The stadium erupted in applause. This kind of ending made the audience, who had been waiting to witness a miracle, feel like their trip had been worth it. The applause and screams made it impossible for the emcee, who had only asked one question, to continue. After waiting for almost a minute, the crowd finally quieted down. The emcee immediately seized the opportunity and threw out a second question.
"Next is a personal question. As the former captain of Excellent Era, after winning this match, I think many people are curious as to whether or not you have any special feelings right now."
As soon as this question was asked, it was like a command. The stadium instantly fell silent. It seemed like the emcee wasn't exaggerating at all. Everyone was very curious about this question.
"It's nothing. For me, winning the match is the most important thing," Ye Xiu said indifferently.
"Then do you have anything to say to Excellent Era?" The emcee was clearly very dissatisfied with Ye Xiu's answer. He wanted to hear a bit of a tit for tat between the two sides.
"Continue to work hard." Ye Xiu's answer was still as calm as ever.
The emcee was helpless. He could only continue with the next question: "There's another thing that everyone is curious about. In the past, you didn't like to be exposed to the public. But now that you've returned, why did you suddenly change this habit?"
"Haha, there's no special reason. I just let nature take its course," Ye Xiu replied indifferently. On the other hand, Chen Guo was worried for him. This question was quite sharp. Ye Xiu couldn't just tell him the truth: Yes, because in the past, he used a fake ID to compete in matches. Of course he had to keep a low profile.
Three questions in a row, but none of them were explosive. The emcee wasn't satisfied! He was extremely unwilling. He wasn't a temporary extra. He was a professional Glory media worker who had interviewed many pro players. He knew quite a bit about which pro players in the Glory circle were more difficult to deal with during interviews. But after these three questions, the emcee was clear. Friends in the media, don't think that Ye Xiu starting to accept interviews was a wonderful thing. The list of difficult pro players to deal with would probably have another addition.
"Alright. Next, let's invite the chairman of the Glory Pro League, Mr. Feng Xianjun, to present Team Happy with the Challenger League championship trophy and the Glory Pro League registration certificate! "Seeing that the award ceremony was ready, the host didn't ask any further questions. Out of the four questions, three of them were directed at Ye Xiu personally. They were just a continuation of the pre-match questions.
Feng Xianjun walked briskly onto the stage with a relaxed and Happy smile. He shook hands with every contestant and gave them a few words of encouragement and blessings.
In Happy's formation, there were two familiar faces to Feng Xianjun.
"Can you still fight?" While holding Sun Zheping's right hand, the president deliberately increased his strength and smiled.
"Not really, but it's enough." Even in front of the Alliance Chairman, Sun Zheping was still as arrogant as ever.
Feng Xianjun smiled and nodded. He didn't say much and continued to shake hands. Wei Chen was one of the first two generations of pro players. At that time, Feng Xianjun wasn't the Alliance Chairman yet, so they weren't friends. It was just some normal interactions. In the end, they finally arrived in front of Ye Xiu.
"You're really something." Feng Xianjun shook Ye Xiu's hand as he spoke.
"Haha." Ye Xiu laughed. "The name on the certificate isn't wrong, right?"
"You shouldn't write your name wrong either," Feng Xianjun replied with a smile.
Their private conversation went unheard by anyone. Outsiders could only see two harmonious smiling faces. Then Feng Xianjun turned around, took the championship trophy, and handed it to Ye Xiu.
Ye Xiu took it and raised the trophy. The crowd once again erupted into thunderous applause. The emcee loudly announced the winner of the competition. But speaking of which, the true value of the Challenger League wasn't in the trophy, but in the beautiful certificate that Feng Xianjun handed over.
Glory Pro Alliance Registration Certificate.
Having this certificate meant that Happy had the qualifications to participate in the next season's Pro Alliance. And this was what everyone was fighting for.
Champion of the Challenger League? That was never the end. It was just a starting point. It would begin with this certificate.
Ye Xiu took the certificate and saw that the words "Team Happy" were already printed on it. The certificate had been prepared beforehand, but the team's name would only be printed after the final results were announced. Happy's other players had already gathered around. Feng Xianjun tactfully retreated to the side, leaving the celebration to Happy's team members. Tonight, they were the true protagonists.
As for the side characters who had failed, they weren't completely ignored. Feng Xianjun went over to Team Excellent Era to give them some words of encouragement. As for the reporters from the various media outlets, they were eyeing Excellent Era like tigers eyeing their prey. They had already sorted out who knew how many questions and were just waiting to fire at Excellent Era. They had already been notified that there would be a post-match press conference for this Challenger League match. This was something that had never been done in the past Challenger League matches. It could be seen that even though the Alliance had placed great importance on the Challenger League matches in the past, the matches were still quite simple and lacking in attention. But this time, because of the topic of Ye Xiu versus Excellent Era, an exception was made for the post-match press conference.
The first to attend the press conference was Team Excellent Era. The team's manager, Cui Li, Sun Xiang, Xiao Shiqin, and several other members of Excellent Era also attended the press conference. They sat on the stage with wooden expressions. No one took the initiative to speak. They all maintained their silence.
The crowd was silent. The reporters also looked at each other.
Losing the Challenger League match was probably worse than losing the championship, especially for a powerhouse team like Excellent Era. The reporters also empathized with the feelings of the members of Excellent Era. However, their professional nature made it so that they wouldn't easily let go of Excellent Era just because they sympathized with them. After about half a minute of silence with Excellent Era, some of the reporters felt that they had done their best. Finally, someone raised his hand to ask a question.
The members of Excellent Era who were sitting on the stage still maintained their wooden expressions. In the end, it was the Alliance's press officer who picked up a reporter to ask a question.
"During the match, Su Mucheng publicly announced that her collaboration with Excellent Era had ended. She directly sat in Happy's area. Can you explain what happened? Is there some kind of irreconcilable conflict between Su Mucheng and Excellent Era? "The reporters usually didn't ask questions, but once they did, they asked questions that made Excellent Era very uncomfortable.
However, they were all people who had experienced big situations. Cui Li glanced at the reporter and said expressionlessly, "Su Mucheng is still a member of Team Excellent Era. As for the future of the players, Excellent Era will make a decision after communicating with the players. Before that, there's nothing to say."
"Then, when Ye Xiu announced his retirement, how did Excellent Era communicate with the players? From today's performance, I'm afraid that no one would believe that Ye Xiu is a player who needs to retire. His performance was outstanding, not inferior to anyone in Team Excellent Era. " Following that was a question that was even more incisive. This was a problem that Excellent Era had been working hard to avoid. Because Ye Xiu never accepted interviews, Excellent Era had a lot of convenience. It was basically a one-sided decision.
But now, the Challenger League's grand finale had exposed this old matter. When Ye Xiu suddenly announced his retirement, everyone naturally wanted to know the reason. However, because this player kept a low profile and was mysterious, no one could get first-hand information from him. Team Excellent Era was the only source of information that they could use to report. Under such circumstances, it was easy for Team Excellent Era to manipulate public opinion. They had to cover up the truth of Ye Xiu's unusual retirement. Combined with the fact that Excellent Era's performance was getting worse year after year, a decline in performance was a very reasonable reason. And with Ye Xiu's usual style, it wasn't strange for him to retire quietly. The fans were sad, but they also accepted this reality.
They originally thought that all of this was over, but who would have thought that after Ye Xiu left Excellent Era, he actually formed a new team. Then, they actually met Excellent Era in the Challenger League.
This wasn't something that Excellent Era expected. After starting with a lie, they could only continue to make up lies to cover it up. Fortunately, Ye Xiu refused to talk to the media, so Excellent Era could manipulate public opinion as much as they wanted.
Ye Xiu never said anything. Even when he finally made it to the offline Challenger League and accepted some interviews, he didn't care about these issues at all. Even so, when they saw Ye Xiu accept an interview for the first time, Excellent Era panicked. They had already prepared all sorts of public relations measures, but in the end, it was all for nothing. Ye Xiu didn't seem to care about what they were worried about.
Even now, Ye Xiu still didn't say anything.
But, he won the competition.
There was nothing more convincing than this kind of truth. You're saying that Ye Xiu's condition has declined? You should have beaten him! Pulling a grassroots team to defeat Excellent Era. Even if Ye Xiu's condition really didn't decline, no one would believe it after such a result.
Was Ye Xiu's condition really so bad that he needed to retire?
No one knew this better than Excellent Era.
They hoped that Ye Xiu would retire because they knew that Ye Xiu still had enough, and even terrifying, ability. They wanted to give up on Ye Xiu, but they were afraid that Ye Xiu would hurt them if he became their opponent. So, they took an inch and wanted a mile. Once they started, things got out of hand.
Now, with strong evidence, this problem became very acute.
But what was even more acute was that Ye Xiu didn't reject the media now. Soon, he would sit in the same position, accept the same reporters, and answer the same questions.
The days of one man's word dictating public opinion were gone forever.
Once upon a time, Excellent Era hoped that Ye Xiu would step onto the stage and announce to the media that Ye Xiu wasn't around.
But now, Excellent Era hoped that Ye Xiu would continue to keep a low profile and continue to reject the media. In the end, he stood up.
From beginning to end, he didn't say anything. Just accepting the media like this was enough to make Excellent Era feel like they were sitting on pins and needles. Then, he won, which was a resounding and powerful slap to their face.
"Manager Cui? Manager Cui? "
In a daze, Cui Li seemed to hear someone calling him. He wanted to respond, but he couldn't control himself.
"Doctor, is there a doctor? Call an ambulance, someone fainted!! "The press conference was a mess.
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