CS: The Last Dance, a Dance That Leads to Professional Success

Chapter 79 The Hair Dryer Jinchūriki! Sorry, I never thought Dark was that strong!
God A?
Meng Lang glanced at the skill description:
[Amidst the flashes of lightning and the hail of bullets—this is the feast for the hair dryer enthusiast! Wielding a MAC-10, he's like a phantom dancer on the battlefield, transforming the unassuming submachine gun into the team's strongest support and most unexpected spearhead! His hair dryer isn't a tool of slaughter, but a hymn of dedication, an indispensable and magnificent cog in the team's economic operation!]

After reading the introduction, Meng Lang realized that A God was referring to AmaNEk, a former player for G2.

Unlike the star players in the team, AmaNEk is a typical supporting player who contributes quietly.

When the team has enough money in long-range rifle rounds, he often chooses to buy the inexpensive MAC-10 hairdryer and saves the money to buy the iconic "Wildfire" skin AWP for the team's main sniper, kennyS.

Yes, he is AmaNEk, the only player in G2 who is revered by the community as "God A"! It is precisely because of this long-term, deliberate choice and practice that he has honed his hair dryer skills to an unparalleled level.

He consistently ranks high on the professional player data leaderboard for SMG kill percentage, earning him the nickname "hair dryer enthusiast" among players.

He can be described as a true hair dryer jinchūriki.

Seeing this, Meng Lang immediately became interested. In force buy and semi-force buy rounds, his weapon choices are mainly Desert Eagle and AWP, but in some maps with complex structures, these two guns are not always the optimal solution.

Not to mention, under certain tactics, such as when the team needs him to be the first line of attack, the Desert Eagle's low margin for error and the sniper's weakness in close combat become somewhat inappropriate.

At this point, having a submachine gun with decent firepower and fast movement would make the situation much more comfortable.

The MAC-10 hair dryer is undoubtedly a highly cost-effective and close-combat explosive weapon in the submachine gun family.

Its affordable price of 1050 yuan makes it the top choice for T-side when their finances are tight.

However, Meng Lang used to be the main sniper in EG, so in a half-start game, he would definitely prioritize saving money to protect his economy.

Later, he switched to rifleman and mostly played support roles. In the early game, he would prioritize giving guns to his teammates and buying team items, and rarely had the opportunity to use the "hair dryer" to make breakthroughs.

When he needs to draw the firing line, he often charges straight in with half-armored Glock.

Therefore, his proficiency with the hair dryer gun was limited to "being able to play with it," far from being an expert or master.

but now,
Isn't this the opportunity that's presented itself?
[Should we attempt to fuse with the "remains of God A"?]

The system notification reappeared. Meng Lang glanced at the child in front of him who had just finished an interview and was walking towards him with a smile, as if the child wanted to say something to him.

Meng Lang smiled slightly at the other person and silently thought, "I'll be right back."

The next instant, the world around him froze, the noisy sounds of the venue receded like the tide, and Meng Lang's consciousness was once again drawn away, entering that familiar and mysterious training space.

This time, the map unfolding before us is Scorching Sand City II.

Meng Lang was secretly delighted. This picture is great!

The next second, Meng Lang's perspective suddenly dropped, as if his soul had been injected into the body of a T-side character holding a MAC-10.

At that moment, he seemed to be able to clearly feel the light weight of the gun in his hand and its unique, slightly sharp profile.

Endgame information flooded my mind instantly:

At the start of this round, all three of the T team members wielding rifles were killed instantly, leaving only "yourself" with a hairdryer and an AWP-wielding teammate whom "yourself" had been supporting with the money saved from using the hairdryer.

Meanwhile, his sniper teammate was trapped deep inside the secret passage.

Without information, the sniper rifle is completely unable to move at the start of the game when there are so many fewer players.

Logically, the best option at hand seems to be to save the gun.

But the "God A" to whom Meng Lang relied made a bold decision—he resolutely sneaked out from B1, quickly went through the middle door, and entered the dangerous sandy area to actively obtain information!
At this moment, he seized a rare opportunity.

Taking advantage of the moment when the police officer from A University was not looking at the sandy area, he stealthily reached bag B and first blew a CT's back through the dog hole behind the high box of bag B.

At this moment, all the CT scans were "activated"!

A small CT scan directly pushed sand out of the middle door!
But A God made a swift turn, and with a breathtaking burst of recoil control from mid-range, he instantly took down the CT who had come out from the middle door to finish him off!

Meng Lang was stunned:
No?

This hair dryer... can you really apply pressure like this at medium range?
This is not over yet!

After A God succeeded, he didn't linger and immediately circled around to B passage, quietly approaching B1 via the spiral staircase, followed by another rapid "tat-tat-tat" sound!
Three kills!

The CTs who were sneaking in from B1 were terrified, and the AWP-wielding teammate who was trapped in the dark passage was able to safely move to the back garden to plant the bomb at B!

Then, A-God preemptively set up the dog hole and killed the CT who was returning from the dog hole at close range, blowing his nose as soon as he peeked out!
Four kills!

Finally, at the B gate, a perfect run-and-gun spree caught the last CT who rushed back to defend!

Pentakill! Ace!

This was a textbook example of a solo performance, accomplished with the cheapest tools available in the Economic Bureau!

In this round, the teammate wielding the most expensive AWP in the game only accomplished one task—planting the bomb.

And this handheld hair dryer is the "supporting role".
However, they shouldered the entire heavy responsibility of gathering information, making breakthroughs, covering the planting of the bomb, and even ultimately defending the bomb and securing the kill!

He practically single-handedly annihilated the entire field!
Is this... the spring of green leaves?
Meng Lang secretly admired him, thinking, "No wonder he's a 'hair dryer enthusiast,' he's incredibly skilled with this hair dryer!"
Moreover, this gun seems to be much more powerful than I remembered, especially at close range within ten paces, it is fast and accurate!
No wonder it's called the Mac-10 "hair dryer"—its firing rate is like blowing on an enemy's scalp, instantly giving them a "deadly new hairstyle."

Not to mention his incredible recoil control at mid-range, maintaining such accuracy was truly astounding to Meng Lang.

Just then, a mechanical voice from the system sounded again:
This is a MAC-10 hairdryer; aim at any part of the magazine and empty it. Now, enter AmaNEk's body and use what you've learned to finish this puzzle!

Meng Lang's eyes lit up immediately.

He's an expert on the map "Shabaab" (or "Shabaab"). Even if the enemy adopts dynamic defense, he's confident he can find a breakthrough based on his understanding of the map.

Of course, he might need some time to get used to the hairdryer before he can reach the level of "man and hairdryer as one" that A-God has.

Let's set ourselves a small goal first!

ten times!

Clear the game within ten tries!

Next, he began his first attempt.

The first step was to go out through the middle door to get information. He remembered that there were CTs setting up guns on the A University side of the police spawn, but A God caught the perfect timing when the other side was not looking at the sandy area, and successfully sneaked to the vicinity of the dog hole.

However, Meng Lang was unlucky, and twice in a row, he was spotted and arrested by CT scans from the police station on the A-side as soon as he peeked out of the middle gate.

He did try to imitate A-God's mid-range recoil control and shooting, but he quickly discovered that the range of the Hair Dryer gun was too poor. The short 145mm barrel caused the bullets to spread very randomly at mid-to-long range, making the trajectory difficult to control!

Even if it occasionally hits, the damage is greatly reduced, and it's almost impossible to hit anything.

Meng Lang understood that A God's recoil control from the middle door to the dog hole was an extreme close-to-medium range maneuver, while his own distance from the sand to A's CT spawn was completely outside the effective range of the hair dryer.

After three failures, Meng Lang simply changed his approach.

He stopped wasting time with the CT at the police station, and after exiting the middle door, he immediately switched to his knife and sprinted at high speed!

Even if they are discovered, they can use their speed advantage to quickly escape the enemy's line of fire.

The downside of this strategy is that the CTs at B bomb site will spot his movements earlier, and the CTs at A small site will be able to jump down to the middle gate to provide support even faster. This means that Meng Lang will soon face a 1v2 situation.

This is a small challenge.

After two more attempts, Meng Lang gradually mastered the feeling of stopping and firing suddenly while moving at high speed, and successfully completed the 1v2 at the start of the game.

Here, he gradually discovered the core characteristic of the blower—the bullet spread during running and jumping is much smaller than that of a rifle!

Therefore, using a hairdryer can be combined with agile and unpredictable movement to disrupt the enemy's aiming rhythm and close the combat distance.

As for mid-range recoil control, Meng Lang confirmed through repeated attempts that it was indeed feasible, although its priority was far lower than close-range head-blowing.

At medium range, you can try to control recoil by strictly controlling the firing rhythm and combining it with ballistic compensation.

Although it's not as stable as a rifle and bullets can easily fly off course, this gun, combined with the user's movement, offers a unique margin for error.

for example.

When you're playing with an AK and engaging in a gunfight with an enemy, if you make a mistake in controlling the recoil, you basically have no choice but to grit your teeth and keep pressing the left mouse button until the enemy is dead, then move around or switch to single-shot mode.

However, if you make a mistake while controlling the recoil of the hairdryer, you can use the high movement speed to sway left and right or jump and move sideways to create distance or find a new angle - after all, this thing is a weapon that can be used efficiently for running and fighting, just like the PP-Bizon!
After gradually figuring out and mastering these details and ballistic control techniques, Meng Lang once again demonstrated his profound knowledge and amazing learning ability as a master of the Sand Second skill.

On his sixth attempt, he still didn't choose to gamble on that uncertain luck of timing; instead, he switched to his knife and charged out of the sand through the middle gate. Unsurprisingly, he was spotted by the CTs from A University.

Fortunately, at the moment the opponent opened fire, his previously honed agile movements, combined with the characteristics of a hair dryer, allowed him to miraculously escape the opponent's line of fire without losing a single drop of blood!
Without stopping, he rushed straight to the dog hole and, with a flying grass-like motion, headshot the B site CT who realized something was wrong!

He immediately positioned himself at B door, executing a classic run-and-gun maneuver that instantly melted another CT who was trying to finish off the enemy from the middle door!

His next line of thought perfectly followed A's decision.

CTs have already started returning to defend the area near the police base. The distance to the hair dryer offers no advantage, so it's absolutely not advisable to go there.

He took his position on the spiral staircase B ahead of time.

At this moment, his "teammate" brought the C4 from the back garden into the B site to plant the bomb. Sure enough, someone on the CT side tried to flank from B1 to cut off the bomb, but was caught red-handed by Meng Lang, who had been waiting for a long time!

Da da da—!
Extreme firing rate, spraying like crazy!
3 kill!

Meng Lang once again demonstrated the thrill of "blowing" at close range, and then successfully covered for his "teammate" to plant the bomb, turning the situation into a 2v2 defense.

Meng Lang first blew through the dog hole, then ran and hit the B door!
A perfect sweep!

Let's take the last two kills!
Pentakill! Ace!

The moment the last CT scan patient collapsed, Meng Lang felt an indescribable sense of exhilaration flow through his entire body, making him feel incredibly refreshed!

At that moment, he understood why some people in the community joked that "the hairdryer ruined CSGO"!
This thing is really addictive!
The smoothness of the run-and-gun gameplay and the exhilaration of the kill efficiency are in no way inferior to the famous "run-and-gun god weapon" Bison.

In other words, its magazine capacity is relatively smaller than that of the Bison, but its rate of fire is much more terrifying, reaching 782 rounds per minute!

That means it can empty a magazine in about 2.3 seconds, can you believe it?
At that moment, the system notification arrived as expected:

[Congratulations, host, for completing God A's incomplete puzzle! (The Hair Dryer Enjoyer)]

[Dancing wildly in the wind and rain, settling the world within ten steps—this is the feast for the hair dryer's enthusiasts! Its extreme rate of fire is its rhapsody, its ghostly movement its waltz; when the gunshot rings out, it's a death symphony played for the opponent!]

[The remains of God A have been fully fused. When the host is equipped with a MAC-10, marksmanship proficiency +15!]

The prompt ended, and the training space scene in front of Meng Lang vanished like shattered glass.

He was immediately brought back to reality, his ears filled with the noise of the venue once more. The child who had just finished his interview walked over!

He was eager to share something with Meng Lang, but when he opened his mouth, the words were already on the tip of his tongue, but he suddenly stopped, standing there in a daze, his face full of confusion as if to say, "What was I just about to say?"

The child scratched his head, looking annoyed. "Strange, what was I going to say to you just now? I remember it so clearly, how come I feel like I've suddenly forgotten?"

It wasn't actually "all at once".

Meng Lang chuckled to himself!
But he said:
"It's okay, it's normal, I do it all the time. Let me think... Hmm! I guess you mean you want to practice with me a little when we get back!"

That wasn't just a little bit!

The child's face immediately changed, and he shook his head vigorously: "No, no, no! I remember now! There's a famous restaurant in Antwerp that has really good prawns. Niko said this morning that if we win the game today, he'll treat us to that!"

"Shrimp? What kind of shrimp?" Meng Lang asked curiously.

The child took out his phone and browsed through some travel guides: "It seems to be called Beihai Grey Shrimp. The way it's prepared is quite unique. It's served as a cold dish inside a hollowed-out tomato. I heard it's very delicious. Their fried shrimp balls are also very famous."

Upon hearing this, Meng Lang felt a pang of regret and casually remarked, "Oh, I thought it was Boston lobster." In his mind, Boston lobster had always been considered a relatively luxurious delicacy in China.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he finished speaking,

There was a moment of silence at the G2 booth.

Cousin and Little Li seemed to have thought of something extremely funny, and they chuckled to themselves—they remembered the little anecdotes about CNNikoFansCLUB that Meng Lang had secretly told them before.

Meng Lang immediately realized he had let something slip and quickly shut up. He turned his head away guiltily, only to be met with a "death stare" that was just as intense as that of Qi Jiang next door!
The old nun was staring at him with a half-smile.

Clearly, after Meng Lang secretly "explained" this to his cousin and Xiao Li, Lao Ni was not entirely unaware of it.

Meng Lang chuckled dryly twice, then quickly slipped away and pretended to organize his backpack.

"This boy!"

Old Ni shook his head, feeling both amused and exasperated, his heart filled with mixed emotions.

This trip to the Antwerp Major went so smoothly for him that it felt like a dream.

Even today, they achieved a perfect revenge against the super team FAZE, who almost broke their mental block in the last IEM Katowice finals!
Old Ni, who had suffered repeated defeats in Majors, never imagined that he would have such a smooth start to his Major journey!
This is an unprecedentedly wonderful start!

It made him want to cheer!
But deep down, Old Ni sometimes felt a faint fear, a fear that this was really just a fragile illusion.

But looking at Meng Lang, who was slipping away unnoticed, and the back of that young Eastern general.

Old Ni suddenly burst into laughter again!

He doesn't dream of someone who can be so good at talking!

"Let's go! It's my treat today, consider it a celebration for winning FAZE!" Old Ni said with a wave of his hand.

Upon hearing this, the crowd cheered.

No one felt guilty about letting the team's top-paid member, Mr. Ni, treat them to a meal.

In the evening, Meng Lang finally got to enjoy the celebratory banquet hosted by the old nun.

However, compared to the exquisite North Sea grey shrimp, he was more interested in the "murex fries," which is hailed as Belgium's national dish.

Plump sea cucumbers... no, wait! Mussels! Paired with crispy on the outside and soft on the inside, thick and plump Belgian-style fries, dipped in a rich sauce, Meng Lang ate with great relish, even recalling happy memories of his father taking him out to eat KFC when he was a child.

In high spirits, he even took a selfie with his G2 teammates enjoying the food to earn GOAT points, with Lao Ni and others making peace signs in the photos.

Afterwards, Meng Lang posted the news on his Instagram and Weibo accounts.

The caption is concise and clear:
"We beat FAZE! Young Master Ni is treating! So satisfying!"

The comment section was immediately filled with various memes and comments saying "I'm so drooling".

Old Ni watched with a smile as Meng Lang fought with a child over the last fries. Suddenly remembering something, he turned to Little Li, who was looking at his phone, and asked, "By the way, which team are we playing against tomorrow? The schedule should be out by now, right?"

"I don't know, I'm just checking to see if they're done. Probably the same guys from the Legends group," Little Li said while swiping his phone screen.

This is understandable, as almost all the teams that advanced from the Challengers Group were eliminated on the first day of the Legends Group, except for G2.

Even shortly after they defeated FAZE, Imperial, who also came up from the Challenger Group, was kicked to death by another lesser-known "predator" team, BIG, in an unknown corner.

This means that tomorrow's "1-0" winners' bracket will be full of strong "top predators".

Leonardo DiCaprio took out his phone and checked the official match schedule!
As expected, of the eight teams that fought their way up from the Challengers Group, only Spirit, besides G2, managed to pull off an upset, defeating FURIA.

And their opponent in Group 1-0 tomorrow

It was none other than Team X, who had just defeated Liquid's reigning champions today – the Danish powerhouse who was ranked 5th in the HLTV world rankings last year!
Heroic!

At this moment, the child who had been scrolling through social media suddenly looked at him strangely. He looked up and said to the group who were enjoying their food:

"Oh no, it seems Meng is... being watched."

Curious, everyone crowded around to look at the child's phone screen.

That's a quote from an interview with esports media by Heroic's star rifleman Stavn and rookie Jabbi:

"【The strongest newcomer at the Antwerp Major】? Sorry, I find it hard to agree. In fact, I think Jabbi, also a newcomer, is the better one."

"As for Dark? Perhaps he'll relinquish that title tomorrow. Who knows?"

"Little Angel" Stavn pouted and said in a very relaxed tone.

Jabbi, her good friend standing next to her, shyly pursed his lips.

(End of this chapter)