Chapter 1404 Want to Practice?

"Old Lin, wanna come out and practice?"

Lin Jingyan could even hear Ye Qiu calling him out. Age-wise, Lin Jingyan was indeed older than Ye Xiu, but when it came to Glory seniority, Lin Jingyan couldn't compare to this younger guy. This wasn't something to be surprised about; it wasn't necessarily the case that a player who entered the pro alliance earlier was older than someone who entered later.

Watching God Ye Qiu's Blessings circling around, clearly searching for his location, Lin Jingyan was no Lu Hanwen, no Zhao Yuzhe. He completely ignored Ye Qiu's provocation. With those two best partners working together, surrounded by a group of expert online gamers, jumping out was just seeking death, right? In terms of local strength, Lin Jingyan was weaker, but overall, Tyrannical Ambition was still stronger. Control the local, utilize the whole, Zhang Xinjie's tactical design was quite scientific, and Lin Jingyan wouldn't run out to play one-on-one; this wasn't a pro match.

With the help of a wily master, Lin Jingyan seemed to have absorbed quite a few good qualities from his teammates over the years. At this moment, his Thief played extremely craftily, throwing a brick here, tossing a gas bomb there, never directly engaging the enemy. He used his own constraints while directing the team to unleash their collective strength.

Ye Xiu led the team for a while and immediately understood that in a team battle like this, Lin Jingyan was much more difficult to deal with than Lu Hanwen or Zhao Yuzhe. Yesterday, he and Xiao Shiqin teamed up to bully Zhang Xinjie; today, retribution had come. Two old hands were attacking together. Tyrannical Ambition, already possessing a team advantage, firmly controlled the situation under the command of these two old hands. Although Ye Xiu's side didn't retreat, Tyrannical Ambition had gained time during the stalemate. With a system announcement, the wild boss crashed to the ground. Tyrannical Ambition had forcefully killed the boss.

Even until the end, Ye Xiu couldn't find Lin Jingyan in the opponent's formation. Lin Jingyan didn't proactively greet anyone. After the Boss was taken down, he disappeared with the team without a trace.

It was a very depressing battle, and everyone felt stifled. This battle gave them the feeling of having strength but nowhere to use it, or not using it in the right place. Strictly speaking, Ye Xiu's side might have had a slight advantage in the direct confrontation, but what was the use? Their goal was the Boss. Now that Tyrannical Ambition had taken the Boss, even if they had suffered heavy losses, it could still be considered a great victory.

With Zhang Xinjie and Lin Jingyan working together, Tyrannical Ambition took two more Bosses in a row. Then, it was about time, and Zhang Xinjie logged off to rest. As for whether Lin Jingyan left, no one knew, because Ye Xiu still didn't know which character Lin Jingyan's Thief was. He didn't want a flashy character with a strong presence, but directly used a very ordinary Thief character in the Tyrannical Ambition team. After being teammates with a wily master for too long, Lin Jingyan had not only learned the wily style of play, but even his consciousness had been invaded by it.

It wasn't until the next Boss was refreshed and discovered, after a battle, that Ye Xiu confirmed that Lin Jingyan had also logged off.

This Boss was ultimately snatched by Ye Xiu and his team. When dividing the materials, Ye Xiu announced two pieces of news.

"The good news is that Lin Jingyan doesn't seem to be continuing to lead a team to fight us all night."

"The bad news is that Tyrannical Ambition seems to be preparing Zhang Xinjie and Lin Jingyan to fight side by side, further increasing the difficulty of competing with Tyrannical Ambition. You should have already experienced the three battles where we didn't snatch the Boss, right?"

"Then what do we do?" Zhan Loulan asked the大神 (Great God) for advice.

Ye Xiu pointed out the three guild leaders, Yue Ziqian, Baixi Jingliu, and Wu Jinzhi: "I'm saying, why doesn't your team have a pro player to help out?"

The three guild leaders were all suffering: "We can't make the decision on this!"

Indeed, no pro player's contract would require them to put in effort for such things. Not to mention the guild leaders, even the club had no reason to order the pro players to do this. If a pro player came, it was either voluntary, or the guild leader or someone else played the emotional card and asked for help.

However, asking for help like this was okay for one or two battles. It was difficult to get someone as diligent as Zhang Xinjie, who came early and left late like a regular job, to put in so much effort without the player's subjective will. Moreover, given the current atmosphere of the pro scene, there weren't many players willing to make such contributions. What's more, it was the summer transfer window. If they worked hard to get materials to strengthen their characters, strengthen their teams, and improve their results, only to be traded to another team before the season even started, wouldn't all their hard work be in vain?

Many of the league's original customs were disappearing as the league developed rapidly. The heated summers of the past, where pro players fiercely competed in the game, would probably never be seen again.

Ye Xiu's words to the three guild leaders, seemingly complaining that they didn't have pro players to contribute, were actually lamenting the change in the overall atmosphere of the alliance: everyone was becoming more realistic. Whether it was the team or the players, it seemed that the old-fashioned players like Ye Xiu had a hard time seeing the same kind of feelings for the team in the newer players. Sun Xiang and Tang Hao, the two most outstanding大神 (Great God)-level players of the new generation, had both changed teams within a year or two of becoming famous, going to teams that offered them better development.

It wasn't just the players who were changing; the entire circle was changing. Clubs, teams, and players were all just parts of this larger culture.

Thinking back,嘉世 (Excellent Era) didn't pursue commercialization as frantically as it does now. Tao Xuan was once like him, regarding victory in the match as the greatest joy. It was just that Tao Xuan had integrated into this circle more thoroughly. He constantly adapted, adjusted, and changed according to the changes in the circle.

Ye Xiu, on the other hand, consistently loved this game and regarded it as the highest glory, constantly striving for it. This was actually also the concept of the game Glory. It was named Glory, and its publicity has always been to regard everything in the game as glory. For the game side, this may just be their publicity stunt. But there were some people who truly believed this and worked hard for it. Ideals should not be divided into noble and humble. For these people, their ideal was to play this game well and win what they regarded as glory.

Along the way, Ye Xiu saw a lot.

Thinking back to the three friends who shared the same ideal, one had lost everything before he could even embark on the journey of his ideal, one had gained everything on the journey but then had more pursuits, drifting further and further apart. In the end, only Ye Xiu himself was left, and the path he took remained unchanged: ideal, glory, and nothing else.

Now, he was busy with many things that pro players no longer bothered with, but it was also for this ideal, this glory.

That night, the system seemed to favor Ye Xiu and his team. A total of eight Bosses were refreshed, and everyone was busy running around. In the end, they snatched six of the eight Bosses. Two of them were snatched by other guilds because the intelligence wasn't timely enough. Wei Chen's contribution was not small in being able to smoothly kill six. The second regiment of the reincarnation elite regiment that he led cleverly played its role. The usual trick was to work hard to support the first elite regiment, and finally push the first regiment to the single-plank bridge of competition with Ye Xiu and the others.

How could the commander of this first elite regiment compare to Ye Xiu? They lost repeatedly, and in the end, they felt infinitely guilty towards Wei Chen, the commander of the second regiment. In his opinion, the second regiment had always completed their mission very beautifully, but the first regiment always failed to grasp the opportunities created by others.

Wei Chen always stepped up to smooth things over, praising the second elite regiment. This was because, with the current division of labor, he could just carry out his espionage assistance activities. For a time, Wei Chen was considered a capable leader and tactical expert in the eyes of the second regiment players; in the eyes of the first regiment players, he was noble and righteous.

"I think, I've unified Samsara, and dominating the world is just around the corner. What do you say if Samsara recognizes my talent too much one day and really hires me to be their guild leader? What should I do?" Wei Chen was also busy all night, but he was still in good spirits. When Zhang Xinjie went online in the morning, everyone decisively went offline to eat breakfast, and he was bragging shamelessly.

"Needless to say, empty their guild warehouse and take the card and leave," Ye Xiu said.

"I靠 (I rely on!), this is too much, will Samsara call the police?" Wei Chen said.

"You beast, do you really want to do that?" Ye Xiu said.

"If it's not discovered, it's not impossible!" Wei Chen said.

"Then you hurry up and become the president of Samsara to see if you can get such an opportunity. If you can really get a guild's warehouse, we won't have to worry anymore," Ye Xiu said.

"Your thinking is wrong. Don't you understand the principle of sitting and eating the mountains empty? Only by knowing how to accumulate can you firmly grasp wealth," Wei Chen said earnestly, teaching Ye Xiu.

"I'm done eating, I'm going to rest first," Ye Xiu got up.

"Damn it, I haven't finished talking yet! You scum, you've already rented such a big house, but you still want to live in people's sister's room every day. What are your intentions? I'm not the kind of person to stir up trouble, but Su girl, if I were you, I definitely couldn't stand it," Wei Chen said, turning to Su Mucheng.

"I just want to take a shortcut and save time," Ye Xiu said.

"Young people, life lies in exercise!" Wei Chen said.

"Old people's words are always more verbose," Ye Xiu shook his head and sighed, going upstairs to rest.