153: Money transfer speed

"I'm telling you, kid, you're pretty good," Zhu Meng said, his arm still in a cast and hanging in a sling across his chest, as he looked at Dream Injury with a gratified expression.

"I didn't expect you to mesh so well with them. What do you think about tomorrow's match?"

He had already been discharged from the hospital, though he still had to go back for check-ups from time to time.

Since he couldn't play in the matches now, he spent his time either watching the games or studying their opponents back at the hotel.

He had learned to study opponents from Must Go to School on Monday. He heard that the reason their team kept winning was that they would research their opponents thoroughly.

As for why they had such an idea...

Supposedly, it was because that kid, Prologue, liked to grind practice problems before exams.

As for how he found out they were studying their opponents, well, it could only be said that no wall is completely windproof in this world.

Dream Injury smiled shyly. "We're playing against Spark tomorrow. Their team's Echo is too good with Hua Mulan, and then there's Shuohuang's Wang Zhaojun. I think we definitely can't let them have Zhuang Zhou."

"But I think they're very likely to bait one of our heroes. Either way, we still need to be cautious for tomorrow's match."

In this current version, Hua Mulan's skills were essentially a copy of Riven's; she had no problem taking on five enemies at once.

As for Wang Zhaojun, her ultimate's range was quite large. The only drawback was that she couldn't move while casting it and it could be interrupted.

However, her damage was extremely high.

And regarding Zhuang Zhou, in this version, his ultimate gave teammates immunity to all damage and effects while increasing their movement speed for two seconds.

It could be said that Zhuang Zhou was currently one of the most overpowered supports.

Zao An frowned. "Haven't you practiced Luna? Playing against them shouldn't be a problem, right?"

Dream Injury shook his head. "It's best to keep a trump card hidden if we're confident. Right now, we are completely transparent to Monday's team, but they aren't to us."

"They've won all their matches in these rounds, it's just that they've played fewer than us. So, they are very likely hiding something too."

"If we're fully exposed, they will definitely research us thoroughly at the first opportunity."

"But perhaps we can also use Luna to make them fall into a trap."

He rambled on for a long time. Zhu Meng became thoughtful. "You're already thinking about playing in the grand finals, haha."

Dream Injury smiled. "You have to prepare in advance. Just in case there's a chance, right? Better safe than sorry."

So far, only three matches remained. Tomorrow was their match against Spark, and the day after would be the winner of that match against Apex—which was Wei Yan's team.

The day after that would be the final championship match.

The schedule Ye Bai had arranged was quite compact.

Mainly, once this tournament was over, Ye Bai had to give them some time to join clubs, as the Spring Season matches would start soon after.

He had already planned it: the Spring Season would start around March, followed immediately by the Summer Season, and then the Challenger Cup.

Originally, there should have been a World Champion Cup, but in this world, the Blue Star was unified, and there were already players from other continents participating now.

Ye Bai felt that they might still need more time to adapt for now.

So he didn't plan to schedule too many matches; he needed to give them more time for training.

But even so, at most three teams could win prize money every year.

This was still quite good.

Ye Bai took some time to check on the upcoming match, which was the one between ACE and Spark.

The commentators were already quite skilled, and the director fully understood when to cut to what.

Besides them, there were also some Streamers rebroadcasting the tournament.

Golden Ring was one of them.

His team only achieved seventh place, with a prize of 420,000 yuan. After taxes, each person could get 67,000.

This money wasn't much to him. If he had been streaming during this period, he could have earned much more than this.

After all, he was a top-tier Streamer for King of Glory.

However, after playing in this tournament, his fame had clearly grown even more.

"I can only say there are too many experts," Golden Ring sighed. "We still have to practice, haha."

He was streaming from his hotel room.

The bullet chat was moving fast.

['Already very impressive. Your last game was a bit of a pity, ACE is just too strong.']

['Streamer, Streamer, have you received the prize money yet?']

['Wow, Streamer, can you help me get an autograph from Prologue!']

['Have any clubs approached you? Will you still stream in the future? Or are you going to play professionally?']

['I'm so jealous of the Streamer. I went to play too, but got knocked out in the first round, haha.']

Golden Ring picked the comments he could see to answer. "The prize money was sent out the same day the match ended. The League's payout speed is really fast."

"How does the Streamer plan to spend such a large prize?"

"That's definitely going back to my 'family' members first. Family members present today, get ready to grab red envelopes. The biggest red envelopes on the internet—I'm sending out ten today! I'll send another ten on the day of the grand finals!"

As he spoke, he directly clicked to send the first red envelope.

"As for whether I'll play in matches later," Golden Ring frowned, "I probably won't play again, haha. To be honest, the pressure of competing is too high."

"Because the match times are irregular—sometimes in the morning, sometimes at night—many players feel like throwing up after a while. And if you sign with a club, you have to play seriously for several years. I still prefer streaming more."

['Holy crap, a 666 yuan red envelope! If he sends ten today, isn't that six thousand?']

['The Streamer is so generous! It's fine not to play professionally. I heard from a friend who signed with a club that they've already set a schedule. It's really playing games all day and night, just like a regular job.']

['Do you guys think Prologue will keep playing? He's only thirteen; he probably has to go to school later, right?']

['How is that possible? Prologue's grades are pretty good; he'll definitely have to study in the future. King of Glory has only been out for so long; it might die out at some point. Does he really plan to make a living out of this?']

['Fair point. Playing games is too unstable. Better to just focus on studying.']

The chat in the stream began to drift into various topics.

Golden Ring started watching as the match began. "ACE took Hua Mulan first. It looks like they want to block the opponent's Echo."

"Spark's side shouldn't be underestimated either. They directly took Cao Cao. Heh, you don't give me Hua Mulan, but does that mean my Echo doesn't know any other heroes?"

"They also took Wang Zhaojun. This will be hard to play. Wang Zhaojun's ultimate is easily interrupted, but if the freezes are good, it's easy to build an advantage."

"Let's see what ACE picks," Golden Ring said, feeling extremely comfortable in his pajamas while drinking a beverage. "They chose Sun Shangxiang and Diaochan. They're not taking Zhuang Zhou?"

"The junglers for both sides haven't appeared yet. Oh, Spark's jungler is out: Zhao Yun."