Reemployment Guide for Laid-off Players

The two sat opposite each other and had breakfast. Jiang An had something on his mind, even if the bread was stuffed into his mouth, he couldn't taste anything.Xia Yao put down his glass and asked him: "If you can't explain to that person, I can—"

"what?"

Xia Yao originally meant that he could help him "clarify" his absence last night in front of his family, but Jiang An didn't seem to have such concerns at all.

He suddenly felt that he was too deliberate.

Jiang An immediately realized: "You misunderstood, I was on the phone with a friend yesterday."

"So it's a friend, I thought it was..."

Xia Yao's hesitation reminded Jiang An that he suddenly remembered the conversation between the two in the bathroom last night. Not only that, but after drinking a drink last night, he also remembered that Xia Yao was also his alumni. People are more or less intersecting.

He put the bread in his hand back on the plate, looked at Xia Yao and asked him: "How do you know?"

Such an unclear question really stopped Xia Yao from asking, he frowned: "Know what?"

"Know my sexual orientation." Jiang An smiled again, the curve of his lips was more obvious than before, and he finally caught a trace of embarrassment that he had never seen before in Xia Yao's eyes.Seeing that Xia Yao didn't answer, he asked again: "Did Chen Gu tell you?"

Xia Yao immediately retorted: "No, Chen Gu wouldn't tell me even if he knew."

As soon as he finished speaking, he realized that he had fallen into Jiang An's "trap".They have known Chen Gu for such a long time, Jiang An must know what Chen Gu is like, this question is obviously intentional.

Sure enough, Jiang An immediately asked him: "Then how do you know?"

Xia Yao thought for a moment in silence, then smiled, and then spit out two words: "Guess."

Jiang An must not believe such a perfunctory answer, he raised his eyebrows and continued to ask: "So you were testing me in the bathroom yesterday?"

"Probably." Xia Yao himself didn't realize that what he said yesterday in the bathroom still had a sense of temptation in it, but after a second thought, he decided to go along with the flow and fool around in this direction.

Unexpectedly, Jiang An just gave a faint "hmm", took a sip of milk, and there was a circle of milk stains on his upper lip. He wiped it with a tissue, nodded and half-jokingly said: "It's hard to be so concerned about my sexuality. no—"

Before Jiang An finished speaking, Xia Yao choked a little. His mouth and throat were dry, and now he swallowed the bread stuck in his throat.

"I'm just curious."

Fortunately, after swallowing it, he finally found a more plausible argument.

Jiang An had already eaten, so he didn't speak, just looked at Xia Yao waiting for his next words.

"You helped me twice in Hongyuan before, but you may not remember much." Xia Yao said.

As soon as he said "I don't really remember", Jiang An uncontrollably felt flustered and apologetic—it wasn't that he didn't remember, it should be that he didn't take it seriously at all at the time, and he couldn't just because he helped someone Twice, you have to remember to wait for the rest of your life to be repaid by Yongquan, right?

Then he "walked the chivalry" so many times in his youth, how many people have to be remembered.

He thought for a while before saying, "I remembered something last night."

"It was only last night that I found out that you really forgot." Xia Yao said, got up and went to get another piece of bread, "Do you still want it?"

Jiang An shook his head.

"When Hongyuan was in the first year of high school, I didn't know which 'friend' spread the news that I was gay, and then I was targeted by those people. You helped me at that time, and I wondered later Is it because you are too, that's why you said those things to them."

Before last night, Jiang An didn't even remember that Xia Yao had appeared in his high school career. Of course, he completely forgot what he said at that time.He didn't pursue this weird reason enough to reasonably explain why Xia Yao said those words last night, but instead asked sincerely: "What did I say?"

Xia Yao stared at him for a while: "Your memory is really bad. But it's been too long, and I forgot what you said."

"Aside from this, there is no other reason? Just because of this?"

"Gone."

Jiang An raised his eyebrows in noncommittal, helped Xia Yao take the plate back to the kitchen, stood at the door of the kitchen and said to him: "I caused you trouble last night, I have not been able to drink very well."

There was a clang of jingling, Xia Yao put the plate into the sink, turned around and said, "It doesn't matter."

At least this time you drank too much and remembered that you caused me trouble last night.he thinks.

When sending Jiang An downstairs, Xia Yao changed his mind and wanted to go to Hanjiang Yingxue's new base to take a look, so that he could take Jiang An there along the way.Sitting in the car and Jiang An was fastening his seat belt, Xia Yao suddenly said, "Online and offline, you really don't look like a person."

Jiang An joked with him: "It doesn't look like a person, what else does it look like?"

"You know that's not what I meant, what I mean is..." Xia Yao wanted to say, online you are really indifferent and unfriendly to people—especially to me.

Jiang An fastened his seat belt and turned his head to look at him, saying, "Maybe it's because I've been playing games for a long time, I'm used to dealing with game characters, and occasionally I forget that there is a real person behind the game characters."

Xia Yao turned his head and looked at him: "Maybe."

The car drove out of the parking lot and encountered a red light. Xia Yao squinted his eyes and saw the clear sky thousands of miles through the glass. As soon as he relaxed, he blurted out and asked, "Are we friends?"

"Why do you ask that?" Jiang Anzheng looked down at all kinds of information accumulated from last night to this morning, casually followed his line of sight, and saw the blue sky that seemed to reflect the entire sea.

Xia Yao followed his instinct, stopped all unnecessary thinking, and said softly: "You helped me twice in high school, and then you saved me once again—won't you forget it too?"

He really doubted the memory of this "King of Amnesia". It seemed that he had a dog in his mind.

Jiang An really thought for a few seconds before hesitating: "You mean that dinner party?"

"Yes, according to what you said at the time, the time when the hero failed to save the beauty." Xia Yao added.

Jiang An smiled and said, "I haven't forgotten that."

"We really shouldn't be in this relationship."

Xia Yao said these words calmly, staring at the red light in front of him and jumped to green light, then kicked the accelerator and drove out of the intersection.

Jiang An also didn't speak for a long time, and tacitly kept silent with Xia Yao. He watched the street trees receding quickly outside the window, and said after a long while: "What's the relationship? Opponents? Then I never think that we are opponents," then he turned his head to look Xia Yao asked him, "Do you think we are rivals?"

"Aren't we?"

"Chen Gu is your teammate. At that time, we played games between the two teams, and it didn't prevent him from being my friend. In e-sports, there is no eternal opponent. Look now, I am also leading the second team in Shenyan. .” Jiang An adjusted the back of the seat and sat in a more comfortable position.

Hearing what he said, Xia Yao took advantage of the situation and said half seriously and half jokingly: "Then this means that we may become teammates in the future?"

The smile on Jiang An's lips faded, and he responded slowly: "At least we are friends now."

After getting this answer, Xia Yao stopped asking, and the two of them didn't talk much along the way.

The comprehensive base of COD is only one kilometer away from TWR in a straight line. Xia Yao sent Jiang An to the gate of TWR, and then drove to COD.

Chen Gu arrived a minute early, and seeing the way he was rubbing his temples and frowning, he must have a hangover headache. Jiang An walked up to him and greeted him. He took advantage of the opportunity and asked Jiang An: "That's Xia Yao's car?"

"Well, I came with him." Jiang An said.

Chen Gu pushed open the glass door and stretched out his hand to block it. Jiang An walked in front, and he asked from behind, "Meet you at the door?"

Jiang An stopped, turned around and said, "I stayed at his house last night."

"what?!"

Chen Gu exclaimed, looked left and right at several other game branches passing by, and deliberately lowered his voice, but even so, he couldn't hide the surprise in his tone: "What's the matter with you!"

"What's the matter?"

"How could it be—how could it be!"

Chen Gu knew the situation of the two of them best. He pulled Jiang An into the tea room, lowered his voice and asked him: "How could Xia Yao let others go to his apartment? There is only one bed!"

As soon as these words came out, Jiang An felt a little interesting instead. He joked: "He doesn't let others go to his apartment, how do you know? And you also know that there is only one bed there?"

"I've been there! I'm not someone else!" Chen Guxu patted the table a few times, looking heartbroken.

"Okay, okay, what are you thinking, we were both drunk last night. He doesn't know where I live and can't leave me to you, and he can't take care of two people by himself, so he took me back Stayed overnight."

"Just a temporary stay? Nothing else?"

"No." The more Jiang An heard this, the more something was wrong. He patted Chen Gu on the shoulder, pushed him, and said, "What else do you think?"

Chen Gu coughed twice, and immediately changed the subject awkwardly, talking to Jiang An about the competition.He stood up and rubbed the back of his neck: "It's only a few days before the game, how is the situation of the second team?"

"Didn't you see it yesterday? It's still not enough to compare with the first team." Jiang An said, took out his phone, opened a video, put it in front of Chen Gu, pointed to the game character on the screen and said: "Deng Feng has a good overall awareness, It’s just that the hand speed is not good. Zhao Xinwei’s operation is not bad, the disadvantage is that he can’t hold his breath, but he should be a good player in solo, if there is a solo competition, we can let him try it.”

"The solo league finals will officially start, and I'll pull it out to have a look at that time." After watching the two and a half minutes of the video, Chen Gu pushed the phone back to Jiang An, and stared at the person for a while, but there was still nothing. say.

Jiang An replied a WeChat message, put the phone back, and asked him, "Why, is there something on my face that is worth looking at for so long?"

Chen Gu sighed, and said seriously: "I am optimistic about the only two people in the second team, but I still don't want to give up the others."

"If you don't go to the competition, how do you know if the others can play?" Jiang An raised his hand and poked Chen Gu on the shoulder, and said, "Who will become famous all over the world as soon as they debut?"

Chen Gu smiled and said, "Aren't you and Xia Yao the same?"

"That's different."

Jiang An waved at him, got up and opened the door of the training room and walked out. After taking a step, he came back and added, "We are a special case."

Chen Gu sat alone in the training room for a while before he came back to his senses. He unconsciously rubbed his cheeks with his hands, looked at the direction Jiang An left and said to himself: "We two? He was kidnapped by Jiang An in high school. Did Requiem wear it..."

Jiang An, who was "soul pierced", suddenly felt a little better. He called Jiang Le and told him about going to school, and decided to raise money to pay the tuition as soon as possible. Although Jiang Le said it didn't matter, he still felt that going to school Can't delay, especially Jiang Le's physical condition is still very special.

But in the end, he still didn't tell Jiang Leming whether he wanted to participate in the competition in October, so he gave himself some leeway.

At noon, when the second team was resting during training, Lu Zhengqi ran down the stairs like a tweeter, rushed into the training room with sparks and lightning all the way, slammed the door of the training room, and faced Jiang in a mysterious manner. An and the others hooked their fingers and lowered their voices and said, "I just ate a big melon from the fourth floor! Do you want to eat it!"

The fourth floor is another MOBA game team of TWR. Several teams of TWR in this building call each other like this collectively.

Jiang An was taken aback by Lu Zhengqi's behavior of rushing in, just as he picked up his phone, the man sat next to him and almost fell to the ground in fright, he sighed heavily, and said, "Don't eat. "

He didn't want to eat, but the five people in the second team in front of him had the word "want to eat" written on their faces.So Lu Zhengqi didn't care about 21, opened the chatter box and started telling stories vividly.

Jiang An was not interested in it at first, but there were always one or two details of the melon brought by Lu Zhengqi that made him feel very familiar. He took advantage of the "melon seller" to drink water, and hurriedly asked him: "Now the club's termination conditions Are you so harsh?"

Lu Zhengqi was taken aback for a moment, never thinking that his focus would be on this, he slowly shook his head and said, "No... oops, but these are all unspoken rules among clubs now, I want to terminate the contract If that person is too strong, the original club must consider the risk of letting him go!"

After hearing this, Jiang An asked again: "Since you don't want to let him go, why don't you reuse him?"

His question caused everyone present to look at him one after another, which confused him even more, "Is there something wrong?"

"I didn't expect it, I didn't expect it," Lu Zhengqi clicked his tongue twice, slapped Jiang An on the shoulder suddenly, and said, "It's really rare that there are such innocent people in the e-sports circle."

"Ok?"

Before Lu Zhengqi had time to explain to Jiang An in detail, Zhao Xinwei took the lead. Zhao Xinwei stood in front of Lu Zhengqi and said, "Senior, let me explain. I will explain to Coach Jiang."

Jiang An nodded and raised his hand to signal him to continue.

"I don't want to let this person go because I don't want this person to become a threat to the entire team. To 'hide' this person and use it, it must be that someone inside does not want him to go. Who would not want him to go? After much deliberation, only the same One position? After all, whether it’s MOBA or MMORPG, every output bit is irreplaceable, especially MOBA.”

Jiang An frowned halfway through Zhao Xinwei's speech. It wasn't that he hadn't thought of sinister people, but he hadn't thought that the same thing might have happened around him.

After hearing Zhao Xinwei's words, his immediate reaction was to find Li Zhenhe. At that time, he wanted to get closer to the game and farther away from the so-called interest center. He didn't know much about the club's situation, so he suddenly wanted to ask, Xia Yao stayed in the youth training camp for a whole year and was not reused but also failed to leave. What happened.

Leaving Lu Zhengqi to continue eating with the members of the second team, Jiang An came out of the training room and went directly outside to find a secluded place to call Li Zhenhe.

"Why are you free to call me?"

The call was answered quickly, Li Zhenhe's tone of voice was very happy, and he seemed to be in a very happy mood, "I heard that you have moved to the industrial park? Then when you are free--"

"Is it convenient for you to answer the phone now?" Jiang An's tone was hurried when he felt uneasy. Although he tried his best to restrain himself, Li Zhenhe still felt that something was wrong.

Li Zhenhe spoke again after a while, and asked him in a low voice, "Tell me, what happened?"

When he wanted to ask, Jiang An still hesitated for a moment, he sighed inaudibly, and said slowly: "I want to ask you something——

"Four years ago, Xia Yao stayed in the youth training camp for a year, but he didn't leave. It was rumored that I did it on purpose. You also know that I would not do such a thing. If it's not me, then who is it?"