Chapter 285: Like a model descended from the heavens, truly a great example for humanity!

"Alright, viewers, welcome to the live broadcast of the Asian Games Road to Asian Games qualifiers. This simulation match will continue to be commentated by Chen Jieyan and Wang... Wang Wang Qianyuan!"

The professional Wang Duo changed his usual rapid-fire pace, even stuttering in a rare occurrence.

Even his vocal tone shifted to a pure broadcasting style; one could only describe it as full of "strange flavor."

"Athlete Xiang Cui Xiaojun has successfully secured the first point for the Chinese national team!"

"Wang Jie in the bottom lane is also exerting pressure! The Jinx he drafted has reached level six and possesses her ultimate ability! Coordinating with the support, they completed a solo-lane takedown! The final bit of health was taken by Ignite, securing another point!"

"Oh, look, Jinx has triggered 'Get Excited!' He is going for a double! The jungler arriving from the rear seems unable to escape either; Jinx continues to secure a hat trick! The top laner has also Teleported down!"

"Jinx secures a quadruple kill! He is only one step away from the highest honor in the League of Legends event, the quintuple kill!"

"Let us congratulate the Chinese national team for taking the lead. The match's top point-scorer, Wang Jie, performed exceptionally well!"

This absurd scene caused the netizens watching the stream to mock it wildly.

【The top laner "Grasp of Noxus" and "Power of Demacian Justice" are currently engaged in a friendly physical fitness exchange!】

【"Ah! Grasp of Noxus starts with a non-standard physical display move—it's the 'Hand of Friendship'! He's pulled him in! Power of Demacian Justice has been enthusiastically detained!"】

【After a bout of friendly physical contact, Power of Demacian Justice seems to be the first to run out of stamina! And Grasp of Noxus immediately displays a noble quality; he uses the 'Noxus Podium'! Congratulations! He has successfully awarded Power of Demacian Justice the 'First Physical Recovery Medal of the Match' and politely sent him back to base to recuperate! While securing the first point, he also fully embodied the Olympic spirit of 'Friendship first, competition second'!"】

【Switching the perspective to the mid lane... What!? The mid laner actually bought a "Mejai's Soulstealer"!!!】

【Like a model descended from the heavens, truly a great example for humanity! This Jax, such positive energy!】

【The Great Compassionate Little Mage, The Gregarious Assassin, The Pier Bodhisattva, The Desert Living Buddha, The Law-Abiding Citizen, The Singer of Life, The Embrace of Happiness, The God of War of All Living Things, The Joy of the North, The Wizard of Time, The Chinese Sword God, The Giver of the Void, The Spear of Requital, The Straight Tree Spirit, The Messenger of Auspicious Clouds, The Blood Donation Volunteer, The King of Completeness, The Glory Award Presenter, and others liked this!】

【Isn't it Black Mage Hero, Green Giant Hero, Ninja Hero, Scarecrow Hero, Humming Hero, Oil Hero, Dual-Axe Hero, Dual-Blade Hero, Purple Bead Hero, Piggy Hero, Rubber Hero?】

"What the hell is this!"

Watching this scene, Ye Bo couldn't help but think of the moment he would take the stage himself.

Although everyone had heard before the tournament—because esports became an official event this year, it needed to comply with the Olympic Committee's "Love & Peace Olympic Spirit," so a certain degree of "civilized optimization" was carried out.

For example, one must use the athletes' real names and the full names of the heroes, not strange nicknames.

But everyone truly did not expect this civilized terminology...

To be civilized in such a way!

"There's fun in other events too!" Xun held his phone and shouted.

"The death screen in Peacekeeper Elite has been changed to waving goodbye, and the battle royale rules have turned directly into a cyber triathlon of driving and target practice!"

"Honor of Kings seems about the same as us... no, wait, they seem to have specifically created an Asian Games special version!"

"What do you mean professional players can't recognize which hero the opponent picked??"

Although there was plenty of fun born from every event.

But as a qualifier, this was actually an experimental attempt, and some changes would be made after the main tournament arrived.

It should eventually become more natural.

Besides that, esports, like all traditional sports, requires every athlete to undergo "urine tests," "oaths," and other procedures when taking the stage, and they also carry the national flag when entering.

Ye Bo was already very much looking forward to his Asian Games journey three months later.

Of course.

The Road to Asian Games event itself didn't have much to reference.

After all, the versions were different, and the gap in team strength was extremely huge.

Except for the three major regions, the matches of the other dozen or so national regions were simply a chaotic mess!

You could see things here like {The 20-minute 75-CS Garen top}, {The naked B. . Sword crit Garen from India}, and {The "Apology Match" where four people's damage didn't exceed 4396 by the end of the game}.

There was even a Southeast Asian region that initiated a failed surrender, almost dreaming back to the colonial days...

The overall schedule was only two or three days long; the only things worth watching were the matches against CN Taipei and the KR representative team tomorrow and the day after.

Ye Bo was preparing to start a ranked game.

But his phone suddenly lit up with a message.

{Son, when is your match? Your dad and I looked for a long time and couldn't find the schedule 0. }

Seeing the message in the group chat, Ye Bo knew the two must have just finished watching the stream and probably confused the Road to Asian Games with the main tournament.

He explained it roughly.

The group chat ended with his mom's surfing meme.

However, soon after, Ye Bo's phone received another private message from his mom.

{Today is Father's Day, did you buy a gift for your dad?

"Damn, I forgot!"

Ye Bo stared and slapped his thigh.

There had been too many things lately; he had just returned from MSI and was busy with various preparations, which happened to collide with the Road to Asian Games... it made him completely forget about this!

Fortunately, the thoughtful Ye Ying had already prepared, immediately comforting him by saying she had already bought it and would have it sent home in Ye Bo's name.

Ye Bo opened the chat box with his dad, wanting to send a red envelope.

And that was when he discovered that their last message was from a year ago, on the day Ye Bo unlocked his progress bar, when he "escaped to the bathroom" halfway through a meal to check the system prompts.

At that time, his dad had transferred money to him, telling him not to forget his mom's birthday.

Ye Bo stared at his phone, then began tapping the screen.

{Dad, want to play? The team is off today}

About ten seconds later, the message came back, very brief.

{Log on}

Since becoming a professional player, he couldn't use other people's accounts to play ranked, so Ye Bo could only log into his mom's game account to play entertainment modes.

He logged into the "Forty-Year-Old Aunt Wants to Go Pro" account on the Ionia server and searched the friend list for any familiar IDs.

And an ID called "Fishing Uncle Wants to Reach Challenger" proactively joined the queue.

Matchmaking loading.

But the voice chat was once very quiet.

Neither of them spoke first; the air seemed a bit awkward.

"By the way, thanks for the fishing rod, you picked a good one."

Hearing the familiar voice come through, Ye Bo was just about to say something.

But he also happened to click on the other person's career profile and immediately let out a surprised exclamation.

"Wow! Dad, you're actually Diamond IV!?"

He still remembered that when he won the championship over half a year ago, he went to an internet cafe to play, and his dad was still a novice with very stiff basic operations, making his mom so frustrated she almost turned into the Tianshan Child Elder.

And now, in half a year, he had already rushed to Diamond IV!?

Ye Bo remembered that it took him a whole season to reach Diamond ten years ago, and that was when his "internet addiction" was at its worst.

—Although the difficulty of climbing ten years ago couldn't be compared to now, for instance, the evil promotion series had been canceled, and each tier only had four divisions without "Diamond 5."

But for a forty-year-old middle-aged man, it was still by no means an easy task.

Ye Bo carefully looked at the heroes used.

He discovered that the other person had a "one-trick" climbing strategy very similar to his own, playing almost exclusively Sylas, with only a few recent records of Naafiri.

"Feels like I still have some talent for this game." Ye Xiong's tone in the voice chat pretended to be calm, but the corners of his mouth were already slightly raised.

"That's for sure! Don't look at whose dad you are, this is inherited talent!"

Ye Xiong felt this sounded a bit strange.

However, although it was a bit awkward at first, it became different as soon as they entered the game.

The atmosphere suddenly became very natural.

There wasn't much to be picky about in matchmaking; Ye Bo picked Viego, a jungler who could carry well, and Ye Xiong, perhaps wanting to "prove himself" in front of Ye Bo, insta-locked Sylas.

"Wow, Dad, this is a great game; the opponents have Malphite and Skarner, two of the best ultimates for Sylas to steal!"

"It's just that Jayce mid is a bit hard to play in the early game, but I'll come help you gank!"

Ye Xiong was slightly puzzled: "Malphite is strong, but I haven't seen this jungler much; it seems to be only single-target crowd control and has to be used at melee range, it shouldn't be considered strong, right?"

"No, no, no."

Ye Bo gave him a lecture on some special knowledge, which instantly piqued Ye Xiong's interest.

But the opponents they matched against were not simple.

Ye Bo didn't open WeGame; otherwise, he would have discovered the anomaly of the five opponent accounts—the top laner Malphite had 1000+ matches with an absurd 99. 9% win rate!

And the other four accounts all had win rates below 30%, which was why they matched against Ye Bo and his dad.

This was clearly a classic specialty of the Chinese server: "Win-Rate Teams."

These win-rate teams were very common in matchmaking, ARAM, and group queues, especially on the Ionia server.

It was basically one "boss" hiring four boosters, intentionally pulling four accounts with extremely low win rates and hidden MMR to five-stack.

These boosters were usually at least Grandmaster or Challenger level, while the boss was mostly below Gold or Platinum... but normally, the opponents matched would only be Gold or Platinum at most!

To put it bluntly, with such a gap in the matchup, even if the boss went AFK, they could still easily win!

Some people were curious, what's the point of grinding this?