Prediction

“Holy crap, the national team has gone offline, and God Wen is still solo queuing! Getting matched with God Wen in Diamond Elite, save me, quick, record the screen! This kind of scenario might only happen once in a hundred years.”

“It’s a total stomp; the streamer is doomed this round, his 100% win rate won’t last.”

“Ming Xu is on the other side too, huh? He’s been playing on an alt account recently.”

“Then this round is truly over.”

Xue Wei glanced.

On the opposite side was another ID: [SSQ.Ming Xu], a currently popular 《Fire》 streamer whose looks and playstyle are both excellent, known for his aggressive, ‘steel gun’ approach.

Ming Xu, as if no one else was around, greeted in the public channel: “Captain Wen, hello.”

The public mic was silent; [CHN.Pretty] did not respond, nor did he move.

In Xue Wei’s live stream, a torrent of white bullet comments flooded in.

Other streamers also heard that someone had matched with Wen Man in Diamond Elite and rushed over to watch.

In this match, his other three teammates were foreigners.

They all recognized the opposing IDs, and before the game even started, they had already typed out many question marks: “???”

“why Pretty here???”

Xue Wei made no move.

As usual, he bought a Desert Eagle and entered the match.

Their map was still disadvantageous this round.

Most importantly, it was a new map for the Elite rank and above, one Xue Wei had never seen.

The first round, as expected, they lost.

The enemy’s offense was too fierce.

Ming Xu alone picked off two.

Xue Wei defended until the end, but due to unfamiliarity with the map, he got stuck in a wall during the final 1v3 clutch situation and couldn’t win.

“Holy crap, that was brutal; the last round didn’t even last thirty seconds.”

Bullet comment netizens commented: “Streamer’s luck is too bad, so tragic.”

“Didn’t see God Wen, what’s he doing? He didn’t seem to fire a single shot, huh?”

“I went to Ming Xu’s live stream to check. In the spectator’s view, God Wen hasn’t moved at all. He seems to have told his teammates he suddenly had something to do and is AFK at home.”

“That’s it then. If God Wen joined, the match would probably be over in twenty seconds.”

In front of the screen, Xue Wei’s dark eyelashes lowered, and a cold glint appeared in his eyes.

A donation floated across the live stream.

[Micro] gifted the streamer ten deep-sea torpedoes.

[Micro] said nothing.

Xue Wei’s gaze shifted: “Thank you, Micro, for the gift.”

“The streamer spoke again, huh! I want to interview the streamer about his current feelings!”

Xue Wei suddenly relaxed lazily, as if he had decided not to be angry with the audience: “No particular feelings.”

His mic was silent for two seconds: “It’s more interesting than before.”

On the opposite side, Ming Xu was speaking on the mic, his voice carrying unconcealed pride: “God Wen isn’t here, so it’s easy for us to play 3v4, not bringing shame to the national youth training camp.”

His voice paused.

Perhaps he saw a bullet comment introduction, and he suddenly @’ed Xue Wei in the channel.

[SSQ.Ming Xu]: @[EGT.Now], practice squad bro, solo king, haven’t seen you before. Want to play with me sometime in the future?

Xue Wei did not reply.

The in-game spectator page gradually flooded with people.

“Ah, I’ve heard of him, the solo king who’s been climbing the ladder these past few days.”

“Solo king, and that’s it? Probably a solo king in noob matches. What’s EGT team? Never heard of them.”

“He’s got a 100% win rate right now.”

“Even though his rank is high, it’s not unachievable. You’re talking about win rates with me? God Wen’s 3000-point 91% win rate remains unsurpassed to this day, okay?”

“The streamer probably can’t even beat Ming Xu. His individual combat power isn’t bad; he’s reached second in the national server.”

A new round began.

Xue Wei’s teammates discussed tactics as they left base.

The current score was zero to three.

Xue Wei hadn’t opened his mic.

At this moment, he left the team and went alone to point A, typing: [camp.]

After three rounds, he was basically familiar with this map.

Xue Wei set up his gun in a hidden spot.

Ming Xu was still talking on the public mic, not bothering to hide his footsteps: “Brothers on the other side, how about I just tell you the spot, and you come for a gunfight? It’ll save time—”

No sooner had he finished speaking than a gunshot rang out.

He fell to the ground amidst the lingering sound of the shot, and his avatar grayed out.

[System: [EGT.Now] used TRG-Stellar to kill [SSQ.Ming Xu]]

It was so fast it caught everyone off guard.

“Holy crap, I was careless.” Ming Xu, clearly not having reacted either, fell silent for a few seconds, then typed: [As expected of the solo king, I let my guard down. Next round, I’ll play seriously.]

A few minutes later, Xue Wei repositioned, killed the remaining two enemies again, then defused the bomb.

The system announced victory.

[Teammate 1: “????”]

[Teammate 1: “NC!!!”]

[Teammate 2: “NC BRO!”]

Some terminology on international servers differs from domestic ones; in the Chinese server, typing ‘NC’ is undoubtedly an insult.

The bullet comment ‘bros’ started stirring things up: “Streamer, streamer, they’re calling you an idiot!”

Xue Wei glanced at the bullet comments, his voice cool and relaxed: “Idiot.”

“The streamer’s insults are so pleasant to hear, elegant and smooth.”

“Big brother, curse one more time. I’ll record it as my alarm tone.”

Lonely netizens joined the ‘stirring things up’ queue: “These two characters carry a subtle emotion; the pronunciation of ‘shǎ’ (傻, idiot) is clearly quite active, while ‘zi’ (子) is read softly, even sounding a bit doting. The streamer’s mood seems quite good right now.”

Xue Wei no longer paid attention to these silly, hyped-up netizens and entered the next round.

This time, he gave the TRG-42 from the previous round to a teammate, taking the AK-47 he captured last round for himself, preparing to play assault, which was quite rare for him.

“? First time seeing the streamer play assault in so many days. What’s going on, no one’s fighting you for the role?” a netizen said.

Then, they saw Xue Wei buy an AWM and also give it to a teammate.

[Teammate cheered: “Gun drop!!”]

Gradually, netizens noticed something amiss: “Wait a minute, he gave away two sniper rifles, both with skins, and they’re the Stellar series skins, huh?”

“Where did a broke streamer get Stellar skins? Quick, tell us.”

“There were only those two skins, right? And he gave them all to his teammates. Dying laughing, look at the streamer showing off. I knew the lone wolf wouldn’t suddenly pay attention to teammates for no reason.”

“The lone wolf got new skins, happily gave them to teammates to show off. Damn, so funny.”

“Streamer, streamer, are you happy?”

Xue Wei fell silent again; the netizens didn’t know if he was happy or not.

In this round, Xue Wei played free agent.

His teammates were, as expected, successively enveloped, while Xue Wei leisurely scanned the map.

“Shopping, streamer? Wake up. There’s no one here, stop looking around. Your teammates are all dead.”

A bullet comment floated by.

Xue Wei kept turning his camera.

He switched to stealth mode, silently hugging the wall and searching.

Where he was standing was a two-story platform structure.

He was on the lower level, while his teammates had long since been killed ten thousand eight thousand miles away.

Some netizens gradually understood his intention: “He’s looking for the enemy sniper.”

No sooner had the words fallen than Xue Wei suddenly made a jump, his gaze sweeping over the platform, and at the same time, fired a shot directly!

A figure instantly fell to the ground.

[EGT.Now] used Desert Eagle to headshot and kill [SSQ.Ming Xu]

[SSQ.Ming Xu fired no shots before being eliminated]

“Holy crap!!!!” The bullet comments went wild.

“Holy crap, incredible!! That blind prediction is insane! He just casually shot, huh?!”

The foreign players in the team channel also screamed wildly: “Broooooooo!!!!!”

The kill replay popped up on the screen: Ming Xu was standing on the platform, stealthily holding an angle.

He hadn’t seen Xue Wei hugging the wall, nor had he made any sound.

He directly assumed there would be no one in that position.

Xue Wei’s prediction was truly outrageous—neither side had made any sound.

From Xue Wei’s perspective, he just jumped up and fired a shot into what should have been empty air!

Xue Wei quickly shifted battlefields.

In the alleyway, he encountered an enemy head-on.

The opponent had just seen him when they were immediately shot down.

He holstered his gun, switched to his knife, and waited for the next round.

The cold, beautiful folding knife spun once in his hand, emanating a chilling gleam.

The bullet comments went wild again: “Holy crap! Handsome!!!!”

In the bottom left chat channel, a message suddenly popped up.

[SSQ.Ming Xu]: “How u saw me?”

He had just been mocking on the mic in Mandarin, but now he switched to English.

[One of Ming Xu’s teammates typed: “hacker?”]

The chat channel fell silent.

People stirring up trouble in the bullet comment stream started to increase.

“Streamer, the opponent is the platform’s top streamer, huh? They’ve come across platforms to enforce justice.”

“Streamer, a response?”

“Hacking at such a young age, huh? How much did you adjust the wallhack parameters?”

Xue Wei stopped, quickly typed a line of text, but then swiftly deleted it.

This round hadn’t ended yet.

He continued searching for people; there was one left.

Xue Wei went and shot him dead, then put away his weapon and started defusing the bomb.

Immediately after, a gunshot rang out.

Before he could finish defusing, his screen went gray.

[CHN.Pretty] used AWM-Stellar to kill [EGT.Now]

Message in the bottom left of the team chat:

[CHN.Pretty]: “Sorry, I’m back from AFK.”

[CHN.Pretty]: “Stole a kill. Rose/Rose”

Xue Wei:

Thousands of viewers:

“Shameless!!”

Soon, others also noticed something amiss.

“No, if the streamer was using hacks, how could God Wen kill him? God Wen came from his right side; if he had a wallhack, he would’ve seen him already.”

“He really thought God Wen was AFK.”

“Can those who accused him of hacking apologize? Can a small streamer just be easily misled?”

The bullet comments became more heated.

The score was temporarily pulled back by one point.

In the next round, Ming Xu was still typing in public chat.

[SSQ.Ming Xu]: “hello? hacker? how u saw me?”

During the pre-match preparation phase, Xue Wei had some free time, and he glanced at the bullet comments.

Countless of Ming Xu’s fans flooded into the live stream, speaking in a sarcastic tone.

“No way, no way, you’re hacking even in the Glory rank? How bad must you be?”

“Can you at least act a little? Don’t embarrass yourself on the international server, embarrassing yourself abroad.”

“Hacker is disgusting. The streamer must be an ugly fcker too. Nauseating.”

“Trash streamer hacking, recommend reporting and banning.”

Xue Wei barely had any fans; his regular viewers’ comments were quickly drowned out by the opposing fans.

Xue Wei typed, offering a brief explanation.

[EGT.Now]: “I guessed.”

[EGT.Now]: “Peekaboo”

The ‘bros’ in the live stream were all fired up.

Peekaboo.

This was the ultimate mockery!

This was tactical crushing, strategic contempt! Truly worthy of the lone wolf streamer! The lone wolf persona stands unbroken!

Ming Xu had been streaming for so long; this might have been the first time he heard such mockery.

He completely lost it.

On the public mic, he started verbally abusing while moving: “I fck your fcking… how could it not be hacks? Who the fck can blind-fire a perfect headshot? I didn’t move an inch from that spot at the start of the game, how could you possibly see me? It’s absurd. You’re a pro player too, and you’re still pretending with me here, you…”

The next second, his microphone suddenly cut out, and Ming Xu’s ID grayed out.

The system displayed:

[CHN.Pretty] used Negev to kill [SSQ.Ming Xu]

[CHN.Pretty] attacked a teammate. The system has issued a warning. Teammates may choose to vote to kick you from the match.

[CHN.Pretty] showed his knife in combat.

《Fire》 did have friendly fire enabled, a setting that all major teams had to consider.

Positioning, tactical allocation, team coordination—if any aspect wasn’t well-coordinated, a situation of “attacking my own teammate” could arise.

The small microphone next to [CHN.Pretty] lit up, blinking.

The man’s voice was indifferent and casual: “National Youth Training Team Rule #13: It is forbidden to make insulting or negative remarks during matches. Violators will be suspended for one month.”

Ming Xu dared not utter a sound, terrified like a little chick in front of him.

Onlookers: “Wait a minute, that may be true, but the national team also doesn’t allow killing teammates during a match!”

The regular viewers were excited and started spamming new keywords: “#WenManTeamTyrantInhuman”

“#WenManDevil”

Two more lines of text popped up on the public screen.

[CHN.Pretty]: “Now”

He didn’t @ mention; he typed his ID directly.

Xue Wei stared at the screen.

[CHN.Pretty]: “Nice try.”