A cold light flashed!

Arc Flash, the signature move of Glory's number one assassin, View Clouds, was noticeably faster and fiercer than the one performed by Lord Grim, this unspecialized character. Furthermore, View Clouds wielded dual swords, which had a slower attack speed than daggers, but compensated with greater attack power and range. The Arc Flash differed depending on the weapon. With daggers, a mere glint of cold light; in View Clouds' hands, the dual swords flashed into an intersecting cross of cold light, then sprayed left and right.

Two bloody arrows accompanied the intersecting cross of cold light, but simultaneously, three booming cannon shots rang out, and the fiery explosions spread intensely between the two characters.

Su Mucheng's reaction was not slow either. From the corner of her eye, she saw the commotion and knew that characters in mid-air from a Flying Artillery couldn't dodge. She immediately adjusted her cannon, forcefully exchanging blows with her opponent.

Arc Flash struck Dancing Rain, but couldn't stop the Anti-Tank Missile from firing.

The force of the explosion instantly blasted View Clouds aside, and the powerful recoil also altered Dancing Rain's Flying Artillery trajectory. View Clouds closed in with one move, but was quickly blown away. How could Yang Cong easily miss such an opportunity? Adjusting his stance and view, View Clouds had barely touched the ground when he took a step and lunged toward Dancing Rain.

Dancing Rain raised her cannon and fired. Although it was just a normal attack, combined with a backflip, she bombarded View Clouds while pushing her character backward, increasing the distance between them.

But Yang Cong was prepared for this moment. After all, Su Mucheng was a top-tier player with outstanding technique and rich experience. It was unlikely to close in with a single move. Yang Cong had long prepared a backup plan.

Swift Pursuit!

This skill had a long cooldown, but Yang Cong had saved it on purpose, showing how he truly planned three steps ahead in this match.

Swift Pursuit, plus Sprint, was the fastest movement speed in Glory. View Clouds' figure was so fast it resembled a phantom, and when he passed by the cannonball fired by Dancing Rain, those with poorer eyesight could barely see his dodging movements.

Piercing Thrust!

View Clouds instantly caught up to Dancing Rain, and with a flat sweep of his dual swords, he sent out two more streaks of cold light.

Boom!

Yang Cong really didn't expect Su Mucheng to use the same trick again. After that earlier normal attack, she had the opportunity to attack again to obstruct him, but deliberately didn't, letting her hand cannon droop as if it were a natural action during a retreat. In reality, she was concealing the cannon muzzle and secretly charging a Gauss Cannon.

View Clouds closed in almost instantly, and in the blink of an eye, Yang Cong didn't even have time to notice such an insignificant detail. As the dual swords weaved a chaotic, shadowlike dance, Dancing Rain's heavy cannon, Devourer, seemed like a knife as it pressed against View Clouds' chest.

Normal attack?

Of course not.

Gunner-class characters attacked by shooting, so hitting someone with a gun was a skill, like the Launcher's Sky Shot, which sent the target flying into the air, but Dancing Rain wasn't doing that now. The muzzle retracted inwards, shortening the hand cannon, and Yang Cong instantly realized it was a charged Gauss Cannon. There was no way to dodge now. The Devourer's muzzle sprang outwards, and the Gauss Cannon shot out, hitting the target point-blank in a most unscientific manner. The explosion was triggered between the two characters, and the impact of the charged Gauss Cannon was stronger than three Anti-Tank Missiles combined. View Clouds was blasted even further away, and Dancing Rain used the recoil from the shot to retreat further.

A backup plan still couldn't get her close enough to Dancing Rain, but Yang Cong was satisfied with the current situation. At least he had delayed Su Mucheng, and Happy couldn't seize the high ground, so their tactical intent...

"Enemy!"

Suddenly, a message popped up in Team 301's channel, sent by Guardian Angel player Sun Mingjin.

Yang Cong was instantly alarmed. He had a general idea of the map in his mind. If Team 301 encountered the enemy before reaching Tongmu Building, there was only one possibility: the opponent's target from the start wasn't Tongmu Building, but they had predicted Team 301's approach and directly cut in to intercept them.

If Happy's goal from the start wasn't to seize the high ground, then his interception of Dancing Rain was meaningless.

But Dancing Rain appeared here, seemingly wanting to seize the high ground.

This was…

"How many enemies?" Yang Cong hurriedly asked in the channel.

"4," a simple numerical answer, without punctuation, indicating they were already in the heat of battle.

Drawing the tiger away from the mountain!

Yang Cong's mind was filled with this phrase.

He tried to intercept Su Mucheng's Dancing Rain, disrupting Happy's plan to seize the high ground.

But what was Happy's purpose in seizing the high ground? Clearly, it was to better observe Team 301's tactical movements and detect their recently perfected suicidal attack tactic.

So now, Yang Cong completed his interception mission, but at the same time, what about Team 301's usual tactics? Without his assassin, where was the suicidal attack to kill the opponent's key characters?

A calculated move based on a miscalculation!

Glory textbook, one of the four tactical masterminds, Ye Xiu's most adept tactical style. Yang Cong, a third-season player, had witnessed or personally experienced it more than once.

But even now, it was still impossible to defend against.

From the day Ye Xiu entered this league, he seemed to possess more skilled techniques, more comprehensive knowledge, and deeper tactical theories than everyone else. He was like a time traveler from the future, always ahead of everyone else. He created countless playstyles, designed countless tactics, and proposed countless theories.

A calculated move based on a miscalculation, who could better master this routine than this pioneer of Glory?

Everyone's calculations, everyone's awareness, seemed unable to escape his control. Then he would lightly and skillfully take one more step than you, always ahead of you. When you realized it, you were enlightened. When you looked back, you thought everything was so simple, but what about beforehand? Beforehand, you just couldn't think so deeply, you just couldn't imagine the other party making such a detour.

Team 301 wanted to protect and coordinate a suicidal attack.

So Happy wanted to break the suicidal attack.

So Happy wanted to seize the high ground.

So Team 301 couldn't let Happy seize the high ground in order to protect their tactics.

So View Clouds, the fastest member of Team 301, came here.

Then Dancing Rain, the most suitable for seizing the high ground, also came here.

View Clouds successfully intercepted Dancing Rain, but with View Clouds gone, what suicidal attack could Team 301 even launch?

If Team 301 couldn't launch a suicidal attack, was it still important for Happy to seize that high ground?

Back and forth, in a big circle, Team 301 was the one taking a loss.

They couldn't use the tactics they had grown accustomed to in the second half of the season, the tactics that had given many teams a headache.

But Happy's solution was so simple.

The person using the suicidal attack was gone, so of course they couldn't launch a suicidal attack. A simple principle that even a child of a few years old could understand, but Team 301 fell for it, and Yang Cong fell for the trap.

View Clouds turned around and wanted to leave, but this time, Dancing Rain relentlessly pursued him.

Being chased by a ranged character in close combat was a painful thing.

Because you could only run and dodge desperately, until you escaped the opponent's attack range. You had no way to counterattack. If you counterattacked, you had to get close, and getting close and running away were contradictory.

For many years, Yang Cong's assassin image had been that of a warrior charging on the front lines. This season's transformation turned him into a diehard willing to die for his goals. Yang Cong wasn't particularly good at the art of escaping. No matter how his assassin fought, it was full of passion. The sneaky style often associated with the Night Walker class wasn't evident on him.

Cannon fire chased View Clouds' steps, and Yang Cong's escape was difficult.

He had given up on completely escaping Dancing Rain's firepower. He was just running with all his might, trying to quickly join up with his team and combine their tactical system.

In the continuous attacks, View Clouds, who had excellent movement speed, was slowed down a lot. Finally, his field of vision showed the figures fighting in a group. There were his Team 301 brothers and Happy's opponents.

Almost there!

Yang Cong felt comforted, but soon, looking at the large shadow in his field of vision, he couldn't laugh.

Yang Cong raised his view and looked behind him.

It was the shadow of Tongmu Building cast by the sunlight, lying across the ground. Not far in front was the battlefield of the two teams.

He could now let View Clouds rush over and join up with his Team 301 teammates, but what then? Then he believed that Su Mucheng, who had been chasing him all the way, would definitely let him go at this time, because she would let Dancing Rain climb to the top of Tongmu Building and observe Team 301's tactical changes from the high ground.

He had worked so hard to run back, but encountered such an embarrassing situation? Had the opponent planned this step as well?

It turned out that from the beginning, from the moment he had the idea of intercepting Su Mucheng, he had only one choice.

Kill Su Mucheng!

Only in this way could he avoid the current embarrassment, join up with his team smoothly, and launch the routines they were good at.

Besides that, there was no other choice!

Yang Cong had made up his mind, but View Clouds was still rushing towards the battle, as if he didn't realize this.

As he expected, Su Mucheng quickly gave up chasing him and entered Tongmu Building to reach the top.

Yang Cong intentionally slowed down View Clouds' movement, estimated Dancing Rain's climbing progress, and decisively turned around for a surprise attack!

He wanted to block Dancing Rain directly in the building, otherwise, if he chased after her again like before, he didn't know how long Su Mucheng would kite him for.

But when View Clouds was about to rush to the bottom of Tongmu Building, Yang Cong suddenly froze. He realized that this time he had really made an unforgivable mistake.

If he chased from here, could he block Dancing Rain in the building? Once she reached the top, she could just jump down…

What a ridiculous running-in-circles!