Chapter 740

VG acted too realistically; WE had no suspicion of him.

Condi saw that VG was going to strike top lane; after clearing the three jungle camps in the enemy's bottom half, he returned to his own jungle, took the blue buff, and hurried back to base. He didn't have enough gold for a second-tier jungle knife, so he bought a small jungle knife (his starting item was a jungle talisman) and rushed to top lane in a panic. Only after finally reaching behind his own top tower did Condi feel somewhat relieved, relieved that Pig Girl hadn't attacked him while he was on the way.

The new wave of red side minions was briefly stalled before the first tower; thanks to the tower's fire support they quickly built up a manpower advantage, forming a strong counterpush.

The minion wave pushed out, and Condi stood under the tower about 1000 yards behind 957, quietly waiting for Pig Girl, whom he expected to rush out from the river mouth any moment according to his judgment.

Condi waited for ten-odd seconds, and unease gradually grew in his mind.

Logically, Pig Girl should have already cleared a round of jungle monsters by now, and 957's position satisfied the conditions for her to engage, so why hasn't she appeared yet?

Could it be that they don't intend to gank top lane and have gone home?

Condi hesitated; he had already wasted too much time here, the two jungle camps in the bottom half were still uncleared, and his own development had been significantly affected.

Condi wanted to leave, but he was afraid that if he left, the enemy would come……

And just as Condi finally made up his mind to leave, Pig Girl finally appeared.

"Jiao Shen is here!"

Pig Girl indeed appeared from the river.

But not top lane.

But bottom lane!

When he saw a pig's head emerging from the grass at the bottom river mouth, Condi was completely dumbfounded, and quickly realized he had fallen for VG's big trick.

Playing mind games, you dirty trickster!

"Since WE's duo lane is currently being pushed, they're not far from the tower, so this position still feels relatively safe!"

"They probably can't be killed……"

After Liang Yan emerged from the river, he took the shortest path toward WE's duo lane.

Xiao Duan muttered, "Don't eat, don't eat, damn it still eating," and charged forward.

"Jiao Shen lunged forward! Ben immediately flashed! Mystic is far enough that Jiao Shen and Xiao Duan can't threaten him! WE's duo pulled back to safety under the tower! But……"

"But what do we do with such a big minion wave? If we can't take it, it feels like the bottom lane will collapse!"

The VG duo had been slowly pushing the lane, and by the time Liang Yan made his move, it was already two waves of damaged minions plus one full wave of fresh minions merged together, even including a siege cannon!

A huge wave of over ten minions!

Mystic panicked, just as the commentator said—if he couldn't take down that big wave, the last‑hit bounty would still be manageable, but the experience gap would be huge; by then the enemy duo would both hit level six while Mystic had just reached five—how could they fight? The bottom lane would definitely collapse!

Mystic hurriedly called for help, trying to get his teammates to come protect him while he farmed, but his Chinese was poor, so he could only keep shouting 'look down, look down'.

Condi was watching the bottom lane, but he was up top—too far away to lend a hand.

The only one who could possibly come help was mid lane, but that happened to be exactly when mid lane's first wave was recalling to buy items and recover; Xi Ye, in order to snag the recall advantage, had expended all his mana during the previous wave clash!

If we can't take this wave, it'll really suck—Xi Ye, can you come help? Ah… Syndra's out of mana—then we're done for!

A mana‑less Syndra coming over would be useless—she could even get caught mid‑way by a pig‑girl and an airplane in a double‑team!

Indeed there's nothing we can do—Jiao Shen timed his engage perfectly! It was exactly when the bottom lane was left isolated and helpless!

Jiao Shen didn't back off—he pushed the minion wave forward, forcing Mystic and Ben to flee; the crowd control from the cow‑head and pig‑girl was so strong they dared not stay under the tower!

Jiao Shen and Xiao Duan kept pressing forward, forcing the WE duo to retreat all the way to their second turret— they weren't allowed to take a single minion, it was brutal!

So the question is, why did Condi recall and go top lane to counter‑jungle at this moment?! I just can't figure it out no matter how I look at it!

Yeah, if he had stayed in the bottom half of the jungle, cleared those two monster camps, then scooped up the river crab, he'd have just finished it and be recalling to buy items—bottom lane would have been fine.

Is there a chance he was just being fooled by VG?

Huh? How could he be tricked? Neither side had any jungle vision, so there's literally no basis for Condi to make that call!

Then I don't know either…

Xi Ye felt sorry for the bottom lane's plight, but aside from apologetically saying 'Sorry, I can't come,' he couldn't offer any real help.

Condi also remained silent, feeling both ashamed and angry, knowing this wave was entirely his fault—he had misjudged the enemy jungler's actions, causing his teammates to pay the price for his mistake……

But how dirty are they playing?!

Too dirty!

Just play the game properly—what's the point of messing around with mind games?!

Come on, let's ambush!

Come on, let's deceive!

Bullying this pure‑hearted youngster!

No honor!

The WE team's voice channel stayed quiet for a while, until finally Leg Brother 957 spoke up to ease the tension: 'It's fine, guys—wait till I hit six, once I have my ultimate we'll have a much easier time.'

In this game 957 is playing Shen—aside from his hero's global ultimate, he also brought an extra Teleport; with two Teleports in hand, VG probably wouldn't dare make reckless moves, otherwise if WE caught a slip‑up it would swing the game heavily.

Mystic had no reply, watching that huge minion wave get blown away shot by shot by the turret, feeling a suffocating pain.

Although the pig‑girl had vanished from vision and even the cow‑head was nowhere to be seen, Mystic knew the saying 'warfare thrives on deception'—who knew if the enemy hadn't looped around from the river to hide in the Triangular Grass? So he still didn't dare risk returning to lane, and in the end he just told Ben, 'out of sight, out of mind,' and recalled directly.

Jiao Shen, with Xiao Duan, directly invaded the jungle to take the two monster camps Condi hadn't cleared—this wave… WE suffered heavy losses.

Two minion waves plus two monster camps amount to roughly the bounty of a kill.

Never mind the gold—the key is experience; the bottom lane missed out on those two waves' XP, so VG will pull ahead by a full level! How are we supposed to keep fighting?

I guess… all we can do is wait for Shen to hit six and see if we can find an opening.

That's really all we can do…