Chapter 79: Can Haters Only Bark Online?
Li Fan said he would participate in the upcoming SSC Spring Split quarterfinals offline match, directly causing an uproar among EDG fans in the live stream room.
One by one, they couldn’t hold back anymore; once their worried emotions surfaced, they easily got anxious, and once anxious, they started flooding the live stream room with bullet comments to vent!
【？？？You’re really going offline? Don’t you think winning two games makes you so inflated?】
【No, you can just play online, going offline to participate in matches… If you don’t want to be a League of Legends professional player, then don’t.】
【8th against WE, Big Brother! Group B first place battle, not training properly? Planning QQ Speed offline matches here instead? Heaven-defying! Got a few MVPs and gone wild.】
【Done with it, not doing any training at all? Not even playing ranked? Relying entirely on talent to hard carry matches?】
【Inflated, absolutely inflated! Won two games and doesn’t know his own name anymore!】
【Are you worthy of your teammates? Clearlove and the others are doing ranked training, but you’re thinking about playing Speed?】
【The club isn’t managing this? Letting him mess around? What is Abu doing?】
These bullet comments filled with anxiety and accusations quickly flooded the screen, almost covering everything else.
Li Fan looked at these bullet comments, his expression unchanged; he already had mental preparation when he said this.
He indeed didn’t have many League of Legends fans; he hadn’t even live streamed League of Legends, and the performance in matches attracted more club fans, plus Clearlove’s fans in the live stream room.
They already had a lot of complaints about him not playing ranked.
And then he mentioned participating in the upcoming QQ Speed offline match.
In their view, this would definitely affect his state, so the outburst was normal.
But soon, another wave of bullet comments started firing back, mainly from his personal fans.
This group of fans included PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, CSGO, Crossfire, QQ Speed… even fans of Shu Tu Zhi Bin that he hadn’t streamed in a long time.
The reason they stood up to refute was simple.
Absolutely cannot let these League fans get too cocky!
If Unreal is not allowed to participate in QQ Speed matches this time, next time it will be even worse, saying he can’t even live stream… then what are they watching?
【League dogs panicking? The player participating in QQ Speed matches and the club hasn’t said anything, but you’re more diligent than the club in managing it first?】
【Exactly, does the contract say he must play League of Legends 24 hours a day? Unreal has the skill to balance matches and other games, does it bother you?】
【Hilarious, the main person hasn’t spoken, but fans are already feeling tired for the player?】
【I’m done, someone actually likes to be a dog instead of a proper person? Two days ago when united against a common enemy, I thought you were human, but back to being dogs.】
【Good luck in quarterfinals, give those Speed professional players a little League of Legends shock!】
【Unreal’s live streaming success is all thanks to QQ Speed, right?】
【Esports players are human too, can’t they have personal hobbies? Mind your own business!】
The live stream room instantly turned into a battlefield between two camps, arguing fiercely; originally no sensitive words, but in the heat they couldn’t hold back and used them, cursing very viciously.
It sparked a second wave of cursing war between other game players and League of Legends players.
Even the room moderators couldn’t ban people as fast as the screen flooding.
Li Fan looked at the lively scene in the live stream room, unfazed by it; the harmony for two days was just an illusion, with Wu Zhuang Tai suppressed there was no common enemy, so cursing was normal.
But he didn’t care at all; they wouldn’t stop just because he said don’t argue.
However, QQ Speed currently lacks maps with high viewership appeal.
Those water maps won’t come until two years later.
As for Mountain Snow Swimming Dragon, even later, during the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics.
To be fair, unleashing the ultimate skill on Mountain Snow Swimming Dragon is super cool.
But Li Fan was still a bit unfamiliar with it, only knowing the key points.
After all, the difficulty to nail this map is not low.
Many top professional players can’t pull it off, like Jiang Zhangchuang; he once picked Mountain Snow Swimming Dragon in the King of Cars Competition, even leading Zhang Yunbin by a huge margin, but couldn’t use the ultimate skill, resulting in Zhang Yunbin easily overtaking with his ultimate.
As for playing it safe, that’s just an excuse for not being able to use the ultimate.
After all, with or without the ultimate on this map makes a huge difference.
No mistakes with ultimate can hit 1:22, normal run is around 1:30.
A full 8 seconds difference, that’s why one ultimate can go from last to first.
Becoming Hu Baibing’s absolute king map.
Picking Spring Enjoyment again for another ultimate skill tutorial.
Some people just can’t learn it no matter what.
But that doesn’t stop Li Fan from teaching…
Another run: 1:57.47, two extremely beautiful ultimate laps.
Making the cursing war in the live stream room die down a bit.
Li Fan’s mouth corners slightly raised, looking seriously at the camera and said.
“If you don’t play QQ Speed, your horizons are still shallow, like a frog in a well seeing the moon!”
“One day when you truly step into the QQ Speed realm, you’ll see me like a mayfly seeing the blue sky!”
As soon as Li Fan said this, the live stream room went dead silent for a moment, then exploded with even more bullet comments than the previous arguments.
【？？？？？？？】
【Holy shit！！！！】
【Frog in a well seeing the moon? Mayfly seeing the blue sky? What kind of pretentious line is this? Why have I never heard it?】
【Help… my toes are curling into the ground, but why do I think this line is so cool.】
【Got it, got it! Next time soloing with roommate, I’ll use this!】
【Unreal, my pretentious mentor! Every time I enter his live stream room, I learn so many pretentious lines.】
【Although it’s very chuunibyou, combined with his operation just now… I actually can’t refute?!】
【Where are the League dogs? Come argue, see what kind of god you’re spraying! Same words: if League of Legends doesn’t want you, QQ Speed will always be your home!】
【This pretentious act, full marks, not afraid of you getting arrogant.】
However, Jiang Zhangchuang and Liang Haihui who just watched the live stream map run looked at each other, both seeing immense shock and a trace of… bitterness in each other’s eyes.
What Unreal just said in the live stream was spot on.
As Speed professional players, they knew too well how fierce it is to run this map that fast.
Just like Li Fan said, like a mayfly seeing the blue sky.
“This map, those two laps he just ran, look at his nitrogen continuation at those points, and the rhythm of adjusting the car nose after exiting the bend to connect the ultimate… insanely smooth. This isn’t about practice or not, his understanding has reached the top.”
“Then practice! It’s not like when he picks Spring in the offline match, we just forfeit?”
“And… he might not handle confrontations well!”
There are four-player melees in the quarterfinals advancement.
The finals are single duels!
So there’s still a lot of room to operate; play targeted to keep him from reaching finals?
Great at duels? Don’t give him a duel opportunity.
Jiang Zhangchuang and Liang Haihui looked at each other again, both showing a knowing smile.
Abu listening to Li Fan’s little mouth chattering non-stop beside him, one line after another, couldn’t help laughing.
He really can talk…
Probably reads a lot of novels, ultimate old bookworm.
This was also a change in Li Fan’s emotions; half a month ago, he would’ve cursed inwardly, what level are you to pretend here?
But the rhythm in the live stream room didn’t slow down, instead it grew bigger, directly rushing to Weibo hot search.
#UnrealConfirmsParticipationInSSCSpringSplit#
Below it, a ton of discussions!
Can only say the cursing is especially fierce…
【Waiting for WE to crush EDG the day after tomorrow, Xi Ye isn’t joking with you, don’t really think beating two noobs lets you experience LPL intensity?】
【Damn, if Child Emperor used live stream time for training, he’d probably be World Championship champion by now?】
【Overthinking, only 17 years old, even earlier he’d be just a kid of eleven or twelve, how to win champion?】
【Tch, you haters just can’t stand seeing people do well! Have the guts to curse offline, not darkly online.】
【What are you calling in the League of Legends section? If you support Unreal so much, have the guts to support offline, buy tickets to watch, what are you calling online!】
Everyone discussing here was extremely looking forward to the EDG vs WE match.
As soon as they lose, it would be overwhelming mad spraying…
No, stepping back, as long as the match performance is poor, even if they win, there would be crazy attacks to teach him a lesson.
See if he’ll wake up.
EDG’s current lineup really gives them a lot of hope.
Because in Summer Split they’ll complete the roster strengthening, iboy can finally play matches.
That would be a complete lineup…
But now the problem is Unreal is a complete wild card.
Future developments could be very troublesome.
But this makes other clubs very envious.
EDG’s mid laner is on hot search every day, whether getting cursed or not, black or red it’s still red, meaning the player has heat, and heat naturally attracts capital attention.
Heard EDG has had tons of sponsors contacting the club in the past few days because of this.
Can make a lot of money, no worry about club funding operations later.
Really feels great, why doesn’t their club have such a troublemaking player?
Farm records against weak teams.
Live stream antics at base…
But they just don’t have such a player.
Unreal can even participate in QQ Speed offline pro matches, other games also at pro level.
Just like QQ Speed players often say.
League of Legends league doesn’t welcome him, going to QQ Speed league is no problem at all.
Plus live streaming antics with no restrictions.
After all, QQ Speed matches are mostly individual, hardly any club matches.
Playing Crossfire, PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, CS won’t get sprayed.
From this view… way better than League of Legends clubs.
Abu didn’t stay behind Li Fan too long, as club manager he had many things to do.
Now the issue is top lane, top lane is mixing but still falls short of coach standards.
He was busy finding a suitable top laner.
……
Under the anticipation of haters and fans, three days passed very quickly.
April 8th, LPL same group match third round finally began.
Since it’s Sunday, the schedule is very tight.
After all Sunday, and WE vs EDG focal battle placed in prime time at 7 PM.
Previous two matches: QG vs GT, NB vs VG.
In the final points scramble phase, it was indeed quite intense.
After all, in same group matches, one win equals two points, fought bloody.
EDG this time no rush, after lunch got on the bus to the venue.
Although the bus drove steadily on the elevated bridge, inside it was not calm.
Everyone wasn’t resting with eyes closed, but watching QG vs GT match.
QG current record 6-6, winning would make 7-6… EDG at 7-5, meaning if lose to WE today, would drop to third due to tiebreaker.
But GT team’s strength still has big gap with QG.
Even if heavy rewards, one brave Jin Gong isn’t enough.
Top lane position besides S5 version decisive, later versions carrying almost impossible.
After all Camille who can carry got nerfed to useless.
In this situation, Doinb perfect performance, easily 2-0 win.
EDG others’ expressions turned a bit bad.
Because this really wasn’t good news for them.
If lose today’s match, still drop to third.
“No big deal, wanting championship means no looking at others’ faces? We’ve won WE in training matches, what’s to fear.”
“Right, Li Fan is right! As professional players, need this confidence.” Clearlove really liked Li Fan’s personality.
“Yeah, Brother Kai if you open groups as confidently as me, we can end matches much faster.”
Ming Kai rolled his eyes at this.
……
The bus slowly entered Grand Plaza’s underground parking entrance, EDG players inside could see fans gathered outside through windows.
Mostly League of Legends fans holding EDG and WE team badges, waiting for their supported teams.
“Here, get ready.” Abu stood up, habitually reminding.
When bus stopped and door opened, led by Clearlove and Abu, players got off one by one, familiar cheers and shouts instantly surged.
“EDG! Go!”
“Clearlove! Ming Kai!”
However, amid this mainly League of Legends themed noise, a group stood out intrusively in everyone’s sight.
Right at the EDG players’ passage entrance not far away, the light signs and hand banners they held were colorful, content even stunning the experienced Clearlove and Abu.
Someone holding CSGO classic LOGO, below: Unreal Bullpup King.
Someone with carefully made QQ Speed icon, beside: Car God Unreal Crushes Haters!
Even a few burly men pulling a small Crossfire banner: CF Veterans Support Unreal Player.
Most ridiculous, in the crowd corner, a somewhat shy-looking guy holding up a tablet displaying 《Shu Tu Zhi Bin》 game interface screenshot, beside: “Shu Tu Old Minister, Welcoming Lord to Conquer LPL!”
Yu Luo holding megaphone started shouting, also holding sign: Bilibili UP Main Unreal’s Little Fanboy.
“Unreal fan group already here offline supporting Unreal! Where are the haters! Where are the haters? Come bark a couple! Don’t tell me you can only bark online?”
