Don’t Be Afraid, Let’s Do It Together (E-sports) - Chapter 6

Xie Yao has never played peak matches in his live streams. He only plays ranked or entertainment games.

He sees himself as a skilled entertainment streamer, but he rarely touches his own account for peak matches.

As for the several Chinese servers he has played on, they were actually private orders he received from his clients. He doesn’t play peak matches on his own account, but he’s certainly not lacking in skill when it comes to his clients’ orders.

He doesn’t take on too many orders, but as long as the payment is good, he can play on any Chinese server with his expertise in his favorite heroes.

His clients don’t mind him showing off his achievements, so even though Xie Yao doesn’t play on the Chinese server with his own account, everyone knows his level.

Playing peak matches in his live stream was a first for Xie Yao since he started broadcasting, and now both his haters and fans were excited and couldn’t contain themselves.

After finishing his sentence, Xie Yao quickly logged into his fan account and directly started a peak match, entering the matching interface.

: Hehe, you just crashed yesterday, and now you’re ready to crash again today?

: Don’t you think that playing a round of Bomb Fish peak match is just a way for you to stay relevant and for people to not forget about your previous crash?

: Let me see the latest joke from Yao Dog (Xie Yao’s nickname).

: Is the guy upstairs speaking with such a foul mouth just coming out of the toilet? Please wipe your mouth after eating, okay!

: A group of losers who probably haven’t even won a game in Village Markers (a game), how dare you come here to mock me? Are you lacking a father or a mother? Do you need me to send some warmth to comfort your orphaned heart?!

: Yao Yao (Xie Yao’s nickname), play your peak match well and teach these haters a lesson!

The barrage was lively, with fans and haters quarreling with each other. But obviously, Xie Yao’s fans were more experienced and directly silenced some of the most vocal haters.

After a while of peak match matchmaking, Xie Yao watched the time ticking by while glancing sideways at the screen to read the comments.

When he saw that his fans clearly had the upper hand, he raised his eyebrows and happily hummed a tune.

“Humming in the happy pond, humming until it becomes the ocean, hum hum hum hum…”

He never remembers the lyrics when he sings, and his pitch is always off. He can barely get a few lines of the song right, sometimes even mispronouncing words. It’s not really pleasant to listen to.

As soon as he started singing these monstrous songs, the fans who were just mocking the haters became silent.

Jiang Song, who was watching silently from the sidelines, “…”

The barrage froze for a second before it started rolling furiously again.

: Please, I beg you, stop singing!

: I’ll buy you a rocket if you shut up, thank you.

: Are you a dog??? Why don’t you go to the idiot Shimizu’s broadcast next door and bother him? Why are you singing here and messing with us??

: Baobao, don’t be like this. Every time you sing, it’s hard for me to want to fight the black fans for you.

Xie Yao glanced at the barrage and saw a rocket animation popping up in the gift interface. He carefully distinguished the message from the boss who sent it and clicked his tongue.

His tone was full of disbelief: “How can you not appreciate my singing?”

He shamelessly continued, “Thank you for the rocket that ‘Please stop singing’ sent. Boss, you’re so generous… but even so, I still have to sing.”

Xie Yao continued shamelessly, “Can you bear to stifle a teenager’s lofty ideals about singing? Can you bear to undermine my confidence?”

: Thank you, I am speechless.

: The audience burst out laughing.

: Having dreams is fine, but delusions are not necessary. Confidence is good, but overconfidence is not necessary.

Xie Yao: “…”

He began to question his life: “Are you guys really my fans? Are you sure you didn’t enter the wrong livestream room? Maybe you should exit and re-enter again?”

: As long as you don’t sing, you’re still mama’s good boy. /smile

Xie Yao burst out laughing from the comment.

Even more speechless than the audience was Jiang Song, who was watching the live stream on his phone. Jiang Song had been a professional player for many years and had seen all kinds of monsters and demons, but he had never seen anyone like Xie Yao who lacked self-awareness to this extent.

He couldn’t help but wonder why he even bothered to open this guy’s live stream.

But fortunately, Xie Yao did have a little bit of self-awareness. After teasing the audience and engaging in banter with the chat for a while, he obediently shut up and didn’t continue to torture his fans ears.

Finally, the world was quiet again.

At that moment, the game matched and a pink and tender profile picture of a female fan appeared.

As soon as the game was confirmed, they entered the champion selection interface and the IDs of both sides of the ten summoners became “Peak Summoner.”

Xie Yao ranked first.

The fan was a girl who had also played some peak matches and had a rank of 1,500. Compared to other anchors, she was not strong enough, but she was still considered a skilled player.

At the beginning, Xie Yao banned Lan and the new hero Yunyan on the third and fourth floor, while the opposite team banned support champions for the first two ban slots.

Xie Yao is on the first floor, so he won’t be banned. Considering that this live stream is not just for entertainment but mainly to shut up Haters, he decided to pre-select the hero Shangguan Wan’er.

As we all know, Shangguan Wan’er is a hero that Xie Yao has played with quite a bit in his previous games on the Chinese server. Whenever he chooses this hero, the outcome of the game can be easily predicted.

: Yao Yao picked Shangguan Wan’er, this game is in the bag.

After pre-selecting his hero, Xie Yao took a moment to look at the live stream chat and thanked a few fans who had sent him gifts. However, before he could finish, he saw a series of comments pop up in the chat.

: What the f***, why did they ban Wu Zetian on the fifth floor? Trying to show off??

: Wow, we’ve encountered a show-off.

Upon returning to the game, Xie Yao looked at the ban selection and saw that Wu Zetian was indeed banned.

He raised his eyebrows just as the game interface lit up and the female voice over in the background said, “It’s our turn to pick a hero.”

The countdown to select a hero began next to Xie Yao’s first-floor position, but the pre-selected heroine, Lady Sun, had turned into a grayed-out icon. His gaze paused, and just as he did, the fourth floor chose Lady Sun as a supporting pick, so he clicked on her without thinking.

When it was the other team’s turn to select a hero, he saw that they had used their third ban to ban his choice of hero, Lady Wan’er.

: Wan’er was banned.

: So what is Yao Yao going to use this game?

In the game, Xie Yao calmly pre-selected Diao Chan, but in the next moment, he saw the opponent’s first pick was also Diao Chan.

The grayed-out Diao Chan icon silently mocked Xie Yao.

Xie Yao: “…fuck.”

This extremely unlucky scene was met with a nonchalant response from the barrage.

: Thanks, got laughed at.

: I know you’re unlucky, but I didn’t expect you to be this unlucky. So pathetic hahaha.

: Bad luck may be late, but it will never be absent.

Xie Yao, with the username “YaoYao Princess” in the live streaming room, is a popular entertainment streamer known for his technical skills as well as his bad luck.

In almost 6 out of 10 games he plays on stream, he gets matched with teammates who are either trolls or AFK. Losing his favorite hero to the opponent is just a small setback for him.

Feeling frustrated, he couldn’t help but curse. When he’s in a bad mood, he likes to find some entertainment in the game.

So the audience in the live stream saw this crazy host open the chat box and start typing away.

Peak Summoner 1: “Oh, all the heroes I know how to play are not available, can my brothers carry me?”

The tone was very flirtatious, making he look like a cute and innocent girl.

The barrage was very sarcastic

: Is this for real? It’s 2022 and there are still people falling for this obvious trick?

In reality, there are really such fools.

Just as Xie Yao finished typing, the player on the first floor, who he helped pick Sun Shangxiang, turned on their mic: “Hey hey hey, is the player on the fourth floor a girl? If you are, you can pick Yao, and I’ll take Sun Shangxiang to support!”

Surprisingly, this player’s voice was quite pleasant, sounding like a naive male college student who had not yet experienced Xie Yao’s bullying, and was very innocent and easily fooled.

The barrage: … Oh boy, we mourn for you.

The old dog continued to type:

“But I only know how to play mage QAQ, if I pick Yao and play badly, I’ll get flamed, wuwuwu.”

“Ugh, what a load of crap, I’ll smash your head in!”

Gongsun Li sounded very excited: “It’s okay, maybe you know how to use Da Qiao? With Da Qiao, I’m invincible!”

Just as he finished speaking, the opponent picked Da Qiao.

You could hear that this guy was already questioning his life after seeing the opponent pick Da Qiao: “Come on, girl, you’ve lost all the heroes you wanted to pick. Why not just pick Yao and let me carry?”

Xie Yao: “Hey, don’t drag me down, just don’t take my jungle position.”

As soon as Xie Yao finished speaking, the third floor picked Zhong Kui, and it was his and the fifth floor’s turn to pick heroes. He saw the fifth floor pick Xiao Qiao with Li Bai and Han Xin’s common heroes, leaving only the jungle position.

Xie Yao’s teammates: …

Everyone in the live stream: …

: Not, can you stop saying that? Your teammates are already questioning their life choices!

: Thanks, I can feel the suffocation from my teammates.

Xie Yao furrowed his brow, and the previously silent teammates started speaking up.

“Damn it, what’s going on with the fifth floor?”

“No, the girl doesn’t know how to jungle, why are you grabbing mid when you have a jungle icon?”

“What do we do now? We can’t restart, we’re definitely going to lose this game!”

The enemy jungler locked in a Nako Lulu, and the teammates on this side expressed their dissatisfaction, but no one cursed at Xie Yao.

When his teammates had given up, at the last moment before the countdown ended, Xie Yaol ocked in Zhuge Liang and switched his summoner spell to Smite, right under the noses of his teammates and fans in the livestream chat.

“This season has seen a lot of unconventional strategies, and I heard Zhuge Liang can be pretty strong in the jungle. Today, let’s give it a try.”

As Xie Yao spoke, he typed in the game, finishing his message just as the countdown reached zero.

“Don’t worry, my Zhuge Liang is pretty awesome too!”

“Welcome to King of Glory. In five seconds, we’ll arrive at the battlefield. All troops, attack!”

Upon entering the game, Xie Yao’s teammates fell silent one by one, even Gongsunli who had previously promised to carry Xie Yao didn’t say a word. However, in the team interface, several wheat-shaped microphones were still lit up, indicating that these people were not silent because they didn’t have their microphones on.

Unlike his teammate’s despair, Xie Yao was very happy. He was wearing the skin of Shi Yi, bought a jungle knife at the beginning, and headed to the blue area after reaching level two.

He pressed a hotkey and immediately heard his voice in the game:

“I will carry you~”

Author’s note:

Starting the story!