E-Sports Boss Wants To Post Messages With New Players Every Day Chapter 56

The first Ranked Match was on the Sniper-favored map, Vinya Harbor.

As soon as Xu Ziyan entered the map, he didn’t hesitate at all, immediately selecting the sniper rifle, Medic Bottle, and Taser.

During the preparation time, Shen Xiao leaned over to look at his screen and said, “The version’s darling. It’s the first day of the new version, why aren’t you streaming?”

Then, he lowered his voice, as if relaying some secret intelligence, and whispered, “It’s the beginning of the month. Hurry up and rack up some hours!”

Xu Ziyan wasn’t fond of streaming and often forgot about it, which led to him frantically making up hours at the end of every month. Reminded by Shen Xiao, he suddenly realized and quickly logged into the streaming software.

Surprisingly, quite a few people were waiting in his stream. As soon as he went live, the popularity instantly soared to over a million.

Aside from the few times he Duo Queued with Xie Wei, he had never seen so many viewers right at the start of a stream, leaving him momentarily stunned.

[He’s live! Got him!]

[Ice God! Wuwuwu, hurry up and teach me the Medic Sniper build. I almost cried practicing at the firing range just now.]

[I can’t live without being able to heal myself with the sniper build T T How do you play it?]

[Bold prediction: Ice will top the Medic leaderboard.]

[Even bolder: First place overall.]

[The one above, God Xie is watching you.]

[Crap, I forgot.]

Xu Ziyan quickly adjusted the streaming interface, opened the chat assistant, and then switched back to the game.

With ten seconds left in the starting countdown, he slung the sniper rifle over his shoulder. “This is my first time using this gun too. I’m not familiar with the feel or the damage, so please bear with me.”

Thirty seconds after saying that, he opened his scope on a container and sniped the enemy Medic with three shots.

[? This is ‘not familiar’?]

[What exactly are we supposed to bear with, your humblebragging?]

[I feel like I shouldn’t be here.]

Xu Ziyan said, “It’s just that everyone is still unfamiliar with the new version. The enemy Medic was aware and kept hiding from our sniper’s line of sight, but he forgot about me.”

As he spoke, he sidestepped into a blind spot to reload. With a few nimble jumps, he had already moved to another location.

The Assault Player on the front line was nearly critically wounded at the point. Xu Ziyan tossed a Medic Bottle, the crisp sound of the bottle shattering was pleasant, followed by a healing buff appearing on the friendly Assault Player, while the enemy seemed shrouded in black mist.

“Is this the Vulnerability Buff?”

Xu Ziyan muttered to himself. He opened his scope. With the healing buff, two shots were enough to fully restore the Assault Player’s precarious health bar.

Although the enemy Sniper managed to instantly headshot one of them, the two Assault Players who received the Vulnerability Buff quickly died under focused fire. That shot also exposed the enemy Sniper’s position. Xu Ziyan reacted quickly, assisting his own Sniper in securing the kill.

Point A was cleared. The front-line Assault Player stood inside the point and began the capture progress. Just as Xu Ziyan was about to make adjustments, he heard footsteps coming from the adjacent container.

He was startled, pulled out his Taser, and crouched against the wall.

Almost simultaneously with him crouching, the enemy Assault Player appeared at the corner.

Xu Ziyan barely dodged a few bullets with a roll and tried to use the Taser to stun the opponent, but the Assault Player reacted quickly, taking a slight step back, causing Xu Ziyan’s attack to miss.

Immediately, another burst of bullets sprayed over.

Although Xu Ziyan had thrown down a Medic Bottle, the healing amount hadn’t been modified and was still only fifty points. In the previous version, where everyone had a hundred health, this was decent, but now with everyone at two hundred health, fifty points seemed rather pitiful.

The game screen turned gray, and the respawn countdown began.

The Assault Player who had flanked him was immediately picked off by their own Sniper, but losing the Medic meant losing subsequent support. Coupled with the enemy Sniper still being alive, the friendly Assault Player was forced to retreat from Point A again.

This team wipe failed to secure Point A.

Xu Ziyan frowned slightly. “My bad. I forgot that all respawn times are now halved.”

[Wow, respawning so fast means that in objective maps, the attacking side not only has to attack but also has to defend.]

“Yes,” Xu Ziyan said. “The defensive side’s margin for error has increased.”

[The developers really kept their word. They said they would adjust the pace, and they directly gave more margin for error. Nice.]

His character respawned. Xu Ziyan didn’t continue looking at the chat. He left the spawn point and climbed the nearest iron tower, swinging lightly on the railing to leap onto the container in front.

[Holy crap, thrilling.]

[The precision in judging that distance is insane.]

Xu Ziyan moved his feet but kept his hands busy. He opened his sniper scope, aimed at his teammates in Point A in the distance, and pulled one of the Assault Players back from the brink of death with two shots.

Then he closed the scope, holstered the gun, grabbed the high platform in front, climbed up, and immediately opened his scope to heal again.

He moved and stopped like this, and fortunately, his Assault Players knew when to advance and retreat, intentionally circling until Xu Ziyan arrived, preventing any further losses.

Xu Ziyan jumped off the container and fully replenished the health of the two Assault Players.

It must be said that although switching the healing tool to a sniper rifle increased the range and relatively boosted the healing amount, it required more mental effort than before. As the chat said, the inability to heal oneself coupled with the inherent disadvantage of a sniper rifle in close combat significantly reduced the margin for error and survivability.

The lower limit was very low, but the upper limit was also extremely high.

If it were still the original rifle, Xu Ziyan would have been unable to perform the moving and long-range support operation he just did after being flanked and killed.

He licked his lips, not discouraged by the increased difficulty of the game at all, but instead felt even more eager to try.

“The enemy Assault Player is coming, flanking,” Xu Ziyan blinked. “He’s coming for me again.”

[Then why aren’t you leaving?]

[Can’t you see the sniper blocking the front corner? Anyone who says that is probably Bronze 1000 points at most.]

[Is this Medic environment even playable by humans?]

[Thought it was a buff, but actually…]

[Wuwu, I don’t want to play Medic anymore.]

Since most Medic players were girls, Xu Ziyan chuckled. “It’s okay, it’s okay. The initial phase of a new version always requires an adjustment period. Look, when the smoke grenade was first changed, everyone complained, but now it’s fine.”

While he was speaking, the Assault Player’s footsteps were getting closer.

Xu Ziyan didn’t try to crouch down for a surprise attack again. Instead, he directly pulled out the Taser, and then lightly clicked the mouse.

On the screen, the Taser in the Medic’s hand glowed with a faint blue light, making a “zzzt” sound, and the skill usage count in the bottom left decreased by one.

Skills with limited uses are precious in a match, yet Xu Ziyan had seemingly wasted one here.

Some viewers in the chat didn’t understand and asked.

[Is that a mistake?]

The enemy Assault Player clearly heard the sound, paused their steps, and then flashed out from the container corner at an even faster speed.

Xu Ziyan smiled, raising his hand. This time, the Assault Player still quickly stepped back to dodge, but they never expected that what appeared before them this time was not the Taser, but the Medic Bottle.

The black mist of Vulnerability instantly enveloped their body. The Assault Player realized what was happening and tried to move forward again, but it was too late. That step backward had moved them out of the container’s cover.

The long-waiting Sniper followed up with a shot, a direct headshot. Although the Assault Player had a shield buff, under the effect of Vulnerability, combined with the damage from the Medic Bottle, the Sniper successfully secured the kill.

The live stream instantly filled with comments praising the play.

[? Is this your prediction?]

[Luring the enemy with the wall, using the Taser sound to bait the Assault Player into retreating, instantly switching to the Medic Bottle for the Vulnerability Buff, and coordinating with the Sniper for the kill… I think I got it.]

[Too strong, too strong.]

[Am I the only one who thinks the teammate Sniper is also quite strong? The previous kill on the enemy Sniper, and the one just now on the Assault Player, the coordination was flawless.]

[Hmm… they are indeed quite strong.]

[Speaking of which, that Sniper’s ID does look familiar. Who was it again?]

Xu Ziyan captured Point A, glanced at the chat, and indeed felt a sense of tacit understanding, so he casually asked, “Familiar? Who is this Sniper?”

[Hahahahahaha]

[Well, I can’t say.]

[? Are you seriously asking?]

[I bet someone is going to be sad, but I won’t say who.]

Xu Ziyan had been busy selecting equipment and starting the stream as soon as he entered the game, plus he hadn’t fully adapted to the new version. He had put all his focus into the match, so how could he have time to check his teammate’s ID?

Seeing the chat filled with laughter but absolutely refusing to reveal the Sniper’s identity, he was confused and opened the team list to check.

He saw Shining’s ID quietly listed under the Sniper role, followed by a near-perfect 4-0-3 record.

Xu Ziyan’s hand on the keyboard trembled, and his character slid right off the rooftop.

This was called “a bit familiar”?

This was called “quite厉害 (amazing)”?

This!

He belatedly blushed, and his voice involuntarily softened a few degrees. “This… why didn’t anyone say anything?”

[What’s wrong, streamer? Your voice got quiet.]

[Who would have thought you genuinely didn’t know!]

[I can tell, you’re a fake fan.]

[Hahaha, everyone thought you knew! And there was already a wave of ‘God Xie NB’ earlier! You just didn’t notice because you were analyzing the battle!]

Xu Ziyan awkwardly coughed twice, moved his fingers, and climbed back onto the rooftop.

“I really didn’t notice,” he said. “If I had noticed…”

[If you had noticed, then what?]

Xu Ziyan secretly glanced in the direction of Xie Wei’s station and whispered, “Then how could I possibly not give him resources the whole time?”

After saying that, ignoring the screen full of question marks, he added worriedly, “My positioning on the containers was wrong several times. If I had known… I should have stayed outside the containers directly, otherwise, it blocks the Sniper’s line of sight too much.”

He was a man of his word. The target of his Medic Bottle was no longer the front-line Assault Player, but he would throw it at the opponent whenever possible, using it directly as an offensive skill.

The enemy Assault Player was frantic. After adding the shield, they weren’t as easily headshot and instantly killed, but this bottle was determined, willing to sacrifice teammates just to hit them.

When they tried to flank, a perfectly timed Heartbeat Sensor would pop up, pinpointing their location, thus nullifying the flank. By the time they reached their position, they were either met with a Taser or simply found an empty spot.

With the resources poured in, Xie Wei was in his element. While Point A was a bit of a struggle, Point B was practically a clean sweep.

The victory screen popped up, and Shining was, unsurprisingly, the MVP.

Xu Ziyan finally breathed a sigh of relief and gave Xie Wei a thumbs-up.

Turning to see the teasing in the chat, he lightly coughed. “This is… trust in my teammate.”

[Understood.]

[Those who know, know.]