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Chapter 323 Provoking a Regional War? As expected, assassins excel at "heart-piercing"!
The atmosphere inside the T1 base, which had been filled with laughter and conversation, suddenly became somber.

"I've really been looked down upon," Oner said, rubbing his knuckles in a slightly indignant tone after realizing what had happened.

Aunt Youxi complained even more angrily, "What is Qianxi bragging about? Last year, we clearly beat them for the whole season! They only won once because they were lucky at the end!"

Last year, DRX was a fringe team in both the Spring and Summer Splits. In the Summer Split, they barely managed to secure the last fourth seed spot by a narrow margin of 3-2 in the final round of the gauntlet.

Their performance within the competition area was naturally quite average.

In fact, Aunt Youxi, who also loves to talk big, is no less capable than Sunrise King in terms of "making tough statements" and "being stubborn"!

The only difference is that he often managed to evade the Boomerang's pursuit in the T1 team.

However, Keria timidly muttered from the side, "He has indeed beaten me many times."

Zeus shrugged and said frankly, "Actually, he's not wrong. He said it's the World Championship. Winning a lot before the World Championship but losing the World Championship is useless."

"Moreover, YE has indeed beaten us many times."

Aunt Youxi became even more displeased upon hearing her two teammates' words: "Hey, hey, hey! How can you speak up for the enemy? I believe we will definitely get our revenge in this World Championship!"

"Sang-hyeok hyung! You agree, don't you!"

Lee Sang-hyeok glanced at his nephew, and one look from him silenced the other instantly.

He didn't answer, but stood up and walked back to his computer.

He then said expressionlessly, "Let's prepare for tomorrow's match first."

The LCK and LPL schedules are similar, both using a double-elimination format. However, due to the smaller number of teams, the LCK schedule is two or three days faster than the LPL schedule.

Actually, T1 already finished V5's schedule a few days ago, defeating DK to advance to the upper bracket. Tomorrow they will face GEN, who also defeated HLE, in the upper bracket.
Although Lee Sang-hyeok didn't say anything, it was as if he had said everything.

And at this time.

Ye Bo and Beryl, who had just finished their interview, were walking backstage amidst screams from the audience.

"Why are they so excited?" Beryl asked, puzzled by the commotion outside. "Holy crap, is it really that explosive?"

Ye Bo shrugged, looking completely innocent: "Actually, I've always been puzzled by this. Every time I feel like what I say is pretty normal, but the factory manager always calls me the King of Bombs."

"It's just four! I'm just telling the truth~~~"

"By the way, we might have to go to Beijing for our competition the day after tomorrow, right? I need to get some more douzhi (fermented mung bean juice). Tsk tsk, it tastes really good right now."

The two "Bomb Kings" walked backstage to reunite with their teammates.

They then prepared to return to the neighboring base to rest.

This is actually the biggest advantage of playing at home: it saves a lot of travel time and allows you to maintain peak performance.

For example, the JDG vs. WBG match tomorrow will be held at JDG's home stadium in BJ.

However, if JDG wins, or even if V5's final opponent is JDG, then V5 will have to go to BJ to compete—because JDG's venue in BJ is much larger than V5's venue in Shenzhen, and its capacity for spectators is four or five times smaller!
This is an unavoidable gap in hard conditions.

Mario Ho has always had the idea of ​​building and expanding the venue.

Unfortunately, in Shenzhen, where land is extremely valuable, large-scale projects like expanding the home stadium are not so simple, not to mention that V5 has already invested a huge amount of money in building the team this year. However, after the Asian Games, there may be new changes.

After all, Shenzhen, where V5 is located, is a very wealthy city.

Given V5's current performance, it is very likely that they will receive funding and support from the local government, just like WE in Xi'an!

As for the level of support...

If V5's "core figure" can lead the team to win its first Asian Games gold medal, the official significance of this honor alone will be unimaginable in terms of funding and support.

The Asian Games may not be that important to viewers who only care about "clashes of strength".

But that's the reality.

The Asian Games in China are no less valuable and have more "practical significance" than the LCK's exemption from military service, and in some aspects they may even be more important!

That's why.

Even now, Ye Bo is still the only person on the CN team's Asian Games roster.

EDG's unexpected early exit from the playoffs caused a significant drop in the competitiveness rankings of their previously promising jungler, marksman, and support trio.
"Wow, Master Ye and Genshin Impact, your interview has blown up Korean websites!"

Sitting on the bus, Xun turned his head to show his phone screen: "Those who said you two were going to start a regional war have all come!"

Ye Bo peeked over and exclaimed, "What the hell? It can't be that exaggerated!"

He took a look and found it was a repost from the Anti-Japanese War forum, which was bringing over the latest news from Korean websites in real time.

[Ah, you arrogant Chinese players! We LCK players dominated this game for five years and we weren't this cocky! Now they're showing off!]

Why should we listen to YE? I, T1, am not taking the number one seed today! I'll make you furious!!!

[Ha, the other side is clearly trying to start a regional war! LPL, if you're so capable, then don't poach our core players! Let's see if you survive!]

[It's alright, they can't use South Korean players at the Asian Games! This time, we'll expose their true colors!]

[↑I suggest we don't be too optimistic yet; don't forget how badly we lost our first Asian Games.]

[It's all a conspiracy by the Chinese! They know that the esports industry is one of the pillar industries of our Republic of Korea, and now they want to completely destroy us. They want to ruin the future of the Republic of Korea!]

【Beryl, you damn traitor to Korea! You'll get your military service soon, won't you? You son of a bitch, just you wait!!!】

Korean netizens were immediately outraged after reading the interview content, which was also copied from China to Korean websites, on their forums. They said that this was going to start a "regional war"!
Ye Bo was initially quite puzzled.

How could their few words of communication with T1, which were at most sent over a distance, be interpreted in this way?
But Beryl suddenly shouted, "Holy crap!?"

"Damn it! This reposted post is completely fabricated!"

Xun asked with an innocent and curious look, "Oh, really? How did you know?"

"Xunzi, there's one possibility: whether it's oily or not. Actually, I know a little bit of Korean too."

It was only after Beryl's translation that everyone learned the truth.

The original content posted on Korean websites was translated, with a few keywords changed.

When translating, the re-translators thoughtfully used Korean parentheses to explain the "true meaning" of the words.

The notes are all just nonsense!

For example, Beryl wrote: "We (referring to V5 and last year's EDG and DRX) didn't lose a single game in the LCK region at last year's World Championship!"

Ye Bo went even further, changing his statement to: "Hopefully LCK can step up their game, so we don't even miss a BO5 (meaning: he thinks LCK won't even make it to the quarterfinals!)."

"Is this even possible?" Ye Bo handed the phone back.

"Thinking about it this way, those Korean online posts I saw before, could they all be embellished versions?"

Beryl shook her head: "It's not spicy."

"The actual insults were far more vulgar than the translated version."

"I still remember last year when we beat T1, several large trucks lined up outside T1 overnight with banners, and the whole street was filled with funeral wreaths bearing the names of the players."

Compared to the empty talk of domestic fans, Korean fans are definitely more pragmatic!

The game was lost in the morning, and by the afternoon, there wasn't enough room to put all the wreaths at the entrance.

The main point is that everyone knows that even if such a thing is eventually "debunked," it is unlikely to spread widely, as people will only believe the first news they hear.

It is foreseeable that this "regional war" may have already inexplicably begun!

In contrast, Ye Bo simply treated it as a joke.

At this moment, both Beryl and Deft beside him felt an inexplicable surge of pressure.
Why do we have to play in the Asian Games?!
Neither of them dared to imagine whether they would dare to go back to their hometown for holidays if the KR main event at the Asian Games resulted in a crushing defeat, or even worse, if their performance at the Asian Games was poor.
Ye Bo didn't notice the change in his two teammates' expressions.

They've already started browsing online forums and message boards on their own.

V5's current popularity is undeniable; the match had barely ended when discussions and memes were already buzzing. For example, there were analyses of Qiyana's gameplay in the first game.

Well-known expert players have already capitalized on the hype and immediately released videos analyzing several key plays frame by frame, especially revealing the "superpower secrets" that expert players have been keeping secret.

The netizens below, who were shocked, had a very heated discussion.

[Holy crap!! So there really is a damage bonus for "Hand Multiplication Zone"!?]

[Old man, you've finally handed over the Burning Blade Technique! You were thinking of keeping it for yourself if it weren't for Master Ye!]

[No wonder I always felt that Beifeng's Qiyana dealt significantly more damage than the Archmage Yi; it turns out it's because Archmage Yi relies on his C2 skill, and his hand speed isn't fast enough!]

[No way, is this even possible? I've been trying for half an hour in the training camp and I can't get it to work even once.]

Even Bei Feng said that getting this thing to work in actual combat depends on luck, which shows how terrifying Master Ye's hand speed is when he consistently uses it. I'm so envious of his future girlfriend QAQ

[As we all know, American Wing Chun was developed using real bullets, while Chinese Wing Chun was developed by Donnie Yen. I think the nickname "Ip Man of the Rift" is quite fitting!]

Although some people immediately seized the opportunity to question whether it was a bug or not.

However, most discerning people disagree.

Just as Ye Bo thought, this move was a basic combo in Qiyana's basic skills, and it was absolutely impossible to avoid using it!
There's no reason to make someone intentionally slow down their combos, is there?
Ye Bo continued refreshing the feed and discovered that his favorite content creator had just updated as well.

I've updated a set of anime-style memes.

It's modeled after the second game's "Throne Flying Thunder God" combo by the Ruined King, as if it's an extended storyline imagined within the Rift, based on that moment of time-stopped imagery.

Let's "interpret" that operation from another perspective.

Only saw:

The Ruined King, with Ye Bo's face photoshopped onto him, is facing the Akali phantom inside his body and whispers, "It's up to you now."

Then, the Ruined King confidently turned around and separated Akali from his body.

The blurry image was filled in and made clear in that instant, just like the effect of the Ruined King using "Shadow Clone"!

Pain pierced the heavens, and he abandoned his body to charge to the other side of the battlefield. Akali on the other side lived up to expectations, using the last blow of her remaining soul to help the Ruined King kick Draven to death.
[AKL: Yes, this is my last Ripple, please accept it!]

[This is pure cheating. Other people's King of Ruin just possesses a body and uses it for a while, but this guy seems to have possessed the soul as well.]

[Hey, it's true! It seems the Thief Saint really went completely mad after this wave. He's completely lost his humanity since then, mindlessly feeding kills to the Ruined King from the side lanes!]

[Is Akali recognizing who's on the other end and they're vying for control? )]

[Thief: Referee! He cheated! My hero has been stolen!]

Ye Bo really felt that the picture was quite well done. He sent two round things to the other party and planned to ask the person in the pot for their opinion later.
As for the final clockwork, perhaps it's because it just ended and no one has noticed anything yet.

However, it may be difficult to discover anything.

This is because of the audience's "perspective".

After all, if you only think about the combination of Orianna and Shen, you will find that the operation mechanism itself is completely reasonable and not complicated—it's just about "simultaneously amplifying" the moment of "teleportation" displacement.

From any perspective, this operation involves only this one mechanism, and it doesn't require much additional thought.

of course.

Even if someone were to discover something, Ye Bo felt it wouldn't matter.

If no one knows about something, then you can use the "information gap" effect.

If people already know something, then it can be used to "crack" it.

"Developing Tactics" and "Cracking Tactics".

That's the most captivating part of professional esports.

"Hey, please stop fighting! Please stop fighting!"

Foygo, shrouded in black mist, used the blade of the King's Sword to deflect the kunai that shot towards him: "I, the King of Shadow Isles! You dare to say that a mere Balanced Ninja is stronger than me!?"

His tone was extremely childish and his voice sounded strange, as if the speaker's reverb was turned on.

Every time Ye Bo heard this voice, it was as if he were hallucinating about the Ascended being ridden by a Protoss in the river.
Akali, who had been concealed within the shroud of mist, suddenly appeared behind him without warning.

He whispered something in her ear and then disappeared back into the rosy clouds.

Those four words were like a final whisper, piercing right through the opponent's seemingly impenetrable defense!
Foygo's deathly pale face suddenly flushed intensely red, making it seem as if he had possessed Rambo's body. He began wildly slashing at the King's Sword around him.

When his attack failed, he turned back and continued his persistent questioning, seeking solace.

"I am the King of Ruin! Explain yourself! Who is stronger, her or mine!"

"Well, she's definitely stronger. In this version, you can only play her so-so; you can't play her against many heroes."

Fouyego, caught in a pincer movement, grew even more impotent and furious with his reverberating voice, sounding more and more like someone going mad.

Akali appeared in his ear again and said four words—enraging Folgo to the point of extreme anger, he turned around and exploded on the spot, suffering excruciating pain!
Unfortunately, it only slightly dispersed the mist and haze on the ground.

"Ahhhh!!!"

Fryego, fuming, went to the river to bathe and calm down.

Akali's skirt, now surrounded by a blue light, reappeared, and she sat quietly beside Ye Bo.

What did you just say to him?

Ye Bo asked curiously.

However, when Ye Bo heard the other person say the words "You Don't Have a Wife," he couldn't hold back for a moment.
Although the darts couldn't break through the defense, an assassin is an assassin. He used "Last Whisper" repeatedly to pierce through the man and his armor. Ye Bo couldn't even calculate the psychological trauma his opponent suffered from the leak.
We can only say that facts prove it.

As expected, assassins and ninjas are best at stabbing people in the heart—whether on a physical or psychological level!

The LPL playoffs continued the following day.

Although most people favor JDG, V5 members believe that this will at least be a closely contested match.

This is not because WBG beat them.

If you look closely at their head-to-head record this year, you'll find that they played a total of 5 games in the spring and summer seasons, with an overwhelming score of 4 to 1!

WBG has never lost a single game to JDG!

Winning a game might involve luck and a matter of form.

But winning so many games is enough to suggest that there might be some kind of "restraint relationship" between the two teams.

Given JDG's performance in the Spring Split, which was second only to V5, and WBG's roster, which was not in good form in the Spring Split, the fact that they were still able to defeat each other is enough to show that WBG is definitely not weak.

Especially after Xiaohu transferred to the team during the Summer Split, his partnership with GALA in Royal Club seemed to be like adding wings to a tiger, and their coordination was excellent!
In addition, V5 has always believed that JDG actually benefited from many of the negative aspects of the summer split version.

So in fact...

V5 even favors WBG to win.

The final result was similar to what everyone had imagined, yet slightly different.

JDG and WBG battled it out in a full BO5 — but in the crucial fifth game, WBG didn't pull out any more of their trump cards as expected, instead opting for a very conventional lineup.

On the contrary, JDG revealed their tactical trump card.

Congratulations to JDG! They defeated WBG and advanced to the winners' bracket, where they will face V5 again!

"At the same time, WBG fans don't need to be nervous. They will go to the loser's bracket to face LNG. The loser will enter the gauntlet, and the winner will play a rematch against the loser of JDG and V5 to compete for the final spot in the finals!"

I don't know if it was because the opposing team had an excellent mentality, or because of something else.

Looking at the expressions of everyone at WBG, from the coaches to the players, it seemed that they didn't show much tension or sadness.
(End of this chapter)