Warm Water Spirits

As the elevator went up, Han Lei gave a basic introduction of the hotel.

酒店52层与51层的隔音效果是世界级的。就算九支队伍在52层庆祝狂欢，51层的客人也能一夜好眠。53层一人一间客房。集训期间，可以下到十五楼的观景台餐厅用餐也可以在自己房间用餐。

"...The viewing platform is facing the harbor, overlooking the Montjuic Mountain, there is a direct bus, and the sunset is very good. But you probably don't have time. In fact, the Las Ramblas is next to it, which is very prosperous and has urban characteristics .”

After Han Lei finished speaking with a smile, he was not surprised to see the increasingly frustrated faces of Xia Min and Lu Xinglan.

Song Shao sighed: "Mr. Han, let's talk about the training camp."

Han Lei comforted: "It's not that exaggerated to scare you." Then he got down to business: "I am the person in charge of the Asian division. You can contact me if you have any questions, including hotel issues. I also live on the 53rd floor during the training camp. I am in charge of Europe. The competition area is Eli, as you will see later, a Dutch guy who has been involved in the preparation of official events as a volunteer and has a lot of experience. The North American division is in charge of Brian, you must have heard of his name before. The MG team under M19 has served and entered the World Championship a few years ago."

Li Kun nodded and said: "I know him, the black Brian, the king of hand speed. He once set a miracle of 40.00% elimination rate in a single game."

Han Lei smiled and said, "It's no longer a miracle." As he spoke, he turned his head and looked at Jiang Yunqi, who stood in the last row and bowed his head, not knowing what he was thinking: "The personal elimination rate of this qualifier has come out, the three major divisions, Yunshen got first place."

As soon as the voice fell, the elevator was silent for half a second.

Xue Minghuai whistled, Xia Min, Lu Xinglan and You Rongyan pushed each other with a smile.

Boyu opened his mouth and couldn't speak, and after a while he said: "Already, already out?!"

Han Lei smiled: "Yes, it came out after ten o'clock this morning. To be cautious, it was delayed for a week. The official website announcement plans to do a final review and send it out in the evening. The other eight teams just found out, and you were the last to know."

Li Kun breathed a sigh of relief: "Before, there was always dissatisfaction with our Xinzhan tickets on the Internet, and now we can speak based on our strength."

Han Lei patted Li Kun on the shoulder: "Your team is really good. Xue Minghuai is ranked eighth alone, and Eric is ranked tenth."

Song Shao's eyes lit up: "Tenth is not bad!"

Xia Min couldn't help but said, "The eighth is even better."

Xue Minghuai couldn't help laughing, the smile revealed the relief that the raised cub could finally speak, turned to look at Jiang Yunqi, and found that he was still distracted, the mobile phone WeChat interface opened, a dialog box was clicked in and out, and he didn't know what to contact who.

"Is something wrong?"

Jiang Yunqi shook his head, dimmed the screen for a while, put away the phone and did not speak.

The elevator door opened, and four elevators were installed in the left and right passages.On the opposite wall, the huge Chinese, English and French logos of Jedi Sniper came into view.Gold A9 hangs at the top, and the names of the nine selected teams are displayed below in an extremely ostentatious way.

The space on the 52nd floor is huge.The ground in the middle is decorated with a whole surface of Turkish moon stone, which is extravagant but not against harmony.The effect of the spacious and open space with no barriers is that just as a group of people walks out of the passage, they are faced with a semi-circular training field that is inwardly rolled in layers. The golden yellow and pure black are symmetrically interlaced, and the momentum is extraordinary when viewed from the outside.The fully transparent conference hall is located in the very center, and it has long been full of people.

Brian was a tall man who was standing up and waving at them.

Passing through the area of ​​the Nine Great Teams all the way, Han Lei opened the door of the central conference room, and Xinzhan's two eight-member teams had been arranged on the far side according to the A9 ranking.

Each team member has a Chinese and English table sign with the name of their game in front of them.

The eight people in Xinzhan sat down one by one, and the whole table followed their eyes, and there was an inexplicable silence for a while.

Boyu was a little nervous, and asked Li Kun in a low voice: "Has it started or hasn't it started? Are you waiting for us all this time, impatient?"

Li Kun smiled, he had participated in the World Championship the year before last, but as a member of the second team, there were a few familiar faces on the conference table, he nodded his gaze and said to Bo Yu, "Don't be nervous. It’s just a regular procedure, everyone will meet, and then the event organizer will come out and say a few words, and take care of the next training arrangement and event rules training. We arrived just in time.”

"But why do they keep looking at us?"

"It's not about you, it's about who is the cloud god."

Sure enough, Jiang Yunqi was absent-minded and left at the end. When he sat down, there was a burst of whispering in the audience.

However, Yunshen's mind was entangled, and his expression became even more indifferent.

In the eyes of onlookers, it is a very calm and calm appearance.

Xue Minghuai glanced at Jiang Yunqi, leaned over and whispered: "What happened?"

"fine."

Jiang Yunqi raised his eyes and looked around.It was the first time for him to meet players from the North American and European divisions. Among them, the famous ones had already seen the posters on the official website of the Jedi Sniper Team.The black Brian that Li Kun mentioned in the elevator before, he had heard of it when he first came into contact with Jedi sniper, he was a legend like Yi Xuan.

Afterwards, the organizer of the event took the stage to give a speech. An old white man had an instant translator on the scene, which probably meant that they were welcome to be selected into A9, and hoped to bring a top contest to this year's Jedi Sniper World Championship.At the same time, the official coaches of the competition were arranged for the nine teams to guide the rules of the field in the first week of training, and then accompany them in training until the finals in December.

The three teams selected from the North American Division are all from the M19 e-sports club, namely MG, MZ and MT.

M19 is similar in nature to P11 in the Asian division. They are both alliance teams, the difference is the training method.

P11 adopts an alliance selection mechanism, but at present this mechanism exists in name only.The principle is floating selection.There are no fixed players, and the eleven joint teams are trained in a unified way. In the end, each player will take turns to form a main team based on their strength.During this period, it is common for a certain player to fall three times at one time and rise three times at one time.

This can motivate individual players, and it is easy to cultivate star players like Yi Xuan, Liu Zhi, Yan Yu and Xue Minghuai.The advantages are obvious: flexible and maneuverable, and there will be no accidents where resident players lose the chain temporarily and are caught off guard.Insufficiency is reflected in the lack of team honor.Once a strong backbone is lost, it is often disintegrated and internal strife provokes each to fight.

M19 adopts the alliance competition mechanism.Compared to the personal excellence in P11, in M19, the team fights internally, the survival of the fittest, and it is the entire team that excels. MG, MZ and MT are the star teams in recent years.During the years of Brian's military service, because of his super strength, he got out of the MG team and took a chance.But it didn't end well.Fans have a stronger sense of team honor than players.Bryan came out of the arena after a game and was besieged and insulted by extreme fans, which led to a physical conflict and a serious wrist injury. He later retired.

Compared with the Asian Division and the North American Division, evergreen teams like M19 and P11 often appear, the metabolism of the European Division is dizzyingly fast.

The three European teams that were shortlisted for A9 this time, Xinzhan did not know until the official website of Jedi Sniper announced the list. They had no impression before, which also brought great difficulties to the subsequent tactical analysis.

The three teams are: Fe+, IBI and Plato.

Xue Minghuai looked at the name of the Plato team and muttered: "Isn't this Plato? I remember seeing Aristotle in the qualifiers. I dare say Plato is the best!"

Xinzhan team: "..."

Eric was curious: "Xue Minghuai, what is your major?"

Xue Minghuai said plainly, "Philosophy."

Xia Min Lu Xinglan: "Wow~~~"

Jiang Yunqi: "..."

The whole meeting was spent in a tired and lazy peace, until Xue Minghuai went out and bumped into Yan Yu.

Yan Yu seemed to be waiting for Xue Minghuai.

He is the current captain of P11, and P11 went out before Xinzhan, so it should have been gone by now.

Yan Yu is not very tall, about 1.7 meters.Xue Minghuai was born with a princely temperament, and Yan Yu was very trustworthy at first glance, but this kind of trust was different from Li Kun's calmness, but a kind of trust brought about by a sense of intimacy.Especially when he looks at people with a slight smile.

Jiang Yunqi knew that he would definitely meet Yan Yu, and had been paying attention to Xue Minghuai's movements, but after entering the arena, Xue Minghuai only glanced at the direction of P11 lightly, seemingly indifferent.

Unexpectedly, the table across from him just disappeared, Xue Minghuai walked towards the person without thinking about Yan Yu, who was of unknown origin but definitely harboring malicious intentions.

Xin Zhan and the others didn't understand, so they turned their heads and looked back and forth between Yan Yu and Xue Minghuai.

Jiang Yunqi frowned, stepped forward to grab him, and said in a low voice, "What are you doing!"

Xue Minghuai was staggered by the pull, and his furious anger seemed to be tripped, his expression became more and more gloomy, staring at Yan Yu who was a few steps away with a face full of spring breeze, he gritted his teeth: "Fuck. His face was smashed!"

Jiang Yunqi was inexplicably funny. After thinking about it, he suggested, "We'll fight after the match."

Xue Minghuai was stunned, and after a few seconds he came back to his senses and said, "...Good idea."

Xia Min's eyes widened suddenly, and he quietly approached from a distance away from the team: "??? Captain, I heard..."

Jiang Yunqi ordered: "Say I didn't hear it."

Xia Min: "Oh."

Lu Xinglan was honest: "Captain, we didn't hear anything."

Xue Minghuai: "..."

Li Kun came over and asked Jiang Yunqi: "What's wrong?"

"fine--"

Yan Yu was waiting for Captain Li Kun to ask a question. At this moment, he interrupted Jiang Yunqi with a more friendly smile: "Hello everyone, I want to say a few words to the old players of P11. I don't know if it's right—"

"inconvenient."

Before Yan Yu finished speaking with a smile, Jiang Yunqi said bluntly: "We are all competitors, so there is no need for private contact before the match."

Xia Min and Lu Xinglan looked at each other, and they both saw the star of "The captain is so powerful and domineering".

Except for Jiang Yunqi and Xue Minghuai, everyone else in Xinzhan was in a fog.Song Shao looked at Yan Yu suspiciously for a while, then took a few steps down, and it was Eric who yelled before following.

Afterwards, the unified arrangement was that everyone went back to the room to pack their luggage, and went to the viewing platform for dinner together at night.However, the arrangements of each team are different. Some entered the semi-circular training ground as soon as they left the central conference hall, adjusted the equipment, and contacted the coach.

Li Kun said that he will gather in his room early in the morning, and then he will arrange the time freely for everyone. You can go to the training position in advance to familiarize yourself with it, and you can also relax.

"I suggest that everyone still get a good night's sleep and get rid of jet lag."

After a meeting, Xia Min and Lu Xinglan were the most sleepy. They would be seriously overdrawn from their previous fights. They leaned behind the elevator going to the 53rd floor, yawning one after another.

Jiang Yunqi was thinking about the wedding. After saying goodbye, everyone turned around and took the elevator down one floor, heading straight to the garden behind the arched door.

When I went in, I found out that the wedding had long since ended.

Surrounded by lush greenery, it looks like a forest entrance.There is a guideway made of pink rose petals under the feet, and the flower arch decorated with pink, purple orange and green rose at the end of the line of sight is still lively, but now only the white tulle blowing in the wind remains.The flowers on the backs of the chairs in the closest distance fell to the ground, and the chairs were placed in a mess. One can imagine how lively the scene would be.

Jiang Yunqi picked up a chair-back flower on the ground, freesia and peonies of the same color, plus a nude pink rose, which was delicate and elegant in his hand.

Jiang Yunqi sat down at a random place, took out his mobile phone and looked at the dialogue interface between himself and Pei Zhe, the sentence "Brother Pei where are you now" has never been answered.

Jiang Yunqi looked up at the gray-blue sky that had already set in, and the smell of champagne and perfume remained in the air.

Five months had passed since that hasty meeting in July.During the period, there were always phone calls and several video calls.But since leaving Jiangzhou, Pei Zhe seems to have been stuck somewhere in his memory, like a butterfly in amber, every movement, breath and breath is still in his mind, it looks very close, but it is far away.

Sitting at the deserted wedding scene in a foreign country, Jiang Yunqi felt strange for the first time when he thought of Pei Zhe.

Brother Pei, it's been a long time.Jiang Yunqi closed his eyes and sighed.

As the evening wind picked up, the small bouquet of flowers in his hand shook his head.

I don't know how to fall asleep, and when I woke up again, the zipper of the jacket was pulled up to my chin for some reason, and there was a slight weight on my body, as if it was covered with something.

Normally, he could not sleep for a long time leaning back in the chair, but when Jiang Yunqi vaguely opened his eyes and saw the stars all over the sky, he subconsciously felt that it was very late.

And I seem to be leaning on someone's shoulders.

The taste of the aftershave water is slightly cool and hard, and every nerve in the body is throbbing slightly.

Jiang Yunqi stretched his hands into his sleeves, half asleep and half awake, murmured: "Brother Pei..."

The coquettishness in his mouth was in exchange for a dry touch on his cheeks, and someone touched half of his face.

"Are you awake?" The voice was slightly lower, but the smile was obvious: "Why are you sleeping here alone, like a kitten."

Jiang Yunqi froze for a moment, paused for a few seconds and then turned his head——

Pei Zhe's black eyes, which were originally looking down at Jiang Yunqi, were lifted up at this moment, warm and calm, Jiang Yunqi's shadow was reflected in the depths of the eyes, the blue eyes were clear, unblinking.

It was already very dark around, and the lamp in the corner cast a thin layer of silver light, and the petals and tree shadows could not be seen clearly.

"Brother Pei?"

Jiang Yunqi stretched out his hand to do something, but he had already wrapped himself in the sleeve of Pei Zhe's coat before, but he didn't pull out his hand.

Jiang Yunqi lowered his head, as if he had just realized it, he stopped moving halfway, and said in a low voice, "Brother Pei, why are you here?"

Pei Zhe felt that Jiang Yunqi's mood was not right, so he didn't answer, but touched Jiang Yunqi's forehead with the back of his hand: "What's wrong? Are you uncomfortable?"

The hand wrapped in the sleeve was raised and pulled down Pei Zhe's wrist to put it on his knee. Jiang Yunqi rubbed his hands out little by little, and then held Pei Zhe with a pious attitude.

"I just didn't expect it, I thought it was a dream." Jiang Yunqi smiled without looking up.

Pei Zhe stared at Jiang Yunqi without saying anything.

There was a moment of silence between the two.

Pei Zhe didn't take back his hand, and let Jiang Yunqi hold it with both hands. After a while, he suddenly asked, "Do you want to lean on for a while?"

Jiang Yunqi turned to look at Pei Zhe in a daze again, thinking it was strange that these words came from Pei Zhe's mouth.

Pei Zhe repeated: "Do you want to—"

Jiang Yunqi tilted his head and leaned obediently.

"Brother Pei, have you seen the message I sent you?"

"just saw."

Pei Zhe leaned back in his chair and looked at the rose arch in the shadows in front of him, "It was so lively, I couldn't find my phone, and the hotel contacted—"

"I know", before Pei Zhe could continue, Jiang Yunqi answered as if there was a prize contest: "Because you took the bouquet, right?"

Pei Zhe didn't ask Jiang Yunqi how he knew, but smiled, "Yes".

Jiang Yunqi also laughed.

"Where's the bouquet?" Jiang Yunqi walked around Pei Zhe to look for it.

"Put the bar down." Pei Zhe put Jiang Yunqi's head back on his shoulder.

"bar?"

"Well. After the ceremony, we all went to the bar together."

"Brother Pei, do you want to go back later?"

"I want to go back and tell you that the bride's elder was my teacher when I was studying abroad. It's not far, two blocks away."

"Then I'll go with you."

"it is good."