CS: Demon King C, you said I was a genius?

Chapter 21 I'll think about it again (ask for monthly ticket~)

When Su Zhe arrived in Hangzhou by high-speed rail, it was already noon, so he took a taxi directly to the club.

Someone at the club entrance looked at the photo on his phone, then looked up at Su Zhe.

After confirming everything, he walked towards me and said, "You must be Su Zhe, right? I'm Tianlu's trial coach. Come with me."

Su Zhe followed the coach into the club's gate. As he walked and looked around, he felt more satisfied.

The Tianlu Club was much more impressive than he had imagined. He had heard that some CS clubs in China even rented a house in a residential complex as a training room.

The coach took him all the way to the youth training room. Su Zhe looked inside and saw at least a dozen people who were about the same age as him.

The youth training coach asked, "Do you want to take a break? I'll arrange a trial for you later."

Su Zhe shook his head: "You can do it now, but you need me to warm up."

He slept for a few hours last night and slept for a few more hours on the high-speed train this morning. This was the most sleep he had had in more than a month, and he felt very energetic.

Upon hearing this, the youth training coach arranged him in front of a computer and said, "Then you should warm up first. I'll arrange it. The tryout will start in twenty minutes."

After Su Zhe sat down and turned on his computer, a youth team member who looked younger than him took the initiative to talk to him: "Brother, my name is Xiao Zhou. What's your game ID? Maybe we'll often meet each other in the two ladders."

After hearing this, Su Zhe didn't know how to answer. It felt good to make up the ID at that time, but now he would feel a little embarrassed if he really said it out loud if a stranger asked him about it.

He skipped the topic and asked, "What are your tryouts like? Are they difficult?"

Xiao Zhou didn't care and said with a smile, "It's very simple. You will organize ten people and play three training matches. The coach will observe your performance and decide whether to keep you or not."

"What? A little nervous?"

Su Zhe nodded. It was his first time in life and he had no experience, so it was inevitable that he was a little nervous. After all, it was a major event that concerned his future life.

Xiao Zhou comforted him, "Don't be nervous. Just play here the same way you normally play in the ladder. The coach not only looks at your stats, but also your in-game operations and decision-making."

Su Zhe nodded in agreement and said thank you, then asked the question he wanted to ask the most: "If the tryout is successful, how long will it take for me to be able to join the main team and become a starter?"

When Xiao Zhou heard this, he smiled even brighter, as if he had just heard a joke: "You're thinking quite far ahead. Look at that big guy behind you."

Su Zhe turned his head and saw a tall man at least 1.9 meters tall bending over and staring at the screen intently.

He turned his head back and asked in confusion, "What happened to him?"

Xiao Zhou said: "He has the best test scores among us, but he has been in the youth training for two years."

"Huh? So long?"

Xiao Zhou curled his lips and said, "That's normal. The home team has six players on the bench alone. How can it be so easy for the youth team to get on the bench?"

"If they perform well, they'll probably be sold to other teams by the club. However, there aren't many CS:GO teams in China right now, so it's not going to be easy to sell them."

"If you had come a few months earlier, there would be more people here. Now many people have been transferred to the branch in Valorant."

Su Zhe was silent after hearing this. This was a little different from what he had imagined.

He continued unwillingly, "Aren't there exceptions? Those who perform exceptionally well in youth training and then start directly for the home team."

Xiao Zhou recalled for a moment and said, "You know Danking, right?"

Su Zhe nodded: "I know, he is very strong. I met him once in the ladder."

Xiao Zhou continued, "After all, he has the best sniper statistics in China, and his live streaming is so good. He was promoted directly from the youth training camp to become a starter."

Su Zhe asked, "How long did he stay in the youth training?"

Xiao Zhou replied, "Two or three years? I'm a little uncertain, but it's definitely not that short."

Su Zhe fell silent again. Danking's talent and level were already quite strong, and people on the Internet said he was the "second-best sniper". Would such a person have to stay in youth training for two or three years?
Su Zhe still didn't give up and asked: "What if it's a particularly strong one? Will there be exceptions?"

He has a system. If he can get a chance in youth training and work hard for a few months to improve himself, it should not be difficult for him to become the starting lineup of the main team within a year.

Xiao Zhou shook his head. "It's basically impossible. No matter how strong you are in normal times, it's useless. The coach doesn't care about that. How can you possibly play without match experience? The club also focuses on results."

At this point he laughed again: "Even though there haven't been any results for a long time, they still won't let newcomers play. There might have been a slight chance before, but now it's completely impossible."

Su Zhe followed up the conversation and asked, "What's going on now?"

Xiao Zhou was surprised. "Don't you know? Tianlu just acquired the 5yclone team a few days ago. This morning they flew to Shanghai to participate in the CAC tournament." "They've been playing for years and have participated in various World Championships. How could they suddenly replace them with an inexperienced newcomer?"

Xiao Zhou then joked, "Even if you have a talent like Zaiwu, you might have to stay in Tianlu Youth Training for a year or two before you have a chance to play in a game."

"By the way, aren't you going to warm up? Your tryout will be scheduled soon."

"Oh! Okay! Thank you!" Su Zhe's mind was in a mess. He mechanically plugged the peripherals he brought into the computer, and then began to debug the settings.

Two or three years... How can I possibly wait? The system countdown is only 300 days away... By then, without the system, can I really go far on this career path relying solely on my own efforts?

Su Zhe pinched his temples hard, trying to suppress his irritability.

"Let's take it one step at a time. Let's do our next tryout first..."

After Su Zhe had defeated five or six hundred bots, the youth training coach returned to the training room and began to arrange his trial training.

He was also asked to choose the three active maps that he was best at, and then nine youth team members were randomly selected to enter the custom room with him.

After more than two hours of trial training, a total of 36 rounds were played.

Training matches are played in half-courts. The attacking side plays a full 12 rounds, then withdraws and switches sides to play a full 12 rounds.

The coach also stood behind him and kept writing something in his notebook.

Su Zhe felt a little dizzy after the training match. After 36 rounds, he felt like he was playing ranked for the first time on S level. He was completely unable to adapt.

The pace is too fast! The communication is too fast! The slightest mistake will be seized by the other side.

He forgot that everyone in the youth training here is the strongest in the ladder, and it is easy for them to reach the top of the ladder every season, and they have also undergone systematic training.

He himself is only at the level of Gold S, and his performance in this training match can be described as terrible.

Anyone who can come here must be a genius.

He finally understood what Senpo said to him: Genius only sees his threshold.

Although it was arrogant, it became concrete at this moment.

The coach closed his notebook and said, "Come to my office and talk."

Su Zhe said "hmm" and stood up. Xiao Zhou next to him gave him an encouraging gesture after he stood up.

After arriving at the office, Su Zhe was ready to leave, but unexpectedly the coach smiled and said to him: "Sit down first, you performed very well today."

"Ah?" Su Zhe thought he had heard it wrong. His KD was negative in the previous six halves and he could not keep up with the rhythm of his teammates at all.

The coach, who was sitting on the chair, seemed to see through his thoughts. He picked up the water cup on the table, took a sip of water, and then said:

"It's normal to perform poorly. If you kill them indiscriminately in the training match, it would mean that all my time teaching them was in vain!"

"But you have your own shining points, don't be discouraged. I heard you've only been playing for less than a thousand hours, so it's already a great achievement to have the foundation you have now."

"As long as you join our youth training and train hard, you will definitely be better than them in the future."

As the main person in charge of youth training, he has been in this position for several years and knows how to deal with these young people whose self-confidence has been frustrated.

He then pulled out a contract from the drawer and said with a smile, "Congratulations on passing the tryout. Once you sign this contract, you'll be a member of our Tianlu."

Su Zhe took the contract and took a look at it. The content of the contract was very complicated, but he understood the general meaning.

A five-year youth training contract, Tianlu has the right to buy and sell. If you want to change jobs or leave early during this period, you have to pay a huge penalty.

After reading it carefully, he asked cautiously, "Um... can we sign a shorter contract? Like, six months or three months..."

The coach was amused by this. Although their Tianlu Club has been losing money, it has not yet reached the point of doing charity. Isn't signing such a short contract a way to train talents for others?
He shook his head and said, "Youth training contracts are all unified, there are no exceptions."

Su Zhe continued to ask: "If my strength improves quickly, how long will it take for me to be the starting player for the home team?"

The youth training coach said: "It's hard to say. If you perform well and work hard enough, you may get a chance in one or two years."

Su Zhe sighed and put the contract back on the table.

"I'll think about it again..."

(End of this chapter)