Chapter 337: 【Hand Speed Special Training】! The Quarterfinalists of

On September 26, 2023, the Asian Games main tournament officially opened.

The Asian Games feature a full 40 major categories and as many as 481 competition events, so the schedule for the esports events is not particularly long.

League of Legends is already the esports event with the most international teams participating, so there were matches on the very first day of the opening, continuing until the finals on National Day.

However, the first two days consisted mainly of preliminary rounds for various regions and wildcard regions, with little of note.

Thanks to the CN representative team winning the "Road to Asian Games" championship in the middle of the summer season, they will enter the quarterfinals group stage directly, skipping the first two days of preliminaries, which is equivalent to having two extra days to adjust and observe their opponents.

The KR representative team, however, had to interact with international friends from Indonesia, Kazakhstan, India, Malaysia, and so on.

But having gone through a month of intensive training, the KR representative team seemed to be holding their breath.

They were ruthless the entire time!

"The twenty-seventh point!!"

"The KR representative team's mid-laner Li Xianghe is playing today, using Tristana to secure his twelfth consecutive kill! The Indian player seems to have absolutely no power to resist!"

"It finally took only 17 minutes and 55 seconds! The Indian representative team was crushed with a massive score of 0-31!"

"Congratulations to the KR representative team for becoming the last winner of the preliminaries! Advancing to the quarterfinals!"

[Isn't that a bit too ruthless, bro? They won't come back next time, you know!]

[Thinking about it, it's actually quite miserable. They traveled thousands of miles and practiced for a whole month, only to get kicked out in a 3-minute speedrun and sent home. That's just too tragic.]

[Case solved! A volunteer mole revealed that the Indian team's training room is right next to the Korean team's, and they've been getting hit by poison gas attacks every day. This is revenge!]

[Don't be so sure, the Korean team might be the same, they just played a few more games, hehe.]

[Hehehe, don't rush to pop the champagne. It would be funny if someone gets a free pass to the quarterfinals only to be sent home in the semifinals~]

[Lol, the forums speculate based on rank records that Da Fei plays the fewest training games and is likely a substitute. So why is he playing today? Because they also think this is the only match they can win for sure!]

After all, the gap in strength between the two sides was too large, and this match was truly without suspense.

The CN representative team watching from the training room also found it hard to glean any valuable information, and even had to worry about whether the opponent was deliberately misleading them, making it difficult to gather any data.

However, the real focus was the quarterfinal draw that was about to take place on-site.

"Has Master Ye not arrived yet? The draw is about to start!" Xun looked around, searching for Ye Bo in the training room.

"Maybe he's still training," Saint Gun King guessed aloud.

"Still training! I've been trained to the point of vomiting this month, and we're about to hit the battlefield!"

Jiejie tilted his head and chimed in: "Master Ye, that's just how he is~"

Everyone smiled knowingly at this.

Everyone had been staying together this month, and it was inevitable that they would occasionally have moments of rest in the training room.

And the two "outsiders," Gala and Liu Qingsong, had also seen the legendary "Sleepwalking Training" with their own eyes for the first time, watching several times as the other person's fingers moved wildly while their eyes were closed, seemingly in a methodical way.

It was only after that that the bot lane duo truly understood why the people within the CN team were so incredibly convinced by him.

You have to admire it!

While waiting for the draw to start, Gala opened a small game on his own.

Liu Qingsong leaned over to look at the game, which looked like a "pixel-style mini LoL": "What's this?"

Gala replied casually: "Dodgeshow, a game for dodging skills. I saw Faker playing it on stream before, feels like it can train hand speed."

The stream was still going through the motions, and Xun walked over curiously.

Seeing that the other person had only survived for 200 seconds before dying, he mocked: "This won't do, Gaze, is your hack malfunctioning?"

"This is quite hard."

"Looks pretty simple, let me try!"

Xun watched; it was just using the mouse and keyboard to move and dodge LoL champion skills flying from all directions at any time.

It felt like anyone with hands could do it!

Refusing to believe it, he took the mouse and keyboard—but after a serious effort, he was defeated in less than 90 seconds!

Tried again, 77 seconds.

"No, no! Let me try again!"

Xun, who considered himself an mechanical player, got hooked and tried repeatedly, but couldn't break the 100-second mark no matter what.

Since everyone was free, they took turns trying it out.

As it turned out, the best score was actually Xun's!

The worst score was Saint Gun King, who could only survive for a little over 40 seconds.

Seeing Xun's frustrated look, Gala kindly comforted him from the side: "It's very impressive. I only lasted about 90 seconds when I first played. Guess how many seconds Tiger lasted the first time he played?"

Saint Gun King laughed at himself and teased: "Xiaohu? He can't be faster than me!"

"Yeah, Tiger only lasted 26 seconds!"

Everyone burst into laughter.

But thinking about it carefully, it was normal.

After all, the now-heavier Xiaohu no longer had any fighting spirit in his appearance, and he was no longer a so-called "mechanical" player, so it was reasonable for his hand speed to be slower.

Besides, in professional gaming, you generally don't need one specific ability to be exceptionally strong; balance is more important.

Unless that ability has truly reached some kind of "extreme."

Gala continued chatting: "It took me a long time to consistently get over a hundred. This game gets faster over time, and my personal best is over 700."

"Faker seems to have hit over 900 before, and the current world record is 1555.78."

"1555.78??? That's cheating!!!"

Xun, who had died before 100 seconds again, broke down.

"1557?" Ye Bo, who had just stepped into the training room, heard this and paused: "What did I miss? Who hit 1557 again?"

"Yo, Master Ye is here!"

"The draw hasn't started yet. I don't think it's my problem, it must be the game's problem!"

Ye Bo was pulled by Xun to the screen.

But when he saw the game screen in front of him, there was a hint of surprise in his eyes.

He didn't waste any words, grabbed the keyboard and mouse, and clicked to start the game.

The six people who had just finished trying were also curious, leaning over the back of the chairs to see what kind of score Ye Bo could get.

"As expected of Master Ye, he's already broken 100, nice and easy."

"Did you learn that, little Xun? This is called the gap in talent!"

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"Wait, no, he can dodge that too?"

"Master Ye, have you played this before!"

Ye Bo was even able to spare the attention to turn his head and answer: "This is indeed my first time playing this game, but I've played similar ones."

That's what he said.

But the six pairs of eyes behind him grew wider and wider.

The score had already passed 1000, then 1300, 1400...

The frequency of the champion skills on the screen increased every 100 points, and by now, it was becoming dazzling!

But in fact.

This game was simply "child's play" for the current Ye Bo.

Because the special training he had been doing in addition to his training this month was somewhat similar to this game.

It's just that.

One was just a pixel interface, using WASD + right-click to move and dodge skills.