Catch My Little Traitor [Esports]

This time the call was connected quickly.

"...Why are you calling again?" Tang Xu's voice was low, complaining a bit, like a kitten waving its paw after being woken up, scratching Lu Jing's heart.

"Anyway, you haven't slept yet." Lu Jing said, "This is part of the debt repayment obligation."

"Okay." Tang Xu said in a tired voice.

"If you're really sleepy, forget it." Lu Jing heard that he seemed really tired, so she changed her words, "Go and rest, I'll let you go."

"It's okay, it's okay, I'm not very sleepy." Tang Xu said.

"It's not very sleepy to run so early." Lu Jing closed the door, and finally dared to amplify her voice a little, "Get up and continue the ranking."

"Don't, don't, I can take a rest while lying down." Tang Xu said immediately, "I can't control jet lag."

Lu Jing sneered: "I was just joking, look, I scared you."

He lay down on the bed, took out the earphones and put them on, when Tang Xu asked, "What's the matter?"

"Can't you make a phone call if you have nothing to do?" Lu Jing asked back.

"...I want to sleep, brother." Tang Xu said helplessly.

"Then you sleep, it's fine." Lu Jing said generously.

"I have something to do with it!" Tang Xu sounded a little annoyed, "How can I sleep on the phone?"

"Don't you know that Lianmai sleeps?" After Lu Jing asked, she answered on her own, "Yes, you may really not know, it's a thing that has only been developed in the past two years, anyway, those young couples who are dating online are like this. I sleep on the phone, and I don’t need money for WeChat calls.”

"But we are not a young couple." Tang Xu said.

"Oh, yes." Lu Jing said.

Lu Jing wanted to hang up the phone for a moment.

It's not a young couple, they have already said it themselves, why is he still pretending to be passionate.

Cold field.

"then you……"

"But you..."

Ten seconds later, the two opened their mouths in unison, and then shut up in unison.

Lu Jing stopped talking, Tang Xu paused for a second, and finished his sentence.

"But if you want to connect with the mic, then go for it, it's okay."

These words did not make people happy at all. The one who paid off the debt showed a kind of generosity like a creditor. Lu Jing really wanted to get angry and say no. Originally, what he wanted to say was "then you should hang up".

But he wasn't sure if Tang Xu would really hang up if he said no, he thought he would.

The problem is that no matter how irritating Tang Xu is, he still wants to call Tang Xu. Lu Jing is not the kind of person who would rather wrong herself than put on a high air.

So Lu Jing acquiesced in Lianmai's matter, but still snorted ferociously: "Look at your reluctance."

"No, no, I am very happy that you are willing to talk to me for a while." Tang Xu's tone softened.

Lu Jing suddenly calmed down again, thinking that there is really nothing she can do about you.

"What do you want to say?" Tang Xu asked, his voice was modified by the night, and it sounded very gentle.

This question aroused all kinds of thoughts in Lu Jing's mind for a while. He wanted to ask Tang Xu why he left the team at that time, and why he didn't give me an explanation, but looking at the soft moonlight outside the window, listening to Tang Xu's breathing, Lu Jing couldn't ask such a question.

Even if this night was just a dream, he wanted to dream for a while longer.

"How long do you plan to stay for this time?" Lu Jing asked.

"Stay until you have no money and have to go back to your hometown to move bricks." Tang Xu said.

Lu Jing's heart skipped a beat, which meant that Tang Xu wanted to stay in Shanghai for a long time.

He didn't really want to ask the next question, but after Tang Xu said so, he had to ask: "Then aren't you planning to go back to Europe?"

"Not going back." Tang Xu paused, then said with a smile, "I'm retired."

I'm retired.

These four words were like a small stone, which made ripples in Lu Jing's heart.

Tang Xu is 24 this year. He is indeed not young in the hands of e-sports. His career has not been smooth in the second half of his career. It makes perfect sense to retire at this age.

Moreover, most of Tang Xu's time as a player was sorry for Lu Jing. At that time, the old teammates of LSG "blessed" him to retire as soon as possible more than once. Lu Jing also thought about it bitterly.

But even with such and other reasons, Lu Jing still felt a tingling pain in his heart.

When he met Tang Xu, Tang Xu was a professional player, and he didn't even have the concept of "Tang Xu will retire". For a moment, he recalled that when he was 16 years old, he first stepped into LSG's small broken base, which could not be called a computer in the training room. In the room, Tang Xu turned around and reached out to him, smiling and saying "Welcome to LSG".

The sun hit Tang Xu's hair that day, forming a perfect arc of light, warm and brilliant.

Is that the end?Always feel empty.

But this is Tang Xu's choice, Lu Jing is not qualified and doesn't want to ask more questions.

He could only follow Tang Xu's words: "When did you retire? Last season?"

"Yes." Tang Xu responded, "It's been a while."

"Alright." Lu Jing didn't even know what she was talking about, "After retiring, I have more time to do what I want to do."

"Yes." Tang Xu replied.

There was a silence where no one knew what to say.

Lu Jing thought so, how could it not be embarrassing for two professional players who were billed as "enemies for life" to talk about playing professionally.

He tried to find other topics, but found that he would talk back about everything he talked about. Even though the two of them deliberately avoided it, they kept thinking about it all the time, and eventually they inevitably walked into an embarrassing situation.

After realizing this, the two simply kept silent while swiping their phones while lying on their sides, but both felt that as long as they could hear each other's breathing through the earphones and feel each other's presence, it would be fine.

I don't know who said good night to whom first, with a vaguely affectionate tone.

-

When he heard Lu Jing's slight snore on the phone, Tang Xu opened his eyes and checked the time, it was [-]:[-] in the morning.

Tang Xu expected that Lu Jing would fall asleep before him. In fact, he was already prepared for insomnia until dawn.

It's also a problem that only happened in the past two years. Tang Xu sleeps very lightly now, and once he wakes up, it's hard to fall asleep again.

He actually fell asleep just now, but when Lu Jing's message came, he was woken up.

If Tang Xu didn't answer at that time, or if Lu Jing called and hung up immediately, he would still have time to fall asleep, but he didn't want to hang up Lu Jing's phone, and he was exhausted while talking, so he won't be able to sleep anymore with.

The body wants to sleep, but the brain just can't sleep. This feeling is actually very painful and even makes people collapse.

And Tang Xu didn't have any sleeping pills on hand, so he could only brace himself.

Fortunately, before hanging up the phone, Tang Xu turned up his voice a little, closed his eyes and listened to Lu Jing's breathing, as if it was close to his ears.It reminded him of the night of Lu Jing's birthday three years ago, when Lu Jing's breath was so close.

This gave Tang Xu an illusion of tranquility, as if everything was still in the past, but he knew clearly that this was just an appearance.

Now the relationship between him and Lu Jing is like a fairy tale, with a beautiful appearance but can't stand the slightest touch.

Lu Jing cared about him, so he was willing to ignore the scars left between them for a short time, but Tang Xu knew better that those scars could never be truly ignored just because he cared.But he couldn't explain it, because if the price of explaining it was to destroy Lu Jing's current life, he would rather not do it.

Tang Xu has always been a person who doesn't like waves, and he doesn't want to cause trouble to others.Just like when Lu Jing asked him if he retired, he would say that he had retired, because he knew that if he told Lu Jing that he was reduced to playing in Venezuela, and he had not retired but came back to wait for retirement and other details, Lu Jing would definitely ask, and even for this reason. bother.

Tang Xu originally thought that this was another sleepless night. The fact that his voice would be heard by others while sleeping made him unable to relax, and thinking about it made him even more disturbed.

However, listening to Lu Jing's breathing, his mood miraculously calmed down, and he even felt sleepy soon.

Before going to bed, Tang Xu said good night to Lu Jing in his heart.

-

When I woke up, it was past twelve o'clock in the noon, and it was rare to have a good quality sleep.

Tang Xu opened his eyes and looked at his phone, the phone was already hung up, and Lu Jing sent him two messages.

-Jing: I'm going to have an early meeting, hang up first, wake up and find me.

-Jing shared a Weibo with you.

Tang Xu pressed the center of his eyebrows, ignored the mysteriously intimate message, and clicked on Weibo.

The first thing that caught his eye was a bold title with black brackets that he couldn't understand.

[Jingye·Jungle perspective (with H): wild monsters and me, all belong to you]

Tang Xu opened this Weibo article with a confused face and read it for 2 minutes.

Tang Xu:? ? ?