Hu Die Lan

Chapter 1526 Many Familiar Things

No openings.

This is the most significant characteristic of Zhang Xinjie, the Glory Alliance player with the lowest error rate. And now, this characteristic is being reflected in the tactical execution of Team Tyranny.

In Tyranny's previous bold and proactive offensive style of play, they didn't avoid errors. Instead, they relied on their powerful offense to directly crush them. But now, they have changed.

The half-minute standoff prevented them from immediately following up to crush the trap and also promptly interrupted any new arrangements Happy might have been trying to make. Then, they shifted to a more flexible terrain. That stage, faintly radiating with killing intent, was silently resolved by them.

This change in content might be most clearly felt by opponents like Ye Xiu who have a deep understanding of Tyranny.

After moving to this avenue, Tyranny finally began a tentative attack.

Han Wenqing's Desert Dust and Lin Jingyan's Dark Forest took the lead, while Zhang Jiale and Qin Muyun's two gunners lagged behind by two body lengths, positioned to the left and right, with Zhang Xinjie's Immovable Rock in the center.

The team maintained this formation, approaching Lord Grim step by step, each step seemingly used to reorganize the latest information and situation.

Retreat?

With Tyranny's unhurried manner, retreating wouldn't provoke them at all.

Advance?

What could advancing accomplish? Surely they wouldn't charge in for a one-on-five!

But Ye Xiu's Lord Grim actually stepped forward to meet them head-on.

Before Tyranny's loyal fans could react to Ye Xiu's arrogant move, two figures flew out from Tyranny's formation.

Dazzling Hundred Flowers.

Zero Degrees Celsius.

It was actually two gunners making a long-range frontal assault, while Han Wenqing's Desert Dust and Lin Jingyan's Dark Forest continued to move forward at the same pace as before, steady and reliable.

Gunshots rang out, and gunfire erupted. Two beams of attacking fire immediately crossed towards Lord Grim's position.

Retreat?

No, the two gunners' firepower was cross-locking Lord Grim's rear, blocking his retreat. Retreating now would be exactly what they wanted.

Not retreat?

As the firepower crossed, Desert Dust and Dark Forest suddenly accelerated, charging towards Lord Grim.

In an instant, they completed a four-sided encirclement!

"Beautiful!" Pan Lin exclaimed.

Faced with this beautiful offensive, Ye Xiu's response was extremely simple. He used his Myriad Manifestations Umbrella as a shield, bracing it against the direction of Zero Degrees Celsius's attack.

Bang, bang, bang, bang…

The sound of bullets hitting the Myriad Manifestations Umbrella in shield mode was strange. The attack coefficient was blocked, and Lord Grim was about to calmly step away from the opening when a cluster of pure white flames silently bloomed.

Sacred Fire!

Using the opening created by the Myriad Manifestations Umbrella shield, they had buried a cluster of Sacred Fire. Accurate, timely, and in an instant, white fire engulfed Lord Grim's entire body!

Three seconds of silence, three seconds of attacking opportunity!

Instantly, enveloped by the full power of Dazzling Hundred Flowers' light and shadow, Lord Grim's figure blurred. Desert Dust and Dark Forest rapidly surged forward.

A gasp went through the arena.

Tyranny's sudden acceleration from a slow pace to such an explosive level was truly astonishing.

Tyranny's tactics had become more varied. This not only didn't weaken their offensiveness, but also elevated their attacking explosiveness to a higher level, relying on this change of pace. Furthermore, it was impossible to ignore the fact that this tactical change left no openings whatsoever.

The sudden acceleration to this kind of rhythm felt as if every step had been taken after careful consideration and familiarity, leaving no room for openings.

Gunners' attacks are purely point attacks, easily blocked by shields. Gunner attack? Sacred Fire was already buried, waiting for you!

With such an impeccable arrangement, even if the battle-hardened Ye Xiu could see through it, what could he do? There was simply no way to break it, right?

"Ye Xiu was careless!" Even Li Yibo, who was usually more cautious in the playoffs, dared to comment on Ye Xiu at this moment.

And of course, everyone else thought so too.

One person running out to challenge the entire opposing team was certainly courageous. But to be directly killed during the challenge would be quite embarrassing.

Ye Xiu was in an extremely dangerous and awkward situation, but... Happy's other four members didn't make a single move.

The broadcast and the electronic screens at the venue specially divided the four players' perspectives into four sections, allowing viewers to see Lord Grim's situation completely. However, they still stuck to the predetermined plan and didn't come to his aid.

Surely they weren't being this rigid, were they? People couldn't help but wonder.

Pre-match preparations were certainly important, but seventy percent of a match still depended on the players' on-the-spot judgment and decisions. No team would fail to make adjustments on the fly in such a situation.

Unless… they were confident that they didn't need to make any adjustments.

The broadcast quickly switched the camera, locking onto Lord Grim once again.

Lord Grim was completely swallowed by Dazzling Hundred Flowers' attacks. Han Wenqing's and Lin Jingyan's characters were only a few steps away. Lord Grim couldn't use any skills within 3 seconds. In the blur, all they could see was a large circle seemingly spinning around everywhere.

What could be done in 3 seconds?

The large circle spun a few times, and then the blurred figure suddenly accelerated. In an instant, Lord Grim was clearly standing before everyone's eyes.

Lord Grim broke free from the encirclement of Dazzling Hundred Flowers' attacks, and he did so while under the effect of Sacred Fire, in a state of three seconds of silence.

This time, the entire audience couldn't even make a sound of surprise.

The electronic screen quickly replayed the scene, zooming in extremely close, as if they were right next to Lord Grim, watching him.

Various grenades and landmines swarmed towards Lord Grim, engulfing him. Lord Grim had no skills; he could only wave the umbrella in his hand, trying his best to intercept the attacks while moving. In this way, after three seconds, the skill that granted rapid movement immediately stood out from the encirclement of Dazzling Hundred Flowers' attacks.

The audience remained bewildered, watching the slow-motion replay, but still not understanding. He had blocked a few attacks and forced his way out?

The only one who could immediately understand was Zhang Jiale, the creator of Dazzling Hundred Flowers' attacks.

Only he knew very well that the few circles that Lord Grim's Myriad Manifestations Umbrella turned were not simply blocking damage; they were blocking the skill attacks used to restrain and surround opponents in the Dazzling Hundred Flowers style.

It was precisely because he blocked these skills that the Dazzling Hundred Flowers' light and shadow remained, but without much hindrance. Once the Sacred Fire effect ended, he immediately used a skill to accelerate and break out, and Han Wenqing and Lin Jingyan ultimately failed to catch him.

In other words, although Tyranny's tactics were watertight, Ye Xiu had completely seen through Zhang Jiale's Dazzling Hundred Flowers style.

He was no less familiar with Zhang Jiale than he was with Han Wenqing.

Dazzling Hundred Flowers style? Not counting this season, just the previous ones alone, there had been a full six years.

As Zhang Jiale's mentality changed, the Dazzling Hundred Flowers style also showed different forms of expression, but they were all fundamentally the same. No matter how it changed, the skills of the Sharpshooter were still the same. When the function of each skill was clearly understood, it was often possible to make accurate predictions about the Dazzling Hundred Flowers style.

The principle was that simple, but very few people could actually achieve it.

Ye Xiu did it precisely because he understood the principle. Therefore, after seeing Tyranny's deployment and division of labor, he immediately understood the purpose that Zhang Jiale wanted to achieve in this period.

As for how to specifically use the skills, the Dazzling Hundred Flowers style was so complicated that Ye Xiu couldn't predict it with 100% accuracy. But at least, he had a mental preparation, and he knew where the key points to defend against were. And then there was one more thing: his character, Lord Grim, had a Myriad Manifestations Umbrella shield with such a large area.

Lord Grim broke out of the encirclement and retreated rapidly. Tyranny's two ranged attackers continued their firepower to pursue him, but the two fist fighters immediately slowed down again.

They didn't seize the opportunity to pursue and attack relentlessly because they hadn't forgotten that there was a high probability that Happy's other four members were lying in ambush ahead.

Therefore, Lord Grim finally escaped the attack range. Looking at Tyranny's side, they slowed down the overall pace and advanced again, little by little, in a very stable formation.

Patience, they were playing with incredible patience.

For this championship, they had been waiting for so many years. What was waiting patiently for a few more minutes or seconds on the field?

Tyranny's steady advance made Ye Xiu's character seem very childish as he jumped up and down, extremely childish. Even though he had just escaped from the encirclement that Li Yibo had deemed "impossible to escape from," the momentum on the field was clearly in Tyranny's favor.

Li Yibo, having just been slapped in the face, was in low spirits and didn't want to talk. The audience at the venue was mostly Happy fans, and they naturally felt anxious watching this scene. They simply didn't understand why Happy's other four players weren't moving. What was Happy's plan?

Since there had been no tactical instructions in Happy's channel, it could be known that this was all part of Happy's pre-match plan. This seemed to be a tactic to lure the enemy in deep, but seeing that Tyranny had no chance of falling for it, why did Happy still insist?

"What's going on?" Even Huang Shaotian was a bit puzzled and sent a text message to Yu Wenzhou.

"Perhaps, they want to further understand Tyranny's current tactical structure?" Yu Wenzhou's tone was also uncertain.

"Did it have to be like this?"

"If it wasn't like this, who could have escaped from that predicament just now, except for Ye Xiu?" Yu Wenzhou replied.

Huang Shaotian held his phone for a long time without typing anything.

People always subconsciously put themselves in the situation when thinking about this kind of question.

Dazzling Hundred Flowers style, escape like Ye Xiu?

Extremely difficult.

Huang Shaotian also had some understanding of the Dazzling Hundred Flowers style, but probably not to the depth that Ye Xiu did.

Furthermore, his Troubling Rain didn't have a shield, so he couldn't block attacks as thoroughly as Lord Grim.

Relying only on dodging and some parrying, opening up a gap in the Dazzling Hundred Flowers style within three seconds without skills?

Saying that the difficulty was extremely high was probably because nothing was absolute!

If it were me, I might have really died there…