Chapter 13

Liang Yan arrived at the destination one second before the monsters respawned, and one large and one small Stone Armor Beetle jumped out from the monster nest in front of him.

Rek'Sai waved its claws, bringing a circle of scarlet claw marks, drawing the aggro of the two monsters onto itself; the troll came over and used 【Serrated Bite】 to take a bite, then swung its big stick.

This version of the Stone Golem camp, although renamed from Golem (Golem) to Stone Armor Beetle (Krug), merely changed its name and appearance; the monster mechanics remain unchanged, lacking the later splitting mechanic where one becomes two, two become four.

It clears especially quickly.

Less than 10 seconds, only 9 seconds, Liang Yan killed the two Stone Armor Beetles to reach level 2, instantly learned a W skill, dove underground, and sped away.

But he didn't directly take the red buff, because he had used Smite on the Stone Armor Beetles; without Smite, taking red buff is painful and also wastes a chance to restore a large amount of health; in a matchup where the opposing laner is strong, missing that heal can sometimes trigger a nasty chain reaction.

So Liang Yan skipped the red buff and went to the F4 camp, using 【Burrow】 to pop up and launch the one large and three small Razorbeaks into the air—this is an area‑of‑effect crowd control skill.

After clearing F4 and then circling back to take the red buff, his second Smite was already off cooldown.

At 2:37, Liang Yan used Smite to take the red buff.

Clearing three monster camps took a total of 57 seconds, which is the limit of the red side Rek'Sai's full clear route starting from the Stone Armor Beetle camp and going through the upper half of the jungle.

Unfortunately, no one understood Liang Yan's perfect jungle clear, so no one praised him; only the support Yudie's noisy chatter and Kikis's inexplicable foolish laughter could be heard intermittently in the headset.

After taking the red buff, Liang Yan circled halfway around to the back of the red buff camp, and while burrowed used his E skill 【Tunnel Dig】 to go through the wall into the river, simultaneously leaving behind a reusable tunnel at his rear.

The river crab that spawned at 2:30 happened to wander into view; Liang Yan first placed a ward at the far end of the opposite riverbank brush, then turned back to kill the river crab.

In a skirmish top lane, Xiao Yu Ren was slightly disadvantaged, losing one‑third of his health, but his E skill was ready; the troll lacked proper crowd control to follow up, making a kill difficult.

So Liang Yan didn't waste time going top; after killing the river crab he went directly behind mid lane and returned to the lower half of the jungle.

At that moment, Alistar with both red and blue buff appeared in Liang Yan's ward vision.

He pressed Tab to glance: Alistar was level 3 with 8 last hits.

The red and blue buffs together accounted for six of those last hits.

The remaining two last hits could only have been from Stone Armor Beetles.

He actually skipped Alistar's favorite camp, F4?

Was he afraid I would steal his blue?

Emmm... the diamond‑tier jungler's thinking is truly unfathomable.

Glancing at the bottom lane, as expected they were being pushed, but although Lu Xi An was under pressure and feeling uncomfortable, the enemy couldn't control the wave, the minion line had already reached the tower, Lu Xi An's health was still fine, and although Bard's mana was running low, there should be no immediate problem.

So Liang Yan canceled his plan to directly assist bottom lane, pinged mid lane, and started clearing from the three wolves downward.

On the minimap, Alistar foolishly charged across the river into Liang Yan's upper jungle, discovered the F4 camp was empty, disappointed, quickly retreated, and under the vision of the red side's ward dug into the left river brush of mid lane, crouched for two or three seconds, then left the brush and returned to his own upper jungle…

—It was just like sleepwalking.

Liang Yan really couldn't fathom Alistar's aimless, headless‑fly‑like movement path; just in case, he used a wall‑clipping trick while taking the blue buff to place his second trinket ward in the river, keeping an eye on the river while jungling.

Red side blue buff wall‑clipping ward spot

A river crab was wandering in the river.

When he finished taking the blue buff, Alistar still hadn't appeared.

This was a huge surprise; after finishing the blue buff, Liang Yan lowered his head and dove, going straight through the wall to start clearing the second river crab.

Then he burrowed into the enemy's lower jungle and threw a 【Hunter's Search】 toward F4.

It was empty.

There were no monsters in the F4 camp.

At this moment, Liang Yan's expression was like this:

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Since you already went back to clear F4...

Why didn't you just take the river crab on the way??

Why!!

Why!!

To be fair, Liang Yan thought that if he were the coach of the opposing jungler Gilius, regarding Alistar's movement this game, he would definitely call a timeout to let Gilius explain himself, and if the explanation wasn't clear, dock half a month's salary!

Surely he didn't miss all the Stone Armor Beetles……?

By then the second group of Stone Armor Beetles had already respawned.

Liang Yan simply couldn't resist his curiosity, and, as if possessed, he followed the little path behind the dragon pit and burrowed over there.

When he burrowed through the wall and arrived at the Stone Armor Beetle camp.

He was shocked to discover.

The two Stone Armor Beetles were perfectly intact, just sitting in the monster camp.

Ah this...

It turns out this is a Wild King‑type jungler, ah; his actions the next second are like throwing dice—no one can predict his route for the next second!

As for how to deal with this type of jungler, the LPL seniors have already figured it out—rather than waste time and energy playing a guessing game with the Wild King, it's better to simply ignore him, treat him as if he doesn't exist, and just do your own thing.

Liang Yan turned his gaze toward Xia Lu.

EZ and Fan Mother pushed the minion wave to under the tower, pinning Liang Yan's duo‑lane teammate there and ruthlessly abusing them.

It seems these two hadn't even considered how to deal with someone coming up behind them.

Liang Yan decided to give those two upright boys a lesson, pinging an enemy who was currently in the top lane and then rushing over.

From their positioning it was clear there was vision at the river entrance, so Liang Yan didn't go through the river; instead, after waiting for a wave of minions to pass, he directly came from in front of the blue side's lower tower and attacked their rear.

S04's response was also rather laid‑back; even after using their flash they couldn't shake off the pursuit, and only then did Fan Mother decide to sacrifice herself to protect EZ.

In the end they blew both flashes and EZ's heal, only managing to escape with a single EZ, and Fan Mother's head was accidentally taken by Bard with a basic attack.

After the battle ended, Bard tossed a cappuccino in the direction where Rek'Sai had left, and then heard Yudie cheer over the headset:

"Thanks, bro, come again next time!"

Liang Yan nearly burst out laughing, right‑clicked to move over and drank the coffee.

It wasn't to recover that sip of blood, but for the 1.5‑second movement‑speed boost.

By the way, is it really reasonable that drinking a cup of coffee can speed up burrowing?

Such a nonsensical thought flashed through Liang Yan's mind; after using the speed boost to return to Ye Qu, he cleared the Magic Swamp Frog he had left behind, then pressed the recall button.

While he was returning to base, perhaps the centaur finally realized he should also do something; his figure appeared in the top lane, and after greeting the troll who had already spotted the centaur coming via river vision and thus kept his distance, he left.

Liang Yan also saw the centaur's last hit.

Level 4, 16 hits.