Do you look like me? [Esports]

"Did you kill me just now?"

Jiang Xi was sitting on the co-pilot, poking the cake in his hand with a fork, he was already full, and there was still a small piece of cake left, which was smashed and he was too embarrassed to give it to Ji Rui, so he had to Carry it in your hand and wait until you get off the car before throwing it away.

"My fault." Ji Ruici replied without any hesitation, his expression not looking good.

Jiang Xi looked sideways for a while, "Then cook hot pot tomorrow to compensate me."

"it is good."

As the sun set, all the street lights turned on and turned into flashing dome lights as the vehicle moved forward. There was silence in the car, and the car music was not turned on, only the sound of the engine.

Ji Ruici never expresses his feelings on his face. Most of the time, his face is expressionless, making it hard to see what he is thinking. The lights outside the car sweep across Ji Ruici's side face one by one, Reduce the air pressure around him to the extreme.

An hour ago, Cao Zhen pushed open the door of the lounge, and after Ji Ruici said "Don't talk to him" to Jiang Xi, he was not at all embarrassed, but took a step forward and walked into the lounge. Said to Ji Ruici, "Are you free soon, let's have dinner together?"

"No time." Ji Rui replied, wanting to rush out the door after speaking.

Cao Zhen stood at the door without moving, and said helplessly, "Xiao Yang is also here, she said she hasn't seen you for a long time, and she will cook tonight."

Xiao Yang is Cao Zhen's girlfriend, not an e-sports player. Back then, when the five of them first formed SK, everyone had no money, so they pulled the network cable in a small yard, and lived and ate in the same room, even if it was a base. Xiaoyang has been taking care of everyone at the base, and at the same time, Ji Ruici is very grateful to this sister-in-law. If there is anything Cao Zhen can talk to Ji Ruici now, it is probably only this sister-in-law .

Seeing Ji Rui's resignation, Cao Zhen knew that he must have been shaken, and continued, "She also knows your temper, but it's just been so many years..."

"Okay." Ji Rui interrupted him mercilessly. After finishing speaking, he patted Jiang Xi on the shoulder and whispered to him: "There is a cake shop that you like, I asked the owner to save it for you. A mousse, wait for me in the car after eating."

Jiang Xi looked up at him, Ji Ruici added: "I'll be out in a while."

Jiang Xi still didn't leave, in fact, he didn't have to listen to what they said about that year, it was just because——

"You don't want to send me away and beat him here, do you?" Jiang Xi tiptoed up to Ji Ruici'er's ear and said in a tense tone, "Then I can guard the door for you outside the door. If someone is coming, I will let you know!"

Ji Ruici was stunned for a moment, seeing Cao Zhen's bad mood was instantly swept away by Jiang Xi's jumping brain circuit, and he felt a little happy, even looking at Cao Zhen was pleasing to the eye.

His frosty face obviously improved, and he patted Jiang Xi on the head, "No, don't worry."

Jiang Xi glanced at Cao Zhen next to him, and said in disbelief, "Really?"

"Ah."

After getting an affirmative answer, Jiang Xi moved out, and when he passed by Cao Zhen, he raised his head and gave him a kick, with the words on his face: If you dare to fight, you will be finished.

After Jiang Xi left, there were only two old friends left in the lounge. Ji Ruici walked back to the sofa and sat down. He asked in a nonchalant tone: "Speak quickly if you have something to say."

"We haven't sat down like this for a long time..." Cao Zhen used a beginning that Ji Ruici didn't like the most, and was interrupted by him in the next second.

"Don't mention it to me, maybe we can actually sit down and have a good talk."

Cao Zhen looked at him helplessly. This is the person he brought out by himself. He is 6 years older than Ji Ruici, but the two of them can become teammates of a team because of some coincidence. When Ji Ruici played for the first time , Cao Zhen has been in the professional circle for 5 years, he is considered an old man in the e-sports circle.

Ji Ruici was brought up by him step by step. From the small competition where the prize money was 200 but the air ticket cost 2000, to the time when they went to the world championship together and won the championship in one fell swoop, the two had only been on the same team for less than 4 years.

He knows Ji Ruici's temper. When he first debuted, Ji Ruici was a troublesome person who was full of pricks. He played games in Internet cafes and pretended to be the kind who could directly solo with real people. He lost the first game. , Another person sat in that broken yard all night, and Xiao Yang tried to persuade him to go back, but he still had a fever the next day.

Cao Zhen knew that Ji Ruici had always been hard-spoken and soft-hearted, but once someone touched his bottom line, it would be difficult for him to turn back. Cao Zhen never thought that he would be the first person to touch Ji Ruici's bottom line.

The room was silent for a while, and Cao Zhen wanted to speak several times, but he hesitated and didn't know where to start.

Eight years ago, Ji Rui resigned from the competition hall of the World Championships and went to a few games without even attending the celebration banquet. When Cao Zhen caught up, the two of them were the same as they are now.

Nothing to say.

After a long time, Ji Rui resigned and said in a low voice, "I'll just ask you two questions."

Cao Zhen: "Ask, I will tell the truth."

"First." Ji Ruici looked up at him, unable to tell what it meant, "You really didn't know the data of that thing was connected to the peripheral at first?"

Guessing that he was going to ask this, Cao Zhen didn't hesitate for a second, "I don't know, I checked before the finals, but I didn't find anything."

"But after playing the first game, you will find that your data is wrong, and the character's reaction sensitivity is [-]% higher than usual. If this is placed on other players or ordinary players, it may not be a point worth noting, because It's normal to be tense and perform beyond normal in the game, so none of us noticed it. Everyone said that you performed beyond normal, and you responded like this." Ji Ruici said, "But in fact, you know that this is wrong, it is not normal Yes, you are a player who has had a stable peak period for many years, such a sudden supernormal is actually unusual."

Cao Zhen didn't speak, but Ji Ruici analyzed verbatim. He is indeed the most talented e-sports player I have ever seen, and a natural game analyst.

"Second question, you found out..." Ji Ruici paused for a while, and seemed to be extremely disgusted with this word, and it took a while to say it, "You found out the cheat, but you didn't tell anyone, keep using it , played the whole game and won the championship?"

Cao Zhen was silent for a long time, and couldn't help explaining: "That's not cheating, the official referee finally ruled it invalid, that..."

"For me, that's it." Ji Ruici recalled this incident as a thorn in his heart. The most intolerable thing happened to his team, and it became a hurdle he would never get over.

He remembered that the team they defeated back then was the FX team from the North American division. The hunter Jin of their team was also a god in this field. FX had won the world championship for three consecutive years at that time. That game was also Jin's last In the first game, no one believed that SK from China could defeat FX, but in the end, they won. FX is a respectable opponent. After losing the game, they hugged and shook hands with SK with a little regret, and sincerely sent bless.

Jin announced his retirement at that time. Ji Ruici saw that kind of scene for the first time. A god retired. His back disappeared little by little until the team uniform with the ID printed on it was no longer visible.

Although Ji Ruici felt regretful at the time, he was immediately replaced by the joy of winning for the first time, but not long after he was happy, he discovered Cao Zhen's problem. It was all poured out.

He immediately went to the official to report it, but the final data test told him that such peripherals were compliant, and this thing could not be taken into account in the factors affecting the competition results, and the results still took effect.

"You are champions."

Only Ji Ruici doesn't think so.

Facts proved that Ji Ruici was right, because a few years later, the rules of the game were perfected, and such peripherals were included in the ranks of game violations, but no one knew that it had been used badly.

Everyone thought that the final of the World Championship that year was a feast for the replacement of the new king and the old god, but less than a week after the end of the game, SK announced its disbandment.

Ji Ruici has seen the photo of his back and Jin's back together, and the two golden IDs disappeared on the field. The fan who posted the picture said that the regret of S7 is a hurdle that she will never get over in this life.

In fact, she is not the only one who can't make it through, Ji Ruici is also locked under the hurdle by multiple guilts, and she has not been able to get over it until today.

"Xiao Ji..." Cao Zhen wanted to say something more, and finally had the opportunity to sit down and talk with Ji Ruici like this, he didn't want to end it hastily like this.

Ji Ruici seemed to have no intention of avoiding this topic, and leaned on the sofa with folded arms and listened.

……

Outside the door of the lounge, Jiang Xi leaned against the door, listening to Ji Ruici's voice through the crack of the door which was not well insulated.

"I'll just listen a little bit, and I'll leave when I hear that they don't mean to fight."

Jiang Xi originally thought this way, but when he heard the word "external hack" floating out of it, he couldn't move anymore, and was too shocked to make a sound.

Until Ji Ruici uttered the phrase "I'm here, that's it." Jiang Xi saw a staff member walking slowly in the distance from the corridor, because his eavesdropping posture was too obvious or the staff greeted him Exposing the fact that he was still outside the door, Jiang Xi hesitated for two seconds, then turned and left.

On the way to buy cakes, on the way back after buying cakes, and while eating cakes, Jiang Xi kept replaying what he had just heard in his mind.

He can probably understand why Ji Ruici is so angry.

Ji Ruici has always been a man of one word. He is a person who truly loves this industry. He really regards the place in the World Championship as a shrine and the trophy as a treasure.

However, he felt from the bottom of his heart that his only world championship trophy was dirty.

This is the most intolerable thing for him.

Even if everyone tells him otherwise, even if the official test data proves that there is no violation, a [-]% fluctuation is still a normal fluctuation of a player's ability, but Ji Ruici doesn't believe it.

At dusk, the golden sunset shines in through the window, coating the smooth floor of the lounge with a layer of Buddha light. It is so golden and bright that Ji Ruici only finds it dazzling. After raising his hand to glance at his watch, he interrupted Cao Zhen, who never spoke, said, "Let's leave it at that today, and see my sister-in-law another day."

Cao Zhen was slightly stunned, and quickly said: "Okay, how about tomorrow? It just happens to be Sunday, isn't your club closed on Sunday afternoon, come for lunch?"

"..." Ji Ruici stood up, "OK."

When he walked to the side of the car, Jiang Xi opened the passenger window and was lying on the edge of the window eating a cake. Ji Ruici walked over and bent down. Jiang Xi cooperatively stuffed a mouthful into his mouth, "It's delicious."

Ji Ruici nodded, "Yes."

The two of them didn't communicate much in the car. Ji Ruici saw the fastest speed and drove back to the base.

Saturday night is usually used to play training games against the second team. Since there is a game today, the last two games of the domestic qualifiers after today will be two fierce battles. After the meeting in the evening, you can go back to rest, and start training until tomorrow night, so that the players who have been trained by the devil for two weeks can have a good rest.

When Jiang Xi returned to the training room, Chi Bong was just announcing the matter. As soon as he entered the door, he saw Eleven and TC holding Chi Bong's leg and crying bitterly, shouting that Chi Bong is their reborn parents, you can see It turned out that these two people were already a little delirious after two weeks of training.

In the next second, Chi Feng touched the heads of the two of them kindly, "Listen to that shout, daddy."

TC and Eleven got up immediately, and their faces changed very quickly.

"Go away, make an inch of it."

"Push your nose on your face."

Jiang Xi stood at the door and watched the big show: "... What time will the meeting begin."

Chi Feng: "Now."

The meeting was a replay of today's match between GTT and FVE. Jiang Xi didn't play the game, so she was a little distracted listening to the game, and her thoughts kept drifting to what happened this afternoon.

The FVE game didn't have much content to replay, and everyone played well. Even TC was not scolded by the coach, and the meeting ended in less than an hour.

As soon as the meeting ended, the people sitting there immediately acted like Monkey King who had just come out of Wuzhi Mountain, calling friends and planning a party. Jiang Xi had something on his mind, so he slipped through the door while they were in confusion, and walked all the way to Ji Ruici The office, seeing no one around, quickly flashed in.

The lights in the office were on, and the computer screen was still on, but Ji Ruici was not there. Jiang Xi walked around and sat on Ji Ruici's chair to play games on his computer.

Called until eleven o'clock in the evening, but Ji Ruici still didn't come back. Jiang Xi probably knew that he was at work, so he didn't send a message to ask questions, and clicked the mouse to start another game.

"Ding-dong-"

Ji Ruici's WeChat on the computer suddenly lit up, and someone sent him a message.

Jiang Xi's hands were quicker than his brains and he clicked directly.

[Sister-in-law: Xiaoji, what do you want to eat at noon tomorrow, I can go shopping in advance tomorrow morning~]

Just as Jiang Xi was about to turn it off, Ji Ruici's reply popped up suddenly.

[Time: Hot Pot Bar]

[Sister-in-law: Okay, is there anything you want to eat in particular? 】

[Time: I want to bring someone. 】

[Time: I'll ask him. 】

In the next second, Jiang Xi's phone vibrated.

[Time: Tomorrow I will take you to a friend's house for hot pot, do you want to go? 】

[Pleasant Goat: Go. 】

[Time: Good. 】

Jiang Xi looked at the computer screen, saw Ji Ruici and immediately started talking to him about the precautions for eating hot pot.

[Time: Not too spicy, he likes hairy tripe and beef, no mushrooms or sheep at the bottom of the pot. 】

[Sister-in-law: Great~ Then Xiaoji's taste hasn't changed, right? 】

It took a while for Ji Ruici to reply.

[Time: No change. 】

[Sister-in-law: Alright, see you tomorrow~ I look forward to seeing the kid who can make Xiao Ji remember his preferences. 】

[Time: Well, he's cute. 】

Jiang Xi suddenly had the feeling of being caught peeking at other people's chat records, so he blushed and closed the WeChat page, and continued to play his own game.

At night, Jiang Xi didn't wait for Ji Ruici to come back until he fell asleep after washing.

When Ji Ruici returned to the room wrapped in the smell of cigarettes, Jiang Xi was already sound asleep, and the phone dropped to the ground, the page stayed on the chat page of the two, and there were a few unfinished words in the dialog box.

Ji Rui resigned from the bathroom and washed for a long time to wash off the smell of smoke, then gently lifted the quilt and lay down.

Jiang Xi, who was asleep, seemed to notice him, turned around, put his hand on him, leaned closer, and said something vaguely and unconsciously.

"What?" Ji Rui asked.

He leaned closer to Jiang Xi's face, and suddenly heard it clearly.

"I'll just win you a championship trophy."

The author has something to say:

A certain person was so moved that he hugged his wife and kissed him for a long time while he was asleep, but the next day he pretended that he hadn't heard anything and was fine, but in fact he was very happy.