when the moon whispers

Chapter 8 - The Teenager
case one boy
Eight listings

Huo Ke had a cigarette in his mouth, dug out the lighter from among the debris on the computer desk and lit it, dragged the gaming chair away, and walked out of the training room with his slippers on, squatting next to the fire hydrant in the stairwell, his hair uncombed Scratching his cell phone with his face unwashed, he looks like a social loafer.

The fire door in the stairwell was pushed open with a "click".

"When you were a player, you would die and stay up all night. After retiring and turning to a coach, you would die and smoke. You are afraid that you will live too long."

Xu Muyang raised his hand and knocked twice on the door, "Everyone is here, come to the meeting. I finally have time to go out with Liang Ji tonight. Hurry up, I don't want to work overtime."

Huo Ke heard Xu Muyang's hurried footsteps stepping on high-heeled shoes through a door, and without turning his head, he bit his cigarette butt and replied vaguely: "You go first, I'll finish smoking, one minute."

"...you haven't answered the phone yet?"

"Didn't his mobile phone break before, um...I'll try again."

"Could he have changed his mobile phone number again? Are you reliable? It doesn't mean that he changed all his contact information when he left DRG before, and lost contact for a while. Don't this unlucky kid have any What is the good habit of disappearing when you change clubs?" Xu Muyang's cell phone kept vibrating as he spoke, and he patted the fire door twice impatiently: "These ancestors couldn't wait for half a minute, and even called to remind them, and they didn't know. Who is the leader... Anyway, if you can’t invite anyone, I’ll twist your head off. Leave.”

Huo Ke was startled by the force of Xu Muyang's slamming on the door. He turned his head and watched her "click-click" go away. He hesitated with his fingertips, knocked on the phone case, and dialed a number.

"Beep...beep...beep..."

After waiting for half a minute and no one answered, Huo Ke crushed out the cigarette butt, exited the call page and sent a text message, got up and walked out of the stairwell.

The DRG club base is backed by Sheng'an Cultural Industrial Park. It is in urgent need of renovation three years after its completion. The entire building is currently being renovated.The entire corridor of the training room has just been laid with light strips. Xu Muyang spent a lot of money to redesign the "Drmme Gaming" LOGO. The dazzling LED backlight is flashing coquettishly on the background wall opposite the elevator room.

Huo Ke passed by this string of glowing letters and walked around to the door of the conference room behind the wall. He gently pushed the door open and went in. When he looked up, he saw his huge head on the huge screen - big head. Attached to the photo is Huo Ke’s glittering career resume from player to assistant coach. The caption at the end of the paragraph is: “It has been agreed that Huo Ke (ID: Hulk_H) has been officially appointed as the MOB (Multiplayer Online Battle Game) branch of the DRG e-sports club. As head coach, I look forward to winning more honors for DRG in the future.”

Hawke smiled bitterly.

From struggling as a professional player to working hard as a coach, Huo Ke never left the DRG club during his great youth.He has survived the era of small e-sports workshops and witnessed with his own eyes the gradual prosperity and development of the e-sports arena from the top priority on strength and performance to a paradise where traffic business flourishes. He has also been numb and ignored the waves caused by the injection of capital into the market. In the past two years, he has been working on He has become a "living fossil" in the annals of e-sports, huddled in the club like a mascot and greeted in panic.

It wasn't until this summer that Xu Muyang returned to China to serve as the manager of the DRG club. When he saw that the fat man who was so high-spirited when he was a player was now so thin and decadent, he slapped him on the back of the head with all his strength and yelled mercilessly: "I want to fool around." If you’re going to wait to die, get out of here as soon as possible.”

Huo Ke said meekly that he was still counting on the club to pay him pension insurance, and kept muttering in his heart. After half a month, he dragged Xu Muyang drunk and cried bitterly, and shouted at the barbecue stand: "I want to lead the team to the stage to receive the award." Taiwan, can you give me a chance?"

Xu Muyang looked at him with a lot of runny nose and tears. While handing him a tissue, he asked seriously: "I want to rebuild DRG, can you do it?"

This is the first time Huo Ke has participated in the selection and selection of players during the transfer period since he joined the coaching staff, and he is more or less awkward.He hunched over the door and dragged a chair in the back row of the meeting room with his buttocks pouted, trying to minimize his presence, but failed, and was caught by Xu Muyang on the podium.

"Old Huo, come and say a few words."

Huo Ke retired and became a coach. He had been a mute mascot for two years. He felt a little embarrassed to express his attitude so abruptly. He expressed his gratitude and determination to the operation team staff who had been familiar with each other all day long.Seeing him nervously picking his hands, Xu Muyang smiled, then quickly turned the page and went straight to the topic, officially starting to negotiate the listing and screening trial arrangements for the MOBG division players during this winter transfer period.

This is the highlight of today.

The moment the listing opinion list was displayed on the screen, there was an uproar in the huge conference room—everyone present immediately realized that the young club manager was going to make drastic changes.

Huo Ke seems to have known it for a long time. He drooped his head when he glanced at the screen, persistently refreshing the message page of his mobile phone, and lacked interest in the rustling conversations all over the room.

The analyst frowned and looked at the name "Jiang Weili-MID (Middle)-ID: Primero" at the top of the list. He turned to exchange a look with the operations team leader, raised his hand, and tactfully stated his opinion: "Let's try Jiang Weili first. I don’t object to his worth, because after all, he has made many mistakes this year from the Summer Split, the Bubble Split to the World Split, and his condition is indeed not at its peak. We can take this opportunity to comprehensively evaluate his commercial value... But purely from the competition data , currently among the players listed by various clubs and free agents on the market, there is no more suitable midfield candidate than Jiang Weili."

"Jiang Weili's adaptability is very good after each season version update. A series of data such as injury recovery, output, and team participation rate can also remain in the top five in the league despite the ups and downs of the state. I think the next spring game is not necessary for the time being. Looking for someone to rotate, and there is a kid in the middle lane of the youth training with good statistics, you can let the kid practice with him first, help Li Ge find his status, and there is still time to bring him up as a substitute during the summer transfer period."

Xu Muyang didn't argue, just picked up the coffee, bit the straw and nodded thoughtfully, "Anyone else have any comments?"

The two team leaders of operation and publicity immediately dropped their pens on the notebook, expressing their opposition to the listing of mid laners very bluntly.

"Jiang Weili is a star player of DRG. He is handsome and popular, and his commercial value far exceeds the income that his professional ability can bring to the club. He can be listed for a trial price and sold - I don't agree."

"Yes, and Jiang Weili was DRG's main promotion point during this year's World Championship. Fans' fanatical support has not passed, and now they have to sell him - after all, many fans still want to see him as a veteran player. He retired from DRG. Furthermore, half of our club’s sponsors were negotiated because of Jiang Weili. This is related to next year’s endorsement contract. If the fathers of the sponsors are unhappy, where will the funds to maintain the club come from? It’s all a problem.”

The operation team leader made it clear, and cast a teasing glance at Xu Muyang, relying on his seniority, "Manager Xu is still young, so it's understandable that things can't be fully understood, but if he doesn't think about the consequences and countermeasures, he will do everything first. Even if the boss intends to cultivate, It's a bit too impetuous-don't trick us into it...you don't count if you say it."

"Is there any other statement? Everyone has no objection to mentioning the two children in the youth training, right? It's mainly about the listing of player Jiang Weili..." Xu Muyang put down his coffee and laughed casually, without imposing it on her at all. The set of "reviewing seniority" rhetoric on his body was put in his eyes, "I will also talk about my thoughts—"

"Let me explain first, you may not know it well. Although I took over the DRG club halfway through this summer split, from the very beginning when I entered the e-sports industry, I was an intern at DRG - this was when Lao Huo was a player. It’s over, the two team leaders haven’t arrived yet.”

Huo Ke was resting his eyes with his eyes closed, when he heard the operation team finding fault and hesitating whether to say a word or not—it's a pity that Xu Muyang's life creed is not to suffer, and he was never given a chance to help, and his words were not polite at all.

Xu Muyang smiled slightly again, walked a few steps and stood in front of the small group gathered together by the operation team, "After studying abroad, by chance, I was fortunate enough to become a small shareholder of our DRG. Although the shareholders' meeting has not yet been held to officially announce it, the right to speak is You don’t have to worry too much, just talk freely and communicate with each other. After considering everyone’s opinions, I can still make the final decision.” “I have actually been paying attention to the player Jiang Weili, and his status has fluctuated since last summer. , The state of the Spring Split has improved this year, but there has been an obvious downward trend after the Summer Split... This is one of the reasons why I am preparing to list my name. If I don’t list my name this winter, I may not be able to offer the current star players next year.”

After hearing a few words, the operation team leader was about to interrupt and deny, Xu Muyang restrained his smile and glanced at her: "Wait a minute, I haven't finished my sentence yet."

"This winter transfer period is equivalent to a turning point for DRG in the next two to three years. The three starting players in the middle and bottom lane and auxiliary positions are all very young. The contracts of the two bottom laners will expire next year, so during the two days of negotiations, I also talked to them about the direction of the plan. The two players in the bottom lane duo expressed to me their willingness to retire after the season ends next year and become a commentator or join the coaching staff. That means that starting from next season, the bottom lane team must There are new people coming in to work together, and the replacement of new and old players is inevitable. Have your operations clearly done a budget deduction? How much profit can you bring to the club by resting on your laurels?"

Xu Muyang sighed, "As far as I know, Jiang Weili has always signed a one-year annual salary contract, and it increases every year. This year, the annual salary quotation he gave me has far exceeded my budget. The money is enough." I train ten top-notch high-paid players in the youth training... Besides, in addition to annual salary contracts, everyone here has also seen additional problems - fines for hanging up during ranked training, talking to referees at the competition venue, insulting the cleaning lady at the base, and I just said I caught him walking out arm-in-arm with a fan he had met at an event - the current situation and the subsequent hidden dangers, it would be too much to say it was a mess, right?"

The head of the operation team looked very uneasy, and after pondering for a few seconds, he retorted: "The players do need to be restrained, but at least for now, the positive income Jiang Weili brings to the club is greater than the negative impact. And there is no other player on the market who can Bringing so much profit to the club’s operation and publicity, once there is a problem with the club’s operation after the substitution? Is it useful to save money on him alone?”

"Why is there no one...he is not bad."

Xu Muyang pressed the page presenter, picked up the coffee and bit the straw, raised his chin and pointed to the single photo on the screen.

"Recently, he has become a popular figure in Sheng'an. Shao Jie has been in the bottom lane AD position of HRG for the past three years. Didn't he come from our youth training before?"

When the voice fell to the ground, everyone present was stunned for a moment.

Most of the newcomers in the team didn't know why, but a few people knew a little bit about it. They felt that Xu Muyang was incredibly reckless - after all, all the staff who had been at DRG for three years or more knew that Shao Jie left the DRG youth training. Among them, The dispute is related to Jiang Weili. The entrance and exit of these two players is almost equivalent to a naked provocation against Jiang Weili's authority in the team for many years.

At first glance, Xu Muyang's choice is somewhat ignorant.

"Let's not talk about whether people can be invited over..."

The analyst glanced sideways at Huo Ke, who was hiding behind him. His eyes tightened for a moment in a complex manner. He spoke before the operations team leader, who was dissatisfied with Xu Muyang because of his qualifications, tried to emphasize the problem and present the facts to make sense: " Shao Jie also entered the World Championship with HRG this year. He is one of the hottest star AD players at the moment. It is absolutely no problem to play in the bottom lane, but we are not short of AD now. The two-lane lane needs to be adjusted, and Shao Jie’s performance in the World Championship this year The momentum is obvious to all, the price is not low, and the overall cost-effectiveness..."

The operation team leader was worried about having nothing to say to find fault. Hearing this, he assumed the posture of an elderly person, and continued to look up with folded arms in a tone of scolding the young people, "Manager Xu, I know you plan to expand the club and compete for Sheng'an's home stadium. After all, leaning against a big tree is good for enjoying the shade—but this is not the way to gain popularity. You also said that you want to train children in youth training. It would be a waste of resources to have a big Buddha like Shao Jie here. Why do you have this money? Why don't we keep Jiang Weili, who has obviously higher commercial value?"

Xu Muyang frowned slightly, "Do you know how much moisture is behind Jiang Weili's so-called commercial value? How long will the benefits of his current achievements be enough for him? Have you talked to him about his future direction plan? Should you quote his annual salary? I have also seen how much of this real expenditure can be recovered by your operation. You didn’t even give me a report, and you insisted on keeping people. How can I evaluate the higher commercial value you said? "

The operations team leader didn't expect this little girl to be so aggressive, so he poked his neck and tried to raise his voice, "Manager Xu, the three fires of your new office can't be ignited randomly. Experience and connections can't be explained clearly by numbers..."

Xu Muyang could hear what she meant when she said that Xu Muyang was inexperienced and commanded blindly. He smiled and didn't want to continue arguing with her: "If you think I'm inexperienced, then use data charts to convince me. It's hard to understand, isn't it?"

The operation team leader's face was trampled under by Xu Muyang in public, his face flushed immediately, and his voice changed. Seeing Xu Muyang say a few more words, she would shed blood and tears.

Huo Ke hurriedly walked over from the back row and said in a friendly voice: "Everyone, this listing list is mainly an expected idea of ​​Manager Xu and I. Whether it is implemented or not depends on follow-up negotiations. At present, we are only with HRG The manager and coach had some contact, and their assistant Shen Yu'an was a veteran player. It seemed that he was considering putting retirement on the agenda. Shao Jie was still in his prime, and after communicating with his partner, he did not renew his contract - they Bian's duo is now in contact with new people. Shao Jie just returned to Sheng'an a few days ago, and he happens to be close to the water. You can try to talk first..."

The operations team leader clicked the ballpoint pen impatiently: "What are you talking about? Aren't you guys fooling around? Jiang Weili, who is going to be listed, is a mid-lane player. It's okay if there is no replacement. Now he has to spend a lot of money to buy an AD. You come to the bottom lane to fight with the landlord, you are not idle——"

"Who said I bought Shao Jie to play AD?"

Before the operation team leader finished speaking, Xu Muyang chewed the ice cubes beside him, and suddenly laughed.

"The misunderstanding has made sister Hua worse. My idea is to list Jiang Weili, and then persuade Shao Jie to return to the middle road and resume his old business."

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Jiang Mo quickly came out of the convenience store with two bottles of iced drinks. When he got in the car, he saw Xiao Letian's forehead was getting red and swollen. , take this ice pack for a while."

"You say you can show your strength. Cheng Ye suddenly broke away from the guard and rushed to beat him. You can just push me away. Can you still block him? Several old men in the third group held him down when he was arrested. He's almost knocking you into the air with such vigor... Tell me how aggrieved you are when you hit the fire extinguisher with your head." Jiang Mo saw the little policeman pouted in the co-pilot and looked in the mirror, moaning and moaning incessantly , I felt really sorry that it was funny, I stretched out two fingers and waved in front of his eyes, "Are you still dizzy? How much is it? How about going to the hospital—"

"I've stumbled, so it's okay to jump on you?! Two... two--senior sister, I knocked my head and I'm not blind. If I touch it, I'm going to the hospital. How fragile I am." Xiao Letian really liked seeing his senior sister rough I was so happy that the skin on my forehead ached, "Master didn't answer the phone just now, and the director uncle said that no one in the team had come back. I sent a message to Master about Zheng Fei and Cheng Ye's mother. Master—— "

Xiao Letian was talking, when the cell phone in his pocket rang loudly—the captain of SpongeBob SquarePants shouted at him to answer the phone.

Xiao Letian took out his phone and took a look.

"—a call."

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