An Xin nced at her hand and smiled. This medicine is killer! It always works when I really need it to! She then turned her head slightly so she could look at Lin Feng. I’m ying with you. With the real you! Her smile brightened and goosebumps ran down her arms. This is everything I ever wanted. She took a deep, long breath and focused on her screen. The game was in its fifth minute and she was running towards the topne on her favourite Champion. She scrunched her eyebrows and said over the team’s voice chat, “Looks like their Gragas forgot to ward. Bait him, Zhang Hao.”


    Zhang Hao nodded and replied, “Let me screw up a bit here! I need 10 seconds tops! They think I suck anyway!”


    An Xin giggled as she had her Lee Sin hide in the brush right below the topne. She moved her camera up a bit and watched Zhang Hao move his Lissandra forward tost hit a minion, and by doing so drawing aggro from a few other minions. He then ran back quickly and kept running until the minions stopped attacking him. When he came back towards the minions, he had less health than Gragas and his minions were ill-positioned. An Xin shook her head and said, “That’s surprisingly convincing.”


    “I’m pretty good at screwing up like this. I like to pretend it’s a gift,” Zhang Hao replied,ughing.


    Team Beijing’s Gragas fell for the trap. He Body mmed into Lissandra and followed up with Barrel Toss. But right then, An Xin’s Lee Sin appeared from the brush while Lissandra stunned Gragas with Ring of Frost! From there it was a pure 2 versus 1. Gragas never really had a chance. It was Zhang Hao in the end who picked up the kill.


    《First Blood!》


    Team Beijing’s Toner threw his arms up and cursed, “Goddammit! Goddammit!” He shook his hand and banged his fist on the desk. “Fuck! FUCK! How did I let myself fall for that? It was so obvious! Come on, idiot! Don’t be such a fucktard!”


    “It’s okay, bud,” Team Beijing’s Jungler said. He forced a smile on his face and then turned his head to look at his Toner. “It’s fine. Just a small setback. But we’ve grown used to those, huh?” Heughed, awkward. He then continued, “I can’t really do much pre-6 either. Just, I don’t know, try to y it safe. Stay behind the tower and all that stuff. It’s not ideal, but…”


    “But it’s all we can do,” Yu Ping finished through gritted teeth.


    Team Beijing’s Jungler nodded and said, “What Yu Ping says.”


    ?


    Su Xue clenched her fists and cheered, “BunBun with the assist in top! Her Lee is sooooooo amazing! Did you guys all see that?” She looked at the camera and through it imagined the hundred thousand plus people sitting behind theirputers watching her. She smiled and continued, “When she ys Lee, it’s game over! Team Beijing doesn’t stand a chance!”


    「BunBUn 6666666!」「ITS THE GODDESSLEEE」「LIL BRO AND HIS HAREM GOING TO WIN THE WHOLE DAMN THING!!!!」「bunbuns lee makes lee look so much better than he really is」「TOO GOOD! TEAM SHANGHAI TOO GOOD!」


    ?


    The broadcasting director had a rey of the fight in the topne y when the sound from the live version announced that a kill happened somewhere. He cut the rey and the camera moved in a frenzy across the screen, searching for the corpse. It stopped a few momentster on the midne. Lenc’s corpsey on the ground.


    FourEyesChan stared at his screen and muttered into his microphone, “What? How! They’re not even Level 6 yet! How the hell did he get a solo kill on Lenc!?”


    “It shouldn’t be possible!” Cherry eximed.


    “WHAT THE FUCK! SHOW US A REPLAY!”“REPLAY!”“REPLAY!”“How in the world did he pick up that kill!?”“REPLAY PLEASE!”“REPLAY OR RIOT!”“REPLAY OR RIOT!”“REPLAY OR RIOT!”“REPLAY OR RIOT!”


    “I’ve got it from good sources,” FourEyesChan started. He briefly paused for the audience to quiet down a bit and then continued, “That we’re getting a rey in t-minus 3, 2… NOW!”


    Everyone watching the Winter Collegiate Cup Finals turned their attention to the rey. It showed Yasuo and Lenc in the midne. They were both low on health, but Yasuo still had his health pot. He chugged it down and a green, rejuvenating aura appeared around him.


    A new wave of minions arrived in the midne. Yasuo dashed through a minion to arrive in front of Lenc and stabbed forward with his katana! A storm started brewing on the tip of his de. But his health was still rtively low. Low enough that Lenc thought she could kill him. She ced a Sigil of Malice on him and tried to trigger it with Distortion!


    “OH MY GOD!”“HOW THE HELL!?”


    Yasuo dashed through another minion to put enough distance from Lenc that the ssh damage from Distortionpletely missed him. By doing so, he also stopped the Sigil of Malice from triggering. Lenc followed up with Ethereal Chains, hurled in the direction Yasuo was moving. But Yasuo swiped his de up,manding the winds to form a Wind Wall. The Ethereal Chains mmed into the Wind Wall and disintegrated, after which Yasuo burst through the Wind Wall, dashed through Lenc and hit her with the second cast from Steel Tempest! Winds danced around the length of his de!


    “HOLY SHIT!”“DAAAAAMN!”


    The damage triggered Lenc’s passive. A clone of her appeared on the map. It started running away, while the real one waited for an opportunity. Yasuo didn’t fall for the trick. He didn’t chase the clone and instead hit the real one with an auto attack. Lenc then panic shed, confirming that the one Yasuo was attacking was indeed the real one.


    Yasuo shed after Lenc and arrived underneath Red Team’s Outer Tower. It targeted him and charged up an energy shot. He ignored it and stabbed out with a third Steel Tempest. The winds gathered along his de flew out onto Rift as a gust! It carved a path through the grass and knocked Lenc up into the air! He then auto attacked her and Ignited her. An energy shot from the Tower hit him. Because of the health from the potion he popped earlier, he survived. Barely. The Tower charged up for another shot. He hit Lenc with one more auto attack and then dashed away through a minion.


    The unquenchable mes burned Lenc, searing through thest few dregs of her health. The audience watching the game went silent. They knew the oue of the fight, but they were still enthralled and on the edge of their seats as they watched what happened. It was the final tick from Ignite that killed Lenc. And back inne, Yasuo cleared his minion wave before recalling back to base.


    Qiu Yijie looked around the stands. Everywhere he looked, people were up on their feet and cheering. These Beijing locals who were so negative about Team Shanghai at the start of the series had forgotten about thatpletely. As far as they were concerned, Team Beijing didn’t even exist anymore. There was only Team Shanghai for them. He shook his head and then said to his teammates and the yers from Zhejiang University, “That’s what I meant. 5D chess. The way that he ys here, it’s…” He shrugged. There were no words to describe what he wanted to say.


    Sun Ruinian nodded and added, “Yep. Such a clean kill. What’s there to say? He’s better than everyone elsebined at this tournament… He doesn’t belong at this level.”


    Zou Cheng pumped his fist in the air and shouted, “WIN FENG IS GOING TO THE LPL! WIN FENG TO THE LPL!”


    ?


    Cherry grabbed her microphone and said, “Pfooh! We’ve had an exciting 2 minutes! But now we’ve had a bit to cool down from that. Let’s take stock of the game here. FourEyesChan, take it away!”


    FourEyesChan smiled and analysed, “We’re 7 minutes into this game! Team Shanghai has taken an early lead this game. They got first blood up in top, ane they’re winning right now, and a solo kill in mid. Which means they’re up 2 kills to zero. There’s also a botne in League of Legends, but the four yers down there are on their own little ind. I haven’t seen anything worth mentioning from them yet.”


    Cherry giggled and added, “This is all about the Yasuo! And a little about the Jungle and topne… But look at Yasuo! He’s up 10 CS already! That’s almost 2 full waves! We’re only 7 minutes in here! That’s a lot! And at this rate… Lenc is going to get killed again, I’m telling you!”


    “Not so fast!” FourEyesChan replied. He adjusted his sses and continued, “Look in the river. Rengar is Level 6 anding in for a gank! Maybe he can turn the midne back in Team Beijing’s favour!”


    Lin Feng’s Yasuo dashed through two minions to arrive in front of Lenc. He stabbed out at her with Steel Tempest, and the winds gathered along the length of his de yet again. Right then, a red exmation mark appeared above his head. A gank? Sweet! Lin Feng grinned and narrowed his eyes, breathing slowly. Calm. The game slowed before his eyes. He saw the start of the animation for Ethereal Chains and dodged it by dashing through a minion. Rengar is al—


    A primal roar cut through the air! Rengar appeared from the shadows and pounced on Yasuo! He threw an empowered B mid-jump! It was coated in a thickyer of magic that added a root effect! The b spun around its axis, again and again.


    Lin Feng flicked his mouse and pressed the W key. His Yasuo’s de shed out horizontally and created a Wind Wall! The B flew straight into it and was stopped by the power of the winds, falling down to the ground.


    “OH MY GOD!” Cherry screeched. “HE BLOCKED IT!”


    FourEyesChan adjusted his sses and said, “That’s some next level y!—”


    “IT’S NOT OVER YET!” Cherry screamed. She jumped up from her seat and pointed at the screen, continuing, “Look! LOOK! THERE! LEE SIN IS COMING FOR A COUNTERGANK! IT’S THE TURNTABLES!”