Chapter 364: This is definitely a bug!

Amidst the grating, teeth‑aching squeak, Changzhang's Mang Seng was bound and unable to move.

Meiko was greatly startled—if Changzhang dies, Baron will surely be lost and the match will end!

"Changzhang has been hooked!"

"Mantis jumped right up!"

"Meiko flashed in and swallowed Changzhang whole!"

"Sima Laozei shot Meiko unconscious with one arrow!"

"It's the exact same plot again!"

Actually it's still different—this time EDG really has a 5v4 lead; A Guang feared VG would actually push to high ground, so he also went back to base after clearing the lane.

But they hadn't yet gone down to high ground; Scout had no intention to fight, still clearing minions below high ground when Changzhang was hooked, and only then rushed up to high ground.

Meiko exclaimed in shock:

"Hey Li Rui Chan, don't throw! If we die, Baron will be lost!"

Scout barely understood, but had no time to slowly translate into Chinese to chat with Meiko; he smirked inwardly and pinged the Titan still on high ground.

In a 4v4, EDG is bound to lose; without the Titan, what can they use to teamfight against VG?

So Scout's plan was to drive from high ground and bring A Guang's Titan into the fight, yet Meiko still questioned him—one could only say their levels of comprehension were worlds apart.

However Scout also knew this teamfight was likely to be lost.

But one must still do what needs to be done; after all, teammates can be bad, but one cannot slack off, or else one's value will be halved.

Scout did his best.

But things unfolded exactly as he had anticipated.

Meiko thought he, as a thick‑skinned Tam, could withstand VG's first wave of attacks, but in fact he could not.

On the commentator's desk, he remembered to shout in surprise:

"Jiao Shen's damage is terrifying—one combo shaved off half of Meiko's health bar!"

"Marquis also grabbed a Hammer Stone Lantern and went crazy with damage!"

Su Xiao Yan watched Tam's health bar drop rapidly, and a question suddenly popped into her mind:

Tam has a Mang Seng in his belly, which theoretically should count as two people, yet Mantis can trigger Lone Wanderer—does that count as a bug?

Meiko likewise sensed something was wrong; in the crisis he shouted back:

"Pause! Referee, I request a pause!"

The players' earpieces are linked to the backstage area; the referee reacted quickly, and upon receiving the pause permission, the backstage immediately froze the game process.

On the venue's big screen, the game display suddenly froze.

A small box covered the display:

【Game Paused】

The audience erupted in an uproar.

EDG fans' hearts had been up in their throats, but after the game paused they all let out a simultaneous sigh of relief—though they didn't know why.

VG fans, however, were not having it—they were enjoying the show, wondering why it had been paused.

The venue became extremely noisy.

Backstage, in the VG lounge, Lu Wenjun, seated before his computer, froze for a moment, looking left and right at Gao Jun and Long Ge:

"What's going on?"

The two were also completely baffled, each shaking their head.

But staff soon came over to inform them: EDG support player Meiko believed the game had a bug and voluntarily requested a pause.

On the player bench, the VG members were equally in the dark, but because talking during a pause is prohibited, they could only communicate through glances.

Liang Yan sat calmly in his seat, having some guesses about the reason for this pause, yet feeling not the slightest bit nervous.

Of course, he guessed correctly.

At the EDG player bench, Meiko was quickly chatting with the referee while pointing at the screen, his tone urgent:

"This isn't right, this definitely isn't right—we clearly are two people, so why can he trigger Lone Wanderer's extra damage? This must be a bug!"

Meiko also knew full well that, although EDG appeared to have a 5v4 advantage, their lineup was actually very disjointed:

Zet's Jin was EDG's main teamfight damage dealer at this stage; to keep himself safe he certainly couldn't get too close, and as a long‑range AD he had no need to rush forward first, so he couldn't provide any assist effect to his teammates.

A Guang's Titan was still on high ground.

Scout's Ryze had also run up to high ground, just having unleashed his ultimate, Arcane Shift; Meiko finally realized Scout was running back to drive and pick someone up.

But it was too late.

Definitely too late.

Meiko knew clearly that if he couldn't withstand this wave, EDG would surely lose!

So he fought hard for it, insisting that if it were confirmed that Tam swallowing a person then triggering Lone Wanderer from Mantis is a bug, EDG could apply for a rematch.

Leaving aside EDG's special channels, a bug involving the champions' underlying code obviously couldn't be fixed in a short time.

Putting it that way, once confirmed as a bug, this match already played for twenty minutes would certainly be voided; both sides would need to re‑pick and start over, and Tam would be temporarily disabled until Riot programmers fix the code and roll out a patch.

But is it really a bug?

Meiko wasn't sure, but he thought it had to be, otherwise EDG would lose.

Liang Yan, however, remained very calm.

As for this detail, he had personally communicated with Riot staff about it.

Earlier, when he went to Riot headquarters to pick champion skins, the skin design department head Rex added him on WeChat; recently, while Liang Yan was studying the patch, he was certain Mantis would explode in popularity this version and that Tam would become a hot pick, so he specifically messaged Rex on WeChat to ask whether Tam swallowing a person would allow Mantis to trigger Lone Wanderer.

Rex asked the champion designer for him, and the answer was: Yes.

This is a legitimate game mechanic, not a bug.

Zhengda Guangchang competition venue, the backstage broadcast team staff quickly communicated with the design team of Riot Games, received an affirmative response, and then notified the referee.

The referee informed Meiko of this result:

"It's not a game bug; please prepare to restart the game."

Meiko was dumbfounded, and hastily said:

"No, this isn't a bug? How could it be?! This is definitely a bug!"

The referee explained:

"The trigger rule for Kazike's isolated state is that when there are no friendly or neutral units within a certain range around the target, it is considered isolated; the detection range is about 400 yards, and it only detects units that can be selected and interacted with."

"After the Tamutun, friendly heroes become unselectable, considered isolated from the battlefield, and cannot be detected by the game system as 'nearby friendly units,' so Kazike can normally trigger the isolated effect at this time."

"This is not a game bug."