Chapter 411: The Doomsday Has Arrived for Group A's Weakling Team

VG faced IM in the second game; at thirty-seven minutes, both sides formed up in the upper river lane and erupted into a 5v5 head-on clash.

"Everyone on IM is charging forward, desperately trying to instantly kill VG's sole late-game damage core, Varus! But Sima Laozei isn't dead yet! He's still dealing damage!"

"Sima Laozei! This head-shaking frequency is too exaggerated!"

The attack-speed Varus with six divine items, blessed by Lulu's Censer, is practically a walking automatic electromagnetic cannon, firing arrow after arrow in a frenzy—so fast that the trajectories connect into a visible arc of light!

Even the tanky big tree with AmazingJ's four-item set and armor boots, ult activated, couldn't withstand this terrifying output; W rushed in but was flashed by Sima Laozei into the VG crowd and instantly melted.

Rek'Sai, closely following AJ as it burrowed up, was caught in the hurricane split attack's splash, already at half health; when the big tree fell, seeing danger, it instantly turned and flashed to escape—but as soon as its flash appeared, several arrows chased it, pinning it like a hedgehog; upon entering another tunnel's mouth, its health was drained to zero, and it died underground.

When the two frontliners fell, the rest of IM had no power to resist; having reached this point, they completely lost any chance to turn the game around, so the remaining three members of IM didn't flee but charged forward one by one, only to fall in succession under Varus's arrow rain.

With the final Athena falling to her Owl, the on-screen display flashed a crimson alert. At the same time, an epic-sounding female voice echoed throughout the venue:

"Spit his Q!"

In an instant, the audience's cheers exploded like thunder from a clear sky inside the arena.

"Pentakill!!!"

"Sima Laozei has gotten his first pentakill of the season!!!"

"So handsome, Brother Ma!!!"

In VG's player section, Sima Laozei got so excited his face turned red, his lips twitching, yet amazingly he didn't break character, swallowing his smile and quickly returning to his cold-faced killer demeanor.

"Awesome! Brother Ma is awesome!!!"

Xiao Duan shouted excitedly; turning his head, he saw Sima Laozei's cold side profile and was startled, saying:

"No way, Brother Ma, you can even hold back laughter?"

Although those who know Sima Laozei well understand that, compared to a normal person, Brother Ma's lip twitch counts as bursting into laughter.

Sima Laozei said lightly:

"I don't think it's a big deal."

Everybody:???

Liang Yan couldn't help but give a thumbs-up, merely sighing in admiration.

When it comes to pretending, if Sima Laozei claims second place, probably no one would dare call themselves first.

……

With just over twenty seconds left until forty minutes, VG completely destroyed IM's main base, locking the match score at 2-0.

"2-0, and again 2-0!"

Amid VG fans' cheers, Wawa shouted from the commentator's desk,

"Congratulations, VG! You won the first cross-group clash; your winning streak remains fiercely strong—even against IM, famed for defense, you still achieved an astonishing record of total match time under one hour across two games!"

"Without a doubt, a shark has stormed into Group A's pond!"

"Huh? That's a vivid analogy—before, the internal points matches of Groups A and B were like two separate ponds where each side stayed undisturbed; now this cross-group confrontation stage is like the ponds being connected, with both sides launching a grand melee! What role will VG play in this melee? Teacher Miller said it well—he's very likely to be an incredibly ferocious shark!"

【Crush Group A!】

【RNG's good days are over】

【This is the doomsday for Group A's weakling team!】

【Speaking of this, I really think it's totally unfair—Group A only has RNG as a strong team; the rest are just what junk?】

【Group A's strength truly can't compare to Group B's; even a weakling team like OMG can live peacefully in Group A, but if thrown into hell-level Group B, it would surely be at the bottom.】

【Because Snake is counted as a strong team—if Snake weren't poached and kept its strength from last summer's split, Group A's level would actually be about the same as Group B's.】

【Even if Snake remains a strong team, it still feels incomparable to Group B—EDG, WE, VG, QG; I feel any one of these four teams randomly placed into Group A could easily finish top three. And honestly, I think NB isn't weak either!】

【The group draw was based on last year's playoff results—who could have imagined this year's changes would be so huge?】

【So RNG is truly the National Electric; EDG gets no special treatment at all—what National Electric? →_→】

【Do you all look down on OMG and IG like that?】

【IG is actually decent; OMG without Brother Ma is just a roadside stray.】

【I also think this year's IG is very strong!】

【IG's laners are indeed strong, but the jungler and AD carry are still a bit lacking, still a noticeable gap from the top-tier teams.】

In the livestream room, the barrage kept exploding.

Related topics also quickly heated up across major forums.

……

Yu Shuang sat in a backstage workroom, applying makeup in front of a mirror.

Her phone stood on the mirror's phone holder, streaming the LPL official match's live feed in real time, but the entire screen was covered by the barrage army; only the voices of the three commentators came through clearly.

Yu Shuang's makeup routine had reached its final stage; she occasionally glanced at the barrage, then suddenly spoke to another staff member in the room:

"Hey, did you notice? The group topic suddenly blew up."

"What groups?"

"Just the group draw."

"Wasn't that decided long ago? What's the use of bringing it up now?"

"I don't know, but many people are saying the two groups' strengths are unbalanced. Hey, should I temporarily add a question?"

"It's up to you; I think this kind of question still carries some risk."

"Um…… let me think."

Yu Shuang drew her eyeliner while pondering.

Finally, she still couldn't resist putting down her eyeliner pencil, picking up a nearby ballpoint pen, spreading out her interview notebook, adding one last line to the previously planned interview outline, then copying it onto the hand card she would bring to the interview stage.

Although to netizens a post-match interview seems just a few minutes and a few questions, as the interview host, the things to consider are actually quite complex.

This time, amid the potential to spark controversy and definitely catch a big wave of traffic, Yu Shuang chose the latter.

A staff member knocked on the door and entered.

"Yu Shuang, it's time!"

"Right away!"

Yu Shuang tidied up, put her makeup tools into the makeup box, grabbed her hand card, stood up, lifted her skirt hem, and left the workroom.