CHAPTER 37

After the drawing, Tong Yao suddenly became quite nervous about the

competition. It was like a student who had been relaxing till the day before

the college entrance exam, "What should I do, the exam is tomorrow-- --"

Tong Yao: "We played Huawei before. Their top can occasionally beat Old

Cat, they're good..."

Tong Yao: "The Red Arrow was originally the Assassins. Ahhhhhhhhh, I know

about them, they won second place before. They are quite good as well!"

Tong Yao: "The King has come up from the junior league in the spring tournament.

I heard their jungler is quite good at taking buffs. They are good at best of fives,

the turn around rate is more than 80%...Tsk, tsk, tsk, I'm panicking so much now."

Tong Yao: "The Lan is a veteran club; for three years, they haven't changed a

single player. I suspect that while they are playing, they don't even need anyone

to give out orders and can work in sync to perform difficult tasks-- --"

Tong Yao: "Obsidian had played relegation games like our neighbors in the spring

season. But the people next door can beat CK now! Anything is possible! ! ! ! !"

Everyone else: ".........."

Lu Yue: "You're scared of that cell phone team we pulverized in a skirmish?"

Old Cat: "What if the Assassins had won the second place two years ago? They are

a different group of players now. What are you panicking about..."

Old K: "You're even scared of the team from the junior league. That's incredible."

Little Fatty: "It's true that the five players of Lan have played together for three years,

but they are lousy!"

Xiao Rui: "You can't compare Obsidian with the team next door. Their ad is Pope, who's

an equal to our Cheng Ge. I can't even remember the names of the people in Obsidian.

Hey, wake up!"

Lu Sicheng sniffled and briefly concluded with a frown: "So noisy, get out of the car."

Tong Yao: "........."

Tong Yao: "I'm just a little nervous. Can't you all have some sympathy at me?"

Xiao Rui: "You have been mumbling about this since we left from the drawing. You

would think we have been assigned to a particularly tough group-- --But all the difficult

ones are in the B group, what are you worrying about…...Have more respect to the

good drawing Cheng Ge has delivered to us!"

Lu Sicheng sneered.

Tong Yao interpreted it as "pride."

…...Or it could be "arrogance."

"Give me your cell phone." Xiao Rui grabbed Tong Yao's phone and took a look at the

screen. "I knew it. You're really checking the champion pools of all the mids on these

teams on Baidu."

Tong Yao: "..."

It was dim inside the car. Otherwise, everyone could see that the team's mid was

blushing-- --Lu Yue scoffed and stretched himself: "Let me play if you're so scared."

"You wish. You'll sit on the bench forever!"

Tong Yao glared at Lu Yue and tried to retrieve her phone from Xiao Rui.

Xiao Rui raised his arm high, out of Tong Yao's reach: "Wait till we get back,

you can ask Ming god about this information if you want to see them. He'll

have all the competition videos of each team for analyzing their styles,

techniques, and strategies-- --Ming god has already started collecting this

information as soon as the result of the drawing was announced."

Tong Yao was surprised to hear that and her eyes brightened up: "Ming

god is cool!"

Xiao Rui began to gloat: "Isn't he. Don't go on Baidu! You think Baidu

knows everything!"

"Isn't that the job of a data analyst? Can you two stop acting like idiots."

It was the hoarse voice of the captain who was sitting between Tong Yao

and Xiao Rui. He moved a bit as he was speaking and reached to grab

Tong Yao's phone from Xiao Rui's hand. He threw the phone back to Tong Yao

-- --Tong Yao juggled to catch the phone. After a while, she carefully turned to

look at the man next to her: "Cheng Ge, are you really not going to take cold

medicine?"

"No."

"You're losing your voice. How can you give out instructions the day after

tomorrow?"

"I'll be fine the day after tomorrow…...achoo."

Tong Yao turned back to sit straight in her own seat with a look on her face

which said "I don't see you getting any better soon." Little Fatty muttered that

he didn't want to get sick and opened the window-- --About an hour later they

came back to the ZGDX base. It was already 11 o'clock in the night. Tong Yao

comforted the lonely Dabing who had stayed at the base all alone, then asked

from Ming god all the information about the other teams in their group and CK.

She went upstairs back to her room.

After she washed up, she lied on her bed reading all the information. Since

they would play against CK the day after tomorrow, she chose to read about

CK first-- --

The top of CK, Come Good Luck, was once teammates with Liangsheng next

door. They were once referred to as the kings of the junior league. After they

played together for a year, Come Good Luck was lucky enough to be recruited

by one of the top professional teams, CK. Liangsheng got into the secondary team,

YQCB…...Come Good Luck was now the main top for team CK. He was good at

using tank type champions-- --Maokai, Trundle, and Gnar. Especially Gnar, he

could use one palm to hurt 3 or 4 people, people referred it as buddha's palm.

CK's adc, Butterfly, was good looking as the name suggested. He was a little short

but that didn't stop him from having a large fangirl base. He was cute in person,

but when he played, he was rather aggressive and was ranked as one of the top

adc. He was good at playing the warrior goddess, Ashe and Kog'Maw.

CK's support, Old Wang, had partnered with Butterfly for two years. They were

quite experienced and basically could take down any other bot partners except

Lu Sicheng and Little Fatty. He had a large champion pool; it seemed that he

could use any champion, but he was best at Thresh.

CK's jungler, Jian Yang,...blablabla, Tong Yao ignored it. (And rolled her eyes.)

CK's mid, Little Flower.

Tong Yao sat up on the bed and earnestly studied the information on hand-- --

This was the opponent she had to face head on the day after tomorrow

Little Flower was a chubby guy with narrow eyes and without an ounce of hostility…..

Yet, he was, like Tong Yao, good at playing assassin champions. Leblanc was also

his favorite champion-- --In addition, he was good at Ahri and Fizz which Tong Yao

wasn't particular good with. She only vaguely knew how to gain an advantage when

she faced them in lane...

In the very last match of the final spring tournament matches, Little Flower chose to

use Ahri-- --that was the only time that Ahri showed up in the whole spring tournament

and at such a critical moment in the final match! No one knew whether it was because

he didn't take the substitute mid of ZGDX too seriously or he was simply over confident...

Tong Yao only remembered that his Ahri paired with Jiang Yang passed thru ZGDX's

mid lane around the fifteen minute mark. Then they started wandering around the map

and took away the advantage ZGDX's two other lanes had gained-- --

"..."

Tong Yao cast down her eyes as she thought about that moment. She secretly swore

to herself that she mustn't give Little Flower the same opportunity in the upcoming

match. Even if she was in a disadvantageous position, she would still tightly keep

Little Flower in mid lane...

A partnership between mid and jungler?

Don't even think about it.

She searched for some videos of CK's competitions-- --Since CK had a lot of fans,

she only needed to enter a couple keywords and whole bunch of videos of the team's

most famous battles showed up...

As she was downloading these videos onto her iPad, she used her cell phone to

check various streams to kill time. She was surprised to find that Lu Sicheng hadn't

gone to sleep but was still streaming at this hour. It was a stream without sound or

webcam. Many fans cried out in the stream room: "We want to see Cheng Ge, turn

on the camera before we die."-- --

Sometimes this kind of begging would work when Lu Sicheng was in a good mood

and willing to humor his fans.

Yet, his obsession with his idol image…...it was a matter of principle.

Tong Yao put down her cell phone and went to take a look. Lu Sicheng had two

boxes of Kleenexes and a huge trash can right next to him. The trash can was filled

with used tissue papers.

Tong Yao was speechless as she looked down the railing, then turned around to go

back to her room. She sent a WeChat message to Lu Sicheng: [Go take some medicine.]

She added after a while: [Are you sure taking medicine will affect your game even more

than when you have to spare a hand to blow your nose?]

Tong Yao went back to the stream after she sent her messages. She saw Lu Sicheng's

champion suddenly stop killing minions for a few seconds, then it would slowly start

moving again. Tong Yao was wondering whether he was blowing his nose again, but a

line popped up on the bottom of her screen-- --

[fhdjwhdb2333: Why haven't you gone to sleep?]

Tong Yao: "..."

He still had time to reply when playing the game?

[fhdjwhdb2333: You're watching my stream while the real person is right in front of you.

What's wrong with you?]

Tong Yao was shocked, put on her slippers to go downstairs and went right next to Lu

Sicheng: "How did you know that I was watching you stream?"

"Your name appears in chat when you enter and someone saw it." Lu Sicheng

said in a hoarse voice and kicked the trash can next to his foot: "Since you're

here, empty the trash can for me."

"..."

Tong Yao picked up the trash can without saying anything and went away.

Little Fatty glanced at Lu Sicheng and Tong Yao as he was playing a game of his

own: "Why did she suddenly come down here?"

Lu Sicheng: "She's a busy body, messaged me on WeChat to take cold medicine."

Little Fatty: "It's just upstairs and downstairs and you used WeChat. Are you two

alright?"

Lu Sicheng thought about it and realized that he had just said the same thing to

Tong Yao. He didn't respond to Little Fatty-- --Tong Yao came back with an empty

trash can. When she set it down, she could hear Lu Sicheng muttering something

akin to a thanks. She turned around to wash her hands, then came back to sit down

in front of her own computer, right next to Lu Sicheng.

Amid the sound of clicking mouses.

"Aren't you going to sleep?"

"Wait till I finish watching CK's videos, then I'll go sleep."

"Little Flower is quite good."

"Yeah, I can't play Fizz well. At least I should know how to attack it."

Tong Yao yawned and continued to watch the videos…...Lu Sicheng glanced at her

cell phone and noticed that she was still watching the stream on her phone. As he

was about to ask why would she watch the stream when she was right next to him,

he noticed through the corner of his eyes that the camera was on this stream.

…...She wasn't watching his stream.

Lu Sicheng looked back and fixed his eyes on his own screen: "Whose stream are

you watching?"

Tong Yao raised her head and blinked: "Big Wang."

Big Wang was that "Smile"-- --The previous adc of We team, the one who Tong Yao

swore that she would bring his name back to the world stage-- --

Smile was very good, had been the first adc of the world certified by the Riot.

Lu Sicheng: "..."

Lu Sicheng: "The best adc is playing a game right in front of your eyes and you're

watching, while sitting right next to him, some other adc's stream?"

Tong Yao looked up in confusion and couldn't quite figure it out-- --The best adc?

Who was that? Wasn't it Big Wang?

After a few seconds, she finally got it!

Tong Yao: "...Ah, Cheng Ge. Even if you don't have the camera or microphone

on, doesn't mean you should be this shameless."

Lu Sicheng pulled out a sheet of tissue paper. With one hand controlling his champion

to kill the enemy, receiving 300 gold, he said without taking his eyes off the computer

screen: "You, go back to sleep. Don't watch streams in the middle of the night."