Chapter 40: What's the top lane?

Although the game is still under ten minutes, I think GIA's win rate in this match has already fallen below thirty percent. Deficio gazed at Ezreal, who was helplessly shaking inside the second turret's protective zone on the big screen, and sincerely remarked.

What? There's still thirty percent?

Um, after all, all of G2's kills are on Firrrrrre's Elise.

Is that so? But I think, precisely because the gold is concentrated on him, GIA's win rate becomes even slimmer.

Wow, it seems Quickshot thinks highly of this newcomer!

Isn't that the case? I thought it was obvious to everyone.

Emmm, maybe it's because this is his debut match, so he's especially excited, leading to such an outstanding performance?

You think that? Then let's keep watching.

Just as his words fell, Liang Yan, having taken the third blue buff spider in his own jungle, returned to the bottom lane.

This time he dove straight under the tower.

Liang Yan scored another double kill and managed to escape with sliver of health.

The enemy Ezreal, seemingly losing his mind before death, DF twice jumped onto the spider's face, desperately trying to take the spider's big head.

However, Liang Yan dodged the Q skill Arcane Shot by positioning and using a small spider to block it, and in the end it was just a tiny bit of damage short of killing him.

6-1, the system announced that the spider was unstoppable.

Not over yet.

After scoring a double kill in the bottom lane, Liang Yan pressed recall in the bushes, pretending to suddenly remember there was vision in the grass, then canceled recall and placed a control ward to clear GIA's ward.

GIA lost vision in the bushes, and out of habit assumed the spider would continue recalling after clearing the wards, since its health was already low.

But they didn't expect that after clearing the wards, Liang Yan let Jin heal him a bit, restored some health, then turned and ran toward mid lane.

Under the director's camera, the spider with movement speed near five hundred sped off all the way.

Night, completely unprepared, was caught dead on.

Liang Yan used Web to dodge the vampire's ultimate Blood Plague cast at the brink of death, and AP unleashed Overload to drain the vampire's last hit point.

AP finally got his first kill in this match, feeling as joyful as a child receiving a longed‑for birthday gift, and instantly forgot the grudge 'this guy didn't even give me the third blue buff'.

And Liang Yan survived again with sliver of health.

"Undying Demon King, still cannot be defeated! (TheUnkillableDemonKing! unkillableonemoretime!)"

After Quickshot the commentator shouted that excitedly, he suddenly turned and smiled at his co‑commentator:

"Deficio, do you still think having the kills in his hand is a liability?"

Deficio stayed silent for two seconds, then sighed:

"I have to admit, Firrrrrre, he is truly an outstanding jungler. The jungle landscape of Europe is probably about to undergo a new reshuffle."

Quickshot gave a thumbs‑up, showing his approval.

In G2's team voice channel, Perkz asked hesitantly:

"Jungle bro, am I supposed to take the next blue buff, right?"

"Take it, take it."

Liang Yan "just realized" he had accidentally eaten all the previous blue buffs, and laughed embarrassedly.

All right, he did it on purpose.

Because the pace was indeed too smooth, continuously refilling the blue buff would make him even happier.

However, the enemy side is now basically collapsed, especially their AD carry; the way they play is so distorted that even watching it makes Liang Yan feel a bit uneasy.

The match has already lost its suspense; since it no longer affects the overall outcome, of course we can't just keep having fun alone—it's also time to let the teammates enjoy themselves.

After returning to base and heading out again, Liang Yan cleared the jungle once more, finally arrived at the lower river, and took the first small dragon.

When the small dragon's dying roar rang out, the two commentators on stage couldn't help but remark:

"Can you believe it? This is actually the first small dragon killed in this match."

"Yes, it's indeed pretty absurd. It shows that Riot, in reworking the dragon, definitely cut corners; the cloud dragon design is too flawed, so when it appears as the first dragon, this awkward situation arises."

"But if the first dragon were a fire drake or water drake, the scene would be different."

"Exactly, this shows that the buff strength granted by different dragons is terribly unbalanced."

"Well, I hope Riot will buff the cloud dragon a bit moving forward..."

After taking the dragon, Liang Yan kept his full aggression, ganking bottom then mid, then mid then bottom…

Then finally someone noticed something was off.

Mithy asked:

"Liang, you seem not to like ganking top?"

Liang Yan pretended not to hear.

What's the top lane?

Does this lane even exist?

Of course it does, but only when my brother is on the field.

Playing tricks?

Special treatment?

Exactly, I'm applying double standards.

In such a low‑pressure game, don't you let me gank whichever lane I want?

Liang Yan has never considered himself a moral saint, as the ancients said, 'If one does not act for oneself, heaven will destroy and earth will annihilate!' The ancients also said, 'Those not of our kind must have different hearts!' The great leader further said, 'We must unite our friends and strike hard at our enemies!'

Expect is certainly not an enemy.

But who made Liang Yan hate ***?

The enemy's mid‑bottom duo just happened to be Korean imports, so Liang Yan ended up focusing on mid and bottom for the first ten minutes.

But being too obvious isn't good either; during the remaining match time, Liang Yan still visited the top lane twice, but both times he chose to go when Expect was pushing the line.

He came up from behind Expect, crouched in the grass for a few seconds to ten or so seconds, pretended there was no chance to engage, picked up a bit of experience from a few minions, then left.

After that, he didn't come back.

But there was hardly any time left.

GIA's mid and bottom lanes were really falling apart; even if Liang Yan stopped causing trouble, their development had fallen too far behind, and they could no longer withstand the lane pressure.

Around twenty minutes in, GIA's mid and bottom lanes had been pushed back to beneath their high ground, and the bottom lane's high-ground tower hardly had any health left.

"Brothers, our economic advantage must be over ten thousand by now; it feels like we don't need to fight the big dragon, let's just push down!"

At that moment, AP stepped up to command.

Nobody objected, and Liang Yan remained silent, so everyone grouped up and pushed down.

GIA's defense was feeble; they couldn't even withstand a probing attack. When G2 charged up from below the steps, each of them kept falling back, and finally, after leaving two corpses behind the high-ground tower, they retreated to the turret.

Expect's top laner didn't even join the fight, still diligently pushing the wave in the top lane.

The four players down there were also in good condition.

"No need to retreat, charge, charge, charge!"

Victory was in sight, and AP shouted excitedly.