Chapter 140: The Triple Convergence Guarantees a Hit

"This shot certainly wasn't a hundred percent guaranteed to hit; using basic attacks just to calibrate the muzzle simply increases the probability," Lin Hao sighed. "So it still took a bit of luck to trade kills."

After a brief pause, Lin Hao continued, "Things need to be a bit more stable from here on out. This Li Yuanfang reacts way too fast. It's much safer for us to snipe him."

Initially, Lin Hao's idea was to push Meng Lan's anger to the limit through even more astonishing methods, such as the previous play where he directly initiated with his ultimate and flash combo, taking him down in the blink of an eye before he could react, which would definitely leave him furious.

Now, it seemed that trying to compete with him in detailed micro-operations might still fall slightly short for a national-server Baili Shouyue.

If only he could draw another top-tier micro-operation skill sometime soon...

Therefore, Lin Hao decided to start utilizing his predictive and positioning skills—in other words, sniping!

Meng Lan watched his screen turn black, feeling a bit surprised.

In that last exchange, he had originally thought he successfully outplayed the Baili Shouyue.

Never did he expect this Shouyue to pull off a counter-kill under those circumstances.

With that kind of operation and reaction speed, could this guy actually be a professional player?

The two met in the lane for a fourth time.

Meng Lan's Li Yuanfang continued to push the lane. Even while tracking the enemy jungler's position, Meng Lan's rhythm wasn't thrown off just because Baili Shouyue's marksmanship was accurate.

Meanwhile, Lin Hao resolutely stayed put, sniping Li Yuanfang directly from within his defensive tower.

However, Meng Lan had grown smarter. Since dodging bullets by juking wasn't very effective, he would simply step outside of Lin Hao's vision or out of the skill's striking range.

Consequently, whenever Lin Hao lined up his sniper shot, before his second skill could successfully converge into a straight line, Li Yuanfang would already have rolled out of the range using his second skill.

Combined with some minor positioning adjustments, after a full wave of minions, Lin Hao had only managed to chip away half of Li Yuanfang's health pool from a distance.

"Now this Li Yuanfang on the opposing team knows how dangerous I am. Look at how his positioning has clearly shifted backward," Lin Hao chuckled as he narrated.

Lin Hao simply walked out of the defensive tower. Anyway, the health gap between them was quite significant now, and this Li Yuanfang wouldn't dare mess with him. If he really dared to roll right into his face, Lin Hao was confident he could land both his second and third skills to take him down instantly.

Now, both he and Li Yuanfang were standing behind the minion wave, clearing minions with basic attacks. However, Lin Hao had no intention of having a normal laning phase; he squatted down once more, preparing to aim.

By this time, Meng Lan had learned his lesson. Knowing that Shouyue's accuracy was terrifyingly high, he simply stopped dodging and immediately fell back the moment he saw him aim.

After all, aiming a sniper shot took two full seconds to prepare, and within that timeframe, all he needed to do was run out of Shouyue's field of view.

Trading health was fine, but taking un-retaliated poke damage in the lane was far too costly.

However, Lin Hao had no intention of waiting for the aiming reticle to become fully precise before firing this time.

The viewers only saw Lin Hao target Li Yuanfang with the three converging lines before they had completely closed in.

Shouyue's second skill indicator consists of a total of four lines. The middle blue line is the baseline, serving as a reference, while the two outer blue lines represent the skill's casting spread. When Shouyue holds down his second skill, these two diverging lines rapidly converge within two seconds, allowing Shouyue's bullet to hit with pinpoint accuracy.

However, if fired before the two seconds were up, the bullet would land randomly within that area, and the accuracy would drop drastically.

There was also a red line right down the middle.

Lin Hao aimed at Li Yuanfang with his second skill, waiting until Li Yuanfang's body was caught between the outer blue line and the central baseline, aligning him using the red line sandwiched in between. Before the muzzle could fully converge, Lin Hao fired a shot straight away!

Bang!

The shot hit!

Li Yuanfang's health instantly dropped below the halfway mark.

"This should also be considered a little trick for Shouyue: trapping the enemy Li Yuanfang between the three lines makes it almost a hundred percent hit!"

Lin Hao explained, "Using the side with the red line, which bisects the centerline, to clamp down on the enemy you want to snipe. The moment they are perfectly trapped in between, you can fire immediately!"

This was also a minor trick for Shouyue to execute quick snipes and increase skill accuracy. Of course, he was only able to pull it off this time primarily because Meng Lan was no longer dodging, but instead trying to flee rapidly out of Shouyue's sniping range.

From then on, Meng Lan's playstyle became noticeably much more cautious.

He cowered under his tower to clear waves, giving Lin Hao no further opportunities to poke him.

At this point, Lin Hao's jungler, Luna, had rotated down to the bottom lane.

Meanwhile, Li Yuanfang's vision had disappeared from the lane.

Lin Hao cleared the bottom minion wave just slightly outside the tower range.

Li Yuanfang had very likely hidden in the nearby pathway bush, so Lin Hao fired two shots into the brush first.

Both missed completely.

Under these circumstances, Li Yuanfang was either genuinely camping him or had retreated back under the defensive tower.

Regardless, Li Yuanfang was definitely aware of Luna coming to gank.

Lin Hao pinged an attack signal, and Beimu's Luna cooperated seamlessly, arriving at the bottom lane and immediately helping Lin Hao push the wave.

Once the minions were inside, Luna also walked over to check the pathway bush.

As expected, no one was there.

At this moment, their teammates were also rushing down to the bottom lane.

With the minion wave entering the tower, Li Yuanfang tossed down an ultimate and immediately fell back, not giving Lin Hao and Beimu any chance to dive the tower.

The flight path of that ultimate's dart was placed quite conservatively, so Li Yuanfang's ideal scenario of clearing a whole wave of minions with a single ultimate didn't happen.

Lin Hao capitalized on the moment to hit the enemy defensive tower. With the fairy protection gone, Shouyue's tower-destroying damage was still quite substantial.

Right at that moment, Zhong Kui and Xishi, who were rushing down to assist the bottom lane, ran into an ambush by the enemy.

The opponents were Pei Qinhu accompanied by Yang Yuhuan and Donghuang Taiyi, who targeted Zhong Kui first. In an instant, Zhong Kui's health plummeted drastically.

Lin Hao merely glanced at the mini-map.

Given their position, Xishi and Zhong Kui probably couldn't escape anymore.

Following Luna, Lin Hao and Beimu quickly dismantled the bottom-tier tower and hurried toward the mid-right river area.

The 2-v-3 team fight in the river had already reached its climax. Zhong Kui was taken down first in a flash. Although Xishi managed to hook Pei Qinhu, she was entangled by Donghuang and Yang Yuhuan. The moment Pei Qinhu's crowd-control duration ended, Xishi was also doomed to die.

As soon as Beimu arrived, he entered the fray directly, initiating with his first skill.

This reinforcement was extremely swift. Donghuang and Yang Yuhuan, lacking mobility dashes, were now unable to run and could only be glued down by Beimu.

The scales of the team fight tipped in Lin Hao's favor once again.

However, Pei Qinhu managed to escape Xishi's skill control in time and began fiercely fighting Luna.

Yang Yuhuan immediately cast her ultimate. Although she entered an untargetable state and dodged Luna's ultimate, because Donghuang standing beside her was also marked, Luna's ultimate did not get interrupted.

After a brief suspension in the air, Yang Yuhuan landed from her ultimate, and a massive heal instantly restored the health bars of both Pei Qinhu and Donghuang Taiyi.