On the other end of the network cable, Yuan Ze looked at the last sentence he’d sent out, “…What kind of garbage speech to text recognition is this!”

He’d used the game’s own voice to text private message sending function. When he’d spoken, he’d only thought that it would save him trouble, and afterwards, he’d used a professional player’s superfast hand speed and instantly sent it out.

And then… he’d slipped up.

Wei Xiao hadn’t been happy seeing Marshal’s ID.

When he saw him say that Close was no good, he was even more angry.

Until the last sentence––

The obedient voice to text had exposed Yuan Ze’s slip very clearly.

Now, this was a great turn of events since private chat messages in the game couldn’t be withdrawn!

Lu Feng could hear Wei Xiao’s laughter, “What’s the matter?”

Wei Xiao cleared his throat and read it out, imitating Scum Man Yuan’s voice, particularly when it came to the last sentence, “Give me his phone and flight number. I’ll go pick… cough, I’ll go laugh at him!”

There was special emphasis placed on the last sentence, that misspoken word.

Lu Feng’s low laughter came from the other end of the phone.

Wei Xiao’s ears trembled, “Is someone picking you up?”

As it happened, the city where Lu Feng was staying was the city where L&P was located.

Lu Feng replied, “Yes.”

Wei Xiao was relieved, “Then, should I give Yuan Ze your phone number?”

Lu Feng: “No need.”

Wei Xiao was quite surprised, “You’re in the same city, but you’re not going to meet up?”

The more he understood Lu Feng, the more Wei Xiao was certain that he felt none of the rumored prejudice against the Team of Gods.

It could even be said that Lu Feng attached great importance to his former teammates, even Dog – not human – Yuan.

Lu Feng said, “I have his contact information.”

Wei Xiao tsked, “Old Dog Yuan really isn’t anything good.”

Look, they’d been separated for three years, but Lu Feng still had Yuan Ze’s phone number, while Yuan Ze didn’t even have Close’s.

Lu Feng didn’t explain much. He coaxed him, “Go sleep.”

Wei Xiao’s tense nerves loosened, and he also started to feel tired, “Call me when you settle in.”

Lu Feng: “I’ll send you a WeChat message.” If Wei Xiao was sleeping, a call would wake him up.

Wei Xiao insisted, “A voice message.” He wanted to hear his voice.

How could Lu Feng not indulge him? “Mm.”

The two of them hung up the phone, and Wei Xiao sent a message back to Yuan Ze, “You don’t need to pick him up, someone’s already picking him up.”

Yuan Ze: “………………”

Wei Xiao: “Not giving you his phone number, stop trying to hook up with my captain.”

Yuan Ze: “???”

Wei Xiao added the most fatal blow at the end, “Close is very good, goodbye Captain Yuan.”

Yuan Ze: “F*ck!”

As soon as Wei Xiao went back, Soybean jumped straight into his arms.

Brother Soy didn’t know that his handsome father had gone away. He felt quite puzzled when he smelled that Wei Xiao didn’t have his handsome father’s scent on him, “Ao?”

Wei Xiao thought that it wanted to go downstairs to play. He rubbed its doggy head and said, “Your father isn’t at home, there’s nobody here to go crazy with you.”

The captain had only left for one day, and he missed him––

He wanted him to come back and walk the dog!

It was 6AM in China, making it 6PM in America.

Lu Feng spoke to the doctor about the timing as he waited for his luggage.

He’d just arrived and needed to settle in. He’d go to the hospital the day after tomorrow to discuss the treatment procedures.

With this dealt with, Lu Feng dialed a phone number from the bottom of his address book.

Yuan Ze had just been angered by Little Lunatic Wei, and when he heard his cell phone ring, he picked it up without looking at it.

The other side wasn’t speaking in English. Instead, it was a bass voice that was both familiar and strange, “Hello.”

Yuan Ze: “!”

Lu Feng: “Are you free?”

Yuan Ze burst out cursing, then asked him, “You still have my phone number…” He thought that Lu Feng would’ve blocked him a long time ago!

Lu Feng: “I heard you want to pick me up? I’ll be out of the gate in around 40 minutes.”

This cocky tone of voice brought Old Dog Yuan’s thoughts back to three years ago.

Yuan Ze paused briefly, “F*ck!”

He picked up the car key on his desk and headed for the airport.

Yuan Ze had also been a laborer in the old FTW.

Only two people had a driver’s license on the team. One was Yuan Ze, and the other was Yan Jiang.

Captain Yan: “You can ask me to drive as long as you’re not afraid of death.”

Everyone in the Team of Gods: “……” Who wouldn’t be f*cking afraid of death?!

So, Yuan Ze slowly became an experienced driver.

When Kim Sung-hyun came back from South Korea, he’d gone to pick him up.

When Xie He came back from his hometown, he’d gone to pick him up.

Only Close was different, because he never went home.

Yuan Ze had once asked him, “Do you want big brother to pick you up?”

Close had simply glanced at him.

Yuan Ze: “……”

Don’t ask, if you ask, it’s simply asking to be snubbed!

The next day, Yuan Ze had received a call from Close, “I’m at K11.”

Yuan Ze: “???”

Close: “I heard you wanted to pick me up.”

Yuan Ze: “……………………”

If it hadn’t been that Close had also given him a lighter that cost five digits, he definitely wouldn’t have picked him up!

After picking up Lu Feng, Yuan Ze finally realized something, “Didn’t Quiet say that someone was picking you up?”

Lu Feng had been flying for over 10 hours. Even if he could lay down and sleep in the first class cabin, he was still very tired. He glanced at him sidelong, “Aren’t you someone?”

Yuan Ze: “……”

Both of them were f*cking shits!

The first thing Wei Xiao did when he opened his eyes was grope for his cell phone.

There was a voice message in his Wechat. Wei Xiao clicked it open and heard Lu Feng’s voice, “Don’t worry, I’ve settled in.”

One in the afternoon was one o’clock in the morning over there. Wei Xiao managed to resist calling him and sent him a Wechat message, “I dreamed of you.”

Jet lag wasn’t that easy to reverse. Lu Feng sent over a video call.

Wei Xiao connected instantly.

The two of them looked at each other across the small screen, and they missed each other even more.

Wei Xiao looked at him pitifully, “Captain~”

Lu Feng also looked at him, “What was I doing in your dreams?”

Wei Xiao’s cheeks were red. He was too embarrassed to say it, yet said it anyway, “I dreamed that you kissed me.”

The color of Lu Feng’s dark eyes deepened.

Wei Xiao started to tremble from his look, “Ahhhh, Captain, don’t seduce me!”

When he looked at him like this, not only did he miss him, certain other places also started to miss him!

Lu Feng laughed quietly, “Who exactly is seducing who?”

Wei Xiao: “……”

F*ck, he really wanted to fly to M Country!

Wei Xiao couldn’t win when he flirted against his captain and got out of bed as he said, “There’s a competition in the afternoon. I’m getting up.”

Lu Feng knew his schedule, “Nervous?”

Wei Xiao set the cell phone to one side and spoke while changing clothes, “What’s there to be nervous about?”

From Lu Feng’s point of view, he could just manage to see his thin waist. After having sampled it before, one glance was enough to make him miss it.

Wei Xiao put on his team uniform, then looked sideways at the camera, “Captain?”

Lu Feng: “……”

Wei Xiao was amused, “Fascinated with watching me?”

He’d done it deliberately. It couldn’t always be the captain teasing him; he had to fight back!

Lu Feng: “Mm.”

Wei Xiao’s heart leapt.

Lu Feng: “I’m fascinated.”

Wei Xiao: “…………”

Shit, to hell with fighting back. His heart started beating like a drum with just a single word from the captain!

Later, Brother Cai had come to knock on the door, scaring Wei Xiao into quickly closing the video call.

There was also the sound of Soybean making noise outside.

Wei Xiao opened the door for them, and Soybean pounced into his arms.

Bai Cai: “Laozi walked you for an entire morning, but you forget your uncle as soon as you see your daddy.”

Soybean really wasn’t his dog!

Wei Xiao stroked Soybean, “It’s still your Uncle Vegetable who cares about you, accompanying you to go crazy so early in the morning.”

Soybean: “Aoooooo!” After messing around for such a long time, why do you still not smell like the handsome daddy?

After Wei Xiao said so, Brother Cai’s heart felt guilty, “I was told to do it.”

Wei Xiao looked at him, “?”

Bai Cai told him the truth honestly, “Before the captain left, he told me that I was responsible for walking Soybean every day.”

Wei Xiao’s heart felt sweet, but he immediately grew puzzled, “You’re so damned lazy, why would you be so obedient?”

Brother Cai cleared his throat, “1000 to walk him each time, and two months adds up to…”

Who cared about the competition? He could get rich walking the dog!

Wei Xiao: “………………”

Wei Xiaoxiao instantly felt that Soybean wasn’t fun anymore. This thing was too expensive, he might as well stew it!

Today was FTW’s first official game.

The regular season began at 3PM every Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. It was BO3, and there were three games a day.

There were no games on Monday and Tuesday, which gave the teams time to do their replays and reviews.

At the start, they would be circulating within their group, and it was held in S City, FTW’s home base.

The other group would be cycling in B City, which was FTW’s away court.

Home games and away games were quite different.

Without mentioning anything else, there would be a difference in the players’ states.

It took two hours to fly from S City to B City, and the journey was quite tiring.

After they arrived, they would have to stay in a hotel, and no matter how comfortable the hotel was, it wasn’t the same as living at their base. If they didn’t sleep well, it would also affect their state.

So, everyone all paid attention to the cycles within their group in order to snatch up points where they could. After all, it would be a pity to lose points when they had the home team advantage.

Today, FTW was up against a third rate team.

There were 14 teams in the China competition zone, but there was a mixed combination of good and bad teams.

When the entire competition zone was in a slump, the level of the weak teams was far worse than what strong competition zones could imagine.

For example, this LH team. Their name also started with L, but the gap between them and L&P could be said to be like the difference between heaven and hell.

In last year’s regular season, LH had been one place short of getting relegated to the secondary leagues.

There was really no suspense for FTW to go up against them for their first game.

But Chen Feng was a little nervous.

Tang Chen warmed up his wrists, “Even if you don’t believe in me, you should believe in those kids.”

He’d been playing in training matches with the rest of the team recently, and their results had been good.

Chen Feng stared at him, “You understand shit!”

Tang Chen: “Yeah, yeah, I don’t understand shit.”

Chen Feng: “……” He couldn’t understand the brain circuits of this piece of wood this lifetime!

Xiang Liu interjected, “It should be fine, LH played against RR yesterday and was beaten up miserably.”

LH really was miserable. Their luck was really terrible, and they’d played against RR in their first game, and it was the RR who’d gotten hammered into seclusion during the opening game.

As for the results, it could only be described as so horrible that one could barely stand to look at them.

Moonlit had gotten beaten up directly by the shadow thief during the opening game, and then it had happened again during the training match.

The anger and fury that had been suppressed for a day and a night all landed on LH.

Such an unlucky team then went on to encounter FTW in the second round.

In fact, these schedules had been made public before the opening game.

At the time, LH had felt their vision grow dark as soon they saw the schedule. That day, everyone in their team had gone to worship Buddha on Weibo, begging for a change in their luck.

Who could’ve known that they would really get what they wanted––

FTW’s official blog sent out an announcement, and their Weibo followed suit and gained popularity.

How metaphysical!

They’d worshipped Buddha, and Close had actually gone off to North America!

Sending out Weibo posts to gain some luck was really useful. It seemed as though they’d managed to suck FTW’s luck dry.

Was the law of conservation of character true?

Anything that was related to Close’s departure from the team could be discussed happily by the netizens for a very long time.

While Chen Feng was worrying about FTW messing up, FTW’s four little ones had a different attitude altogether.

Wei Xiao pointed to his cell phone, “Do you guys see this? It’s this team!” The Weibo he was pointing to was the one where LH was trying to suck in some luck.

Ning Zhehan nodded, “Yes, they’re the ones who cursed the captain. It’s really a huge crime!”

Yue Wenle: “……”

Bai Cai: “……”

Wei Xiao looked at the two of them, “What, could it be that they’re not guilty?”

Yue Wenle & Bai Cai: “They are!”

Wei Xiao nodded, then concluded, “The dead can be excused, but living criminals can’t escape. What’s our goal?”

Ning Zhehan and Brother Cai became the little side characters that were supporting the lead role, “Beat them up!”

Bandit Wei was very satisfied.

The competition began at 3PM. Lu Feng, who’d coaxed Little Xiao by saying goodnight was currently watching the live broadcast.

His cell phone rang.

Yuan Ze had sent him a message, “Come out for a late night snack?”

L&P had just finished a training match. Yuan Ze was hungry enough to die, and when he thought about how Lu Feng definitely hadn’t adjusted to the jet lag (even though it wasn’t necessary, since there was no jet lag in e-sports), and definitely hadn’t slept, he called him out to eat together.

Lu Feng: “No.”

Yuan Ze: “Not hungry?”

Lu Feng: “Busy.”

Yuan Ze: “???” What could you be busy with at three in the morning!

Oh… it was three o’clock in the afternoon in China.

Yuan Ze got it, “FTW has a game?”

Lu Feng: “Yes.”

Yuan Ze looked it up: LH? What kind of noob team was this, he hadn’t even heard of them.

Yuan Ze asked him again, “FTW shouldn’t be at the level where they can’t even win against this kind of team, right?”

Lu Feng didn’t reply.

Yuan Ze thought about it and felt that he was being overly nervous. He comforted him kindly, “Don’t worry, it’s a steady win with Quiet there.”

Lu Feng: “I know.”

Yuan Ze was puzzled, “So what are you nervous about? Staring at it at three in the morning?”

A long time later, when Yuan Ze thought that Lu Feng wouldn’t reply––

Close: “I miss him, so I’m watching.”

xiin – long distance dog food begins~ and Yuan Ze gets a whole face full of it!