Chapter 151 (2)
The exchange between Ai Jia and Tong Yao seemed to have the smell of gunpowder. The audience was marveled by it. Tong Yao calmly said: “Recording the video in a small room probably aroused his animalistic side. After he finished the recording, he had to apologize to me with Jin Yang twisting his ear.”
Lu Sicheng: “You can still destroy him even if he apologized.”
Tong Yao nodded: “Right. I’ll let him eat his own words.”
[Junglers]
Old K: My jungle is mine, his jungle is also mine.
(cutaway)
Xbang (looking at the camera confusedly): (with a Xinjiang accent) Is that what he said?
Xbang (turning nervous): (with a Xinjiang accent) It can’t be. I won’t give it!
……
The confusing look on Xbang’s face was so cute that everyone including the players were laughing. Even Old K, with one hand supporting his head, was laughing so hard that his body shook. He waved his arm at the jungler sitting in the next soundproof room and shouted: “You won’t have any choice but to hand it over to me!”
[Tops]
Rongrong: I’ll challenge him one on one. Tell him not to bring his buddy.
(cutaway)
Old Cat: Bring what buddy?
(cutaway)
Rongrong: Everyone knows that ZGDX’s top lane is a two-person lane. I heard that occasionally when the jungler doesn’t come up to top, this particular top would get irritated and give him the silent treatment. So childish.
(cutaway)
Old Cat (reaching over to scratch the red hair on his head): (bleeped)– –Does he have a death wish? Where did he hear that if Old K doesn’t come by that I’ll get irritated and give him the silent treatment? ! I’ll send him a letter from a lawyer for spreading rumors like this!
……
Little Fatty: “Your ability to lie through your teeth is first rate..”
Old Cat indignantly said: “I think so too.”
Little Fatty: “I’m talking about you.”
Old Cat: “……”
Old K: “Hahahahahahahahahahahaha!”
The segment ended with the audience in a delighted mood, still savoring the exchanges between the players. Then background music started to play and on the large screen, it started to show the promotional video for this year’s summer competition which had been recorded before the beginning of the season– —
All twelve teams in the major league and every player of each team were shown in the video. In the beginning of the video, it was a scorching sunny day which symbolized the major league which had performed pretty well during S2 and S3 internationally. Then the sky turned from sunny to cloudy, a thunderstorm suddenly descended. Twisted pop-top cans danced in the wind, abusive graffiti was written on the walls, a mouse stayed put next to a trash can, and the players came out from a heap of rubble with brisk steps, faster and faster– –Players from the last few teams began to run in the thunderstorm; Red Arrow, Huawei, CK, and the last one was ZGDX– –The five players of ZGDX dashed in the rain. The camera pulled nearer, closed in on the faces of each player. In the end, when the five players had run to the end of the alley, the camera gave a close up shot of Lu Sicheng. One of his feet stepped into a puddle at the end of the dilapidated alley, splashing water all over the place!
Accompanied by the boom of thunder, the splashing water beads transformed into broken glass pieces as if the spell of the stormy weather had been broken– –The sky grew calm after the storm and sunlight broke through the clouds.
Parts of the video had been shown numerous times during the summer competition and only now everyone was finally able to see the whole episode– –From sunny to stormy, it represented how the major league had been doing in international competitions throughout the years. The metaphor in each scene indicated the status of the region was gut wrenching to the fans until the scene when Lu Sicheng trampled the gloominess into pieces– —
The whole audience stood up at that very moment, cheering, applauding, and chanting “LPL”![1]
[1]: The title of the Chinese profession league is “League of Legends Pro League” normally shortened to LPL.
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