[LOL] chase light

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The training room with no lights turned on was dark, only the fluorescent light reflected from the computer screen illuminated Qi Rui's pale face.

He didn't know how long he had been sitting here, the endless ranks and training matches alternated, there might have been a short break in between, but he didn't know, and he wasn't in the mood to know.

An inexplicable impulse drove him not to stop, not to stop this cruel torture that could no longer be called training.

He's probably been here for twelve hours, maybe just ten minutes.For a while, the screen shows the teams that always play training matches with PND, and for a while it is the Korean server client interface.An extreme sense of confusion hit him, and just when he was not sure what he was going to do, the screen switched to the selection part.

He should have picked a more common mage or something, but he couldn't help picking Ryze, who was nerfed in patch 6.9.

The CD of the first-level ultimate move has been increased from 50 seconds to 150 seconds. Few people use Ryze regularly, but he just chooses Ryze game after game, regardless of all these things. How strange that sounds.

He was always repeating the long laning again and again, with Azir, and LeBlanc.He forgot who won the previous few games, and he didn't remember who had the upper hand between him and the opponent in front of him. At some point, he even remembered the cold joke from Wayne: he was boxing with his own shadow .

This is not quite right.he thought dully.Who should he call to turn on the light for him? Mr. Ah Qi said that staring at the computer screen for a long time in a dark room is harmful to eyesight.But who should he call?

Gao Xiaoyang?Yang Zhuoxi? Kazuki?Or... Gu Linjun?

Just when he was thinking wildly, Swain on the opposite side suddenly made a key positioning error, and his passivity just stacked up the appropriate number of layers.He should go up and control the opponent to launch a wave of big moves, and then choose whether to follow up with the opponent's jungler's position for a solo kill...but he can't do it, he has no chance.

The old injury on his right hand finally couldn't bear more harsh treatment, and broke out in extreme fatigue.In just a split second, numbness and dull pain spread along the tiger's mouth to his fingertips, making him unable to even hold the mouse.

Pain and despair swept him like a rising tide.He tentatively pressed his right wrist, and the stiff and numb muscles were stingy with giving him even the slightest reaction, not to mention moving his fingertips as if they no longer belonged to him.He is finished.In a mess of thoughts, he closed his eyes tightly as if surrendering.

Everyone is fine, save him.But the fact is that no one will come.No, he heard footsteps.

The footsteps were getting closer.He wanted to yell not to come, but he couldn't.

"Your time is up."

He opened his eyes suddenly, and saw Gu Linjun staring at him condescendingly, his eyes were pitch black, swallowing up all the reflected light, without any ripples.

He looked like the Grim Reaper in the fairy tales Jo told him when he was a child, who came to take away the souls of the dying people. He was handsome as hell, but also terribly cruel.They didn't cut off the eye contact from the beginning to the end, Qi Rui wanted to tell himself that he didn't do anything wrong, and he didn't need to feel guilty or anything else.

Like being sad.

"I don't need you anymore." Gu Linjun slowly bent down, wanting to take a closer look at his injured right hand. "You're ruined. I don't need a liability to be my teammate."

Just when he was about to touch the wrist that Qi Rui was holding tightly, Qi Rui unexpectedly swung him away with his only left hand with strength from nowhere.

Gu Linjun was directly pushed aside by his rare outburst, covered his forehead and remained silent for a long time.Qi Rui wanted to go over to see if he was okay and if he had bumped into something, but found that the person in front of him had changed.

Gu Linjun, who was wearing a PND motorcycle jacket with red and black stripes on a white background, turned into another person.This person is wearing a black patterned coat on a dark blue background, like a starry sky.He stood up, his messy blond hair hanging down, his unshakable brown eyes full of anger and something else.

"Sean?" He was surprised that his voice sounded so feeble. "Why are you here?"

This Sean staggered up against the wall, apparently bumped hard.

"Why can't I be here?" His words were slow, but exceptionally clear. "Do I need a reason for being in SN's training room? But you, Rex, didn't you leave and never come back? You traitor, you don't want us anymore."

It was only then that Qi Rui realized that everything around him had turned into SN's small and messy training room.All the details are exactly the same as before he left, whether it's Alvin's potted plants and a dozen out-of-date magazines on the windowsill, or the fully automatic coffee machine that James specially bought for them near the door.He's right by the gate, next to his best friend Sean's, and they used to peek at each other's screens for some naive win-lose issues, until he was put on the bench and moved away from the starters. on the second floor.

"I have no idea……"

"Look at me, Rex."

Whether it was him or Gu Linjun, Qi Rui never looked away.The brown eyes mirrored the deep black, and he could see the disappointment and contempt hidden in them all too clearly.

Pain blurred his vision, or maybe his world was shaking.

"I don't need you anymore, coward."

The voices of Sean and Gu Linjun kept arguing in his ears, different languages, but the same essence.

His mom was right, whether it was Sean or Lin, they were the same.

They could lead to the highest glory with others, and he was never the only one who was abandoned.

"Wake up."

Shaking the people around him, Gu Linjun almost went crazy.

"Wake up, wake up quickly."

Qi Rui, who was in a nightmare, was covered in cold sweat, his brows were furrowed, and his eyelids trembled rapidly.Gu Linjun, who leaned closer to hear what he was saying, only heard a bunch of meaningless syllables that were difficult to identify which language it was.

He thought, if he heard correctly, he heard the name of Qi Rui's former partner.

It didn't make him feel much better.He used even more strength to wake up the other party, trying to get him out of this nightmare that he didn't know about.Even after another failed attempt, Gu Lin thought about pinching his nose to prevent him from breathing.

In the end, he finally successfully brought the other party back to the real world.

The moment he opened his eyes, Qi Rui, who hadn't completely shaken off the influence of the dream, was obviously confused.The unfocused eyes met for a long time before they fell on the anxious Gu Linjun's face.

"...Lin?"

His voice was completely hoarse, with an inexplicable weakness that even he himself felt something was wrong.He took the cup that Gu Linjun handed him and took several sips of cold water. He almost choked in his throat because he drank too fast. He finally regained his train of thought before continuing.

"I had a nightmare."

Gu Linjun took back the empty cup and put it on the bedside table, and turned on the lamp on his side.

"I can tell."

The farce that happened in Qi Rui's live broadcast room a few hours ago ended with him directly shutting down the live broadcast after he reprimanded the group of people.After hearing the sound, Ah Qi and He Hu who came over heard him tell the whole story, and patted the shoulders of both of them neither agreeing nor disapproving.

"Sometimes fans are the most unreasonable people in the world." Ah Qi was the first to break the silence. "Some fans like you, but they don't really like you as a person. They just like the fictional image that lives in their minds. Once you do something to break their fantasy, they will yell at you and use everything you Unimaginable foul language to attack you, and those around you."

"If your grades are good, then someone will think of excuses for you to explain all your rebelliousness and unconventional ways." He paused, "but the same thing is, if your grades are not good enough, then in their eyes you Everything 'out of line' turns into a shame and a black spot."

"Don't be affected by these things." The coach who has witnessed the rise and fall of PND in the past three or four years said the last words not only to the two parties involved, but also to everyone here. "It's the club that pays you wages, and it's you who want to win the game. You don't owe the fans anything. Don't be held back by too many things and leave regrets in a few short years."

You don't need to think about it, but if such a big or small thing happens, some of your own fans on the Internet will definitely jump out and go crazy.Gu Linjun leaned against the head of the bed as if he was tired, and his eyes fell on a certain plain floor.

"What did you dream about?"

He sounds tired.It should be said that none of them is not tired, and the amount of training beyond the LCK is to compress their personal time to the extreme.If they didn't need to eat, sleep and rest, Ah Qi and the huge coaching staff behind him would probably let them spend twenty hours a day in the training room.

"a lot of things."

"For example?" He closed his eyes, making it hard to tell whether he was asleep or awake. "I heard you call your past partner's name, do you remember those unhappy things in the past? Or, they also have something to do with me."

"I dreamed that my hand injury recurred." Qi Rui pondered for a long time, and finally made up his mind to speak about his nightmare. "I had a dream where you told me you didn't need me to accompany you to 'the place' anymore. Then I pushed you away angrily and you hit the wall looking bad."

"And then?" He paused. "I'm very sorry."

Even though he was the one who was treated roughly in the dream, Gu Linjun chose to apologize.

"You turned into Sean, I know it's weird, but you can't reason with dreams. I found that I went back to S5, and the first round of SN in the spring split was almost completely lost. When Sean protested to the club why I couldn't play. He I was very angry and disappointed, thinking that I had abandoned the team, so I was accused of being a coward, a waste, and a burden to the team."

The expressions of the two looked very similar at that moment.After Gu Linjun was stunned, he wanted to apologize or explain again, but this time Qi Rui laughed.

"I know you didn't mean it." Even so, the haze between his brows didn't decrease a bit. "I forgive you. Go to sleep, you have to train tomorrow."

They lay back in bed, exhaustion soon overcoming them with drowsiness.Just before Qi Rui thought he was going to fall asleep again.

"You are the best." Gu Linjun murmured softly as if talking in sleep. "Nobody can be better than you."