Chapter 460: WE's Savior

Didn't see anyone.

Easyhoon finished clearing the lane and ran into his own jungle, placed a true sight ward in the grass patch behind the red buff camp, then after placing the ward turned back to mid.

That sentence was of course directed at Liang Yan.

This true sight ward Easyhoon originally intended to keep to supplement vision in the river, but Liang Yan just had him place one in his own jungle, saying he didn't see Condi in Shang Ban Qu, suspecting the enemy would act on Xia Lu, likely coming from the dragon pit.

Ma Ge's E skill was already on cooldown, and when the enemy duo pressed forward with a retreating lane push, Xiao Duan also couldn't conveniently leave, so Liang Yan had Marquis look after him.

Easyhoon of course unhesitatingly carried out the carry's command, but unexpectedly didn't see Condi's figure.

Liang Yan heard that and switched over to take a look.

At first he didn't think much of it, just thought his judgment was wrong; Condi might have just gone home, indeed he had no intention of catching him.

But after two seconds, Liang Yan's mind suddenly flashed with a lightning-like bright thought.

No... not right!

Liang Yan glanced at the specific game time, and at the same time switched the view to behind the dragon pit.

Here, nothing.

It appears there is no abnormality; perhaps an ordinary player—indeed likely all junglers except Liang Yan—could not detect any abnormality.

But Liang Yan is an ultimate detail fanatic!

—Here, there should be an Explosive Fruit!

Although the respawn times of various fruits in the rift are not fixed values but are randomly selected within a time interval; however, at this time, it has been six minutes since the Explosive Fruit was last taken down, exceeding the maximum respawn time!

If no one touches it, this spot behind the dragon pit should have an Explosive Fruit existing. But now it's empty!

Empty!

Where's the fruit?

Did I misremember?

Or maybe a version update changed the respawn time and I didn't know?

No, absolutely impossible!

Liang Yan has always been extremely confident, even to the point of arrogance; when doubting himself versus doubting others, if there is no very obvious sign or solid logic to prove the former, he will unhesitatingly choose to doubt others, although he may not always show it.

In short, Liang Yan clearly remembers that Summoner's Rift, since the jungle plant system was added in version 6.22, has only been changed once: in version 7.2+3, the respawn time of the Honey Fruit (healing fruit) was increased by one minute. At that time, Liang Yan informed the party with the greatest interest, Fu Lan Duo, about this version change detail; Fu Lan Duo joked that this was an epic nerf to Braum and Kled—although it was a joke, it's not entirely without reason, because these two champions are very strong in lane but lack sustain, so they often push lane then go to the river to eat the healing fruit. Extending the fruit's respawn time amounts to a covert nerf to such champions' laning sustain, making them unable to as freely pressure and trade as before.

Since version 7.2+3, less than five versions have passed, and Liang Yan has carefully read the original version update announcements from the Chinese server and the Riot English website each time.

Liang Yan believes he hasn't missed or forgotten anything!

Since it's not my misremember, and teammates definitely didn't touch it, yet the fruit indeed doesn't exist in reality, there is only one possibility——

Someone has been here.

WE's people came over and knocked down the fruit.

Who?

In the one or two minutes when the fruit could have respawned, the WE players on all three lanes had no chance to come over and hit the fruit—although the WE mid and bottom lane players had disappeared from lane for a period, afterwards from various signs we can infer they went home.

So, combining all signs, Liang Yan ultimately arrived at a reliable inference:

The fruit was taken by Condi, he is in the lower half!

Ding ding ding!

At the moment of making the judgment, Liang Yan directly placed a warning signal on Sima Laozei and Xiao Duan's foreheads.

"Ma Ge, Xiao Duan, retreat a bit, Condi went down!"

"Ah?"

Sima Laozei glanced at the minimap, looking a bit dazed.

Before meeting Liang Yan and receiving re-education, Sima Laozei was always a brute. Of course he still is a brute now, but he has somewhat learned to bring his brain to play games.

Moreover, compared to before, Sima Laozei's frequency of checking the minimap has undergone an exponential surge—he can see very clearly that all key junctions from the enemy's territory to our bottom lane are lit up by our vision.

Edge grass, river mouth, Triangular Grass, behind the dragon pit……

"How did he get here?"

Sima Laozei is extremely puzzled.

"Fruit!"

Liang Yan marked the position, couldn't elaborate further, so he kept it short.

At the same time he called out to Fu Lan Duo:

"Top lane, come down a bit to apply pressure. Marquis, come with me!"

Liang Yan said, then ran straight down.

At the same time, Easyhoon, who originally intended to push this wave and then go home, used a Q skill to cripple the rear minions, not greedily last-hitting, and without a word turned and ran down.

Although Sima Laozei was puzzled, he absolutely trusts Liang Yan on this, so he also ran back; and Xiao Duan, who would love to prefix his ID with 'Jiao Shen Mi Di', needless to say, runs even faster than Ma Ge.

At this moment, Condi, who was hiding against the wall of the Stone Armor Beetle camp, originally intended to patiently lurk, waiting for the minion wave to reach the tower before coming out, but seeing the VG duo even planning to abandon the minion wave and just run, he could no longer stay crouched.

Time waits for no one, opportunity must not be lost!

Hesitation leads to defeat!

Condi cheered himself up in his heart, took a deep breath, fixed his gaze on the VG duo running from the other side of the wall toward the second tower, and made his decision.

He chose an operation that requires great courage, but if successfully executed would be very cool, cool enough to make the whole arena shout 'ah ah'—

"Wall-piercing W Flash spinning kick!!!"

"Wow! So cool!!!"

"Oh my god Condi! He stepped up at the crucial moment!!!"

"Could you also want to be WE's savior?! This kick directly kicked Ma Ge back! And it hit Xiao Duan! I saw the shadow of S6 Jiao Shen's kick!!!"

At the moment he successfully pulled off this operation, Condi was so excited his hands were shaking!

He felt the vibration of the stage floor beneath his feet; although he couldn't see, he could imagine the commentator roaring because of his god-level operation, and the live audience was erupting in deafening cheers for his outstanding performance.

At this moment, the black pot went far away from him!

He is WE's savior!