CHAPTER 59
ZGDX thus held a 1v1 match with the late night meal as the award that night. The participants were Tong Yao and Lu Sicheng, with Little Fatty, Lu Yue, Ming god, Old K, Old Cat, the coaches, and the entire staff as audience.
Before the match started, all the onlookers began rooting for Tong Yao without anyone asking them to-- --
"If you win, we can have crayfish. If you lose, we can only have spicy hot pot." Little Fatty patted Tong Yao's shoulder.
Tong Yao: "...Well, even if it's crayfish, I can still afford-- --"
Little Fatty: "If we can't eat 10 pounds of crayfish each at one seating, then why bother with crayfish."
Tong Yao figured the price for 10 pounds of crayfish and nodded: "I'll try my best to win."
Lu Sicheng had already set up private game for the 1v1 match and sent the password to Tong Yao-- --Both of them were streaming. The bullet comments on Tong Yao's side looked like the following: "I seem to be present at a contest for Cheng Ge's next girlfriend" "The room is his arena" "I really would like to try it, what if." The comments of Lu Sicheng's side seemed to be mostly jokes-- --
[Cheng Ge, look back, there's no one behind you.]
[No one loves you.]
[We don't love you either.]
[You probably paid for those who compliment you on Tieba. You don't have fans, no friends.]
[Sympathy to the captain, so unpopular.]
[ZGDX is divided. All the teammates have isolated the captain!]
[No matter what, you'll always have my support, Cheng Ge!...I can't get to eat the late night meal anyway kkkkkkkkk]
Lu Sicheng took a glance at the comments and coldly said: "Shut up. I'm turning off the stream."
Then he turned to look at Tong Yao: "Do you know the rules for a one on one?"
[Attention! Cheng Ge is going to announce the rules for the contest for his girlfriend!]
[Whether our Smiling can win the captain over?]
[I'll go fight with you!]
[Hahahahahahahaha, you all are so annoying!]
[I don't know, I don't know. Tell us, Cheng Ge, please!]
Lu Sicheng turned his head and shut off his stream. Ten seconds later, the number of viewers at Tong Yao's stream shut up suddenly. Many comments were people who had instantly switched over to Tong Yao's side. They all said: Little sister, kill that tsundere who just turned off the stream like that! We're rooting for you!
Tong Yao rubbed her hands which were a bit cold from nervousness: "I know, I know. Three kills or one turret."
The so called "three kills and one turret" was the rule for playing 1v1 of League of Legends-- --
The first was no runes or masteries.
The second was that no Summoner spells such as heal, clarity, and revive.
The third is that they can only fight on mid lane, using the bushes along the way from mid to the river as the boundary. Anyone going beyond the boundary will forfeit the match.
The fourth is that a players wins after killing the opponent three times or destroying the first turret of the opponent.
Both sides were free to choose any champion they wanted. But under most circumstances, since both sides wanted to duke it out with just their level of skill, they would choose the same champion and have a mirror match-- --Tong Yao and Lu Sicheng were good at different positions, theoretically it would be hard to find a balance between them. However, they happened to be mid and ADC and there were quite a few champions that were good for either of these positions in League of Legends.
Champions such as Ezreal, Varus, Quinn, Jayce, etc...
Tong Yao checked the champion list: "Mirror image, right? Then Ezreal?"
Lu Sicheng: "En." Both sides locked in the champion and began the match-- --
Since there were no runes or masteries in a 1v1, the various stats of their champion were very different in the beginning from a normal match. For professional players, who liked to calculate the amount of damage they needed to kill early one, were at great risk of getting themselves killed because of the habits they'd built up playing normally. Sometimes, they would even have difficulty farming minions. There was only one way to avoid falling back into their old habits: play a lot of practice matches, practicing minion farming..
Only then could a player have a good sense of the base damage of various champions.
At the beginning of the match, Tong Yao was a little nervous-- --She had never played against Lu Sicheng face to face ever since she joined ZGDX, or since she started playing League of Legends…...In her headphones, all she could hear were the continuous clicking sounds of the mouse. Watching her opponent move around with ease and last hit with precision, Tong Yao could feel her own heart beat.
She knew the skill he was showing must be the result of practicing many, many times in practice mode-- --
If she had gotten over her fear of Ah Tai because she had realized that most people in the world were ordinary people like her, it was also very clear to her right now that Lu Sicheng didn't belong to that category.
When he first started playing professionally, he was one of the few Chinese players who had been recruited as a trainee by a Korean club. Now he was one of the top players in the world; whenever people talked about Chinese professional players, they would always think of the name "Lu Sicheng."
He had become famous very early in his career.
And he had maintained his position at the top.
Even other top players would admit he was a good player and admire his skill not only because he was extremely talented, but also because he worked extremely hard.
Tong Yao suffered a hit from the start.
She was forced to retreat back to her turret and missed a few minions. Tong Yao's heart skipped a beat. She only farmed cautiously from behind her minion line. Once in a while, she would lose some health. When she noticed that she was going to reach level two, she quickly retreated-- --
Just as she had expected, Lu Sicheng, who had one more minion kill than her, attacked her with Ezreal's W ability once he reached level two before Tong Yao leveled up. He was extremely fast. Even though Tong Yao had moved back and tried to avoid the attack, it wasn't enough to prevent being hit. Tong Yao quickly drank a potion and killed another minion. The moment when she reached level two, she found Lu Sicheng, who was still at full health, retreating-- --
It was impossible for her to chase after him. Tong Yao's only chance to hit him was when he chased after her then kill him with a backhand...
But the man obviously wasn't going to give her a chance.
Afterwards, both of them farmed peacefully. Tong Yao was aware that if she let Lu Sicheng continue to grow, then she would always be behind him just from missing a single minion kill. So she tried any way she could to weave around the minions in lane from time to time and harass Lu Sicheng-- --
Too bad Lu Sicheng didn't buy it.
When both sides reached level three and a half, Tong Yao was deep in the lane and took a hit from Lu Sicheng. He had just finished farming a wave of minions and quickly close in to Tong Yao with his E ability and dealt some damage. As her health plummeted; she fought back with her ability while running back to her own minions!
When her health was less than 200, she saw him rush under her turret's range. Tong Yao thought her chance had finally come when he suffered a hit from the turret. But her one second hesitation took her life-- --Lu Sicheng ignited Tong Yao, then jumped out of the range of the turret. Though Tong Yao was able to back into the turret to avoid further attacks, she still burned to death from ignite!
When the screen turned dark and the words "first blood" was heard, Tong Yao threw down her mouse, quite frustrated.
The bullet comments began praising Lu Sicheng, the screen was covered with "6666." The way he played Ezreal was simple and straightforward, he didn't show off any flashy moves. However, from his movement in the match, it showed the meticulous calculations he had done with his champion's base damage, cool down times, and abilities.
Tong Yao bought items as she was waiting for her champion to revive. When she finally respawned at the fountain, she realized that if she still used the same tactic as earlier, Lu Sicheng would constantly oppress her till the end of the match.
With this epiphany, she returned to lane and moved forward boldly despite being one item behind him-- --
Three minutes later, when both of them reached level 5, Tong Yao repeated what Lu Sicheng had done to her and tower dived him!
Lu Sicheng raised his eyebrows. It so happened that her minions were moving to his turret this time, every single one of them dying to the turret. Not only could he not farm these minions, he had to watch Tong Yao, standing right under his turret, taking her time whittling down the turret's health-- --
The turret began to break, stones rolled off, and it seemed to signal that Tong Yao had turned her disadvantage around from the early game. The match reached a new balance point!
...
Their 1v1 match lasted for twenty minutes.
They tried to outdo each other, each not letting the other get ahead for long. The number of kills reached an even two kills to two kills and both turrets were in danger of being destroyed!
At this point, Tong Yao couldn't hear the onlookers or bother with all bullet comments. She paid her full attention to the man in front of her. He came up and casted a summoner spell to hurt Tong Yao, bringing her health below 40% level. The minions surged forward again, Lu Sicheng hesitated for a second, then retreated back a little bit, taking a cautious approach-- --
This seemed to be a miscalculation on his part on the length of minion lane on mid lane. He actually had plenty of time to hurt Tong Yao further or even kill her before the minions reach him!
But he had thrown away the opportunity to pummel Tong Yao further and gave her a small chance-- --It gave her a perfect chance to fight back while the enemy was retreating!
Q for damage - then W to increase attack speed - A - A - E - A - Q-- --
She hit exhaust, then ignite!
When she saw her opponent's health drop and he used his E ability to quickly pull back to increase the distance between them. Tong Yao pressed R-- --
She had released Ezreal's ultimate and slain the weakened Lu Sicheng!
3 to 2!
"I won! ! ! ! ! ! Ahhhhhhhh! !"
Tong Yao threw down her mouse and keyboard, raising both of her arms towards the air. The onlookers behind them also started clapping since they knew that crayfish was coming. The bullet comments were bursting with happy thoughts-- --
[Hahahahahahaha, you're something, my little sister!]
[Esports Mulan slays General Lu! Next is tying the knot, that's for sure. Xixixixixixi!]
[Ahhhhhhhhhhhh. I won't be more excited even when Chinese team wins the world championship!]
[I was so nervous that I almost couldn't breath…...You're all veterans, even a champion like Ezreal could be used at this level.]
[Damn, I was so nervous! My palms are all wet!]
[I'm on the toilet! ! ! I squatted down for 30 minutes and forgot why I was here for in the first place! ! ! ! Congratulations, Smiling; congratulations, Cheng Ge! Now I'm going back to concentrate on my bowel movements, muah! ! !]
Tong Yao giggly turned to look at Lu Sicheng. He took his time to switch to Tong Yao's stream and glanced at the comments. Then he mumbled: "Why the heck are you congratulating me! I wish you get constipated!" He turned off her stream and was about to put his earphones back on-- --
Tong Yao grabbed his arm: "Crayfish, crayfish, crayfish."
Lu Sicheng took a glance at the hand on his wrist: "I got it."
Just that moment, the cell phone next to Lu Sicheng's hand began to ring. Tong Yao let go of his wrist as he checked his phone. It was an unfamiliar number. He answered the phone, then the relaxed expression in his eyes started to change-- --
Tong Yao waved goodbye to the fans at the camera and turned off the stream. She turned to look at Lu Sicheng afterwards and noticed something was off from his reaction: "Who was it?"
"Su Luo." Lu Sicheng hung up the phone. "She wants to meet me for the last time, to have dinner together. Then she won't bother me anymore."
Surprised by the news, Tong Yao's excitement from the win quickly subsided. After thinking for a while, she asked: "Oh! You have to go?"
Lu Sicheng gave her a glance: "She said if I don't go, she'll come to the base."
Tong Yao only replied with another "oh."
Lu Sicheng clicked his tongue and irritatedly put on his earphones randomly selecting his music app…...The onlookers had already begun to dissipate and the room quickly quieted down.
"Cheng Ge."
Tong Yao called out to him.
Lu Sicheng didn't respond. His eyes were fixed on his computer screen, concentrated on a new article about the patch for League of Legends.
"Cheng Ge."
Tong Yao called again. There was still no response from Lu Sicheng.
Tong Yao turned to look at him and asked: "Can you hear me?" Then she mumbled: "Are you not afraid of going deaf when you turn the volume up so high?" She bent down to pick up her cat from her chair and turned around to leave. After a few steps, she suddenly turned and walked back.
She stood behind Lu Sicheng's chair, paused for a moment, then spoke in a calm voice: "I don't want you to go."
After saying those words, she tightened her hold of the cat, turned around again, and went upstairs to go to her room.
Lu Sicheng was still watching the news with his earphones on, without moving even a bit.
...
One minute later, Little Fatty came out of his room and skipped down the stairs. He asked in his normal tone of voice: "Cheng Ge, we want to eat the crayfish from XX restaurant. The most expensive kind…...and 30 pounds!"
".......I got it."
Lu Sicheng pulled one of his earphones out as he looked up from his computer and lazily replied.