Why is it that towards everything other than games, this person is always so âfree and easyâ?!
She canât be bothered to berate him, so she simply hangs up.
Qin Fei also drops his phone powerlessly: âReally⊠I am very serious, okay.â
Saying this, he scrawls another few signatures on the paper. Thereâs not one that manages to satisfy him, so he crumples it into a ball, tossing it into the wastepaper basket at his feet.
Just when he is getting bored of it, the phone suddenly vibrates several times in succession.
Qin Fei intuitively picks it up, sliding to unlock. Upon seeing five drafts from a certain someone on QQ, he canât resist a chuckle.
Qin Fei: Even though the mouth says no, the body is actually quite honest?
Xiao Yun: Donât push your luck. Youâll lose me very easily like that.
Qin Fei: Haha. In any case, thanks. Youâre still the best one to me after all!
Xiao Yun: Scram.
Qin Fei shrugs and clicks open the five drafts in succession. After serious deliberation, he picks the fiercest yet simplest one to learn. He swiftly grabs a piece of rough paper to begin imitating.
It shouldnât be left unsaid, but having a tsundere older cousin as their manager really is too good.
The matter of the autograph is finally resolved, but now, there is a new problem â When and how can he casually pass the autograph to Jing Yu?
The next day, after waiting for Qin Fei to get up, Fang Luofan runs through the five peopleâs problems that had surfaced in the training session the night before. After having their breakfast, the team immediately returns to practice.
A five-person taxi will naturally encounter a five-person taxi. However, maybe itâs because Jing Yu is still at Diamond rank, the enemies theyâre matched to arenât very strong.
pg naturally wins without an ounce of pressure. However, since the Coach set the rule âEvery match must extend beyond 30 minutesâ, everyone can only squeeze their brain juice to find ways of dragging out the latter half. Even Qin Fei begins to let out the waters**:
(**Letting out the waters æŸæ°Ž: Let victory slip; to help out the foes)
âYiming, come back. Donât kill other people.â
âYe Zi, thatâs enough. You killed your opponent so many times. You should also let them kill you once ah.â
âJing Yu, stop playing so well. Youâll give me a lot of pressure.â
Jing Yu: ââŠâŠWei**, dragging out the game shouldnât be done like this ba?â
(**Wei ć: Hey; Oi)
time, it is Jing Yuâs turn to direct:
âMage, donât zone out. Co-op Black Serpent with me.â
âMarksman, destroy the tower ya!â
âSupport, keep up. Donât fall behind.â
âNot good, theyâre about to snatch the Dragon⊠Err, let them snatch ba.â
Hence, pgâs entire team evacuates the Demonic Dragonâs parameters. After meekly and gingerly taking down the Demonic Dragon, the five enemies are all flabbergasted.
Whatâs happening? Are they waiting to ace us once we take down the Dragon?
Yi⊠Theyâre not catching up.
In this fashion, under Jing Yuâs command, pg manages to drag out the game by relying on the method of clearing the Dragon Army.
Once the time limit is passed, without needing to be reminded, every member of pg suddenly opens a slaughter fest as if invigorated, crushing the enemy to the point where they are all permanently traumatized.
Qin Fei thinks this method is not bad at all. Thus, he begins to emulate:
âLet them attack the Dragon⊠But I have to say. You guys, if youâre sightseeing, then make sure you sight-see properly. Donât stand so close. Youâll scare other people.â
Jing Yu also keeps up this pace:
âGood. Theyâre opening attack on the Dragon. Team, letâs return⊠Mage, what are you doing? Donât harass other people.â
Subsequently, Qin Fei even directly posts into the message box:
ăTeamăpg-Sleep (Mad Bones) : The dragon has refreshed! Enemies hurry up and attack!
Enemies: ? ? ?
Just like that, within one afternoon of practice, although it is questionable whether pgâs latter half has truly improved, their familiarity with clearing the Dragon Army has upped a few notches.
Besides that, Jing Yu has also discovered a few rules in those handful of times where Qin Fei issued a serious command â He almost never orders his teammates to retreat. Most of the times, he will at most drop a line when itâs necessary. For example:
âIâm here. Ye Zi, attack!â
âOld Han opens Team Battle. Team, attack!â
âIâm opening Team Battle. Right now. Attack!â
Jing Yu follows suit:
âIâm here. Mage, charge.â
âSupport opens Team Battle. The rest follow.â
âIâve CCâed them. Ace them, now!â
That afternoon, Jing Yu kept using Frozen Heart. By the time the clock hits 5, the team more or less has already gotten used to Frozen Heartâs tempo.
Jing Yu and Ye Hong coordinate pretty well to begin with. But after maxing out the strengths which Jing Yu pinpointed, there were a couple of times where they overturned the disadvantage they intentionally created.
Qin Feiâs solo-laner also grew bolder by the game, causing Luo Yiming to canât resist poking fun at him:
âFei Ge, youâre already so fierce by yourself. You can totally ace them alone ah. Why do you still need us?â
Luo Yimingâs situational awareness is most likely the only thing that didnât improve any.
As a marksman whose forte is supposed to lie in long-range battles, he just likes to battle close-range. Moreover, he often takes the higher ground when it comes to these dogfights. It shouldnât be left unsaid, but Luo Yimingâs motion control is excellent, his responses are quick, and the enemy marksman almost never lands an Ult on him.
However, precisely because he pins every ounce of his attention on the enemy, Luo Yiming is only rarely ever able to detect other foes in the area. Even if Jing Yu reminds him, itâs rare for him to be able to escape the enemy junglerâs claws.
In time, Jing Yu gives up reminding him. Instead, he switches to another strategy â Decoy!
Thinking about it carefully, thereâs no one more suitable than Luo Yiming as a decoy. This is because even he himself doesnât realize he is a decoy.
Thus, you have the following scene:
Two marksmen are interlocked in a ferocious dogfight when suddenly, a jungler charges out! In the end, even before this jungler manages to do a single thing, Frozen Heart floats out of nowhere, lunges at him and directly Ults, ganking with a combo attack.
Jing Yu doesnât eye the enemy marksman. He only eyes the enemy jungler. With him around, nobody thinks about touching a single hair on Luo Yiming!
âEn? Suddenly, he feels like heâs quite gong?
In any case, they reaped a fair bit with this one afternoon of training.
After dinner, five people sit before the PCâs, quietly awaiting SoSâs arrival.
What they donât know is â Simultaneously, in Demon Lordâs game forum, a single topic titled âpg canât win without having their Dragon snatched?â is all the rage.
0L: Like the title says. OP and roomies got into a five-person taxi. Both times, we got auto-matched to pg. Emotionally, we took down [img][img][img]. Cough. This isnât the main point. The point is, when OP is fighting, I noticed a very suspicious thing. Before we snatched the dragon, we could still somewhat force a stalemate with pg. Really. If you donât believe, look at the map. [img] But the thing is, we took the chance when pg had their guard down to snatch the Dragon. Then, pgâs play changed entirely! This is the us after snatching the Dragon. [img] Donât you think itâs very weird? pg before and after snatching Dragon are clearly two different teams ah!
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1L: Fuck! That last map is too tragic! Let me ache for OP a bit. Then, I want to say â Snatching the dragon is an unforgivable sin! OP deserves it. (Runs with wok over head)
2L: Hahaha, Big Bro, youâre too bad la! Patting OP. Must be that pg fooled around too much and got scared after losing the dragon. Then, they decided to play seriously ba?
3L: OP also met pg?! Me too! After snatching pgâs dragon, we got pressed down on the floor and grounded in! Heavens, that was too scary!
4L: It canât be? Weâre the same here! Initially, the game was still ok, then after snatching the dragon, pg pinned us down and taught us a lesson!
5L: Holding grubby paws with 3rd and 4th Bro! We met the same situation! Originally still thought we could win, but after snatching the dragon, we suddenly realized pg fought like they got unsealed. Every member was totally possessed by a war god. Man, that fight was frenzied!
6L: HAHAHAHAHA! pg breaking a seal, youâre killing me!
7L: Fuck, is this real or fake? pg must definitely lose the dragon before they can win? What kind of kooky tactic is this?
8L: Woah! Looking at this title, I still thought I was the one who sent it. Did the people upstairs all snatch the dragon? We did not! Our dragon is gifted to us by pg HAHAHA! Fei Ge directly sent a line into our message box, âGiving you the dragonâ. I snapshot it! [img]
9L: word Ma**, this really seems like some kind of new, secret ploy. time anyone matches up with pg, how will they dare to snatch the dragon?
(**wordćŠïŒ sounds like wo de ma, which is my Ma; Heavens)
Not even twenty minutes later, this topic has accumulated over a few hundred levels. pgâs five members are completely left in the dark, diligently listening to Fang Luofanâs assessment of SoS.
Fang Luofan: âSoS, this team, is similar to Ane. The support is the one in command. However, unlike Ane, SoSâs support favours healing-type demons. Heâll often follow the marksman around, and heâs quite set on the marksmanâs survival. This practice match will be like last time; I wonât give too many instructions. You guys do as you see fit.â
âNo matter which team weâre battling, killing the marksman is always the way to go!â Luo Yiming rubs his knuckles against his hands, eager to begin, âLeave this arduous task to me ba!â
âGo ba! Youâre the man who has to quintuple-kill!â Han Leng pats Luo Yimingâs shoulder twice.
âThis time, Iâll still be the one in command?â Jing Yu look to Qin Fei by his side, requesting his opinion.
Qin Fei doesnât even turn his head and tosses out: âOf course.â
âThen this time, whatever demons weâre banning, youâre all listening to me, right?â Jing Yu definitely wonât let treacherous actions like banning the support, snatching the support happen ever again!
Qin Fei chuckles: âItâs all in your hands.â
Qin Fei is handsome to begin with, but when he smiles, itâs as if heâs radiating light. Even if itâs just his side-profile, it still causes Jing Yu to zone out for a second.
Quickly snapping back to reality, he fixes his gaze on his own screen, subtly taking a deep breath.
Soon enough, itâs 6 pm. Fang Luofan relays the session number and passcode which he received from the other team. pg click into the session one after another.
Once both parties have completed these steps, they proceed to enter ban & pick session. This time, pg receives the advantage and gets to ban first.
Jing Yu immediately says: âBan Camael!â
Han Leng obediently bans Camael. This OP marksman is a character Luo Yiming isnât good at using, so the opponent shouldnât even think about using it.
And then, itâs SoSâs turn to ban demons again. After discussing a bit, they finally decide to ban Nine-Tailed Demon Fox â Ye Hongâs lifeline.
Ye Hong makes a wee smile. He isnât angry. Not in the slightest leastâŠâŠ He will smile and survive this.
âBan Black Serpent.â Jing Yu once again orders.
Ye Hong immediately bans Black Serpent. Not letting him use his lifeline. He wonât let the enemy use this OP mage either!
After another round of struggles, SoS bans Satan.
Seeing their decision, Luo Yimingâs eyes light up: âI have a feeling, this time, my lifeline might just be let out!â
Jing Yu hesitates, then replies: âIn that case, letâs ban Centaur, snatch Cupid.â
âReceived~â Luo Yiming enthusiastically bans Centaur.
To date, pg has eliminated two of the OP marksman, leaving only Dark Cupid. That is the only character that can go head to head with Camael and Centaur.
If theyâre really able to snatch Dark Cupid, then it will be a huge benefit in this practice match. It might even be impossible to not win!
Yet, dreams are always that sweet.
This time, SoS doesnât hesitate. They smoothly ban Dark Cupid.
Luo Yiming: ââŠâŠâ
Jing Yu: ââŠâŠMy condolences.â
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