Qin Feng pulled his suitcase and followed the flow of people out of the airport with some emotion.
When he walked outside the terminal, Qin Feng didn't hesitate, got into a taxi, and informed the driver of the scheduled journey in unfamiliar English.
…
Uncle Qin Feng's home is a villa located on the outskirts of the city. It has two floors and a lawn with trees at the door. It looks quite cozy.
After entering the door, the second uncle Qin Long and the second aunt had just finished cooking dinner and looked at Qin Feng with a smile.
"Xiao Feng, I haven't seen you for so many years, and you've grown so big."
"Second uncle almost doesn't recognize you."
"When you were little, you relied on your second uncle to play with you every day."
As soon as he put his luggage aside, Qin Feng received a bear hug from his second uncle.
"Xiao Feng hasn't eaten yet?"
"Just in time for you to see my craftsmanship."
The second aunt is a Jiangnan woman who is over forty years old. She looks gentle and virtuous, as if time has left no trace on her face.
After eating.
Qin Feng's room had been vacated long ago and was tidied up.
A brand new desktop computer is placed quietly on the table in the middle of the room.
"Xiao Feng, your parents told us to prepare a new computer specially for you."
"I heard it's still a 240HZ monitor."
"We've also connected the router and network cable for you."
"It's just that the computer has just been installed, so you still have to download whatever you need."
"The restaurant doesn't need your help this week. You need to adapt to life here first."
"You've had a hard day today, so go to bed early."
As soon as he accompanied Qin Feng into the room, the second aunt warned him thoughtfully.
"Well, thank you, uncle and aunt."
After turning on the computer and starting to download CSGO, Qin Feng looked at the ceiling and couldn't help but feel a little lost.
He thought of a CSGO professional player.
The number one sniper who has worked in Eps, Reg, BIG, Chaos, and MR.
Smooya.
I heard that he now fries French fries at McDonald's every day.
…
A night of silence.
The next day, warm sunlight shone through the gaps in the curtains, making Qin Feng feel a little dazed.
After washing up briefly, I found that my second uncle and second aunt had already gone out.
All that was left for him was a breakfast and a note.
"I've prepared it for you early."
"If it gets cold, remember to heat it up in the microwave."
Qin Feng couldn't help but smile in surprise.
After hastily finishing the bacon and bread on the table, Qin Feng went directly back to his room, opened the Faceit platform, and registered Aether as the nickname of the Faceit platform.
He didn't want to waste a second.
If you want to play professionally abroad, the easiest way is to kill all professional players in FPL.
The best example is Ropz.
Qin Feng took another look at the system's optional tasks for today.
[Kill 30 enemies with headshots using Bird Sniper.]
[Kill 30 enemies with headshots using the Desert Eagle.]
Qin Feng did not have any impatience with the system's tasks.
First, the daily optional tasks will bring him three or more free attribute points.
Secondly, most of the system's tasks are reasonable and there won't be any strange firearms like R8 or Negev.
In this way, Qin Feng started a long journey of daily tasks from Faceit level 3.
…
Another month has passed by in a hurry.
Qin Feng's attribute points obtained from daily tasks have reached 100 points.
Over time, Qin Feng's current attribute panel looks completely new compared to a month ago!
[Today’s optional mission: Kill 8,000 BOTs with headshots, and use AWP to complete one-to-two.]
Within a month, Qin Feng's attribute values reached a very terrifying level through daily tasks.
According to the system, S-level marksmanship is already at the level of a first-line male level shooter.
Although it may not be as good as humanoid plug-ins such as Spinx and b1t.
But it is more than enough to beat the second and third tier teams in European fish ponds.
The only fly in the ointment is that after 90 marksmanship points, Qin Feng can no longer increase his marksmanship attributes through free attribute points.
If he wants to use free attribute points to continue adding marksmanship attributes, Qin Feng must obtain dream points in competitions such as IEM, PGL, and ESL.
The better Qin Feng's performance in the game, the higher the fantasy points he will earn.
Only by using the corresponding fantasy points can you unlock the upper limit of each attribute value.
But on this day, when Qin Feng was planning to continue solo queue, he accidentally saw his Steam friend application.
"Again?"
Under normal circumstances, Qin Feng simply ignores friend requests when he encounters them.
Friend requests you don't know on Steam are most likely scammers.
API hijacking, please join our team leader... There are countless scams like this.
However, just as he was about to block the application, he accidentally discovered that the applicant's avatar was the logo of a certain team.
"Is it because I was promoted to FPL recently by killing randomly in FPL-C?"
After frowning, Qin Feng still approved the friend application.
Soon, the Steam chat window flashed.
"Aether, hello, I am Samuelsson, the coach of the Fnatic team. Do you have any thoughts on playing professionally?"
Fnatic?
Although he expected that after he entered the FPL, he might be invited by some professional teams for trial training, Qin Feng never expected that the team that invited him would be Fnatic, who was about to participate in the European RMR qualifiers.
Didn't they just sign Poizon, the God of Medicine, to replace newcomer Banjo?
The ESL ONE competition has just ended. Although Fnatic lost to Ence 0-2 and was eliminated, they wouldn't ask him for a trial training, right?
Even Zywoo, who was once extremely dazzling, still played in the French third-tier team aAa for two years.
Although he was a little hesitant, Qin Feng was still unwilling to give up the opportunity in front of him.
You know, the 2022 Antwerp European RMR pre-selection is about to start. If he misses the invitation in front of him, he may have no choice but to change his job and be a commentator for a few months.
"I would like to, but my English may not be very good." Qin Feng quickly replied to the Steam friend in front of him.
On the other side, Fnatic's coach Samuelsson looked at the chat box in front of him and also showed a helpless smile.
Even if the roster of participating players has not yet been submitted to the tournament, there are still only a dozen days before the RMR competition.
However, Peppzor is too good.
"Aether, you should be the player who auditioned for 1V5 in the Asia Major before, right?"
"You came to Europe?"
Samuelsson's eyes lit up when he saw Qin Feng's reply.
In fact, before contacting Qin Feng, he had watched the videos of hundreds of players, and Qin Feng's video was the most peculiar.
The first thing he watched was the video of Qin Feng during the Asian Major qualifiers.
Samuelsson's first reaction at that time was disbelief.
If it weren't for him, he would definitely be a talented boy comparable to Zywoo and s1mple.
Then he soon discovered that Faceit had an additional sniper named Aether.
His record is that he fought all the way from FPL-C to FPL.
After looking through the videos of recent games, Samuelsson was even sure that Faceit's Aether was the same Aether that had killed so many players in the Asian Major before.
"Yes, I'm coming to Europe."
"The CS environment in China is not good. I came to Europe just hoping to have a better development environment." Qin Feng said matter-of-factly.
After all, if no team continues to ask for them, I'm afraid I'll have no choice but to go to McDonald's with Smooya to get French fries.
"There's no big problem with language communication."
"As long as your marksmanship is accurate enough, none of this will be a problem."
"Back then, Zywoo could only talk about I don't know, but he was killing people randomly in FPL?"
"What's more, mezii met you in FPL before and said that your English level is enough for normal communication."
"But the main sniper in the team is still poizon, and you can only serve as the deputy sniper in the team."
"And the highest contract that can be given to you now is only a weekly salary of 250 euros."
"After the Major auditions, a new contract will be signed based on your performance."
"How about it."
Fnatic base, Samuelsson said hesitantly.
To be honest, for an established team like Fnatic, a weekly salary of 250 euros is simply a living wage.
But the RMR preliminaries are coming soon. If Qin Feng does not perform well, the team boss will most likely kick Qin Feng directly.
In fact, the team has already taken a liking to several members of Xiao Huo Miao.
If the Major was approaching and Xiao Huo Miao was only willing to package and sell the players, how would Fnatic now find Qin Feng, who can be said to have no experience in major competitions?
Samuelsson wanted to take a gamble.
There are too many dazzling young talents in the international arena recently.
What if the bet is right?
Thinking like this, he saw Qin Feng's reply.
"No problem, okay."
“When can I go to Fnatic’s training base?”
Samuelsson was actually very conflicted in his heart.
Poizon, the god of medicine, has joined, and the current lineup might be able to reach the Major even with Peppzor.
Is substitution really a good choice?
But now that he has contacted Qin Feng, Samuelsson naturally has no intention of going back on his word.
"Okay, what size clothes do you wear? We will make a Fnatic team uniform for you."
"As for the Major qualifiers in a few days, you can just grab a uniform from your team and wear it."
"We have two Koreans in our team, and our current base is in the Republic of China. You'd better come to the base for a trial training as soon as possible."
"There are also props and stuff. After you come, we have to practice the props again."
After talking a lot, Samuelsson also felt a little headache.
The running-in time of about ten days is still too short.
Although CSGO competitions have a tradition of substitutes winning the championship, it still requires the players and teams to be strong.
While Samuelsson was thinking about it, he saw his Steam chat flashing again.
"No problem, I'm in the country now."
"As for the base, I can go there in the afternoon."
…
The time comes in the afternoon.
"Aether?" Samuelsson looked at the handsome young man in front of him and asked curiously.
"Yes, it's me." Qin Feng replied in unskilled English.
Samuelsson gave Qin Feng a warm hug.
"It happens that all the team members are here this afternoon, I can introduce you to them."
"Then there will be a training match at 5 p.m. If there is no problem after the match, we will sign the contract directly."
"You should have brought your own mouse and keyboard."
"If that's okay, let's get familiar with the environment of the Fnatic training room first?"
"good."
Qin Feng looked at the Fnatic base in front of him, feeling a little excited and took a deep breath.
Then he stepped into the gate of the club base with a determined look on his face.
Logically speaking, 3pm should be the team’s map training time.
But the club's training room was surprisingly quiet today.
They are all waiting for the arrival of new members of the team.
Soon, they saw Samuelsson leading a Chinese teenager to introduce the team's training room in English.
After seeing mezii, poizon, ALEX, and KRIMZ all in the training room, he directly pulled Qin Feng into the training room with a smile on his face.
"I have always believed that a club can only become better if it becomes international."
"Peppzor's departure does not mean the demise of the team, but a new beginning."
"This is the Aether I mentioned to you before."
"Mezii, you should have met him before in FPL."
"Aether's pentakill was previously made into a highlight reel. It should be one of the most played videos in the CSGO section of YouTube recently."
Applause sounded sparsely.
Although in the eyes of most people, the representatives of Hua Guo CS are accessories and glory despite defeat, mezii and others are still aware of some of Qin Feng's strengths.
They had watched the videos of Qin Feng Major and the recent FPL, and felt that the boy in front of them was still a little bit better than Peppzor.
Samuelsson continued to pull Qin Feng to introduce each player enthusiastically.
"This is poizon, the sniper in the team."
"This is ALEX, the leader of the team."
"This is mezii, a fellow member of ALEX."
"This is KRIMZ, the veteran of the team."
Qin Feng nodded gently: "I understand, coach."
Although these Fnatic players are not considered star players now, at least they are all experienced veterans.
Qin Feng didn't know these people.
Later, under the leadership of Samuelsson, Qin Feng put everything in place.
The time has also come to 4:45.
There are still 15 minutes left before the team’s training match.
"Feng, our training match is in 15 minutes."
"The opponent in the training match is ITB (Into the Breach)."
"Although it's not a strong team, it's enough for us to get along."
"As long as there are no major problems with your performance in the training matches, you will participate in the Major with us." ALEX explained with a smile.
Qin Feng nodded and looked at the helmet-like team logo of the opposite team on the platform.
Smooya, the french fries sniper god, now happens to be an ITB sniper.
Not long after, all five people from ITB joined the room.
Qin Feng looked at the IDs opposite.
ITB.smooya
ITB.Thomas
ITB.Adam9130
ITB.Cypher
ITB.dobbo
The competition map came to the town of Inferno.
…
[Ding! Participated in the international team training competition for the first time and obtained dream points: 100 points.]
[Persistence and Effort 2.0 system upgraded to Persistence and Effort 3.0]
[New points lottery function (20% OFF for ten consecutive draws)]
[New function of unlocking attribute upper limit with points]
PS: Regarding which team to join, I went through all the personnel configurations of the top 100 teams on HLTV before the Major.
Among the international teams in Europe that use English to communicate, the only one the protagonist is most likely to join is Fnatic.
However, it is just a starting point for playing the Major (laughs).
After the Major ends, the protagonist will most likely leave the team.