Chapter 440: The Last Year!
"It's me, Zhang Lin. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biqugeγ infoβ
Hearing this answer, Wang Yao was stunned for a moment, and then his eyes narrowed.
How does he know his phone? And. What did he call himself for?
Many doubts lingered in his heart, and Wang Yao asked, "What's the matter?" β
"It's inconvenient to say on the phone, you come outside now, I'll wait for you." Zhang Lin's voice came out.
Is he on the spot?
Wang Yao subconsciously glanced at the scene, but unfortunately there were a lot of people and couldn't find Zhang Lin's location, so he hung up the phone immediately.
Wang Yao retracted his gaze and said to Cheng Bing on the side, "You can play the next game." β
"Am I on?" Cheng Bing didn't react.
"I've got something."
Wang Yao patted him on the shoulder and advised, "Don't be nervous, he is a little fierce, but obviously it is not enough to hone with his team, you just need to stabilize it." Remember, when dealing with this kind of person, don't treat the game as a game, as a rank. β
"Okay." Cheng Bing was thoughtful.
Subsequently, Wang Yao told the staff about the situation and left the arena.
On the side of the road, Zhang Lin, who was wearing a gray stand-up collar trench coat, was watching the busy traffic on the street and waiting quietly.
After walking over, Zhang Lin turned around and looked at Wang Yao, the corners of his mouth rose slightly, "You played well." β
Hearing this praise, Wang Yao looked strange.
He doesn't have any dislike for Zhang Lin, the most important thing is that after losing solo last time, Zhang Lin didn't fall into the ground.
After Wang Yao lost solo, the Star Scar Club did hype up this matter, which attracted huge popularity attention to the Star Scar Club, and also brought Wang Yao a lot of doubts about his ability, but Zhang Lin, as one of the protagonists, has not made any statement.
This made him feel that Zhang Lin may not be a sinister villain like Liu Wei and Huo Yun.
Of course, Wang Yao will not have any good impression of him because of this, after all, his relationship with the Star Scar Club can be said to be incompatible.
Who let the Starmark Club suppress them at every turn?
If you are in the enemy camp, you should see you in the arena.
"That Wang Xin's strength is there, the top 20 junglers in the national server, but unfortunately they are still too tender, and they are eager to show themselves, so they are too aggressive and don't understand the truth that they are too rigid and easy to break."
Zhang Lin commented.
"You have a point." Wang Yao smiled, "You came all the way from Shanghai, you shouldn't just want to talk this nonsense, right?" β
Zhang Lin looked around, and finally his eyes fell to the cafΓ© across the road, and said, "I'll treat you to a cup of coffee." β
Confused, Wang Yao simply followed him into the cafΓ©.
"Give me an American, thank you."
After sitting down, Zhang Lin smiled and told the waiter his choice, and at the same time looked at Wang Yao and motioned for Wang Yao to order.
"Just like him." Wang Yao said to the waiter.
In fact, he is not interested in coffee, he thinks the taste is too bitter, and it is better to drink Sprite Coke.
Wang Yao waited for Zhang Lin's answer, but Zhang Lin looked out the window, looking in a trance.
Fortunately, it didn't take long for Zhang Lin to come back to his senses, smiled apologetically, and said, "I'm sorry, the training volume has been a bit heavy recently, so my mental state is not very good." β
Wang Yao nodded to show understanding, professional players are usually used to staying up late, plus high-level players are also haunted at night, and it is difficult to arrange people if they want to train during the day, unless it is the day before the game, professional players will have a good rest and relaxation, otherwise the usual daytime is basically a typical symptom of night owls.
"I'm glad to see your form pick up." Zhang Lin looked at Wang Yao, "But this is far from enough, there is still some distance from the peak of yours." β
The master can always see some clues from the subtle performance of the other party.
"Do you want to fight me?" Wang Yao asked.
Wang Yao can feel that kind of desire from Zhang Lin, a strong desire, a desire to surpass everything, surpass the peak, and dominate the battlefield without gunpowder in e-sports!
And Wang Yao is undoubtedly a suitable target for him.
This kind of transcendence is by no means limited to the transcendence of personal strength, but also in all aspects.
"Not bad."
Zhang Lin did not hide his fighting spirit at all, "We all know that a solo can't prove anything, and besides, that solo is really not fair at all." I may not tell you clearly, I am different from Huo Yun, his vision is too narrow, so narrow that he only cares about reputation, as a professional ......"
As he spoke, the waiter had already placed two glasses of American food in front of them, and Zhang Lin's words paused because of this.
Wang Yao took a sip of coffee, and immediately frowned, looking like he had drunk poison.
Zhang Lin on the other side chuckled, "When I first entered the industry, the club manager, oh, at that time, the manager of the Star Scar Club was not Li Nantian, he invited me to coffee, I also felt too bitter, but he said that this is the grade...... There are some things that you have to get used to. The same goes for esports. β
As he spoke, he took a sip of coffee, the bitter coffee entered his throat, but his expression was very calm.
"E-sports is not as good as it used to be, it used to be really bitter, coffee? At that time, when we were thirsty, we used to fill the bar toilet with tap water. β
Zhang Lin continued, "And now, I am an e-sports star, with a salary of tens of thousands of dollars a month, not counting those bonuses. After retiring, you can even easily play live broadcasts, earning millions of dollars a year, it's different, it's really different......"
Wang Yao looked at him inexplicably.
"Think I'm inexplicable, don't you?"
Zhang Lin crossed his hands on the table, looked out the window, and said in a light tone, "Actually, I personally look down on what Li Nantian did, but unfortunately you should understand that our professional players are just a chess piece on the chessboard after all, and the people who control the chess game are always those high-level people." To be honest, if we had a choice now, we wouldn't have accepted Starmark's solicitation in the first place, but unfortunately, we were all too poor at that time, and we didn't even have the money to train in the bar, so we could get a safe training environment and salary, which was what we dreamed of at that time......"
As if remembering something, Zhang Lin fell into a trance again.
These words made Wang Yao both surprised and very emotional.
What is surprising is that Zhang Lin, as the captain of the Star Scar team, would say this to himself, and what he sighed was that he could understand the bitterness of Zhang Lin's generation of e-sports people.
Their Tianzhao team seems to have been hard enough, but during the time when Zhang Lin entered the industry, the game LOL had not yet been released, and the e-sports industry was far less developed than it is now......
Zhang Lin looks like a young man, but Yun Chang once told him that Zhang Lin is 24 years old.
24, is indeed a very young age, but in the field of e-sports, it is quite old, and even many professional players will choose to retire at the age of twenty, and it is not easy to maintain the state to this age like him.
It's hard to imagine how far Zhang Lin would have been if he was a few years younger.
"This year should be my last year, and I want to fight for the last year. As you know last year, we Star Scars and Greedy Wolves didn't even make it to the quarterfinals. β
Zhang Lin looked extremely lonely.
His eyes flashed, and Wang Yao also felt a sadness in his heart, if everything he said was true, then this was really a sad thing.
He experienced the most glorious era, but unfortunately not when he was at his "youngest"......
"So, I hope there will be a team that can stand up and stand on the world stage and lift that trophy that so many people are longing for."
Zhang Lin stared at Wang Yao with burning eyes, "Do you think you have that ability?" β
"I ......"
This sudden questioning made Wang Yao open his mouth, but he couldn't speak, and everything today seemed to catch him off guard.
He's only here to tell himself this? What is his purpose? Is it just to stimulate his fighting spirit and want to fight against his peak self?
All of this seems to make some sense.
E-sports is like a battlefield, although everyone has the mentality of surpassing others, no one likes the feeling of frustration, who wants their opponents to be stronger?
What exactly does he want to do?
"You should have said you have!"
Zhang Lin suddenly became angry for no reason, and said with a sneer, "Otherwise, I advise you to go back and study hard!" What esports to play? If you don't even have the courage to do so, why talk about going against the Starmark Club? I'll tell you the truth, the current Tianzhao Clan is nothing more than an ant in front of the Star Scar, and it can be pinched to death casually! As your senior, I feel that I am qualified to say these words. β
These words completely angered Wang Yao.
"Really? If you're just here to humiliate me and our team, then I can tell you that you've succeeded. Wang Yao stood up, "I will do what you wish, and have a fair duel with you before you retire!" β
The Tianzhao team will always be his counter-scale, even if he has to admit that the Tianzhao team is not comparable to an old powerhouse like Starmark now, but this team carries everything he has, and he believes that one day this team will stand at the top of the world!
Pinch to death casually?
Can you trample on my pride casually?
Then wait and see!!
What about the powerful star marks, I will let you know what it means to push the back waves of the Yangtze River to push the front waves!
Looking at Wang Yao's departing back, Zhang Lin showed a satisfied smile, but the smile didn't last long, his facial features suddenly twisted together, as if he had endured huge pain, dense beads of sweat oozed from his forehead, and his face became sallow, almost having a tendency to go into shock......
Immediately, he took out a bottle of pills from his pocket, poured a handful in a panic and swallowed it in his hand, his tightly locked eyebrows relieved a little, and he gasped and muttered, "Now in the e-sports circle, there are not many pure competitors like this......"