Hu Die Lan
Chapter 48 Ever-Changing
“Create a room, um, choose that map, yeah, the smallest one.” Chen Guo stood behind Tang Rou with her hands on her hips, directing her. Glory’s arena is a shared server. After entering the arena, you can compete across regions. Characters are labeled with the name of their server, so even if there are duplicate names, they can be distinguished.
“Invite him, Jun Mo Xiao, yeah, those three characters.” Chen Guo said. Tang Rou sent the invitation. The system prompted: The player you invited is not in the arena area.
“What are you doing? Hurry up!” Chen Guo shouted.
“Wait a bit, just using some skill points.” Jun Mo Xiao leveled up, ran dungeons, and did quests last night, so he had saved up some skill points, but hadn’t had time to use them.
“So slow.” Chen Guo muttered.
She was anxious, but Tang Rou was unhurried, looking over the equipment on Steamed Bun Invasion: “Have you gotten any good equipment recently?” Although she didn’t play, she knew Steamed Bun Invasion’s account as well as Chen Guo, because Chen Guo liked to talk about it!
“No, it’s not that easy!” Chen Guo replied, impatiently glancing at Ye Xiu. She saw that the guy was acting suspiciously, waving at her, indicating for her to come over.
What’s up? Chen Guo muttered to herself and walked over, her eyes asking the question.
“You specifically wanted me to fight her, there isn’t some special reason, right?” Ye Xiu asked quietly.
“What do you think?”
“I don’t know, that’s why I’m asking you! I don’t need to go easy on her, right?” Ye Xiu said.
“Go easy? You can win against her first!” Chen Guo said.
“Oh oh.” Ye Xiu nodded and had Jun Mo Xiao teleport into the arena: “Okay.”
Tang Rou sent the invitation, Ye Xiu accepted, and Chen Guo ran back behind Tang Rou. But Ye Xiu didn’t rush to prepare. He stretched his neck, looked over here, and asked, “Just fighting like this? Want to bet something?”
“Bet what?” Chen Guo didn’t understand.
“Like betting a pack of cigarettes or something.” Ye Xiu suggested.
Chen Guo almost died of anger. She was just about to roar when Tang Rou happily said, “Sure! But I don’t smoke, and I don’t have any. How about we bet a hundred yuan?”
“Okay, okay!” Ye Xiu said happily.
“Then let Guo Guo be the witness. I’m betting a hundred yuan.” Tang Rou took out a hundred yuan and handed it to Chen Guo.
“Are you two serious?” Chen Guo was surprised.
“Just playing around!” Tang Rou smiled.
“Alright.” Chen Guo happily took Tang Rou’s hundred yuan and looked at Ye Xiu: “Yours?”
“Mine… um, well, I have a valuable cigarette case here…”
“Are you broke or what?” Chen Guo was amused and annoyed. She took out a hundred yuan and waved it: “I’m lending this to you, deducting it from your wages.”
“Okay, okay, I’ll pay you back right away.” Ye Xiu said.
“Very confident, huh? Starting now!” Tang Rou said.
“Start, start.”
The scene changed, and both sides had entered the arena. The map was the smallest arena map. The two sides were in opposite corners. Chen Guo acted as the off-field instructor: “He’s unspecialized. This is called an Unspecialized character. The skills are more varied. You can judge what class of skills he’ll use by looking at the weapon in his hand.”
“Oh.” Tang Rou responded. Although she hadn’t officially played Glory, she had been dragged by Chen Guo to play many PK matches over the past year, and she had basically seen all the classes.
“Then what weapon is that in his hand?” Tang Rou pointed at the screen.
“That… that…” Chen Guo looked for a long time but didn’t recognize it. She directly asked, “What weapon do you have in your hand?”
“That’s cheating!” Ye Xiu said. “You’re asking?”
“It looks like an umbrella to me?” Tang Rou had Steamed Bun Invasion take a few steps forward to zoom in a bit, and then said.
“Umbrella? There’s no such weapon. Is it a broom?” Chen Guo also leaned over to look.
“I’m coming!” Ye Xiu said. He already had Jun Mo Xiao run forward in a straight line towards Steamed Bun Invasion.
Tang Rou’s controls were indeed very fast. As soon as Jun Mo Xiao moved, she flicked the mouse, and a shot accurately came. But she saw a blur in front of her, and the charging Jun Mo Xiao flashed, already dodging the shot. Chen Guo, who was watching from the side, knew the technical term for this maneuver: Z-shaped wobble, a simple principle of operation, but a difficult technique to master in actual combat.
After dodging this shot, the distance between them had shortened a lot. His body sank, and a sliding shovel toward the ground shot towards Steamed Bun Invasion.
“Crafty!” Chen Guo exclaimed. Although the sliding shovel belonged to the Gunner class, it was a physical skill, so it didn’t matter what weapon was used. This attack still hadn’t revealed what he was holding.
Tang Rou’s hand speed also didn’t disappoint Chen Guo. Before the sliding shovel hit, Steamed Bun Invasion had already rolled to the side, and then flipped over and was ready to use a physical skill to counterattack. Dodging, positioning, and attacking were all extremely fast.
Who knew that suddenly a flash of silver light appeared on the screen. Jun Mo Xiao’s right hand actually pulled a sharp sword from the unknown weapon he was holding in his left hand.
And this silver light wasn’t just a simple matter of drawing a weapon. This was a Swordsman skill: Battou Technique!
This attack was completely beyond Chen Guo’s expectations. If it were her, even if she wanted to react, her hand would probably be too slow. But Tang Rou was different. Her left hand had already tapped the keyboard twice, and her right hand pushed the mouse. Steamed Bun Invasion jumped backward to dodge while raising her arm to prepare to fire a shot.
This move both dodged the Battou Technique attack and made a counterattack. After the shot was fired, she could use the recoil to "rocket jump" backward to increase the distance. It was simply killing three birds with one stone. Chen Guo was about to shout "Good!" when she didn’t expect Jun Mo Xiao to sheathe his sword after the Battou Technique, and then use the "sword" and "scabbard" to chase after Steamed Bun Invasion in the air. He had already swung it in front of her.
This change was even faster. Chen Guo didn’t have time to think about which attack of the Swordsman class used the scabbard to smash, but only felt that this strike was still a little distance away from Steamed Bun Invasion. But she didn’t expect the thing in Jun Mo Xiao’s hand to suddenly open like an umbrella. In an instant, the umbrella surface was turned upside down, the umbrella ribs were folded in reverse, and they gathered above the umbrella top, like a huge gun head, and stabbed Steamed Bun Invasion. Then, Jun Mo Xiao flipped his hand, and this shot drew a semicircle with Steamed Bun Invasion, flipping Steamed Bun Invasion head over heels to the ground.
Chen Guo was shocked because this move wasn’t an ordinary attack. This skill was called "Circle Swing," a Battle Mage skill from the Mage class. It wasn’t surprising that an Unspecialized character knew this skill, but the problem was that Jun Mo Xiao had just used that thing to perform Battou Technique, so it should be a Swordsman-class weapon. How did it suddenly become a Battle Mage-class spear?
The shock in Tang Rou’s heart was even more in terms of operation. After a few exchanges, her operation was actually a beat slower, which was something she hadn’t expected.
Because Glory is a first-person perspective with a strong sense of immersion, for skills like Circle Swing, compared to the damage, the sudden, earth-shattering feeling of disorientation is even more tricky. Chen Guo can be considered a veteran with some experience, so she wouldn’t be dizzy so easily. But Tang Rou only occasionally played for her, and although she had extremely fast operations due to her hand speed, she lacked the judgment to deal with this sudden change in perspective.
In a hurry, she identified the direction and turned around, but she didn’t expect Steamed Bun Invasion to be unable to flip over and stand up. Looking up, she saw Jun Mo Xiao stepping on her on the ground, and the thing in his hand had returned to its original shape. This time, she finally posed up close, and Chen Guo and Tang Rou both saw that it was really an umbrella, but the umbrella tip was aimed at Steamed Bun Invasion’s head.
Before the two of them could finish their shock, a string of fire spewed out of the umbrella tip. Bang, bang, bang, a series of gunshots hit the lying Steamed Bun Invasion.
Gunner class, Sharpshooter skill: Stomp Shot.
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Hahaha, early enough today, right! Those who get up later than the update, deeply ashamed!