Chapter 235: Assimilated or Abandoned (Part )

"No? You are such a person who doesn't do anything without any benefit. How can you do this without any benefit?"

Li Xianghe was stunned, thinking that this guy was just being stubborn.

After all, doing dirty work for your enemy just for the sake of profit is somewhat embarrassing for a guy like Park Jae-yoon.

If you say that you helped voluntarily, you might be able to earn some points in impression.

However, Park Jae-yoon just smiled coldly: "In fact, before that brat Sun-gu revealed his true colors in the game, I really didn't know what you guys were thinking."

"Besides, do you think my current situation is worth it for the old guys to come looking for me?"

Park Jae-yoon really didn't know that Blank and Effort were determined to protect Faker and improve his stats.

But unfortunately Xiao Hei has never been to the invincible LGD, and has not evolved into a real veteran actor.

His poor acting skills made Park Jae-yoon, a real veteran, see what he was trying to do at a glance.

However, after discovering this, he did not make any trouble. Instead, without anyone making any promises to him, he very consciously followed Xiao Hei and worked as a dog for Zhongxia.

Li Xianghe's brows slowly frowned.

He felt that things were a little unexpected.

"Then why did you do this?"

Could it be that he has a change of heart? How is that possible? If this guy really has a conscience, he would never end up like this.

Upon hearing this question, Park Jae-yoon remained silent at first, and then a somewhat morbid smile gradually appeared on his face.

"Because I can't wait to see you change from a pure genius boy to an ugly person like me now!"

……

Except for a certain executive vice-goat, no one is born to be a puppet of capital.

No matter how useless Park Jae-yoon is now, he was once the most dazzling young talent in Baseball's Glory League.

A few years ago, this young boxer suddenly appeared in the world, and his momentum was even more ferocious than Zhou Zekai from the neighboring Chinese Glory League.

It took Zhou Zekai four seasons to lead a bottom-ranked team into a champion, while Park Jae-yoon only took two.

When he won his first championship and FMVP, almost everyone exclaimed that a truly glorious "Master" was about to emerge.

This is the highest title for e-sports players in South Korea.

If you want to obtain it, the requirements are naturally extremely strict.

In the Glory Professional League, the most rigid conditions for obtaining this title are almost impossible to achieve:
Regular season MVP+Finals MVP+All-Star MVP, the three flowers gathered at the top, Fang Ben sits on the throne.

In the past, there were indeed several players in the American Baseball League who were called "Benzuo", but those were mostly false titles used by fans to praise their strength.

There is no one who meets the above set of rigid requirements.

At that time, Park Jae-yoon led his team to the semi-finals in his rookie year, and won the championship in the second year. His personal performance improved with every game.
Almost all fans firmly believe that he will become a legend of glory and the first player to be crowned with this honor.

And in the third year, Park Jae-yoon did begin to impact this miracle.

He did a really good job, even an unparalleled one.

The defending champions did not slack off at all in him. The team made great progress under his leadership, once again ranking first in the regular season and making it to the finals in the playoffs.

During this period, he also won the regular season MVP and All-Star MVP with absolute advantage.

All he needs to do is win the championship trophy and the FMVP in the end, and he will be officially crowned and become a legend like Ye Xiu and Wang Jiexi next door.

However, he lost in the final.

The reason for the loss is very complicated. If I have to say it, it is that his rookie wall finally arrived after almost three years of delay.

The opponents have thoroughly studied Park Jae-yoon's playing style and the characteristics of his team, and have a good grasp of their minds.

Park Jae-yoon paid the price for his youthful arrogance.

After losing in the final, the title that was so close to him slipped away from him.

At that moment, he was so depressed that he wanted to die.

However, after all, he is only in the third grade and is still young. There is still plenty of time to pursue the next honor.

But just when Park Jae-yoon finally calmed down and was waiting for his opponent to win completely, the invisible hands exerted force.

That’s right, Park Jae-yoon lost and he did not get the championship this season.

but--

"The winner of the MVP of the seventh season finals of the Baseball National Glory Professional League is - IPX!"

Just like the NBA legend Jerry West, Park Jae-yoon won the only FMVP for the losing side in the Baseball National League, no, it should be the only FMVP for the losing side in all the glorious professional leagues in the world.

The requirements for being crowned are regular season MVP, FMVP and AMVP.

There was no championship because everyone assumed at that time that the FMVP would definitely go to the championship team.

But Park Jae-yoon broke this perception.

Naturally, public opinion at the time exploded completely, and countless people were arguing with red faces about whether Park Jae-yoon deserved the FMVP.

But soon, public opinion began to move in a one-sided direction.

At that time, the young Park Jae-yoon was indeed very pure. He did not change teams or form a group, but joined his old brothers in the parent team to fight for the championship.

The champions that year were a team of elderly dream chasers similar to the Tyranny team in the ninth season.

Based on this, countless "Park Jae-yoon's die-hard fans" launched a public opinion offensive:

"Brother Zaiyun was besieged by four veteran players and still managed to hold on until the very last moment before collapsing. What's wrong with getting a FMVP?"

"Isn't his performance worthy of the definition of the most valuable?"

"Is it good e-sports to let Lao Deng wipe out the dreams of young people?"

Public opinion quickly became one-sided.

Park Jae-yoon's FMVP for the losing team went from being controversial at the beginning to being well-deserved.

As for this seat...

Even though we didn't win the championship, it still seems like something is missing.

But anyway, Park Jae-yoon has already won the championship, he has already proved himself!

Thus, Park Jae-yoon ascended to the throne of South Korea in such a confused manner.

And the person who felt the most uneasy during this process was himself.

He instinctively felt that he was not worthy of the title of this seat.

But just when he was feeling uneasy and even wanted to reject this unworthy title,
Management found him...

……

"So the management threatened you at that time, and then you obediently became the object of their deification?"

Fine beads of sweat began to fall from Li Xianghe's forehead.

Like, so similar.

Apart from the different games and the addition of a world championship plot, Park Jae-yoon's early experiences are almost identical to his current ones.

When Park Jae-yoon was becoming famous in Glory, Lee Sang-hyuk was still working as a bricklayer in the Internet cafe of Mapo High School. He was not very clear about the inside story of how Park Jae-yoon became the king.

Now he is eager to know what Park Jae-yoon experienced afterwards.

"Hmph, threat? You bastard, don't you think too highly of me?" Park Jae-yoon smiled coldly.

"I was not much worse than you are now in those years! How can a mere threat make me compromise?" Then, his face showed a hint of amusement: "I've already said that what you are going through now is what I went through back then."

"Me?" Li Xianghe was stunned, and then his body trembled violently: "Could it be--"

“That’s it.” Park Jae-yoon sighed.

"That day I went to the management and asked if I could return the FMVP award. I didn't win the championship, so I don't deserve it."

"But the manager and his friends didn't use any benefits or status to persuade me. What they said was honest and fair."

Li Xianghe was shocked: "Justice?"

"Yeah, it's not an exaggeration to say that we are righteous and awe-inspiring." Park Jae-yoon rolled his eyes.

That day, the management told him that awarding the FMVP to him, a failure, was to warn some old guys who would do anything to win the championship, and to create more space for young people.

They said that the four old guys over there took a pay cut to team up to compete for the championship and this has completely angered the league, and this behavior of old guys teaming up will greatly damage the growth space for young people.

In order to punish them, no matter how good their record is, they will never be awarded the FMVP.

As a representative of the new generation of the league, it can be said that Park Jae-yoon won this award, which is well deserved.

It can greatly inspire the new generation of players to fight for honor in the league.

This reason was so convincing that Park Jae-yoon didn't realize anything was wrong at the time. He was only ashamed for misunderstanding the alliance's good intentions.

So, with a full sense of responsibility, he began to cooperate with the alliance's activities, hoping that he could become a role model for young people.

This self-awareness continued until the end of his fourth season, when, again, he failed to win the championship.

Although his statistics are still impressive, the team he is in is considered a nouveau riche with insufficient foundation, and his teammates are a bunch of useless people whose value is inflated because of his fame.

In this situation, we are naturally not worthy of winning the championship.

In the fifth season, the management began to make major changes to the team.

Decisively traded away these useless players and acquired a large number of high-quality players.

Two of them were even All-Stars last year.

Three All-Stars on the same team, this is definitely the standard of teamwork.

The year before last, the league was setting an example in opposing grouping, but this year, they are actually starting to group together, which makes Park Jae-yoon feel uneasy.

But for the championship, he continued honestly.

At worst, I can just give up on personal honor. Winning the championship is more important than anything else.

However, when he himself was ready to win no personal honors, he won his third consecutive regular season MVP.

The reason that earned him the only FMVP for the losing team two years ago has become a joke to him this year.

He went to the management again in confusion, and this time, the management finally revealed their true intentions.

They talked with Park Jae-yoon for a long time that day, and in the middle of the night, someone heard heart-wrenching crying.

……

“After that, it’s no longer Park Jae-yoon’s story, but Park Ben’s story.” Park Jae-yoon ended his recollections softly.

His eyes were slightly red at this moment, and his gaze briefly lost its usual turbid malice.

At this time, he really looked like a pure professional player.

Li Xianghe looked at him and felt that every pore on his body was absorbing a trace of cold air.

The chill was so strong that it almost froze him.

"They will find many reasons that sound impeccable to get you to cooperate with them in doing something dishonorable."

"Once you choose to cooperate, you're hooked."

"If you are kept in the dark, you are their most obedient pawn."

"If you don't listen, then all these actions you do for the so-called justice will become a black history that destroys you." Park Jae-yoon shook his head slightly.

"If you still want to stay in the league, if you don't want to be a piece of trash that everyone wants to beat, then you can only listen to their arrangements honestly."

"Once you are useless and become a stumbling block, then destroying you has nothing to do with you." Park Jae-yoon's tone was full of self-mockery.

He himself is the best example of that.

From a simple and pure young genius, he has transformed into the evil and corrupt trash he is today.

Li Xianghe grabbed a piece of paper and tried to wipe his sweat, but found that it wouldn't be long before sweat covered his forehead again.

He finally understood, but it was too late.

What the management said was right, what the coach said was right, and Xiao Hei really wanted to help his brother Xiang He get better and better.

But when these right things come together, they become a big web of errors.

And Lee Sang-hyuk had already swam into the net.

He has committed the crimes of abandoning his teammates and inflating his stats in the World Championship at the same time.

Downfall can be ruined by just one word from management.

"Lee Sang Hyuk, you are very good, a genius, a good person, and have a sense of justice, but it's useless."

Park Jae-yoon shook his head vigorously, and his eyes returned to their usual cloudy state.

He smiled strangely and said, "Look, it won't be long before you become famous, even if you can't even make it to the MSI finals."

"Ballistic e-sports needs a god who can drive fans completely crazy. If there is no such god, they will create their own."

"And you are nothing more than the fusion material."

"Hehe...I'm looking forward to the day when you completely fall."

"And now, enjoy the peak of being admired by thousands of people."

Park Jae-yoon is gone.

Li Xianghe was left sitting there in a daze.

He did not try to retain Park Jae-yoon, and he didn't even know whether Park Jae-yoon was deliberately sent by the management to pressure him.

He couldn’t tell the difference, he really couldn’t tell the difference…

At this moment, he was a little envious of his good brother Kim Hyuk-kyu.

As a core member of the team who is also highly valued, he does not have so many worries.

Lee Sang Hyuk also wanted to be a pure and happy professional player, but reality did not seem to give him this opportunity.

He has fallen into the fire pit called deification.

Sitting there, Li Xianghe was in a daze for a long time, repeatedly thinking about every word that Park Jae-yoon thought.

Gradually, he began to talk to himself:

"No, that's not necessarily the case."

"Jae-Yun fell because he wasn't strong enough. He couldn't reach the top on his own."

"But I still have a chance."

"As long as it's strong enough...as long as it's strong enough..."

　The second update of 4,000 words is here.

　　Good night everyone.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)