Clearlove came out of Abu’s office.
As if led by some ghostly impulse, he did not return to the training room, but instead walked toward the basement beside it.
This was where Li Fan slept and trained. Aside from three meals a day and taking care of personal matters, he basically never came out.
This sort of treatment felt extremely harsh. After all, he could not even get a spot at one of the main computers in the training room.
But considering that he had been playing other games during training time, EDG had still been rather humane in a sense by not kicking him out immediately and merely making him move somewhere else.
If it were some other team, they would probably have pulled out the contract on the spot and demanded compensation.
Basement treatment? As if. Get yourself to the defendant’s stand.
Clearlove looked at the door, hesitated for a moment, then knocked anyway.
Li Fan had only just logged into QQ Speed when he heard knocking at the door.
He was somewhat curious… After all, under normal circumstances, no one came to his basement. So who was knocking?
He stood up from his seat, opened the door, and was also very surprised to see Clearlove.
When Clearlove saw Li Fan’s face, he could not help sighing inwardly. He really was quite handsome.
But he had not forgotten the purpose of his visit today.
“In a while, we might have you play in scrims. Do your best.”
Clearlove’s words immediately made Li Fan realize something.
When he got up that morning, he had also seen those posts.
He had to admit, those people really were talented…
What “top eight is already carved into their DNA,” and “cowardice is the essence of never getting team-wiped.”
Their offensive power was already no worse than that of later years.
From the looks of it, yesterday’s drama must have blown up too much…
Clearlove had come to remind him that he needed to train properly next and then face the upcoming scrims.
Clearlove glanced further inside, and his whole body practically went numb.
The computer interface open on the screen was QQ Speed, not League of Legends.
From the looks of it, he had not trained properly at all these past one or two months.
Judging by the situation, Li Fan truly did not plan on continuing as a professional player.
It felt a little regrettable. A talented young man like this, if he could settle down and train properly, would definitely have an extremely high ceiling in the future, especially on EDG.
They could be called the most professional team in the LPL, with an extremely complete system.
Once someone entered EDG, as long as they were willing to train hard, becoming a top-tier player was only a matter of time.
But if he just kept giving up like this, then no matter how good his talent was, it would be nothing more than flowers in a mirror and the moon on water, passing clouds and mist.
Sigh.
Clearlove sighed, then finally patted Li Fan on the shoulder.
“Still, try to work hard again. Fight for it. You’re a very talented player.”
After saying that, Clearlove turned and left the basement. On the way, he could not help muttering a few words to himself. He did not even know what had gotten into him, coming all the way to this basement to tell the guy to train properly.
He was really casting pearls before swine!
Still… there should not be much of a problem making it to Worlds this year.
Iboy’s form was very good. He would be able to play in the Summer Split, and by then, bot lane would no longer be a breakthrough point for their opponents.
As for Scout, although he had plenty of his own little thoughts, one had to admit that his individual strength was indeed solid. Apart from that, his talent for learning was quite good as well. Compared with top mid laners, all he lacked was experience.
But that experience was something Clearlove, as a veteran player, could help him make up for.
The only problem was communication. His communication was still somewhat slow. As long as they solved that one issue, they could form the strongest mid-jungle duo in the entire LPL.
Thinking about it this way, there was actually no need for him to care whether Li Fan lived or died.
Meanwhile, in the manager’s office, Abu had also finished asking the coach for his thoughts.
RapidStar was indifferent to the matter, because Li Fan was practically invisible in front of him.
There was a Korean like him in mid lane, and Scout played better. Whether Li Fan stayed or not did not matter.
So a decision like making him leave the team could be handed entirely to Abu.
At this moment, operations sent over another message.
Li Fan’s recent livestreams had produced very good program effects. He could be considered a talent for streaming, so they could observe him a little longer.
Abu then thought of what Clearlove had said to him.
In the end, he still chose to give Li Fan one more chance.
As long as he could produce decent results in scrims, then he could stay for the time being.
……
“Hello, everyone. Welcome to Unreal’s QQ Speed mini-class.”
“The cool ka-drift can actually still be used in QQ Speed.”
“We all know that whether entering or exiting a turn, ka-drift is extremely fast. That’s precisely why it was removed.”
“And the super drift I use on Rose Romance or Springtime New Pleasure is fast when entering the corner, but slow when exiting the corner.”
“If you want to learn it, you have to understand its principle.”
“What we’re going to explain today is pre-release nitro catch. This is also something you must use when performing super drift.”
“The finger technique for pre-release nitro catch is actually very simple.”
Li Fan quickly recorded the voiceover into the microphone while rapidly glancing through the script at the side.
That’s right. This was a teaching demonstration Li Fan had just recorded.
After confirming that there were no issues with the text or the video, he began the subsequent recording.
“The finger technique for pre-release nitro catch is to release forward first, then drift. For example, right now, at this spot, I’m holding the forward key and the right key at the same time. This is generally the normal posture for entering a turn.”
“Then what you need to do is, at this moment, release the forward key and tap drift. This will trigger the nitro catch. This is the finger technique for pre-release nitro catch. Isn’t it very simple?”
“All you need to do is let go of that damned forward key.”
“If you can’t let go, then you’ll just have to practice more on your own.”
He had only made a simple short video, stopping at the key point without continuing on to link in the follow-up techniques.
Then he watched the whole thing once. Feeling that there were no issues, he immediately uploaded it to his personal Huya space.
Of course, he did not forget to post it on Douyin and Kuaishou as well.
For now, these two platforms still could not compare with the two major livestreaming platforms, but as the times developed, they would become stronger and stronger.
This could be considered a dividend of transmigration. If he joined short-video platforms at this time, then four or five years later, no matter how badly he did, he could still get a million followers.
And Li Fan did not think his content lacked competitiveness.
After uploading it, he did not bother with what came afterward.
At the same time, quite a few college students scrolling through short videos in classrooms or dormitories saw Li Fan with the ID EDG-Unreal and became somewhat curious. What kind of teaching video had he posted?
Lately, climbing the ladder had been a little difficult. They wanted to see what champions a professional player recommended for gaining LP.
But when they tapped in and took a look, they discovered that it was actually a QQ Speed tutorial video, and they were instantly stunned.
Wait?
Did EDG have a QQ Speed division?
There shouldn’t be any QQ Speed team, right?
Wasn’t this club originally founded as a League of Legends team?
Then what the hell was Unreal’s tutorial video?