Chapter 826: I think playing top lane with attitude is more promising than you

North American netizens had strong opinions about the top 20 list, with some even going to the Fist's Los Angeles headquarters building to hang banners in protest, but it didn't cause any major impact or incident.

Because Fist worried its headquarters might get bombed, it had already applied for special protection early on, and now many heavily armed burly men stand outside the building……

Yet no one expected that the most dissatisfied with this list would be Korean netizens.

VG managed to have all its members on the list, but Dragon Pearl, the LCK's first seed, had only four, and Cuzz, whom LCK netizens regard as Dragon Pearl's core, wasn't on the list at all!

Although the four Dragon Pearl members who made the list are all in the top ten, the highest-ranked Khan only managed fourth place! Is that appropriate?!

【Cuzz doesn't deserve to be on the list? Is Fist joking?】

【Without Cuzz, Dragon Pearl can't win the summer championship!】

【This list is definitely made by someone who doesn't play games; otherwise they'd know all five Dragon Pearl members should be in the top ten, and Cuzz should be first!】

Some busybody transferred the Korean netizens' discussion onto the Chinese web.

During a training break, Fu Lan Duo refreshed the forum, saw the reposted post, and immediately laughed.

"Dragon Pearl all in the top ten... Cuzz first? What talent~"

Sima Laozei glanced at Fu Lan Duo's screen: "Your imagination is quite rich."

"Hahaha… uh, why are you hitting me?" Fu Lan Duo hadn't finished laughing when her shoulder was lightly tapped twice; she turned around and complained.

Tabe gripped a small stick made of a few rolled‑up sheets of paper, sat squarely on a stool behind Fu Lan Duo, giving off a supervisory vibe. Tabe laughed: "Jiao Shen told me to watch you practice heroes—I have no choice."

"Ke ke ke…" Zhu Xiaolong sat over there, his back shaking wildly.

"Damn, coach, aren't you going to manage this at all?" Fu Lan Duo protested loudly, "I just called him little foot brother—is it right for him to take private revenge? And it's not just me saying this, Zhu Xiaolong, you now have zero coach's authority; you've been stripped of power by him."

Zhu Xiaolong glanced at the door; Liang Yan hadn't returned yet, so he turned to Fu Lan Duo and said: "This is the second time—if Liang Yan hears you, you'll probably have to practice two more heroes."

"……Damn!"

Fu Lan Duo obediently shut her mouth, angrily re‑queued for a ranked match.

The training room fell silent.

After all, as Liang Yan said, the so‑called global top 20 is merely Fist's one‑sided evaluation; netizens take it seriously, and some teams or players care about it, but on VG's side, aside from Fu Lan Duo's initial complaints, nobody else reacted much.

The most typical example is Sima Laozei's mindset: "I know my own strength; others' opinions are none of my business."

Zhu Xiaolong was scribbling in his notebook, turned to a new page, and suddenly saw several lines of writing on what should have been a blank page; upon closer look, they were exactly the lyrics of Jay Chou's new song "Fan Pan"……

Jay Chou's preview MV was just a short clip of a dozen or so seconds, not the full song MV, yet the lyrics written in Zhu Xiaolong's notebook at this moment were the complete lyrics of a song.

Zhu Xiaolong felt moved, pulled out his phone, casually snapped a photo, added a watermark to the unpublished lyrics, then posted the photo to his own Weibo, accompanied by the following text:

【I suddenly discovered the draft—it was actually written in my tactical notebook……

【I timidly ask, can this thing be sold for money?】

Zhu Xiaolong knows that online rumors claim Liang Yan's lyrics were ghostwritten; this move is just him acting on impulse, basically helping Liang Yan prove it himself.

As for how netizens will react, Zhu Xiaolong actually doesn't care.

He glanced at the time in the lower‑right corner of the screen, stood up, and clapped his hands.

"It's about time, guys—finish this match and don't quit; we've got a practice match against RNG's brothers coming up."

"Ah~" Fu Lan Duo stretched, letting out a sound of relief. Practicing heroes is incredibly boring; he'd rather play a practice match.

Unexpectedly, Tabe's voice came from behind right away: "Qiang Ge, keep practicing; for the practice match just focus on your attitude."

Fu Lan Duo instantly wilted and began to wail: "No way, bro, are you going to play me like this?"

The curtain beside them was suddenly pulled back, and Malaxiangguo poked his head out from the RNG training area separated by just a curtain, smiling sincerely: "No bias, no hate, Qiang Ge—I think playing top lane with attitude has a brighter future than you."

"Get lost, old man!" Fu Lan Duo kicked at the curtain, but kicked air.

The player who had just finished a ranked match and was about to goof off immediately clenched his legs, adjusted his glasses, and didn't even dare go to the bathroom.

Liang Yan happened to walk in through the door; as soon as he entered, he heard Fu Lan Duo scolding someone and asked curiously: "What's going on?"

"He's insulting me, trying to wreck LPL unity!" Malaxiangguo immediately accused.

After spending this time together, even if they didn't know before, now everyone knows—Jiao Shen is VG's real big brother; the coach's words don't carry as much weight as his.

Therefore Malaxiangguo went straight to Liang Yan to complain, wearing a schadenfreude grin.

But what Malaxiangguo didn't expect was that Liang Yan just let out an "oh," then walked to his own seat and sat down calmly, saying in a casual tone:

"There's no unity in the LPL; Brother Guo is overthinking it."

The crowd burst into suppressed laughter.

The practice match started quickly, and Malaxiangguo soon realized that there really isn't any unity among the LPL teams……

——otherwise VG wouldn't be so ruthless in their attacks!

"Wo damn! Hey Jiao Shen, are you gonna let me play or not? After you eat my red buff and then my F6, you're getting credit for it all!" Malaxiangguo shouted from the RNG side.

Liang Yan said: "Fine, I'll take it all."

Then the sound of logging out came through the curtain: "Brother, if you keep playing like that you'll have no friends—no wonder EDG won't practice with you and went to scrim with the Lightning Wolves instead."

Malaxiangguo echoed: "Exactly, if you keep doing this we won't practice with you either!"

At this point, the players who had finished their ranked matches early had already entered the practice match's custom lobby. Xiao Duan heard that, chuckled twice, and immediately typed on the public chat: 【That's great!】

The three LPL teams share one training room—a large conference hall over a hundred square meters divided into three zones by two curtains; besides that, each team also has a slightly smaller room on the same floor serving as a meeting room for private chats. The practice partners, meanwhile, have a training room in another small meeting room.

Although there is an "RNG training room" between VG and EDG, a curtain doesn't provide much soundproofing, so when VG speaks here, EDG can mostly hear it.

So to avoid embarrassment, Xiao Duan chose to type in the public chat.

The RNG folks were momentarily at a loss for words, but instead they started laughing hehehe.