulter from the danger of immediate death from a headshot once.

Qu Qingyue chose the pistol earlier considering the opponent’s Assaulter and Sniper coordination, deciding to ensure some self-protection.

But healing bottles? Not just here, even looking at the entire competitive scene, very few people chose them.

She didn’t speak but watched quietly.

She had to admit, Xu Ziyan’s positioning and awareness were very on point. Even if there were small mistakes occasionally, he could make up for them with excellent reaction speed.

Most importantly, his use of the taser gun was simply too good.

At the first point, FTK’s Assaulter and Medic coordinated with the Sniper, providing sufficient frontal firepower. Meanwhile, the other Assaulter unknowingly sneaked to the rear of TWG’s team, wanting to pick off Xu Ziyan, the Medic.

However, the moment he rushed out, Xu Ziyan didn’t panic. He smashed a healing bottle directly, filling his own health, followed by a taser shot, freezing the Assaulter in place steadily, accurately, and ruthlessly. Xie Wei landed a sniper headshot, directly taking the kill.

Seeing this, FTK, having lost an Assaulter, could only retreat helplessly, yielding Point A to them and turning to defend Point B.

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Watching this series of smooth operations, Qu Qingyue smiled bitterly: She knew very well she couldn’t pull off operations like that.