Warm Water Spirits

The so-called briefing session was indeed, as Xia Min believed, an official act of seeking compensation.

After the release of the letter of questioning from the European Arbitration, the official attitude became clear instantly. Even though P11 has an irreplaceable foundational significance in the Asian server, its status has come to an end at this point——

Before the intervention of the European Sailing Arbitration, this incident could still be characterized as an occasional bad incident caused by the contradictions between the Asian server teams and the official technical loopholes.Then, the intervention of Oxai arbitration completely linked this matter with the spirit of professional e-sports. In other words, it directly touched the official authority and pulled down the last fig leaf that the official wanted to recommend P11.

It is only natural for the official to abandon the P11 decisively.

In the early morning of the next day, several make-up artists arranged by Lin Xiyao came to the door one by one, and a brand new set of team uniforms were also prepared for them - if not everyone lacked sleep and yawned with their shoulders crossed, the rows would be a pair of Youthful spirit.

"...No makeup, I'll give you dark circles... Anyway, go out to meet people, don't you feel refreshed—Xue Minghuai, have you washed your face yet?"

The younger ones were still obedient, and sat obediently in front of the makeup mirror early on under Xi Yao's arrangement.A few old fritters are not enough. Xue Minghuai was wrapped in a nightgown and inspected the scene. He couldn't believe the whole process. After a while, he pinched a thin eyebrow pencil and said to Lin Xiyao: "I want to use this?"

Lin Xiyao suppressed a smile, took off the eyebrow pencil, and pointed to the bedroom behind him: "You don't need to, you are naturally beautiful, you just need to wash your face now."

Only then did Xue Minghuai wander away bored.

When Jiang Yunqi arrived, he had already tidied up and put on his team uniform.Lin Xiyao said that she had prepared a new team uniform, so Jiang Yunqi took it to Xue Minghuai's bedroom to change.

The bedroom is connected to the bathroom, and when Jiang Yunqi entered, Bo Yu seemed to have just come down, but unlike Jiang Yunqi, he obviously got up from the bed just like Xue Minghuai.

Neither of them washed their faces, and they were using a sink.

"... Fuck! It splashed on me! Boyu—Captain, don't you care?" Xue Minghuai Elementary School howled, and jumped up and down: "I don't need it! I won't go later!"

Bo Yu rolled his eyes: "How old are you, Xue Minghuai? Also, did you make it with a microscope?"

Xue Minghuai threatened: "Remember, when you return to the base—"

When the firecrackers were set off early in the morning, Jiang Yunqi felt a headache, took out the room card from his pocket and said to Xue Minghuai, "Then you go to my room."

Before he finished speaking, Xue Minghuai rushed out, took the card, turned around and left as if following suit.

Lin Xiyao outside couldn't understand, seeing this, she called him: "Hey! You go—forget it", and said to the makeup artist: "When that blue hair comes back, just comb his hair."

Boyu's room burst into laughter: "Blue hair hahaha!!!"

Jiang Yunqi also found it funny, and while taking off his team uniform, he said to Bo Yu, "Don't keep bullying him."

Bo Yu was overjoyed, turned his head and squinted at Jiang Yunqi: "I bullied him? Captain, I have reason to suspect that you are biased." As he spoke, he gestured with one hand and shot two fingers out of his eyes, looking like a second-year student with sharp eyes.

Jiang Yunqi chose not to speak anymore, bent down to take off his pants, and changed into new ones.

Boyu is the tallest of them all. After the physical examination half a year ago, he has been abstaining from eating and drinking, and he is also very good at exercising when he is not competing.Now I have lost a lot of weight, and my shoulders and neck are broad and straight.He looks sunny, but now he is tall and handsome.

Seeing Boyu's changes little by little, Xia Min was very envious, and now he is exercising with Boyu.But after all, the base is right, the thin Xia Min can't grow seven or eight centimeters out of thin air no matter how much she practices.

Early in the morning, hormones erupted, he would wash his face well, and put on a white T-shirt. Boyu raised his hands up first, then moved sideways, and slapped the door frame with one hand, and dented his elbow for a few seconds. After fixing it, he said to Jiang Yunqi: "Look!"

Jiang Yunqi: "..."

Boyu's eyes filled with anticipation.

After a few seconds, Jiang Yunqi cheered blankly: "Not bad."

Bo Yu turned his gaze back to staring at his arm, and continued to sag: "I've practiced for a long time... Let me tell you, if you encounter something like Yan Yu in the future, let me do it! I'll give you three punches."

Jiang Yunqi: "..."

Suddenly there were several knocks on the door.

Lin Xiyao came in with a laughing voice: "Are you ready? Come out soon, we will enter the arena at 09:30."

Jiang Yunqi snapped the zipper up: "Okay." Turning around, he saw Boyu shrank back into the bathroom in fright, hurriedly slapped his chest, and said in a breathy voice: "I'm scared to death! I thought she was going to come in, the game is over." !"

Jiang Yunqi: "..."

Jiang Yunqi didn't know what to say.

The Accor International Hotel in S City has hosted the official Jedi sniper events over the years, and has also held a number of large and small press conferences and briefing sessions.

When Jiang Yunqi and the others arrived, the back row of the conference room on the first floor, which accommodated nearly 600 people, had already been waiting for the media from all sides. The face is slapped and shot continuously.

Lin Xiyao breathed a sigh of relief: "Fortunately, I got you all sorted out... Come down like that in the morning, if you don't know, you might think it's a late-night squad."

Jiang Yunqi: "...Indeed." He felt inexplicably dereliction of duty as the captain.

Liu Zhi smiled and said nothing.

Xue Minghuai, who was at the end, still looked like he hadn't woken up, and he looked a little impatient at everything.But he is good-looking, even if his brows and eyes are dull, it does not prevent him from standing out with his fresh and unconventional temperament.

Before returning from Jiang Yunqi's room after washing, Lin Xiyao felt that his hair could be left alone: ​​"If you're like this, the reporters won't bother you."

The First group just took their seats one by one under the arrangement of the organizer, and after a while, a reporter beat around the bush and came up to the microphone: "The group stage ended last week, First ranked fourth, and it was the first time they met YE—"

"Sorry, we don't accept interviews. And the meeting starts soon."

Lin Xiyao directly stepped up from the back row to stop her, with a very serious expression on her face.She wore a professional dress today with slender high heels, looking capable and dashing.

The reporter wondered: "You are?"

Lin Xiyao folded her hands on her chest, and behind her, all the members of First looked at her, all obedient and quiet.

"I'm Manager First. What's the problem?"

I didn't expect the team manager to be so difficult to speak. Generally speaking, it was the captain or coach who was difficult to speak.The reporters who were full of drafts were a little stunned, standing at a loss for words.

Sparse waves of people began to appear at the front, and it seemed that the officials had already arrived.The reporter who saw the needles hesitated for a few seconds, and finally chose to go to the front.

Xia Min and Lu Xinglan were so full of admiration that they almost applauded Lin Xiyao.

Lin Xiyao turned around to see how cute they were sitting, and couldn't help laughing: "What are you doing? Why didn't I see you so quiet this morning."

Bo Yu gave a thumbs up and opened his mouth: "Sister Xiyao is Sister Xiyao, she really killed everyone."

Before the words finished, Lin Xiyao couldn't help rolling her eyes, and pointed to her seat backwards: "I'm going back. I'll take you after the end. I've already asked the staff, there is a quick exit passage."

Jiang Yunqi: "Okay."

Xue Minghuai, who sat at the end, was about to fall asleep.Jiang Yunqi glanced at him from a distance, Liu Zhi thought about it and got up and changed places with Xia Min who was on Xue Minghuai's right: "I'll go and see, nothing will happen."

Jiang Yunqi was not afraid of accidents, but he was worried that the louder the venue would wake people up later, Xue Minghuai would probably go crazy.

Boyu has always had a problem of the century: "Why does he always sleep and can't wake up?"

Xia Min was worried: "Does Brother Minghuai think we are annoying...?"

Boyu looked at him with a smile, and paused for a few seconds: "Be confident. Remove the 'is it'."

Xia Min drooped instantly.

Jiang Yunqi: "..."

It was noisy for about 10 minutes, followed by a burst of intensive shooting, the microphone in the front began to buzz for sound test, and the aisle lights on both sides of the edge gradually went out.In the blink of an eye, it seemed as if 90.00% of the high-decibel noise had been removed from the huge venue, leaving only empty reverberations and finely mixed whispers.

In less than half a minute, the meeting officially began.

Start with a few simple sentences in Chinese and English.

Jiang Yunqi recognized that the person who made the opening remarks in English was the white old man who greeted them on the 52nd floor of the Base Heath Hotel last year during the training camp for the World Championship.It's just that he didn't look at everyone speaking with a radiant face this time, his eyes were a little lower, his expression was more solemn, and his tone was a little flat.

After a few sentences, he invited the honorary director of the European E-sports Arbitration Bureau to speak on the antecedents of the incident.

There were occasional applause at the scene, which was sparse, and the overall atmosphere was not particularly good.

This matter is disgraceful, coupled with the capricious and hesitant official attitude, and in terms of defending P11 overtly and covertly, it has already offended most small and medium teams present.

Standing up was an Italian old man with a white beard. He was not very proficient in English, but he was very cute. He mentioned First several times in the middle, and then raised a pair of green-brown eyes, looking for First in the huge team.

When looking for the fourth time, Jiang Yunqi had to stand up under the arrangement of the organizer, looked at the old man from a distance, and nodded.

During the five or six minutes of standing there, Jiang Yunqi especially hoped that Lin Xiyao could also take care of this matter.

Xia Min, Lu Xinglan almost rolled under the chair laughing.

Xue Minghuai endured it for a while, but then he couldn't take it anymore, so he hid behind Liu Zhi and laughed.

Bo Yu, on the other hand, looked worried, dissatisfied with staring at them one by one, inexplicably feeling sorry for Team Jiang, who was there, and then couldn't help but pass Xia Min, Lu Xinglan, and sighed to Liu Zhi: "Coach, you don't care? Xue Minghuai led it! The captain suffered from this It's a crime! We don't have any team spirit at all?!"

Xue Minghuai almost went crazy laughing.

Jiang Yunqi standing alone: ​​"..."

The Italian old man's English pronunciation was really not standard, and Jiang Yunqi didn't understand it at all.Fortunately, there was an instant translation at the scene, to the effect that I would like to thank First for standing up to the end. As a newly included sporting event, e-sports should always be fair and just.

"Love is the purest thing in this world, never defile it." The old man with white beard said with a smile to the twenty or so teenagers present.

Only then did the applause grow louder.

The turmoil that lasted for nearly three years seems to have come to an end.

Those who were wronged will be exonerated, and those who are full of crimes will also be punished as they should.

In the second half, the scene was chaotic. Reporters swarmed forward, asking sharp, acrimonious, or mean questions, and the artillery fire was fierce.The organizer was overwhelmed with coping. Ten minutes later, the microphone was handed over to Jedi sniper public relations personnel, and several white men in suits and ties left the venue in a hurry.

The Italian old man was still sitting on the seat, with his hands folded in front of him, answering questions about the Oxyne arbitration in detail.

With every question that came out, some of the onlookers were gloating, some felt lost, and some were purely watching.

It seems that everyone here has participated in it and can understand the significance of getting to this point.

But apart from First, no one has personally experienced the details of this journey like them.

The result in front of them seemed satisfactory, but only First knew that they were never satisfied.

—if only it had come earlier.

But there is no way.

This is the greatest satisfaction of all dissatisfaction.

They are in their twenties, and one day they suddenly understand that not everything is worthy of perfection.

Even though everything seems to be very complete at the moment - there are condemnations, doubts and apologies, and everyone joins in.

All members of First sat in their seats, staring ahead, without saying a word.