Undefeated - League of Legends - Book 1: Chapter 15

Book 1: The Return of the Lost King

Chapter 15: Fishing Someone Out of the Spawn[1]

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Graves’ death was bad enough, but when Lin Xu and his team saw baron buff float around their enemies, the color of their face all turned purple, the same color as the baron buff!

They had no time to scold Feng Xiaoqin, they had to defend their base for now.

Like the wind before a storm, when a wave of minions pushed their mid inhibitor turret, the momentum of Yu’s team, Master Yi, Annie, Miss Fortune, Garen, and Blitzcrank, overpowered the four people of the other side.

Blitzcrank was the master of team fighting. There was no reason not to take the enemy’s base now since the enemy had fewer people and baron buff was on their side!

Yu Luocheng used overdrive and bolted directly into the enemy. His target was not Jax, nor Garen, nor Xin Zhao, but that bitchy Kha’Zix!

Yu Luocheng rushed into the crowd, paying no attention to others, and extended his mechanical claw directly at Kha’Zix!

Hooking someone in the face had its difficulties, since most people would move away to avoid it.

But to Yu Luocheng, it wasn’t a big deal!

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The big screen was live broadcasting the game.  Both of them began to methodically build their base.

They had played against each other before, so they knew more or less the other’s strategies.

“Grunt’s ranking is very high on Battle.net; he’s been in diamond league for quite a long time.  Where he mainly battles with Korean professional Starcraft II players.”  Baona gave a detailed explanation and even began giving background information.  “When most of the Starcraft I players are still waiting to see how the competitive environment for Starcraft II will develop, Grunt was already the only Chinese player among the top six on Battle.net.”

Ai Qing knew Grunt was strong, but didn’t expect him to be this strong.

Then…...what’s Solo’s ranking?

On the stage, Solo’s face was illuminated by the screen.  Compared to Grunt’s powerful presence, Solo always gave the feeling of a calm sea before the storm arrived.

No matter how tumultuous next second would be, the moment before was always calm.

A calm that made others uneasy.

Tea of Summer - Chapter 18: Autumn Tale 4.3

Chapter 18

Autumn Tale 4.3

They hadn’t seen each other for over half a month since that day.

The ‘next time’ that Song Qiyan promised never materialized. It was not because he broke his promise but before he could carry out his next plan, he was assigned another lab experiment by the professor. During this half a month, Song Qiyan had been either in the laboratory or the library the whole day for that experiment. He had no time for any distractions.

As for Xia Liang, after she worked diligently for two weeks to catch up on her voice over projects, it was finally midterm week. For this------Lin Qian’s comment to Xia Liang was------You asked for it.

The original comment was actually: “It’s good enough just to be a normal college student. Who asked you to take two majors plus a minor. You’ll be lucky if you don’t die from exhaustion during sophomore year.”

Xia Liang’s dog-tired days had just begun. She shuffled between the Business School and Psychology department buildings. Once she returned to her apartment at night, she plunged headlong into her books to study and take notes. She also had to find time for recordings after 10 o’clock every night……she was too busy to remember anything else.

On this Saturday, it was rare that Xia Liang did not sleep in. She woke up at 7am and rushed to the school library after she had washed her face in a daze. She weaved through rows of bookshelves and shortly found books she needed.

God's Left Hand - Book 1: Chapter 34

The images on the big screen quickly switched to Starcraft II.  Since it’s an exhibition game with two famous professional players, the male commentator stood next to Solo and started with a brief interview.

“I heard that Blizzard had designed a post with Solo as the subject last year.  So are you really planning to give up Warcraft just for Starcraft?”  Solo put on his earphones and avoided a direct answer.  “Well, this is an imbalanced question.  If WCG had no restrictions on how many single events one can take, Warcraft and Starcraft are both very good.”

As he was speaking, he took out a pair of glasses from the pocket of his sports shorts.

He was slightly nearsighted.  He needed glasses to help him see the computer screen only when he didn’t have a good night’s sleep.  Ai Qing watched his actions and carefully recalled the party at the bar last night.  He didn’t seem to have drunk much and they left for the hotel quite early……she was sidetracked for a moment and missed what the commentator asked next.

Soon, the microphone turned to Grunt.

Grunt had switched from Starcraft I to Starcraft II.  The commentator mostly asked the reason why he switched.  When the game officially started, the lights completely went dark on the podium.

Undefeated - League of Legends - Book 1: Chapter 14

Book 1: The Return of the Lost King

Chapter 14:  Could He Even Play Anymore!

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“Ah ! ! !”

Right after Blitzcrank, Miss Fortune finished off Xin Zhao!

DOUBLEKILL!

Miss Fortune got another double kill!

ACE ! ! !

The big English letters appeared one everyone’s screen, so bright and fabulous!

Wiped out!

After this round of team fighting, they had wiped out all five of the enemy team and their own Miss Fortune was still standing and with a sizable pool of health!

The proud queen stood on the messy battleground with rows of bodies under her pointed high heels.  The camera started to rotate, with close-up shots, showing Miss Fortune’s confident, bright smile.

Zhong Xiaoyun stared at the screen and felt his own hands shaking ever so slightly!

8 kills, 0 deaths, and 5 assists!

God's Left Hand - Book 1: Chapter 33

Ai Qing became quiet when she heard the name Gun.

Fortunately, the results of the competition were just being announced.  All’s team won by an overwhelming margin.

This was their first championship in China after they had come back.

All, as the team captain, stood up and led his team to shake hands with their opponents.

Then, he took over the microphone from the commentator.

Everyone quieted down and watched the once conceited teenager on the VS platform.  

He used his hand to smooth over his bald head and started laughing after a moment of silence.  “I won’t dare to be cocky in front of our old captain and first sniper.  Years ago, I and Xiaomi were kind of forced to retire after the three main players of our old team left…...as for the reason for the disbandment of our old team, many fans have blamed Gou Gou.  The fact is that the reason why I came back this time is because what Gou Gou had said to me before.”

His words were very suggestive and stirred some of the audience.

Ai Qing didn’t expect All would mention her.  She intimidatingly shook her iced tea as a warning to not talk nonsense or suffer a blow to the head.

Tea of Summer - Chapter 16 & 17: Autumn Tale 4.1 & 4.2

Chapter 16

Autumn Tale 4.1

When they arrived downstairs at her apartment, Xia Liang lifted the bag of doughnuts in her hand with a cheerful smile. “Thank you, shixiong. The desserts were really yummy.” Then she added, “Uhm, the noodle and wontons were also very delicious.”

Song Qiyan pushed down his cap a bit as usual. “You’re welcome. Go up now.”

“Ok…...” Xia Liang nodded obediently. “Then, next time, it’ll be my treat.” Today it was Song Qiyan who had paid for everything.

Song Qiyan nodded. “Okay.”

“Then…...Bye.” Xia Liang rolled her eye, feeling that there was little left to talk about. So she waved her hand and went upstairs. She saw the man reluctantly turn around when she was at the turn of the staircase.

So…...he was watching her go upstairs?

Xia Liang stood in astonishment before quickly shaking her head to stop her runaway imagination------She didn’t want to speculate what she did not know nor make too much out of nothing. “Live a simple life.” was Xia Liang’s only motto.