Dad was startled by him, "You kid, why are you so startled?"
Gu Xing forced himself to calm down and asked his father about the cause and effect.
Father Gu put his son's coat on his forearm, "It was many years ago, when I was still working in the factory and you were in elementary school..."
Listening to his father's words, Gu Xing was brought back memories.
When I was a child, life at home was good. My parents were both technical secondary school students. After graduation, they worked in factories. They were not very wealthy, but fortunately they had stable jobs. They even survived the wave of layoffs.
However, the 2008 financial crisis still crushed the factory and the couple were laid off, so they opened a small store outside the community.
Dad thought for a while and organized his words, "The factory has business dealings with Italy, and a colleague went to Turin on a business trip. I brought this with me when I came back. I heard it's valuable."
He pointed to the chocolate in his hand, and there was a bit of nostalgia in his eyes, "Domori, someone was reading his name in the department at that time, and his colleagues joked about his mispronunciation."
"Your mother and I only got two pieces," Gu's father smiled gently, "I remember that day you won a prize in the Hua Luogeng Youth Mathematics Competition. When we were happy, we gave you one piece and the other piece to go home and hope for.
Looking forward to sharing it."
"If you taste this chocolate now, can you still remember the taste it had back then?"
Gu Xing remembered it when he heard about the Hua Cup Award.
This is the reason why the Heiqiao brand logo always looked familiar when I saw it before.
He did get a piece of domori back then, but he hadn't finished elementary school at that time. Gu Xing, who was still young, didn't know the brand or the large number of foreign letters at all, and the chocolate was only kept in his hands for no more than an hour.
After winning the prize and a piece of foreign chocolate, little Gu Xing was so excited that he ran home from the factory.
He didn't know why he didn't wait for his parents and chose to go home alone.
Thinking about it now, he was probably given a piece of chocolate alone and felt the need to go back quickly to show off to Gu Pan and declare that he was more favored by his parents than his sister.
I jumped on my short legs and rushed all the way to the seventh floor.
But before he entered the house, little Gu Xing saw Shen Guanshan, who had a better score in the China Cup than him, sitting on the steps of the corridor, his eyes as red as a rabbit from crying, and his nose was dripping with bubbles.
He could only recall the events that followed sporadically, and they were not very specific.
It seems that Shen Guanshan's grandfather passed away that day, and her parents were busy dealing with the funeral and appeasing her grandma. No one cared about her being the star of the school and class that day. They just let her sit in the corridor so that she wouldn't get lost.
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Gu Xing only remembered how he had clumsily comforted her when he was still young. For this reason, he even gritted his teeth and gave away the foreign chocolate he had just received. He finally stopped Shen Guanshan's crying, and then he patted his butt and replied.
Home.
When all the memories were connected, Gu Xing finally understood why Shen Guanshan gave him this brand of chocolate yesterday, and he even looked at himself when he handed it over.
He covered the emotion in his eyes, smiled and joked with his father, and took back the box of chocolates.
Gu Xing sat down again and fell into deep thought.
Could it be that only the box of chocolates given to him by Shen Guanshan can open the Summoner's Rift in his mind?
This sounds too mysterious.
If it were left in the past, he would definitely sneer at it.
But after what happened last night, Gu Xing felt that this triggering mode was just that, and it was quite acceptable.
He looked at the packaging box again and saw that there were 344 days left before the shelf life.
There are only six small pieces in a box, and I ate one piece last night. The virtual game simulated that of the factory director.
There are five yuan left. If this is really a trigger item, he definitely can't eat it randomly.
Gu Xing collected them all and put them in a drawer for safekeeping in case of emergency.
Throughout the lunch break, he consulted with the members of the Seven Wolves of Ionia about youth training. He also hooked up with Ming, and the two of them successfully became friends.
Ming worked as a starting assistant for the YM club in the domestic secondary league and was very experienced in this. It was not convenient for him to type while he was eating, so he simply made a voice call.
Gu Xing didn't hesitate, connected the headphones and decisively chose to connect.
"Hey, hey, hey," Ming's voice was very loud, "can you hear me?"
Gu Xing responded quickly.
"My real name is Shi Senming, you can call me Ming or Xiao Ming," Shi Senming said with a smile while sitting at the dining table, holding chopsticks in one hand and a mobile phone in the other. "You should be older, I haven't celebrated my 18th birthday yet."
"Hello, hello," Gu Xing introduced himself and exchanged a few pleasantries before turning to the main topic. He was very curious about youth training, an area he had never been exposed to before. "There are a few questions that I don't quite understand..."
After listening to Gu Xing's question, Shi Senming took two mouthfuls of rice into his mouth. He took this time to think about his words and then answered, "Whether you can pass the trial training of the youth training mainly depends on these factors. The first one is the score." , as long as your ranking score is high enough, you can basically stay."
"How much is high?" Gu Xing hoped to get a clearer number, "1,000 points for the king?"
"No, no, no, six or seven hundred is definitely enough. Many clubs like to raise young people. Of course, if you can reach a thousand points or even top the server, then you can choose the youth training of each club. And It's not the youth training that picks you."
Gu Xing realized that the score was equivalent to his scarcity.
There are not many young players with high scores, and every club wants them; if there are a lot of young players with low scores, the demand from the team is not that high.
In a sense, it leads to an imbalance of supply and demand, which evolves into the difference between a seller's market and a home buying market.
Shi Senming continued, "The second one is the training match, which is 5v5 customization. Because there is a big gap between the daily ranking and the real game, many things cannot be seen, while the training match is more suitable for the competition field and youth training. The coach will look at your communication skills, your compatibility with the team, etc..."
"To put it simply, we will use training matches to see if you are suitable for playing professionally." He spoke quickly, like a barrage of words. "As long as you don't be too autistic or have too unique a style of play, you'll be fine if you perform normally.
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Shi Senming added here, "But it's not impossible to play alone. As long as your teammates can stand it, you can win."
"As for the salary, let me tell you the truth. There are no formal games in the youth training, and the price offered by the first-tier clubs is basically several thousand. If you can hang out in the secondary league, you can basically get about 10,000 yuan a month, and then higher.
Top league..."
Shi Senming said in an envious tone, "I didn't call you, and I don't know the details."
Gu Xing probably has some idea of salary levels.
In his opinion, this salary is not low. Not many young people working in Zhenhai now earn more than 10,000 yuan a month.
A mature idea came to his mind.
"Thank you, Xiao Ming." Gu Xing thanked him sincerely.
The person was not close to him, but just because he was in the same group, he helped him answer a lot of questions. Gu Xing was naturally grateful.
"It's okay, you gave me 25 points in yesterday's game with the blind monk," Shi Senming was still smiling, "If you go to EDG for trial training, you can also stop by YM to have a look. We are also in short supply of junglers here. Performance
If you are good, you will be given to the starting lineup...The team boss is PDD, you know PDD, right?"
When Gu Xing heard the name, what came to his mind was the S3 All-Star Game.
That was his first time watching a League of Legends game live.
In addition to the Rambo BBQ, PDD also has the famous scene where Zach is shot everywhere by Shy.
Even if Shy was educated again in subsequent games, it would be useless. When most viewers mention PDD, they can always think of Zach.
Gu Xing agreed and then hung up the voice call.
He took out a notebook and wrote down the key information on it.
Gu Xing plans to go to Shanghai to experience the life of a professional player after the college entrance examination.
Now that the opportunity is in front of me, I have nothing to do during the summer vacation anyway. I still have money to play games. After playing for two months, I will go to class when Fudan University starts. The money saved can be used as living expenses.
Now the goal is very clear.
While stabilizing your own performance, try to increase the score of the electronic server as much as possible.
The king ranking is your future bargaining power. It depends on how much money you can make during the summer vacation.
Gu Xingxiang always does what he says. He listens attentively during class in the afternoon and strives to improve his learning efficiency to a higher level. He goes to the Internet cafe after school.
Ding Ran also followed, and he plans to successfully and officially become an alchemy monk this week - marked with the Golden Five.
The Happy Hour Internet Cafe was only about seven or eight hundred meters away from the town. The two of them walked quickly and arrived at the door in a short time. They did not forget to take off the school badge before entering.
There are no school uniforms in the town, so as long as they take off their school badges, others won't even know they are students.
"I can just play one game. I have to study in the evening when I go back." Ding Ran asked for a bottle of Pepsi, "Can you drink it?"
Gu Xing waved his hand and refused, "If you can play a game, it's a game. If you add up, you'll make more."
There are more people surfing the Internet during the evening rush hour. Today there are two network administrators working in the Internet cafe at the same time, including the young man from yesterday.
Gu Xing still has an impression of him. He never forgets to watch the EDG Mid-Season Invitational video during work. He really understands how to make money.
"Good evening." When he swiped his ID card, the young network administrator greeted him with a smile.
When Gu Xing and Ding Ran walked into the Internet cafe, he muttered to the colleague next to him, "Brother, this is the electronic king I told you about. He was assigned to the factory director yesterday afternoon."
The veteran network administrator raised his eyes and said, "That's quite an impression."
"During the Chinese New Year, he stayed here every day playing Super God and Penta Kill to earn Internet fees. The boss originally thought he was deliberately looking for trouble, but when he went over and took a look, he found that the queues were all Electric Diamonds and Masters."
"Wow... no wonder I can steal the dragon from the factory director." The young man was very envious.
He also plays League, but his level is relatively average and he can't get out of the Silver Pit.
Gu Xing ran to the idle No. 77 machine again and pressed the power button.
Ding Ran sat next to him and was gearing up, as if he wanted to warm up in this way.
The familiar announcement sounded again.
"The player surfing the Internet on machine 76 is the Indomitable Silver from Ionia..."
"Weird day, don't report it!" Even though Ding Ran often comes to play, he is often humiliated. "Can you set it to gold or above and then report your rank? This boss doesn't want to do business, right?"
The next announcement sounded, and many players without headphones looked around.
Most of them went to see Gu Xing of Unit 77.
But Ding Ran was sitting next to him. He couldn't stand the sight of him, so he quickly lay down and acted like an ostrich.
Both of them logged into the Dianyi server. Gu Xing was originally used to playing solo, but now in order to increase his score, he wanted to find a friend to join him to ensure the efficiency of the score increase.
But after contacting me around, I found out that JackeyLove played the trumpet "Rhythm and Tenderness" and was in a double queue with Ming. It was said that they had been waiting for a quarter of an hour and there was still no one in the queue.
Rhythm and Tenderness: [Hurry up and line up, you might be the only one missing out of nine]
Since the system needs to balance hidden points and try to ensure that both players are at the same level, and the number of people in high-level segments is inherently small, the queuing time is quite unstable.
Gu Xing listened and clicked on the ranking system. Two seconds later, he actually entered the ranking BP interface!
"Are you really the king?" Ding Ran was stunned, "You can even rank faster than me in the gold promotion competition?"
"It's just a coincidence..." Gu Xing replied, scanning the team chat channel, trying to find an acquaintance.
As expected, the other four teammates looked familiar.
In addition to JackeyLove and Ming, two other players are also considered high-scoring anchors: Huya Live, Tiger God and New's Torn Paradise.
MGB丶Ming: [Brother, have we lined up aside again? Ape excrement, ape excrement! 】
New Torn Paradise: [Good evening, everyone]
Rhythm and Tenderness: [I really only know how to play jungle and watch the crowd]
Gu Xing logged into QQ and found that JackeyLove had sent a YY voice room number to the Seven Wolves group, asking him to come up and hit the microphone.
He checked the Internet cafe computer to make sure it had YY voice, and then entered JackeyLove's channel.
Gu Xing connected his headphone cable to the host. As soon as he put it on, he heard the noisy sound in the voice channel, as well as the sound of huffing and puffing.
Shi Senming was also there. He came up with a loud voice and scolded, "Yu Wenbo, you are going to die. Can you stop breathing in front of the microphone?"
"It's none of your business," JackeyLove scolded him, and then asked Xiang Gu Xing, "What do you call me buddy?"
Shi Senming said, "Gu Xing, just call me Brother Xing."
JackeyLove really called out Brother Xing.
"No, no, no, I don't dare take it seriously," Gu Xing hurriedly replied, "Just call me by my name."
Like Xiangxiang and Chitanda's feedback, JackeyLove's voice sounded like someone in his twenties or thirties, and he couldn't afford to sound like a brother.
"This set is fine, everyone doesn't have to compete for positions, everyone can do their job and that's it." Shi Senming was very happy.
He and JackeyLove went down the lane, Torn Heaven played the mid lane, Tiger God went up the lane, and Gu Xing played the jungle.
All five people play their own positions.
Today, when the pre-selection mode has not yet been implemented, it can be considered a very comfortable and harmonious ranking round.
"The mid laner chose robbery, I have to make up for some magic damage..." Gu Xing saw his lineup, "Do you think I should choose wine barrel or spider?"
"You can play whatever comes your way, and don't worry about us." JackeyLove was very confident. He and Shi Senming got Draven + Thresh, and they were killing indiscriminately in Dianyi.
Gu Xing thought for a moment and locked the spider, trying to open up the situation in the early stage.
The final lineup is locked in.
The red side where Gu Xing is: top laner Jax, jungler Spider, mid laner Zed, bottom laner Lud Levin + Thresh.
The opposite blue side: Top laner Riven, jungler Lee Sin, mid laner Lissandra, bottom lane Lucian + Braum.
Gu Xing pinched his fingers, ready to test his strength.
After the virtual training session last night, he felt that he had become a lot stronger, but he was not sure what level he was at.
Entering the game loading screen, they saw the IDs of the five people on the opposite side.
"Oh, they are all old acquaintances!" Shi Senming sighed with emotion.
On the opposite side, Shan Ruiwen is black and white, has a very high level of proficiency, and is quite famous in the Chinese server.
The jungler's ID is "Glunious Sa, Dong Dao", the mid laner Bingnu is Taiyuan Ma Chao, and the bottom lane duo are good brothers in the group.
Shoxiang and Chitanda.
"Kill, kill, kill, I will definitely take Xiangxiang's share today! Even Jesus can't keep him, I said so!" JackeyLove shouted in the voice.
Gu Xing is also full of fighting spirit, waiting for the arrival of Summoner's Rift!
