Chapter 8: Internet-wide Hype and Discussion!

[Task completed: Reach the top ten of the Rank leaderboard on either the Peak of the Canyon or the Han Fu server.]

[Congratulations on receiving the reward: 777 Counterattack Points!]

[Congratulations on receiving the reward: Double Proficiency Experience Card (10 hours) *3!]

[Congratulations on receiving the reward: Hero Skill Crash Course Card *1 (instantly master a hero's level five basic proficiency)!]

Ye Bo looked at the reward boxes popping up before him with great excitement.

But soon, a new system notification jumped out.

"That's it for now, brothers. My phone is out of juice, I'm ending the stream!"

"See you tomor—"

Before Ye Bo's words were finished, the stream had already gone black, displaying: "The streamer is on the road~".

Even so, the stream remained lively for a while.

[No way? How are you so practiced at this? Speed-running the end of the stream, are we!]

[Auntie! Carry me in ranked! Auntie, I don't want to work hard anymore!!!]

[This streamer is interesting. He leaves when his popularity is at its peak; does he really view money as dirt?]

[I'm an old fan. I always hear this guy rambling about wanting to go pro. I guess his heart isn't in streaming?]

[What a pity, a streaming genius is about to fall. Although this brother is quite strong, I feel like he's destined for the bench if he goes pro. His hero pool is just too ill-suited for the competitive stage.]

[Haha, Coin-ge also broke his defense and ended the stream. It's rare to see Coin-ge have his defense broken!]

Although Doinb wasn't solo-killed during the laning phase in the second game.

But once the LeBlanc helped the top lane gain an advantage, his gear spiked rapidly as he held a massive lead in the match.

Because Doinb wanted "revenge" too badly, he kept forcing solo fights against the LeBlanc, only to get caught and outplayed twice.

In the end, his face turned red with rage, and he earned the glorious title of second place in the "Cosplay God" competition!

The same speed-run excuse for ending the stream only maximized the entertainment value.

It was obvious.

The discussion regarding tonight's stream had only just begun to ferment.

Ye Bo looked at the words before him, clearly struggling to suppress his excitement.

[You have successfully made a name for yourself on the national server, breaking into the top ten with such a performance—this is something even the original 18-year-old you couldn't achieve! Believe that with your performance tonight, new eyes will soon take notice of you.]

[Task: Choose a professional team as soon as possible and restart your professional career.]

[Reward: ?]

"Damn it, why is the reward a question mark? Who did it learn this bad habit from!"

"I'm shaking with rage!"

However, complaints aside, he was clearly more concerned about the "hint" given by the system.

It seems, perhaps it will be very soon?

The opportunity for him to step back into his professional career!

From his current perspective, he finally understood that perhaps the reason his former self took so long to become a starter was because his hero pool was far too shallow when he first entered his professional career.

Furthermore, his main signature picks weren't actually at a level where they could ignore the meta.

Just these two points alone would doom his start to be low; after all, no first-tier team would want someone with obvious shortcomings in their hero pool.

Unless that person's strength... was truly exceptional!

"Perhaps, I should continue to prove myself?"

"Then let's just go for rank one first!"

Ye Bo set his next short-term goal.

Although he didn't know how this so-called "opportunity" would arrive, he didn't want to just sit there and wait until then.

Today's five-pro-player match had already made him feel quite a few problems.

Especially when he discovered that even with a massive advantage, it was still difficult to find opportunities against these professional players—this was something he rarely experienced in ranked queues.

Combined with what the system said, perhaps his former self really was just "plain and unremarkable."

But so what?

He isn't that anymore!

Thinking of this, Ye Bo's fighting spirit became even more high and excited.

Even if his talent was indeed unremarkable, he now had a way to potentially catch up by using "three times" the time others had.

If one "me" isn't enough, what about three of me?

More accurately, four!

And there's still the accumulation of an old-timer!

Therefore, Ye Bo had no intention of sleeping tonight; after closing the stream, he sat cross-legged back on his bed.

He wanted to seize every moment from now on, in the best state possible, to welcome that opportunity that might be coming soon.

"LPL! Just you wait!"

"Trial Grounds, activate!"

Just as Ye Bo entered the Trial Grounds, discussions about him had already appeared on major forums.

The traffic from a five-pro-player match was truly massive; after all, it could be said that several of the LPL's highest-traffic players had collided, which brought its own attention.

Coupled with such brilliant performance in the game and the gimmicky "humiliating half-health solo kill," any clip would be hard-pressed not to generate buzz.

"How to evaluate Doinb getting humiliated and tower-dived by a random player, then breaking his defense and ending the stream?"

"How to evaluate a game with five professional players where a random player is carrying the whole show?"

"How to evaluate a forty-year-old aunt wanting to go pro?"

The comments on various posts were diverse.

However, it wasn't as harmonious here as it was in the stream.

"Lol, I've always said those who keep hyping up pros are just noobs. Actually, looking at it this way, pro players aren't all that, right? I really feel like it's no different from my Silver games!"

"It really is! To be honest, Challenger is enough; there's really no need to force yourself into Silver."

"If you ask me, Doinb really embarrassed himself to the core. He's a real 'passenger' mid-laner. Getting outplayed twice in a row, he couldn't even lane against a random player. It's obvious there's a problem with his skill, right?"

"Indeed, just spinning around and embarrassing himself!"

However, there were also Doinb fans who vehemently refuted this.

"The people above really don't understand the game. The first game was the jungler feeding, the second was the teammates collapsing. What does that have to do with my Coin-ge?"

"Random players should really stop trying to touch porcelain with pros. Playing the game for a lifetime and only knowing those two or three heroes—to put it bluntly, what's the use?"

"That LeBlanc in the second game was just 'meh.' I feel like those were all basic operations."

"It's just a ranked game, stop making a fuss. Faker gets solo-killed in ranked every day too. If he's really that good, why doesn't he go pro?"

The discussions on the forums were still just about the back-and-forth between the black and white sides.

But what truly ignited the traffic for this incident was an analysis video made overnight by a recently popular tutorial content creator, [Chujun Ekko].

The most critical part was that this creator was not only a blogger with a high follower count but also a newly joined coach for the LDL secondary professional league!

The professionalism was top-notch.

Among them, just the IDs in the title had already sparked a lot of attention.

"Random high-level player outplays pro players! What made him the 'thigh' among a group of pros like Rookie, JKL, Knight, and Doinb?"

In the video, he analyzed the two games from the perspective of detailed technical flow with frame-by-frame analysis.

"Let's get real! I can boldly put forward a conclusion here first."

"This Akali, at least when he was using the Akali hero, truly formed a skill suppression against player Doinb!"

"Everyone, look at this play. This is 0.1x speed, slowed down ten times."

"See that? This turn-around! This prediction of intent in advance! From the very first movement he made when he hit the lane, it was obvious he had already won the game of wits. Every subsequent step Doinb took was actually within his calculations!"

"It can be said that, in fact, from this step on, the laning phase was already over!"

The data for this video, with the help of Doinb, the "number one streamer on Douyu," and the IDs of three other star players, skyrocketed faster than imaginable.

There were also a host of other related stream clips.

Including Rookie's shock, JKL's exclamation, and the compilation of Akali's operations, all of which successively hit the homepage of the video site!

That very night.

Many people all over Shanghai scrolled through these videos; the heat was even on par with the MSI tournament that had already begun.

What was even more unexpected was that an accidental coincidence occurred.

It was another violent push for Ye Bo's explosive popularity!

Damn, pull!

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(End of chapter)