Playing Fish Trapped in Secret Room

Book 1: The Storm is Coming

Chapter 7

“What’d you bet for this game?”  Ai Qing took a long sigh.

She admitted their loss and prepared to accept the punishment.

“Bet?”  Everyone spoke as they recovered from the excitement.

They were too high from playing just now that they had forgotten why there was a grievance round in the first place.

Someone had already uploaded the video of the match onto a DotA2 forum.

The video was a shock to the community.  All the players were in a frenzy when they saw so many famous alternate ids from SP and K&K.

In just a little over 10 minutes, there were already several thousands of posts filling up more than thirty web pages.

Ten players, two teams.

Not a single one of them were weak.

The most popular players, of course, were the big shots Grunt and 97.  After all, these two were the king of rookies, who’d won many big money awards recently.  More and more people joined the online discussion, then the subject slowly switched to Momomo and Apple Dog.

……

“Is the id ‘Momomo’ still alive?  Did the account close and someone re-registered it?”

“Re-registered?  You are joking.  Didn’t you watch the video?  He cleared the battlefield like a scythe and trapped the enemy like rats ……”

“......it’s so unexpected that Apple Dog would appear here .  Where is Solo?”

“Solo is now one of the SP Chinese Regional managers.  He could care less about winning award money the hard way, with keyboards.”

“What’s happening between him and Gou Gou now?”

……

The posts had dramatically switched towards personal gossip.

Ai Qing closed the web page.

There were various types of penalties for a grievance round.  It could be as small as a Truth or Dare game, or as large as a money bet, disbandment of the team, or even retiring from the circle of the game…...Of course, they were definitely not going to disband the team or retire tonight.

So, what was the penalty?

“It seems like the loser just agrees to a request from the winner.  There was no actual agreement, but it can’t be related to video games.”

Solo’s apprentice answered.  He thought he was pretty smart himself.

After all, with the term “not related to video games”, the penalty should not affect SP too much.

The referee of the game was urging K&K to submit their “request” in the meanwhile.

There was no response,  it seemed that they were still pondering.

What request would K&K ask for?

Ai Qing could not think of any possible request.

Not just her, everyone in the room and the excited players waiting on the forum were also guessing.  What request would K&K make to SP?  Some thought it might escalate to the club level; many didn’t dare to guess any further.

Suddenly, Grunt sent a response:

“Please ask SP’s top commentator Apple Dog to make a commentary video for the game we just played.”

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