Book 4: The Return of the King
Chapter 15
Taotao clenched his hands into fists on top of his keyboard and looked at
the five people sitting across from him. None of them were particularly
expressive. There all shared a stern expression that shouted, “We’re
competing seriously.”
They indeed could afford to play with him a bit.
This was the second to last match since the round robin competition started.
Though Taotao’s team was still at second place, they had lost 5 points. Five
points was already too wide of a gap. Even if he finished the game in 15
minutes to win extra points, he would still be one point lower than the SP.
And furthermore……
Now that his four teammates were scrapped and the helicopter had already
flown away.
He had absolutely no hope of winning.
The audience could already guess what SP was going to do. These five players
had already done something similar when they played against their old enemy at
Or perhaps a spectator wouldn’t understand the meaning of “toying” with someone
until they watched SP A team play a match. These five people, from their captain
to their players, enjoyed being unpredictable.
Such as in Korea, such as…...now.
Slide typed a sentence on the screen.
“A duel. One on One. We will let you win the game if you beat all of us.”
Taotao: “I don’t need your charity.”
Charity?
Slide shook his head and laughed. Taotao was surely too young and rather
arrogant to say that.
He grabbed his water bottle and took a sip. “Following.”
“Ok.” Following rushed at the figure in the darkness without his knife. Taotao
didn’t expect Following would come at him without a weapon. Distracted by his
boldness, he was struck by a punch. Following then pressed him down on the
ground, but he stabbed Following’s chest twice before Following could punch
him again.
His hands were quick.
Following withdrew before he lost all health.
Next, All and Bug rushed him barehanded. It was two to one.
Obviously Taotao was at a slight disadvantage, but All and Bug withdrew after
receiving only a few minor cuts.
“It’s my turn now!” The fifteen years old young boy’s eyes were shining. “One,
two, three.”
He was even generous enough to give Taotao three seconds to catch his breath.
He rolled to Taotao’s feet silently under the moonlight and shoved Taotao into the
ground. Among SP’s five players, only Inin played a female character, which gave
him a 10% increase in agility, but a 10% reduction in strength. So in other words,
Inin was weaker but the boost in agility meant that he was superior to the previous
three people in close combat.
After Taotao struck back, they fell into a tangle of limbs rolling on the ground.
Inin was not so friendly as the others. He pulled out his own knife and stabbed
Taotao’s shoulder. Taotao kicked back, causing the knife to slice downwards. But
Taotao’s knife also penetrated Inin’s back at the same time.
“I don’t like him.” Inin whined. It was too bad. He was dead……
Toatao had only lost 30% health after fighting with four people.
Taotao kicked away Inin’s body. His character was shaking and panting from
his injuries.
4 SP players fought him before keeping distancing themselves from him.
Slide walked up slowly. He threw his sniper rifle to the ground and switched to
a knife.
Slide: “How much health do you still have?”
Taotao: “70%.”
“Very good, me too.”
This was their last conversation.
They both sensed that this was the finale. It was of no use dragging it out. On
screen, they had already rolled into a single mass before anybody could clearly
see what they were doing.
Blade, knee, arm.
Close combat. They separated quickly. Both of their health had rapidly dropped.
Ai Qing nervously stared at the large screen.
The health indicators on both sides were low.
Slide’s indicator fell to 30%.
But the right side showed 5%. Taotao’s knees became soft and he fell down on
the ground in the darkness. He could not stand up again with only 5% strength.
It was like the end of the battle between Dt and Buff.
They weren’t completely dead.
But they couldn’t move at all.
This match was over.
This was the difference between rank number 2 and rank number 3.
Amid the applause and cheers from the whole stadium, Taotao relaxedly put his
hands on the keyboard. He was totally convinced and looked at the man sitting
across from him who was leisurely drinking his water bottle. In addition to Appledog,
now he had another reason to love SP.
Slide.
He had been in and out of the esports circle several times. He was famous in the
esports circle as the first Chinese player who signed with a German club, the Chinese
team’s captain in the Asia Tournament of ‘07, the StarCraft champion in the Asia
Tournament of ‘07……
Now, the captain of the Secret Room A team of the largest esports club in the nation-- --