Do you have the attitude of leading people [e-sports]

In the evening of the next day, amidst the blue flame effects and the cheers of the audience, the "League of Legends" global finals officially opened.

Every year in the World Championships, commentators and hosts from all over the world will wear some local characteristics in their clothes.

For example, today, Jiang Wan wore a white shirt with Chinese style elements and ribbons, and a navy blue coat on the outside, and Huo Yu wore a Tang suit with dark blue and light gold patterns. The island in the middle wore a bun and wore a white background. The cheongsams worn by the three of them are different shades of blue at first glance, visually very comfortable.

Before the show started, Jiang Wan was hesitant about whether to wear this dress.

"It's too fancy." He hesitantly pinched the knotted streamer around his neckline, "Should I change to an ordinary shirt?"

"Don't, this looks good." The stylist persuaded the host and Kojima together, "It's so beautiful to wear, you must have a good-looking person to wear it effectively."

Oh, they praised him for his good looks.

So Jiang Wan accepted the suggestion and wore this fairy shirt.

The group stage opener is hosts LCS.EU's No. [-] seed against LCK's No. [-] seed.

This kind of competition with a lot of overseas players is Jiang Wan's home game, because he knows these players and their familiar tactics and hero pool very well.

After doing two overseas teams' commentary, I finally came to the opening game of LPL, where STAR appeared.

Jiang Wan was refreshed, after all, he hadn't seen Lu Shen for several days.

As long as you can meet people, even from a distance, you will be in a good mood.

"Next up is the favorite team to win this year's global finals, and also our No. [-] seed in the LPL, Team STAR!"

In Jiang Wan's voice, the STAR team appeared on the stage.

When the STAR members appeared on the stage, Jiang Wan was still the same as every time before, admiring his favorite team and his boyfriend from the big screen in front of him.

From the spring game to the finals, he has already developed the ability to think "Ah, brother Shenn is so handsome~~~" in his heart, and introduce Shenn's historical record without any fluctuations in his mouth.

Seeing Lu Shen raised his right hand and waved towards the audience, the crowd cheered and the lights flashed.

As one of the most powerful players in active service, no matter which arena Lu Shen is in, many fans come for him.

"This is the captain of STAR, the team's jungler Shenn, he—" Jiang Wan introduced proudly, with a slight pause in his voice.

Although it was not obvious, he could see that there seemed to be a piece of skin-colored dressing on Lu Shen's left hand hanging by his side.

Are you hurt?

However, after a pause that was so short that it could be ignored, Jiang Wan continued without any disturbance, "He led the team to win the championship in the past MSI, and also performed very well in the just-concluded LPL Summer Split."

Jiang Wan on the commentary stage is a ruthless professional machine, and all emotions that have nothing to do with the game must be downplayed.In less than half a second, he adjusted his state and continued to explain.

In the follow-up shots, Jiang Wan confirmed that there was indeed something stuck on Lu Shen's hand, but Huo Yu and Xiao Dao didn't see it, so he didn't take the initiative to mention it.Fortunately, Lu Shen's performance was not affected, and the details were perfect.

In the group stage, STAR had no opponents. They easily won the game. LPL also won the next two games and got off to a good start.

That night, domestic social media was full of joy.

Jiang Wan sent a message to Siwei directly after the game, asking about Lu Shen's situation.

Although he knows that injuries are inevitable for professional players, his boyfriend, who was fine before the start, suddenly got injured at the start of the game, and he is still very worried.

"Have you noticed this?" Siwei was a little surprised, "He wanted to hide it."

"It's a ganglion cyst. It's not very serious. It will be removed after preparing for the finals." Siwei added, "Don't worry, Lu Shen is in a good competitive state now. We have been preparing pain-relieving dressings for him and are also adjusting training. direction."

As part of the LPL audience, Jiang Wan felt relieved after learning that Lu Shen's operations would not be affected.

But the concern about being a boyfriend can't stop at all, the operation is not important at all, the important thing is that Lu Shen was injured.

Jiang Wan opened the notebook to search for ganglion cysts, and asked Siwei: "Will he be in pain?"

Siwei was silent for a while, and replied: "Lu Shen said it didn't hurt, but I guess it's not as easy as he said."

He quickly added: "But don't worry, our team doctor is now in place 24 hours a day. If Lu Shen has any questions, we will pay attention to him as soon as possible."

After a pause, Siwei said again: "Although the competition training must be closed, if there is a serious situation that requires going to the hospital, we will notify the family members in time, so as long as we don't find you, you can rest assured."

The word "family" and Siwei's statement made Jiang Wan feel comforted.

Siwei asked again: "Do you want me to convey something to Lu Shen? Like condolences."

"No need." Jiang Wan did not hesitate this time, "If he knows that I know about his situation, he will definitely know that I will worry about him, and then he will also worry about my state. This is just a set of dolls. I don't want him to share Heart."

"Well, thank you for your understanding." Siwei said, "If there is a situation, I will definitely inform you, and the team doctor is quite optimistic about his condition. He is also in good condition now. You don't have to worry at all, and don't delay your work."

"Okay." Jiang Wan smiled.

Jiang Wan was indeed worried, but he knew better that Lu Shen was the kind of person who would find a way to appease Jiang Wan if he knew that Jiang Wan was worried about him. He didn't want Lu Shen to be distracted, so he didn't let Siwei convey his comfort .

The little translator is now in the LPL training room, helping ZG's Korean players to translate. Jiang Wan thought about it, and gave up on asking him to help check Lu Shen's situation.

Because I felt that as long as the little translator appeared at Lu Shen's place, Lu Shen would definitely guess that Jiang Wan knew about it.

To Jiang Wan's surprise, when the little translator came back, he was holding a doll and a USB flash drive in his hand.

"Brother, Siwei gave you this." The little translator said.

"Siwei?" Jiang Wan was stunned.

"Yes." The little translator said.

Jiang Wan took the toy doll blankly, it was a little corgi doll, it was so soft that it relieved pressure when pinched.

He inserted the USB flash drive into the computer, and the little translator sensibly avoided it. Inside was a folder named "Burn After Reading".

Jiang Wan opened it, and there were several photos inside. The computer screen in the photos had been mosaiced.

Of course, the protagonist of the photo is Lu Shen.

Lu Shen was training, Lu Shen compared scissorhands to the camera, Lu Shen turned his face to talk to Tiara, and the whole team jogged downstairs under the unified arrangement of the team doctor.

Obviously, Lu Shen didn't know that these photos were taken for Jiang Wan. He probably thought that Siwei used them as sideshow content, so his expression was very casual when he looked at the camera.

Jiang Wan immediately understood Siwei's intention.

Siwei knew that he said calmly, and he would definitely be worried in his heart. Although the training is now closed and he cannot be allowed to see Lu Shen, he still took a photo of Lu Shen and told him that there is really no problem, so that he can feel at ease.

After Jiang Wan deleted all those photos, he sent a message on Siwei WeChat, "Wow."

-STAR four-dimensional: Damn.

-STAR Siwei: Quickly withdraw, if you see me deeply, I will die

Jiang Wan couldn't help laughing, and cooperatively withdrew the message.

-

The group stage continued smoothly and orderly, and all games ended after ten match days.

STAR qualified first in the group, TRG and ZG came second in the group, and ZXG regrettably lost to the second seed of the LCK in the extra match and failed to advance to the quarterfinals.

After a few days of rest, there will be a knockout round.

The knockout round is divided into four groups according to the group stage, divided into upper and lower halves, with the first and second groups and the third and fourth groups on each side.

The rule of the battle is that the first in each group will play against the second in the next group, and the winner will enter the semi-finals, and the winners of the semi-finals in the two halves will compete for the final championship.

In the LPL team, STAR and ZXG are in one half, and TRG and ZG are in the other half. ZXG failed to enter the knockout round at all, so until the finals, STAR will not encounter the LPL civil war.

Considering that [-]% of the finalists in the other half of the region are the LCK team SU, STAR should not face civil war throughout the finals.

After ZXG was eliminated, they directly bought tickets to return to China. For them, this competition has broken through history, so everyone retreated happily.

The staff of the LPL delegation sent them off, while the other teams were still preparing for the battle.

In fact, preparing for the game will not prevent you from seeing outsiders 24 hours a day. In previous years, you can see each other for a while, but because of the incident with the Xiaoao Private League LCK team, this time the players directly adopt closed-loop management, including domestic training partner teams. It's all the same, no one should even think about contacting outsiders.

On the night when ZXG went to the airport, Lu Shen watched the replay in the training room.

After the hand injury, his training volume was reduced to 60% of his usual level, because it was indeed painful, and he was afraid that strenuous exercise would make it worse, and the pain-relieving dressing could not be kept on, and his skin would be allergic.

So ZXG's jungler volunteered to stay and practice with him. Although his skills are not as good as Lu Shen's, at least he can help gather five of STAR's other players when they need training.

The staff of other teams also knew about Lu Shen's situation, and sent various traditional Chinese medicine painkillers and plasters, and piled up a dozen on the side of the table.

Another brother didn't know where he heard that eating apples can relieve pain, so he sent a lot of apples to Lu Shen.

The team thought that Apple and Pingan are homophonic, which means more auspicious, so they arranged for everyone to eat some every day, at least to supplement vitamins.

The rest of STAR was playing, and Lu Shen was watching the replay on a single seat in the back, a little bit distracted, thinking that Jiang Wan should be at the airport now, it would be great if he could go too.

It's a pity that he didn't dare to be distracted at all on the field, and this time the stage was too big, and Jiang Wan was far away, so he could only watch a silhouette from a distance. .

"After ZXG left, I felt a lot empty." Someone said behind me.

Lu Shen turned his head and saw Bai Ye standing there.

Lu Shen smiled, and ignored Bai Ye's criticism, because Bai Ye's words were obviously a bit melancholy. The players who entered the knockout round for the first time saw their brother's team eliminated, and thought that the road ahead became a little lonely. a negative emotion.

If he continued talking, Bai Ye would be even more melancholy.

So Lu Shen changed the subject and asked him, "Have you finished training?"

"After practice, why don't I come to you? I played a... oh, I can't tell you." Bai Ye smiled, "Brother, how are your hands these two days?"

"It's okay, it's not a big problem." Lu Shen said, "But it will definitely affect the operation a little bit."

"Understood." Bai Ye suddenly smiled, "Actually, I'm here to give you warmth today."

"Send warmth?" Lu Shen froze for a moment.

Bai Ye nodded: "I had a bone fracture in my hand before. At that time, I studied a set of blind games with the fewest operations. Today I will tell you to help you free your hands as much as possible."

Lu Shen was a little dizzy.

Bai Ye conjured up a few sheets of A4 paper that had just been printed and was still warm to the touch and handed them to Lu Shen. Lu Shen saw that there was a huge and complicated mind map on it, with four large characters written on it:

"Blind Monk Cheats!"

Lu Shen opened it and took a look.

The first column lists the overall idea of ​​this game: "Speed ​​push in the early stage (partial attack/partial operation promotion), mid-term poke (partial attack/partial defense), development delay (partial defense/extreme defense)", and then each path Below is a new box showing the offensive and defensive wards.

Next, based on the position of the opponent's jungler, the sequence of clearing the jungle is given, and even if they are some kind of hero, let them control the pawn line at a certain position, and which way to grab in a few minutes.

Top junglers can compress the speed of clearing the jungle to the extreme through pulling the wild, so the order of clearing the wild is accurate to the second, and it also gives each wild monster a countermeasure if it is invaded by the opponent.

"The style of play with the fewest operations is extreme avoidance of battle, no fighting, just brushing wilds, and freeing your hands to the maximum." Bai Ye pointed to one of the paths, "Just follow this path, of course, if you are actively looking for a fight to fight the rhythm It's going to be messy - just like every time you beat me, but I also have a lot of coping ideas. Anyway, this thing still has to be learned and used, and it also depends on teammates. After all, it is a team game. But I think at least before the finals, You should have no problem operating with this battle-avoiding style of play.”

Lu Shen flipped through this mind map and was actually surprised.

He had previously felt that Bai Ye's understanding of the blind monk was very strong, and he was not on the same level as his other heroes. STAR would weigh and ban him when he beat him.

Now after reading this mind map, Lu Shen probably understands that Bai Ye has already learned about this hero at any point in the game and knows what this hero should do to have the highest winning rate.

At this level, the operation is no longer to make up for the shortcomings but to simply add to the cake.

The problem is that it takes a lot of time and energy to study a hero to this point, and it will keep changing with the version. This is really a "cheat book" that is purely personal understanding.

In the game, although Lu Shen can instinctively make most of the decisions in the cheats, if he really memorizes them, it means that he will not make any mistakes in decision-making.

Bai Ye actually gave him such precious information without reservation in order to alleviate the burden of his hand injury?

Lu Shen looked at Bai Ye.

Bai Ye seemed completely unaware of Lu Shen's thoughts, or maybe he didn't care at all.

Because if it weren't for pulling Lu Shen to play training games, being abused by Lu Shen all the time, and getting stronger through the beatings, he wouldn't be able to improve as much as riding a rocket in the past two years.

"If you find it useful, remember to thank me in your acceptance speech." Bai Ye grinned.

-

The quarterfinals came quickly, and STAR's opponent was a team from the LCS.Lu Shen did experiment with Bai Ye's style of play, it was very easy to use, and it really didn't take much effort.

However, after leading 2-0, his blind monk was banned, so the last game was still the old way, and he easily advanced to the semi-finals 3-0.

On the other side, ZG ran into SU and was eliminated. TRG defeated the first place in the other group 3-2 and advanced to the semi-finals. They will encounter SU in the semi-finals.

After the semi-finals, the game will be played in another city. Originally, Lu Shen thought that he would be able to see Jiang Wan when he changed cities and took the bus, but it turned out that because of the closed loop, the players could only be with the players, which caused him a lot of headaches.

The last MSI was only three or five days away. It has been almost half a month since the group stage plus the quarter-finals, and the semi-finals plus the finals, it is estimated that it will take another half a month.

Lu Shen concentrates on the game most of the time, but when he is free, such as when the team is jogging at night, he will miss Jiang Wan very much, but in this situation, he can't sneak out to meet people.

Fortunately, as a wounded man, he can get a mobile phone every day, chat with Jiang Wan on WeChat for a while, and talk about the pain of lovesickness.

Although the whole process was under the supervision of Siwei, and even had to record the screen, anyway, the two of them flirted with each other and sent some kitten Lu Qian's emoji packs, so it was not a big problem.

Such days continued until the penultimate day before the Final Four.

That night Lu Shen was still watching the replay, and then, just like in the group stage, Liu Li pushed the door in and said, "Brothers! We're here to express condolences again!"

Recalling the last condolence experience, Lu Shen was not very interested, but last time he took a video, and this time he will definitely do it again, and every semi-finals will have some League of Legends game leaders, such as Greater China The District COO (Chief Operating Officer) or something came over, they were regarded as the parents of food and clothing, and they had to show face, so he stood up cooperatively.

At a glance, he saw Liu Li, deputy team leader Zhu, the familiar leaders of the League of Legends country, Xiao Dao and Jiang Wan who were following behind.

Lu Shen's eyes lit up all of a sudden.

Jiang Wan also looked for him as soon as he entered the house, and the two looked at each other, as if they had a tacit understanding.

But most of the people who came to condolences this time are not familiar with them, so Lu Shen can't talk to Jiang Wan about anything, he can only pretend to be stupid, and hope that the leaders will leave quickly. Say a few words.

Lu Shen is currently the most famous player in the LPL. Naturally, he was treated as a national treasure for a round, took a few group photos, and was asked if there was any problem with his hand injury. The leaders finally retreated to the next door TRG.

Only Liu Li, deputy team leader Zhu who was holding a camera to shoot, Jiang Wan, STAR's operation Qiaoqiao, and Xiao Dao were left in the room.

Jiang Wan ran over quickly.

Fanda cooperatively pushed a chair to Lu Shen's side.

After nodding to a few team members and saying hello, Jiang Wan sat directly next to Lu Shen, "Brother Shen, how is your hand?"

"It's okay." Lu Shen smiled, "Just a little injury."

"A small injury, a ganglion cyst is not a minor ailment." Jiang Wan glared at him, then stretched out his hand, "Let me take a look."

Lu Shen was taken aback. He originally thought that Jiang Wan knew that his hand was injured during the conversation just now, because his cyst was on the inside of his wrist, and he kept putting on skin-colored dressings during the game. He didn't want Jiang Wan to see it.

But he didn't say the word "ganglion cyst" just now.

"When did you know?" Lu Shen asked.

"I knew it in the first game of the group stage." Jiang Wan said, "You have such a big piece on your hand, I can't see it."

Is it big?

Lu Shen thought about it, it's really not obvious.

"Hurry up, let me take a look." Jiang Wan urged again.

Lu Shen couldn't refute anymore, so he obediently passed his left hand in front of Jiang Wan, with the palm facing up, and there was a whitish bulge on the inside of his wrist.

Jiang Wan frowned slightly, his eyes full of distress.

He hesitated for a while, considering whether it was appropriate to have so many people, and finally, cautiously, grabbed the slightly lower part of Lu Shen's wrist.

In fact, it is holding hands, holding hands with less obvious movements.

Although Liu Li and the others are right at the door, this corner is not considered hidden, but feelings can't be hidden in the first place, and since we haven't seen each other for so long, I don't want to suppress it anymore.

The two of them didn't care that much, if they were seen, they would be seen.

Being held by Jiang Wan, Lu Shen felt very warm on his wrist. Jiang Wan rubbed his fingers upwards slightly, but his movements were very small, for fear of touching the cyst.

"Will it hurt?" Jiang Wan asked.

"It's okay." Lu Shen looked at him and smiled, "You don't feel any pain here."

Jiang Wan also smiled, but his brows were still furrowed, "Stupid words."

"Really." Lu Shen said, "Seeing you here makes me feel better, nothing happened."

Tiara on the side drank water silently, choking on dry dog ​​food.

"Take good care of yourself." Jiang Wan whispered, and he looked around Lu Shen's table again, seeing so many plasters, traditional Chinese medicine, painkillers and apples, he was stunned.

"This is all given to me by my brothers." Lu Shen said with a smile, "Don't worry, everyone cares about me. I will definitely win a championship and go back."

He felt like he laughed more in one night than in the past few days.

"I don't care about the champion... at least not just the champion." Jiang Wan looked at Lu Shen's wrist, and then looked up at him, "I just heard that if the ganglion cyst is serious, it's not easy to deal with, so you must pay attention to your body. Health comes first."

Lu Shen has received a lot of comfort, but Jiang Wan's comfort is different to him.

This person is special, he coincidentally appeared at every important moment in Lu Shen's career, and gave Lu Shen a lot of comfort, so Lu Shen very much hoped that he would be there this time, and now he is.

Lu Shen always felt that he was a strong and independent person, but only when he saw Jiang Wan did he realize how much strength he had gained from being watched by these eyes.

Lu Shen touched Jiang Wan's face, smiled, and nodded solemnly: "Don't worry."

"Brother Liu, this, this, this..." Deputy team leader Zhu held up the video recorder, looked at Liu Li helplessly, and could not speak.

Although the young couple didn't do anything out of the ordinary, they didn't feel tense after the leaders left. The atmosphere between the two of them was too obvious.

Touching hands and face, sweetness is quite sweet, but deputy team leader Zhu was completely shocked.

It was the first time he came out publicly, and he was the first jungler and first commentator. Although he thought it was nothing, he didn’t know how to deal with it, and homosexuality was not well accepted after all. The leader Liu Li was still very serious when he was serious. He was not sure whether Liu Li would have any opinion on the two of them on such a sensitive issue.

So he looked at Liu Li nervously, thinking about how to persuade him later.

"What, what, what, what happened to the young couple meeting before the game." Liu Li glanced at the deputy leader Zhu, "Just pretend you didn't see anything, and delete this material when you go back, what a big deal."

Deputy team leader Zhu: "...Oh."