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In the e-sports arena, the light has always only shone on one side.

After the qualifiers, the three teams selected for the World Championship this year put on their uniforms and stood together on the main stage for the expedition ceremony. The cheers of the audience reached the peak at the moment when the ribbons flew in the arena. The lights behind them were bright. The contestants Everyone has a confident or reserved smile on their faces.

The side that lost the election stepped off the stage early, and the TV in the lounge broadcast the main stage. Zhang Yingxian got up and turned off the TV. Looking back at the few people in the room who were silently packing up the peripherals, he couldn't find the words for a while. to comfort them.

After declining the media interview, NK and the others boarded the bus back to the club. The car drove smoothly on the road, occasionally rolling over one or two small stones and making a moderate sound, which just overwhelmed someone's trembling sigh.

Back at the club, the five of them had no appetite. They went to the training room to put the peripherals back on the computer table, and then looked back at the coach. The whole process was so quiet that even the drop of a needle could be heard clearly. The coach sighed helplessly. I didn't plan to make chicken soup for them anymore, so I simply took five people to the meeting room for review.

They saw the scene of that failure again in a short time. Yi Fan took several deep breaths before he managed to let out the breath that was stuck in his chest. He raised his eyes and saw the scene of his teammate being ganked, and he couldn't help but clenched under the table. fist.

When the replay came out, Zhang Yingxian stood outside the meeting room waiting for them. He didn't know how long he had been waiting. He stood against the wall in a casual suit, and when he saw the door opened, he hurried up to meet him and said with a smile, "Let's go out for a meal." .”

The five looked at each other, but no one answered him.

"I can't just stop eating after losing the game," Zhang Yingxian said, "I'm treating guests, the car has been waiting for you outside for half an hour."

"Let's go," Peng Li was the first to speak. He pulled his hand out of his trouser pocket and pushed Fang Chi who was standing in the front. "We can't go on a hunger strike together."

"Then the next day's headline was 'A team member of an e-sports club died on a collective hunger strike after losing the game'" Fang Chi laughed, and said weakly, "It's a bit of a bad name."

"Can I drink?" Shen Zheng sniffed at the end of the line, "I want to drink."

Yi Fan was stunned, and quickly rushed over and hooked the man's neck and took the belt forward: "Of course, there will be no competition tomorrow."

After he finished speaking, he paused, looked up at Zhang Yingxian: "Can you drink?"

"It's fine if you don't play drunk." Zhang Yingxian shrugged.

Several people looked at each other, and barely hooked the corners of their mouths.

It was too late to bother the driver of the club, so Zhang Yingxian called his own driver over. The driver was the same big brother who went to the station to pick up Yi Fan and Fang Chi a few years ago, and there was another car following behind. , seven people sat in the car in two groups, all the way to the restaurant.

Several people have made achievements in recent years, so they booked a box for fear of being seen by fans.After entering, no one spoke, and the dishes were not served, Yi Fan raised his wine glass and shouted boldly: "Go!"

Qin Yu frowned and pulled his hand down a little. Shen Zheng, who never wanted to sit on the other side of Yi Fan, then raised his glass. The support who usually looks calm was even more excited than the jungler at this time, half the glass The wine dries up in one sip.

Yi Fan was also confused by his drinking method, his mind went blank for a second, and then he drank it down. Qin Yu had no chance to reach out to stop him. He paused for a while, and then picked up his own glass.

After becoming an adult, Yi Fan often went out to eat with Qin Yu and the others. It was unavoidable to take two sips of beer and white wine quietly at the dinner table. His drinking capacity has improved a lot for a long time. It is not the level of pouring half a glass before, but drinking so hastily is enough to make him sane unclear.

After the game, I didn't eat much at all, and drank a lot.Shen Zheng and Yi Fan were so drunk that they couldn't find the north, they hooked their shoulders to the window to look at the moon, Qin Yu was half drunk, so he could only carefully watch the two people over there, for fear that they would fall out of the window .

"Actually, it doesn't matter. We can fight again next year." Yi Fan hiccupped after saying this, then pursed his lips and said, "Didn't you not enter the World Championship last year, and fight for another two years , we will definitely be able to enter the World Championship, and then win the championship in one fell swoop... Hiccup, do you think it is better for me to have a spider or a wine barrel for the championship skin?"

Shen Zheng raised his head and said nothing. After a while, he suddenly took off his glasses and rubbed his red eye sockets: "Well, we will definitely be able to enter next year."

This was actually said last year.

"Let's fight again next year." Yi Fan patted Shen Zheng's shoulder with a smile, and turned around to return to his seat.

The wine was all removed, the hotel helped to cook sober soup and brought it up, Yi Fan took two sips of it, suddenly choked up badly, quickly put down the bowl, took a deep breath, lowered his head and let out the breath.

The cell phone in his pocket rang suddenly, Yi Fan took it out and looked at it, his expression changed. He stood up and staggered to the door, and pulled the doorknob several times before pulling the door open.

Seeing him like this, Qin Yu wanted to follow him out, and Fang Chi on the other side also stood up as soon as he stood up. After the two of them stared blankly at each other for a while, Fang Chi smiled and said, "Hey, I even forgot about him." Now someone is thinking about him, and he is always raised as a son... you should hurry up and take a look."

"Okay." Qin Yu nodded, and couldn't help but glance at Fang Chi again.

"Don't look," Fang Chi said, "Dad, I'm straight and straight. I have already had something to do with Yi Fan. It's your turn?"

Looking at his flushed face, Qin Yu knew that he had drunk too much, so he didn't say much. He was even more worried about the child, so he could only nod hastily and followed him out.

Yi Fan didn't go far, just squatted at the entrance of the corridor, holding the phone tightly with one hand, and pinching his trousers with the other, looking lonely and pitiful.

Before Qin Yu approached, he heard Yi Fan yelled aggrievedly to the captain.

"Yes, I lost 3:2, fuck me... I really shouldn't go to grab the dragon in the last wave, I lost all my skills, Fang Chi was cut off, and I didn't have a big move to help him explode..." Yi Fan's voice It was originally low, but the person on the other end of the phone didn't know what to say, his voice suddenly trembled, with a bit of choking, "Captain, you don't even know how wicked that AST support is, how can you be robbed by Dalong?" In the future, flashing to the wall to start a big fight, the temper is a bit too hot, how can there be such a game, is it lacking in morality?"

Qin Yu walked over to him and squatted down, and as expected, he saw Yi Fan's red eyes, tears were still in them, and they were about to fall.He heard Jiang Hong's smiling voice on the other end of the phone: "Okay, there is no one who loses the game and says others are wicked, where are you now?"

Yi Fan raised his hand and wiped the tears from his eyes: "At the hotel, Zhang Yingxian treats guests to dinner...and drank too much, I'm answering the phone in the corridor now, lest they suddenly hear your voice and burst into tears .”

"You sound like I'm dead, I'll call them later...you can still answer my phone when you're drinking?" Jiang Hong thought of something and laughed, "Didn't drag Fang Chi out to sing a heroic song ah?"

"Who pulled him?" Yi Fan muttered.

The two chatted on the phone for a long time, and Qin Yu also squatted opposite Yi Fan to listen to the two of them talking. Passers-by looked this way curiously, then shook their heads to look away.

Yi Fan started to drink more, his speech became more and more slurred, and finally his voice trembled more and more, with uncontrollable crying, Qin Yu sighed, and reached out to take the mobile phone in his hand: "Captain, Yi Fan Drunk."

"I said Fang Chi can rest assured to let him alone, you guarded." Jiang Hong teased, paused for a while before continuing, "I watched today's game, you are all very good, better than me It was so much better when I was playing, I wonder if your grandchildren are playing me. Come on next year, leave me a ticket for the World Finals, and I will watch you win the championship."

"Okay," Qin Yu said, "When the time comes to take the championship photo, I'll give you a PS profile picture."

"Grandson." Jiang Hong cursed with a smile.

After hanging up the phone, Yi Fan buried his face in his knees and was motionless. He didn't know whether he was crying or fell asleep. Qin Yu put his mobile phone into his pocket, raised his hand and touched the short nape of his neck. hair, asked softly, "Are you still fighting?"

Are you still fighting?

From the Spring Split to the Summer Split, there were ups and downs, regardless of the number of victories and losses during the period, regardless of the strength of the teammates, because of Yi Fan's phrase "I want to fight for another year" at the beginning of the season and because of the World Championship, it is enough to make all players shine On a hot stage, they worked hard for a year, but they didn't get the desired result.

It wasn't so uncomfortable in the first round of the qualifiers last year: they knew best how much they were, and they were already very happy to be able to get into the qualifiers here.But the moment he lost the game today, Qin Yu wanted to cry a little bit.

I am most afraid of being within reach but missing it.

If they hadn't made it to the final round, they might not have been so sad, but reality did give them hope, and they slapped them hard in the face.

Victory or defeat in e-sports is commonplace. To put it lightly, it takes another year to fight, but how can e-sports players have so many "years"?Every season is the most important footprint of their careers, and they cannot stand so many "years"

Yi Fan buried his head in his knees, and said something vaguely, but Qin Yu didn't hear clearly, and subconsciously replied: "What?"

"Fight." Yi Fan raised his head, with tears all over his face, he raised his hand and pressed his arm to his eyes, rubbing hard, "When you see AST, fight hard, beat them to Linglong Tower in the regular season... oh no, zero seal, They played 10 shots in the [-]-minute game, I'm going to fuck it, what kind of unscrupulous support, can't play with one control and four in the wall, can you play the game, are you polite...I... I fuck..."

Qin Yu sighed, and picked up Yi Fan by the collar of his clothes.After squatting for a long time and drunk, the person on top couldn't stand still, and was about to fall to the side. Qin Yu pressed him into his arms, and sighed again: "Cry."

Yi Fan fell silent.It took a long time before he began to sob softly, which slowly turned into a howl from his throat, which melted into tears and released with a bit of unwillingness. He also cursed vaguely, but Qin Yu didn't listen Clear, I just feel my shoulders are wet.

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