CS: I became Top 1 by grinding my skill level

"Yes."

Du Sinian paused, seemingly struggling to find a way to interpret Zhang Zhen's "perfection".

"His marksmanship is above average, and his map awareness, item usage, movement, aiming, and even timing are all at a professional level in my opinion."

"If it weren't for Han Tian's incredible 1v1 win rate, and the fact that he also needs room to grow, you would actually be a better fit for the flex player position than Han Tian."

"Moreover, I can assure you that if you enter a slightly less competitive second-tier league now, you can perfectly integrate into it after playing a few matches."

Hearing such high praise, Zhang Zhen gripped the chair armrest tightly with his right hand. He had always been demanding of himself, and after finishing his boosting orders every day, he would still take some time to practice item map running. How could he not be happy now that he was finally being recognized?

"I have no further advice for you in the game; you clearly already possess the necessary professional skills."

"but."

"Outside of the game, I hope you can communicate more. You should know that being taciturn is never a virtue in CS."

On the field, emotions often determine the outcome of a match.

After saying this, Du Sinian walked to the door, slowly placing the A4 sheets containing everyone's data into a manila envelope. He turned to look at everyone and said, "You've all worked hard. Actually, my original expectation was for us to reach the top four, but now I think we deserve a championship. The last few days are here, so let's all keep going!"

He then pushed open the door and stepped out.

The moment the door closed, he said, "Xiao Han, keep an eye on Ike and make sure he doesn't touch the Heavenly Ladder."

"Uh, cough..."

Upon hearing this, Ike, who was gulping down a can of cola by the refrigerator in the training room, nearly choked. "I'm a man of my word! My Sesame Credit score is over 700..."

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"Rpk and Shox move into the bomb site and plant the bomb. Rpk starts slowly approaching the oil drum. The CTs are about to perform a smoke grenade and double-push, but Niko and broky have positioned themselves differently!"

"Rpk is using his AK to hold the B-door smoke. Can he hold it? Oh! Easy peasy. He secured the semi-final victory with this double kill. Congratulations to Vitality! Advancing to the BLAST Premier Spring Finals!"

"Didn't my time travel have any butterfly effect?"

Han Tian shook his head, looking at Niko who was sighing slightly on the screen. At this time, the Boston Shrimp's whiskers were not yet fully grown, but a year of commanding career had made him look old. Losing this online semi-final did not make him show too much emotion. He was no longer the chubby young man who built tank items during his rat days.

After turning off the English live stream, Han Tian confirmed that his English was fine and, just like in his previous life when he worked as a simultaneous interpreter, his English was still at a native speaker level.

With three days left until the competition, the afternoons are now free time after the morning training sessions. Du Sinian is not using the military-style training to torture the players.

Han Tian is used to playing ranked matches from the afternoon to the evening. He opens the Perfect World and 5E platforms, which list his Perfect World Demon King S108 stars and 5E 2920 points respectively.

For Han Tian at the moment, his rank is no longer important. He has no plans to join the Huaxia CS club right now, so he doesn't intend to do things like get a trial opportunity with the Huaxia club by playing high ranked matches.

So why is he still ranking up so diligently? That's right, for skill level!

With a slight movement of his fingers, Han Tian opened the panel.

[Upgraded Weapons]: AK47 - Pink Class Confidential (Enchantment 1: Lightweight), Desert Eagle - Purple Class Restricted, M4a1 - Purple Class Restricted, Bison Submachine Gun - Light Blue Industrial Grade.

[Items in hand]: 56 Bohe Shrimp Oils, 2 Purple Quality Niko Hand-Tear Sniper Rifle Trial Cards.

[Wishing Well Lottery Chances]: 6 times.

[Master Class]: The epic course of the free agent [Ropz Master Class] is yet to be unlocked.

[Available Proficiency]: 1120 points.

After Han Tianchou diligently climbed the ladder for so many days, his proficiency level finally surpassed 1,000 again—1120 points.

Clearly, Han Tian didn't want to transfer those proficiency points to weapons, because he felt that being proficient with the AK, Desert Eagle, and A1 in the competition a few days later would be more than enough.

What he lacks most right now is clearly match experience and game understanding. So how can he improve quickly? Of course, by taking classes—master classes.

After unlocking only the second lesson of the [Ropz Master Class]: [Estonian Sunshine Positioning], Han Tian's playstyle began to change. He no longer relied on his top-tier professional AK shooting skills to fight everything, but instead chose various non-pre-aiming positions and dark positions that ordinary people would never think of to kill enemies.

The data improvement wasn't particularly outstanding, but Han Tian clearly felt an itch on his scalp—"What should I do? I need to develop a brain!" It has to be said that the effect of the enlightenment from the smartest free agent—Ropz—was exceptionally significant.

"Are you sure you want to use 1000 proficiency points to unlock the second lesson of the [Ropz Masterclass] – [Porsche Silent Flanking]?"

The moment Han Tian clicked "confirm," although he was prepared, he was still a little dizzy from the sudden shift in time and space before him, like someone who had just started playing a game and was experiencing 3D motion sickness.

A game of wrestling! A game of wrestling! And another game of wrestling! Hundreds of game wrestling scenarios, different maps, and the same driver running around in different locations.

Like a DMA owner, his timing for flanking was as precise as the intricate construction of a Porsche engine—appearing precisely behind the enemy with a piercing roar!

After watching Ropz steal countless times from behind, Han Tian was once again stunned. Fortunately, he had prepared the Bohe Shrimp Oil in advance. He opened his mouth, held his breath, and poured a stream of this magical functional drink, which was full of the smell of shrimp, into his mouth.

"Phew—I'm alive again! If I ever have money, I'll never buy a Porsche—I'm so dizzy!"

Han Tian let out a long sigh as he lay on the table. Zhang Zhen, who was sitting next to him and was still warming up for the ladder game, secretly cast a questioning glance at him.

"Congratulations, host, on obtaining the course completion badge—[911 Soundwave]."

A silver medal in the shape of a sports car appears on the cover of the second lesson of the [Ropz Masterclass].

"What are you doing here? I play Counter-Strike, not drive an F1 car!"

Han Tian stared speechlessly at the small medal, wondering what it was.

The system's instructions suddenly flooded Han Tian's mind—[911 Soundwave]: Used at the start of each round, only once per game. [Effect]: "When that moment arrives, the roar of 911 will resound in your ears!"

"Huh? What moment was that?"

Suddenly, Han Tian, ​​who had just watched countless examples of Ropz's flanking kills, realized: "Does it mean... when the perfect flanking opportunity comes in a minute, a notification sound will ring in my ear, like that?"

However, Han Tian was not prepared to use this skill rashly on the field, so he decided to test the waters by playing a ranked match first.

Inside a room in the CS section of the Maoya live streaming platform.

"Thanks, boss, for the Cat Tooth No. 1!"

"I just finished watching the demo, and I'll also edit it and upload it to Bilibili and Douyin. Viewers who missed it can watch it there."

A young man with a long neck and a bowl cut appeared on camera with a serious expression, reading out the comments sent by viewers.

"Hey, stop stirring up trouble in the comments! What I mean is, there's no concrete evidence against these two right now. Just looking at this demo, you can't prove they're cheating."

"And that 'long' guy inside really has excellent fundamentals. If someone like that has to resort to cheating, then I have nothing to say; Chinese CS is truly doomed."

"Thanks to the viewer named 'faze半决再输小蜜蜂' for sending the money gun!"

Leon Kai read the ID speechlessly, then his expression turned fierce the moment he finished thanking the gift: "Your mother's kiss! Has your team never lost a semi-final? Were you born with an unstoppable momentum...?"

Seeing the furious giraffe on camera, the live chat instantly filled with a joyful atmosphere, with viewers spamming "Battleship collapsed! ×99".

"Your mother's kiss, I'm not messing around with you guys anymore. Let's play a ranked game and show you my skills."

Leonkai waved at the camera, ignoring the comments: "Red Devil x99", and opened the 5E green ranked match.

There is about a week left until the end of Season 5E. Usually, during this period, top players on the ladder will start their final push for the season. Even if they are not aiming for a higher ranking, it is good to maintain their current ranking.

Therefore, the quality of matches during this period is exceptionally high.

"Beep beep beep."

After exchanging a few words with the shy boss at the room door, the giraffe snapped back to reality upon hearing the voice and scrambled over to click "confirm."

Then he continued chatting with the viewers in the live chat.

As a full-time streamer, Leon Kai must constantly keep an eye on what the viewers in the chat are saying.

"Where are Nuko and Diguawan? Why aren't they in line together?"

"Oh, I see. In a few days, Quancheng Electric Snake and Perfect will be hosting an offline cup, I think it's called the Electric Snake Cup. The prize money is quite high, 10 yuan for the champion and 15 yuan for the total prize money."

"Nuko and Diguawan have also formed a team to try out the match. In a few days, Maxi and I will be live-streaming the commentary for this match. Everyone is welcome to watch."

"Beep beep—" Loading map: Desert City.

A series of short, consecutive "brother's voice" sounds, indicating that everyone in the ranked match has confirmed their entry into the map.

At the beginning, all players entered the warm-up phase. The warm-up phase of 5E is different from that of Perfect World; it is a 1v1 format.

After entering the 1v1, Leon Kai, like his teammates who were AFK, got along peacefully and did not choose to take advantage of the 1v1 to warm up.

Just as Leon Kai was about to continue reading the comments, he suddenly noticed that the top right corner of the screen had started to flood with messages.

"Zero used an AK-47 to kill Hu Yingjun, a member of the Flip Garden assault team."

"Zero uses M4a1 to kill Jia Hui, then pours water and becomes a freebie to protect the eggplant."

"Zero's use of an AK-47 to kill her was a pity, but the outcome was also regrettable."

The kill efficiency is extremely high; a kill notification for zero appears every three seconds or less.

"Holy crap! This teammate is amazing."

Leon Kai, who was shocked by the sound of his native accent, immediately beamed with joy, knowing he could finally get some points.

"Hey streamer, does this person's ID look familiar? Doesn't it resemble the giraffe character from the demo?"

After reading the comments, Leon Kai instantly realized that this was Zero, the player with insane aim in the hack demo. In the last game of the demo, he used an AK to instantly kill four terrorists on Banana Road, and the opposing team never dared to contest Banana Road again at the start of the game.

This scene left a very deep impression on Leonkai.

On the other side, Han Tian, ​​who was frantically warming up, suddenly heard someone speaking in the team voice chat.

Green (surname Yu): "Purple Zero, tell me the truth, did you pick the lock?"

Han Tian was speechless, but... wait... this Tang Tang's voice, and this ID "surname Yu".

"Are you Leon Kai? I've had the pleasure of seeing your tutorial demo."

Leon Kai instantly perked up. So this suspect was also one of his fans?

Actually, Giraffe Kanwa demo still leans towards the idea that Han Tian and Zhang Zhen aren't cheaters. You can tell from many details. When he heard that Han Tian was actually a fan who watched his tutorial, his tone softened involuntarily.

Mr. Yu: "I'm flattered. I've seen many people online saying you're cheating. Are you interested in coming to Jincheng to find me and prove it to me?"

These words sound so familiar. Han Tian smiled. But for a truly talented young genius, this was indeed a good choice.

After all, in CS, a giraffe has both good luck and good aim...

zero: "Sure, but I have an offline tournament in three days. Let me finish it first."

The person surnamed Yu asked, "The offline tournament in three days? The Electric Snake Cup?"

zero: "Yes, Orange Team, welcome Teacher Da Kai to cheer us on."

Orange Team? Leon Kai racked his brains for a while, thinking that the team seemed to be formed by his former teammates—help, with whom he had teamed up for the All-People Cup.

After confirming with Du Sinian via WeChat, Leonkai learned the whole story.

The man surnamed Yu said, "Your team leader is an old acquaintance of mine. Since he brought you into the team, I believe you're not the type to drive things."

In front of everyone in the live stream and the police and criminals in this game, Leon Kai openly sided with Han Tian and his companion.

Yu: "If you carry me this game, I'll cheer for you guys in my entire live stream during the Electric Snake Cup."

The comments section read: "Sweet Potato Ball and Nuko must be heartbroken x99."

Soon, with the last player's time expiring, the match officially began.

Leonkai and Han Tian were born in CT Fang.

In the first pistol round, Leon Kai immediately started firing his bulls like crazy, directing his teammates to 3B, 1 M, and 1 A, setting up a heavy B formation.

Han Tian was the one who was directed by the giraffe to go solo A.

Leon Kai was confident that the opposing team would definitely try to push into B at the start.

"Bang!"

A hissing sound rang out as a smoke grenade exploded at the archway connection point A, followed by two flashbangs that exploded above the archway at point A.

The opposing team just went for a burst of A.

"Your mother's kiss! Let me win this bet, ahhh~" Leon Kai, the roguish boss, put on his mask of pain.

At the start of the game, Han Tian jumped onto the police spawn box and crouched down, with his right side pressed against the police booth, creating a headless position.

This position makes it difficult for T, who is pulled out by A1A2, to kill you instantly. It is also very flexible, allows you to fight back, and makes it easy to retreat to the police base after obtaining information.

However, Han Tian was not prepared to retreat, as his teammates were too far away from him. If the Ts successfully planted the bomb, given their close-range gun advantage with the Glock, they would face a very difficult retake.

While Han Tian's headshot position at this moment makes him less likely to be instantly killed or hit by a flashbang, he is also unable to use the left and right mouse buttons to assist in aiming while crouching behind cover. This is a position that requires precise positioning if you want to get the first kill.

"Bang—" The second flash exploded the instant.

A T, wielding a Glock, rapidly pulled out the A1 archway with a massive ultimate.

"puff--"

"CT Zero uses USP to headshot T Jia Hui, who then becomes a free kill and protects Eggplant."

Han Tian focused intently, quickly pinpointed the location, and with a slight tremor of the USP gun barrel, fired a shot that blew the T's head off.

In just one second, a T player simultaneously pulled out from the A2 building to finish off the enemy.

"Pfft pfft—"

"CT Zero uses USP to headshot T Canary"

Two muffled gunshots from the USP rang out. Taking advantage of his position, Han Tian pulled his gun at a wide angle, taking down the T who was finishing off the T on the A2 building with one shot to the body and one to the head.

"You saved my beloved commander, Zero!"

"T regrettably used a Glock to headshot and kill the CT surnamed Yu in both the T and the endgame situations."

Leon Kai immediately beamed with joy, then his head was struck twice on the head by the second T pulled out from the A2 building with a Glock.