39 Chapter 39
◎ Their Starry Sky ◎
At ten o’clock that night, Song Hong knocked and entered. “Have you guys seen the schedule? Today is Thursday. Next Tuesday is our last regular season match. After that, points will be calculated for rankings, and the top ten enter the playoffs.”
Lin Sumo was slightly stunned. “That fast?”
“Yes,” Song Hong said. “You guys need to make the most of your training time. Ideally, bring back a season championship from the playoffs.”
Jiang He rolled his eyes. “Careful, the greater the expectation, the greater the disappointment.”
Yu Pei smacked him on the head. “What kind of nonsense are you spouting?”
Lin Sumo covered his mouth and chuckled twice. “Be careful, Drift. Watch out or Captain Yu will assassinate you.”
“I doubt it,” Xiao Lanyu said with a smile. “Yu Pei is probably too lazy to go out and find a new Top Laner.”
Yu Pei: “……”
“Alright, stop messing around,” Song Hong knocked on the table. “I don’t manage the training side of things. Just listen to Coach Shen and do your best.”
Everyone: “Okay!”
After Song Hong left, Yu Pei suddenly said, “I thought of a new tactic. Want to try it?”
“Sure,” Lin Sumo asked. “What tactic?”
Yu Pei explained his idea.
“Badass!” Jiang He laughed. “As expected of you, Yu Pei.”
Lin Sumo clapped slowly. “Indeed badass. And I’m certain that no matter who we’re up against, the opponent won’t see it coming.”
“Let’s try it now. Maybe we can use it in the next match,” Pei Yun said.
“That won’t work,” Lin Sumo countered. “A move like this should be saved for the finals.”
“Not necessarily,” Yu Pei laughed. “We can think of new ones by then. We can practice this more now and use it next Tuesday.”
Moments later, the five of them entered the game queue together. They didn’t finish practicing the new tactic until log-off time at 2 AM.
As for how effective it would be, they would have to wait for the result of the final regular season match.
Tuesday, at the regular season venue.
Everyone had been looking forward to this match for a long time. As it was the final match to determine point rankings, the outside of the venue was packed, completely crowded with people.
A staff member cleared the way for them. Following behind, Lin Sumo remarked, “There are so many people today.”
“There will be even more for the finals,” the staff member laughed. “Hope you guys get to see it.”
“We definitely will,” Yu Pei, who was right behind him, said with a smile upon hearing this.
In this regular season match, Trust was playing against MR. MR was also one of the top-tier domestic teams; they had even represented the LPL region and won the championship at the World Championship before the last one.
Despite this, MR’s momentum this year wasn’t as strong as Trust’s.
“Welcome to League of Legends.”
“Minions will be deployed in thirty seconds.”
“Crush them.”
“All troops deployed.”
Lin Sumo took a deep breath.
It has begun.
The Taliyah walked toward the mid-lane. Before reaching the first tower, she encountered the incoming Yuumi (Cat). Lin Sumo didn’t dodge or retreat; he threw skills directly at the enemy.
The Yuumi retreated a step, but unexpectedly, Lin Sumo was even crazier. He didn’t bother kiting; after dodging the enemy’s skill, he went up and chased with auto-attacks. After the opponent dropped to half health and hid under the tower, Lin Sumo activated his W skill. Waiting for the minion wave to enter the tower, he planned a forcible tower dive kill. The Yuumi, having only half health left, couldn’t withstand Lin Sumo’s near-maniacal offensive.
“First Blood!”
“Great job, Solve,” Yu Pei said while farming the jungle. “Step one of our tactic is complete.”
He continued, “Print and Drift, you two keep it up. It’s up to you two now.”
In the early game, respawn timers were short, so the Yuumi came back to life quickly. But Lin Sumo clearly had a significant advantage, so even when seeing him hitting the tower, the opponent didn’t dare come out to counter-attack.
Just when the opponent thought Lin Sumo only wanted to push the tower, the Taliyah suddenly Flashed, used a full combo, and killed him again.
Lin Sumo didn’t give the opponent a chance to breathe, taking advantage of the respawn time to push down the first mid-lane tower.
At this moment, only two minutes and forty seconds had passed.
Just now, Yu Pei had been farming like his life depended on it, arriving at mid-lane to protect Lin Sumo before the enemy Jungler could catch him.
The two commentators at the desk were stunned. Commentator A calmed himself and spoke into the microphone: “This… Trust’s fast attack… I can only say it’s badass! This is simply absolute suppression!”
Commentator B added: “That’s right. Trust must have practiced this playstyle for a long time. The tempo is incredibly fast, beyond imagination!”
In the lounge, Shen Chen laughed out loud when he heard that. “Not long. Just four hours.”
“Only four hours?” Song Hong was astonished. “Although I don’t understand this stuff, hearing them talk about it makes it sound very impressive. Shouldn’t it take days and nights?”
Shen Chen scoffed lightly. “Yes, but if the players in our industry are the one percent, the one in a thousand in the crowd—”
“Then for each of them, their talent and ability is one picked out of ten thousand.”
“Not to mention that the day-after-day training can all be brought into play on the field.”
Shen Chen looked at the big match screen. “Talent and hard work together construct the capital they need to win.”
He turned back to look at Song Hong. “Understand?”
“Ah,” Song Hong paused. “Understood… I think.”
Inside the arena, Pei Yun and Jiang He had already pushed down the tier-one towers in the side lanes.
“Okay,” Yu Pei laughed. “It’s clear what to do next, right?”
The others: “Clear.”
As soon as the voices fell, everyone except Yu Pei gathered in the mid-lane.
The opponents were clearly confused and didn’t react in time. The Yuumi left in the mid-lane was gang-beaten to death in seconds, and the Trust members directly pushed the tier-two tower.
The other opponents hurriedly gathered, but clearly, Trust had a greater advantage. Within two minutes, the opponents were wiped out in a team fight. Trust didn’t stop there; they pushed down the mid-lane inhibitor tower as well.
The audience was stunned.
What kind of lunatic playstyle was this?
Trust had no minion wave left, and the opponents had just respawned. Just as they prepared for a team fight, they saw the notification that Yu Pei had defeated the Baron.
Opponents: “?!”
Lin Sumo smiled. “They seem to have only just realized we were missing a person.”
Rewind to more than ten hours ago.
Yu Pei sat in his chair, speaking to the teammates gathered around him. “The main point of this game is to push towers. Let’s not be too obsessed with fighting. Ignore everything else, just push.”
“Solve, you take First Blood and push the tier-one tower as fast as possible. Then Pei Yun and Jiang He, while pushing towers, farm more to accumulate an advantage, then group up mid. I’ll take that time to take the Dragon/Baron so our advantage becomes even bigger.”
Without a doubt, Trust won the first game of the BO3.
During the break, Jiang He slapped Yu Pei on the back. “It really has to be you. That game was truly badass.”
Lin Sumo was the most tired from that game. He sat to the side, his hands trembling slightly.
“You okay?” Pei Yun sat next to him, covering Lin Sumo’s hands with his own. “Shall I rub them for you?”
Lin Sumo couldn’t care less about the dynamic of their relationship right now. He exhaled and shook his head.
Pei Yun ignored him, holding Lin Sumo’s hands and kneading them gently, stroke by stroke.
His heart felt like it was stuffed with cotton.
Soft and fluffy.
His thoughts were like a kite with a broken string, swaying repeatedly in the air, involuntarily, finally flying into the cloud layer named “Falling in Love.”
The scent in the water vapor was dopamine.
Twenty minutes later, the entire match ended.
Cheers erupted from the audience, confetti drifted down from the ceiling, and fans shouted the team’s name.
The light signs in the audience’s hands flickered with neon lights, like specks of stars in the pitch-black night sky.
This was the starry sky that belonged to them.
Trust won the final match of the regular season.
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