Chapter 298 Hail Boundless

The official Weibo of Team Howling Heights also released this news, so the professional players who were making a fuss on Weibo knew about it almost immediately.

Was this guy really going to transfer?

Everyone was stunned. Before, it was mostly jokes and complaints, but who would have thought that this matter was real. A transfer was another form of farewell. Although it was not a permanent goodbye like retirement, the feeling of being former teammates and now opponents was not so pleasant.

Professionalism, professional attitude. It was simple to say, but everyone was human. How could they not have feelings? In the end, so-called professionalism and professional attitude were just about controlling and suppressing real emotions.

Perhaps some people happily left their original teams and rushed to new horizons. But everyone believed that Fang Rui was not like that. Everyone saw the problems between Fang Rui and Howling Heights. His departure was out of helplessness. He personally felt very wronged, and the team also felt very sorry.

So, when they saw that this matter was real, everyone couldn't joke about it anymore.

Chen Guo became a little nervous when she saw that the news was confirmed.

"Can we get him here?" Chen Guo said.

Ye Xiu didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "Don't think that just because he's a good dish, you want to put him in our basket. You also have to see if he's suitable. We're not a recycling station."

A recycling station… Isn't a recycling station a good place to put trash? This was a top All-Star player! Chen Guo resisted the urge to complain.

"Don't we need a despicableness style?" After Chen Guo said this, her heart skipped a beat. She looked at Ye Xiu, and then at Wei Chen, who was sitting in front of the computer in his slippers, smoking a cigarette. She suddenly felt that although Team Happy lacked many things, it didn't seem to lack despicableness. What was the point of bringing Fang Rui here? To all sit around and compare despicableness? To completely create a team with despicableness as its main style?

Thinking that her team would be such an army, Chen Guo couldn't help but shudder. Maybe not, she thought.

But after Ye Xiu finished lecturing her, he immediately joined in the fun.

Because the news was confirmed, the noisy Weibo that had satisfied the players and fans suddenly became quiet. As a result, Ye Xiu, who had millions of followers but followed 0 and had 1 Weibo post, issued his second Weibo post.

"You're really going to transfer? Team Happy is your best choice, champion team, king's team!"

I'll go!

This was unbearable!

A team that had just been promoted from the Challenger League was a champion team, a king's team? What were the rest of them?

"Team Tiny Herb, two-time champion." Wang Jiexi spoke calmly with the facts. Now that Team Excellent Era was no longer in the league, being a two-time champion was a pretty good achievement.

"Team Samsara, two-time champion, consecutive wins." Jiang Botao followed up, adding two words to Wang Jiexi's Weibo post, which immediately made it seem a notch higher.

"Team Tiny Herb failed to win consecutively because they were defeated by the number one team in the universe, Team Blue Rain!" Huang Shaotian deserved to be an opportunist. He instantly seized the opportunity and snatched the microphone with extraordinary hand speed. Blue Rain, which originally only had one championship and was somewhat inferior in the data, suddenly seemed extraordinary.

"Team Tyranny has your most familiar old partner." Zhang Jiale also joined in the fun, playing the emotional card because of Lin Jingyan's presence.

"Yeah, he's really old..." As a result, someone immediately commented and replied below, sharply complaining. Zhang Jiale was so angry that he vomited blood, but seeing that it was just an ordinary player, he couldn't very well pull him out and argue with him, right?

Weibo instantly became lively again. However, how sincere the first few teams to speak were was quite questionable.

Because for a player of Fang Rui's level and worth, it was impossible for him to be a substitute when he arrived at a team. He himself wouldn't want to, and it would be too extravagant for the team.

His arrival would inevitably cause a major adjustment in the team's tactics. This was not something that could be clarified in a few words. When a team introduced a player, they often went through a lot of observation and data analysis. As Ye Xiu said, it wasn't that you should pick up good dishes and put them in the basket when you saw them. You also had to see if the dishes could be made into a suitable flavor.

Seeing the news that Fang Rui had confirmed his transfer, they immediately began to solicit him. This kind of glib sincerity was definitely not reliable.

Those who were really interested in Fang Rui were probably already convening the entire team to discuss it. This was no small matter.

After everyone had been arguing on Weibo for a while, they finally returned to silence completely. Of course, it was impossible to finalize such a big matter in this place.

Fang Rui was going to transfer, but where he was going was not something that could be determined in a short time.

However, Chen Guo was puzzled when she saw Ye Xiu also joining in the fun with these people. Other teams had managers and bosses above, and department heads below. They had many professional talents, so they could refer to opinions from all aspects. But Team Happy didn't have such a large scale and didn't have so many talents. She, the boss, was the one that Ye Xiu called "the one who wants to pick up good dishes and put them in the basket". Other players, such as Tang Rou and Baozi, were rookies and didn't have such a strategic vision. So, when Team Happy encountered this kind of thing, it was basically Ye Xiu's say. Ye Xiu's opinion was almost everything. At most, Wei Chen would add a few words.

So, when other teams' players shouted, they might be just joining in the fun, but Ye Xiu was different. In a way, his words were the same as Lou Guanning's words. He was a player, but he was also the owner who could make decisions.

"So, do we want Fang Rui or not?" Chen Guo wondered.

"No," Ye Xiu said with a smile, shaking his head.

"Can't he improve us?" Chen Guo asked. She had also been strengthening her studies. Although she couldn't improve her Glory skills much, she wanted to learn more theoretical knowledge and have a more professional vision to be a qualified operator.

"That's not the case," Ye Xiu said. "A player of this level, as long as he has enough space, will improve any team. But for us, the cost performance is too low. An All-Star-level player, plus a character for him, how much would that cost? In addition, there are his contract expenses. If we really do this, it will be a desperate gamble. I don't think we need to hang ourselves on this one tree."

When Chen Guo heard this, she actually understood. In the end, it was because Team Happy didn't have enough money. The 5 million champion prize for the Challenger League was directly divided up. Other broadcast shares, plus the series of sponsorship contracts that Team Happy had later signed, meant that they now had about 12 million yuan of available funds. Wei Chen had 18 million yuan on hand and had said that it would be used to invest in the team, but unless it was absolutely necessary, neither Chen Guo nor Ye Xiu wanted to use Wei Chen's money too much.

12 million…

Now that Fang Rui's transfer was a foregone conclusion, even an All-Star-level player wouldn't be too expensive. But if Fang Rui came, he would have to be equipped with a character. If they wanted to take All-Star character Ghost Bound together, 12 million would really be a bit tight. Moreover, Fang Rui couldn't be like Ye Xiu and the others, who were muddleheaded and didn't care about income. He definitely had to have a professional contract. Fang Rui was currently on a 6.5 million yuan annual salary contract with Howling Heights. He was in his prime, and he wasn't transferring because of his condition. There was no reason for his contract to shrink. From this, it could be seen that even if Team Happy used Wei Chen's 18 million, it would put themselves in a difficult situation to serve this master. Team Happy also had a lot of daily expenses. The players in the team would eventually need to sign professional contracts and report them to the league. Wu Chen also needed certain expenses to manage the guild, and there was also the problem of the competition venue. Team Happy hadn't solved this yet.

"Then what are you doing there?" Chen Guo asked. Seeing that Fang Rui was indeed beyond their means, she didn't believe that Ye Xiu was just being purely bored and babbling nonsense. This guy always had a purpose for doing things.

"Hehe, let's liven things up!" Ye Xiu said.

"Then what?" Chen Guo didn't give up. She didn't believe that Ye Xiu had no follow-up.

Sure enough, Ye Xiu's computer screen finally settled on the page of Zhao Yang's retirement: "We can pay attention to the character Hail Boundless."

"Hail Boundless, Qigong Master? Do we need it?" Chen Guo was stunned.

"At least it's more reliable than hitting on Fang Rui," Ye Xiu said.

"Will Team Wind Howl let go easily?" Chen Guo asked. Hail Boundless was to Team Wind Howl what One Autumn Leaf was to Team Excellent Era and Wang Bu Liu Xing to Team Tiny Herb. You can't just consider the equipment strength of such a character. It is the soul and core of a team. What needs to be bought out is also the team's attachment to the character. The price of this kind of character will only be high, not low.

"I think there should be a chance," Ye Xiu said.

"Why?"

"If Team Wind Howl still had heart, I don't think Zhao Yang would have retired at this time," Ye Xiu said.

Wang Jiexi and Yang Cong, who were from the same period as Zhao Yang, were still fighting. But a team without heart would make its main core despair and quit. A team without heart would naturally not hold on to its own core character.

Ye Xiu saw this point. While others were talking about which Qigong Master player Team Wind Howl would find to replace Zhao Yang, he had the idea of taking away Team Wind Howl's core character.

"Uh... what if other guilds think of this and come to snatch it?" Chen Guo said. Characters are not like player transfers, which involve personal choices and wishes. Characters are dead. The club can sell them wherever they want, so if there is competition, the highest bidder wins. Bidding is also a difficult thing for Team Happy.

"Hehe, think about it carefully. Which of the current strong teams in the league has a Qigong Master in their main team?" Ye Xiu said with a smile.

Chen Guo was stunned. The first name that quickly jumped into her mind was Team Excellent Era.

The player Guo Yang, the character Qi Chong Yun Shui, was a first-line main player for Team Excellent Era. It was during the time when Chen Guo was a fan of Team Excellent Era, so she was naturally very familiar with him. But later…

"Team Wind Howl and Team Blue Rain," Ye Xiu had already answered for Chen Guo at this time. "In the top eight teams last season, only these two teams had Qigong Masters. The Qigong Master of Team Wind Howl was transferred from Team Excellent Era. This was not a profession in their original system. It didn't integrate well last season and often couldn't play as the main player. They are more likely to give up the Qigong Master. As for Team Blue Rain, their Qigong Master character, Tao Luo Sha Ming, is already strong. It is possible for them to buy two pieces of equipment that they don't have from Hail Boundless to strengthen themselves, but to completely incorporate Hail Boundless like this, this low-cost-performance operation is not the style of Team Blue Rain."

"So, we don't have too strong competitors for Hail Boundless?" Chen Guo said.