LOL: What does it mean to torture players?

In this way, the All-Star Game ended, and Su Mo won the SOLO championship trophy. There were no trophies for other competitions. The main thing was to participate.

That night, the LPL team went out to party for a few hours and flew home the next day.

After returning to China, Su Mo took Rita and Luo Xin back to the studio. There was still some good material from the All-Star Game, so he prepared to edit one or two videos.

For example, the East-West match was a very exciting one.

However, after a long journey, the three of them took a night's rest before starting work again.

It took half a day to edit the video.

Su Mo greeted, "This year's work has been successfully completed. Let's do a year-end summary."

Luo Xin looked over and said, "Year-end summary? I don't think... I'm going to write a report or something like that."

Su Mo shook his head: "No need, I don't want to write that kind of thing, just summarize it verbally, and then the plan for next year..."

Su Mo took out his mobile phone, opened the bank's app, checked the transactions in his account, extracted the short video income, and put them together.

After some calculation, Su Mo said, "This year, through the videos we edited and various commercial collaborations on Douyin, we earned a total of 230 million yuan."

"So much?" Rita and Luo Xin gasped. Two hundred million!

Although they are considered high-income earners, they only make a few million a year, which is a hundred times less than 200 million!
"This is all thanks to you. Thank you for your enthusiasm and dedication." Su Mo bowed politely.

Rita praised: "Brother Mozi is becoming more and more like a leader, and a good leader at that."

Luo Xin nodded repeatedly: "That's right, he's not the kind of bad leader who only knows how to curse and blame others!"

Su Mo continued, "As employees of Mozi Interactive Entertainment Studio, you can bring forward any suggestions and opinions you have and we can discuss them."

Rita shook her head: "No, I think it's fine."

Luo Xin tilted her head and began to think.

After thinking for a long time, Luo Xin also shook her head: "I haven't figured it out."

Su Mo smiled: "If you have any ideas, you can always tell me."

"Then... it's about future planning. 2019 is coming soon. We feel it is necessary to expand the business. I plan to create a personal brand."

"Huh? Personal brand? What's that for?" Rita was confused.

Su Mo explained, "Don't we often receive various business orders? Selling peripherals, computers, fashion brands, clothes. In short, we have received advertisements from hundreds of brands this year."

"Since we have such a large amount of traffic and reputation now, we can definitely create a brand of our own. There is no need to keep advertising for others."

Rita and Luo Xin looked at each other.

Luo Xin asked, "So what are you going to sell, Brother Mozi?"

Su Mo replied: "This question has not been determined yet. My idea is not just to make money. If it is just to make money, it is enough now. It is also for interest."

"If you have any ideas, you can also bring them forward and brainstorm."

Suddenly, Luo Xin thought of something: "I thought of one!"

Then she looked at Rita and said, "Sister Rita, didn't you say before that you wanted to be a designer? If you want to design clothes, Brother Mozi can help you achieve your goal."

"Wait a minute! I...I was just saying it casually, Brother Mozi, don't take it seriously..." Rita seemed worried.

Su Mo said, "I think it's no problem. If you have a good design, I can help you promote it. Then you can just give me some dividends, right?"

"You have the capital anyway, so you can give it a try."

Rita was stunned for a moment: "Is it really possible?"

"Why don't you just try and know? The key is to try, not the result."

Rita seemed to be persuaded by Su Mo and nodded: "Okay, I'll try it!"

Su Mo looked at Luo Xin: "What about you? Luo Xin."

Luo Xin suddenly had an idea: "I can make desserts! And all kinds of snacks! I like to study this!"

Rita muttered, "Desserts? Snacks? Then you can only open a store, but opening a store is troublesome, and you have to be a host."

Su Mo has a different opinion: "I don't think we have to open a store. We can study the recipes and styles of snacks. If they taste good, we can apply for a patent, and then mass-produce them and sell them."

Luo Xin was stunned: "Applying for a patent... this... is it really possible? It feels so complicated."

Su Mo smiled and said, "It is quite complicated to do things well, but if you do them well, you will feel a strong sense of accomplishment. If you are interested in this area, you can spend some time to try it out. Then I can help you promote it."

Luo Xin nodded: "Okay, then I'll try it!"

Su Mo concluded: "Okay, that's about it. Of course, if you have other ideas in the future, you can discuss them with me."

"Finally, if you don't have anything else to do recently, we can do a team-building project. It's a benefit of the studio. You can see where you want to go."

Upon hearing this, Rita and Luo Xin were overjoyed and began to discuss heatedly where to go.

Su Mo sat on the sofa and let them discuss a result first.

Su Mo took out his phone and suddenly found that Zizhi had sent him a message: "Brother Mozi, I'm leaving. Thank you for your time..."

Zizhi sent a long message, full of thanks and regrets.

Su Mo took a look at the trending searches and sure enough, there was news.

#EDG officially announced that Zzitai left the team

#RNG officially announced that Zzitai has joined.

Surprisingly, it's still a seamless connection.

Su Mo could sense that RNG was in a panic now, probably because they had seen the news about updating the tower skin next season.

For Letme, the tower version is a sure kill. He can no longer develop under the tower, and when a team fight comes, it is easy to raise a big BOSS.

Therefore, RNG must strengthen the top lane immediately.

Zzitai has made great progress in the past year with EDG. Of course, if he neglects training in the future, he will probably regress. It all depends on his luck.

The next day, Su Mo set out with two employees to start today's team-building trip.

It is now January, and there are still two weeks until the start of the spring season.

The lineups for the new season for major LPL clubs have been basically determined.

Su Mo saw a new message.

#Ray joins EDG.

Su Mo was quite familiar with this person because he had been in EDG before.

It feels like EDG can’t find a good top laner, so they choose to bring him back.

In fact, Su Mo and Abu have expressed that he needs to be a substitute in the top lane because he may not be able to play in every game.

So after Zzitai left, we had to find a substitute top laner.

Soon after, more news about EDG appeared.
#EDG officially announced the joining of substitute jungler Jiejie.

#EDG officially announced that Hope has joined.

Jiejie also specifically reminded that he was the substitute jungler.

Su Mo clicked on it and took a look at the following comments:
"Ah? What's going on at the factory? He's not going to fight anymore?"

"I already said I'm a substitute, don't worry, who said I won't play?"

"I feel like the factory is getting old and we have to make way for new people."

"Hold on, the third consecutive championship is just around the corner, don't give up." Most fans were very anxious. On the one hand, they were worried that after the substitution, EDG might not cooperate well and lose the championship. The opportunity to win three consecutive championships is not always available, and if it is interrupted, it will almost be impossible to get it again.

Secondly, I am worried that the substitutes will perform too well and replace the factory manager, causing the factory manager to retire early, which is quite conflicting.

With one week left before the opening game of the spring season, Su Mo arrived at the EDG training base and entered the training room.

"Brother Mozi! Happy New Year." Iboy's voice came.

Su Mo responded: "Happy New Year."

The others also turned around and greeted Su Mo.

Suddenly, Su Mo noticed a strange face looking at him with admiration.

The factory manager sitting next to him introduced: "This is the new ADC, his ID is Hope."

"Brother Mozi, it's our first meeting. Please bear with me." Hope stood up and took the initiative to shake hands with Su Mo.

"Hello, hello." Su Mo responded.

Then, the factory manager pointed to the other side and said, "This is our new jungler, Jiejie."

Su Mo looked over and saw a slightly immature boy looking at him, a little at a loss.

The factory manager continued, "The others were born in October 01, are only seventeen years old, and have a promising future."

Su Mo walked up and greeted him, "Hello."

"Hello, Brother Mozi." Jiejie's tone was rather flat, and she didn't seem very relaxed.

Su Mo looked at the factory manager: "How is it? Are you satisfied? I feel like you are very happy."

The factory manager smiled and said, "This world still belongs to the young. Young people like you probably can't understand what I'm saying."

Su Mo smiled: "It's almost enough. Do you think you are in your 50s or 60s? You are still playing tricks here. Sometimes a young mentality is more important than a young body."

Just then, there was a noise at the door, and Abu strode in and scanned the room:

"Xiao Mo, Happy New Year!"

Abu walked over quickly, took out a handful of red envelopes from his pocket and handed one to Su Mo.

"Happy New Year." Su Mo took the bulging red envelope from Abu.

"Mingkai, Happy New Year..."

Abu started giving red envelopes to everyone, including the newcomers, one for each person.

After handing out the red envelopes, Abu said, "Come, listen to me for a few words. I'll take up some of your time."

"It's a new year, a new season, and a new version. We at EDG must also prepare in advance."

"We are now the only team to win two championships. If we can win the championship this year, we will be the only team to win three consecutive championships. This record will definitely not be broken in a short period of time."

After hearing this, everyone became more energetic and even started to get excited.

Abu retracted his thought: "We are getting off topic. Our current goal is the Spring Split. You all know the opening match. We are playing against RNG. We need to be well prepared and win beautifully."

"Also, now it's the Tower version, you should have tried it, and you need to make adjustments in your specific play style and BP."

Abu started to call out names one by one: "We have three new players joining this season, everyone come and meet them, Ray, Jiejie and Hope, all of you come over."

The three of them walked up to Abu, and Abu began to introduce them one by one so that everyone could get to know each other.

After the process was completed, Abu continued, "Then we will have dinner together tonight to deepen our relationship. If there are no problems, you can train first. We will leave at six o'clock in the evening."

Everyone returned to their seats. Su Mo turned on his computer for the first time in a long time and logged into his account. He hadn't played for a long time and had lost a lot of points.

Although he already knew what the tower version was about, Su Mo still chose to play a few games to experience it.

Similar to his understanding, the biggest feature of the Tapia version is the extremely fast snowballing speed!

Of course, the common problem is that it is difficult for players to balance the game of going home and eating tart crust.

When there is no tower, beat the opponent back home, push the line of soldiers over, and then go home directly.

But because there is tart crust, you need to think more about it. Can you eat one layer of tart crust before going back?

This will take more time and give the jungler a chance to GANK.

This will lead to various chain reactions.

In short, in the new version, the rules of the game have changed. Whoever can find the perfect balance point first will gain a great advantage.

When it was night, Abu appeared again and took the EDG team away from the training base to eat at the hotel.

After entering the hotel box, Su Mo found a place to sit down. The factory director came over and sat next to Su Mo.

Su Mo felt a little strange: "I thought you would keep your distance from me."

Su Mo was referring to the previous misunderstanding. Ever since Rita's incident, the factory director had deliberately kept his distance from him.

"What the hell?" The factory manager seemed to have no idea what Su Mo was talking about.

Su Mo didn't want to mention it anymore: "It's okay."

The factory manager continued: "How is the experience of the new version?"

Su Mo replied: "It's OK. I don't think there is any difference. We can win by destroying the crystal of the opponent's base."

The factory manager rolled his eyes and said, "Don't fool me. I know that with your talent, you must have grasped the key points long ago."

Su Mo smiled: "So you want me to tell you directly?"

The factory manager responded: "We are teammates. Teammates should help each other, and when you help me, you are helping yourself."

Su Mo kept it a secret: "That won't work. Let's talk about it when the conditions are right."

The factory manager hesitated to speak and had a plan in mind.

The EDG members ate and chatted, and became familiar with each other.

Su Mo found that Hope was more proactive and seemed to want to build good relationships with other people.

Jiejie is rather aloof and won't react unless someone approaches him.

As for Ray, he was rather apathetic because he didn’t speak the language very well.

After dinner, the EDG team returned to the training base to continue training.

A week passed quickly.

2019 League of Legends Professional League, spring season opening game.

Inside the competition venue, the competition hadn't started yet, but the audience seats were already packed.

Most of them are EDG fans, holding EDG support signs in their hands.

Backstage, in the EDG lounge, Abu is checking on the situation of the factory manager:

"You mean, you can't play in this game? Mingkai, why are you so careless?"

At this time, the factory manager was lying on the sofa, his face was not looking good, and he groaned, "I think it's gastroenteritis. Just let me lie down... If it doesn't work, let Xiao Mo go to the jungle."

Abu glanced at Su Mo, then at Jiejie: ​​"Jiejie has never played in LPL... I think we can only let Xiao Mo play, and Ray will go to the front... At least he has played in the competition."

"Xiao Mo, do you have any questions? You should have practiced the new version of jungle."

Su Mo looked at the factory director with a smile. He realized that the factory director was acting! (End of this chapter)