Chapter 764

One second ago, Meiko hid behind our allied minion, unexpectedly flung a sinister soldier-hook at Sima Laozei under the tower. Sima Laozei didn't expect this hook could reach him, failed to dodge in time, and was snared squarely by the hook.

Immediately after, Meiko pulled back two steps, then yanked the hook to fly up, intending to use the Misfortune Pendulum to drag Sima Laozei back.

iboy followed, sliding forward.

If Meiko really dragged him back, Sima Laozei, with less than half health, would be dead for sure.

At the crucial moment, Xiao Duan pulled off a risky maneuver.

At the moment Meiko's second-stage Q launched, Luo lifted up.

"Meiko pulled the person out from under the tower and followed them up, then directly ignited in midair, but Xiao Duan made a grand entrance and lifted up! Lord Xiao Duan! This lift was spot-on!! Not only did it interrupt Meiko's second-stage dash, it also perfectly lifted the sliding iboy!!"

"Sima Laozei broke free and created distance, Xiao Duan then followed up with a Light Dance Dual, safely returning to Sima Laozei's side! Wow, this play is too extreme! I must give Xiao Duan full points!!"

"Full stun, full stun!"

"Indeed handsome, this play feels like Luo's ultimate name—Startling Swan, Fleeting Shadow—yet carries a nonchalant flair." Miller exclaimed in shock.

Shen Chao's face full of surprise: "It's amazing; over the past year I've watched many VG matches and realized one thing: Xiao Duan's level has indeed improved a lot compared to last year."

"That's certain; any team achieving such VG results must have every player strong, but VG's performance was mediocre last year, obviously this year's strength has surged, and as for the reason, I think Jiao Shen deserves great credit."

"Online, many say that Jiao Shen counts as half a coach in VG."

"Then I don't know......"

Seeing Sima Laozei's Rosy Clouds escape with his life, EDG fans' surprised cheers cut off abruptly, while VG fans breathed a sigh of relief and exclaimed.

"Holy shit, handsome, Duan Liangliang!"

Someone playing top lane against Big Tree, Fu Lan Duo feeling a bit bored, occasionally switched screens to check teammates, and happened to see this scene in Xia Lu, couldn't help exclaiming.

At this time, Liang Yan had finished clearing the red buff and was heading toward the Stone Armor Beetle camp; on the way he of course also saw it via screen switch, smiling and saying: "Indeed invincible, can officially debut now."

Sima Laozei, still shaken, said thanks.

"Xiao Duan is not a modest person; after being praised by everyone, his tail is practically sticking up to the sky: 'Debut? I could just go dive for money, right? Wahahaha~'"

"Making money by diving isn't that easy." Fu Lan Duo chuckled twice: "Xiao Duan, come to my room tonight after washing your ass clean, and I'll first check you out to see if you really have the potential for diving."

Xiao Duan panicked: "Holy shit, Qiang Ge!"

Liang Yan also darkened his face: "Get lost, go to another room."

While they were messing around, Liang Yan had already finished clearing the Stone Armor Beetles and was walking toward the river; at that moment he had just entered our side's top lane Triangular Grass, and seeing this Fu Lan Duo placed a few wards in front of Liang Yan's wine barrel: "Then don't come over!"

"Oh, then I'm leaving." Liang Yan directly pressed to recall.

"No no no, big brother I was wrong! Come on, hurry up and come~"

Liang Yan: ╯^╰

But he still cancelled the recall and walked toward the river.

This wave was originally meant to be a catch from above.

In the grass at the river entrance stood a ward placed by Fu Lan Duo half a minute ago; during this half minute, Mouse's big tree did not place a ward in the grass, and according to Liang Yan's observation of Mouse's movement, in the minute before Fu Lan Duo placed the ward Mouse also did not approach this patch of grass, meaning that this river entrance is dark in EDG's vision.

Although Mouse's current position cannot be flanked anymore, Liang Yan judges that Mouse is highly likely to come soon to place a ward.

Because according to normal timing, this time point is exactly when the jungler finishes clearing a round of monsters from bottom to top; even if Mouse can't time it precisely, he can roughly estimate Liang Yan's jungling progress through his own jungler Changzhang's clearing progress.

But Liang Yan had missed a set of Magic Swamp Frogs; EDG clearly knows this information, but doesn't know whether it's due to internal communication or Mouse overlooking it—either way he forgot to subtract the time from the wine barrel missing a set of jungle monsters, so he didn't reserve enough lead time to place a ward.

And at this moment Liang Yan had already crouched at the front of the grass at the river entrance; if Mouse still wanted to come over, he would definitely be caught by Liang Yan.

If it were Liang Yan or Fu Lan Duo in Mouse's position, they would either first throw saplings to scout the path, or decisively give up placing a ward, directly push the line and retreat to the tower to wait for the big monster to push the line over, avoiding any chance of being caught.

But Liang Yan felt that neither the EDG team as a whole nor Mouse individually had such a high level of awareness and discipline.

The facts proved Liang Yan's judgment was completely correct.

At 3 minutes 50 seconds, Mouse's big tree used a thorn heavy strike to finish off two low-health frontline minions, then suddenly turned and walked toward the river.

Then, at the moment Mouse raised his hand to place a ward, the wine barrel stationed at the front of the grass launched a body slam.

"Sure enough, he was waiting for Mouse to come place a ward, and he really got caught squatting!"

"But A Guang reacted quickly as well, directly flashing out!"

"Close call! If the wine barrel hit him, the big monster would follow up with a stomp-launch, and even if A Guang had full health he'd likely be instakilled, because the wine barrel and the big monster have too much crowd control!"

"Flash is gone, still not careful enough; actually he should have first thrown saplings to scout the path before coming to place a ward."

"Yes,"

Seeing Mouse decisively flash, Liang Yan also didn't linger, directly pressing recall in place, having no appetite for the river crab that had wandered to the edge of vision.

It's not that the river crab isn't worth money, but the wine barrel's early-game task isn't to farm; Liang Yan doesn't want to sacrifice his rhythm for a single river crab—he's already wasted a lot of time in the top lane, and if he went to eat the river crab, the bottom lane could possibly be flanked by Changzhang and tower-dived.

Seeing this, Fu Lan Duo tacitly blocked the river entrance to prevent Mouse from coming over and throwing saplings to interrupt Liang Yan's recall. Mouse didn't dare act rashly, only able to watch helplessly as the wine barrel stood on the fake ward he had placed at the cost of a flash, reading its tooltip.

Mouse silently marked the wine barrel twice, sharing this information with his teammates.

Changzhang had already arrived home by the time Liang Yan entered the Triangular Grass, and by now had even left the house heading down. Seeing Mouse's signal, Changzhang said:

"This wave is mine."

Changzhang bravely took responsibility, while also conducting deep self-reflection.