CS: I became Top 1 by grinding my skill level

I am still the same boy I used to be.

No change

Time only..."

Early in the morning, Han Tian, ​​who was still fast asleep at ten o'clock, was woken up by the QQ ringtone on his phone.

"Who's calling me so early in the morning? By the way, when did I set this old song from over ten years ago as my ringtone?"

He closed his eyes and reached for his phone on the bedside table to his right, but found nothing. Helpless, he had no choice but to open his eyes and get up.

The moment Han Tian opened his eyes, he was stunned, because the room in front of him was not the apartment he rented in Copenhagen, but it was not unfamiliar, because it was his own ten-square-meter room in the old apartment building in Jinan where he and his mother had lived for more than ten years.

"Say never, never give up"

Like a fire

Wu oh oh..

The phone on the desk was still playing QQ caller ID, but Han Tian didn't pick it up to see who was calling. His mind went blank as he looked up at the books on the bookshelf: "Three Years of College Entrance Examination, Five Years of Simulation" and "College Entrance Examination Must-Do Questions".

After a moment of stunned silence, he jumped out of bed, opened the door, and found the bathroom based on his memories from many years ago. Looking at the image of a young man with sword-like eyebrows, bright eyes, fair skin, and a buzz cut in the mirror, even a fool would have realized what was going on at that moment.

"Damn it, I've traveled back to when I was seventeen?"

Yes, Han Tian time-traveled. More than ten years ago, his father passed away early, and his mother supported the family and sent him to university on her own. He did not let his mother down. He stayed up all night studying in this small room in the dilapidated apartment building and eventually got into Huacheng University, a university in the coastal city of Huacheng, majoring in English.

Because of his family's financial situation, he wanted to relieve his mother, who had been working hard, from her toil. During winter and summer vacations, he worked part-time to save up for tuition and living expenses. After graduation, he entered a foreign trade company as a translator. After years of hard work, he finally achieved some success.

But his only regret is that he didn't have a carefree youth, nor did he have much time for his favorite game, Counter-Strike.

In his previous life, he only managed to buy his first laptop in his sophomore year of college by working day and night. The happiest time in college was playing Counter-Strike with his roommates. With his love for games and his own talent, he and his roommates even won the top four honors in the school's Counter-Strike League.

However, his good fortune didn't last long. Soon after, his mother was injured at work, leaving her with a lifelong leg ailment. The burden of supporting the family fell on his shoulders, and he had no choice but to force himself to mature quickly, enter society, and take on the responsibility of supporting his family.

After that, he barely had time to watch CS matches, at most occasionally reading text broadcasts and tournament news, which remained a regret in his heart.

After achieving success in his career, Han Tian was already forty years old. At that time, HLTV, the most famous information and news website of CS, was recruiting. Fortunately, with his fluent English, Han Tian seized the opportunity and was hired by HLTV to do translation and news reporting work for the China region.

I had just rented an apartment near HLTV's headquarters in Copenhagen when I woke up the next day to find myself transported to the summer after I finished my college entrance exams at age seventeen, which is 2020.

Looking at his youthful face in the mirror, reborn, Han Tian didn't want to relive the regrets of his previous life. But how could he support himself with his hobbies...?

"I'm still the same boy I used to be..."

The QQ phone rang again at that moment, but Han Tian, ​​who had transmigrated, already knew who was calling. It was his childhood friend Zhou Haoyu calling to invite him to an internet cafe to try out Counter-Strike. In his previous life, it was today that he opened Counter-Strike for the first time.

Now that things had come to this, and his mother was probably still at work, Han Tian quickly washed his face, put on his pants, and picked up the second-hand ZMI Redmi phone his mother had bought for him after the college entrance exam, along with the fifty yuan reward he had received.

While walking, he replied to his childhood friend Zhou Haoyu on his phone: "Coming, coming, just woke up."

The moment the message was sent back, the other side was bombarded with a bunch of panda emojis.

Zhou Haoyu: "Speak Chinese, I don't understand dog barks/panda head", you fucking know how to reply to me? Hurry up and die! I'm downstairs in your building and the sun is baking me into a sweet potato.

Han Tian smiled slightly. It was still the same feeling as back then, bickering and arguing with his friends, arm in arm. But... Shushu had never become famous.

Downstairs, all they saw was Zhou Haoyu happily munching on a sesame paste ice cream in the shade near the convenience store entrance, lounging comfortably on his electric scooter. Hearing a noise behind him, he slowly turned around, ice cream still in his mouth, and began to scrutinize Han Tian from head to toe, then said sarcastically, "Oh? Miss, you've finally finished your makeup?"

Han Tian retorted without backing down: "No, I need to go upstairs to get another mask and hat. Otherwise, I'd be too embarrassed to walk with a fat guy like you wearing Sakurajima Mai-senpai's anime t-shirt."

"Alright, alright, stop babbling and let's go."

Zhou Haoyu patted the back seat, signaling Han Tian to get in the car quickly.

Along the way, Han Tian observed the city scenery that he hadn't seen in over twenty years, while Zhou Haoyu hummed as he rode his bike, "Oh, washing seaweed, oh, washing seaweed."

Han Tian covered his face; this fat guy was hopeless. Zhou Haoyu was Han Tian's classmate from junior high to high school. The two lived close by and saw each other every day. They were very close friends who were also good at bickering. Their personalities were also very compatible. However, this fat guy really had no morals and was deeply influenced by anime and manga.

After the electric scooter crossed several sections of road, a green neon sign came into view.

"Qingmang Internet Cafe, we've finally arrived. What if I tell you now that I don't have any money for internet access?"

Zhou Haoyu parked the car and said to Han Tian with a grin.

"Then I'll go to the deli up ahead and exchange this delicious piece of pork belly for some internet fees. You're a good piece of pork belly, and we get along very well in terms of taste."

"Stop, stop! Don't laugh at me, bro. I just brought you, just kidding. You think you can just treat me like that? You don't trust your bro, do you?"

When the fat man realized he couldn't out-argue the old troll Han Tian, ​​he surrendered.

The two entered Qingmang Internet Cafe, and thanks to the generous funds of the great Zhou Haoyu, they booked a private room and ordered two large buckets of iced tea.

After turning on the computer, Zhou Haoyu unscrewed the cap, took a sip of iced tea, and then, while putting on his headphones, said to Han Tian, ​​"You probably don't have a Steam account, right? I'll help you get one."

"It wasn't there before, but it's just started now."

Han Tian had already opened the Steam client that came with the internet cafe and logged into his newly registered account.

"Holy crap? So fast? You've trained before??" Seeing Han Tian skillfully open his Steam library and launch CS:GO, his childhood friend Zhou Haoyu was so surprised that his chubby face scrunched up.

In fact, Zhou Haoyu didn't see the phone screen that Han Tian had placed on the table. He had already registered for a mobile token, because although Qingmang Internet Cafe was a large national chain, logging into Steam from an internet cafe was not very safe.

Suddenly, the computer screen went black, and four orange letters appeared in the center: "CS:GO." The game started, but the computer remained in that state for a full half minute without any change.

"Is there a bug?"

Just as Han Tian turned around to check if Zhou Haoyu's computer was doing the same thing, he suddenly realized that Zhou Haoyu and his computer were completely still, even the sound of the computer's fan had disappeared, and everything seemed to be frozen in time.

"Ding—CS Proficiency System Activated"

A blue panel appeared in front of Han Tian.

Han Tian was stunned: "This is just like in the novels, with rebirth and a system involved."

He shook his head, deciding to make the best of it since he was already there. He reached out and touched the panel in front of him, and a ripple spread out from the center, flooding Han Tian's brain with a large amount of information:

"This system is called the CS Proficiency System. It has multiple interactive modules and is designed to help the host quickly improve their CS skills and break through their limits."

First is the [Weapon Evolution System], which allows you to increase the proficiency of 33 different weapons in the game. The host can then use these upgraded weapons to receive significant enhancements.

"The weapon's evolution system has eight levels, namely:"

White: Consumer grade

Light blue: Industrial grade

Dark blue: Military grade

Purple: Restricted Level

Pinkish-purple: Confidential

Red: Covert Level

Gold: Violation Level

Color: V”

"Different weapons have different upgrade caps: for example, the [PP-Bison] gun can only be upgraded once, from white consumer grade to light blue industrial grade, while the [Desert Eagle] gun can be upgraded from white consumer grade all the way to colored V grade."

"High-level weapons can only evolve to purple (restricted) using proficiency points alone. To further improve, you need to complete event missions in specific tournaments to obtain different levels of [Catalysts] for subsequent evolution. [Catalysts] can also be obtained through a lottery in the [Wishing Pool], with a probability of:"

Confidentiality level: 3.20%

Covert level: 0.64%

Violation level: 0.26%

Level V: 0.0114514%

Proficiency is earned through CS ranked matches and various tournament rewards; the amount of proficiency gained varies depending on the final score.

"Secondly, there's the [Wishing Pool System]. Every time the host evolves any weapon, they will receive one chance to draw a prize. Each weapon that evolves to its maximum level will grant three [Wishing Pool draw chances]. In addition, completing tasks issued by the system will also grant draw chances, with a wide variety of prizes and diverse uses."

"Please unlock the remaining modules one by one according to the tasks."

After reading these instructions, Han Tian finally slowly raised his head and exhaled deeply.

"If you don't take what Heaven offers, you will suffer the consequences."

In my previous life, I could only experience it from outside the screen—the golden rain, the deafening cheers and screams inside and outside the stadium.

While eating instant noodles off-screen, I dream of the life I envision every day.

In this life, he will never betray his dream again. He will win every championship he can see under the dazzling lights of the stages in venues such as Cato, Cologne, and the Major!

As a time traveler, Han Tian knew that CS esports might still be lukewarm in 21, with offline tournaments being canceled for a period due to the pandemic. However, in the next ten years, CS would become a national esports event, even on par with traditional sports events, with its influence and number of followers increasing many times over compared to now.

Especially in the next few years, when Valve officially launched an Olympic-specific mode, modifying and replacing the T side terrorists and C4 bombs, it successfully entered the e-sports events of the Olympic Games and Asian Games. At that time, the influence of professional players was no less than that of traditional sports stars.

Han Tian knew that people nowadays would find it funny or a fantasy, but the world is just that unpredictable.

"bite--"

The notification sound from the panel in front of him interrupted Han Tian's fantasy of playing in the Shanghai Major, with the whole stadium cheering for Han Tian.

"Mission issued: Please upgrade the weapon [PP-Bison] to the maximum level. Reward: 3 chances to draw from the Wishing Well and 40 proficiency points."

"Dude? Who uses the Bison in professional matches?"

While complaining, Han Tian stopped and thought about it carefully, and it made sense. The Bison gun could reach its limit in one evolution, which would give him three chances to draw prizes. Just like in the game, it was very cost-effective.

After Han Tian touched the "X" in the upper right corner of the blue panel, everything around him suddenly started moving. The sound of Zhou Pangzi shaking his leg and typing on the keyboard, the whirring of the fan in the computer case, and the hum of the air conditioner all returned.

Han Tian's fingers didn't stop there; he poked Zhou Pangzi and asked, "Want to play a ranked game?"

Ignoring the fat guy's string of nonsense about "Can you even walk?" and "You're already playing ranked? I'm a C+, don't drag me down my rank. I'm just worried you'll get so badly beaten you won't be able to get into the game. CS is a deep and complex game, young people shouldn't be so arrogant," Han Tian directly opened the Perfect World platform and created a room: "Want to come? C+ bro, can you carry this newbie?"

Zhou Pangzi, who had been grumbling, suddenly changed his expression and grinned: "I love to hear that. Let me, a C+ gunner, guide you, this delicate newbie."

Han Tian rolled his eyes, added the fat guy as a friend and pulled him into the room. At the fat guy's strong request, he canceled all the maps except for one, Scorching Sand City 2, and started playing without any nonsense!