Chapter 56: Cyber Café Champions
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
“Let’s go,” Yu Luocheng said to Yang Qianqian.
“Did Zhong Xiaoyun confess to Fang Xiaoi, on the night of our graduation?” Yang Qianqian hurried after Yu Luocheng, her tone adorable and curious.
“I think so.” Yu Luocheng vaguely recalled sothing like that happening.
“She turned him down?” Yang Qianqian asked on.
“I think so.”
“Does Zhong Xiaoyun really like Fang Xiaoi?”
“I think so.”
Yang Qianqian pouted unhappily at Yu Luocheng. “Can you say anything else besides, ‘I think so’?”
“Sure. Wasn’t I aweso, back there?” Yu Luocheng chortled.
“So aweso. I even heard so cute girl talking about how she wanted to get to know you better.”
“I already have you.”
“Don’t kid around.” Yang Qianqian rolled her eyes at him, and then hurried to change the subject. “That day, when you rushed off to the hospital... was it soone in the family? How bad was it?”
“It’ll be alright.” Yu Luocheng didn’t say more.
After a mont of silence, Yu Luocheng finally decided to add, “I won’t be playing with you for a while. I’ve got stuff I have to do.”
“Alright. I can play Ranked, now. I’ll start in a couple of days. How far do you think I’ll be able to get, by myself?”
“1,300 at most.”
“1,300, really? You think I’m that good?” Yang Qianqian asked jubilantly.
Yu Luocheng found it odd to see her still smiling so cheerfully.
Thinking about it, he realized that she probably wasn’t aware that you started Ranked with 1,200 points.
Alright, then there was no hurry to expose her to this cruel reality.
***
His dad would still need soone to take care of him after his operation had been completed. His mom still needed to go to work, so most of the ti this duty fell to Yu Luocheng.
Commander Qin was aware that Yu Luocheng didn’t have much ti to spare for training, so he only contacted him when he was needed for a real ga.
***
The semi-finals took place on the fourth day.
Over the past few days, the major cyber cafés had been bursting with activity. Drinks sales numbered in the tons. If business was this good all the ti, the cyber cafes of Lecheng would be so happy they wouldn’t know what to do.
On the second day of the semi-finals, Team Scarlet entered their second match.
It was a one-sided affair: they won in all three lanes. Their opponents were a far cry from Team Pride.
***
Becoming the champions of a cyber café ant receiving a reward of over a thousand RMB for each player.
The top eight teams each got a little sothing, even if it wasn’t much—but every truly passionate player of ‘League of Legends’, after countless Normal and Ranked matches, would surely crave a real test of ttle like this. Who didn’t dream of claiming victory before the eyes of countless LoL fans, to the sound of uproarious cheering and applause?
Competitions within each of the participating cyber cafés would carry on for wholly twelve days.
The sumr sun burned fiercely, and its scorching heat was felt not just in the streets—the battles raging between the various teams within the Dragon Rising Cyber Café were reaching boiling point!
In the blink of an eye, ten days of heated combat had already taken place.
Yu Luocheng had spent most of this ti in the hospital looking after his father, post-operation.
Occasionally, he’d also go to the cyber café to train with his teammates.
As for actual competition gas, he’d played in four of those already.
The first match, against Team Pride, had been pretty spectacular.
As for the second match, Yu Luocheng couldn’t even rember whom they’d fought, since it hadn’t been anyone worth rembering.
The third match had been against Team Ancients, and what a dull ga it had been. Yu Luocheng had played Soraka as Support, and he might as well have just spent the whole ga eating popcorn in the brush, watching Xue Haiyang’s Ezreal handle everything.
Their fourth match put them up against a strong contender: Team ATM. It was that bunch of university students who’d defeated Team Pride during the qualifiers.
This team employed unorthodox strategies, but although their team composition looked to be a complete ss, they nevertheless were able to take the initiative in every team fight against Team Scarlet.
This fourth match had been particularly crucial, because one of the teams would beco the only one to win four gas in a row in the Dragon Rising. The winner would also proceed directly into the cyber café finals.
Team ATM played ticulously, and left no openings for Team Scarlet to find, despite their unfathomable array of champions. Over multiple team fights, Team Scarlet was unable to get ahead by any substantial degree.
The ga remained evenly matched for quite a while, but thanks to a spectacular play by Yu Luocheng, they were finally able to break the stalemate.
For this match, Yu Luocheng had used one of his best Support champions, Zyra.
Used to dominating vision control as Zyra, he’d hidden her in a blind spot and waited until the enemy Ezreal ca up to use his Q-skill on sothing, at which point he’d thrown out Zyra’s E-skill, Grasping Roots, and caught him.
When the other four ATM players ca rushing to Ezreal’s rescue, Yu Luocheng had perford a Flash-ulti that knocked the entire enemy team up into the air!
Yu Luocheng’s performance throughout that ga had been diocre and unremarkable, playing neither aggressively nor recklessly. However, just as everyone was thinking that Team Scarlet’s star Support player was perhaps new to using Zyra, out ca that marvelous ultimate which dazzled everyone blind.
He’d been holding back on purpose before dealing the true killing blow, disabling the entire enemy team. In that instant, when all five enemy champions were flung up into the air, the whole cyber café erupted in wild bellowing!
After that day, no one would be able to forget that incredible full-team Stranglethorns knock-up.
***
In a match against an equal adversary, losing a single team fight ant losing the whole ga.
Team ATM had exceeded everyone’s expectations. It had been thought that Team Scarlet would be unchallenged in their rise to first place, but Team ATM had managed to fight them to a standstill.
All the sa, Team ATM had been defeated, in the end.
The university students had taken their defeat graciously. After the ga had ended, one of the players, with perd hair and purple highlights, had even risen to his feet to give Yu Luocheng a big thumbs up.
Yu Luocheng had given him a friendly smile in return. Through battle, they had learned respect for one another.
With Team ATM down, there was no one left who could stand against Team Scarlet.
The best ga isn’t always in the finals. Everyone in the Dragon Rising considered Team Scarlet vs. Team ATM to be the most riveting match in the entire competition.
On the twelfth day of the competition, Team Scarlet went up against Team ‘Keyboard & Mouse’, and it could hardly be called a real fight at all—it wasn’t even as good as Team Scarlet’s first match, against Team Pride.
And so, Team Scarlet beca the champions of the Dragon Rising Cyber Café!
Scarlet, ATM, and Pride—these three teams were selected to represent the Dragon Rising in the tournant.
In two days, they would have to face off against the top three teams from the other participating cyber cafés, in order to decide who was the best in Lecheng, and get that reward of thirty thousand bucks!
Winning first place in Lecheng city was worth six thousand RMB to each player. This was a vital matter for Yu Luocheng.
Through all the battles to co, he would settle for nothing less than victory!
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