Rebirth is fine, but I get eight hundred dollars right from the start?

Zhao Yicheng greeted Su Man first, "Hello, host!"

Seeing this, Li Ye and Luo Yu quickly echoed, "Hello, host! Hello, host!"

[Haha, I'm dying of laughter! Were these three guys intentionally paired together? I admit, E-God, you're really suited for variety shows!]

[Tall, short, strong, thin—goodness, they've got it all!]

[The tallest, seemingly quietest person is actually an extrovert?]

[This guy is definitely a top laner!]

I must admit, if this guy plays top lane, I'd only have a 30/70 chance against him—he'd kill me seven times out of three!

[Hehehe, skinny little guy with glasses, I bet five cents, he's definitely a support player.]

[That last one, the one with the average looks, the kind of guy you'd just pick up in a crowd of high school students, yeah, he's obviously got the protagonist's script.]

Su Man smiled and gestured to the side, "Let's get in the car first, we can talk on the way. The base is about a forty-minute drive from here, you can rest in the car."

The four people walked towards the van, and the camera followed them.

The sound of suitcase wheels rolling over the paving stones, the station announcements reminding passengers of the next train's arrival, and the streetlights casting long shadows from the glass dome at night.

The car door closed.

The car slowly drove out of the high-speed rail station's drop-off area and merged into the traffic flow on the outer ring elevated road.

Inside the car, Su Man sat in the passenger seat and turned the microphone towards the back.

The three young people squeezed into the back seat, with Chen Ye in the middle and Zhao Yicheng and Li Ye leaning against the windows on either side.

As I looked out the car window, the cityscape of Shanghai gradually transitioned from the densely packed city center with its high-rise buildings to industrial parks and green belts, and the buildings on both sides of the elevated highway began to appear lower.

"The three of you, please introduce yourselves to the camera!" Su Man reminded them.

Inside the carriage, the group exchanged bewildered glances. Luo Yu and Li Ye unconsciously shrank back. Su Man, seeing this, sighed helplessly and handed the microphone to Zhao Yicheng, who stood calmly to the side.

Sometimes, the trajectory of life is shaped by taking one or two steps back, causing us to fall behind others.

Although Su Man is a girl and doesn't usually play games, after joining Leading Esports, she did a lot of research on League of Legends and the esports industry for professional reasons.

Take Emperor for example, who is now the number one star in the domestic e-sports circle and also his own boss.

The other party has come this far step by step, so there is absolutely no way they could be like these two young people in front of me, who can't even stammer when introducing themselves.

A few seconds later, the microphone fell into Zhao Yicheng's hands. He composed himself slightly, waved to the camera, and said, "Hello host, hello everyone watching the live stream. My name is Zhao Yicheng, I'm seventeen years old, my Chinese server ID is 'Tiger Tooth Doesn't Bite,' I'm a Challenger rank player in Ionia with 804 points, and I mainly play AD carry!"

After Zhao Yicheng finished speaking, countless question marks flew across the screen outside the camera's view of his youthful face.

【? ? ? ? 】

[Hey bro, what did you say? What are you playing?]

[Playing bot lane? You're not a top laner, are you? Tell me you're an ADC?]

[Alright, alright, so you're building tank items for your ADC, huh!]

[Hehe, I wonder what the guy who guessed he was a top laner is thinking now.]

[That makes sense. Assassins are rampant this season, and E-God is leading the charge in targeting my bot lane. Without some defensive items, I get killed instantly in team fights.]

[Exactly! A strong criticism of E-God! Since the mid-jungle meta shifted, it's become difficult for me, an AD carry, to carry a girl in the bot lane.]

[A Challenger player in Ionia with over 800 points, very skilled!]

[Actually, I admire the young man's calm and composed attitude. He was the first to greet the host when we met. I have high hopes for him.]

This kid has the potential to become a star player!

[Place your bets now! Brothers, if you're rooting for Xiao Zhao, hurry up and place your bets! If you don't know how to vote, it's below the live stream.]

For the program "Next Stop, Pro!", Huya platform certainly won't just be limited to being a live streaming platform.

Various special sections have been added to the page, such as real-time support for the thirty players, prize-winning quizzes to retain players at different stages, and even player experiences of some publicly available aspects of HWG's youth training program.

"My name is Li Ye, I am 20 years old, my Chinese server ID is Chengcheng Dawang, Ionia Diamond 1, 97 LP, I mainly play support."

With someone starting, Li Ye's nervousness lessened considerably, and he followed suit, introducing himself as the second person.

Luo Yu wondered if it was just his imagination.

After Li Ye finished speaking, it seemed as if countless eyes fell on him, both inside the car and outside the camera's view.

This left him feeling somewhat lost.

"I...I...my name is Chen...oops, I mean Luo Yu!" He swallowed hard. "I'm also sixteen years old this year, my Chinese server ID is TheKing...and my rank is Diamond 2 in Ionia, with 89 LP."

After speaking, Luo Yu unconsciously lowered his head a few notches. Of the three people present, although he was the youngest, his skill level was also the lowest.

He used to be able to confidently tell his parents at home that he was a rare genius in the e-sports circle, but he lacked professional training from a professional team.

Looking at it now, well, he really does lack practice, but whether he's a genius or not is another matter.

[Wow, is this skinny, bespectacled guy actually the oldest?]

However, I wasn't wrong about the support role.

[This kid's rank seems a bit low, only Diamond 2...]

Let's not jump to conclusions. What if this person has great potential? Sixteen is an age where possibilities are limitless.

That makes sense, otherwise E wouldn't have been hired.

Meanwhile, in a small town a thousand miles away, the lights in Luo Yu's living room were blindingly bright.

Mr. Luo placed his phone horizontally on the coffee table, next to a slice of watermelon that his wife had cut; neither of them touched it.

When Zhao Yicheng announced "804 points, the strongest player in Ionia" in the live stream, Lao Luo clicked his tongue and said, "This kid has something."

When Li Ye said that he had 1 points, he nodded in agreement.

But when it came to his own son, Luo Yu, the moment he uttered "I...I...I'm called Luo...Ugh!", the smile on Old Luo's face froze instantly.

The comments scrolled by: "A normal kid like me only got Diamond 2" "How did he even get in?" His lips twitched, and he crumpled the unlit cigarette in his hand, saying in a muffled voice: "He brags to me about being a genius at home, but he can't even speak a complete sentence properly on camera."

Luo's mother didn't respond. She stared intently at the scrolling comments on the screen. She didn't quite understand what "thirty contestants," "real-time support," and "prize quiz" meant, but she understood the word "elimination."

Thirty kids, a handful of them are King of Glory players. A seventeen-year-old has over 800 King of Glory points, a twenty-year-old is a Diamond 1 support, and my own son is a sixteen-year-old Diamond 2 with 89 LP. They're not bad among ordinary people, but throwing them into this group of monsters is like throwing sheep into a pack of wolves.

She clutched the corner of her apron, her palms sweaty, and whispered, "Luo, isn't this... this competition a bit too intense? Xiaoyu is only sixteen. What if he gets eliminated? Can he handle it?"

Mr. Luo sighed: "He chose the path he wanted to take, and even if he's eliminated now, he has to grit his teeth and keep going."

"Perfect, let him see clearly where the reality lies."

(I posted a comment yesterday, and a bunch of people in the comments section said I wanted the story to be abandoned, which scared me.)

(Just to clarify, we don't need the full attendance bonus from Tomato. If I can't write enough here, I'll write slowly. I hope you won't think 2,000 or 4,000 words is too little. If I can't update on a certain day, I'll let you know in advance.)

(After posting the single last night, my mind was a bit blank, so I quickly wrote a chapter today. It would be funny if you guys deleted the book.)