Chapter 24

Lin Linya’s tone was so confident, as if he were the pro player. Even Chu Fengyi was left speechless for a moment before he quickly and smoothly corrected himself. “Alright, Bro Ya.”

He cleared his throat, his attitude formal and humble. “Bro Ya, do you think it’s suitable for me to follow the Mage first this match?”

Their Mage this game was a hero with a relatively weak wave-clear ability. So, Master Roshi didn’t choose to follow Rapidfire at the start of the game. Instead, he went to the Mid Lane first to help the Mage clear the minion wave, allowing the Mage to roam and provide backup as soon as possible.

“Ah? O…Okay,” Lin Linya had thought he was supposed to follow him.

After listening to his explanation, he watched his Support and Mage walk off into the distance with a pitiful look. Only then did he head towards the Bottom Lane, alone and dejected.

Chu Fengyi rarely played Support. He maneuvered the somewhat clumsy turtle, and after the first wave of minions in the Mid Lane was cleared, he panned his camera to Lin Linya’s Bottom Lane, only to find he hadn’t even reached the lane yet.

He feigned confusion. “Has the hero Rapidfire’s movement speed always been this slow?”

Lin Linya closed the idiot-proof guide on how to quickly pick up Marksman he’d found on Baidu on his computer screen. After learning Skill 1, he slowly crept under his tower to farm, mumbling vaguely, “Mmm… maybe the constitution of each Summoner is different.”

“I haven’t played in too long, I need to get familiar with the skills first.”

He wouldn’t admit he couldn’t understand it. That was an idiot-proof guide! If he couldn’t even understand that, wouldn’t that make him dumber than an idiot?

Chu Fengyi drawled lazily, “Alright, Bro Ya, you take your time getting familiar. I’ll go help Top Lane first. With your skills, pressing the enemy Arrow Tome shouldn’t be a problem, right?”

Lin Linya didn’t make a sound.

Chu Fengyi pinged the Clash Lane. After finishing the minion wave, he signaled his Mage to fake moving towards the Farm Lane for backup, while he himself swaggered openly towards the Clash Lane. Both Clash Lane heroes were just hitting level two after finishing their first wave, but their side’s Clash Laner had lower HP. The enemy Clash Laner was very ambitious, hiding in the brush to deny vision, determined to secure First Blood and boost his team’s morale.

When Master Roshi arrived Top Lane, the enemy was somewhat wary. This Support had high base HP at level one; although his mobility was poor, his base damage was considerable.

But the enemy Clash hero, Heavy Sword, made a mistake while checking the brush. Master Roshi was already pretending to head back to Mid Lane when Heavy Sword used Flash. Her Skill 1 connected, applying a Silence effect, and Armando’s skill special effects suddenly appeared beneath her feet.

Armando’s vine root lasted 1.2 seconds. After the CC ended, Heavy Sword tried to retreat, but Master Roshi, who was supposed to be back in the Mid Lane, came back around through the River instead, Flashing in to land a stun.

Two CC abilities stacked together, and the hero, unable to fight back, fell.

【First Blood!】

【Damn, that play just now, the five of them must have had at least eight hundred schemes combined between them. The teammates matched this game are pretty impressive too, Heavy Sword and Armando’s acting was top-notch.]

【Never watched Fanta play Support before. As expected, skilled people excel in any position, especially Support, which really demands high map awareness.]

Even while picking up scraps under his Farm Lane turret, Lin Linya made time in his busy schedule to praise them. “That was awesome! I need to learn more from you, Bro Chu.”

Chu Fengyi also felt his Mage’s awareness was good and planned to gank the Clash Lane with his Mage more. He then reminded him, “Be careful. The enemy Jungler just cleared the Blue Buff area jungle camps and might be heading your way.”

Lin Linya immediately fell silent.

He finished farming his minion wave and stared longingly at the little crab dragging its little Gold Pouch near the river brush. Every time he played Support, his Marksman would kill this crab. He knew it was worth a lot of Gold.

He glanced at his Minimap. The enemy Jungler was still nowhere to be seen. After hesitating for a moment, he took a deep breath and mustered the courage to walk towards the little crab.

But after just two steps, he lost his nerve and bolted back under his tower. From the brush right next to him, the enemy Jungler, who had just used his Ultimate to leap out but hit nothing but air, was left speechless. “…”

The two of them faced each other awkwardly.

A message from the enemy Jungler popped up in the chat box. [Ranger: Predicted I was in that brush? Good awareness.]

Unable to catch Lin Linya, he could only finish the little crab and leave.

Watching his little crab get eaten because he was too weak to fight back, Lin Linya cried out, “…Wuwuwu!”

While tapping his AA key to last-hit his own minions, he grumbled pitifully, “Even my dignity has been taken away. What’s the point of living? I might as well be dead!”

He knew his Marksman play wasn’t great, so he honestly stayed under his tower to farm. But he couldn’t stand the enemy Marksman attacking his turret.

Chu Fengyi had ganked the Clash Lane twice with his Mage, mentally breaking the enemy Fighter. Only then did he spare some attention to glance at the chat box. His lips couldn’t help but curl upwards.

[Yaya Can’t Win (Rapidfire): I’m only 21, romance can come later, but if the Jungler doesn’t come backup, my tower’s going down!]

Lin Linya waited a long time. Finally, at the three-minute mark into the game start, the Jungler came to gank the Farm Lane for the first time. He rushed out from under his tower to help, only to see the enemy Marksman leisurely walk away because his own Jungler had shown himself too early.

The Jungler, having failed to secure a kill, took the opportunity to devour Lin Linya’s minion wave entirely and walked away as if nothing had happened, completely ignoring Lin Linya’s survival.

Lin Linya threw his mouse. “…” This was truly unplayable!

And yet, someone had to hit him while he was down. Chu Fengyi opened the hero scoreboard, pinged his own 1000 Gold, then pinged Lin Linya’s 800 Gold, his tone utterly incredulous. “Were you sent off to the countryside for a reform program? How are you this broke?”

Lin Linya was a total doormat. “How could I have any Gold to farm with? The enemy Support sticks to their Marksman, I’m bullied by two people, and the Jungler comes to tax my lane!”

He viciously pinged the Jungler’s 2000 Gold. “All my money was stolen by him!”

[Such a poor baby. Orphan Lane is like that, yeah. I always play Support for my Marksman, can’t do a thing without one.]

[Shocked! The little streamer actually held on for five minutes without losing his Tier 1 Turret. Looks like he does have some skill after all.]

[Mhm, yeah, he has skills, just not many of them.]

He had no HP left, and his Health Pack had been taken by the Jungler who came to “gank” (eat his wave). He had no choice but to Recall. Right after he Recalled, all five enemies came, and upon not finding him, they demolished his turret.

Lin Linya stood there blankly at the Tier 2 Turret location. After a moment, he said, heartbroken, “I’m at the bottom of the food chain in both the game and in love. I can’t defend a tower, and I can’t keep you.”

Chu Fengyi, “…Come here. The Mage went to roam. There’s a wave in Mid lane you can take.”

Lin Linya perked up. “Yay! I’m coming!”

Chu Fengyi stood in the Mid Lane, holding the minion wave for him, preventing it from entering the tower range and being killed. Seeing Lin Linya trot over happily, he couldn’t help but facepalm, though the corner of his mouth had been quirked up since the start of the game.

If he had his camera on, or if anyone else were present, they would have seen this lovesick, foolish expression all over his face.

After Lin Linya ate this minion wave, his Gold was finally higher than the Support’s. He giggled, “You’re actually quite nice, huh.”

[Wuwuwu, he’s really so cute, and his mental is so good. Does anyone understand? I really love this.]

[Yaya has a kind of naive, innocent stupidity of a college student in his eyes.]

This game, their Jungler was a power-farmer. Not only did he clear the Jungle, but he also took minion waves from all three lanes. His Gold was already shockingly high. Chu Fengyi, seeing Lin Linya was really too pitiful, said, “Why not just follow the Jungler and live off passive Gold?”

So Lin Linya followed their Jungler. Whatever the Jungler ate, he ate. Although the Gold wasn’t much, he wasn’t picky and was already very satisfied. “Getting a free meal feels great.”

Chu Fengyi, seeing he was afraid to fight, told him to follow him. The two of them hid their vision and circled around to the enemy Jungle. He taught Lin Linya patiently, “In a bit, when I CC them, you just attack. Understood?”

Lin Linya replied, “Yes sir!”

Chu Fengyi was again tempted to laugh.

The enemy Jungler had just finished pushing a minion wave and never imagined the enemy Marksman and Support would be bold enough to flank this far. As soon as he stepped into the brush, Master Roshi smacked him on the head with his staff, stunning him.

Lin Linya hurriedly tried to follow up with damage. He mashed all three skills wherever they lit up, but they all missed. His skills auto-targeted the three little jungle boars next to them.

A notification popped up over Rapidfire: Gold +68.

Seeing Ranger about to escape, Lin Linya panicked and chased him, auto-attacking. The enemy Jungler was literally AA’d to death, without any ability to fight back.

The Ranger player was livid and typed furiously, [You guys don’t need to use this method to humiliate me!]

Chu Fengyi was speechless. “…”

[Hahahaha, I’m dying laughing. The three little pigs’ family was brutally murdered.]

[Yaya Baby got his first Triple Kill! Quick, screenshot for posterity, it can be used as material for an educational post later on.]

[What do you mean “first Triple Kill”? Don’t spoil him too much.]

Lin Linya was so ashamed he wished he were dead. He didn’t even dare to look Chu Fengyi in the eye. He desperately wanted to disappear on the spot.

Wuwuwu! How could something so embarrassing happen? Just now, he’d been like a man possessed and missed all his skills on the CC’d Ranger.

Chu Fengyi hesitated for a moment and then asked, “May I ask exactly how those three little pigs offended you? I feel like they didn’t deserve such a fate.”

Lin Linya blatantly lied, “Huh? Bro, what did you just say? Hello? Can you hear me? Sorry, I wasn’t wearing my headset just now, and the signal isn’t very good.”

Chu Fengyi replied calmly, “Mmhm, no headset, and your hands were donated to charity too, I see.”

Lin Linya pretended not to hear.

Under Lin Linya’s efforts, this game also naturally fell into a disadvantage, successfully entering the base-defense phase. By the very late game at thirty minutes, the enemy team had secured the Shadow Tyrant and was preparing to push for the win with the empowered minions.

Lin Linya was panicked to death. His usually chattering little mouth was firmly shut, his fair little face was set in a serious expression, and his hand gripping the mouse was sweating. Only when he was in the fountain regenerating did he dare to grab a tissue to wipe it.

Even Chu Fengyi sensed his tense Emotion. Uncharacteristically holding back his usual snark, he consoled him gently, “Don’t be nervous. Keep an eye out for the right timing when the team fight starts.”

“You’re the Marksman, the core of our entire team.”

Lin Linya was nervous to begin with. Hearing this made him even more miserable, and he opened his mouth with a slight sob in his voice. “Bro, don’t comfort me. I already want to just leave this beautiful world.”