When he reached the hotel entrance, Yu Nuo realized that there were several missed calls on his phone, all from Yu Ge. Yu Nuo glanced at the person next to him, feeling a little nervous, and thought that he would reply to his message after returning to the room.
At this moment, her phone vibrated and Yu Ge sent her a message on WeChat:
Where are you? Who are you with? Why aren't you answering the phone
Yu Nuo pondered for a moment and replied: I just finished taking a shower, and I was watching a drama with Jia Jia, my roommate, and we were going to have some midnight snack.
Yu Nuo has never been good at lying since he was a child, especially to Yu Ge.
After sending this message, she immediately felt guilty for lying. She felt a little guilty and waited nervously for his next message.
Yu Ge: Is your roommate transgender
Yu Nuo: What
Yu Nuo was startled when he saw the message, and looked around. Ten meters away, Yu Ge stood behind them with a sneer, holding a mobile phone in one hand.
Yu Nuo was startled and froze in place. Chen Yuzheng saw her stop and tilted his head: "What's wrong?"
Yu Nuo wanted to cry but had no tears, so she said to him, "Well, you go back first."
"You're not going back?"
She hesitated and said, "My... my brother is here."
Chen Yuzheng followed her line of sight and looked back as well, then said slowly, "Shall I go over and say hello to him?"
“No, no.” Yu Nuo quickly refused, “You go back first.”
Chen Yuzheng stared at her worried expression, sneered, and shouted, "I love eating fish."
Yu Nuo hurriedly shifted his eyes from Yu Ge back to him: "Ah what?"
"Were you caught having an affair with me?"
Yu Nuo was choked by his shameless words, "What we are doing... shouldn't be called cheating, right?"
"Then what are you afraid of?" Chen Yuzheng glanced at Yu Ge nonchalantly, "Am I so shameful?"
Yu Ge was standing far away and couldn't hear clearly what the two of them were saying. Seeing that Yu Nuo was dilly-dallying and taking a long time to come, he lost his patience and called her again.
This time Yu Nuo didn't dare to refuse the call, and called out in panic, "Brother."
"Why are you still standing there hesitating? Do you want me to come over and invite you?"
Yu Nuo: “… .”
She glanced at Chen Yuzheng. It seemed like he was in a fight with Yu Ge. He wanted to stay with her and had no intention of leaving.
She lowered her voice and said, "Wait a moment, I'll be there soon."
Yu Nuo hung up the phone and didn't care about Chen Yuzheng anymore. He said to him, "You should go back to training first. My brother seems to have something to talk to me about. I'm leaving now."
Just as he was about to leave, someone grabbed his arm. Chen Yuzheng said casually, "Where are you going? I'm not in a hurry. I'll go with you. It's a good opportunity to say hello to your brother."
She was so anxious that sweat broke out on her forehead: "Really, there's no need."
After looking at Yu Nuo for a few more seconds, Chen Yuzheng let her go and said, "Okay, I'll go first."
Yu Nuo didn't know whether he was guilty or he was caught lying, but he didn't dare to look Yu Ge in the eye.
She ran up to him and stammered, "Brother, why are you here?"
"Why, did I disturb you and your transgender roommate from watching a show?"
"No..." Yu Nuo bit her lower lip, and dared not say anything despite being ridiculed by him, "I... I..."
I spent quite a while but there was no follow-up.
Yu Ge looked at Chen Yuzheng's back for two or three seconds and asked, "What were you doing with him?"
"Nothing, we just went out for a walk."
Yu Ge laughed angrily: "Walk?"
At this moment, a thunderbolt came from outside, rumbling, and the sound of rain was like substance, crashing to the ground. Yu Nuo felt guilty and tried to make amends in vain: "It wasn't raining this hard just now..."
Yu Ge adjusted his breathing and looked at her wet skirt: "Hurry back to the room and take a shower."
Yu Nuo responded, feeling a little guilty: "Brother, did I waste your time? You should go back to training as soon as possible."
Yu Ge calmed down his temper and said to her patiently: "In the future, stay away from transgender people, okay?"
"... ... ... ... "
Yu Nuo was rendered speechless by his harsh words.
Time passed quickly, and there was only one day for the four teams to train and adjust their status. The decisive battle with South Korea was tomorrow. At the most critical moment, all the LPL teams, including the hosts, commentators, and fans, all changed their avatars to the same Intercontinental Championship icons to support them.
Riot Games has held a total of three intercontinental tournaments over the years. When the first intercontinental tournament began, except for the MSI, the LPL had basically no success in other international tournaments. Every time they met Korean teams in the finals, they were defeated repeatedly. The LCK can be said to be the destined enemy of the LPL.
The entire region was depressed for a long time until the LPL won the first Intercontinental Championship, ending South Korea's long-term dominance in the World Championship, so that the two commentators were so excited that they shed tears on the commentary desk.
On the eve of the game, many fans were so anxious that they couldn't sleep.
The rules of the final day are the same as the elimination rounds, with a total of four games. Whoever wins three games first wins. If there is a tie, an extra game will be played.
On the day of the finals, Yu Nuo followed the TG team to the backstage lounge early. When they pushed the door open, the coach and analyst were having a meeting in the corner. The WR and YLD players were talking in a low voice, while the OG players were silent, sitting in their chairs. Noticing that the atmosphere was not right, Yu Nuo asked Xiang Jiajia next to him, "What's wrong?"
Xiang Jiajia: "I don't know either. I'll go ask."
After a while, Xiang Jiajia came back and lowered his voice: "It's over, it seems that there is a problem with OG's mid laner."
"ry?" Yu Nuo was a little surprised, "What happened to him?"
"I don't know why he fainted during training yesterday. He went to the hospital to get an IV drip in the middle of the night. There's nothing OG can do now. They may have to let their substitute mid laner take over."
No one had anticipated this sudden situation, and as the game was imminent, the LPL's previous tactical arrangements were also disrupted.
The original plan before the game was to let OG start in the finals and get a good start. Now that OG is missing its main players, it is definitely not strong enough to compete head-on with the No. 1 seed of LCK. Ry cannot play, so OG can only send a mid-lane substitute. If he plays in the first game, he will most likely face the No. 1 seed of South Korea. If he loses, it will be difficult to play in the next few games.
After much deliberation, the lpl coaching staff decided to send tg to play first.
--During the group stage, only OG and TG beat the Korean team.
When Qi Yanan told the TG crowd the news, Killer was surprised and stood up from the sofa: "What?? Let us go first?"
The coach said in a deep voice: "I don't know who the Korean team will send in the first game. You don't have to worry about it. Just do your best when you get on the court."
Altman was also a little anxious: "What if we can't beat the No. 1 seed?"
The loss to the fourth seed of LMS the day before yesterday had a huge impact on their confidence, and they still haven't recovered. The coach knows that a defeated army will lose, so he adjusted their mentality: "You lost not because you are not as strong as others, but because you underestimated your opponent."
Thomas didn't care: "We'll play if we want to. No one has been optimistic about us anyway. We'll just fight for our reputation and help LPL win a game in the finals."
Before the game, everyone was mentally prepared to face the number one seed from South Korea. However, before the game started, news came from the field control: the South Korean team also sent the number two seed Yu in the first game, which happened to be the team that lost to TG in the last group stage.
It greatly reduced the psychological burden of the tg people.
The first game begins.
During the draft phase, the coach had studied Yu in the past two days and had a general understanding of their players' hero pools. In the last few picks, he swayed the BP in the middle and top, and perfectly cuntered the two opposing lanes.
At the beginning of the game, anticipating that the opponent might change lines, Killer and Thomas did not play by the rules and decisively exchanged routes, and the opponent was indeed trapped.
At five minutes, a fight broke out between the mid, top and jungle, and Killer got a triple kill. Due to the hero's restraint and the initiative to push the line, Thomas and Killer developed perfectly, which led to a series of butterfly effects in the game, and Yu's jungle area was completely destroyed.
tg started the game with great momentum and after more than 20 minutes, they decided the outcome in the Earth Dragon Group, wiped out yu's team and won the first game.
In the backstage lounge, everyone felt relieved for tg.
YLD’s coach laughed: “TG is good, they helped LPL get off to a good start.
Ultraman was depressed for a long time, but after the game, he felt like he was reborn, and kept talking excitedly in Chen Yuzheng's ear. Backstage, he even ran over to hug WR's mid laner, "Brother!! We won, our mission is accomplished, and now it's up to you guys."
WR mid laner: "It's OK, Manman, you performed well today. I'll ask the team leader to give you a chicken drumstick when we go back tonight."
Ultraman scratched his head in embarrassment: "It's all our team's top and mid carries. It feels like the game is over before we even try our best."
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After the first game, the remaining tg players sat on chairs, waiting for the next game to start.
Killer came over and said to Thomas: "Ah, it feels so good not to be saved by others. The last time I watched OG play XD, I was so afraid that they would lose and we would be scolded to death." Thomas felt the same way and breathed a sigh of relief: "Fortunately we won today."
After TG won the first game, the pressure came to WR. The Korean team lost a game, so they must bring out the top team to catch up with the score.
They are about to face South Korea's strongest force, PPE, and the LPL coaching staff has also made mental preparations in advance.
After WR came on the field, there was still a clear gap between the overall entity and PPE. The two teams had almost no direct fights. PPE used traditional Korean operations to fight WR, and the rhythm was suffocating.
On the LPL side, most teams, including WR, like to fight to establish advantages. Once the opponent avoids fighting, their operations will begin to stall. In this aspect, they are always inferior to others.
It was not until the Baron was refreshed that the first small team fight broke out between the two sides. Two WR players were killed, and PPE directly took the Baron and pushed forward quickly.
In the third game, YLD lost to the third seed team of South Korea in the same way. The score came to 1:2, and the match point was already in the hands of LCK, and LPL was pushed to the edge of the cliff.
ry was too weak to play, and looking at his teammates' serious expressions, he blamed himself: "I am holding you back."
OG played in the absence of a key player, but had to win the game, so there was no way out.
The head coach came to OG and said, "You are playing against the fourth seed of LCK. Play well and you have a chance to win."
The substitute midfielder was nervous and kept drinking water.
Yu Ge glanced at him and said, "It's no big deal. Just pick a piece of meat and follow my instructions. I guarantee you will win."
Yu Ge is an old captain of OG for many years. Once he says such words, there is a strange power that can make people feel at ease.
The warm-up for the match point game was almost over. Awen stood up from his position and patted the small mid laner on the shoulder: "Listen to Yu Shen, if you can hold steady on the line and not collapse, we will definitely be able to win in the later stages."
Game 4.
The substitute mid laner picked a Galio, who was a tool man throughout the game, flying wherever he was needed. Although they were suppressed a bit in the early stage, they managed to survive. OG gained advantages in other lanes, but there were several mistakes in the mid-term team battles, and the economy fell behind by 2,000 at one point.
Fortunately, the team was tenacious as a whole. Yu Ge developed the policewoman in the late game. After getting the six-piece set, he made up for the early disadvantage and narrowly defeated the opponent's fourth seed.
The score was tied at 2-2 and the game went to extra innings.
After OG won the fourth game, the coaching staff was both happy and worried. They were happy that OG retained the last hope for LPL, but they were worried about who to send to the final and decisive game.
There is no doubt that LCK will definitely send out the number one seed PPE.
You have to know that since the PPE Intercontinental Championship, whether it is the group stage, the knockout stage or even today's final, they have never lost. Even if OG is in normal form and all the main players are there, they only have a 50% chance of winning PPE. Not to mention other teams, the winning rate is even lower.
In the lpl lounge, the situation was at a stalemate for a while.
OG just narrowly defeated the fourth seed team and almost lost. It is definitely not possible to play PPE in this state. The only options left are TG, YLD, and WR.
wr has just played a game with ppe, and the gap in hard power is also very obvious, while yld and tg have no experience in major competitions.
There are still ten minutes of discussion time, and the coaches from each team are communicating whether they should take a vote within the team to decide now.
Chen Yuzheng suddenly said, "Let us go."
Everyone stopped talking, and even Qi Yanan was startled.
The room was silent. Chen Yuzheng raised his eyes and said to the coach: "Let us play. We can win."
The coach looked serious and said nothing.
After thinking for a while, the head coach confirmed again: "Have you thought about it?"
tg Several people looked at each other, then looked at Chen Yuzheng. The older boys were all quiet for a while.
Head coach: "We don't force it, you can vote for each other and see your own status."
Killer took a deep breath and said, "Let's go! Fuck LCK!"
Then, several other people followed suit, and Van said, "I have no problem."
Ultraman: "Let's give it a try."
Thomas nodded: "So can I."
The head coach asked the other teams, "Does anyone else have any ideas?"
No one responded.
The players from yld and wr looked at each other and shook their heads. Yu Ge's expression was also unusually heavy: "Have you thought it through?"
Killer made a rare joke: "It's not a big deal. Isn't this just right? It's time for us to repay you. You helped us play an extra game the day before yesterday, so we will help you play another game today."
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After a short break, it was time for a decisive battle with LCK. Everyone was silent, watching the five TG players walk out of the lounge.
They are still young, debuting this year, and their careers have just begun. If they lose the final game against PPE today, the public opinion they will face will be unimaginable. If the collective honor of LPL is lost to them, the abuse from domestic fans may even ruin their future careers.
YLD didn't dare, WR couldn't, OG couldn't. Only TG, without saying a word, took the burden on himself at the last moment.
After a break of more than ten minutes, the two sides finally decided who to send out. The Korean team sent out the number one seed PPE, while the LPL team... .
Fans waited with bated breath, and when the list appeared, everyone gasped:
top：thmas
jug：van
mid：killer
adc:er
sup：ultraman
There was an uproar at the scene, including the domestic fans who were watching the live broadcast, who had never expected this to happen.
tg??? Am I seeing this right
Why is it tg?? Oh my god!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
To be honest, I'm not optimistic about TG. I feel that their recent win over the South Korean team was due to luck rather than strength.
I don't know what the coaching staff is thinking... I think it's better to play WR than TG... After all, TG is really a bit nervous. The day before yesterday, they lost to the fourth seed of LMS and it's still fresh in our memory (but WR just lost, so they probably won't play either)
As a fan of TG, I am so excited now. I have prepared my quick-acting heart-saving pills! It is the last game. If we lose, it is all over! LPL, go! TG, go! We must defend the dignity of our LPL No. 1 Division! ! !
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The final of the intercontinental championship begins.
The ban/pick phase ended, and the coach said one last thing to them in the headset before leaving the stage: "Just play with momentum. Whether you win or lose, don't think about the final result. After the game starts, just think about how to play well."
The coach patted everyone on the shoulder, slowly walked to the center of the stage, and shook hands with the other coach.
There were faint shouts from the audience, and Van could even hear that they were calling TG's name. His nose felt sore, "It's over. I want to cry. This is the first time that our team has had their name called out by the audience."
Thomas: "I thought of the lyrics of the theme song of S7. Three thousand blood has been shed, and everyone in the world calls your name. Brothers, today's game is worth it."
Killer glanced at them and said, "There's nothing to be afraid of. It's just the Korean team. We've already won two games. The third game will be in an hour!"
The coach stepped down and looked at the loading screen before the game started. Ultraman suddenly said, "Chen Yuzheng, I want to keep the championship in LPL."
The headphones blocked out most of the noise outside the stadium, and as soon as Ultraman's words came out, the whole team fell silent.
Chen Yuzheng moved the headset further away and took a sip of water.
After a moment of silence, Chen Yuzheng placed his hands on the keyboard and sent a message to them in the game room team:
I will always