Chapter 53: The Young Southerner Is Numb

Master Fu’s maneuvering was truly remarkable...

Suddenly, Nan realized that this time, it would be difficult to use swap and slow to escape Master Fu and retreat to the tower.

The prerequisite for the Cross Slash to hit was the knock-up effect after swapping; clicking Cross Slash quickly without aiming would automatically lock onto the enemy, allowing for damage from both threads without having to predict.

If Master Fu moved upward, Nan’s swap followed by Cross Slash should hit as well—after all, Master Fu was slowed.

But what about after the Cross Slash?

Because of Master Fu’s positioning, Yuange couldn’t use Cross Slash’s movement to return to the tower.

If he swapped, the main body wouldn’t reach the tower immediately and would be caught and killed by Master Fu.

As for controlling the puppet to maneuver behind Master Fu and then swapping? That was even less feasible. Master Fu was moving upward while hammering the puppet; hesitate any longer, and the puppet would be smashed.

Ah, nothing could be done. This wave of minions would have to be abandoned.

If he had his fourth skill, it would be easier, but unfortunately, Nan had lost a wave and had been split by Xishi and Liu Chan, so his level hadn’t reached four yet.

Helpless, Nan could only click his third skill again, freezing Master Fu, hoping to pull his main body over and unleash a combo.

As before, Lin Hao reacted swiftly; seeing the puppet open its arms, he immediately clicked his second skill.

Nan’s combo was smooth; next moment, the Cross Slash hit, but did little damage to Master Fu.

Retrieving the puppet, Nan immediately retreated.

This exchange took nearly half of Master Fu’s health bar, but Nan could only withdraw.

Losing the minion wave was inevitable. Nan thought that even if he didn’t take the wave, he’d reach level four before the next one arrived.

Then, he could launch another combo.

Besides, his Xishi seemed to be moving upward again.

However, Lin Hao pressed his advantage, controlling Master Fu to chase directly forward.

“That’s enough!” Nan hurriedly retreated.

At this point, neither side had flash.

Master Fu was rather clumsy, and Yuange had no skills.

The distance between them was just enough for Master Fu’s first skill or ultimate to connect.

However, Yuange’s third skill, Cross Slash, applied a slow!

The chase continued, and the gap between Master Fu and Yuange narrowed inexorably.

Finally, as Yuange entered the range of the second tower, Master Fu caught up, used his first skill to pull Yuange close, then followed with his ultimate to bind him!

Nan felt a chill in his heart.

“Tying me up inside the tower?”

He had no skills, but Master Fu’s health was equally precarious!

He was full health—how could Master Fu kill him?

Nan stood motionless at the edge of Master Fu’s circle and began auto-attacking.

Lin Hao, after two or three basic attacks, entered his red rage state; his attack speed soared!

Lin Hao stepped back, attacked again, and then his first skill lit up once more. He quickly clicked, pulling Yuange over.

Attack, recall, attack, recall...

Lin Hao began his signature Master Fu recall-step auto-attack technique!

Nan saw the cloud effect flashing above Master Fu’s head, the recall animation.

“You’re recalling at a time like this?”

Nan felt utterly humiliated.

Lin Hao tanked three tower hits, then moved to exit the tower range just as the strike landed, resetting the tower’s increasing damage, before returning to attack again.

As a result, the tower’s escalating damage was nullified.

In the end, Yuange was hammered to death under the tower by Master Fu, and Master Fu also fell to the final tower strike.

A trade!

But Yuange was utterly shattered.

He had missed yet another wave!

All for the tower!

“Rage value from Nan +700!”

Lin Hao’s livestream chat exploded: “Not human.”

“I thought it was a one-tower dive, but the streamer dove two towers for the kill.”

“Such precise movement—dodging tower shots by stepping back.”

“This solo kill is textbook.”

“Why does it feel like the streamer has a deep grudge against Nan? Was this really necessary?”

“Tower diving is whatever, but recalling while auto-attacking? What’s that about?”

“That’s recall-canceling after-attack lag, first-timers in Hao’s stream wouldn’t know.”

Lin Hao felt delighted—another wave of rage value earned.

On the surface, he remained composed and analyzed rationally: “Xishi should be coming over now. I doubt I’ll escape this, so I might as well trade with Yuange.”

He was right—Xinran was indeed heading up the lane.

But with Lin Hao’s uncanny awareness and movement, even if he wanted to escape, Xinran coming from the river gave him an eighty percent chance to dodge Xishi’s first skill.

However, he figured that the rage value from dodging a skill wasn’t nearly as rewarding as the rage from diving two towers to kill Yuange.

Xinran could only reluctantly take Nan’s minion wave in the top lane.

With the lane in such a state, there was nothing more to be done—Yuange would have to defend the tower alone.

The priority now was to protect the bot lane’s development.

The game continued.

The economic gap between Yuange and Master Fu widened; Master Fu rampaged on the top lane, demolished the first tower, and after clearing the wave, stood in sight of Yuange, repeatedly recalling.

Yuange could only play defensively under the second tower.

Mirror came up for a gank, but Lin Hao counter-binded and repelled her after a round of trading.

Now the enemy could only look for opportunities in the bottom lane.

At five minutes, the bot lane maintained a delicate balance.

Both towers remained, though the enemy’s tower was down to a third of its health.

Xishi was playing as a side lane, but Lin Hao’s Shangguan Wan’er was also providing support and pressure.

Lin Hao’s teammates continued to maintain dominance; Afei’s economy and tempo were better than the enemy’s jungler.

This match, the teammates were really pulling their weight.

Lin Hao considered, and after finishing the top wave, directly used the teleport array.

“Time to help the team seize momentum in the bot lane!” Lin Hao announced to his viewers.

But in truth, he was quietly watching the rage value feedback.

Since Yuange was destroyed, then taunted by Lin Hao’s recall under his nose for several minutes, the backend system showed that Nan’s rage value increase per incident had noticeably dropped.

In other words, Nan was numb.

In this situation, even Lin Hao couldn’t pull off any new tricks.

Master Fu could perform the disappearing tower technique, but against Yuange—especially when the opponent was the top Yuange player in the country—Lin Hao’s current skill level still risked getting outplayed under the tower.

Better to switch targets and go fleece Xinran in the bot lane.