Chapter 72: A Reborn Old Horse

While the fifteen-year-old Ye Qiu and the fifteen-year-old Su Muqiu were fighting each other in the Internet cafe, the sixteen-year-old Ming Kai bought himself a new computer with the Internet fee he won from the PK.

For this reason, he no longer needed to go to an Internet cafe to afford the configuration of Honor, and for a while he became a big shot who could play Honor at home.

In a sense, he is more successful than Su Muqiu.

When the eighteen-year-old Ye Qiu led the Excellent Era team to win their first championship, the nineteen-year-old Ming Kai watched enviously from the audience.

Most of the early teams were makeshift teams. Mingkai couldn't lead the few mediocre people around him, and they didn't even make it to the finals.

Looking at everyone in Jia Shi except Ye Qiu holding up the championship trophy together, he wondered when he could get one for fun.

But when the 19-year-old Ye Qiu won his second championship trophy, the 20-year-old Ming Kai...

After working at a road and bridge construction site for half a year, he returned to his hometown and started raising pigs with his father at the family farm. People called him the little factory manager.

(Don’t bother with the general science. I know why the nickname of the factory manager comes from this. The world has changed, so don’t worry about it too much.)

There are always people saying that e-sports is a rough road full of thorns, and every step is accompanied by blood and tears.

But in Mingkai's view, blood and tears are also a luxury in a sense.

Anyone who can shed blood and tears on this road has already defeated too many guys like him.

Mingkai's father is a man who values ​​education. He bought Mingkai a Subor learning machine so that he could learn English since he was a child, although it was eventually modified into a game console.

Such a father looked down on the little money Mingkai earned from playing games. After the end of S1 season, he grabbed Mingkai's ear with a broom and took him back home.

From then on, the promise of being a professional player of Glory came to an end.

After returning home to work, Mingkai still plays games frequently and still likes to study game tactics and equipment to ensure that he has a clear mind.

But his hands and eyes were gradually unable to keep up with his thinking.

From his retirement in S2 to S8, for seven years, Mingkai watched as a bystander the gradual success of e-sports in the commercial field.

Sometimes when he and his father went into the city to do some work, they would see celebrity professional players’ endorsements on big billboards on the streets.

Their faces were rosy and full of vigor, just like Mingkai was before he was twenty years old.

Once again, his father pointed at the billboard and asked him if these people were from the game he played in before.

Mingkai just nodded and said yes, then he counted on his fingers and told his father how his opponents from that time were doing now.

He only targeted successful people, such as Ye Qiu and Han Wenqing, and those who had not made any name for themselves, like Wei Chen, were automatically ignored.

Dad remained silent as he listened to Mingkai's nonsense about the sky-high advertising fees. After a while, he uttered, "I should have let you persevere and give it a try."

Yes, we should try it, but what's the point of saying this now?
Mingkai is already a pig farmer.

In the past few years, Mingkai has continued to pay attention to many things in the Honor of Kings professional circle, watching many games and news, and pretending to be an expert in front of the kids in his hometown who play Honor of Kings.

I watched my team fall into the challenge tournament and become just like everyone else, I watched Excellent Era gradually fall after its glory, I watched the old guys from back then leave the spotlight one by one.

Until Ye Qiu announced his retirement.

Mingkai, who was watching the news, talked to the grief-stricken fans of Ye Qiu around him and said that Ye Qiu must have been forced to retire. He knew too well what kind of person this old rival was.

Then, after the collapse of Jia Shi, it attracted another wave of admiring eyes.

Then, Ye Qiu, oh, it should be Ye Xiu, called him and asked him to go to some Xianyu live broadcast platform... to be a host?
Mingkai no longer has the ambition to do it, but his father thinks he should give it a try.

So after leaving the gaming industry for seven years, Mingkai once again started working in a gaming-related profession, sitting in front of a computer and becoming a small anchor.

The live broadcast effect was not very good in the beginning. If it weren't for his reputation as a former professional player and Ye Xiu's occasional help in attracting traffic, he would have earned less than raising pigs.

Until the launch of League of Legends.

Mingkai no longer had any feelings for the game Glory. Seeing Ye Xiu take the lead in announcing that he would switch to League of Legends, he followed suit.

He took back the ID he used when playing online games, Clearlove, and thinking about the seven years that had been wasted, he added a 7 at the end of it.

Then, he found that League of Legends seemed to be suitable for him.

His skills are definitely not up to par in Honor of Kings, but in League of Legends, he seems to still be able to maintain some competitiveness.

The clear head he maintained during his time at Glory seems to have a miraculous effect in League of Legends, especially in the jungle position which requires pace setting.

Even if he cannot guarantee that every operation will be done successfully, at least he can appear in the right place at the right time.

And this, for the junglers in the wild era, is already a dimensionality reduction strike level of strength. As the ranking competition progresses, the national server gradually has the saying of "three pillars of the national server".

It's about three guys who are very strong and spend all day in ranking but can't get out.

The strong player in the middle lane, former Glory three-time champion Ye Xiu.

The big player in the bottom lane, former Honor Sanya king Zhang Jiale.

And the big guy in the jungle, the former Glory... and the nothing Kleer Hot Dance Seven.

After ten years of twists and turns, the 27-year-old Mingkai returned to the spotlight of online games like the 17-year-old Mingkai.
But on the higher level, it seems that there is no place for him anymore... right?

"Hey, why did you suddenly remember to call me?" Ming Kai curiously asked the busy man on the other side who should be trying to impact the national server.

"I plan to form an alliance team." Ye Xiu said concisely.

"Form your own team? Can you get enough people together?" Mingkai's heartbeat suddenly quickened when he heard the word "professional".

"I'm lucky to have met some talented young men." Ye Xiu's tone was flat, but one could vaguely hear a certain complacency in it.

"But our jungler Baozi is a little too imaginative."

"Baozi? Is he that crazy guy in the canyon?" Mingkai had heard of Baozi's name and smiled. "That kid lacks awareness and basically relies on instinct to fight in the jungle."

"I understand. You want me to teach him, right? Okay." Mingkai agreed very readily.

Teaching an apprentice who can become a professional player? That's not bad, at least it doesn't disgrace my reputation.

But Ye Xiu obviously had no intention of letting go of this old guy who still had gas in his tank.

"It's not just you who needs to teach him." Ye Xiu said with a smile in his tone.

"I know your tactical thinking and overall perspective very well. If you hadn't retired, the league might have one more tactical master."

"Now as a mid laner, I need to focus on operations, and I can't have so much energy to study BP, tactics and other things."

"I hope you can fill this gap in Team Happy."

"Be a coach? You treat me like an animal, right?" Ming Kai scolded with a smile.

But Ye Xiu had no intention of stopping. When it came to squeezing people, Ye Bushi's ability was not much worse than that of a certain man named Pei.

"Also, the Happy team is still too young after all."

"Besides me, we also need an old man who is mature enough and can control the situation."

"So as a coach, you have to be ready to go into battle at any time. Can you do that?"

Listening to Ye Xiu clacking his abacus on the other end of the microphone, Ming Kai didn't feel like continuing to joke.

At the age of 27, can he still play professionally...?
"You little bastard, are you exploiting the old man?"

"Just tell me whether you're coming or not."

"Come on, of course."

In the S1 season of Glory, the -year-old Clearlove was as famous as Ye Xiu in the online game and was a celebrity.

At that time, he just wanted to win a championship for fun.

In the S1 season of League of Legends, the 7-year-old clearlove was as famous as Ye Xiu in the national server and was a celebrity.

He also wants to win a championship for fun.

　The first update is here!
　　The next step is the team building phase, and we will focus on building a few new LPL teams to avoid the situation where everyone doesn’t know who is who when the game starts.

　　Hope you like it.

　　There are also nights.

　　So, as usual, ask for something.

　　Let's see.
　　After going through some things, I have figured out a lot of things. If I gain something, I am lucky. If I lose something, it is my fate.

　　All I can do is write down what I think for everyone to see.

　　Love you guys

　　
　
(End of this chapter)