My buddy is actually a Cao Cao type top laner?

Chapter 170 The arena is not about fighting and killing
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[Purification brings merit, it's all about being carefree!]

[With boundless imagination, daring to think and act, and most importantly, unafraid of public opinion, the future I dream of looks incredibly promising.]

[You ask who Mebius is? I'll steal jungle monsters that junglers won't dare to steal, I'll taunt mid laners where they won't dare to taunt, I'll buy potions that carries can't afford, I'll show off where supports won't dare to, and I'll take care of things my teammates can't handle. I act first and ask permission later, with special privileges! That's Mebius!]

The moment the slow effect of the Ice Staff actually hit the EDG trio.

game.

And so it came to an end.

The three fleeing players were no match for the V5 army's overwhelming force. In fact, due to the slow effect of the Ice Staff and the ridiculously high resistance and healing from the ultimate, they were unable to remove the last bit of health from the Alchemist's head, even though he was already low on health.

finally.
They all met a tragic end, dying and disappearing from the world.

1 for 4
When Jiejie respawned at the crystal, he was greeted by V5, who were now pushing their high ground crystal with the Baron buff.

send!
1:0
EDG successfully typed GG.

"Take it!"

"This game was awesome! We dominated the enemy's strategy the whole time."

"Don't rush, don't rush, there's still one more round, brothers, just bear with it a little longer."

"Damn it, why isn't the match a best-of-one (BO1)?"

Compared to the more honorable atmosphere on the V5 players' bench, the EDG side was rather silent. It wasn't a matter of whether their mentality had collapsed, but rather a feeling of being inexplicably disgusted.

Especially Jiejie.

The plane was pressured by Tryndamere, and the Renekton had no initiative against Singed in the early game. If you said this to him before the match, he would just think you were a little crazy.

But right now.

He, however, had to face this cruel reality.

"We underestimated their understanding of the game." Maokai took a deep breath.

A person.

Success once is luck, success twice is confidence, and continuous success is making everyone around you keep breathing in your brow.

I'm just not sure if this understanding is Nofe's understanding.

Or is it that so-called "version researcher" who came from their own youth training system?

It was as if it was to prove himself.

In the second game, EDG went all out, and their early offensive was so strong that Luo Ji even thought that the EDG team that won the World Championship last year had returned. However, once the mid-game arrived, they inexplicably started making all sorts of mistakes.

If the previous process was like a precision instrument, going through round after round.

Now, it's always one part getting stuck or another screw coming loose. Later on, they even managed to seize the opportunity and turn the tide in one team fight.

It's not that the other side is bad.

Instead, his performance throughout the game was visibly mediocre, with no particularly impressive plays.

2:0
This record even made the commentators on the second channel a little nervous.

Although the S12 league is currently quite competitive, few long-time viewers weren't fans before, and they're all criticizing it with a sense of disappointment:

"EDG, RNG, can you two train separately? I think I watched this game yesterday."

Yes.

The plane, Senatham.

Just the day before, during the Pig vs. Dog battle discussion, the two teams performed exactly the same way, from drafting to understanding the game.

But it’s understandable.

After all, RNG and GENG have been scrimming since S7, and EDG's matches also have a GENG feel to them.

Both teams started with Samsung Ten.

It's normal to have the same understanding.

"Laoqiang made plans with us yesterday to have dinner together after the match. Are you going?" As if he had thought of something, Luo Ji suddenly asked after the match.

"Who's paying?" Karsa's keen jungle instincts caught the key.

"Of course it's them. We can't even win a regular season game and at most get an MVP prize. They win an S-series championship and get all sorts of endorsements, houses, prize money, skin revenue sharing, and so on. Do you think we can be polite to the big shots?"

"Then we must go. Opportunities to rob the rich don't come around often."

V5 here.

The group enthusiastically agreed to the dinner.

Nofe couldn't refuse, and his body obediently followed along, along with Zero and GimGoon.

The owner of V5 Club is rich, and the club itself may also have some money, but the income of the members is not as high as one might imagine.

after all
No one expected that the team that came to pick up the scraps would suddenly rise up.

At first, the team was just hoping to make the playoffs. Even if they wanted to change the contract, they would have to wait until the contract expired.

at dinner.

Saint Gun Bro made no attempt to hide his grievances:
"To be honest, I've been a professional player for so many years, but I'm gradually being overtaken by a brother who I introduced to the game and who has been a professional player for less than a year. I'm really happy for him, but I also feel sad because of the talent gap."

Do you know what infuriates you the most?

"When I debuted, the strongest top laner was Marin, but I didn't have the chance to face him at Worlds. This kid, on the other hand, got to face the strongest Zeus player in LCK right after his debut and even beat him."

"This is so enviable."

Listening to Flandre's heartfelt words, the V5 team nodded in empathy.

But when they looked at Luo Ji again, they found that he was completely expressionless. Instead, when their gazes fell on him, he rolled his eyes at them and said:

"Please."

"Can you please look at what he does instead of what he says?"

"He's a world champion, with an S-series trophy and a championship skin. Aside from Chicken Bro, who else has the right to feel sorry for him?"

"What championship do we have?"

As soon as these words came out.

Casa and the others finally realized their mistake.

Yes~
They're a bunch of nobodies with no achievements, yet they're feeling sorry for a big shot who won the S-series championship. How is that any different from Tencent players worrying that Tencent is so poor they can only afford to take the bus?
After the conversation started, Xiao Yan quickly joined Meiko.

Well known.

If there were real-life examples of "e-sports bullies" in novels, then theoretically, Meiko would be the most likely candidate to become the male protagonist.

Almost every year during the transfer season in the influencer circle, Meiko is the first choice listed.

Only after being rejected did they start looking for other potential partners.

Xiao Yan didn't believe it at first.

Even though he was constantly influenced by Luo Ji to avoid dating, his youthful infatuation still led him to accept some friend requests, and they would occasionally chat.

It's better not to add it.

Once you add in, you'll find yourself with a whole repertoire of tricks and rhetoric, able to emphasize three syllables in a single sentence. Even PPGOD mocked you, saying that if Luo Ji hadn't stopped her, this would have been a classic case of a son of a bitch meeting the Holy Maiden of the Beast Taming Sect.

Until today's gathering.

Xiao Yan and Meiko compared the profile pictures of the friend requests in each other's friend lists.

When he finally saw that the female internet celebrity who had been showering him with concern every day was actually Meiko, who had given him priority in applying to university, he was utterly heartbroken. He turned into a statue and lost his appetite for the food that had just been served.

"What's up with him?"

When Rookie returned after getting a round of drinks, he immediately spotted Xiao Yan seemingly "out of his body" on the side.

"Let me think about how to explain it to you."

Luo Ji pondered for a while and tentatively said, "He probably realized that with his educational background, the primary schools he wanted to attend were not open to him, and the top-tier universities that took him in did not admit him as their first choice. The only options he could choose were second- or third-tier universities that accepted him as an assigned student, or even worse ones, so he gave up."

Rookie: ?
The night the competition ended, the Alchemy Bar celebrated the entire Lunar New Year.

Following the Dog Head Bar, the Alchemy Bar is the second Hero Tieba to be revitalized. This has given hope to the moderators of other Hero Tieba, who have begun to bombard Luo Ji's backstage.

Just this point.

Luo Ji, however, clearly did not have that much free time.

He is very busy.

Extremely busy.

The 3500 million RMB esports contract will take effect after the S-series tournament ends, but the various hidden benefits brought by another contract will also begin to emerge one by one.

The most basic example is attending certain occasions.

Not as a buyer, but temporarily as a qualified commodity.

V5 didn't have many endorsements before. Besides AMD and Ulda Driver, there was only one local company, Charming Longgang. Compared to EDG, which had the most endorsements in the region, V5 was not a pure club, but a semi-commercial club.

After all, this is the last local endorsement.

To put it bluntly, they used the pretext of building a stadium to acquire land. It's no exaggeration to say that land in V5's home city is incredibly valuable. As someone who has successfully caught up in both fame and strength, Luo Ji successfully obtained his own ticket to the game and became a familiar face after the match.

This kind of seemingly useless communication.

In reality, it's just an excuse for future social interactions.

If a need for cooperation arises someday, all you have to do is say you've met in XX place, giving a starting point for conversation, and many things can naturally develop together.

Luo Ji has thought it all out.

Wait for this year's World Cup to make a quick buck by pulling off an upset by Liben, then wait for NIP to go public and sell off the stock, and then focus all your efforts on waiting for Xiaomi and Nvidia to catch up.

I may not be rich and powerful in this lifetime, but I've at least managed to cross several social classes.

When Luo Ji returned to the club.

It was already midnight, and he was too excited to sleep. After all, in his previous life, he didn't even have the qualifications to enter the market as a commodity.

But soon he remembered that he couldn't forget his roots, so he quickly changed his mindset, sat back down, and opened Rank.

See this.

Rookie and Casa both breathed a sigh of relief.

They were all young and impetuous contestants, not to mention Luo Ji's current popularity. They were afraid that he would be blinded by the glitz and glamour of the world and neglect his core training and skills.

But for now.

That's a bit of overthinking. Luo Ji is quite shrewd, even a bit too mature.

"Busy working?"

"It's not quite right to say I was busy; it feels like I wasted my time, but it also doesn't feel like that. In short, I wasted a lot of time and then came back."

Luo Ji turned around following the sound.

Behind him were two older men from Nakano carrying drinks and barbecue.

Rookie shook the barbecue in his hand and said with a smile:
"Have you eaten? You came back pretty late. Running around doing business isn't an easy job; you spend a lot of time on the road. If you haven't eaten, let's eat together?"

Luo Ji readily accepts good advice:

“If the older brothers are treating me to a late-night snack, I’d definitely be happy to. But what about Qi Shen and Guo Peng (PPGOD)? Aren’t we going to invite them?”

Casa placed everything on the table and pulled over two chairs.
"They wanted hot pot in the middle of the night, and they had just won the game today. The coach was soft-hearted and also had a sweet tooth, so he went along with them."

"We weren't really feeling like going out late at night, so we didn't go and opted to order takeout instead."

Luo Ji blinked.

He didn't believe that was the excuse.

Presumably because it was his first time going out alone to run a new contract, Nofe and the others were worried that he would get lost in the world of fame and fortune and neglect his training, so they asked two senior members to give him some pointers.

He knew it perfectly well.

However, his face still showed the expression of a well-behaved child earnestly accepting guidance.

They deliberately set up this scheme.

We still have to give the older brothers some face.

Where there are people, there are rivers and lakes.

Arena.

It's not about fighting and killing.

But it's about human nature.

(End of this chapter)