Chapter 29: Before the Competition Chen Yu: "Ye Fei, my junior! You're here. What's with the nervous look?" Chen Yu's sly face leaned in close to me as he put his hand on my shoulder. I ignored him and walked towards the school entrance, pointing at the group of people behind us: "Who are those people? Can outsiders just enter our school freely?"

  Xie Fan glanced at me and pushed up his glasses: "Our school's security guard." I was suddenly shocked, my chin almost dropping to the ground. Yang Xu helped me up, looking at my Michael Jackson-like body that was about to fall over: "What happened? Did something happen between you and them?"

  Me: "Nothing much, just saw them at the internet cafe with a guy named Old Wang leading them." He Yu: "Old Wang is their captain. Don't look down on him because of his age, he's actually an old rascal who loves playing games like League of Legends and CrossFire. His skills aren't great, but he's got spirit. His most classic line is 'I don't play on school computers because it'll disturb my classmates' online activities. If I want to play, I go to the internet cafe.'"

  My goodness! If this sentence can become a classic, then I'll make every sentence of mine a classic and be remembered for eternity!

  Chen Yu: "Come on, let's go eat." Cheng Yi: "Isn't there a school cafeteria?"

  Chen Yu, Yang Xu and Xie Fan all showed a disgusted expression: "Sister, you don't know, the food in our school cafeteria is really not for human consumption. Listen to me, go eat outside."

  Cheng Yi looked at me, because I lived in the luxurious dormitory of the war team and ate things from the refrigerator every day, without going to the cafeteria once. However, after looking at Chen Yu and those people making eyes at me with their eyeballs almost popping out, I said: "What they said is right, Cheng Yi, let's go outside."

  So I dragged Cheng Yu and Chen Yu to the restaurant, I had eaten at home, after they finished eating it was already eight o'clock.

  "My god! Do you know how long we've been eating this meal? I'm getting hungry just watching you! We started at 6 and it's already 8!"

  Today is the school e-sports competition, competing for the qualification to participate in the inter-school competition from the high three e-sports. I am the only exception, a first-year student participating in the high-three-only e-sports competition. Looking at the students and teachers busy, I said: "Senior Chen Yu, isn't it supposed to start today? Why hasn't it started yet?"

  Xie Fan rubbed his glasses: "The competition only starts in the afternoon, and this morning is for preparation to ensure that everything goes smoothly. Don't underestimate e-sports, the preparation for a single match is as grand as the Olympics. And this is our first and last time participating in high school, after the competition we will be graduating soon, and there won't be any more opportunities to participate. Ye Fei, you're really lucky to have participated since freshman year, if we lose this time, you'll still have chances in the future."

  Cheng Yixiao Meiniang: "Pfft, pfft, pfft, how can we possibly lose? Captain Ye Fei, isn't that right?" I felt a bit embarrassed. The captain has always been Chen Yu, and my face is not as thick-skinned as his. Chen Yu: "Captain Ye Fei, this match depends on you." After a pause, he added: "If we win, the credit goes to me - after all, I'm the former captain. If we lose, the responsibility is all yours!"

  I'm going! I've never seen anyone as shameless as you!

  Chen Yu added: "So Ye Fei, you must guarantee that we will win this time! Only victory is allowed! No failure!"

  Everyone's hands piled together: "Only victory is allowed! No failure is allowed!"

  "Wow, it's so lively! I'll join in too!" Manager Liu Yi walked over with a smile, and everyone greeted him in unison. Manager Liu Yi stretched out his hand to interrupt us: "Don't talk for now, listen carefully to what I have to say about the upcoming competition. We are League of Legends esports, separate from other games' competitions, look over there." Manager Liu Yi pointed to the huge screens on the school's large playground, and said: "Those screens will be broadcasting your matches live to students and teachers, so don't cheat or think about 'performing', put those thoughts aside."

  He Yu: "Manager, don't worry, although I was short of money recently and 'performed' in two games, but I won't do that in this regular match."

  "What's going on? Aren't you a substitute?"

  He Yu suddenly squatted down behind him, drawing circles with a runny nose and tears in his eyes, muttering "substitute for thousands of years" in his mouth.

  Liu Yi: "The match is a knockout, one game decides the outcome, losing one game means losing, there's no second chance. So, don't get complacent just because you're 'carrying' in the game, quickly push the tower or force the opponent to surrender within 20 minutes to end the match!"

  After saying this, Manager Liu Yi started 'staring at the sky' and didn't say a word. Everyone looked at each other, until Chen Yu spoke up: "Manager, are you done? Then we'll take off." Liu Yi: "Where to?" Chen Yu: "Just wandering around."

  Liu Yi: "Do you know which match it is?" Everyone suddenly became speechless.

  "Follow me."

  Bei Yang High School is much larger than the university, with more twists and turns. It's like a maze, where every turn is different from the last. Even after three years, Chen Yu has only explored about 50% of the school's "map", leaving the remaining 50% unexplored, including places like the girls' bathroom, dormitory, and changing room, which are off-limits to boys and spark their imagination but dare not venture into.

  After turning left and right, Liu Yi led us to a large gate. He pushed the door open and walked in first. Inside were rows of students, and from top to bottom it looked like an ancient Roman Colosseum. In the middle were two rows of computers, above which was a huge computer screen (for the audience), below which would be live broadcasts of the matches, with almost zero delay thanks to the support of Beiyang High School. The video didn't lag at all.

  Everyone's eyes widened: "Manager Liu Yi, is this really the venue for our League of Legends competition?" Looking around at the many League of Legends cosplayers below, Teemo was particularly eye-catching, sandwiched between Qiyana and 36E, drawing a whistle from the audience.

  Liu Yi: "That's right, come with me." Chen Yu swallowed a mouthful of saliva: "I'm really getting a bit nervous, so many people are staring at us."

  Come on Chen Yuxue, I think you're the least nervous one. I dare say that even if you were to play with your face in the middle of the stage without wearing a shirt, your face wouldn't turn red at all.

  Little beauty Cheng Yi grasped my arm tightly, not nervous, but excited. I could feel the feeling of little beauty, because my feeling at this moment is the same as hers. Xie Fan just pushed his glasses and followed Liu Yi very calmly. He Yurong was a substitute for thousands of years and didn't think he had a chance to play, so there's no need to talk about nervousness. Yang Xu and Chen Yu were the same, but they seemed normal outside. Once in the dormitory, only when "their own people" were present, would they be like Chen Yu, crazy.

  Liu Yi: "It's here, you can sit down." Chen Yu sat down with a thud, almost breaking the stool in half: "I'll try it out first!" Chen Yu opened the computer, logged into QQ, opened League of Legends, and entered his account. A QQ window popped up, he clicked on it, and started chatting. Everything seemed so smooth, but all that Chen Yu had just done was being live-streamed on the huge screen above, clearly visible to the students in the audience.

  Student A: "Hey! Let's start chatting on QQ and play League of Legends! We're not here to watch a live chat show!"

  Student B: "No more chatting, you've opened the webpage again! A horror movie?" No mistake, after Chen Yu sat down, Yang Xu also went on to do so, opening his favorite horror movie and turning off the volume, then opening the music box and playing the background music of Rockman.

  Student B: "Watching horror movies is okay, but this music seems a bit off! It doesn't have that scary atmosphere of horror movies at all! What's going on?!"

  The audience suddenly burst into a chorus of boos: "Get them! Everyone, go!" Chen Yu and Yang Xu immediately closed their laptops and stood up from their seats, which finally calmed down the anger of the 'student audience'. After this commotion, the audience walked out of the door, saying they were going to buy popcorn and Coke, and would watch the movie later.

  Manager Liu's face turned black, and Chen Yu and Yang Xu, these two guys were together, everyone thought that this was not a place to play League of Legends but a movie theater. One told ten, ten told hundred, in an instant those who didn't play League of Legends also came here. What was originally a place with many empty seats became crowded, with not enough seats, some people even stood on the seats and lamp holders.

  Liu Yi gave Chen Yu and Yang Xu a violent blow each, then turned to the others and said: "You all go get familiar with it too, I'll go to school to apply for more chairs to be moved over."

  Because there were more and more people here, Liu Yi squeezed out of the door after a while. The central air conditioner was also turned on. We tried the computer and felt that it was really cool to the extreme. Before our butts had even warmed up, several more people appeared beside us. Without the Bei Yang e-sports team emblem, they couldn't touch the competition computers. As soon as they touched the computer, a group of people 'flew' down from the spectator seats, led by Old Wang. Old Wang exploded those few people, throwing them back to the spectator seats, and warned them not to come down and randomly touch things, or else he would let them bloom into flowers.

  Old Wang was just about to leave when he saw me: "Huh? Aren't you the kid who played Sentinel's Lament at Sindragosa in 'Little Tiger Internet Cafe'?"

  I: "..." Old Wang patted my shoulder: "Come on, I have high hopes for you!" I: "Has Old Li been found?" Old Wang jumped up and down three times: "No! He ran away faster than a rabbit! Just watch me catch him and turn his life upside down. If anything happens, just call me and I'll come right back."

  Old Wang led a group of people up, Chen Yu came over and whispered: "Ye Fei, when did you get to know him? This security captain is notorious in our school for being 'ruthless', not leaving a single chrysanthemum within ten miles around him. How did you become friends with him?" I recounted what happened at Xiaohu Internet Cafe to the crowd: "Who is Old Li?" Xie Fan pushed his glasses up: "Old Li is actually Principal Bei Yang."

  I was suddenly struck by a bolt of lightning, and it felt like I had been struck 78 times. Old Li is the principal! I've never heard of that before! I asked again, and saw little beauty Cheng Yi nodding in agreement, my three views on life were instantly subverted, what kind of principal is this?! I've never seen a school principal being chased by a school security guard like a rabbit, although in the end, Security Captain Wang didn't catch Principal Li.

  After inquiring for a while, it was discovered that Chen Yuxue and others had met with Principal Li only once at the opening ceremony of the new semester, and rarely saw him at other times. I don't know what this 'old naughty boy' Principal Bei Yang is doing all day.

  The next time a few teams with the Bei Yang e-sports team logo came to familiarize themselves with the computers. During this period, we also met people we knew, including Zhao Junchen, Huang Zimo, Zhou Hao, Guo Zhilong, and another person was... Chai Yi!

  "Chai Yi, how did you end up on their side?" Chai Yi grasped Chen Yu and Zhao Junchen's hands together under everyone's puzzled expressions. Meanwhile, Chen Yu and Zhao Junchen were gritting their teeth. "I'm doing this to make everyone get along, we've been together for three years already, don't ruin the harmony at the last moment."

  Xie Fan rubbed his glasses: "Chai Yi, you should know that it was Zhao Junchen and the others who started this first. We are the victims."

  Zhao Junchen suddenly shouted: "You guys won in the end, didn't you! We're the real victims. After leaving that luxurious dormitory, we had to squeeze into a small dorm room at school, without even a fan, and we had to buy our own!"

  "Hmph! Serves you right. Who asked you to take the lead and cause trouble, wanting to drive us out? In the end, you can't even succeed in stealing the chicken without losing the rice."

  As the argument between the two sides became more and more intense, Chai Yi hastily intervened: "Everyone, don't quarrel. Let's just consider this match a friendly one, shall we? Regardless of who wins or loses, after this match ends and we walk out of that door, we'll still be friends like before, and Zhao Junchen will still live in the dormitory."

  Yang Xu: "...". Me: "Chai Yixue is still too young, how could Chen Yu agree."

  Chen Yu: "I agreed just for the sake of Chiayi."

  My god! Chen Yuxue, how could you agree to this! This is against common sense!

  "But I have one condition."

  That's right, I said Chen Yuxue senior, how could you let Zhao Junchen and others move back into the dormitory so easily?

  "Speak up, I'll agree as long as it's within my power."

  Chen Yu: "This thing is simple, it's just that the door in our dormitory is broken. If you agree to help us fix it, we'll let you move in."

  Chen Yuxue, you're awesome! Ginger is still spicy after all these years! Zhao Junchen, as long as you dare to agree, the 100,000 yuan I owe will be settled!

  Zhao Junchen agreed without hesitation: "What's the big deal about fixing a broken door? I agree to your request."

  Chen Yu and Zhao Junchen's hands clasped together: "Deal!" Chen Yu: "A gentleman's word is his bond!" Zhao Junchen: "A swift horse whip!" Chen Yu: "No regrets?" Zhao Junchen: "Chrysanthemum outside flip!" After some thought, Zhao Junchen added: "From now on, I bid farewell to the luxurious dormitory, and for the rest of my life, I will not set foot in it again." Chen Yu's hand parted with Zhao Junchen's as he lewdly smiled: "Heh heh, no need for a lifetime, just this senior year is enough! Alright, we've both made up now! Next time we meet, don't be shy and awkward, got it?"

  Everyone nodded in unison: "Understood!"