Carry My Jungler, Thank You

It was bright outside the window.

The sunlight bypassed the thick woolen curtains, and sneaked in from the cracks in the corners, quietly blooming in this dark room. A few strands of hair crawled to the eyelids of the person on the bed, tickling him gently. The person on the bed muttered in a daze, wrapped himself into a ball tightly, leaving only a few scattered strands of hair exposed.

“Tsk.”

A pale and thin arm stretched out of the bed and fished for the handphone on the bedside table.

9:00

It’s way too early.

Yin Yu opened his eyes in a daze, threw his phone aside, and turned over determinedly.

After about ten minutes, he jumped up from the bed irritably. As soon as he opened the curtains, the annoying sunlight rushed onto the carpet, shining on his bare feet. At night, he always slept with only a pair of underpants, and the air-conditioning in the room was warm as spring. It was hard to imagine that the outdoors separated by a wall had already reached below zero.

“What kind of sun comes out in winter…”

Yin Yu’s sleep was shallow. As long as he woke up in the middle of the night, he would not be able to fall asleep again.

Forget it, let’s get up.

Ever since he started playing in the professional league, his working hours and rest time had never been normal again. According to the traditional rules of domestic teams, there was no training in the morning. After lunch at noon, the solo queue would begin at one, until dinner time at six in the evening. At seven sharp, it would be internal team practice or friendly matches against other teams. Finally, after eleven was time for personal solo queues.

Normally, going to bed at two or three in the morning was considered early. The lonely solo queues usually only ended later into the night. Therefore, games in the middle of the night and early morning were all played by a group of professional players fighting back and forth.

Esports teenage players were a group of energetic night owls.

Yin Yu had a standard lethargic constitution. He went to bed early and woke up late, and usually, he would not deliberately train at night. He never slept well, and rashly adding training might affect the training effectiveness for the whole of the next day. He would rather go to bed earlier than do something he might not reap benefits from.

Yet, he could not help wanting to stay up. Every day, he hung out until the middle of the night and ended up looking weary after waking up the next day. When he was in QP, he requested the coach to have his solo queue session moved from evening to late in the night. But in VW… it was better for newcomers to keep a low profile.

The dining room was empty, and it was only when he got there that he remembered that if he wanted breakfast the next day, he had to let the facility manager know in advance. This bunch of esports teenagers did not eat breakfast. Over time, the chef started following the team’s schedule and stopped preparing breakfast.

He was not familiar with S City, and he did not know any breakfast shops nearby. A few nights ago, he wanted to get a late-night snack, but he could not find anything spicy to refresh himself even after looking around for a long time.

Forget it, I’ll eat at noon.

The corridor was empty, and the entire training base was extremely quiet. Yin Yu walked into the training room and unexpectedly heard the clicking sound of a keyboard.

There was actually someone who was earlier than him. He could not help being a little curious and took a look with a raised head.

The handsome man with black hair and gray eyes was sitting on the gaming chair with his usual expressionless face, and his fingers were jumping rapidly on the keyboard.

Hehe. Yin Yu revealed a disgusted expression and quickly retracted his head.

In the afternoon, there were training matches for several internal teams. After these few days of practice training, they had a temporary system set up. Last season, no players in the national server could defend against VW’s set of explosive fire-type skills, which caused other players to follow suit. In order to maintain the balance of the game, the new version released this season by Hammer Headquarters had the explosive damage of the fire element weakened. On the other hand, wood and water elements that have been sitting on the bench were strengthened. In addition, there was a new restriction whereby heroes with the same attribute cannot be used in the same team. That was the death of the powerful double fire-type carry and double crowd control carry strategy. The previous lineup would naturally need to be replaced.

In the past few days, training matches were played well according to the rulebook, and the shortcomings of the team were exposed. Even the smallest mistakes during team play were mercilessly pointed out by Chu Ke during the review and Yin Yu was the one who received the most criticism.

“Trust your teammates more, and don’t use your teammates’ sacrifices to create opportunities for your own carry at critical moments. This isn’t an ordinary ranking, this is esports.”

It was inevitable that Chu Ke would nag more. He was merciless and always hit right on the nail. Although what he said was correct, whenever Yin Yu would hear criticism from him, it was hard to swallow.

“Mm, I understand.”

Standing in the middle of the meeting room, Chu Ke, who was going through the replay of the game, had just finished speaking. When he lowered his head, he saw the unhappy expression of the boy in black.

Yin Yu was actually not as bad as Chu Ke pointed out. After all, he was one of the top three and titled as the number one assassin in the national server. The teamwork with him had also been smooth, as if they had rehearsed thousands of times, and they were born to do this. But the closer you got to perfection, the more noticeable little flaws became.

The demon king did not know how to communicate. When the former Captain Lun was still around, he would never criticize a teammate so harshly. After all, everyone was a genius esports teenager. Young and talented, who would not have a bit of arrogance? If there really was something that needed to be mentioned, Brother Lun would relay it to the coach and ask him to do it instead.

The players were all of the same generation, too harsh of a criticism could easily lead to discord within the team, which was a taboo in esports competitions. What was more, criticism from a sworn enemy could easily trigger a mentality to rebel. Chu Ke thought of this in the middle of speaking, and instead of continuing, he pursed his lips.

Chu Ke understood Yin Yu’s jungling style the best. When discussing tactics in the past, he deliberately planned based on Yin Yu’s weakness. The tactics were not all useful, but when they were, it could not be overlooked.

Diadema had never been a one-man game. No matter how capable a person was, not being able to cooperate well and the lack of trust in teammates were fatal weaknesses.

There was only a little more than a month to the start of the winter season. Time was tight.

The winter season games were ranked by points, and the top three teams could qualify for the Intercontinental Tournament. The Intercontinental Tournament would be held after the Spring Festival and only the champion and runner-up could enter the World Tournament. However, because the spring season games were postponed, the top eight teams could compete for the Summer National Championship. At the end of summer was the stage for the World Tournament finals. This was the latest official promotion rules.

The Hammer Company started the first World Championship this year, and the world was divided into four regions: Asia, Europe, North America, and Australia. There would be eight teams competing for the World Championship trophy.

During this adjustment season, all the players did not take a vacation after finishing the national competition but used the time for intensive training instead.

The winter season game ranking was extremely important, it held the tickets to the World Finals. At that time, all the teams would be attending this event in their peak condition.