Chapter 220 Guide

Due to Excellent Era's guidance, why did Ye Qiu change his name to Ye Xiu? Although this question was asked, it was no longer the focus of the interview. The key questions were answered by Ye Xiu in a pretentious manner, which made Chen Guo extremely uncomfortable. She wished she could have heard straightforward answers like "Excellent Era is stupid, I'm going to destroy them" in the interview.

However, Chen Guo also knew that Ye Xiu was telling the truth. Revenge? This was actually just a theme that Chen Guo thought about every day. In fact, Ye Xiu had never shown this kind of mentality. Defeating Excellent Era was just because the two sides met in the Challenger League, and only one could remain in the end. It was that simple.

Unfortunately, when the truth was said in the interview, it just sounded like platitudes and empty words. As expected, when the report came out on Friday, Chen Guo went online and searched, and all she saw were people despising Ye Xiu for being hypocritical. Chen Guo learned from her previous lesson and didn't dare argue with these guys this time. Back at the team, she didn't dare make a fuss, for fear of affecting everyone's mood for the evening's match. She could only sulk alone.

At eight o'clock in the evening, the second round of the Challenger League offline competition began. Happy's opponent was Ten Steps One Kill.

Through the first round of the competition and after searching for some information about the Ten Steps One Kill team, Ye Xiu also made some targeted arrangements before the match.

Player teams don't have the conditions to be as balanced as professional teams. The strength of the players in the team often varies greatly. The Ten Steps One Kill team has a total of seven players, which avoids having a healer participate in the individual competition. However, their seventh player is quite a凑数 (凑数 means to fill a number or place superficially), completely an average player level, even Chen Guo could give them a hard time. The remaining six players, three of them are clearly stronger than the others. The Ten Steps One Kill team's strategy has always been for these three to fight in the擂台赛 (lěitái sài,擂台 means arena or ring, so lěitái sài is a type of competition where players fight one-on-one until one side is defeated) to earn two points. The team competition has three of them, so they can often grab five points. As for the individual competition, they send the other three non-healers to earn whatever points they can.

The previous round of the competition showed that they were quite used to this arrangement. The three weaker players in the individual competition didn't get a single point. This kind of start would generally be quite demoralizing. However, the Ten Steps One Kill players were not affected at all because they were already very used to this situation. The three experts steadily took two points in the ensuing擂台赛. However, in the subsequent team competition, Team Conqueror demonstrated a more balanced team strength, and Team Ten Steps One Kill ultimately lost the team competition, ending the first round with a score of two to eight.

The group stage is ranked by points. Every point can affect the final ranking, and they should try their best to fight for it. Ten Steps One Kill made this arrangement out of a kind of helplessness.

On the Happy side, in terms of individual strength, the level varies greatly. But at least everyone is above average. Except for Chen Guo, no one is just凑数 (còushù) and fooling around. So they don't need to make this kind of sacrifice strategy. They will actively fight for every point.

But in addition to grabbing points, Ye Xiu also hoped to let everyone in the team, especially the newcomers, feel the atmosphere of this kind of formal competition. So in the final individual competition, Ye Xiu wrote Luo Ji's name.

Luo Ji has been playing Glory for more than a year now. With systematic training under Ye Xiu's guidance, his level has improved very quickly. His current level is enough to beat Chen Guo without much pressure. This made Chen Guo feel both gratified and depressed. She was also an old Glory player for many years, but she just watched Tang Rou, Baozi, Luo Ji... these newcomers start from scratch and then leave her further and further behind.

Chen Guo couldn't help but admit it. She had also tried Happy's various training methods, and her improvement was indeed there, but it was far less rapid than the progress of these newcomers. Tang Rou and Baozi had talent. From the beginning, the operations they achieved through hand speed were already above Chen Guo's level, so she didn't feel it so strongly. But Luo Ji was truly growing from scratch until now, leaving Chen Guo behind. Chen Guo could truly feel this entire process, every minute, every millisecond. She was a little envious, envious of these guys' youth, envious of their great potential for growth. And she, after coming into contact with this high level of training, felt more and more clearly her limitations in many aspects. She truly felt what the limit was. Just like the whack-a-mole game that Ye Xiu gave her, she couldn't beat it no matter what.

So when it came to the offline competition, Chen Guo didn't clamor to play a game. It was okay for her to play as a player, but those days were over. The current stage belonged to people who were truly capable of standing on it.

For the individual competition, Wei Chen, Luo Ji, and Tang Rou were ultimately sent out.

For the擂台赛 (lěitái sài), it was Baozi, Qiao Yifan, and Ye Xiu himself.

For the team competition, it was Tang Rou, Luo Ji, Qiao Yifan, Ye Xiu, An Wenyi, with Wei Chen as the substitute player.

The young people were given as many opportunities as possible. Except for Mo Fan, this guy came with everyone, but he still looked indifferent. Ye Xiu let him be as usual and didn't bother with him.

As a result, when the match started that night, Ye Xiu was a little dumbfounded when the opponent's first player came on the stage. Ten Steps One Kill, who had always given up on the individual competition, sent one of their three experts as their first player.

"Why did they change their tactics?" Ye Xiu scratched his head.

The Ten Steps One Kill player who changed their tactics looked confident and strode onto the stage. Then, when they saw that Happy's player was a sighing old man who was putting out his cigarette under the on-site referee's scolding, they snickered. Wei Chen, this name was a bit too old. Although Electronic Competition News had introduced him once, it was just a brief mention and didn't cause any discussion. Few people pay attention to the Challenger League reports.

Then both sides sat down, read the card, and loaded the characters. The Ten Steps One Kill player glanced at Wind Howl's equipment.

Silver words, no attribute description.

Silver words, no attribute description.

Silver words, no attribute description...

The Ten Steps One Kill player's cursor moved quickly, but all they saw were silver equipment names.

Silver equipment...

Eight pieces...

The player was stunned, and then wanted to kneel... Eight pieces of silver equipment, what level of character is this? At the same time, the audience was in an uproar. Following this player's perspective, everyone saw that Wind Howl actually had eight pieces of silver equipment. The uproar was not only from the audience, but also from the players, including the Excellent Era team.

An armament level of eight pieces of silver equipment is not weak in the league.

Then the match started, and the Ten Steps One Kill player already had the idea of kneeling directly. The match ended without suspense. Wei Chen won the first point, and then came down from the stage, waving very pretentiously to the audience, drawing boos from the crowd. Most of the people who came to the venue were here to watch Excellent Era, and Happy is now a demon in the eyes of Excellent Era fans.

"How was it? When my eight pieces of silver equipment were revealed, the opponent was directly scared to pee, right?" Back in the player preparation seat, Wei Chen was still bragging.

"Impressive." Ye Xiu perfunctorily said. At this time, the players for the second round of the individual competition had already begun to take the stage. Ten Steps One Kill sent their second strongest player, while Happy sent Luo Ji.

This expert was slightly better than Luo Ji, but he was clearly affected by the outcome of the previous match and was a little flustered. Luo Ji's Steamed Bun Invasion's two pieces of silver equipment were not as scary as Wind Howl's, but a set of level 75 orange equipment, especially the orange weapon Tiger Seal, was really stunning. This opponent was very frightened. But soon, this player took the upper hand, because his opponent Luo Ji was even more nervous than him.

For Luo Ji, this kind of competition scene was a first. His fingers and expressions were stiff from nervousness, and his operations were full of mistakes and clumsiness. He was almost wiped out in a few strokes.

Won?

This round was won too easily. The Ten Steps One Kill player couldn't believe it and was still a little dazed when he left the stage.

Luo Ji also looked懊恼 (àonǎo, annoyed). But as a high-IQ mathematics student, he knew exactly why he lost, so he wouldn't have his confidence shaken by this defeat. Luo Ji grew up with Happy. In the team's internal competition, even Chen Guo could easily beat him in the early days. Losing one match wouldn't be a blow to Luo Ji. He had lost countless times in the past year. In the team's internal matches, he was only able to get back at Chen Guo today, and Chen Guo was just a凑数 (còushù) member of the team.

"How is it? Is it different from playing online?" Ye Xiu smiled.

"It's too different." Luo Ji said with emotion, "For a moment, I even forgot where I was..."

"You'll get used to it." Ye Xiu didn't say much. Letting Luo Ji play was to let him adapt to this atmosphere. It was expected that he would lose some points.

After Luo Ji, Tang Rou came on stage. Ten Steps One Kill sent their third expert. After a crushing defeat in the first match and a great victory in the second, the third expert was obviously at a loss and didn't know how to deal with it. But when he saw the name Soft Mist, he was immediately excited. Soft Mist is now the second most famous character in Happy team after Lord Grim. Everyone knows that she is a master, a very strong master.

The facts also proved this point. In the third match, although it wasn't obviously one-sided, Tang Rou also took the match decisively. She didn't give her opponent any hope.

As for the fact that the opponent's three experts only took one point in the individual competition, it seems that the temporary change of tactics did not help them win anything.

In the ensuing擂台赛 (lěitái sài), Ten Steps One Kill, with only seven players, had no suspense about who would play. Two weaker players and one凑数 (còushù) player.

Happy Team's Baozi was the first to appear, and ultimately completed the feat of defeating three opponents in a row. When he came off the stage, he waved his arm and showed off his biceps.

"Did you see that? Learn from it!" After coming down, Baozi had a reason to train his "little brother" Luo Ji.

In the team competition that followed, there was even less suspense. Ye Xiu personally took charge, hoping that everyone would adapt to the atmosphere of the competition.

An Wenyi, who was also making his debut on this kind of occasion, looked extremely calm and performed extremely steadily. And Luo Ji, who was at a loss in the individual competition, appeared again in the team competition, and with the company of his teammates, he finally found his usual self.

In the team competition, they took another five points.