Alliance: My Qinggang Shadow made my alma mater famous

Chapter 252 [Arrived in Berlin! 】

Magic City, Pudong International Airport.

It was getting darker, and the direct flight to Berlin was about to take off at eleven o'clock in the evening.

The flight attendant with a standard smile walked back and forth between the aisles of the cabin to check whether the luggage compartment was closed properly.

When she walked to the seat in the front row, she couldn't help but look more at the passengers sitting in these rows.

Uniform black team uniforms, everyone's suitcases are printed with the logo of the three-masted sailing ship, most of the team are teenagers who look like sixteen or seventeen years old.

I heard that this is an e-sports club in China. This trip to Berlin is to participate in the competition.

In Miss Sister's inherent concept, those who play e-sports should be dull nerds wearing glasses, and the group in front of her is obviously in line with her cognition.

However, among this group of people, the young man sitting in the front row looked different.

Handsome facial features, slender body, and sharp brows are exactly like the long-legged and cold-faced Ouba who often appears in cold dramas.

It seems that playing e-sports is not just for geeks...

She silently wrote down the team logo of this club, planning to go back and check what this club does, especially this unique player.

……

After a turbulent takeoff phase, the plane finally stabilized.

The team manager, Xiao Ma, flipped through the Berlin Geography magazine in front of him, and the colorful photos showed the local customs.

"Wow, it's so high, how many meters are we from the ground now?" Zhang Xiaowen put his hands on the window, curiously looking at the night scene during the voyage.

"Brother Ma, is there instant noodles on the plane? I seem to be a little hungry." Xiaotian looked around.

The left hand is picking up the mobile phone, taking photos and recording small videos with great interest.

Su Chen looked at the group of excited teenagers in front of him, and couldn't help but take a photo as a souvenir.

Tonight is a very novel experience for this group of teenagers. After all, most of the e-sports players are Internet-addicted teenagers from ordinary families. Not to mention going abroad, there are very few of them flying.

Although Su Chen had traveled abroad in her previous life, it was limited to Southeast Asia. Naturally, she had never been to a European region like Berlin.

After finishing the research, Xiao Ma clapped his hands, "We have to fly for fourteen hours this time, because there is a six-hour time difference, Berlin should be at eight o'clock in the morning, everyone should have a good rest on the plane."

Although a little dizzy due to the jet lag for a while, the teenagers responded one after another.

This trip to YM's overseas team, counting the players, coaches, managers, and accompanying club staff, has a total of 12 people, which can be regarded as a small tour group.

Before the boss PDD left, he repeatedly told the whole team to follow the instructions of the manager Xiao Ma after going abroad.

After a season of tempering in the Spring Split, Xiao Ma is doing well now.

Su Chen pulled down the partition of the window and turned to see Meng Ma, who was sitting next to him, was only watching the game video on his tablet.

"Aren't you sleepy?" Su Chen asked.

Meng Ma took off the earphones and smiled: "I usually go to bed after two o'clock, and now I can't adjust my schedule for an hour and a half."

Su Chen came over, and after finding out that Meng Ma was watching the LCK spring finals, she immediately asked him for a headset, and the two of them watched together.

What was playing on the screen was the fifth game of this year's LCK Spring Finals. The two participating teams were Samsung GenG and SKT T1.

The game lasted a total of 38 minutes and 11 seconds.

On both sides of the lineup, SKT is the top laner Ornn, the wild wine barrel, the mid laner Syndra, and the bottom lane Dazui + Bron.

And Samsung is the top laner Kenan, the jungler Scorpion, the mid laner Karma, and the bottom laner Kai'Sa+Nutou.

In the opening stage, Samsung's jungler Anmen implemented the principle of deadly grabbing the middle lane, and the second level directly grabbed the red BUFF after taking it.

Faker, who was originally a ward, happened to collide head-on with the scorpion. After being hit in the face by Karma RQ, he ate a chain and sent out a blood.

In 6 minutes, SKT Ueno teamed up to overtake Kenan, the top laner of Khan, but the latter's next wave of spiritual operations directly reversed the two.

Crown brother Kalma used the acceleration shield to run to the top lane, and cooperated with An's scorpion to take another one.

Seeing this, Meng Ma pressed the pause button, then changed hands and recorded the time in the notebook beside him.

Although in the past few days, the whole team has been watching the videos of the spring finals in other divisions, but Meng Ma is still tirelessly picking out various details.

After all, he was the assistant coach of IG's second team in charge of video editing before, and he has already developed such a working habit.

In the middle of the two teams' fight, Samsung relied on the rhythm of Ueno and Kai'Sa's perfect performance in the team battle, and gained an economic advantage of more than [-].

Although Faker's Syndra managed to defeat Chidi's Kai'Sa in seconds with a wave of spiritual TP in the dragon battle, but Khan's Kenan entered the field perfectly and once again melted the entire SKT team.

In the end, Samsung perfectly defeated SKT with an economic advantage of [-] and advanced to MSI.

"How is it? Do you have any new thoughts?" Meng Ma asked after taking off his earphones.

Su Chen briefly thought about it: "Samsung's early rhythm mainly lies in the linkage between Ueno and Wild. In the mid-term, they are used to operating in a 131 formation, and they will not prepare for the decisive team battle until the ADC three-piece set."

"However, Crown Brother's sense of presence in the middle lane is a little weak to me, but in the fifth game, SKT's jungler can play around the middle lane, so he may not lose." Su Chen said.

"This is the problem of each team's tactical positioning." Meng Ma swiped a few times on the tablet and called up some data of the LCK. Excellent solution, one set is Sion with the banner of command, and the other set is Karma with the incense burner."

"Basically, they are all mid laners."

Meng Ma took a sip of water and continued.

"However, in other competition regions, such as Europe and North America, they still place a lot of emphasis on the mid-lane. Perkz and Pilsen are both aggressive players in the mid-lane."

"This is the difficulty of the World Series." Su Chen nodded.

A competition area usually has its own fixed style. To fight in this competition area, generally speaking, tactics and BP have inherent ideas.

However, once on the stage of international competitions, this kind of collision of completely different styles between competitions will test the team's ability to adapt.

Especially the club with the best performance in this division is usually the leader of the play style in this division. Once it encounters a division with a restrained style, it is inevitable that its performance will be very different from that in China.

The so-called civil war expert and foreign war layman, there is naturally a reason behind this situation.

As a young team like YM, which is entering an international competition for the first time, it is obviously a big challenge to adapt to this situation.

"Okay, let's see this," Meng Ma closed the tablet, "It's too early to study Samsung, but let's keep calm and fight game after game."

Seeing Meng Ma pretending to be relaxed, Su Chen didn't ask any further questions, put on the noise-canceling headphones, and turned off the seat lights above his head.

Carrying the hope of LPL, going to MSI for the first time, for the YM team, no matter how much psychological construction they do, this kind of pressure will not be small.

Before YM's expedition, there were also various bad-mouthing remarks on the Internet.

Many people still hope to see WE and EDG go to MSI. After all, they are both old clubs and have many years of experience in international competitions.

A club like YM that has only played in the LPL for one season, even if it is "lucky" to win the league championship, but in the international arena, it is definitely not as stable as the first two.

Don't make a situation where you can't get out of the group stage at that time, it really makes people feel a bit of a waste of MSI places.

On the other hand, there are also comments that YM's original level should be a club that played in the first round of the playoffs.

A few days ago, the e-sports media "Annie's Bedside Story" just published an article on Weihu, deeply analyzing and summarizing YM's journey to the playoffs.

To put it simply, he believes that although YM's players have grown up after a whole spring split, their ability problems were exposed in the five rounds of fierce battle with EDG.

The status of Xiaotian in the jungle position is unstable, the support speed of the left hand of the mid laner is too slow, the decision of assisting Zhang Xiaowen to start a team is immature, and the upper limit of Bovy's ability visible to the naked eye in the AD position.

"After YM won the LPL championship, JUST has become the undisputed No. [-] top laner in LPL. Even in my mind, MSI JUST can also be ranked in the top three."

"However, when a team has only one stable carry point, it's hard to imagine how far this team can go in MSI."

……

Several hours after takeoff, the cabin finally quieted down, and Meng Ma beside him was already fast asleep.

Su Chen closed her eyes and thought about it.

The blackness in front of him was instantly filled with various colorful electromagnetic torrents, and then, a room exactly like his in the base appeared in front of him.

"Reminder, the host has entered the [virtual battlefield]! In the case of strong interference from the outside world, the system will force the host to log out..."

The cold mechanical sound echoed in the room.

Su Chen sat down in front of the computer screen again and opened the game interface.

This is one of the few training sessions he has done recently, during sleep time.

Although activities in [Virtual Battlefield] will not increase physical fatigue, mental fatigue is still hard to avoid.

In the first few days of the playoffs, Su Chen used the [Virtual Battlefield] to train crazily almost without sleep. Under the time flow rate of [-] to [-], he played hundreds of high-end games every day.

In the eyes of others, he is the ultimate top lane monster born out of nowhere.

However, only Su Chen knew in his heart that his talent was only at an ordinary level. If he wanted to maintain his current level, he had to maintain this devilish high-intensity training method.

This time, YM's MSI journey, although no one talked about it, but in fact, most people think that it is a success if they qualify from the group stage.

However, in Su Chen's view, other than the championship, other rankings are meaningless.

Opened the [Hero Fragments] interface, and dozens of colorful fragments were placed in the grid.

Looking around, they were basically players that Su Chen had fought against in the entire Spring Split.

[Peerless Swordsman.Huni], [Twilight Protoss.Scout], [Great Mouth of Abyss.Iboy]...

After randomly selecting nine hero shards, a match at the full playoff level officially began.

After staring at his blank hero box, Su Chen thought for a moment, and chose the hero to train this time.

Although entering MSI this time, YM has also prepared a lot of new tactical routines.

However, I want to win the championship.

He has to be the best.

After the hero is selected, the game officially begins.

With the passage of time, the matches of the game are constantly updated.

After nine hours passed, Su Chen finally stopped the game.

"It's okay..." Su Chen let out a long sigh of relief looking at the hero fragments in front of him that had been raised to "the world's top proficiency".

In this way, at MSI, his confidence will be much stronger than before.

"The rest is this..." Su Chen frowned.

An emerald green crystal appeared in front of him.

[Prop Name: Essence of Growth]

[Applicable objects: Any LOL professional player except the host]

[Introduction: Using this item can speed up the growth rate of the target and quickly raise it to the level that can be achieved by the upper limit of the talent. 】

This is the "achievement reward" Su Chen received from the system after winning the LPL Spring Championship.

He was a little surprised at the time.

After all, the system has been invisible for a long time.

If it wasn't for the existence of [Virtual Battlefield], Su Chen would have almost forgotten about the system.

He turned out to win the LPL championship, didn't he rely on himself?

However, this item reward is very timely.

On the stage of MSI, it is still a bit difficult to win the championship based on his stable performance.

After possessing the item [Growth Essence], he can immediately raise the other four members of the team to his talent limit.

When he first joined YM, Su Chen knew the upper limit of Xiao Tian and his left hand's talent.

However, the rise of a talented player also takes time to grow.

In the original time and space, Xiaotian didn't show his talents until S9, and his left hand didn't become a "canyon scholar" until S10's Taobao.

It's a pity that this prop system only gives one.

This requires a choice.

Su Chen has been thinking for the past two days whether to use it on Xiaotian or his left hand.

After weighing it, I decided to go to MSI and have a look.

After all, he didn't know how the other people were doing after they got to the stage of MSI.

After checking his hero pool, Su Chen finally exited the [Virtual Battlefield] and entered a real sleep.

……

Berlin.

International airport.

The temperature at [-] o'clock in the morning is much lower than when we set off from home.

Fortunately, Xiao Ma had checked the temperature in advance, and everyone changed into jackets before getting off the plane.

"Damn it, there are so many foreigners!" Zhang Xiaowen looked excitedly at the blond foreigners around him.

"Please, we are the foreigners here." Xiaotian shrank his neck, his body trembling a little, more like "garlic bastard".

After everyone waited for ten minutes.

The Riot staff who were in charge of picking them up finally found them.

"Welcome to Berlin. I am the pick-up staff sent by Fist, Hansen." A big German man with a beard said in fluent Chinese.

"Hello, hello, I'm Xiao Ma, the team manager of YM." Xiao Ma looked up at the big man in front of him, with a slightly funny expression on his face.

Obviously, everyone did not expect that the staff who came to pick up the plane could speak Chinese so standard.

(End of this chapter)