LOBO is one of the best teams in the Chinese Wilderness Professional League. They are not short of money, and this can be seen from the fact that they set up their base on the floating island-the rent on the floating island is at least four times more expensive than that of the city on the ground. Speaking of this fact, one must know the company behind LOBO, known as a weird investor in the esports world-Liansheng Technology. This is a new enterprise that started with holographic equipment. The semi-exposed secret in the industry is that Liansheng's boss is the young master of the old and wealthy Gao family in City B.
If it is said that the results and popularity of LOBO in the first two years have made Lian Sheng earn a lot of money with many sponsors are rushing and wanting to share a piece of the pie with Lian Sheng. The decline of LOBOs since the S3 season had caused them to become tasteless in many business mans' eyes. The team's overall performance was mediocre, the players' personal strength was good, and the fan base was stable. But in the end, they still couldn't win the team competition. What's the use of stabilizing in the quarterfinals? There are a total of 16 teams, is it amazing to just win half of them? Besides, LOBO is a team that has once won the world championship.
The lineup is singular and the results are "excessively stable". If such a team does not change, the commercial value will consistently drop. No fan would stay purely out of sentiment. For a team that can no longer make a lot of money, many people are waiting for them to be sold off by the investors and rejected by sponsors. However, even after waiting for a long time, Lian Sheng did not make any movement and still spends a lot of money to let the entire LOBO club live comfortably.
Don't talk about businessmen who are aiming for a profit, even the fans thought of it after a long period of time: Is Lian Sheng, the investor daddy doing charity?
Regardless of what the charitable Lian Sheng thinks, LOBO's base was built luxuriously anyway. The floating island off the coast of City S is known as the golden city, not because of its status as a financial centre, but because of its housing price. The LOBO club has two branches of the division located here, one is the Wilderness, the other is the holographic Werewolf game. (T/N: The Wilderness is more towards a D&D game. The Werewolf game: https://playwerewolf.co/pages/rules)
The two branches share a townhouse. They enter and exit together every day and occasionally have supper together. Fans can even enter the live broadcasting room of one branch and see players from the other branch there. Therefore, the relationship between the two fan groups is surprisingly good. When they are struggling, they can often see the fans of the other branch helping them.
Pei Pei Ze drove for a few hours and only arrived at the LOBO branch of the Golden City in the early hours of the morning. He parked the car in the garage, turned his head and looked at Hu Luobei, who was already soundly asleep. With the heater turned on in the car, Hu Luobei opened his mouth slightly, his face was flushed. Maybe because his neck was uncomfortable from sleeping in such a position, he unconsciously rubbed it against the back of the car seat.
Pei Pei Ze carefully detoured around to the co-driver's side, opened the car door, and hugged the person sideways. Hu Luobei moved slightly but did not wake up.
One can go directly to the basement from the garage of the villa without going through the front entrance. The basement on the LOBO wilderness side was renovated into a studio. At that moment, a few team members were gathered around watching a ghost movie. When Pei Pei Ze suddenly kicked open the side door of the basement, it just so happened that the malevolent ghost in the movie had twisted its head back.
With 360° surround sound in addition to humans screaming, Hu Luo Bei was awakened in an instant -sitting in shock and looking dazed for a long time.
Pei Pei Ze hugged Hu Luobei tightly, and a blue vein bulging on his forehead: "Shut up!"
The team members collectively turned their heads to look at Pei Pei Ze, their screams stuck in their throats. Only the holographic projection and audio were still working conscientiously.
Yan Le quickly turned off the holographic projection and turned on the lights in the entertainment room.
Then, everyone could see clearly that the captain was holding somebody in his arms.
"This is the carrot raised by the boss? Looks like a real good deal." Wang Bo Wen, the culprit who suggested watching ghost movies in the middle of the night -game ID Boom which his fans jokingly renamed 'the explosion'- was rubbing his fat hands and trying to get close.
Hu Luobei: "?" His mind was not clear yet, so he did not hear clearly what the fat man standing at the back of the crowd was saying.
Pei Pei Ze glanced at Wang Explosion with a face drawn. The latter wanted to continue his words, but Yan Wei Ran and Yan Xin Ran quickly pulled him back. (T/N: Wang Bo Wen = Wang Explosion. The author will be using his nickname for the future chapters.)
The younger brother, Yan Xin Ran covered Wang Explosion mouth and said: " Fatty shut up, who are we to judge if the boss's carrot is worth it or not!"
Yan Le smiled at Hu Luobei apologetically: "I'm sorry. It's all fatty's fault, he wanted to watch ghost movies in the middle of the night. We have alarmed you. Quickly go up and rest.
Hu Luobei shook his head: "It's fine." He struggled for a while and wanted to jump out of Pei Pei Ze's arms. The latter hugged him tighter and didn't let him succeed.
Pei Pei Ze swiftly carried the person all the way to his bedroom on the third floor, before putting Hu Luobei down: "Go take a shower first, there are towels in the bathroom. I'll bring the suitcase up for you."
Hu Luobei took a look at Pei Pei Ze's bedroom and found that the decoration style was similar to his home. On the side of the window was a full-length floor-to-ceiling window with only one layer of screen curtain. There was a thick layer of carpet on the ground between the bed and the floor-to-ceiling window. It had a small coffee table and a few cushions on it. There was a row of bookshelves on the wall facing the bed, containing reference books and a large number of wilderness figures. There is a small door on the very edge. Inside is a separate bathroom, and on the other side of the bed is a wilderness map, which matches the thieves profession's dark cave. At this moment, the map is partially overlapped, and a gap is exposed on the edge. It is vaguely visible that neat clothes are hanging inside. It is a cloakroom.
There is underfloor heating in the room. Pei Pei Ze is afraid of the heat, so he takes off his woollen coat and flung it onto the hanger: "Don't be in a daze, go take a shower, and then go to sleep."
Hu Luobei acknowledged him with an 'Oh' and got into the bathroom.
Pei Pei Ze returned to the garage and picked up Hu Luobei's small suitcase. When he went upstairs, he ran into the two brothers Yan Weiran and Yan Xinran who kept winking at him at the top of the stairs.
Yan Weiran cleared his throat: "Boss, that..."
Pei Pei Ze: "Which?"
Yan Weiran hesitated and stumbled on his word. Yan Xinran couldn't stand it anymore and quickly brought the terminal out and opened the virtual screen for Pei Pei Ze to see: "AW issued an official announcement, the comments below are all flamers. We are not sure if there is any deliberate guidance of public opinion. "
Pei Pei Ze's gaze swept from the top to the bottom of the virtual screen, a sneer of unknown meaning was pulled out at the corner of his mouth. He walked upstairs without saying anything, bypassing the twins.
Yan Weiran and Yan Xinran looked at each other. The younger brother asked: "What does this mean?" The older brother shrugged: "If you ask me, then who do I ask?"
The hot water flowed down his body. Hu Luobei brushed his wet hair back, revealing his smooth forehead. His body was slightly reddish under the hot water, but one had to say this was the most comfortable bath he had taken after he joined the esports competitions.
Hu Luobei was not good at communicating with strangers. Even the high school classmate Cheng Feng has only a "not bad" relationship with him. This "not bad" can prompt him to respond to the party's request to appear on the bench, but it cannot reduce his discomfort and vigilance in being in an unfamiliar environment.
Compared to bathing in the past, even a single breeze would cause Hu Luo Bei to become nervous. Making him bathe speedily as though he is on the battlefield.
But it's different here. Being in Pei Pei Ze's turf, there are traces of Pei Pei Ze everywhere, which makes Hu Luobei feel at ease.
A sound came from the door and Pei Pei Ze's voice immediately sounded: "Little carrot, I'm back. I'll bring your clothes in for you."
As he was speaking, Pei Pei Ze opened the suitcase and browsed through it for clothes for Hu Luobei. The suitcase was only 24 inches. It could be seen that Hu Luobei didn't plan to stay long, and was really just going to be a temporary agent. In addition to the daily clothes, there was an extra set of AW team uniforms. Pei Pei Ze looked at it like it's an eyesore, picked up the team uniforms and threw them into the trash can.
"Pei Pei." Hu Luobei put on a towel and stuck out half of his head: "Clothes."
Pei Pei Ze handed him a pair of boxer briefs and short fleece pyjamas.
Hu Luobei had just taken a shower, with some water droplets on his body. Pei Feize went to the bathroom and took a towel to cover his hair: "Wipe it clean, don't catch a cold. I'll go and take a shower."
Hu Luobei sat cross-legged on the bed, opened the terminal and wiped his hair dry while brushing it.
Seeing this, Pei Pei Ze took a bath contentedly. He has a strong sense of territoriality. This may be due to his grandfather holding a lot of business talks when he was a child. He often heard "This land is mine" "I want to decide this land" and so on. Anyway, He liked the state of Hu Luo Bei staying on his turf since he was a child.
It made him felt a little bit happy, diminishing the anger from the webpage that Yan Xinran showed him just now. Pei Pei Ze wiped his body dry and walked out with a bath towel.
Hu Luobei still maintained the cross-legged action just now, but the content on the terminal turned into the game video-and it's even the video his own match. Pei Feize walked over in two steps and lay down on Hu Luo's right shoulder: "There is a problem with your team's tactics in this game."
Hu Luobei did an act to show that he's listening.
Pei Pei Ze continued: "Team JinSe has always been accustomed to playing attrition. To take advantage of this kind of pulling game, it either puts the opponent at the resurrection point or sticks to three points. Which AW genius come up with a quick support strategy? Try to compare who is more energy-consuming? Change one point by one point? They think they can change it faster than Team JinSe's captain that Human Calculator?"
"Human Calculator?" Although Hu Luobei played games and watched professional game videos, he had always only learned playing skills before. He never paid attention to the nicknames and personal habits of these professional players.
Pei Pei Ze looked at his puzzled look and smiled: "Mathematics god, he likes to count data. Not just skill cd and damage value, but he also counts all the things that can get data in the map and the factors that will affect the game's result. He can calculate even the mobs' burst rate. Some fans dug up the video of his previous participation in the International Olympic Games and gave him the nickname of the Human Calculator."
Hu Luobei felt enlightened, he knows that he is also a half data calculator, but he does not deliberately calculate the data, but purely sensitive to the logarithmic value. As long as the damage number is flashed on the screen, he will remember it and quickly conclude whether the damage is high enough to kill.
Pei Pei Ze watched a game with him, commented and criticised all AW players and coaches before reaching out and turning off Hu Luobei's personal terminal: "Okay, go to sleep. I will introduce a few guys to you tomorrow.
Hu Luobei laid down. This double bed is big enough for the two men to lie down and not feel crowded at all. And it was not the first time that the two of them slept in the same bed. Hu Luobei had no wariness at all. But Pei Pei Ze stared at Hu Luobei, who was curled up on the edge of his stomach and took a few deep breaths before lying down.
Translated and Edited by: Devil_Pending
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