Chapter 71

“One mill-...” Puppy forgot to breathe. One hand around his chopsticks and another on his keyboard, he coughed.

“I opened my mouth ten times...” Puppy relaxed after a while and muttered, “Now I’m wondering just how much of a signing fee Yu Sui offered to dig you out from IAC that you can do something like this now...”

“Before I signed with Free, I’ve been playing professionally for two years. I can still afford this much.” Shi Luo glanced at Puppy and said in an irritated tone, “What are you being all dazed for! Call it!”

“Oh, right. Right.” Puppy cleared his throat and called to the fans in the live broadcast. “No one has a higher price than this, right? One million once, one million twice, one million a—–and sold.”

Puppy clicked on his mouse and announced, “And we have a winner. Whisper’s first time as a play partner goes to Young Master Shi.”

[Can’t I just pay the 100,000? ! I really want to pay! 】

[666666......】

[‘Bought for the entire night’. I’m dying of laughter. Shi Zai, do you think you’re still in an Internet cafe? 】

[Hahahahaha, old fans know that Shi Zai is a famous bag of vinegar. 】

[Young Master Shi is rich, Young Master Shi is awesome. 】

[I’m so grateful to Puppy. I really love Puppy’s webcam broadcasts, hahahaha. I love watching the team’s daily interactions. 】

[No, I’m so angry. I’m standing atop my chair in anger! Evil, why are you bidding too? You can double row with Whisper at any time. Why are you snatching away benefits from us humble players? 】

[Wait a minute, what’s the situation now? Why did Evil bid? My memory is stuck at when these two broke apart two years ago. What’s their situation now? 】

[This is probably a case of ‘the deeper the hatred, the deeper the love after reconciliation’. 】

[Truthfully speaking, don’t you think these two have been interacting a little bit too much recently? 】

[Was it Shi Shen who just bid? 】

[Seriously, I sometimes even suspect that these two are together...]

[Hey, first things first. Evil, if you bid, you have to pay up! Otherwise, it’s a pass and it’s still my 100,000 that’s the winning bid. 】

Puppy saw the superchat Big Brother Iron Fan just sent and turned to look at Shi Luo, “What are you going to do? Yu Sui’s fans are serious. Shi Luo, people are urging you to pay. If you don’t pay up then it’s a pass. If you pass, then it’s the 100,000 for one hour that’ll be the winning bid. So, are you going to pay up or were you just talking big?”

Yu Sui was reclining on the sofa. When he heard this, he raised his eyes and glanced at Puppy. He said, “From the very beginning, when did I ever agree for you to auction me off?”

Shi Luo looked down at his phone, “You’re the king of talking big, I don’t have the skills to be talking big with you. I’ve transferred it already, one million.”

Yu Sui’s mobile phone suddenly beeped with an incoming text message.

Yu Sui was momentarily startled. Then, he laughed. “He really did transfer it...”

Before he had hardly finished speaking, the players in the Puppy’s live broadcast chat went crazy.

“No. Seriously?” Old Qiao was originally just watching the excitement, but when he saw Shi Luo suddenly playing for real, he was suddenly frightened. He hurriedly issued out a disclaimer, saying, “The team reimburses you for fees paid to training partners, the kind with a thousand yuan an hour rate. The team has never wronged you and the team has never been stingy, but this kind of one million... the team won’t be reimbursing you for that!”

“Of course it can’t be reimbursed!” Chen Huo yelled from the side, dissatisfied, “Who has heard of a club reimbursing its player for a hooker?”

“That sounds f*cked up. Can we not refer to him as a hooker?” Old Qiao turned to look at Yu Sui up and down, and said hesitantly, “Although it kinda feels that way when Yu Sui plays double row with Shi Luo...”

“Right?” Now that he’s mentioned Yu Sui’s situation with Shi Luo, Chen Huo could feel himself getting angry all over. “Didn’t I say so?! From the first time Yu Sui’s played milktank for Shi Luo, I felt that there was something wrong with his display of skills! It was like he was a play partner Shi Luo had found off some site. Not to mention taking him flying, he also paid attention to Shi Luo’s gaming experience. Isn’t this what you call a play partner?”

When Yu Sui first milked for Shi Luo, it sent all the players into shock. The players then sent #We Feel Sorry for Chen Huo# trending on the Weibo. Even now, Chen Huo still remembered this animosity. Chen Huo leaned back on his gaming chair. Why was it that he more he looked at Yu Sui, the more he found him unpleasant to look at. He cursed, “Really, just look at his shabby hair. Doesn’t he look exactly like a hooker? Luckily, he got into this business. Otherwise, given slag man Yu’s natural disposition, if we had let him roam freely in society, who know what kind of violations against public decency he would have committed?”

Zhou Huo carefully looked at Yu Sui, who was reclining on the sofa, “You know, I did discover some new business opportunities from Yu Sui... It’s just that Shi Luo drove the price up too high. It’s not gonna be easy to follow up that act.”

“F*ck you guys.” Yu Sui smiled, “I’m not for sale.”

“Look who’s talking. You just sold yourself to Shi Luo and now you’re erecting an archway?” Chen Huo gave a ‘tsk-tsk’. “What can you expect from someone whose account is dirty? Of course, the owner is also dirty...”

Zhou Huo shook his head and gave up, sighing, “Fine, our team is rich enough anyway. You don’t need to work as a play partner for this bit of money. Besides, apart from Shi Luo, I don’t think anyone would be willing to spend a million to buy Yu Sui. Forget it.”

“A right and proper e-sports club, letting you talk like you’re in some kind of brothel.” Old Qiao looked at the time and urged, “It’s almost time. Let’s start training. Hey, you, the one that got sold!”

Yu Sui conscientiously answered, “What?”

Old Qiao held back a laugh, “Someone paid good money for you already. So are you going to serve as his training partner now or what? If you’re going up then I’m going to take a break.”

Yu Sui stood up from the sofa and looked at Shi Luo. Implying more than what meets the ear, he asked, “Will you be using me now or will you be scheduling me for later?”

Shi Luo had already sat back in his seat, chewing some gum. He muttered, “...I don’t need you now. When I have use for you...I’ll call you.”

Yu Sui was also very open to persuasion. He smiled, “Sure, I’ll wait for your call.”

Yu Sui went to train by himself and Old Qiao went to boot up the computer to serve as Shi Luo’s training partner.

Everyone was going off to train and they couldn’t let the contents of formal training leak. Puppy said to the webcam, “My training partners are also ready now and I can’t do a live broadcast during training. This is me signing off. Everyone who liked my broadcast, please remember to subscribe. I’m closing it now. If it’s still early by the time I finish, I’ll do another live broadcast for a couple of hours.”

Turning off a live broadcast after just an hour, the fans in the Puppy’s live broadcast started howling in grief. Superchats and gifts were sent nonstop. Puppy clicked his tongue, “If you keep this up, I wouldn’t be able to bear to stop the broadcast. Fine, fine, I’ll help you guys pass on some messages... ...”

Puppy looked at the superchats and read, “Chen Ge, when are you going to do a live broadcast? I want to watch you double row with Wawa. Huhuhu”

Chen Huo has finally, after much difficulty, managed to stabilized his position in the top 100 of the national server this month. He hurriedly said, “I’m not making any promises. No team ups. And I’m telling you now. Can you hear me? That bastard Wawa is targeting us right now because of the playoffs. They’ve already started hiding little tricks from our team! The ungrateful whelp! See if I team up with you again!”

Puppy nodded and continued to say to for one of Shi Luo’s fans, “Shi Zai, you must eat well, rest well, smoke less, and play well in your matches. I’m going to take the postgraduate entrance examination. I’ll marry you when I come back from graduate school.”

Shi Luo pretended not the hear the last part and only said, “Good luck on your postgraduate entrance exam.”

“You heard that, right? I won’t repeat it, and finally, let’s read one for Yu Sui...” Puppy’s eyes hurt from the overlapping superchats. He squinted hard and said, “Yu Shen, you haven’t done a live broadcast for so many days now. I have a bad premonition. Please start broadcasting.”

Yu Sui logged into his game account and said, “We’re about to start preparing for the playoffs. So I won’t be doing any live broadcasts for now.”

Puppy was very satisfied upon hearing this. “Yes, Whisper’s at it again, again, again. He’s started again. The most terrible time of this year hasn’t officially started but slag man Yu has already forgotten all about you guys. But it’s okay! I’m still here for you. Let me say it for one last time. Click to subscribe. Those who want to see them, come to my live broadcast room and I’ll have my webcam on for you. Okay, okay. My training partners are here. Signing off.”

Puppy turned off the live broadcast and foul language flowed out of the mouths of these players who’d started their formal training. Shi Luo felt too hot and bunched his short sleeves up to his shoulders. Chen Huo kicked his shoes off again, swearing while playing a match. Zhou Huo, couldn’t bear to look at them, and went out of the training room to do some work.

Yu Sui wasn’t ending business hours early. They were almost halfway through the regular season. More of Free’s regular season matches were in the latter half and the further they went into the season, the more intense the games. They needed to play the regular season matches one by one and enter the playoffs. After getting into the playoffs, they were going to charge ahead to secure one of the two places for the World Championships. They had to reserve some energy to go to Berlin and attack Sacred Sword. Things were about to get busy. In the next month, except for Puppy, even Chen Huo wasn’t going to be doing live broadcasts.

In a blink of an eye, it was the end of the month. It was finally time for their regular season match against Saint.

As last year’s regional champions, Saint has enjoyed a lot of privileges this season. Almost all of their regular season games were arranged by the tournament team on their own home court. On the day they were to play against Saint, Free had to get up early once again. Traversing almost the entire city of Shanghai to get to Saint’s own stadium.

“Really, everything else about this season aside, let’s work hard to win the local division, alright?” Chen Huo sat in the car and put on a neck pillow. He grumbled, “Angel Sword and the others have got it too good. Getting to play their games in a stadium less than three kilometres away from their base. They don’t even have to get up early. With that much energy, they don’t need to ride in a car. They can just run over there and play the match.”

Zhou Huo was looking forward to it, “They have got it good. There are often games in our own stadium. Fans have to buy tickets to watch the games. Except for the league’s share, the rest of the ticket sales goes to the club. Of course, they’ve got it good.”

“The other stadiums also have to hang a battle flag with their logo for an entire year.” Old Qiao was also looking forward to it. “If we can win a championship this season, then they’ll have to hang Free’s flag.”

Shi Luo put his peripherals away, “Having Bison hang our flag...that doesn’t sound bad.”

Yu Sui was wearing an eye mask and he smiled when he heard these words. He said in a low voice, “Can your grudge get any deeper?”

“Yes, no matter whether they accept it or not, they’ll all have to hang our flag. Just thinking about it makes me happy.” Old Qiao encouraged, “But first things first. Up til now, only our team and Saint have maintained our winning streak in the regular season. Today, work extra hard and don’t let them get our first blood. In any case, Saint really wants to keep their first blood. Saint’s manager posted this morning on Weibo that if they win against us, he’ll have Angel Sword open a live broadcast and sing for an hour tonight. Fans can set what song he’ll sing. Angel Sword already agreed.”

Shi Luo was stunned, “He agreed? Is he crazy?”

“Nah, he’s normal. Actually, this kind of thing began with our team...” Puppy slowly said, “Since I auctioned off Yu Sui during my live broadcast, our competitive region has gotten, let’s say a bit more loose in their morals. They’re asking if our team’s going to offer some kind of fanservice?”

“We...we are!” Zhou Huo didn’t want to lose against Saint’s manager. He thought about it and made a decision. “If we win, I’ll have Shi Luo do an hour long live broadcast with the webcam turned on, how about it? Evil, if you agree, I’ll also post it on Weibo, Let’s give Saint a bit of a shock before the game.”

Shi Luo was just about to refuse. During his moment of hesitation, Yu Sui, who was dozing, said in a low voice, “If Evil turns on his webcam...I’ll also drop by to greet the viewers. Now that I think about it, I haven’t shown my face in any of his live broadcasts yet.”

Shi Luo swallowed the words in his mouth and said, “Okay, you can post it.”