Chapter 53: This bastard came to grab me again!

After clearing the three jungle camps in the lower half, Liang Yan rushed to the upper half, helped AP grab a blue buff, then went to the river and ate the river crab upstream.

Then he crouched in the mid lane brush for a few seconds, but the Card stayed cautious; on the lane it was basically only seeing the Card, not anyone.

Liang Yan left mid lane, entered Mang Seng's jungle and made a circuit; all three monster camps were empty, Mang Seng had likely just left, either camping top lane or heading to the lower half.

Liang Yan pinged top lane, a Quick Shot went through the Stone Armor Beetle camp's wall, circling from behind to the captain under the tower.

Regardless of where Mang Seng is, Liang Yan coming to top lane never wastes time; if Mang Seng is there, he counter‑jungles; if not, he tower‑dives to kill, always gaining something.

He crouched in the grass, waiting for Lao Zhang to push the lane while secretly monitoring the Card's movements, occasionally glancing at Lao Zhang's push progress.

The Raven's lane‑push speed is not slow.

The current patch suddenly made Raven top lane popular, mainly because of its 6.9 changes: Q ability completely reworked, other abilities heavily adjusted; overall, it mainly strengthened early‑lane dueling and wave‑clear, especially wave‑clear, which saw great improvement.

And it gets stronger as it scales.

Although the Captain is also a strong‑scaling hero, the current period belongs to Raven's power spike, so their combat power inherently differs.

Moreover, the Captain was caught in a wave; although not killed, he lost his flash, affecting his farm.

So now Lao Zhang's laning is fairly comfortable; he can push if he wants, or try to control the wave… well, controlling the wave against the Captain is still unlikely for Raven.

But at least he can push the wave easily.

At this moment, the red side's minion wave has been cleared, and the blue side's wave is about to reach the tower.

"I'm not going top lane; I'm here to take the tower."

AP's voice came through the headset.

Liang Yan switched screens to glance at mid lane.

AP had already pushed the lane to under the tower, but the Card was nowhere to be seen.

"Don't come."

"Be careful bot lane, the Card is about to fly."

Liang Yan said, hit space to reset the view, lifted his gun and walked out of the grass, approaching the captain hiding behind the tower.

After putting on attack‑speed boots, the Gunner's damage output rises greatly; as long as no one interferes, teaming with Raven to tower‑dive a Captain full of disparate items and with flash still on cooldown is still easy.

Sure enough, just after Liang Yan stepped out of the grass, the Card's ultimate marker lit up above everyone on the blue side.

The Card did not immediately descend.

But that couldn't fool Liang Yan.

The red side's upper jungle near mid lane had been lit up by his two wards, and Shah also provided vision in front of the tower.

But the Card did not appear in any of the lit vision.

Although the Card's ultimate range reaches 5500 yards, it still isn't enough to cross the whole map; based on where he last appeared in blue side vision, if he now wanted to fly to top lane to assist, he would have to appear in blue side vision.

So the only possibility is that the Card originally planned to fly down to catch someone, but seeing the top lane Captain caught, he prematurely activated his ultimate to try to scare off the Gunner.

Liang Yan isn't that easily scared.

Actually, this move by the Card was exactly what Liang Yan deliberately provoked by stepping out of the grass early, the purpose being to trap and rescue.

— At the moment the Card unleashed his ultimate, the TSM duo wasn't ready to follow up, while the G2 duo, after receiving Liang Yan's warning, immediately retreated.

The result was that the Card neither scared off the Gunner nor, due to poor timing of his ultimate, did the catch plan succeed.

Biersen's ultimate was wasted.

Liang Yan glanced at the minimap, saw his own duo already back under the tower, and a faint smile curled his lips.

"Go!"

Before the words even finished, Lao Zhang smoothly led the charge, tower‑diving first and using Claw Clutch to grab the Captain huddled in the tower crevice.

The skill hit; the Captain panicked and stumbled backward.

Liang Yan wasn't in a rush; he waited for the Captain to be rooted by the delayed bind, then raised his hand to fire Destiny, immediately followed by a Quick Shot charge.

Boom!!

The Captain, who eats an orange to instantly cleanse crowd control, stepped into Destiny's explosion radius and simultaneously ate a point‑blank basic attack.

His health bar instantly dropped to one third!

Hauntzer wore a grim face, knowing he wouldn't survive, and raised his hand to throw Cannon Barrage at the minion wave below the tower.

"Eat, eat!"

Lao Zhang tanked the tower and shouted in the headset.

Liang Yan wasn't holding back either; a single Ultimate Bomb took the kill.

The kill notification spanned across everyone's screen.

The fate markers above everyone's heads vanished the next second, but prior to that the Card himself had reappeared in the vision of the mid‑lane tower‑destroyer.

At the same time, Mang Seng appeared in the dragon pit and began to destroy the true sight ward Liang Yan had earlier planted through the wall.

As Liang Yan expected, Biersen, after finding no opportunity bot lane, ultimately chose not to fly over and waste time.

That decision was certainly correct.

But in the following stretch of nearly two minutes, Liang Yan could almost do as he pleased—under these circumstances, a Card without his ultimate is hardly different from a slightly bigger siege minion.

The enemy duo disappeared from bot lane, obviously to help Mang Seng take the dragon.

Although it's a water dragon, ten minutes have already passed; even if given to the enemy, its impact would be negligible.

So Liang Yan ignored it, followed a jungle path down, cleared an F4 camp, saw top lane's teleport glow, then turned and ran back up top with his gun.

Hardly after landing from his teleport, Hauntzer saw the Gunner burst from the grass between the broken walls behind him, his face paling as he said:

"I can't take it, brothers—this bastard came to grab me again!"

"Just try to clear the wave…"

Svenskeren, still in the dragon pit pulling the dragon's hair, said thus:

Hauntzer fell silent.

In his heart, however, some resentment was inevitable.

What are you hitting, little dragon?

What are you hitting, little dragon?!

Now you're hitting the small dragon—does it even help?!

You really have nothing better to do, you damn well come to the top lane! Don't you know I didn't flash? Can't you even tell who the team's late-game big brother is?!

Sb sb sb... what a huge idiot!

But no matter how Hauntzer curses in his heart, his fate is sealed.

A few seconds later, the announcement of Hauntzer being killed by Firrrrrre appeared again, only tens of seconds after the previous appearance.

At the same time, the death roar of the small dragon echoed through the canyon.

In TSM's voice channel, there was complete silence.

The male gunner has four heads...

Thinking of this, everyone in TSM couldn't help but feel a chill in their hearts.