Cross Fire Episode 1 Recap
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In 2018, the number of esports users in China exceeded 420 million, and there were 12,000 esports clubs nationwide. Gravity Club was founded in 2009. Over the past decade, Gravity rapidly rose in Ningjiang City with its unique training model, becoming one of the most influential esports clubs in China. Every year, Gravity holds CrossFire tryouts, and only the best performing players are eligible to sign with Gravity to become official professional players.
In the 2019 tryouts, gaming prodigy Lu Xiaobei distinguished himself from the elimination rounds by finishing second. Sun Qi, ranked first, and Lu Xiaobei, ranked second, would each lead Team A and Team B in the competition, and the strongest player would sign with Gravity. Tomorrow was the final match. Lu Xiaobei did not leave after the game, saying he wanted to stay in form.
His friends advised him not to care too much, as Sun Qi's father was the CEO of a listed company and had investments in Gravity, and those who could join Team A all had connections. They, as nobodies, had no chance at all. Lu Xiaobei was unmoved. Sun Qi had fewer kills than him, and his K/D ratio was higher only because the two of them hadn't met yet.
Lu Xiaobei practiced until 2 AM before turning off his computer and moving from his gaming chair to his wheelchair to leave. 2008. In a dilapidated shack, Xiao Feng lazily got out of bed, unhurriedly patted his freshly awakened face, and rode his bicycle out. While waiting at a red light, he was cursed at by a wedding convoy behind him. Xiao Feng insisted on racing them and even took a shortcut.
Just as Xiao Feng triumphantly blocked the wedding car, several cars suddenly appeared and surrounded him. Several burly men got out to cause trouble, but the bride from the wedding car hastily got out and explained that they knew each other. Xiao Feng never expected that casually chasing a car would lead him to encounter his soon-to-be-married ex-girlfriend, Taozi, and be mistakenly thought to be there to stop the wedding.
Xiao Feng was extremely embarrassed, but Taozi was still immersed in her own drama. The groom also got anxious, rushing up to Xiao Feng and cursing at him, saying that Taozi married him because the money he earned was more than Xiao Feng could ever make in a lifetime, not even a fraction of it. The groom kicked Xiao Feng's bike hard, took out several red banknotes, and insulted Xiao Feng.
Xiao Feng picked them up without a trace of anger, and even helped the groom straighten his clothes. Xiao Feng picked up his kicked-off bicycle basket. Taozi told him that no matter what Xiao Feng said, she would not reconcile. Her marriage was to let Xiao Feng know that there was no turning back in this world, and she advised him to find a proper job in the future and stop fooling around.
Xiao Feng, however, raised his chin and said he wasn't fooling around; he was sticking to his ideals. Video games were a promising venture, and time would prove everything. Xiao Feng contemptuously glared at his bicycle and left. Taozi held back her tears and turned to smile at the groom. 2019, Gravity's final selection.
Lu Xiaobei was very dissatisfied that Team A got to pick the map first, but that was the game rule, and he could do nothing about it. Lu Xiaobei knifed Sun Qi, and was immediately called over by Captain Liang, who advised him to see the situation clearly. It had already been decided that the club would sign Sun Qi.
She could apply for Lu Xiaobei to be a substitute, but only if Lu Xiaobei did not cause trouble in the next round. Lu Xiaobei agreed on the surface, but he didn't think that way in his heart; he wasn't there to be a substitute. Lu Xiaobei won the match, which displeased the Gravity boss.
Coach Liang thought they could sign Lu Xiaobei to a substitute contract first and kick him out later, but the boss said that anyone could be signed, except Lu Xiaobei. 2008. The members of the Steel Coin Team, Xu Wei, Qilin, A Ming, and Houzi, were joking around while waiting for Xiao Feng to arrive.
It turned out that their so-called "big fish" today was arranging a PK with some students at an internet cafe, just to earn money for skewers tonight. The few of them easily won the match, walked out of the dilapidated internet cafe with swagger, and headed to a food stall for skewers. Xiao Feng said that the CrossFire National Challenge was about to be held, with tens of thousands in prize money, and he had already signed up the team.
However, apart from Xiao Feng and Xu Wei, the others clearly had no interest. They didn't want to continue playing matches and were clamoring to break up. Among them, the youngest, A Ming, was already twenty-two. Were they just going to keep fooling around all day without a proper job? Xu Wei got anxious, saying which of these people hadn't received help from Xiao Feng, yet now they were acting like ungrateful wretches, wanting to break up just like that.
They were getting older, but they had experience. They missed the good times before, but now CrossFire was getting better and better. Participating in competitions could lead to signing with clubs and getting salaries. Xiao Feng and Xu Wei tried to persuade them this way. However, the three of them became even more disheartened.
Xiao Feng wanted to decide by flipping a coin according to their old rule, but Qilin threw the coin away and cursed Xiao Feng for being crazy, saying his girlfriend had run off with someone else, and he was still there flipping coins! Xiao Feng got angry, and the two started fighting. On the live streaming platform, Lu Xiaobei had many more votes than Sun Qi, yet the one who ultimately signed was still Sun Qi.
Lu Xiaobei was even judged to have cheated and was disqualified from the competition. Lu Xiaobei was framed by his teammate Li Jiaxiang, who claimed that Lu Xiaobei had colluded with the opposing team to cheat, thus ending Lu Xiaobei's path to professional gaming. Lu Xiaobei was disheartened. Li Jiaxiang chased him, begging for forgiveness, saying they forced him, but Lu Xiaobei clearly wouldn't forgive him that easily. Lu Xiaobei's father was a police officer.
After coming home, Lu Xiaobei's father resolutely moved the computer out of Lu Xiaobei's room and then helped him bathe. School was starting tomorrow, and Lu Xiaobei was in his senior year of high school. His father earnestly and painstakingly advised him to catch up on his missed lessons, as the path of playing games was a dead end. But Lu Xiaobei's ideal was to be a professional player, leading to another argument with his father.
Lu Xiaobei opened his phone and recorded a video, as if talking to his brother. What the team needed was obedient people, but Lu Xiaobei had never been one. Lu Xiaobei's father took away everything related to gaming and told Lu Xiaobei to go to bed early and stop thinking about games. Lu Xiaobei took out an old laptop and opened CrossFire. Some strange signals seemed to appear around him.
Meanwhile, in 2008, Xiao Feng and his group were taken to the police station. Xu Wei took the blame on himself. Xiao Feng vigorously tried to promote his team to the police officer, which earned him a lecture from the police. After finishing their statements, Xiao Feng and Xu Wei ran back to the food stall to look for the steel coin.
The two of them, enduring the foul smell, found the steel coin in the sewer, because for Xiao Feng, it was different. Back home, a piece of paper was on the door, with a few words from the landlord: no rent, no entry. Xiao Feng crudely slammed the door open, and the two collapsed onto the sofa, taking out their remaining five hundred yuan, which wasn't even enough to pay the rent.
Xiao Feng tossed and turned in bed, looking at the steel coin and telling himself to try one more time; if he lost, he would give up completely. Xiao Feng opened his computer and entered CrossFire. Some strange signals appeared around him, and like Lu Xiaobei, Xiao Feng didn't take it to heart. In the game map, Xiao Feng and Lu Xiaobei miraculously met.
The two of them, strong players, defeated other opponents, then suddenly fell into a black screen, still able to hear each other's voices. Both of them restarted their computers, but it was no use. They exchanged names, but Lu Xiaobei laughed dismissively after hearing Xiao Feng's name. The name Xiao Feng was a legend in the Ningjiang City esports scene: the first CrossFire National Challenge champion, and the King of Guns that year.
Many classic tactics came from his hands, and he was nicknamed the "CrossFire Human Tactical Textbook." Lu Xiaobei thought Xiao Feng was pretending to be a god-tier player, and Xiao Feng was speechless; he hadn't even signed up for that national final yet. The two then brought up Liu Xiang's withdrawal from the race. Xiao Feng was completely speechless and told him to first check what year it was.
Lu Xiaobei earnestly picked up his phone and read, "August 17, 2019, Saturday." Xiao Feng said, "Today is clearly August 17, 2008." After he said this, the computers returned to normal, and they could no longer hear each other's voices.
