Chapter 841

I'll clear a wave first, you bring the minion wave over.

The jungler Mountain's voice came through the headset, and Westdoor answered.

Firrrrrre is playing Pig Sis this game. Coach NeXAbc had reminded before leaving the field that Pig Sis's own damage is low; to catch someone, she must be paired with a lane that has enough damage, and before level six she only has one chance to engage, which is the few dozen seconds after taking the red buff; if the lane doesn't give her space, Pig Sis must use flash when she engages.

When Lu Xi An pushed the third wave to the tower, Westdoor immediately retreated behind the tower.

Mountain's Prince, spear in hand, walked past Westdoor's back into the upper half, using an E‑Q combo to poke into the three‑wolf camp.

Westdoor hid behind the tower; a Q finished off the already low‑health front minion and the one damaged by the tower. Since his skill wasn't off cooldown, when the tower's two shots whittled down the half‑health cannon minion, he could only step forward and last‑hit with a basic attack.

As expected, Lu Xi An hit him with a W‑Q‑A‑A combo and then slid away.

The attack projectile locked on then was released, and the tower was made to look foolish.

Westdoor's expression was calm; having endured countless storms, this veteran's mindset was steady as an old dog, trading health for the chance to safely last‑hit the tower and ranged minions.

He calmly took a potion, walked forward through the tower gap, landed a hit then retreated, waiting for the tower's next shot to repeat the trick. He planned to keep doing this, eating the six ranged minions from the two waves one by one.

But just as he stepped forward to last‑hit the final ranged minion, a figure riding a huge wild boar rushed out from behind the wall.

Westdoor reacted slowly, his emotions also dull; he stared in shock as his Clockwork was knocked away by Pig Sis.

Lu Xi An, with his second set of abilities off cooldown, flashed in, tapped W then Q, then slid forward with a cold pursuit, caught up to the Clockwork that had landed and flashed, coordinated with Pig Sis's precisely predicted North Wind Chains, and fired the final two light bolts.

"Killed! Jiao Shen and Marquis's coordination is too perfect!!"

"Three minutes in, Marquis got first blood!"

"Jiao Shen has too much guts, he actually camped this!"

"Indeed a big‑heart player; just now the Prince was within a thousand yards of him, whether scouting the flag or placing a ward would instantly spot him!"

"But there's no if; the Prince went straight E‑Q to clear the three wolves!"

In less than two seconds, the Clockwork with about two‑thirds health left was just tower‑dived and killed.

Pig Sis took three tower shots total, then strolled out of the tower's attack range with a little over two hundred health, not looking back.

When the fight broke out, Mountain had just finished clearing the three wolves, saw the situation and rushed over, but Westdoor fell too fast; by the time Mountain entered combat range, the fight was already over, and the two enemies had already begun to retreat.

At this point, Mountain could only watch Pig Sis's back, unable to do anything, helplessly watching her disappear into the fog.

"How did he get here?"

Westdoor is still in a dazed state.

Below the riverbank slope near the Red side's jungle F6 camp, there was a ward placed by Westdoor before the second wave minions reached the lane.

Pig Sis attacked from behind the grassy thicket on the left side of the middle tower's mountain wall on the Blue side.

The river had wards, the jungle had a jungler watching; how did this person sneak in?

Figure: Mid‑lane Gank situation diagram

Pig Sis's invasion route is actually not hard to guess: nothing more than hitting the Explosive Fruit to jump into the Dragon Pit, then hugging the edge of vision from the ward and sneaking up the small path.

Westdoor just couldn't figure out how the opponent discovered this sole viable Gank path.

At this moment, Westdoor suddenly recalled a small matter.

Earlier, he watched Faker's livestream playing ranked. In that Korean server ranked match, Faker encountered Firrrrrre and was effortlessly carried. After the match ended, presumably someone in the chat asked something, Faker gave a few comments.

Westdoor recalls clearly, Faker's original words were:

……"No, you've got your focus wrong."

"His greatest strength has never been mechanics (he laughed embarrassedly)—although last year we were reversed by G2 because of his exquisite mechanics."

"I think Firrrrrre player's greatest strength is his ability to find opportunities."

"You know when he will strike, you can even imagine where he will strike from, so you prepared all kinds of defenses. But it's useless, because he always finds that attack line you never imagined. So when he appears before you, you will inevitably be shocked, because you can't figure it out……

At this very moment, Westdoor finally understood how Faker felt when he said those words.

In summary, three words can describe it:

Seeing ghosts!!!

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However, Westdoor didn't expect that this was just the beginning.

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After killing Westdoor, Lu Xi An cleared another wave before retreating, seemingly planning to return to base.

"You teleporting back to take lane?"

"Yes."

Mountain in the mic exchanged a couple of sentences with Westdoor, confirming Westdoor would teleport back to eat the tower minions, so he didn't help clear the tower minion wave, quickly turned back to his own jungle, planning to go take the blue buff.

Just now, when VG engaged in Zhong Lu, the two top laners also fought a skirmish; their health was below half and they had no potions left.

Although the big tree had disappeared and looked like it had recalled, Mountain suspected this was a deliberate feint by VG—in reality the big tree hadn't recalled but was hiding under the tower to bait Ziv's Galio into pushing the lane; Zhu Mei obviously hadn't recalled either, and if Ziv really dared to push the lane past, Zhu Mei would appear from behind him.

Therefore, Mountain prepared to take the blue buff, then farm Magic Swamp Frog, quickly reach level four, and go to the top lane to counter‑gank.

When Mountain started to take the blue buff, Westdoor teleported down in Zhong Lu. At the same moment, Lu Xi An had just reached the edge of the vision range of the defensive tower, and his silhouette quickly vanished into the fog.

Westdoor landed next to the defensive tower, raised his hand and threw the ball out; one Q perfectly finished off the front‑line minion that had been weakened by the tower, then W exploded, reducing the health of the remaining two front‑line minions, and perfectly, before the tower's attack landed, he auto‑attacked and killed the second minion.

Suddenly, a golden light pierced through the wall.

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When writing for a long time, a problem will occur……

Titles are very prone to repetition.

I am terrible at coming up with titles.

Starting today, I update every six days, occasionally every eight days……

This is really deadly ╥﹏╥

By the way, Happy National Day (I'm not happy!)