CS: I became Top 1 by grinding my skill level

"I... Bull Demon King!! I forgot!!!"

The comments section was filled with: "Tang is finished x99"

"You're human?!?!?!"

"Breaking your promise? I'm unfollowing you."

...

Leon Kai hurriedly replied to the chat: "It's okay, we should still have time. They probably only just opened map two recently."

He switched between different broadcast streams, searching for the match between Dussian and Zero's teams.

"OG (Orange Team) vs. YUST (Yunan University of Science and Technology Team), is that it?"

"If we go in now, we can at least watch half the game, and maybe even see picture three, that Bull Demon King! Isn't that plenty of time?!"

Leon Kai confidently opened the match stream.

"The game ended 32 minutes and 11 seconds ago."

He was dumbfounded.

Comment: "I hope you have this attitude towards your life too! ×99"

This famous quote from Leon Kai's old nemesis, Wang Xishun, started flooding the live stream chat: "Ouch...ah...[the rascal boss's pained face], this is really putting Teacher Kai in a tough spot."

"Forget it, Bull Demon King, let's look at the data first."

Upon seeing the score, Leon Kai exclaimed, "That Bull Demon King is just stomping fish everywhere!"

"One score was 16:4, and the other was 16:1???"

"Who are those guys on the other side? They're getting beaten up so badly. Could they be some C+ team participating in the competition?"

At this moment, a comment appeared on the screen: "It's our Henan University of Science and Technology's campus team."

"Oh, so it's the school team. I was wondering. But it's quite an exaggeration that they played like this. Putting aside everything else, the school team's shooting skills are pretty good."

Leon Kai scratched his bowl-cut hair. "Let's look at the data together."

"Ekko, a regular on the perfect list, number one in stats, with a 1.74 rating and an average ADR of 91 per round. For a dummy, these stats are pretty good."

Leonkai was actually quite familiar with Ekko. After all, a long time ago, when Leonkai and nuko often played high-level games together, they would often encounter Ekko and Dusinian leading a few skilled players, who would be on the opposing team.

"Sigh, speaking of Ike, it's really a pity. If he were still in Tianlu's youth training program, perhaps..."

Unfortunately, there are no "what ifs" in life. Leonkai shook his head and threw away those unrealistic ideas.

"Let's look at the next one, oh? Isn't this Zhao Qingcheng?"

Leon Kai was even more familiar with Zhao Qingcheng, after all, the former was the one he, Du Sinian and 259 who was still in MFC at the time wrote a letter of recommendation to Tianlu Youth Training.

After all, this young man was already wreaking havoc in the top-ranked police station when he was only 15 years old.

"A 1.67 rating, wow! So many kills with a sniper rifle?! Does he never miss a shot?"

"Tianlu has struck gold again. I think Tiedan is in a bit of danger." Leon Kai jokingly teased Tianlu's active sniper, Danking, in the live chat.

"Zero and Long's stats are also good this time, but don't think they're not good just because their stats aren't outrageous."

"Their positions on these two maps determine that when their team's frontal firepower can overwhelm them, the number of kills they can get is very limited."

"Damn! Such a huge scoreline, it makes me want to replay their game."

Leon Kai opened the official live stream room, ready to find a channel.

"Hey streamer, it looks like someone got arrested for using a USB drive online."

A seemingly insignificant comment floated across the screen and was seen by Leon Kai.

"Isn't this practically a semi-offline tournament? The referees are all standing behind you! Damn it! How dare they start this?"

Leon Kai was incredulous and quickly opened Bilibili to search for related terms.

"Daily CS: The Forsaken of China CS? A member of the TT team in the Electric Snake Cup online tournament was caught red-handed using a mouse-embedded cheat device."

This news article has already garnered over 100,000 views.

After reading the news, Leon Kai had a general understanding of the situation.

Team TT sounds like a legitimate team, but it's actually a random team of five ranked players. The player who was caught cheating was apparently ranked number one on the 5E non-green leaderboard and had been accused of cheating many times before.

"The anti-cheat plugin installed on the competition computer went off within ten seconds of the start of the game, and the cheater was caught on the spot by the referee and technical staff."

"5E is going to have a headache now, haha." Leon Kai, a well-known contracted streamer of 5E, was actually a little gloating.

There's nothing we can do; 5E's anti-cheating measures are so poor these days. Everyone's complaining.

After watching the news video, Leon Kai subconsciously looked at the video's related section.

The video titled "What if I told you that there was more than one cheater in the Electric Snake Cup?", posted 30 minutes ago, has already reached 17 views, even surpassing the original news video.

"Clatter—"

The eye-catching title prompted Leon Kai to click on it instantly.

The author's name is CS图图哥. Leon Kai, a long-time member of the community, knows that this person seems to be a relatively well-known small-time streamer in the Beihai community.

. .

.....

"At the end of the video, I would like to appeal to the organizers of the Electric Snake Cup and the Perfect World platform: anyone suspected of cheating should not be allowed to participate!!"

The video's comments section was filled with "Support a just trial!" covering the entire screen.

The play bar extends to the bottom, and the video ends after 5 minutes and 9 seconds.

At this moment, Leon Kai, who was in no mood to pay attention to the comments in the live stream, had turned ashen-faced in front of the camera.

Because he knew that it was always difficult to make a genius, but it was incredibly easy to destroy one.

.....

"TuTu got the timing right."

An hour slowly passed, and the video titled "What if I told you that there was more than one cheater in the Electric Snake Cup?" had already surpassed 700,000 views.

In the living room, Beihai turned off his phone and lazily reclined on the velvet sofa, feeling quite pleased with himself.

Today, he met his old teammates whom he hadn't seen for many years, and together they easily won the round of 32 to 16. Moreover, the rhythm he had been hoping for had begun to take shape.

Beihai picked up his phone and dialed the number of the live stream assistant.

"Hey, Xiao Liu? How's the video I asked you to edit coming along?"

"Tonight...that works too. Just post it using my Bilibili account after you're done. It's on me tomorrow!"

After hanging up the phone, Beihai reached into his pocket. It seemed he had given all his cigarettes to his old teammates. He got up and prepared to go to the study to open another pack of cigarettes.

As he walked through the corridor, Beihai's gaze suddenly lingered on a framed photo hanging on the wall. His pace slowed, and his gaze softened slightly.

Inside the frame is a slightly yellowed old photograph.

In the photo, six boys who look to be under twenty years old, their faces beaming with joy, are embracing a blue glass trophy the size of a water bottle with their thin arms.

"Fifteen years have passed in the blink of an eye."

Bei Hai was slightly emotional. Today, he and his two old teammates, Lao Tang and Chang Bo, won the game. At the moment of victory, he felt as if he had returned to that distant era.

A group of ragged teenagers met and became acquainted in an unlicensed internet cafe because of a game.

Who would have thought that two years later, they would win the world championship together?

The medal still hangs in the study, but the captain who came all the way... is no longer here.

Looking at the tallest boy in the photo, smiling shyly.

A hint of sadness flashed in Beihai's eyes.

"If I could have made some money playing professionally back then..."