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Chapter 115 You better not fucking let us win

The atmosphere in the lounge was strange.

When Song Wen uttered the words "Me," Zhu Kai and Zuo Wu suddenly had a strong sense of déjà vu.

Prior to this, when Wang Ke first appeared on the court as the team's analyst, he also said these words in the locker room.

These two even have the exact same way of showing off.

Upon hearing Song Wen's words, Wang Ke paused for a moment, then asked uncertainly, "You want to play AD?"

"No way?" Song Wen raised an eyebrow. "You don't trust Zz1tai to play mid? You can't trust me as AD carry?"

At this moment, Wang Ke finally remembered that Song Wen was good at more than just the middle lane.

To avoid viewer fatigue, in the novel, Song Wen is portrayed as a six-time champion, but he played five different positions in five years, and in the last year, he switched positions and won six championships!

However, he was in a hurry to finish the project, so he glossed over all of this and forgot about it after writing it.

Song Wen's gaze toward Wang Ke became strange.

"You fucking didn't know I could play AD carry?!"

"How could that be?" Wang Ke immediately realized, his face full of an awkward fake smile. "How could I not know you could play AD?"

Xin Zuowu and Zhu Kai exchanged a glance.

They really didn't know that Song Wen could play AD.

"Song Wen—" Zhu Kai hesitated before speaking, "Can AD really work?"

As soon as Zhu Kai finished speaking, he felt Song Wen's death stare.

Whom are you questioning?

"Okay," Wang Ke immediately decided, "Let Song Wen play AD, I'll go bot lane with him, and let Zz1tai go up to play mid lane."

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Seeing that he had inexplicably gotten the chance to play, Zi Tai was stunned for a moment before looking excited.

"Sure! I have experience fighting Little Tiger."

Seeing that Wang Ke had made up his mind, Zuo Wu immediately walked outside.

"Then I'll go and inform the officials about the replacement."

Wang Ke walked over to Song Wen and whispered to him.

"Don't complain if the bottom lane gets destroyed."

"Just follow my instructions. Taking down Uzbekistan is a piece of cake."

Song Wen was full of confidence, but Wang Ke immediately said, "No, you listen to my instructions."

Wang Ke wasn't really confident about the two of them getting off the plane.

After all, when he and Song Wen played duo queue in the mid and jungle, they often ended up in the octagon because of their lack of coordination.

The bottom lane is where the two players need to cooperate even more effectively.

Upon hearing Wang Ke's words, Song Wen's face was full of disdain.

"No way, you listen to me. Your turtle-like fighting style makes me cough."

"You follow my orders!"

The two voices grew louder and louder, and eventually they started arguing.

"You obey my commands!"

"Fuck you! Listen to me! Can you fight or not? If you can't, go back to your mid lane!"

"Call Zuo Wu back! I'm not fighting anymore!"

The Snake Team members were dumbfounded as they watched the two arguing heatedly, their faces flushed.

However, everyone quickly got used to it. After all, Song Wen and Wang Ke were like this when they played ranked games at the base. One second they would be saying "Brother, you're playing well!" and the next second they would start arguing over a buff.

A short while later, Zuo Wu pushed open the door and entered.

"It's okay, I've notified the authorities."

RNG lounge.

Firefox looked at the message from the staff member with a strange expression, then turned his gaze to UZI, who was beaming and joking with Xiaohu.

"Um, there's something I need to announce to everyone."

Firefox's voice brought a brief silence to the lounge.

"I just received official news that Snake has made a roster change, and their mid laner has been replaced by Zz1tai."

Upon hearing Firefox's words, Little Tiger burst into unrestrained laughter.

"Hahaha, what do you mean? Are you afraid of being purged and therefore not going to play?"

Uz seemed a little out of it and hadn't quite come to his senses.

Xiao Hu caught a glimpse of UZI out of the corner of his eye, who wasn't smiling, and paused for a moment.

Why isn't Uzbekistan smiling?

He was pondering this question, and the smile on his lips had just faded when Uz seemed to suddenly snap out of his reverie and burst into laughter.

"What do you mean? You're scared already? I haven't had my fun yet!"

Seeing Uzi smile, Xiao Hu immediately followed with a second laugh.

This time he laughed even louder and more flamboyantly, and even slapped his thigh.

Firefox's second half of his sentence was drowned out by laughter. He could only wait helplessly for everyone to finish laughing before he said again, "Black has switched from the mid lane to the ADC position."

UZI's smile froze on his face.

Xiao Hu's laughter immediately stopped, like a duck being choked.

At this moment, UZI felt both annoyed and amused.

"What does he mean? Does he want to have sex with me directly?"

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Firefox shook his head and said, "I don't know, but we don't have any information on Black in the AD position, so we still need to be careful."

Seeing that the atmosphere in the team was a bit heavy, Xiao Hu laughed again.

"He can make excuses when he loses in mid lane, but if he gets crushed in bot lane, he'll really be a clown, hahaha."

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Xiao Hu's words livened up the atmosphere in the team again.

For a time, a joyful atmosphere filled the air.

"Viewers watching the live stream, you are now watching the knockout stage match of the 2017 League of Legends Pro League Spring Split! The two teams facing off are RNG Esports Club and Snake Esports Club! I'm your commentator, Miller!"

"I'm the commentator doll!"

"I'm Rita, the commentator!"

In the stands, the cheers were noticeably louder as RNG won the first game.

Wang Ke sat down next to Song Wen and looked up at the large screen opposite them.

Snake 0: 1 RNG

"Brother, play well, we'll win 3-1!"

Upon hearing Wang Ke's words, Song Wen gave a mocking sneer.

"Anyone with hands can do it."

After saying that, Song Wen waited for Wang Ke to mock him for being arrogant, but after waiting for a long time, Wang Ke didn't make a move.

He wondered how the old man had changed his gender, and turned his head to look. He saw Wang Ke looking up at the big screen in the distance, his face filled with shock and confusion.

"What's wrong?"

Song Wen looked at the big screen.

"Zero to two?! When did we become zero to two?"

Song Wen's voice made everyone on the Snake Team look at the big screen.

On the large screen displaying the score, it was written—

Snake 0: 2 RNG

Saint Gun said in confusion, "Is it a typo?"

Wang Ke, his face grim, asked, "Zhu Kai, what happened?"

Zhu Kai also looked confused and shook his head.

"I don't know, why is it 0-2?"

They only played one game, how come they lost another one to Void?!

The background at this time.

Zuo Wu, his face flushed red, was cursing loudly at the officials!

The Snake team manager, who has long been adept at dealing with people and has developed a smooth and sophisticated way of handling things, is now cursing like a shrew, disregarding his image.

"I gave you all the player information! And you fucking told me the substitution request had already been submitted! Now you're saying we didn't inform you about the substitution! You're blatantly lying like this, have you no shame?!"

Zuo Wu's words were extremely laced with sarcasm. Faced with Zuo Wu's unrestrained and angry outburst, the officials looked embarrassed and didn't know how to respond for a moment.

Zuo Wu did indeed submit player information and a request for substitutions a long time ago.

According to league rules, player substitutions must be reported to the official authorities.

The so-called "reporting" means simply informing the official team, who will then relay the roster change information to the opposing team.

As long as the substitution does not violate the league's rules, there will be no problem.

But this time—

After venting his anger, Zuo Wu felt a deep sense of powerlessness.

He also knew that getting angry with these staff members wouldn't do any good.

After all, the decision-makers are not these few staff members.

But he knew he had to have an attitude.

What LPL did this time was absolutely disgusting!

This isn't just about putting pressure on other teams to avoid scrims; it's about directly trying to kill Song Wen on the field!

After calming down, Zuo Wu quickly walked towards the other side of the backstage area.

That's the direction of the monitoring room.

He suppressed his anger, put on a big smile, and took out cigarettes from his pocket.

If the Snake team loses today's game, then perhaps all he's doing now will be in vain.

Zuo Wu took a deep breath and muttered to himself.

"But you better not fucking let us win."

Miller's voice sounded strange in the commentary booth.

"We just received news that the Snake team was punished according to the league rules for not reporting their roster change to the official authorities. Therefore, they lost the second game and will not have the right to choose sides in the third game."

He genuinely found it rather strange.

Logically speaking, Snake Esports isn't some new team that just entered the LPL and doesn't know anything, so it's unlikely they would make such a basic mistake.

Moreover, it's not that they made this mistake earlier or later, but rather that it happened in this crucial match today.

As Miller finished speaking, a cheer erupted from the crowd.

In the live stream, netizens were gloating.

【? ? ? 】

Haha, is this how it's done?

I suspect that someone within the Snake Esports team has been bribed.

【6666. 】

[Does that mean RNG has a 2-0 lead and match point?]

[Haha, Snake Team, keep it up! Come back from 0-2 down to win 3-2!]

[I guess he felt he couldn't win, so he planned to leave work early.]

[What a terrible situation; it seems he was cut off by the club.]

RNG players' bench.

Upon hearing the news, Firefox thought for a moment and decided to tell the players this fantastic news.

"Snake Team made a substitution without reporting it, and was directly judged to have lost a game. Now we have the right to choose sides."

The RNG players were all stunned.

Uzi laughed so hard he almost fell over.

Little Tiger followed, and everyone and everything fell flat on their faces.

Snakes' bench.

Everyone looked extremely grim.

"Didn't Zuo Wu report it?"

Hearing what Holy Gun said, Wang Ke shook his head and said, "Zuo Wu wouldn't do such a thing. It must be the authorities behind this."

In fact, Wang Ke was not sure what the truth of the matter was either.

He couldn't be sure whether Zuo Wu would actually betray Song Wen.

After all, you can't see into someone's heart.

But now, he has to shift the blame to the authorities. If Song Wen and his teammates find out that their own club's manager deliberately did this, morale will probably collapse before the match even starts.

Moreover, in Wang Ke's opinion, Zuo Wu shouldn't be that stupid.

He subconsciously reached for his toes. Having finally gotten a chance to play, this hellish start made even the veteran player nervous.

Song Wen sighed and said, "I'm sorry, brothers, I've dragged you down."

This underhanded tactic by the authorities is something Song Wen had never experienced in his previous "feel-good" novels.

Wang Ke glanced at Song Wen with surprise.

Clearly, no one expected that Song Wen, who was always proud and arrogant, would say such a thing.

However, he knew that if the authorities were only targeting Song Wen, Song Wen wouldn't care at all. But now, the entire team was being pushed to the brink.

"Brother Wen," Holy Gun said, "Are you saying all this because you're not planning to lead us to victory?"

"Yeah," even the die-hard fans chimed in, "I think you're right. Just because he's an official figure, does that mean we have to put up with it?"

With her hand firmly gripping her crotch, she spoke softly, "I've always admired Brother Wen; I would never dare to do that."

"Brothers," Wang Ke said in a deep voice, "as long as we are not wiped out, we have a chance."

"If he's so capable, he should just declare us the loser. Otherwise, I'm going to slap him in the face today!"

"That's right! Let's slap him in the face!"

"Slap his mother's face!"

For a time, the Snake team's morale had never been so high.

Song Wen took a deep breath: "Since you've all said that, then I'll apologize one last time."

"Why are you apologizing for saying all this, Brother Wen?"

"That's right, Brother Wen, we're all on the same side."

Ignoring the others' attempts to comfort him, Song Wen grinned and continued, "I'm sorry—Uzi!"

"For Snake Esports, this might be their last playoff game! Both teams have entered the draft phase, with RNG choosing the blue side and banning Rengar as their first pick!"

For RNG, the biggest problem right now is that they don't understand Song Wen's champion pool in the AD position, so they can't give the bot lane a targeted ban.

However, this issue won't have a significant impact, since there are only a few heroes that can be played repeatedly within the Ardent Censer system.

"Snake Esports chose to ban Kalista, as this champion is simply too strong in the Ardent Censer composition. This is a standard ban in this patch."

RNG then banned Kennen, while Snake banned Janna.

"Jane?"

Rita, who was in the commentary booth, looked somewhat puzzled.

"Snake Esports chose to ban Janna, so is that an attempt to limit the bot lane?"

RNG banned Spider again, while Snake banned Lulu on the third floor!

"Janna and Lulu! Snake's intentions are very clear! UZI's performance in the last game was just too outstanding; they don't want RNG to continue playing the Ardent Censer system!"

In the live stream, when they saw the Snake team's player being pulled off a move, the Royal Never Give Up fans immediately burst into laughter.

[Hilarious! I thought Blackout was going to do something by switching to the bot lane, but they just banned two supports right away.]

Sigh, I thought someone who'd become corrupt could amount to something.

Why are you targeting us puppies like this?

[Trash Snake Team.]

Haha, that's the intimidating power of a puppy.

I was too naive to have any hope for Blackrock Depths.

Seeing the Snake team's man-pulling, Firefox immediately said, "Grab Karma first!"

Karma is considered one of the top supports among Ardent Censer support characters.

Furthermore, this hero can also switch between the mid lane and support positions.

The right to choose has fallen into the hands of the Snake team.

Wang Ke spoke up: "Lao Song, what do you mean? Show them our cutting-edge technology and let them see what we're capable of?"

Song Wen was stunned for a moment.

"Stop playing riddles. With all your advanced technology, how am I supposed to know what it is?"

Wang Ke chuckled: "Lucian, Nami."

The Luna duo later became a very classic and powerful bot lane combination.

For a time, the combination of aggressive Lucian and Electrocute Nami dominated the bot lane, making them an almost invincible duo.

The reason for this is that Nami's E skill can enhance her next basic attack, and this enhancement effect can be applied to teammates.

More importantly, this enhancement effect lasts for three times, meaning that all three of a teammate's basic attacks or skills can be inflicted with the damage of the Sun skill.

These three instances of damage will be considered as Nami's damage, directly triggering the Electrocute effect.

In addition, Lucian's aggressive style allows him to unleash burst damage in an instant.

However, the current version of Lucian is missing a passive effect called "Vigilance".

This passive effect was a change added to Lucian 21 years later, allowing Lucian to deal additional magic damage with his attacks after receiving buffs from teammates.

Furthermore, the "Strong Attack" talent is not available in the current version.

But that doesn't mean the Luna combo can't be played anymore.

In the current version, although Lucian lacks his passive effect, his base damage is already quite high, which can completely compensate for the lack of damage from the passive.

Meanwhile, although the Press the Attack rune is gone, this version of Thunderlord's Decree is essentially an enhanced version of Electrocute, and Lucian himself can also choose to carry the Thunderlord's Decree rune.

Wang Ke and Crystal once tried it out, and these numerical differences could make Luna a T0-level bot lane duo in the current version.

Different versions have different features, so some things can't be directly copied, but they can be modified and used perfectly well.

On the commentary desk, upon seeing Snake Esports' champion selection, Miller remarked, "Snake Esports has locked in Lucian and Nami! This pick is quite interesting. It feels like Lucian is intended for the mid lane, and I recall that Nami's W skill can trigger the Ardent Censer effect, right?"

Seeing the Snake team's player selections, Firefox fell into deep thought.

From Firefox's perspective, this Lucian is most likely intended for the mid lane.

Because the Snake team got Nami.

This is also a support that can trigger the Ardent Censer effect, so in Firefox's understanding, it is believed that the Snake team also wants to play the Ardent Censer lineup.

In that case, Lucian would be clearly an unsuitable fit.

What Firefox didn't know was that Snake Team had no intention of playing Incense Burner in this game at all.

For Wang Ke, now is the time when the team is united in their hatred of the enemy and their morale is high. What he wants is to crush RNG right from the start!

However, Firefox has now entered a misconception, which naturally affects his subsequent draft strategy. As a result, he locked in Galio and Kog'Maw on the second and third floors.

Even knowing that Lucian would most likely go mid, Firefox still let Xiaohu pick Galio, who was a difficult opponent in lane.

This is the result of sacrificing lane laning after assuming the opponent wanted to play a late-game Ardent Censer composition.