By the end of August, as the summer vacation comes to a close, the internet-addicted nocturnal teenagers wake up in the morning to find that their subscribed popular streamer, "LEMON, the disabled fighter," is online.
Border War is a hot shooting game that ingeniously combines tactical competition and MOBA's advantages, standing out among its peers, thriving for nearly 10 years. Its derivative esports culture has become popular both domestically and internationally, becoming a modern symbol of young people.
LEMON is a substitute player and one of the many BOD streamers on the salty fish platform. Game streamers are known to turn day into night, so to see LEMON at 7 in the morning surprises the fans.
【Watching Lemon's stream before sleeping and waking up to it feels strange】
【Didn't sleep last night?】
【Take a sip of Lemon's hand before getting out of bed】
The game screen of LEMON is switching accounts, and in the corner of the screen, the webcam shows no one, just a row of shining white mechanical keyboard keys. The hands on the keyboard are long and graceful, with distinct slender joints, the skin is almost the same color as the keyboard base, the rounded and sleek nails tapping on the keys, a delightful sight to behold.
【Lemon, go to bed! Take care of yourself!】
【He must win a game before going to bed and then played until now, ha!】
【Friends who practiced overnight, please tell me, did Lemon really lose all night?】
【Winning or losing is not so important, we all love you! Lemon, go to sleep】
【Are you silly to say he didn't sleep? Look at the stream time, okay?】
【Lemon, you know it, don't let their rhythm get to you! Watch the stream properly!】
After logging into the account, LEMON glanced over the barrage, "I didn't stay up all night, I slept last night, and woke up in the morning."
The processed high-pitched voice made his cold and indifferent tone quite funny, so the barrage was still full of "Go to sleep".
LEMON was already a little annoyed, and now he was even more upset, so he decided to stay silent and changed the title to "Four Hours Rocket Ranking Up Sixteen Levels," then opened the character interface.
【Four hours to sixteen ranks, will Lemon again refresh his record?】
【I've been playing sixteen ranks for three months, and had a heart attack】
【Don't say that. I've never reached sixteen ranks even after playing for so long QAQ】
【Let's mourn for Lemon's opponents today.】
【Oh my, look at this big brother's name 23333】
The barrage was full of "trouble-making". Lemon glanced at the ID named "Holding four children and fighting five dogs" and fell silent.
But he didn't mind and clicked solo queue.
There are many competitive modes in BOD, the most common being the 5v5 battle mode. Players can choose from sniper, quartermaster, vanguard warrior, and artillery professionals. Each has different attributes, and players carry a fixed number of skills according to their preferences to successfully detonate the hydrogen bomb in the opponent's base for victory.
In the fishpond room, Lemon basically crushed the opponents every five to six minutes, stacking consecutive wins and MVP rewards. In an hour, he reached the tenth stage, and the barrage was going crazy with "clap clap clap".
Lemon yawned and started another round, and then his right eyelid twitched.
When he entered the game, he was on the fifth floor and was about to play "I'll fill in", when a senior player named "National tough guy" on the third floor suddenly spoke:
【All go AFK】
Other teammates: 【?】
"National tough guy": 【Your mother's dead on the fifth floor.】
At this time, a player chose an artillery professional on the first floor, and a vanguard warrior on the second floor, and they both started typing:
【Stop it.】
【Play well. I'll cover for you.】
"National tough guy": 【So you all want to be the fifth floor's son.】
"National tough guy": 【A group of trash.】
Finally, Lemon frowned.
The higher the rank, the more important the cooperation between teammates is. He wanted to finish quickly, so he didn't want to get tangled up in this kind of thing.
【The name wasn't my idea】 was his brief response.
At this point, "National tough guy" locked in a sniper, and the fourth floor locked in a "vanguard warrior", leaving Lemon a "quartermaster" fill.
"National tough guy": 【So what?】
"National tough guy": 【You've annoyed me, idiot, you won't win this round.】
【Stop causing trouble, the sniper is in the C position.】
【I really will cover for you, big brother, please don't pretend】
【Can I apologize for the fifth floor? Play well, big brother.】
"National tough guy": 【It's useless. Blame him for having such a stupid name and bumping into me!】
Lemon's eyes narrowed slightly, and the cursor quickly locked in a sniper.
A team without a nurse.
Three 【WTF?!】 floated down from upstairs.
"National tough guy" turned embarrassed: 【Fine, let's lose together. I'm not afraid of anyone.】
Lemon sneered, and the game began.
After entering the border jungle, everyone remained silent, Lemon avoided the main force and acted alone. Soon he found that "National tough guy", who had agreed to throw the game, was following him like a parasite, making himself an extremely obvious target.
"National tough guy": 【I told you I won't let you win. If I die, we'll die together.】
Lemon ignored him and switched items frequently, and then the system started announcing kills at the top.
【Teammate "Gentle breeze" was killed by enemy "Pines pines"】
【Teammate "Kissing Prince" was killed by enemy "Pines pines"】
Gentle breeze: 【A team like the knife squad! Without a nurse, you die after a few shots!】
Kissing Prince: 【Is RNM giving up? Don't waste time!】
National tough guy: 【Haha!】
Just as he said "haha", an enemy artillery suddenly appeared in the grass. Normally, the artillery moved slowly and wouldn't approach so swiftly and unnoticed. The two of them were almost face to face, and before "National tough guy" could even think about the consequences, he was done for.
System: 【Teammate "National tough guy" was killed by enemy "Lolita sister"】.
Compared to the confusion of the player, the fans watching the livestream saw everything clearly.
【Well done!】
【Lemon's hook is still so amazing!】
【Congratulations to Lemon for successfully killing his teammate [manual sarcastic]】
【Worse than a pig teammate, remember his ID and report him!】
【WTF, Lemon's teammate died again, now it's Lemon 1V9!】
Game, all channels.
[All] Lolita Sister: "I was hooked over here! It's really baffling how this person got me."
[All] Matata Matata: "Your sniper is probably our undercover agent, hahaha!"
The tough guy in the national server soon understood, cursing loudly, "F***!"
[All] Tough Guy in the National Server: "Welfare Bureau, no need to thank me."
[All] Matata Matata: "Alright, who do you want to report? If you win, I'll report for you."
[All] Tough Guy in the National Server: "The sniper other than me."
[All] Matata Matata: "No problem."
System: "Teammate 'LEMON' successfully killed the enemy 'Piggy'."
This unexpected killing announcement brought the joyful chatting between both sides to an abrupt halt.
Piggy is the quartermaster from the opposing team.
The quartermaster profession comes with self-healing properties, is hard to kill, and has additional speed for convenient support, ensuring the overall team's sustainability.
Gentle Breeze: "Holy cow!"
Kissing Prince: "The quartermaster is dead! We can win, we can win!"
[All] Piggy: "I was hit by five shots... all to the head, I didn't even see where the person was QQ."
System: "Teammate 'LEMON' successfully killed the enemy 'Constantine'."
Teammates forced to spectate after death immediately sent their congratulations.
Gentle Breeze: "Awesome, daddy!"
Kissing Prince: "This quickscope show outplays me! Daddy, take me with you!"
[All] Matata Matata: "What happened to the welfare bureau?"
[All] Tough Guy in the National Server: "I'll report his location."
Gentle Breeze: "What the hell are you doing! If we can win, why are you reporting his position!"
Kissing Prince: "Are you crazy!"
Tough Guy in the National Server: "I said I will not let you win."
[All] Tough Guy in the National Server: "He's on the slope at West 45."
[All] Tough Guy in the National Server: "He moved, he's in the courtyard now."
The fans watching the live broadcast hurriedly took out their 40-meter-long knives.
"This person is really sick, I'm so angry!"
"LEMON, stop shooting, why bring such a person to win!"
"Be careful, LEMON! They're throwing grenades directly into the courtyard!"
"Oh no, LEMON is critically wounded!"
"Ah, I can't watch this anymore!"
Because of the continuous exposure of the position, the opponents left were all frontline meat-shield characters, suppressing LEMON with firepower. He crouched and rolled into the basement, catching sight in the corner of his eye of the chat channel where his teammates were begging again. The more desperate their pleas, the more arrogant the tough guy in the national server seemed to become.
[All] Tough Guy in the National Server: "He's in the basement! Half health! Hurry, go after him!"
"It's really not easy for this rank to make me lose," LEMON lightly chuckled. "Thanks for bringing them here."
Two vanguard warriors and an artilleryman from the opposing side pulled open the cover of the basement. At that moment, LEMON threw something.
[All] Tough Guy in the National Server: "He's behind the barrel!"
System: "Teammate 'LEMON' successfully killed the enemy 'Lolita Sister'."
[All] Tough Guy in the National Server: "He's at—"
He found himself unable to report LEMON's location in time. The gap between LEMON's rolling and aiming was unexpectedly short, he hadn't even seen LEMON pull the bolt, and the opponent was already dead.
How terrifyingly accurate was that anticipation and speed!
System: "Teammate 'LEMON' successfully killed the enemy 'Malacca Wu Yan Zhu'."
As the smoke cleared, the last vanguard warrior from the enemy finally saw the sniper's position. There was a blind spot between the barrel and the iron frame, with their distance extremely close. The advantage of the vanguard warrior in close combat was self-evident as he raised his Uzi for a burst of shots.
As the burst concluded without a killing, Matata felt unsure and took a step forward to check the situation. At that moment, a hook emerged from the ground under his feet.
At the moment he was pulled down by the hook, he frantically tried to change the clip, but it was too late. The enemy sniper had already switched to a melee weapon at some point and lunged forward to end his life with a single blow.
After the kill was completed, LEMON got up from a shallow pit, surprisingly under the influence of a slow-release healing drug, maintaining his thin layer of skin with small, continuous amounts of health.
Everyone was shocked.
"This is the first time I've seen a sniper with healing skills!"
"LEMON, you're amazing!"
[All] National Tough Guys: "You can't even win against this f**king Knife Team! Are you a master at tracing human contours?"
[All] National Tough Guys: "Waste!"
In the chat full of asterisks, LEMON planted a hydrogen bomb in the enemy's base.
National Tough Guys: "Using hooks and healing again, do you not feel ashamed as a sniper?"
National Tough Guys: "Are you tired after half an hour of fighting?"
National Tough Guys: "If you had chosen to support, we would've won already!"
Taking advantage of the hydrogen bomb's activation time, LEMON finally spoke:
"I never support trash, they don't deserve it."
I couldn't resist poking fun, there will be updates later. Although the 16th is when you can see the comments, I can still see them. Random red envelopes will be dropped.
All fabricated, don’t assume it's about anyone in particular. Just a brief introduction for the little angels; the professionals can ignore it ↓
All channels can be used to chat with opponents.
The Knife Team lacks sustained output support.
"楼" refers to the hero selection screen; from top to bottom, one, two, three, four, five, with the first floor being picked first and the fifth floor being the last.
The "C-position" refers to the team's main force.
"Hot" refers to continuous healing per second.
Asterisks refer to sensitive words that are harmonized by the system.