Chapter 16: Factory Director, You Might as Well Go Home and Raise Pigs Instead

Regarding Su Mo's arrangement, the Manager was extremely unwilling.

He was terrified that if he went over there, he would be instantly deleted, and then what would he do when he had to take the fall?

"I don't want to go. I feel like the opponent can one-shot me," the Manager said, shaking his head.

Hearing this, Su Mo hurriedly began his persuasion: "As the saying goes, fortune is found in danger. This is your problem—whenever it's a critical game, you get afraid of this and that, just like the World Championship last year. If you're this cowardly playing a game, you might as well go home and raise pigs."

Su Mo said this intentionally, but it wasn't purely to harvest torment points.

These words were, in a sense, his true feelings.

Before his transmigration, while watching the S6 World Championship livestream, Su Mo had seen the Manager playing Lee Sin, acting timid and submissive against Peanut.

It wasn't that the Manager lacked skill or experience; he had simply been beaten so badly by Peanut that he lost his confidence, ultimately producing that classic 4396 damage, which made Su Mo's blood boil just watching it.

It was only later, when several professional players set new lows, that Su Mo realized that 4396 damage was actually quite high on the professional stage...

Su Mo's words made the Manager's face flush red.

"Go home and raise pigs"—that phrase had originally come from him.

He used to scold a certain domestic genius mid-laner with those exact words.

He never imagined that one day, those words would be used against him by someone else.

And this person was even a junior.

How did he dare!

*Sigh...*

At this moment, he felt a surge of anger and wanted to use his status as an EDG veteran to suppress Su Mo.

But for a moment, he couldn't find a single reason to refute him.

The failure at the S6 World Championship, being pummeled by the Korean server jungle king Peanut—wasn't that precisely because of his own cowardice?

Fear of death, fear of taking the blame, fear of being criticized.

This was the inner demon he had never dared to face.

He never brought up the World Championship in front of others because he couldn't face the past.

But now, that veil of modesty was being ruthlessly torn away by Su Mo.

"A great man should face the vast sea in the morning and the mountains at dusk," Su Mo's voice rang out again. "You are still so young, and your professional career is long. If you start being timid and afraid to make mistakes now, what's the point of being a professional?"

"Stop talking, stop talking!!!!" the Manager hurriedly interrupted. "I'll go, I'll go, alright?!"

Su Mo's nagging made his head buzz.

He feared that if he let this guy continue, he would be tormented to death.

【Obtained +100 Torment Points from the Manager】

The sudden notification took Su Mo by surprise.

A few casual words had such a huge impact on the Manager?

It seemed the Manager was a good sheep after all; there was plenty of wool to pluck.

However, there was no time to dwell on this. Upon hearing the Manager's answer, Su Mo decisively threw a Q at Rengar's head, followed immediately by an E.

The Manager also hurriedly pressed the R key, sprinting toward the bot lane as fast as possible, terrified that if he was a step late, Su Mo would catch him for another round of torment.

This scene left Scout, Meiko, and the others stunned.

The Manager's status in EDG was almost equivalent to Coach Abe; he was one of the most prestigious members.

Even veterans like Meiko, who had been with EDG for a long time, wouldn't dare say harsh words to him.

But Su Mo...

He wasn't just saying harsh words; he was fucking hammering away at the Manager's most sensitive nerve!

The most absurd part was that the Manager didn't offer even the slightest rebuttal.

Is this really the Manager I know... Meiko couldn't help but fall into doubt.

Of course, it wasn't just Meiko.

In the EDG lounge, Abe's face was also filled with astonishment.

Just what kind of creature is this Su Mo...

Regarding the Manager, even if Abe, as his coach, personally spoke to him, the Manager wouldn't listen and might even talk back.

Abe was powerless in that regard, as the Manager was the core of EDG's popularity.

But now, a rookie was talking down to him so brazenly, and he wouldn't even snap back...

Should Su Mo just become the coach instead?

Abe's heart was filled with complex emotions.

However, his internal turmoil could not affect the progress of the match.

Rengar, having used his ultimate to dive in, used the vision from his ult to immediately spot Gragas in the triangular brush of the bot lane.

The moment he saw Gragas, the Manager's expression turned fierce, and he lunged directly forward.

"Roar!"

His mouse clicked frantically, spamming Gragas as if trying to vent all his recent frustrations onto him.

Upon landing, he executed a Q-E-W combo to proc his passive, and combined with Zilean's bomb, Gragas's health instantly dropped by two-thirds.

Seeing this, Gragas countered with an E-R combo, blasting Rengar away.

However, the knockback direction was slightly off, and he wasn't sent very far.

Rengar activated his empowered Q to accelerate and chased again.

RNG's bot lane duo had originally been about to retreat under the tower, but seeing Gragas being targeted, they hurriedly turned back.

Otherwise, Gragas would certainly die here.

But just as they returned to save Gragas, a circular formation appeared behind them.

It was Ryze's R skill—Realm Warp!

Two seconds later, Ryze descended from the teleportation circle, and landing alongside him was an old man carrying a giant clock—Zilean!

Uzi frowned: "Junze, give me your R later. Xiaoming, protect me, I can outplay this."

Facing five opponents, Uzi still showed no cowardice or intent to flee; instead, he chose to fight back.

This was his confidence.

However, upon landing, Zilean immediately executed a Q-W-E-Q combo. Two bombs accurately hit Caitlyn while simultaneously applying a slow.

The damage from those bombs left Uzi dumbfounded.

A single bomb had taken away a third of his health, and crucially, the second one was already on a countdown!

Seeing Caitlyn slowed, Meiko's Karma was also very decisive, flashing directly into her face to land a W.

Caitlyn used E plus Flash to create distance, trying to find space to counterattack, but after running far, she found the slow was still active.

Zet's Varus wasn't idle either, using R-Flash to try and root Caitlyn, but Xiaoming's reaction was also lightning-fast, flashing in to intercept Varus's ultimate for Caitlyn.

In the next instant, Meiko pressed R-E, and the entire EDG team charged forward, bolstered by shields and speed...

A fierce gang fight began.

Three seconds later, an announcement echoed through the Rift: "Ace!"

Team wipe!

And by the river in the bot lane of Summoner's Rift, four more corpses appeared—

Gragas, Caitlyn, Lulu, and Shen, who had teleported in with the ultimate...

Looking at the large "Ace" notification on the screen, Uzi was stunned.

He had considered that they might die this wave, but he never imagined they would die so pathetically.

Zilean's two bombs and the slow from his E had completely stripped him of his ability to move.

Even with Shen's ultimate shield and Lulu's protection, he still died quite abruptly.

He didn't even have a chance to fight back.

This damn...

That bastard Zilean!

When playing ranked before, he never realized this hero was such a nuisance!

Uzi's expression darkened. After this fight, the advantage they had accumulated in the bot lane was completely gone, and RNG had fallen into a total disadvantage.

Indeed, EDG had already secured the Dragon.

For a moment, RNG fell into silence once again.

...

In the RNG lounge, Feng's brow was furrowed deeply, his eyes fixed intently on the screen.

On the screen, the old man with the clock on his back was returning to base.

"This guy is not right," Feng muttered softly. "How on earth did EDG train him like this?"

If previously Feng couldn't understand why EDG had allowed the rookie Mo to sub in, or why they chose Zilean for top lane, now he understood completely.

This top laner, Zilean, was EDG's true trump card, their real killer move!

Or rather, this Mo was the hidden ace that EDG had been secretly training.

"EDG, Abe... you guys are hiding far too deep!"

(End of Chapter)