Game time, 28:47
Location: outside the enemy mid-lane inhibitor turret
The four teammates who had already died started arguing.
“What are you all panicking for?”
“No, what the hell does the AD getting engaged on have to do with me?”
“Why wasn’t top lane in front tanking??”
“I’ll tank your mom!”
Chu Bai paid no attention to their quarrel at all.
Using the last shreds of vision provided by the final wave of minions pushing toward the enemy base, he silently estimated the enemy’s movement speed and the remaining time.
The next second, Talon moved.
A cold, razor-sharp blade abruptly appeared at his side. The silent assassin slipped into the shadows, and golden shards of light burst apart at that moment.
What appeared in vision were the enemy’s five remaining players.
W skill, Rake!
Along with the fan-shaped volley of blades thrown backward, his E skill, Cutthroat, pierced through toward the farthest AD carry. The silence effect triggered, leaving him unable to even Flash.
The AD carry died instantly!
Turning back, a Q—Noxian Diplomacy—buried the last shred of hope the enemy mid laner had of resisting.
The two waves of blades thrown out by W and R finally returned to Talon at that moment.
Those silver-white blades merged into a torrent, mercilessly scraping across every enemy’s body and emptying all their health bars!
R-Flash-W-E-Q!
【Penta Kill!】
Five kills in one second!
Only then did Chu Bai finally find the time to look at the chat box, which had gone quiet at some point, and type two words:
Stop arguing.
A twenty-eight-minute six-item Talon, paired with the powerful armor-penetration items of this patch, really could deal this kind of world-ending damage.
S4 was supposed to be the paradise of farming mid laners, yet an assassin dancing on the edge of a blade could still kick them straight into hell.
When the minion wave once again reached the enemy base, a message from the enemy mid laner appeared in the lower left corner.
“What a disgusting champion.”
Chu Bai laughed.
What a stubborn mouth.
If you can’t beat it, just blame the champion for being overtuned?
That was a classic among classics too.
He couldn’t even be bothered to reply.
Game over. His 17/0/4 score fully proved how hard he had carried and how bad his teammates were.
But Chu Bai didn’t actually mind.
Because this was only S4, and it was just a normal match.
At any rate, he had been Diamond in Season 16. Playing games like this was undoubtedly smurfing in a fish pond.
Who smurfs in a fish pond and then complains that the fish are bad?
That would be somewhat shameless.
This time, time and space did not rewind, further proving Chu Bai’s guess.
Winning would not trigger the time-space rewind. Only losing would.
He ignored the friend requests sent by his cheap teammates and immediately started the next game.
Since going back was already impossible, and he even had such a huge cheat with him...
Wasn’t it just becoming number one on the Chinese server?
It wasn’t as if his blade was dull!
He’d finish the beginner mission first.
The morning sun rose and then fell. Under the slanting rays of dusk, Chu Bai stretched lazily.
Seven hours, and he had not triggered another rewind.
That was normal too.
A Diamond from Season 16 returning to S4—whether he could crush the pro players of this era was another matter, but if he could still lose a normal match, he might as well find a block of tofu and smash his head into it.
Thanks to the double EXP card he had bought, his summoner level had already shot up to the teens. At this rate, he estimated that in one or two days at most, he would hit level thirty and charge into ranked.
On the surface, it looked like he had taken another step closer to his goal.
But Chu Bai discovered something else, which made him feel like there was something seriously wrong with this system.
Starting from the second game.
No matter what champion he wanted to pick, he couldn’t click them on the selection screen. He could only click Talon.
At first he was a little puzzled, until he saw the beginner mission reward section on the system page:
Top-tier professional-level champion: 【The Blade’s Shadow】 (Issuing)
—Chu Bai laughed in anger.
You bastard, you’re pretty damn conscientious, huh? Bro hasn’t even finished the mission, and you’ve already started issuing the reward.
How nice of you!
“System, can I ask a question?”
【I can answer some of your questions】
“What kind of system gives out champion mastery rewards and still makes me practice them myself? Is that reasonable?”
Chu Bai could hardly believe it.
【Please give up on your idea of getting something for nothing】
Chu Bai gave it a thumbs-up.
“So positive!”
What else could he say?
He already had something as heaven-defying as time-space rewinding. A small flaw like having to practice the mastery reward himself really wasn’t important.
Besides, he could feel that he was much more focused and serious in-game than before.
Probably some of the system’s tech and secret sauce?
He went out and bought a portion of fried rice, then opened Tieba while eating during his break.
There were too few forms of entertainment these days, and he had transmigrated bodily with no friends or family, his identity entirely forged by the system.
When he was bored, all he could do was shoot the breeze with the 8U.
Soon, he saw an interesting post on the front page:
【Feels like WE is about to disband hahaha】
Poster: WE丶Smlz
Chu Bai clicked into the thread curiously. Inside, the poster, 【WE丶Smlz】, said that a team called WE had run into a major problem and might directly disband after the spring began, but he didn’t want to reveal the specific reason.
In Chu Bai’s original world, domestic teams all used Chinese team names, so he really didn’t know any WE.
But this team did seem quite famous, because there were many replies below.
—When are your dad and mom disbanding?
—This is a WE-hate forum, right? That guy upstairs who likes WE, get lost
—Lmao, does anyone actually believe this? This guy said before that he was in WE’s youth training, and now he’s using a WE prefix to hate on WE. Who would believe that?
—Classic insider news, classic “don’t want to reveal it.” Come back and announce the good news when they really disband!
The poster seemed rather aloof. He didn’t reply much, but his attitude was very certain.
Chu Bai became interested and replied below as well:
Poster, are you a WE player?
After a while, the other party replied:
Yes.
Chu Bai replied: I looked up the WE club. It’s not far from me. Take me inside for a tour and I’ll believe you.
He had only said it casually.
Were there ever few people running their mouths online?
There was no reply for a while. Chu Bai smiled and didn’t mind, continuing to sit back down at his computer desk to level up.
It wasn’t until eleven at night, when he clicked open Tieba again, that he was surprised to find the other party had actually replied:
Fine, but you have to solo me. If you lose, forget it. Scrubs aren’t worthy of questioning me.
“Pretty arrogant.”
Then let’s do it.
Chu Bai opened the private chat and sent over his server and ID.
Before long, he received a friend request. The other party didn’t waste words and pulled him in.
Three minutes later.
【Level-Eight Gale】 has slain 【Beat Up Server-One Superiority Dogs】!
【All】 Level-Eight Gale (The Blade’s Shadow):
That’s it?
Somewhere in Hunan.
Han Jin, whose Tieba account was WE丶Smlz, fell silent for two seconds.
His Ahri had been taught to him by a good buddy who played mid lane.
According to that dumbass, beating scrubs below Diamond should be easy as taking candy from a baby, even if he was an AD player.
Han Jin clicked open Chu Bai’s profile, only to discover that his opponent wasn’t even max level yet.
Didn’t he say it’d be easy as taking candy from a baby?
Why did Wei Zhen lie to me?
Though he was depressed, a loss was a loss.
【All】 Beat Up Server-One Superiority Dogs (Nine-Tailed Fox): You win. In two weeks, when our break ends, I’ll wait for you beside the convenience store at No. XXX, XX Road, XX District. Add my QQ and I’ll message you privately then.
Chu Bai raised an eyebrow. “He actually sent an address?”
He had originally thought this poster was purely here to be funny, but after playing him, he realized the guy did have some skill.
Of course, only some.
The place the other party sent wasn’t far. It wouldn’t hurt to make a trip there when the time came.
【All】 Level-Eight Gale (The Blade’s Shadow):
Sure.
【All】 Level-Eight Gale (The Blade’s Shadow):
By the way, your Ahri is kind of bad.
The corner of Han Jin’s mouth twitched, and he quit the game.
But before long, the more he thought about it, the angrier he became.
At one-thirty in the morning, Master Chu, who had been busy all day, had already entered dreamland.
Han Jin, tossing and turning and unable to sleep, opened the QQ of the person who had taught him to play Ahri and calmly sent over a message:
Your Ahri is kind of bad.
Wei Zhen, who was watching a female streamer: ?
Psycho Jin.
The message that suddenly popped up instantly killed all his interest.
“Fuck, that idiot Han Jin—is he sick in the head, acting up in the middle of the night?”