Chapter 784: I thank you

Zhou Dong told Liang Yan the floor and room number of the training room, then left.

Just as Zhou Dong invited Liang Yan to hold a training camp, the LPL official blog simultaneously posted an announcement, revealing the player list for the third day of the sixth-anniversary carnival celebration's star exhibition match:

Surpass Team: top laner Cai Kun Kun, jungler Zhou Dong, mid laner White, AD Firrrrrre, support Yu Shuang, coach Wei Li.

Cool Team: top laner PDD, jungler Clearlove7, mid laner Ya Qian Ge, AD Uzi, support Pi Ji Wan, coach A Bu.

As soon as the list was released, netizens exploded, and the comment section below became extremely lively.

【Holy shit! Cool Team's lineup is really strong!】

【Jiao Shen……can he still play AD?】

【Jiao Shen plays EZ pretty well, so he should be able to AD, but laning against Uzi is hard to say】

【This grouping isn't very fair, is it?】

【Cool Team has Changzhang and Uzi both active, PDD retired, the LPL ancient three giants are all gathered; Ya Qian Ge is still a Diamond II player; looking at Surpass Team, Zhou Dong is Gold, Yu Shuang is a Platinum mixed player, Cai Kun Kun's rank is unknown, only Jiao Shen is active, plus 55 Kai who's retired, the rest are all dead weight—I don't want to say more, I just hope Jiao Shen loses】

【Is Zhou Dong's team carrying two and dragging four?】

【No, actually it's Jiao Shen carrying four; 55 Kai has been addicted to eating chicken for the past two or three months, hasn't opened a single LoL game, and is probably really bad】

【This damn thing is weighted training】

【Letting Jiao Shen jungle might still be possible, but AD…… laning against Uzi, I feel I've already seen the ending】

【Although 55 Kai really hasn't played LoL lately, mid lane versus Ya Qian Ge he should still be able to go wild】

【Who's Cai Kun Kun? I've never heard of him】

【Just a show newcomer, about to debut, probably spending money to ride the hype】

【This grouping is indeed outrageous; Riot must have done it on purpose】

【Changzhang: Second-level gank bottom!】

【When the time comes, the broadcast camera just needs to lock onto bottom lane; the other lanes don't matter】

【When does it start? I can't wait to see Jiao Shen get beaten up!】

Just as the whole net was arguing over the star exhibition match roster, Liang Yan here had already started ranked team queue.

Zhou Dong and Liang Yan sat side by side in the training room, then pulled Cai Kun Kun, 55 Kai, and Yu Shuang into the voice chat.

As soon as Yu Shuang came in, she kept calling this brother and that brother, overly enthusiastic; Liang Yan seemed to faintly hear Guan Zeyuan giving advice from the side.

The five of them queued up and started a ranked game.

Zhou Dong locked in Jian Sheng right away, his jungle path was completely freeform, clearing whatever he came across. Liang Yan played AD, didn't participate in shot-calling, so he didn't command.

55 Kai picked Kassadin in mid lane, seeing Liang Yan hadn't said much, he voluntarily took over shot-calling: "Zhou Dong, Zhou Dong, help me bush later; the enemy mid laner has no flash."

Zhou Dong: "Oh oh, okay okay, I'll come after I finish this camp."

Cai Kun Kun top lane picked a Stone Man as a filler.

Yu Shuang picked Wind Girl to support Liang Yan's Ezreal; this bottom lane combo is a bit mismatched, but the opponents they first encountered were weak, so no problems showed up.

Ten minutes in, Liang Yan already had five kills.

55 Kai was also killing in mid lane, and the team voice channel often heard him bragging: "Guys, see? The value of a retired mid laner; this play I predicted his prediction of my prediction!"

Zhou Dong: "Wow strong, you guys are all strong."

Cai Kun Kun was caught twice by the enemy jungler top lane, got a bit withdrawn, and whispered: "Sorry, brothers, I've fed too much."

Liang Yan often switched screens to check teammates, knowing the top lane situation, and laughed: "Kun Ge, you actually can play more confidently; I feel you're Platinum level, the enemy at most is Gold, just kill him and it's done."

Kun Kun was surprised: "Hey I'm really Platinum, can you tell?"

Yu Shuang: "Hey I'm also Platinum! What a coincidence!"

Liang Yan: "You can tell, your mechanics aren't bad, your awareness is pretty solid."

Yu Shuang: "Jiao Shen, how about me, how about me?"

Liang Yan: "You……are also not bad."

Yu Shuang started acting cute: "So perfunctory, why like this? I helped you get a lot of heads."

Liang Yan: "I thank you."

Honestly, Liang Yan felt that laning 1v2 bottom might actually be easier, really.

Judging by this game, Yu Shuang's mechanics and awareness are at most Silver; I don't know how long it's been since she last opened the game client, nor why LPL picked her—maybe to be a vase and put pressure on Liang Yan.

I don't know if it was because of Liang Yan's encouragement, but after over two minutes Cai Kun Kun actually pulled off a solo kill.

55 Kai exaggeratedly shouted: "0-2 Stone Man solo kill 2-0 Darius, Kun Ge is awesome!"

Kun Kun laughed: "He seems to look down on me a bit, keeps diving tower to harass me, so I had to kill him."

Liang Yan glanced at Kun Kun's status—his ultimate wasn't even used, his HP was still over half—so he immediately called Yu Shuang to swap lanes: "Can't miss this chance, let's first take the Rift Herald."

In the end Zhou Dong picked up the Rift Herald's Eye, then ran into the enemy jungle to steal red, but as soon as he entered he inexplicably summoned the Rift Herald.

Zhou Dong was bewildered: "Huh? Hey hey? Why did this thing come out again?"

55 Kai: "Hahahaha……"

Liang Yan: "……"

Yu Shuang: "Pfft…… Zhou Dong, were you trying to place a ward?"

Zhou Dong: "Yeah, I don't know why it suddenly came out."

Yu Shuang: "Uh…… that's because you picked up the Rift Herald's Eye, and then it occupied your trinket slot."

Zhou Dong: "Oh oh, is that so? Sorry sorry."

But it's no big problem.

Zhou Dong accidentally summoned the Rift Herald in the jungle, which instead startled the enemy—they all ran to mid lane—so Zhou Dong took the opportunity to sneak in and steal the red buff.

Although wasting a Rift Herald is just that……

Kun Kun hardly spoke the whole game, just followed engage calls, just followed tank calls, was overly obedient; close to twenty minutes in a teamfight, Kun Kun's Stone Man used vision to strike, his ultimate knocked up four enemies, Surpass Team piled on, Yu Shuang gave Zhou Dong's Jian Sheng a Censer Shield, Zhou Dong charged in and harvested kills like chopping vegetables, and everyone obliged, giving all the kills to Zhou Dong.

"Quintuple kill! Zhou Dong is awesome!" 55 shouted exaggeratedly, "Kun-ge, you opened well!"

Kun Kun: "Haha, really?"

"That must be true!" 55 said while fawning, "This team fight opening was professional level!"

Zhou Dong got a quintuple kill, so happy he couldn't contain himself: "Hey, brothers, shall we play like this the day after tomorrow?"

"That definitely will work!"

After playing ranked until past one in the morning, Zhou Dong kept getting more fired up, feeling like fighting until dawn, but in the end Yu Shuang couldn't hold out first, yawning and saying: "I can't take it anymore, brothers, I really can't hold on—I can't even keep my eyes open……"

Zhou Dong then disbanded the team, agreeing to fight again tomorrow.