Chapter 21

Seeing Lu Yao lock in Sky Hunter, the ADC hero he wanted, Lu Shenyuan turned to look at him. His voice and attitude softened a little. "Just play at your own pace later. I'll work with you."

Lu Yao nodded. Sky Hunter was the hero he was best at.

Once they realized someone was sitting beside Lu Shenyuan—and that it was the random player who had locked in ADC—the comments went wild.

[What? My God Lu, this straight-as-steel man, actually volunteered to play support for someone? Coordinate with them?!]

[Does someone perhaps remember what he said four years ago? Who said he would never play support for the rest of his life?]

[Could the person beside him be a girl?!!]

[Waaah! You dog of a man, you've been hiding a beauty away!]

[Is this why you disappeared for so long?!]

[You're actually carrying a girl? Isn't that a bit too much? Hand over her photo and we won't kill you!]

[The budding seedling of love suddenly withered...]

Just as the comments flooded the screen, the stream displayed that Lu Shenyuan's teammate Bai Mao and their other three teammates had also entered the livestream.

They were currently waiting for their flight in the airport VIP lounge. When they learned that Lu Shenyuan had started streaming, they figured they had nothing better to do and began watching.

Seeing their captain, that great demon king, actually playing support, the few of them were so shocked they nearly dropped their phones.

[Bai Mao: What is going on here?!! Am I seeing this right?]

The comments began eagerly explaining the situation to Bai Mao.

When they heard that Lu Shenyuan was supposedly carrying a girl, the teammates were all stunned.

[Men really are all bastards. God Lu is usually so cold and heartless toward his teammates, yet he's so gentle with this girl today.]

[The vast difference between teammates and girls.]

Seeing the fans complain that Lu Shenyuan valued women over friends, Bai Mao joined in and sent a teasing comment.

[Bai Mao: So this is the legendary love. Thank you, Captain, for broadening my horizons.]

[White Cat is courting death again...]

[Countdown to extra training begins.]

Lu Shenyuan raised an eyebrow at the comments on the screen and lowered his voice in warning. "Bai Mao, four extra hours of training when you get back."

At the mention of extra training, Bai Mao let out a sorrowful howl right there in the waiting lounge. They had only won the world championship last night, and he already had to do extra training today?! Who could possibly be more miserable than him!

The other teammates had long since grown used to this scene.

[Today's extra-training achievement unlocked.]

[White Cat's Extra Training Class is now in session! One extra-training tip a day, so Coach never has to worry about my clumsy hands again.]

Seeing that the viewers had mistaken the person beside him for a girl, Lu Shenyuan directly cleared things up. "Stop guessing. Behave yourselves in the comments today. My little nephew beside me is still underage, so watch your filthy talk. Mods, remember to mute anyone who talks nonsense later. No eighteen-plus remarks allowed!"

[The reading app recommended by an old book friend I've known for ten years is really damn useful. I use its audiobook function to pass the time while driving and before bed. You can download it here.]

[So he isn't a little vixen—he's my little nephew!]

[Pfft, what the hell are eighteen-plus remarks?]

[Hello, nephew. I'm your future aunt.]

[Nephew, good afternoon.]

Seeing "nephew" flooding the comments, Lu Shenyuan sneered. "He's my nephew, not your nephew. Be decent. Stop trying to take advantage of people all day."

[As expected of Lu the Roaster. Even his fans get roasted!]

Seeing that Lu Yao and his little uncle had already chosen their heroes, Lu Qi, who was sitting on the other side, considered things for a moment before selecting Shadow Overload, an assassin-type mid-lane hero.

Seeing the hero Lu Qi had locked in, Lu Shenyuan thought of Lu Qi's previous skill level. He narrowed his eyes slightly, then turned toward Lu Qi off-camera and coldly mocked, "People should have at least a little self-awareness."

The mid-lane hero Lu Qi had chosen was especially demanding mechanically and extremely fragile. Without some real skill, ordinary players would not dare pick it so casually.

Lu Qi declared confidently, "Little Uncle, stop looking down on me. I'll definitely make you see me in a new light today!"

Lu Shenyuan pressed his tongue against his cheek. Tsk. That was quite a flag to raise. He had a bad feeling about this.

[One ADC and one mid laner, so God Lu has two nephews?]

[Hahahahaha, I'm dying. He was so gentle with the little nephew just now, but he's openly disgusted with this mid-lane nephew. The contrast is just a tiny bit obvious.]

[Damn, God Lu pressing his tongue against his cheek is way too hot. Awsl.]

[Since they're God Lu's nephews, they should both be pretty strong, right?]

Once both sides had chosen their heroes, the game began quickly.

Lu Shenyuan's livestream had long since made the trending searches.

The other two teammates and the opposing players were nearly driven crazy with excitement when they realized they had actually been matched with God Lu.

The two players on Lu Shenyuan's team in particular kept spamming the team channel with their admiration for him.

Lu Shenyuan clicked his mouse and directly muted the team channel. The world instantly became quiet.

[As expected of you, still as much of a dog as ever.]

[Muted perfectly! My ears were about to go deaf.]

[That cold man is back.]

When the opposing team noticed that Lu Shenyuan was actually playing support, all of them rubbed their hands together eagerly, intending to take this chance to experience the thrill of crushing God Lu.

If they could beat Lu Shenyuan, they could brag about it for ten years!

After cautiously farming for a while, the opposing ADC and support decided to launch a sneak attack and try to claim first blood.

After checking the surroundings and seeing only Lu Yao, the opposing ADC was secretly delighted. He used a skill to quickly enter stealth, then accelerated toward Lu Yao, who was killing minions.

Seeing Lu Yao completely defenseless, the ADC player curled his lips and cast a movement-slowing skill at him.

When a player was hit by this skill, they would react more slowly to incoming attacks.

Just as the slowing skill was about to land on Lu Yao, Lu Yao, who had seemed completely unaware, and Lu Shenyuan, who had been hiding in the brush, suddenly activated their skills at the same instant.

Lu Shenyuan promptly gave Lu Yao a shield, which perfectly negated the opposing ADC's slowing skill in the nick of time.

The next second, Lu Yao instantly unleashed his ultimate. It hit with precision and dealt explosive damage.

Then, with a quick attack-move, he forcibly cut off the enemy's escape route and killed him beneath his tower.

First blood went to Lu Yao!

Seeing that things had gone wrong, the opposing support turned and fled behind his own tower.

Lu Shenyuan seamlessly cast a speed-boosting skill on Lu Yao. Lu Yao endured the tower's attacks and dove beneath it to forcibly kill the opposing support.

Double kill!

Lu Shenyuan glanced at Lu Yao's health bar and chuckled. "Xiao Yao has pretty good awareness when it comes to avoiding damage."

Even after killing two people in a row, Lu Yao's health bar remained nearly full.

Lu Shenyuan had noticed earlier that whenever Lu Yao fought someone, he always consciously kept himself at maximum attack range from the enemy.

That level of precise control, combined with the accuracy of his skill shots, would be considered outstanding even among professional players.

Outsiders watched the excitement; experts watched the technique.

If Lu Shenyuan had not pointed it out, most viewers in the livestream would not have noticed it.

[That awareness of the finer details is terrifying.]

[His control is way too precise.]

[Little nephew's positioning awareness is absolutely insane!]

[God Lu, a support held back by ADC! His coordination with little nephew in that exchange was perfect!]

[That attack-move, that hand speed—type "awesome" in the chat!]

[Am I the only one who thinks his attack-move is incredible too? As someone with clumsy hands, this is exactly the kind of attack-move technique I want to learn!]

[Signed in blood, begging little nephew ADC to release an attack-move tutorial.]

Realizing that Lu Yao and Lu Shenyuan in the bottom lane were no pushovers, the opposing team no longer dared casually send people over to feed them kills.

Lu Yao and Lu Shenyuan easily destroyed the outer tower.

The two coordinated perfectly, killing gods when they met gods and killing Buddhas when they met Buddhas as they continuously pushed towers all the way forward.

With victory in sight, Lu Qi abandoned the caution he had shown at the start and began getting cocky.

When he noticed the opposing jungler and support together, he, a fragile mid laner, still dared to rush in and unleash a barrage of attacks. As a result, the enemy bottom-lane duo, who had been holding in their anger, beat him senseless and taught him how to behave.

After that, Lu Qi entered feeding mode. The other two teammates also seemed to get carried away by their massive economic advantage. When the three of them gathered together, the opposing jungler actually got a triple kill off them.

Seeing Lu Qi's fancy feeding antics, Lu Shenyuan could not help rolling his eyes at him. "Calling you a noob would be insulting to chickens. You're just bad!"

Lu Yao chuckled and teased in a low voice, "Even vegetables are innocent."

Lu Qi stubbornly held his head high. "I-I only made mistakes just now. Just wait and see. I'll pull off something big next game!"

The livestream viewers nearly laughed until they could not breathe at their exchange.

[As expected, my God Lu's sharp tongue is still as vicious as ever.]

[Hahahahahaha, calling someone a noob insults chickens.]

[Aahhh, little nephew's voice is killing me!]

[As a voice fetishist, I'm in love with little nephew's voice.]

The pace of the match moved quickly. In the blink of an eye, Lu Yao's team had pushed up to the enemy's final main tower. As long as they destroyed it, they would win.

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