Chapter 11
"You're in the middle lane?" Ling Yin saw Qu Xing's hero.
"Yeah, I've filled in." Qu Xing selected his runes and sighed, "I'm done. Going up against the Wind God, that troll on the other side might really think I'm a loser."
"Not necessarily." Ling Yin always felt that Qu Xing's strength was actually unfathomable.
"I haven't played games much in seven months, brother." Qu Xing laughed: "If you can't beat me, you're not the God of Wind."
Ling Yin raised an eyebrow: "Not two months?"
"So you were eavesdropping on us." Qu Xing finished quickly and said frankly, "Because I was embarrassed to say it at the time."
Ling Yin nodded and quietly chose a hero.
Seven months... It's simply --- incomprehensible.
A few minutes later, Qu Xing felt unprecedented pressure online.
He was an AD carry, and there was no chance he'd face Ling Yin in a match. Ling Yin's laning style was completely inconsistent with his appearance; it was incredibly vicious. Although Qu Xing had experienced this from watching various game replays, it was still far less tangible than experiencing it in person.
After being seduced by Ling Yin and being hit by a Q, Qu Xing sat up straight: "You are so handsome."
Ling Yin: “Yeah.”
“…”
Two minutes later, Qu Xing gave away his first blood.
Being killed alone wasn't unusual. Before Qu Xing's teammates could say anything, the troll from the previous game recognized his ID and started trolling him.
[Everyone] The rich and handsome man in City A (Ancient Terror): The opponent’s mid laner?
[Everyone] The rich and handsome man in City A (Ancient Terror): You finished performing last time and are here to perform again?
Qu Xing: “…”
Ling Yin frowned slightly.
I don't want to bother with this guy. Qu Xing quickly bought his equipment and went back online. He was lagging behind in the army and knew that he couldn't beat Ling Yin. Qu Xing decisively chose to change his strategy, staying under the tower to develop and slowly look for opportunities.
The jungler on the opposite side hasn't shut up yet.
[Everyone] A City's rich and handsome man (Ancient Terror): The other side clicked it.
[Everyone] A City's rich and handsome man (Ancient Terror): Your mid-lane is an actor
Qu Xing: “…”
Ling Yin frowned noticeably this time, with a complicated expression, as if he was reflecting on why he was ranked with a group of people with such low IQ.
Qu Xing dodged Ling Yin's skill and suddenly sighed.
The crisp keyboard clicks echoed more than a dozen times. Images of every corner of the map flashed across the screen so quickly that it was almost impossible to discern what was passing.
But Qu Xing saw it clearly.
He quickly dealt with the minion wave and headed straight for the jungle after returning to the city.
Sometimes you can use unconventional tactics to win a game, like catching your opponent in a ruthless state and killing them a dozen times.
The chat channel was still flashing. The AD on the opposite side somehow recognized Qu Xing and gave him a friendly reminder.
[Everyone] I'm really not sick (Bounty Hunter): Neeko seems to be Dazzling, right?
[Everyone] I'm really not sick (Bounty Hunter): I scolded the wrong guy
Amidst the crowd of surprised and delighted questions, everyone thought that the troll would be more restrained, but unexpectedly, two seconds later.
[Everyone] The rich and handsome man in City A (Ancient Fear): Dazzling?
【Everyone】Tall, rich and handsome man in City A (Ancient Fear): No wonder
【Everyone】Tall, Rich, and Handsome in City A (Ancient Fear): Man-Made God
【Everyone】Tall, rich and handsome man in City A (Ancient Fear): I’m used to it.
The next second, Qu Xing accurately found someone in the wild area.
The tall, rich, and handsome man felt a chill on his back as a cold wind blew past him. Then, several dazzling pink skill effects came rushing over him, and before he could even see the person, his health was already reduced.
He reacted quickly and tried to fight back, but Qu Xing's pulling ability was beyond the reach of a fool like him.
Qu Xing, relying on his attack range being several dozen yards longer than Scarecrow's, used his incredibly precise range to keep him invisible and intangible, unleashing a series of skills in vain. He then waited for his skills to run out of cooldown before continuing to engage and consume him.
The tall, rich and handsome man soon had little health left. He ate a biscuit and wanted to run away. However, before he could even lift his leg, a pink skill seemed to have predicted it in advance and arrived at the same place as the scarecrow.
That is his grave.
The kill announcement came from the public screen: njhduisnk (Wanhua Tongling) killed the rich and handsome man in City A (Ancient Fear) and completed a single kill!
The little girl on the screen jumped back to the line, the health bar above her head was basically full, full of taunting power.
Ling Yin was very concerned about the previous sentence: "What does it mean to create a god?"
Qu Xing: "I don't know."
After that, the game formed a very strange landscape.
Gaofushuai was furious after being killed and continued to rant. Qu Xing didn't reply to him, but soon the public chat screen showed that Neeko had killed Scarecrow.
Fifteen minutes later he was already dead.
In a team fight in the bottom lane, Qu Xing chased Scarecrow into the jungle and happened to meet Ling Yin who came to support the bottom lane. Scarecrow frantically signaled Ling Yin to help him.
Ling Yin controlled the hero to make a detour, avoiding Qu Xing's crazy skills, and went straight to the bottom lane.
As if not seeing it.
Qu Xing: “Puff.”
The next second, Scarecrow was killed for the Nth time. The tall, rich, and handsome man finally got scared and fell silent, stopping typing.
Ling Yin thought Qu Xing would stop there, but he didn't.
The little girl in the map bounces around like she's shopping, picking up the heads of tall, rich, and handsome guys as if they were trash. Then she jumps and walks away, sometimes stealing a red buff along the way.
They were clearly about to kill her, but Ling Yin inexplicably felt that Nicole still exuded a peaceful aura, as if it was just a little prank by a naughty little girl.
The game ended in a very strange way.
Ling Yin looked at the big word "failure" on the screen, tilted his head and asked, "Are you not angry now?"
Qu Xing stared at the screen without turning back: "I wasn't angry in the first place."
Ling Yin: "...Then how did you kill him more than twenty times?"
Qu Xing not only killed him more than twenty times, but also reported him. He said calmly, "Otherwise, I would be very anxious."
Qu Xing: "Is this called anger?"
Qu Xing: "I let out my anger before I even had a chance to get angry."
Ling Yin: “…”
This was the first time I heard such a way of getting angry, and it was actually quite cute. Ling Yin laughed out loud and nodded: "Yeah. Okay."
As he spoke, he exited the game client, opened a website and started typing a search.
Qu Xing's headphones were crooked, and after a while, he suddenly heard a few words in his right ear: "The sudden emergence of the super genius Dazzling, the birth of a new god? Is his strength really that amazing? In fact, not at all! Today, let Kaka-kun analyze for you in detail how a "god" was created..."
Ling Yin clicked pause.
Qu Xing: “…”
There was a hint of confusion in his bright pupils as he looked at Ling Yin's unhappy profile, and then at his computer screen.
The search box displays the words “artificial god”.
Qu Xing took off his headphones and moved over: "Show me how God created it."
Ling Yin's eyes were full of disgust: "Don't watch this kind of video." It's too disgusting.
Qu Xing walked right past Ling Yin's hand and touched his keyboard: "Over 200,000 likes. Let me see how he analyzes it."
"Kaka-kun" spoke with logic and wisdom, "Everyone's really excited about Dazzling joining the DL recently. Kaka-kun understands that completely. EKN's strength is starting to unsettle LPL fans, and they desperately need a team that can compete. Therefore, the 'Double Gods' team formed by Dazzling and Wind fulfills that role."
Ling Yin felt Qu Xing nod.
“…”
Qu Xing: "What he said seems to make sense."
A qualified fan would not want to see any negative comments about their idol. Therefore, Ling Yin did not want to speak.
Kaka-kun: "When did Dazzling become a god?"
Kaka Jun: "As the AD carry, he was the sole pillar of a team, leading VIN to repeated victories over teams that fans considered unbeatable. But the truth is, was it Dazzling who led VIN, or was it VIN who made Dazzling successful? Let me analyze this using Dazzling's most famous match, from last year's Spring Split, when VIN faced DL."
He didn't show the scene where Qu Xing used Ze Li to kill Ling Yin six times, but instead showed the scene where he was constantly being crushed in the early stages of the third game.
Even as the team was being crushed, VIN.Dazzling managed to squeeze out a little bit of survival space, constantly eating up the economy. On the economic panel, everyone except the AD carry lagged behind DL. In Kaka Jun's words, the entire team's economy was almost entirely dependent on Qu Xing alone.
Then there were the various small early-game operational points that had negligible effects but were extremely crucial. Kaka used a very professional analysis and ultimately concluded that his teammates created many opportunities for his late-game power.
Finally, it was the last few waves that achieved the comeback, which made both sides' hands sore, and there were team battles lasting for several minutes again and again.
Kakajun analyzed the various positions of his teammates and their damage supplements, and because his teammates did not die, Qu Xing had so much output space.
Up to this point, Qu Xing still agreed that no matter how good he was, he still needed teammates. Having a few teammates to support him was better than having no teammates at all. If all his teammates were dead and he could still kite five people by himself, that wouldn't be called a god, that would be called seeing ghosts.
"VIN is so successful because the personalities and mechanics of these five players mesh perfectly, creating a magical chemistry that makes them even better. It's definitely not due to any one individual. As for those so-called 'god-level' plays, it's partly due to Dazzling's exceptional dynamic vision, but more importantly, it's because he creates space for damage. Pick any AD carry in the LPL and you'll find plenty of these 'god-level' plays. The ability to pull off god-level plays in a damage-rich environment is a must-have for a professional player. It's simply because his teammates are always willing to sacrifice, giving Dazzling more opportunities to showcase his talents."
"But can he still perform like this in the DL? Although I really don't want to spoil everyone's fun, I must say that no one in the DL is willing to make so many sacrifices for him."
Ling □□ said that they were still making sacrifices. Without Qu Xing VIN, those people would have been completely sacrificed.
"So how does Dazzling perform without his teammates sacrificing for him?"
Qu Xing was just curious about how he would analyze this, when the video suddenly changed its tone and began to show various health bar disappearing tricks. It also defined many of his actions as "mistakes," "bad," and "lack of game sense" - simply because he lost the game in the end.
The final conclusion is that Qu Xing's strength is far from the title of "God". In fact, he is just an aggressive AD in the upper middle level. He and DL may not have the chemistry that the audience imagines.
Kaka-kun's words were relatively mild, but others were different.
The comment section has already labeled Qu Xing with various labels:
"My strength is average, I make up for it by exploiting my teammates"
"He is very shameless and enjoys the flattery of others."
"LPL acting school"
"Having not played a game for half a year and still relying on deceiving people to sign a contract is a scourge"
"I should turn left and go into the entertainment industry, I'll definitely win the Best Actor award."
"Playing the game with just a face"
"It can't be compared with Wind at all" and so on.
Ling Yin frowned.
He didn't believe that those who truly understood the game wouldn't be able to see Qu Xing's strength. The problem was, there were too many people with only a superficial understanding, perhaps even less than Diamond. Many didn't even watch the game at all, just a few processed game clips, then typed out a few words and began to criticize others.
The popularity of the video continued to rise, and many people were already drawn into the rhythm. Qu Xing's handsome image, which was shining brightly yesterday, quickly collapsed amidst the comments of netizens, and he became a narcissist with nothing but good looks.
Qu Xing was also feeling strange as he flipped through the comments. He had never seen anything like this before, let alone been accused like this. In his entire life, he had probably never heard anyone say anything harsh to him.
A little sad.
However, Qu Xing quickly pulled himself out of his emotions. After all, these people didn't even know him.
As a seasoned online surfer, his grandmother had warned him long before his debut: The collective online frenzy surrounding a person, whether it's praise or insults, is a recipe for disaster. If you believe everything netizens say, whether it's praise or insults, you're doomed. Blindly believing the former will turn you into a fool, no matter how wise you once were.
Qu Xing asked her at the time, what if you believe the latter?
Grandma said, "Turn into a melancholic idiot."
Thinking of this, Qu Xing couldn't help laughing out loud.
Ling Yin was about to grab the mouse and turn off these things, but was startled by the sound: "What's wrong?"
Qu Xing was still flipping through the pages: "Nothing, I'm just afraid I'll turn into a melancholic idiot."
Ling Yin: "What?"
Qu Xing repeated what his grandmother had said to him, saying, "She told me to be careful, fearing that if I became famous, I'd be corrupted and turned into a fool on the Internet."
Ling Yin couldn't help but laugh: "I don't think so. You haven't turned into an idiot after being praised for a year, which means you don't have the potential."
Qu Xing: "That's true."
Qu Xing flipped through the pages for a while, then finally let go with a look of disappointment: "I didn't see anyone speaking up for me. Are all my fans fake?"
Ling Yin quickly closed the webpage and said, "I am real."
Qu Xing turned his gaze towards him.
"I don't believe it." Qu Xing stared at him with a smile in her bright eyes: "Let me touch it."
Before Ling Yin could refuse, Qu Xing stretched out his claws, and pressed his warm and soft palms against his face.
Qu Xing rubbed it and said, "The skin is so smooth, it must be fake."
Ling Yin actually didn't like being touched like that. Strangely, the corners of his mouth curled up on their own. He let him rub it twice before removing the offending hand.
Qu Xing picked up Ling Yin's arm and began to perform: "Wow, brother Ling, I've been scolded by others, so please let me touch you."
Ling Yin said with a smile: "What is the connection between the two?"
Qu Xing didn't move his head on his shoulder. After a moment of silence, he said frankly, "Well, actually, it's because I've been coveting you for a long time."
Ling Yin's eyelashes trembled slightly, and his heartbeat inexplicably stopped for a beat: "...Ah?"
"You're so pretty." Qu Xing raised his head. "I can't help but want to touch pretty things. Why didn't I realize you were so pretty before? What should I do? Seeing such a pretty captain sitting next to me makes me not even want to play games anymore."
Qu Xing said this and poked him on the face with a finger.
Ling Yin narrowed his eyes and tilted his head, and Qu Xing's fingertips brushed the corner of his raised lips and then disappeared.
Ling Yin smiled: "You can look, but you have to pay to touch it."
Qu Xing laughed and raised his hand to pull him: "Okay, Captain Beauty, come downstairs with me to eat something. I'm a little hungry."
…
Qu Xing rummaged through the small kitchen for a long time and found only snacks and bread.
Ling Yin leaned against the kitchen door, quietly watching Qu Xing's back as he struggled to rummage through the refrigerator, a strange feeling rising in his heart.
This feeling could be love, or it could be something else. Anyway, it has been there since a year ago.
Qu Xing is the most amazing person he has ever met.
The strange man flipped through the paper vigorously for a long time. Although he was squatting, his back still retained his handsomeness. After a while, Qu Xing actually took out a box of steak.
Ling Yin: "...Don't you want to eat something casually?"
Qu Xing put the meat in the microwave to thaw, then skillfully heated the oil in a pan: "Captain, you will help me finish it, right? I can't finish it all by myself."
He actually knows how to cook. Ling Yin took a few steps forward to watch him cook, and his mind became more and more amazed: "Okay."
Qu Xing quickly cut the steak into strips and washed a few side dishes. He added the steak and stir-fried it. Soon, Ling Yin could smell an alluring aroma. It was completely different from any steak he had ever had before.
Ling Yin: "What did you do to it?"
Qu Xing smiled and said, "Guess."
Sitting at the bar, Ling Yin picked up a piece of meat and took a bite.
Qu Xing: "How is it?"
“It’s delicious.”
Just as he was about to put the remaining half into his mouth, his chopsticks suddenly became empty and the half of the meat was snatched away by Qu Xing.
Ling Yin watched him eat the meat he had bitten, unable to understand: "There's more on the plate."
Having already eaten, Qu Xing smiled, not feeling embarrassed at all. He picked up another piece for Ling Yin and said, "Strange, I just thought yours tasted the best."
Ling Yin: “…”
This didn't sound like something he should say to the captain. Qu Xing had never realized there was such a hateful side to him. He couldn't help but tease the beautiful captain just three days into his time at the base. He cursed himself inwardly, but his eyes curved against his will.
There was a moment of silence. Qu Xing heard a light laugh.
The beautiful captain didn't keep her distance as expected; instead, a rather ambiguous smile graced her pretty face. She didn't seem so serious.
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