Chapter 542: Expedition

Two new songs were released, one rock and one pure music.

The rock style is called *NUMB*, sung by Luo Quan and the Lovemusic band together.

And the pure music is called *Silver Scrapes*.

With the two burning songs out, *League of Legends* summoners were directly boiling.

*League of Legends* has reached its eighth year today, and a theme song is released every year on the eve of the S-series.

Some of these theme songs are good, some are average, and the quality is uneven, but there isn't a single one that is truly burning to the point of explosion.

And playing games, the most important thing is definitely passion. If that kind of heaven-defying comeback and desperate victory moment can be matched with a battle song, the satisfaction brought is simply unmatched.

For gamers, aren't they playing games for this kind of satisfaction?

It can be said that Luo Quan's two songs really wrote into their hearts!

Although one is an English song and one is pure music, neither is in Chinese, but it doesn't matter at all. Players only need to hear the explosive melody and rhythmic percussion to make their adrenaline soar rapidly and produce a huge sense of excitement.

That night, internet cafes all over China were playing these two songs, and the *League of Legends* players in the internet cafes were also playing them on single-track loop. The music of the *League of Legends* national server client was also replaced by them!

In less than three hours, the total online views of these two songs exceeded 500 million!

Penguin, which used to sell Luo Quan's songs after purchase, set the two songs as free music for the first time this time.

With such huge views, Penguin must have earned a lot less money this time, but it received a huge amount of praise from *League of Legends* players.

Before the rise of *Honor of Kings*, *League of Legends* could be said to be one of Penguin's most popular games. Although it earned slightly less than DNF, its heat and influence were far stronger than DNF, and its player base was the largest.

Current junior and high school students, there might be many who don't play *Honor of Kings* or STEAM, but there are almost none who haven't played *League of Legends*!

Originally, during the most popular time of *PUBG* last year, the LPL S7 failed, and two Korean teams met in the Bird's Nest. Countless summoners almost lost their motivation for the championship and even the game.

Every year is the most hopeful year, and every year they return in defeat.

During that time, it was the moment *League of Legends* was closest to cooling down. Internet cafes were almost occupied by *PUBG* players, and many *League of Legends* streamers and even professional players transformed to play *PUBG*.

However, a year later, the LPL defeated strong Korean teams in the Mid-Season Invitational and Intercontinental Tournament, winning the championship. The strong performance of the LPL team once again gave players a shot in the arm.

In the eyes of players, this year is still the most hopeful year for the LPL.

We have already won all the world championships, and now we are just missing the S-series.

Against this background, the gaming enthusiasm of national server *League of Legends* players can be said to be quite high. The number of simultaneous online players across the entire server every night is around 4 million, and even more on weekends.

Such a huge group, no matter what they do, is an incomparably terrifying force.

For example, in the Weibo King selection that just ended a while ago, in order to ride the heat of the e-sports circle, the official Weibo put several e-sports players in, participating in voting and ranking with a group of top traffic stars in the country.

The result was that with the support of tens of millions of *League of Legends* players, the popular player Da Mao stood out in the selection, crushed the so-called top traffic in the country, and won the crown of Weibo KING.

It is worth mentioning that the crown of Weibo QUEEN was won by Luo Quan, but Luo Quan was very busy at the time and did not attend the scene.

And Weibo KING being taken by an e-sports player outside the entertainment industry was something Weibo itself hadn't expected. Even on the night of the Weibo Night, they didn't notify Da Mao to go to the scene to receive the award.

Consequently, these two most anticipated awards of the Weibo Night were directly skipped on the night of the awards.

The *League of Legends* players who were played naturally immediately rushed the official Weibo, as well as a large group of traffic star fans who had been sarcastic towards them before.

That night, Luo Quan had the honor to see the grand occasion where millions of comments under a Weibo post were all cursing. The fan circle girls, who usually had amazing combat power, were directly rushed to pieces by the e-sports straight men, letting them see what is called the epitome of street dross culture.

Luo Quan considered her stress resistance to be full, and she had long been calm in the face of insults. But after reading the comments in the comment section that day, she admitted that if she were the person being scolded, she would mostly be unable to hold on and break her defense.

It can only be said that Weibo's move was indeed too dishonest. They wanted to ride the heat of the e-sports circle, but when people won Weibo KING, they played these tricks, so it serves them right to be scolded.

Fortunately, Weibo admitted defeat relatively quickly, apologizing and reissuing the Weibo KING trophy to Da Mao, which slightly calmed the angry players.

This battle can be considered to have let the whole internet see the combat power of *League of Legends* players, and the fan circle girls on Weibo cried out that they couldn't afford to provoke them.

Of course, showing combat power by scolding people is still slightly indecent. Luo Quan definitely doesn't advocate it. When she livestreams, she also often reminds her fans not to scold people when facing haters, just ignore them directly.

As a high-quality streamer, she also leads by example when teaching fans.

Of course, except when she plays LOL.

"Support, you died seven times in five minutes. Even Meituan doesn't deliver as fast as you. If you go AFK, we still have a chance to play this game!"

"Jungle, how did you press Flash when you pressed Smite? If I sprinkle rice on the keyboard, a chicken would peck more accurately than you!"

"Top, you've died like this, where did you get the courage to build output? You lie down in a second in team fights. Are you counting on this equipment to scare the opponent to death?"

Luo Quan, who was the mid-laner, typed quickly, classically scolding three lanes by herself.

After the new song was released, Luo Quan also started a livestream to play a few games of LOL for fans.

But after playing a few games, she encountered these few orphan teammates who wouldn't listen to anything and just bit the bullet and fed, making Luo Quan's nose crooked with anger.

Here, the nose being crooked is literal. Luo Quan, who was gnashing her teeth, really held back her urge to curse and interacted with her teammates in a relatively peaceful tone.

Also because her emotions were too agitated and she had to suppress them forcibly, her facial expressions were somewhat ferocious.

"Haha, Luo Bao, don't be angry. It's not worth it to get angry and hurt your body."

"It can be seen that Luo Quan is really almost dizzy with anger, half of her face is distorted."

"But even Luo Quan, who is so angry, is still so beautiful."

"These teammates are already like this, why not just follow them? Don't be angry, it's just a game."

………………

Under the persuasion of the barrage, Luo Quan typed GG amidst the laughter here.

Looking at the time, it was already late, so Luo Quan ended the stream directly to calm her mood.

The next day, Luo Quan went to the Shanghai Sports Center early to start the rehearsal for the Summer Finals performance.

The performance started at five o'clock in the evening, and the rehearsal had already started three days ago. Because Luo Quan was the finale and was singing solo, it was relatively simpler compared to the previous units, so the rehearsal was only conducted just before the performance.

From Luo Quan's perspective, this performance was not as exciting as the Bilibili New Year's Eve Concert.

It was more about sentiment and game themes playing a role, and it couldn't be said to be very exquisite.

However, isn't this the atmosphere that gamers are looking for?

At least in China, only *League of Legends* holds a large-scale stage performance every year, and the stars invited are also the best batch.

For the S7 Bird's Nest Finals, Penguin specially invited Heavenly King Zou to warm up the scene.

Before Luo Quan appeared, this Heavenly King Zou had always been the leader of the Chinese music scene, with quite a lot of classic works that were on everyone's lips.

However, at nearly forty years old, he hadn't released a new song for a long time, and his focus was all on life, addicted to playing games and basketball, and besides that, he was showing affection with his wife, which also made a group of fans angry and helpless.

Fortunately, Luo Quan appeared in time, allowing the Chinese music scene to avoid the awkward situation of having no successors.

Last year, Penguin invited Heavenly King Zou out of the mountains to perform a warm-up for the S7 Finals, and this year they invited Luo Quan to perform a warm-up for the Summer Finals. Undoubtedly, these were all big moves, and they were all appearances that *League of Legends* players could take out to brag about.

For tonight's performance, tens of millions of *League of Legends* players were incomparably looking forward to it.

So during the rehearsal, the staff at the scene were very serious, treating it as a live broadcast. They rehearsed a total of three times, and not a single mistake occurred.

For Luo Quan, who had rich performance experience, she was quite at ease on this kind of stage, her emotions were relatively relaxed, and she saved her energy for the afternoon.

After three rehearsals, Luo Quan went to the backstage to rest.

After browsing Bilibili for a while, the pre-match trash talk between the GNR team and the I Gaming team had already been released; in the video, the players were exposing each other's dirt and roasting one another.

And in the comment section, the fans of the two teams were also spraying quite fiercely, rendering the atmosphere of this match full of gunpowder.

Although they were all teams from the same region and should be more harmonious.

But in Luo Quan's view, competitive sports, if they could really be solved harmoniously, would inevitably lack some passion.

Keywords like opposition, arch-rivals, and revenge are the very charm of competitive sports, so Luo Quan felt that a bit of gunpowder was definitely a good thing.

Of course, when facing foreign wars, one should still be united.

At this time, there was also movement on Weibo. It was Si Cong who sent a Weibo post to cheer for the I-Game team, which hit the hot search.

Only then did she remember that Si Cong seemed to be the boss of the I-Game team, and he had started doing e-sports many years ago. It seemed he also had a share of the credit for DOTA2 winning the TI World Championship back then.

Although Si Cong had a big problem in the livestreaming industry investment, losing more than a billion, and was forced to ask his old man for help to fill the hole, at least his vision in e-sports was still good.

Originally, she wanted to give a like, but after thinking about it, in order to avoid suspicion, she decided to forget it.

Si Cong was nearly thirty years old, wearing the title of "National Husband", and had a large group of fans on Weibo, with quite high heat.

If Luo Quan gave a like, who knew what kind of trouble would be caused? At that time, it was estimated that the rhythm would be flying all over the sky.

After reading Weibo, Luo Quan browsed Bilibili's new anime for a while. Not long after, the makeup artist came in and started makeup for the stars backstage.

Unknowingly, it was already three o'clock in the afternoon. The assistant director entered the backstage with a loudspeaker to remind everyone to prepare to go on stage.

At this time, Luo Quan had already finished her makeup. Her styling today was quite special, wearing a fitness vest and hot pants, with a denim short jacket outside, and a baseball cap on her head.

Others might not know, but LOL players definitely knew what this styling was.

A few days ago, Riot Games just released a new skin series called KDA, pulling four female heroes to form a girl group, and Akali, who was in charge of rap, was Luo Quan's current styling.

Seraphine hadn't been officially launched yet, so Luo Quan just cosplayed Akali's styling first.

Anyway, they were all female heroes in *League of Legends*, and summoners would definitely like it.

However, Luo Quan felt that Akali's cool temperament was better suited for Wen Xia to cosplay, and fans also felt that letting her cosplay Ahri or Evelynn would be more feeling.

It can only be said that after the release of *The Devil Wears Prada*, most netizens and fans felt that Luo Quan's temperament was more suitable for playing some mature women, especially those who were charming or aggressive.

Ahri and Evelynn were typical of these types, but because the beast ear and beast tail props were not easy to get, Luo Quan didn't cosplay this and chose the simpler Akali image.

Listening to the passionate music and the cheers of the audience from the front desk, Luo Quan knew that the performance had already begun.

The first program, 3D projection.

For the S7 Finals, Penguin projected an ancient dragon in the Bird's Nest, which amazed *League of Legends* fans all over the world.

And this time, they projected a Baron Nashor, and the effect was equally amazing.

Of course, the audience at the scene could only see it on the big screen, which was a bit different from what the audience in front of computers and mobile phones saw.

Stars and hero voice actors took turns on stage, and the audience's excited shouting came one after another. Luo Quan was also watching the live broadcast on her mobile phone backstage.

In the morning, she still felt that this performance was relatively flat and not so exciting.

But after truly seeing the performance and feeling the sentiment belonging to *League of Legends*, she still showed a moved smile.

After all, it was a game she had played for nearly ten years. As long as she saw elements of this game appearing on the stage, it was something worth cheering for. This was the advantage of having a filter.

Although Luo Quan had strict requirements, in such a situation, she was like all the audience watching the live broadcast, inevitably wanting to cheer excitedly together.

If she were at home, this would definitely be fine.

But today her identity was relatively special; she was the person who needed to push the atmosphere of the whole scene to the climax.

The ones who needed to cheer were the audience waiting to watch her performance.

"Luo Quan, it's your turn!" The assistant director walked into the backstage and shouted.

"Leave it to me!" Luo Quan stood up, showed a confident smile, and stepped towards the front of the stage. ===== CHAPTER 543 =====