Chapter 30 Part 2
Tong Yao couldn't understand why Little Fatty was so angry; she
couldn't figure out why he was more resistant to Lu Yue than she
was; furthermore, why did he bring up last year's world finals-- --
ZGDX wasn't on the list for last year's world finals.
Tong Yao had assumed that ZGDX was absent simply because they
hadn't been invited. But now, she suddenly remembered that Xiao Rui
had mentioned before that "because of certain reason we didn't play
the finals"...
So it wasn't because the team didn't get invited. The team was invited
but they didn't make the trip because something had happened.
She seemed to remember that Little Fatty had said something about
"he was driven away" "no one wants to be his teammates"...
Could it be that it was because of Lu Yue?
And it involved Ming god?
Tong Yao was so confused by it all that she was too afraid to ask since
everyone seemed to be in an unhappy mood. She took the cat back from
the arms of the team manager, then quietly went back to her own room...
Tong Yao couldn't sleep. Random thoughts rushed through her head as
she laid in bed. Why didn't she follow the League of Legends competitions
last year while she was abroad? She grabbed her cell phone and began
to search for news about what had happened to ZGDX last year. She
found out that last year, there were quite a few dramatic developments:
Last summer, ZGDX won the summer season championship. According
to the rules set by Riot Games, every region's summer season championship
team would automatically qualify for the world finals that year.
Many people had great hopes that ZGDX would win the world finals at
the time.
While everyone thought the team was training hard behind closed doors,
nobody had expected the announcement from the official ZGDX official
site: ZGDX will be withdrawing from the world finals.
No explanation was provided.
The whole country was shocked by the news. Aside from derogatory
comments online, rumors began to fly around. Some said it was because
China Telecom had cancelled the sponsorship and the team was going to
disband; some said it was because there was internal conflict among the
team members and they couldn't compete anymore; some said it was
because the team simply couldn't take the pressure and backed out…...
Everyone was speculating, yet no one knew what exactly happened.
Tong Yao searched for answers online, but it only made her even
more confused.
Before falling asleep, she received a message from Little Fatty-- --
[Little Fatty: That guy won't be playing as a substitute here. I won't forgive
him for what happened to Ming god. Let's wait and see.]
Tong Yao replied with several question marks, but received no reply.
Tong Yao waited and waited and finally fell asleep clutching her cell
phone in hand.
The next day, Tong Yao woke up to the ringing of her cell phone. She crawled
out of the blanket and put the phone onto her ear, eyes still closed. After she
answered the phone, she heard shouting from her best friend, Jinyang, "You're
still sleeping! My god! Something big has happened to your team, my friend! ! ! !"
"What?" Tong Yao rubbed her eyes. "What, what?"
"Get on Tieba and see it yourself!"
Jinyang hang up without waiting for a reply.
Baffled, she went on a famous esports Tieba and saw the four letters ZGDX
everywhere on the first page filled with comments. She refreshed the page
and saw a post with almost 23 thousand comments-- --
[Subject] [The real reason ZGDX backed out of the world finals last year.]
The post was a video clip.
Tong Yao yawned, thinking it maybe just some publicity stunt, and absent-mindedly
clicked open the video-- --The video was quite dark, looked like it was shot by a
surveillance camera. The location was a KTV. There was a group of young people
sitting inside, wearing uniforms with letters JK on them...
Tong Yao seemed to recognize the name; it was the name of the B team of an
esports club. That team had already been downgraded from the professional league
to the minor league this year.
In the beginning of the video clip, people were drinking, chatting, and laughing,
seemingly having a good time. A short while later, two men opened the door and
walked in-- --
Tong Yao jumped up from the bed, holding the phone with her eyes open wide-- --
The two men that just walked in were Lu Yue and Ming god. Lu Yue was at the
front holding a liquor bottle in hand. He walked in, without saying a word, and
smashed the head of the man sitting closest to the door with the bottle…...The
other members of JK soon stood up and gathered around. It turned to a mess
inside the room-- --
At first, Lu Yue was fighting against 7 or 8 people; in the end, those people were
beating up Lu Yue.
Broken pieces of glass were scattered around on the floor. Even the coffee table
was broken into two-- --It was like a scene from a Hong Kong gangster movie-- --
Tong Yao shuddered with fear and thought "what if someone trips and fall." Before
she could finish her thought, a guy with bad luck did fall. It was Ming god who was
trying to break up the fight.
Ming god didn't join the fight from the beginning. He was trying to hold Lu Yue
back while he tried to hit others and drag Lu Yue away while the others were hitting
Lu Yue. But the guy who had been struck on the head refused to let them leave-- --
While Ming god was trying to break up the fight, someone pushed him without even
looking and he tripped and fell onto all the broken pieces of glasses!
He subconsciously tried to catch himself with his right hand and pushed against
the ground on top of all the broken glass. The glass cut a long gash on his arm...
The video was still running on the cell phone.
In the next second, Ming god was lying in a pool of blood. Lu Yue, who was being
attacked by the others, had a look of shock before jumping up to deliver a flying
kick to the people around him. He grabbed Ming god to pull him up from the ground…...
At this point, both of them were bathed in blood-- --
Tong Yao trembled, the cell phone fell onto the bed...
She raised her head in disbelief, she never knew playing professional esports
could get someone so injured.