Chapter 191: Daily Income.
"Your cousin is a professional player?" the captain asked with obvious assumptions about Noah’s background and training.
"What games does he compete in?" added another teammate. "His mechanical skill shows he has years of high-level experience."
Ethan shook his head slowly, still struggling to reconcile the Noah he knew with the gaming phenomenon they’d just encountered.
"No, he’s not a professional player in any game," Ethan said with growing amazement. "He just started playing this game a few days ago. Before that, he played other games casually, nothing competitive."
The team chat fell completely silent as Ethan’s words sank into their brain. A casual player with minimal experience had just outplayed an entire professional team using knowledge and mechanical skill that should have required years to develop.
"A few days?" the captain repeated with obvious disbelief. "That’s impossible. Nobody develops game sense like that in a few days."
"His aim was already inhuman, but his strategic understanding was tournament-level. That doesn’t happen overnight. Unless...he has wall hacks on, and he isn’t really using any strategy."
Ethan found himself defending his cousin’s legitimacy while simultaneously trying to understand how Noah had achieved such an impossible improvement in such a short timeframe.
"I know how it sounds," Ethan replied with helpless honesty, "but I’m telling you the truth. A few days ago, he was asking me basic questions about game mechanics. Tonight, he just gave us the most brutal defeat we’ve ever experienced."
The professional team struggled to process information that challenged everything they understood about skill development and competitive gaming progression.
"We need to watch this recording frame by frame," the captain decided with obvious fascination. "If your cousin really developed these capabilities in days, we need to understand how. Don’t be offended, Ethan, but I really feel like your cousin is cheating. Nobody can have such aim and mechanical skill in a few days."
As the team began planning their intensive review session, Ethan found himself typing a private message to his cousin through the game’s chat system, his fingers hesitating over the keyboard as he struggled to process what had just occurred.