Chapter 25: Jackpot! Massive Strength Boost!
Li Fan returned to the basement, took a shower, and went straight to sleep.
He had no idea at all that things had blown up so much outside.
#EDG Mid-Jungle Rift# and #Unreal Rejects Clearlove# tags themselves carried extremely high traffic, and under the push from certain people, they quickly rushed to the front of the hot search list.
The comment section was initially filled with unanimous accusations from EDG fans and Clearlove’s personal fans.
【What the hell? A substitute acting so cocky? Big Brother invited you to duo queue for training and you didn’t react? In a company, you’d be fired directly.】
【Ming Kai inviting you is giving you face, you really think you’re something special?】
【Got crushed in training matches, doesn’t play ranked, streams all sorts of random games, set a terrible example, better get out of EDG quick!】
This excited these marketing accounts greatly; the traffic was indeed amazingly huge. Next time, stirring up these kinds of conflicts is sure to work.
The more traffic, the more money they make.
So as long as there’s traffic, they don’t care if you live or die.
According to the original plot, Li Fan’s reputation was already bad, and with this wave of impact, he was very likely to be executed.
Even if not executed, the club’s treatment would be super poor, definitely with zero opportunity to appear.
After all, the club has to consider its reputation to some extent.
Giving a player accused of lacking professional attitude an opportunity to appear would be like rubbing the normally training players in the training room on the ground.
But a scene no one expected appeared: as Speed players flooded in, the tone began to change dramatically.
Mainly because Speed’s current popularity is far from what it used to be.
All sorts of matches are overshadowed by League of Legends by a wide margin.
And now, a streamer who broke the circle finally appeared. As long as you stream Speed and teach them skills, that’s good.
Yet he’s being suppressed like this!
How could they possibly accept that?
What’s more, Li Fan really has a lot of Speed fans.
Mainly because of the new version Super Drift tutorials and Song Qian Card Gas tutorials; these are game-changing.
This one won’t even fully form until Jiang Zhangchuang after this year’s King of Cars Competition.
But it has to be said, Jiang Zhangchuang is indeed a genius in the Speed world.
He came up with quite a few skills…
【LoL Dogs panicking? What people play is none of your business?】
【Unreal’s Speed skills are top-tier, even the best in the pro scene. Playing League of Legends is giving you face!】
【So what if he refused? Is Clearlove your dad that you have to babysit him? Love that workplace PUA vibe, huh?】
League of Legends players couldn’t tolerate this provocation; after all, League of Legends is the hottest right now.
A game on its way out should just kneel obediently.
【qq Speed? Isn’t that a game anyone can play? Worthy of being called esports?】
【Hilarious, a game where you buy cars with money coming to bump into LoL?】
【Speed simps, go back to your kindergarten.】
This caused the flame war to escalate rapidly, spreading from Weibo to Tieba, Hupu, and Zhihu.
Both sides quickly escalated from debating whether Li Fan should have rejected Clearlove’s duo queue invite to attacking each other’s game’s competitiveness, player quality, and game value.
In some Steam game groups, even completely unrelated TV drama discussion groups, a message would suddenly pop up.
“Brothers! LoL Dogs are flaming our Speed on Weibo! Any Speed player, come help!”
“League of Legends players assemble, rush these kart players, let the Speed guys see who’s the top esports stream!”
Some of Li Fan’s fans directly threw his tutorial videos in their faces.
“Does any League of Legends player have better operation than this? Pressing so many keys in one second—does League of Legends have operations like that?”
LoL players countered with operation highlights from top mid laners like Faker and Pawn.
Especially the Zed vs. Zed battle…
Controlling a little car running around randomly—what kind of operation is that?
This made Li Fan no longer the main point of attack.
The current flame war was mainly between the two games…
When Li Fan woke up and was brushing his teeth while looking at all sorts of push notifications on his mobile phone, he was stunned.
He had thought that rejecting Clearlove would definitely draw marketing accounts to stir things up, there would definitely be a big rhythm, but he never imagined…
That Speed fans would support him.
To be honest, it was pretty touching.
【Congratulations Host, qq Speed spread reached Level 1】
【Obtained: 1000 Learning Points, 2 Freedom Attributes.】
What?
Holy crap!
We’re rich!
Li Fan really hadn’t expected there to be such a reward.
After all, he had some calculations at the start.
The more people cursing him, the more people would come to his live stream room.
This way, the game’s influence would definitely grow, and the daily fixed salary would increase.
But to hit such a huge crit right away?
One thousand Learning Points, two Freedom Attributes.
After thinking it over, Li Fan understood.
Although he had been on quite a few hot searches before, this time was different.
The previous hot searches mentioned playing other games, but those involved were still the League of Legends circle.
This time, Speed players got involved, and the momentum was massive.
And now it’s still in the fermentation stage…
Just one night’s hype was this exaggerated—what about two days, three days later?
Would it count toward him?
Li Fan was very much looking forward to it.
If it did, the reward wouldn’t be low.
Sure enough, participating in qq Speed professional competition and making tutorial videos was the right step.
His already wonderful mood was now even better.
He decisively added these two Freedom Points to Reaction, bringing the Reaction value to 88 points.
Such a wonderful start!
Cheer for me, applaud me!
…
“Holy crap, how did Speed suddenly get someone this badass? How does Board Car run so fast on Spring?” Liang Haihui was bored, scrolling on his mobile phone.
Jiang Zhangchuang, sitting nearby, curiously leaned over.
And saw the Board Car hitting the acceleration strip and starting to lock tire for Super Drift, cornering at an extremely exaggerated speed.
“How can it run so fast? This is a Board Car!”
“Right, I’m curious too. Landing speed over six hundred… no idea what his finger technique is like.” Liang Haihui frowned; Spring was his King Map.
In his view, he’d already researched the optimal lines for every point.
But seeing the hot search today about a genius Speed player, honestly he hadn’t taken it seriously.
No matter how genius or skilled, could they beat him? Could they beat Jiang Zhangchuang?
They were determined to win this year’s King of Cars Competition.
But qq Speed had never had such big hot searches, or rather, pro players had never been on any hot searches. Even for a game no one plays now, out of curiosity he checked Li Fan’s live stream screen.
This look actually shocked him.
Very impressive… extremely impressive.
“We should check out his live stream.” Jiang Zhangchuang said to Liang Haihui.
Liang Haihui nodded.
