Chapter 643

Days passed just like that, the fridge at the VG base was stuffed with Red Bull, emptied, then stuffed again, matches were played one after another, and in the blink of an eye the cross-group confrontation stage of the summer regular season drew to a close.

And VG's invincible legend continued.

As netizens said, this summer's LPL, in viewers' eyes, had almost become VG's single-player upgrade game·simple edition.

For the six teams of Group A, this was a period they did not want to remember.

Fortunately, this nightmare-like period finally ended.

Next, it was the lucky ones of Group B's turn to taste being crushed by VG. The A-group teams that were in a different group from VG only needed to play VG once during the regular season, while the B-group teams in the same group as VG had to take turns playing VG twice……

Thinking of this, the A‑group players who had been battered during this inter‑group confrontation instantly felt much better, and couldn't help but start to gloat.

Moreover, Liang Yan played only eight small games throughout the inter‑group confrontation, with the remaining matches filled by a temporary call‑up of a youth‑trained jungler from the second team, yet VG still won all of them.

After all matches on the final day of the third week ended, the inter‑group confrontation stage officially concluded, with VG finishing the journey undefeated, having recorded six consecutive wins in big games and twelve in small games.

The difficult days for all A‑group teams were finally over.

Meanwhile, the fan groups of the B‑group teams began to be overshadowed by dark clouds.

But there were also those who refused to believe it.

RNG, which intended to actively mend relations with VG, posted a Weibo the day after the inter‑group confrontation ended: "Welcome VG back to the B‑group, we're ready!"

The accompanying picture showed all RNG members standing with arms crossed in a training match photo, each full of spirit and high morale.

As a result, the first comment on that Weibo post was:

【Get ready to get beaten, huh?】

It received 999 likes.

OMG went even further, the official account directly posted an old photo taken by Chun Tian, with the caption:

【@RNG, you go first, we'll bring up the rear】

JDG, whose performance in the inter‑group confrontation stage had been decent, fell silent as soon as the intra‑group schedule was announced; being a new team with few fans, a busybody asked under the Weibo post announcing JDG's starting lineup for the first intra‑group round‑robin match: "Why didn't JDG issue a pre‑match notice? Are they planning to sit back and watch the tigers fight, silently making a fortune?"

The JDG official account's editor replied with:

【Isn't it good just to be alive……】

Netizens reacted, calling it 666.

SNG, however, was optimistic; the newly recruited top laner Langx, who had an old‑fashioned face, honestly said in the post‑match interview after the final inter‑group confrontation game: "Our manager says whether we make the playoffs or not doesn't matter; our goal in the intra‑group round‑robin stage is to win a single small game against VG."

Netizens in the comment section of a certain site's replay video held a team‑building activity:

【Are you sure? This is one of the hardest goals to achieve this LPL season】

【In dreams anything is possible, but do you really think you'd get a chance like that?】

【If you could really make VG lose a game, you'd surely have a place this S7】

【Go Suning! Crush VG (distorted sound)!】

Before the intra‑group confrontation began, a few minor incidents also occurred.

One day, Liang Yan's inbox received an email whose sender appeared to be from CNB.

Indeed, it was the CNB from the Brazil Region.

The email contained a long article which, summed up, thanked VG for its guidance last month that had greatly helped CNB's new season, noting that CNB's performance had indeed shown clear improvement, and ended with a request to continue offering instruction……

The email attached a compressed file of several gigabytes.

Liang Yan downloaded the attachment, extracted ten‑plus gigabytes, and upon opening found it to be nothing but CNB's summer regular‑season match videos, each labeled with date and matchup, and even accompanied by a bilingual Chinese‑English match summary……

It was too proper for something someone from the Brazil Region would do.

Liang Yan had almost forgotten about it, but then recalled that after MSI ended, Luonaerduo had taken him to the CNB Jidi to give a lecture, leaving behind the remark that if he had any questions later he could send match videos over for study……

It had been merely polite talk, but they actually took it seriously.

Liang Yan thought it over, then forwarded the email to Zhu Xiaolong, dragged the extracted videos into the team's regional network shared folder, and said to Zhu Xiaolong:

"Long Ge, check your mailbox."

"Eh, okay."

Zhu Xiaolong acknowledged with a sound, after a moment turned his head blankly toward Liang Yan:

"This……"

Liang Yan nodded: "Let's have Tabe take a look together and give some feedback."

Zhu Xiaolong wanted to say something but held back, ultimately saying nothing.

Tabe, however, showed considerable interest in this sudden task, and Zhu Xiaolong, going with the flow, handed the whole matter over to Tabe.

Tabe stayed up all night watching the videos, then began organizing notes, and three days later sent a PPT to Liang Yan, Zhu Xiaolong, and Gao Jun respectively.

Liang Yan stared in surprise at Tabe's bloodshot eyes, and could only give a thumbs‑up: "Awesome."

One week after the PPT was sent to CNB, Luonaerduo announced on Twitter the official launch of his "China tour," releasing a rough itinerary whose first stop was Shanghai, and specifically noting that the day's schedule included a visit to VG Esports Club's training base.

The news hit like a meteor striking the Pacific, stirring up a huge wave across domestic cyberspace.

Afterward, Luonaerduo accepted media interviews, and in response to reporters' surprised questions he explained why he wanted to visit VG's base.

Only then did domestic netizens learn that VG had actually gone to Shengbaoluo after MSI ended and had exchanged ideas there with the CNB team invested in by Luonaerduo.

For a time, both the esports and football circles erupted.

The authorities also showed great concern; on the third day of Luonaerduo's announced China tour, a low‑key Red Flag vehicle carrying the head of Shanghai University of Sport drove into the VG base.

Lu Wenjun stood at the door with Gao Jun to welcome them, smiling broadly and extending both hands:

"Welcome, welcome, your esteemed presence graces our humble dwelling, blah blah……

The two sides held a "secret discussion" in Lu Wenjun's office for several tens of minutes; afterward the leadership, under Lu Wenjun's guidance, toured the VG base and then left, still feeling some regret because they hadn't met VG's biggest star.

——Liang Yan was genuinely tired of such affairs, so he feigned a stomachache and slipped back to the dormitory.

But you can dodge the first day, not the fifteenth; over the following period, media outlets swarmed into the VG base, with as many as four local Shanghai outlets alone……

And on the day Luonaerduo landed in Shanghai, the CCTV team returned to the VG base to film a more grandiose documentary together with VG.

Actually, I just want to ride this wave of heat.