Starting with Zaozi Ge, a dream lineup

Chapter 21 Shocked Everyone

The next morning, Li Luo got out of the soft bed early.

Now that he's become Uzi, he can't continue to be a slacker. What wakes a professional player up isn't an alarm clock, but a dream.

After washing up, I went downstairs and opened the door to the training room. The sound of clattering keyboards came from behind the screen.

Xiao Ming appeared in Li Luo's eyes. He had a simple bowl cut like a country boy, listless eyes, and the iconic RNG team uniform, which would be familiar to any LPL viewer.

Along with Xiaoming were Xiaohu, Letme, Xiangguo, and Fengge.

Apart from Li Luo himself, everyone else was sitting in their seats, training intensely.

Hmm, what time is it?
Li Luo looked at the clock hanging on the wall with a bit of confusion!
7:10 AM?

Meanwhile, Xiao Ming, who was engaged in fierce combat, looked up at Li Luo and clearly noticed his arrival. A shy smile appeared on his face.

Xiaoming was born in Jieyang, Guangdong in 1998. In 2015, 16 years younger, Xiaoming joined the MGB team that PDD had just organized.

He officially started his professional career with the ID "Ming". In his career, he experienced lows and highs, glory and desolation.

But at that time, the young Shi Senming was filled with passion.

In 2015, the MGB team won the championship in the 9th City Heroes Professional Championship with great difficulty, but later failed because the player information did not meet the requirements.

Therefore, they were disqualified from the championship and LSPL, and the championship was awarded to the LDA team.

At the time, Xiao Ming was only 16 years old. After a series of hard-fought battles, he did not even qualify for a second-tier league.

Fortunately, PDD directly acquired the LDA team's qualification.

MGB has officially changed its name to YM Team, and the legend of the first generation of e-sports training school has officially begun.

In the 2016 LSPL Spring Split, Xiaoming's YM team was invincible, and together with EDG's second team EDE (im), they were known as the two giants of LSPL.

Unfortunately, YM lost 2-3 in the final.

The IM team that defeated them achieved a miraculous three-stage leap from LSPL to LPL and then to the World Championship that year.

Despite their defeat in the Spring Split, no one doubted their strength, and everyone believed that Team YM would advance to the LPL in the Summer Split.

Until they encountered NBY, the team where Doinb, the then-dean of the league, was located, YM was defeated once again, failing to enter the LPL twice.

Just then, Xiaoming's fate took a turn. After the S6 World Championship, RNG's support player Mata left, and a large number of Korean players chose to return to their home country.

Against the backdrop of "Korean players are dead, all-Chinese players should rise," RNG brought in Xiaoming and promoted Letme to the main team, thus officially forming RNG's all-Chinese roster.

This S7 season marks Xiaoming's debut, while Uzi, as RNG's AD carry, is already a well-established star AD carry player with two S-series runner-up titles.

Under immense pressure, you either collapse or grow!

Throughout the S7 season, Xiaoming rapidly grew into a top-tier support player in the LPL region. His bot lane combination with Uzi was incredibly dominant, earning him the title of the world's best bot lane in the official rankings.

As the "Dog Princess" in the eyes of netizens, not many people know about Xiaoming's past, and even fewer people know that S7 was Xiaoming's first time stepping into the LPL arena and his first time stepping into the S-series arena.

Now that the finals have arrived, only Xiaoming himself knows just how immense the pressure is.

"Zihao, you're up so early!"

Feng stood up, walked towards Li Luo with a friendly smile, and was about to pat him on the shoulder in his signature gesture...

"puff!"

"???"

Brother Feng looked puzzled:
"what are you laughing at?"

"Ahem, I just remembered something happy."

Li Luo waved his hand, trying to calm himself down.

The picture of Feng Ge patting someone's shoulder in his past life is so famous that it's said that when other coaches shake hands, he pats someone's shoulder as if he's acting like a parent.

"It's time to laugh. We beat SKT, now only SSG is left."

If Feng Ge hadn't paid attention, he would have smiled along with Li Luo.

"Zihao, we'll have dinner at 8 o'clock, and the practice match with EDG is at 9 o'clock. Is everything alright for you?"

Feng Ge's voice interrupted Li Luo's thoughts, and he laughed:

“No problem, I’m ready anytime.” Li Luo then walked to his assigned spot.

The training room wasn't big, but it was small yet fully equipped. A row of brand-new computers and peripherals that the cleaning lady had polished to a shine lay quietly in front of the spot labeled Uzi.

"Jian Zihao, not bad, you got up so early today. I thought yesterday's sunset had drained you dry, and you'd be sleeping until 8:30."

Among the entire team, only Xiao Hu Li Yuanhao dared to tease Jian Zihao, but now that he was disguised as Li Luo, he didn't care about everyone's teasing and immediately livened up the atmosphere.

"Who dares to stand against me with sword drawn? Only my Tiger General!"

"Oh my, even General Tiger is sitting here, how could I dare to sleep?"

After saying that, Li Luo even made a gesture as if asking him to perform.

This time, not only Xiaohu, but also Xiangguo and Letme laughed.

"Jian Zihao, he's a completely different person after playing against SKT. He's gotten so cocky now."

Seeing that Li Luo was going to take away his title as the king of trash talk, Xiangguo was not happy and started to protest.

Only then did Li Luo sit down, turn on his computer, and look around. Apart from Xiao Ming playing a ranked match, everyone else was playing a custom warm-up game.

In the previous LPL finals, RNG lost to EDG 2-3. Now they have to play scrims. Although it's not as intense as the finals, they still need to show at least 80% of their strength.

Otherwise, it would be quite disgraceful for this S-series finalist team to be brutally defeated by EDG, who were eliminated in the group stage.

Xiao Ming finished his ranked game only after Li Luo turned on his computer and opened the League of Legends interface.

491 points in Korean server Challenger, victory.

Unsurprisingly, Xiaoming grew significantly under pressure, and in these ordinary ranked games, he was the one carrying the AD carry.

"Jian Zihao, what kind of tricks do you have up your sleeve? Stop hiding them and get to the finals."

Seeing Xiaoming's resentful look, Li Luo also had a headache. He had said some dirty words earlier in order to play with Xia.

Sitting in a training room, it's not like you're secretly playing around; it's not so easy to fool people now.

As for the level 5 heroes that were drawn earlier, it would be a waste to use them in scrims. They should be kept as secret weapons. Releasing them too early would be detrimental to RNG at the moment.

"Let's play the standard bot lane duo today. I feel like I'm back to my peak lately, and my hands don't hurt anymore."

As he spoke, Li Luo waved his hand at everyone, as if he had fully recovered.

Fingers and wrists are the most common areas for injuries among esports players.

Whether it's PC esports or mobile esports, the fingers and wrists are used extensively during the competition, hence the terms "wrist style" and "arm style" in FPS games.

MOBA games require players to constantly click the mouse and maintain the same action, which requires long-term, high-intensity training.

Prolonged overuse is inevitable, and injuries and illnesses will result from it.

For example, tenosynovitis in the hand. Tenosynovitis can cause swelling and pain in joints such as the fingers and wrists, affecting the athlete's normal activities.

In severe cases, it can cause permanent limitations in movement, such as the inability to flex or extend the fingers and the inability to twist the wrist at will, which would be a fatal blow to e-sports players.

Besides the fingers and wrists, the lower back is another area where esports players are prone to injuries.

The vast majority of professional esports players play games for 12 hours or more every day, and some even play for more than 18 hours.

This means they spend at least three-quarters of their day in gaming chairs.

Seeing that Li Luo's wrist was moving without any problems, even Brother Feng, who was standing at the door, came over and squeezed Li Luo's wrist.

"Doesn't it hurt?"

Feng asked with a look of surprise, "Jian Zihao used to have ganglion cysts on his hands, which would hurt whenever he squeezed them, but now he can't feel them anymore. It's amazing."

"It doesn't hurt."

Seeing the disbelieving looks on everyone's faces, Li Luo emphasized it several times, and now everyone couldn't sit still anymore and put down their training.

They surrounded Li Luo and headed towards the team doctor. When everyone finished eating and returned to the training room...

The test results came back, and the report clearly stated that it was normal, compared to the red high-risk report from three months ago.

Everyone knew that RNG's dynasty might really be on the horizon.

(End of this chapter)