Chapter 107: This Blame Is Definitely On You!
After finishing the interview, Clearlove and Li Fan returned to the backstage lounge, where their teammates had already picked up their equipment for them, so they just needed to grab their bags and go.
There was nothing else next, and the entire EDG team didn’t linger much, directly boarding the bus back to base.
The Shanghai night scenery outside the car window sped by backwards, while the inside of the bus was much more relaxed and lively than on the way there.
Winning the first playoffs match and advancing to the next round, and with a clean and neat 3:0 at that, was enough to release the pressure from the past few days.
After all, the players had seen those pessimistic comments online, and they too had no confidence in their hearts, because those people spoke with such vivid details that the more they read, the more it seemed true.
But on the arena, Li Fan didn’t disappoint everyone at all; the heroes he picked, even if they grumbled in their hearts about whether they would work, each one had amazing operation difficulty.
Especially picking Jayce right from the start…
Jayce this hero is a double-edged sword; if played poorly, there’s no presence at all on the arena.
In the end, facts proved they were overthinking it.
Those pessimistic remarks online could just be taken as they were.
They couldn’t be fooled again later.
Meiko and iboy were whispering about what to eat in the evening.
But judging by how they’d been chatting for so long, they still hadn’t decided.
Clearlove leaned back in his window seat, scrolling his mobile phone; the heat on Weibo about the just-finished interview was rising rapidly.
The term #JustParticipating# had already rushed to the front of hot search, with several related topics like #EDG Jungler Interview#, #Clearlove Level 2 Gank Bottom# hanging beside it.
Actually, the moment the interview ended, he had already anticipated it would be like this.
Clicking in, it was a sea of “hahaha” and “wild!” comments.
And there were plenty of trolls trying to stir up fights by specifically @-ing the RNG club.
【@RNG Esports Club, others are calling you just participating, can you tolerate this? Not gonna shoot a little video to fight back?】
【They’ve straight-up taunted you to your face, you’re not just gonna wimp out like this, right?】
【It’s over, EDG’s ancestral trash talk skill has been perfectly inherited by the mid laner, and even better than the original! Clearlove directly shows a mysterious smile.】
This one even specifically screenshot Clearlove’s photo.
Gotta say, there sure are many talents; this screenshot is really high level, looks like he’s smiling but isn’t smiling…
Then paired with Li Fan saying to just participate, it feels like that’s really the case, very approving.
【Unreal pulled this hatred so steadily, I’m already looking forward to the semifinals!】
【Who isn’t? I feel this semifinal will definitely be full of gunpowder.】
【Clearlove: I was just joking. Unreal: I’m serious. RNG: ???】
Because Clearlove had already said last year there’s nothing to study about playing RNG, just Level 2 Gank Bottom and done.
This semifinal happened to be against RNG, so he mentioned it again.
Telling everyone there’s still bloodline suppression, and they’re still easy to beat.
【Used to think Unreal was a cool handsome guy, today found out he’s the sullen type, confirmed led astray by Clearlove!】
Clearlove saw this line and couldn’t hold back, damn it! You know this guy has a belly full of bad water and is a sullen sneaky bastard, a total old sneaky bastard, how did it become me leading him astray?
He directly pulled out his mobile phone and handed it to Li Fan.
“Take a look, I’m really done, such a big pot actually dumped on me? You walk on two legs too? This can pull me down?”
While saying this, Clearlove shook his head.
Junglers are indeed the ultimate pot carriers…
“The eight people in EDG League of Legends Branch Team 1 are all carrying on your shoulders, this pot definitely has to be on you.”
“Fuck!” Ming Kai was directly amused by this sentence.
And in another corner of the city, Yu Luo sat on the bus back to school, headphones in his ears, phone screen still on the post-match data interface, but his heart had already flown far away.
As expected of the first League of Legends professional player I stanned, my taste is spot on.
Three matches, three crushing victories!
Especially Unreal, who was questioned by countless people before the match for “poor training match state” and “champion pool issues”.
In the end, with three matches of vastly different styles but equally carry performances, he ruthlessly slapped all the doubters’ faces.
Jayce’s precise cannon shots, Galio’s world-ending entry, and that elegant and agile assassin LeBlanc in the third… every screen was engraved in Yu Luo’s mind, playing on repeat.
This excitement and sense of pride made a hot current surge in his chest, hard to calm without venting.
If not a fan, it’s hard to empathize, hard to understand just how satisfying this is.
And right then, an idea flashed like lightning through his mind and quickly took root and grew wildly.
To clip all the exciting screens of Li Fan since debuting into a collection, make a personal highlight reel for Unreal!
Once this idea popped up, he couldn’t control it anymore.
Back in the slightly noisy dorm, Yu Luo couldn’t even share tonight’s match highlights with his roommate before eagerly turning on his computer.
He began searching for the official recording of today’s match, fan-shot on-site perspectives, even OB streamer’s commentary clips.
He wanted to collect all findable material about Li Fan’s three matches.
Then he started looking for Li Fan’s first substitute debut match…
The opponent wasn’t very strong, it was GT who was now relegating, but he pulled out Lucian and Lulu for a very pretty famous scene.
Followed by LeBlanc and Syndra ultimate positive/negative hand teaching Wu Zhuang Tai.
Extremely exaggerated LeBlanc pentakill screen, even after being cut down, still exploded with fireworks screen.
This was an extremely massive project; from eight to three in the morning, Yu Luo’s computer screen still glowed faintly, while his three roommates were already snoring away.
At this point, he was also nearing the end.
Starting to replay those bits of screen.
Jayce’s angled acceleration gate, the electric cannon nearly blasted half of CoCo Orianna’s health bar the instant it fired, completing the solo kill!
Syndra minion auto attack!
LeBlanc minion auto attack!
Lane solo kill Wu Zhuang Tai, lane solo kill Doinb.
Lucian one-second eight shots unreasonable instant kill jungler Excavator.
These operations, for some professional players, are only five or six segments in an entire career.
But for Li Fan, including all, it’s actually just six regular season games and one bo5.
Counting small games, actually fifteen, and from fifteen games he successfully clipped nearly five minutes of highlights, which reminded Yu Luo of Li Fan’s confident look during the interview.
Honestly, if it were me with so many famous scenes, I’d be way more arrogant than Li Fan, how could he be so restrained.
He let out a long breath, preparing to go to bed and rest.
But at this moment, he suddenly thought of Li Fan’s “just participating”, couldn’t help laughing out loud, and decided to clip that interview audio in too.
After sorting everything, Yu Luo watched it once more here, confirmed no issues, and gave it a very eye-catching title.
《Unreal arena highlight reel, watch it all at once and get satisfied!》
As for the cover, he chose a screenshot of Li Fan and Clearlove during the interview.
Confirmed no problems, then satisfiedly hit upload.
Even he got fired up watching it, so he was very expectant of others’ reactions to this video.
After finishing everything, he finally felt exhausted.
Checked the time, already four in the morning, just two more hours till dawn.
Hurry to the bathroom for a shower, then to bed!
At this rate, today’s classes probably can’t be attended.
What a pity, what a pity… he still quite likes the Mao Gai teacher.
Lying in bed, just thinking of this little bit, he couldn’t control sinking into deep sleep.
And this video had already started getting clicked and played nonstop, heat slowly rising.
When noon sunlight filtered through the dorm curtain gaps, shining on Yu Luo’s face.
He groggily opened his eyes, first thought was the video uploaded last night.
Fumbling to grab the phone by the bed, skillfully opened Bilibili.
“Holy shit!”
A suppressed exclamation burst from his throat.
He really didn’t expect it to be this exaggerated!
The video’s playback volume had already broken 6.5 million!
And this number was still slowly growing visibly to the naked eye.
Bullet comments densely packed, almost covering the entire screen, comment section bustling, likes and replies jumping nonstop.
No need to say, at this trend, this video will definitely be the most explosive one he’s made! Might break ten million plays!
Breaking ten million plays on Bilibili… he didn’t dare imagine how much money that’d be.
At this stage of Bilibili, fans are still very valuable.
Ten thousand playback volume earnings are already quite substantial.
Not exaggerating, Yu Luo could earn over ten thousand from this video!
Excited, his hands started trembling…
【High energy ahead! Non-combat personnel evacuate immediately!】
【What dimension did this bro come from, monster? Operations beautiful as painting!】
【Jayce that cannon bombed me from hater to fan! Just waiting for Unreal to live stream League of Legends teaching Jayce.】
【That probably won’t happen in this lifetime, if he starts live streaming League of Legends, I’d suspect Unreal got possessed.】
【Lucian instant Excavator, I kneel every time I see it, this hand speed human? One second eight shots!】
【Isn’t this basic op don’t 666? Don’t forget Unreal with sks can do one second 17 shots, so Lucian one second eight is just like that.】
【Just participating! Hahaha, consume with this highlight reel, explosive effect!】
【Stanned, stanned, from today I’m Unreal’s ten-year old fan!】
【This is the genius mid laner! LPL’s hope!】
【At this performance, this year’s best rookie has no suspense left.】
And the top hot comment pushed up below was prominently: “I declare, this is Unreal player’s official designated 《job application》 cum 《hater shut up guide》!”
Yu Luo looking at these enthusiastic comments and rapidly growing data, a huge sense of achievement and satisfaction surged in his heart, last night’s fatigue instantly swept away.
The video he made got recognized by so many, letting everyone see his idol’s amazing strength!
And he could get substantial earnings too, if everyday like this, marrying Liu Yifei and living in a mansion isn’t unacceptable!
At the same time, EDG base canteen.
Abu manager sipping carrot greens celery juice, scrolling phone, suddenly eh-ed.
“Li Fan your fan is really something, clipped a highlight reel for you, even on Bilibili hot.”
Li Fan thought, his biggest Bilibili fan is Unreal’s little diehard.
To be fair, besides his own show effect, this guy’s clip quality is indeed the best.
And no dragging, match end stream end immediately clips, going hot is normal.
But yesterday waiting for the video, by two it still wasn’t out so he went to train…
Actually he hadn’t watched this video.
So he pulled out his phone, found Unreal’s little diehard.
Clearlove at this time curiously leaned over: “Let me see what highlight!”
Then both very seriously watched this clipped highlight…
Opened right to just participating critical hit!
Clearlove at this time still full face smile, looks like a fun video.
But as famous scene subtitles appeared one by one, the smile on his face also converged.
“Holy shit, your operations are too perverted, didn’t feel it at the time but so many together is too terrifying!”
“So many famous scenes?” Li Fan scratched his head, “These aren’t all basic operations? This counts as famous scenes! Next match I’ll do more for him, let him clip some real famous scenes.”
“Pretending is still your style! But I like it!” Clearlove pinched his nose and forced down this weird-tasting veggie juice.
Surrounding teammates all laughed out loud.
At the same time, RNG base training room.
Xiao Hu slumped in gaming chair, phone screen playing that already viral 《Unreal arena highlight reel》.
He originally just wanted to casually check, understand next round opponent’s state, but the more he watched, the tighter his brows furrowed, that bit of ease in his heart sinking bit by bit.
Why did he have to click in with his itchy hand?
In the video, Li Fan’s Jayce cannons never miss, Galio world-ending, LeBlanc ghostly…
Operations precisely clipped, with intense BGM and full screen monster, awesome bullet comments, full impact.
“No… how is this guy so perverted?” Xiao Hu couldn’t help muttering, subconsciously sitting straight, “How many matches has he even played? Famous scenes almost more than my whole season!”
“You’re giving yourself too much face huh? This gold sticker is for you, you couldn’t produce this many famous scenes in a season.” Mala Xiang Guo was also watching this video, originally a bit pressured, but laughed hearing Xiao Hu.
Actually sometimes… seeing Xiao Hu not laughing is really this!
Xiao Hu’s mouth twitched slightly, after all we’re jungler-mid duo, you just expose mid like this.
“But speaking of which, this guy really is perverted.”
Xiao Hu nodded strongly in agreement, yeah! My pressure is huge!
