Let Me Sleep a Little Longer [Esports] - Chapter 11

Just like that, Sun He, who had been out of the private room for less than a minute, was forcibly pushed back in.

Except for the old fish who was happily eating, everyone else turned to look at the two people who had just entered through the door.

Wave looked at Sun and the Miya beside him with a friendly smile: “Hello, what a coincidence, miss.”

Zhou Lingxing and Su Heng glanced at each other and then continued with what they were doing.

Miya waved at Wave: “Yeah, I just ran into Sun outside and heard you were having a gathering, so I came to say hi.”

As they spoke, Miya’s gaze never left Zhou Lingxing.

Wave also saw that Miya’s real intention was not about the wine, so he pursed his lips and stopped responding.

The small private room suddenly fell silent for a few seconds. Sensing something unusual, Lao Yu stopped his chopsticks mid-motion as he was picking up meat, finally looking up and scanning the room twice.

A beautiful woman, unfamiliar to them, stood beside Sun He, her eyes sparkling as she looked at Zhou Lingxing; Sun He and Wave both looked somewhat displeased, while Su Heng and Zhou Lingxing held iPads, ready to add more meat for Lao Yu.

Lao Yu felt that the atmosphere was truly unusual now and decided to speak cautiously and act prudently.

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Miya couldn’t hold back in the end and walked over to Zhou Lingxing. “God LING, we meet again. I was the host at the last anniversary event, remember? We even played a game of LOL together.”

Zhou Lingxing was too lazy to even lift his eyelids and reached out to snatch the iPad from Su Heng’s hand.

Are you adding so little meat because you look down on Old Yu or think Captain Sun is stingy?

Su Heng looked at the quantity the man casually selected and twitched her temple: “He’s a person, not a bottomless pit.”

Zhou Lingxing sneered, “If only a bottomless pit had Old Yu’s appetite.”

Miya watched the interaction between the two and only then noticed Su Heng’s presence.

Unable to get a response from Zhou Lingxing, her expression darkened slightly. She could only stiffly turn to Sun He and ask, “Who is this? Sun He, why didn’t you tell me there was someone else besides the team members?”

Sun He raised an eyebrow: “How do you know she isn’t a team member?”

Miya was stunned. Did Sun He mean that this woman was a GI team member?

Female team member????

Female? Team? Member?

Sun could see the disbelief on Miya’s face: “She is the new jungler on the team, Su Heng.”

I’m afraid only Sun present knows the connection between Miya and Su Heng.

So he concealed Su Heng’s game ID and chose to say her name directly.

Miya heard Sun He admit that the girl was a new team member, and felt like her whole worldview was collapsing.

The first thought was, damn! Women can play professionally too? The second thought was, oh my god, how dangerous would it be to have a good-looking woman constantly hanging around LING!

Thus, the hostility towards Su Heng was like pushing with the current—effortless and swift, so fast that even she was frightened.

Su Heng heard her name, looked at Miya, and nodded as a form of greeting.

Miya smiled at Su Heng, her face slightly stiff: “Hello, this is actually the first time I’ve heard of a woman going pro, quite surprising.”

Su Heng looked at Miya seriously and said, “Isn’t there already a professional women’s team in LOL? What’s so surprising about that?”

Although she didn’t say the second half of the sentence out loud, the meaning between the lines made Miya’s little face flush red and then pale again.

Sun and Ren couldn’t help but think that these two might be inherently incompatible, whether in games or in real life.

Old Yu saw that the situation was awkward and tried to smooth things over: “Miss, are you eating here too? With whom?”

Miya didn’t get a response from Zhou Lingxing, so she ate her turtle stew at Su Heng’s place and answered along the steps: “With a few friends,” though her eyes never left Zhou Lingxing. “By the way, those friends are all fans of GI. Should I ask them to come over and say hi? They were here at the last anniversary celebration too.”

Wave wore a playful smile on his face: “GI’s fans? I bet they’re Ling Ge’s beauty fans, right?”

That one sentence stuck in Miya’s throat, leaving her speechless.

Sun cleared his throat and finally spoke: “Forget it, we have a practice match tonight, so it’s about time to head back. Maybe next time.”

Upon hearing this, Miya’s bright eyes dimmed, and she looked at Zhou Lingxing unwillingly, trying to start a conversation again.

“LING Shen, I often play mid lane during my live streams. Since we met today, how about we add each other on WeChat before we leave? That way, I can consult you if I have any questions in the future.”

Zhou Lingxing lazily lifted his eyelids and finally looked directly at Miya: “Sorry, I don’t have WeChat.”

Saying that, he picked up his coat and slowly stood up: “I’ll go pick up the car first, you guys hurry up and come out.”

As he passed Miya, he nodded to her and strode away.

Su Heng looked at Zhou Lingxing’s actions, feeling a bit displeased.

Tsk.

Every move is full of flirtatious charm, making people itch with desire.

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On the way back to the base, except for Old Fish still complaining that the extra meat added at the end was wasted, the others were in a good mood.

Sun He was in a good mood because Zhou Lingxing paid the bill for him in the end; Wave was in a good mood after eating and drinking his fill; Zhou Lingxing was in a good mood because of Su Heng’s joining; as for Su Heng, she was in a good mood full of anticipation for the upcoming practice match.

It was already 6:30 when they returned to the club. After a brief rest, they started the game.

At 6:45, Shen Jianian pushed the door open and walked straight up to Su Heng. “Hello, I am Shen Jianian, the coach of GI. You must be Su Heng, right?”

Su Heng looked up. “Hello.”

Shen Jianian didn’t want to say much, just nodded, then addressed everyone: “Sun He told me that starting today, every night at 7 o’clock you will have training matches against the second team. I hope you take it seriously and treat it as pre-match preparation.”

Old Yu was the first to speak: “Don’t worry, coach, we just played a match, and the young lady coordinated with us perfectly.”

Wave scoffed: “It’s just a casual game, and you didn’t say what kind of people were on the other team.”

Shen Jianian was unconvinced: “Alright, I wasn’t there to judge, we’ll see how well the coordination is later.”

At exactly seven o’clock, the five of them entered the Ban & Pick screen on time.

Because they often scrim with the second team, both sides had no hesitation in banning heroes.

Su Heng’s side banned LeBlanc, Jarvan, and Thresh.

The second team banned Viktor, Rumble, and Caitlyn.

It wasn’t until Su Heng’s side started picking heroes that the silent atmosphere was broken.

Zhou Lingxing was the first to lock in Yasuo, and the moment he locked in the champion, Wave completely lost it.

Yasuo? What the heck???

Although their opponents now aren’t on the level of LPL players, they’re still professional players. How can they treat this like a casual game??

Su Heng spoke up before Wave could lose his temper: “Tuo’er Suo?”

Sun He was taken aback; in just a few days, this woman even knew the jargon from these games?

Zhou Lingxing raised an eyebrow dismissively: “Don’t speak too soon.”

A strange curve appeared at the corner of Su Heng’s mouth.

Although they won the match before dinner easily, she could vaguely sense the careful intentions of Zhou Lingxing and Sun He.

In this round, she was the last to pick a hero, the legendary counter pick.

She had planned to choose a hero based on the team compositions they had secured, but Zhou Lingxing’s Yasuo…

Forcibly increasing the game’s difficulty?

Looking at Zhou Lingxing’s confident expression, Su Heng smiled without a word. When the enemy comes, you block with a general; when water comes, you cover with earth. She simply didn’t believe she couldn’t handle him.

The members of Team Two were probably caught off guard by Zhou Lingxing’s Yasuo play.

Just barely, in the last two seconds of the hero selection time limit, they picked the bottom lane duo of Jinx and Tahm Kench.

Wave couldn’t smile anymore; the current version’s bottom lane combination of Jinx and Tahm Kench is very strong.

He gritted his teeth and discussed with Old Fish, choosing Lucian and Alistar.

This time, the second team picked very quickly; the top lane instantly locked in Kennen, and the mid lane instantly locked in Kog’Maw, both heroes that counter Yasuo.

Sun He felt a sharp pain in his head; Zhou Lingxing is really…

Someone you both love and hate.

Now that I think about it, it’s actually a bit similar to Su Heng’s style.

Just as Sun He was hesitating, Shen Jianian spoke calmly: “Crocodile.”

Hearing Shen Jianian’s suggestion, Sun He didn’t hesitate at all and locked onto Crocodile.

Su Heng looked at her own lineup, pondered for a moment, and still chose Blind Monk.

Although this lineup isn’t considered good, being almost an all-AD lineup, the Excavator’s damage and ultimate are still too underwhelming.

It seems like the second team didn’t pay much attention to the jungle and directly locked in Graves to supplement the AD damage.

Sun and Fang’s lineup: Renekton, Yasuo, Lee Sin, Lucian, Alistar.

Second team’s lineup: Kennen, Fizz, Graves, Jinx, Tahm Kench.

From the lineup, the second team’s configuration seems to have improved by more than just a little.

The game started quickly.

Since Shen Jianian let Sun He pick the crocodile, he hasn’t spoken again, really just like he came to watch the battle.

The first wave of skirmishes appeared in the bottom lane.

Because Su Heng was unfamiliar with the hero Kennen, her initial choice for the best gank route was to start from the top lane.

After finally getting the opportunity, she accurately kicked Kennen with the second stage of Q. Kennen immediately activated E to retreat back to the turret. Not only did the first wave gank fail, but Su Heng’s carefully calculated gold amount, item build, and gank timing were all disrupted.

She had no choice but to spend more time recalculating and redeploying.

Just as Su Heng lost the initiative, the second team’s jungler, Xiao Ban, saw that Lee Sin’s gank on the top lane had failed and immediately prepared to gank the bottom lane.

The moment Xiao Ban appeared, Su Heng, who had just forced Kennen back to the turret on the top lane, quickly calculated in her mind and promptly said, “Old Yu, place a ward; Sun He, teleport to the bottom lane. Leave a target for Sun He, and I’ll take the minion wave on the top lane.”

Perhaps it was because her voice was so calm that a few people even thought the one giving orders was Shen Jianian, and without a moment’s hesitation, they acted according to her instructions.

Just as Sun He said, Su Heng truly trusted her teammates. In a three-on-three situation, they had an 80% chance of winning. They took this wave of minions, continued jungling and roaming, and the two players in the bottom lane along with Sun He gained benefits. This wave was a profit.

Lao Yu placed wards in very tricky spots. While Su Heng was pushing the minion wave here, she was also constantly watching Kennen’s movements, covering Sun He’s teleport.

So much so that until Sun He teleported to the battlefield, the opponents were completely unaware.

Sun He and a few others have been cooperating for years with great synergy. The moment the enemy Graves used E to approach, they charged straight towards the nearby Jinx.

On the opposing side, Tahm Kench, seeing an unexpected Renekton, immediately swallowed Jinx and quickly retreated.

However, at that moment, the situation suddenly changed.

Alistar directly used his QW combo to charge at the nearby Graves, knocking him up. Renekton then used W to step forward, landed two more hits, and stunned him. Lucian, dealing heavy damage from the backline, secured the kill.

The cold mechanical female voice sounded, First Blood——

The first blood is born.