A boy with a slightly high hairline but a very young face was sitting on a gaming chair. Around him were other young children of similar age.
Computer cases filled up the small room, and monitors filled up the Summoner's Canyon. The canyon was filled with the dreams of young people.
The young children laughed and scolded, venting their emotions in the ranked matches in the enclosed room. The buzzing air conditioner above their heads was like a cutting machine, dissecting the voices one by one. All that was left was the distant and unreachable dreams of the children.
It looked like an internet cafe, but it was not wrong.
There was no need to spend money to surf the internet here.
RNG's Youth Training Base.
His real name was Dai Zhichun. His ID was Able. He controlled Big Mouth to revive and left the fountain. He went straight to the bottom lane, ready to continue his battle with Ruler Emperor.
He looked at Lulu, who had the ID dansha Faker above her head, walking towards the jungle. He snorted and did not say anything.
However, when he opened the data panel and saw Lin Yan's equipment, he was shocked.
Blazing Incense Burner?
Able's mood instantly fell from the peak of a mountain to the bottom of the valley. It was comparable to the change in mood of the Jeweled Knight Tariq.
Tonight, he suddenly had an idea and came up with a new job – support and healer. The first big item was to give up the original Eye Stone Redemption and get the Blazing Incense Burner.
The Blazing Incense Burner was very useful for physical damage dealing heroes. As long as the soft support cast a shield and heal on the allies, it would increase the attack speed of the allies. It would also restore a certain amount of health every time the attack was triggered.
(To prevent some readers from not being able to remember, I put the picture of the Blazing Incense Burner in this chapter.)
The combat ability this equipment provided to the teammates was undeniably strong.
Especially for ADCs who relied on attack speed. As long as the Blazing Incense Burner was a support, ADCs who relied on attack speed would have a weakened version of the Blade of the Broken King.
When Able thought of this strategy, he was so excited that he could not control himself. He could imagine himself using this strategy to win all the way to the top of the Korean server and gain 1000 points. He could also imagine himself stepping on Faker, Lin Yan, Dopa, Little Peanut, and other famous players.
Of course, this was an exception. He did not want to win.
Because Lulu didn't listen to him.
Able's ranking was very capricious, the support had to follow him and protect him the whole time. He hated the kind of support that liked to wander.
From Able's perspective, even if Lin Yan managed to successfully swim twice, it would still be impossible.
You don't deserve to win.
I'll give it to you and disgust you to death.
Able wanted to save the incense burner for the next round.
But just 30 seconds ago, Lulu, who was the main player and not a support, was the first to pull out a Blazing Incense Burner!
What was going on?
Could it be that he wasn't the first person to discover this trick?
How were they going to get higher points?
On the other side, Lin Yan didn't know what this big mouth was thinking, but he soon realized that something was wrong.
Ten minutes into the match, the two sides had a big fight at the front of the canyon.
The opponent's mid laner, Snake Woman R, dodged to Galio and Qing Gang Yin, and then spread W [Toxic Mist] under their feet. The binding effect made it difficult for the two to move.
After that, the pig girl followed up with a big move, and the team battle started instantly.
Qing Gang Yin, who was petrified and bound, couldn't use his R [Hex's Ultimatum] and E [Hook Rope] and was killed by the prehistoric giant crocodile.
The blue team, who had lost one player, was about to be defeated when Lin Yan rushed to the battlefield.
After Galio escaped from the binding, he used [Hero's Appearance] to provide damage reduction buffs to Blind Monk. Lin Yan first turned the crocodile into a sheep, and then put a shield on Blind Monk.
Nakano Fuku and the other two focused their attacks to kill Snake Woman, and then Lin Yan healed everyone to raise their health.
It was at this moment that the situation of the battle started to go wrong.
The Blind Monk, whose ID was Tarzan, turned the river near the front of the canyon into his own show ground with Lin Yan's help.
With the help of Lin Yan's incense burner effect and W [Golden Bell Iron Shirt]'s shield and blood-sucking effect, he and the crocodile stood and fought, and actually recovered their health.
This normal crocodile and a pig girl couldn't beat this Blind Monk!
Ridiculous!
The late Sapphire WQ and WQ supported the Blind Monk, but Lin Yan put on R [Rapid Growth] on Blind Monk and added a chunk of his health.
The Blind Monk's blood-sucking efficiency became more and more exaggerated. When he finally killed everyone in the front of the canyon, he still had more than half of his health left!
It was too exaggerated, he was simply a blood-sucking monster!
In Lin Yan's live broadcast room, the audience who witnessed all this were in high spirits.
[66666, this Blind Monk can't die?]
[What a handsome Dharma, what an exaggerated blood-sucking, is this the Blood Demon Style?]
[Blind Monk: I don't have a single drop of my own blood on me!]
Lin Yan didn't expect the incense burner to be so powerful. It made Blind Monk's entire body bleed, but he still didn't die.
What the hell?
Not many people in the bullet screen noticed the real reason why Blind Monk was so strong. They only thought that it was because of Lulu's own shield, healing, and Galio's damage reduction buff.
They subconsciously ignored the burning incense burner on Lin Yan's body.
After all, everyone subconsciously didn't think that a piece of support equipment had the ability to change the outcome of a battle.
Blind Monk suddenly typed a message: [Good job sup.]
Lin Yan replied with a cold full stop, and then controlled Lulu to continue to the bottom lane.
It wasn't to protect Big Mouth, but to kill the troops.
As long as Big Mouth died, the entire bottom lane's troops would be his.
He stood at the back and used his shield when he needed to. He didn't go easy on the consumption of the troops and did his job.
However, as long as Big Mouth's positioning was prematurely blocked by Sapphire, he would immediately retreat and run away. He buffed himself while controlling Lulu to laugh devilishly.
At the thirteenth minute, when the bottom lane's first blood tower was destroyed, Lin Yan finally completed the last hit. The target of the last hit wasn't his opponent, but his own ADC, Big Mouth.
Able had already died nine times, but no one said anything in the team's voice chat. At most, they clicked on his icon twice.
There was no need for that.
Those who had reached this stage were all experienced players. They knew very well that if someone wanted to die, there was a 99.9% chance that they wouldn't be able to persuade him to die.
The only way to 'communicate' was to quarrel with each other.
However, these Korean masters played ranked for three reasons: to increase their score, to practice their heroes, or to relax and have fun after the mock competition.
Quarreling wouldn't help them achieve their goals.
They played by themselves. If the situation turned bad, they would just surrender and not waste everyone's time. They had already formed a tacit understanding.
Lin Yan replenished his Eye Stone and started to link up with Blind Monk.
The opposing Piggies couldn't defend their jungle at all under the constant invasions of their junglers.
Soon, the opponent's jungle was filled with Eye Stones. Only then did Sapphire realize that Big Mouth wasn't worth much anymore after dying a few times. The profit of asking him to withdraw money was getting lower and lower. He had to roam around to support his teammates.
However, Sapphire's understanding of support seemed to be a little problematic. He and Piggies weren't suitable to fight in the jungle. Both of them didn't have the ability to kill their opponents.
The best solution was to bring the battle to the top and middle lane. With Crocodile's and Lamia's damage and their crowd control, they could easily kill their opponents.
However, Sapphire was only protecting the jungle.
The problem was, how could Bull's Head + Piggies' junglers face off against Lulu + Blind Monk?
Lamia and Crocodile in the mid lane were two short-legged heroes. It was unrealistic to ask them to quickly support the jungle.
On the other hand, Lin Yan had Qing Gang Yin and Galio in the top lane.
The support speed wasn't on the same level. In the end, Piggies' junglers were completely lost. Bull's Head also started to use his unique style of suicide.
Sapphire's brain froze in such a way. He didn't have any ideas.
In one of the fights in the jungle, Piggies' ultimate skill froze Lin Yan. She was about to cooperate with her teammates to kill him.
However, Sapphire's maneuvering had a huge problem.
His double WQ had made a mistake!
After using W [Reckless Charge] to knock Lin Yan out of the stunned state, he then used Q [Earth Shatter].
He kowtowed on the spot!
Lin Yan was sent to the safe zone. Blind Monk put a layer of membrane on him and he successfully retreated safely!
It was originally a great opportunity. In the end, Piggies and Bull's Head were in danger!
When Galio successfully landed, Lin Yan's side relied on quick support to successfully complete the encirclement.
[GG, Sapphire's Bull's Head is too good. He's really a life-saving bull!]
[Don't tell me Big Mouth can win too?]
[I'm going to vomit. This Blind Monk and Ran Iron Slave can't lose at all!]
Lin Yan's score had been changed to 5010 before returning to the city. After thinking about it, he directly took out a killer book.
【？？？】
[He's not being human again!]
[A killer book from a support?
It's a classic.]
Lin Yan pointed at Lamia who was attacking in the mid lane. He couldn't help but smile. "Hahaha, did you guys see that?
This Lamia's skill is lower than mine! "
The bullet screen was filled with laughter. The previous wave of attacks from Big Mouth was quietly brushed away. In the room upstairs, Su Cheng was sitting on a chair and drying her hair with a hairdryer. She crossed her legs and watched the live broadcast without worry.
Far away in Seoul, South Korea, Chi Emperor went crazy.
He asked Bull's Head to roam, not Sapphire to kill!
More importantly, due to the Big Mouth's frequent delivery of heads, the value of one's life was no longer high.
In a solo battle, killing Big Mouth would not yield any more rewards. Moreover, the opponent, Happy Game, would always deal sufficient damage before he died. Coupled with his passive, [Akasya's Surprise], it was a true explosive damage output.
Now, even if he killed Big Mouth, he would be left with little health. Chi Emperor had to be wary of other people coming to take his head. He had no way to recover his health since he was the first to use the Blue Sucking Blade. He could only return to the city to replenish his health.
In this way, Chi Emperor had no place to grow at all because Happy Game was constantly looking for him to fight!
After seeing Bull's Head's ridiculous W + Q to save Lin Yan, Chi Emperor finally couldn't help but complain in the live broadcast.
"Who is this?" he shouted loudly. "Why is he so weak?"
"Could it be that he's not a main support player? If that's the case, it's understandable …" Chi Emperor still wanted to use this method to comfort himself.
He copied Sapphire's ID and went to the website fow.kr to search for her battle records.
When he saw a series of support battle records, he collapsed mentally.
"Damn, this Bull's Head …" Chi Emperor cursed. "A support player with 600 points in King of Glory is only at this level?"
"The opponent's support player is a midlaner. Big Mouth is still killing people. We can't even beat him with five against four?"
The live broadcast was filled with laughter. Then, the viewers who often followed the Korean server's King of Glory told them that Chi Emperor was Sapphire's main account. It was just that she changed her ID two days ago.
Chi Emperor switched to the screen to take a look at the comments. When he found out that Bull's Head was a professional player, he immediately shut up.
"Ah, ah, ah, ah. Player Sapphire …" He smiled awkwardly. "It's probably because the base's network is too bad. It's inevitable that she's lagging a little. That must be it!"
If Sapphire was a random player, it wouldn't matter if he cursed a little. However, if Sapphire was also a professional player, the negative impact of cursing would be too great.
In the current era of the Internet, if he cursed Sapphire, the LPL related forums would scold him in an hour. Then, the Samsung Club would shave his head and kneel down to apologize. At the same time, they would also deduct three months of his salary.
Chi Emperor didn't want to create a precedent of paying money to play a game. To him, other than fulfilling his dream, being a professional player was also about making money. There was nothing that couldn't be said. It wasn't shameful at all.
He wanted this game to end quickly. No matter if he lost or won, he didn't want to see Bull's Head again.
However, Sapphire was still controlling the little dragon to suppress his field of vision. He changed lanes calmly and had no intention of advancing at all.
Disgusting!
Could he GKD?
Lin Yan also wanted to end this game quickly.
Usually, at this time, he would have already fallen asleep in bed. Now, sleepiness was constantly attacking his brain. Lin Yan could feel that he couldn't concentrate.
If this continued, Lin Yan couldn't guarantee that he wouldn't make any outrageous mistakes.
However, the current situation didn't allow it!
They only had Qing Gang Yin, Blind Monk, Galio, and Lulu in front of them. The three of them looked like Los Angeles blacksmiths with short hands. Only Lin Yan's hands were considered long.
How could this team destroy the tower?
The four of them couldn't forcibly cross the tower to kill people. Their equipment wasn't that far ahead.
If they could only drag it out, then they would drag it out.
After 20 minutes, they would kill Baron Nash and use the Dragon's buff to advance. Only then could they destroy the tower.
This meant that Chi Emperor would have to endure a period of torture.
Moreover, this torture was simply unbearable.
Happy Game on the other side came to challenge him again. This big mouth was near the minions that he wanted to eat. If he retreated, he wouldn't be able to replenish the minions.
As a result, he had no choice but to challenge Big Mouth!
WDNMD, I'm Edisi. How did I learn to play 1v1 like a top laner?
At 18 minutes, Chi Emperor's score reached a luxurious 12 kills and 5 deaths. However, he only had 100 hits!
In a trance, he thought that he was playing a Silver Sick Friend game. Only the survivors were qualified to replenish the minions.
Is this the Happy Game that your ID says?
I can't afford to play anymore. Don't come and harm me!
Although he had 12 kills, Big Mouth's suicide attacks were worthless now. Chi Emperor's one kill was only worth 100 gold coins.
It was just two Cannon Soldiers.
In the process of killing the big mouth, he had died twice, and had given away a solid 600 pieces of gold!
Scientific pig farming, right?
Give me a kill and then kill me?
Is there anyone who plays games like this?
Able was also very anxious.
He really didn't want to win this game. However, things didn't go as he wished. Now, it seemed like he was going to win.
If his four teammates really won this game, he would be pissed to death.
I've already given you a kill. If you can still win, wouldn't that make me lose face?
Able felt that he was humiliated and ran to other lanes to continue.
However, no one dared to accept it.
Crocodile even allowed him to kill towers. He only ate the EXP from the kill.
What a joke. If he ate this kill, he would be worth 300 gold coins again. Then, wouldn't he have to give it to his opponent?
Lin Yan returned to the city after 20 minutes and bought redemption. At this time, his killer book had stacked up to 16 layers. More than half of the stacks came from Bull's Head.
"Good brother!"
Lin Yan talked non-stop to make the show look good. At the same time, he talked non-stop to dissipate his sleepiness. "When Sapphire starts broadcasting, I will definitely send a gift!"
The bullet screen laughed. He continued to follow behind Blind Monk to annoy the jungler.
On the screen, the short Lulu shook her pair of short legs and tried to catch up with the blind uncle in front of her. She also used one hand to raise a magic wand that was taller than her. The little Faerie, Pixus, was lying on the tip of the magic wand motionlessly.
Lulu looked at the 16 stacks of killer book in her backpack proudly. From time to time, she would laugh devilishly.
20 minutes had passed. Baron Nash entered his territory. The nine heroes from both sides gathered here. Only Big Mouth was left on the road to clear the minions.
Blind Monk blocked the vision of the dragon pit under the protection of Lin Yan. This person's understanding of the composition was not a problem. Black Ripper + Hydra. He completely played as the center position to make up for Big Mouth's lack of damage.
Pig Girl roared and threw out her Arctic Lasso. The team battle officially began.
Qing Gang Yin cut in from the side and successfully entered the field with Galio's big move to kill Snake Girl.
Lin Yan obediently followed behind and used his shield and speed reduction. He did not make any excessive moves.
When Galio took the first round of damage from the enemy, Tarzan's Blind Monk cut in with Lulu's Pixus.
"Quickly grow bigger!"
Silly Lulu said in Korean. Her magic made Blind Monk's body rapidly expand. Chi Emperor's Xia was pushed to the sky.
After that, the Blind Monk used [Dragon's Tail Whip] and [Hydra's Hydra]. Together with Lin Ran's [Shining Spear], they managed to reduce Dusk's health bar to a critical level!
Chi Emperor was forced to use his big move. Then, as soon as he landed and used Barb, he was kicked to death by Qing Gang Yin.
The two centers died. The remaining three people could not do anything to Lin Yan and the others. They surrounded Blind Monk for a few seconds but could not kill him.
The Blind Monk was able to make full use of the Incense Burner's HP recovery effect, as well as the Attack Speed increase from Lin Ran's W [Ingenious Idea].
In the end, he was able to recover his health back to full. Bloodseeker Blind Monk reappeared!
After Blind Monk killed four people, the red team decisively chose to surrender and ended the 22-minute torture.
Sapphire's score stopped at 111. It was terrible.
The bullet screen was filled with all kinds of flattery. It was rare for the Korean server to win the King's Game 4 against 5.
Lin Yan looked at the post-match data and chose to report Blabbermouth.
Although he didn't speak Korean, the English he had learned with Su Cheng during this period of time came in handy.
Although his typing was still a little awkward and there were mistakes in his grammar, it was generally smooth and there were no problems with the words he used.
Lin Yan read the report again. After confirming that there were no mistakes, he chose to submit it. The rest was to see how the Korean server would deal with Blabbermouth.
The audience could not sit still after seeing Lin Yan's English composition.
[What's going on?
Does Ran speak English?]
[Oh my god, does he have to pass Level 6 to watch a live stream?]
[Aren't we all internet addicts?
You're different from the other players.]
Lin Yan did not explain much. He looked at the time at the bottom right corner of his computer. It was already 0: 10 am.
"Bye, everyone. See you next time …" He ran his fingers through his short hair and waved at the camera. "I'm quite diligent this time, right?
I've been streaming for two days. I'm definitely a good streamer, okay? "
[Two days? From 11: 30 pm last night to 0: 10 am today, that's a total of 40 minutes!]
[It's good enough that you have something to watch. If you push him too far, he might even give up on the live streaming contract. You'll regret it if he loses 200 hours of live streaming in a year.]
"Money is a must." Lin Ran, who was about to stop streaming, noticed the bullet screen. He replied in a serious tone, "I won't say anything else about this year's livestream, but it will definitely be full. You can rest assured about that."
Looking at the bullet screen expressing their doubts, Lin Yan said goodbye to the audience for the last time and turned off the stream.
Lin Yan stretched his body and turned up the air conditioner in the room by two degrees to prevent himself from catching a cold in the middle of the night.
While lying in bed, he scrolled through WeChat for a while, thinking about the Burning Incense Burner.
Lin Yan had a vague feeling that this would be a piece of equipment that would change the game's version.
When he woke up again, it was already seven in the morning. Lin Yan washed up and put on his clothes before leaving the house with his phone.
The storm last night had stopped. Large and small puddles gathered on the ground. They were as flat and flawless as glass. The bright sunlight refracted even more dazzling light through them. The air was filled with the smell of moist grass. The greenery in the neighborhood had been washed clean by the rain, revealing a strong green.
However, there was still a hidden restlessness in the air. The temperature did not seem to be low.
Lin Yan was not in a hurry. With his hands behind his back, he leisurely walked like an old man taking a stroll in the park. He slowly made his way to the Sanmen Road Agricultural Market.
On the way, Lin Yan found a breakfast shop. The average customer in the shop was almost the national retirement age.
He ordered a fried dough stick, a bowl of soy milk, and a scone. He sat at the seat closest to the door and listened to the morning news on the TV behind him. He ate the hot food and held his stomach that had been cold all night.
He saw a boy with a backpack running all the way with a bun in his mouth. Not far ahead was the High School Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He must be a day student who was about to be late. There was also an older girl holding a few textbooks and walking in the opposite direction. Along the way, she was discussing accounting with her classmates. It was obvious that she was from the University of Finance and Economics.
There were even more office workers than students. They were dressed in professional attire and were in a hurry. They carried computer bags in one hand and a bag of milk in the other. They walked and drank as they rushed to the nearest subway station.
The people outside the shop were in a hurry, but the old people in the shop were as slow as sloths. A kind and elegant old couple wearing gold-rimmed glasses was drinking soy milk while complaining in a low voice that the college students were writing more and more words in their homework. In order to get full marks in their elective courses, they had no choice but to set a limit on the number of words they could write. Only in this way could they curb the trend of writing more and more.
Lin Yan sat at the seat closest to the door and took in the various attitudes of the people inside and outside the shop. This feeling of dissonance made him feel strange.
When he arrived at the market, it was already eight o 'clock in the morning. Today was a workday. At this time, most of the people who were willing to come out to buy groceries were retired people. Naturally, no one knew Lin Yan.
He followed the posture of the old people and blended into the crowd. He asked about the price and pulled out ten chicken wings with white skin and no blood stains into the transparent bag.
Tomatoes, eggs, rice, cola, seasonings …
Although he didn't buy much of each item, there was a wide variety. Lin Yan picked all of these, carried the big bag and slowly walked back. He successfully returned to the rental house at ten o 'clock in the morning. Su Cheng, who had just woken up, was already sitting in the living room waiting for him.
"You really know how to cook?" She still didn't believe that Lin Yan could cook.
"I really know …" Lin Yan walked into the kitchen and took out all the vegetables from the bag. "When my dad isn't home, I don't always rely on takeout. I also cook twice a month."
"These two dishes are not difficult and are quite common. I've cooked them several times before, so don't worry."
Lin Yan first took a knife and cut the chicken wings to make it easier for the flavor to enter. Then he took out the seasonings such as onion, ginger, cooking wine, and so on. He was going to marinate it for half an hour.
Su Cheng walked around and carefully watched Lin Yan's movements as he cut the onion and ginger.
She had never cooked before, but from the way he cut the onion and ginger, Lin Yan didn't seem like a novice to her, so she was a little relieved.
Su Cheng felt that it was not a good thing to be so idle, so she helped Lin Yan wash the rice and clean the wok.
"Yesterday …" Lin Yan put on gloves and evenly mixed the seasonings on the chicken wings. "Did you watch the ranking game I played on the live broadcast?"
"I didn't watch the whole thing. When the game started, I was still heating the milk and drying my hair. When I was watching the live broadcast, your bottom lane's tower was about to fall." Su Cheng took a loofah and tried to clean the wok.
She raised her head and looked at Lin Yan. "You want to talk about the burning incense burner?"
"Yes, that was a very strange move."
Lin Yan thought about the ranking game last night. "Give up Redemption and use the incense burner first. How was that move?"
"When the chicken wings are marinated, we can try it out with a custom build. The data won't lie." Su Cheng had always been very strict in this regard.
Lin Yan took off his gloves, put the rice into the rice cooker, and added a few cups of water. Then, he poked his index finger into the water and made sure that the water was just below the height of the rice, just enough to cover the first joint of his index finger. Then, he was relieved. He washed his hands and went to the study to turn on the computer.
Su Cheng also brought her laptop down from upstairs. The two of them began to test the incense burner's effect with the soft supports.
The results made Su Cheng frown.
"It's a very strong bonus for the ADC." She recorded the test data on the table. "Redemption was weakened in Version 7.12, but now everyone is playing soft support in the professional arena. It's still the first formed equipment after the Eye Stone. It's mainly because there's no substitute." (See the picture of the changes to Redemption.)
"And now, using the incense burner to replace Redemption is indeed a good idea …" Su Cheng nodded.
Lin Yan interrupted her. "It's not a replacement for Redemption."
"It's the Eye Stone."
Su Cheng was very puzzled. "The Eye Stone?
But if that's the case, won't there be too much vision pressure in the early game … "
If the support didn't use the Eye Stone first, they could only rely on the jungler who dropped the green jungler to fill the gap.
In the current era of the professional arena where vision control was extremely crazy, it was simply "treacherous" for the support not to use the Eye Stone first.
"We can use the first dragon in the bottom lane." Lin Yan proposed his idea. "This way, the support and the ADC in the bottom lane will have enough vision."
"We want to take the Canyon Vanguard. As long as we have the Incense Burner at this point in time, we can let the ADC participate in the battle for the Vanguard. His role will be limitless."
"At the very least, it's much better than the ADC who uses the Eye Stone first."
Su Cheng nodded as if she had understood. "I know what you're thinking … I'll organize the test data and the changes from the previous version later and communicate with White Crescent."
"We'll play RNG next week. If possible, this will be the perfect touchstone." Lin Yan glanced at the YM competition schedule on his phone and said.
Su Cheng stayed in the study and talked to White Crescent. Lin Yan looked at the clock on the wall. It was already eleven o 'clock in the afternoon. He quickly ran to heat up the pot and prepare to cook.
Scrambled eggs with tomatoes and cola chicken wings were simple dishes that could be done with hands. Lin Yan didn't spend much effort to prepare the two dishes and put them on the table. He then scooped out two bowls of rice from the rice cooker.
"It's time to eat!" He went to wash his hands and get his chopsticks. He shouted to inform Su Cheng in the study.
The door was pushed open with a bang. Su Cheng rushed out in a hurry. "White Crescent and I found a new idea!"