LPL History

Chapter 169 A commoner's tongue and sword disrupt the land; how could he fear a 3-0 score? An iron fist and steel palm intimidate the thugs; let's wait for the armor and weapons to crumble.

Zhou Ligang was just recovering from the surge in popularity when he noticed the little beast had come to his side.

Zhou Li smiled and pointed to the constantly rising popularity, sharing his joy.

"Little beast, look, I'm famous now."

The little beast felt a throbbing vein on its forehead, signaled Zhou Li to turn off the audio, and then spoke:

"You've become famous, so why don't you check what the comments are saying?"

Zhou Li stretched lazily, seemingly unconcerned.

"I know, the comments are all cursing at me."

"You still know you're being insulted?" The little beast laughed angrily. "Do you know that your video commenting on OMG yesterday was screenshotted and posted online, and now everyone's cursing you!"

Hearing the little beast's words, Zhou Li still looked indifferent, but what he said made the little beast stare in astonishment.

"I know, I posted that video screenshot myself."

"You...you posted this yourself?!"

"Little Beast, you don't understand. In the era of live streaming, traffic is king. Haven't you heard the saying, 'It doesn't matter if it's a black cat or a white cat, as long as it catches mice, it's a good cat'?"

After two seasons, Zhou Li had long since figured out the nature of these fans.

He clearly didn't criticize OMG at all; he was just being objective and even praising OMG. He said "50/50," and that was enough to enrage the fans.

After all, even the commentators online are praising OMG, believing that the championship is already in their grasp.

He pushed the small animal aside.

"Alright, stop disturbing my live stream, my fans are getting impatient."

"You call those your fans?!"

Zhou Li ignored the little beast's question, turned on the audio input, and said with a chuckle:

"Family members, welcome to the live stream of the world's number one innocent jungler."

"It seems my family really enjoyed my commentary yesterday. Okay, I may not have many other skills, but I'm good at listening to advice! The timing is perfect, so today I'll continue my commentary on the OMG vs. SKT finals!"

"Some family members have asked the host for his opinion on the match. The host already said yesterday that it's a 50/50 chance."

"What? The last guy who said it was a 50/50 game got beaten 3-0 and is now dead? That's too much! Don't slander our Kai-ge like that!"

Zhou Li interacted with his family while simultaneously starting a live stream.

The match between the two sides had already started earlier. When Zhou Li entered the official live broadcast room, the match had already been going on for more than eight minutes.

Zhou Li's eyes widened as he looked at the loading screen.

Unexpectedly, he saw a classic scene of the underworld as soon as he entered!
At this point, no kills had occurred between the two sides, while Benji's Kha'Zix was stealing kills from OMG's four wraiths in their jungle.

But the quick-witted Yuzu discovered it.

"Wait a minute, guys, I want to know what happened up ahead? Why is Benji's Kha'Zix level 6 and Youzi's Pantheon level 4?" (*)

"That Yuzuru was hiding in the bush, that's clever! A level 4 Pantheon against a level 6 Kha'Zix, what can I say?! Going up and using Smite on the big ghost was brilliant... Hey, what are you doing?! You even went up and poked the little ghost, that's not right of you!!" (*)

"But Benji's team clearly got carried away! Trying to tower dive with E was just too much! Even though I'm level four with Pantheon, I have W!! Uzi! You didn't even use W and just got beaten up! Wow, you got instantly killed!" (*)

Zhou Li scratched his head, wanting to laugh, but he held it in to protect his fans' feelings.

"Wow, bro, why did you go and provoke him?"

Although it was only the first game, Yuzu delivered a legendary and classic moment.

However, OMG actually played quite well in the first game.

At the 28th minute of the game, the score was 10:5.

OMG is still leading by five kills.

This undoubtedly gave fans a glimmer of hope for victory.

【This is OMG!】

【OMG, keep it up!】

[Idiot streamer, OMG has such a huge advantage, yet you keep predicting their downfall. I don't know what's wrong with you.]

Looking at the comments in the live stream, Zhou Li smiled and said:

"Family, although OMG is leading by ten kills, haven't you noticed that they're only leading by a thousand gold? This means OMG has been focused on killing and hasn't controlled any resources at all. And now, SKT is going to take Baron first! How dare the support clear vision! It's over! OMG is going to lose Baron!"

At 34 minutes, the kill score was 11:6, with OMG still leading by five kills, but lagging behind in gold.

At 41 minutes, with a score of 13:11, OMG was down by 4,000 gold.

After 51 minutes, the score is 18:14!

OMG has 18 kills, leading by four!
However, their economy lags behind SKT by a full 10,000!
The final team fight erupted between the two sides. SKT, disregarding OMG's harassment, opted for a direct push against OMG's base, which was now without its inhibitor turrets, ending the game!

Seeing OMG lose the first game, Zhou Li said:

"Family members, I have a question. Why is it that OMG is always ahead in kills, but SKT manages to gain a 10,000 gold lead? This is what I was talking about yesterday: macro play. To put it bluntly, OMG hasn't figured out this game yet, you understand?"

Zhou Li's words immediately broke the fans' defenses.

[CS streamer, even if OMG is terrible, they're still better than you sitting in your stream giving orders.]

[The streamer can play games? And the streamer who can play games is still in the youth training team?]

[Hilarious! You even started commenting.]

[OMG will definitely win; they just made a mistake this game.]

[Who gives you the right to speak? You'll never be an All-Star!]

Upon seeing the last comment, Zhou Li also broke down.

He's never actually been an All-Star.

"To be frank, I've said nothing! OMG just can't beat SKT. SKT gave us enough chances in this game and we still couldn't win. So I can only say that I overestimated the 50/50 chance before. Now it seems like it's 0/10."

Amidst the fans' insults, OMG once again proved them wrong and disappointed them.

Just as Zhou Li had predicted, the first game was already OMG's best performance.

OMG lost the second game cleanly and decisively.

When SKT reached match point, Zhou Li's live stream saw another surge in viewership.

The terrified fans turned Zhou Li's live stream into a dumping ground for their emotions.

Some even believe that the curse of Zhou Li affected OMG's luck.

When SKT destroyed OMG's base again, completely shattering LPL fans' hopes of fighting against Korea, Zhou Li became the first target of the attack.

Faced with the fans' vicious curses, Zhou Li calmly replied:

"Brother, I'm telling you the truth."

"After all, it's 3-0, I could play too."

As soon as Zhou Li finished speaking, he saw his computer screen flash for a moment, and then go completely black.

He turned his head and saw that the little beast was holding his computer plug and glaring angrily at him.

"Why did you unplug my power? I haven't finished my live stream yet."

Hearing that Zhou Li still dared to ask him a question, the little beast spoke up:

"Zhou Li, are you fucking insane?!"

He had only gone out for a short while, but when he came back, he heard this kid giving a scathing review of OMG.

But the thought of the team soon replacing Zhou Li forced the little beast to suppress its anger and said:

"Fine, stop streaming, I won't deduct your salary, okay?"

Hearing the little beast's words, Zhou Li said with dissatisfaction:

"You're wrong. I don't stream for that little bit of money; I stream because I love it!"

The little beast clearly didn't want to talk to Zhou Li anymore, so it clapped its hands and gave the order:
"Alright, everyone get some rest today. We have the finals tomorrow, so make sure you're in good shape."

Zhou Li was taken aback.

"The finals? What finals?"

The little beast rolled its eyes helplessly: "You're invincible."

That night, Zhou Li learned from Sima Laozei that tomorrow was the LSPL finals.

WE.A and YG will face off in the final showdown in LSPL.

In fact, regardless of the outcome of tomorrow's match, both teams have already secured two spots in the LPL Summer Split.

However, winning the championship brings not only honor but also a certain amount of prize money.

This, however, made Zhou Li somewhat anxious.

After all, it's no longer the early days of enlightenment. By 2014, professional teams had already reached a very advanced level in their development of League of Legends.

As a jungler, it takes more than just skill.

Junglers need a deep understanding of the current version, sufficient awareness and overall strategy, as well as a good understanding of their teammates.

With this in mind, Zhou Li began to examine his own abilities.

With Eun-jung's blessing, he can inherit four abilities from his previous abilities this season.

For the first ability to inherit, Zhou Li chose [Peerless Intelligence] without hesitation.

It has to be said, this ability is simply divine. After inheriting unparalleled intelligence, Zhou Li only watched one match and immediately gained a profound understanding of the current version.

Regarding the second ability to inherit, Zhou Li chose the [Factory Manager] role.

Skills inherited from young Mingkai.

When invading the jungle, all attributes such as hand speed are increased, and Lee Sin's proficiency is increased.

It can only be said that Zhuge Mingkai is truly Zhou Bei's right-hand man, no wonder he led the factory manager to a championship last year.

With these two capabilities secured, Zhou Li felt more at ease and simply lay down to prepare for sleep.

But after tossing and turning for a while, even with his eyes closed, Zhou Li still felt a light somewhere.

He opened his eyes, noticed the light source coming from above him, and turned his head to look.

Sima the old scoundrel was holding his phone, typing away furiously.

Zhou Li was about to curse when he noticed the contents of Sima Laozei's phone.

[Are people still praising Big Nose? Big Nose is a complete waste; his early retirement would be good for WE.]

Strawberry's biggest mistake in his career was not retiring with Big Nose.

[Mingkai and Curly were right to leave. I would have left too. WE is finished.]

However, this doesn't change the fact that EDG is a CS team. Mingkai dancing like a pig under the tower is definitely CS; if it were me, I would have already knocked his pig feed out of his head.

Sima Laozei was having a great time interacting with fellow forum members when he suddenly felt a chill, as if a pair of eyes were watching him from behind in the darkness.

He turned around abruptly and saw Zhou Li's dark eyes and the phone he was holding.

"What are you doing?"

Sima, feeling guilty, turned off his phone.

Zhou Li chuckled and waved his phone.

"Collecting evidence? You little brat, you're infiltrating Team Two and cursing WE, aren't you? You're a real beast."

Sima, the old scoundrel, started to panic.

Although his identity as a member of the anti-fan club was no secret, since joining WE.A, he has learned to be mindful of his influence under Xiaoshou's guidance.

So now he's using a secondary account to secretly hurl insults.

Zhou Li's smile looked particularly sinister in the darkness.

"Sima the Old Thief, you don't want Xiaoshou, King, and the vast majority of netizens to know that you used a smurf account to curse WE, do you?"

At that time, Sima Laozei had not yet been taught by Teacher Shan Ni Ruo, and had not yet evolved a Sima-like face.

The thoughts and feelings of young people are written all over their faces.

Just as he was about to speak, Xi Ye, who was on the lower bunk, poked his round head out.

"What are you talking about?"

Zhou Li gave Sima the wink and began the obedience test.

Sima the Old Thief swallowed hard and said:

"It's nothing, we're just chatting for a bit, I'm going to sleep now."

Xi Ye nodded.

"You need to adjust your sleep schedule, Han Jin."

Zhou Li added:
"Don't forget to wash your hair for the game tomorrow."
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Loft Industrial Park.

The entire teams from YG and WE.A have arrived at the competition venue.

YG's jungler, Fuyin, stood in the backstage passageway, looking out and marveling at the sight.

"Wow, when did our matches start attracting so many viewers?"

Support player Yan Sir said with a smile, "We are, after all, IG's second team, and WE.A is WE's second team, so we definitely have fans supporting us."

ADC Zhenlong laughed:

"Brothers, we can compete in the LPL in the summer split, things are finally looking up. Let's play well today and build up more fans."

They knew that they didn't have many fans on their own; they were just riding on the coattails of IG, like WE.A.

Hearing Zhenlong's words, everyone became excited, but at this moment a less harmonious voice rang out.

"Holy crap, are you still dreaming? Do you guys want to listen to what those bastards are yelling about? Don't they ever go online? They're scaring their dads to death."

The strong smell of bad breath was so strong that even the top laner kid didn't need to turn around to know it was their mid laner Otto.

As the saying goes, "Hou Guoyu of esports, his stick is unparalleled in the world."

At this moment, Otto was still full of vigor, completely unaware that his life had been stolen by Faker.

Upon hearing what the electric baton said, the YG members listened carefully to the shouts from the scene.

The true dragon paused, then asked:
"Zhou Li, get out of WE? What does that mean?"

"Holy crap, you didn't even know that?" Otto, who was surfing on the front lines, explained with a grin, "That idiot jungler from WE.A, yesterday he was livestreaming and criticizing OMG for getting swept 3-0 by SKT. Holy crap, that guy is really brain-dead, saying something about a driver's Pantheon playing against a level 6 Kha'Zix. After all, I could do 3-0 too, and he immediately went viral. It's hilarious. Now 60e fans are telling that Zhou what-his-name to get out of WE, saying he ruined WE's reputation."

In fact, whether it's WE's 60e fans or OMG's 59e fans, there is a large overlap between the two fan groups.

Zhou Li's two sentences immediately sent these two memes trending on social media, drawing strong reactions from fans.

So, did 60e come to the scene just to support your tiny second team?

Are you kidding me? They're here to put pressure on the second team and get rid of you, this unknown jungler.

The more he talked about it, the funnier he found it.

"I said that idiot is really brainless, he dared to touch OMG porcelain, hahaha."

He was laughing happily when he suddenly felt someone pat him on the shoulder.

The stun gun turned his head and saw a young man standing behind him, smiling at him.

Who are you calling an idiot?

Before the stun gun could react, a large bag slammed into his face with a thud.

"Who the hell are you calling an idiot? Come on, say it to your dad again?!"

The sudden turn of events left everyone at YG stunned.

Otto was somewhat stunned by the slap.

The other person's grip was so strong that he felt like his brains were about to be slapped out, and his ears were ringing.

The little bear was the first to react and said:

"Hey! What are you doing? Why are you hitting me!"

Hearing that someone was standing up for him, the stun gun's weak knees hardened slightly. Just as he was about to speak, he saw the other person kick a stainless steel trash can next to him.

"boom!"

The electric baton's eyelids twitched wildly.

The trash can was kicked more than ten meters away by the other party, and it slammed into the wall and was deformed.

That's a stainless steel trash can that's half a person tall!

"Who are you calling an idiot? Say something!"

Otto's knees, which had just hardened a little, immediately went limp again.

Although he wasn't very familiar with the person, he still recognized him.

Isn't that Zhou Li, the jungler for WE.A?

Zhou Li's kick silenced everyone present. Otto, facing the 1.8-meter-tall Zhou Li's question, swallowed hard and awkwardly replied:

"Brother, I was just kidding..."

"You son of a bitch, you even dare to imitate Wu Wukai? You're a brain-damaged bastard, and you still dare to talk behind your father's back? What kind of beast are you, Hou Guoyu? Did your mother squeeze your forehead too hard when she gave birth to you, resulting in this shoehorn-shaped, Sima-faced child? I'll fuck you XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX..."

Otto was scolded by Zhou Li for a full five minutes, like a schoolboy who had done something wrong.

The YG members stood awkwardly to the side, but dared not do anything.

We were just colleagues to begin with, and Otto is a jerk who's always been incredibly foul-mouthed. It's obviously not worth risking your life for a foul-mouthed colleague.

Only after seeing Zhou Li leave did the electric baton point at Zhou Li's back and give an awkward laugh.

"Haha, this guy... can't take a joke, just kidding... haha."

The YG staff awkwardly joined in the laughter.

"Haha...yeah haha."

The crowd laughed for a few seconds, then fell silent.

The true dragon offered words of comfort:
"Ignore this kind of person; they're just taking advantage of being tall..."

As he spoke, his eyes darted around, and only after confirming that Zhou Li was no longer nearby did he continue:
"Let's crush him in the game! With so many people here today, let's make him look utterly humiliated."

Otto silently turned around and rubbed his swollen right cheek.

The anger that had been suppressed by fear finally surged up.

"Zhou Li, if I don't fucking kill you today, I'll fucking kill my mother first!"

(End of this chapter)