I am the leader of the anti-racism movement.

Thanks in advance. But you might not believe it, but you were the only one who told me to keep going.

"So, according to you, I'm your only one?"

[Come on, where did you copy that cheesy pickup line from? It's so lame, Shuang-jie.]

"Let me tell you something nice."

【you say?】

I heard from others that doing it first thing in the morning is good for your health!

【! ! ! 】

... (20 cat biscuits omitted)

They chatted briefly about something a bit risqué, but considering they had a match the next day, they didn't stay up too late. It's important to keep things in moderation, especially late at night. The main thing is that if things get heated, it's hard to let them cool down; they stopped short of getting carried away.

Tonight's phone call was rather ordinary. Although Sister Shuang encouraged him in the end, she was also subtly laying the groundwork for him to play with a relaxed attitude tomorrow, perhaps so that he could lose more gracefully.

Almost simultaneously, he and Xi Ye finished their long phone calls and watched their shows, and then the situation instantly became tense.

Seeing that things were not going well, Luo Fei immediately used his skill to take the initiative: "Wangzai, I hung up the phone first. Logically speaking, I was the one who was ready to go to sleep first, so you should turn off the light."

"Come on, we finished at the same time. You're sleeping on the lower bunk, so it should be your turn."

"Distance is not a problem. I've already rolled up the blanket. Do you know how difficult it is to roll up a blanket? I need to use all my strength to roll it three times to the left and three times to the right, and I still have to rely on luck to find the most comfortable angle. How can you ask me to do it?"

Seeing how shameless this guy was, Xi Ye thought for a moment and decided that he had no choice but to use his legendary ultimate move. He took a deep breath, his eyes filled with a resolute determination!

"Dad, please turn off the light for me."

"Alright son, watch Daddy show you something." Seeing Wangzai so cooperative, Luo Fei was instantly gratified. He grabbed a shoe from the ground and aimed it at the light switch on the wall, firing a three-pointer.

"Clap!"

Accurate hit, lights off successfully!

Don't ask, it's an essential skill for college dorm leaders. The only downside is that it can only be used to turn off the lights; it's completely useless for shooting hoops, and using it too much will even lower your shooting percentage from the two-point line.

Without the lights, the dormitory was instantly enveloped in darkness. This was a scene they should have been used to every day, but it felt particularly out of place tonight.

Because of this disharmony, they couldn't sleep.

"What's wrong, Wangzai? Don't you always complain about not getting enough sleep? You've been given time today, why aren't you sleeping?" Hearing the rolling sounds coming from the upper bunk, Luo Fei naturally realized that this guy wasn't asleep.

"You haven't slept either, have you? You've been lying in bed for half an hour, haven't you?"

"I can't sleep because I'm worried about tomorrow's game. What are you worried about because you can't sleep?"

"Of course I can't sleep... Huh? You're admitting it so easily?"

Xi Ye was shocked! Holy crap, this guy's not playing by the rules! Shouldn't they be rambling on about random things before finally getting to the point?

You're going straight to the point without any foreplay, which is really painful for people.

Fortunately, after a brief period of adjustment, Wangzai understood. Anyway, this guy wasn't a normal person, while he was a normal person. Their brainwaves weren't on the same frequency, which made perfect sense, didn't it?

He then fell silent. Clearly, he was also frustrated about tomorrow's match.

Everyone thought they would lose tomorrow, including themselves. But honestly, after playing this far, losing to a team that everyone considered near perfect was enough.

but,

How could he possibly accept this? With youthful ambition, who wouldn't want to be number one? Who would willingly admit they're inferior to their opponent? He, for one, couldn't. Every word of comfort from those around him felt like an invisible blade, slashing his dignity mercilessly.

Although they didn't say it out loud, all five members of WE could feel each other's unwillingness to accept defeat.

Leg Bro joined the LPL after graduating from university, already under pressure due to his age.

Xiye, a prodigy who dominated with his Annie, has completely lost his edge this season, getting utterly crushed by mid laners. His former prodigy status has vanished from the public eye.

My brother-in-law, from one of the 12 LCK teams, is ranked as the 13th best ADC.

Zero was quite famous, but he was no bigger than the original Dog Queen, and with the passage of time, he gradually faded into obscurity.

Ultimately, they were never star players, or rather, WE has never produced any decent star players since the first generation. They were just players discarded by others, plus a few youth trainees, and mixed with one or two veterans, and put on the field in a mixed team.

Seeing that everyone was trying to fall asleep, Xi Ye took the initiative to start a conversation:

"You scoundrel, do you have any dreams for your professional gaming career? Like proving who's the world's best jungler or something?"

"No, but you little brat are implying that I'm 7-chan again. I've already recorded it."

"Give me a break, you didn't even turn on your phone's light, what are you recording? Stop messing around, if you don't have a dream, why are you so disciplined and hardworking every day? Are you a masochist?" Xi Ye didn't believe a single punctuation mark in this guy's answer. Being a professional and playing around are two different things. It's like many kids who love playing LOL and clamor to become professional players, thinking that if they can reach Diamond in ranked games, they might become the next GodV after training and dominate everything.

Sure, try playing ranked matches for 12 hours a day for a month first. Once you've done that, then you can consider going pro. Most people probably can't even last a week, let alone a month. One marketing team did a pretty good job of this; they set up a pro experience class and gave these kids a good lesson, and apparently a lot of them cried.

Playing professionally is really not easy.

Moreover, setting aside the amount of training, the allure of fame is even harder to resist. People will send gifts from afar, and money will also be sent from afar. Most professional players are minors, and even adults would find it hard to resist this temptation, let alone a group of children.

Therefore, Xiye and even the rest of WE thought he was a dream-type jungler.

"I'm not kidding, I really don't have any dreams. In fact, my dream about gaming has already been fulfilled by a bunch of mountain climbers. Now I just want to do my best to protect other people's dreams. But what about you? The world's best mid laner?"

. . . . . .

. . . . . .

"Don't be ridiculous, number one in the world? I'd be lucky to even make the top ten." Although he didn't understand what "climber" meant, the world's number one mid laner was clearly being teased. Lee Guppy from S6 has already been officially deified; if SKT wins another championship this year, Lee Guppy will be a true three-time world champion.

Will he become the world's best mid laner? Let's talk about that after he retires.

"So you're now a salted fish without dreams?"

"I wouldn't call myself a salted fish, but I definitely have no dreams. Maybe the only thing I can hope for is winning an LPL championship?" Xi Ye replied with an uncertain tone. Hearing this, Luo Fei jumped up from the bed. This sudden movement even startled Xi Ye on the upper bunk, who stared blankly at the bewildered guy in front of him.

"You can't play professionally without a dream. Since neither of us has a dream, why don't we set one together?"

"Clam?"

"You're out of the running for world's best mid laner, and I reckon I'm in trouble as well as world's best jungler. But..."

"But what?"

"However, I think we can take a gamble on the world's number one mid-jungle duo. We can't beat those godlike players in a 1v1, but in a 2v2, we can compete for the title of the world's strongest duo!"

"How about it, Wangzai? Dare to go for something big with me?"

Xi Ye stared blankly at the man before her. This man, as always, spoke of the most terrifying things in the most frivolous tone. The world's best mid-jungle duo? In the LPL alone, there's RNG's Xiaohu and Xiangguo, the former QG mid-jungle duo who were often brought in by substitutes, and EDG's father-son duo. Not to mention the many god-tier combinations from overseas. Although it sounds simple, this is actually an even more outrageous challenge.

Staring intently into Luo Fei's eyes, as if trying to discern whether he was joking or not, Xi Ye suddenly burst out laughing after a moment: "Alright, since you're serious, you'd better be prepared to be my dog!"

"Likewise, maybe you'll be the one being the dog?" Having received the reply he wanted, Luo Fei finally smiled.

After playfully bickering for a while, the two regained their composure. Luo Fei extended his right hand and smiled at Wangzai. Wangzai didn't disappoint him, readily extending his hand for a high five.

Men's promises are often made so casually.

"Then? It's a deal?"

"Okay, it's a deal!"

P.S.: I'm moving tomorrow, so updates might be a little late.

This pigeon is finally moving from a tiny rented room of a few dozen square meters to a much larger apartment... a few dozen square meters in a multi-hundred-square-meter building. Congratulations!

Chapter 153, Section 160: Our Way

The situation ultimately developed far beyond what the five WE players had anticipated. Although they were prepared to fight to the death, their so-called resolve seemed utterly laughable in the face of overwhelming strength.

The EDG of S6 is not the EDG of S8 and later. You should know that even when EDG was doing so badly in S10, they still had a lot of loyal fans, which is because their ancestors were really too rich.

What was the significance of EDG before the S5-S7 World Championships?

That's the god of illusion, the absolute god of illusion in LPL.

Top laner A Guang, EDG's ancestral Maokai master.

Clearlove, the best jungler in the LPL, is currently at his peak.

Pawn, the mid-laner, is known as a "small soldier" but is actually a "general." He is a man in the LPL who is called the "Buddha."

Bottom lane: North Korean pilot alpaca + Meiko, the best support in the Chinese server.

This is a team that completely outclasses WE in every aspect except for the individual skill of the top laner. Moreover, this EDG team won't back down, and Clearlove isn't the scavenging jungler he used to be. He'll be aggressive when necessary and engage when needed. Plus, with a peak Clearlove on the field, Meiko doesn't need to worry about shot-calling at all. At this point, EDG's bot lane is a sharp knife, a sword that can tear open wounds in S6.

As expected, WE was completely dominated in the first two games, and gradually fell into a slow death under EDG's perfect operation.

Strategic play is a demoralizing and demoralizing tactic. You get a kill, they take your tower. You take the tower, they control map resources and push the side lanes. It's not that you can't win team fights, it's that they simply don't engage in them, and the economic gap between the two sides widens further. Later on, even though they could easily crush you, they choose a more conservative approach to slowly erode your strength.

This is operation.

This kind of situation has happened many times when LCK plays against LPL, and the commentators have covered countless matches like this. They have a slight advantage in the early game, but can't break through in the mid-game, and in the late game, they either get dragged out to death or end up with a sudden power spike that ends the game.

EDG has mastered LCK-style operations so perfectly.

"It's safe to say that EDG truly deserves their title as last year's MSI champions; their strength is simply terrifying." Miller maintained his positive opinion of EDG. After all, before SKT's decline in S7, the entire LPL assumed that the only way to win the World Championship was to learn from LCK's strategies and use their strengths to defeat their opponents.

And EDG in the LPL is undoubtedly the team with the best academic performance.

"Yeah, but WE also showed their resilience, dragging both games to nearly forty minutes. If they try a little harder, WE still has a chance." Of course, coming from Wawa, that was pure nonsense.

Anyone with a discerning eye could see the gap between the two teams, but WE's desire to win was also evident. Although the economic difference remained significant, WE tried their best to find ways to initiate team fights in both games to break the deadlock. Luo Fei's Graves, in particular, stole two Baron Nashors in total, dragging the game into the late game.

This record can already be considered perfect.

"What a pity, WE is still too inexperienced. With a little more time to gel, they'd definitely be a strong team in the making."

"EDG is still too strong. The regular season and the playoffs are completely different teams. Meiko and Clearlove's jungle and support duo roaming is really top-notch."

"The main thing is to have a mid-to-low-tier double-C (high-end) player from the Korean country, just lie down and you're good to go."

"Shut up! Do you want to ruin Chinese esports?"

EDG in S6, despite their various questionable moves that earned them a lot of criticism, undeniably had a massive following. If you randomly picked ten fans watching the matches, at least eleven would be EDG supporters. As for the online trolls? Wake up, read the news.

Even the most vehement critics, when they meet Doge in person, still eagerly go up to him for an autograph and a photo.

The deeper the love, the deeper the hate; the more you like someone, the more you hate them.

If you don't really like someone, why would you want to be a hater?

On the other side, the atmosphere in WE's lounge was completely different from what they had imagined. They had expected a demoralized atmosphere, and the team leader had even studied the book "On How to Boost Morale" repeatedly, but he was dumbfounded when he walked in.