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    FP had a big advantage from the start, but Royal was unable to make a comeback, and finally fell completely in the 16th minute of the game, allowing FP to reach the top of glory first.

    The members of the FP team were scolded for disconnecting the Internet in the disadvantaged villa in yesterday’s exhibition match. They were finally proud and proud. Their morale was boosted. They chased and fought hard with high morale, and finally won the practice match with a score of 3:1.

    No one paid attention to the ashen-faced Cider, and all kinds of curious and probing eyes fell on He Chen.

    He Chen felt the eyes coming towards him and tightened his mask unnaturally.

    No one noticed that he looked at the screen with a flash of…confusion in his eyes.

    Except for Lin An who has been observing him.

    Lao Tao breathed a long sigh of relief, looked at each other and exchanged glances with Qiao Zhi.

    Qiao Zhi was a little hesitant. He looked at Lao Tao, then at this young troublemaker, and finally gritted his teeth and said, “Lin An, come out, there is something you need to take care of.”

    Apple Cider watched the two of them leave, and the unwillingness on his face gradually changed.

    Fade was fighting with Royal’s mid laner, but Venus frowned and looked at He Chen.

    Coco has a more direct personality. He is closest to Hechen and interacts with him the most, so he is also the one with the most subtle feelings——

    “Can you… know how to play games?”

    This person is also amazing. Call him awesome. He can’t even understand the front and back keys. Call him not awesome. He can also draw the full moon bow and provide enough food for the whole team.

    He Chen didn’t know how to answer him. After Fade got the better of the argument over there, he left his table and gave He Chen a slap from behind.

    “Okay! Six full moon bows! How long have you been practicing this?”

    Hechen was startled and unnaturally avoided Fade’s touch. He thought for a moment and said, “…It’s my first time to play today.”

    Fade:……

    Coco:……

    Cider looked at him, clenched his fists tightly, and sneered: “So you came here today just to play a trick on me? So you can exchange for a redemption note?”

    “No.” He Chen paused and looked at Lin An’s seat. Although he felt it was unnecessary, he still explained, “The door was not closed just now. I didn’t mean to listen to what happened in your team.”

    “I just think that players who work hard for their country and their team should not be treated like this. I hope you can apologize to Team Lin.”

    “Did he really say that?” Lin An raised his eyebrows.

    “Ah,” Qiao Zhi looked mournful, “Old Tao just sent a message saying, do you want to see it?”

    As he spoke, he stared at Lin An angrily: “Your one-in-a-million appearance is really useful. It can be used by all ages.”

    Lin An took the phone unceremoniously to see how the child inside praised him, and at the same time accepted all Qiao Zhi’s “praises”.

    He pondered for a moment and made a decision.

    “Cider is not continuing this season.”

    “Who are we going to use if we don’t sign Cider? Where can we find a first-level assistant who can cooperate with you at this time?” Qiao Zhi was so angry that he had a headache.

    “Cider’s heart isn’t here, so there’s no point in forcing him to stay.” Lin An said calmly.

    “And with his temper, even if we can tolerate this time, he won’t feel comfortable here and won’t stay.”

    “What should I do? Where can I go to transform you into a human being? If the headquarters finds out, they will tear me alive.” Qiao Zhi paced back and forth with thick black circles under his eyes, “You can’t really sign the rebellious boy in there, can you?”

    “Rebellious boy?” Lin An didn’t know how he came to the conclusion. Thinking about the boy inside who didn’t show his face and didn’t even say much, he smiled and said, “Why is he rebellious? I think he’s pretty good and cool.”

    “Not bad? Not bad, he hacked into the server in the villa area and cut off the power, causing us to be scolded until now?” Qiao Zhi simply couldn’t understand him, “I haven’t got around to dealing with him yet, and you were the one who bore the brunt of being scolded last night, okay? You’re not even angry?”

    Lin An’s eyes were still on Qiao Zhi’s mobile phone. Lao Tao praised He Chen and secretly took a picture of the death angle with his dog swishing.

    The young man with the black hooded sweatshirt couldn’t be seen in the photo. Lin An could only see a small section of his fair chin and a looming mole on his neck——

    Lin An pressed his finger on Qiao Zhi’s screen.

    “Hey, should we use him or not?”

    He Chen is not a stubborn person. On the contrary, he has a good temper and has never had any conflicts with anyone after living in a dormitory for so long…

    Of course, many times he didn’t even bother to talk, so he couldn’t talk about losing his temper.

    But he couldn’t explain why. He thought of the high-spirited boy in the interview and always felt that the world was unfair and made heroes suffer.

    “…Apologise.” He Chen’s voice was not unpleasant. It seemed that he had not drank water for a long time and his throat was dry, so his voice sounded a little hoarse.

    “Are you from our team? What does it have to do with you?” Cider seemed to have been stepped on, shaking out the words in his heart like a machine gun.

    “Do you consider yourself a green onion or a dish? What qualifications do you have to tell me what to do?”

    “You said I’m sorry for Lin An, what the hell do you know? In your eyes, you can only see how kind Lin An is to me, but you can’t see how much I have done for him! Ha! After all, the team’s public relations department is Lin An’s voice… Naturally, all good things are directed at him, and he can say whatever he wants. Everyone favors him, so who can see me?”

    As soon as Qiao Zhi opened the door, he heard Cider’s words and was so angry that stars appeared in his eyes.

    Venus wanted to speak, but Fade stopped her and signaled him not to add fuel to the fire at this time.

    Coco was shocked, “Hasn’t it been the captain who has led you since you joined the team? None of the rest of us are ranked as high as you two.”

    The gameplay of POG competition is diverse, but the situation in FP’s team requires extremely high coordination of wild assistants, so when he first joined the team, Lin An spent more time with Apple Cider in the rankings than anyone else. After the game, he had to communicate with the coaching staff about Apple Cider and accompany him to get used to it.

    But it doesn’t make sense to say this now.

    Now that the matter has been concluded, Lin An doesn’t want to waste any more words. Just as he was about to go in, he heard He Chen say again inside:

    “I’m willing to admit defeat. Don’t you even have the spirit of this game?”

    His tone was calm and didn’t sound very intense, but under his seemingly light and silent gaze, the cider was as unbearable as if he had been slapped in the face.

    He turned around and saw Lin An and Qiao Zhi standing at the door…

    In the whole room, he seemed to be the only one out of place——

    This made him extremely uncomfortable. His whole body was like a bulging guava, ready to explode at the slightest touch.

    Lin An didn’t expect to encounter such a scene when he came in.

    He entered the industry very early and made his debut early. He was already considered a star player not long after he reached adulthood.

    He has confidence and strength, and rarely asks others to stand up for him.

    Before that… the domestic e-sports ecosystem was not mature enough, and if you encountered problems, you had to find your own solutions.

    This is the first time I have been stopped by a child and asked to apologize.

    But——

    To be honest, this feeling is not uncomfortable, it is quite new.

    “Wu Songjie.” Lin An called out his real name completely this time, which was considered as giving him the last dignity as a player.

    “When you first came to FP, you were ridiculed by netizens for practicing the same hero as Chi Rui, saying that you were imitating Chi Rui’s path to hype up Chi Rui’s debut.”

    Cider was stunned. He didn’t expect Lin An to remember these little things so clearly.

    Lin An said without pausing: “You were very unconvinced at the time. You were training hard in the training room alone. You told me that you were no longer Rui Koike. You wanted to make Apple Cider the strongest support player in POG.”

    “I didn’t realize until today that you have so many grievances and injustices in your heart. In the final analysis, it was me, the captain, who failed in my duty.”

    “But I hope you can still remember the state of mind when you first entered this industry. We can get together and have a good time together, and don’t become the kind of person you once hated.”

    Once you become famous in any industry, you will inevitably encounter various temptations.

    The same is true in the e-sports circle.

    Go up and see everything along the way.

    But if you are blinded by utilitarianism, you can’t blame this circle for being a dyeing vat.

    There are always people who are high-spirited, full of ambitions, and face difficulties with the spirit of a teenager.

    It’s just that you didn’t keep your original intention.

    Lin An’s voice was calm and did not contain a condemning tone.

    Cider felt like he was invisible under his gaze.

    Those ugly and unsightly comparisons will not stay in Lin An’s heart for a moment.

    He was the only one who cared, he was the only one who cared.

    But was he really wrong?Isn’t it human nature to pursue fame and fortune?

    Without any shame, he pushed Venus away and walked quickly to the door——

    The two youth trainees who were looking for Qiao Zhi vaguely heard the quarrel inside outside the door and were looking at each other awkwardly.

    “Sorry, Captain, this is the last time I call you that.”

    “Next time we meet in the arena, we will be enemies.”

    Cider’s voice was very low, but Lin An still heard it clearly.

    He didn’t look at Cider again, his eyes passed over Venus and Fade, and landed on the boy in the black sweatshirt behind.

    Lin An had not paid close attention to him during the competition just now. Looking over now, he found that the boy’s eyes that were not covered by masks and hats were even more beautiful than in the photos.

    “Thank you.” Lin An frowned slightly and nodded at him.

    He Chen did not expect that Lin An would thank him, nor did he know that what he did had just been broadcast live to Qiao Zhi and Lin An by Lao Tao.

    He tilted his head uncomfortably and pressed down his hat with his hand to hide himself more tightly.

    So cool?Everyone else present was a little surprised.

    Who is Lin An? Gloam, God G, the e-sports genius who played Ragnarok…

    Who would believe it? In the e-sports circle, when Lin An thanks people, they tend to ignore them, even a little indifferent…

    If Lin An’s girlfriend fans knew about this, they wouldn’t tear this ungrateful person apart.

    Being ignored didn’t matter to me. He extended an olive branch to He Chen: “FP Captain Lin An invites you to join the team. Are you willing?”

    What a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, the captain of the first-line team in the POG local division personally invited me. If the two youth trainees outside the door knew about it, they would be so jealous that they would beat their chests.

    However, the training room was full of players who had just watched He Chen Tianxiu’s operation, so the result of Lin An and Qiao Zhi’s discussion was not surprising.

    They also didn’t expect that He Chen would have any other answer besides willingness——

    “…Thank you, but I don’t want to.”

    “???” Qiao Zhi, who was still hesitating at first, was dumbfounded.

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