Chapter 48: Chapter 48: My Love Is Trash, but Yasuo Is Not
"Gu Bai, Principal, shall we start?"
As the room host, Lu Wei asked the two of them.
Principal Wang thought for a moment, "We already have four people, why not just pull in one more for a five-man team?"
"Sure, who should we invite?"
"Well, it has to be a girl, right? We have four guys already. If we add another guy, it’ll be like a Shaolin Monks’ match, what’s fun about that?"
Gu Bai said nothing; he didn’t mind, but soon they would have to face the fear of being dominated by him.
As Lu Wei was pondering whom to invite, a rocket was sent up in the live stream.
"User ’Feng Mogu’ sent the host a rocket ×1, come to the live stream to grab the treasure chest!"
Seeing this gift notification, Lu Wei instantly had someone in mind.
Being streamers themselves, Lu Wei understood Feng Mogu’s intentions very well. With an opportunity like this, who wouldn’t want to ride the wave of popularity? After all, playing games with Principal Wang would likely attract quite a few viewers, right?
"Thanks Mogu for the rocket. Principal, how about we just bring Mogu in? Mogu sings well, and we can listen to her sing while we play."
After a while, Principal Wang’s voice came through the microphone, "I don’t mind, what about you, Gu Bai?"
"I don’t care."
"Alright then, Choukai, just bring her in."
It seemed that Feng Mogu was already prepared and logged into her account, as she quickly entered the room.
In Feng Mogu’s live stream room.
"Mogu played this move well with a rocket straight into the Principal’s team. If she can cling to the Principal’s thigh, wouldn’t it be a big breakthrough?"
"And there’s that Gu Bai who splashed out 50 Super Fires. I saw him before in Cai Lolita’s stream, and she called him President Gu. He’s probably a super big shot. Mogu, you have to seize the opportunity. Just securing one big shot will ease our worry for the annual contest."
"Tiger overpowers the world, Mogu is only 1.5 meters!"
Despite the nickname "Face Changer," Feng Mogu currently boasts top-tier goddess-level looks — set aside face changing or cosmetic surgery, her beauty score is definitely a solid 90.
"Don’t think too much. We’re just playing games together to boost our stream’s popularity."
Feng Mogu replied with a gentle smile. Although she said this, who knows what she truly thought in her heart? No streamer who has reached this level is simple.
Principal Wang: "Everyone’s here, let’s start."
League of Legends was still very popular at this time, especially in big regions like Ionia, where ranked games queued almost instantly.
In just a few seconds, they entered the BP (ban/pick) interface.
"First, let’s discuss who’s playing which position."
Before Principal Wang finished speaking, Feng Mogu and Gu Bai one after the other locked Teemo and Yasuo in the pre-selection screen.
"I mainly play Yasuo; other champions I’m only at Silver Level."
Gu Bai spoke with a calm face and steady heartbeat.
Feng Mogu also weakly followed up, "I only know how to play Teemo..."
A sense of foreboding rose in the hearts of the three with Principal Wang.
However, he didn’t think much of it. He himself boasted Diamond Level play, and PDD and Lu Wei were retired professional players, so how badly could Gu Bai and Feng Mogu mess up?
Lu Wei, seeing his mid lane choice taken, said, "Then I’ll jungle, and Sau Zhu will support."
"I’m about to crack, why does a mighty man like me have to support?"
With BP over, Lu Wei, as the leader, quickly locked in Lion Dog in one go, leaving no chance for Sau Zhu.
Seeing that the jungle position was taken, PDD couldn’t very well compete with a girl like Feng Mogu for the top lane. Then seeing the mid and AD being high levels, neither looked approachable, so he could only obediently play support.
The first three minutes of the game were peaceful, with Level 1 Gu Bai quietly shrinking under the tower, waiting for the minions to come into his defense range.
At Level 2, Gu Bai’s eyes flashed sharply. Stepping Forward Slash maneuvered through the minions, and the enemy Jie, seeing Yasuo suddenly so aggressive, thought the jungler was coming and retreated quickly. But Gu Bai charged ahead, a flash of gold, EQ flash, so cool!
First Blood!
Jie, confused, looked at the Yasuo lying dead under his tower. What kind of move was that?
Just starting out, Principal Wang was focused on his lane and hadn’t noticed what happened with Gu Bai, so he asked curiously, "Gu Bai, what happened? How did you die so fast?"
Gu Bai replied calmly and composedly, "Nothing much, just a damage calculation error. I’ll definitely kill him next wave."
"Alright then."
Xiaowang didn’t think much of it, as giving First Blood is quite common.
In the next ten minutes, Xiaowang truly experienced what a collapse felt like.
minutes in, looking at the enemy Jie’s You Meng and Little Wooden Hammer, then at his own health bar that emptied in an instant, Xiaowang roared, "Gu Bai! What the hell are you doing! You’ve died 10 times in 10 minutes? Are you messing with me?"
On the other side of the computer, Gu Bai awkwardly touched his nose.
"It’s okay, Jie is only useful early game. I’m holding out for now, I’ll carry late game, fifty-fifty chance, come help me gank once, we’ll end him, big shutdown!"
Lu Wei glanced at Jie’s items, then at his own unfinished Jungle Blade. Although a bit hesitant, he still replied, "Okay, once I get the second blue buff, I’ll come over."
A minute later.
Master of the Shadow Stream killed Gale Sword Hero.
Master of the Shadow Stream killed Proud Hunter.
Double kill!
Looking at the nearly full health Jie in the black and white screen still farming, Lu Wei weakly said, "Gu Bai bro, I think this Jie is something I can’t even touch..."
"Hmm, this Jie is good, probably a smurf. Go help other lanes, I’ll hold the line."
The audience in the livestream almost laughed themselves to death listening to their conversation.
"Shocking, former pro player beaten up by a smurf!"
"Gu Bai bro must be the legendary canyon caregiver, right?"
In less than 20 minutes, Jie with four items single-handedly pushed to the mid crystal, Xiaowang looked at his 1-4 score, then at Feng Mogu with 0-6-0 at 20 minutes and 70 creep score, sighed, let’s surrender...
Although Xiaowang is known for having a temper while gaming, he didn’t say much after the first game, Galaxy Battleship crashes ×1.
In the second match draft, seeing Gu Bai brought out Yasuo again, Xiaowang was a bit headache: "Gu Bai, can’t you play anything besides Yasuo?"
"I’m really only at Silver level with other champions! That last Jie knew how to play, plus I made a lot of mistakes too, this time it definitely won’t happen again!"
No choice, Xiaowang could only half-believingly enter the game.
After the disaster of the previous game, even PDD and Lu Wei, these two former pro players, were fully focused. If they mess up again, they’d get scolded by the Principal, or mocked to death by the livestream audience.
In the next dozen minutes, Xiaowang showed his tyrant side, from PDD to Lu Wei, then to Feng Mogu, no one escaped his wrath. The only one dying continuously, Gu Bai, was the one he persuaded gently.
"Gu Bai, I’m begging you, play cautiously, stop dying."
"I won’t die again, I’ve got Electric Blade, clear waves fast, after clearing I’ll stay under the tower."
It’s not like Principal Wang didn’t dare to scold Gu Bai, it’s just that someone at his level has more to consider.
Firstly, Lu Wei and the other two are all streamers, scolding them is no big deal, they can’t do much about it.
But Gu Bai is different, although he didn’t know Gu Bai’s exact identity, with carrying cash totaling 300 million, he couldn’t be a normal person. Even ordinary rich second generations can’t reach this level, and when he himself had 500 million in his pocket, it was Old Wang who gave him the startup fund.
But Xiaowang didn’t know that Gu Bai now already holds 560 million.
Plus, he only met Gu Bai today, not very familiar, so it wasn’t right to say anything too harsh, which led to this situation.
But the livestream audience didn’t know, the audience always has the wildest imagination, realizing Gu Bai was someone even Principal Wang didn’t dare criticize, instantly conjured up an image of a hidden financial mogul heir.
Gu Bai still didn’t know he’d been imagined as an heir to a hidden financial mogul, and continued to earnestly operate the game.
In the end, skill was no match for acting, with Gu Bai’s 1-18 score, the crystal shattered once more.
Returning to the preparation screen, the atmosphere was weirdly tense.
"Principal, still playing?"
PDD didn’t dare to speak, Lu Wei cautiously asked.
"Playing! Not sleeping until we win one today!"
Saying this, a few of them entered the BP phase again, intending to ban Yasuo, but didn’t dare, leaving the ban slot for Yasuo, just waiting for Xiaowang’s command to directly snuff Gu Bai’s Yasuo at the cradle.
"Don’t ban! Let him play, I refuse to believe we can’t finally win!"
A man who’s on a roll has no reason, even the son of the richest person is no exception.
Finally, the Galaxy Battleship got their first win after four consecutive losses, PDD and Lu Wei let out a long sigh of relief, they both swore to never play games with Gu Bai again!
Even Feng Mogu regretted getting on board with his rocket spree decision.
Both being dead weights, she was at least ten times better than Gu Bai, yet always the one getting scolded. How could she bear this kind of grievance? Luckily, the hotness of the livestream made up for it, and she gained a good amount of gifts, being scolded was worth it.
After the first win, Xiaowang decided not to play anymore: "Gu Bai, let’s never play games together again. I’m afraid I’ll lose control sitting next to you and do something impulsive! Your Yasuo is too trash! You say your other heroes are only Silver level, your Yasuo could rank top 10 deadweight in the national server!"
Hearing Xiaowang’s words, Gu Bai seriously retorted: "Principal! You can question me, but you can’t question my Yasuo, let me tell you, my love is trash, but my Yasuo isn’t!"
Xiaowang was speechless.
But the barrage went wild.
"666, another golden quote from the internet, damn ’my love is trash, but Yasuo isn’t!’"