On the night of the group stage, everyone at YM packed their bags and prepared to go to Rio de Janeiro, the venue of the semi-finals.

The journey wasn't too long, with only 430 kilometres between the two cities, and YM and the three other semi-finalists arrived in Rio at 11 p.m. local time.

Lin Ran got on the official bus, leaned against the window and put on Bluetooth headphones to listen to songs, and looked through his mobile phone boredly.

On the other side of the earth, Su Cheng had finished breakfast and was on his way to the teaching building.

Lin Ran had already gotten her class schedule, knowing that his girlfriend's first big class this morning was Mathematical Analysis II., and the second class was analytic geometry.

When she was in a professional class, Su Cheng was temporarily out of contact, and she couldn't get her to reply to the message if it wasn't a hundred thousand urgent things.

Waiting for Su Cheng to get out of class at noon, Lin Ran estimated that he had already arrived at the Rio Hotel and fell asleep.

Exotic love is so tormenting.

Su Cheng knew that his game was over, so he sent a WeChat message first.

[See what this is?] 】

Attached are a few photos of a row of cocoa rolls in a long box, a cocoa-colored cake roll stuffed with matcha and sprinkled with snow-like icing.

Both the cocoa roll itself and the shooting technique are quite excellent.

Where did you buy it? 】

Lin Ran was a little greedy, but Su Cheng didn't reply immediately.

Sitting in the swinging bus, he looked at the cocoa roll twice, and suddenly felt a little hungry, so he snatched a piece of Oreo from Xiao Tian next to him and stuffed it into his mouth.

The garlic king looked at the only two pieces of Oreo left in the box and half of them were taken, and his mouth was deflated, but he didn't dare to say anything.

He lowered his head and continued to look at "My Youth Love Story" on his phone.

Yukino is so cute.

Xiao Tian laughed, intoxicated by the two-dimensional world, forgetting the pain of losing Oreo.

"What kind of frog seeds are you looking at?"

Suddenly, the voice of Shiba Inu was overhead.

Xiao Tiangang subconsciously looked up at the source of the sound, and a dog's paw on the side slapped on the cookie box, snatching the last piece of Oreo inside.

"I'll Li Liang!" Xiao Tian didn't care that the bus was jolting towards Rio, and got up to find Jack, "This is the last cookie!" ”

It was a five-hour walk from São Paulo to Rio, and they hadn't even eaten dinner to keep up with the game, and they were pulled into the bus by their fists after the game.

Xiaotian is counting on these two biscuits to reach the Rio Hotel, who wants YM double C two dogs to eat resources, just like eating his wild area during the game to divide Oreo clean.

Jack's hands were fast, and he had already filled the Oreo cookie into his mouth before Garlic King Eight could turn around.

Lin Ran glanced at his phone and found that his girlfriend hadn't replied yet, so he hurriedly dealt with the two teammates first.

"Don't worry...... he smoothed Xiaotian's hair, "I still have a Snickers here and you want to eat?" ”

"I'll give you some chips." Jack also pulled out a can of Lay's from his backpack pocket.

"Do you want to take me if you have something to eat?" Little heaven is crazy.

But his hands were not idle, and he wanted both Snickers and Lay's.

"Things have always been other people's tastes," Jack pretended to be inscrutable, "and everyone who understands understands." ”

Xiao Tian was finally appeased, and Lin Ran looked at his mobile phone.

No reply yet.

He was slightly worried.

Su Cheng won't fall into the pit, right?

He didn't know that Su Cheng on the other side of the world had just gone through a sprint.

The warm air in Shanghai, which had reached 20 degrees Celsius in late May, was pasted on her face, sweat was slightly wet on her temples, and Su Cheng was panting.

It's dangerous.

She took a breath, sat in the first row of the class, raised her chest and raised her head, and took out the tablet, smart touch capacitive pen, and textbooks from her bag.

The whole process was calm and extremely soothing, and the slightly raised corners of his mouth looked like the ugly face of a winner.

Behind him was a flat-headed boy who burst into the classroom, his excellent hairline and lens thickness showing his strength.

He was also panting, and as far as he could see, the first row of the classroom was full of heads.

The only remaining seat was taken by Su Cheng, the winner of the 50-meter sprint race.

Gan!

Brother Pingtou lifted his glasses with a little resentment, took out his mobile phone and set the alarm clock forward tomorrow morning for another 10 minutes.

At this time, the mobile phone showed that the time was 7:20 a.m., and there were 40 minutes left before the morning class.

Su Cheng was satisfied with the seat in the first row, and turned on her phone to see her boyfriend's reply.

Then the corners of his mouth that rose slightly flattened again.

【？ 】

She replied with a question mark, then snapped and typed.

[This is my own baking, okay?] 】

[I bought an oven last week, and then I went to find a baking tutorial on the Internet, and yesterday I tried it out, and it was made like that in the picture]

[I can only say, worthy of me! 】

Lin Ran listened to the garden fair and heard the sound of the mobile phone vibrating.

He flipped through his phone and looked at it.

Immediately try to redeem it.

[I had already guessed that I said that sentence on purpose. 】

[The purpose is to praise Mr. Kuakusu, your strength is already comparable to the bakery outside. 】

Follow up with a silly Shiba Inu emoji.

Lin Ran glanced at his first reply again, beaming.

It's me.

This can all come back.

This time, Su Cheng's reply was quite fast.

[I also bought some raw materials, and when you come back, we will make duck together]

After five seconds, the next message appeared.

[I won't tell you, I have to read the book to preview, I've been under a lot of pressure to study lately, and my hair is falling out]

She ended up posting a Tom meme – so bald. (The meme is here)

Lin Ran thought about her bald appearance and couldn't help but want to laugh.

[Come on, you don't have to be the strongest, but you must be the baldest.] 】

Five seconds passed, and he didn't get a reply.

Looks like I'm really going to study.

Xiaotian on the side finished eating potato chips and made up for it, and sleepiness urged him to lean his head on the back of the seat and close his eyes to recuperate, and his body swayed back and forth as the bus entered and froze.

Lin Ran couldn't sleep in this kind of road condition, so he could only pull up the domestic forum.

He saw a translation post of 'foreign forum reddit porting anti-bar', and the interface looked like a matryoshka doll.

The maggot baby in the toilet has done whatever it takes to post the bar experience +3, and this kind of trick of export to domestic sales can be used.

Lin Ran roughly flipped through the paste, and found that he and Lin Weixiang were the magic weapons of water experience.

The brainless is purely a whipped corpse, and the VN moving figure Lin Ran who is dying and rolling forward I don't know how many times I've seen it.

There is also an old brother who is working on a new life.

They grabbed two pictures from nowhere, and then connected them with the VN scrolling map, and the visual effect was quite amazing.

The VN rolls forward to the perkz head, and the picture is everything.

Lin Weixiang was wearing a team uniform and facing the camera with a big face, his eyebrows kept stirring, and a silly smile appeared on his chubby face.

There are also a few big words next to it - Brother Ran, do you see the 6 I sent?

The picture was finally frozen in the scene where Lin Ran sat on the player's seat, reaching out to cover his forehead with a sad face.

Lin Ran couldn't hold back his laughter, how could this group of netizens have any carvings.

Looking down again, he stopped laughing.

How do you evaluate the performance of Ran at the 2017 MSI?

The comments below are bizarre.

[World One Middle School? You sealed it? 】

[Spring and summer LPL champion + German Cup champion + S6 champion, there are still cards, right? ] 】

[Laughed, a crown super faker is here? ] How many league champions are counted? Two S-crowns + one MSI are not easy to crush? 】

[If Ran wins the MSI+S7 championship this year, I admit that his honor is better than faker, after all, there is one more MSI.] 】

[On honor, faker is indeed strong, but it can't be crushed. 】

[Ran on honor is the first person in LPL, this is still based on the condition that the fat general leaves the team, after all, he is also S crown + MSI. 】

Lin Ran didn't know what ingredients were in it.

In terms of honors, he just can't catch up with faker now, and if he wants to complete the overtake, a Grand Slam this year is a must.

LPL Spring-MSI-Intercontinental-LPL Summer-S7-German Cup.

Lin Ran thought about it.

He wants all of this year's trophies.

He and his teammates are now in their second year of career, gradually shedding their youth and entering maturity.

Whether it is personal strength or professional attitude, the five are now on the rise.

The goals of the team and the goals of the team members are highly overlapping, and with enough individual strength and team cooperation, it is the most promising year.

Lin Ran knows that the shelf life of e-sports players' careers is not long, and his personal peak period is about three years, and it will be extended by another year or two through talent and hard work.

During this time, esports players need a stable competitive environment to reach the state of Great Perfection – a continuous tournament schedule, sufficient exposure, and audience viewing.

It can't be said that the players practiced hard, and when they looked back and saw that the game company had gone out of business, all their hard work was wasted.

You also need strong teammates – you can do without this in individual events.

LOL, which is a team game, is in its seventh year, and it is no longer the barbaric era of previous years.

You can't win a championship by individual ability alone.

A suitable version and a reliable teammate are indispensable.

With such harsh conditions for success, the trial and error time is only 5 years at most, and Lin Ran must seize the time to brush up on the achievements.

He was in a bad mood by this post, and clicked on Hupu to find that there were people inside who were carrying and translating extranet forums.

But this time it's not a nesting doll.

It's about the North American division.

They haven't had any decent results in seven years since the start of the Worlds, but the North American crowd still has no hesitation in supporting their teams in their own region.

Normally, these viewers belong to the big heart, but they can't stand this year's online group ridicule.

It's nothing for the race knight to be stepped on and humiliated by YM and Lightning Wolf in turn, after all, it was a disaster caused by himself, and the North American audience was angry for a while.

But the poisonous tongue and work of the Europeans on the Internet directly broke their defenses.

G2 took revenge.

Last year, when they were 2-8 at MSI, they were the happiest in this group of North American taunts - after all, EU (Europe) and NA (North America) have been competing in this esports for a long time.

The G2 boss sings a song with jingle bells, and he repeats EU>NA 15 times, tearing TSM's team uniform with scissors and throwing it into the trash can while singing.

[It's time for TSM to get a taste of the 2-8 outs, and of course, the pain Svenskeren endured was beyond our imagination, after all, we don't say certain forbidden words.] 】

G2's ability to do things is simply unique, and other teams don't even have the capital to touch them.

Because they are always invincible.

G2 taunted SKT and YM before the MSI game, and then were beaten into Muggles by Lin Ran in the group stage, and the official pushed the two teams to remove them from their list of victims.

G2 games can't be won, they never start a team.

Just disgusting those teams who are weaker than themselves.

The Vietnamese were lazy and aimed their offensive firepower at the TSM of the enemy NA division.

European netizens also began to play, and all kinds of animated pictures of people's mentality were swiped under TSM's official Twitter.

The North American audience who broke the defense also vented their dissatisfaction.

[I don't understand why the teams that go out to participate in world competitions every year are so bad, last year CLG was able to reach the semi-finals, and this year's TSM five people are like a piece of. 】

[The average annual salary of a NA player is hundreds of thousands of dollars, is this money just used to raise a bunch of waste?] 】

In the comment area, not only are they scolded, but some North American brothers have already given up on themselves and made fun of themselves.

[What's the coolest thing about a Korean esports professional?] 】

Someone below is in auto-reply solitaire.

[Debuting in the LPL and being a brother to your teammates, you don't have to eat leftovers, and you don't have to endure the cold eyes and ridicule of older teammates, and it is very likely to gain a large number of fans in the LPL. 】

[After two years, you can return to the LCK region as the boss of the team and the father of the newcomers, and you can bully them without punishment.] 】

[When you come to North America when you are old, our stupid boss will give you an annual salary of millions of dollars, and you only have to play one game a week, live in a villa, drive a luxury car, and enjoy all the good things. 】

The last comment, Lin Ran was moved.

At this point, they finally left the boundaries of São Paulo, and the bus drove onto the intercity highway, which was much better than in the city, at least the vehicles were no longer violently jolting.

Xiao Tian on the side had a long mouth, and he had already fallen asleep.

The air conditioner in the car was very sufficient, and Lin Ran felt stiff in his hands and feet after being inactive for a long time, so he rubbed his fingers and adjusted the direction of the air conditioner above his head.

Suddenly he thought of something and pulled out a black hoodie from his bag.

Su Cheng asked him to bring this dress at that time, and it finally came in handy at this time.

Put on long-sleeved clothes, put on a hat and lowered the seat position, Lin Ran lay back and began to close his eyes and recuperate.

Five hours later, the group finally arrived in Rio de Janeiro.

Lin Ran was woken up by the whispering voices of the people around him, and he took off the headphones that had run out of power.

"The scenery outside is pretty good, do you want to take a few pictures?" Guo Hao was discussing with them.

Lin Ran opened the curtains, and in the distance, the long bridge meandered on both sides of the bay, and it looked like a fiery red sleeping dragon under the light in the middle of the night.

The moonlight pours down, the vast Atlantic Ocean sparkles, and from time to time huge ships sail on the sea, and small islands of different shapes appear and disappear under the lapping of the waves.

On the other side of the road is Monte Cristo.

Under the illumination, the statue of Jesus in the black night looks even taller and more eye-catching.

He looked down and stretched out his arms, as if to protect the city of Rio below.

"This is the 14-kilometer-long Niterói Bridge, and there is a statue of Christ behind it, isn't it spectacular?" Guo Hao couldn't wait, so he asked Vincent to act as a translator and direct the driver to stop.

They were followed by the buses of the other three teams, and everyone saw the magnificent and gorgeous scenery of this scene and stopped tacitly.

More than 20 team members got out of the car to get some fresh air.

The sea breeze was wrapped in a bit of heat, and Lin Ran hurriedly took off his hoodie.

"Let's take a group photo!" Guo Hao commanded several teammates to get together with Vincent.

They stood leaning against the railing, with the brightly lit Niterói Bridge behind them.

In the distance is the statue of Jesus on Monte Cristo.

The SKT team members on the side couldn't help but exclaim when they saw the spectacular bridge, and they took out their mobile phones to take a group photo.

Lee Sang-hyuk was chatting with his teammates, and by the way, he also twisted his waist to move his body.

bang seems to tell a cold joke that is not very cold, and the SKT team members around him are expressionless, but faker can't help laughing.

Then he twisted his waist and twisted it wide.

"Hiss......" Lee Sang-hyuk showed a painful look, covering his waist and not saying a word.

Everyone in YM witnessed this scene and couldn't help laughing.

Perkz on the other side laughed especially loudly.

Fortunately, Lee Sang-hyuk's waist was fine, and KKOMA helped him to move left and right for a while and returned to normal.

There was a delay at the Niterói Bridge, and by the time they checked into the hotel, it was nearly twelve o'clock in the morning.

Guo Hao discussed with Lightning Wolf's coach steak, and the two teams went out for a supper together.

There are about 20,000 Chinese in Rio, and there must be authentic Chinese restaurants in common sense, but as the Niterói Bridge shows, Rio is too big.

The Chinese people live quite scattered, there is no fixed customer flow support, and there are few local Chinese restaurants, and now even Yonghe soy milk can not be found.

Brazil's nightlife is full of dangers, but fortunately, the Grand Hyatt Hotel booked by Riot is located in a wealthy area, there are no slums around, and the security conditions are relatively better, so there are still many barbecue restaurants that are not closed on the big night.

The two teams found a barbecue restaurant nearby, and Lin Ran watched his teammates eat happily, and he didn't dare to go back to the hotel alone - Lin Mingdong and Su Cheng's reminders were still in his ears, and he was afraid of being robbed.

The two teams of Lightning Wolf and YM quickly established a strong friendship, Guo Hao and Coach Steak of Lightning Wolf were almost brothers, and the white crescent moon on the side kept staring at the two with vigilant and dangerous eyes.

Kasa and Shiba Inu seemed to be like-minded, and without saying a few words, they got together and looked at their phones, muttering something that people didn't understand.

After grinding until two o'clock in the evening, everyone checked out and returned to the hotel, Lin Ran took a shower, and didn't care about enjoying the sea view outside the window, so he dried his hair and lay down on the bed.

After a long journey, Lin Ran's body was too tired, and he fell asleep as soon as his head was stained with a soft pillow.