Editor: Decembery
The benefits of a home game was that Qiu Yu could be sent directly to the infirmary after the game and then return to his dormitory undisturbed by the outside world after treatment.
Mu Feibai and Du Chen were once again forbidden to approach Qiu Yu’s room.
This also meant that Qiu Yu would definitely not be able to participate in tomorrow’s away game in the city of Jue Ran’s base.
[It doesn’t matter. We’re already guaranteed to qualify, so it’s ok even if we lose tomorrow.]
Mu Feibai finished the post-game interview and messaged Qiu Yu: [Don’t feel pressured, and don’t go around looking at those messy commentary articles on the internet. Have a good rest, the quarter-finals are waiting for you.]
Since the official commencement of the summer regular season, training on competition days was put onhold. Most likely because he suddenly had a lot more free time, Qiu Yu found that Mu Feibai liked to send him text messages more and more often, whenever he had free time. Other than game-related things and the competition, the other would also sometimes share some jokes and other brainless things.
It was as though Mu Feibai was worried that he would go onto social platforms and self-destruct whenever he had free time.
Till today, there were many mixed opinions about Qiu Yu and the fangroups were extremely chaotic.
Other than the brainless fans and brainless haters, there were also people who disdained Omega players yet couldn’t help but acknowledge his strength; those who were fans of his fighting prowess but worried about his gender limiting his development; those who scolded him while also drooling over his looks; and those who cheered him on while raging at the Eagle Riders club…
In short—it was quite amusing.
Yes, amusing.
Looking at those analysis articles and watching netizens tear into each other, not only did Qiu Yu not feel down, he rather wanted to laugh.
The complexities of human nature were fully displayed in people’s opinions about him.
His bracelet vibrated twice and another message appeared.
It was from Xu Qingqing: [How are you? Are you doing ok? I saw people talking on the internet that your heat suddenly arrived during a competition?]
It had been a month since the two moved out of the Omega apartment.
Xu Qingqing not only moved places again, but she also started dating the Alpha who was matched with her by the Civil Affairs Bureau, which took up a lot of her time. Qiu Yu also wasn’t the type who was keen on actively maintaining a friendship, so the two didn’t contact each other often during the month, only occasioning sending each other a message or two.
No matter what, she was the first friend Qiu Yu had after coming to this world, so he didn’t act too indifferent.
[En.]
[So I won’t be playing tomorrow.]
Xu Qingqing immediately replied with a couple more messages.
[So what if you can’t play, there’s nothing more important than your health.]
[I’m about to be angered to death by some of the stuff those people said on the internet!]
[Why is it that for As and Bs, facing hardships is something to be proud of, but when it comes to Omegas it just means that they’re thinking too highly of themselves?! Why? On what basis!!!]
Before Qiu Yu could think of a response, Xu Qingqing sent an emoji of a cat roaring in anger.
We’re sorry for MTLers or people who like using reading mode, but our translations keep getting stolen by aggregators so we’re going to bring back the copy protection. If you need to MTL please retype the gibberish parts.
And then continued: [Even Xiao“Xiao” as in “little” (aka way of calling someone you are close to/is younger than you) Chen didn’t understand why you’re trying so hard, and he even fought with me. I blocked him straight away!]
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Qiu Yu hurriedly persuaded: [There’s no need to block Xiao Chen just because of what happened with me.]
Xu Qingqing disagreed: [How is this about you? This is obviously a matter of worldviews! According to his worldview, doesn’t he think that Omegas should only stay at home and raise children? Heh, a guy like him actually proposed to temporarily mark me when I rejected his date invitation because my heat had arrived… How can I continue further into a relationship with such a chauvinistic Alpha? The Civil Affairs Bureau’s matching process is so unreliable!]
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Qiu Yu found it funny: [I still remember that you tried to persuade me to go register for a match at the Civil Affairs Bureau?]
Xu Qingqing: [Nooo definitely don’t! Run away!!!]
After a while, probably feeling that her warning wasn’t rigorous enough, she added: [After my one month experience, a match level of B is very much unreliable. Although, if there’s an A-level match, you could still consider it.]
Qiu Yu insisted: [I won’t consider it.]
Xu Qingqing couldn’t help but ask: [Can you really bear it? With two Alphas in your team?]
Qiu Yu: [Why wouldn’t I be able to bear it?]
Xu Qingqing: [I wouldn’t be able to. If an Alpha approached me right before or after my heat period, my mind would always think of random inappropriate things when I catch a whiff of their scent. Xiao Chen’s pheromone was actually my favourite black tea flavour—I don’t even dare to see him a couple of days before and after my heat just in case I somehow agree to a temporary mark QAQ]
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But it wasn’t as exaggerated as what Xu Qingqing had described.
Why wouldn’t he be able to bear it?
Seeing that Qiu Yu didn’t reply after a while, Xu Qingqing sent another message: [Hehe, can I ask you a question?]
Qiu Yu: [What is it?]
Xu Qingqing: [It’s rumoured on the internet that Mu Feibai’s pheromones smell like flames. Is that real?]
Qiu Yu laughed: [That’s fake.]
Xu Qingqing: [Ahhh it’s actually fake?! It sounded so cool though.]
But she didn’t ask what Mu Feibai actually smelled like.
Perhaps it was because of the topic, or perhaps because Qiu Yu’s heat was still rampaging around his body, Qiu Yu’s thoughts suddenly wandered around and took a sharp turn—he recalled when Mu Feibai carried him on his back, his nose was filled with the burning scent of ginger.
Qiu Yu still remembered when his team was ordered to repair an important base in the Northern mountainous area on a snowy winter day. The mutant beasts had gathered into packs, so starved that their eyes glowed red. When Qiu Yu completed the mission and returned, only himself and two other teammates remained of the original 10-person squad. The losses of that mission were extremely devastating.
However, he couldn’t even feel sadness at that time as his entire body was almost frozen and his consciousness was still a little muddled.
That was until a little soldier stationed in a simple camp at the base of the mountain hurriedly brought him a bowl of ginger soup.
Qiu Yu still remembered that the soup was contained in a blackening enamel jar that was chipped around the rim, revealing the dark lacquered metal inside.
The bowl of soup smelled spicy and burned its way into his nose, however, its temperature was just right for his icy-cold lips. The heat flowed from his mouth into his stomach, almost instantly dispelling the chill of death wrapping around his body.
Despite it being an extremely ordinary moment among the many during the decades he lived in the apocalypse, Qiu Yu remembered it so clearly that even now just by recalling that memory, he could feel his body warm up from the inside out.
At this moment, his bracelet vibrated twice again.
Qiu Yu thought it was Xu Qingqing, however, it turned out to be Mu Feibai.
[You there?]
[Do you still feel uncomfortable?]
Seeing Mu Feibai’s messages, Mu Feibai’s image was inevitably conjured up by Qiu Yu’s mind and the warm scent of ginger soup seemed to linger around him—his body heated up.
Some memories and fantasies invaded and occupied Qiu Yu’s consciousness, forming countless fleeting, messy, and chaotic thoughts. Qiu Yu hugged the quilt, trying to suppress these restless impulses… Judging from his past experiences of heats, he’ll probably have another wet dream tonight.
This body was really troublesome.
As long as the dream isn’t as overly specific as last time… It’ll be fine.
After not getting a reply from Qiu Yu for a long time, Mu Feibai frowned and hesitated, typing and deleting again and again. A long time later, he sent a last message: [Have a good rest, good night.]
As expected, still no response.
Mu Feibai leaned against the head of his bed for a while, staring into space. He raised his bracelet and looked up a Q&A platform.
Enter search: [The Omega I like is in heat, how should I express my care for him?]
Top answer: [Mark him.]
Enter search: [I’m secretly in love with an Omega. He’s in heat, what should I do?]
Top answer: [Cheering you on, brother. Mark him!]
Enter search: [The Omega I’m secretly in love with is in his heat period, but I don’t want to mark him or scare him. What should I do?]
Top answer: [Brother, are you incapable of it?]
Mu Feibai: ……
This batch of answers was of the worst quality he’s ever seen.
…
The next day, the Eagle Riders played an away game against Jue Ran.
As expected, the much-anticipated Omega competitor Qiu Yu did not appear. The one who entered the arena was the team’s substitute player, Lu Cun.
Immediately after the start of the game, Mu Feibai led the Eagle Riders team to start a small-scale team battle in the core area of the middle lane. They successfully killed three of the opponents, gaining an initial advantage.
“Even though Qiu Yu isn’t on the field today, the Eagle Riders are still fighting quite fiercely.” The commentator spoke in a relaxed tone.
“It can only be said that god Mu is still god Mu.” The other commentator laughed, “Even in the Star Alliance League, there aren’t many players that can hold him off alone.”
“However, without Qiu Yu as the second carry, Mu Feibai is in some danger.”
“There’s still Zhou Shu and Du Chen. Zhou Shu is an old team member who entered at the same time Mu Feibai did, so the two have a good tacit understanding. As for Du Chen, he has just entered the starting lineup this year, so he’s still a little green… Oh! Jue Ran changed tactics and now three of them outflanked Mu Feibai!”
“Can Mu Feibai reenact his classic scene of one against three—oh, Jue Ran’s sniper ran out of bullets… Mu Feibai gave up on the towers’ lane, killed some mutant beasts, and is preparing to go around behind—this shot caught all of us by surprise! Sure enough, god Mu is still god Mu, the undisputed core of the battlefield!”
However, as the game progressed, Jue Ran seemed to gradually adapt to the Eagle Riders’ rhythm,their base energy levels and equipment levels slowly catching up.
“Jue Ran has once again set up a one-against-three situation and Mu Feibai is severely restricted.”
“Let’s pay attention to this confrontation—beautiful! Although he exchanged two for one, it’s not a loss to kill Mu Feibai at this critical moment! We can see now that Lin Jinxi has been forced to give up the middle tower and head to the bottom lane to support Du Chen…”
“Lin Jinxi couldn’t keep up with Mu Feibai, so now the Eagle Riders’ formation is a bit messed up.”
“It seems that the Eagle Riders’ weaknesses are gradually being exposed. Except for Zhou Shu, no one on the team can keep up with Mu Feibai… Actually, Zhou Shu is also having a bit of a hard time, but this wasn’t exposed before because of Qiu Yu’s presence, which meant that there wasn’t as much pressure on Zhou Shu’s end.”
“In this kind of situation, can Mu Feibai withstand the pressure and continue to maintain their team’s advantage?”
In such a fierce and tense battle, every second was of great importance.
Time passed and the teams were still at a stalemate. They battled back and forth for more than 40 minutes, the players on both teams needed more and more base energy to revive, and the revival time grew longer and longer.
“Both sides have successfully crafted siege vehicles and have advanced to each other’s city defense areas. This bout of team battles will determine the final outcome of the entire match—Mu Feibai made a sneak attack! Ah, it was seen through. He retreated.”
“Just then if Zhou Shu kept up, perhaps it may have…”
“Jue Ran!!!”
The situation on the field reversed, and the commentators’ blood immediately boiled in excitement.
“Jue Ran took the initiative to start a team battle! Entering melee battle at the docks, Zhou Shu has sights on the opponents!”
“Mu Feibai has killed Qin Tian, Wang Shuo is injured—Wang Shuo has been killed! Mu Feibai has displayed a stronger melee combat ability in this game than ever before! Lu Cun and Lin Jinxi weren’t able to escape, and Zhou Shu successfully harvested a kill. The Eagle Riders are preparing to retreat, it seems that Du Chen… Du Chen! He got impatient ah, the Eagle Riders lost another player…”
“This battle was dangerous for the Eagle Riders! Somehow Mu Feibai still managed to take a head! But Zhou Shu has been cut off! Mu Feibai is seriously injured—he didn’t manage to escape! Mu Feibai has been killed in battle and even brought Lu Qi down with him! What a pity…”
What a pity that he wasn’t able to turn the tides even at the end.
In the forty-fifth minute of the game, the Jue Ran battle team managed to wipe out their opponents in a fierce team battle. The sole surviving Jue Ran team member drove the siege vehicle into the Eagle Riders’ city defense area and narrowly won the match.
Bearing witness to this result, the online game forums and social platforms exploded in an instant.
[The Eagle Riders lost in the group stage?!]
[They actually lost to Jue Ran. Is god Mu going to fall from his altar?]
[god Mu is still very strong, but his teammates aren’t good enough ah! Can’t you see the sheer number of times Zhou Shu didn’t keep up? And then there’s Lin Jinxi and Lu Cun. Playing at that terrible level, can they even freaking be considered professional players? Even Jue Ran split their team into one-three-one and god Mu faced three of them all by himself. The remaining four couldn’t even beat the other two. Wow, thank you guys so much for participating!]
[Lmfao, can the Eagle Riders even win a single game without the Omega?]
Thank you for the update ❤️💯
Omg? What’s gonna happen now that they lost? Can they still advance? Hopefully, the team members’ mental health are okay!
Also, it’s quite laughable to see the audience saying ‘they can’t win without an Omega’ when they’re also the first one to say an Omega can’t win. Tsk. Fame is fickle, indeed!
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Thanks for the update 🤣❤️🤣❤️😳
I never knew that reading about people playing video games would be this stressful! 😭
can’t wait for next update, jiayou, eagle riders!!
I’m still confused. Did they play the same team back to back at home then away bc last chapter they played Jue ran too.