The next day, we arrived at Los Angeles and got on a big bus right away. It was a sleepy ride until the team leader woke us up for a meal, which we finished in no time before going back to sleep again. It was so that we could adjust to the time difference and compete at our best. Starting tomorrow, the WEL internationals would begin, and the 32 best teams from all over the world would battle each other to decide the world champion!

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We ate another meal at a Chinese restaurant beneath our hotel, but it tasted like western food no matter how Chinese they claimed to be. Lin Yixin, Stranger of Three Lifetimes, Warsky, Li Chengfeng and I loved spicy food, but the food here was anything but spicy, and the dishes were overly sweet for some reason. In a sense, it was almost revolting to eat.

After we returned to the hotel, I lay on my bed and forced myself to fall asleep. The competition would begin in 16 hours, so I planned to sleep for 10 hours before spending the remaining time preparing and scouting our opponents. It wasn’t like I didn’t want to head out and explore the city, but my spoken English was third-rate at best. He Yi had no such problems as a matter of course, but it didn’t feel right to make her...