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Published at 24th of August 2021 11:49:01 AM


Chapter 55: My Teammates Are All Crazy Chapter 55

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A bit of a Reminder on Positions: PL, Wing, GY, Fly, HI Sleepy, Leaf, ONE, GF, HHH

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【System】Frozen Heart has conquered the Demonic Dragon!

【System】The Dragon Army is infiltrating the Battlefield!

【System】Burial Sword, Triple Kill!

【System】The ally Frozen Heart has been slain!

【System】Burial Sword, Quadrakill!

【System】The ally Sariel has been slain!

Having failed to snatch the dragon, Fly aces PG in his rage, turning the headcount around to 13 : 14 and gaining ANE a lead of one head over PG.

Regardless… What does that matter?

PG being aced, PG falling back in headcount… None of these change the fact that Jing Yu snatched the dragon.

Both parties’ demons revive after some time, and PG follows the Dragon Army to charge towards ANE’s turrets, each and every member unveiling their bloodthirsty natures!

Halfling: 【It’s happening! Satan tanks and ganks! Scarlet Fury Flashes and Ults! Dark Cupid battles in close-range!】

The system prompts informing everyone of the enemy demons’ deaths fly past the screen one after another. The screen of the livestream is covered with comment bullets declaring 【66666】.

Candy: 【Team PG suddenly goes berserk as though they’ve suppressed it for too long! They’re destroying ANE’s towers at an unstoppable rate!】

【The moment PG gets the opportunity, they blaze into an utterly inhuman speed!】Halfling’s tone when he commentates is wholly gratified, as though he’s gone wild after being oppressed for too long, 【At the same time, we can see that when it comes to countering the Dragon Army, ANE loses out to PG in practice and speed. After PG violently opened Team with them, most of the damage ANE suffered were all made to their creeps. Looks like the winner of this round is already decided!】

Just as Halfling predicted, not even a few minutes after ANE were aced, with the aid of Dragon Army, PG tears down all of ANE’s towers in the Top, Mid, and Bottom Lane! All members then invade ANE’s territory, and they burst into a crazed flurry of attacks at the Strongholds!

Even if ANE makes a hasty revival at the eleventh hour, there’s nothing they can do. They can only watch helplessly as their own family’s Strongholds are smashed to bits.

“Victory”, this large golden word, blows up on the screens of PG. It’s at that moment Luo Yiming lets out a shrill, emotional cry: “AAAAAAAAAAAHHH—”

Han Leng pulls off his headphones and slams it on the desk. He, too, hollers animatedly: “WON! WE WON—”

Ye Hong simply looks on at the pair. Though he hardly says a word, the smile on his face speaks for itself.

Jing Yu pulls down his earphones, leaning backwards to rest against the back of the chair. He feels boneless from head to toe. He doesn’t want to move even an inch.

This round is so exhausting ah……

He stayed in the zone throughout the game. The later they got into the game, the more he didn’t allow himself to make one bit of a mistake. Thus, though the round has ended, he remains on edge, unable to relax for a long time.

At the same time, his hands seem to disobey his orders too……

Just when that thought crosses his mind, his right hand is suddenly caught by someone!

Jing Yu jumps and turns his head subconsciously, only to see Qin Fei looking at his hand, his expression intense.

Jing Yu follows his gaze to his own hand, only to see it trembling slightly……

“You work yourself too hard.” Qin Fei bites out these words in an off-handed manner, and pulls Jing Yu’s hand over to gently knead and massage.

Feeling that touch all over his hand, Jing Yu’s mind explodes with a loud boom and loses its ability to function for a long time.

He allows Qin Fei to rub at his hand, only coming back to his senses a while later and saying tentatively: “I’m fine……”

Qin Fei: “Give me your other hand.”

Jing Yu obediently presses his other hand into Qin Fei’s palm.

Qin Fei glances at him in amusement, helping him to knead the other hand too before speaking: “You did well. Let’s bag the next game too in one go!”

Jing Yu lowers his head and “En”s in reply.

He thinks he should pull back his hand, but for some reason……he can’t.

Even though he said “I’m fine”, he really wants nothing more than for Qin Fei to help rub his hand for a while longer.

This feeling is kind of nice…… He must be mad.

Qin Fei takes in his reaction and can’t resist a chuckle, but doesn’t say anything else. After releasing his hand, he gets up to go to the lavatory.

Jing Yu raises his head subconsciously to stare dazedly after his back.

-Until Ye Hong waves a hand before his face: “Little Goldfish?”

Jing Yu snaps back to himself: “En?”

Ye Hong raises his brows: “So absorbed in looking at Fei Ge?”

Jing Yu’s face reddens. Though he’s a bit abashed, he still forces out a reply seriously: “No.”

Ye Hong can’t help but laugh, pretending not to have noticed his dazed expression just now and talking about the game: “You were so underhanded just now when you snatched the dragon ah! ANE’s Jungler is definitely pissed halfway to death!”

“Hahahahaha! Suddenly, my mind’s all filled with ANE’s reaction when we snatched the dragon!” Luo Yiming chucks his head in abruptly, “All of a sudden, it seems like snatching the dragon’s far more fun than opening Team! Maybe we should also learn from MOMO – It’s okay to lose the battle, but the dragon must be snatched!”

Jing Yu turns a deaf ear to his words.

Right at this moment, the result of the skill tabulations comes out. This round’s MVP unquestioningly goes to Jing Yu’s Frozen Heart!

Halfling: 【Goldfish’s Frozen Heart turned the situation several times and was absolutely vital in the team battles and dragon-snatching! This title of the MVP is most definitely well-deserved!】

Candy: 【Congratulations to PG on winning the first round of the match! The second round shall begin in 10 minutes. Let’s take a short break and meet again in 10 minutes~】

10 minutes is a short duration. On PG’s side, everyone changes their ways of relaxing.

Some stretch their feet; some listen to music; and some even flop onto the sofa to switch off for a bit.

In contrast, ANE’s atmosphere is freakishly sombre.

For a long time after the game, all five members of ANE persisted with this terrifying silence, not even bothering to take down their headphones.

In the end, it’s still ANE’s support sans command – HI, who first puts his headphones on the desk.

With him taking the lead, the four others also follow one after the other, taking off their headphones.

No sooner had they done that, HI’s especially strict tone drifts over to them: “This isn’t the right way to go. Frozen Heart’s too tricky to deal with. Without Jinghua Shuiyue, I can’t keep him in check at all.”

He falls into another extended silence, then he makes his decision and announces: “We can only ban him.”

Upon hearing those words, the other members of ANE are all startled, clearly at odds.

The Jungler Fly is the first to object: “If both his Moonshadow Spider and Frozen Heart are banned, what jungler will he use? What if he pulls out an even nastier demon? Even though Frozen Heart is difficult to deal with, for better or worse, we’ve at least spent some time studying him and developed a set of counter measures.”

HI: “You said it. We’ve spent some time looking into him and deliberately targeted him in-game. But as a result?”

–As a result, Frozen Heart flipped the situation around multiple times and even became the MVP!

Mid-laner Wing hesitates a beat before suggesting: “How about letting Moonshadow Spider out and snatching Jinghua Shuiyue?”

HI: “We’re the first-mover. PG naturally knows we will snatch Jinghua Shuiyue. Do you think they’ll still let me have it?”

Wing: “Even without Jinghua Shuiyue, if the whole team equips with Release, Moonshadow Spider shouldn’t pose that big a threat?”

HI: “Did you forget PG’s Mid-laner knows how to use Spirit Ward?”

Wing: “……”

Wing: “Che! Ye Zi is really too much…… His cardpool’s too deep. It’s as if there’s no demon he doesn’t know how to use.”

Fly: “What should we do in that case? Don’t tell me we’re going to ban both Moonshadow Spider and Frozen Heart for real? Won’t Qin Fei’s Lilith be let out then? As a solo-laner, she seems to be even more troublesome than Satan ah?”

Solo-laner PL: “Snatch Lilith! I can do it!”

Marksman GY: “No no, you can’t! Lilith’s HP is too low, each time she team battles, her blood fluctuates so much, just the sight of it makes me panic!”

PL: “……Then what do you say we do?”

GY: “I also dunno wah**.”

(**a slurred form of ah)

Having heard up to this point, HI can only feel a migraine building – He’d truly underestimated this player, Goldfish, and looked down on his Frozen Heart too much.

Right now, ANE is in this fix all because of Goldfish.

If they’ve got enough ban slots, HI truly wants to ban all of this person’s demons in one breath!

That’s just an empty wish though. After a brief pause, HI speaks up evenly again:

“Be it Qin Fei’s Lilith or ONE’s Dark Cupid, they’re both demons we’re familiar with. Even if they’re strong, we know how to counter them. If things boil down to it, we can drag out the latter half to the best of our ability. Lilith can’t tank our damages then* so we’ll have the upperhand in Team. But in the case of Goldfish’s Frozen Heart, the moment Little Fly’s Burial Sword fails to Defend against his Ult in time, our whole team will be grinded into the ground by PG.”

(*G/E: Lilith can’t tank, because her HP is low. In the latter stage, everyone has levelled up, so their AD is much higher.)

That actually…… really seems to make sense.

ANE sinks into a long, collective silence.

At last, it is still Fly who expresses his stance first: “Alright. Let’s ban them all. And also, I’m making a stab in the dark, but he might just use Mandala Petals.”

“Uh?” PL’s alarmed, “Doesn’t that up the difficulty? Mandala Petals outmatches Frozen Heart and Moonshadow Spider by a lot ah!”

At the very least, there are quite a few who use Mandala Petals in PGL. This demon can be considered the Assassin-class Junglers’ No. 1.

HI has naturally considered this point, but he has his own thoughts on it: “My intention is to bet on that. According to the news online, Goldfish hasn’t played LD for more than a couple of months, so I don’t think he knows how to use Mandala Petals.”

Pausing here, he smiles wanly, “In any case, be it Frozen Heart or Moonshadow Spider, our chances of winning aren’t optimistic if either are let out. So why not ban them all and scope out his cardpool.”

Fly: “True. After all, it’s already confirmed we will be advancing to the next round. Losing here is no big deal. We can just take it back in the Elimination Round.”

Looking from that angle…… The other members replay the conversation in their heads, individually putting down their worries.

PL: “Alright. Let’s bet on it.”

Wing: “En. Anything’s better than having me face off with Ye Zi’s Spirit Ward.”

GY: “Even if we lose, it’s only a loss! The key thing is not to lose in the Elimination Round!”

Just like that, ANE cheerfully comes to an agreement – They’re going to ban Goldfish’s Frozen Heart and Moonshadow Spider!

After all, they did lose the round while aiming at Frozen Heart. If Frozen Heart comes on stage again, their morale is going to take a huge plunge. It will be even harder to win against PG.

10 minutes later, the second round begins.

ANE is the first-mover, and right from the get-go, they ban Frozen Heart! This stupefies the commentators, astounds the comments barrage, and also, it bewilders PG!

Luo Yiming: “The fuck?!”

Ye Hong: “Did they crash after getting beaten by Goldfish’s Frozen Heart?”

Han Leng: “Does this mean they intend to snatch Jinghua Shuiyue to counter Goldfish’s Moonshadow Spider?”

Jing Yu: “Ban Jinghua Shuiyue.”

PG bans Jinghua Shuiyue, then it’s ANE’s turn to ban again.

ANE doesn’t even hesitate. They instaban Moonshadow Spider!

PG: “? ? ?”

Candy: 【ANE’s second ban is also the Jungler! My God! Two bans splurged on the Jungler, this has got to be the first in the history of LGPL!】

Halfling: 【You’re exactly right! Looks like ANE’s really terrified of Goldfish’s prowess. But with this, which jungler will Goldfish use? What surprise does he have in store for us?】

Candy: 【Wah, I’m so hyped up for it! Let’s all wait for it!】

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Mara: Finally, our little Mandala will shine~~ Poor Frozen Heart, he’s probably sulking that he can’t play…

[Frozen Heart: Why does no one want me except Gold Fish?? I’m strong, y-y-you just haven’t tried to see beyond my walls… please? *whimper*]

Tamago: Is that how he was again? It should be–

[Frozen Heart: *Growing mushrooms, hugging his knees to his chest in the pitch black labyrinth where all banned demons go* sobs. Moonshadow Spider: ……… *Spiderweb!* *Frozen Heart is CC’ed inside Cocoon!* *Moonshadow Spider rocks Frozen Heart gently to-and-fro* Frozen Heart: *Inside* *Eyes wide* *Asphyxiating* Pant… pant… pant… PANT–]

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Countdown till Last Day: 3

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