Dragon Clan: Lu Mingfei Returns from Japan

Chapter 414 Extra if: The young e-sports boy will not meet a white, rich and beautiful classmate (Part )
Hanguo has always done a good job in building e-sports culture. When the bus stopped at Busan BEXCO in Yunhaitai District, Lu Mingfei saw the huge banner hanging at the entrance of the venue through the crowd, as well as the opponent's team promotional signs and player display signs.

There were quite a lot of spectators outside the stadium, and the team's promotional signs were surrounded by fans checking in. This was still a non-mainstream era, and the promotional photos of the Han country players were inevitably dominated by a heavy Shamatte hairstyle.

The beautiful young ladies cosplaying as Kerrigan and Nova from "StarCraft II" were posing in the crowd, and the photographers around them spontaneously formed a circle around them and took pictures.

There were also people holding up a huge banner that read "KR NO.1" and shouting lines that Lu Mingfei couldn't understand, such as "Asiba Misimixismida", which made Lu Mingfei inexplicably think of an episode in "Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf". Big Big Wolf seemed to be chanting something "Misimixihuabulaji" and then turned into a piece of paper and passed through the iron gate of the Sheep Village.

Lu Mingfei got out of the car with his peripheral bag, following his teammates. He took a quick look at the team display area outside the venue, but did not see the sign of his own team.

I guess the team paid for the promotional signs themselves. Given how stingy their team is, they probably don't have the money to do promotions.

The team manager led them through the crowded crowd and handed over their identification to the tournament organizer, who was dressed in a suit, at the door. The security guard opened the gate of the player passage and let them in.

……

There are four levels of StarCraft competitions, from top to bottom: Premier, Major, Minor, and Basic.

The competition that Lu Mingfei participated in was just a minor-level event. So when the little goddess asked him what he was doing in Han Country, Lu Mingfei said that he was here to participate in a small competition, and it was not that he was being modest.

However, although it is only a Minor level event, Lu Mingfei and his teammates' opponents still include many top teams and well-known players.

The team's most senior captain was giving a pre-match mobilization speech in the players' lounge.

"Today is just a 16-to-8 match. Although our opponent is a veteran team, their record this year is not very good, so we don't need to have any psychological pressure. But this does not mean that we can underestimate our opponents. No matter who they are, we must give % of our strength. We must know that respecting our opponents is respecting ourselves."

To be honest, these pre-match encouraging words were all meaningless nonsense, but when they came out from the mouth of a captain who was almost thirty years old, Lu Mingfei unexpectedly felt a little excited.

All the team members were listening to the captain's speech carefully, nodding and moving their lips to respond from time to time.

The team leader and team manager next to them were flipping through the Han country's map software, discussing where they should go for dinner after the game.

Something about being tired of eating army hotpot and kimchi, and something about at least having fried chicken if we can win the game today? The voice was so loud that even Lu Mingfei, who was the farthest away from them, could hear it clearly.

Lu Mingfei didn't really care about what to eat. When he met the little goddess in Incheon, she was supposed to send him to Busan the next day, but if nothing unexpected happened, something unexpected happened on the way. Su Xiaoqiang had something urgent to do, so he waited for her in Incheon for another day.

Thanks to the little goddess, he missed two days of training games, but he didn't have to compete with his teammates for the army hotpot turkey noodles every day during those two days.

He was only worried that if the team was eliminated in the first round of the round of 16, the prize money given to them by the tournament organizer might not be enough to buy their return tickets.

The game started at three o'clock, and the contestants did not start to enter until two forty. Lu Mingfei walked out of the lounge alone, passed through the narrow corridor, found his seat and sat down.

However, no one in the audience paid any attention to him, or rather, they didn't even know him.

Lu Mingfei was not surprised by this situation. Not to mention foreign players, there were few StarCraft players in China who knew him and his team. They were an unknown dark horse who snatched the qualification for this world championship from the top teams.

"LOG team? MingMing? Have you heard of this team and players?" A girl in the audience asked the boy in Korean curiously.

"I haven't heard of it. The CN division isn't very strong. Who watches the CN division's games? Among CN StarCraft players, I only know one, F91, because he always comes in fourth place." said the boy traveling with me.

"But he is actually the first one to appear in their team."

"Maybe it's the abandoned player who came on the field first."

"But he looks so cute, and he's the type of guy I like!"

……

Abandoned general refers to the discarded pieces in the team competition.

The rules of the StarCraft competition adopt a single-player BO2 design, with blind selection and lineup. Except for the generals, each person on the team can only play once.

This rule has led to many interesting tactical designs. One of the most classic tactics is Tian Ji's horse racing, which uses the weaker players in the team to knock out the opponent's star players. Then through clever tactical arrangements, the weaker side may also win a point through tactics.

If the three players are tied, they will be determined by a general battle.

Because Lu Mingfei's face looks relatively immature, his natural baby face even makes some viewers wonder whether he has already reached adulthood.

Lu Mingfei plugged in the mouse and keyboard, connected online, and started a custom game to try out all the keys. Professional players will use their own peripherals.

After confirming there were no problems, Lu Mingfei gave a thumbs up to the referee behind him to indicate that he was ready.

The referee communicates with the command desk through a headset, and after receiving the prepared instructions from the opposing player, the command desk announces the start of the game.

……

Although it was just a major-level competition, there were cheerleaders in hot clothes and warm-up performances during the breaks. It made me feel dry in the mouth seeing these internet-addicted teenagers who rarely interacted with girls.

But soon the cheerleaders withdrew and the team's captain came on stage. The third game was broadcast live to the players' lounge via closed-circuit television.

Lu Mingfei sat on the sofa and watched the game with his teammates. This was the key round of the entire team competition.

In the first BO2, Lu Mingfei controlled the human race's spearmen torrent to sweep across the opponent's base with an attitude of looking down on the world. His movements of upgrading buildings and opening maps were smooth and there was not a single unnecessary movement in his operation. His APM was incredible, and he opened up 200 population at a speed close to the theoretical limit.

In less than ten minutes, the opponent's base was destroyed by Lu Mingfei.

Before the audience could react to what was happening, Lu Mingfei had already packed up his peripherals and returned to the lounge through the backstage passage. When he met the beautiful female host face to face in the passage, she gave Lu Mingfei a rather cute wink.

It was not until the door of the lounge closed that a tsunami of shouts came from the backstage passage.

In the second round of BO2, the two sides changed sides and the opponent's situation was no better than in the first round. However, the opponent's player lasted longer this time than in the first round, and at least it took until the th minute before Lu Mingfei swept them away.

The first BO2 made all the audience remember the ID "MingMing", and the highly entertaining game also raised the threshold of the audience, making them look forward to Lu Mingfei's next teammate, wondering if he would be able to perform the same wonderful operations as "MingMing".

However, the teammate who came on the field later disappointed them. It was not that his level was so bad. But the ordinary game match made them a little uninterested. Thinking that they had just watched two such extraordinary games, and the next game was so ordinary, they felt like ants crawling on their bodies. The second game ended with two narrow defeats by teammates. The third game was played by the team captain himself. If the captain could successfully win this BO2, then they could successfully enter the quarterfinals. If the captain lost, they would naturally be eliminated.

Before leaving, the captain patted Lu Mingfei on the shoulder and comforted him: "It's okay, it's okay. After today's game, your name will definitely be known throughout the StarCraft circle. Even if we lose this game and our team disbands, I will contact friends in the industry to help you find a good team. You will definitely have a bigger stage than us."

Lu Mingfei scratched his head and thought, Captain, don't think about whether I will have a bigger stage in the future. If we lose this game, the prize money given by the event organizer will not be enough for our air tickets, and then we will really have to swim back.

In the first round of the third BO2, the experienced captain won the game without any danger. However, in the second round, the two sides fell into a stalemate. The captain, who was getting older, was outplayed by the opponent and finally made a serious mistake in the second half of the game. The opponent also seized the captain's operational mistake and successfully completed the rematch.

1:1, after three BO2s, the two teams were tied. The game was dragged into the general match, where the generals of both teams played a BO1 match to decide the winner.

The other team sent out their star player, who had been famous for a long time and even held two P-level (Premier) championship trophies.

As for Team LOG...

Lu Mingfei came out of the contestant channel with his head drooping, holding the peripherals. The audience immediately burst into excited shouts of "MingMing!!! MingMing!!!"

Probably no one in the audience would have thought that the player they thought was a discarded player was actually the general of this team.

Maybe what the captain said was right. After today, he might really become famous in the StarCraft circle, and he won't have trouble finding a new home if he becomes a professional player in the future.

Although the shouting was very loud, he was still a little uncomfortable with it.

Maybe it was more suitable for him to play games quietly in a corner of an Internet cafe. Occasionally, when the little angel came to the Internet cafe to catch him to do group work, she would bring him a bottle of iced Coke and then prank him on the neck. Then she would laugh at his reaction of shrinking into a ball.

"..."

Why do you think of the little angel again?

Lu Mingfei muttered, he hadn't thought about them for a long time, but in the past two days, the little goddess kept popping up in his mind, how strange...

……

Major-level tournaments usually don’t last too long, and there is rarely any time for teams to rest. Basically, they finish a game today and the next game will be tomorrow.

Sixteen to eight, eight to four, four to two, the three games were played in a row in just three days.

The LOG team also won all the way and, relying on the tactic of "waiting for Lu Mingfei's three-piece suit..." No, "waiting for Lu Mingfei to fight in the general competition", made it to the finals in an international competition for the first time in the team's history.

As long as teammates can tie the game and drag it into a general match, then the game will be secure.

Thanks to the exposure of international competitions, Lu Mingfei has indeed become famous in the StarCraft circle. Even Lu Mingfei's opponent in the finals, INnoVation, Lv Bu Li Xinheng praised him, saying that it was hard to imagine that Lu Mingfei could have such a high level of understanding of the game at his age.

Another manifestation of their fame is that there are team promotional signs and player display boards for their team at the entrance of the final venue.

As soon as the bus carrying the athletes arrived at the entrance of the stadium, it was immediately blocked by young female fans, with countless pairs of delicate hands frantically trying to get through the human wall formed by the security guards to get ahold of Lu Mingfei. Along the way, they handed over photos and posters asking for autographs.

Lu Mingfei didn't expect that becoming a star player would be so difficult, but looking at his own player display board, Lu Mingfei couldn't help but feel a little elated.

“It seems that our team has become more generous and is willing to put up a display board.” Lu Mingfei said to the captain, pointing at the display board in the distance.

The captain shook his head and lowered his voice: "It's not our team's fault. You know how stingy our team manager is. Last night when we had barbecue, he was reluctant to order another serving of pork belly. He even packed up the leftover lettuce and dipped it in sauce as a midnight snack at the hotel."

Lu Mingfei was stunned: "What is this?"

"Maybe it was the fans who did it on their own initiative." The captain signed the photo that the female fan handed over with a smile and handed it back: "Thanks to you, I never thought that I would have a female fan one day."

Entering the competition venue. The venue for the finals was much more impressive than the previous round of 16, and the spacious players' lounge even had floor heating.

The cute cosplayer who had previously cosplayed Kerrigan and Nova walked backstage and into their lounge. It turned out that both of them were Chinese.

They took turns shaking hands with Lu Mingfei, signing autographs and taking photos with him. They pressed their chests on Lu Mingfei's arms in an imposing manner. Lu Mingfei could only keep a stern face to force himself not to look at what he shouldn't.

"Come to think of it, Mingfei, you don't have a girlfriend yet, right?" After the cheerleader waved goodbye, the captain retracted his gaze and looked at Lu Mingfei and said.

"No." Lu Mingfei said.

"Did you notice the girl cosplaying as Nova? She's so pretty! When she asked you for an autograph just now, she kept glancing at your profile. I think she's interested in you."

Lu Mingfei was stunned for a moment: "No way? She and I don't even know each other."

"What's the problem if we don't know each other? Can't we just add each other on WeChat and chat? And Ming Fei, you are now a star player in the StarCraft circle. Isn't it normal that there are many little fans who admire you? Your brother and I got your sister-in-law by tricking her into marrying us when we were playing games..."

The captain would say some nonsense like this from time to time, and he was used to it. He had already mastered the skill of letting it go in one ear and out the other.

Lu Mingfei suddenly remembered that the little angel said that Chen Wenwen and Zhao Menghua have not been in a relationship since their breakup, and he didn't know whether the little angel herself was in a relationship.

During the summer vacation, he and Liu Miaomiao went out together a few times, and Liu Miaomiao said that she didn't have a boyfriend either.

The three most beautiful girls at Shilan Middle School back then are all single now, and they are all in the same boat.

Lu Mingfei was stunned for a moment and scratched his head. It was strange, why did he think of all these messes again...

At this moment, Lu Mingfei's phone on the table suddenly rang. It was the sound of someone sending him a new message on WeChat. He was about to reach out for his phone when the radio here started to ring, announcing that the first BO2 was about to begin. The first players of each team were asked to get ready and enter the arena.

"Stop talking, Mingfei, it's time for you to go on stage." The captain urged from the side.

Lu Mingfei thought that it wouldn’t be important information, so he withdrew his hand, took out his peripherals from the backpack next to him, pushed the door open, and walked onto the stage of the finals.

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(End of this chapter)