Chapter 123: Come On, Run Toward Me Then!

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That was why so many Guan Yu players never watched where they were going. Their eyes were fixed on the horse’s eyes the entire time.

This was also because the Guan Yu skins with the coolest effects and best feel tended to have rather inconspicuous horse eyes.

Take Icebound War God, for example. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if the horse’s glowing eyes were red instead of the same icy blue as the skin?

Here, Lin Hao spotted the edge of the enemy’s vision. After running two more steps forward, a figure emerged at the far end of his sight range—Pei Qinhu.

“Oh? You still dare to show yourself and push the lane at a time like this?”

Since they had the advantage, Lin Hao was playing relatively casually.

He was just about to make a move and keep the Tiger from getting away.

The Tiger had no Red Buff this time, and with their economic advantage, killing him would be effortless!

But the moment Lin Hao saw Pei Qinhu’s movement, he abandoned the idea.

There was not the slightest hint of panic in Pei Qinhu’s positioning. If anything, it seemed as though he was trying to lure Guan Yu into staying.

Most people would never notice this detail. It was a baiting tactic. An ordinary player might simply assume that the Tiger was confident enough to duel Guan Yu one-on-one. After all, given the mechanics of the two heroes, as long as the Tiger’s economy was not too far behind Guan Yu’s, exchanging blows with him was hardly impossible.

Someone was waiting to counter-gank.

Good grief. These people were organized and disciplined. Even with the middle and bottom lanes pushed so far forward, they could still send two players to counter-gank a split-pusher?

The corner of Lin Hao’s mouth lifted slightly.

All his teammates were on the side lanes. Lin Hao glanced at his equipment.

He was only a few dozen gold short of completing Frost Shock!

After its rework, this item could be used almost like a stun.

Then, without warning, Lin Hao simply sat down where he stood.

He began recalling.

A Guan Yu had given up his charging state and sat down to recall right in front of the enemy.

And this was the highest tier of competitive play.

This was a Guan Yu who was on a legendary killing spree.

Huge question marks instantly appeared over Pei Qinhu’s and Yuan Ge’s heads.

Was this guy looking down on them?

Was he really going to use them for some kind of show?

“Pei Qinhu’s anger increased by 100.”

“Yuan Ge’s anger increased by 200.”

Lin Hao chuckled. This counted as making reasonable use of the system’s mechanics.

He still had not been certain who was waiting to counter-gank him. If it had been Li Yuanfang or Mozi, this would have been genuinely difficult to handle.

But judging by the anger values, it was undoubtedly Yuan Ge. If it was Yuan Ge, then this would be easy to manipulate.

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Elsewhere, Han Han was also stunned when he saw Lin Hao’s recall.

For some reason, a scene from Romance of the Three Kingdoms, which he had read as a child, surfaced in his mind: Zhang Fei standing alone at Changban Slope, creating the illusion that an entire army was behind him.

Could someone be behind him?

Han Han flicked his view across the map and suddenly caught a glimpse of Nakoruru flashing past.

As the team’s shot-caller, he naturally paid close attention to the minimap. As far as he remembered, everyone in the bottom lane except Guan Yu and Nakoruru had shown themselves at some point.

Since Nakoruru had just appeared, that meant Guan Yu was the only one left in the top lane!

Then what exactly was Guan Yu pretending to do?

Han Han instantly flew into a rage.

Was he trying to play the Empty Fort Stratagem?

“There’s only Guan Yu in the top lane. Get him!”

As he spoke, Han Han immediately charged toward Guan Yu.

Yuan Ge, who was hiding in the brush, heard him and instantly sent out his puppet. The puppet emerged from the grass and headed straight for Lin Hao’s Guan Yu.

Lin Hao was slightly startled. Had they discovered him so quickly?

He immediately began operating. He dragged the control wheel backward, activated Sprint, and then unleashed his ultimate.

To be honest, he had been a little too bold this time. Guan Yu needed a certain amount of time to build up speed from a complete standstill, even with Sprint and his ultimate active.

But the enemy had an awkward problem of their own. Because of his mechanics, Pei Qinhu needed to use the brush and leap with his second skill in tiger form if he wanted to close the distance quickly. Yuan Ge, meanwhile, needed time to release the puppet, send it charging forward, spin around, switch positions with it, and retrieve it.

They could never burst down their target instantly the way heroes with absurdly powerful mechanics, such as Jing or Lan, could.

Han Han’s Tiger had no choice but to leap over using the wall along the inner lane, striking Guan Yu with an empowered basic attack in tiger form. Yuan Ge also charged in and applied his slow.

Lin Hao’s Guan Yu’s health plummeted, but with Sprint, he still managed to break free from the pursuit of Pei Qinhu and Yuan Ge.

But it was not over yet. The instant Guan Yu entered his charging state, Lin Hao turned around and rammed both the Tiger and Yuan Ge’s puppet.

He hit two targets at once!

What, you still dare to charge back at us?

Han Han raised an eyebrow and prepared to continue attacking. Yuan Ge also intended to use the puppet to land a basic attack before immediately switching positions.

But Lin Hao’s hands were incredibly fast this time. The moment he landed the charge, he instantly activated his second skill.

The second skill could immediately remove crowd control and increase movement speed by thirty percent, allowing Guan Yu to enter his charging state more quickly.

Lin Hao continued pulling back. At that moment, the Yuan Ge player suddenly realized something.

He remembered that, ten minutes earlier, Lin Hao had seemingly destroyed his puppet in exactly the same way. That first shove had been the prelude.

Yuan Ge was just about to complete the position switch, but Lin Hao was faster. After rapidly entering his charging state, Lin Hao immediately found the perfect angle, turned around, and brought his blade down!

Swish!

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Single-Blade Roar!

The angle of that strike was perfect. Pei Qinhu, Yuan Ge, and Yuan Ge’s puppet were lined up in a straight line, and the slash struck all three!

Han Han blurted out on stream, “Holy shit!”

Even he could not understand how everything had aligned so perfectly.

In any case, after that slash, Han Han’s Pei Qinhu had already lost half his health.

Yuan Ge was in an even worse state. His puppet was destroyed, leaving his real body standing helplessly in place.

At this point, a Pei Qinhu with no hard crowd control and only a slow could no longer restrain a Guan Yu under the effects of Sprint.

Ignoring Pei Qinhu, Lin Hao charged straight toward Yuan Ge.

One shove, then another.

Yet Yuan Ge still had the tiniest sliver of health left.

That was the nature of Guan Yu’s damage: it was relatively one-dimensional. To finish off Yuan Ge, Lin Hao had to ram him one more time.

He entered his charging state again and reached Yuan Ge. But instead of ramming him immediately, Lin Hao gently shifted the horse’s head.

Yuan Ge panicked and used his ultimate.

Lin Hao did not ram him. He simply continued the pursuit.

Yuan Ge retreated once more and used Flash, then cast his third skill sideways, pulling himself away.

Lin Hao remained unmoved, completely ignoring Yuan Ge’s prediction. Only after Yuan Ge had used every skill did Lin Hao lightly ram him, ending his life.

By then, Lin Hao had only two-thirds of his health remaining. However…

Sprint was about to expire, and his ultimate was nearly over as well. Rather than turn around and continue fighting Pei Qinhu, Lin Hao used the time spent chasing Yuan Ge to run directly toward the enemy high ground, widening the distance between himself and the Tiger even further.

“Yuan Ge, you idiot! Run toward me!”

Han Han shouted hoarsely into the microphone.

But he had only issued the reminder after seeing Yuan Ge retreating nonstop. By the time he finished speaking, Yuan Ge was already dead, and Guan Yu had already escaped.

“Han Han’s anger increased by 800.”

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