Shen Huai immediately thought of Song Xueyang. His sniper was elusive on the battlefield, with no dead angle he couldn’t hit and no head he couldn’t claim. In the current professional strong teams, anyone who had fought a team battle with the Maple Moon Team was deeply impressed by Song Xueyang’s sniper. This season, the official “City of Despair” canceled the talent Fatal Strike largely because Song Xueyang’s sniper was too terrifying. Any squishy class with less than 50% health couldn’t escape being one-shot by him.
Shen Huai quickly ran up to Luoyun Peak, the only place he found suitable for sniping after observing the terrain. Although it was 1200 meters away from the battlefield, if it were Song Xueyang, he would definitely hit the target!
Sure enough, there was a sniper lying on a rock at the top of Luoyun Peak. Shen Huai typed in the current channel,
[Current] [Mu Wange]: Song Xueyang!
The sniper lying on the rock turned around, but it was a female gunner named “Yuxue Feifei.”
Shen Huai was stunned, a bit unable to react.
Song Xueyang was also taken aback. In his memory, Cang Yu always called him “Captain Song” in a serious manner. It was the first time he called him by his full name like this, making him feel inexplicably closer to him, and he didn’t mind the feeling.
However, he reacted quickly and typed, “Snow God? Where’s Snow God?”
The female gunner sent a string of question marks and excitedly fell off the rock, landing face-first in the dirt.
Yuxue Feifei looked around the mountaintop but didn’t find a second person, uncertainly asking, “You weren’t calling me, were you?”
“…”
Shen Huai blushed. For some reason, when he saw the bullet flying and knocking down the speeding Heavenly General, his first reaction was Song Xueyang. No one else could have such precise marksmanship.
“Did you just kill that Heavenly General?”
Yuxue Feifei was very surprised, “I killed someone? I was just taking screenshots because the scenery here is nice!”
Shen Huai suspiciously examined the female gunner named Yuxue Feifei. It was a max-level account with shabby equipment and no guild affiliation. If it wasn’t a smurf account, it was just like his, a newly purchased account.
Seemingly curious about how she could kill someone while taking screenshots, Yuxue Feifei posed in an aiming stance.
“Ah! Why can’t I shoot?”
Just by the sound, Shen Huai knew she hadn’t loaded the bullet and couldn’t help but remind her, “You need to load the bullet first.”
The little gunner fiddled with it for a while before finally firing a shot, which hit a tree trunk less than 100 meters away.
“Ah! How can it be blocked by a tree!”
“…”
In the game, most skills can penetrate obstacles, but the sniper’s ultra-long-range sniping skill is blocked by terrain. This design is to balance the advantage of long-range shooting. Otherwise, with players like Song Xueyang, who are very good at long-range sniping predictions, others wouldn’t stand a chance.
Shen Huai couldn’t associate this gaming newbie in front of him with the thousand-meter headshot Song Xueyang. It seemed that Yuxue Feifei accidentally charged a skill while taking a screenshot and coincidentally hit the Heavenly General?
Shen Huai thought his guess was reasonable. Even if Song Xueyang wanted to use a smurf account to get close to him, there was no need to choose a sniper, his main profession, right?
For ordinary people, it wouldn’t make sense, but for someone like Song Xueyang, who understands common thinking patterns and is skilled in reverse thinking, this is just standard operation.
Song Xueyang controlled the little gunner to act cute in front of Shen Huai.
Yuxue Feifei: “Miss, you’re playing an Assassin! So cool! I heard Assassins are really complex to operate, I don’t dare to play them.”
Shen Huai corrected, “It’s brother.”
Yuxue Feifei seemed not to notice, “Miss, you’re playing an Assassin, do you know Cang Yu God? He’s amazing at playing Assassin! I’m his fan!”
Shen Huai didn’t say anything and turned to leave, but Yuxue Feifei persistently chased after him, “Miss, let’s PK! I want to see the Assassin’s skills!”
Shen Huai stopped, “You can’t beat me.”
“I just want to try. I really want to play Assassin, but my friends said it’s too hard for me, so I bought this gunner account. Please, fight me!”
The little gunner’s character was set to a loli body type, not even as tall as Shen Huai’s Assassin in the game, carrying a long sniper rifle on her back, looking like she could be toppled over at any moment, pitifully and comically.
System: Yuxue Feifei has sent a PK request, do you accept?
Shen Huai looked at the little gunner circling around him, his heart softened, and he agreed.
The two quickly loaded into the arena map. Shen Huai flipped onto the stage, while Yuxue Feifei spun around with her gun, unable to tell north from south.
Shen Huai couldn’t help but teach her, “Don’t use the scope mode in arena PK, it narrows your vision.”
“Oh, oh.”
Yuxue Feifei immediately re-aimed, the gun barrel directly poking Shen Huai’s chest, turning a long-range into a melee.
“You should keep your distance from me.”
“Oh, oh.”
Yuxue Feifei stepped back a few paces, lying down ten meters away from Shen Huai, setting up her gun…
Forget it, let’s just fight directly…
The black-clad female Assassin dashed forward, raising her blade, Backstab – Heart Piercer – Dark Sword!
The Assassin suddenly appearing in her vision scared the little gunner into a backward roll to escape, leaving the gun on the ground.
If a sniper’s gun is dropped and not picked up in time, it takes five seconds to automatically return to the owner. In a formal match, the enemy would relentlessly pursue, but Shen Huai watched the little gunner cautiously retrieve her gun and couldn’t bring himself to attack.
He conceded.
This was the first time Shen Huai had conceded in a solo arena match since he started playing games.
Song Xueyang calmly pressed the screenshot button upon seeing the “Victory” on the screen and happily typed.
“Why did my gun fall?”
Shen Huai patiently explained, “In sniping mode, the character can’t move. You must stand up and put away the gun before using a backward roll.”
But actually, this easily misses the best evasion timing. In professional arenas, the situation changes rapidly, and even a 0.1-second delay can lead to irreparable consequences.
In the S4 season, during the Maple Moon vs. Thunder match, when Song Xueyang successfully sniped and killed a swordsman attacking him with a backward roll, everyone was shocked by this unprecedented operation. Without the slow-motion replay, no one even saw what happened.
Thinking of Song Xueyang’s brilliant strike on the field, Shen Huai opened the leaderboard, and sure enough, Song Xueyang’s ID was still gray.
“Oh, I see!” The little gunner was full of energy again, “Miss, your Assassin is amazing, take me as your disciple!”
“I don’t take disciples.”
Yuxue Feifei, however, clung to him, “I really like Assassins. My friends all say Assassins are too weak to play, but I think Assassins are really strong. I want to learn some awesome moves and then switch to an Assassin class to play. I want to show them that Assassins aren’t weak at all.”
These words hit Shen Huai’s soft spot, and he couldn’t refuse this reason for apprenticeship.
System: Yuxue Feifei wants to become your disciple, do you accept?
Shen Huai clicked the confirm button, and the disciple section in his friend list now had Yuxue Feifei’s name.
Song Xueyang looked at the “Master – Mu Wange” in the list, leisurely tapping his index finger on the table.
He met Cang Yu the year he joined the Maple Moon Team. One night, he accidentally clicked into a live stream. It was an Assassin streamer. In the S2 season, the Assassin class was very strong, but a streamer who neither showed their face nor spoke had no audience.
He watched idly for a while, and when he saw the Assassin instantly kill a full-health Mage with an extremely gorgeous combo, his eyes changed dramatically.
As a strong class in the version, Assassins were common in the arena, but it was the first time he saw an Assassin with such high burst damage and fast combo speed! His skill talent points were completely different from other Assassins, a one-hit style that was unconventional, with full attack speed equipment that could almost one-shot all squishy classes!
This Assassin was terrifying. At that moment, Song Xueyang felt that all the Assassins he had seen paled in comparison, even the Assassin player Tianlang from the Xiaolang Team wasn’t as dazzling.
Song Xueyang decisively clicked follow and remembered the streamer’s name – Cang Yu.
But Cang Yu rarely streamed, as if he only opened the stream room on a whim. The second time Song Xueyang saw him stream was two months later, at seven in the morning, and Song Xueyang was his only viewer.
But Cang Yu didn’t seem to care at all. He continued playing his little Assassin, the twin blades gleaming even sharper than the last time.
Song Xueyang recommended Cang Yu on Weibo, and fans who came were invariably shocked by the unknown small streamer’s Assassin playstyle.
Cang Yu’s fans grew, and his Assassin play improved.
Song Xueyang created a smurf account on the Sai Ke Throne, and after camping for three months, he finally added Cang Yu as a friend. By then, Cang Yu was a popular streamer with over a million fans, but he still rarely streamed and never showed his face, as mysterious as a reclusive master.
Song Xueyang didn’t care about these things. He just greatly admired Cang Yu’s strength and didn’t care what the other looked like. He invited Cang Yu to join the team, but was rejected. This surprised Song Xueyang, and he persistently pursued Cang Yu. Although they became friends over time, Cang Yu never agreed to join the Maple Moon Team.
In the S3 season, Assassins were heavily nerfed, and even Song Xueyang thought the Assassin class was unplayable. But Cang Yu created an infinite immobilization arena playstyle at this time! Similarly, in the S4 season, Assassins were nerfed again, and Cang Yu came up with a dual-wielding poison and magic playstyle!
Cang Yu brought him one surprise after another, and Song Xueyang couldn’t control his gaze from being drawn to him.
In the S5 season, the talent “Fatal Strike” that the “Poison Flow” Assassin relied on was canceled. This time, Song Xueyang wasn’t worried at all because he knew Cang Yu would find a way to bring Assassins back to the stage.
When he saw Cang Yu kill Xiao Zhang from the War God Team with 10% health, Song Xueyang’s excitement reached its peak. He wanted Cang Yu to join his team more than ever. He became curious about what kind of person was behind this ID, what kind of face and voice did the person who could perform such dazzling operations have? How many insights into Assassins did he have that others couldn’t imagine?
Everything about Cang Yu was a mystery, making Song Xueyang want to explore.
So, when he learned that Cang Yu planned to join a professional team, Song Xueyang wouldn’t miss this opportunity. He wanted to become teammates with Cang Yu and truly get to know this person called Cang Yu.
Zhou Ning passed by and saw his screen, asking, “Are you tricking Cang Yu again?”
Song Xueyang shamelessly said, “This is called strategy.”
“Cang Yu? Where’s Cang Yu?” A young man ran over upon hearing, with round eyes and a slightly immature face that looked a bit cute.
Zhou Ning said, “It’s this Assassin. Our captain tricked him into buying an account in the professional area.”
Haixing’s eyes lit up, “Professional area? Is Cang Yu going pro?”
Haixing was the youngest in the Fengyu Team, only 17 this year. He had just debuted for a year and only learned about Cang Yu after joining the Maple Moon Team.
Initially, he didn’t think highly of the Assassin class, believing that a streamer playing Assassin must have poor technical skills, unable to make it with popular classes, and thus turned to the unpopular Assassin. But after watching a few streams with the captain and vice-captain, he found Cang Yu to be a high-speed, very stable god-level player.
Playing the weakest class in the game with the most godly operations, crushing a bunch of version princes, anyone would become a fan.
Zhou Ning nodded, “The captain plans to bring him into our team.”
“That’s awesome!” Haixing jumped up excitedly, “Only at this time do I find you particularly reliable!”
Song Xueyang had many tricks up his sleeve, and as long as he was involved, Haixing felt this matter was already a sure thing.
He happily said, “Wait for me, add me to the team, I want to play with Cang Yu too!”
Song Xueyang didn’t refuse. Getting familiar with teammates’ operational habits in advance wasn’t a bad thing.
He reminded, “Create a smurf account, act a bit noobish, don’t let him find out who we are.”
“Okay!” Haixing cheerfully returned to his seat to create a smurf account, “Vice-captain Zhou, do you want to join?”
Zhou Ning shook his head, “Forget it, I want to leave a good impression on our future teammate.”
He didn’t think Cang Yu was the type to be easily manipulated.
In the game, Shen Huai received a message from Yiye Bianzhou.
[Stranger] [Yiye Bianzhou]: Bro, how are you doing?
Shen Huai replied, “I’m fine.”
Yiye Bianzhou sent a friend request, and Shen Huai accepted it.
[Friend] [Yiye Bianzhou]: Still doing the quest? The healer girl and I are waiting for you.
Shen Huai thought he was quite loyal, “What about the others?”
[Friend] [Yiye Bianzhou]: I let the others go first. If you still want to play, we’ll regroup.
[Friend] [Mu Wange]: Okay.
Shen Huai turned to ask Yuxue Feifei, “Have you done this week’s Abyss of Fall?”
The little gunner immediately said, “No.”
Shen Huai invited him to the team and also added Yiye Bianzhou and Mobei.
[Team] [Yiye Bianzhou]: Is this sniper joining too?
[Team] [Yuxue Feifei]: Hello~ I’m the Assassin sister’s disciple (＾＿＾)
Shen Huai suddenly felt that his new little disciple’s way of speaking was very similar to Vice-captain Zhou…
[Team] [Mobei]: He’s a guy… a guy…
[Team] [Mu Wange]: I’m a guy
[Team] [Yuxue Feifei]: QAQ
[Team] [Mu Wange]: Let’s go, let’s call people and continue.
[Team] [Yuxue Feifei]: Wait! I have a friend coming.
Soon, a Mage named “Tianya” joined the team.
[Team] [Tianya]: Hello, God!!
[Team] [Mobei]: Where’s the God?
[Team] [Yiye Bianzhou]: He’s talking about the Assassin, right?
[Team] [Mu Wange]: I’m not a God.
[Team] [Yuxue Feifei]: Master is a God, just as amazing as Cang Yu God!
Haixing almost spat out his drink in front of the computer. Who could tell him who this soft and cute flatterer was?