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Chapter 185 SKT-VS-EDG, fighting for first place in the group! Rumors of Su Mo's love triangle...

Looking at the direction where Su Mo, Rita and Luo Xin left, Uzi frowned slightly:

"Something's wrong. At this point, I don't believe they really went out to play!"

Xiao Hu muttered, "What should we do? Should we follow them?"

UZI curled his lips and said, "We are not stalkers. If they just went there to play, then Rita and Luo Xin would definitely post selfies or something. We can tell by just looking at their account status."

Xiaohu nodded: "It seems so, but... why do we have to know what Mozi is doing..."

UZI stroked his chin and said slowly: "I suspect that Mozi has a cheat. He becomes stronger as long as he plays with beautiful women."

Xiaohu: "Stain, you don't have a fever, do you?"

…………

At this time, outside the door of EDG's training room, Abu was talking on the phone with his boss Ed Zhu.

Ed Zhu asked with concern: "How is he doing? Did he go out and have fun?"

Abu replied repeatedly: "He has already gone out. He didn't want to go at first, but I persuaded him to leave."

Ed Zhu breathed a sigh of relief: "That's good, remember what I said before, our club will reimburse all his expenses for playing outside and take good care of him."

Abu responded: "Yes, I know, I have already told him."

"But boss, I don't really understand why you have to do this? Why do you have to let him go out and play?"

Ed Zhu said: "He doesn't need to train anyway, so why not let him go out and relax? We may have to rely on him to shoulder important responsibilities and lead our team to attack the bureau in the future. We can't let him have too much pressure."

Abu's mouth twitched slightly.

Everyone in the entire EDG may feel pressure, but Su Mo is the only one who will never feel pressure.

This guy acts like he is not a professional player every day. He doesn't care about winning or losing. He is so nonchalant.

But since the boss said so, he couldn't refute it and could only nod and say yes.

"Don't worry, boss. I will treat Xiao Mo like a big boss." Abu promised.

…………

It was evening and the RNG team finished their day's training.

UZI took off his headphones. Now RNG's training match situation is pretty good. Except for SKT and Longzhu from LCK, other teams have no problems.

Just then, Xiaohu came over and said, "Uzi, look at this, Rita really posted on Weibo!"

UZI looked at Xiaohu's phone, which showed Rita's Weibo account:

"I went out with Brother Mozi today and had a lot of fun."

Then below is a group of photos, food, scenery, almost every photo has Su Mo in it...

In the photo, Su Mo is looking at the camera with a smile on his face, while Rita is leaning on his shoulder, tilting her head and making a scissors hand gesture.

It looks like a couple photo.

It is worth mentioning that Luo Xin is not in this set of photos.

"Ah? Are they really going there to have a good time?" UZI looked puzzled.

Xiaohu muttered, "What the hell is EDG doing? They are not doing well in the training match. How come Mo Zhie still has the mind to go out and play?"

UZI speculated: "Is it possible that what Mozi said before was true, that he doesn't really need training, so let others train first and give him a break?"

Xiaohu nodded: "It is possible."

However, in the next two days, Su Mo still went out for a walk every day.

To be honest, he didn't know if Abu had lost his mind and was forcing him to go out and play, even though he didn't really want to go out and just wanted to lie in bed and watch Tik Tok...

Although he was not accompanied by Rita and Luo Xin in the next two days, it did not prevent him from being photographed by fans and then posting the photos online.

Then everyone found that Su Mo was running around like a street urchin every day.

Not only the RNG people were paying attention to this matter, the news soon spread to SKT as well.

In the SKT training room, after finishing a day's training, everyone is practicing ranking.

Kkoma, the coach, said: "Tomorrow is the second round of the group stage. Our Group A matches will be played all at once. That will be the time to test the results of our three days of training."

"I know that everyone has been very hard these three days, with more than ten hours of high-intensity training a day, but it doesn't matter. After the game tomorrow, we will be able to rest for a few days."

Everyone in SKT breathed a sigh of relief. These three days of devilish training had exhausted them.

There is no other way. We have to do this in order to beat EDG and get first place in this group stage.

Suddenly, Huni frowned and muttered, "This guy...what is he doing?"

Faker glanced at him and said, "What did you say?"

Huni came running over with a cell phone in hand: "Sang Hyuk, take a look at this."

Faker glanced down.

Huni introduced: "This is their domestic news. According to the comments, this person has not trained in the past three days and has been running around outside."

Hearing this, Faker frowned.

In fact, when Su Mo was interviewed last time, he said that he was the top talent and more talented than Faker. Faker already knew about this news.

This kind of thing is nothing, Faker doesn't care much about it.

However, with SKT's loss to EDG, the situation is different.

Faker’s haters use this to make trouble every day. I didn’t care about it before, but now I have to pay attention to it.

"Are you sure this news is true?" Faker didn't quite understand.

"It's absolutely true. It's spread throughout the LPL and everyone finds it unbelievable," Huni assured.

Faker frowned. Could it be that this person's talent was really so terrifying?

Huni chuckled and said, "Brother Xianghe, I feel that the opportunity has come. They are so arrogant now. When the time comes, we will focus on him and attack him."

"I don't believe that his talent is to the point where he can win a game without training. So, in the second round of the group stage, we will make a breakthrough from him. Not only can we win the game, but we can also expose his true colors. He will be able to pretend to be awesome every day and still dare to say that he is more talented than you!"

Faker nodded without saying anything, not knowing what he was thinking.

The next day, the second round of group matches began.

In the second round of the group stage, all remaining matches of a group will be played every day, which means that two teams will be eliminated every day.

At the game site, in the EDG lounge, the EDG players are waiting for the game to begin.

Su Mo was playing with his phone when Meiko suddenly came over and said, "Xiao Mo, you've had a lot of fun these past few days. We're exhausted. Tell us where you've been."

The others also looked over. After Meiko said that, everyone became very interested and looked at Su Mo expectantly.

"I go……"

"What are you playing at? Xiao Mo was just relaxing tactically. Do you understand the value of the word tactical?" Abu answered quickly.

"Tsk, who among us doesn't know Xiao Mo? Does he need to relax with this kind of personality?" The factory manager complained while playing with his phone.

The next moment, the factory manager seemed to have discovered something: "Huh? Rita? Xiao Mo, you went out to play with Rita two days ago? You played for a whole day? And Luo Xin also went with you?"

Su Mo: ...

People are discussing this online, so of course he knows about it.

However, netizens like to stir up trouble so much that they almost spread rumors that he and Rita Luo Xin were in a love triangle...

Seeing that Su Mo didn't say anything, the factory manager continued, "Both Rita and Luo Xin posted on Weibo. The strange thing is that their Weibo posts only have you and themselves... Xiao Mo, what is your relationship with them? Could it be that you are already in a relationship without telling us?"

Su Mo's mouth twitched: "It was just a coincidence. We just happened to meet when we were out for dinner, and they dragged me out for a walk."

"I don't believe it." The factory manager looked at him strangely, "You can have a relationship, but you're dating two people at once. Isn't that a bit arrogant? They're both beautiful girls from our LPL. My heart... is broken..." Seeing that the factory manager's desire to perform was getting stronger and stronger, Abu interrupted him hurriedly: "Stop talking nonsense, it's not that complicated. It's just a coincidence. Let's talk about the game."

"The first game is between us and C9. Xiao Mo, are you going to play this game or is A Guang going to play this game?"

Su Mo looked at A Guang and said, "A Guang, whether you want to go up or not, let me tell you in advance that you have only played one game now, and you will have no chance in the knockout rounds later, so I suggest that if you want the champion skin, you'd better take action now."

A Guang was also quite hesitant. The champion skin was indeed very tempting, but what if he couldn't even win the championship and be eliminated in the group stage?

After thinking it over, Guang made a decision: "Why don't I go on? Our opponent is C9, so we should be fine."

The time is almost up, and the EDG players go on stage to prepare for the game.

In the first game against C9, when people learned that Su Mo would not play again, the internet went wild:
"What the hell is EDG doing? Don't they want to advance?"

"Even if Brother Mozi plays and we can win the next game, we will lose first place in the group."

"EDG's coach and management should all be taken out and shot!"

"No buddy, we are still playing, what time is it now?"

"It's just a C9 match. It's not a big deal if Mozi doesn't play. Don't panic."

"..."

Netizens were talking about it and had some complaints about EDG's arrangement.

But A Guang did not disappoint everyone. After 40 minutes of tense competition, EDG won the game with a perfect team fight.

As a result, EDG's record is 3-1.
It is worth mentioning that SKT’s record is also 3-1, so the most crucial game is the last game of the day, EDG vs. SKT.

After the other teams played two games, the game between EDG and AHQ began.

Perhaps because he was confident, Su Mo asked A Guang to go up without hesitation.

In this way, A Guang played three games in the group stage, so it doesn't matter if he doesn't play in the knockout stage.

Finally, if he wins the championship, he will get his championship skin.

In SKT's lounge, they were all disappointed when they learned that Su Mo did not play in the match between EDG and AHQ.

I originally wanted to use AHQ to see what Su Mo’s current condition was.

Huni complained: "They lost to AHQ in the first round of the group stage when they played this Mouse. Now they dare to use this guy to fight against AHQ. How big is their heart?"

Peanut replied: "I don't know, maybe they think they have secured promotion, so they are having more fun?"

Faker shook his head and said: "Don't underestimate EDG. Even if they can't win, they are still very strong and should not be underestimated."

The two sides fought for more than fifty minutes in this game. In the end, EDG won the game with its richer late-game experience.

Everyone in SKT felt that they needed to put their spirits on the test, and they re-evaluated EDG's strength in their hearts.

At this time, coach Kkoma called out: "The next game is our match against EDG. I believe everyone is ready."

"This group first place is very important to us. I hope everyone can seize it. And they did give us a chance. If they hadn't lost to AHQ in the first round, we would have needed to beat them twice in a row to get the first place in this group. Now just one win is enough."

Huni patted his chest and assured, "Don't worry, we will just follow our previous plan and target the top lane. Mo has not practiced for a long time, so I will definitely have no problem beating him. This guy is too arrogant."

At this time, in the EDG lounge, A Guang was cheering: "Nice! I have played three games, two wins and one loss. I didn't hold you back, did I?"

Abu responded: "Now we are just waiting for us to win the championship and get the championship skin?"

Ah Guang chuckled and said, "That's not the case. If you can use me, feel free to ask me. After all, Brother Mozi might try other paths by then."

Just then, Su Mo heard the voice of the system.

[Detected that SKT team is very hostile to the host, triggering hidden tasks:

Task 1: Go on the field, choose the top position, use a random hero, face the target, remain undead for one time, and gain more than 1000 torture points. Reward: 1 Ultimate Proficiency Card.

Mission 2: Go to the field, choose the jungle position to avoid the line, so that the opponent has nowhere to target, reward title: Little Smart Ghost
Mission 3: Refuse to play, making it impossible for the opponent to target you. Reward: Millennium Turtle]

Su Mo took a look and directly chose Task 1.

He is good at this kind of task of changing the opponent's mentality.

As the evening came, the three commentators, Wawa, Miller and Rita, were ready at the commentary booth.

Wawa explained: "The last group match of the day is about to take place, the final match of Group A, between the No. 1 seed EDG from the LPL region and the No. 2 seed SKT from the LCK region."

"Both teams now have a 4-1 record. This game will determine who will be the first in Group A."

Miller continued, "This round is indeed crucial. After entering the quarterfinals, the group leader will face the runner-ups of other groups, which will be much easier. Therefore, both teams must want to get first place in this group."

Rita commented: "We have received news that EDG will play Mozi in this game, in the top position, while Mouse will take a rest. It seems that EDG is getting serious!"

In the official live broadcast room, the comments were boiling:
"I'm scared to death. If Mozi is not allowed to play in this game, I will suspect that there is a traitor inside EDG."

"Abu must be A Guang's relative, otherwise how could A Guang have so many opportunities to play?"

"Brother Mozi has a really good temper. If it were me, I would have quit long ago."

"..."

Netizens' imaginations are as rich as ever, and the rhythm is very fast.

……

Backstage, the EDG and SKT players met while waiting to enter the venue.

It was just a normal encounter, but Su Mo felt something was wrong. The SKT players were looking at him.

Including Faker.

This made Su Mo somewhat uncomfortable, as he always felt like a mascot...

In the end, he could only smile and wave to show his friendliness.

Well, first courtesy, then force...

On the competition stage, the host came on stage. After a brief opening speech, the host shouted:

"Now, let us welcome the No. 1 seed from the LPL region, EDG!"

Then the EDG members came on stage!
The EDG fans at the scene became excited:
"EDG! EDG! EDG!"

"Brother Mozi! Brother Mozi! Brother Mozi!"

Maybe it was because Su Mo didn't play in two games, causing the audience to miss him so much that more people called out his ID than EDG.

No one from EDG stood on the stage and waved.

Then, the host shouted: "Now, let's welcome the second seed from the LCK region, SKT!"

SKT's starting five came on stage, and the audience cheered in unison:

"SKT! SKT! SKT!"

SKT's fans are equally terrifying. Even in China, there are countless viewers cheering for them.

The five SKT players came to the center of the stage and stood face to face with the EDG players.

The two sides shook hands and then turned and walked towards their respective seats.

Su Mo came to his seat, put on his headphones, and everything was ready.

The game enters the BP stage!

In this game, EDG is on the blue side and SKT is on the red side.

Both sides directly entered the BP stage.

During the ban phase, EDG chose to ban: Clockwork, Cassiopeia, and Kog'Maw
SKT's Mo Min strangely banned: Joker, Great Inventor, Bomber
Seeing this scene, Wawa felt very strange: "In this game, Mozi played in the top lane. I can understand SKT's decision to ban Joker, as Mozi played him before. But the inventor and Ziggs died in the bottom lane, right? Why was he banned in the top lane as well?"

Miller shook his head and said, "I don't know. Maybe it's because SKT knows something we don't. Otherwise, it's really hard to explain."

(End of this chapter)