Chapter 50: North America

Liang Yan sneaked from the lower river into the right‑side grass of mid lane, placed a ward in the small path behind the wall via wall‑hack, then crouched in the grass for a few seconds, seized the moment when a card's walk‑path was nearest to his position, and flashed E onto the wall.

Gank the mid lane.

At the same time, AP's Shah placed a sand soldier in the upper‑left position, adding to the existing one, and with the skill 【Furious Sand Assault】 commanded the two sand soldiers to stab at the card.

The card instinctively moved to the right, but not only failed to avoid the sand soldiers' damage, it also ended up right in the face of the male gunner rushing up from the river.

Bang!

Buckshot sprayed out!

Three bullets hit the card squarely; one shot drained over ninety of its HP, and the health bar above its head visibly shrank by a chunk.

The Shah's two sand soldiers followed up with a basic attack, simultaneously triggering the Lightning talent; with a crackle, the card that still had about three‑quarters health was blown down to just over a hundred HP in a second.

Bi'ersen's face changed dramatically.

Seeing the male gunner raise his barrel again, he hurriedly pressed D‑F to run down toward the tower.

But the card had only that sliver of HP left, while Liang Yan still held a bullet and two skills in hand—how could he let him escape?!

Bang!

Flash after him and fire a shot!

After firing that shot, Liang Yan did not immediately follow up with Q.

Since patch 6.3, the male gunner's burst combo has been heavily nerfed; its QR skill can no longer interrupt the after‑motion of basic attacks as before, causing noticeable lag between combo steps, and recklessly using it risks being dodged by a sprinting card.

So after firing two empty shots, Liang Yan simply turned around.

The card retreated under the tower, but was left with only a sliver of health.

Bi'ersen naturally knew the male gunner still had a skill ready, and began wildly juking to avoid the incoming damage.

Liang Yan teased the turret, stepped out of its attack range, and as the card's S‑shaped juking turned back, he suddenly unleashed a 【Dead End】 blast.

Pop!

The flame impact spread along the skill's projectile path.

Without waiting for the second‑stage damage explosion, the first hit of the Q skill alone was enough to empty the card's HP.

【First Blood!】

Without even using a 【Smoke Bomb】, Liang Yan easily took the kill.

"Nice! Beautiful!"

AP shouted in the headset.

"You lured him well."

Liang Yan returned the compliment, launching a round of mutual praise.

AP burst out laughing, delighted.

Just then, word came from the bottom lane.

Double blessings arrived, and everyone congratulated the bottom lane together.

Zven, however, said ruefully:

"Damn! First blood should have been mine—I wasted my bullet!"

What's with taking the advantage and then acting humble?

Ka Lao Si, watching from behind, laughed and ruffled Zven's hair, which was already thinning a bit:

"It's fine, you're already great!"

Zven finally dropped the act, chuckled twice, and said:

"No no no, I have to thank the jungler big brother; without the monster group he gave me, I couldn't have gotten across."

Mithy immediately chimed in: "Thanks, jungler big brother!"

Liang Yan smiled and said "You're welcome," then headed toward the upper river, pinging the crab there.

So I ask you, where's Mang Seng?

Liang Yan truly didn't know; when he was preparing to gank mid, he suspected Mang Seng might be counter‑ganking, but after placing a ward through the wall he saw nothing.

So he simply stopped guessing.

After all, most junglers in Ou Mei are elusive Wild Kings; it's better to focus on your own duties than waste brain cells guessing their moves.

However, going by intuition, Liang Yan felt Mang Seng should be in the lower half of the map, probably lurking somewhere in the bottom lane, aiming to snag Zven's head.

So Liang Yan grabbed his gun and headed up, planning to take the river crab while also pressuring Hauntzer's captain, whose lane was pushed to the blue side's first tower, to ease Lao Zhang's burden.

Before the match, Ka Lao Si told Lao Zhang, "Push the top lane if you can."

In reality, Lao Zhang's Sion has been under constant push since laning began, mainly because his Sion mastery is low, and also because the captain's rework has kept its strength on par.

One could say this patch's captain has almost no counters; many heroes can pressure him early, but truly gaining an edge is difficult.

And the reason the captain's pick rate isn't high is mainly that the version environment doesn't suit him, even though his raw strength is fine.

Probably because there's a ward in this river, when Liang Yan reached mid‑river the captain withdrew from under the tower and vanished into the fog.

But Liang Yan never intended to catch him; applying a little pressure was enough.

Mang Seng never showed up; after the G2 duo killed someone they quickly cleared the wave and went home, and Mang Seng found no opening in the bottom lane, likely returning to his own Ye Qu.

Liang Yan finished taking the river crab and then returned to his own upper Ye Qu.

The game time approached four minutes, and the second round of Magic Swamp Frogs had already spawned at three and a half minutes.

Sometimes clearing the jungle too efficiently brings its own troubles—after Liang Yan finished the Magic Swamp Frogs, he waited a few seconds before the second wave of three wolves appeared.

He unleashed all his skills, followed by a few shots, quickly cleared the three wolves, then Liang Yan pressed recall in place.

Only then did the silhouette of TSM jungler Svenskeren's Mang Seng finally appeared near Zhong Lu, and Liang Yan spotted his trace from the ward he had placed in the right‑side Ye Qu path during his earlier Zhong Lu gank.

Level 4, 17 CS...

Liang Yan's male gunner hasn't farmed as much, yet Liang Yan himself already has 19 CS……

Godlike.

North America's top jungler ninefold?

No, due to some events, Liang Yan still has some impression of Svenskeren this cs, seems like he is Danish?

That is a European traitor.

He is also a race knight (comment section please do not discuss, if you want to know go check).

Tsk, maybe this is called being both bad and pretentious?

Liang Yan planned to give this color pen a lesson, but now is not the time; wait until he upgrades his equipment then speak.

Over a thousand to home, the jungle knife upgraded to level two, equipped two Chang Jian, waited a few seconds to replenish a true eye, then went out heading down.

The first small dragon is a water dragon; although Liang Yan is not very interested, killing dragons affects development pace too much, but to prevent the enemy from stealing it, after Liang Yan cleared the Stone Armor Beetles he still placed the true eye in the dragon pit.

Bilsen was caught in a wave, double summon none, after coming back online he became more cautious; Liang Yan seeing his careful movements lost interest in catching him.

Gave AP a signal to remind him to place a ward, Liang Yan continued to brush from F4 upward, while brushing he paid attention to the card's experience progress.

But some things are indeed hard to guard against.