[Esports] Team Leader Xie, your mid laner is causing trouble again.

The atmosphere in the van on the way back was completely different from last time.

Jiang Xingle was as excited as a husky released from its cage, waving its arms and legs and swaying back and forth in the aisle.

When Song Bo accidentally elbowed him in the stomach for the fifth time, Song Bo, unable to bear it any longer, reached out and grabbed his shoulder:

"Don't get too excited yet. The teams that haven't been eliminated yet are using every trick in the book to win. I heard there's even a team that hired paparazzi to take pictures and expose them, just to mess with their opponents' mentality."

Jiang Xingle curled her lip dismissively: "It's fine. I'll just draw a circle and curse them. We don't have any dirt on us, what can the paparazzi possibly photograph?"

The others didn't take it too seriously either, laughing and scrolling through their phones.

Song Bo threatened them: "You don't understand. At this critical juncture, even the slightest thing can be blown out of proportion by marketing accounts. You all better keep your heads down and behave yourselves."

Jiang Xingle said "Oh," put away her flailing arms, leaned back in her chair, and obediently started scrolling through her phone.

Song Bo finally had some peace and quiet, and comfortably leaned back, cradling his aching belly.

Just as he was about to close his eyes to rest, he was hit hard on the side with an elbow.

Song Bo opened his eyes, his face contorted in pain. "Star! Are you going to fight me to the death?!"

Jiang Xingle didn't even look at him, and instead twisted into a ball, shouting towards the back row:

"Captain! Do you know what you're doing?"

Song Bo's heart skipped a beat, realizing something was wrong, and he snatched the phone from Jiang Xingle's hand.

The screen displays the official Weibo post announcing the match results, with the most popular comment below:

[RAK can only beat teams that get lucky. With a mid laner like Lychee who only cares about showing off, I'd be lucky if they made it to the finals.]

Song Bo felt a sudden tightness in the top of his head; the replies below had already turned into a complete mess.

【People complain when Lychee plays a utility champion, and they complain when he plays an assassin champion. Are you guys dogs?】

Honestly, there aren't many all-around mid-laners like this anymore, so how can there be any haters?

[Playing both a utility player and a mage assassin, isn't that enough? Let's get Lychee transferred to my team.]

Only three minutes after it was posted, there were already hundreds of comments, and the buzz was still rising.

Xie Jichuan's reply topped the list.

[RAK-River: Please. [Image]]

With trembling fingers, Song Bo clicked on the picture, which was a photo of the Ganges River in India.

It was like a carefully chosen stretch of water filled with garbage, with people washing clothes and taking baths all mixed together.

This photo made Xie Jichuan's single-word reply incredibly powerful.

It makes you feel like you're there, so much so that you can't help but want to vomit.

Please, River, pay me for clicking on this image.

See that person taking a shower over there? Just for fun, when humans shower in the summer, they're basically just giving mosquitoes a free meal.

【? 】

[The Banana Boat crew acted impulsively for the sake of their beloved, and we, the CP fans, are thrilled once again.]

[Drinking this will instantly transform you into a biological weapon.]

The familiar feeling of high blood pressure has returned.

Song Bo felt a wave of dizziness wash over him, realizing he shouldn't have stopped taking his high blood pressure medication just because things had been calm these past few days.

He muttered in a daze, "If I remember correctly, we just finished the first round of the loser's bracket, right? Are we... really that arrogant?"

Xie Jichuan leaned back in the last row of seats, and upon hearing this, he gave a slow and unhurried "Ah," his tone carrying a hint of perfunctory apology:

"Sorry, I couldn't control my temper."

Being close to the susceptible period, maintaining a good competitive state is already very demanding.

Xie Jichuan didn't want to waste any extra emotions on other things.

For example, if he sees a delicious lychee, he'll eat it without hesitation; if he sees a stupid netizen, he'll criticize them without hesitation.

Song Bo turned around and glared at him, his face contorted with rage: "I just told you to keep your tails between your legs, and where are your tails?!"

Xie Jichuan seemed to have thought of something, and suddenly chuckled softly.

Taking advantage of the moment when Song Bo turned his head away, he leaned slightly to the side and whispered in Li Zhi's ear, his voice so low that only the two of them could hear:

"Lychee knows best where my tail is."

Li Zhi had developed some immunity to his occasional flirtatious remarks over the past few days. Hearing this, she glanced at him with slight disdain and asked suspiciously:

"Are you really okay? Should we get a couple of injections of inhibitors to suppress it?"

Xie Jichuan leaned back in his chair and lazily closed his eyes: "It's okay. Judging by the time, the next susceptible period should be right after the finals. There's no rush."

Li Zhi said "Oh," but she had a feeling that this person would gradually become abnormal in the process of suppression.

He then asked, "Are you so sure we can make it to the finals?"

Xie Jichuan didn't even lift his eyelids, but the corners of his mouth curved slightly:

"Don't we, Lychee, think so?"

Li Zhi paused for a moment, then smiled.

His smile carried the sharpness and determination unique to youth, and his eyes shone brightly like a burning fire.

"Of course I think so too."

Not just them, the entire RAK team has this confidence.

And everyone is working hard to reach the finals.

Ten days later, the netizen who had clamored to drink the Ganges River quietly deleted his social media account after the loser's bracket final.

The reason is simple: RAK swept through four opponents in one fell swoop and cleanly advanced to the finals.

[Where's that big appetite that wanted to drink the dry Ganges? Why did it desert at the last minute?]

[Hilarious! Thousands upon thousands of people visit his homepage every day. Wouldn't you be scared in his shoes?]

[Make his homepage look like a toilet; that would be more satisfying.]

UUC and RAK have been locked in a fierce battle all season; now one is the winner of the upper bracket and the other the winner of the lower bracket, and they'll be competing against each other again.

[May God have mercy on us. We RAK lost last time, but this time it's our turn to win.]

[? This even involves taking turns?]

[Breaking news! Everyone, stop gathering here! Check the trending topics! Something terrible has happened!]

Meanwhile, the RAK base was also in an uproar.

Song Bo burst into the training room with a sharp, explosive sound, yelling, "River! You come out here!"

The group was training mechanically when they saw that there was something to eat. Jiang Xingle quickly shook off the mouse, moved closer to Song Bo, and craned his neck to look.

Read aloud the marketing account headlines on your phone screen, word for word:

"A secret on the terrace: River's bedroom was found to contain underwear with Lychee's portrait printed on it, the details are intriguing...?"