Chapter 785: Zhou Dong expresses great confidence

Liang Yan had to finish the sixth-anniversary celebration, and the other VG members had to wait for him to finish before returning to Shanghai together, so they all stayed at the hotel.

The next morning—actually it was already past ten, so it wasn't really morning—Liang Yan was awakened by an indescribable smell, opened his eyes, sat up, and saw Fu Lan Duo, Xiao Duan, and a few others gathered around the coffee table eating durian.

Gao Jun saw Liang Yan awake, held up a piece of durian and called out: "Go wash your face and brush your teeth, I saved it especially for you."

Liang Yan shook his head, yawned, rubbed his hair a bit, and said: "You go ahead and eat, I don't eat durian."

Gao Jun blinked: "Do you think it's a bit smelly?"

Liang Yan laughed and said it was actually fine, don't worry, you guys eat, then he got up and went into the bathroom.

While he was brushing his teeth inside, he heard Fu Lan Duo loudly complaining outside: "Damn, after opening such a big durian there's only a few ounces of flesh—what a rip-off! It's not even tasty; whoever buys it is a sucker!"

"If you don't eat it, give it to me." It seemed like Ma Ge had taken Fu Lan Duo's share.

Then Xiao Duan said: "Be content, Qiang Ge, ours is actually meaty compared to before—when I was on vacation I bought one back home that was as big as a watermelon but had only a fistful of meat!"

"Five jin of durian, four jin of shell?"

"Exactly, it's such a rip-off."

"It's normal." Wang Liangyi clapped his hands and said, "Lots of things are like that—if you buy three jin of lotus root you still get two jin of holes."

Everyone hadn't reacted yet; Liang Yan wiped his face and came out, hearing that he was stunned for a moment, and looked bewilderedly at Xiao Wang: "What are you talking about?"

Everyone burst out laughing.

Xiao Wang inevitably got mocked for his intelligence.

Gao Jun suddenly said to Liang Yan: "Hey, by the way, Xiao Liang, the boss called last night and said if you don't want to take part in this event, we can just skip it—after all we still have the global finals to attend, we can't waste too much time here."

Liang Yan said: "The list has already been sent out, isn't that not okay?"

Gao Jun said: "No problem, the boss said if you really don't want to participate, he'll personally talk to them, it won't put you in a tough spot, and the officials will cooperate to issue a statement—it definitely won't affect your reputation. Why don't you think it over?"

Liang Yan thought for a moment, waved his hand, and said: "It's fine, let's not bother—after all it's only two days, it won't delay much training."

Gao Jun said okay, and stopped urging him.

……

At noon, the other three members of the Surpass Team also arrived at the hotel.

When Liang Yan arrived at the training room, Zhou Dong was already there, sitting at the computer with headphones on, playing the game seriously; Coach Weili stood beside him, occasionally offering pointers.

Cai Kun Kun arrived a step after Liang Yan, backpack in hand, bowed upon seeing people, exceedingly polite. Yu Shuang followed shortly after; upon seeing Zhou Dong she laughed nonstop, obviously prepared, asking for both an autograph and a photo.

55 Kai was the last to arrive, bursting in as soon as he entered: "Holy shit, brothers, this hotel is great—I thought they'd just randomly arrange a place, but it's actually a five-star hotel!"

Zhou Dong took off his headphones: "Everyone's here, come on, let's keep practicing. Earlier the coach and I discussed a bit, I think blah blah..."

Liang Yan observed the scene and thought: This big brother really wants to win—he practiced until late last night and continued this noon; his seriousness rivals that of a pro team preparing for a major tournament.

Everyone in the training room found a seat, and soon they got the team going.

Still the first electric group lineup.

Liang Yan still played AD, Yu Shuang support, Cai Kun Kun top lane, 55 Kai mid lane, Zhou Dong as the swordsman.

Hmm, Zhou Dong only plays this one hero.

The five of them followed the exhibition match lineup, playing game after game; occasionally they reviewed the replay, and Weili would casually comment based on the video, but since the boss and Liang Tianwang were present, having him give the team a review ultimately lacked authority, so the review wouldn't be very substantive.

Liang Yan watched Zhou Dong and Kun Kun study earnestly and found it quite interesting. Taking a pro team's approach and applying it to entertainment people feels a bit mismatched, but Liang Yan could tell that for this celebrity exhibition match, both Zhou Dong and Kun Kun were quite serious.

Besides, I don't know what the enemy team is up to; Liang Yan hasn't heard any movement from their side, guessing that the Cool Team probably didn't rent a training room at the hotel, though online bootcamp should still be happening.

They just practiced like that the whole afternoon.

Zhou Dong and Kun Kun's progress was very obvious.

Zhou Dong yesterday didn't even understand the mechanics of the jungle pioneer, but today he somehow learned to direct everyone to help him take the pioneer and actively wanted to take turret economy; moreover, Zhou Dong's jungle play has his own style—his wild‑route planning is chaotic yet he always manages to snag opportunities in weird spots, killing two enemies and snowballing; Liang Yan couldn't fathom it, so he could only label it as a luck‑based jungler.

Kun Kun used to get caught all the time yesterday, but today he knows his job is just to stay safe—whenever he goes out he at least brings a true sight, and in lane he simply hugs the turret waiting for the minion wave.

Yu Shuang also became much more stable—at least her mechanics aren't as hard on the eyes.

As for 55 Kai, no need to say more—although he indeed spent a long time addicted to eating chicken and hadn't played LoL, after all he used to be a pro player; a retired mid‑laner taking on these randoms is basically a dimensional strike. Although he likes to brag, his speech and mannerisms are overly exaggerated, but after getting used to him the team feels that having such a teammate liven up the atmosphere is actually pretty nice.

They practiced until dark, and Zhou Dong reluctantly announced the dismissal: "Thanks for everyone's hard work, we practiced all day today, I'm very confident in our team—see you tomorrow at the match!"

"See you tomorrow!"

Everyone then went their separate ways.

……

Liang Yan returned to his room, and as soon as he pushed the door open he heard a lively commotion inside.

Several VG members were all crammed into his room, sprawled haphazardly on the sofa and bed, and no one knows why they always like to pile into his room.

The wall-mounted TV was on, with commentary audio coming out.

"What are you watching?" Liang Yan closed the door and asked casually.

"The bubble match next door, bro!" Xiao Duan didn't turn his head, his tone excited: "It's the final—watch it closely!"

Liang Yan first went to take a piss, came out, glanced at it, then sat down to watch with everyone.

On the screen was exactly the LCK bubble match's final game, SSG versus KT. The outcome of this Bo5 will directly decide who gets the LCK's third seed slot.

When he saw the score, Liang Yan raised his eyebrows, realizing why Xiao Duan was so excited.

SSG 2:0 KT

It's now the third game, the match has been going for over ten minutes, and the situation again favors SSG, meaning SSG is very likely to sweep KT 3‑0.

First they lifted SKT to hand over the second seed, now they're propping up SSG—KT is just a pure ticket‑selling kid……