CHAPTER 52

While Lu Sicheng was on the phone, Tong Yao and the others had finished ordering.

When the trays of meat were brought to the table, he was still on the phone. Lu Yue

had really caused pandemonium this time-----He had underestimated the anxiety of a

middle aged woman who had a son of marriageable age but no girlfriend. And one day

she had finally seen some hope only for that hope to be quickly shattered...

There was trouble about to happen.

"------Blind date? What blind date? Don't you feel that you've gone a bit far?....I have

competitions next week and I have to do skirmishes everyday. How could I have the

time for a blind date?"

The piece of meat in Tong Yao's tongs dropped onto the grill pan. She turned to look at

Lu Sicheng in shock. The chatting voices around them also quieted as everyone turned

to look at their captain...

Lu Sicheng still didn't have much expression on his face.

"------It's no use if you can guarantee good looks…...a well bred lady? What's the definition

of a well bred lady? Who doesn't disturb me while I practice and compete? Doesn't make

a fuss online? Won't ask me to meet her every big or small holiday? So quiet that it feels

like she never exists?" Lu Sicheng spoke in one breath: "If she's like that, then I can accept it."

Everyone: "..."

Tong Yao: "........That doesn't sound right. Even virtual pets will vibrate when

they're hungry."

She said it in a very small voice yet Lu Sicheng still heard it. He glanced at her and she

instantly became silent, turning her attention to grilling her meat…...Lu Sicheng responded

to something being said by the person at the other end of the phone: "I am a male chauvinist

pig. Isn't that a good thing? At least you don't have to worry about my sexual orientation."

After saying those words, Lu Sicheng move the phone away from his ear------Just as

Tong Yao was wondering why, she heard a woman roaring in the phone: "A gay male

chauvinist is the worst! ! ! !"

Tong Yao: "..."

Lu Sicheng gave a sneer of frustration.

"What's wrong if you just admit that you're having an affair with this shorty here?" Lu Yue

took a look at Tong Yao, then sighed and got up: "She wouldn't know anyway."

As he was speaking, Lu Yue went around to Lu Sicheng's side and took control of the cell

phone: "Hello? Mom? It's me. Don't you mess things up. My brother would have a lot of

girls line up just from a wave of his hand. He doesn't need blind dates. We're very busy

this year. Whether we can win the world championship this year all depends on whether

you can leave your son alone-----"

Lu Yue suddenly stopped in the middle of his sentence.

Three seconds later, he stuffed the phone back into Lu Sicheng's hand.

Lu Sicheng: "?"

Lu Yue: "Mom said if I say one more word, she'd make a blind date for me this weekend

as well."

Lu Sicheng: "..."

"I'm only 19, I can't bury my youth just because you're my brother." Lu Yue patted

Lu Sicheng's shoulder while talking. "Happy blind date. I heard it's going to be a pretty

and well bred lady."

Everyone: "..."

Lu Sicheng muttered: "Useless." Then he stood up to go outside to finish the

conversation…... After he left, everyone at the table resumed speaking at their normal

volume. Tong Yao poured some soju for herself, took a sip, then raised her eyebrows:

"Is Cheng Ge really going to have a blind date?"

"He'll probably just go through with it. It's usually impossible to change anything my mom has

decided." Lu Yue shrugged. "Besides, if the girl is really as good as she said, it'll be nice for

him to fall in love. It's better than him living like a robot now."

Tong Yao: "Oh. It's easy for you to say that. Why did you throw away the phone when your

mom was going to arrange a blind date for you too?"

"I'm different." Lu Yue giggled: "I have League of Legends. Diana, Scorn of the Moon, is

my girlfriend."

Tong Yao: "..."

...

Lu Sicheng didn't mention anything about the blind date later on. Everyone seemed to have

forgotten about it after a while.

For the second week of the competition, ZGDX was scheduled to play against Huawei on

Thursday at 5 o'clock in the afternoon and against Lan on Sunday afternoon at 5 o'clock------

Among all the teams in ZGDX's group, these two teams could count as the more difficult

ones...

Lan was a veteran team; though the team hadn't been doing too well in recent years, it had

never fallen out of the major league. Its rank mostly hovered around the middle of the league.

The team worked well together and was particularly tenacious. Checking the team's record,

they've beaten all the other teams and have lost to all of them as well. They had defeated

ZGDX but it also had lost to a minor league team, the most amazing thing was that the win

and loss happened in the same week-----It was truly pitiful to be the fans of this team, one

second in heaven and in the next second, hell.

Huawei team's condition was a bit more complicated than Lan. In theory, it was the only

team which could counter ZGDX in this group…...This team had a Korean player that the

team had bought from last year's world championship team TAT. He had joined TAT after

Lu Sicheng had left the team, an old teammate of Pope. His name was Kun and his ability

to control the jungle was better than Old K. He was also good at discerning the weakness

of his opponents and creating an advantage for his teammates------

During the last skirmish, Old Cat was harrassed so much by Kun that he couldn't do anything

to help the team. In the end, it was Tong Yao who had built the foothold at mid and the

advantage created by the pair at bot that Lu Sicheng could take control of the match in the

late game to win the skirmish...

Out of the respect to Kun, the champion jungler, ZGDX had began studying Huawei's game

videos early on. The notes on Tong Yao's little notebook increased by the speed of 3 pages

a day since Monday...

Other than doing the necessary ranked games and skirmishes, Tong Yao would sit on the

sofa, holding her cat, watching videos with Ming god and discussed about their players from

time to time-----

"If they are on the blue side, Kun will definitely go for the crab." Tong Yao pointed at the

screen. "If you have vision from the crab, he can see the enemy jungler's movement and

invade the enemy jungle or wait for a chance to counter jungle. His success rate is rather

high. Here, here, and here, he's done it..."

Tong Yao kept clicking to pause the video.

"On the contrary, if he didn't get to the Crabgot in the beginning and removed all the wards

near him, then his tempo isn't as good." Ming god bent over to click on the mouse. "It was

like that at this match against CK. Because he lost his tempo in the early game, Yang god

almost took over the whole jungle."

Tong Yao quickly jotted down some notes in her notebook.

Tong Yao and Ming god were in a heated discussion.

On the other side of the base, Little Fatty stretched out his neck: "Tsk, tsk, our team

suddenly has one more data analyst."

Xiang Rui smiled quite happily: "It's good, especially since we don't need to pay her-----

If everyone of you were as diligent as Tong Yao, I'd be so grateful."

Little Fatty: "It takes time to develop laziness, you can't rush it."

Xiao Rui rolled his eyes at Little Fatty, who responded with, "Look at Lu Yue, he was

very diligent in the beginning, now he's just one of those losers who use other people's

account to drop their rank."

Lu Yue: "Damn Fatty, shut up."

Lu Yue at the moment was using Tong Yao's computer, playing on her account. The

champion he was using was his girlfriend, Diana, Scorn of the Moon. But he wasn't

doing too well. Xiao Rui walked over to check his stats, then slapped the back of

Lu Yue's head: "You dare say that Diana is your girlfriend with such lousy play. If I

were her, I would have dump you eight hundreds times."

"Ouch, be quiet." Lu Yue frowned. "Shorty, how do you do Diana's R Q combo?

Come show me again..."

Tong Yao put down her notebook and jumped off the sofa, rushing to Lu Yue's side.

She pushed him over: "How can you be this stupid?"

Lu Yue leaned to the side, as the two began to discuss techniques and item builds

for Diana. It was then that Lu Sicheng exitted his room and walked down the stairs.

He walked in front of his computer and started to flip through the stuff on his desk,

looking for something. Finally, he pulled out his car key from behind the piggy bank.

"You going out?" Tong Yao didn't even lift her head.

Lu Sicheng: "En. My mom has arranged a date with that girl. Mom just informed me

that she's already on her way there."

"R Q, see it, you have to pretend a little. Don't let them know that you're going to

release the combo. You know, bluff?" Tong Yao put down the mouse and keyboard,

raised her eyes to see her captain who had changed into a somewhat decent outfit.

"Which girl? Blind date?"

"What blind date…...You're running around without shoes again. Next time when you

have your monthly cramp, no one will sympathize at you."

Lu Sicheng frowned: "I'm going." Then he patted Tong Yao's head before walking

out the door.

Tong Yao watched him put on his shoes, open the door, and walk to the garage.

Dabing came over to rub against her ankle, Tong Yao bent down to pick up the cat-----

"Tong Yao, come see whether this is where Kun usually places his ward?"

"...Oh, coming."

Tong Yao held tight the cat in her arms and quickly jumped back on the sofa.