[LOL] chase light

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On the second day after the end of the group stage, the PND team had already arrived in Chicago, the second stop of the finals, by plane under the arrangement of the organizer.This also symbolizes that this finals has gradually entered the hottest and most exciting knockout part: the quarter-finals will kick off on time in three days, and four BO5 knockout matches will determine who is the semifinalist and who is not. Don't stop there.

Just as they embarked on the journey, the losers of the group stage, including VE, also quietly left this land of broken dreams.

In Chicago, only half of the same people can stay and go to their penultimate destination - New York, competing for the last two tickets to the top.

Along with them are the SBM team from the LPL and other teams that have entered the quarter-finals, but most of them are just acquaintances without too much contact: except for SN, LMT, whose players have the best relationship with Qi Rui, fell into In Group C, suffered double attack from KBT and K9, regrettably said goodbye to their S6 in the group stage.

Unfamiliar environment, a few rays of sunlight leaking through the gaps in the curtains and windows, the soft pillows and bedding exude the fragrance of detergent, and the faint sound of running water seems to have the magic power to lull you to sleep.Gu Linjun, who was exhausted by another flight in the air, was lying on the bed, and he heard someone knocking on the door before he had slept for a long time.

Gu Linjun, who didn't want to talk to this ignorant guy at all, turned over, put the quilt over his head, and pretended nothing happened.

But the person who knocked on the door didn't seem to intend to let him go, he kept banging until he couldn't stand it anymore and got up to open the door.

"have time?"

It was Xiao Xie, the assistant of SBM, and seeing Gu Linjun staring at him gloomyly, even if he was thinking with his ass, he should know what "good thing" he did.He touched his nose, immediately changed the subject, poked his head in to find another person's trace.

If the person here was Yang Zhuoxi, or anyone from PND, they would look at him with pity, and be amazed that he dared to wake up Gu Linjun, who was so angry that he was about to turn into a big devil.

Gu Linjun didn't want to talk to him at all, but just rolled his eyes and turned sideways to let him in.

During this period of getting along in a foreign country, the two teams that were not close in the LPL quickly established a certain revolutionary friendship.Although they both know that this friendship will only last until the moment when they have to make each other enemies.

"What are you doing here?"

"Rex borrowed from us... What about others? Don't look at me like that, I'm in a panic. We made an appointment on WeChat, otherwise I definitely wouldn't come here, let alone wake you up, Brother Gu."

The light in the bathroom was on, and the sound of water in the previous dream became a little clearer.After clarifying what Qi Rui was doing, Gu Linjun informed the other party out of courtesy, and then continued to remain silent.

"He's taking a shower."

The two looked at each other silently for a while, until Qi Rui came out of the bathroom covered in hot and humid steam.

While wiping his hair with a towel, he didn't notice the person on the sofa for the first time, but when he noticed, he was stunned.

"Why are you here?" He also seemed to be stunned by Xiao Xie's appearance here. After a while, he held his forehead and whispered: "It's not that I don't welcome you. What I said to Ash is that I wash I'll go to your place to find you after I take a shower. Because Lin is sleeping, he hasn't been sleeping well recently, and I'm afraid of waking him up."

Now Xiao Xie, who knew that he was tricked by his dead ADC, was neither standing nor sitting.He knows that many players will be a little bit uncomfortable playing in foreign countries. If this causes PND to perform poorly in the knockout rounds in a few days, he will probably be hacked to death by Gu Linjun's male and female fans, and then be killed by Gu Linjun. PND fans nailed the pillar of shame.

In front of him, PND's "tempered" ADC impatiently reached for the towel and began to wipe his own hair, almost scaring his jaw off.

Qi Rui, who has hands and feet and can do this by himself, did not express any objection to his behavior, and even squinted his eyes involuntarily when the other party's fingertips slipped across the roots of his hair.

"Okay, if you have something to say, hurry up."

Xiao Xie shook his head, trying to get out of his mind the horrible image of his stupid ADC wiping the hair of their Korean mid laner.He had no doubt that if Xu San, a violent man, was to attack, their mid laner would turn bald, and then turn around and cut off his friendship.He boldly glanced at Qi Rui, then at Gu Linjun beside him, and found that most of the anger and dissatisfaction on the other party had dissipated.

"It's nothing, just call Rex to go out with us, he knows more about this place than we do. Brother Gu, do you want to come too? Anyway, you're awake, and it's not a disadvantage to go out for a stroll... Or you can continue to sleep regardless of Brother Gu ?”

After talking about it, even he himself felt wronged, wishing he could rush back and grab Xu San by the collar and shake it, asking him why he didn't read all of WeChat before ordering him to run errands.He himself suffered from insomnia and knew how difficult it was to fall asleep.

"Okay, I'll go."

As if seeing through his scruples and anxiety, Gu Linjun fiddled with the magazine at hand and agreed to his invitation.

If SBM's assistant Xie, Xiao Xie, had the habit of keeping a diary, then on his first day in Chicago, he would definitely write something like this: finals, dayXX, bad day, and, making friends carelessly.

——I want to break up with Xu San.

Xiao Xie, who was licking the ice cream cone that Rex and that one bought together, thought bitterly.

While still in the hotel, after Qi Rui and Gu Lin both changed their clothes to meet them, they met another unexpected guest on the way out: SN's ADC, Sean.The Caucasian player quickly found his old teammate in a group of people, and said "Hello" to the rest of the people in broken Chinese, and no one could feel bad for him.

"Rex, is this your friend?"

Xu San, who is naturally lively, got an affirmative answer, and as if he didn't see the different expressions of the others, he asked Sean in his terribly bad English if he wanted to come together.Just when he thought he would refuse Xu San's invitation, who was still a stranger, he readily agreed.

"OK."

Unexpectedly, the threesome he envisioned at the beginning turned into the current fivesome. Xiao Xie looked at Rex who was caught between Xu San and Sean with gloom.Xu San, a self-acquaintance, has quickly hooked up with SN's ADC, and the two of them are almost like brothers relying on Rex's translation.

Gu Linjun, on the other hand, did not show any dissatisfaction or grievance when Qi Rui was acting as a temporary translator and had no time to pay attention to him.Even though Xiaoxie's intuition told him that Gu Linjun didn't like this No. [-] ADC in North America, it could even be said to be full of hostility.

"Feel sorry."

Speaking of which, Qi Rui walked up to Gu Linjun and him, and made Xu San and Sean over there dance and communicate by relying on onomatopoeia.After playing in the same position for a long time, there will always be infinite common topics.

"There's nothing to apologize for," Gu Linjun paused, "You can't just leave them alone."

"Actually, I can."

Qi Rui shook his head and said nonchalantly.Gu Linjun seemed to be amused by him, and asked him if he knew which restaurant nearby had a better reputation.

Maybe the relationship between him and Sean is not as good as it seems. Suddenly, countless confidant titles flashed in Xiaoxie's mind: Why is SN's front, middle and bottom seemingly in harmony, and whether there is another secret behind the genius mid laner's departure.

At least from what he has seen so far, when Rex and Sean get along, the one with the most emotional ups and downs is always SN's ADC, and Rex just nodded, answered simply, and then put more attention on the other side. on a person.

Due to time constraints, they didn't go to many places.

They take a tour of the venue where they will be fighting to the death, the Chicago Theatre.

This historic theater is quite famous in North America.They didn't go in, and there was little to see from the outside.The theater, which was already preparing for the event a few days later, hung up the posters early, but they didn't know that the protagonist on the posters was in front of them.

On the way, we came across a small shop selling hot dogs, and each of us bought one and gnawed it slowly.

The uncle who sells hot dogs can speak a few simple Chinese and waved to them friendly when they left.

They didn't go far away, and they didn't think about going around here completely.After the meal time, the group who were not very hungry ate the best thick cheese pizza and other local specialties at the restaurant recommended by Sean.

At the dinner table, Qi Rui keenly saw that Gu Linjun didn't like cheese very much, so he added a new staple food to him on his own initiative.

What interrupted their trip was a phone call from the coaches.In the beginning, only the coaching staff of SN called to find someone. Later, SBM and PND also started looking for their ex-players, for fear that they would get lost in a foreign country and would not be able to return.

After hanging up the phone with Ah Qi, Qi Rui took a look at all of them.

"If there is nothing we must buy, then let's go back to the hotel and see you in the training match tonight."

Back at the hotel, the group of people have been out for long enough, and they should report to their coaches.When it was time to say goodbye, Sean suddenly stopped Qi Rui.Qi Rui, who was going to go back to the room with Gu Lin to put things first, and then go to Ah Qi, turned his head, looked at him with dark eyes, and waited patiently for the next sentence.

"Rex!"

Maybe it was because his expression was too eager and serious, even Gu Linjun next to him noticed something different.But he didn't interrupt, and it wasn't about him in the first place.

On the contrary, the other protagonist of this conversation, Qi Rui, had no special expression from the beginning to the end.He listened carefully to Sean's words, nodded at the end, and answered simply, dragging Gu Linjun away as if nothing had happened.

"What did he say?"

Gu Linjun, who could only hear the general idea of ​​the previous sentence, remembered Qi Rui's answer very clearly.

Qi Rui replied: "I will, and so will I."

Qi Rui, who was discussing the training match with Ah Qi, raised his head when he heard this, as if he was thinking carefully.

"It was nothing. He said: 'You know what, I've been waiting for this moment for a year, it's time to tell me what your leaving has done for you'."

PND's opponent in the first round of the knockout round - the SN team from North America.

This is another part of the cruelty that fate is not determined by them.