Chapter 113 Liu Hao's Downfall

Liu Hao, with his strong reading comprehension skills in matches, was the first to notice the anomaly on the field: their pastor, who was hiding in a wretched manner, and Fang Rui, who had disappeared after uttering a taunt.

The next second, a string of exclamation marks flashed across the Hundred Blossoms team's team channel.

"!!!!!!!!!!"

The exclamation marks came from the Healer, a pre-arranged emergency distress signal within Hundred Blossoms.

Everyone in Hundred Blossoms saw it, everyone's characters rotated their perspectives, and then no one could find the Healer's location.

Wretched!

These were the two words that immediately jumped into Zhao Yuzhe's mind. He hated these two words, even though he came from a team that had thoroughly embraced them. He had never tried to understand them. He only rejoiced that Hundred Blossoms had finally changed its style and abandoned these two words. But until now, the abandonment hadn't been thorough enough, and the shadow of these two words still lingered in the team.

Like Ruan Yongbin, who wretchedly hid his character, and now Zhao Yuzhe wanted to help him but couldn't find him…

Annoying, annoying, annoying!

Zhao Yuzhe was annoyed by Ruan Yongbin's wretchedness. The same went for Captain Tang Hao, Liu Hao, and Lin Feng; they couldn't immediately determine the Healer's location. Understanding an agreed-upon exclamation mark was easy, but they had no tacit understanding of Ruan Yongbin's wretched positioning. They were the representatives of the new Hundred Blossoms, while Ruan Yongbin was still the pastor who had been baptized by the old Hundred Blossoms team. Almost all the other old Hundred Blossoms players had lost their influence in the team, but no one had expected that the healer, a role with slightly different responsibilities, would also become detached from the entire team due to the old style. On the other hand, Fang Rui of Team Happy, because he persisted in his consistent style, accurately judged Ruan Yongbin's wretched movements.

He caught Ruan Yongbin, and Ruan Yongbin sent out a distress signal, but his teammates couldn't find him in time. This seemingly ridiculous scene clearly made everyone realize what kind of team Hundred Blossoms was right now.

Outstanding players? Powerful characters?

Hundred Blossoms had all of these, but why did they fail to win against strong teams this season?

Now, everyone understood.

Hundred Blossoms was still undergoing the pain of transformation. They were completely abandoning wretchedness, but this was a deeply rooted style that Hundred Blossoms had relied on for a long time. Simply letting go of the most prominent wretched master, Fang Rui, and changing Ghost Blademaster into a combat thief couldn't completely complete this transformation.

What Hundred Blossoms wanted to abandon was the foundation they had relied on for so long, which was tantamount to demolition and reconstruction for a team. Last season, their determination wasn't obvious. Players led by Fang Rui, who still occupied the main force in the team and possessed a wretched style, were still displaying their skills and showcasing the soul of the team that had been around for a long time. With their assistance, last season's Hundred Blossoms team looked quite strong.

However, Tang Hao, the new core of the Hundred Blossoms team, didn't realize the power of this assistance. Instead, he and the newcomer Zhao Yuzhe greatly disliked the fighting style of these people. He couldn't see the soul of this team, but subjectively valued his own strength. He hoped that his strength would be further highlighted and magnified, but the wretched style wasn't the assistance he liked. He was the captain, the core, the center of a team. He didn't like to cooperate with the wretched style, so even Fang Rui, the top wretched master, lost his position.

Fang Rui left, and the Hundred Blossoms team greatly supplemented new players. The new players revolved around Tang Hao, and none of them were wretched. The original group of players who were good at wretchedness all retreated to the second line in Hundred Blossoms, waiting for either the same departure as Fang Rui or changing themselves to cater to the new style.

Abandoning the wretched style wasn't necessarily the end. Many strong teams in the league that had achieved outstanding results didn't rely on the wretched style. But the problem was, when Hundred Blossoms chose to abandon their familiar style of many years, did they have a clear intention and direction for the new tactics and style?

A strong offensive style centered on Tang Hao?

This seemed to be the route they hoped for, but how could they achieve it? How would the players cooperate with each other? What responsibilities would each character undertake? What kind of combined attack methods would they use in battle?

Recalling Hundred Blossoms' matches this season, everyone found that in the transformation of Hundred Blossoms, the old was gone, but the new hadn't arrived. After they abandoned the wretched style, they hadn't formed a new, mature tactical system at all.

When encountering some weak teams, they could still win by relying on the strong strength of Tang Hao and others, but when encountering strong teams, they were full of flaws because they didn't have a clear tactical system. The individual competition results of Hundred Blossoms were good, but their players and characters were strong. However, their team competition was a complete mess, precisely because of the lack of a mature system.

Couldn't find the Healer at this time?

Perhaps it could be attributed to the fact that the abandonment of the wretched style wasn't complete enough, but it also revealed the chaos of Hundred Blossoms. Champion? At this moment, no one dared to associate these two words with Hundred Blossoms. Champions couldn't be built by simply stacking superior players and powerful characters.

The few players of Hundred Blossoms were headless flies for a moment. If they couldn't judge the Healer's position themselves, they could always ask in the channel. Once Ruan Yongbin answered with the coordinates, the rescue would always arrive. But Happy took advantage of the chaos of Hundred Blossoms to launch a fierce attack, completely throwing Hundred Blossoms off balance. They couldn't figure out what to do at all.

However, when they saw Fang Rui's Sea Never Dry, Zhao Yuzhe, Lin Feng, and Liu Hao, the three guys who had been one-on-threed by Fang Rui, had a very clear aggressiveness. But how wretched was Fang Rui? How could he leave them an opportunity to encircle and attack? Seeing that there were many opponents, he didn't act strong at all. He drilled and jumped around the square, playing hide-and-seek with the three.

This grabbed three players at once, how could that work? Liu Hao quickly realized this imbalance, but Zhao Yuzhe still bravely pursued. Liu Hao reminded him, and received the answer, "Leave it to me alone."

Liu Hao really didn't agree with this answer, but he didn't point it out immediately, because he knew Zhao Yuzhe's character. Saying "You can't do it alone" would definitely anger the young man and would definitely backfire.

Liu Hao chose to remain silent. He and Lin Feng went to support the battle in other places. As a result, a moment later, Zhao Yuzhe was ambushed by Fang Rui, and Team Happy even coordinated the ambush to switch targets. So when Zhao Yuzhe typed "!!!!!!" in the channel, the whole team rushed to support him in a flurry. Liu Hao had expected this and provided timely and accurate support.

"Well done!" Zhao Yuzhe greatly appreciated Liu Hao's timely assistance, and everyone saw the key role Liu Hao played at this time.

But…

"Looks like you were prepared!" Ye Xiu, who was attacking him from the side, said to him. Lord Grim moved with several skills, instantly flashing to the side of Dark Cloudy Day, so smoothly, so… prepared.

Immediately afterwards, Su Mucheng's Dancing Rain's artillery fire, One Inch Ash's ghost array, and Happy's healer Little Cold Hands all appeared in Liu Hao's field of vision. In an instant, an offensive formation was formed, targeting Dark Cloudy Day.

Trapped!

Liu Hao didn't hesitate and immediately typed "!!!!!!" He didn't think he could break through Happy's premeditated concentrated fire with his own strength. But even if his teammates rescued him at this time, what could he do? Hundred Blossoms was so full of flaws. After being pinched at one source by Happy, they were attacked again and again for their loopholes. They were exhausted and busy saving this one and that one. Other than the beginning, they had never had an active offensive.

"Fight hard!!" Captain Tang Hao was shouting, but could the problem of Hundred Blossoms be solved with morale at this time? Their players were good, but they weren't so strong that they could defy the heavens and crush everything with their strength. They couldn't, no team could.

Liu Hao's Dark Cloudy Day was the first to fall, but looking at the entire field, even in a failed match, Liu Hao's performance had its highlights. He played a key role many times at crucial moments, saving the situation for Hundred Blossoms.

"If you could completely focus on the match, what would it be like?" As he fell, Ye Xiu once again nagged him about the topic he had been tired of for a long time.

How much more focused could he be? Why was this guy so annoyingly verbose? Did he think that people would think he hadn't performed well with his trash talk? Ridiculous, even if this was a failed match for Hundred Blossoms, who could find anything wrong with his performance?

Hundred Blossoms, who lost a player first, was even more passive on the field, and from beginning to end, they had never been active. The die-hard fans of Hundred Blossoms watched their players walk onto the stage with such high morale, but it seemed like a paper tiger that was instantly torn to pieces by others.

If they had been defeated in a fierce battle, although it would have been sad, it wouldn't have been disheartening. But Hundred Blossoms seemed to be very confident when they came on stage, but in the end, they were completely defeated passively from beginning to end, making the fans unable to see any expectation.

The flag embroidered with the Hundred Blossoms team emblem drooped down again in disappointment. The die-hard fan of Hundred Blossoms who was in charge of the flag missed the Hundred Blossoms team with the criminal combination. Even if their performance on the standings wasn't necessarily stronger than the current Hundred Blossoms, they had never disappointed the fans so much.

Victory was needed in the match, but victory wasn't the whole of the match.

In this match, the Hundred Blossoms team didn't score points or have a strong performance. There was only a lot of yelling and seeming excitement, but on the field, it was like a balloon that was instantly burst.

What kind of expectations should we have for this team? The fans of Hundred Blossoms suddenly felt lost. A team that was still in the playoffs area actually made many people feel lost.