Chapter 137
Yongen's steps were so smooth that it seemed as if he was not moving in the dark at all. As if guided by something, he accurately avoided all vision of EKN and came near EKN's jungler.
They were not close enough to see each other, but Yongen's spirit suddenly left his body. His main body stood in place, and his spirit flew straight into the darkness for a distance.
It actually landed precisely on the back of the jungler's head!
After a flurry of swordplay, the spirit returned to its original form, leaving Yongen at the edge of his health. An announcement arrived that the EKN jungler had been killed.
Ling Yin turned around and escaped safely.
"Damn it, damn it, damn it!" He Weichen: "Come and control the dragon!"
Lan Feng: "Oh my god, this Wind God is crazy!"
With EKN's jungler dead and no chance of winning the Ancient Dragon, DL secured it, finally widening the gap in power between the two teams. At 40 minutes, DL won the game.
Two to zero!
If EKN loses one more game, they will go home.
Lan Feng: "How magical... Qingyi, can you imagine this scene? EKN is defeated 2-0?"
Qing Yi: "I dare not think about it."
But it happened.
After a while, Lan Feng finally calmed down and put on the airs of a professional commentator, saying, "But EKN will definitely not be defeated by these two losses. We can't take it lightly. I hope DL can maintain his good form!"
In the EKN lounge, the guys looked devastated by these two losses.
Lyra, who always disliked YeonBit's tear glands, couldn't hold it in any longer and cried in YeonBit's arms: "I can't beat Dazzling! What should I do! We can't beat DL!"
YeonBit stroked his hair and said, "We can beat them. We're not any worse than them."
The frustration Lyra had suppressed during the match had now erupted wildly, and she kept repeating, "I can't beat Dazzling!!! I'm worse than Dazzling! I'm worse than everyone else!"
Void corrected: "It's not that you're worse than Dazzling, it's that Dazzling is better than you."
Lyra: "Ooooooooooooooooooooooo, what should I do? What should I do? Are we going to lose?"
YeonBit: "No, stop, Lyra, you can't think like that. We weren't really behind them in either of those two rounds. How could we not win?"
Lyra, the arrogant and domineering young AD carry, had a smooth and unfailing career since his debut, facing no difficulties. He was poached by the then-forming EKN team just after reaching adulthood due to his talent. While his teammates had faced setbacks elsewhere, he was the only one who had won consistently for two full years from the moment he officially stepped onto the court. With such a life experience, it's natural to believe he's the best in the world.
Normally, playing games was like a game to him. He had a ton of clever tricks, smart moves, ideas, and quick reflexes, allowing him to easily suppress his opponents and treat them like toys. But today, he was suddenly treated like a toy, like a blow to the head. He was completely stunned from the first game until now, but his pride in not showing any weakness kept him calm.
Now that he is so close to elimination, he is indeed a little scared.
"Lyra, Lyra!" YeonBit lifted him up by his hair, saying, "I knew this day would come. Did you know? The first hexagram in the Chinese Book of Changes is called Qian, and the ninth hexagram is called "The Dragon in the Sky Will Regret."
Lyra frowned: "What nonsense are you talking about?"
Void was also feeling anxious. Seeing Lyra still looking so awful, he said impatiently, "I knew he would have this attitude!"
YeonBit: "We've been so arrogant for so long, we can't keep going like this forever. There will always be a team that will come and defeat us, but..."
Lyra's eyes widened. She didn't want to hear what he said after the "but" anymore. She jumped up and pushed YeonBit away. "Why?! What are you talking about?! Is it because we're too strong?! Is it because we're too strong that we're bound to fall sooner or later?!"
YeonBit: “No, I’m just telling you that this will happen sooner or later, but…”
Lyra: "I don't believe it! I hate you, YeonBit! You're a nasty bastard! I hate you! DL isn't that much stronger than us, so what makes you say they can beat us? There are still three rounds to go! Not just one! I'm telling you, our game today has just begun!"
YeonBit: “What I want to say is…”
Lyra: "Shut up!"
YeonBit: “…”
On the other side, the atmosphere in DL was not as relaxed and cheerful as imagined.
After Qu Xing finished fighting, his right hand suddenly began to hurt without warning. He was surrounded by a group of people, with an ice towel covering the back of his hand and a physical therapist carefully massaging it to relieve the pain.
Ling Yin watched his exposed fingertips tremble slightly, and his heart ached. He stroked Qu Xing's head, which was buried in his shoulder, and said, "Does it hurt a lot, baby?"
Qu Xing frowned, then nodded. After a pause, he shook his head again: "I can fight."
The physical therapist asked: "Is it because the training volume during this period is too much?"
The whole room was silent.
During the World Championship, the training volume will inevitably be larger. Qu Xing said that his hand was basically healed a month ago, and no one expected that it would suddenly start to hurt at this time.
This is what the photographer who was filming the World Championship documentary saw when he came in.
Dazzling was surrounded by a group of people, the room filled with silence, his right hand being manipulated by the physical therapist. He himself lay sideways on the Wind God's shoulder, his face buried, his expression unseen. Only his hand was visible, trembling slightly in pain.
He just heard from another person that there was a quarrel at EKN, so he followed suit and recorded some footage from other camera angles. He didn't expect that there was also chaos here.
What did he miss?
No one cared about the cameraman joining in. Zhou Si frowned, "Can you do it? If not, take a break and bring in the substitutes first."
Qu Xing finally raised his face, his face pale. He looked at his hands, tried to move them, and said, "Yes."
Ling Yin could clearly see that he was moving while enduring the pain.
"Xingxing..." Ling Yin opened his mouth but Qu Xing held his forehead.
Qu Xing repeated word by word: "I can fight."
Ling Yin closed her mouth, completely ignoring the presence of the camera, and lowered her head slightly to lean on his head.
Le Anyi said, "Then in the next round, you choose a less difficult operation, and we will do it together."
Qu Xing: "Okay, but choose a capable fighter for Feng Shen. I'll command and we'll fight quickly and decisively."
Everyone was stunned.
In addition to heartache, there is also shock.
Hold……
Why can this person say such crazy words with such a harmless expression?
Not only does he want to defeat EKN 3-0, he also wants to do a speedrun?
Is he so arrogant because he has never defeated EKN, or does he really have confidence in his own ability to a transcendent level?
"How do you want to end this quickly?" Zhao Hui asked.
Qu Xing: "Use time difference, roam multiple lanes, outnumber the opponent, develop ahead of the opponent, quickly destroy the tower, and finish before the opponent has strong life-saving and tower-defending capabilities, preferably before level 12."
“…”
Doesn't that mean it will be over in 20 minutes?!
Zhao Hui: "Impossible."
Qu Xing frowned: "What's impossible?"
Zhao Hui: "Can you still fight now?"
Qu Xing: "Anyway, the more I fight, the more out of control I'll become. I can still control it now."
Zhao Hui: "No, the risk is too great."
Qu Xing: "That's why I said I wanted to speedrun."
Zhao Hui: "Can you guarantee a speedrun? That's EKN, not some mediocre little team pulled from the sidelines."
Qu Xing: "Yes."
Zhao Hui: "No. Substitutes."
"Can we win by using the substitutes?" Qu Xing asked, "Can you guarantee a win?"
Zhao Hui: "If you can't win this one round, just take a break first."
Qu Xing was impatient: "I told you I can fight, why are you so disobedient!"
Zhao Hui: “…”
Qu Xing: "Besides, my hand is already like this, who knows if it will get worse later. You're taking a gamble by subbing! Are you betting on a miracle? What if my hand is still like this later? What if all the substitutes lose? This is EKN. If we lose the next three games, then all the previous wins will be in vain, and we're finished!"
Zhao Hui: "But with your hands like this, you're just gambling if you go up there."
Qu Xing frowned, took a deep breath, stared at him intently, and said seriously, "Brother Hui, I told you, I won't lose if I go up. It's because of my hand that I have to go up. The longer it takes, the greater the risk. I want to end this quickly."
Zhao Hui: "If it were any other team, I would have let you go. We didn't suppress EKN in the first two games. How can we win this quickly?!"
Qu Xing glanced at the time and saw that he was about to go on stage. He stood up and said, "I can also choose to suppress them. I have ten thousand ways to defeat them. I said, we can't lose. As long as I am here, we can't lose."
Zhao Hui: "I know you can't lose, but you want to speedrun in 20 minutes. How is that possible?"
A staff member over there reminded: "It's time to go on stage!"
Qu Xing said decisively to Zhao Hui: "Choose roaming, and choose a kill-and-snowball strategy for Feng Shen."
Zhao Hui: "I..."
Qu Xing: "If you don't obey, I will give them BP."
Zhao Hui: "You..." This little bully.
Qu Xing turned to look at Ling Yin: "Who do you listen to?"
Ling Yin said without hesitation: "As you say."
Qu Xing then asked the four teammates: "Who do you listen to?"
After all, he fought with Qu Xing, so he must have understood this man's abnormality better than Zhao Hui. Jiang Lin responded first: "Brother Hui, I'm sorry, but I will definitely listen to Xingxing."
Le Anyi: "Me too..."
He Weichen: "Add one."
Zhao Hui: “…”
"Let's go." Zhou Si came over and took her precious children in her arms as they walked out. She said to Zhao Hui, "What's wrong with you? Why don't you believe in us Xingxing?"
Zhao Hui: “…” But speedrunning EKN in 20 minutes is fucking outrageous!
After leaving the lounge, Zhao Hui looked at Qu Xing's wrist, which was temporarily wrapped in bandages. He sighed and raised his hand to rub the back of Qu Xing's head. "Okay, I'll listen to you."
There's no way I wouldn't listen.
Qu Xing: "Hmph."
Both sides came on the court to prepare for the third game.
The director didn't know where to focus the camera. In the live footage, ten people were walking toward the stage. The five EKN members wore serious expressions, while the AD's eyes were still red, his face filled with stubbornness and murderous intent. On the DL side, for some reason, no one smiled. The atmosphere was calm, even a bit solemn. Then, following Fengshen's gaze, the AD's hand was bandaged.
What happened to these two ADs?!
After both sides sat down and the contestants put on their headphones, Lan Feng said to the audience:
"We received news that Dazzling had a temporary problem with her hand."
Qingyi: "Yes, I saw it on the live broadcast just now. Dazzling's hand is wrapped in bandages now."
Lan Feng was a little worried: "So we don't know how this game will develop next."
Qingyi: "DL didn't even send in a substitute."
“…”
After a moment of silence, Lan Feng said, "But there is indeed a big difference between having Dazzling and not having Dazzling."
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