Chapter Twenty-Four: The Match Begins

  "Hello everyone, I am the host of this Dragon Boat Racing Competition. Please quiet down now..." A man wearing a suit and glasses stood on a high platform in the middle of the Longchen Internet Club, shouting into the microphone.

  "As this match is not officially organized, the server will be set in Ionia. The account will be provided by our club, but if you want to play with your own account, you can also use it. This is not a hard requirement..."

  "For those who want to watch the live broadcast in person, you can register at the counter and add my ID 'Long Chen Zhēn Bèi' on Eonia, then you'll be able to watch the match. Of course, this requires payment..." The host said with a smile.

  Suddenly, a burst of laughter came from the crowd.

  "Of course, since there are so many people coming this time, our venue also set up a projector in the middle of the hall, so that those friends who didn't get a seat can watch..."

  "Also friendly reminder, there are snacks and drinks available at the counter..."

  "Alright, no more idle talk. For this match, both teams will enter the private rooms prepared by our club for a closed-door competition. Now, let's proceed to the drawing lots segment..." The host announced loudly.

  "Please have the captains of the 22 teams come on stage to draw lots. There are two pieces of paper with numbers 1 to 11 inside, so the team that draws number 1 will be the first match of today's competition, winning means advancing and losing means elimination!" The host walked onto the stage holding a red box.

  ……

  "Biao Ge, it's going up!" Yu Wenle reminded him, seeing that Biao Ge didn't react at all.

  "Oh, right! I'm the captain!" Biao Ge suddenly realized and rushed up to the stage.

  "Alright, now all the team captains have arrived on stage. Now I'll interview them about their current mood..." The host smiled and said.

  The man with glasses held the microphone, looking left and right, saw the burly guy who was also looking around, his eyes lit up, walked over to him and said: "Little fatty brother, how old are you this year?" Then he put the microphone in front of the burly guy's mouth.

  Bo Ge was taken aback for a moment, then reacted with joy: "Is this an interview with me?"

  "Of course!"

  "Hmm, I'm only 18 years old, with a good appearance and temperament, handsome and elegant, extraordinary and talented. I often help elderly ladies cross the road, my character is extremely good, people even gave me the nickname 'Changde Zhao Zilong'......" Brother Biao saw this great opportunity and shamelessly started bragging about himself.

  The people below burst into laughter, and Yu Wenle and others hurriedly pretended not to know this person. Zhang Xiang also covered her mouth and laughed on the side.

  The glasses man appeared, very embarrassing, how did he choose this extreme product.

  "Hey, okay, okay..." The bespectacled man hastily interrupted Biao Ge's lengthy self-praise and asked: "Excuse me, at such a young age, why did you come to compete?"

  "Brother Biao looked at Glasses Man with disdain and said, 'Of course we're here to have fun, are you guys just here for the 3,000 yuan? That's too petty. The champion of a competition is only worth 3,000 yuan? You've got nerve saying that.'"

  The audience erupted into applause.

  "Yeah, the reward is only 3,000 yuan, and a talent is worth 600 hundred... it's so little..."

  "Come to think of it, I'm actually a bit petty..."

  “……”

  The bespectacled man's forehead began to sweat, and he was invited here to liven up the atmosphere on stage, not to smash the sign. The bespectacled man dryly laughed a few times: "Haha, this little brother is joking, now we'll skip this segment and move on to the lottery segment!"

  The bespectacled man directly let the captain start drawing lots.

  Several team leaders didn't stand on ceremony and walked straight up, putting their hands into the red box to pull out a piece of paper.

  ……

  "Alright, now please have the team captain with tag number 1 step forward!" The bespectacled man said as he saw all the captains had drawn their lots and gone on stage.

  Among the crowd, a young man with very long hair and acne walked out, looking around 24 years old. The bespectacled man hastily came over to hand him the microphone, saying: "Captain, what's your name?"

  Young man smiled and said: "Hello everyone, I'm Liu Feng, captain of the Tiger Warriors team. We are very confident in winning the championship!"

  "Hmm, it seems that the captain of the Tigers is quite confident. Then let's see who their opponent is?" The bespectacled man smiled and said.

  He then looked around in the crowd and it seemed that only Liu Feng stood out, puzzled and asked: "May I ask where is the other team captain who also drew the No. 1 tag?"

  The captains were also looking left and right.

  Yu Wenle saw it and rubbed his forehead with a headache, shaking his head with a bitter smile.

  "What's wrong?" Zhang Xiangqiang asked with concern.

  "No big deal, just a slight headache. Zhang Jie, only Biao Ge can pull off such a move at this critical moment." Yu Wenle laughed.

  As expected, Biao Ge saw that no one stood up, so he looked at the paper in his hand and suddenly jumped out saying: "Me! Me!"

  "Sorry about that, I just didn't think I'd get the number 1 tag, so I wasn't paying attention..."

  Everyone was speechless, you didn't even notice, you basically didn't look at all.

  The glasses guy also has a deep grudge against Biao Ge, could this guy be an industry insider who was invited to sabotage me?

  "Cough, cough! Since the captain of the Tigers team has come out, let's start the match!" The bespectacled man didn't introduce Biao Ge and his team at all. He just hoped that this little fatty would finish the match quickly and leave soon. He didn't think that Biao Ge's team would win.

  Soon, Yu Wenle and others were taken to the VIP room on the second floor by the staff. The VIP room had five computers lined up in a row, each with a single sofa in front of it, and the computer table was also extremely luxurious.

  "It's indeed worthy of being the largest internet cafe in Changde, this private room... wow... is much more luxurious than the one at Xiuxiu's home internet cafe." Biao Ge said as soon as he entered the private room.

  "Is it?" Xiu Xiu gritted her teeth and said.

  "Being luxurious is being luxurious, what a pity..." Biao Ge suddenly came to his senses and hastily changed his words.

  "What's wrong?" Xiu Xiu asked curiously.

  "What a pity there's no Xiuxiu..." Biao Ge teased.

  "Hmph, good for you!" Xiu Xiu said with a blush on her face.

  ……

  Entering the private room, the staff who followed closely asked if they wanted to use their own account. Yu Wenle and others quickly shook their heads, joking that the accounts provided by the internet cafe were available to all heroes, who would use their own account for no reason?

  Since no one made any requests, the staff started calling out numbers. As it was an in-house tournament held by the internet cafe itself, they didn't use the Heroes of the Storm beta server but instead played directly on the normal game client, playing Conquest mode.

  ……

  "Alright, the long-awaited Dragon Chen Championship is now officially underway..." said the bespectacled man as he projected the game onto the screen.

  PS: I'd like to explain something here, many people previously said that my writing about the two Guqin girls was incorrect. So I'll declare it in advance this time, the Longchen Championship is held by the internet cafe itself to attract attention, so all the game modes are using match mode, and it's not surprising to see two Guqin girls appear at the same time, please don't say it's a bug again.

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