Lin Fan dragged over a small stool and sat behind Mark.
He wanted to see what kind of "four clowns" could make Mark say that.
After all, Mark was the type of pro who was steady and well-behaved—basically the team's nice guy.
More importantly, as a pro who's played that much ranked, what kind of people hasn't he seen?
If even Mark called them clowns, then their "ingredients" had to be interesting. Might as well watch the monkeys politely.
With two big bros sitting behind Mark, the rest of the team unconsciously drifted over too.
After all, there was "activity" going on tonight. Everyone had streaming tasks, and with Korea server unavailable, they were all just waiting around anyway.
"Wow—Brother Infinite Borders is on camera!"
"Joking aside, this expression… it's the first time I've ever seen Brother Infinite Borders actually angry."
"Mark is so pitiful. One sentence exposed the state of CN server, and these four people proved it."
"CN server is seriously a mess! Mark's only mistake was typing 'my bad.' He should've just flamed the ADC. How trash do you have to be to get hit by Gragas as Caitlyn?"
"Honestly, if Mark were tougher and flamed Caitlyn first, maybe he wouldn't have gotten dogpiled by everyone."
"The enemy top laner looks like Wen Dog. I'm going to check his stream."
"Top lane that CS Renekton is Wen Dog. First-person POV didn't even see anything and he's stirring it up here?"
"I'm going to go flame Wen Dog first!"
This game was already at seventeen minutes.
Those four had been outputting on Mark for a full thirteen minutes.
Caitlyn was the main damage dealer. "Unknown Plane" was the secondary carry, sarcastic and passive-aggressive. Mid and top—solo lanes—kept stoking the fire.
Mark nearly lost it several times and wanted to type-flame back.
But he remembered: he was a pro. Arguing with players in-game was a serious issue.
AFKing was even more impossible. One misstep and you'd get banned or fined—who could take that?
So he could only grit his teeth and keep playing.
Wen Dog probably saw someone reveal Mark's identity in stream chat.
Not only did he not rein it in, he got even worse with the mockery.
"No wonder. MSI champion Mark—yeah, you're qualified to say CN server isn't as good as Korea server~"
"So what if it's Mark? Their team has a sandbagger bro, Dine. Support sandbagging with mid is normal," "Pig Intestines" typed, following Wen Dog's sarcasm.
Caitlyn and Lee Sin's tone softened a bit.
Their aggression wasn't as sharp as before.
But they kept clinging to the idea of "pros are above you," just to disgust Mark.
Beside them, JackeyLove's immersion was off the charts. He was rolling up his sleeves, itching to go crack their heads open himself.
The game dragged to twenty-one minutes. Only when the post-game screen popped did Mark finally calm down.
He'd been happy all day—MSI champion, ready to do activities tonight.
He never expected that his second game would run into this bunch of scum and ruin the vibe completely.
"Log in, log in, log in~" JackeyLove yelled.
He immediately sat down at the PC.
Lin Fan didn't say anything either. He logged into his long-unused CN server account.
This was also an LPL super account provided for pros. The rank wasn't high—only Platinum I—but the hidden MMR could match into Master.
So it was possible to run into people like this.
The fans in chat didn't sit idle either. They started going after Wen Dog.
As for the other three, their identities couldn't be dug up yet, so people just added them as friends first and flamed them anyway.
When Lin Fan started his stream and the League client appeared, everyone in chat perked up.
After what just happened, it was obvious what he was about to do.
"My hands are a little itchy today. I want to play a couple ranked games. Since we can't play Korea server, we'll play CN server."
As he spoke, he hit "Find Match."
Chat scrolled like crazy.
"Big bro is mad!"
"I honestly think Mark's play was normal. He admitted his mistake immediately. And they flamed him for twenty-plus minutes?"
"CN server's environment is disgusting. Is Tencent really not going to do anything?"
"Seriously. Pros get their accounts banned overseas, and back home they don't even have a place to train."
"Damn, I just came out of Wen Dog's stream. He was insanely cocky, arguing nonstop with people in chat."
"As expected of Brother Infinite Borders—he still had time to check Infinite Borders, plus the Teamfight Tactics schedule."
"Isn't the TFT Worlds around these two days?"
"Good news is it doesn't conflict with pro league…"
"Even if it did, it's fine. They're already in finals—no way they can just quit. Let Qingtian sub mid, I think it's okay. Plus, TES hasn't gotten a season opener win in six splits."
The moment Lin Fan went live, viewership blasted past 4 million.
Chat was a wall of text.
And with the championship fresh, League fans poured in at an insane pace.
Reason was simple—people had never seen a pro like him.
No daily training, and yet he still wins.
It felt new.
And right now, most people were fans. The moment he loses a key match, they'll turn into revenants.
He also opened Dungeon Fighter Online—three apps running at once.
While League queued, Infinite Borders had bandits raiding a main city. Then his DNF Swordman was mowing down dungeons too.
No joke—DNF is a great mowing game.
And while waiting, he really could clear two dungeons. Meanwhile, the troops he'd sent out came back, and everything connected seamlessly.
So even while waiting, it wasn't boring.
When the match pop finally appeared, Lin Fan had already queued into a game.
No extra talk—he wanted it fast. So he locked LeBlanc, a champion with brutal early-mid kill pressure and strong snowball closing.
After a short champ select, they loaded in. Lin Fan checked enemy IDs first.
"Wen Dog, one. Unknown Plane, one…"
Good. Targets confirmed.
Meanwhile, back at the club, JackeyLove was already shouting.
"That's it? That Caitlyn's this level? I'll kill him in two minutes."
"I thought he talked so big—I figured he had hands. Turns out he's just this?"
His loud, arrogant voice also carried into the stream.
"Hahaha, JackeyLove is delivering justice. I'm dying."
"TES bot duo is together. Worldwide, there aren't many who can beat JackeyLove and Mark. You expect a blame-shifter to play well?"
"I genuinely don't understand. What level are these solo queue players, to charge at a pro like that?"
"Alright, now we watch Brother Infinite Borders."
Lin Fan wanted to go gank top and the enemy ADC as soon as possible, so mid lane—sorry, Cassiopeia.
Normally he wouldn't be too ruthless in lane.
But this time, there was a reason.
At level two, LeBlanc timed it perfectly—full combo, Ignite, chase with autos. Easy solo kill.
For mid lane, if you can swap Teleport for Ignite, your chances of solo killing go up by at least twenty percent.
In pro play, it often comes down to that tiny bit of Ignite damage.
But because of mid-to-late game rotations, just one "legend" isn't enough.
That's why top laners run Teleport, and mid laners often do too—
Unless you're on certain always-group comps, where you take more utility summoner spells.
Mid was freed. Now he could go bully bot lane.
Compared to Wen Dog, the main "output target" this game was the bot lane's Unknown Plane.
Level four, he walked straight down.
Unknown Plane sensed it and immediately turtled under turret.
Too bad—Lin Fan's killing intent was absolute. And his bot lane duo added a tiny bit of damage.
LeBlanc stepped on his face—QEA with Electrocute—clean tower dive kill.
Then he flashed a "So weak."
Thumbs down.
"Nice kill! These guys really don't know how high the sky is."
"So weak! So weak!"
"Brother Infinite Borders actually got serious for once. First time seeing him speed up this hard. Before, in ranked, he'd usually kill mid first, take the turret, then move."
"Hahaha, it's pretty funny."
"I can only say: good death. Mark is basically a normal player's shadow—blamed for everything in-game, with nowhere to vent."
"That's why with teammates like this, Mark won't get bullied."
"I still think this isn't enough."
"Brother Infinite Borders has such good connections, and TES just won MSI. I can't accept the champion support getting bullied. Go spam other streamer chats too."
"Same, same…"
For a moment, Uzi, Zzitai, and Rookie's chats all got flooded with Mark-related comments.
Meanwhile, content creators who could smell heat started clipping everything and uploading it to Bilibili and short-video platforms.
Because they knew a massive wave was coming.
They might've missed the MSI dividend, but this smaller wave had to be fully eaten.
At the same time, Lin Fan's LeBlanc had already visited bot lane four times.
Unknown Plane came to lane once, then went straight back to fountain.
And he had to suffer the double torment of Teemo plus "So weak."
What shocked everyone even more was that Lin Fan started swapping into DNF.
He controlled his Swordman through a dungeon, mowing mobs, while camping bot lane to "deliver justice."
The stream kept flashing—less than a second and it changed content.
One moment League, the next moment DNF.
Most outrageous was how smooth his hands were.
He'd clear mobs, walk two steps, swap back to League, step in twice to dump damage, then instantly swap back to DNF…
Viewers got dizzy. Eyes and brain couldn't keep up.
So Brother Infinite Borders really could do this?
It was just a matter of whether he wanted to.
Thinking like that, those four clowns actually did have some use—at least they forced out his hidden skill.
Bot lane harassment maxed out.
Top lane Wen Dog looked like he'd escaped, but since Lin Fan kept camping bot, jungle got freed and started hard camping top.
Wen Dog's situation turned miserable too. Without realizing it, he got tower-dived twice.
He got so tilted he spam-pinged his own jungler and Cassiopeia.
"Are you two idiots?"
Getting mental broken because of ganks—classic.
At the same time, Lin Fan swapped back from DNF, saw Unknown Plane walk up, stepped on him twice, sent him back to fountain, and then instantly swapped back again.
"Hey, hey, I'm realizing dual-tasking is zero difficulty for me. And we've also got Infinite Borders—this timing is even better. Dungeon runs and tile grabbing can all be played at once."
"The pressure they're giving isn't enough. Maybe because he didn't get jungle? If he got jungle, maybe he'd have stronger aggression?"
As he spoke, he swapped back and flashed "So weak" on Unknown Plane's corpse again.
Even though Cassiopeia kept farming, top and bot were both completely blown open.
And Lin Fan built Mejai's early. Mid-to-late teamfights were still a stomp.
The moment they met, the ADC would get one-shot by LeBlanc. No solution.
Even without Lin Fan actively pushing turrets, the game still ended quickly—settled at 27 minutes.
Unknown Plane died 13 times in those 27 minutes.
If he met LeBlanc, he died. Hiding didn't help—he couldn't hide.
By the end, people weren't even focused on the soul-killing ADC anymore. They were watching the constant game swapping.
No one expected that "Brother Infinite Borders dual-tasking" video made by content creators would actually become real.
Infinite Borders is theoretically not that hard—send troops out, wait for them to return. You can play it during League downtime.
But what shocked everyone was that he could also dungeon farm.
DNF mobs aren't difficult—usually one slash per mob, maybe two for a few.
But with this kind of constant screen flashing, you can tell how hard it is.
A lot of viewers were literally tearing up—mainly because their dynamic vision couldn't handle it. The high-intensity swapping was too much.
"Holy crap, Brother Infinite Borders, please accept my kneel!"
"First time I've ever seen someone do three-thread multitasking."
"Is this what pro player ability looks like?"
"Big Fei Teacher's spam-screening is nothing compared to this."
"If the match PCs could install Infinite Borders, I swear this would happen."
"Hahaha, it's hilarious. But I still have to say: Unknown Plane deserved it."
"Good news from JackeyLove's side too—Caitlyn got killed eight times in lane and went AFK."
"Report him?"
"CN server's environment really needs to be cleaned up. Start at the source. If they could catch griefers the way they catch skin resellers, CN server would've been fixed ages ago."
This one-two incident fermented fast in Mark's CN server time.
On Bilibili, views already passed 500k.
Major streamers and retired pros all voiced support for Mark.
"CN server environment really stinks!"
"The moment things go slightly wrong, people start flaming. How are you supposed to play?"
"If I could play Korea server, I definitely wouldn't queue CN server."
In no time, those four players got "wanted" by big streamers and pro players.
If you see them, you must target them.
They'd reached the level of everyone wanting to beat them.
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