Chapter 29: Edg Lost—what Does That Have To Do With Me, Li?
Hu Baibing, the former Speed China region champion and World Championship runner-up.
In 2016, he retired from Speed to sell barbecue, but he felt that selling barbecue every day in a daze wasn’t the life he wanted. Then a phenomenal mobile game, Honor of Kings, came along, so he decided to bring his talent to Honor of Kings.
Now he finally reached first place Han Xin in the national server.
But the daily online viewers in his live stream room are only eight or nine hundred.
This is completely different from what he imagined; he didn’t become a big streamer, and now he can’t even afford the electricity bill.
He did think that choosing another game and starting over would be very difficult, but this start is really too slow.
You know, he chose the massively popular Honor of Kings, which should logically ride this wave and rise quickly.
But it didn’t happen. Could it be the wrong choice?
Unexpectedly, a Speed Spring Split SSC match has such huge popularity.
The attention is beyond imagination…
And the source of all this is EDG’s substitute mid laner Unreal.
To be honest, he did pay attention to Li Fan for a while.
Mainly because they are on the same platform, and Li Fan’s popularity rose so exaggeratedly.
Impossible not to notice; in just one and a half months, he achieved this much.
And he’s playing Speed, not League of Legends.
It can be said that although he is a professional League Player, his live stream room has never featured League of Legends.
Not even a single match…
Very exaggerated, another unimaginable thing.
“Monkey, look… Speed actually has such exaggerated popularity. Should we go back to streaming Speed?”
Yin Junlin shook his head; he couldn’t understand the situation either.
“Forget it, we’ve practiced Honor of Kings for so long. Let’s stick with it here a bit longer. But watching Unreal’s stream, Speed has so many more techniques now. We should practice in our free time too.”
Yin Junlin nodded; if Honor of Kings doesn’t work, go back to the home base.
Speed is actually their comfort zone.
After all, they are professional players and fairly well-known.
No sooner said than done; Hu Baibing now directly checked Li Fan’s Huya room.
They knew there were tutorial videos there.
First practice some basic skills, then slowly study map routes through run videos.
If you don’t even know the skills and just watch run videos, you actually won’t see it.
Quite a few are doing the same as Hu Baibing; actually, all Speed professional players have started learning.
The SSC Spring Split is just an appetizer, with low bonuses and crowns not worth much.
The later matches are higher level one after another, especially the most prestigious King of Cars Competition.
If your skills are insufficient, the gap will be unimaginably large.
In this situation, unless you don’t plan to get good results.
Just right, no one is very good at it yet; starting from zero, no one leads by much.
If you wait until most professional players have mastered it and you haven’t… then retirement is the only path.
Speed is more extreme than League of Legends in some ways.
So at this stage, all streamers playing Speed have titles like “practicing techniques”…
As a result, League of Legends players seeing this feel so proud, like they are superior.
Our weakest players go to your side and are the strongest, creating all kinds of records.
Just ask if you’re pissed?
Now they really wish Li Fan would stream Speed every day.
As for neglecting one’s duties?
A substitute neglecting his duties—what impact does it have on the matches?
No impact at all…
And we just like watching Speed streams; this game has so much operation skill when running.
But Li Fan actually only practiced maps diligently for the SSC Spring Split points race. Now that he got first place and successfully advanced, there’s no need.
Better to play Shu Tu Zhi Bin to relax a bit.
S1 season is overall quite relaxed.
Because there are no archenemies; one state has completed integration, next is attacking cities while looking for chances to break through passes.
Li Fan is a veteran at this; though not a full red big shot, he is top combat power in the alliance.
After all, many people now have only one or two four-star battle skills, and still use Taishi Ci as main team one—that’s way stronger.
The alliance leader even wants Li Fan to be a regiment leader.
Regiment leader is still not doable; after all, you have to watch regiment members attack cities daily, check attendance, assign tasks, make points tables, etc. If you don’t make the points table right, how to divide the conquered land later? Really no time.
For Li Fan, Shu Tu Zhi Bin is truly leisure.
In the end, there’s not that much work.
Find high-level lands to build fortresses, then attack lands before cities.
It does look pretty boring; few Shu Tu Zhi Bin players in the live stream room.
But this leads to surprisingly harmonious bullet comments in the live stream room.
Good Luck 666: 【Holy crap, streamer, your Rogue Team build is invincible, so fierce. Beating cleaver teams is casual, other teams are even, and basically advantage or even outside.】
Li Fan saw this bullet comment and thought of the guy who asked him for team building last week.
Then he smiled and said, “Isn’t it fierce!”
【Fierce as hell, really didn’t expect Sun Quan to be so useful. Battle skill out, Gui Lü doesn’t have to worry about headshots at all.】
【I’ve already recommended it, and named it Rogue after you. It really is rogue; the team name is spot on.】
【I’ve also mentioned you in Tieba and the alliance; probably a lot of people will come to you for team building soon.】
“That’s great, thanks for the support, boss.”
But it’s just starting to ferment now; after all, one person’s battle report doesn’t have much influence.
When a bunch of people really start playing Rogue later, that’s when it bursts.
But what Li Fan didn’t expect was that that very evening, ten or twenty people really came asking for team building.
The lowest had five teams at forty-five red.
Yeah, now Shu Tu Zhi Bin is basically cliques: full red play with full red, blanks with blanks.
Good Luck Big Brother is a full red big shot; those he introduces are definitely high or full red…
These twenty-plus people, each at least brushed fifty blood vials, more have five excavators.
Seeing so many people asking for team building and brushing gifts—one brush over two hundred bucks—left the audience in the live stream room dumbfounded.
Isn’t this…
Are Shu Tu Zhi Bin players all this rich?
By their calculations, in just these two hours, Li Fan had received nearly ten thousand yuan in gifts.
“As expected, compared to League of Legends and Speed, streaming Shu Tu Zhi Bin makes more money; they brush so many gifts.”
Interestingly, EDG had a match today.
Lost 2:1 to OMG… Sima Laozei had a near-perfect performance in today’s match.
Fans are furious at this stage, which spilled some hot searches to Li Fan.
This caused Li Fan to inexplicably top the list again.
#Unreal Shu Tu Zhi Bin team building…
Li Fan lying in bed looking at hot searches, speechless.
EDG lost the match, what does it have to do with me, a substitute! How did they get me on hot search?
Thanks to No One Cares Full Frost for the 500 starting coins reward
