In an instant, Imp was furious backstage at LGD, leaving Godv and the others utterly bewildered.
Why the extreme reaction?
When people used to say Imp wasn't as good as Uzi, he'd just smile.
But why did he lose his temper when someone said he wasn't as good as Deft?
"Quick, send Imp to the hospital!"
"Let me go, you damn Deft, I'm not crazy!"
Gritting his teeth, Imp grabbed his phone and fired off a barrage of messages to Deft.
Deft, who was all smiles backstage at EDG, took a closer look. The entire screen conveyed one message: a one-on-one duel tonight.
"This Little Ran guy, he really went too far. I'm in such a bad spot."
Deft shook his head helplessly. If he didn't agree, Imp would probably storm over to their club.
At this moment, the interview stage and the livestream viewers were roaring with laughter, some pounding their thighs in front of the screen.
[LOL, Imp is absolutely fuming.] [Not as good as Deft, if I were Imp I'd kill someone.] [Imp: Ah, damn it, what championship does that pilot Deft have? I'll crush Deft in Rank!] [This guy really knows how to stir up trouble, one sentence hit Imp right in the heart.] [I'm laughing my ass off, it's not a big deal to lose a match, but hearing that, Imp just broke down on the spot.] [Red Temperature Value +432] [Red Temperature Value +349]
At the interview desk, Yu Shuang's face was filled with shock, then her lips turned bitter.
Great, she was going to be attacked by countless netizens again.
Looking at the smug grin on Chu Ran's face, Yu Shuang forced a smile. "Player Easy is quite humorous. For the last question, we saw your Camille proficiency was very high today, and you pulled off various impressive plays in the match. However, before the match, many viewers thought your Camille proficiency wasn't that high and wouldn't be brought to the stage, but you shocked many people."
"And this champion has been out for less than a month. May I ask how Player Easy practiced this champion, and if you have any unique tips to share with our audience?"
Chu Ran nodded, then slowly began to speak, "There are no real tricks. This champion is simple. Regardless of whether you can win lane or not, during teamfights, if you see the AD, E-Flash onto them, then use your Ultimate Ability to trap the AD."
"Then you can treat the AD like a stray dog on the roadside and kick it to death. In summary, randomly trap a dog in a cage and beat it up."
"Uh..." Yu Shuang's expression stiffened. She felt Chu Ran was hinting at something, but she had no proof.
The many viewers in the livestream room immediately thought of something, and the bullet comments began to scroll rapidly!
[?????] [How dare you! Are you tired of living, still hinting at God?] [Comparing AD to a dog, besides God, which AD is called a dog?] [Hahaha, this guy is definitely hinting, I'll eat my shoe if he's not.] [Hinting? He's practically stating it!]
Many Imperial guards hadn't realized what was happening at first, but after seeing these bullet comments, they suddenly understood and then became furious.
[Ran Chu! I'll go f*** your mother.] [You're the dog, your whole family are dogs. Mad Little Dog is a term of endearment, a loving nickname for Little Dog's outstanding performance. Are you f***ing sick?] [Seriously, just a passerby. I don't usually pay attention to these players' private lives, but seeing Ran Chu treat Little Dog like this, I looked into Little Dog's achievements and instantly became a fan.] [Give someone like Ran Chu a hundred years, and he still won't reach Little Dog's level.] [Playing Camille and killing Imp once is such a big deal. Is Imp even worthy of being compared to Little Dog? He's just a Lucky Champion.] [Uzi in favorable situations, Jian Zihao in difficult situations, Mad Little Dog in desperate situations. Why isn't someone like Ran Chu dead yet?] [In favorable situations, I farm. In difficult situations, I get blown up. In desperate situations, I get red-hot. This is the great World's Number One ADC!] [Hahaha, stop talking, or they'll get you banned.]
At this moment, Uzi, who was packing up at the commentary desk, heard Chu Ran's words. His already grim face instantly turned bright red, like a boiled duck.
"Uzi, are you okay?"
Miller was a little startled and emotional seeing Uzi like that.
He's so red, is his brain going to fry?
"I'm fine." Uzi let out a long sigh, truly feeling stifled and angry. He clenched his fists and immediately rushed towards the RNG Club.
Xiao Hu, I'm coming for you, damn it.
At the RNG Club, Xiao Hu's face changed drastically as he heard Chu Ran's interview through the livestream. He looked down at his own thigh.
He knew his thigh was about to become someone's punching bag again.
After the interview, Chu Ran returned backstage and found Abu and the others looking at him with strange expressions, causing Chu Ran to instinctively curl up.
"What are you guys looking at?"
Abu and the others exchanged glances, eventually falling silent. Only Meiko nodded in response, "Let's go! Brother Ran, I'm wearing my long johns inside out tonight."
"Get lost!"
With Chu Ran's playful curse, everyone excitedly headed towards the restaurant.
While they were eating, Weibo's trending topics had already exploded.
Chu Ran's performance in his two matches against LGD today had shocked the LPL, sparking heated discussions among countless netizens.
#Camille Can Be Played Like This, Easy's Camille Dominated LGD!#
#The Title of Sword Immortal Has Changed Owners, Easy Educated Jinoo Back and Forth!#
#EDG's Rookie Top Laner Shocks LPL Again, What's Next for Mouse?#
#EDG Top Laner Player Easy Implies Uzi is a Stray Dog!#
#IM Top Laner AJ Confident He Can Beat Easy!#
"Brother Ran, as soon as I opened Weibo, it was all headlines about you. You've completely made a name for yourself in the LPL, aren't you excited at all?"
Meiko exclaimed. When he first debuted, he hadn't generated this much buzz, and after just one match, he'd been flamed by countless people, suffering in silence.
Compared to Chu Ran, he was nothing.
Was this the difference in talent?
"Oh," Chu Ran nodded. "What's there to be excited about? Do you get excited when you eat or drink water?"
"Little Ran, if you're not excited about this, when will you get excited?" Ming Kai asked with a smile.
Chu Ran thought for a few seconds, grinned, and said, "When I watch a two-hour movie late at night."
"..."
Abu and the others stared at each other, nearly choking on their water, and all gave Chu Ran a thumbs-up.
Even Ming Kai's jaw dropped. He thought he was the last one in EDG or the LPL to be arrogant and talk trash, but it turned out there was someone even better.
He gave Chu Ran a thumbs-up, "Little Ran, you're the best. Even if an old lady fell, I wouldn't help her, I'd only help you."
"As if you could help her."
Chu Ran rolled his eyes at Ming Kai, then sent a string of soldier emojis with green helmets in Sun Yalong's livestream room, leaving Meiko completely confused.
"Brother Ran, why did you send that emoji in Sun Yalong's livestream?"
"You'll know later. I hope he can understand my good intentions."
After a satisfying meal, Chu Ran returned to the club and opened his Weibo, completely ignoring the pile of notifications, making Deft and the others' scalps tingle.
There were actually people in this world who could ignore those red dots.
Unbelievable.
"Little Ran, let's duo queue."
"Wait, I need to post on Weibo first."
"You're not going to start something with AJ, are you?" Abu suddenly walked up to Chu Ran, his expression serious. "That was just people stirring up trouble. AJ didn't target you. He's doing fine on IM, don't overthink it."
Chu Ran blinked, "Why would I target him?"
"That's good then."
Abu nodded, about to turn away, when Chu Ran's voice rang out again, "AJ, he's not good enough."
Instantly, Abu stumbled. He turned back with a bewildered look, his face awkward. "AJ is actually pretty good. He's not trash. If I hadn't discovered you, I might have even considered promoting him to the main team."
"He's one of our own, so say less of that in the future."
Abu was speechless. Chu Ran was truly someone who never failed to shock with his words. If this got back to AJ, even if the current online drama was fake, it would become real.
"Don't misunderstand, I didn't say AJ was trash."
"I just said all domestic top laners in the LPL are trash. Oh, and the mid laners too."
Pfft!
Suddenly, the entire EDG training room was filled with a deathly silence. Mouse looked particularly displeased.
He'd only won a few matches and was already this arrogant. What would happen later?
However, Chu Ran shrugged indifferently. In this era, many domestic LPL top laners couldn't even play Jayce properly. In later years, some people still couldn't figure out Gnar for an entire season, getting spun around like a top, yet they were considered top-tier top laners in the LPL.
Chu Ran felt his words were not wrong. For domestic top laners, he was the one who had to save them.
Abu's face turned extremely awkward. He shouldn't have spoken up. He knew Chu Ran rarely said anything nice.
If these words got out online, the drama would explode.
"Don't say that. Aren't many LPL players learning from many top LCK players right now?"
"Have they learned?"
Chu Ran scratched his head and chuckled. Seeing Abu and the others looking shocked, he waved his hand, "So there's no need to learn from LCK top laners. Give me time, and I will surpass those LCK top laners!"
Hiss—!
Ming Kai and the others gasped, feeling that Chu Ran was outrageously arrogant, yet somehow, this arrogance didn't seem entirely out of line.
If a young person had no spirit at all, were they even still young?
"None of what was just said is allowed to get out. Anyone who leaks it, I'll fire them."
Abu was speechless. He slightly regretted his decision to recruit Chu Ran to EDG, feeling like he hadn't just recruited a top laner, but a demanding patron.
Of course, EDG had a traitor among them!
Before Abu could even say this, Mouse had already relayed Chu Ran's words to IM's top laner, AJ.
AJ: "Ah Guang, do you think I'm an idiot? Are you trying to sow discord because you're afraid he'll take your starting spot?"
Mouse: "If I'm lying, I'm a dog. Just tell me, do you want to prove yourself? Do you want to join the main team? If you do, you have to beat him."
At this very moment, inside the IM club's training room.
AJ looked thoughtfully at the message from Mouse. Of course, he wanted to join the main team. He had only played in the main team for a short period back then before being demoted. Now, he felt he had matured.
In simple terms, he felt he had become much stronger.
Putting aside other things, the traffic and treatment were on a completely different level. Most people on their IM team wanted to join the main team. To be honest, the second team was dispensable to EDG; they could be sold off like commodities at any moment.
Then, AJ looked at Mouse's message again.
"His champion pool isn't deep. He has Fiora, Camille, and a few tanks. When you play him, just ban a few of his signature picks. Brother, I believe in you. Cheer up."
AJ: "Although I know you want to protect your starting position, I accept your attempt to sow discord. Just watch my performance. He dares to say that all domestic LPL top laners are trash? I'll show him that there's always someone better."
Seeing AJ agree, a smile instantly spread across Mouse's lips. He looked at Chu Ran, who was busy typing on Weibo, and Mouse muttered to himself.
"Sorry, I want the starting spot too."
As long as AJ could defeat Chu Ran, with the second team's top laner beating the first team's top laner, Abu would definitely reconsider the starting top laner.
Even if Chu Ran wasn't immediately benched, Mouse would at least have opportunities to play. Otherwise, with Chu Ran's current strength, traffic, and popularity, Mouse would truly end up like Tong Yang, watching the game from the sidelines.
Who would become a professional player only to end up watching from the sidelines?
Mouse had at least contributed and bled for EDG!
At the same time, at the RNG club's base.
Xiao Hu clutched his thigh, letting out pained cries. Uzi, having vented his frustration, left directly, like a heartless scumbag who abandons his partner. If people didn't know better, they'd think he had made his girlfriend get an abortion behind the netizens' backs.
Suddenly, Mala Xiang Guo exclaimed, "That bastard Ran Chu posted on Weibo again."
Thump.
Uzi frowned, his body instantly tensed. Seeing Mala Xiang Guo trying to suppress a smile, his expression darkened again.
Damn it!
Is it that funny?
Trembling, he opened Weibo and found Chu Ran's latest post. His pupils constricted sharply, and visible redness spread from his neck to his chubby face. He panted heavily through his nostrils!
EDG-Easy:
[Won the match again today. Don't know what to say, so I'll tell you a joke.]
[In the hospital, a doctor asked a child who had four fingers amputated how he felt after the surgery.]
[Child: ]
[Years later, someone asked the child, who had long since grown up, why he had cut off four fingers back then.]
[The grown-up child fell into memory and slowly gritted out a few words—Because five fingers aren't good enough!]
"Ran Chu!!!"
Uzi roared, his face red, in the RNG training room, his expression terrifying.
Xiao Hu, who had been holding back a smile, saw the furious Uzi and immediately put on a serious face, weakly retracting his thigh. "This Ran Chu is truly sick. Uzi, ignore him. He's just a clown seeking attention."
"Damn! Damn! Damn!"
At this moment, Uzi was fuming. He knew Chu Ran would post on Weibo to settle scores after winning today because he had posted on Weibo to strongly support LGD before the match. But he never expected Chu Ran to settle scores in such a way.
His fists rained down on Xiao Hu's thigh, causing Xiao Hu to dare not speak out of anger.
"Damn it, the next match is IM versus EDG. Can AJ fucking win? I just want to see that bastard Ran Chu get destroyed right now!"
Chu Ran's Weibo post was like a deep-sea bomb, adding fuel to the already blazing Weibo fire.
Within minutes of being posted, the Weibo exploded.
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