Chapter 126 Adjustments

Team One made quick adjustments to their advance. Players with some Glory know-how immediately saw the nuances, realizing that these adjustments were entirely made in response to Team Two's arrangements. However, the audience hadn't been on the competition stage, so they didn't know about such a blunder. For a time, they were all marveling, thinking that Team One's tactical mastermind, Yu Wenzhou, was divinely prescient and had guessed Team Two's layout.

When Team Two's supporters saw this, they felt as if their side was a lamb waiting to be slaughtered. A commotion broke out, their hearts filled with anxiety. They wished they could rush onto the stage and give Team Two's players a hint.

Seeing Team One's players approaching, many audience members stood up anxiously. But they then saw Team Two suddenly shift their formation, the scattered players suddenly contracting, instead forming a situation where they had more players attacking a single point of Team One.

Team One reacted swiftly. The previous tactics were immediately discarded, and they also adopted a defensive formation, preparing to confront Team Two head-on.

The knowledgeable audience members in the stands clapped enthusiastically, repeatedly praising the two tactical masters for their uncanny foresight.

Little did they know that Yu Wenzhou and Zhang Xinjie, the commanders on the competition stage, were both wearing wry smiles.

They were both smart, and the other wasn't stupid either. In fact, both sides had looked at the holographic projection through the windows of the competition stage. There was no foresight here at all; they were simply making arrangements based on what they saw! Because both sides were top experts, their tactical skills were naturally extremely high. So even though they weren't teammates, their cooperation wasn't too awkward. Their actions after receiving orders were clean and efficient, and their targeted adjustments seemed like perfectly coordinated movements. The audience, unaware of the inside story, naturally thought it was incredibly brilliant.

Yu Wenzhou and Zhang Xinjie both saw that they were dealing with astute individuals. Sneak attacks, ambushes, outflanking maneuvers – the kind of tactics that required supernatural stealth were definitely impossible. This match would clearly have to be a contest of pure maneuvering during a head-on clash.

In a head-on confrontation, Zhang Xinjie felt that his side had the advantage. After all, their team was a well-balanced professional team, while Team One's strong offensive lineup was only effective against opponents who were significantly weaker. But now, both sides were All-Star experts, and their strengths were evenly matched. It wouldn't be so easy for the other side to suppress them.

Thinking this way, Zhang Xinjie stopped trying to be clever. With a single command, Team Two's five players adopted an X-formation and faced the enemy head-on.

The audience thought that a battle was about to break out, but to their surprise, Team One, who had charged forward aggressively at the start, now seemed hesitant. Not only did they not engage in battle, but they even began to retreat. The arrangement of their movements confused the audience. What confused them even more was that after Team One retreated, Team Two suddenly stopped their advance.

The audience members exchanged confused glances. What was the deeper meaning of this tactical confrontation? They couldn't understand it at all!

The audience was confused, but Zhang Xinjie was covered in sweat.

Why did Team Two's advance suddenly stop? Because after Team One retreated, he looked out of the window of the competition stage and couldn't see the exact positions of Team One's players. Team One's five members were using the obstruction of his position to hide themselves!

Zhang Xinjie was naturally shocked. He immediately understood that Yu Wenzhou's strategic vision was still superior to his. Yu Wenzhou had foreseen that this match would be different from usual in that both commanders would be able to view the overall situation through the holographic projection. This was absolutely impossible in a normal league match. And with Zhang Xinjie on Team Two, there was no question about who would be the commander. So Yu Wenzhou had deliberately paid attention to Zhang Xinjie's position on the competition stage, using it to determine his blind spots in the holographic projection. And now, he was using this to hide his team's five players. In an instant, the situation had changed, with the enemy hidden and his side exposed. Zhang Xinjie hadn't paid any attention to Yu Wenzhou's position on the competition stage and couldn't guess randomly. He had no choice but to temporarily halt his team's advance.

Zhang Xinjie didn't hide anything and immediately explained the current situation.

"I can see them from here," Wang Jiexi immediately replied. The positions of the six competition stages were different, and the window perspectives were different. Zhang Xinjie's blind spot was visible from Wang Jiexi's side.

"Then you take command!" Zhang Xinjie handed over command.

Although they were called tactical masters, it wasn't as if their command would guarantee victory. It was just that, relatively speaking, Zhang Xinjie was the best choice. Now that they had encountered such a difficult problem, handing over command to Wang Jiexi couldn't be considered a prelude to failure. Zhang Xinjie was still on the team. With Team One lying in ambush, they weren't in a hurry to advance. After Wang Jiexi observed Team One's arrangements and understood their intentions, Team Two naturally made corresponding adjustments.

The adjustments were very simple.

The goal was just to avoid suffering losses because of this, but they weren't thinking of taking advantage of seeing the other side's arrangements. Because this match was too transparent. The design flaw of the competition stage had made both sides know each other inside and out. Even if Yu Wenzhou used Zhang Xinjie's perspective to plot something, the command was immediately switched to Wang Jiexi, and everything returned to the starting point. No one could fool anyone.

Even if they could fool Wang Jiexi, there were still Li Xuan and Deng Fusheng… These people were either captains or vice-captains, and each of them was capable of standing on their own. Yu Wenzhou couldn't possibly find all of their blind spots, could he? If that were the case, their maneuvering space would probably be compressed to the point of fragmentation, and they wouldn't be able to carry out any tactical sneak attacks.

This contest of skill truly demonstrated the abilities of both sides' experts. However, for the live audience who were unaware of the inside story, it was a bit incomprehensible. Only someone like Ye Xiu, who was both an expert and had been on the competition stage, could understand the bizarre situation they were in and couldn't help but watch it as a joke.

"Aiyah, this is no fun. We can see you, and you can see us. Are we playing hide-and-seek? Why don't we all jump out and have a ring match, one by one!"

Although the two sides hadn't engaged in direct combat yet, Huang Shaotian, Team One's chat-spamming cannon, finally started up, chattering away. These words couldn't be seen on the holographic projection, but they were clear on the electronic broadcast screen and on the computer monitors of the professional players.

With rapidly flying words, Huang Shaotian was suggesting that everyone simply stand up and have a series of one-on-one duels.

"Do you dare?"

"Are you coming or not?"

"Are you scared?"

"Are you saying I have to fight the two of you by myself?"

No one on Team Two responded. Huang Shaotian naturally unleashed his mockery, implying that Team Two didn't dare to fight and were too cowardly.

Many viewers were noticeably less composed than the professional players and had already become excited. Team One's fans were looking down on Team Two as cowards, while Team Two's fans were cursing Huang Shaotian for lacking professional ethics and wanting to play one-on-one duels in a team battle.

For a time, nothing much was happening on the stage, but the atmosphere in the audience was already explosive, almost leading to a brawl.

Team Two remained calm. Firstly, they were already used to it, and secondly… Huang Shaotian's taunts were true, they really didn't dare.

To play one-on-one duels, you had to look at the team composition. In terms of team battles, Team Two had support and crowd control, making them very complete. But if they were to play one-on-one duels, each member of Team One was a violent character. If you sent Team Two's support Priest, Zhang Xinjie, up there, it would be a complete waste. How could Team Two agree to one-on-one duels?

But there was no way around it. Huang Shaotian had seen through this and knew that they wouldn't agree, so he was spamming the screen with taunts to gain a verbal advantage. This was his usual style. The members of Team Two were all All-Star level players, so they wouldn't be easily provoked by him. They could only smile wryly in private. Some members of Team Two wanted to challenge Huang Shaotian, but unfortunately, Han Wenqing was sitting on the substitute bench!

Letting Huang Shaotian spout nonsense endlessly wasn't good for their image. Team Two hurried to press forward, but Team One seemed happy to see Huang Shaotian gain a verbal advantage, so they avoided battle and retreated.

If Team Two had someone who liked to talk trash, they would have already cursed Team One for their behavior. But the five members of Team Two didn't like to talk trash. As a result, with a trash-talking king on Team One, the public channel was completely dominated by Team One.

Retreat, retreat, retreat, Team One retreated continuously, while Team Two advanced all the way.

Whether or not trash talk, this kind of psychological warfare, had any effect was sometimes unclear even to the parties involved. Team Two thought that they could remain calm when facing Huang Shaotian, but to outsiders, their eagerness to engage Team One in battle showed that Huang Shaotian's trash talk had played a part in catalyzing the situation.

Team Two advanced all the way and was about to engage in battle when Team One's five players suddenly scattered in all directions. Before Team Two could react, they had lost sight of Team One's characters.

The five players had almost habitually immediately looked at the holographic projection through the small windows of the competition stage.

"Nowhere!"

"Nowhere."

"Nowhere."

"I don't see them either."

"Nowhere…"

As soon as the five players exchanged information, they were shocked. Had the other side really hidden in a blind spot that none of them could see?

"Retreat quickly!" Zhang Xinjie immediately shouted. He had realized that this was a setup by the other side, that they seemed to have deliberately led them to this place. Could this terrain…

While Zhang Xinjie retreated with the others, he carefully observed their current terrain on the holographic projection, looking for the blind spots that they might not be able to see.

"Everyone maintain good spacing!" Zhang Xinjie quickly reminded them. He had discovered that there were too many ambush points in this area that the other side could use.

At that moment, the first attack of the match was officially launched.

They only heard a "shiu" sound. Team Two's five players nimbly took a step to the side, and a laser cannon blast instantly cut their formation in half.

"Hahaha, can we finally make a move!" Huang Shaotian's Troubling Rain had a text bubble over his head, and he jumped out from some corner. From the air, he executed a Falling Light Blade, directly about to step into the midst of the five players.

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