"..."
Chen Jing turned on spectator mode, watching like it was a TV show, occasionally tapping his mechanical keyboard to send messages to Sheng Kuang's WeChat, treating their chat window like a bullet screen.
As soon as a match ended, Chen Jing sent two more "bullet screen" messages. Just as he was about to log off and play in the peak matches, he caught sight of a familiar name on the game's loading screen: gdt·sinian.
CeC·senced: Seriously running into Yang Sian?
CeC·senced: What a fated encounter.
CeC·senced: Besides Yang Sian, there's also gdt's second team's mid laner and support. This game is going to be tough.
CeC·senced: Yang Sian is streaming. A lot of people in his stream are already talking about you.
...
Sheng Kuang didn't notice the accidental match at first. After entering the game, he bought his jungle knife and headed out of the crystal as usual.
Standing in the bush by the blue buff, he was waiting for the blue buff to respawn when Qin Yu's voice came through his headphones: "We've matched with gdt. The opponents are Yang Sian and his team."
At the same time, two lines of small text appeared on the game screen.
[All] gdt·Gu Xi (Kan Ze Mo Xie): Kuang Ge, what a coincidence.
[All] gdt·Qi Yue (Gui Gu Zi): Kuang Shen.
Lin Jing also noticed the opponent's IDs after hearing Qin Yu.
There were three gdt professional players. Besides the two who greeted Sheng Kuang, Yang Sian remained silent throughout.
Sheng Kuang didn't reply to the greetings from the two gdt players. He directly pinged "Request to Assemble," and with the help of a skill from the mid laner and another from the top laner, he cleared his own blue buff as quickly as possible. Without even touching the small jungle camps in the blue buff area, he went straight through the river into the enemy's red buff area. He crouched in the bush between the Overlord and the enemy's red buff, timing his smite perfectly to steal Yang Sian's last hit on the red buff.
Having stolen the red buff, Sheng Kuang marked his own red buff, signaling the ADC in the bottom lane to check it. Then, he took a wave of minions in the mid lane and, with Qin Yu, directly entered the enemy's blue buff area.
Lin Jing had chosen Yao this game and stayed with the mid laner before level four. Seeing Sheng Kuang and Qin Yu head to the enemy's blue buff area, she followed them.
Because Sheng Kuang had stolen the red buff, the enemy's mid laner and top laner were in the blue buff area. Sheng Kuang had no intention of engaging in a team fight. He took the blue buff and left. Qin Yu used a crowd control skill to help Sheng Kuang delay the three enemies and also retreated. Only Lin Jing reacted a bit slowly. She was hit by several skills from the three enemies, transformed into a fawn, and gave up the first blood.
After reaching level four, Lin Jing jumped onto Sheng Kuang, just as before.
Five minutes into the game, Sheng Kuang infiltrated the enemy's blue buff area, stole their blue buff, and as he retreated, Yang Sian knocked Lin Jing off Sheng Kuang, and she died again.
Seven minutes into the game, Sheng Kuang hid in a bush, watching Yang Sian take down the Overlord. At the last moment, he used smite to steal the Overlord and then casually walked away. Lin Jing was once again knocked off Sheng Kuang by Yang Sian and died under the combined attacks of several approaching enemies.
Lin Jing revived and continued to head towards Sheng Kuang. As she reached their own tier-two mid-lane tower, Sheng Kuang marked the ADC in the bottom lane.
Lin Jing thought he was warning the ADC to be careful and continued to move towards Sheng Kuang.
"Lin Jing," Sheng Kuang, who had been silent since the start of the game, suddenly spoke.
Lin Jing opened her voice chat: "Huh?"
Sheng Kuang: "Go with the ADC."
Lin Jing: "Oh."
Sheng Kuang let out a soft laugh: "If you stay with me, you'll keep dying."
"..."
Lin Jing's ears felt hot from his inexplicable laugh. After a few seconds, she said "Oh" again and then openly moved along the river towards the ADC in the bottom lane.
He Wang marked in their own red buff area: "Jing Mei, go this way."
Li Xiaozhou in the top lane: "Classmate Xiao Lin, don't cross the river, go around through your own jungle."
Qin Yu: "There's no vision in the river. The enemy jungler and top laner might be in the bush in front of the dragon pit."
As the three of them finished their warnings, Lin Jing transformed into a fawn.
Lin Jing, scared, didn't dare to use her third skill to transform back from a fawn. She immediately turned and ran. Qin Yu moved towards her: "Yao, hold on, I'll be right there."
The Yao in deer spirit form couldn't be attacked, but it only lasted for six seconds. As time ticked past the halfway mark, Lin Jing felt she wouldn't meet up with Qin Yu and would die again when Sheng Kuang's figure appeared: "Get on."
Lin Jing didn't even see where Sheng Kuang was, only hearing these two words, she instinctively used her first and third skills.
Before she even realized what was happening, she was standing on Sheng Kuang's head.
At this moment, Qin Yu and He Wang had arrived. Seeing only three enemies, Sheng Kuang turned back without hesitation.
It was a four-on-three, and although Lin Jing felt she wasn't really part of the "four," perhaps more like three and a half against three, regardless, in this team fight, Yang Sian and the other two gdt members were eliminated.
He Wang, with half health, entered their own red buff area to jungle and regenerate health. Sheng Kuang, while Yang Sian was respawning, swept through the enemy's blue buff area like a bandit, clearing it all out.
Sheng Kuang, with less than a quarter of his health remaining, wanted to return to the crystal to heal. He stood in the mid-lane bush: "Go find He Wang."
Lin Jing: "Huh?"
"Never mind," Sheng Kuang interrupted his recall, used a few displacement skills, and moved to He Wang's side in the bottom lane: "I'll send you over instead."
【Lin Jing: yLs team mascot, everyone's darling, *coo~*】