There's a logistical battle going on at the YM base.

Guo Hao stood in the corridor of the dormitory area, looking at the four rooms on both sides, where the team members were packing their luggage, "Brazil is in the southern hemisphere, and the climate difference between us and ours is very obvious. ”

"Everyone was cautious, and in addition to the team uniform, they brought two short-sleeved shorts that had been washed." Guo Hao admonished.

Lin Weixiang bought a pair of sunglasses and two pair of beach pants, and happily stuffed them into his suitcase, seemingly making up his mind to travel.

"Jack, do you have a lot of empty space in your suitcase? I'm going to find some stomach medicine and stuff it with you. Guo Hao knew that Jack was now a glass man, and stomach medicine and anti-allergy medicine were must-haves.

Seeing Jack nodding, Guo Hao hurried to find the small medicine box.

Su Cheng stood in front of Lin Ran's dormitory, flipping through the memo on his mobile phone.

"Visas, passports, UnionPay cards, wallets, T-shirts, shorts......" she read as Lin Ran counted the contents of her suitcase, "By the way, you remember to bring a sweatshirt." ”

Lin Ran raised his head from the mess, frowning and wondering, "The average temperature in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro is more than 20 degrees, you let me bring a sweatshirt?" ”

"If the climate is not adaptable, you may catch a cold, and it will be very uncomfortable to have no sweatshirt to block the wind at that time," Su Cheng said reasonably, and then softened his tone, "You just bring it, the suitcase is so big and not bad for this little space." ”

"Okay, okay......" Lin Ran couldn't stand Su Cheng speaking in this tone, moved his arms, and pulled up in his closet.

There are many styles of sweatshirts, and he randomly picked out a plain white sweatshirt with clover.

"No, this one looks a little thick, you change that one." Su Cheng pointed to a Balenciaga black hoodie in the closet.

"Will you put it on for me?"

Lin Ran was honest and obedient, put a hoodie on the short-sleeved team uniform, and then turned around in front of Su Cheng.

"It's a lot better that way." Su Cheng looked at it for a moment, nodded with satisfaction, grabbed his collar with both hands, and Lin Ran faded out of the hoodie as if he had practiced bone shrinking skills.

Su Cheng simply stacked it into a silver suitcase.

"What are you doing when you come in and sit, stay at the door?" Lin Ran put the razor on the table into the box.

Su Cheng frowned, "I'm not, you're not alone in the dormitory, it's not good to enter someone's room casually." ”

"Yo, you still know I'm here?" Garlic King Ba Yin and Yang said sourly, he was sitting on the bed to clean up his clothes, and a team uniform was folded messily by him.

"The clothes are not folded like this...... Lin Ran saw that Xiaotian was clumsy, and finally couldn't help it, and stepped forward to take the team uniform.

He pinpointed the three points on the longitudinal line of the collar, the middle of the collar, and the tail of the corner.

Then pinch the point of the collar with one hand and the middle with the other, fold the point and tail of the collar, and then shake and arrange to fold the exposed sleeves in.

In just five seconds, the jersey becomes a neat square.

Xiao Tian showed his starry eyes, "Brother Ran, your self-care ability is okay!" ”

"That's," Lin Ran said perfunctorily, "I've been like this since I was a child." ”

The garlic king, who didn't want to work hard, immediately began to pat his ass, wanting to encourage Lin Ran to help him fold his clothes.

"You were moving too fast and I couldn't see it clearly, can you show me again?"

Lin Ran's mobile phone rang twice, and new news came over.

"Su Cheng, you help me look at my phone," Lin Ran said without replying, "I'll fold eight stacks of clothes for the Garlic King." ”

Su Cheng picked up the mobile phone on the table.

Lin Ran also recorded her fingerprints before, and Su Cheng gently tapped the home button with her thumb to unlock the phone.

"What's wrong?" Lin Ran, who was folding clothes, opened his mouth to ask her.

"Oh......" Su Cheng handed him the phone, "Your dad sent it." ”

Lin Ran threw a pair of Xiaotian's sweatpants into his suitcase, turned around and took the phone.

Lin Mingdong sent him a few precautions and voice messages for going abroad.

[Go to Brazil to pay attention to safety, walk with your teammates, if you want to visit the attractions, I recommend you to go to Monte Cristo and the Ladder Church]

[I went to these two places when I was on a business trip, and the scenery was good]

Lin Mingdong's tone was much warmer than before.

Lin Ran edited two messages and sent them back.

He had expected to get a classic smiley face - although this expression was seen more as provocative and yin and yang in the eyes of young people, it was a very simple smile in the eyes of middle-aged and elderly people, with no other meaning.

But what I didn't expect was that Lin Mingdong actually sent an emoji.

The chubby hamster's cheeks bulge and compare it to a refueling scissor hand.

It belongs to the same series as Lin Ranchun's love package before the decision.

No matter how Lin Ran looks at it, he feels that this emoji is a bit inconsistent with the painting style of Lin Mingdong's landscape portrait.

As soon as he wanted to reply to the message, Lin Mingdong's WeChat call came over.

"I'll check your luggage for you." Su Cheng was empathetic and asked Lin Ran to leave the bedroom first, squatting at the door by himself, checking the items in Lin Ran's suitcase with a memo on his mobile phone.

"Hello?" Lin Ran ran to the end of the corridor, where he could see the YM sign on the lawn through the window glass.

"When you go to Brazil, don't leave the hotel, it's not safe at night, so it's best to travel in pairs if you have to." Lin Mingdong reminded.

Lin Ran knew that Lin Mingdong had gone to Brazil on a business trip the year before last to talk about network business, and he was right.

"Okay, I see."

The two fell into an embarrassment of having nothing to talk about.

Several trucks drove into the gate of the club, and several workers were dragging various cabinets out of the carriages, and it seemed that the office area on the first floor was going to be renovated while the YM first and second teams were not competing.

"I sent the villa key to your company, you remember to check it," Lin Ran looked at the workers below who were busy working, and suddenly remembered this matter, "Your room is on the third floor, and I didn't put anything in it......"

"I'll do it myself." Lin Mingdong said busily.

Lin Ran originally wanted to say that he could help refer to the furniture and decoration style, but Lin Mingdong's words directly blocked him.

“…… That's into. ”

Lin Mingdong found another topic, "I heard that your World Championships are held in China this year, right?" ”

"Hmm."

"I'll go and watch you play when the time comes."

Lin Ran's unnatural activities move the soles of his feet, "It's not certain if you can enter the World Championships......"

"Yes, I believe you." Lin Mingdong answered.

“…… Well, I'll definitely try. Lin Ran felt a warm current surging through his heart, and even his voice became softer.

"Have you packed it up?" Guo Hao returned to the corridor with a small medicine box again, and passed by Jin Gong and Doom's room to probe in, "Jin Gong, you have two more pants and enough shirts!" ”

"Jack, you put these pills in your suitcase, and the prescription certificate is stuffed in for you......"

Su Cheng put a shoebox in his suitcase at this time, just enough to fill it all.

"Put it at the door, let's just push the box and leave when we leave tonight!"

The group enjoyed a dinner at the base, then played two rounds of qualifying to maintain their feelings, and left the base on time at half past seven in the evening to take the bus to Pudong International Airport.

It was during the rush hour when the plane stopped, and the YM's vehicles were too conspicuously painted, and as soon as the BMW stopped at the airport, several spectators who were interested in LPL gathered.

"Are you leaving for Brazil today?"

"Lin Ran, can you take a picture with me? I've been a fan of your sanity for ten years. ”

"Jack laugh a little bit, the crooked one!"

"Jin Gong can sign for me......"

Xiao Tian saw that his teammates were welcomed by fans, and when he looked at the fans running towards him, he couldn't help but raise his chest and move his fingers - so that the font would look better when he signed later.

"Little Wangba, can you disgust me twice?" Fans hold up their phones to record.

The garlic king is a stopper.

"Don't you want to sign?"

The fan is a very cute little girl, carrying a suitcase that looks like she is on a trip.

It's just that the words are a little hurtful.

"No, you're too ugly, I'll just find Ran and Jin Gong to sign, and you're still in charge of the yin and yang weirdness," the girl stomped her foot lightly, "each doing its job." ”

Xiaotian was about to be broken by her, and the turtle shell was about to crack.

"Get out of here, don't disgust me here." He was furious.

The girl responded happily, finished the recording with satisfaction, and ran to Lin Ran to take a group photo.

Riot China, led by Vincent, and Tengjing Sports staff, led by Bobby, arrived at the airport one step ahead of schedule.

The number of staff is beyond imagination, including almost all the employees of Riot China.

"So many people?" Lin Ran was a little surprised.

Vincent squeezed to Lin Ran's side, "Everyone attaches great importance to MSI this time. ”

"In October, the World Championship landed on the mainland for the first time, and we at Riot China and Tengjing Sports were responsible for the planning and operation of the entire process, including liaison with the local government, approval of venues and centralized arrangements for hotels......"

Vincent paused, "The above requirements are also very simple, anything can be said if there are achievements, there is no problem with the green light all the way, and all media heat and news resources can be given." ”

"Now you understand, right?"

"We're under a lot of pressure when you're doing this." Lin Ran laughed and punched Vincent.

He understood what Vincent meant, this year's MSI is the most valuable international event before the World Championship, and YM, which stands out from the LPL with a crushing momentum, will undoubtedly become a litmus test.

The quality of the results will affect the amount of resources given to this year's Worlds.

"It's okay to play normally," Vinson said, carrying his suitcase, and he will also travel to Rio de Janeiro with YM as an accompanying interpreter, "as long as you don't fall in the semi-finals, it's not a big problem." ”

"Isn't it easy to get to the final? You look down on people too much," Lin Ran thought that Vincent would say cruel things like 'if you don't win the championship, you will swim back to China', but he didn't expect that the bottom line was just to enter the finals.

"Is it possible that we can still lose to Europe and the United States?" Jack stepped forward and hugged Lin Ran's shoulder, "It's G2 from Europe this year, right?" ”

"Well, G2-8." Lin Ran laughed.

This stalk comes from last year's MSI, the European champion G2 won a 2-8 record in the MSI, and as the European champion, he couldn't even enter the semi-finals, and was sprayed into a sieve by the European audience.

"That's not going to work," Jack shook his head, "and they didn't make it out of the group last year. ”

The group holds their boarding passes and prepares to pass through the security lane. Wave

Before leaving, Su Cheng pulled Lin Ran over, pulled the wallet out of his pocket, and stuffed a large handful of banknotes into it.

"I've never been to Brazil before, but the Internet says that there are a lot of black robbers there," she said, closing her purse, "and if you go out alone, take 100 reais with you, and give them the money in case of robbery, so that the robbers don't go away empty-handed and angry." ”

"That's 3,000 reais, which should be enough for you to spend."

(Quick Facts: R$1 ≈1.21RMB)

Su Cheng put the wallet back in Lin Ran's pocket, and put his fingers in his pocket without taking it out.

"I'll be back in 20 days, very soon." Lin Ran patted her on the back.

She was so slender and thin that Lin Ran could easily touch the delicate butterfly bones on Su Cheng's back.

"Aren't you going to revise for your midterm exams? You don't have any other distractions when I'm not in the country, so study hard. Lin Ran stretched out his hand and rubbed Su Cheng's ears.

A touch of blush went up Su Cheng's neck to the earlobe, looking bright red, and the crimson color was as warm as jade.

"Send me a message to Brazil and we'll be in touch when the time comes." Su Cheng took a deep breath to stabilize his mind and took his fingers out of Lin Ran's pocket.

Lin Ran followed behind his teammates and turned around step by step, watching Su Cheng disappear from view.

The journey was too long, and Riot China booked them business class to rest on their backs.

The group almost filled the entire flight in business class.

“…… Welcome to Guaruljos International Airport in São Paulo, Brazil, with stopovers in Seoul, San Francisco and Houston, with a total flight time of 35 hours and 35 minutes. ”

The sweet voice of the flight attendant reached all corners of the cabin.

"It's been too long, and I'm afraid my waist will break after I land." Liu Qingsong said on the side, he didn't know when he snatched Lin Weixiang's sunglasses, put them on and tilted his chin, looking quite like no one in his eyes.

Lin Ran put on his headphones and got ready for a good night's sleep.

The plane bumped slightly, crawling upwards.

"Wuhu, take off!" Jack seems to be in good spirits.

Lin Ran didn't have time to talk to him, it was approaching his rest time at this time, and the excitement of facing the upcoming big game and the tiredness that came to him were intertwined, and he fell into a deep sleep.

When they arrived in Sao Paulo, Brazil, it was already May 8, and Lin Ran, who had just gotten off the plane, rubbed his sore and weak waist.

As soon as I got off the ferry with my suitcase, the hot wind carried the sea breeze in my face.

The urban development here is much worse than that of Shanghai, Lin Ran walks all the way, the Latin teenager playing football on the side of the road is elegant, and the lively market life is full of local Brazilian cultural atmosphere.

He kept all the foreign scenery he was interested in in his mobile phone, and then shared it with Su Cheng through the Internet.

The hotel environment arranged by the fist is quite good, and Lin Ran can't find any flaws except for the food.

After staying in the hotel for a good night, Lin Ran rubbed his waist and got up early the next morning.

[Did the dog get up?] 】

Su Cheng just sent a message.

[When I just got up, I was a little dizzy from jet lag. 】

[It's okay, I put some medicine in your suitcase, you remember to wait a while after breakfast before taking the medicine]

Lin Ran glanced at the time, the time difference between São Paulo and China was 11 hours, and it was just getting dark in Brazil at this time, and it should be dark in China.

[Did you just get out of class?] He asked, typing.

Su Cheng replied quickly.

[Yes, I'll go to self-study after eating later, finish my homework and watch the game video for a while and go to sleep]

[Hurry up and go to dinner, I won't bother you]

Lin Ran turned over and got out of bed, didn't care about the garlic king who was still sleeping on the side, and went downstairs to eat buffet breakfast after washing alone.

As soon as he entered the elevator, he ran into two unexpected people.

Faker and Peanut.

"Good morning." Little Peanut is more lively, and he communicates with Lin Ran in simple English.

Lin Ran was very impressed by him, not only because of the little peanut's delicate face and cute demeanor, but also because of his outstanding strength.

S6's him, like Xiao Tian, is a bright new star rising in the jungler position, and the contrast between his fierce playing style and his own cute face has attracted a large number of fans for him.

After the original Tigers fell apart this year, he chose to leave, like the rest of his teammates.

If smeb is a collection of LPL Sanjie and KT veteran captains to form the Avengers, and use their careers to fight against the behemoth SKT, then Little Peanut has chosen the easiest road.

If you can't win, join in.

Little peanuts won the true biography of Du schoolbag.

It is indeed an easy and simple road.

Although Little Peanut's form in the S7 Spring Tournament has been up and down, many of the tiebreakers in the regular season were handled by Little Black Blank.

However, this still couldn't stop them from sweeping KT 3:0 in the spring finals to win the championship and successfully get the ticket to MSI.

"Early." Lin Ran shook hands with him.

Then he reached for Faker.

Lee Sang-hyuk was stunned for a second, looked at the tall man in front of him, and subconsciously stretched out his left hand.

But Lin Ran is not Ren Dong, and he has not yet mastered the skill of Immortal Grasp.

The two were embarrassed for a while before shaking hands.

"Will you go down for breakfast too?"

"No, ......," Little Peanut said, "Riot officially asked us to shoot a promotional video." ”

As soon as Lin Ran nodded, he heard the sound of a message from his mobile phone.

Guo Hao reminded them in the group that they would go to the group stage in the afternoon, including rehearsal positions and pre-game interviews.

"I'm going to beat you this time." Lee Sang-hyuk suddenly spoke, and he stared straight at Lin Ran.

His English is average, and he stumbles when he speaks, but the general meaning is in place.

"I don't think it's possible," Lin Ran shrugged, "There is a high probability that the outcome of this year's MSI will be the same as last year's World Finals." ”

"I just hope you don't cry after the game, otherwise it will steal the limelight from us again."

faker roughly understood the meaning of Lin Ran's words, and his face flushed with a little shame.

Last year, the clip of him crying at the scene of losing the final was made into various moving pictures and circulated in various LOL forums, and the popularity was no less than S3, and he and Yue Lun had two robbes in a game.

In the past six months, faker has been abused by some Korean audiences, and he deeply understands that it is not easy to be used as a background board.

He wants to get his revenge.

"We'll see you in the arena, and I'll let you know how good I'm when the time comes." Faker raised his chin, trying not to let Lin Ran see his flushed face.

The elevator made a pleasant soft sound, and it had reached the floor where the breakfast buffet was located.

Lin Ran said goodbye to the two of them, and left the elevator with his mobile phone.

After eating breakfast, Lin Ran went back and lay down for a while, looking at the version update changes and the LCK Spring Finals, intending to study MSI's opponents.

In the afternoon, YM gathered again and went to the CBLOL studio in São Paulo, where the group stage was held, for interviews and rehearsals.

However, Jack seemed to have slept too much, and when he arrived at the scene, he also looked sleepy-eyed, and his whole body was swollen.

Lin Ran watched Jack's face swell into a pig's head, his eyes almost couldn't open, and the corners of his mouth couldn't stop rising.

"I thought you were beaten up by a prophet last night."

"Fuck off," Jack gave him a blank look, "Dude, it's just a little edema after sleeping too much, and it'll be fine later." ”

Although it would be good later, the makeup artist was very embarrassed, so he could only let Jack's shooting opportunity be postponed and let the other team members be interviewed first.

Lin Ran was asked what he thought of his opponents in the group stage, and he didn't say anything about it, saying that YM and SKT should outperform the other four teams.

It's telling the truth.

faker expressed the same sentiment in the interview - although the other participating teams are also strong, the championship is destined to be born between SKT and YM.

The video of the interview was released the day before the group stage, and it was no surprise to everyone.

After all, the top four of the S6 World Finals last year were all won by the LCK and LPL regions, and the champions and runners-up of S6 also successfully won the championship in their respective regions and advanced to MSI, so the strength is needless to say.

However, G2's official Twitter account seems to be very unhappy with the remarks made by Lin Ran and faker.

They started working that night.

G2 midfielder Perkz led the way by tearing up YM and SKT's jerseys and throwing them in the trash, replicating their previous contempt for Europe's giants, before speaking publicly.

"Tomorrow we will let the clown in Asia understand who is the real king."

They also translated the phrase into Chinese and Korean and posted it on Twitter.

The schedule for the first day of the group stage has already been announced, and each of the six teams will play two games a day, and the group stage will be played exactly on the 5th.

On the first day, G2 will face SKT and YM from the two major regions.

The powder keg ignited instantly.

YM and SKT don't like each other, and neither of them will accept the other, but when will it be the turn of G2, a team that dominates the European civil war and cannot enter the knockout round in the foreign war, whether it is MSI or S competition, to provoke?

In the hearts of the two teams, G2 is not as good as EDG, although people are known as the quarterfinals every year, but there are BO5 to play in every World Championship, not better than G2, a stinky fish and rotten shrimp?

Not to be outdone, the operations staff of both teams began to fight back.

SKT's official Twitter account replied with a picture of the cartoon characters symbolizing G2 holding the white flag of G2-8, and the four teams of SKT, RNG, CLG and Lightning Wolf above their heads pressed on G2 like a mountain.

The four teams that qualified for the 2016 MSI group stage were the ones who gave the G2-8 name.

And YM's official Twitter replied with a message.

“？ Looks like you're delusional, but it's okay tomorrow we'll cure you, hopefully G2 will make it through 25 minutes. ”

Finally, I posted a picture of my hands folded and 'I hope people are okay'.

[Fight up, fight up! ] 】

[G2 is itchy in the butt, dare to scream? ] I didn't convince him in last year's MSI and Worlds, did I? 】

[Hi before the classic game, fast forward to the game and being blocked at the spring mouth and beaten violently! ] 】

Regardless, G2 has managed to ignite the strong smell of gunpowder between several teams through the whole life, and the battle of the group stage is about to begin!