Lantingting left, and only Lin Jing and Sheng Kuang remained in the room.
No one spoke. Although they were both on voice chat, there was complete silence from both ends.
The game interface seemed frozen, and after a long moment of silence, Sheng Kuang’s voice came from the phone: "Not starting?"
"Huh?" Lin Jing responded, only then realizing that after Lantingting left, the host had shifted to her.
Sheng Kuang said, "Or should we play ranked?"
Lin Jing glanced at the time. It was five minutes to five in the afternoon.
Unbeknownst to her, they had been playing the game for almost three hours.
Lin Jing shook her head, realizing Sheng Kuang couldn't see her through the phone, and said, "I don't think so."
There was a moment of silence from Sheng Kuang's side.
Lin Jing wasn't sure if she was being sensitive, but she felt Sheng Kuang seemed a bit displeased. She paused for two seconds and then said, "You're streaming at seven, it's already five."
Sheng Kuang: "No rush, one more game."
Seeing that he had said so, Lin Jing didn't object further and clicked "Start."
Entering the hero selection screen, Sheng Kuang chose the support role as before.
Although with Sheng Kuang's support and command, her record looked quite impressive, she wasn't a super-skilled player. She made mistakes easily and struggled to keep up with Sheng Kuang's initiation rhythm, inevitably dragging the game into the late stages.
By the time he started streaming, there would only be two hours left. Eating a meal and tidying up, it felt like there wouldn't be enough time.
If the game dragged on even longer…
Lin Jing instinctively said, "I'll play support."
Sheng Kuang stopped his action of locking in a hero: "Hmm?"
"You play jungle, the tempo can be faster," Lin Jing continued after a pause, "I'm afraid it will take too long and we won't make it in time."
As if afraid he would snatch the hero, before she even finished speaking, she had already locked in Cai Wenji.
Sheng Kuang chuckled: "Whatever you say."
His instinct was to lock in Jing, but he hesitated for a moment. Finally, before the game loading screen appeared, he switched to Lan.
Lan was a very strong hero in the current version, basically banned in every ranked match.
Such a hero could easily dominate ranked games, let alone casual matches.
Lin Jing wasn't sure if Sheng Kuang was here to play against bots, but if he was, he wasn't intentionally insulting the opponents. Because in front of him, not to mention the opponents, even everyone else on their team besides him seemed like bots.
In less than ten minutes, Sheng Kuang already had 27 kills.
As the game time increased, the opponents' economy slowly improved, and their damage output also increased.
Lin Jing basically followed Sheng Kuang, but Sheng Kuang's hero was too fast, and she inevitably fell behind.
The opposing mid-laner was Sun Bin, built with pure magic damage. After losing track of Sheng Kuang in their red buff area, she saw a minion wave on the top lane. The Yu Ji on their side, playing top lane, had no intention of clearing the wave and was instead contesting red with Hou Yi in the bottom lane. As a small support, it seemed convenient for her to go clear the minion wave on the top lane.
After using her second skill, she stood next to the minions and auto-attacked.
She had equipped support items, so her damage wasn't high, and clearing the siege minion was slow.
While clearing the wave, her position was exposed on the map. As she was about to finish clearing the wave, the opposing Sun Bin, with the acceleration from his second skill, brought their marksman and support to gank her.
She definitely couldn't beat them, so she used all her available skills.
Even so, she was quickly reduced to a sliver of health.
Just as she thought she was going to die there, Lan's great whale appeared. Then, Lan stood in front of her, and a line from Lan's voice-over sounded: "Kid, hide behind me."
After that, the sliver-of-health Cai Wenji didn't die, and the three people who had come to catch her were dead.
Sheng Kuang was at the bottom lane fighting for dragon at the time. Because it was a casual match, he played aggressively and was already low on health. Now, like Cai Wenji, he was also at a sliver of health.
Cai Wenji had Sun Bin's first skill on her. Her ultimate was on cooldown, but her first skill had refreshed. As she healed herself, she also managed to brush past Sheng Kuang, intending to heal him as well.
Sheng Kuang probably didn't see her. He entered the bush, and without thinking, she followed him. Then, Sun Bin's first skill that was on her exploded.
It killed both her and Sheng Kuang.
The dead Sun Bin on the opposing side happily secured a double kill.
Lin Jing: "…"
Sheng Kuang: "…"
They were speechless for a few seconds in the voice chat. Lin Jing belatedly realized that Sheng Kuang hadn't entered the bush because he didn't see her, but rather because he had seen Sun Bin's first skill on her and intentionally entered the bush to avoid her.
Sheng Kuang in the phone chuckled, a short, sharp sound.
Lin Jing, feeling a bit embarrassed, touched her face: "It wasn't intentional, I didn't see Sun Bin's first skill on me."
Sheng Kuang responded with an "Mmm": "It's okay even if it was intentional."
Lin Jing: "…"
Sheng Kuang: "You're my little boss."
Lin Jing: "Ah?"
Sheng Kuang: "Even if you told me to intentionally feed, I would do it."
Lin Jing: "…………"
They died together, resurrected together, and advanced along the middle lane from the crystal towards the opponent's high ground tower, which was already at a sliver of health.
Sheng Kuang tanked the tower and destroyed the high ground. Before the minions could enter the crystal, he had already entered it. In the blink of an eye, the five opposing heroes were wiped out. He got three kills, including Hou Yi and Yu Ji.
Hou Yi and Yu Ji were spamming clicks on the crystal as if they hadn't won. Sheng Kuang landed next to Lin Jing.
The game was almost over. Out of instinct from playing a healer, Lin Jing subconsciously clicked her third skill.
Amidst Cai Wenji's cheerful and cute "Hoo la hoo la" sounds, she heard Sheng Kuang's voice: "Will you come to my stream tonight?"