Although the summer carnival is only held for two days, the content of the event is very rich and colorful. In addition to offline pop-up stores, summoner gatherings, etc., there are also various official events, such as the All-Star Tournament , star anchor competition, veteran competition and rookie competition, etc.

Because all the official events are held in the same venue, the rehearsal time on the only day is very tight. For these young players who participated in the rookie competition, their rehearsal time was arranged during the lunch break.

Hua Banshu didn't come to the venue with the official bus, it happened that Oukai had to come early for some things, so he took a taxi with Oukai.

After getting off the car, Ou Kai went to do his own business. According to the staff's instructions, Hua Banshu went around all the way to find the gathering place for the new contestants. That place was the cafe attached to the competition venue.

Hua Banshu walked into the cafe, he looked around, there were already some newcomers in the shop, but there were no ones Hua Banshu was very familiar with.

Hua Banshu grew up in the e-sports circle. Almost all of the famous LPL players have helped Dong Ji raise his son. Hua Banshu is very familiar with the old players, but now this wave of newcomers, Hua Banshu I really haven't had much contact with Banshu.He closed himself up because of the [-]th incident, and he has been unwilling to communicate with others in the past few years. Although he has been treated very well in the "Rehabilitation Center for Children with GG Problems" recently, he has not changed from an autistic child to a great saint. Gaming courtesan.

If it was Hua Banshu in the past, he would definitely find the most inconspicuous corner to stay by himself, but recently Hua Banshu's mentality has improved a lot. When he saw Shao Ran sitting by the window, he took the initiative to walk over.

Shao Ran is the ADC player of the CD team. He is from the official training camp. He is very talented, but his mentality is not very good. He often loses his level due to nervousness. opportunity.Even so, Hua Banshu's father is still very optimistic about Shao Ran, and Feng Fan, the head coach of the CD team, should be the same, so he still signed Shao Ran despite his poor performance in the draft, and personally brought him After half a year, as soon as Shao Ran played in the summer competition last year, he was reborn and shined brilliantly.

Hua Banshu and Shao Ran are not familiar with each other. When it comes to the intersection of the two of them, there are only three times.

For the first time, Hua Banshu met Shao Ran in the rest area of ​​the players. Shao Ran suddenly changed himself from an autistic boy to a red-haired non-mainstream player. Hua Banshu didn't recognize him as a professional player. He said something hard.

The second time, Hua Banshu met Shao Ran when he was playing rank in the national server. Shao Ran helped him smack others and added him as a friend, but after Shao Ran knew that his game friend was Hua Banshu, he decisively deleted him Lost.

For the third time, the Great Sage organized a righteous action to encircle and suppress the HP team ADC Batian. Shao Ran randomly entered the scene of the siege. He not only helped Hua Banshu speak, but also personally helped the Great Sage beat them together. Overbearing meal.

Afterwards, Hua Banshu carefully analyzed Shao Ran's various behaviors. He felt that Shao Ran didn't like him very much, but he seemed to be quite fair.Hua Banshu felt that if he had the chance, he could make friends with Shao Ran, but now, an opportunity was in front of him.

Hua Banshu sat down opposite Shao Ran. Shao Ran was playing with his mobile phone with his head down. When he felt someone coming, he looked up.

Shao Ran was taken aback when he found that the person sitting opposite him was Hua Banshu, but Shao Ran didn't say much, instead he picked up the can of iced cola he just bought and handed it to Hua Banshu, "Drink? "

Hua Banshu took over the "olive branch" of friendship and thanked Shao Ran.

Shao Ran simply replied that you are welcome, and then continued to play with his phone with his head down.

Hua Banshu was fiddling with the pull ring of a can of Coke, and took the initiative to explain the previous incident to Shao Ran, "I'm sorry, I didn't recognize you in the player rest area last time. You never participate in post-match interviews or anything. I feel sorry for you." I don't have a deep impression on you, and you suddenly dyed your hair red that day, so I didn't expect it to be you."

Shao Ran: "The coach made me more confident."

Hua Banshu was a little confused, "Huh?"

Shao Ran: "I don't like the camera, and I get nervous. Brother Fan said that the ADC must not be sharp. He made me more confident, so I went to dye my hair red and wanted to be reborn."

Hua Banshu: "Oh."

Shao Ran looked at Hua Banshu, "Jiang Zhu too?"

After Shao Ran finished speaking, he pointed to his own hair, which meant he was asking whether Jiang Zhu suddenly dyed his hair silver-gray for the same reason as him.

Hua Banshu replied truthfully, "He just wants to be handsome."

Shao Ran: ...

Shao Ran was probably speechless, so he chose to continue playing with his phone with his head down.

Hua Banshu was particularly envious of the great sage's self-skilled skills. He was silent to Shao Ran for a while, and finally thought of another topic.

Hua Banshu: "Thank you for speaking for me in the game last time."

Shao Ran: "You're welcome."

Hua Banshu: ...

Shao Ran didn't tell Hua Banshu what to say, and Hua Banshu couldn't find a new topic, and the atmosphere gradually became awkward.

Hua Banshu began to miss Jiang Zhu, he wanted to have a grievance with Jiang Zhu, the outside world is so difficult!

Hua Banshu picked up his mobile phone to check WeChat messages. Jiang Zhu waited for him to arrive at the hotel this morning before going to bed. He was probably still catching up on sleep at this time. Hua Banshu couldn't find Jiang Zhu, so he was like choosing a concubine in the friend list Pick and choose which one to harass.

Hua Banshu stopped talking, but Shao Ran asked again, "Do you want to be friends with me?"

Hua Banshu heard Shao Ran's question and nodded to him, "Yes."

Shao Ran said seriously, "We can't be friends because I don't want to."

Hua Banshu has always been full of doubts about Shao Ran's attitude like fog, rain and wind. Now that he has the opportunity to communicate, he directly asked, "You hate me?"

Shao Ran replied frankly, "I don't hate it, but I can't like it either because of jealousy."

Hua Banshu didn't expect that what he was waiting for was such an answer.

Although Shao Ran talked about jealousy, he didn't show any unfriendly emotions, he just gave his own explanation calmly.

Shao Ran: "You have a super talent that is beyond the reach of others. Your father is also the head coach of the world champion. You have had champion team members as sparring partners since you were young. You just started playing professionally, and you entered the most superior GG team in the entire LPL. "

Shao Ran lightly opened the tab of the can of drink in his hand, and the tab made a crisp sound with a metallic coldness, which was very similar to Shao Ran's lack of warmth, "Hua Banshu, you and us are not the same kind of people. "

Shao Ran's evaluation of Hua Banshu was not the first time Hua Banshu had heard it. In other words, his ears had been filled with such voices. Others became outstanding professional players because of unremitting efforts, but he became a professional player. It is unique.

For a moment, Hua Banshu suddenly felt a little wronged.

Hua Banshu grew up with such evaluations since he was a child. He never refuted anything, but facing Shao Ran, Hua Banshu suddenly wanted to defend himself.

Hua Banshu: "Although I grew up in the BJ team, maybe I do have the talent to play games, but that doesn't mean I haven't worked hard."

Shao Ran replied, "I know that people who are talented but don't work hard, and people who only know how to work hard but have no talent, can't survive in today's LPL. You can have such impressive results now, which is enough to prove that you have You are more talented than others, and you also insist on high-intensity practice every day like others, and you may even work harder than most professional players."

What Hua Banshu wanted to say, Shao Ran finished for him.

Shao Ran continued, "But you and us are still not the same kind of people."

Hua Banshu didn't quite understand what Shao Ran meant, and Shao Ran obviously understood Hua Banshu's puzzlement. He smiled indifferently, with a touch of sarcasm, but the sarcasm was too frank. And make people feel bad.

Shao Ran leaned his whole body on the chair, his expression became more serious, "Hua Banshu, when you were 14 years old, you reached the top of the national uniform, your parents must be proud of you, even the entire domestic e-sports circle , and are looking forward to you growing up, and everyone regards you as the star of hope in the Chinese competition area. As for us ordinary people, we don’t have such enlightened parents, we don’t have such a comfortable growth environment, most of us are You are gambling your whole life, giving up the opportunity to study and play professionally, if you fail to become a professional gamer, and you don’t have the diploma to live on, will you live a very miserable life in such a long future?”

What Shao Ran said, Hua Banshu never thought about it. All he came into contact with were god-level players who were well-known in the LPL. No one told him that becoming a professional player was a big gamble. If you can achieve success and become famous, but if you lose the bet, what you lose is the long second half of your life.

Shao Ran: "Let me tell you my story, will you listen?"

Hua Banshu actually knew some things about Shao Ran, but not in detail. Shao Ran was willing to take the initiative to tell, so Hua Banshu nodded and answered, "Listen."

Shao Ran seemed to recall the past, he let out a long sigh, and then began to tell his story.

Hua Banshu reached the top of the national server at the age of 14. Coincidentally, Shao Ran actually won the first place in the server at the age of 14. He is not as good as Hua Banshu when he reached the top of Dianyi. What he got was Even so, the No.1 in the seventh district of China Telecom is enough to prove that his game talent is very high. It was at that moment that Shao Ran strengthened his determination to play professionally.

Shao Ran's parents are both state-owned enterprise workers, and the family conditions are neither bad nor bad. Their parents are constantly busy with the trivialities of life. Of course, such parents cannot know what is e-sports and what is a professional player. They only see Shao Ran Skipping class all day to go to the Internet cafe to play games, the neighbors are saying that Shao Ran has failed at school and that he is a gangster.Shao Ran's mother cried at him, and Shao Ran's father was so angry that he beat him all day long, hoping that he would "get back to the right." Shao Ran's father beat him the hardest, and he lost his hand and beat him into a concussion.

Shao Ran stayed in the hospital for two days, and his mother cried by the hospital bed for two days. A good family was made a mess by his career dreams.

Regarding the matter of becoming a professional player, Shao Ran never thought of giving up. His parents didn’t give him internet fees, so he simply ran away from home to make a living by himself. He played in an Internet cafe team, and the Internet cafe team didn’t get much money. At most, there are games to play, starvation to death, and a poor place to sleep. Even so, Shao Ran still feels very satisfied, but the reality is always very cruel. Still can't hold back and disbanded.

After the disbandment of the Internet cafe team, Shao Ran stayed up late playing games while doing odd jobs. He was not yet 16 years old at the time, and he could not get much money from working illegally secretly. Almost all the money he earned was used to pay Internet fees.

The disbandment of the Internet cafe team did not make Shao Ran give up, but gave him another kind of encouragement. He moved from the country clothes that others called to the telecommunications area where the masters gathered. It took him a month to put his new account After rushing to the rank of master, Shao Ran relied on his rank to send out applications for trial training. Later, he went to a privately formed small team, and then the small team disbanded, and he went to another such small team. In those few years, That's how he kept moving between these small teams.

Shao Ran looked at Hua Banshu and said, "For a while, I was afraid of going to sleep because I was afraid that when I woke up, I would be notified that the team had disbanded. You have never felt the feeling of dreams being shattered again and again. Time passed year by year, and later even I felt like an idiot for dreaming about e-sports, but I still didn't want to give up, I still dreamed of soaring into the sky, but in the end, I didn't even have that precarious dream. I couldn’t even find my private team. I sat in a small park in a strange city all night, drenched in a heavy rain, watched the sunrise once, borrowed money for a train ticket, and then set off on my way home. road."

Shao Ran was planning to give up at that time, but what he didn't expect was that on that train home, he received a call from the official youth training camp. At that moment, fate seemed to finally have a crush on this young man. Stop being overly mean.

Shao Ran didn't tell Hua Banshu that after receiving the official phone call, he squatted on the train alone and wept bitterly.

Shao Ran continued, "Although you are working hard like us, you know that you will eventually stand on the professional field. Every day of your life, you are working hard for your bright future, but As most of us, we are not. We don’t know if we have a future. We don’t know if the [-]-[-] hours of hard training in the basement can be exchanged for the opportunity to become a professional player. We have no end in sight. Struggling desperately in the darkness."

Hua Banshu suddenly didn't want to explain anything to himself anymore, because what Shao Ran said was right, no matter how hard he put in, his every day was full of hope, and he worked so hard to stand in the LPL arena The dream-chasing teenagers in this world can't see the way forward at all, they just persevere with their lonely courage.

Unknown, but extremely powerful.

Shao Ran smiled at Hua Banshu, "Thinking about the ups and downs of my own journey, and looking at your appearance of being born purely for dreams, you don't know how envious I am, the envy has reached its limit, It becomes jealousy."

Hua Banshu didn't know what he could answer.

Shao Ran continued, "Hua Banshu, I won't be friends with you, but I will try my best to catch up with you, and I will do my best to become your opponent. Most of the best ADCs in the world need an evenly matched opponent." Achieve each other, just like Liangshen and the lord back then, just like Ou Kai and Wu Li today, one day, it will become me and you."

After Shao Ran finished speaking, he stood up, and he waved at Hua Banshu, "Goodbye."

Hua Banshu watched Shao Ran go away, and he remembered everything Shao Ran said clearly.

After Shao Ran left, Hua Banshu also got up and walked out of the cafe. He walked to an empty corner by the side of the road and sat down. In the hot sun, Hua Banshu didn't notice it.

Hua Banshu was sitting on the stone steps. Through the French windows of the cafe, he could see groups of newcomers in the cafe. They had a good relationship and seemed to be chatting happily. Maybe they were just reminiscing about the past , Telling about the time of serious training in the basement, recalling the experience of eating instant noodles and playing Internet cafe games together.

Hua Banshu suddenly felt an unprecedented loneliness.

Hua Banshu looked down at his mobile phone, he was in a daze for a long time, and subconsciously dialed Jiang Zhu's number.

The phone was connected quickly, but Jiang Zhu's voice was still a little lazy, obviously just woken up by the phone call, when he talked with Hua Banshu, he always had a unique gentle tone.

Jiang Zhu: "Xiao Hua, what's wrong?"

Hua Banshu: "I miss you."

The author has something to say: Jianghua large-scale breakup scene

Xiaohua: I miss you~

Brother Zhu: Don't think that I have no results, unless the flower hand shakes me.

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