“Hahaha, taken! A mere level-five tile, speedrun in an hour and a half,” Li Fan shouted excitedly.
【Dumb luck! Can Ma Chao really go that crazy?】
【Ridiculous. Is that damage for real?】
【I don’t accept this. Why can’t my Little Three Sovereigns do it? Are you looking down on my Liu Bei, Cao Cao, and Sun Jian?】
【This is starting to feel kind of boring. Marching takes so long in The Shore of the Land, what a waste of time.】
【What’s boring about it? The Shore of the Land has always been like this. It’s plenty interesting.】
【Report him, I’m reporting him. The streamer is definitely hacking. His card draws are this smooth, and even his early-game clearing is this smooth?】
【Wait, is this really your first time playing The Shore of the Land? Why do you seem so skilled? This is a niche hidden-gem game!】
It wasn’t a long-distance shot; it was near the three-tile range around his main city, with 10,008 troops.
Ma Chao had forcibly hacked down 6,400 all by himself!
That left 4,400 defenders.
It sounded absurd, but this was Ma Chao!
And although the others couldn’t understand what was going on, seeing Li Fan laugh so happily, they all jumped out and began furiously spamming the chat.
“I suppose I must be ill. Sadness came without reason; the dogs in the stream chat were barking so fiercely that I started barking along too.”
“Woof woof woof!”
【？？？？？？】
【Goddamn, this streamer is a real savage. When he curses other people, he even curses himself too.】
【Just get used to it. Unreal has always been this absurd. But exactly because of that, we find him really interesting. Other streamers don’t have the guts for this.】
【Hahaha, handsome people even look handsome when they’re cursing.】
Clearly, this person had come from Weibo to watch the spectacle, and half the comments were about him being handsome.
After all, only about ten percent of Li Fan’s stream viewers were League fans. The remaining forty percent were QQ Speed players, and one percent were The Shore of the Land players…
Mainly, The Shore of the Land’s player base really was pitifully small.
There was simply no comparing it to mainstream mobile games.
But the good thing was that it had plenty of whales. Every year, its revenue ranked near the top at NetEase.
So it had always been a mobile game NetEase valued, with version maintenance every single week.
After waiting five minutes through the draw,
he finally succeeded in taking the level-five stone tile at his doorstep.
Li Fan excitedly shared the battle report in the alliance channel.
I’m the European Emperor: Big shot! I worship you!
Brave Official: Ma Chao early-game clearing is just badass. Too strong. Big bro, can you help me open up a level-five?
Hero丶Li Xunhuan: Just lucky. Ma Chao’s tactics procced a lot. Otherwise, it really would’ve been hard to say.
Having finally taken the level-five tile, Li Fan couldn’t help feeling his stomach start to growl.
He looked at the time. Good grief, it was already one o’clock.
No wonder he was hungry after streaming for so long. He quickly said goodbye to the viewers in the stream, then ended the broadcast.
In the stream room, the viewers didn’t leave immediately. Instead, they started chatting among themselves right there.
Abu looked at the notification that the streamer had already left.
He felt that… perhaps he should move Li Fan out of the basement.
It was precisely because Li Fan was in the basement that he dared to livestream and slack off so recklessly. It seemed his own approach had indeed been somewhat inappropriate.
It could also easily make someone give up on themselves. Perfect timing—he would have Li Fan play in scrims in a few days.
He could use that excuse to move him out of the basement. Once he was in the training room, with coaches and Abu himself constantly supervising him, Li Fan probably wouldn’t dare be so reckless.
Then, if he played poorly in scrims, he would be sent straight down to the second team.
If he wanted to livestream, then let him stream to his heart’s content.
Thinking this, Abu stood straight up from his old stool.
After all, he had watched the stream for so long that he was hungry too. He could just use this opportunity to bring it up. The main issue was that Li Fan was simply too capable of making it onto the trending searches. Although he was only a substitute player, Abu always felt it was starting to affect the club’s reputation a little.
Though EDG’s reputation had already been more or less lost at last year’s World Championship.
Even so, they were still the most popular team right now.
They had won many league championships, so naturally they had many fans. And Clearlove was like a sea-calming divine needle; as long as he was there, no other problems would exist.
Li Fan sat in the cafeteria with his tray and dug right in.
To be fair, EDG’s food was genuinely awful. Mainly, everything was boiled in plain water. There was nothing fried, spicy, or numbing at all.
It really was a militarized base.
No wonder… there were claims online that TheShy had initially gone to EDG, but because the food was honestly too bad, he had gone to iG instead.
And at that moment, he saw Abu also enter the cafeteria.
He hadn’t eaten yet?
Why did it feel like coming here to eat had been a mistake?
Li Fan felt he needed to speed up his meal, then hurry back to continue clearing land.
But at that moment, Abu walked toward him with his tray.
“Manager Abu.”
“Mm. Training until this late, and you still haven’t eaten?” Abu acknowledged him and asked. Then he very naturally sat down across from Li Fan.
Had he trained for a long time?
It seemed he hadn’t trained…
Speaking of that, he did feel a little guilty.
After all, EDG really was paying him a salary.
Last month’s salary had already been paid. If he wasn’t training, then he really was slacking off.
And he had the feeling that Abu was hinting at him. Maybe he had secretly watched his stream…
Otherwise, why would he suddenly ask about training?
Sure enough, Abu’s next words went straight to the point. “The environment in the basement is still a bit lacking, and the network isn’t as stable as the training room’s. Get ready. This afternoon, move back to the training room.”
“Don’t, Coach!” Li Fan nearly choked on his rice. He hurriedly swallowed and argued back. “The basement is great! It’s especially quiet, no one disturbs me, and it’s convenient for my streaming… no, I mean, it’s convenient for my extra practice. Really, I’ve adapted especially well!”
“Adapted to what? Are there players who actually like staying in the basement to train?”
“The training room is where players ought to be. Letting you move over there earlier was a mistake.”
“We’re about to arrange scrims. Although you’re a substitute, you can’t fall behind in tactical understanding and team coordination. It’ll be easier to communicate in the training room, and it’ll also be easier for me and the coaching staff to observe your condition.”
Li Fan now remembered what Clearlove had told him.
They were going to play scrims in the next few days. He didn’t know which team they had scheduled, but Clearlove had told him to train properly.
“Besides… your relaxation is almost getting more attention than the main roster’s matches.”
Since Abu had put it that way, even though Li Fan still wanted to make one last dying struggle, there was nothing he could do.
Although sleeping counted as training for him, who would believe that if he said it out loud?
Most importantly, improving his strength had a very strong connection to livestreaming other games.
From the looks of it…
he needed to think carefully about how to safely maintain his livestreaming career during scrims.
You people get stronger by training. I get stronger by slacking off!
“Okay, Manager. I’ll move my computer back to the training room this afternoon,” Li Fan said.
Seeing him agree, Abu’s expression finally improved a little. He nodded. “All right. Hurry up and eat. Once you finish, go move your things right away.”
After saying that, Abu lowered his head and began eating as well, saying nothing more.