Chapter 212: Now I feel at ease

On the LPL commentary desk, Wawa shouted angrily:

"Don't run, you! Weren't you being arrogant?! If you dare to come, don't run away!"

Miller also shouted excitedly:

"Chase! We must chase him to death! The kill from a triple kill! It's worth a lot!"

The noise at the venue transmitted through the commentators' microphones to the livestream, making the atmosphere extremely heated.

On the big screen, the two junglers engaged in close combat in the jungle, while the two top and mid laners also came to surround from different lanes.

Malaxiangguo reacted extremely quickly; although he couldn't protect his own jungle monster, the moment the male gunner's E came, he slammed a Heavenly Sound Wave in the enemy's face and then pursued with auto-attacks.

Liang Yan tossed a smoke bomb, turned and ran, pulling away toward the river.

Malaxiangguo, unwilling to let it go, followed up with a second Q and kept punching and kicking.

Liang Yan pulled away while turning to counterattack; just before reaching the exit, a wall-placed ward revealed the vampire in the river, so he immediately turned and pulled into the blue buff camp.

"Both top and mid laners have come over; it looks like Xiaohu's vampire will engage first, but the male gunner suddenly turned and ran toward the blue buff!"

"Malaxiangguo pursued relentlessly!"

"Both sides have less than half health left!"

"Malaxiangguo feared the male gunner would escape through walls with E, so he followed closely!"

"But this is a trap!!!"

"Perkz ulted through the wall and directly sucked in Malaxiangguo!!!"

Figure: Jungle guerrilla warfare

"Xiaohu rushed forward with Swiftness, his Plague Strike hit the gunner! After the gunner finished his QA, he quickly holstered his gun and fled through walls, and the final blow of his second-stage damage took Malaxiangguo's head!"

"Xiaohu came over, charging his E against the wall to follow up, hoping to combo with his ultimate's second-stage burst to kill instantly, but he anticipated it! The gunner flashed to dodge that deadly charged E and ran toward mid lane!!"

"After Malaxiangguo died, he transferred the locust's ominous spirit illusion to Xiaohu! But Xiaohu's health is very healthy! Dare to chase? No! Xiaohu just turned and left!"

"Ah, you're not chasing?!"

"Chase!! The gunner with three kills!! Why aren't you chasing! Even a one-for-one trade would be a profit! Oh my god, at a crucial moment you can't be timid, Xiaohu!!"

"He ran, the gunner with over 200 health, he got away... I really..."

"He reached level six..."

In the LPL livestream room, the barrage exploded.

【Could this let him escape?】

【Why not chase?】

【What is Xiaohu playing at!】

【Speechless, losing to G2 and getting killed so many times, even a comeback would be embarrassing】

After successfully escaping, Liang Yan helped AP clear a wave on the way, then turned around and came back to eat the second group of river crabs that had just respawned in the upper river, then he nicely returned to base.

Upon arriving home, he directly crafted a tier‑3 jungle knife, added a true sight ward, then went out still heading to the upper half, starting to clear from the third group of Stone Armor Beetles downward.

This time he had intended to keep clearing, but while clearing F4 he saw the recently revived Mang Seng causing trouble again in the bottom lane.

This time, Malaxiangguo finally caught and killed the non‑flashing Mithy; to feed this kill to Uzi's mouth, Malaxiangguo took two extra turret hits, leaving his health extremely low.

Seeing this, Liang Yan used Smite to take the big bird, and with true vision effect he rushed straight to the top lane.

The LPL commentators shouted again:

"He's back again!"

"Treating Looper as an ATM, huh? This guy is way too outrageous!"

Later generations say that to beat RNG you just need a level‑2 gank bottom, but in practice it usually doesn't work, because at this time RNG's protection of the bottom lane is the most thorough; Uzi enjoyed all‑round protection from the start, including opening vision design, jungle clearing routes, and so on, all serving to ensure the bottom lane could smoothly exert pressure.

But such a tactic is too extreme.

Even if they had learned more advanced tactical concepts from Snake, they still couldn't completely abandon this playstyle with its obvious drawbacks.

Because Uzi's presence has already set the tone for this team.

Liang Yan actually thought it simple: since you want to protect the bottom lane, let you do that; I'll take a Wild Core to the top lane to farm, and in teamfights we'll see who's more useful.

Originally Liang Yan had designed some more intricate tactics, but when actually playing he found it unexpectedly easy; RNG actually just let him treat the top lane as an ATM, which made many of Liang Yan's follow‑up plans unusable, leaving him a little regretful.

A level‑7 gunner with a level‑7 Pantheon dove a level‑5 Jess's tower; of course there was no suspense—Old Zhang jumped up and stunned the opponent, and Liang Yan unleashed a W‑Q‑R combo to instantly kill him.

This scene seemed very familiar to the European audience, giving a feeling of time‑space dislocation, as if a certain match had been replayed here.

The moment Jess fell, a golden number appeared on the gunner's body.

231 gold.

Old Zhang also earned 115 gold from an assist bounty.

Liang Yan smacked his lips, marked the turret with a signal, and said into the microphone: "Don't bother catching him anymore; he's not worth it—just take the turret down."

After leaving the turret's attack range, Old Zhang turned back to dismantle the turret, chuckling: "Should I send him one?"

Liang Yan walked into the jungle with his gun, saying: "Sure, go ahead and send it."

Old Zhang recalled the scenes where AP and the double‑west bottom lane repeatedly got beaten by Ka Lao Si, shuddered all over, and quickly forced a laugh, saying "Never mind, never mind."

Liang Yan cleared the three jungle monster groups on the blue side's upper half, drove the warding Jess back to the second tower, then walked with his gun toward Old Zhang to help tear down the tower.

In the canyon the roar of the slain dragon sounded; Liang Yan switched his view to glance at the bottom lane, where our duo still kept the wave locked in front of the tower, seeming reluctant to move.

Liang Yan had intended to tell the duo to hurry up, but seeing Zven's pitiful equipment and poor development made him reluctant to be harsh, so he withdrew the retreat signal he was about to issue and only told Zhen over the mic to push quickly.

As expected, when Zven finished pushing the line and retreated under the tower to recall, Malaxiangguo's Mang Seng emerged from behind the triangular grass patch.

Ultimately, the one who got hurt again was Mithy.

Zven, however, used his double summon to escape successfully and hid under the second tower while recalling.

"Uzi took the second kill!"

"And we can try to snag this first‑blood tower!"

Uh…… that should be unobtainable now, the top lane is almost completely destroyed.

Oh, indeed we can't get the First Blood Tower, but now I feel relieved.

Wawa smiled with relief.

Miller chuckled and said, "Exactly."

Guan Zeyuan tilted his head, thought for a moment, understood Wawa's meaning, and then smiled and echoed: "If Uzi gets two kills, it's definitely more reassuring than other lanes getting four kills."

The chat atmosphere in the LPL live stream also relaxed:

【Waiting for Uzi's three-piece set and then it's done】

【Looper really fed this game, go back and reflect】

【Good thing Xiangguo knows who's carrying on this team, the opportunity was found well!】

【This game will probably go on for over thirty minutes, sigh, I thought we could speedrun it, but it seems G2 still has something】

【It's just messing around; next game we'll ban Pantheon and they'll have no way to respond!】

【I want to see the Exquisite Tower speedrun G2!】