Chapter 99

Returning to the arena,

Su Xing's submitted answer sheet could only be described as perfect.

Accompanying the win of two MVPs also successfully silenced some who were not optimistic about Su Xing, although of course this was not enough to make everyone acknowledge him.

Su Xing was also very clear about this,

He is a professional player, not money; he cannot make everyone like him, whether they like him or dislike him, neither can be changed nor affect him.

No matter how shocking the online public opinion, as a veteran Su Xing's performance remains steady; he deeply knows that what he must do now is to try his best to play well in every match on the field.

A short month quickly passed, and under Su Xing's extreme performance tes displayed an extremely terrifying dominance.

Five matches, 2-0 all wins, and the average match completion time ranked first in the league, while Su Xing's various individual statistics also set multiple records, compared to his rookie year, even more terrifying.

Of course, even this cannot change the public opinion environment he is in.

After all, in the viewers' eyes tes currently has relatively good luck; their group basically has no strong teams, they just haven't encountered BLG and JDG yet.

However, due to scheduling issues, tes cannot face those two teams in the short term; only after finishing the Saudi World Cup do they have a chance to face BLG.

And before heading to the Saudi World Cup, tes still needs to win today's match, which is the final game of the group stage.

The opponent is the RA team.

In today's match, we just need to focus on one point; after it ends we won't have much rest time.

Mao Kai clapped his hands and said: 'The schedule for the Saudi Cup over there is also tight; if we win 2:0 today we will start preparing for the Saudi World Cup.'

Damn it, the Saudi Oil Cup is also too troublesome.

Yu Wenbo complained: 'Still damn economy class; if we just play one match and come back as before, what would we do?'

Huh? With Su Xing here, you still want to get swept in the first round?

Tian Ye couldn't help but joke: 'Probably impossible.'

Indeed, there isn't much chance of being swept in the first round.

Xiao Tian critiqued: 'Now I'm just thinking about how to spend the championship prize money.'

Everyone: 'OK, let's focus on one point BP.'

Mao Kai spoke to have everyone focus; both sides on the field then banned some popular heroes in turn, including Akali.

"Su Xing, you take last?" Mao Kai showed a questioning expression; currently tes's core is built around mid lane, in this situation they usually let the core pick last to avoid deliberate targeting by the opponent; otherwise they let other teammates prioritize claiming the released meta heroes.

Sure.

Su Xing nodded, letting teammates take higher‑priority heroes was fine; at least they wouldn't suffer too much in lane.

"Then let's take Lan Bo first."

Mao Kai said: "Let 69 play Lan Bo; there should be no problem."

Shortly after, both teams' lineups were gradually confirmed; when Su Xing locked in 【Wind Sword Master‑Yasuo】, the audience couldn't help but cheer.

Yasuo!

Su Xing was playing something new again! The two commentators were stunned—what is this? Mi Lei pondered, then said: "Top Lan Bo, mid Yasuo, and looking at TES's bot lane, the strongest combo currently is Ashe and Braum; from this BP you can tell TES's core is top and mid."

"That's also possible; time's run out, the lineup is locked: top Lan Bo, mid Yasuo."

"It's hard to say with this lineup; Yasuo hasn't appeared in matches for a long time, and hasn't been changed recently, so we can't tell how well he'll perform."

As the commentators chatted briefly, the big screen finally showed the game; below the stands, people began shouting in unison, "Su Xing, keep it up!"

In the game, Su Xing and the others entered; each side took position in the river, glanced at their own lineup: top Lan Bo, jungle Blind Monk, mid Yasuo, bot Ashe + Braum; meanwhile the enemy side was top Quisanti, jungle Mao Kai, mid Xiao Pao, bot Kai'Sa and Titan.

If the game drags past thirty minutes, it's clear that RA's lineup is stronger.

"They'll farm safely in bot lane; their main target is probably me."

Su Xing thought a moment and roughly saw their intent; the mid Xiao Pao is the absolute core of their mid‑game teamfights, later becoming Kai'Sa—a pretty solid lineup.

On the other hand, our side is a bit imperfect; if we can suppress Yasuo early, TES won't be able to beat RA in mid‑game teamfights.

"Su bro, I'll watch the river vision, don't panic." Xiao Tian assured.

What a joke—mid lane is dad; anyone can take blame but dad can't! As the game started and the minion lines slowly marched out, Su Xing's lane opponent was Xiao Pao; this version of Xiao Pao still has some strength, but Su Xing felt Yasuo could also counter this AD champ quite well.

So Su Xing's Happy Wind Boy also went straight into happy mode; RA's mid laner could do nothing against him, and when it was time to be honest, he still had to be honest.

But just then, Su Xing realized something—how foul? Damn, how scared of me must RA be? Their jungler, after taking buff, came straight for me? No, not just the jungler, there's also a support! Holy damn, a level‑1 Titan and level‑2 Mao Kai—Su Xing glanced bot; the enemy Kai'Sa was already online, but the support hadn't shown up.

"Su bro, I didn't see the support appear."

The bot duo also started feeding some information; frightened, Xiao Tian's Blind Monk quickly said: "Su bro, I'll help you camp nearby."

"Don't come."

Su Xing spoke directly, slightly restraining himself.

To RA's side, this scene looked absurd—is this person even human? Xiao Pao isn't even a tool; they hurriedly pushed the lane, why did they suddenly wimp out?! Unscientific!! Mao Kai and Titan exchanged a helpless glance, only able to leave mid lane.

According to their script, the fact that Xiao Pao was overly weak early was actually their chance; the jungler and support would coordinate to directly sanction the arrogant Yasuo—Mao Kai would flash‑up knock‑up, Titan even learned a hook just for this gank, but it had no effect whatsoever. Yasuo seemed to know they were there, yet having no vision all along, this failed early‑game gank also greatly slowed RA's jungler's pace—where every second counts in the first few minutes, a failed gank once.

"Wow, Su Xing's sense of smell is terrifying—can you imagine? With zero vision, he just seems to know when someone's coming to gank; this is damn absurd."

"To be frank, normally once Yasuo starts pushing lane he shows openings, easy for RA's jungler‑support to catch, but Su Xing at least began retreating five seconds early—what does that mean?"

"Yeah, RA's Xiao Pao hadn't even gotten into character yet, and Su Xing just said cut it out—I know you called for help, and it's been under three minutes, truly unbelievable."

"I don't know why, but Su Xing in this state always makes people feel inexplicably at ease."

After the commentators' hype, the online livestream was filled with question marks.

"Awsl, Su Xing actually learned to play safe—my youth is gone."

"Su Xing, they said playing safe means being reckless—diving tower is the real counter; you've changed, huh."

"This sense of smell is damn absurd."

"Just turn it off, it's really boring."

"Su Xing: a small leak doesn't count as a leak."

"I think RA's coach must be a bit confused—their carefully planned gank just vanished like that."

I feel like maybe Su Xing got hit with this tactic in a scrim before?

Hey, are there still any teams daring to scrim with tes?

The audience were goofing around online, but in-game Su Xing was seriously laning; at level three he seized an opportunity and directly forced the flash of ra team's Xiao Pao out; the audience responded with thunderous applause; Su Xing's laning style is too fierce—too bad this is a match, and he brought Teleport instead of Ignite, otherwise that wave would have gotten a kill.

"What a pity, just one hit away." Doll couldn't help exclaim: "Su Xing's laning pressure is too terrifying; at level three, Xiao Pao was forced to flash by laning; many viewers might wonder why not flash and follow up that hit, because you can notice that ra's jungler is nearby, and at that moment tower diving had no minion wave; once you flash out, even if you got first blood, you'd equally give the kill to ra's jungler and also give Xiao Pao an assist."

Yeah, we have to admit we've seen Su Xing's laning style is no longer pure aggression; it's aggression combined with countless details, a style that makes every mid laner laning against him feel terrible.

But the situation remains unfavorable; tes needs someone to step up, because relying solely on Su Xing can't unleash much power.

At level three, he sent Xiao Pao back to base, demonstrating Su Xing's near-suffocating pressure, so ra team's Xiao Pao started calling for help.

No doubt, ra's jungler, as a veteran, does have some skill; many times when Su Xing wanted to trade, ra's jungler would appear near mid lane immediately. Even if the jungler just came to hang out, it'd be fine, but his damn support would occasionally show up, leaving Su Xing feeling glum, as if he were being drilled. Don't think the jungler not going anywhere and just messing with mid lane is trivial; in fact, this is exactly what ra team hopes to see: as long as you prevent your Yasuo from gaining lane advantage, with leveling up Xiao Pao will gradually go from being a non-entity to a tool to a normal player, and at that point ra team's composition power will show.

Su Xing glanced at ra's jungler's big tree, then immediately started scheming, thinking they were trying to drill him? 'Xiao Tian, come with me into the jungle.'

Su Xing's eyes also flashed with ruthlessness—who's drilling whom is still undecided!

'Alright, bro, I'll scan and be done right away.'

'No need, just follow my route.'

Xiao Tian:??? The duo's movement route immediately sparked astonished exclamations from all viewers, whether online or offline, including the two commentators, who were completely bewildered—what the hell is this godlike route? In the rest rooms of both teams, whether ra or tes, a group of people watching Su Xing and the jungler's route were also completely bewildered.

On ra's side, whether coach, substitute player, or even manager, they all wore bewildered expressions—why does tes know our vision placement and timing so perfectly?

'We haven't scrimmed against tes, have we?'

ra team's manager couldn't help but lift his head and say, 'This is too unbelievable. It feels as if ra team's vision habits have been completely figured out—how is that possible?'

'No.' ra team's coach shook his head, paused, and said, 'Maybe it's just luck.'

Meanwhile, in tes's rest room, a group of people couldn't help but cheer—let alone in a match, even in normal solo queue being able to so thoroughly avoid enemy vision is an extremely terrifying thing.

Could this be a coincidence?

But in previous matches, Su Xing has already performed similar maneuvers! 'Mao Kai, it looks like we've got this game in the bag—you've even studied ra team's members' details to a T!' Guo Hao beside him couldn't help but praise,

Mao Kai:. Researching a chicken. He hasn't even played any scrims—what does that have to do with me? But this is probably Su Xing wasting time researching opponents during the period he hasn't been scriming.

Thinking about this, Mao Kai couldn't help but blame himself—these are things he should have done.

In-game, Su Xing brought his lackey Xiao Tian and began invading via a strange route, while ra's jungler at that moment had a bad premonition.

And Yasuo? Where can such a big Yasuo go if he's not in lane?

But within the vision area, not only was Su Xing nowhere to be seen, even the enemy jungler had disappeared for a long time.

Just as ra's jungler entered his own jungle, wondering where everyone had gone, a flash of light suddenly shot out from the nearby brush and hit him precisely.

Blind Monk's Q ability! 'Why is the Blind Monk here?!'

ra's jungler's pupils constricted, but what shocked him even more was that not only Blind Monk appeared before him, but also Yasuo! He almost instinctively retreated, but he was facing a mid‑jungle combo whose early‑game fighting ability wasn't weak, and they appeared too suddenly.

In the end, ra's jungler could only watch helplessly as those two enemy heroes who came out of nowhere killed him and then walked away.

【FirstBlood！】

'Su Bro is awesome!'

Xiao Tian at once turned into a sycophant, shouting '666',

'Don't worry, guys, I've got your back.'

Su Xing couldn't help but speak, noticing from frequently switching to his teammates' views that his four teammates seemed a bit restrained in lane; the top lane need not be mentioned, but the bottom lane, which clearly had a combo that could gain an edge, was inexplicably suppressed—all this due to their excessive nervousness.

As for ra's mid laner Xiao Pao, he was about to cry; he'd been treating the lane like a son, but now Yasuo got first blood, making him feel he'd have to play the grandson from now on.

(End of chapter)