After parting ways with Lin Chu, Su Chen drove all the way back to the ym base.
As soon as he opened the door, he heard a burst of hearty laughter.
Walking into the room, Su Chen saw pdd, Xiao Ma, and the ym-a coaching staff chatting and laughing on the sofa, and the atmosphere was very cheerful.
There were a few young-looking players standing next to him.
"I was just about to call you, come on, come on," pdd waved enthusiastically, "This is the Jiang Shen you have been longing to see."
Su Chen shifted his gaze to the two people beside pdd.
One has red lips, white teeth, fair skin, and a shy smile.
The other one is completely different. He has big shoulders and a round waist. His face is as dark as if he had just finished military training. His fleshy appearance looks somewhat similar to PDD.
"Hello, Brother Chen. I'm from the second team of YM-A. You can just call me Xiaolongbao." Xiaolongbao came up and said in a very respectful manner.
Su Chen suddenly realized that no wonder these two people looked so familiar.
Xiaolongbao is also one of the talented junglers sent by ym after s8.
At that time, I went to rng, but because I couldn't adapt to the rhythm of lpl, I performed various cooking operations, and was nicknamed "Xiao Long Bao".
But during the ldl period, Xiao Longbao was indeed a dominant player. During the same period, he defeated Xiao Leyan, who joined ig in s9.
The other little black fat guy is naturally sunny.
"These two brothers are the talented junglers we recently recruited into the second team. As soon as they joined the team, they killed all kinds of people in the ldl. They are fierce yuppies!" Xiao Ma boasted.
Hearing Xiao Ma's compliment, the two of them couldn't help but straighten their backs.
Especially on a sunny day, he licked his lips proudly.
"Oh? Really?" Su Chen smiled and looked up and down at Qingtian.
"Are you good at fighting?"
Qingtian was startled for a moment, then touched the back of his head in embarrassment: "Then I'm definitely not as good as you."
"Are you scared? Didn't you say that you want to do a solo with Jiang Ke University if you have the chance?" pdd smirked and got angry, "Why don't you dare to speak when you see me?"
Qingtian waved his hands repeatedly, looking a little flustered.
"It's good to be confident, but playing a game is not 1v1. Passing the lane is just the basic skills of the top laner. You still have a lot to learn." Su Chen said warmly.
But he doesn't mind. If a professional doesn't have the confidence to challenge his seniors, then he will look down on him.
"You have to remember what Lao Su told you," pdd also warned, "Although you are now the number one top laner in ldl, you still have to be humble. If there is a chance to play in lpl next year, I will definitely send you there.
But now you have to calm down and polish yourself."
Qingtian nodded silently, not sure whether he had heard it or because of the senior's face, it was difficult to refute.
From Xiao Ma's mouth, Su Chen also learned about some of the current situation of ldl.
Affected by ym's results this year, the second teams of major clubs are currently looking for new players in the top lane position.
For example, in the past two years, the situation where you could go to EDG for an interview if you knew how to be a big tree has changed a lot now.
Su Chen could predict that if ym really won the championship this year, what kind of trend would be set off in next year's S9 and the entire lpl.
…
September 28th.
At the Shanghai International Airport, the ym team got on the flight to Busan, South Korea.
Compared to the MSI and Asian Games, this trip was much easier.
It takes less than three hours to fly from Shanghai to Busan, and we basically arrived in a short while on the plane.
Because it was stuck before the National Day Golden Week, there were not many people in the cabin.
The entire ym team bought consecutively numbered seats, so they were basically all next to each other.
pdd personally led the team and was busy arranging the seats for the players and coaching staff. He was obviously looking forward to this trip to the World Championships.
"Brother Chen, what are you looking at?" After putting away his luggage, Garlic Bastard sat back down and found that Su Chen was holding a green booklet in his hand.
"Introducing some tourist attractions in Busan, it also includes some daily Korean words." Su Chen showed him the cover of the booklet.
"As expected of you." Xiaotian admired.
After getting along with each other for this year, Su Chen's image as a top student in 985 has been deeply engraved in Xiaotian's heart.
"It's just a matter of getting some common sense in advance. I have never been to South Korea before. We will live in Busan for more than ten days, and I want to make some preparations." Su Chen said with a smile.
Xiaotian nodded, then remembered something, and quickly took out the tablet.
"I also have study materials!"
Su Chen walked over curiously and saw the movie starting to play on the tablet.
In the black screen, the three characters "Train to Busan" slowly emerged.
"The director sent it to me directly, but I didn't read it carefully. I heard it told a heartwarming story about traveling to Busan. A scumbag like me would just watch the movie and learn from it." Xiaotian showed an innocent look.
smile.
"Why don't you invite them to watch it together? Of course we should share this kind of good thing together." Su Chen suggested.
"It makes sense." Xiaotian nodded repeatedly and shared the file with others.
Soon, the ym group became noisy, and all kinds of fragrant comments filled the screen in the group.
…
After experiencing the turbulence of takeoff, the cabin finally became quiet.
Su Chen glanced at the back row. His left hand and Zhang Xiaowen were each wearing headphones and looking intently at the tablet.
He had already dozed off against the window.
Su Chen also took out an eye mask and noise-canceling headphones from his pocket. After completing the equipment, he closed his eyes and thought.
"Prompt the host that the [Virtual Battlefield] is entering!"
Amid the blue and purple electromagnetic pulses, a pure white space unfolded in the darkness.
Su Chen waved his hand, and a screen of light appeared in front of him.
In the dense grid, there are portraits of different heroic characters.
Most of them have been lit up, which means that Su Chen has mastered them and his proficiency has reached the top in the world.
This is the result of his hard work over the past year.
Thanks to the ability of the virtual battlefield, Su Chen can ignore talents and operating habits and only need to devote corresponding time to practice various heroes to the extreme.
Under the conditions allowed by the current version, he has mastered all the heroes that can go on the road.
Nowadays, Su Chen can also bear the words "sea of heroes".
This is also the basis for his confidence that he can win the championship during this trip to the World Championships.
"That's all that's left..."
He waved his hand, and then two props appeared in front of him.
One is the [Growth Essence] rewarded by the system.
Because ym has been playing relatively smoothly in the summer split, Su Chen is not in a hurry to use this essence to improve his teammates.
But now that we have reached the World Championships, this essence will surely come in handy.
Su Chen plans to pass the test of the group stage to see which position ym needs to improve the most, and then use the essence to make corresponding supplements.
Although Su Chen doesn't know how high Zhang Xiaowen's career ceiling is.
He and his left hand were at their peak, he had witnessed them in front of the screen in his previous life.
If my left hand can hold up well in the World Championships, that's it.
But considering the ups and downs of Parallel World's left hand in the world competition, Su Chen was still a little worried and could only take a look first.
besides.
[Item name: Luck treasure box]
[Introduction: Asian Games champion achievement reward, you can get a random prop after opening the box. It is recommended that the host chooses the right time to open the box. 】
【Do you want to turn it on?】
Looking at the newly added reward props in front of him, Su Chen was also thinking about the timing of using this prop.
According to the meaning of the system, the treasure chest this time is different from the previous ones. There is no grade classification, and there is no concept that gold is greater than silver.
If you are not lucky, the items you get may not be of any use.
"Don't open it in a hurry yet." Su Chen waved his hand, and the restless treasure chest immediately calmed down.
He actually hopes to open another piece of growth essence, so that he can save the trouble of choosing and strengthen two people in the team at once.
It's better to keep it for now and make a decision once and for all after the group stage.
Everything will be revealed soon.
…
The three-hour journey finally ended, and the plane landed at Busan International Airport.
After taking a group photo in the terminal, ym and his team waited for the pick-up bus sent by Riot Games.
"Hi, everyone from ym, we meet again." Hansen with a beard appeared in front of everyone with a smile.
"Hey, it's you again!" Xiaotian recognized it.
"It's all ape dung." Hansen said a cold joke and nodded to Su Chen standing aside.
During the MSI in the first half of the year, Hansen also hosted them in Europe.
At that time, he mentioned that he hoped to see Su Chen and ym in the World Championships.
Unexpectedly, he really got it right.
"This time, in addition to LCK, EU, NA, and the LPL competition area, I will be in charge of reception. Everyone, please get on the bus." Hansen took Xiaotian's luggage and opened the door of the bus.
The bus started slowly and headed towards the international hotel arranged by the organizer of the group stage.
Hansen, who arrived in Busan a month in advance, has obviously become a local expert, and he kept introducing the local situation to the ym team along the way.
Busan is the largest port city in South Korea, adjacent to the Korean Strait. The entire city is shrouded in a maritime climate. In late summer, the climate is very comfortable.
The s8 group stage venue is in Haeundae District, Busan City. According to Hansen, the beach can be seen within walking distance.
"Did you see that beach? The S4 OGN summer finals were played there," Hansen said excitedly, pointing to the beach outside the window, "Have any of you seen that match at that time?"
"I remember it was a fight between Samsung Blue and KTA," pdd recalled.
He still had some impressions, but Xiaotian and Zuo Zuo looked confused.
OGN is now LCK. The Korean Civil War four years ago, children like them who have not yet played professionally, naturally will not pay special attention to it.
"You must know the members of Samsung Blue, but KTA also has your acquaintances, guess who they are?" Hansen said pretending to be mysterious.
"Rookie, Song Yijin." Su Chen said calmly.
"Bingo!" Hansen was a little surprised, "I didn't expect you, jkd player, to know so much about the league history of lck."
"After all, they are one of the few teams that won the summer championship but failed to reach the group stage of the S-season. Of course, it will be a bit impressive." Su Chen said with a smile.
"Indeed, the competition system that year was really weird." Hansen laughed.
Su Chen looked out the window, and the city scenery of Busan passed by quickly.
An inexplicable restlessness emerged in his heart.
This is Busan, this is South Korea, and this is the region that dominates the history of League of Legends e-sports.
Now, he has truly stepped on this soil and joined the rolling wave of the World Championship.
The S8 in Su Chen's memory gradually overlapped with everything in front of him.
He knows what happened in the original history.
But now, the protagonist has been changed, and it's his turn to bear all this.
…
The bus stopped in front of a resort hotel at the Busan Convention and Exhibition Center.
After completing the registration procedures, Su Chen and Xiaotian came to the door of their room under the guidance of a Korean lady with a sweet voice.
After swiping the card to enter the room, a huge floor-to-ceiling window appeared in front of the two of them.
Outside the window is the golden beach and the blue sea. The sun shines on the sea and the water waves are rippling with sparkling light.
"I'm blanching! Sea view room! What a huge profit!" Xiaotian ran to the floor-to-ceiling window in surprise, lying on the window sill and looking out.
The Korean lady at the door pursed her lips and smiled, and said in a sweet voice: "I wish you a happy trip. If you need anything, please call the hotel front desk."
After saying that, she closed the door politely.
Seeing Xiaotian jumping up and down in the room, Su Chen also felt a little funny.
This year, YM has been traveling abroad to play competitions a lot, but boys of Xiaotian's age may have this kind of crazy personality, and they will be more excited when they enter a new environment.
After settling down, the ym team held a small meeting in the pdd room. After briefly discussing the itinerary, they went to the hotel's buffet restaurant for dinner.
After a day of running around, Su Chen returned to the room, sent messages to family and friends, and went to bed early.
…
The next day, when Su Chen opened his eyes, he felt that the room had turned into a sauna and was extremely hot and stuffy.
Soon he discovered the reason: the air conditioner in the room was broken.
There was a sound outside the corridor. Su Chen opened the door and found a boy who looked exactly like Mr. Bean complaining to the hotel staff.
Su Chen recognized it at a glance.
Isn't this caps?
The mid laner of fnc, the new king of Europe, known as the king of hats.
In addition to him, at the corner of the corridor, a shirtless senior brother wearing a pair of Lakers long johns also ran over in slippers, holding a broken remote control in his hand.
"Hey! jkd! Is the air conditioner in your room broken too?" Senior Brother saw Su Chen and immediately said hello.
"Is it such a coincidence?" Su Chen laughed.
Hearing the senior brother call out jkd's ID, caps also looked over. When he saw Su Chen, he showed a very happy smile.
"Hello, we arrived at around two o'clock this morning. Unexpectedly, we live next door." Caps said politely.
"I couldn't compete with you at the MSI. I was depressed for several months, and now I finally meet you."
In the EU spring finals, g2 got the msi ticket after defeating fnc, and caps was obviously very concerned about this.
"We may have a chance to meet in the knockout rounds," Su Chen said with a smile.
"Really, but I don't think FNC will qualify as the second seed." Caps raised his eyebrows, looking confident.
According to the competition system, if ym and fnc want to meet in the quarterfinals, one of the two teams must be the second seed.
Su Chen smiled and said nothing more.
In Group B where FNC is located, the biggest opponent so far is the third seed of LCK, the African team AFS.
But this is based on the fact that the finals have not yet been decided.
If IG is assigned to Group B by then, then FNC may not be a matter of seed number.
Maybe he was eliminated early in the top 16 and traveled all the way back to Europe from Busan.
Of course, the state of AFS this year is just a matter of gods and ghosts. It's hard to say.
After communicating with the waiter, everyone returned to their rooms.
After Su Chen took a cold shower, he picked up the mobile phone beside the bed and saw the new message popping up on WeChat.