Full-time: Starting from Ye Xiu vs. Faker

Chapter 404 Preparation for Mutual Deification

"What do you think happened to the captain recently?" Huang Shaotian glanced at Yu Wenzhou in the conference room from a distance and asked in a low voice.

"How would I know? Shouldn't you ask about this kind of thing?" Chu Yunxiu rolled her eyes.

"I want to ask too, but it's too weird, I dare not... I'm afraid it's the kind of private matter that we shouldn't ask." Huang Shaotian said with a bitter face.

"Do you think he had a conflict with Wenbo?" Chu Yunxiu thought about it and put forward a relatively reasonable guess.

Huang Shaotian shook his head: "I thought so at first, but I played against that guy yesterday and we chatted for a while after the game."

"At least he acted normal during the chat... and said he would get revenge sooner or later."

He thought for a moment and added, "And considering the captain's control over Wenbo, it's unlikely that he would be troubled by Wenbo for so long, right?"

"That's true."

The second and third in command of the team reached a consensus, but when they looked at Yu Wenzhou, who had been frowning in the meeting room for a long time, they couldn't help but be filled with question marks.

What happened, boss?
The calmness and low-key attitude shown by Blue Rain to the outside world is certainly not a show; they really have managed to remain calm to a certain extent.

A wealthy family is a wealthy family after all, not a makeshift team like a certain team that has worked hard for most of its life but has never been able to win the championship.

Although the value of the Glory Champion is decreasing every day, that is only limited to the outside world's reputation.

The team's tradition and atmosphere quickly calmed the players' restless minds after they won the championship.

Even for the three youngest and most impatient ones, the excitement of winning the championship was somewhat reduced due to the "lack of reality" in the competition, which allowed them to calm down relatively quickly.

However, after all, they had just won the most prestigious championship in their careers so far. It was okay not to be carried away by success, but it was impossible to be completely unhappy.

Huang Shaotian updates his program list in his spare time every day.

Blue Rain was well aware of how crazy this kid was. They would rather earn less money than completely stop Huang Shaotian from broadcasting live before the end of the World Championship.

So Huang Shaotian, who couldn't broadcast live, could only use his free time every day to imagine how he would show off his new championship in various ways after the broadcast started, and he listed a whole piece of paper with ideas.

Of course, his training was not delayed. In fact, on the contrary, this kid's training intensity was rarely seen.

After all, he has to wait until the World Championship is over before he can start broadcasting and making things happen. If he fails to win the S Championship...

Can this mediocre LPL champion still have such high value?

If no one is watching then, I’ll really become a clown!
So Huang Shaotian was the one who trained most seriously.

Chu Yunxiu was not as flamboyant as him, but according to many people inside the Blue Rain Base, they often heard Chu Yunxiu humming songs in the morning and evening during this period.

The humming is quite good.

The news reached Xuanqi next door, and Li Hua said that there were more captain images that he had never seen before.

As for the three young Dengs, they are more flamboyant in normal times. It is already their limit if they can avoid showing off their championship on social media.

Gangzi took down the flowerpot in his dormitory and asked the club for a replica trophy to put up on its place.

It is said that this move was a tribute to his idol Zhang Jiale. After winning two championships in the spring, that guy replaced the two flower pots in his live broadcast room with two trophies, completely getting rid of the nickname of "Flower Pot Boy".

Then this nickname became popular and was applied to Gangzi, who was also a first-line AD but failed to win the championship and liked to put a flower pot on the background during live broadcasts.

Originally, Gangzi wanted to ask the club to borrow one of their glorious championship trophies to put behind him for show, but after being mercilessly ridiculed, he gave up the idea in a huff.

Now, finally there is something to display.

He is now thinking about which "lucky guy" to pass on the glorious title of Flowerpot Boy, which belongs exclusively to the top AD.

Why don’t you persuade Wenbo to put up a flower pot for fun?
The other two young men are not as abstract as Gangzi, but they also have their own lives.

Li Xuanjun, who received a large bonus, ordered a lot of peripheral products, all of which were from his favorite girl groups. He had already expressed his opinion when chatting with Gangzi that if he could win the championship, the champion skin must be accompanied by a cheering stick.

957 took a day off, reportedly to go back and see his old college classmates.

As a result, a few days later, the technical secondary school he graduated from, which was neither high nor low, put up a banner at the school gate:
“Warmly congratulate our outstanding graduate Ke Changyu for winning the 2024 League of Legends China Division Summer Championship!”

The words used are inappropriate, but it doesn't matter.

In short, after winning the championship, everyone has their own happiness and glory. Even if it is not a big deal, a small celebration is necessary.

But there is one exception.

Yu Wenzhou was still smiling when he won the championship. Maybe his way of celebration was to appease his angry brother?
But this smile lasted less than a day. It disappeared after Yu Wenzhou read a document, and was replaced by a frown.

He began to spend a lot of time in the conference room every day, taking notes in a notebook in front of the computer screen, without knowing what he was doing.

Research your opponent?
But the question is, which other opponent can make the captain look so embarrassed?
But if not, then what else could it be?

Could something have happened to the captain's family? That's impossible. If something had happened, the captain would have worked overtime to get back home, rather than staying at the base and worrying about the screen.

Huang Shaotian couldn't control his curiosity.

Gritting his teeth, Huang Shaotian showed the seriousness and solemnity that he had not shown when he won the FMVP of the summer season. He approached Yu Wenzhou cautiously, hesitated for a moment, and slowly spoke:
"Captain, are you in any trouble?"

Yu Wenzhou didn't seem surprised that Huang Shaotian came over. Or, even if he was surprised, he would probably only be surprised why it took so long for this guy to come over.

However, he was not in the mood to tease Huang Shaotian at this time. He pressed his swollen temples with his fingers, then looked at Huang Shaotian. The meaning in his eyes made Huang Shaotian's expression quickly turn serious.

Chu Yunxiu, who was watching the fun on the side, noticed something was wrong and threw the ranking game in her hand, which was already in the final stage, to Gangzi, who had nothing to do, and came to the training room while Gangzi was in a hurry.

"To be precise, we are in trouble." Yu Wenzhou organized his words and finally blurted out this sentence.

"The connotation of this 'we' is——" Chu Yunxiu keenly noticed the reservation in Yu Wenzhou's words.

Originally, she thought that if Yu Wenzhou approached them to discuss something, it would most likely be a problem for the entire Blue Rain team.

But now it seems that her thinking was a little too simple.

"Probably... the LPL region?" Sure enough, Yu Wenzhou's next sentence immediately became more important.

“…Is it so exaggerated?” Huang Shaotian was dumbfounded for a long time, and his clever mouth was stuck for a long time, not knowing what to say.

Yu Wenzhou did not directly play the video and review the evidence as usual this time, but suddenly raised a question:
"Have you ever seen a player with extremely strong growth potential and rapid evolution? The kind that evolved from an ordinary player to a top player in a short period of time?"

Huang Shaotian answered without hesitation: "Of course I have seen it. Isn't the old building a typical example?"

Lou Guanning, originally a second-generation rich man who was just playing for fun, made it to the LPL through the qualifiers. In just half a season, he grew into a T1-level top laner second only to the top three top laners at the end of the spring season. You should know that when he played in the offline stage of the qualifiers, he was as bad as a national server master.

Yu Wenzhou nodded and asked again: "What about the team with rapid evolution?"

“Aren’t the other two the same?” Huang Shaotian spread his hands.

The flowers in spring were originally slightly suppressed by them, but once they realized the truth in Longchang, they won the championship directly.

Xingxin's situation in the summer is even more outrageous. Since the beginning of the summer season, the six members of the team have evolved one after another, and their fighting power has skyrocketed in every game.

If they had not been well prepared, they would not have won the championship.

It was for this reason that Yu Wenzhou's original focus in preparing for the S game was on how to deal with Xingxin, who had had sufficient rest and preparation time, and had been able to completely digest the upper limit that had risen too quickly during this period.

Until he got the news by chance.

"Well then," he glanced at the information in his hand, and immediately felt a slight headache again, and took a deep breath:

"Have you ever seen a competition area that can evolve at a high speed?"

……

LCK, a region that had barely made it into the top four in the spring season, became a little confusing to Yu Wenzhou just a few months later.

Speaking of which, during the spring season, Yu Wenzhou, who had said that he was "already studying the opponents of MSI", actually went to seriously study the situation in each major competition area.

This includes the LCK, a neighboring e-sports country.

The result is: there are some young people with great talent and promising prospects, but as a whole, as a region, it is just so-so.

SKT's Faker and deft, Samsung's pawn, KT's IMP and smeb... The talents displayed by these teenagers are no less than those of the talented teenagers in LPL.

However, their growth environment is completely incomparable to that of LPL.

For the talented young people in LPL, the only problem preventing them from succeeding is their own hard power. As long as they are strong enough, they will have no shortage of opportunities to succeed.

You see, even a team like Excellent Era that was under pressure from a main team was still sent to North America to fight, wasn't it?

As for the young people in LCK...

On the top, there are the chaebols who exploit the players' commercial value without any bottom line; in the middle, there is the useless training team who can do nothing but cause trouble; and at the bottom, there is the bullying of Lao Deng who fled from Glory.

As a result, Yu Wenzhou was embarrassed to mention his identity as the former champion of Glory to others for a long time afterwards.

Shameful.

And their performance was indeed worthy of Yu Wenzhou's judgment. That SKT team almost broke the thighs of Faker and Deft, but still could only barely make it to the semi-finals.

It can only be said that it is competitive, but not much.

At that time, Yu Wenzhou even observed a moment of silence for those young people, thinking that they were truly a waste of talent.

As a result, after a summer season, when Yu Wenzhou finally won a precious championship for Blue Rain from the strong enemies in the LPL and could finally study the opponents in the S game,
Looking at LCK again, my eyes almost popped out of my head.

If the few young people he had high hopes for had not grown into the stars of the competition area, he would have suspected that he had obtained the wrong information.

Although there are still big problems in the region as a whole, compared with the situation in the spring season, the current LCK, at least on the surface, can be said to be completely new.

Some people in the management, training team, and even players who were just sitting there doing nothing or even had only negative effects were optimized out, giving young players a little chance to stand out.

Those young people he favored have become the core of their teams one after another and have gained more say, especially Faker, who has grown into the soul of their team.

Such a huge change happened at the speed of light in just one summer season.

In contrast, the LCK game scene changed rapidly.

There is no need to compare the LCK Summer Season with other leagues. Just looking at the Summer Season itself, from the beginning to the end of the playoffs, the results of the games can only be said to be completely different from what can be achieved in the same region.

Especially those three galactic battleships that were obviously formed with huge investment, and their performances already showed the demeanor of world-class teams.

There may still be some gap with LPL, but this gap is being narrowed at a terrifying speed.

When it comes to the S-League...

Although Yu Wenzhou can see that this change is not as thorough as it seems, SKT's fierce competition and Faker's banging against the wall are typical examples.

But this was enough to make Yu Wenzhou feel fearful.

If that were the case, it would be fine. A strong opponent was enough for Blue Rain to take seriously, but not enough to make Yu Wenzhou feel difficult.

But the problem is that he saw something familiar in the boy who banged his head against the wall due to mental stress.

He had experienced these things firsthand in the past finals from his old rival who had tried his best to change his fate.

So, LCK has a 17-year-old Ye Xiu?
Isn’t this a bit too scary?
Yu Wenzhou shuddered.

No matter how bad the LCK environment is, it can’t be worse than the glory of the Internet cafe competition period...

Now, he just hopes that this time, he has made a mistake...

……

But Yu Wenzhou probably wouldn't have thought that while he was sounding the alarm for LCK and his brain was working at light speed to find a way out,
Over there in LCK.

"Wake up!" SKT's new coach, someone who looks like Wang Leehom, clapped his hands suddenly, finally making the noisy scene a little quieter.

He looked around with his cold eyes:
"While you are still cherishing your ridiculous tactical reserves, I hope you can realize one thing:"

"In front of a monster division like that, we are the challengers."

"Besides, I may not be able to rank high among the challengers."

　Damn it, I still couldn’t escape the make-up test. I don’t know how I’m going to pass it with my almost broken waist.

　　Then when I was listening to oor's new song, I clicked into the comment section and was physically sick from the foul smell...

　　An unlucky day.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)