Chapter 600 - Boss Pei is so Angry that He Cussed (1/2)

At the same time, in another room within the H4 Club, Team Leader Pang Ling was hosting a live stream and chatting with his fans.

The club had a very tight training schedule. Ordinarily, they would only get to host live streams after their daily training or on weekends. What’s more, the live streams could not eat into their regulated rest times.

However, the club generally encouraged its members to host live streams.

For the members, their career as professional esports athletes was short. Hosting live streams was a hobby that they could continue to cultivate for retirement. Thus, they could host more live streams now to make a name for themselves, gather a fan base, earn additional income, and plan for retirement early.

Simultaneously, the members’ live streams could improve the club’s visibility and fame. Furthermore, if the live stream platforms wanted to enter any contracts with the members, they would have to seek the club’s approval first. Often, the contracts would include all the team members, which would also be in the club’s interests.

Although the H4’s team had only obtained second place in GOG’s competition, Team Leader Pang Lin had played an extraordinary wanderer. As a result, he won over a significant number of fans.

If the team’s midlaner had not been so messed up, perhaps they would have won.

Thus, thanks to the competition’s fame, Pang Ling rapidly won over a group of fans. After that, thanks to his work on the live streams, his fan base continued to grow.

All the professional players used to be skilled masters in GOG, but once they started playing professionally, they improved rapidly in terms of their individual skills and understanding of the game. The gap between them and ordinary players was only getting wider.

There was a saying: never compare one’s hobbies with another’s career. For any career—once someone works at it full-time, they would only become increasingly better than those who were taking part in it as a mere hobby.

Ever since Pang Ling became a professional player, his understanding of the game far surpassed ordinary players in the game’s ‘professional rounds’. Even as a wanderer, he could easily kill those in all three lanes and have additional energy to taunt them. Of course, it was easy for him to grow his fan base.

After playing two rounds, Pang Ling chatted with his viewers in the bullet screen comments while waiting for the next game.

“Someone says it’s a pity that we didn’t win the championship. It really is a pity. We were so close to winning at the end.

“Someone else asks if we felt helpless. I wouldn’t take it that far. How helpless can we be?

“At the most, engaging in a fierce battle for five rounds is a pity. Helplessness is being trashed 0-3 and being pushed around for fifteen full minutes without having any chance to fight back.

“Hehe, don’t talk about it. I have really experienced that before. Even with six members against four, our team could not defeat the other. That’s helpless.

“We’ve been tortured so much that we think coming in second place is not bad. At first, we thought we would be kicked out of the competition really early on, but in the end, we realized that the other teams were just as bad as we were.”

“Taunting? I’m not taunting anyone. Those are the facts.”

Pang Ling shared his personal experience with everyone, but comment after comment just showed his audience’s utter disbelief.

“What the h*ll? You came in second place, and you’re saying you were tortured before? You even claim that you were pushed around for fifteen minutes straight and couldn’t even win with six players against four? Who are you trying to kid?

“The best clubs in the country participated in the competition. Could you be referring to a foreign club? Oh, I’m sorry—GOG doesn’t even have an international server yet!”

“Exactly which team are you referring to? That’s so awesome?!”

“DGE? Weren’t those the teams competing at Tengda’s Live Esports Museum? They do look pretty good, but saying that they could beat you with four members against six would be a bit overboard, wouldn’t it?”

“I won’t believe you unless you ask some of those team members to prove it to us!”

Pang Ling began to feel helpless while reading those comments.

Yet, he had no other choice. Everything that he was saying sounded like a fantasy. Who would have thought that a veteran club that came in second place during a competition would have been tortured by a club from a random internet cafe?

Pang Ling knew very well that DGE was not just a club from a random internet cafe. Instead, they were from the wealthiest and most legitimate club in the country!

“Forget it. You wouldn’t take my word for it.

“I’ll ask the second team leader of DGE to come and play a ranked game with me. Just take a look at his standard, and you would be able to tell just how twisted he is. All I can say is that only nine other people are just as scary as he is.”

Pang Lin called Huang Wang over, and they both started playing a ranked game as a pair. Tons of question marks instantly appeared in the bullet screen comments, because Huang Wang’s account was titled ‘Extraordinary Grand Master’.

It was too bad that DGE Club spent too little time playing ranked games individually.

Unlike members in the other clubs, Huang Wang and the rest had to spend two additional hours practicing independently, two hours working out, some time on mock competitions, and some time analyzing their competitions. That would leave them with a little over two hours to play ranked games on their own.

On the other hand, Pang Ling and the others could play ranked games five or six hours each day. Of course, there was a wide gap in their points.

Still, in the world of professionals, high points did not necessarily mean better skills. Some people accumulated points as if they were drinking water. Yet, they would not have that many points, only because drinking too much water wouldn’t be beneficial.

Others would think that their opponents were as poorly skilled as Great Masters and that playing with them would cause one’s own skills to deteriorate. Thus, ranks were just a matter of entertainment.

Pang Ling: “Let me fly?”

Huang Wang: “Go!”

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An hour later, the bullet-screen comments on Pang Ling’s live stream were exploding. There was a 180-degree change in what they were saying.

The pair was too cruel!

The best midlaner and jungler from the competition was taking part in a top-tier ranked game, thus fully embodying what it meant to do whatever he wanted.

The bullet-screen comments continued to be filled with question marks, but this time, it was not about because of Huang Wang’s tier. Instead, it was because of his taunts.

“I thought that Pang Ling taunted a lot already. Yet, compared to this midlaner, he seems more like an introverted child!”

“‘How dare this midlaner come up here and destroy his own experience level’? Is that something a human would say?!”

“How are you able to talk non-stop while attacking the other side relentlessly?”

“Holy sh*t, this midlaner is too ruthless, isn’t he? Who is he? Does he have a live stream account?”

“He’s doing whatever he wants. Has the other side completely given up after fifteen minutes?”

“If this midlaner had taken part in the competition, would he have lost?”

“I’m starting to understand why Pang Ling is always cursing at his own midlaner now. They’re really not of the same standard…”

“This midlaner is a bullet train! How can he keep talking without resting?!”

“Does he have a live stream account?! Quickly, get him to create one! I want to see his first-person’s view!”

Huang Wang conducted a massacre and won several times in a row, causing the number of viewers in Pang Ling’s live stream room to shoot through the roof. Obviously, the live stream platform had intentionally recommended his room as well.

After all, it was highly entertaining to watch one pair slaughter everyone else in a top-tier ranked match. As both of them continued to taunt each other comically, more and more people stuck around, and the increase in their viewership became unstoppable!

When he saw that everyone in the comments was talking about Huang Wang and not him, Pang Ling felt frustrated.

Fans! How fickle they could be!

After winning five consecutive rounds, Huang Wang prepared to leave.

“Alright, I’m not playing anymore. I’m going to work out. We lose every day in our mock competitions, and so we have additional training every day. I want to puke.”

Pang Ling quickly said, “Wait! A lot of my viewers are asking if you would start a live stream. They want to see your first-person’s view.”

“Live stream?” Huang Wang pondered for a moment and said, “Forget about it. I have to train every day, and I don’t have time to host live streams.”

Pang Ling: “It doesn’t matter. You can do it for fun. So many people with live stream accounts don’t host live streams regularly. You can always switch it on when you feel like playing ranked matches on your own. It wouldn’t be that troublesome.”

After some thought, Huang Wang decided that what Pang Ling had said made sense. “Alright, I’ll look into it when I get back from working out.”

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August 1st, Monday…