LOL: What does it mean to torture players?

Chapter 144: Challenge from Zzitai, vs. SS
After hearing what Abu said, Scout immediately became eager to express himself and said:
"I TPed over to destroy the tower with Mozi and found that his equipment was not right. I felt a lot of pressure at that time. If we didn't push it down that time, we would have really lost."

The factory manager agreed: "The other side also took the big dragon. We couldn't stop their advance. It was really thrilling. Fortunately, we took it."

Su Mo said, "I'm not panicking at all."

The factory manager smiled and said, "You have good calculation ability."

"Calculate? What do you mean?" Su Mo said he didn't understand.

"You said you weren't panicking at all, so you must have calculated it and knew that you had enough time to destroy the tower, so you weren't panicking, right?"

Su Mo's eyebrows jumped: "You think too much. What I mean is that if we can't finish the game, the worst that can happen is that we lose the game. Anyway, this is a regular season. If we lose, we lose. Winning and losing are common in the military!"

Everyone:...

At this time, Abu smiled and said, "Don't worry about it. Everyone has worked hard. Let's go back now. Although we won the game, there are still some issues that need attention."

The EDG members packed up and left.

at the same time.

On the other side, in the IG lounge, everyone was discussing the recent game.

However, everyone in IG was a little depressed at this time, not only because they lost the game, but also because it was so frustrating to lose this game.

Jackeylove said helplessly: "I was already invincible, but the opponent's Varus had one and a half items less than me, so he was just a casual player in the team fight. What a pity."

Ning sighed: "Alas, I had such a good rhythm in the early stage, helping you guys to catch the explosion in the bottom lane, and you thought you could win easily. This Sion is really disgusting. Who came up with such a disgusting routine?"

Ning subconsciously glanced at Rookie. Rookie knew he couldn't escape, so he could only take the blame:
"I made a big mistake this time. It's my fault. Otherwise, I would definitely have a chance."

At this time, Chris spoke up: "Let's put it this way. It's time for us to make a change. Duke, you should just take a rest and watch more. Don't rush to play."

Duke was reluctant to hear this: "Give me another chance! This top laner is just so-so, and he doesn't have any outstanding moves. The main reason is that I didn't choose the right hero. I'll choose a warrior top laner and I'm sure we'll win!"

"Next time we meet, something like this will never happen again!"

Chris shook his head: "If I'm playing a warrior top laner, playing on the laning side, I have better options."

Hearing this, everyone in IG subconsciously looked at the boy in the corner.

He is what Chris calls "the better choice".

During the previous training games, everyone on IG felt that Theshy’s playing style was very special.

He likes to play heroes that can influence the outcome of the battle. Even when he plays a tank hero, all he thinks about is how to kill the opponent alone, rather than how to be a loser.

"Jiang Chenglu, you will start in future games. You will play against EDG next time. Is there a problem?" Chris looked at Theshy.

Theshy put down his phone, stood up and walked over, and said, "Okay."

Chris pointed at the screen and said, "EDG's top laner, Mo, is... a little weird. He may be different from other top laners you have encountered. Don't think that he is easy to deal with just because his mechanics don't seem to have any outstanding features."

Theshy had a blank expression on his face and nodded slightly, seeming to feel no pressure at all.

"It's good that you have confidence, but it's better to be careful." Chris reminded again and again.

Then, he looked at Ning and said, "Gao Zhenning, the top laner has been replaced. You should also make adjustments to your playing style in the future. You should know what I am talking about."

Ning was very confident: "I know. To be honest, I quite like working with Xiao Jiang. He is very strong in laning and can suppress the opponent."

"When he beats the opponent to low health, I will go to the top lane and cross the tower. Then the game will be over, right?"

Rookie was not so optimistic. He advised: "Ning, you should be more cautious. EDG's top laner is not that easy to deal with."

Ning smiled: "No, Lao Song, you lost your confidence after being killed by the opponent once? That's not like you, Lao Song."

Rookie was speechless. Ning has just that kind of personality. He is careless and can easily suffer big losses.

But he knew very well that it was not something that could be changed by just a few words from him.

Chris said: "Very good, even though we lost to EDG today, everyone still has confidence. We can get revenge next time we meet!"

On the other side, at the Snake training base, inside the training room, the players are conducting RANK training. A day's training matches are over, and now it's time for ranking, entertainment and relaxation.

At this time, the SS players were also discussing today's game enthusiastically.

"Oh my god, did you guys watch today's game? That Mozi brother was walking around in the top lane and made IG's mid, top and jungle players look terrible." The substitute jungler who spoke was Zzr.

"What's going on? Is there a game today?" The man in pajamas looked confused, and his brain seemed to have not been polluted by knowledge.

"Today's game between EDG and IG was quite interesting. I suggest you watch the video. EDG's top laner Sion mindlessly pushed the tower and made IG very confused."

Zizi laughed: "It's because he didn't meet me, Sion on the top lane, I'll have Noxus on the top lane, and I'll chop off his dog head!"

Zzr expressed his disbelief: "Zzitai, just pretend. You are a mid laner now, so you won't run into him. If you were playing top lane, you would probably be scared to death if you ran into him."

Zizi said with disdain: "It's not like I haven't played against EDG in training matches before. Wandering dragon! Killing indiscriminately! If you have the guts, let him come to the middle lane to fight me, I will beat him to pieces."

"Haha." Zzr laughed.

Seeing that Zzr didn't believe him, Zzitai started to brag: "I have a hidden hero that I saved for the playoffs. If he really comes to the mid lane, I will use it to teach him a lesson!"

Zzr became interested: "You have a hidden collection of heroes? Is that true? You won't keep it hidden until S8, right?"

Zizi pretended to be mysterious: "Let's wait until he comes to the middle lane and see how I abuse him, but I don't think he dares."

On the EDG side, everyone left the competition venue together, went to have a meal, and then returned to the training base to review the game.

While reviewing the situation, suddenly, a mechanical voice sounded in Su Mo's mind:

[Detected that the posture challenged the host, activated the hidden task:
Mission 1: Accept the challenge, choose to go mid-lane when playing against Snake, select a random hero, and break the opponent's mentality. Reward: 1 Ultimate Proficiency Card.

Task 2: Evade the challenge and pretend not to know about it. Reward: Coward
Mission 3: Refuse the challenge, go to Snake base, admit your mistake to Zizi, and be rewarded with the title: Zizi.]

Seeing these three tasks, Su Mo felt dizzy. How could he be so worthy that he was asked to apologize? And he was still so arrogant?
Is that too much?

Although he didn't know why Zizi suddenly challenged him, and today's game had nothing to do with Zizi, he could only make a choice:

"Task one."

After the mission was completed, Su Mo asked, "Does anyone know when we will fight Snake?"

The factory manager was speechless: "Brother, you are now the starting top laner, don't you even check the schedule?"

After complaining, he still responded, "It's next week. Why are you asking this?"

Su Mo responded: "When fighting Snake, I will go in the middle lane."

Now the factory manager was even more curious: "Going to the middle lane? Why? I remember that Snake's mid laner was Zzitai, and his level was relatively not that high, not as good as Xiaohu and Rookie. Why did you insist on playing against him?"

Su Mo couldn't find any other reason, so he could only tell the truth: "He said he wanted to spar with me."

"Ah? When?" The factory manager looked around but didn't see Zizhi.

From the end of today's game until now, everyone has been together. When did Zizi launch the challenge to Su Mo?

"Anyway, he said it." Su Mo's serious expression made everyone look suspicious.

But they were used to Su Mo's nonsense, so they didn't care too much.

As the night came, the EDG players were doing their own ranking training and live streaming at the same time.

The factory manager suddenly remembered what Su Mo said in the evening.

So he chose to search for Zizi's live broadcast room, and Zizi was also broadcasting live, so he went in.

At this time, Zzitai had just finished a ranked match and was chatting:

"Don't think that my performance in this game is not good. My contribution is huge! Basically, I used the key skills to create opportunities for my teammates."

"Hey! Director, the Director is here! Hello, Director!"

As soon as he saw the factory manager enter the live broadcast room, he immediately stood at attention and his attitude was very good.

The factory manager first gave Zizi a rocket.

"Thank you, Director, for the rocket. Thank you, thank you, thank you so much." Zizi didn't even stand up, but put his hands together, bent down and bowed.

The barrage in the live broadcast room exploded instantly:

"Zhizhi is so worldly-wise?"

"As expected of a smart person, you understand so well."

"Strange! So strange!"

"No, who are you? I don't even recognize you."

The factory manager asked politely, "Have you communicated with our team's top laner today? Are you familiar with Xiao Mo?"

Zizhi was stunned after hearing this: "Brother Mozi, right? I guess he's okay. He looks pretty familiar..."

Although there has been no communication, is there a need for communication?

No need!
At least that's the case with posture.

However, after he finished speaking, his eyes rolled around and he was wondering why the factory manager asked him this?
"Do you want to fight with him? Have a competition with him?" the factory manager continued to ask.

“Fuck…” When Zizi saw this comment, he subconsciously turned around and glanced at Zzr.

I thought Zzr sold out his teammates too quickly, and this had already reached the ears of the factory manager.

Then Zizi started to laugh, pretending to be flattering and fascinated:
"Hehe, you know all this."

Then, his attitude changed and he immediately became tough again:
"But to be honest, I watched Brother Mozi's games, so that's it. It's a pity that he didn't meet me, otherwise he really couldn't win."

This change of attitude caused a lot of discussion among the audience in the live broadcast room:

"It's a pity that you don't act in movies."

"There is absolutely no trace of performance, it's perfect!" "This is a true artist!"

“I suggest using it as a teaching material for Beijing Film Academy.”

Seeing that Zizi had admitted it, the factory manager put aside his concerns and replied, "OK!"

The factory manager and Zzitai are old acquaintances. They are both players of the same era and have had some friendship. Of course, there is a big difference in their status.

In the next few days, the EDG team trained as usual.

Originally, the factory manager was thinking that since Su Mo was going to play mid lane in the next game, he would let him practice mid lane in the training match.

What he didn't expect was that Su Mo refused, saying that it was the same as before and there was no need to practice.

Abu ignored Su Mo. It didn’t matter to him whether Su Mo practiced or not.

In his eyes, Su Mo is now a genius among geniuses, and he can play any hero with flying colors.

It would be better to let A Guang practice more with the others so that he can serve as a substitute for Su Mo when the time comes.

As time goes by, there are more interesting things happening in the summer season.

For example, on the second day, IG officially announced that Theshy would become the starting top laner.

This news came very suddenly, and netizens immediately thought of something:
"I feel like I was replaced because I played so badly in the top lane in the loss to EDG."

"You mention that and it reminds me that Duke's performance in that game was a disaster!"

"Mozi's operation seemed ordinary, but it was strange that he could win."

"Does anyone know who Theshy is?"

"He's just a new Korean player. I heard he was in WE's youth training camp."

"..."

A week passed quickly and it was the weekend again.

Perhaps because EDG has a lot of traffic, the games are often scheduled on weekends so that more people can watch.

LPL mainly relies on several big players to attract traffic, and EDG is one of them.

In the afternoon, the EDG team drove to the competition venue, entered the parking lot, and after the car stopped, everyone got out of the car with their belongings and entered the competition venue.

"Manager!" Suddenly, there was a noise behind the EDG team, and they all turned around to look.

I saw a slightly plump boy walking towards me quickly with a smile on his face.

Snake’s starting mid laner is Zzitai!
A few meters behind Zizi, the rest of Snake's team and coach were walking slowly towards them.

The factory manager greeted Zizi and asked about his well-being.

Zizhi found Su Mo in the crowd. The two looked at each other, and the system suddenly responded:
[Drawing heroes...]

【Stars...】

"Pull again!"

[Spend 1000 torture points, remaining 2155 torture points]

【Bio-Demon·Zack】

It's this hero? Is this okay?

EDG and Snake parted ways and returned to their respective lounges.

After entering the lounge, Su Mo put down his things and waited for the game to begin.

At this moment, the factory manager came over and asked, "How is it, are you feeling stressed?"

Su Mo shook his head: "I don't feel any pressure."

On the other side, in Snake's lounge, Zzr found Zizi:
"Zhizi, what do you think? Are you sure today? Didn't you say before that you were going to use your best skills?"

Zizi made a bold statement: "Fight as you like, a solo kill at level 3!"

While speaking, he was observing the reactions of others, such as Alex and Sofm, who are the pillars of the team.

Zzitai began to take credit: "Brothers, you may not know yet, but today EDG's Mo is going to play in the middle lane. He was originally on the upper lane, but now he wants to duel with me in the middle lane, so our chance has come."

Saint Spear Brother's reaction was cold and he said nothing.

So Zzitai found Saint Spear and said, "Saint Spear, if he plays top lane, will it be hard for you to beat him?"

Saint Spear replied calmly: "It's okay, but the routine is a bit strange, and the other aspects are not very outstanding."

Ziti suddenly changed his attitude and started to brag: "No, he was killing IG and RNG. He was the FMVP of MSI, he deserves it. How can he not stand out?"

"However, I tricked him into going to the middle lane. The middle lane is my territory. I will definitely be the MVP today."

"Brother Shengqiang, you can fight against A Guang freely in the top lane, but you can't lose face for us in this game, you have to kill the opponent ruthlessly!"

Holy Spear Brother:......

At the commentary booth at the game, Guan Zeyuan, Miller and Rita were ready.

Guan Zeyuan commented: "Okay, audience friends, today's first BO3 is about to begin, EDG vs. Snake! Both teams are in good shape now, I hope to see a wonderful performance."

Rita continued, "I received news from the front that Mozi will play in the middle lane in this match, and Scout will take a rest. I saw a rumor online that this was an appointment made in advance between the two teams, and that Zzitai and Mozi will play in the middle lane. I don't know if it's true."

In the official live broadcast room, the comments were all discussing:
"Bumping into Brother Mozi? That's enough."

"A fight? I think it's a beating."

"It's hard to say. The middle lane is Zzitai's home turf."

"It's their home court, Mozi and Faker are evenly matched."

"Zizi, if you have the guts, go to the top lane with Mozi. Do you dare?"

"To be honest, Zizhi does have some strength, but Brother Mozi... Brother Mozi also plays weirdly."

"Damn it, I almost forgot. I was hoping that Brother Mozi would be killed from the beginning, but until now, he's the one who's annoying the opponent."

"..."

At the competition venue, host Luo Xin welcomed contestants from both sides.

EDG and Snake came on stage one after another and stood face to face in the middle of the stage.

Su Mo looked at Zizi, who was still making funny faces with rich facial expressions, which made Su Mo suddenly laugh.

"Brother Mozi, I won't show mercy to you." Zizhi winked at Su Mo.

"Me too." Su Mo nodded with a smile.

After shaking hands, Su Mo sat down at his seat, put on his headphones, and the first game began.

In this game, EDG is on the red side and Snake is on the blue side.

Enter the BAN hero stage.

EDGBAN killed Rumble, Fizz, and Rek'Sai.

SnakeBANed Gragas, Sejuani, and Jarvan.

Guan Zeyuan analyzed: "EDG mainly blocked Snake's top and jungle heroes. Mouse was under pressure facing Saint Spear, and Snake blocked the jungler. Prince might also be the top laner. In general, they targeted the top and jungle, and all the mid-lane heroes were released."

Entering the heroic phase, the blue team's Snake locked onto Mantis on the first floor.

"Wow, Sofm on the opposite side seems very confident. Factory, do you feel any pressure?" Meiko joked.

The factory manager had a serious expression on his face. Sofm was indeed a tricky person.

His route to clear the jungle and his thinking are different from other junglers in LPL. Moreover, this guy is good at operations. In simple terms, he is both civil and military!

"Give me the spider." The factory manager made his choice.

At the same time, he reminded: "The opponent Sofm is very good at stealing people in the jungle. He is very good at assassin junglers such as Mantis and Warwick. You should pay attention when choosing heroes, especially the double C."

The factory manager looked at Su Mo, meaning that he should choose someone with stronger life-saving ability.

"No problem." Su Mo understood what the factory director meant.

EDG locked onto the Spider on the first floor and got the Tristana on the second floor.

Tristana has the ability to move and has a knockback ability with her ultimate skill, so she is not completely defenseless against assassins.

Snake got Ashe and Thresh on the second and third floors.

Guan Zeyuan analyzed: "I think Snake is one of the few teams that can play jungle core. I feel that the Ice they chose in the bottom lane was chosen for Mantis, mainly because they wanted to see the position of the manager so that he could take action."

Rita agreed: "That's right. Ashe is now a pure tool. She is mainly used to open vision for teammates and start team fights. The battle for the jungle area should be very fierce."

EDG locked Shen on the third floor and entered the second round of BP. EDGBAN killed Crocodile and Fiora.

Snake chose to ban Braum and Tam.

Guan Zeyuan continued to analyze: "Now the two supports who can restrain the opponent from entering the game, Braum and Tam, are gone. I feel that in this game, the choices for Snake's second hand, mid and top, are more likely to be assassins and warriors."

EDG locked onto Minotaur on the fourth floor.

It was Snake's turn, and they got Shen and Leblanc on the fourth and fifth floors!
Seeing these two heroes being picked, Guan Zeyuan was not calm: "I was right! Snake's lineup is very violent, the mid and jungle are both assassins, and the top lane Shen is a warrior."

"It will be difficult for both EDG teams to survive this match. Among the heroes that can be selected in the mid lane, it seems that there is no hero that is particularly good at dealing with the Snake lineup."

(End of this chapter)