"Uh, it was fine. As long as it wasn't vodka."
A mouthful of wine did not have much alcohol in it. If it had been vodka, Chu Ran would have had to perform drunken boxing for countless viewers the moment he stepped onto the stage.
Though if Imp got that trait, he would probably be ecstatic.
If drinking during matches could make him stronger, he would be thrilled to death.
Setting those thoughts aside, Chu Ran browsed the LoL forums and Hupu, only to find plenty of netizens discussing his Fiora game from today.
"How would you rate Easy's Fiora?"
"Can this Fiora be considered the best Fiora in the LPL?"
"What score would everyone give Easy's Fiora today? Rational discussion, no exaggeration, no bashing."
He clicked into a few threads at random and found praise and insults in equal measure.
Of course, there were more insults. The Imperial scum were truly powerful.
Snake Esports had lost today's match. Not only had they been bombarded by their own fans, they had also been relentlessly attacked by the Imperial scum. Zz1tai and Snake Esports' official account had both been cursed into apologizing.
There was no helping it. If they did not apologize quickly, they would be de-nationalized.
This was an offline forum. Couldn't you jerk off first?
Why were there Uzi Haters everywhere? Here to promote your dad again?
Stop hyping him up. What the hell were you hyping? One Fiora game and he was already the best Fiora in the LPL?
Why not look at what kind of trash he played against? Anyone who knew Zz1tai's top lane knew. He was a stray dog by the roadside.
You caught the fish, but your mom was gone.
Did your whole family die for experience points?
You were already taking out loans on his future? Could he even beat Jinoo the day after tomorrow?
A new Sword Immortal? Ran Chu deserved that?
What kind of people hyped up Ran Chu? Those who knew, knew.
Even though the insults were filthy, Chu Ran read them with relish until Pawn suddenly sent him a duo queue invitation.
"Little Ran, come duo queue."
"Turn on your stream."
Hearing Pawn and Abu, Chu Ran put down his phone and quickly started his stream.
After his first stream last time, his livestream room was nearly at one hundred thousand followers. Many viewers who had been mourning in his offline stream suddenly saw Chu Ran's handsome face and were instantly startled.
Holy crap? He suddenly came back from the dead?
Quick, notify the bombardment squad! Ran Chu started streaming.
This lord specifically equipped a badge today and studied the art of greeting someone's entire family tree. Today, I'm going to curse Ran Chu until little pearls fall from his stream.
The moment the stream began, its popularity kept rising. Chu Ran was also thinking about how to create some program effect.
After all, a stream without program effect was the same as no stream at all!
The club's operations girls were all watching his streaming data.
In an instant, Chu Ran left his seat, found one of the operations girls, and whispered a few things to her, frightening her until her face turned pale.
"Don't worry. Tonight's traffic will explode! Nothing will go wrong. I'll have Abu give you overtime pay afterward."
"Look, I get traffic from streaming, and you get overtime pay. Isn't that a win-win?"
After being CPU'd by Chu Ran, the operations girl finally nodded.
At that moment, at the LGD Club base.
Godv and the others had nothing to do, so they opened Chu Ran's livestream room to watch.
"Pupu, not going drinking today?"
"No drinking. I'm training properly these next few days." Imp gritted his teeth. "Aren't we playing EDG in a few days? I want to play against Deft."
"You're watching Ran Chu?"
Godv froze. "Pupu, your loyalties are complicated. People even praised you before, saying you were Uzi's second Priest, yet you're calling him Ran Chu."
"Tch." Imp waved his hand, looking annoyed. "Why was Deft the first Priest?"
Pfft—
In an instant, the entire LGD Club was filled with cheerful air.
"Chen Bo!"
Hearing Imp call him, Jinoo turned around. "What?"
"When the time comes, can you beat Ran Chu in top lane?"
Jinoo thought for a while, then smiled and nodded. "There shouldn't be much of a problem."
"Good." Imp suddenly roared, "When the time comes, I'm going to stomp Deft into the ground! Stomp Deft! Destroy him!"
He had originally thought he would not be able to play against Deft this year. He had not expected Deft to remain in the LPL after all. When Imp heard the news, he drank three bottles overnight—
Three whole bottles!
While they were talking, Chu Ran's livestream room suddenly went black for a while. It took another ten or so minutes before the stream resumed.
But the moment it came back, Godv and many viewers in the livestream room could not hold it together.
On the stream screen, Chu Ran had somehow gotten hold of a pair of pink headphones, his expression extremely serious.
"Brothers, today I'm duo queueing with General Pawn while wearing pink headphones. Nothing else to say—once I put these on, I feel like I got a lot younger. When I'm rich, I'm definitely getting custom pink headphones made, and they have to light up!"
"6666." Godv sprayed a mouthful of water. "Was he hinting at something?"
Ping Ye Ling rolled over in his chair and exclaimed, "You call that hinting? That's basically saying it outright! Who else in the entire LPL wore pink headphones?"
"Headphones that light up, my ass. Why did this guy have so much trash talk? Ming Kai's disciple who closed the door behind him, huh?" Eimy laughed.
At that moment, the popularity of Chu Ran's stream instantly exploded. Bullet comments rolled endlessly, and some Imperial scum who had previously refused to equip badges immediately equipped them to attack Chu Ran.
Ran Chu! Just wait at EDG. I'm coming to EDG to stab you to death!
No, how could EDG have such an uncultured player? Can the officials kick him out?
Hahaha! I'm dying laughing. He really looked exactly like him! Identical!
He instantly got younger after putting on pink headphones. Was this guy implying that the God was a giant baby?
I don't even know what the Imperial scum were in such a hurry about. Pink headphones were the God's exclusive right or something?
Damn, the God had plenty of exclusive rights. He must have gotten rich just off patents.
The LPL had a great inventor too!
At EDG Club, Abu, Ming Kai, and the others stared at the scene with taken-aback expressions.
Chu Ran had shut off the livestream room and fiddled around just for this?
A genius!
A genius seen once in a hundred years.
Ming Kai clicked his tongue. "Abu, I feel like I often seem out of place because I'm not absurd enough."
"Me too."
At that moment, Chu Ran watched the tide of bullet comments in his livestream room, the corners of his mouth rising uncontrollably. "Listen to yourselves. What do you mean I look exactly like a giant baby? Was I the only person in the entire LPL wearing pink headphones? Why were you all picking on me?"
Chu Ran's expression became a little ferocious. Combined with his low roar, it sent the popularity of his livestream room rising again, while the Imperial scum exploded with rage.
At the RNG Club base, Uzi pounded the desk again, gnashing his teeth in anger.
"This guy's just a clown leeching off traffic." Uzi deeply agreed with Xiao Hu's words, but as he was about to close the livestream room, he saw a Bullet Comment saying, "What temperature was Uzi's bathwater today?" His little fatty face instantly heated up.
The target of his pounding changed from the desk to Xiao Hu's thigh.
After exchanging banter with the viewers, Chu Ran entered the game. This round, he was playing jungle Evelynn. There was no helping it—the top lane had been taken again.
At the same time, at LGD Club, Godv and the others laughed thunderously, their faces turning red.
"His streams were genuinely hilarious, but why do I have a bad feeling about this?"
"Yeah, I think I do too." Imp nodded.
Just as they were talking, Pan Jie appeared with a stern face. "What are you laughing at? Not training? Do you not know how awful the club's results were last year? If you still don't get results in the new season, you can deal with the consequences yourselves."
As she spoke, she heard Chu Ran's voice again. Since Godv and the others were watching together, the headphone volume had been turned all the way up, blasting like speakers.
"Kai Ge! What items should Evelynn build?"
"Ability Power!"
"What? Randuin's Omen? Damn it, were you throwing the game? Was there really anyone who built Randuin's Omen on Evelynn? Their side was almost entirely AP!"
Boom—
Chu Ran's words were like a sudden clap of thunder. Ming Kai instantly sprayed out the water in his mouth, and he and Abu stared at each other, their eyes full of shock.
"Didn't I speak clearly just now?" Ming Kai was stunned.
"I don't know." Abu opened his mouth, looking horrified.
Over in the LGD training room, the smiles on Godv and the others' faces instantly vanished. Pan Jie's already cold expression directly darkened, as though storm clouds had gathered.
"What did he mean by that? Was he mocking LGD?" Pan Jie demanded angrily.
Meanwhile, the faces of the Optimistic Family fans who had only been sporadically watching Chu Ran's stream froze. They immediately equipped badges and launched a war.
??????
Holy crap! I'm genuinely stunned. Where the hell did EDG dig this guy up from?
Bold. You had a death wish! You even dared touch the Optimistic Family?
Hahahaha, turtle turtle, genius! A true genius!
Bro, did you do that on purpose or by accident? Did Factory Director just say Randuin's Omen?
I don't know, but I know there really was a pro player who built Randuin's Omen on Evelynn in a match.
Ran Chu, were you an orphan? Just tell us, were you an orphan?
It had been a whole damn year, and you were still bringing up old shit. Ran Chu, were you sick?
Sick? Have you ever gone to the World Championship? Taobao Quan at least contributed to the LPL. Forget disrespecting him, you even used it for program effect? Weren't you an animal?
The LPL was truly rotten to the core. No matter what, he was Ran Chu's senior. Was he there for you to mock?
What were you waiting for? This lord reported him anyway.
In an instant, word spread from person to person, and countless Optimistic Family fans flooded into Chu Ran's livestream room.
Watching the explosive popularity, EDG's operations team was shocked by Chu Ran's livestream effect and filled with panic.
They would have to stay up working overtime again.
Then they opened a smurf account and sent a Bullet Comment.
"Ran Chu, opening fire on Uzi was one thing—I respected you as a warrior. But damn it, LGD's matter happened so long ago and you were still bringing it up. Treat this few yuan as a reward from your grandpa, you clown who only knew how to leech off traffic!"
Meiko and the others were dumbfounded when they saw this. Mosue slapped his own face and looked at Meiko. "Could you stream like this?"
"Probably... yes." Meiko's scalp tingled. He would never learn this move in his lifetime.
Looking at the densely packed bullet comments, Chu Ran revealed a touch of innocent purity on his face. "Kai Ge, were you sure you weren't lying to me? Plated Steelcaps, Randuin's Omen Evelynn—was that a human build?"
Then Chu Ran's eyes moved, and he was instantly startled. "No, where did all these haters come from? What was I implying?"
"I was implying LGD. Back then, Taobao Quan built Plated Steelcaps and Randuin's Omen on Evelynn in a match."
"Holy crap, someone really built Evelynn like that? And it was at the World Championship? Was that even human?"
After a bout of surprise, Chu Ran hurriedly shook his head in denial. "I didn't! Don't make things up, don't stir the pot. I wasn't implying anything. You were slandering me, slandering me! Where were the lawyers? I've forgotten the Season 5 matches. If you hadn't mentioned it, I wouldn't have remembered. All I remembered was Brand smelting iron and an arrow fired backward."
As Chu Ran finished speaking, the popularity of the livestream room shot through the roof. Countless Meme Lovers and viewers from every other camp poured in.
When Godv and the others saw this, every smile disappeared from their faces. Pan Jie radiated a terrifyingly icy aura.
"I hope EDG loses the match the day after tomorrow. Understand? How you do that is your business."
"Damn! This guy was really asking for it. Clan leader, watch me camp him into the ground when the time comes." Eimy vowed confidently.
Imp also looked at Ping Ye Ling beside him. "Chen Bo, don't you damn well drag me down when the time comes."
"Wasn't Chen You the one who was going to destroy Ran Chu?"
"Don't worry, we'll definitely win." Jinoo patted his chest.
Right then, the image in Chu Ran's livestream room suddenly changed. The failed match results screen abruptly turned into a game launch screen.
Then several large words appeared before countless viewers—Tianya Mingyue Dao!
"No! Which bastard installed this game on my computer? Wasn't this setting me up?"
"Believe me, I really haven't played it for even one second!"
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