Chapter 8: A Nationwide Frenzy! "LPL, Just You Wait!" [Please Vote!]

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【Mission Accomplished: Reach the top 10 of the Rank ladder on either the Canyon of the Pinnacle or the Korean server】
【Congratulations on receiving the reward: 777 Counter-Attack Points!】
【Congratulations on receiving the reward: Proficiency Double EXP Card (10 hours) *3!】
【Congratulations on receiving the reward: Hero Skill Crash Course Card *1 (Instantly maxes out a hero’s level 5 basic proficiency)!】

Ye Bo looked at the reward pop-up box before him with great excitement.
But soon, a new system notification appeared.

"Sigh, I’ll stop here for now, brothers. My phone is running out of juice, logging off!"
"See you all tomor..."

Before Ye Bo’s words could finish playing, the stream went black, displaying the message "The streamer is on the move~".
Even so, the chat remained lively for a while.

[Seriously? Why are you so practiced at this? Speedrunning the log-off, are we!]
[Auntie! Carry me in ranked! Auntie, I don’t want to try hard anymore!!!]
[This streamer is interesting. He runs away when his popularity is at its peak; does he really treat money like dirt?]
[I’m a long-time fan. I keep hearing this guy blabber about wanting to go pro. I guess his heart isn’t really in streaming?]
[What a pity, a streaming genius is about to fall. Even though this guy is quite skilled, I feel like he’s destined for the bench if he goes pro. His hero pool is just too unsuitable for the professional stage...]
[Haha! Coin Brother got triggered and logged off too! It’s rare to see someone trigger Coin Brother like that!]

In the second match, although Doinb wasn’t solo-killed during the laning phase, once the LeBlanc helped the top lane gain an advantage, the gold lead caused his items to spike rapidly.
Because Doinb was too eager to "get revenge," he kept forcing solo fights against the LeBlanc, only to be caught and outplayed twice.
In the end, his face turned red, and he earned the glorious title of second place in the "Cosplay God" competition!
His equally swift excuse for logging off only added to the show’s entertainment value.

Clearly, the discussion regarding tonight’s stream had only just begun to ferment.

...

Ye Bo looked at the text before him, unable to suppress his excitement.

【You have successfully made a name for yourself on the national server. Reaching the top 10 with such a performance is something even the 18-year-old you couldn’t achieve! I believe that with tonight’s performance, new eyes will soon take notice of you.】
【Mission: Choose a professional team as soon as possible and restart your professional career.】
【Reward: ?】

"Damn it, why is the reward a question mark... Who did it learn that bad habit from!"
"I'm shaking with rage!"

But complaining aside, he was clearly more concerned with the "hint" given by the system.
It seems it might be happening very soon?

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He—the chance to step back into his professional career!
From his current perspective, he finally understood that perhaps the reason it took him so long to become a starter in the past was because his hero pool was far too shallow when he first entered the professional scene.
Moreover, his signature champions weren't actually strong enough to ignore the meta.
These two points alone guaranteed that his starting point wouldn't be very high. After all, no tier-one team would want someone with such obvious flaws in their hero pool.
Unless that person’s strengths... were truly exceptional!

"Perhaps I should continue to prove myself?"
"Then I might as well just hit rank one!"

Ye Bo set his next short-term goal.
Although he didn't know how this "opportunity" would arrive, he didn't want to just sit there waiting.
Today’s five-pro match had already made him realize quite a few problems.
Especially when he discovered that even with a massive advantage, it was difficult to find opportunities against these professional players—something he rarely experienced in standard ranked games.
Combined with what the system said, perhaps his former self really was just "mediocre."
But so what?
That isn't the case anymore!

Thinking of this, Ye Bo’s fighting spirit became even more high-spirited and excited.
Even if his talent was indeed mediocre, he now had a way to catch up by spending "three times" the effort of others.
If one "me" isn't enough... what about three "me"s?
More accurately, four!
Not to mention the accumulation of an old veteran!

Therefore, Ye Bo didn't plan on sleeping tonight. After closing the stream, he sat cross-legged back on his bed.
He would seize every moment from now on, preparing himself in the best possible condition to welcome the opportunity that was likely approaching.

"LPL! Wait for me!"
"Training grounds, activate!"

...

Just as Ye Bo entered the training grounds, discussions about him had already appeared on various forums.
The traffic from a five-pro player match was massive; after all, having some of the biggest names in the LPL collide inherently brought attention.
Coupled with the brilliant performance in the game and the headline-grabbing "humiliating half-health solo kill," any clip was bound to generate buzz.

《How to evaluate: Doinb being humiliated by a random player under his own tower and logging off in frustration?》
《How to evaluate: A game of five pros, and a random player is the one carrying?》
《How to evaluate: A forty-year-old auntie wants to go pro?》

The comments on the various posts were diverse.
However, it wasn't as harmonious as the stream chat here.

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"Lol, I keep saying those who hype up pros are just noobs. Looking at it this way, aren't pro players just like that? I honestly feel they're about the same as my Silver games!"
"It's true! Honestly, being Challenger is enough, there's really no need to force yourself into Silver games."
"If you ask me, Doinb really embarrassed himself to the extreme. A total fraud mid-laner, outplayed two games in a row. He can't even lane against a random player—clearly, his skill is in question, right?"
"Truly embarrassing, spinning in circles like a donkey turning a millstone!"

However, there were also "White Monkeys" (Doinb fans) who strongly refuted this.

"The people above really don't understand the game. The first game was the jungler feeding, the second game was the teammates collapsing. What does that have to do with my Coin Brother?"
"Random players should really stop trying to touch the pros. Even if you play the game for a lifetime, you only know how to play two or three heroes. To be blunt, what's the point?"
"That LeBlanc in the second game was just 'meh.' It felt like basic mechanics to me."
"It's just a ranked game, calm down. Even Faker gets solo-killed in ranked all the time. If he were really that good, why doesn't he go pro?"

The discussions on the forums were just a back-and-forth between haters and fans.
What truly ignited the traffic for this incident was an analysis video released overnight by a currently popular educational content creator, [Chu Jun Ekko].
The most crucial part was that this creator wasn't just a high-follower blogger; he was also a newly recruited coach for an LDL secondary league team!
His professionalism was beyond reproach.
Among other things, the IDs in the title alone had already attracted a lot of attention.

《A high-ranking random player outplays the pros! What made him the carry among the likes of Rookie, JKL, Knight, and Doinb?》

In the video, he analyzed the two matches frame-by-frame from a technical perspective.

"Let's get real! I can boldly state a conclusion here."
"This Akali... at least when he was playing this hero, he truly established a skill suppression over Doinb!"
"Everyone, look at this play. This is 0.1x speed, slowed down ten times."
"See that? That turn! That prediction of intent! From the very first movement he made upon reaching the lane, it was clear he had already won the mental game. Every subsequent step Doinb took was actually within his calculations!"
"It can be said that from this moment on, the laning phase was already over!"

The stats for this video, fueled by Doinb’s status as the "number one streamer on DouYu" and the IDs of the other three celebrity players, soared at an unimaginable speed.
There were also numerous other related streaming clips.
Including Rookie’s shock, JKL’s exclamation, and compilations of the Akali’s plays... all of them made it to the homepages of video websites one after another!

That very night.
Many people across Shanghai stumbled upon these videos, the heat of which was on par with the ongoing MSI tournament.
What was even more unexpected... was that a coincidental side event occurred.
It provided yet another massive, explosive push to Ye Bo’s sudden fame!

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