Chapter 107 An Absolute Must

Huang Shaotian closed his computer in the corner, and once again, shrinking his body and hiding his head, he sneaked out of the darkness. Ye Xiu at the front desk had been watching him, helplessly looking at this old man acting so cautious.

"Why retire? Why retire?" Huang Shaotian, arriving at the front desk, was still constantly asking.

"If I don't retire, should I stay in the team as a training partner?" Ye Xiu asked.

"Training partner? Excellent Era is sincerely trying to force you out!" Huang Shaotian said, "But you retiring directly is too impulsive, right? You should have at least tried to find a transfer opportunity! Even if Excellent Era stubbornly refuses, it's not necessarily completely impossible. Maybe some team would be willing to offer enough to make Excellent Era budge. You should have at least waited until the transfer window closed to retire!"

"If I transfer... what about Mucheng?" Ye Xiu said.

Huang Shaotian was stunned.

Being a God-level player, how could he not understand these things about the Alliance? Someone like Su Mucheng, some bosses wouldn't even be willing to abandon her if they replaced the entire team. She was simply a money tree, the boss's money-making machine, a person whose commercial value far exceeded her competitive value. Even he, Huang Shaotian, couldn't guarantee that he wouldn't be traded by the club, but if it were Su Mucheng, many bosses would rather sacrifice a little performance to keep her.

"If I transfer, Mucheng will definitely force a contract termination," Ye Xiu said.

"I see... then what about you terminating your contract? Hmm... if you terminate on your end, you won't be allowed to join another team this season, but at least it's half a year less than retiring. But if you return, you can't go back to Excellent Era either, so it's basically the same as transferring. Retiring for a year, at least you don't have to pay breach of contract fees or buy out the contract, right? After a year... how long until Mucheng's contract expires?" Huang Shaotian asked after muttering a bunch to himself.

"A year and a half," Ye Xiu said.

"Oh... so you're planning to come back in a year and a half? A year and a half! You're too cruel, right?" Huang Shaotian exclaimed in astonishment. The professional life of an e-sports player is quite short. It's already extremely rare for this guy to be 25 years old and still at this level. Giving up a year and a half at this time is simply defying the natural order.

"Heh, just wait for me to come back and beat you up!" Ye Xiu said.

"Damn, too arrogant, right?" Huang Shaotian shouted.

"What's our current record in one-on-ones?" Ye Xiu asked.

"Ah... the weather's really nice tonight!" Huang Shaotian's gaze turned to the pitch-black night outside the internet cafe's door.

After staring blankly for a long time, Huang Shaotian's gaze returned, his expression solemn: "You must come back."

"Do you even need to say that?" Ye Xiu said.

"Tell me if you have any difficulties," Huang Shaotian said seriously.

"Return my Blood-Sucking Light Sword, and also, ten yuan for two hours of internet fees," Ye Xiu said.

"..." The chatterbox was finally speechless for once.

"I'll return the Blood-Sucking Light Sword later!" Huang Shaotian slapped ten yuan on the front desk, turned around, and disappeared into the night, acting suspiciously.

"Lord Grim left?" Ye Xiu received a message from Tang Rou when he returned to the game.

"Yeah."

"Dungeon?" Tang Rou asked.

Ye Xiu smiled, and immediately gathered his team to run the dungeon again.

The time of 16 minutes 24 seconds 67 was hung high on the leaderboard. Looking at this time, Blue River was speechless for a long time. While he was still stunned, a message arrived. He opened it and saw it was from Lord Grim: "How many keyboards have you eaten?"

Blue River was in tears. He swore that his record of eating keyboards was only ranked third on the Graveyard of the Dead record board. If you calculated it that way, he'd have to eat a pair of keyboards.

"Brother, please don't make fun of me," Blue River said, depressed.

"Hehe, this time the record should be fine," Ye Xiu said.

"Okay, okay," Blue River replied, but didn't express too much. Ye Xiu understood. This record was being broken once in a while, and the experts in the game who were originally quite good at making judgments had already become lost. Blue River was still going to observe. But right now, this record was indeed at its peak. Unless a guild was willing to spend a lot of effort to collect orange equipment to arm their team at this time and find experts to play for them. For a new server, there was no such possibility.

Naturally, Night Fragrant Cold was also shocked by this record. Originally, he was still rejoicing when Excellent Dynasty had broken Lord Grim's record again. He felt that the hired players Excellent Dynasty found this time were probably even more awesome, and Lord Grim probably couldn't hold on. Who would have thought that Lord Grim would have regained the record shortly after?

Steamed Bun Invasion, Soft Mist, Wind Following the Stream... Night Fragrant Cold could be considered to recognize these people.

But who was that Drifting Blade from the last dungeon run?

And who was this Flowing Tree that popped out this time?

What was the situation in this tenth server? So many independent experts? Was this still considered a new server?

Like Blue River, Night Fragrant Cold also lost confidence in his own judgment. He didn't know if this record would be broken again. He and a bunch of other major guilds guarded this record all night.

Nothing! There were no more system announcements. Did the Graveyard of the Dead dungeon stabilize here? But this was only today. The major guilds seemed calm but were uneasy and guarded it for another day. The record remained unmoving. Not to mention first place, no team could even touch third place.

Because of the superior competitiveness shown in the competition for these two dungeons, Excellent Dynasty received widespread attention from the major guilds. Undercover accounts frequently appeared. But before infiltrating the core, it was really difficult to dig up any valuable information from the guild's public channel, especially since even the people in Excellent Era themselves didn't know who the hired players were, except for the guild leader, Chen Yehui.

Although everyone easily suspected that they were relying on the club's behind-the-scenes experts, for club experts to come and run these dungeons, playing around once in a while was fine, but in the tenth server, it looked like they were competing with Lord Grim. As a professional player, was it worth it?

On the other hand, if Excellent Dynasty was sending out professional-level players, then what kind of people were on Lord Grim's side, who were able to step on them?

Lord Grim, Soft Mist, Steamed Bun Invasion, Wind Following the Stream... these few fixed IDs that had appeared on TV many times were already familiar to everyone. Many guilds had sent people to scout and pay attention to these characters.

These people were strong, there was no doubt about that. If they weren't strong, how could they have set such a record? Now, what the guilds wanted to know was, how strong were these people exactly?

Behind this character who was silently watching these people, there were countless eyes hidden. Without being sure of their own judgment, many guilds had already gone to the headquarters in the Heavenly Domain to bring experts over. Even if they didn't come to level up, it was always possible to observe these characters who were showing off by using characters together.

Herb Garden.

One of the three major guilds, but it was the one that had been observing Lord Grim and hadn't had any formal contact.

At this time, in the tenth server, the character's field of vision of the guild leader of Herb Garden, Car Front, showed the scene of these people fighting monsters in the wild. But Car Front was watching somewhat absentmindedly. To be precise, he was a little uneasy.

At this time, he was sitting here, controlling his character, but behind him stood a truly God-level figure.

Wang Jiexi, the star player of Tiny Herb Club, the captain of the champion Tiny Herb team from last season, the season's Most Valuable Player. Currently leading the standings this season, he was the team with the highest calls to win the championship, surpassing Blue Rain. Wang Jiexi's account character, Wang Bu Liu Xing (Wang Unswayed), a Magician, was known in the circle as a Magician for his bizarre and varied operations and play styles.

Car Front reported to the guild superiors about the situation in the tenth server, where these experts were suppressing the guilds, but he never thought that it would alarm such a big God, who actually ran over to see these level 27 small characters in person.

Standing behind him at this time, Car Front felt a lot of pressure, and his character's actions were extremely unnatural. Car Front was thinking about the precise notebook in his arms, which was a souvenir issued by Tiny Herb after winning the championship last year. Car Front learned that this God was coming, so he quickly brought the notebook over to get an autograph.

But after seeing the God, and making eye contact with those obviously different-sized eyes, Car Front immediately became so nervous that he forgot everything. It was only when he clumsily operated his character to find Lord Grim and the others for the God to see that he remembered the autograph.

How to open his mouth... Car Front was thinking when he suddenly heard the person behind him say, "You have a message."

"Message?" Car Front was so dumbfounded that he had to react to what the word meant. It took him a long time to realize that his character had a message prompt. He opened it and saw some boring spam, quickly closed it, and steadily aimed the camera at Lord Grim and the others.

Lord Grim, Steamed Bun Invasion, Soft Mist.

At this time, these three were leveling in the Graveyard of the Dead. Besides them, there were Tian Qi and Moon Midnight, but Car Front couldn't even stand those two. He basically skipped them in his field of vision.

At the low level stage, there were few skills and a simple play style, making it not easy to judge a person's level. For example, Car Front and the others couldn't figure out how strong Lord Grim and the others were, but this God behind him was different. If even he couldn't see it, Car Front didn't know who else he could rely on.

"One Autumn Leaf's play style," Wang Jiexi suddenly said after watching quietly for a long time.

"Which one?" Car Front asked involuntarily.

"Both of them," Wang Jiexi said.

In the view, Soft Mist was using the Battle Mage class, but Lord Grim was also using the Battle Mage's skills with a spear.

"This Lord Grim is an Unspecialized," Car Front said, regretting it after speaking. That was too much of a waste of words. Would God Jiexi not be able to see that?

"Yeah," Wang Jiexi responded.

"One Autumn Leaf's play style, what's so special about it?" Car Front hurriedly showed his spirit of seeking guidance.

"Nothing special, the most basic play style," Wang Jiexi said.

Car Front immediately admired him! Probably only God Jiexi would dare to say that the play style of the Battle God One Autumn Leaf was the most basic!

"What about this Brawler?" Car Front continued to ask for advice.

"This Brawler..." Wang Jiexi was speechless for a moment, "To put it nicely, it's being free and unrestrained. To put it harshly, it's a mess."