On August 27, the morning before the finals, the entire KT team left Seoul on a bus.
The final was not held in Seoul, but in Gangneung City, 250 kilometers away.
This is the first time in three years that the LCK has held a final outside the metropolitan area. The last time was in Busan in 2018.
Riding in the car was boring, so Lin Cheng took out his cell phone and played Snake.
Little Peanut leaned on the back of Lin Cheng's seat and asked, "How's it going? Are you excited? There will be a lot of audience this time."
"It's okay! It's just a small scene."
Lin Cheng said he didn't care, but in fact he was still a little excited.
The Gangneung Gymnasium, where the LCK finals will be held, is a large venue that can accommodate more than 10,000 people. Although we don’t know how many tickets were sold, it is likely to be the game with the largest audience in Lin Cheng’s career.
There is no way, Lin Cheng, the unlucky guy, only started playing professionally when the epidemic started, and most of the games he has experienced did not even have spectators at the scene.
"Ouch! Stop pretending! Lin Cheng, don't get so excited that you do a backflip on the spot."
Little Peanut slapped Lin Cheng on the shoulder, causing Lin Cheng to use the greedy snake to hit the angry cauliflower snake next to him to death.
"Depend on!"
Lin Cheng held his head and cried.
He turned his head and glared at Little Peanut fiercely, "The Ultimate Snake King I played for half an hour was killed by you like this! You compensate me."
Little Peanut chuckled and quickly shrank his head under the back of Lin Cheng's chair to pretend to be dead.
Lin Cheng was so angry that he wanted to hit someone.
He had been playing with this greedy snake for half an hour just to kill the guy next to him who was giving him the middle finger. As a result, half an hour later, instead of letting out his bad breath, he killed the guy.
Lin Cheng felt as uncomfortable as eating a fly.
If it weren't for the fact that the finals were about to come, it wouldn't be good to have a stalemate with the jungler, and Lin Cheng would have to let Little Peanut know his anger.
Chi Shengxi was sitting next to Lin Cheng watching a movie. When he heard the noise, he took off his headphones and took a look.
Lin Chengsheng stared helplessly at GAME OVER on the screen, with a sad and sad look on his face that was a bit funny.
She secretly took a photo.
These are all materials.
Lin Cheng stood up and took a can of coffee from the bag of the empty seat in the front row, "Sister Sheng Xi, do you want it?"
"don't want."
Lin Cheng sat back in his seat and took out the straw.
But he found that the coffee didn't even have a place to insert a straw.
The coffee packaging is a paper can, which is somewhat similar in shape to a miniature milk tea cup. There is no hole for a straw at the place where the straw should be inserted. Lin Cheng poked it twice with the straw and began to doubt his life.
"Fuck! Are you even against me? I can touch defective packaging even when I drink a drink?"
He was so angry that he started to speak Chinese, and he poked the straw twice more.
However, the lid of the paper can is very thick, and the straw is dried and broken, and there is not even a mark on the mouth of the can.
Lin Cheng began to bite his teeth.
Next to him, Chi Shengxi looked at Lin Cheng chewing the jar like a fool.
"Give me."
She snatched the coffee can from Lin Cheng's mouth and placed it upside down in front of Lin Cheng.
"You try again."
Only then did Lin Cheng discover that there was a straw opening at the bottom of the coffee can.
It turns out he took it down.
Incredible design.
In Lin Cheng's understanding, all beverage packaging similar to milk tea cups is narrow at the bottom and wide at the top. This coffee is completely the opposite.
Mainly because the packaging was all in Japanese, Lin Cheng didn't read it carefully, otherwise he should have been able to react based on the direction of the text.
It can only be said that the Japanese have a strange way of thinking. They believe that packaging with small top and large bottom is not easy to collapse.
Lin Cheng was also tough-talking and refused to admit that it was his mistake. He began to mutter and complain about the packaging design.
"Hey! Do you want to watch a movie?"
Chi Shengxi handed over an earphone.
"want."
Lin Cheng took the headphones and asked, "What movie?"
"comedy."
"Will there be a 19-ban ban screen?"
"How old are you?"
Chi Shengxi gave Lin Cheng a funny look, "Don't worry, I will fast forward if there are inappropriate shots."
"No, I mean I like to watch, please have more."
"·····"
After three hours of driving, the bus finally entered the Jiangling section.
All the idiots were lying on the windows looking curiously at the scenery outside.
LCK signs have been hung on both sides of the road.
The minimalist two triangles form two outstretched wings. This is the logo of the LCK competition that was changed only this year. Many people speculate that this logo is related to KT's victory last year.
The previous logo of the LCK was a star and an eagle, with a total of five corners, symbolizing the five times the LCK had won the global finals.
After KT won the championship, the LCK logo was replaced by a pair of wings made up of two triangles in a minimalist style. The six corners happened to represent the six times LCK won the world championship.
Gangneung City is located on the east coast of South Korea. It is a seaside town with beautiful natural scenery. It is also the filming location for many popular Korean dramas such as "Goblin".
There are not many tall buildings in the city, and the pace of life here is obviously much slower than in Seoul where Juan Wang gathers. Lin Cheng lay on the window and looked at the scene outside with interest.
"Hey! Lin Cheng! There is your poster over there!"
"real?"
After hearing what Little Peanut said, Lin Cheng looked up and saw his huge poster displayed on the bus stop outside the window.
The entire wall of the bus stop, which is more than two meters high, is occupied by Lin Cheng's poster. In the poster, Lin Cheng has his left hand in his pocket, his right hand turned to his forehead, a slight smile on his lips, and his eyes are confident and enthusiastic.
Cheng! Forward!
Under the poster, support slogans are written in both Korean and Chinese, and there is also an image of a golden crown.
Obviously, this is fans' support for Lin Cheng.
Not only the bus stop, but also the identical Lin Cheng poster on the bus passing by.
"Wow~~~This is great."
"Brother is really popular."
"Why not mine? That's too much!"
All the fools are envious.
Lin Cheng looked at Chi Shengxi with some trepidation, "Sister Shengxi, shouldn't this be done by the club themselves by hiring a navy team, right?"
Chi Shengxi suppressed a smile and said, "Don't worry, it wasn't the club that did it, it was probably the fans who did it for you."
Lin Cheng was so happy that he lay by the window and scanned the outside carefully, not letting go of any surprises from fans.
It can be seen that KT fans are very enthusiastic this time. The bus was full of KT support posters all the way, especially Lin Cheng's support the most.
From the huge advertising screens in shopping malls to bus stop signs, from subway station entrances to building walls, those who didn’t know better might have thought that a world star was coming.
Of course, the DK team also has a lot of support, but this time it is obvious that KT fans are more powerful in supporting, and they have come up with all kinds of support methods imaginable.
Just as the bus was waiting at the red light, Lin Cheng stuck his head out the window and shouted energetically, "I announce! Everyone's favorite Lin Xiaocheng is coming to Jiangling!"
"Lin Cheng, look, there's someone running naked over there."
teammates on the other side exclaimed.
Lin Cheng immediately rushed over and stretched his neck.