"Wotfa! Can you lose this?"
At the moment when the base crystal exploded, QG fans were collectively defeated.
No one expected that they would lose this easy game today!
When expectations deviated far from expectations, countless Uzi fans at the scene and in the live broadcast room were surprisingly angry!
"Is QG's coach out of his mind? Why didn't he defend the bottom lane in the third game?"
"I'm also confused by this BP. If you give Uzi an EZ, and you pick a Wheelyman and a Rat, shouldn't it be easy to win?"
"Does QG coach know who is the carry in the team?"
"I feel sorry for Dog Master. He was tricked by the jungler again. This jungler is really bad."
“…”
In the competition booth, Swift lay on a chair, his face filled with unprecedented melancholy and confusion.
Someone walked over from the opposite side of the stage.
He was the one who cleared the jungle with Olaf alone in the last game, but now he used both hands to support himself on the chair and tried to stand up several times.
Until the top laner V next to him gave him a hand.
He slowly stood up.
This was the first time Swift saw the other person's face up close.
An objective and neutral evaluation:
Very handsome.
His eyes are bright and his smile is gentle.
But there was no arrogance of a winner.
Why?
Swift was a little stunned.
Today's game can't be described as a serious "father-son game".
But the booing from fans of both sides before the game, coupled with Swift's outrageous remarks in Doinb's live broadcast room, made it somewhat of a grudge game.
Swift asked himself, if he had won today's game, he would definitely walk up to the opponent like a winner and tell him that beating a former S4 champion jungler does not mean he can beat him.
In e-sports, the strong prey on the weak.
The weak should be trampled under the feet of the strong.
It feels so good just thinking about that moment!
However, at this moment, Li Fu had a gentle and peaceful smile on his face. There was not a bit of the sharp and piercing feeling he had during the competition. Shaking hands with everyone made people feel as if they were in the spring breeze.
Even Uzi, who was in a very high temperature, lowered his temperature suddenly, and the two of them said something with a smile.
When he came to Swift, Swift suddenly became nervous and tried her best to act calm and nonchalant.
Of course it doesn’t really matter.
But facing this man again at this moment, Swift subconsciously put himself in the position of a loser - he didn't want to lose the game and lose to others after the game.
Even if he doesn't show it at this moment, the other party must be very proud, right?
Swift thought so.
But the next moment, when she met Li Fu's gaze, Swift's stubbornness suddenly froze.
Li Fu's eyes were clearly looking at him, and he was clearly smiling.
But he clearly felt that the sight seemed to pass through his body and look at some place farther, and there was no trace of complacency in the calm smile.
As if to win him,
Win today's QG.
It's just something the other party is destined to accomplish.
It's like asking a climber why he climbs a mountain. Is it to be the first in the world? Or for some kind of honor?
The other party said, because the mountain is there.
And QG is far from being a mountain.
At most it's a small mound of earth.
turn out to be……
Isn’t the other party’s target never yourself?
Because I have never considered him as an opponent.
So there is no need to show off.
Is it that the clown is actually me?
The next second, the two people who had just shaken hands had passed each other by, and Li Fu's gaze never stayed on him for more than 0.1 second from beginning to end.
At this moment, even without any verbal communication, Swift's "Tao heart" was shattered!
…
After shaking hands and leaving, on the way to the backstage, the person next to me came up to me.
"Brother Fu, why don't you mock that sad person?"
"Why are you mocking?" Li Fu asked with a smile.
Xiao Shiguang, who was walking nearby, couldn't help but say, "He mocked you in Doinb's live broadcast and threatened to control you with one hand."
Li Fu paused, turned around and asked Xiao Shiguang, "Now, do you still feel that I'm being ridiculed?"
After saying that, he smiled and continued walking forward, but Xiao Shiguang suddenly stood there in a daze.
Looking at Li Fu's departing back, for a moment, his back suddenly became unusually tall.
Is this... Brother Fu’s magnanimity?
Bang, bang, bang—!
Beside them, Zizhi suddenly started clapping.
Turning his head, he patted Xiao Shiguang on the shoulder and said seriously, "Invisible pretense is the most deadly. Apart from anything else, if Brother Fu shows a little bit of skill in this area, it will be enough for us to learn for several years."
Is Brother Fu showing off?
Xiao Shiguang was stunned again.
After a while,
He finally reacted slowly.
It turns out that the highest level of pretense is
Just don’t pretend!
…
Back in the backstage lounge, the MVP of the game between IG and QG was quickly named.
Whether it was Li Fu's Lee Sin in the second game or his Nidalee in the third game, his statistics and performances were outstanding and eye-catching.
As expected, today's MVP and interview were given to Li Fu, and coach Chris was also happy to hear that.
He always felt that Li Fu had a different temperament, perhaps it was the charm of a veteran, or perhaps it was the precipitation after going through many hardships. Every interview gave people a very different feeling.
Unlike the interviews with its contestants, either the internet-addicted teenagers would chat awkwardly with their heads down without looking at the camera, often leaving the host unable to respond, or they would give official answers that were like textbooks that had been memorized in advance.
Li Fu's interview gave people a very comfortable feeling.
Very natural.
It's like a person is talking to the camera, telling us his thoughts and opinions about something.
The audience also likes to watch it.
This is very helpful in building IG's team image.
"Come on, Brother Fu!"
"Come and get some more female fans."
"Fuck! Can you please stop staring at your female fan all day long?"
“…”
Amid the laughter of the crowd behind him, Li Fu walked up to the interview seat again.
The person who interviewed him today was not Feng Sichu, but Feng Sichu's roommate Mo Han, who is also a well-known long-legged female host in LPL and has been in this circle for quite some time.
After learning that he would be interviewing Li Fu later, Mo Han couldn't help but feel curious.
She was not curious about Li Fu, but was confused after learning that the person Feng Sichu chatted with under the quilt every night was Li Fu.
According to her observation, every time Feng Sichu received a message at night, he would stare at the screen and laugh foolishly for a long time.
Mo Han was very puzzled as to what kind of magic could an old LPL veteran with no achievements have that could make Feng Sichu, whom she considered a treasure girl, fall so much for him.
Could he be a scumbag who is good at CPU?
…
At the interview seat, the two took their seats and the camera was ready.
"First of all, congratulations on coming back from 1-0 to win the game. It was not easy today. In the final game against QG, you picked Nidalee. We all know that you have never picked Nidalee in the LPL. Did you feel any psychological pressure at the time? Why did you play so well the first time?"
Mo Han looked at the script and asked questions, waiting for Li Fu's answer.
Li Fu smiled, picked up the microphone and said, "No, it's just that when I was playing the third game, I just knew that I couldn't lose the final game, so I kept telling myself to play better, better, and I would win slowly..."
"Then what?" Mo Han asked.
"And then you win." Li Fu said.
Mo Han: ...
The boy has a good sense of confidentiality.
You won the fight, doesn't that mean you didn't say anything?
She coughed dryly, then smiled again. "We all know that Padre6 is very good at playing heroes like Gragas and Jarvan. Some viewers here are curious, do you usually practice a lot on these jungle heroes that are not very popular in this version?"
"No, it's just that I have played all these heroes in Rank, so I can use them when needed." Li Fu said to the camera calmly, although some of these heroes were played by another soul in his body as top laner in his previous life.
"What are your goals for the second regular season against other teams?"
"Win them all."
"Are there any opponents in Group A that you think need special attention?"
"We're going to play WE next week. WE is a very strong team."
"Some viewers are curious, why do you always get better in the later stages of every game?"
"Well... I should mainly thank my opponents. I feel like they are inspiring my potential in every game, making me more eager to win and perform better during the game."
“…”
Is this human language?
The problem came to the end.
At this time, Mo Han already had a preliminary understanding of Li Fu in his mind.
He is humble, elegant, talkative and generous, unlike some professional players who pick their fingers every time they are interviewed.
"Just now in the live broadcast room, many fans asked, have you considered how long you will continue to play professionally? After so many years in LPL, what kind of players do you think are real professional players?"
Hearing this question, Li Fu was silent for a moment.
Mo Han's face also showed curiosity.
She knew this question was not easy to answer, so she put it at the end. What would the man in front of her say?
"I think how long I will continue playing professionally does not depend on me, but only on my professional status. If one day my status makes me a burden to the entire team, then I think that's when I will leave."
Li Fu paused and continued:
"As for what kind of professional players are considered real professional players, I can't give an accurate answer to this. Everyone has their own opinions. Whatever they think is a real professional player is what it is."
Hearing Li Fu's answer, Mo Han nodded thoughtfully.
After looking at the script, she picked up the microphone and was about to say her closing remarks to end the inter-match interview, but unexpectedly Li Fu picked up the microphone again.
"But I personally think that real professional players should have a sense of 'burden'."
"A sense of burden?" Mo Han was stunned for a moment.
Li Fu smiled and did not explain. He just continued, "Many players in the league make a lot of money at a very young age, but they don't feel the weight of that position, or the sense of burden."
"But many times, the game is not just yours. There are many people in the audience who have expectations of you, and you need to respond to such expectations."
"If I regard this matter as a responsibility, I think it is a bit too heavy."
"So I think if I were to define a true professional player, the first thing would be a sense of responsibility."
Hearing this, everyone who was about to disperse around the interview area was stunned.
Sense of burden?
Chewing it over and over in my mind.
It seemed like the first time I heard these words from a professional player.
But why...
Something in my heart seemed to be touched.
For a moment, many fans of QG and Uzi at the scene and in the live broadcast room whose expectations had just been dashed were stunned, and the barrage in the official live broadcast room suddenly surged wildly.
"How can you say that casually? Emperor Fu is dying?!"
"Damn, that hits the nail on the head. Some people claim that reaching the semifinals is a win. Do they feel burdened?"
"Some people just play casually when they are anxious to lose. Do you think they want to win?"
"Why would they want to feel burdened? They can still get the maximum salary even if they lose the game."
"Don't feel burdened. In fact, the introduction of Korean players from the beginning proved that LPL doesn't care about the process at all, but only the results. You made the choice yourself."
“…”
Some netizens in the live broadcast room were moved by the scene.
At the same time, in the QG backstage waiting room.
Uzi, who was sitting there sulking after losing the game, was watching the live interview of Li Fu on the TV on the wall of the waiting room. When he heard the word "burden",
He couldn't help but be stunned for a moment.
At this moment,
Uzi suddenly remembered some distant things in his memory...
That was when he first started playing professionally. At that time, the domestic e-sports system was still immature, the conditions of the venues for the competitions were also very poor, and the venue could only accommodate dozens of spectators.
The wind was blowing that winter.
His hands were so cold that he kept rubbing them along the way to prevent them from freezing and affecting his performance in the game.
When they were about to enter the venue, the team leader noticed someone standing in the cold wind at the corner ahead, shivering and stamping his feet, as if waiting for something.
When I got closer, I found that they were a few college students from the nearby university town.
Unexpectedly, several people were very excited to see him.
That was the first time Uzi met fans offline.
He was very nervous and a little confused at the time.
I don't know why these people are standing here in the cold weather waiting for a stranger. They look a bit neurotic.
But before leaving, a fan called Uzi and took out a hand warmer from his arms and stuffed it into his hand.
A very cheap rechargeable hand warmer for students, costing about twenty yuan.
The man just handed it to him with a smile, and then he and a few friends clenched their fists in the cold wind outside the venue to cheer for Uzi.
In the bleak cold wind,
The cheers from behind were very loud!
Uzi remembered that he had just lost a game the day before and was not in a good mood.
But when he heard the cheers from behind, he inexplicably felt a strong desire to win!
He is going to win!
No matter what,
We must win this game.
Later, he won the game that day.
In fact, the opponent in that game was not strong, so I didn’t feel much sense of accomplishment after winning.
But Uzi clearly remembers that when he took off his headphones after winning the game, he felt a sense of relief.
Then he laughed happily,
It made Lu Benwei think he was crazy.
Uzi just smiled foolishly and said nothing.
What I was thinking was,
He did it!
It lived up to those expectations!
For the first time, he realized that responding to other people's expectations could make him so happy.
After the game, he wanted to find someone to return the hand warmer, but found that the person was gone.
The security guard nearby said that those college students skipped classes just to cheer him on in the game. Now the teacher called their names and asked them to run back to sign in. Before leaving, they also asked them to take a message with them: "Come on tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, and all future games!"
Yes! Come on!
Later, that cheap hand warmer accompanied Uzi for a long time.
During those two seasons, even when he moved back and forth between different clubs, he always kept the hand warmer in the corner of his suitcase.
It was not until last year that he joined OMG and built the most luxurious galaxy battleship in LPL. When Uzi was packing up to leave his old club, he accidentally left behind the hand warmer.
At the beginning,
Uzi just felt it was a bit of a pity.
However, at that time, as one of the most popular top players in LPL, Uzi had already received a very high top salary and could afford a replacement for the hand warmer that was dozens of times more expensive than the quality one .
But sometimes I still feel empty inside, as if I have lost something important.
Think about it carefully.
But I can't find a clue,
It's just a cheap hand warmer...
Is it that important?
It was not until today, after hearing what Li Fu said, that Uzi, who was sitting in the chair in a daze, suddenly reacted.
So it’s… a sense of burden?
Uzi was lost in thought...
At this time, someone in the team was asking what to eat in the evening, as if they were not the ones who had just lost the game.
Yes.
So what if you lose?
So, Uzi suddenly didn't want to think so much anymore.
Closing his eyes, he vaguely remembered what someone said to him when he retired:
Don't have too much burden when playing professionally.
The burden is too heavy.
One day you will want to escape.
So whether it's with teammates, with fans, or with anyone else.
You watch the game, I play the game.
No one owes anyone anything.
That's good.
Taking a deep breath, Uzi raised his head and his gaze fell on the back of the man leaving the interview booth again.
Until this moment,
He recognized it from the bottom of his heart.
The veteran from ancient times is indeed qualified to win today's duel.
But... with those "things" on his shoulders, how far can he go on this dark road of LPL?