Rebirth is fine, but I get eight hundred dollars right from the start?

After the two peripheral gift packs were given away, the chat in the live stream went completely wild—

Countless people started spamming the comments with "Pick me!" Lin Shu looked at the popularity number in the upper right corner, which was still climbing, and the corners of his mouth curved up.

"Alright, stop complaining. Get ready for the second round of draws, same old rules—"

"Five, four, three, two, one—Go!"

Three IDs popped up simultaneously. The three new lucky winners, compared to the previous two, were clearly more mentally prepared; their voices were much more stable when they entered the YY channel, and their opening lines were all uniformly "Hello E-God... I'm ready, I choose—"

The three new audience members were all incredibly shrewd, as if they had conspired beforehand, managing to get one of the remaining three members of HWG to each receive a share.

Although the results of the solo competition were no different from before, the popularity of the live stream still broke through the previous peak as he expected.

Lin Shu was not surprised by this.

What's the point of just watching the matches?

Yes, Emperor can indeed dominate in high-elo games, pull off incredible plays in ranked matches, and hold onto the top spot in the Chinese server—but the problem is, the audience can't.

Learn a skill?

Those who really want to learn have already watched the tutorial videos and first-person replays. Those who stay in the live stream and spam the chat are mostly people posting pictures, making it quite a spectacle.

The thrill of a crushing victory is truly exhilarating. The first two times I watched it, my adrenaline surged, and I felt an urge to jump up and kick the opposing team.

But what if you see too much of that?

Ten games, twenty games, a hundred games—you're the MVP every time, and the opponents always seem like bots. Even the most amazing performances will go from "Holy crap" to "Oh," and from "miracle" to "everyday."

Nothing beats the thrill of this scene.

Look at the big dragon pit, the lucky player is being chased all over the pit by Xiaobai's throwing knives, yelling "He predicted my prediction";

On the old thief's side, that guy almost smashed his own table to pieces, but he still couldn't even touch the old thief's clothes. Finally, he resignedly sighed in the voice chat, "This game is so hard."

Xiye's side was even more amazing. The player hit a knife with Q and shouted into the microphone, "Brothers, I hit it! I hit it! I'm going to solo kill the pro player!" Then Xiye hit him right on the forehead with a flying knife, ending the game—and finally, the chat happily dubbed it "Today's Famous Scene".

The player who was selected lost, but they still got the peripheral gift pack and a three-minute face-to-face voice interaction with a professional player, which was watched by hundreds of thousands of people in the live broadcast room, making it a memorable moment.

In the post-match voice chat, everyone sounded even more excited than if they had won.

As for the viewers who weren't selected?

That would be even more satisfying—watching casual players of similar skill levels get repeatedly taught a lesson by pros, seeing their cowardly yet courageous antics in voice chat, and hearing their cries of excitement turning into despair and then relief, the comment section would be flooded with "hahahaha" and "I would be the same if I were in their shoes" comments.

That feeling of relief, thinking "thankfully it wasn't me," combined with the glee of watching others make fools of themselves, is more entertaining than watching any single-player game.

And what about Lin Shu himself?

After the three solo matches, the number of viewers in the live stream reached a new high, the activity level of the chat almost doubled, and the revenue from gifts also increased significantly.

Gu Feng on the platform didn't even bother to send a message. He simply put up a new banner promoting traffic support in the pop-up window, making it clear: You do your thing, I'll follow suit.

Players are happy, viewers are happy, the platform is happy, and he himself is happy too.

It's a win-win situation, so why not do it?

The hype surrounding the solo competition hadn't even died down when the comments section was already flooded with "Again! Again!" and "Not enough! Not enough!"

Lin Shu looked at the popularity score in the upper right corner of the screen, which remained at its peak, tapped his fingers on the table twice, and the "there's still hope" switch in his mind was flipped back on.

"Alright, looks like the guys haven't had enough," he gave a thumbs up, grinning like a fox, "Then let's have a bonus—a few rounds of 5v5 free-for-all. Six classes, four random random players, mixed team compositions for team battles, full voice chat. Here's the important part—"

He deliberately drew out the last syllable: "Which hero our six professional players from HWG will use later will be decided entirely by the vote of our viewers."

[Holy crap???]

[Okay, okay, so after the one-on-one fight comes a group brawl, right? That's great, that's great!]

[Let's team up! I want to be on E-God's team! We can brag about being world champions together!]

【What are we waiting for? Shouldn't we pick Teemo for E-God?】

[Forget Teemo, healer is so much better!]

[Hehehe, I must give my vote to Urgot!]

[I, Galio, might also be able to go online.]

Okay, okay, you really know how to play.

[Give E a Garen pick!! I want to see the best Garen in the Chinese server play in the bushes!!]

The live chat exploded instantly, with hero names flooding the screen, making it dizzying. "Ghostly options" like Teemo, Garen, Urgot, and Soraka dominated the screen.

Countless viewers discussed which abstract entity they should choose for each of them.

Lin Shu didn't waste any words and directly opened a voting page in the live stream. Each professional player had five candidate heroes—all of which were "funny packages" prepared overnight by his own operations team, ranging from Urgot to Teemo, from Galio to Warwick, and even included Soraka and Garen, with the main idea that "every option thrown out will make the live stream laugh their heads off."

As it turned out, the audience did not disappoint.

The moment the voting closed and the hero icons of the six professional players appeared, there was a collective 0.5 seconds of silence in the YY channel, followed by five different exclamations of "Huh???"

Xiao Hai, who was assigned to the support role, was voted the champion – Karthus.

A mage who needs to unleash his ultimate skill and sing a requiem in the fountain is now standing in the bottom lane bush, holding his staff and acting as a babysitter for the ADC.

When Xiao Hai entered the game, his voice was trembling: "I'm playing Karthus support... What should I learn at level one? Q for poke or W for slow? No, wait, I should learn E... No, wait, I'm a support, why would I learn E?"

For Li Nan, the audience gave him a robot to play top lane.

The viewers were initially intimidated by the professional players' laning skills and stayed under the tower, not daring to move.

As a result, Li Nan seized the opportunity and threw out a hook, pulling Nocturne to his side... well... successfully giving away first blood.

The worst off were Old Thief and Little White.

The old thief was assigned a support jungler role, while the newbie was assigned a Doom AD carry role.

Thus, the famous scene of a professional player being killed by F4 and the AD player missing countless minions was born.

As for the two mid-laners, the audience did not request a position swap.

However, when it came to hero selection, players thoughtfully provided Xiye with the strongest mage in the current version, Gragas the Barrel.

Then, incidentally, we also assigned Swift Scout to our number one player in the Rift.

"Captain Teemo is dying!"

The number one player in the Chinese server, the terminator of solo queue kings, and the All-Star MVP—this giant Buddha is hopping and skipping around in Summoner's Rift with a little Yordle cub in his hand.

Brothers, quickly review the ironclad rules of the Chinese server!!!

Team fights can be lost, but Teemo must die!!!

[Attention all nine people present! Target locked, priority S!]

[Young substitute, your chance is here! Beat E-God and you'll be a starter today!]

After the heroes were selected, the four players assigned to Lin Shu's team quickly made a deal with the five enemy players.

For the next hour or so, Summoner's Rift turned into a large-scale documentary of Teemo's "100 ways to die".

Three minutes into the game, the jungler, in coordination with Xiye's Gragas, ganked mid lane at level two.

Once Teemo's corpse lay beside the river bushes, a message popped up in the public chat from the enemy jungler:

"I'm sorry, E, but an ironclad rule is an ironclad rule."

Six minutes in, mid laner Xiye's Gragas used his ultimate. Although Lin Shu dodged his E-flash, Gragas's R-wave still blew him out of the tower. Then, unable to survive in lane, he came to mid lane for a gank, and with the help of his hook, he got the kill.

Ten minutes later, the opposing team grouped up and invaded the jungle. Lin Shu was surrounded by the five of them at his own blue buff. Lin Shu used Flash and W to speed up in an attempt to escape, but ended up clicking on his own Thresh lantern and being carried into the enemy's arms by his viewers.

Fifteen minutes, twenty minutes, thirty minutes.

Under the combined attack of all nine people present.

Lin Shu's Teemo died in every corner of the Rift;

Blue buff bush, behind the dragon pit, the ruins of the mid lane tower, the passageway to the dragon pit, even your own inhibitor tower—when the enemy rushes onto the high ground, prioritize focusing fire on Teemo, he won't even have time to return to the fountain.

In every team fight, regardless of victory or defeat, Teemo is always the first to fall.

Even if Lin Shu's skills were at their peak, accurately applying the blinding skill to the enemy ADC, dodging three skills with his positioning, and setting up mushrooms like a minefield—

But as soon as a team fight starts, the five opponents seem to have planned it all, using Flash and their ultimate abilities to target that little Yordle brat.

Oh, and we also have to count his four teammates who not only ignored him but also actively betrayed him.

"Brothers,"

After dying yet again, Lin Shu looked at the black and white screen, his tone tinged with a mixture of amusement and despair, "I suspect you're targeting me, but I have no proof."

The comments section was filled with laughter that caused server issues, with the screen overflowing with "hahahahaha".

[Teemo is dead!]

[Congratulations to E for achieving the "Corpse Collector" achievement in the Rift!]

[My heart aches for E-God—I want to say, increase the effort!]

Can Teemo get MVP after this game?

[As expected of Tivan, even the world's number one player is no exception.]

When the base finally exploded, Lin Shu's Teemo score was 2/16/7.

……