CS: I became Top 1 by grinding my skill level

Chapter 82 The Heart of a C-Level Tournament Champion

"A catastrophe—"

Huang Jun had always known that the immense attention brought about by the emergence of superstars would undoubtedly be a devastating blow to a small, monopolistic company like theirs located in Asia.

Unlike other regions, in the strictly regulated East Asian region, excessive attention and exposure can easily invite joint suppression from local governments and the World Esports Regulatory Commission (ESIC).

Perhaps other popular game betting projects can hold on, but for Juxingde, which is run by a family, a single iron fist could crush their easy money Huaxia CS betting project, and even other FPS betting projects would inevitably be affected.

Therefore, as the leader of the Juxingde CS betting project, Huang Mingyuan adopted a strategy of complete control, which involved establishing connections of interest with some managers and players of various second and third-tier teams, also known as "planting lines".

Profits are divided proportionally, and everyone shares the same food, which means they have common goals and interests that need to be protected together.

In this way, Juxingde established a huge interest group in the Chinese CS community.

Even within the management of some first-team teams, there are several "lines" planted by Juxingde, just waiting for the right time for Juxingde's big hand to slowly pull one or two lines, thereby bringing huge benefits to itself.

In fact, Huang Jun had long understood what his brother wanted to ask him after watching the Electric Snake Cup.

Since last year, Huang Mingyuan had instructed him to keep a close eye on Zhang Zhen and Ren Feiyu, these few talented young men with considerable reputations.

First, "treat them to a meal" and proactively ask the company's affiliated betting teams to try recruiting them, to see if these so-called genius teenagers know how to appreciate a good offer.

If they don't know what's good for them, that's even easier to deal with. Take Zhang Zhen from the Orange team, for example. He made excuses like he just wanted to make money as a game booster and didn't want to drop out of school to play professionally.

Since "treating someone to a meal" doesn't work, then "beheading" will do!

Huang Jun found out online that Zhang Zhen had previously had a dispute with a relatively famous live streamer, which made things much easier.

He first added the streamer's assistant on WeChat under the guise of business cooperation, intending to bribe the assistant step by step, and then use the streamer to crush Zhang Zhen, or at least make sure that Zhang Zhen could never step onto the professional stage again.

Unexpectedly, the assistant had long harbored resentment over the low pay given to the streamer, and Huang Jun managed to poach the assistant for less than 30,000 yuan.

Finally, the anchor was named Beihai, the biggest culprit who openly exposed Zhang Zhen online.

The assistant who betrayed him and ran away was named Liu Bo.

Assistant Liu Bo was resentful that Bei Hai clearly had a six-figure monthly income, and he clearly had to do the work of four people for Bei Hai every day, being used like a beast of burden, yet Bei Hai was only willing to pay him a low salary of just over four thousand a month.

With a mere four thousand yuan a month, Liu Bo struggled to make ends meet in the expensive capital city. He hinted to Bei Hai several times that he wanted a raise, but Bei Hai just spouted nonsense about young people needing to work hard.

As Beihai had hoped, Liu Bo did indeed work hard.

Through Huang Jun's instigation, Liu Bo worked hard to buy negative traffic for Beihai, forwarded Zhang Zhen's personal information that Beihai had accidentally posted in a fan group, and secretly incited fans to cyberbully Zhang Zhen using Beihai's assistant identity.

In addition, Beihai is used to exploiting negative online traffic and often engages in self-destructive behavior.

As expected, with the combined efforts of Liu Bo and Huang Jun in the shadows...

In addition to being shut out in the Electric Snake Cup semi-finals, Beihai's public image has collapsed. Now he faces not only the collapse of his live streaming career, but also breach of contract fees for various activities and the possibility of imprisonment.

Beihai, Liu Bo, Huang Jun.

Three people, three different ideas, but the same goal—money.

The streamer Beihai wanted to follow Zhang Zhenchui and continue to make big money from negative online traffic.

Assistant Liu Bo wanted to get revenge on the stingy Beihai and also make some quick money from Huang Jun.

Behind the scenes, Huang Jun only wanted to eliminate Zhang Zhen, this unstable element, from his career path, ensuring that the company could continue to make money steadily in China.

However, an unexpected factor—the sudden emergence of the super genius boy Han Tian—changed the course of all these events.

Aside from the unfortunate working assistant Liu Bo, who made quick money and ran away.

The Beihai project collapsed, resulting in a complete and utter defeat.

Huang Jun's plan backfired. Zhang Zhen, whom he had been targeting, eventually went on to pursue a professional career, and then an even more troublesome opponent appeared.

An even more dazzling super genius—Han Tian.

This is why his older brother, Huang Mingyuan, suddenly asked him the question, "What is the significance of cargo transportation to the European betting industry?"

Huang Jun felt that his brother might have seen a glimmer of hope for becoming a superstar in Han Tian.

Juxingde would absolutely not allow any superstar player who could generate a frenzy of online traffic to appear in the China region, which they considered their money bag.

"Han Tian..."

"7

Muttering the contestant's name to himself, with half a burning cigarette in his hand, Huang Jun sat silently on the sofa.

My brother, Huang Mingyuan, has just boarded a flight to Singapore.

Before long, Huang Jun will officially take over the Mala branch of Juxingde Company.

The first task Huang Mingyuan gave him was to find out exactly who this newly emerged Han Tian was.

"Hey Liu Bo, what have you been up to lately?"

"Haha, how could that be? Someone like you who's so adept at using online trolls and generating traffic, wouldn't be able to find a job?"

"How about this, I'll give you a job. Remember Han Tian, ​​the guy from Orange?"

"You're in charge..."

"7

The call ended after the final deal was reached between the two parties.

Huang Jun pressed the hang-up button and slowly turned his head to look at the huanghuali wood table.

Huang Mingyuan's tablet, which he used to watch the Electric Snake Cup matches, was still on his desk, the image frozen on the scene of the Orange team holding the cup.

As Huang Jun looked at the boy in the center of the screen, holding the trophy high, his eyes gradually turned cold.

"With Ren Feiyu joining SD's youth training program and backed by the Su Dong Group, things are indeed not easy for him..."

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"But this Han Tian..."

"7

"[【C-Tier Tournament Champion's Heart】, Item Description: Allows you to open a champion's prize pool once and choose one of three rare items drawn from it.]"

"Champion's Heart? Champion's Prize Pool? Rare Items?"

Han Tian looked at these words with a puzzled expression.

After lifting the trophy with his teammates, the host gave a brief closing speech, and Han Tian and his teammates went to the lounge to pack up and leave.

However, after Han Tian received the more than 10,000 [Proficiency] reward from the system, he suddenly remembered that the system seemed to have rewarded him with something he had never seen before the moment he won the final.

This "Champion's Heart of a Class C Tournament" has a shape and texture that are remarkably similar to the Electric Snake Cup trophy—a delicate, translucent jade-colored bead with a finely detailed jade snake coiled around it.

"Could it be that they saw someone else's trophy design was good and just copied it from the system?"

Han Tian couldn't help but find it a little funny, because the design style of this Champion's Heart trophy was exactly the same as the one he had just held up.

If you put the two together, they look like two small pieces from a complete set of jade artifacts.