On Douyin, in Su Hang's livestream.
Comments scrolled wildly across the public chat, like a surging black tide!
"Holy shit! Su Lie saw right through Nuanyang's underwear!"
"Freaking incredible! Exalted Emperor was ready to trade his life for one kill, but Su Lie single-handedly turned the tide!"
"You only saw how amazing Su Lie's game sense was, but his mechanics were insanely precise too! He used Flash to block another cannon shot for Exalted Emperor!"
Su Hang looked at Su Lie beside him, a few traces of admiration appearing in his eyes. Truth be told, he had long since noticed the enemy Yao and Ma Chao lying in ambush in the gap brush.
At the time, he had been about to signal Su Lie, but who would have thought Su Lie had also noticed the enemy ambush in the gap brush beside the first tower? He had immediately changed his route, detoured through the blue-buff jungle, and charged in with his ultimate ready!
Su Hang typed.
[Exalted Emperor] (Marco Polo): Amazing game sense, Su Lie.
In ten years of battling in King's Canyon, he had encountered countless expert players and top professional players, but those who could rival him in game sense could be counted on one hand.
And this Su Lie called Yugong was one of the few players with top-tier game sense!
The chat scrolled.
[Yugong] (Su Lie): Your game sense is amazing too. Among all the expert players I've fought alongside, you rank second!
"There's someone else that good?"
Su Hang was stunned. Earlier, Su Lie had said he was the second player who could keep up with his playstyle and tempo, and now he was saying Su Hang was the second-best expert player.
It was hard not to wonder just who this number-one expert player was-the one who could keep up with Su Lie's playstyle and tempo.
The game reached the seven-minute mark.
Su Hang's Marco had seven kills and the highest gold in the game. With a Su Lie whose mechanics and game sense were astonishing protecting him, he could run wild and do as he pleased!
The enemy team had no power to fight back. They could only watch helplessly as their farm lane was overrun. Meng Ya and Mozi were beaten black and blue, and went crying to Nuanyang's Yao and Zimo's Ma Chao for backup.
But Nuanyang and Zimo were at a loss too.
Exalted Emperor's Marco already looked invincible, with his morale and fighting spirit at their peak. Going after him now would very likely mean repeating their mistakes, losing both the bride and the soldiers!
The seconds and minutes ticked by.
Soon, it was nine minutes, almost time for the empowered dragons to spawn. Su Hang sent a signal, reminding his teammates not to get picked off.
What he feared came to pass.
Their Sun Ce was pushing a side lane when he saw Yao pushing a nearby lane alone. After confirming that the other four enemies had shown themselves on the top half of the map, he immediately called over their nearby teammate Sun Wukong, and the two joined forces to attack Yao.
"Don't engage! It's a trap!"
Su Hang's pupils contracted, but it was already too late to stop them.
"Set sail!"
Sun Ce activated his ultimate, and his pirate ship carried Sun Wukong straight into Yao. Sun Ce used his first skill and Stun, locking Yao down.
"Hey, take a blow from my staff!"
Sun Wukong promptly unleashed his ultimate. A massive staff erupted from the ground, chaining the crowd control. Three blows later, Yao was reduced to a sliver of health!
But who was Yao?
He had the second-highest gold in the entire game, behind only Exalted Emperor's Marco!
Even with his health already down to the execute threshold, he didn't panic in the slightest. He used his second skill to pull away diagonally, then snapped back with his ultimate, Return to Dust, landing squarely on Sun Wukong's monkey head.
His star energy bar filled, empowering all his skills. The two hits of his first skill landed, instantly killing Sun Wukong.
"Holy shit! He just one-shot me?"
The dead Sun Wukong was utterly dumbfounded. He had expected Yao's damage to be high-after all, he already had five god-tier items-but he had never imagined it would be this high!
Sun Ce was dumbstruck too. It was bad enough that they hadn't focused Yao down, but now their jungler had been lost as well.
"Retreat!"
"Retreat!"
"Retreat!"
Su Hang repeatedly pressed the retreat signal, rushing down to the bottom lane with Su Lie.
The empowered dragon fight was coming up soon. Losing their Monkey was already a huge blow; if Sun Ce got picked off too, they would truly have to hand the empowered dragon over!
Su Hang's Marco and Yugong's Su Lie hurried as fast as they could.
They finally made it in time-for Sun Ce's funeral.
Yep, the corpse was still warm!
Seeing Sun Ce and Monkey lying in eternal slumber together,
Su Hang's eyelids twitched violently several times!!!
Sun Ce, newly arrived in hell, complained bitterly, "Damn it, that Yao outplayed me with a sliver of health when I had half a bar! That's ridiculous! Why hasn't that overpowered hero been nerfed yet?"
The comments in Su Hang's livestream exploded!
"I'm so mad my lungs are about to burst! That Sun Ce has stupid written all over his face! Exalted Emperor practically wore out the warning and retreat signals, but he just had to take Monkey after Nuanyang's Yao. What a stupid pig-he has no idea how much he weighs!"
"For fuck's sake, you're a low-star Glory player, Sun Ce. Who gave you the courage to challenge Nuanyang, the former strongest Overlord?"
"Fuck! Watching the stream up to this point, I've learned one thing: don't fear godlike opponents, fear piglike teammates!"
Su Hang took a deep breath to steady himself.
Although both their jungler and clash laner were dead, they still had Su Lie as a sturdy frontline and Xiao Qiao as a high-burst mage. It wasn't the worst-case scenario yet.
"Ah!" At that moment, Xiao Qiao's scream rang out over the team voice channel. "Ma Chao, I'm sorry! Don't kill me, don't kill me!"
At the ruins of the first mid-lane tower, Zimo's Ma Chao retrieved and thrust his spear, repeatedly piercing Xiao Qiao as she activated her ultimate and fled in panic.
In moments, their Xiao Qiao was easily harvested by Zimo's Ma Chao!
"The worst-case scenario has happened."
Even Su Hang, who took no joy in external things and felt no sorrow for himself, had the corners of his mouth twitching uncontrollably. He knew Sun Ce and the other two were no match for the opposing top KPL players and expert players, so he had never placed any hopes on them.
To keep Sun Ce and the other two from holding them back, he had even divided his attention to watch their jungle and the other lanes, marking bushes with signals to warn them.
But Sun Ce and the other two turned a deaf ear! They had been feeding from the start right up to now! All three had gone super negative, with identical 0-6 records!
Only he could take it, having experienced games that sent his blood pressure even higher. Any other marksman player would have tilted long ago and turned on their mic to greet their worthless teammates.
[Yugong] (Su Lie): The enemy should be starting the Dark Tyrant. What do you want to do?
"What do I do?"
Su Hang raced toward the Dark Tyrant pit in the top half of the map, the madness in his eyes growing stronger.
If the enemy successfully secured the Dark Tyrant, the gold advantage he and Su Lie had built would vanish completely. With three worthless teammates on top of that, the match would turn into a grueling battle lasting over thirty minutes.
Even if they won in the end, it would be a pyrrhic victory, and he definitely wouldn't get MVP with a top-tier rating.
So they absolutely couldn't hand this Dark Tyrant over!
Su Hang freed one hand and used voice-to-text, his sharp edge fully bared!
"Let's give it everything we've got!"