Chapter Ch232.2 - Extra – White Moonlight 2
translator: xiin
editors: apricot & juurensha
Time flew by after that.
The second day after Wu Jin joined the secondary team, their first match arrived as scheduled.
The entrance fixed survival show map M19K-5 filled with snow and ice opened up, and the smell of rust and copper from mechanical facilities in disrepair swept in with the air. At almost the same time, in a professional compet.i.tion arena several hundred stars away that was decorated with a grand Victorian red brick castle and attracted the attention of over a hundred thousand people, Wu Jin’s former teammates Zoe, Chen Xiran, and Caesar were all stepping into the arena belonging to Azure People’s Entertainment.
M19K-5 was dilapidated and desolate, while the red brick castle was n.o.ble and solemn.
At 18 o’clock sharp, the two games began at the same time. In the snow, Wu Jin pulled out a big sword from a crevice in the stone, leading his four teammates to attack from the flanks; Zoe accepted the bullet magazine from Chen Xiran’s hand, hitting the crystal dome lamp with one shot and destroying their enemy’s cover––
8:00 PM.
Zoe won, and as soon as he returned to the backstage, he picked up his terminal, “How did Little Witch do over there?”
Lin Jue shook his head. “They lost, but it wasn’t a big loss.”
On that night after the end of the game, the Azure Edge forums started a new round of cursing and scolding. Wu Jin had dropped down to the secondary team and had been defeated in his first battle, while the first team had lost Wu Jin and turned defeat into victory. Any primary school student could also work out how this addition and subtraction method worked. Occasionally, someone would speak up to explain that ‘they still need to adapt to each other for their first game, and Azure People’s Entertainment wasn’t comparable to Silver Thread Roll’, but this opinion was quickly crushed.
At the Floating City Battle Team, Wei Shi wore a simple pair of spectacles as he repeatedly watched Wu Jin’s game replay.
At the Crosson Show base, Blood Pigeon breathed a sigh of relief and explained it to the program producer, “Two days, but they were able to cooperate at this level. Little Witch already improved from when he was inserted into the secondary team. Look at his command at 44 minutes and 12 seconds. He smashed the ice, creating a terrain vacuum, and opening up long-range fire.”
“He’s looking out for his new teammates.”
“White Moonlight’s secondary team configuration consists of two snipers, one support, and one heavy artillery. Wu Jin is shifting the team’s resources to the sniper positions.”
Three days pa.s.sed.
The forum cursing receded slightly as the haters found something new to amuse themselves with. They all crowded over to spray the mistakes Thin Water had made in a fight against R-Code.
Wu Jin temporarily abandoned all his personal training. His notebook was filled with data on his four teammates, their dynamic sniper ring numbers, the recovery time of their heartbeats under pressure, their movement speed while bearing weight––
In the White Moonlight Battle Team, Chen Xiran was surprised, “What’s he doing? I remember that you said that you wanted to make Little Witch less dependent on data because his judgment is too rational, and it made his fault tolerance rate too low…”
Lin Jue: “There’s another solution for that. If he a.n.a.lyzes the data to its limits and puts all of his judgements into the calculation model, he can also improve the fault tolerance rate that way.”
Chen Xiran realized what he meant, “So, he’s––”
Lin Jue: “This is his style.”
The second team’s second game took place one week later.
When he came into the arena again, the four players and Wu Jin were no longer a team that were only working together on the surface based on their positions, but a real, fluctuating, flesh and blood team consisting of players who had different strengths.
White Moonlight pulled even with the Raspberry Team 1:1, then won the match point 2:1.
The Star Net ridiculed them once again. The Raspberry Team had played 10 games and only gotten 3 insignificant points. Wu Jin was even specifically sending them some benefits.
However, all of Wu Jin’s ‘bad luck’ seemed to come to an end there.
After winning against the Raspberry Team, White Moonlight’s second team’s successive defeat curse finally lifted.
In early August, they fought against Jingyi’s secondary team and won a tough fight 2:1. Jingyi was the favorite for the championship in the secondary team league, and even if White Moonlight now had Wu Jin with them, the results of this game were still beyond many people’s expectations.
In mid August, they played against R-Code’s secondary team and won 2:0. Due to the Federal cancellation of the genetically modified program, the youth training department for the R-Code team suffered a temporary shortage, and only half of its players were genetically modified. Even then, n.o.body expected that they would be crushed with a zero score by White Moonlight.
After that.
Six games in a row. White Moonlight crushed all their opponents with zero scores!
The Star Net was in an uproar.
Wu Jin’s fans, who had been suppressed for two months, finally saw hope.
Wu Jin was still in the secondary team, but he was playing especially hard.
––“The secondary team has won against seven teams in a row, but they’re still fighting their way up. In addition to winning the compet.i.tions, they also have to take all the points they can get. The technical points and the vision points all have to be s.n.a.t.c.hed up.”
––“Thank you, Little Witch, for letting us see such a secondary team, getting to know these lovely teenagers. I also feel heartache for my son. I guess that Captain Lin must’ve given him a promise that he would be transferred back to the first team as long as he could make achievements. Then, my silly son who loves to eat handheld wraps, followed this ray of light and insisted on climbing up at all costs.”
In September, Wu Jin played a highlight that sent him to the main page of Azure Edge’s forums during a secondary league game.
The youth was wearing a cloak as he fought in the snow against a 17 year old R-Code genetically modified human. Each of the two teams only had one person left, and the white blade reflected the bright artificial light source as well as Wu Jin’s sharp eyes.
Just as the other party stabbed across, in a key moment, Wu Jin pulled out the big sword from behind him, blocked, and then chopped down at the R-Code trainee from above!
There was a clang. The R-Code trainee reached out, slamming his iron wrist guard against the blade. A huge force vibrated from his arm, and the thin ice under their feet broke into a series of spider-webbing cracks! The surface of the ice collapsed, extending outwards from their standing point even as snowflakes flew wildly around the two figures!
The trainee was unable to hold onto his bayonet, and his silver life-saving capsule popped out.
Wu Jin quickly retreated to stand on the last piece of floating ice ashis cloak billowed out behind him. The nine others in this 5v5 battle had all been destroyed!
He was the only King in the ice and snow.
This highlight was quickly included in the main forums of Azure Edge. White Moonlight, which had disappeared from sight for two months, suddenly popped their head out and instigated another wave of abuse from haters. However, the White Moonlight fans were now full of energy and righteousness.
White Moonlight, secondary team.
Time continued on.
Wu Jin’s notes became thicker day by day, and he spent more time in discussions with the team’s data a.n.a.lysts.
The teenagers from the secondary team were now very familiar with Wu Jin. During this period while the team’s former captain had gone to partic.i.p.ate in the Crosson Show, Wu Jin finally became a worthy ‘little captain’.
These teenagers now called out Captain Wu this, Captain Wu that, very smoothly. Usually, when they weren’t training, they would climb trees, crouch in the gra.s.s, picking oranges and plucking cherries, pulling Wu Jin along with them.
The secondary team’s base was close to the mountains, and there was only one way to get into and out of the mountain. Occasionally, Wu Jin would go out in the evening and come back after dinner, his body carrying the warm and comfortable scent of handheld wraps.
Reasonably speaking, the base was remote, and the delivery robots weren’t very willing to deliver so far. Wu Jin didn’t have a suspension car, but he always had handheld wraps to eat every time. They didn’t know who was sending them over.
In October, as the mid-season period drew to a close, White Moonlight’s first team was finally granted leave.
Early in the morning, Wu Jin was woken up by Caesar’s booming voice even before he got out of bed. Zoe and Wen Lin pushed open the door to Wu Jin’s dorm room, while Caesar tried to crowd in from outside, carrying a large box of snacks for Wu Jin. They even brought a rabbit over for him.
The trainees from the second team had already eaten, but Zoe felt that Wu Jin looked a little thin. Maybe he’d really grown up, making the transition from a youth to a young adult who could now stand up on his own.
Outside the base, Caesar saw the mountains and went wild. He found a plastic bag, then ran off to dig up mushrooms. A robot followed behind him, and for each mushroom that Caesar picked, it would identify whether it was poisonous or not. When he came back with the mushrooms, the group of them circled around a pot and poured in a mess of seasonings, yet still managed to make a very delicious meal.
Just before Zoe had to leave, he gave Wu Jin a hug, “We’re waiting for you to come back.”
The opportunity to return back to the first team was both further away and sooner than Wu Jin expected.
During the second week of October, the commander position reserve player for the secondary team arrived at the base. This girl, who had honey-brown skin, flashed pearly white teeth when she smiled. Before she came, she’d been a hardcore Wu fan already.
“A reserve player arrived? To replace Little Witch’s position, does that mean Little Witch is coming back?” At the other end of the video call, Wen Lin was pleasantly surprised, “Let me check… Right, she was recruited by Captain Lin last month and had previously played as a scout in various teams. Oh, she’s just like you, Little Witch. This young girl is good at math and is still studying for a degree. In the future, she’ll be the newcomer that you brought out!”
After the call ended.
Wen Lin suddenly realized, Lin Jue had purposely recruited a commander position for the second team who had the same style as Wu Jin, so that Wu Jin’s knowledge reserves would be pa.s.sed on faultlessly––
The ‘Lin Jue style play’ that White Moonlight had used continuously for a full eight years would be completely rewritten, with Wu Jin as the starting point.
At the end of October.
The mid-season finals began.
Wu Jin packed up all his luggage at the secondary team base. Before he left, he gave all of his notes to the new little commander, then got into the suspension car that would take him back to the White Moonlight headquarters building.
When he’d arrived, the trees had been lush and green. Now, when he left, they were shades of gold.
In the White Moonlight building, two hours before the start of a training match.
For the first time, the semi-retired veteran Mercedes ate two extra chicken drumsticks. Caesar saw this and secretly tried to reach for a sixth.
Chen Xiran couldn’t help but scold him, “There’s a training match in the evening. Your intake is exceeding the standard.”
Caesar was reasonable, “I’m just learning from my senior––”
Chen Xiran was amused, “Your senior doesn’t need to compete tonight.”
At the long table in the dining room, several people were stunned at the same time.
Mercedes wasn’t playing in the training game. So, who would be coming to play––
The elevator dinged.
Wu Jin came in, grinning and waving and dragging his suitcase in behind him.
Caesar, who was still holding a chicken drumstick, pounced at him, crying and howling. Zoe, who’d been behind him, pushed Caesar away, but he hadn’t yet gotten close when Wen Lin went in directly to give Wu Jin a powerful hug.
Wu Jin hugged him back just as hard.
He looked up at his future teammates.
“I’m back.”