Chapter 710: Don't dig anymore, this isn't for sale!

A Bu used to be the coach of WE; later, together with Mingkai, they "fish dead, nets broken" left WE and founded EDG; A Bu remained a coach; until last year, A Bu was still fighting on the front line of the team's training and competition; this year they brought in Nofe; out of belief in this coach's ability, they handed over the authority of training and competition; but he still often inquired about the training situation.

The relationship between Changzhang and A Bu cannot be simply judged by appearances; sometimes he calls A Bu, sometimes he calls Ji Zong, but at such a special moment, Changzhang will instinctively shout 'coach'.

A Bu stared for several seconds, then finally took a deep breath, slowly exhaled, raised his hand and patted Changzhang's shoulder, and smiled, saying: "Go ahead, which day do you want to go up?"

Changzhang thought for a moment: "Let me play some training matches first."

"No problem!" A Bu agreed readily.

In the shadows, some people's fortunes have returned to another historical track.

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To avoid accusations of copying RNG's script, EDG did not hide the news of Changzhang's impending "return"; the next day they posted a photo of the training room on Weibo.

The photo looks like an ordinary scene of everyone training, but in the center of the photo is a back view that everyone is extremely familiar with.

Mingkai sat in his own seat, wearing headphones, and was playing a training match.

Everyone understood the meaning of this photo at a glance.

That evening, Mingkai started a livestream; countless netizens flooded the livestream room to ask him in person, and Changzhang responded openly:

"Well, he will play; he will be on before the playoffs."

The piglets went wild with excitement.

The entire LPL community erupted; Uzi's return to the stage combined with Mingkai's impending return made LPL netizens feel like it was New Year's, with all kinds of hot topics flying across the internet.

……

Two days later, VG finally welcomed the first match of the second half of the regular season.

The opponent wasn't a strong team; Liang Yan didn't even play, and after arriving with the team he just sat in the backstage eating melon seeds, watching the jungler who had been called up from the second team on a loan basis actively perform. From Liang Yan's perspective, this feeling was quite interesting, because he actually knew this jungler quite well.

Moreover, Easyhoon didn't play either, staying in the lounge to chat with Liang Yan.

As a result, under Xiao Duan's self-proclaimed "wise and mighty" command, VG still crushed the opposition like cutting melons and vegetables.

Ze Ze Tai got two MVPs with two Zhonya's; when he came back, Zhu Xiaolong and Tabe gave him a round of enthusiastic praise, making him both shy and excited, his little face flushed, and if you ignore those equally red and bright pimples, he looks even cuter.

The upcoming schedule made no big difference for VG; against weak teams they let the second team's jungler play, and against strong teams Liang Yan would go out to play a bit.

Then they continued on with an undefeated streak.

As the number of games played increased and the winning streak remained unbroken, the fame of this second-team jungler also gradually rose.

Even some teams started privately contacting him with offers to buy his contract for next year.

However, the young jungler was very honest, dutifully reporting anyone who contacted him to VG's management; Gao Jun found out but didn't get angry, merely copying and pasting the same sentence to each buyer who had made an offer:

【Don't dig anymore, this isn't for sale!】

Absolutely cannot be sold; this was Lu Wenjun's instruction.

Regarding these matters, Liang Yan doesn't know much, but he can guess Lu Wenjun and Gao Jun's plans, so Liang Yan usually is willing to look after this young jungler.

But Liang Yan won't teach him very specific things; he only imparts the most basic yet essential concepts that need to be solidly mastered for the jungler position.

When Liang Yan coaches a player, what he excels at is preserving the player's individual style while enabling their understanding of the game League of Legends to undergo a qualitative leap.

This young jungler is also a clear-minded person; knowing this is an opportunity to let himself leap over the dragon gate, he naturally puts in more effort, and although he has been with the club for less than half a year, he is utterly loyal to the club, though he seems a bit inept at socializing, his mouth is quite sweet, and he keeps calling Liang Yan "master" all day.

Liang Yan felt it was quite wonderful.

Because this young jungler's ID is Tian.

Gao Tianliang, who just turned 17 this year, was bought back from YM during the spring transfer window; it is said that Tian himself applied for the transfer with YM boss PDD, saying he wanted to come to VG, and PDD, being righteous, proactively contacted VG to say he would sell them his person.

The fame and shadow of YM's people, plus the price being suitable, VG naturally had no reason to refuse, so they bought him back, intending to place him in the second team to nurture him first.

On the day Tian joined the team in May, Liang Yan met him at the base and got the idea to promote him to the first team for early training; later he consulted Zhu Xiaolong, who then went to see Gao Jun; everything proceeded naturally, after which Tian would occasionally be loaned to the first team, beginning to appear in the LPL as VG's substitute jungler.

Liang Yan didn't feel he was manipulating others' fates; it was just that the timing was right, things had already come to him on their own, so giving them a push was reasonable.

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At the end of the month, in the second game of the LGD vs. EDG match, EDG had hidden him for a long time—but everyone knows—iBoy, acclaimed by netizens as one of the LPL's three great new-generation genius ADs and nicknamed Zhaohuang, finally turned 17 and gained eligibility to appear, making his LPL debut.

In the same game, the seventh-generation Mingkai, who had been away from the stage for nearly three months, appeared in EDG's player seat at the jungler position.

EDG easily took down LGD.

First, talk about iBoy's performance: in the first game, on Ashe he went 2-3-14, with assists almost triple KD's, shocking everyone; commentators exclaimed, "Could this be an AD good at giving?" In the second game, he suddenly switched styles, pulling out a hand of the current version's hottest item, Berserker's Greaves, and achieved a luxurious personal stat line of 8-1-2 and showed a strong desire to attack in the match.

EDG fans were overjoyed, proclaiming this a versatile genius AD, whose performance crushed the mediocre Korean aid Zet; EDG is saved!

Now talk about Changzhang's debut performance: his mechanics didn't improve, his awareness didn't worsen; right off the bat he made a level-two gank, catching the enemy's puff puff and making them shout "xi ba", thereby achieving iBoy and also showing himself—"Changzhang is still Changzhang; in internal fights it's hand-to-hand combat!"

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Time entered August; the domestic game version updated to 7.15, but the LPL regular season, already in its eighth week, continued to use the 7.14 version released in mid-July.

Although the new hero released in 7.14, Shadowflame Scythe·Kayn, was unlocked, it's a pity that this hero with two forms is a jungler positioned as a Wild Core, which doesn't fit the current version where the bottom lane is becoming increasingly abnormal and the jungler can only be a rhythm-setting tool; thus even though it's unlocked, hardly anyone picks it.

As a result, on August 3rd, someone actually used it to play against VG.

In this match, VG's jungler was Tian.