On the day we arrived in Los Angeles, the 39-degree temperature in this seaside and desert city burned the EVE team members who had just stepped off the plane.

The first thing to do when I arrived at the hotel was still to have a meeting and find a place to train, this time in the S game, the team still let the experienced Sun Haoying start, the young player Meng Feiyang substituted for rotation, Leng Feng was urgently substituted, Lin Ning was the team as a staff member to watch the game, in the previous team's discussion, there was also hesitation about whether to bring the substitute of the mid laner or the substitute coaching staff of AD, and later Ji Heng said that he wanted to give the newcomer more opportunities to bring Leng Feng to Los Angeles as an emergency substitute.

Team F came a few days earlier than they were the third seed and had to play the play-in round to make it to the group stage. However, Xiao K said to Ren Tian that he didn't need to worry too much about them, after all, the current strength of the LPL division is definitely the top existence in all regions of the world, and the F team itself is a very strong team.

"According to you, isn't that our champion stable?" Ren Tian asked him happily.

"No, the No. 1 and No. 2 seeds in the outer circle are absolutely superior to the other teams, so we may also be eliminated in the group stage. Last time, Brother Heng said what is this called? . . . He probed to ask Ji Heng, who was sitting across from him.

"The Matthew Effect." Ji Heng smiled faintly and glanced at Ren Tian, the little cutie in front of him, and Xiao K, the stupid teammate.

"Little K, close your crow's mouth, do you remember the last time you had diarrhea when you talked nonsense? Eliminated from the group stage? Do you want to be deducted from all your bonuses and wages? Our team is now ranked very high in the world. On the other hand, Ah Kun couldn't help but say that the last time Xiao K dragged him to eat hot pot and missed the game, he still remembered it vividly.

"Lowering expectations is the only way to adjust the mentality of the game." Xiao K said unconvinced. "I'm a very Buddhist player."

The group stage is a total of 4 groups, each group is 4 teams, and then EVE has to play 2 games with the teams in his group, which is a total of 6 games. The points in the group determine which teams will advance to the last eight.

Soon it was EVE's turn to play the group stage.

"By the way, remind everyone, don't drive a train with your mouth in the channel, the requirements of the S competition are very strict, and the language suspected of racial discrimination, religious discrimination, gender discrimination, and opponent discrimination is absolutely prohibited, and you can't say the opponent's spicy chicken, ugly, stupid language." Before going on the field, Manager Fang specially explained.

"Don't worry, manager, we never say the opponent's spicy chicken, we generally say the teammate's spicy chicken, and the manager you are too careful, you have to explain this before every game." Little K said.

“。。。。 Teammates can't scold either, most of what I just said was specifically to you. Manager Fang said to Xiao K.

Little K lowered his head with a sigh, and everyone else laughed.

The first game is a game with a team from Europe.,Xiao K, a jungler who calls himself a Buddha, exposes his nature of belonging to the demon system.,Cruel and ruthless.,This European team doesn't know if the mentality collapsed later.,Anyway, after the fight, everyone on the other side looked very ugly.,EVE easily got the first point.。

After the first game, everyone's mentality improved, and Ren Tian felt that the pressure of this game was not even as great as the domestic playoffs. They have a total of two matches today, and one is later in the evening, and everyone is in the hotel suite to see the next match opponent's information, this team is from North America, it is an old powerhouse.

Ren Tian found that Ji Heng's eyes were a little strange when he looked at the information at this time, and asked curiously: "What's the matter, is the other party very powerful?" ”

Ji Heng shook his head and said, "No, look at the AD position of their team, ROLAND, he was my idol when I was young, and now he is 28 years old, and he can still play in the S game, which is really powerful." ”

Ren Tian also looked at the white player's information on the tablet and found that it had been ten years since this person's debut, and he had been playing since the S2 season, which was really admirable. His best record was in the S4-S5 season, and he won the championship team AD in the S4 season.

"Haven't you played before? Ren Tian asked strangely.

"Neither was in a group last two seasons and his team was eliminated after the group stage. But... It is said that this is also the last time he will participate in the S competition, and he will retire after the competition. Ji Heng whispered, this kind of gloomy and sad tone could hardly appear in his voice.

The first time I competed with my idol was to send him back to my hometown, which should be quite uncomfortable, Ren Tian thought.

"In competitive sports, the peak period of each player is only a few years, at least this brother has been brilliant, and many people have been unknown for a lifetime. Don't you see your favorite Zhan Huang's form also declining this season? Metabolism is the basic principle of how the world works. Ren Tian persuaded him.

"Sure enough, it's a student biological, metabolism... Ji Heng brought anti-blue light glasses today, and his smile was particularly handsome.

"All stars eventually fall, but it's enough for us to remember when they shine at their brightest. Isn't it? Ren Tian said that she seemed to have a special preference for this slightly melancholy and poetic way of speaking recently, and the corners of Ji Heng's mouth opened even more.

Seeing Ji Heng's smile, Ren Tian's heart also became happy.

Before the start of the second game, Ren Tian paid special attention to the AD player named ROLAND, he looked thinner in reality than in the photo, he and Ji Heng glanced at each other on both sides of the competition table, nodding to each other, this was the first encounter between the top AD players belonging to the two eras.

ALTHOUGH THE TWO SIDES CHERISHED EACH OTHER, EVERYONE DID NOT RELENT, AND IT DIDN'T TAKE LONG FOR JI HENG AND AKUN'S BOTTOM LANE DUO TO SLASH ROLAND DOWN THE HORSE.

This start made the people of EVE think that this would be another easy victory, but they didn't expect that in the later time, this veteran team was very tenacious, perhaps because they wanted the veteran captain to spend more time on the final field of the S game, and they played a rare tenacity and persistence in European and American teams. Everyone at EVE was a little in awe.

After EVE's victory in the game, Ren Tian suddenly felt that his eyes were a little moist. Although they have one more game to play, looking at the current state of this team, it should only stop at the group stage, which is left to Rola

d's career is less than 5 games at most.

Ji Heng took the initiative to find his idol's autograph, group photo, and contact information for each other after the game, Ren Tian and Ji Heng were on the way back to the room together, and asked him: "Do you still have regrets?" ”

Ji Heng: "No, although the stars will eventually fall, friends will not." He learned this kind of sour poetry language very quickly, Ren Tian laughed and grabbed him with his hand.

"Let's go out to eat later, how about I take you to the restaurant where my other idol often eats?" Ji Heng said to her.

Los Angeles is the home of the Lakers, and Ji Heng's favorite NBA player, James, Jr., is now a player for the Lakers.

Ren Tian nodded happily, she had never been to Los Angeles before, this is the most culturally diverse city in the world, taking advantage of the fact that there is no game tomorrow, it is just right to go out in the evening, the two of them changed their team uniforms, wore simple T-shirts and shorts and walked to the street.

Ji Heng seems to like to press the road with Ren Tian, and Los Angeles is not as good as at home, no one will recognize them abroad, the two simply walked on the road with their fingers intertwined, not far from the hotel is the Staples Arena, the home of the Lakers, looking at the building that has been seen countless times on TV, an inexplicable sense of excitement arises, and both of them stand there motionless and look at it.

"Would you like to play here?" Ji Heng asked, the final finals of this year's S competition will be held here.

"Yes." Ren Tian was so excited that he was already fantasizing about himself sitting in the Staples Center and playing the final.

"Then I'll bring you." Ji Heng smiled and rubbed her little short hair, and finally pressed the cute head to his shoulder.

The restaurant where the two of them ate at night was a Greek restaurant in downtown Los Angeles, this restaurant is very famous in the local area, and I don't know when Ji Heng decided the location, it is estimated that he learned to be obedient after the last time they were forced to share a table with someone in Paris. From here, you can see the night view of Los Angeles. The best thing is that no one here knows them at all, they can eat and drink and talk nonsense to their heart's content, without worrying that someone will secretly photograph themselves, and they don't have to be scared half to death by fans who suddenly rushed out to ask for autographs.

However, she still underestimated Ji Heng's fame, and when they were about to finish eating, a blonde girl came over, her hair was bright blonde, but she had an Asian face, and asked Ji Heng in very unfluent English if she could take a photo with her.

Ji Heng asked Ren Tian with his eyes, Ren Tian smiled and nodded, this girl waited until they finished eating before coming over, she was still very polite, she didn't want to embarrass her. So after Ji Heng took a photo with the girl, the girl happily ran back to her desk with her mobile phone. The girl's dining table was not far from Ren Tian's table, and when she passed, several male voices came faintly, but they spoke Korean.

"It turned out to be Korean." Ren Tian thought to herself, she looked at Ji Heng, but she didn't expect Ji Heng's face to sink a little after hearing the person at the table over there say a few words.

"What's wrong with you? What did they say? Ren Tian knew that Ji Heng could understand most of Korean, so he asked.

"It's nothing, they just say that half of the teams in the Chinese division are Koreans, and South Korea is the strongest country in the world in e-sports, so why like a Chinese player or something." Ji Heng's expression had returned to normal, and he said calmly to Ren Tian.

“。。。。 That's too much, we don't have a single foreign aid in our team. Ren Tian said angrily.

"People only see what they want to see, especially when you are blinded by prejudice, don't be discouraged."

The two of them came out of the bill, Ren Tian was still not very happy in his heart, Ji Heng saw her like this, and regretted what he had just told her

said, told some jokes along the way to make her happy, and Ren Tian's mood slowly improved.

"Some people say that Los Angeles is the gateway to the universe." When the two came to the corner of the street, they saw people of all colors and costumes rubbing shoulders on the street, Ren Tian said. "Do you think it looks like it?"

"For me, the door to the universe is here." With an ambiguous smile, Ji Heng gently lowered his head and touched her cute pink lips with the corner of his lips.

Ren Tian was dumbfounded, afraid that he would say something even more terrible, so he hurriedly ran back to the hotel with a smile.

There was no game the next day, and the EVE team trained daily, but on this day, Botao lost one game inexplicably, and the score was very ugly, and the general leader of the LPL team was suddenly very nervous, and quickly gathered all the coaches and captains for a meeting.

"Brother Heng, you have to fight for the prize money after winning the championship in a while." Seeing Ji Heng being called away, Xiao K shouted from behind.

Ji Heng ignored him, raised his eyebrows and smiled at him incomprehensibly and walked out.

Ren Tian heard Xiao K's words, raised his head from the front of the computer and said, "What? Can I still get the prize money myself? ”

Sun Haoying smiled: "You are too confident, anything can happen in the game, and today's Botao fiasco started because Lee Seung-sub made a low-level mistake in the game." ”

Ren Tian listened to it and quickly found today's Bo Tao's video to see, sure enough, at the eighteenth minute mark, Li Chengxie's jungler encountered the opponent in the middle of the dragon pit, and he actually released his big skills, and he didn't flash in time to send a head after being disabled by the other party. Lee Seung-sub in the back became the ATM of the opponent's Korean team.

Ren Tian thought to himself, why is this Lee Seung-sub's psychological quality so poor, and he makes such a low-level mistake as a professional player. At this time, her mobile phone rang, and when she saw it, it was Wu Xiaoyou.

"Xiaotian, guess where I am?" Wu Xiaoyou's cheerful voice flew out of the phone like a bird.

"Are you thanking the family?" Ren Tian said.

"Hello no imagination, I'm in your hotel now!"

“？ Our hotel? You're in the U.S.? Ren Tian was surprised and delighted.

"Yes, thank you for taking me to watch your game, come to the hall to pick up."

Ren Tian hurriedly told Sun Haoying that his good friend had come to find him, and then ran towards the hall downstairs.

Wu Xiaoyou still looks as cute as Alalei, she is wearing a pink one-piece miniskirt, standing alone in the middle of the hall, she sees Ren Tian and rushes over to hug her.

"Why is your complexion so good, the moisturizing effect of your Ji Heng is really good." Wu Xiaoyou, as always, drove when he met, and he couldn't stop it.

"Hehe, yours are not bad, what about Brother Yi?"

"He's going to talk to someone about business, leave him alone, you go to dinner with me, I'm starving." Wu Xiaoyou came up and dragged Ren Tian.

Ren Tian looked at his watch, it was almost 12 o'clock, so he sent a message to Ji Heng, who was still in a meeting, and walked out of the hotel with Wu Xiaoyou.

The two girls were picky about the food, and it wasn't until they walked two streets away that they saw a nice Japanese restaurant.

There were quite a few guests inside, but most of them were blonde and blue-eyed whites, and the two found a cubicle and ordered food to dine inside, eating, and there were also guests in the cubicle next to them. The man's language was Korean, and his voice was familiar.

Ren Tian seemed to be very excited when she heard the voice, and the more she listened, the more familiar it became, she motioned to Xiaoyou not to speak, and then quietly stood on her seat and looked next door.

At a glance, Ren Tian was slightly surprised, the man next door was none other than Lee Seung-sub, who had just made a low-level mistake in the competition, and the two often met when they trained together that month, so Ren Tian was more familiar with his voice. He sat facing Ren Tian's direction, and Ren Tian, the person opposite him, couldn't see it.

Li Chengxie's mood was very bad, almost lowering his voice and yelling, Ren Tian felt that listening to the wall seemed a little immoral, and she couldn't understand the key point, so she quickly sat down.

"Someone you know?" Wu Xiaoyou asked in a low voice.

Ren Tian nodded, and also whispered: "It's a Korean, I don't understand what I'm saying." ”

Wu Xiaoyou showed a strange smile, she took out a machine from her bag and handed it to Ren Tian.

KDXF's Translator ?。。。。 Ren Tian felt that he was becoming more and more convinced of Wu Xiaoyou, and he actually had this kind of thing on his body.

"It's very useful, thank you for giving it to me, you can try it." Wu Xiaoyou said as he switched the machine's input language to Korean.

"Don't, whatever he says." Ren Tian was about to push the machine back, but he heard a few words from next door, and there were words HENG and SKY in it.

“？？？ Is there anything else that has to do with me and Ji Heng? Ren Tian was shocked, he couldn't maintain the morality of not listening to the corner, so he hurriedly asked Wu Xiaoyou to come directly to the scene to operate the translator.

Although the translator also listened to it scatteredly, there were a few key words that were captured, "deliberately lose." "It's impossible to keep you going through." “He

They have a strong team. "There's always a way..." A number of them.

Ren Tian looked at these keywords in the translator and thought to himself, was this person kissed by the god of shit luck? A meal captures such important information.