“We all know, Xiao-god as Mix’s jungler, has always been part of the starting lineup, with no reserve. Now that there is a jungler reserve, may I know how Xiao-god feels with regards to that?”

These words had some sense of wanting to sow discord. Ji Zhiyao frowned slightly and glanced at the name of this media, it was the Shang Lu journalist from earlier.

Why was this journalist always constantly hating on their team?

Xiao was seated beside Ji Zhiyao and the mic was in Ji Zhiyao’s hands. Xiao was too lazy to hold and just got Ji Zhiyao to keep it raised for him. He said, “I am very pleased, feels like someone is here to take on the pressure with me, I’m very happy.”

Another journalist continued asking questions. “We all know, Mix battleteam formerly has never held a national performance tournament tour. One was suddenly held this year, is it that because there have been some changes with the schedule? Or is there a reason that you had to hold a national performance tournament tour?”

Hearing this question, Ji Zhiyao knew that the page that belonged to him had temporarily been flipped over and hence sighed in relief deep down. He passed the mic to Heng and Heng passed it over to Mo Huaifeng.

Mo Huaifeng’s posture was very casual, but also exceptionally good-looking. His answers remained very short. “The performance tournament tour was done in compliance with the fans’ requests, don’t make wild guesses.”

This journalist wouldn’t give up. “Fi-god, share your views about the new reserve in the team? Are both of you really that close? Or is it to maintain the harmony in the team that you had no choice but to act very close?”

“When have I pretended before?” Mo Huaifeng answered with a cold face. After that, he paused a little and revealed the first small smile since the interview began as he said, “As for my view, other than him being too mischievous, everything else is great.”

Ji Zhiyao: “…”

After those several questions were asked, Yuan Wei interrupted all the discontented media outlets and said politely, “It’s about time. Everyone, let’s end the interview here.”

Mo Huaifeng nodded aloofly to the media outlets, then stood up and led everyone out, returning backstage.

Their belongings were still in the waiting room, the few of them went back and took their things, then left through the back door of the gymnasium with the stats analyzer. An extended van that they had booked earlier was stopped there.

Yuan Wei was right at the end to send off all the media outlets, everyone boarded the van and waited for him. Mo Huaifeng holding a tablet, said, “The tournament with Nx battleteam is set to be at 2 PM tomorrow, still at this gymnasium, you guys can make some preparations.”

K had a loose tongue and asked, “Captain, Nx bought Korean reinforcements, even if we want to analyze, there is no information, why not just let fate be?”

“Nx bought two Korean reinforcements, have you not seen the remaining three before?”

“… Got it.”

Mo Huaifeng darted a look coldly at K, then turned back to Ji Zhiyao, saying, “Get Old Ning to send the videos of Nx battleteam at the previous national qualifiers to you, their lineup then was the strongest. Only watch the mid-laner, ADC and support.”

“Okay.”

Ji Zhiyao turned and talked to the stats analyzer in a low voice, who pulled out a USB drive directly from his bag and tossed it to him.

Meanwhile, the door of the van’s passenger seat was pulled open. Yuan Wei got on and said to the driver, “To Lin Yuan Apartment, drive to Block 6.”

Lin Yuan Apartment was where they were temporarily staying.

The driver gave several glances towards the back, surprised, seeming like he did not understand why for a journey of 30 minutes, these people actually wanted to book a van to drive over instead of walking or cycling… however, these people weren’t paying him less just because the distance was short, he wasn’t troubled for long before he turned the key and drove off.

Slightly more than ten minutes later, they arrived at Lin Yuan Apartment.

Actually their initial plan was that after the tournament and doing the interview, it would be around 4 to 5 PM, they could book a van directly to the city center and find some good food. Yet things did not turn out the way they had anticipated, the time now was just past 3 PM, they could only stay in the apartment and wait for time to pass.

Ji Zhiyao plugged the USB drive into his laptop and began watching the videos of Nx battleteam.

Actually he was still most interested in Nx battleteam’s ex-jungler, but he wasn’t in the team anymore, so there was no use analyzing him.

Mo Huaifeng also brought out his own laptop, playing alone to up his rank. He had played against Nx’s ADC previously, there was no need to study their information again.

By the time Ji Zhiyao shifted his vision away from the laptop screen, four hours had passed, it was time for dinner. He twisted his sore neck left and right as he stood up to ask Mo Huaifeng, “Captain, let’s go for dinner?”

Hearing that, Mo Huaifeng replied, “You want to eat out?”

Ji Zhiyao froze, suddenly remembering the scene where his teammates were buried by the crows when they headed out for dinner last night, and figured that Mo Huaifeng seemed to mean he wasn’t really wanting to go out for a meal again, hence he asked experimentally, “Then I’ll order takeaway?”

“Mm.”

Ji Zhiyao picked up his phone. “What do you want to eat Captain? I’ll pick properly.”

Mo Huaifeng’s attitude was casual. “Anything is fine.”

Ji Zhiyao muttered softly, then casually picked a place with the highest ratings nearby and ordered their meals. When he put his phone away, he realized that Mo Huaifeng was staring at him with an odd look, so much so that he was baffled and asked with uneasiness all over, “Captain, what’s wrong?”

“The interview from the afternoon, is on the trending searches again.” It was one of those rare times where Mo Huaifeng used a doubtful tone. “Do you come with a trending searches constitution?”

“What?” Ji Zhiyao was shocked, he was busy watching the videos earlier and didn’t make time to scroll Weibo, thus was completely oblivious to the matter. He instinctively snatched Mo Huaifeng’s phone. “Let me have a look, Captain.”

Mo Huaifeng’s phone was snatched, he silently stared at Ji Zhiyao’s pocket which held his phone and did not speak.

Ji Zhiyao was completely unaware of that. His fingers skillfully scrolled the phone that did not belong to him, finding the Weibo trending searches, he found his own name right at the bottom of the page, “48. IndefiniteNoHomo, mischievous.”

Ji Zhiyao was speechless. This heading of this trending search was really succinct.

He tapped him for a glance or two, realizing that the posts were mostly about the interview after the game in the afternoon, or marketing accounts bringing out all sorts of examples to show that him and Mo Huaifeng were close, nothing much.”

Ji Zhiyao quit the app, suddenly feeling that something wasn’t very right with him holding that phone.

He looked up blankly.

Mo Huaifeng’s face turned dark as he gestured with his index finger for him to give it back.

Ji Zhiyao instantly and fearfully returned his Captain’s phone.

Fortunately Mo Huaifeng only took his phone back and did not plan on fussing over it. Ji Zhiyao sighed in relief, suddenly recalling. “By the way Captain, the Shang Lu Media that interviewed us just now, I don’t think I’ve heard of them before, it feels like the way they speak is rather rude.”

Mo Huaifeng frowned. “No need to bother with them. They are an entertainment media outlet with very poor reputation that switched their line of work.”

No wonder they kept trying to create some big news, and even brought the convention of persistent questioning of entertainment stars to the eSports scene.

Ji Zhiyao understood.