Chapter 118: Panda Brewmaster
There weren't many people in the internet cafe. Just as Chen Mo was about to sit down, he heard a loud shout: "Wow, great master, you finally showed up!!"
Chen Mo was startled. He saw Zou Zhuo appearing out of nowhere, rushing over to him excitedly, as if afraid he might run away.
Chen Mo found an empty seat, sat down, and turned on the computer.
Zou Zhuo sat down beside him: "Great master, um, there are several big shots in our player group who want to invite you in. Even K is in there, you know? He also wants to spar with you."
Chen Mo said, "Oh, but I'm not really into trouble."
Zou Zhuo was stunned. What the hell? Even bringing up K God was rejected! Sure enough, great masters are all very aloof!
Chen Mo opened Warcraft III and continued playing ranked matches.
Zou Zhuo was a bit conflicted. He couldn't really beg on his knees like the group suggested.
Zou Zhuo took out his phone and sent a message in the group: "Finally staked out Silent! But he doesn't want to join the group. What should I do? Waiting online, kind of urgent!"
Soon, the group exploded.
"Is it really Silent???"
"No picture, no proof! Hurry, take a little video!"
"Why ask? Of course, kneel down and beg to be his disciple!"
"Ahhhh, where's the address? I'm going!"
Over the past two days, the player group had been discussing it nonstop.
Mainly because after Silent became famous, everyone noticed that the random player who fought Zou Zhuo back then was Silent!
You could say Zou Zhuo was the one who had seen Silent in the flesh. That was huge!
A lot of people in the group went to the forums to say that Silent was a real person, and pretty young, and someone had seen him. But the forum people didn't believe it; they all thought they were bragging.
Now, the time to prove themselves had finally come!
Urged on by the crowd, Zou Zhuo stood behind Chen Mo and secretly filmed a short video. The video didn't show much—just Chen Mo's hands rapidly tapping the keyboard and mouse, along with some screen footage.
"Holy crap, that hand speed, truly worthy of the name 'Ultimate Tentacle Monster'!"
"Is he having a seizure or something..."
"I feel like I'm missing a finger compared to him..."
"That screen, holy crap, is this playing at 8x speed? I can't see anything!"
"With that hand speed, it's probably the real deal for sure!"
"But the great master won't join the group, what now? Should K God step in personally? @kaiser"
Kaiser: "Forget it, if he doesn't want to come, don't force it. @zzz, just watch his first-person perspective more and learn well."
Everyone sighed: "Ah, what a shame!"
This time, Chen Mo's opponent was a Night Elf. Facing Chen Mo's Blademaster, although he struggled for a while, he still lost.
Chen Mo checked his score. It was already 3794.
No big deal. Chen Mo calmly started another match.
In the player group.
"He's started again! K God, queue up quickly, try to get matched with Silent!"
Kaiser: "I'm in class..."
Everyone: "..."
This queue took a bit longer, since his score was very high. It took nearly five minutes to find an opponent.
It was still morning, and across all the major streaming platforms, over 400,000 people were watching Silent's ranked matches. Of course, that was the total from all platforms and all observer streamers' rooms combined, but it was still terrifying!
Especially yesterday, when Silent used the Tower Rush strategy to beat Evening Breeze and even wrote "NB!" on the map with towers. The popularity exploded instantly.
When the viewers saw this match's opponent, they got excited immediately.
"Diga is widely recognized as one of the top three Human players in the country, with a ladder score of 3722, basically on the same level as Kaiser."
Loading into the game, Diga was also startled. What the hell, Silent?
Damn, he actually ran into him?
Diga had of course watched the video of Silent versus Evening Breeze from yesterday, and it was very enlightening. As a high-scoring Human player, his understanding of these strategies was far deeper than others'. He quickly realized this was a very powerful tactic.
And that night, after sparring with a few other top players a few times, he found the tactic was very effective.
Silent was on a crazy winning streak, gaining a lot of points each match. Diga felt he might run into Silent, but he didn't expect it to happen so soon.
Entering the game.
Diga never expected Silent to hire a neutral hero. And when scouting, he saw that the Night Elf's altar was lit!
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