Atlas Studios

  Atlas Studios

  Both of them conversed for a while, until the sound of someone tapping on the door came from outside the apartment. Ji Zhiyao figured that it was probably the takeaway being delivered, he walked over to open the door and as expected, came back with two bags of food.

  After eating, Mo Huaifeng went downstairs to dump the trash, Ji Zhiyao remained leaning on the sofa playing the solo mode in Heroes. Recently the client had launched several new champions again, and though they weren’t junglers, their modeling was very pretty. He could not help but want to play a few rounds.

  Time elapsed bit by bit, and their second day at A City went by peacefully.

  Hence it came to the afternoon of the third day.

  The amount of people at the gymnasium was even more than that of yesterday’s. Not sure if it was because Nx battleteam’s national ranking was higher than that of Bao Lu battleteam, the audience felt that today’s tournament would be more exciting than yesterday’s; or because yesterday Mix battleteam beat Bao Lu’s mid-laner to tears that made they decide to come join in the fun.

  No matter which possibility it was, it had nothing to do with the Mix members who were about to make their entrance.

  What they needed to do, is to play their tournament well.

  Ten people from both teams, each in their positions. The time to go on came very quickly.

  When the judge announced the start of the tournament, excitement spilled from the inside out, and the large screen projected the Heroes battleground.

  Ji Zhiyao controlled his assassin champion to move into the jungle. In his mind surfaced what he had seen in the videos yesterday; Nx battleteam’s style of playing.

  Entirely different from Bao Lu battleteam, Nx was used to fighting apart. From the limited amount of information, they only knew that the three members from the original team all had a more aggressive playing style. Nothing much could be seen other than that.

  Combining Ji Zhiyao’s understanding of the limited number of Korean reinforcements that he had met before, he felt that the possibility of the opponent coming to counter-jungle was very big. Hence after killing some small creeps, he hid around the area of the red buff, quietly waiting for the appearance of the opponent’s jungler.

  Not more than a short while later, the opponent’s jungler appeared!

  In addition, the opposite jungler had come alone.

  Ji Zhiyao could really keep calm, Nx’s jungler had walked past almost right in front of his face, yet he waited till the opposite jungler showed his back to him, before he moved.

  Assassin’s ability damage was limited at the first level, Ji Zhiyao was not able to take the kill, but gave him a beating with his abilities and let him get away.

  Ji Zhiyao did not give chase, but began to jungle.

  Things in the other three lanes were all going very smoothly. In the beginning the situation was already as such and he was still worried that the opponent’s mid-laner that had been changed to a Korean reinforcement who would be a difficult opponent. He had already prepared to start a jungler ADC team up to support Mo Huaifeng. Yet the standards of Nx battleteam’s Korean reinforcements were beaten to pieces by Mo Huaifeng, with no strength to fight back.

  The top lane, where Nx’s ADC and support were, due to the improvement in the level of cooperation, gave them quite a bit of a surprise. Ji Zhiyao weighed the circumstances of the top and bottom lanes, and decisively ran to the top lane to support K, the top lane close to becoming a pairs’ lane.

  Halfway through the game, Heng solo-ed against the opposite mid-laner while sighing: “Nx battleteam is really becoming lousier and lousier, I remember when we met them during the national qualifiers last year, their standards weren’t this bad.

  K: “The result of insisting on buying Korean reinforcements. Actually the ADC and support’s cooperative play is not bad, just that when the will of its people has dispersed, the whole match is a mess. Could you guys tell? Our opposite does not seem to not know who is directing, everything is almost crashing.”


  Ji Zhiyao after supporting the middle lane, glanced at both the big and mini map and gold stats while heading to the dragon cave. K was right, some things could be seen just from the big map. The few turrets at Nx’s top lane were defended very tightly, but the bottom lane had already been destroyed with only one turret left, the mid-laner had almost been killed by himself and Heng in terms, he wasn’t doing very well.

  The tournament going for three wins out of five matches had a total of four matches played in the end, they lost one of the matches because K needed to pee urgently and had no heart to play, on top of that the mid-laner had been swapped to Xiaofei. Overall, Nx battleteam was almost completely pressed down and thrashed by Mix.

  After the tournament ended, Ji Zhiyao was packing up his equipment all relaxed, when he was about to pick up his bag and leave the gymnasium, he was reminded by Xiaofei. “Brother, we haven’t done the after game interview. Where are you going?”


  “.…… I forgot about it.”


  Nuo teased, “666, our Yao-god is really indifferent to fame and wealth!”


  Ji Zhiyao looked at him with an innocent expression.

  The few of them jostled with each other, and returned to the gymnasium in smiles and laughter to be interviewed……

  A week’s time passed very quickly, Mix welcomed the last stop of their national performance tournament tour, T City.

  T City was adjacent to S City, and was considered to be at the forefront among cities in the country to be more developed in the eSports industry. In T City, the opponent waiting for them was Stickers Battleteam.

  This team was also, amongst the ten other teams that they had met, the one with the strongest consolidated strength. The stats analyzer Old Ning had described them like this to Ji Zhiyao: if it is said that Mix and Tall Boots were prospective nominees for the local top eSports team, then Stickers Battleteam has the capability to be the top fifth team, sometimes, if their condition is good, they could even be fourth.

  Ji Zhiyao used to be a fan of the Stickers Battleteam for a short period of time, Sticker’s ace was the team’s mid-laner. He, with the hand speed from being single for 18 years, gained the title of “God’s Left Hand” by fans. The standard of the remaining members in the team could only be considered above average, and it could be said that they were a one-man team.

  This week they had been thrashing other local teams with varying standards, Ji Zhiyao had almost forgotten that he was here at the national performance tournament tour to improve himself. Now that there was high level Boss right in front of him, Ji Zhiyao almost couldn’t wait any longer.

  Their lodging in T City was a hotel in the city center, still two people to a room, the allocation the same as it was back in A City.

  Entering the room, Ji Zhiyao took off his jacket and placed his laptop bag aside as he asked, “Captain, I’ll go shower first?”


  The only bad thing about a standard double room was this, only one bathroom, if they wanted to shower, they would have to take turns. Mo Huaifeng “mm-ed” after hearing him, saying, “Go on.”


  Hence Ji Zhiyao joyfully entered the bathroom.

  Ten plus minutes later, his distressed voice sounded from inside the bathroom, “Captain……”


  Mo Huaifeng was currently in an advancement match, the last match for his main account to rank up, he could not be the least bit distracted. Holding a lollipop in his mouth, his tone was slightly nonchalant as he asked insincerely, “What’s wrong?”


  “I forgot to bring in a change of clothes.”


  “Why not forget yourself too?” Mo Huaifeng was helpless. “I’m in an advancement match, can’t free up my hands, you can just come out to change.”


  In the bathroom, Ji Zhiyao lowered his head and glanced at his own naked butt.

  He twitched the corner of his lips, the thought of appearing with his butt naked in front of his Captain made his face extremely red, although he did not know what there was to be embarrassed about when both of them were males.

  Ji Zhiyao gritted his teeth, both hands covering below, pushed open the door and rushed out.

  The temperature in the room wasn’t as high as that in the bathroom, a layer of fine goosebumps quickly formed on Ji Zhiyao’s skin. What made him most despaired was, he swept across the room and realized that he hadn’t even taken his clothes out before he went in to shower.