Chapter 108

In the backstage lounge, Mao Kai's smile was very evident as he watched the match. This style of being reckless yet steady was truly comfortable to watch. However, there was one single problem: Su Xing was not buying wards again, damn it! Inside the game, the five members of TES had indeed started to stop acting like humans. After taking the dragon and invading GEN's jungle once more, they broke the mid-lane inhibitor turret, but this time they still chose not to end the game, retreating instead! Because the second Baron would refresh in just a few minutes. The five members of GEN were on the verge of a breakdown. Please, just come and push the base, will you? There's already a gold lead of over twenty thousand, stop playing macro, woooo! If it weren't for the fact that you can't surrender in the World Championship, they would have clicked the button long ago.

Are the teams in the LPL region all monsters? "Take the Baron, break the top inhibitor, and then clock out."

Su Xing said indifferently. He knew this was very painful for GEN, but what did that have to do with him?

If you really want to blame someone, blame the trolls on the internet. A few minutes later, the Baron refreshed. The members of GEN didn't even care about the minion waves anymore; they forced their way out to find the TES members for a team fight. Even if they couldn't win, they had to fight!

If they got wiped out early, the game could end sooner.

This scene made both commentators feel a bit of heartache for GEN. This was likely the first time in a world-class tournament that the losing side just wanted the game to end as quickly as possible. The two sides clashed at the Baron pit. At this moment, Yu Wenbo, who possessed a huge advantage, started to show off his mechanics crazily. A few seconds later, he had already secured a quadra kill. This time, he was anxious; this could have been a pentakill. "Su Xing, I beg you, give me the pentakill, give me the pentakill."

In his desperation, Yu Wenbo even shouted it out. Su Xing paused and shrugged his shoulders. Fine. But he didn't expect there to be a traitor in the team; a certain jungler who liked to read books started acting maniacally and threw an R skill, taking away the final kill.

? Yu Wenbo was stunned, immediately pinging a question mark on the corpse.

"Don't you dare leave after the match."

Yu Wenbo was almost crying. He never expected that Su Xing would be willing to give up the pentakill, but this idiot jungler refused to let it go, and even used Flash, damn it. This was unbearable.

"Hehe. I'm doing this for Su Xing's own good, you know." Xiao Tian smiled triumphantly: "TES never gets a pentakill, Su Xing excluded."

Yu Wenbo: Is that even human language?

"Take the Baron, then push the inhibitor." Su Xing suppressed his laughter and then smiled. Although they had wiped out the opponents again, so what?

If I said I'd break three inhibitor turrets, I'll break three inhibitor turrets. I'm not going to argue with you.

"Uh..." Xiao Tian paused. Is he really that ruthless? "The support and top laner are both gone. We need to be steady, be steady, you know?" Su Xing said seriously: "Even when a lion hunts a rabbit, it uses its full strength. In this situation, the opponents will respawn relatively early. If we go over, we might run into them. Do you want to fight three against five?"

Xiao Tian: →_→

Yu Wenbo: →_→

Not to mention, they really wanted to.

"We are professional players, we must respect our opponents, got it?"

"Okay, I understand."

Everyone knew Su Xing was spouting nonsense, but it was indeed the right logic. After all, only this way would they not be flamed for fountain diving.

So the three of them didn't go to push the tower, but went to take the Baron instead. This was the most steady approach.

Seeing the choice of these three from TES, the faces of the five GEN members turned black. Please, can you guys act like humans!? "TES actually didn't go for the base race, but chose the Baron... My god, this is too steady, right?" Guan Zeyuan said, suppressing his laughter: "I think after this match, I'm afraid no one will be able to say that TES is a team that only knows how to fight recklessly. This macro play is also very, very strong."

Mi Lei also didn't know how to describe the scene before him. Why TES played like this, they knew, and many viewers knew too; this was a silent protest of their own.

Why does a team that won the game still have to be flamed?

One could feel the resentment in the hearts of the five TES members through the screen, but they were destined not to be able to formally respond to these trolls on social media, so they could only express the resentment in their hearts in their own way. Why does a team that won the game still have to accept questioning from fans of their own region? "Actually, there are many times when we need to give some respect to the players on the field." Mi Lei sighed: "They are representing our LPL teams to compete in this Saudi World Cup. As long as they can win the match, that is the best result. So, many times, there is really no need to hate just for the sake of hating."

The two commentators made it clear, and the viewers in the livestream couldn't help but chime in.

"I told you, this was definitely intentional. Look at you trolls, you flame when they win, and you flame when they lose. Is it necessary?"

"Does no one feel bad for GEN? How unlucky must they be to run into this..."

"GEN: You guys might as well have just fountain dived us."

"I guess GEN will never want to run into TES again. They've been traumatized."

"Su Xing: I heard someone was scolding me for fountain diving, so I'll just change the way I play the game."

Inside the game, GEN respawned once again. Looking at their two nexus turrets teetering under the support of the minion waves, the faces of the five were full of bitterness.

If they had a choice, they would rather be fountain dived!

Really, at least that way they would die quickly, unlike now, where they could only sigh and bite the bullet to clear the minion waves. Subsequently, led by Su Xing, after the top laner and support respawned, TES relied on the Baron buff to break the final lane! The nexus turrets also turned into ruins in front of the super minions, and GEN and the others finally showed expressions of relief.

It's finally ending... They bit the bullet and went up to die, then watched the base on the screen being quickly pushed down by TES. The five looked at each other; they didn't know why, but at this moment, losing the game actually felt a little happy.

They had it too hard... When shaking hands, the faces of the five GEN members were extremely complex. Looking at the smiling TES members, they didn't know whether to be angry or lucky.

Carrying their keyboards back to the backstage, this time Mao Kai was very satisfied and didn't say much else. After all, from his perspective, there wasn't much wrong with this game.

Except for the problem that a certain mid laner refused to buy wards.

Before, he would at least pretend to buy some, but this game Su Xing simply stopped acting like a human, not buying a single ward from start to finish, and was even too lazy to place the free trinket.

This was really not a good habit. Mao Kai looked at Su Xing, wanting to say something but stopping. Seeing this, Su Xing immediately spoke up: "What are we eating tonight..."

Mao Kai: →_→

At this moment, a staff member walked over again and knocked on the door: "Player Su Xing, please come out for an interview."

This match indeed warranted Su Xing going out for an interview; after all, his performance was truly as excellent as it could be.

Su Xing shrugged his shoulders. Fine. He would reluctantly accept another interview. Following the staff member to the interview area, the official host was still waiting for him.

"The match just now was played very beautifully."

The host covered her mouth, giggling while praising him. "It was just average, I was just a little bit serious."

Everyone:... Is this human language?

Damn it, and this was only being "a little bit serious"? Does that mean the previous two games weren't played seriously?

If GEN knew this, they would probably vomit blood. "Ahem, then let's proceed with this interview." Host Lan blinked her eyes. "Okay."

Qin Canglan gestured to the cameraman, and immediately after, the post-match interview began.

"Hello everyone, in the match just now, TES won against GEN with a crushing victory. So, let's invite the MVP of this match, Su Xing, to chat with everyone."

"Hello everyone, I am the mid laner for TES, Su Xing."

Facing the camera, Su Xing was as familiar as could be, revealing an extremely bright smile.

"First of all, congratulations to TES for successfully advancing to the next round with a 2:0 record. And in this round, you defeated the strongest team in the LCK, GEN. May I ask what your thoughts are on this?"

"No thoughts, maybe the opponents were still hiding some tactics."

Su Xing shook his head, appearing very disappointed in the opponent's performance.

Everyone: →_→

This act of showing off was a bit fresh and refined. Clearly, he didn't mean to look down on anyone, but he had said something that implied everyone present was trash.

They are already going home and they are still hiding? Are they hiding their plane tickets home? "And in the next round, who do you hope to be your opponent?"

The host continued to ask: "Is it G2?"

"Of course, you know I've been waiting for G2 for a long time."

Lin also laughed dumbly. Don't ask, asking means calling G2 over! Everyone: →_→

When this person starts showing off, why does the scene feel like it's getting out of control?

"Okay, from the match, we can also see that using Zed multiple times to complete solo kills in lane also proves that your confidence is built on the foundation of your strength. I have a question: during the match, there was a team fight that could have resulted in another pentakill, but it didn't appear in the end. There are already rumors on the internet that TES never gets pentakills. How do you view this statement?"

"This..." Su Xing paused and then said: "Actually, it's like this. Our ADC player also believes in this superstition, so a few of us felt that it's not good for young people to believe too much in superstition, so our jungler Xiao Tian just took it. I also hope player Yu Wenbo can turn over a new leaf. Kills taken by one's own ability are not called stealing."

In the backstage, Yu Wenbo was stunned, while Xiao Tian next to him was already laughing his head off. What a great line: "Kills taken by one's own ability are not called stealing."

The host tried very hard to suppress her laughter, then continued to ask: "Looking at the three games, we can find that it seems TES has very deep research when facing any opponent. Whether it was in the LPL region in the past or when facing teams from other regions, the warding habits of all the opposing team members seem to have been figured out. It is said on the internet that you have done very deep research on every team. Is this the case?"

"Pretty much." Su Xing said very seriously: "It's mainly because we can't find opponents for scrims. In my free time, I have nothing to do, so I can only watch their past match recordings, so it counts as a little bit of research."

Everyone:... This is what you call a little bit of research? You have to know that habits are terrifying things. Sometimes even the people involved don't know what their own habits are, and Su Xing, as a bystander, saw it clearly and did his homework. This is thought-provoking and terrifying. "Did you see that! You all didn't play scrims, look at how Su Xing does it, and what about you guys?" In the backstage, Mao Kai scolded the four of them with a straight face, looking like he hated that they wouldn't improve: "Every day you only know how to play ranked, you don't know how to do anything else?"

Xiao Tian and the others:... Fine. Playing ranked to keep their feel is also a crime, damn it. You are the coach, everything you say is right.

But one thing to say, their captain's research is truly a bit terrifying. After this, I'm afraid all the major teams will come up with some coping strategies.

If anyone is unlucky enough to run into TES, they won't have the confidence of a guaranteed win.

Setting aside the players' strength and the coaching staff, just the fact that their vision placement habits on the field were studied so clearly, everyone knows what that means in a match. "Then the last question is, in this match, TES adopted a different style of play. May I ask what the reason for this is?" The host blinked and gave Su Xing a look, signaling that he could speak boldly.

Everyone knew why TES had to do this, but when such things are said by the people involved, it's a different feeling.

"Actually, it's like this. In the previous match against GEN, the coach criticized us in the backstage for not respecting our opponents." Su Xing smiled and said nonchalantly: "So our style later became much more steady. Perhaps from now on, no matter which team we face, we will adopt this style."

Everyone:??? This is what you call respect?

Believe it or not, if you give the microphone to GEN, they would say you might as well have just fountain dived. This interview footage was presented word-for-word in the livestream, and the netizens also couldn't help but start to perform.

"Officer, there's a show-off here, hurry and arrest him, the kind that doesn't need evidence."

"To be fair, Le Shen is going further and further on the path of showing off. You can feel that thick smell of showing off through the screen~"

"Le Shen: No way, you guys forced me."

"I guess GEN is truly cursing in their hearts. You bunch of dogs, you're always causing trouble, it's not you guys who are being abused!"

"The implication is, you think you're safe just by not scrimming with us?"

"It should be quieter this time, right? Is there anyone who still dares to say TES is arrogant?"

"Exactly, a bunch of dogs, flame when they win, flame when they lose. Does it mean LPL teams aren't qualified to win?"

After the interview, Su Xing found that he had once again hit the trending searches. This also shows that the League of Legends tournament has gradually become accepted by more people, although it may also be because the protagonist was himself.

(End of chapter)