【14】If You Can’t Control Yourself, I Suggest Finding a Sturdy Rope
Because Song Zixuan had clicked to spectate, he couldn’t watch anymore once Wen Ran finished the previous game. Naturally, he didn’t know who Wen Ran had matched with; he was just watching the massive influx of bullet comments in his livestream room.
[Yi Jian Shuang is playing Fox too! It’s already been recommended to the homepage!]
[Your friend is done for this round!]
[Yi Jian Shuang has been grinding for a National Server Fox for three days. This match is going to be dicey!]
Song Zixuan swept his gaze over the comments. The mouthful of noodles he had just picked up slipped right off his chopsticks before reaching his mouth.
“What?!”
He clicked on the homepage recommendation of Chenguang TV. Sure enough, the red banner “Points Leaderboard No. 1 Rush Rush Rush” hung in the top spot for popularity. It was currently noon, not exactly peak traffic time, yet the number of viewers in the livestream room had already reached 120,000.
Yi Jian Shuang was a big streamer on Chenguang TV. He was a technical streamer with average looks—passable if he dressed up, barely counting as an “atmosphere handsome guy.” He had been to youth training camps before and was a constant presence on the National Server leaderboards.
Yi Jian Shuang was different from other streamers. He was part of the earliest batch of streamers on Chenguang TV and had a massive fan base. He was also quite arrogant. In matches, his selling point was often mocking his teammates and ridiculing the opponents, spraying insults in a roundabout way. He dignified this as “I just like the way you can’t stand me but can’t beat me.” His fans, however, marketed this as a “true and unpretentious” persona. Their combat power was extraordinary; previously, a small streamer who matched with Yi Jian Shuang was mocked by him and then flamed by his fans until they quit the internet.
There were plenty of people who disliked Yi Jian Shuang, but his fan count kept growing. Controversy brought traffic. Moreover, he hadn’t done anything excessively rule-breaking, and it was always his fans who stood up for him.
Fans in Song Zixuan’s stream began to worry for Wen Ran:
[Matching with him… this is going to leave a psychological shadow.]
[That’s Yi Jian Shuang. Although I won’t comment on his character, his skills are truly undeniable.]
[Maybe just surrender? Saves the torture.]
Song Zixuan had great confidence in Wen Ran. He also really disliked this Yi Jian Shuang. “Why surrender? My friend’s mechanical ceiling is very high.”
“Who wins and who loses isn’t certain yet.”
[Uh… this streamer is too much. I’m out.]
[Still… hmm… admirable courage.]
Song Zixuan looked at those few mocking comments and didn’t care.
Wen Ran was his friend. If becoming a streamer meant he couldn’t even trust his friend or speak up for him, he might as well go back and apologize to his mom and dad.
Yi Jian Shuang leaned back in his leather gaming chair, his brow filled with disdain.
“Tired. Gonna play a round of Fox.”
[Hubby looks so handsome when he’s nonchalant.]
[The unlucky guy opposite hasn’t realized the severity of the situation yet.]
Adhering to his consistent streaming style, Yi Jian Shuang turned on ‘All Chat’ to trash talk Wen Ran:
[Yi Jian Shuang]: Do you want to die ten times or twenty times?
[Yi Jian Shuang]: Don’t blame me for not reminding you. You have no chance of winning. If you want to die a little less, surrender at six minutes.
My Mechanics Are Better Than Yours: What kind of ghost talk are you spouting?
Yi Jian Shuang and the fans in his stream laughed at Wen Ran’s reply. After all, everyone he matched with previously reacted this way.
[Still daring to use such an arrogant name? Yi Jian Shuang will teach you how to be a human today!]
[Be bolder. I bet he’ll uninstall the game right after this.]
Before this wave of comments passed, Wen Ran sent another sentence:
My Mechanics Are Better Than Yours: If your Daddy doesn’t teach you how to be a human, you won’t know what your last name is, will you?
“Reckless fool.” Yi Jian Shuang didn’t take him to heart at all. “Today, I’ll help this brother cure his internet addiction.”
The game started. Both sides farmed in the mid lane. Yi Jian Shuang was controlling his hero; he had played Fox countless times and his proficiency was maxed out. With directional skills, the hero relied on a full combo to take enemies out. Before reaching level four, aside from a hard crowd control and one damage skill, there was almost no room for mechanics.
Therefore, in the early game, both were in the farming stage. However, Wen Ran used tricky positioning to dodge his skills. After finishing the minions, he reached level four first and directly took Yi Jian Shuang out with a full combo.
My Mechanics Are Better Than Yours: No way, you’re actually this trash? Even a dog would shake its head at that positioning and farming.
Yi Jian Shuang had been put on a pedestal since he started streaming; he had never suffered such humiliation. He gritted his teeth until they creaked.
[Yi Jian Shuang]: Stop barking here. I was just careless just now!
He sat up straight, planning to wipe away the shame with his mechanics. But unexpectedly, this was the beginning of a nightmare. Wen Ran seemed to predict his thoughts every time, appearing in unexpected places. Even if they exchanged a full set of skills and traded health, he would definitely be taken out by Wen Ran afterward. Revive, die. Revive, die. The economic gap widened immensely.
Fox was a hero with high burst damage. With an economic crush, there was almost no solution. At six minutes, Yi Jian Shuang had already died ten times.
Wen Ran stepped on his corpse and performed Fox’s exclusive heart-finger emote. It was as taunting as taunting could get.
My Mechanics Are Better Than Yours: Are you surrendering, or do you want to die twenty times?
As soon as this sentence came out, the livestream room nearly exploded.
[Yi Jian Shuang, what’s wrong with you today? Being rubbed on the ground by someone?]
[Who is this idiot? Bullying our honest Yi Jian Shuang.]
[Fans, stop opening your mouths and making things up. Back when they were fighting for level four, his lane economy was already higher than Yi Jian Shuang’s. He bought an extra small spell tome.]
[Why was his economy higher?]
[If you can manage to not miss a single minion, you can do it too.]
[I feel so good. Watching him mock and ridicule people every day, finally someone can cure this bad apple.]
Yi Jian Shuang lost so much face being slapped by a passerby like this. He squeezed the mouse until it clicked loudly.
After his respawn timer ended, he controlled his hero to stand up again.
This time he prepared a Zhonya’s Hourglass. Yi Jian Shuang gritted his teeth; he had to kill the opposing Fox at least once today!
Yi Jian Shuang’s hand speed was fast. When Wen Ran threw a set of skills over, he instantly clicked Zhonya’s, becoming immune to the full damage, and then sneered as he pressed the skill release key.
Wen Ran’s health bar quickly cleared to zero.
Just as he was feeling smug about his successful revenge, the kill announcement didn’t sound. Looking again, the revived Fox threw skills at him once more. With sufficiently high damage, Yi Jian Shuang’s screen went dark again.
Instant revive (Guardian Angel).
“F*ck!”
He slammed the mouse onto the table in anger.
My Mechanics Are Better Than Yours: You can’t kill me.
My Mechanics Are Better Than Yours: But you are quite generous, letting me eat three extra bowls of rice.
Yi Jian Shuang completely broke down, swearing to regain his ground.
[Yi Jian Shuang]: What kind of thing do you think you are? You just killed me a few times by accident, what is there to be proud of?
My Mechanics Are Better Than Yours: Do you output damage with your mouth?
My Mechanics Are Better Than Yours: If you can’t control yourself, I suggest finding a sturdy rope.
My Mechanics Are Better Than Yours: Your Daddy isn’t a straw boat. Keep your ‘arrows’ (bitchiness) away from me, understand?
Yi Jian Shuang: “…”
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