Chapter 68: Bro, you won't get sprayed to tears, will you?

"Nice!"

Uzi couldn't help but praise, saying: "Holy shit, your plane is pretty cool!"

"This damn hero is way overpowered, right?"

Ning blurted out without even thinking: "Have the League of Legends designers been bored lately? First Quisanti was busy for half a year, then Little Fire Dragon was busy for half a year, and now they've thrown out another plane just to pad their KPIs."

"Su Xing's mechanics are also impressive."

Bao Lan, being quite emotionally intelligent, praised: "Wu Zi, let's discuss—let's switch things up a bit."

Hero strength definitely exists, but no matter how you say it, being able to pull off this kind of play against active pro players is itself a display of one's own skill.

"Don't even think about it."

Uzi laughed so hard his mouth twisted: "This is the 'one-cost card' you all used to look down on, yet it can beat active pro players into the ground."

"Transfer? No way! 'The version suits.'"

Su Xing didn't take Ning's words to heart, merely chuckling: "After the rework, the strength isn't low, and most importantly, the gear also fits well."

With 2200 economy you can output 5000 economy worth of damage—this is the double boost from hero strength and item bonuses; neither can be missing!

"Oh wow, you're too humble."

The top laner theshy evaluated: "You're also really strong."

Su Xing: "No, dude, are you Korean? How can you even say the word 'humble'? Looks like I need to revise my stereotype of theshy."

Su Xing laughed: "How does theshy's English sound more fluent than some locals?"

"Originally, I wasn't very practiced."

Bao Lan critiqued: "Since scrims in the Old Man Cup, theshy's grasp of English has improved by leaps and bounds."

"Huh?"

Ning looked puzzled, feeling like he'd been slighted.

"Indeed, after the Old Man Cup, only I feel like I can speak much more English."

theshy nodded: "I'm truly invincible."

Everyone: "You can even see our team's memes on Douyin in South Korea, right?"

"Come on, come on, I'm going to invade his jungle."

Relying on the advantage of our mid laner and having a support roam together, Ning felt he couldn't just do nothing; he actually wanted to invade the enemy jungle again.

"Or maybe we shouldn't?"

Su Xing reminded: "Just go help theshy."

He couldn't understand Ning's thinking, but in his view the situation only required helping with vision in the upper river area to ensure theshy wouldn't continue to bear pressure from the enemy top jungle.

As long as we maintain this rhythm and develop until I have my four-item set, it's as good as a win; there's no need for Ning to take such reckless risks.

"It's fine, isn't there still you?"

Ning didn't feel there was anything wrong with what he was doing; he thought that if he didn't make good use of our mid laner's advantage to put pressure on the enemy jungle, then what's the point of being a jungler? Su Xing: "No, dude, just how long ago did you say you'd listen to my commands, and now you're already going back on your word?"

"Fine, do whatever you want."

As for that, Su Xing didn't add anything else; anyway, I've said what I needed to say—if you won't listen, that's your problem, Ning.

"It's fine, we probably won't even fight."

Bao Lan eased the atmosphere: "The two of us shouldn't run into anything in the jungle."

However, he didn't realize that his and Ning's every move had already been exposed to the enemy's vision; as soon as Ning crossed the river, Tian had already figured out what he intended to do. Right then Tian also realized this was a good chance to turn the tide, and immediately began directing teammates to surround them.

"69, land a big ult on them and they'll both die." "Jack and Tian Ye, can you guys move over here?"

Ten seconds later, Ning and Bao Lan were left behind by Tian; at that point Ning already sensed something was off, but it was too late.

Lan Bo's long-range support ult blocked their retreat, and besides, the enemy bottom duo also closed in; the combined output of the three killed Ning and Bao Lan in an instant.

Su Xing and theshy rushed to help right away, but they were far too slow.

"This"

Ning wanted to speak but couldn't get the words out.

"Still want to invade the jungle?"

Su Xing teased: "You don't still think you're playing pros, do you? Comparing execution with a full-strength active pro team?"

"Clearly, we could have won just by playing it safe and farming,"

"but you had to come up with all these weird ideas—now you've just handed two kills to Varus."

Ning: "Mine, mine."

Bao Lan, seeing the mood turn sour, quickly said: "During the teamfight later, I'll just focus on Varus."

"Nothing to do with you."

Su Xing naturally wouldn't pass up this chance to pressure Ning; from the start he knew the key to winning tonight's match was making the arrogant Ning obey his commands as willingly as Uzi does.

"Anyone who can play pro is a genius—what gives you the right to do whatever you want?"

"Your idea is good—applying pressure to the jungle to ease theshy's top lane pressure—but did you consider that the enemy would spot you as soon as you hit the river?"

"Have you considered that you and your teammates are all retired pros—old geezers—so what right do you have to demand they match the execution of active pros?"

"And isn't it possible that while the mid laner does have an advantage, it's only that one person who has it—meaning you guys actually have no advantage at all?"

"Is it really that embarrassing to lose a lane matchup against a pro?"

"If we can't beat them, we can't beat them—there's still someone on the team with an advantage, so why not just focus everything on me?"

"Is making you listen to orders actually harming you?"

Su Xing, firing on all cylinders, not only silenced the voice chat but also caused a brief pause in the comment streams of everyone's individual streams.

"Ahem, let me clarify first."

Uzi remained silent for several seconds, then said: "Su Xing doesn't have any objections to you all; it's just that once he starts taking charge of command, he becomes this serious, responsible type—when he gets tough, even I get sprayed."

"It's fine, it's fine, we're all brothers."

"Bao Lan also hurriedly smoothed things over, advising: 'Gao Zhenning, play the game properly, don't mess around.'"

"Don't argue, listen to Su Xing's command."

"The top laner theshy didn't fully understand what Su Xing said; actually, he also didn't understand why Ning just invaded the jungle, but through simple words he could roughly grasp what Su Xing wanted to express."

"Ning didn't reply right away; only after a few seconds did he barely manage to squeeze out a 'good'."

"Su Xing:. Wait a moment, brother, your tone seems off; won't you be crying from my trash talk?"

"These past few days the keyboard has been acting up; using another keyboard, I have to stare at the keys to type, and I can't get used to it."

"The new same-model keyboard will only arrive tomorrow; I'll update then."

"(End of chapter)"