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Chapter 179

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When DRX's main crystal shattered into stars all over the sky, the audience, who had just experienced a roller coaster, suddenly erupted with a tsunami of sound.

The metal frame of the entire venue seemed to tremble in the cheers!

The circular stage suddenly sprayed fireworks, dry ice mist wrapped in the neon halo of the scene rising and intertwining, and with the golden rain intertwining in the air, it was building the stage into a magnificent curtain.

"We are the champions!!!"

Wang Duoduo pressed the casting desk with surging emotions, his tone and emotions fluctuating: "2022 World Championship Champion! The final winner belongs to EDG!"

Miller's constantly fluctuating chest next to him was enough to see the emotional fluctuation: "DRX almost survived in a desperate situation in the last wave, but miracles cannot happen again and again! They were subjected to an unexpected frontal destruction on the final stage!"

"EDG used an incomparable big victory to show dominance in the final again and lifted the World Championship trophy!"

Wawa, with a flushed face, breathed a long sigh of relief: "Hard to imagine, when the comrades of the competition area fell early, EDG fought out alone from the encirclement of three Korean teams, and finally fought three games!"

"Akali's infinite solo kills with Flying Thunder God; the desperate battlefield at the top of the Forbidden City; the one-thought gamble of the last counter-attack opportunity in the crack of life..."

"Countless unforgettable decisive battle scenes, I think this final will definitely be recorded in the history of the S-series!"

Millions of barrages instantly turned the live broadcast room into a lagging PPT.

The scene of celebration was like a festival, and even the live broadcast screen was completely submerged.

【EDG!!!】

【Is the prosperous age coming? The first double-champion team in LPL, really became LPL's SKT?】

【Still SKT, cold knowledge, since S7, T1's World Championship results are two times not entering + three semi-finals! The number of semi-finals is about to catch up with the factory's number of quarter-finals, this posture, I see it will only be semi-finals in this life!】

【Master Ye is too super-model, this final is finished, really have to be enshrined, right? Emperor Ye is here!】

【No matter what title, can only say he deserves it! He deserves it!】

【Broken, the most uncomfortable episode of learning from mom, "You left and we are still champions" - the elimination method is ironclad! Still hard-mouthed that it wasn't stolen last year!】

【I laughed, last year Riot thought that the FMVP had been the jungler for several consecutive years, so they forcibly gave it to the mid laner, but this year, looking at it, it seems like it will be the mid laner for several consecutive years again, I'm just waiting to see if Riot dares to steal it again!】

【If they dare to steal it, it's simply harming people, the others don't want to take it themselves, right? The mid laner is really carrying the whole team!】

Before the crystal exploded, many audience members at the scene couldn't hold back their excitement and stood up from their seats.

Surging applause and screams filled every corner of the Chase Center, and the tsunami-like shouts slapped the eardrums wantonly.

"E-D-G! E-D-G! E-D-G!"

Tens of thousands of people were cheering from the bottom of their hearts for the final winner born under the fireworks here.

But when the EDG five-member group photo appeared on the giant screen behind.

The sound of cheers in the audience suddenly changed quietly without any guidance.

As if it was after seeing that group photo, everyone was awakened by instinct, the ID that was engraved in their minds during these three games.

"Ye!"

"Ye! Ye!"

"Ye! Ye! Ye!"

At first, it was just a few sporadic fanatical fans.

But with the spontaneous follow-up of the people around, the fission influence of one passing to ten, ten passing to a hundred.

Almost in the change of a few breaths, the cheers of the whole audience had suddenly become uniform, exactly the same name!

The pronunciation of "Ye" by domestic and foreign audiences is very similar, after all, there is a pronunciation similar to "Yeah" in English.

So at this moment, if someone suddenly came here, they might have auditory hallucinations for a while, thinking they had entered a large-scale live-action Calabash Brothers scene...

No matter what professional competition.

What can best stir the audience's nerves is nothing more than amazing operational performance, incomparable determination in adversity, and the games and counter-games made by both sides based on the changes on the spot.

These Ye Bo undoubtedly did, and it can even be said that he did it in a way that no one had ever seen before!

The broadcast director condensed the lens on the winner's side.

Just at the moment of pushing the enemy base, the five players had already taken off their headsets and hugged each other tightly.

At this moment, Ye Bo had no mood to pay attention to the golden banners flashing in front of him.

He listened to the tsunami coming from the stands, the shouts about his ID.

He seemed to clearly feel the blood in his heart surging faster.

The dazzling lights shining from above seemed to flash and rotate in front of his eyes, everything seemed to be like a dream at this moment, and even his feet were a bit floating.

Everyone hugging tightly had a smile on their faces, that is the pride of winning after a hundred trials, the joy of returning to the throne, and even the corners of everyone's eyes were slightly flashing with fluorescence.

And when the EDG crowd heard the change in the cheers at the scene.

Barrier and Brother Shengqiang's first reaction was actually to follow and shout with all their strength.

"What-did-you-two-say?"

The noisy noise made by ten thousand people was too outrageous; after losing the soundproof headset, even communication at such a close distance was hard to hear clearly, Ye Bo could only see their mouths constantly shouting.

Barrier desperately shook Ye Bo's shoulders, shouting with all his might near his ear: "Shouting you are awesome! What would we do without you!"

Brother Shengqiang didn't lean so close, as if thinking of something with emotion, and shouted hard at him: "I said it before, right, you can definitely win the championship!"

"What?? Who ate the sweet potato?"

Ming Kai and Mao Kai, who ran up from the backstage, rushed onto the stage in a swarm, hugging everyone excitedly one after another.

And when Ming Kai looked at Ye Bo, he couldn't help but rub the other's big head hard, his eyes full of emotion.

He seemed to recall at this moment, half a year ago, the day Ye Bo first came to the EDG base.

At that time, he took the other party to visit the base, went to the dormitory, and the "official announcement selfie" of the two taken by the front camera suddenly raised by Ye Bo...

At that time, Ming Kai would never have thought that this sunny boy who looked a bit optimistic, and even a bit abstract, would become the existence that changed everything this year.

"Factory Manager, my flag didn't fall! I really proved it successfully!"

Ming Kai's originally raised corners of his mouth suddenly stiffened, thinking of bad things.

However, the two-finger Zen that had just been raised to knock on the braincase suddenly stopped in the air.

He still couldn't bear to knock on this head, so he automatically searched for enemies in the air, directly locking onto Barrier next door who was still bragging with Brother Shengqiang.

"Ouch!" Barrier cosplayed Tom Cat: "Factory Manager, what are you doing! It was agreed that if we win the championship, you won't care about me using a small account to water your experience, right? Are you breaking your promise!"

Ming Kai laughed and scolded: "Stop chatting! Hurry up and shake hands, you can only lift the cup after shaking hands."

After being reminded, everyone hurriedly stood in a row and left the player seat, heading to the opposite player stage for the fist-bump ceremony.

There were immediately photographers pushing lenses to aim at them, following all the way.

The close-up was projected onto the big screen at the scene.

The restless noise coming from all sides was deafening, EDG fans were all beaming with joy, and the fluorescent sticks and black-and-white knight team flags in their hands were shaking desperately.

Ye Bo reached out and grabbed a golden ribbon that drifted in front of his eyes, looking quite novel, carefully observing it while walking.

"So this is the legendary golden rain..."

The close-up lens of Riot's designated photographer just happened to capture this scene.

The background is the noisy audience and the stage where the golden rain falls, Ye Bo, bathed in the spotlight of the whole scene, slightly lowered his head, the hot white light hit his face, forming a reflection with the flushed cheeks due to excitement.

There is both the high spirits of a young man and the joy and a trace of daze in front of the highest glory.

The live broadcast screen followed and pushed to the DRX player seat.

Kingen was staring blankly, as if he had exhausted his strength, leaning on the seat and couldn't sit up for a long time, it was only when P-little-general next to him reminded him that he stood up to fist-bump.

Pyosik, on the contrary, had the most natural expression.

Perhaps it was because after the quarterfinals, not many people had expectations for him, and he himself felt that it was good to be able to enter the final.

And because the opponent's mid laner was too dazzling, his jungle seemed not to have lost much...

Thinking of this, he even felt a bit fortunate—but noticing the irradiation of the camera, he hurriedly pulled down his face and made a stiff face of heartbreak.

As for Zeka next to him, he was lost.

P-little-general called him three or four times before he came back to his senses.

But Zeka's action of standing up looked a bit laborious and slow, his eyes were still staring at the settled screen, and the terrible record of his Akali.

Compared to Sylas, Akali is the hero he is most proficient in and most confident in.

And for every master player, the defeat of a master hero, especially a miserable defeat in a matchup, is definitely a heavy and even "heart-damaging" blow...

However, when fist-bumping with Ye Bo.

Perhaps it was due to the personality of these assassin players, he didn't avoid eye contact like some players, wanting to deceive and escape the result of failure.

But, when he faced Ye Bo's eyes, that brilliant smile.

Zeka couldn't see any aggression, and even saw the other party nodding to him.

Thinking of his harsh words before the game, the "trophy" team logo he flashed in the last game... Thinking of the two team logos that everyone flashed when the opponent pushed the house.

His nose seemed to suddenly become bright red, and he felt ashamed for a moment.

Ye Bo didn't have too many thoughts.

In his view, compared to players like Chovy who would turtle and avoid fighting at the slightest disagreement, he still prefers to clash with players who are willing to fight with bayonets.

After all, anyone can have a turtle style, but not everyone has the courage to take risks.

Came to the bot lane duo at the end.

Deft, with red eyes, still squeezed out a smile when he saw the crowd coming.

On the contrary, Meiko, who was walking in front, put away his excited expression.

The two came to the front, don't know what they said, and then hugged each other very hard.

Deft has deep feelings for EDG, and will recall those years in various interviews, besides complaining about the cafeteria with the old teammates.

And on the day the last quarterfinal ended, he also made a video call to celebrate at the first time, truly hoping from the bottom of his heart that they could walk here.

Ye Bo knew the experience of this veteran opposite, and respected him very much in his heart.

At the same time, also somewhat yearning.

Because in Ye Bo's heart, his future should be like this, insisting on what he loves—of course, perhaps he has already done so.

"Come on, Brother Deft, hope we can meet again next year!" Ye Bo said in Chinese.

He heard from Meiko that Deft can understand Chinese.

It's just because of the accent, he was once sharply commented by the culprit Ming Kai: "His Chinese sounds like an idiot!", leading to his shy personality, he rarely takes the initiative to speak.

"Hmm." Deft paused slightly as if mobilizing his memory, but it was clear that it was still a bit unfamiliar, and he could only barely speak broken Chinese that was not too standard.

"You are awesome, really, also... congratulations."

Ye Bo barely understood and replied: "You are also awesome! We must work hard together, must meet again next year!"

After saying that, Ye Bo also took the initiative to step forward and hug the other party.

Deft was stunned for a moment, then, also smiled and raised his hands.

"Sure enough, it's the same as what Meiko said."

After separating, Ye Bo walked towards the last Beryl, and conducted a simple fist-bump ceremony with the other party.

However, Ye Bo noticed that when he saw the other party paying attention to him in the video call, it seemed to have changed.

At first it was curiosity, now I don't know what it is.

And Beryl's inner emotions are indeed very complicated.

On the one hand, in fact, he has always been a very Buddhist person, even if he got the runner-up last year, and was even mocked by people saying that it was because of him that he didn't win the championship, and was mocked for "not being able to find a job"...

But on the one hand, coming to the final for two consecutive years, runner-up for two consecutive years.

No matter who it is, it is impossible to have no waves in the heart.

Especially this year, not only is it the possible last year of his favorite bot lane teammate, it is the year he truly had a desire to win.

Most importantly, this final brought him a sense of frustration that was too intense!

He had never experienced this feeling of defeat.

EDG's crowd walked out of the player seat.

And DRX's five people watched the opponent's back, unwillingness, regret, loneliness, various emotions seemed to intertwine in the air.

Beryl took back his gaze the fastest, his personality is destined to be able to walk out the fastest, the most free and easy.

"Brother Hekui..."

Beryl said while noticing that Deft had been stained with golden ribbons because he had hugged two people one after another—that was a position that would not be affected by the golden rain in the player seat with a roof.

He subconsciously reached out, wanting to help the other party sweep away those irrelevant things.

But was gently stopped by Deft, who turned his head after being called.

"It's okay, just like this, it's quite good."

This sentence seemed to be a pun, Beryl said unwillingly: "Brother Hekui, let's come again next year! Next year..."

"Hmm, next year..." Deft's eyes seemed to reveal a trace of confusion: "Let's talk about next year's things next year."

After saying that, he turned his head again and looked at the center of the stage.

That position shrouded in all the spotlights, and the position of the Summoner's trophy he had been thinking about.

Center of the stage.

Ye Bo, draped in the EDG team flag sent by Ming Kai, was pushed to the center of the standing position by everyone, and this was the first time he could carefully look at this object that all players dream of.

S12 is a relatively special year, from the level of the Summoner's trophy, it is the same.

The "hooded image" trophy that had been baptized by 11 years of wind and frost was recast this year, becoming a brand-new style handcrafted by luxury giants, which is different from before in all aspects, like two objects.

The European and American commentators at the scene were still setting the atmosphere: "Riot official once said that the recasting of this year's Summoner's trophy is the opening of a new era, perhaps that is not just a slogan, now we may be witnessing the birth of a new era!"

"Lift the cup, EDG! Lift the championship trophy that belongs to you again!"

The new Summoner's trophy shone with dazzling silver light under the illumination of the dome light.

Ye Bo was full of smiles, reaching out to touch it impatiently.

"Come on brothers! Lift the cup, lift the cup!"

"I'll count three two one... three, two, one!"

With the joint effort of EDG's members, the Summoner's trophy was lifted high into the air!

The cheers from the stands soared into the sky instantly!

The spotlight gathered on EDG's team members, five passionate and excited faces became the brightest scenery in this picture scroll.

Ye Bo in the C position smiled incomparably brilliantly, every bit of experience and deep meaning along the way turned into the arc of the corners of his mouth rising at this moment.

Ye Ying in the stands saw this scene and was moved to tears.

Even Ye Xiong was quietly gazing in the direction of the stage.

Parents may not understand games.

But they know that their child has been yearning for this moment for a long time.

And Roaring Emperor only opened his mouth with difficulty at this time, based on the professional ethics of hosting for many years, and sent congratulations to the winner.

"Congratulations to EDG, they are indeed worthy of our respect and applause."

"And DRX as our fourth seed, they also tried their best and did very well."

"EDG showed incomparable dominance with this big victory, as the team that performed better in this final, the various preparations before the game were also more sufficient, they indeed should get this championship..."

CT brother glanced at the other party, knowing the Korean online public opinion, he didn't dare to take this sentence.

Hurriedly changed the subject and said: "Especially the mid laner Ye player, we really have to admit that his performance in this BO5 is really not a little bit exaggerated, this is really the first time we have seen an LPL local mid laner who can perform like this!"

"As for Zeka, his performance in this World Championship is indeed too unbalanced, I think this year's Dade Award has an owner..."

The LCK live broadcast room indeed started to criticize, and exploded because of these few sentences.

However, there were clearly quite a few trolls who came to watch the fun.

【Damn, Jeon Yong-jun, if you want to be an LPL commentator, you can roll immediately! Still helping to blow the opponent?】

【Laughing to death, lost and still not allowed to tell the truth, can only say fortunately this is not Korea, otherwise I'm afraid the sound of the library is too loud to disturb the people!】

【The above is wrong, next year's final is in Korea, can only say don't be anxious, really don't be anxious!】

【Hehehe, I just said that the entire LCK competition area only knows how to nest inside, can only count on T1, others can't count on it! If T1 came, they would definitely win, next year we have to count on my big T1 to guard the country!】

【T1 is?】

【Ah yes yes yes, after all, the record of all LCK teams this time is zero to three, only T1 is zero to two! Win!!】

On the stage, the live female host Sjokz has walked onto the stage.

"Please congratulate our defending champion EDG again!"

"Then first of all, please invite the two co-founders of Riot Games, Tryndamere and Ryze, to award medals to the champions!"

The routine program every year, two Riot founders, one tall and one thin, really look like the images of the two heroes in the game, walking to the center with a smile holding medals.

And when it was Ye Bo's turn.

After wearing the championship medal, Tryndamere also reached out to shake hands enthusiastically, muttering something in his mouth.

What they most hope to see is actually a player like Ye Bo.

Young, and showing infinite future upon debut, extremely suitable as a candidate for a "benchmark".

The last successful example, Lee Sang-hyeok, is clearly old now, and this year it seems even more that the future is difficult to continue, urgently needing a "successor".

Before, the best candidate in their minds was Chovy, which is why he occupied the C position in the S-series promotion every year.

But now...

Ye Bo faced Tryndamere's muttering, just nodding blindly—he couldn't hear clearly, and didn't quite understand what the other party was saying.

The two then walked to one side.

Sjokz continued the process with a microphone in hand.

"Next is the FMVP award for this World Championship! It is also the most concerned personal award of the whole year, used to commend the player with the most outstanding performance!"

"I believe everyone has their own favorite candidates in their hearts, so let's shout out the names in your hearts together!"

However, just like the jokes in the live broadcast room before.

The entire scene had almost no other sound, completely covered by a unified shout.

Sjokz saw that the suspense was sold enough, then opened the envelope and shouted with spirit.

"Mid laner Ye player!! Congratulations!"

The other four EDG members all clapped together at the first moment, and pushed Ye Bo, signaling him to step forward.

The big screen above the stage presented Ye Bo's overall data in this final.

Each item can only be described as exaggerated to the extreme!

In an instant, the applause was thunderous.

Even the most harsh audience, even the most cloud-like players, after seeing the luxurious data, it is absolutely difficult to question Ye Bo's importance to this EDG!

Ye Bo generously took the FMVP trophy, lifted it hard, and waved to the supporters in the four stands.

"Then let us interview our new FMVP favorite!" Sjokz handed the other microphone to Ye Bo.

"As far as I know, this is your rookie year, but you won the final with an almost perfect performance and got your first FMVP, what are your thoughts now?"

This is actually a very boring question.

Generally speaking, at this time, you can only say happy, excited, etc., what other mood can you have?

However, Ye Bo picked up the microphone with a look of expectation.

"When I was preparing to play professionally, the coach asked me, what ID do you want to take."

"At that time I thought for a long time, because I really wanted everyone to remember my ID... but later I decided to just use Ye, my name."

"Because at that time someone told me, if you want people to remember your ID, you should use the way of a professional player."

"Now, I think I did it!"

In fact, this was what Ye Bo thought of himself at the beginning, it was what he said to Brother Shengqiang.

It's just that, in a sense, it was indeed because he saw the sentence 【... therefore even no audience can remember your ID】 and the idea that arose spontaneously.

Now, he is undoubtedly practicing the words of the year.

The domestic audience at the scene exploded with "Ye! Ye! Ye!" screams again.

And after the translation, the foreign audiences immediately followed up and shouted again at the same time!

The scene became a "Calabash Brothers scene" again.

The terrifying noise, even the million-level speakers at the scene were hard to cover...

Sjokz had to put down the microphone, waiting with a smile for the volume at the scene to decrease, before asking the next question.

"Then the next question, we know that as a rookie on the field, it is not easy to walk to this step, whether it is mentality or experience level, then may I ask, is there anything you can share with everyone about the person or thing that helped you the most on this journey?"

Ye Bo raised the microphone again, first thanking the team and teammates, without half a hypocrisy.

If you look back from the end, you might feel that everything is "justified".

But from the beginning, in such a championship team, the trust of teammates and the team is actually equally valuable, allowing him to have the opportunity to show himself, and then have the opportunity to do those incomprehensible things.

"There are still many people to thank, besides teammates, there are also the audience fans who have always supported me!" Ye Bo said and giggled.

"Actually, I often sneakily look at those comments myself, seeing everyone praising me makes me so happy, hehe..."

Once this was said, the live broadcast room and the scene suddenly laughed into a group.

But everyone could feel that sincerity.

"Of course, there is also my family, with their support I have the opportunity to pursue my dreams, I think, compared to many people, I am already very lucky!"

"Love you, Mom and Dad."

"Besides that, there is actually one more person, or should be said to be an old friend."

"He really helped me a lot, thank him."

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