Chapter 397: That

Liang Yan switched to mid lane and saw the Marquis seize the moment when Syndra came up to last‑hit minions, landing a two‑step stomp on the enemy's face, AQ cast Thunder and then calmly tossed out the chain.

Xi Ye countered with a Weakness Retreat, pushing back the Marquis, but because it was a no‑ball push she couldn't break the chain, was eventually stunned, used a purification on her low health and retreated to the turret.

Syndra had over 130 health, and the enemy Ahri, lacking Ignite and any other skills, would need three auto‑attacks to kill her—obviously unrealistic.

The Marquis was clear‑headed; seeing an advantage, he pulled back and went straight to clear the lane.

Liang Yan took the opportunity to continue educating Fu Lan Duo.

"You should learn from the Marquis how to play with brains."

"……"

Fu Lan Duo's good point is that she listens to reason and admits her mistakes when she knows them.

But it usually can't be fixed right away; similar issues have occurred many times in practice matches, and Liang Yan always says that habitual problems are hard to change, so we can only take it slow.

After being hit and flashed, Fu Lan Duo took her potion, circled from the jungle back to the top lane, caught the minion wave the crocodile pushed under the tower—equivalent to using Flash to earn the right to last‑hit minions.

But it's actually completely unnecessary, since Liang Yan went up without even eating the Stone Armor Beetle just to come help him ease the lane; Fu Lan Duo only needs to give a little patience.

Seeing Fu Lan Duo obediently admit her mistake, Liang Yan stopped berating her; after clearing the three wolves he pinged his own blue buff to signal the Marquis to come get blue.

Everyone quietly let out a sigh of relief.

The stern Liang Yan still has quite an aura, a bit intimidating.

"I'll go home right after I get the blue."

The Marquis walked toward the jungle, saying.

Liang Yan glanced at the bottom lane; it was exactly a retreating push, already almost pushed past the river, so he clicked on Xiao Duan's ward placed in the side grass.

"We can circle around and catch them."

"Okay!"

Liang Yan then gave Xiao Duan some advice.

"Next time you have this kind of opportunity, Xiao Duan, you can take the initiative."

"Oh! Good!"

Liang Yan of course knows Xiao Duan isn't unwilling to take initiative; he just never realized he could play like that, so Liang Yan needs to remind him, and gradually he'll develop that awareness.

The Marquis returned to base after taking the blue; Liang Yan then leapt toward the river, rushing quickly upstream, deliberately exposing himself to the vision of the ward placed at the river mouth by 957.

"The mantis is on me."

957's reminder and Condi's warning signal sounded at the same time.

When the enemy jungler appears in the upper half, the bottom laners pushing the lane will subconsciously relax their vigilance a bit.

As a result, just after pushing the minion wave into the tower, the WE duo noticed a teleportation vortex appearing in the grass behind them.

Although Condi was in the lower half, he couldn't help; Ahri's burst was too high, landing a two‑step stomp, EZ Bu Long followed up and added some damage, and Mystic almost instantly went down.

"Shuijing Ge reaped his first kill!"

"Mystic died twice in a row ten minutes ago; this Jinx is a bit explosive."

"Again two waves of minions can't be taken; it's indeed explosive."

Ben, on the other hand, ran fast, slipped from the direction of the Triangular Grass, met up with Condi's blind monk in the river, and picked up a small life.

After killing someone, the Marquis returned to mid via the small path behind the dragon pit.

On mid lane, Syndra pushed the minion wave to under the tower and began to attack the tower.

Liang Yan realized someone was ambushing mid‑lane, but didn't immediately warn; instead he watched the Marquis's movement. The Marquis, by nature cautious, upon reaching behind the dragon pit suddenly turned back, didn't take a shortcut, chose to circle around, took the small path in front of the red buff camp, exited via the jungle gap before the second mid tower, and safely returned to mid lane.

Liang Yan couldn't help but smile at the sight.

The Marquis is indeed reassuring.

On the commentator's desk, Guan Zeyuan, who saw everything from a god's view, also praised.

"The Marquis's sense of smell is really sharp; although he lost half a wave, he picked up a life, because Condi and Ben were ambushing him in the mid‑lane! If they had caught him, even if Ahri had W and Flash she might not escape!"

"If this Ahri died, that would be a huge tempo; VG's middle tower would have to fall, because the bottom lane has already returned to base, and WE's three people can destroy towers very quickly."

"No doubt, but you can always trust Easyhoon's steadiness!"

Gangzi and Xiao Duan knew Condi was in the lower half, while their own jungler wasn't nearby, so after pushing the lane they directly returned to base to buy equipment, without going to push the tower.

The minion wave entered the tower with no one to catch it, and was wasted by the defensive tower.

After Fu Lan Duo accepted the education, she finally brought her brain to the game, clearly realizing she couldn't beat the crocodile, so she stopped futilely trading with it in lane; after clearing the lane she would run, occasionally drifting toward mid lane for no reason, suffering no loss herself but putting great pressure on WE's mid lane.

As levels rose, Xi Ye's lane became increasingly tough; when the Marquis played Lawbringer he was fairly steady one‑on‑one, but when he played Ahri he was extremely aggressive; the lane was already tough enough, and Qinggang Ying occasionally came to harass, making Xi Ye feel a bit overwhelmed.

Of course, the crocodile can also roam, but at this point his Flash isn't ready yet, and compared to Qinggang Ying which can ambush from over a thousand units away, the crocodile's one‑segment E only has a range of three‑four hundred units, so its roaming lacks deterrence and helps Xi Ye very little.

Xi Ye's laning became increasingly cautious.

The Marquis pushed the lane without pressure; after clearing it he moved down to cover Liang Yan.

Condi also fell into a state where he could barely protect himself, with no spare capacity to look after mid lane.

Around 9:30, Liang Yan again invaded WE's lower jungle.

"Two groups of monsters just respawned, and Jiao Shen again took them all, and also left a trio of wolves for Condi."

"This mantis is just too awesome."

Guan Zeyuan raised his eyebrows: "What a good person—afraid Condi can't clear the jungle, he helps you clear the monsters, and also afraid you'd be bored, he deliberately left a small one."

Joker couldn't help but laugh: "WE's lower jungle monsters from start to now have only respawned four rounds total, and he's taken two rounds—that's really too kind."

Remember to keep an eye on the mantis's last‑hit count: "Almost sixty hits, oh, same level as mid laner Xi Ye, one level higher than Condi and the bottom lane, already has a tier‑3 jungle knife… feels like Jiao Shen this game isn't just a support—he's going to eat people."

"The key is, ten minutes are up."

"emmm……"

In the WE lounge, the Redmi coach again started pulling his hair.

"Not right!"

In this situation, Condi should just give up the lower half and team up with the crocodile; with the crocodile's cover, you can both counter-jungle and put pressure on Blue Steel Shadow, keeping Flandre from roaming freely—why can't you see something so simple!

You keep running down, but there's nothing in the lower half—why did you come down?

Wake up, Condi!

After clearing the river crab, a white light burst out from the mantis.

「I've reached level 8—my goodness! 」

「A level 8 versus a level 6……this shouldn't happen—how did this lineup end up like this? 」

「Jiao Shen is too smart…」