LPL History

Chapter 215 The Three Armies Mock the Breast Disease Before Their Tent; The Craftsman of Dongguan Understands the Power of the Holy Hammer

In the live stream, viewers were still reeling from the shock of Xiaoming's incredible pentakill steal as EDG's base exploded.

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[This is hilarious! WE.A will never get a pentakill?]

Honestly, I really didn't expect this wave of momentum to steal a pentakill.

[I can vouch for Xiaoming; I saw him almost crying in the contestant's footage just now.]

Sigh, enough said. Let's all give Xiaoming a proper send-off. Hopefully, he can still contribute as a nuclear explosion observer in the future.

[Brother Zhou didn't react much, but the Khan and Sima Yi were truly on edge.]

[Khan, Sima the Old Thief: Are we clowns?]

"Congratulations to WE.A for defeating EDG again and winning the second game! They now have match point, which will put a lot of pressure on EDG in the upcoming matches! Let's take a break and look forward to the match point game!"

The commentators' voices were still echoing on the field, and in the WE.A players' bench, Khan was having a fit of madness.

"Damn it! Why did you do this?! I even called him grandpa, all for Brother Zhou! Why did you have to slap his head?! Eh eh eh oh oh oh oh eh!"

Xi Ye's smile stretched from ear to ear as he stopped the Khan and said:

"Calm down, calm down! Xiaoming definitely didn't do it on purpose!"

Sima the Old Thief silently stared at the Khan.

Although he was very dissatisfied, Xiaoming was, after all, his support. As an ADC, he often had to consider the support's feelings, so he dared not show any dissatisfaction.

So he could only stare at the Khan, cursing him inwardly as a useless piece of trash, when a skinny Xi Ye stopped him.

Just then, Flandre, who hadn't played in the previous game, suddenly stepped up.

"Shi Senming! What do you mean! Why did you steal our Brother Zhou's pentakill! Today I will act on behalf of Heaven and punish you, you monster!"

Seeing Flandre rushing towards Xiaoming, Tabe quickly stepped forward to stop him.

However, just as he stopped Holy Gun Bro, Zhu Kai stepped forward again.

"Shi Senming! You've truly committed heinous crimes today! I'll teach you a lesson on behalf of Brother Zhou!"

Tabe looked helplessly at the deranged Khan and said:

"Brother Zhou, please try to persuade him."

Zhou Li smiled and looked at the Khan, waving his hand dismissively and saying:

"Why advise? It's good for young people to be more active."

Upon hearing Zhou Li's words, Tabe didn't say much more.

In his opinion, Zhou Li was good in every way, except that he was a bad person.

Five minutes later, Zhou Li clapped his hands and spoke:

"That's enough. Now that we've finished exercising, let's discuss the tactics for the next game."

As soon as Zhou Li's voice rang out, the Khan, who had been acting like a monkey, instantly became docile.

Life is like a play.

Did the Khan really regress to his ancestral form and become a monkey?
Obviously not.

The Khan knew, however, that the general loved watching monkey shows.

During this period, Khan has been playing a classic Chinese song on repeat.

"For you, I turned into a monkey; for you, I went mad."

What a poignant song, perfectly capturing the Khan's state of mind.

He had confided in Lu Benwei about this matter during a QQ chat, and Lu Benwei told him about it at the time.

"Brother, with your mindset, you are destined for great things."

Just now, during the first game, he couldn't beat Flandre, so he sent Lu Benwei a message to vent.

Lu Benwei then told him.

"Wow, bro, I was just kidding."

However, at this point, the Khan was powerless to distinguish right from wrong.

All he knew was that everyone in the LPL right now wanted to latch onto Zhou Ge's coattails.

Now that he has such a convenient position, he has to consider whether this is the only opportunity he will ever have.

So when he heard Zhou Li's call, the Khan immediately became serious and nodded.

"Brother Zhou is right, stop arguing, the meeting is starting!"

Sima the Old Thief sneered, cursing "lackey" in his heart, and said:

"Stop arguing, it's so annoying."

Seeing that everyone had quieted down, Tabe coughed twice and began to review the previous game and plan the tactics for the next game.

EDG Lounge.

If Abu was still considerate of Clearlove's feelings in the last game and his criticism was relatively mild, then now that he's faced with Ai Luoli, who has neither background nor ability, Abu is showing absolutely no restraint.

Ai Luoli remained expressionless as the spittle flew towards his face.

He was no longer listening to what Abu was babbling about; his thoughts had started to wander.

He thought of the classic scene in "Hail the Judge" where Stephen Chow curses at the sea.

Ai Luoli felt that if she stood here and let Abu curse her for three days and three nights, then Abu's saliva would gather into a river and flow downstream to the mouth of the sea in Shanghai.

However, he most likely won't go to sea.

Because Shanghai has the largest port in the country, which handles the most cargo.

He'll probably be packed up and sent to some island in America, where he'll become friends with Hawking and others, and thus reach the pinnacle of his life.

"Did you even hear me?!" Abu asked angrily, looking at the lifeless-eyed Ai Luoli.

Ai Luoli glanced at Abu indifferently and simply asked:
"Stop talking so much, just tell me if I'll be allowed to play in the next game?"

Upon hearing Ai Luoli's words, Abu laughed in exasperation.

"With the way you're playing and this attitude, you still want to play? You're really something. Let me tell you clearly, not just in the next game, but in all the future games, you won't be playing. What kind of person are you!"

Seeing Abu's furious expression, Ai Luoli remained expressionless and simply said:

"Then why are you talking about your mother? You sissy."

The EDG rest room fell completely silent.

All that remained were Abu's deliberately exaggerated and heavy breathing through chest resonance.

Then, from somewhere else, a quick but brief laugh rang out.

Abu's murderous gaze swept across the crowd in an instant, but he couldn't find his exact target.

The factory manager coughed softly and stepped forward.

"Alright, we're all family. It's not good to make things so ugly. It's just a game."

Seeing the factory manager come out, Abu got even more excited and pointed at Ai Luoli's nose, cursing for a long time.

"Get out of my rest room right now! EDG doesn't need someone like you!"

Ai Luoli cursed "idiot" and walked towards the door, saying sarcastically as she left:

"Take it easy, are you going to throw away your breast tissue?"

Abu subconsciously touched his chest, and after realizing it was flat ground, he was about to rush out and fight Ai Luoli a few more rounds.

The EDG members finally couldn't stand it anymore and joined forces to stop Abu.

The farce finally ended, but when I checked the time, fifteen minutes had already passed.

The staff were already standing outside the door.

"EDG, get ready to go on stage."

On the other side, just as Zhou Li was about to get up, he saw the Records of the Grand Historian in his mind, turning a new page.

Zhao Shengzhiming, also known as Ai Luoli, is from eastern Guangdong. He was intelligent from a young age and loved playing video games. He once reached the top of the national server and was known as the "King of Random Players".

When he first joined EDG, he was Mingkai's second wing player. However, the main players were as bright as the sun in the sky, while the young player was like a firefly in the night. Sometimes he would fill the gap in the top lane, and sometimes he would fill the gap in the bottom lane. People joked at the time: "EDG has a magic stone that can mend the collapse of the sky." However, after seven years of wandering and three changes of camp, he still could not show his true colors.

The battle raged in the wilderness. Li, wielding a cunning rat, appeared and disappeared unpredictably; the loli, holding a Demacian halberd, was caught off guard, unable to advance or retreat. As the central route collapsed, Abu's shouts could be heard from within his tent: "You are nothing but pebbles on a chessboard, how dare you aspire to a position of pillar?" The loli pounded her chest and sighed: "Moving mountains every day, I'll end up as a discarded pawn!" She then tore her battle robe at the army gate.

So he burned his keyboard and mouse, concealing his brilliance in writing. He studied diligently for six years, day and night without rest. After graduation, he went to work in Dongguan. Amidst his iron arms and silver shuttle, his colleagues noticed the calluses on his palms, which were as deep as ravines. When asked why, he laughed and said, "I used to hold a mouse as if it were jade, now I wield pliers as if I were capturing a dragon."

Sima Qian wrote: "Zhou Yu's defeat was a great achievement, surpassing even the construction of a pagoda. Had there not been the devastation in the wilderness, how could skilled craftsmen have been found? Yet, even the finest stone is not rotten wood; only when the dream of mending the heavens shattered did the sound of metal and stone begin to resonate in the world!"

Zhao Zhiming, a native of Guangdong, was exceptionally intelligent in his youth and a passionate esports enthusiast, once reaching the top of the Chinese League of Legends server. After joining the EDG team, he served as a substitute jungler, constantly living in the shadow of star player Mingkai. Due to his frequent filling in other vacant positions, he was jokingly called "EDG's magic stone for patching up the sky." However, after seven years playing for three different teams—EDG, IM, and OMG—he never managed to secure a stable starting position.

During a crucial match against Zhou Li, Zhao Zhiming was completely outmatched by Zhou Li's Twitch jungle play. EDG coach Abu publicly reprimanded him, and Zhao Zhiming tore up his team jersey on the spot, declaring a complete break with the team.

After retiring from the military, Ai Luoli studied diligently for six years to complete her studies. After graduation, she joined a factory in Dongguan to operate machine tools.

You shattered Ai Luoli's dream in the jungle, ironically prompting him to transform and succeed. Without that crushing defeat, how could he be the skilled machine tool craftsman he is today? But the "mending stone" is not rotten wood—when a substitute's dream is broken, the true value of life resonates like the clang of metal!

[Character unlocked (Loli), Ability gained: Invincibility. Hero: Iron Ambassador Poppy, Hero Proficiency reached Perfect level.]

[Invincibility: When a hero is invincible, all your attributes, including hand speed, awareness, and mechanics, are increased by 10%. Examples of invincibility include Tryndamere's ultimate and Poppy's ultimate.]

Zhou Li looked at the newly unlocked abilities in the Records of the Grand Historian and exclaimed, "Wow!"

I didn't expect it to be a collaboration skill.

This version of Poppy hasn't been reworked yet. Although the reworked Poppy has a much higher win rate than the current version, the current version of Poppy's ultimate is very interesting.

R-skill diplomatic exemption.

Mark a single enemy for 6-8 seconds: During this time, the target is immune to damage/skills from all other enemy units (including turrets) and deals 20-40% more damage to the marked target.

However, Poppy is currently a very unpopular champion, both in casual games and professional matches.

In Zhou Li's opinion, setting aside the factors of professional matches, the main reason why this hero is so unpopular in casual games is that the old version of Poppy's splash art was simply too overpowered.

Just that double ponytail and middle-aged woman's face is enough to deter many players.

Of course, the main reason why Poppy is unpopular is that although her skill mechanics seem very powerful, she actually has many fatal flaws.

The most fatal problem is mana. Poppy's maximum mana is only 300, while a basic skill combo costs more than 200 mana, which means she can only use one skill combo during the laning phase before running out of mana and losing her ability to fight continuously.

Poppy has low mana and lacks wave clear ability, often getting pushed back under the tower and unable to spawn.

This resulted in Poppy being extremely weak in the early game.

This hero, however, is highly dependent on equipment and level.

A hero who is extremely weak in the early laning phase and heavily reliant on items and levels is destined to be unplayable in professional matches.

But after Zhou Li achieved perfect mastery of Poppy, he suddenly realized that perhaps the old version of Poppy was not meant for the top lane, but rather the jungle!

Playing Poppy in the jungle might perfectly avoid Poppy's early-game mana shortage and lack of wave clear ability.

Thinking of this, Zhou Li quickly pulled Tabe over, who had already finished cheering on the contestants, and said:

"Tabe, I want to play Poppy jungle in the next game, so hurry up and come up with a draft composition around Poppy jungle!!"

Upon hearing Zhou Li's words, Tabe was stunned, his face filled with disbelief.

"Brother Zhou, stop joking, there are only two minutes left."

"I'm not kidding, I believe you can do it, Tabe!"

Tabe's expression shifted several times.

But there's nothing we can do; Zhou Li is the boss and the absolute core of the team.
As he said before—

Zhou Li is good in every way, except he is a bad person.

(End of this chapter)